Born on 5 October 1877, son of James Connor of the Survey of India, Frank Powell Connor received his school and early medical education in India. He then entered St Bartholomew's Hospital where he won the Brackenbury surgical scholarship. In 1902 he took the FRCS and entered the Indian Medical Service by examination. After serving with the 16th Rajputs at Shillong and Manipur and with the 13th Rajputs at Calcutta, Connor was appointed resident surgeon of the Medical College Hospital, Calcutta in 1907 and worked there for three years. He was then transferred to Bihar, where he had charge of the Gaya and other major civil surgeoncies. He took the DTM & H in 1913, but returned to military duty on the outbreak of war. Connor left India in September 1914 in one of the earliest contingents of the Indian Expeditionary Force to France, and later came to England in charge of casualties. He was then appointed consulting surgeon to the Army in Mesopotamia, serving mostly in the Basra area. Conditions were extremely bad, but Connor worked tirelessly and was noted for his kindness and unfailing politeness. He was largely responsible for the introduction of the "telephone probe", a useful appliance in war surgery. Four times mentioned in dispatches, Connor was awarded the DSO in 1918 and a brevet lieutenant-colonelcy in 1919. He returned to India in 1920 and was appointed professor of clinical and operative surgery at the Medical College Hospital, Calcutta. Connor was an examiner in surgery to Calcutta University and served on the Syndicate. He was Knighted in 1926. He was President of the All-India Medical Council 1935-36, and of the South India and Madras Branch of the BMA 1934-38. As he approached the retiring age for lieutenant-colonels, Connor returned to military duty to extend his service in India. He was put in command of the military hospital at Quetta, and then promoted Colonel as ADMS of the Bombay military district. Later he returned to the civil side of the Service, and in 1935 was appointed Surgeon-General of Madras Presidency with the rank of Major-General. In 1932 Connor was appointed Honorary Surgeon to the Viceroy of India and in 1934 to the King. He married in 1921 Grace Ellen, daughter of Reginald O. Lees, Director of Indian Government Telegraphs, who survived him with one son. Their home after Connor's retirement in 1937 was Greys Thatch, Bolts Cross, Henley-on-Thames, Oxford. Connor died on 8 August 1954 aged 76. Publications: *Surgery in the tropics* 1929. Sections on tropical surgery in Rose & Carless *Manual of Surgery*, 13th edition 1930-17th edition 1943.