Alexander Leonard Black was born in Liverpool on 7 November 1914, the son of Alexander Black and Gertrude (née Beardwood). He was educated at Bootle Grammar School and Liverpool University Medical School, qualifying in 1938. While he was doing house appointments the second world war was declared and

Pulakeri Venkata Rao became a Fellow of the College in 1952. He returned to India and practiced at Father Muller's Hospital in Mangalore. He died on 20 April 1983 at Harrisburg, USA survived by his wife, Meera.

Venner received his medical education at Adelaide University, where he qualified MB BS in 1946. He gained the Melbourne MS in 1951. After qualification, Venner was resident medical officer at the Royal Adelaide Hospital before serving as a captain with the Australian Army Medical Corps from 1947

Brian McEvedy was a consultant in general surgery at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He was born in Manchester on 13 December 1923, the second of three medical sons of Peter McEvedy of Ancoats Hospital, one of the great names in hernia surgery. His mother was Lilian Grace née Denn

Born in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada, on 19 May 1920, Allin Herbert Moore studied medicine at the University of Manitoba. After internships at the Vancouver General Hospital, he served as a Captain in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps at Shaughnessy Military Hospital. Following the war he speci

Linehan was educated at University College Cork, qualifying in 1949. His working life was spent in Cork, where he was the Ainsworth travelling scholar, surgical registrar at St Finbarr's Hospital, surgeon to the Mercy Hospital and external surgeon to the South Charitable Infirmary. He died on 6 D

Roger Parnis was born on 6 October 1923 in Sliema, Malta. His father, Eric, was a Judge, and his mother was Lucy, née Chapelle. His uncle, Henry Parnis, was a psychiatrist who spent some years working at Colney Hatch Mental Hospital in North London and another uncle, Edward Chapelle, spent most of h

Tom Hurrell had his own general surgery practise and was a part time general surgeon at Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand. He was born in Eltham, New Zealand on 23 December 1919, the son of Thomas Hurrell, a coachbuilder from Yorkshire and May Patter, daughter of a goldminer. Their only son, he had

John Reginald Turner Newham returned to South Africa for some years after passing his Fellowship in 1952. He came back to the UK to practice in Wales and lived in Cowbridge, South Glamorgan. His death was reported to the College in 2002.

George Pestell was born in Perth, Western Australia, on 17 March 1921. His father George was a bank manager. His mother was Lilian May née Parker. One of his ancestors was the loyalist poet and chaplain to King Charles 1st, Thomas Pestell, and another, Paul Pestell, helped to start the Decembrist Re

William Douglas Friend was visiting surgeon at the Royal Brisbane Hospital. He was born on 22 September 1924, in Brisbane, where his father Percy Alfred Friend was a sheep-farmer. His mother, Dorothy Frances, née Webb, had served as a staff nurse with the 2nd Australian General Hospital in Egypt and

Ramesh Kumar received his professional education at the University of the Punjab, qualifying MB BS in 1944. After passing the Fellowship in 1952, he practised in Britain for some years and worked for a time at the Alder Hey Children's Hospital. He returned to India in the 1960s and practised in Calc