Colin Graham-Stewart qualified at St Thomas's Hospital with the conjoint, only taking the London MB long after the war. He did his surgical training at Essex County Hospital, Colchester, and in Portsmouth, and was resident assistant surgeon at St Thomas's. He was appointed consultant surgeon to Harr

Victor Rao was a general practitioner in Birmingham. He was born on 28 May 1928 and studied medicine in Calcutta, qualifying in 1952. He studied neurosurgery in India and gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1957 and an MS degree in 1962. In 1971 he became a gen

Victor Anomah Ngu was head of surgery at the University of Yaoundé, Cameroon, a minister of public health and a founder of the West African College of Surgeons. He was born in Molyko, Buea, Cameroon on 1 February 1926. His father, Nazarius Ngu, was a catechist; his mother Monica Ngu née Siri was the

Cyril Toker was chief of surgical pathology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore. He was born in Ermelo, South Africa on 29 March 1930, the first of two sons of Philip and Fay Toker. Philip and Fay Toker immigrated as young children with their families to South Africa from Lit

John Candy was born at Newport, Monmouthshire, on 8 January 1924, the son of Thomas Ignatius Candy, MD Belfast, a consulting radiologist. His paternal uncle was a general practitioner in Edinburgh. He was educated at Dolgelly Grammar School and Guy's Hospital Medical School which he entered in 1941.

Dhirajlal Ramji Bhadreshwar was an orthopaedic surgeon in Barnsley who, after his retirement from the NHS, worked in Bangladesh, Nepal and Inner Mongolia, treating patients with leprosy. He was born in Dar es Salaam, in what was then Tanganyika in East Africa on 23 June 1929. His family home was, ho

Neil Stamford Painter was born in London on 23 February 1923, the only son of Robert Painter, a consulting engineer, and Dorothy, née Matthews, a concert soprano. He was educated at St Michael's School, Otford, Kent and obtained a scholarship to Woodbridge School, Suffolk. On leaving school he enter

Raymond Kirk, known throughout his entire professional life as ‘Jerry’, was a late entrant to medicine, having left school at 16 and serving for four years in the Royal Navy in the Second World War, before becoming one of the most celebrated surgical educators of his day through his outstanding teac

Ken Shuttleworth helped establish the urology department at St Thomas' Hospital, London. He was born on 30 April 1922 in Bradford to Frederick and Edith Shuttleworth. His father won a scholarship to Oxford from Bradford Grammar School to read mathematics: his mother was at Girton College, Cambridge.

Richard Anthony Payne, known to all as 'Tony', was a consultant general surgeon at the North Middlesex Hospital in London. He was born on 17 July 1921, in Worcester, the son of Herbert George Payne, a master at Haberdasher's Aske's School, and Jessica Sweeney. He was educated at his father's school

'Johnnie' John was born on 9 July 1921 in New Tredegar. He was educated at Bedwellty Grammar School. Reports have it that he was a talented scholar with a reluctance to apply his maximum effort either to work or to play. On leaving school in 1940 he entered the Royal Air Force and trained as a navig