John Golding was born in London on 15 April 1921 and his early schooling was at Hilltop Court School, Seaford, and then Marlborough. From there he went to Caius College, Cambridge, and the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, graduating in 1944. He did his National Service in the RAMC and in 1946 was

Jitendra Lal Podder qualified MB BS Calcutta in 1954 and obtained the Fellowship in 1966. He died in London on 19 February 1984, survived by a son and daughter. See below for an amended version of the published obituary: Jitendra Lal Podder was an orthopaedic surgeon. He was born in Sylhet,

Norman Wynne Roberts, the second son of Dr Thomas Roberts, a general practitioner and later a medical officer of health, and of Elizabeth Roberts (née Thomas), was born at Caernarvon, North Wales, on 2 July 1907. He was educated at Grove Park Grammar School, Wrexham, and at Liverpool University. Aft

Collins Louis Greaves, the son of Ernest Collins Greaves and Sophia Constance (née Currell), was born at Lota, Queensland, on 20 July, 1922. After education at Brisbane Grammar School he worked for a short while in a hospital laboratory which fired his interest in medicine. After one year at the Uni

Robert William Edmund Knowles was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, on 5 May 1936, the son of Robert Barton Knowles, a medical practitioner and Kathleen, née Pearson, a dental surgeon. His early education was at Broughton Hall, Eccleshall, Staffordshire, and at Repton, before entering medical school

John Bruce Kyle was born in Ballylinny, County Antrim, on 13 May 1909, the son of John Kyle, a Presbyterian minister and Grace, née Moore. His early education was at Campbell College, Belfast, and he won a scholarship to Trinity College, Oxford where he read classics and was captain of the boat club

John Lister Colless Lahz was born in Murgon, Queensland, on 29 November 1925, the son of Rudolf Sergius Lahz a surgeon, and Mary Regis, née Barron. He attended Loreto Convent, Coorparoo, Queensland, and St Joseph's College, Melbourne, and later the University of Queensland Medical School in Brisbane

William Alan Liddell was born in Herbert, New Zealand, in 1921, the son of a doctor who had graduated in Edinburgh. He attended Waitaki Boys' High School before entering Otago Medical School, from which he graduated in 1945. During his student years he was awarded a blue for tennis and after qualify

'Raj' Dutta was born in Chittagong. His father was a general practitioner in Rangoon before the war and joined the British army after the Japanese invasion. Raj qualified in Rangoon in 1953 and worked there before coming to England in 1958. He took a number of junior posts, training in Edinburgh,

Freddy Durbin was born in Ealing on 23 January 1913, the son of Frederick William Durbin, a farmer and grocer, and Florence Albertine, née James. From the Merchant Taylors' School he went to St Thomas's Hospital, where he won the William Tite scholarship in anatomy and physiology. After basic surgic

Brian Hammond studied medicine in Sydney where he qualified in 1941. He was house surgeon at Sydney Hospital and the Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney. He was medical officer at the Royal Australian Air Force Hospital Butterworth. He came to England to specialise in surgery and became registrar in Ed

George Dommisse was one of South Africa's leading orthopaedic surgeons. He was born in Dewetsdorp, Orange Free State, on 1 November 1914, and was educated at the Boys' High School, Worcester. He went on to study medicine at Cape Town, where he was house surgeon and house physician. He came to London