Donald Gebbie was the foundation professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Nairobi. 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

William Hawksworth was born in New Zealand in 1911 and was educated at Nelson College and at the University of Otago, graduating from there in 1935. After various house appointments he was awarded a New Zealand Travelling Obstetric Scholarship which took him to Melbourne where he became a house surg

Ivor John Thomas qualified from the London Hospital in 1942 and within three years had obtained both Edinburgh and English Fellowships. During the latter years of the war he was resident surgical officer at Cardiff Royal Infirmary, assistant surgeon in the Emergency Medical Service and surgical regi