Born at Montreal, the only son of Dr Robert Palmer Howard, Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Medicine, McGill University, and one of the three teachers Sir William Osler recalled as having most influence on his mind in his early years. When Howard began studying at the McGill University, Sir Will

The only child of William Warwick Wagstaffe, senr (qv), one-time Surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital, London, was born on Jan 6th, 1886. 'Billy' Wagstaffe was not long in showing his mettle. Starting his school life at The Beacon, Sevenoaks, he won the junior and senior scholarships at Charterhouse. He

Colonel Dwarka Prasad Bhargava was professor of surgery at the Prince of Wales Medical College, Patna and Agra, India. He gained his FRCS in 1933. His son, Kamta, also became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.

Thomas James Russell Warren graduated in medicine in Dublin in 1919. He took the FRCS of Edinburgh in 1921 and later emigrated to Brazil where he became Director of the Hospital Samaritano in Sao Paulo. He was admitted to the Fellowship of the American College of Surgeons in 1954, and was granted th

Ralph Coyte, or "Dan" as he was generally known to his friends, was born on 3 May 1893 and went to Bart's for his medical studies, and while there distinguished himself on the rugger field. Early in the first world war he served in the Royal Navy as a Surgeon Probationer, being discharged later to c

Stanley Ritson began his medical training at King's College, London, where he took his BSc with honours in physiology in 1909 and was senior demonstrator in anatomy. His clinical years were spent at St Thomas's Hospital, from which he took the Conjoint qualification in 1911. He was academically gift

Sir Ian Fraser was senior consultant surgeon at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, and the Hospital for Sick Children. He was born in Belfast on 9 February 1901, the son of Robert Moore Fraser, a general practitioner, and was educated at the Royal Academical Institution and Queen's University, Be

Born at Aleppo, son of Dr A A Altounyan, an Armenian, founder of the hospital of his name in Aleppo, and his Northern-Irish wife, he was educated at Rugby, went up to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, of which he was an exhibitioner, and then to the Middlesex Hospital. The greater part of his surgical ca

Kenneth Charles Trineman Rawle was born at Exeter, Devon, on 7 September 1902. The family moved to Australia in 1913. He was educated at Blackheath Public School, NSW, Sydney Boys' High School and at Sydney University. In 1926 he graduated MB ChM with first-class honours, the University Medal and th

Joseph Hubert Fernando Jayasuriya qualified LMS in Ceylon in 1917. He took the Conjoint Diploma in 1926 and the Fellowship the following year. He was senior surgeon to the General Hospital in Colombo, Ceylon, and Chairman Emeritus of the Ceylon National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis

Robert Wintersmith Robertson qualified in medicine in 1931 from Loyola University. He practised general surgery at Western Baptist Hospital, Kentucky and became a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1940. He was a member of the Southern Surgical Association, the Southwestern Surgical Congr

Arthur Robb studied medicine at Edinburgh University qualifying in 1945. He returned to the Royal Infirmary and Western General Hospital after his army service to complete his training in urology and general surgery. He was first appointed consultant surgeon to the Southern General Hospital in Glasg