Ken Hobbs was a professor of surgery at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine and a pioneer in the field of liver surgery. He was born in London on 28 December 1936, the son of Thomas Edward Ernest Hobbs and Gladys May Hobbs née Neave. He moved as a child to south Norfolk and attended school in

John Terblanche, head of the department of surgery at the University of Cape Town and Groote Schuur Hospital from 1981 to 2000, was internationally recognised as one of the world’s leading researchers on the treatment of liver diseases. He was born on 10 September 1935 in Cape Town, the son of James

Paul McMaster founded the liver transplant unit at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham with his physician colleague, Elwyn Elias. He was born in Liverpool on 4 January 1943, the son of James McMaster, a general practitioner, and Sarah Jane McMaster née Lynn, and studied medicine at Liverpool Uni