David Foster was a general surgeon in Essex, Ontario, Canada. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

John Russell was a surgeon who lived in Tenterden, Kent. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

Professor Richard (Dick) Clayton Bennett AM, FRACS had been a Fellow of this College since 1960 and a graduate of the University of Adelaide. As a surgeon in practice, he was based at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne from 1966 to 1990. Professor Bennett was admitted to the Court of Honour in 1987

Eugene Poh Hwye Chu was a general surgeon in Hong Kong. He studied medicine at Melbourne University graduating in 1956 and doing house jobs at the Prince Henry Hospital. Having passed the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1959, he passed the college fellowship the following

Earl Ming-Teh Lu was a consultant surgeon for over 40 years at the Mount Alvernia, Mount Elizabeth and Gleneagles Hospitals in Singapore. A talented artist, he was considered one of Singapore’s most prominent art patrons and philanthropists. Born in Hong Kong on 15 September 1925, he was the fourth

Benarsi Talwar was a general surgeon in Chandigarh, India. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

Baldev Raj Bahl was a general surgeon who worked for much of his career in Nigeria. He was born in 1931 in the state of Punjab, India, the eldest of five children. He lived with his mother, Sushila, and her family for most of his childhood as his father, Ram Lal, was working in Uganda with the Briti

John Kille was a general surgeon and urologist in Burnie, Tasmania. He was born in Surrey, of parents Reginald Kille, an accountant, and Rene Vernon. As a boy he lived near Croyden, spending many hours watching civil aeroplanes and later RAF fighters and bombers, soon becoming a competent aircraft s

Christopher Wastell was professor of surgery at Westminster Medical School, London. He was born on 13 October 1932 in Birmingham, the fourth child and third son of Edgar Barker Wastell, a manager, and Doris Emeline Wastell née Pett. He was educated at George Dixon Primary School, Edgbaston, and then

Manickavasagar Balasegaram was a pioneering surgeon in Malaysia, who gained prominence for his anatomical studies of the liver and for his development of the 'Balasegaram clamp'. 'Bala' or 'Prof', as he was known, was renowned for taking on complex surgeries that few others did in the region. He was

John 'Jack' Bradley was a consultant surgeon at Hillingdon and Mount Vernon hospitals. He was born in Paulton, Somerset, on 20 October 1927, the second child and only son of William Henry Bradley, a medical officer and epidemiologist at the Ministry of Health, and Gladys Maud Bradley née Smith, the

David Glenn was a consultant general and colorectal surgeon at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, New South Wales. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk