Max Lake was a hand surgeon in Sydney, New South Wales and renowned winemaker. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

Gordon France was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Lewisham Hospital and Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup. He was born in Heckmondwike, west Yorkshire, on 12 July 1912. His father was a cabinet maker and joiner, and his mother, Harriet Alice née Firth, a dressmaker. From Heckmondwike Grammar School,

Harold Bolton was an orthopaedic and hand surgeon in Manchester and Stockport. He was born in Blackpool on 15 August 1918. His father, Alexander Black Bolton, was the managing director of a confectionary company; his mother, Nina Bolton née Houldsworth, was also a director of the company. He attende

William (Bruce) Conolly was a pioneering hand surgeon. Born in Molong, New South Wales on 1 February 1935, he was the eldest son of William Arnold Conolly, a doctor who was responsible for founding the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. His mother Ruth née King was a direct descendan

David Russell Dunkerley was a consultant orthopaedic and hand surgeon in Bath. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

Reginald Merryweather trained at Guy's Hospital and after junior jobs joined the RAMC. After the war he specialised in orthopaedics, becoming senior registrar at the Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital in Exeter. He was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Gloucester. His interests includ

Martin Singer was a pioneering hand surgeon who established the first hand clinic in South Africa at the Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

John Knowles Stanley was a consultant hand surgeon at Wrightington Hospital, Manchester, where he led the upper limb unit, and a professor of hand surgery at the University of Manchester. He was born in Cardiff on 30 March 1944 the son of Frederick John Stanley and Mary Thelma Stanley née Morgan but

Julian Bruner was a founder member and past President of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. He was born in Des Moines, Iowa, on 4 December 1900. His father, Harootune Avedis Minassian, came from Turkey, qualified at the Central Turkey College in 1886, and later studied at Bellevue Hospita

Ashoke Sengupta was head of the department of surgery at the Institute of Child Health in Calcutta. He was born in Kohima, Nagaland, on 21 June 1931. His father, Jitendra Mohan Sengupta, was a surgeon and had won a gold medal in the DTM&H. His mother was Tarunbala née Majumdar. He was privately educ

Donald Neil Robinson was a plastic surgeon in Adelaide, South Australia. He was born on 28 October 1924 in Salisbury, South Australia. His father, Edwin Alexander Robinson, was a bank manager; his mother was Mary Robinson née Nicholson. From 1939 to 1941 Robinson attended Scotch College in Adelaide

Murad Ghorbal was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Liverpool’s Walton and Fazakerley hospitals. Born in Masr El Gedida, Egypt on 17 March 1931 to Gertrude Humberstone of Bradford and an Egyptian, Shafik Ghorbal, Murad spent a happy childhood growing up in the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis. His mothe