Lloyd received his medical education at the Middlesex Hospital. After obtaining his FRCS he moved into obstetrics and gynaecology and indeed became an eminent Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He was gynaecological and obstetrical surgeon to the United Cambridge Hospit

Stanley Clayton was born on 13 September 1911, the son of a clergyman. He was educated at Kingswood School in Bath and qualified from King's College Hospital. He served with distinction as a Major in the RAMC and then resumed his career in obstetrics and gynaecology at King's where he developed a re

A consultant surgeon in south Teesside, 'Sam' Mottershead was a colourful, amusing and forthright person who contributed much to surgery and was a great exponent of clinical anatomy. He was born in Stockport on 5 December 1914, and received his medical education in Manchester, gaining the Tom Jones

Joseph Buford Pennybacker was born in Somerset, Kentucky, on 23 August 1907, the only son of Claude Pennybacker, a train dispatcher. His early education was at Knoxville High School, Tennessee, before entering the University of Tennessee, graduating BA in 1926 (summa cum laude). He followed the earl

Richard Braithwaite Keevil Rickford, the first of similar twins of Leslie Thomas Rickford, a banker, and Gladys Georgina Rickford (née Keevil), was born on 1 June 1914, at Hampstead. He was educated at The Gables, Bexhill-on-Sea, and then at the junior and senior schools of Weymouth College, Dors

Geoffrey Organe was born in Madras on 25 December 1908, the elder son of the Reverend William E H Organe KiH, a missionary, and his wife Alice, née Williams, the daughter of a mining engineer. His early education was at Taunton School before going to Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was honorar