Derek Stevenson was house officer at St Thomas's Hospital, London from 1948 to 1949 and then at St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey from 1949 to 1950. He then went to Kenya with the RAMC before taking up a senior house post at Nottingham General Hospital in 1952. He moved to Australia in 1954 and worked a

Philip Bosworth (Bos) was a general practitioner, school doctor at Bryanston School and a keen campanologist. Born in Market Harborough, Leicestershire on 11 October 1948, he initially studied chemistry at Imperial College London after a gap year spent in Norfolk. In 1971 he enrolled at Bristol Univ

Sir Donald Irvine was an outstanding general practitioner who throughout his career was at the heart of changing the relationship between the public and their doctors. He was the first, and so far only, general practitioner to become president of the General Medical Council (GMC). He was responsible

Alan Francis Goode was born on 8 May 1908. He studied medicine at Birmingham University and trained at the Middlesex and St Bartholomew’s Hospitals. After working as an assistant in the surgical unit at the Welsh National School of Medicine and as a surgical registrar at the General Hospital in Birm

Prem Satsangi was a general practitioner in Chelmsford. 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

Elias Michael Lasserson was a general practitioner in Mitcham, London. 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

Avi-Nash Chander Chadha was a general practitioner in Farnham. 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

Charles Taylor was born at Motherwell, Lanarkshire on 13 June 1905, and was educated at Glasgow University where he graduated MB ChB in 1928. He went into general practice in Coventry, and, developing a special interest in ophthalmology, obtained the DOMS in 1934 and worked as a clinical assistant a

Monte Modlin was born in Bloemfontein in 1917. He attended the South African College School in Cape Town and then entered the University of Cape Town Medical School. During the second world war he served for three years in the SAMC in Egypt. In 1943 he returned to South Africa and joined the air sch

Ralph Marshall Bates was born in 1902. He was educated at Plymouth College and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma at the London Hospital, where he held several resident appointments. He was a first assistant to Sir Hugh Cairns, the neurosurgeon, and was also a member of the Middle Temple. He spent

David Robertson was born in August 1916 in Auckland, a son of Sir Carrick Robertson. He was educated at Wanganui Collegiate School where he represented the school in rugby, rowing and swimming. He studied medicine first at Dunedin and then at Melbourne, where he won an anatomy scholarship under Prof

John Alan William McKelvey was a consultant ophthalmologist for the Cornwall Hospitals Trust. He was born in 1932 into a farming family in Northern Ireland. He studied medicine at Queen's University, Belfast, qualifying in 1955. He held junior hospital posts at Belfast City Hospital, and in 1957