Born in Brisbane, Ian Lumsden McVey's early schooling days were spent in Queensland. The family subsequently moved to Melbourne and he finished his schooling at Wesley College. He began medicine at Melbourne University, being a student at the Alfred Hospital and graduated MB BS in 1949 was subseque

John Humphreys was a greatly respected consultant general surgeon in Southport from 1961 to 1990. His main interest was in gastro-intestinal surgery, but he was also a competent urologist. Fully committed to patients under his care, he visited them at weekends to check on their progress. In view of

Rolf Carter Shepherd was a general surgeon with an interest in vascular surgery. He established the peripheral vascular service for Bournemouth, Dorset and Jersey in the early 1960s and for 15 years ran this service single-handed. He was born in Cardiff on 8 June 1926, where his father, Charles Wool

Philip Henson qualified from St Bartholomew’s in 1939 and after junior posts became surgical registrar at New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton, and senior registrar at the East Glamorganshire Hospital, Ponthpridd. He was senior hospital medical officer in Accident and Emergency at the Manor Hospital, N

Sri Singha was professor of surgery in Kandy, Sri Lanka. He was born on 14 February 1927, in Moratuwa, in what was then Ceylon, the son of A C Fernando, a doctor from Colombo, whose name he bore when he arrived in the UK. He was educated at St Thomas's College and the Royal College, Colombo, where h

John Heslop was born in Dunedin on March 21, 1925, the only child of James, an Irish immigrant, and Muriel. James died in his 50s and Muriel lived with John's family and played an important role in caring for her two grand-daughters as their parents developed increasingly busy professional careers.

After qualifying in 1946 Raymond Bottoms held house officer posts at Mansfield Hospital and King Edward Hospital, Chesterfield, before doing his National Service in the RAF, where he was a staff specialist at Halton from 1949 to 1951. He obtained the FRCS in 1955, was a registrar at Mayday Hospital

Alexander Gol read medicine at Cambridge University qualifying MB, BCh in 1949 and trained at Guy's Hospital. He became a Fellow of the College in 1955 and went to Chicago in the late 1950s where he practised at the Children's Memorial Hospital. He then moved to Houston, Texas, where he spent the re

Sir William Slack, known as Willie to his friends and colleagues (but always William to his wife), was a much-admired surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital who served as a surgeon to the Queen for 15 years between 1975 and 1990. He was born on 22 February 1925 to Cecil Moorhouse Slack, who was awarde

Kevin Bridson Orr was born in Balmain, Sydney on 17 July 1927, the son of Clarence Montague Orr and his wife Vera Ruth née Bridson. He studied medicine at Sydney University and qualified in 1950. From 1950 to 1951 he was resident medical officer at the Grafton Base Hospital in Grafton, New South Wal

Paul Frederick Mountfort was a general surgeon from Tauranga, New Zealand. 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