Denis Martin Morrissey was born in Newcastle, County Tipperary, Ireland, on 13 July 1914, the second son of Michael Joseph Morrissey, a farmer. His early education was at the High School, Clonmel, County Tipperary, before entering University College, Dublin, for medical studies, which included a pos

Iskander, an Egyptian, took the Fellowship in 1949 and then returned to Egypt and practised as a surgeon in Cairo for about fourteen years. His death was reported to the College by A A K Motawi FRCS on 25 April 1965.

Ferguson graduated from University College, Dublin in 1942, and was living at Cork in 1943. He took the Fellowship in 1949, and then settled in Canada where he was appointed surgeon to the Memorial Hospital at Sackville, New Brunswick; he lived at 32 Charles Street, with consulting rooms in the M

Jan Roeland Frylinck qualified MB ChB from Cape Town in 1935. He passed the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1949 and the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1948. He was a surgeon in Sea Point, South Africa, and died in 1977 or 1978.

Andrew Robinson was born at Astley Bridge, Bolton, Lancashire, on 17 December 1920. He was the second son of Dr Frank Robinson who was himself one of five brothers who became medical practitioners. They were the fourth dynasty of a long line of medical men with its roots in the eighteenth century. B

Thomson was born on 14 July 1919 in Brisbane, the son of Frederick Thorpe Thomson, an insurance executive, and his wife Ann Margaret, née Evans. He was educated at Brisbane Boys' College, before winning an open scholarship to the University of Queensland where he won the W N Robertson medal for firs

John Hallissy studied medicine at University College Dublin, qualifying in 1938. He joined the RAMC and was appointed a surgical specialist during the war. Afterwards he did his surgical training in Birmingham at the Dudley Road and Selly Oak Hospitals. He is thought to have died in 1999.

Noel Fowler qualified MB BS at Sydney University in 1942 and was resident medical officer at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney from 1942 to 1943 and served as a captain in the Australian Army Medical Corps from 1943 to 1947. Coming to Britain to work for his Fellowship he obtained house pos

Born in Baroda in 1917, the son of a farmer, Manibhai Patel went to Grant Medical College in Bombay and qualified MB BS and then obtained his MD in obstetrics and gynaecology. Proceeding to England he became FRCS in 1949 and then settled in Baroda. Here he became a prominent member of the medical sc

Malcolm Roberts Stanley qualified MB, BS in Sydney in 1944 and was appointed junior resident medical officer to the Sydney Hospital and became surgical registrar in 1945. During the second world war he was a Captain in the Australian Army Medical Corps Reserve. He became a Fellow of the College i

Stephen de Carteret Barclay was born on 26 August 1918 in New Zealand. He qualified there and came to England after the war to specialise in surgery. He returned to New Zealand to practice in Leamington, Cambridge, where he is thought to have died sometime in 2002.

Frederick Gabel was born in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada on 21 September 1916, the son of John Gabel, the owner of a grocer's shop, and his wife Annie Broskie. After obtaining a BA from the University of Saskatchewan where he played hockey for the University, he went on to the University of Manitob