Thomas David Preston was a consultant in computer medicine at Westminster Hospital, London. He studied medicine at Cambridge University and qualified BChir in 1961. After initial house jobs in obstetrics and gynaecology at St Thomas’s Hospital in London he became a house surgeon at the Hammersmith

David Cairns was a consultant general surgeon in the High Wycombe Health District. He studied medicine at Cambridge University and graduated in 1962. After house jobs in vascular surgery and urology in London at the Middlesex Hospital and St Mark’s, he passed the fellowship of the college in 1967. H

John Lendrum was a consultant plastic surgeon in Manchester and Rochdale. He was born in Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire, on 24 October 1936 into a long-established medical family. His father, George McCormack Lendrum, was a general practitioner; his mother, Enid Lendrum née Fletcher, was a housewife.

Dennis Edward Elgar was a general practitioner whose last address was in Deal, Kent. He was born on 23 August 1939 in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, the son of Ronald Geoffrey Elgar, a builders’ merchant, and Ruby Lilian May Elgar née Waller, a nurse. His sister Gillian was a nurse at the Westminster

David Ivor Bowen was a consultant ophthalmologist in Harrogate, Yorkshire. He was born on 7 March 1937 and studied at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He went on to St Thomas’ Hospital for his clinical training. After junior posts, he travelled around the world as a ship’s doctor, before dec

James Robert Holdrich Fisher was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Wallsall Hospitals. He was born on 15 November 1932, in the City of London Maternity Home, the son of Hubert Holdrich Fisher RN, a surgeon in the Royal Navy (FRCS Edinburgh) who latterly specialised in ENT, and Barbara Christob