Gordon Stuart Ramsay was a consultant general surgeon at the Royal London Homeopathic, Metropolitan and Bromley hospitals, London. He was born on 11 December 1919 in Streatham, south London. He was educated at Merchiston Castle School, Edinburgh, and then St Bartholomew's Medical School. During the

John Wilks was a consultant general surgeon at Bolton. He was born in London on 18 October 1918, the son of Charles Edward and Sybil Wilks. He was educated at Newcastle Preparatory School and Tonbridge School, where he gained an entrance scholarship, the Judd leaving exhibition and the Kitchener sch

Michael George Wilson was a consultant surgeon at Southmead Hospital, Bristol. He studied medicine at Leeds University. Immediately after qualifying, he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps. At first he was attached to the Scots Guards, but was then posted to Jerusalem. He subsequently spent two yea

Horatio Orishejolomi Thomas was a distinguished alumnus of Birmingham University Medical School. He was the first Nigerian surgeon to become FRCS and in April 1962 he was invited by the Federal government of Nigeria to establish a medical school and teaching hospital at Lagos. Later in that year (Se

Born on 1 April 1915 in Doublebois, Liskeard, Cornwall, to a family that had served India for five generations, Peter Anthony Lane Roberts was educated at Cheltenham and then went with a classical scholarship to Wadham. At Oxford he read medicine, rowed and played rugby football, gaining a trial cap

Gordon Graham Calder McKenzie was a consultant surgeon at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia. He was born on 17 July 1916 in Benalla, Victoria, the first child of Alexander Keith McKenzie, a company director, and Florence Victoria McKenzie. He was educated at Geelong College and attended Ormond

Joseph Peacock was born in Brentford, London, on 22 October 1918, the only child (two sisters having died) of Henry James Peacock, general manager of the Great Western Railway, and of Florence Peacock, née Milton. After education at Reading School and Bristol Grammar School he entered Birmingham Uni

Beric Stutter was born in North London. After graduating in 1938 at the Middlesex Hospital he held various resident posts with the intention of making a career in surgery. War intervened, he joined the Royal Navy and took part in the evacuation of Dunkirk. He served in Arctic convoys, the Mediterran

Bill Schulze was born in Natal and entered the University of Cape Town in 1927 where he had a distinguished career by obtaining first class honours in all the main subjects, which was a unique achievement by any student. In 1933 he qualified with honours and became house physician to Professor Falco

David Harland was born in Heathfield, Sussex on 17 January 1916. His father, Percy Cave Harland, was on the staff of Barclay's Bank and his mother was Emma, née Colenutt. He attended Roborough School, Eastbourne, until he went to St Bartholomew's Hospital where he won the Hallett Prize in 1948. He h

Anthony (Tony) Dingley was born on 22 March 1922 at Leamington Spa in Warwickshire, the son of Eric Gordon Dingley, FRCS Edinburgh, senior surgeon at Warneford Hospital, Leamington Spa, and Marion (Moll) Bradshaw, a nursing sister in QARANC, who served in Iraq. His uncle, Allen Roy Dingley, was a co

The following obituary was published in printed volume 8 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows: Brian Flannery was perceived by his colleagues as the archetypal Aussie, a big man in every way, big-hearted and with a big capacity for hard work. He was born on 5 May 1919 in Sydney, New South Wales, and