Richard Vasey ‘Dick’ Fiddian was a consultant general surgeon at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital from 1964 to 1989. He was born on 6 October 1923 in Ashton-under-Lyne in Lancashire, where his father, James Victor Fiddian, was a general practitioner-surgeon. His mother, Doris Mary née White, came fr

Robert Fuller was born in Acton, London, on 4 January 1916. His father, Charles, was a company director. His mother was Mildred Kate née Lambert, a housewife. Robert was educated at St Paul's from 1928 to 1934, and then went on to St Mary's Hospital to study medicine. After qualifying in 1939, with

David Gatehouse was a consultant surgeon, first at Shotley Bridge Hospital, Consett, County Durham, and then at Hexham Hospital. He was born in York in 1944 and went on to study medicine at Birmingham University, qualifying in 1968. He held specialist posts in surgery in Birmingham, as a registrar a

Hassan Agha Hashemian was a professor of surgery and head of the department of surgery at the Cancer Institute, Tehran. He was born in Kashan, Iran, on 14 April 1915, the son of Hossein Hashemian, a velvet merchant, and Nagar, a housewife. He was educated at Tehran Boys School, and then received a s

William Garden Hendry was a consultant surgeon at Highlands General Hospital and Wood Green and Southgate Hospital, London. He was born in Aberdeen on 30 September 1914, the son of two schoolteachers, and was brought up in a strict Presbyterian household. He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School a

Bob Horton was a consultant surgeon at the United Bristol Hospitals. He was born in south London on 5 July 1917, the son of Arthur John Budd Horton, a schoolteacher, and Isabel Horton née Cotton, the daughter of a master mariner. He was educated at the Haberdashers’ Aske’s School, and studied medici

Was in general practice at York Crescent, Clifton, Bristol, where he was for a time Surgeon to the Clifton and Bristol Friendly Society and Medical Referee to the Freemasons' General Life Insurance Company. He was appointed Physician to Clifton Dispensary about 1862. He resided latterly at 11 Cornwa

At the time of his death was Government Medical Inspector of Emigrants at the Port of Liverpool. He resided at 13 Sugnall Street, Liverpool, and died in December, 1857.

Born at Yoxford, Suffolk, the son of a local surgeon. After education at the North Walsham Grammar School he was apprenticed to a leading practitioner at Banbury. He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1858, where he was looked upon as one of the best men of his year and earned the favourable notic

Practised at Shifnal, and then at Bromfield, Salop, where he died on November 20th, 1869.

Born on July 24th, 1857, at 1 Grosvenor Place, the son of James R Lane (qv), Surgeon to St Mary's Hospital and to the Lock Hospital, and great-nephew of Samuel Armstrong Lane (qv), one of the founders of St Mary's Hospital and head of the Grosvenor Place School of Anatomy, which was transferred from

Received his professional training at Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals. He went out to India and apparently practised or held an appointment at Kheri in Oudh. He may have been an Uncovenanted Medical Officer. His death occurred at Sarkerpore, India, on July 15th, 1907. His add