Was gazetted Hospital Assistant to the Forces on Dec 1st, 1825, Assistant Surgeon to the 1st Foot on November 16th, 1826, to the 12th Dragoons on Oct 8th, 1830, and to the Coldstream Guards on March 15th, 1838. He was promoted Surgeon to the same on April 14th, 1843, and Surgeon Major on September 2

Educated at Norwich and St Bartholomew's Hospitals. He was for a time House Surgeon at the Lock Hospital, London, and then practised at Barford, Oxfordshire, whence by 1871 he had removed to Wantage, Berks. In 1875 he was in practice at Belmont, Beckenham, Kent, and in, or before, 1879 had removed t

Studied in Dublin, Edinburgh, and London. He was at first Assistant to the Professor of Anatomy in the University of Dublin, then Surgeon to the Bristol Royal Infirmary and Lecturer on Surgery. He died at 7 Berkeley Square, Bristol, on October 31st, 1878.

Practised at Durham in partnership with Edward Kane Jepson (qv), and was Surgeon to the Durham Infirmary. He died at 55 Old Elvet, Durham, on November 11th, 1858.

Khalid Abdul Aziz Qassab was a surgeon in Baghdad, Iraq. He gained his FRCS in 1954. He died on 27 July 2004 from a brain tumour.

Nicholas Slater was a senior consultant surgeon at Lewisham Hospital, London. Born in Sidcup, Kent on 10 March 1954, he was the only son of Henry, a marine plumber in the London docks, and his wife Mary. His two elder sisters were Carole, later Mrs Oates, and Dolores. Their father's only reading mat

The son of H Clayton Greene, of Liverpool, and grandson of Isaac Penny, of Liscard Manor, Cheshire. He was educated at Oundle and Rossall Schools and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he graduated with an ordinary degree. He obtained the Open University Scholarship with which he entered S

Born on 19 January 1935, Manohar Rajani qualified in Bombay and after junior posts went to England to specialise in surgery. After passing the FRCS he did a series of training posts, before going to Canada in 1965, where he passed the Canadian FRCS and settled down in practice in Toronto. He died on

Richard Alan Cobb was a consultant surgeon in Birmingham. He was born in Plymouth on 27 August 1953, the son of Alan Percival Cobb, a Royal Navy officer, and Sheila née Daly. He was educated at Monkton Combe School, where he was senior prefect, and then had a short service commission with the 3rd Ba

Louis Bloom Cohen spent much of his career as a surgeon in various politically unstable countries in Africa and in Iran. He was born in Glasgow on 16 November 1915, the son of Arthur Israel Cohen, a company director with the Rank Organisation, and Louise née Bloom. He was educated at St Paul's Schoo

Walter Ramsay Allan, known as ‘Peter’, was a consultant surgeon at Bolton Royal Infirmary. Born on 26 October 1927, he was the second of four sons of Walter Ramsay Allan, a general practitioner based in Edinburgh who had fought in the first world war before completing his medical studies at Glasgow

Babu Lal Kathel, known as ‘Brij’, was a consultant surgeon at Grantham General Hospital. Born on 11 November 1932 in Jhansi, India, he was the son of Har Prasad Kathel and Durga Devi Kathel. He was educated at a Christian school and studied medicine at Lucknow University, where he qualified in 1955.