Born on 28 January 1917 he was educated at St Paul's School and Caius College, Cambridge, where he obtained a first class in the Natural Sciences Tripos of 1938, proceeding to St Bartholomew's Hospital for his clinical studies. He qualified in 1941 and entered the RAMC in which he rose to the rank o

Born in South Africa on 31 May 1915 the son of Harold Wilson Wostenholm, a financier, he was educated at St Andrew's College, Grahamstown and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he took third-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I in 1937. He took his medical training at the London Hospit

Ronald Canney was a consultant surgeon to the Kent and Canterbury, and Thanet Hospitals in Kent. His father was James Robertson Campbell, consultant gynaecologist at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and his mother was Violet, née Newton. He was on born 17 January 1916. After Oundle, he spent a yea

Born on 31 December 1917, Baron was educated at Oundle, Trinity College, Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital. During the second world war he served as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Burma and the Far East. After the war he was a registrar at the Hammersmith Hospital and research fe

Harold Homewood Nixon (Nicky) was born in Newcastle on 27 February 1918, the son of Isaac Nixon, a chartered accountant. After early education at Fenham High School and the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, he entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge, for pre-clinical studies in 1935 and Durham