John Oliver Kilby was a consultant surgeon in north Gloucestershire. He was born on 21 November 1933 in Brentford, Middlesex, the son of Bernard William Kilby and Ruth Emily Kilby née Howse. He studied medicine at Charing Cross Medical School and qualified in 1958. He gained his fellowship of the

David Ernest Leask was a consultant in general surgery in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa on 30 March 1938. His father, Lawrence, was a businessman; his mother, Beryl Leask née Walton, was a housewife. He gained his fellowships of the Royal College of Surgeons

Colin Windsor was a general surgeon in Worcester. He was born on 26 February 1933 in Stourport-on-Severn, Worcestershire, and attended grammar schools in Kidderminster and Stourbridge. He excelled in sports, especially rugby, as well as academic subjects. Qualifying from the University of Birmingham

James Francis ‘Jim’ Carter was a general surgeon in Auckland, New Zealand. He was born on 17 March 1933 in Rawene Northland, New Zealand, one of six children of hardworking share milkers and agricultural labourers who frequently had to move to seek work in those days of depression. He was educated a

Gordon Clunie was a pre-eminent figure in the surgical life of Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. Born in Fiji, he received his primary school education in Suva and secondary schooling at first in Hamilton New Zealand and later in Edinburgh. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, g

Lucas Carl Jansen van Rensburg was always known as Boet. Although he was born in Parys, Free State, South Africa, his family lived mostly on the Zambian copperbelt and he travelled long distances to attend boarding school in Bethlehem. He studied medicine at the University of Cape Town and graduated

Denis Keown was a consultant general surgeon in south east Kent. He studied medicine in Glasgow and gained his FRCS in 1962. He died on 9 May 2015, aged 84.

Madhukar Kulkarni was a consultant surgeon in Malaysia. He was born on 4 July 1931 in Nagpur, Maharastra, central India, the son of a general practitioner and the eldest of six children. His third sister also became a surgeon. He studied medicine at the University of Nagpur, where he qualified in 19

Amarish Jagmohan Parikh was a surgeon who lived and worked in Ahmedabad, India. He was born in Umreth in Gujarat State, India on 2 March 1934, the seventh child and fourth son of Jagmohan Lalbhai Parikh, a civil judge, and Saraswati Parikh née Chokshi. He attended the Government High School, Nadiad,

Philip Powley was a consultant surgeon in Swindon. 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

Kershaw Burjor Khambatta studied medicine at Grant Medical College in Bombay, qualifying MB, BS in 1942. After working as a house surgeon at the Sir J. J. Hospital he travelled to the UK to study for the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, passing in 1956, and of the college wh

Michael Naunton Morgan combined his surgical skills with those of a first class cricketer. The son of Sir Clifford Naunton Morgan, a former vice-president of the college, and his wife Ena Muriel, née Evans, he was born on 15 May 1932 in Marylebone. After attending Marlborough College School, he stud