Born in South Africa on 2 February 1908, the eldest child of Benjamin Levitt a landowner and Jenny Goodman his wife, he was educated at the University of Cape Town, where he took first-class honours in anatomy in 1929 and in physiology in 1930. He was an assistant lecturer in the University for a sh

Professor Ibrahim Magdi was working at the As Salam Hospital in Giza, Egypt when he died on 3 March 1981.

'Dan' Desmond was born in London on 18 August 1912, the second son of Dennis William Andrew Desmond, a pharmacist, and Violet Amy née More. He was educated at St Aloysius College, Highgate, and the London Hospital, where he qualified in 1934, and was house surgeon, receiving room officer, and clinic

Frank Evans was a consultant general surgeon in Liverpool. He was born in Ffynnongrowy, a small mining village in north Wales on 20 May 1910. His father Evan Evans was the local GP, who had originally been apprenticed to a qualified doctor and by the time he started medical training in Glasgow had a

Born in Surrey, on 19 November 1908, the second son of Edmund Henderson Hunt, MCh, FRCS (Eng) and Laura Mary, daughter of Sir James Buckingham. His elder brother, John, was elected a Fellow of the College *ad eundem* for services as a co-opted Member of Council and to medicine. Educated at Charte

Born on 11 February 1910 at The Oaks, Great Malvern, Worcestershire, second son of William John Davis, fish and fruit merchant, and Florence Kate Rachel Evans, his wife. Davis was educated at Aymestry Court School, Crown East, Worcester and at Bishop's Stortford College, where he won an entrance sch

Born on 27 November 1910 at Heilbron, Orange Free State, he was educated at St Andrew's College, Grahamstown and the Christian Brothers College, Pretoria before entering St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College in 1928. He qualified in 1934, served as a house surgeon at the Kent and Sussex Hospital

Sydney Krantz had a good record at school at Prince Alfred College, and played for the school and afterwards for the University of Adelaide at cricket and football. He studied medicine in the University of Adelaide and graduated MB BS in 1927. After junior appointments in Adelaide he came to England

Andrew Geoffrey Butters was born in Kempston, Bedfordshire on 5 April 1911, the third child of George Butters, a general practitioner. In early childhood he suffered from a gross speech defect and also from congenital myopia. His disabilities were so severe that at the age of eight he was unable to

Henry Shucksmith was the third child of Thomas Warth Shucksmith, a farmer of Alvington, Lincolnshire, and his wife Fanny White, whose father was a blacksmith. He was educated at the Alvington and North Coederington Church of England Elementary School followed by the King Edward VI Grammar School, Lo

Thomas Stewart Heslop was born in South Shields, the son of a schoolmaster, on 18 March 1907. He was educated at Blackburn Grammar School and Manchester University, where he graduated with first class honours in 1931, gaining the medal in medicine. After two years in the anatomy department under Pro

John Reginald St George Stead was born in Grahamstown, South Africa, on 20 June 1908. His father was William Yewdall Stead, a missionary priest, and his mother, Miriam Peterson, was the daughter of an architect. He was the sixth child in the family and the third boy. He was educated at St Andrew's P