Educated at McGill University, Montreal, graduating in 1931, he came to London for postgraduate study at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and took the Fellowship in 1939. He served throughout the war of 1939-45, reaching the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Returning to Canada he was appointed associate sur

Born at Windsor, Nova Scotia he graduated in Arts at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and qualified in medicine and surgery at McGill University, Montreal in 1909, and undertook postgraduate study there. Coming to England for further training he took the Fellowship in 1914, and was commis

Born 12 January 1862 at Westport, Connecticut, the eldest son of Horace Bradley Coley, farmer, and Clarine Bradley Wakeman, his wife. He was educated at Westport School, at Yale University (1880) and at the Harvard Medical School (1886-88). He acted as instructor in surgery at the New York Postgradu

Harold Francis Mowat spent much of his career as surgeon to the International Nickel Company of Canada Hospital at Copper Cliff, Ontario. He died on 20 March 1980, survived by his wife, Dr Margaret A Mowat (nee Riddell), and daughters Margaret, Frances and Kathryn.

Walter Campbell MacKenzie was born in 1909 in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. He went to school in Sydney and Baddeck and to Dalhousie University. He graduated BSc in 1929, MD, ChM in 1933 and was awarded the Malcolm Honour Society Medal as the outstanding graduate in his year. He was a resident at the Roya

Owen Harding Wangensteen, the son of a farmer, was born at Lake Park, Minnesota, USA, on 21 September 1885. He always wanted to become a farmer and was fond of relating how he decided to become a doctor instead. When he was a high school junior, he had the opportunity to help fifty of his father's s

Born on 1 October 1894 at Bishopstoke, Hampshire, son of Dr Henry James Bailey MB, MS (Edin). He was educated at St Lawrence College, Ramsgate and then entered the London Hospital Medical College. His studies were interrupted by the first world war and whilst serving as a dresser with the first Belg

Murray Pheils was professor of surgery at the University of Sydney. He was born in Birmingham on 2 December 1917, the younger of the two sons of Elmer Theodore Pheils, an osteopath, and Lilian Mary née Cole. His father Elmer was a colourful character: he was born in Toledo, Ohio, and trained as an o

Born 1882 at Barrie, Ontario, of pioneer Scottish parents, he was educated at Barrie Grammar School where he did well at work and games. In 1899 he entered the medical faculty of the University of Toronto, from which he graduated with honours in 1903, the youngest member of his class. He played hock

Henry Lorenz Eaton was a surgeon who lived in Western Australia. He gained his FRCS in 1963. He died in 2011.

Jacques Turcot came from a Canadian family with a long medical tradition. He was Associate Professor of Surgery at Laval University, where he had trained at the medical school. He gained a great reputation for his work as a skilful general surgeon at L'Hôtel-Dieu de Quebec, especially for his long-t

John Dunphy was one of the group of North American surgeons who did so much to form a bond of lasting friendship with young and old Fellows of the College after the second world war. Born in Northampton, Massachusetts, John Dunphy was educated at the Holy Cross College (SJ) and at the Harvard Medica