James Snyder was born on 3 November 1918 at Narberth, Pennsylvania. His father, Oscar, was a physician and founder of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy and his mother was Aline Ambrose Cantwell, the daughter of a physician. Oscar Snyder was responsible for the ruling by Congress that in the USA

Alan Anderson was senior surgeon at Wellington Hospital, New Zealand. He was born in Wellington on 28 May 1926. His father, Ewart Gordon Anderson, was a surgeon who had qualified in Durham and went to New Zealand after the end of the first world war. His mother was Elsie Craig neé Ardrey. Alan was e

Percy Joseph was a surgeon in Sri Lanka. 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

Alan Morgan was a general surgeon in Wellington from the 50's to the 80's. Alan was a true generalist and served the community well in this role. He remained a generalist in an era when sub specialist practice was slowly developing in New Zealand. He remained committed to the broad specialty of gene

Campbell Heywood Maclaurin (known as Cam) was born in Dannevirke to Colin Maclaurin, a general practitioner and surgeon, and Dorothy Mirams, homemaker. With an uncle a general practitioner in nearby Fielding, Cam entered a medical family. He was the eldest of three boys with younger brothers, Jim an

Kevin William Hinrichsen was born on 7 December 1924, the eldest child of William Henry Hinrichsen, a Church of Christ minister and general practitioner at Thornbury and Florence (nee Hall), a school teacher. His later schooling was at Scotch College where he was an outstanding under age athlete and

Emmanuel Augustus Badoe was one of the founding fathers of the Ghana Medical School and the West African College of Surgeons. He was part of a generation which, through hard work and dedication, contributed to the foundation of Ghana as an independent nation. He was born in Asokore, in the Ashant

Arun Kumar Das worked as a general surgeon in Calcutta having passed the fellowship of the college in 1953. He died on 13 September 2015.

Barry Shandling was born in South Africa on 20 February 1928 and graduated in medicine from the University of Cape Town in 1950. While he was in training he was inspired by the surgeons Christian Barnard and Jannie Louw. On travelling to the UK he did house jobs at the Hospital for Sick Children, Gr

Keith Vowles was a consultant surgeon at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. 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

Gerald Kane was a general surgeon who lived in California, USA. 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

Jason Giles Brice was born on 24 January 1927. Initially educated at a two-roomed Church of England School in the North Downs, he moved on to Gravesend Grammar School for Boys and started two years ahead of his age group. Due to the lack of science teachers during the second world war, he was more o