Born at Aleppo, son of Dr A A Altounyan, an Armenian, founder of the hospital of his name in Aleppo, and his Northern-Irish wife, he was educated at Rugby, went up to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, of which he was an exhibitioner, and then to the Middlesex Hospital. The greater part of his surgical ca

Donald Robertson Webster was professor of surgery at McGill University and surgeon-in-chief of the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Canada. He was born on 7 January 1912, the son of a doctor from Pictou, Nova Scotia, and graduated from Dalhousie University in 1925. After postgraduate studies at

James Hartley was born on 2 July 1889 and received his medical education in Edinburgh and Guy's Hospital. He graduated with first class honours in 1913 and as a student gained a number of distinctions including the Ettles and Buchanan Scholarships and the Annadale Gold Medal in Clinical Surgery. He

Educated at Guy's Hospital, where he was House Physician. He was then appointed Resident Medical Officer to the Leeds General Infirmary, and in 1893 entered the service of the Metropolitan Asylums Board. In 1897 he was appointed Medical Superintendent of the North-Eastern Fever Hospital, and in 1905

The son of Edmund Joseph Furner (qv), of Brighton, and Arabella, eldest daughter of John Lawrence, senr (qv). He was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where his career was one of distinction; he was Senior Scholar (1871), Foster and Treasurer's Prizeman (1869-1870), House Surgeon, House Physici

Joseph Hubert Fernando Jayasuriya qualified LMS in Ceylon in 1917. He took the Conjoint Diploma in 1926 and the Fellowship the following year. He was senior surgeon to the General Hospital in Colombo, Ceylon, and Chairman Emeritus of the Ceylon National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis

Joseph MacFarlane was born in Lanark County, Ontario, on 23 April 1893, and as his family moved to Saskatchewan when he was 14 years old he completed his schooling in that province and finally matriculated with distinction in the University of Saskatchewan, and studied in the Faculty of Arts. At the

John Tertius Morrison was born in Calcutta on 19 January 1888 of Scottish missionary parents. He grew up in Paisley and Edinburgh, where he graduated in medicine in 1911, winning the Ettles Scholarship. After studying in London he gained the FRCS in 1913. He served throughout the first world war in

Kenneth Charles Trineman Rawle was born at Exeter, Devon, on 7 September 1902. The family moved to Australia in 1913. He was educated at Blackheath Public School, NSW, Sydney Boys' High School and at Sydney University. In 1926 he graduated MB ChM with first-class honours, the University Medal and th

Stanley Francis Reid, while a medical student at Melbourne, took a keen interest in flying and was one of a small band of students who joined the Citizen Air Force at Laverton, where he won his 'wings'. After qualifying MB BS Melbourne in 1936 he held posts as RMO in the Royal Melbourne Hospital, 19

William George Dismore Upjohn was born in Narrabri, New South Wales, Australia, on 16 March 1888. His mother Jane Mackenzie was the daughter of a cabinet maker and his father, George Dismore Upjohn, was a jeweller. He studied at Wesley College, Melbourne, and at the University of Melbourne where he

John Alvah MacDougall qualified in medicine from Manchester in 1934. He settled in Vancouver, Canada, where he became surgeon to the Vancouver General Hospital and to the British Columbia Cancer Institute. He was Clinical Associate Professor to the department of surgery at the University of British