Langton Kelly was a general surgeon. He qualified in medicine in Queensland, Australia before coming to the UK and passing the fellowships of both the College and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1963. Returning to Queensland he practiced at the Medical Centre at Coolangatta on the coas

Peter Wilson was a consultant surgeon at Whitybush Hospital, Haverford West. He studied medicine in Edinburgh, qualifying in 1956. After junior posts he moved to Cardiff, where he became senior registrar in general surgery at the United Cardiff hospitals. He was then appointed to his consultant posi

Maurice Feldman was a consultant general and vascular surgeon at Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham. He was born in Cardiff on 7 August 1927, the youngest son of Lewis Feldman, a retail and wholesale trader, and Leah Feldman née Volozhen, a housewife. He was educated at Wood Street and Roath Park elem

Andrew Michael Munster was professor of surgery and plastic surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore and president of the American Burn Association. He was born in Budapest, Hungary on 10 December 1935. His father, Leo Stephen Munster, was a merchant; his mother was Marianne

John Cockin was born at Halesowen, Worcestershire, on 18 November 1932, the son of John Edward Cockin, an engineer, and Mary Green, the daughter of a farmer. From Halesowen Grammar School, he went to medical school in Birmingham, where he gained distinctions in surgery and paediatrics, won the Josep

Ronald Saunders was born in Melbourne on 16 February 1928. His father Herbert was an accountant and his mother Florence née Cooper was a secretary. He studied medicine at Melbourne University where he earned a blue for athletics. When in England in the early 1960's he worked at the Whittington and S

Joseph Block ('Joe') was born on 12 August 1921 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, South Africa. Both his parents had emigrated from Switzerland and were graduates of Zurich University; his father became a lawyer and his mother a professor of languages. He was educated at President Brand School, Gr

Philip Starr, known as ‘Jimmie’, was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital, London. He was born in Birmingham in 1933. After qualifying, he spent four years in Canada and then in Australia, studying ophthalmology at the Sydney Eye Hospital. He subsequently returned to England, w

Robin Wattie Glashan was a consultant urologist at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. He was born in Aberdeen on 8 September 1933, the son of Gordon Mitchell Glashan, a bank manager, and Alexandra née Wattie, an art teacher. He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, where he excelled at his academic wo