Nitya Bhattacharjee was a consultant surgeon who worked in Manchester. He died on 14 August 2010 aged 79 years, survived by his wife, Christa and sons Jonathan and Nicholas.

Graham Farrington was a consultant general surgeon to Kingston Hospital, Surrey, from 1971 until his retirement at the age of 60 in 1994. He was born in Whetstone, London, on 31 October 1934 into a non-medical family. His father, Percy Morgan Sibley Farrington, owned a garage and his mother, Iris Li

William David Mackay received his medical education at Aberdeen University and was junior surgical registrar to the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary before being appointed consultant surgeon to the Dundee Hospital Group. He died on 3 February 1982.

Dipak Khandubhai Desai, first son of Khandubhai Desai, a medical practitioner, and of Lilayatiben Desai, was born in Naysan, India, on 2 January 1932. He was educated at Naysan High School, Elphinstone College and then Grant Medical College, Bombay. After resident appointments there he held various

Saibal Ranjan Sen became a Fellow of the College in December 1964. He practised in Calcutta until he died suddenly on 26 December 1989 survived by his wife, Manisha.

John Kilshaw was educated at Manchester University where he gained first class honours in physiology in his BSc in 1956 and qualified MB ChB in 1959. After qualification he held house posts and registrarships at Ancoats Hospital and Withington Hospital, Manchester, and at the Manchester Royal Infirm

After receiving his medical education in Bombay, Anant Kolgaonkar came to England to specialise in surgery and passed the FRCS in 1964. He then went to practice in Tanga, Tanzania where he died in 1999. Unfortunately the College has no details of his subsequent career.

After passing his FRCS, Mohamed Chaaban returned to work in Egypt, where he died on 2 May 1997.

John Nicholas Rimmer was born in Widnes, Lancashire, on 26 July 1924. His father was John Rimmer, a farmer, and his mother was Florence Woods. His father-in-law, Harold Frederick Leese, LDSRCS, was a dental surgeon in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, for forty years. John Rimmer attended Wade Deacon Scho

Geoff Giles was born in Coventry, Warwickshire, on 17 December 1936. He was educated at Bablake School and then obtained a major scholarship to enter the University of Manchester Medical School, qualifying from there MB ChB in 1960. After spending two years in junior appointments he commenced his in