Educated at St George's Hospital. He was Surgeon to the West Suffolk Militia in 1824 and at one time Surgeon to the Suffolk General Hospital. He died at Bury St Edmunds, where he had practised, in 1868. **See below for an expanded version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 1 of

Was a surgeon in the Royal Navy in 1830. He died at his residence, 9 Park Road Terrace, Forest Hill, Sydenham, on October 1st, 1860.

Educated at University College, London. He was for some time surgeon on board the P & OSN Co's *Calcutta*, after which he practised at Sherstone, South Norwood, SE, and at the time of his death was Surgeon to the Foresters and Oddfellows there, and Hon Surgeon to the Volunteer Fire Brigade. He died

Born in Mauritius on January 6th, 1851, and was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he gained the Senior Scholarship in Anatomy, Physiology, and Chemistry in 1872-1878; the Brackenbury Scholarship in Surgery in 1873-1874; and the Lawrence Scholarship and Gold Medal in the same session. He a

Educated at Guy's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon and Resident Obstetrician. He was also Prosector at Guy's and at the Royal College of Surgeons. He held a number of posts during his short life, and was, at various times, Assistant Medical Officer of the East Cheshire County Lunatic Asylum, Hou

The second of three sons of Henry William Cripps, QC, sometime Recorder of Lichfield, and Julia, the eldest daughter of Charles Lawrence and niece of Sir William Lawrence (qv). His eldest brother, Henry, was a prominent member of the Parliamentary Bar, and his younger brother was created Lord Parmoo

Arnold Gourevitch was a consultant surgeon in Birmingham. He was born in Paris on 24 February 1914, the son of Russian Jewish émigrés. At the outbreak of the first world war his parents fled to England, eventually settling in Birmingham. His father, Mendel, later qualified as a doctor and became a g

Fred Graves was a general surgeon in Staffordshire with an interest in urology. He was born in Hereford in 1919, later studied medicine at University College Hospital and specialised in surgery at King’s College Hospital. He was subsequently appointed consultant general surgeon at Staffordshire Gene

Donald Griffiths was a consultant general surgeon in Aberystwyth. He was born in Colwyn Bay on 12 March 1921, the son of Thomas Owen Griffiths, a science master, and Alice Adelaide, the daughter of a tailor. He was educated at Penmaenrhoe Council School and Colwyn Bay County School, and was Denbighs

Rodney John Hall was a surgeon in Adelaide, South Australia. He was born on 7 April 1928 at Waikerie, South Australia, and studied medicine at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1957. He was a resident medical officer at the Bendigo and Northern District Bone Hospital from 1957 to 1958. He

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

Brian Hayes was a consultant surgeon at East Glamorgan Hospital, Pontypridd. He was born in Tibshelf, Derbyshire, in 1929, the son of a miner. He was brought up in the north east of England, until the family moved to south Wales. He studied medicine in Newcastle, and went on to hold junior posts in