Dipankar ‘Dip’ Sengupta was a general practitioner in Scarborough. He was born in Bengal and studied medicine in Calcutta. He went to England to specialise in surgery and completed a number of junior posts in London, Glasgow and Scarborough, including a registrar post in neurosurgery, in which he ca

Martin Laird was a general practitioner in Richmond, South Australia. He qualified from Sheffield University in 1941 and then demonstrated anatomy for two years. In 1943 he became a resident medical officer at the Royal Hospital, Sheffield. He then served in the RAMC in Burma, returning after the

Rustom Jamshedji Jagose, known as 'Rusty', passed the fellowship in 1957 and emigrated to New Zealand, where he was a general practitioner in Cambridge, in the Waikato region of the North Island. Although he did not continue to practise surgery, he regularly attended grand rounds at Waikato Hospital

Born at Richmond, Surrey, on 13 January 1868, the eldest son of William Smith Maidlow, a member of the London Corn Exchange, and his wife, *née* Jupp. He entered Charterhouse School in Long Quarter 1883 and left in the same term in 1885. Having matriculated at London University, he entered St Bartho

Donald Shaw was a GP surgeon in Cinderford, Gloucestershire, and the Dilke Hospital in the Forest of Dean. He was born on 3 October 1953 in Liverpool as the first child of John and Dorothy Mary Shaw (née Mudie). His two younger siblings, Charlie and Fiona, were born in 1955 and 1957 respectively. Do

Henry Herbert Evans Batten was a GP in Cambridge. He was born in London on 8 January 1920, the son of Herbert Ernest Batten FRCS, consultant orthopaedic surgeon to Charing Cross Hospital, and Margaret Elizabeth Evans. He was educated at Westminster and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was a kee

Alan Mathams was a general practitioner in East Sussex. He did his medical training at the Westminster Hospital, where he qualified in 1977. After junior posts, he chose a career in surgery and was registrar at St James Hospital, Balham, and Epsom District Hospital. He decided to become a GP, joinin

John Fry was born in South London on 16 June 1922, the son of a general practitioner, and was educated at Whitgift School, Croydon, and Guy's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1944. He took his FRCS diploma in 1947, but very soon decided to take up general practice, and he remained a single-han

Educated at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals. He had some experience in London, then practised for nearly half a century at Stevenage in Hertfordshire, and was well known throughout the county as a hard-working medical man. Although engaged in the quiet duties of a country practitioner, he determined

Born at Brindisi, 10 August 1867, the eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Charles MacLeod, MRCP, FRCS, by his third wife Ann, daughter of George Golland. He was a grandson of John MacLeod, MD, Surgeon-General of Madras. Charles MacLeod was educated at Shrewsbury School, and entered the Westmi

Practised at Burton Crescent, then at 26 Euston Place, Euston Square, London, where he died on July 25th, 1856. He was in general practice.

Received his professional training at the Royal Infirmary, Manchester, and the Middlesex Hospital. He was at first in general practice at Leigh, Lancashire, and then for many years at Bowdon, Cheshire. He died in 1884 or 1885.