John Graham Ross was a general surgeon at Saint Boniface Hospital and Victoria Hospital in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He was born on 4 June 1926 in Greenock, Scotland, the son of Alexander Ross, an architect, and Katherine Forsyth Ross née Allander, the daughter of an engineer. He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and Hymers College, Hull and then, from 1944 to 1947, served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a sub lieutenant. Following his demobilisation, he went to Queen's College, Oxford and St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, where he was a Brackenbury scholar in surgery and gained the Willett medal for surgery and the Walsham prize in surgical pathology. He qualified in 1953 and gained his FRCS in 1958. He held house and registrar posts at Barts, and was then a registrar in Ipswich and Sheffield and a senior registrar in Leeds. He subsequently emigrated to Canada, where he joined Saint Boniface Hospital. He was a partner at the Saint Boniface Clinic for 30 years. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada in 1967. Outside medicine he enjoyed gardening, golf and philately. In 1953, he married a Miss Neil. John Graham Ross died on 4 August 2014. He was 88. He was survived by his widow Lynne, his children (Kate, Liz, Fiona, Malcolm and Caroline) and ten grandchildren.