To paraphrase Sir Thomas More, Robert Bolt's excellent play "A Man For All Seasons, " the laws of this country are the great barriers that protect the citizens from the winds of evil and tyranny.

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However, it was his nephew, Sir Robert Jones - Evan's great-great-grandson - who would demonstrate the true potential of the Thomas splint - using it on the Western Front, to reduce fracture deaths from 80% in 1916, to just 8% by the end of World War I.

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