John Blake was a consultant surgeon at Mayday and Shirley Oaks hospitals, Croydon, and St Anthony's Hospital in Cheam. He was born on 7 February 1932. He was educated at Cambridge University and Westminster Hospital Medical School. He was a house surgeon at St James' Hospital, Balham, and then be

Shyamal Kanti Sen gained an FRCS in 1964. Sen lived and worked in Calcutta, India, and died in 2004.

Richard John Earlam, who was a consultant general surgeon at the Royal London Hospital, played a crucial role in the introduction of the air ambulance service to London thus contributing to a huge drop in deaths from trauma in the capitol. Born in Liverpool on 26 March 1934 he was the son of Francis

Roderick McLeod was a general surgeon at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, and professor of surgery at the University of Queensland. He was born in Brisbane, Queensland, on 10 April 1933, the second child and first son of George Cooper McLeod, a wholesale and retail merchant, and Josephine Gert

Richard Hugh Carruthers was born on 6 September 1926 in Rotherham, Yorkshire, the first son of Hugh Boyton Carruthers, BA Cantab, a draper, and Constance Mary, a physiotherapist, daughter of Richard Reece Hardwicke, MRCS, LRCP, a surgeon born in 1859. He was educated at Chantry Mount Preparatory Sch

Richard Boggon, known to his friends as Dick, was a consultant general surgeon at the Mid-Essex Health Trust in Chelmsford. He was the son of Roland Boggon and Mollie Boggon née Newell. He schooled at Oundle and in 1954 proceeded to Clare College, Cambridge. His clinical studies were at St Thomas’s

Melvyn Keith Tidman trained at University College Hospital and passed his FRCS in 1964. He moved to the Bristol area and became senior house officer in general and orthopaedic surgery to the Bristol Royal Infirmary and then surgical registrar to the Bath clinical area. He moved to Canada and practic

Adrian Kenneth Lowe was born in Brighton, Victoria, Australia on 3 June 1928. His father Edward William Francis Lowe was a store guide and his mother Wilhemena née de Korte was a medical practitioner. After attending Firbank Preparatory School in Brighton, he moved to Brighton Grammar School, Wesley

George Haines Dickson was born on 18 June 1936. He studied medicine at London University and trained at St Mary’s Hospital, graduating MB, BS in 1959. In 1964 he passed both the fellowship of the college and of the Edinburgh College of Surgeons. After house jobs at St Mary’s he was appointed consult

Kethieswaran Thuraisingham, known as Kethies, was a general surgeon in Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia. Born in Karainagur, an island near Jaffna, Sri Lanka in the mid-1930’s, he was the son of Vethavally Thuraisingham, née Saravanamuthu, and her husband. He passed the fellowship of the col

Sister Catherine Mary Rosarii Lawler was a general surgeon who worked in mission hospitals in Nigeria and Kenya. Born on 18 April 1928 in County Wexford, she was the daughter of John Lawler a primary school teacher and his wife Nora. She studied medicine at the National University of Ireland and St

Ian Hamilton was a consultant general surgeon and later consultant urologist at the Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro. He was born in Belfast as his father, William James Hamilton, an Irishman himself, wanted him to be eligible to play rugby for Ireland - regrettably something he never achieved. Ian wa