John Talbot was a popular and highly regarded graduate of St Mary's Hospital Medical School and surgeon at Harold Wood Hospital. Born on 12 August 1912 in Wales, he was educated at Llandovery College. Like others at Mary's he had played rugby as a schoolboy for Wales. He was in the legendary pre-sec

Chee Yong Tan was living in Singapore when he died in April 1979 survived by his wife Anne.

Leonard Cotton was born on 5 December 1922, the son of Edward G Cotton, a Metropolitan Police Officer and Elizabeth, née Corbidge. From King's College School Wimbledon he won an open scholarship to Oriel College Oxford. From Oxford he went on to King's College Hospital Medical School for his clinica

Arthur Pinkerton Crawford, the son of Andrew Pinkerton Crawford, a doctor, and his wife Lilian Mary, née Donnelly, was born on 22 September 1923 at Caboolture, Queensland, Australia. At the age of ten he spent a year confined to bed as a result of polio and was educated at the Church of England Gram

George Crile studied medicine at Harvard, qualifying in 1933. He became a general surgeon in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1940. He was presented with the honorary Fellowship at the Council meeting of Thursday 13 April 1978, when the citation was delivered by Mr Selwyn Taylor. He died in 1992.

Cyril Fletcher ('Peter') Critchley was born on 7 July 1909 in Dulwich, south London, the son of James Critchley, a barrister, and his wife Margaret, née Fletcher. He was educated at Dulwich College and St Thomas's Hospital, and qualified in 1934. As a student, he fenced for London University. His

Roger Croton was born on 2 April 1948 in Colne, Lancashire. After early education at St Joseph's College, Trent Vale, he studied medicine at Sheffield University and held junior posts in Sheffield, Derby and Liverpool before being appointed consultant surgeon to Warrington District General Hospital

Francis Arthur d'Abreu, always known as Frank, was born in Handsworth, Staffordshire, on 1 October 1904, the second son of Dr John d'Abreu, a medical practitioner, and Teresa Noonan. He came from a large family of twelve children; his younger brother, Professor A d'Abreu FRCS, was also a surgeon.

Arthur Edgar De Chazal qualified in medicine from University College Hospital in 1927 and became a Fellow of the College in 1930. He was house physician to University College Hospital before moving to the Mauritius Military Hospital in Floreal, Mauritius, where he was appointed medical specialist. H

Keith Paterson Abel, son of the distinguished surgeon Lawrence Abel FRCS and Margaret Russell Paterson MD MRCP was born on 31 July 1926. He was educated at Rugby and Upper Canada College, Toronto, and then at Trinity College, Cambridge. After the Natural Science Tripos he went to St Mary's Hospital

Herbert Fletcher Smith was born in Farnworth, Lancashire, on 26 December 1917, the son of James Fletcher Smith, a general practitioner. He was educated at Bolton School before entering Manchester University Medical School where he was awarded the Dickinson Scholarship in anatomy and in 1939 passed t

David James Adams was born in Liverpool on 1 March 1925, the son of William Adams, director of a building firm, and Alice Maud Stringfellow, part of a large extended family of practising Christians in Independent Methodism. An appendicectomy at the age of seven inspired him to become a surgeon, i