Thomas John Starling Patterson (TP) was a consultant plastic and reconstructive surgeon in Oxford. He was born on 27 November 1920 in Melbourne, where his father, Sydney Wentworth Patterson, was working as a physician. His mother, Muriel Patterson née Starling, was the daughter of Ernest Starling, a

Robert Craig was a consultant plastic surgeon in Manchester. 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

Hunter Fry was a plastic surgeon at the Royal Melbourne 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

Jack Mustardé founded and ran West Africa’s first reconstructive plastic surgery unit and established the charity ReSurge Africa. 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

David Thomas Sharpe was a professor of plastic reconstructive surgery at the University of Bradford University. 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.

Malcolm Deane was a consultant plastic surgeon at City Hospital, Nottingham. 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

Niall Kirkpatrick was a consultant plastic surgeon at the Royal Marsden Hospital and president of the charity Facing the World. 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

Paul Townsend was born on 27 December 1937 in Hendon. During his early years the family lived in Radlett, Hertfordshire and, during the early years of the second world war, he remembered that he could see the bombs falling on London during the Blitz. His father worked as an army officer and later be

Rajaratnam (Raj) Sundarason was born in Singapore on 3 July 1929. Sponsored by the Colombo Plan, he travelled to Australia in 1950 when he was 21 to study medicine at Melbourne University. Sadly it was at a time when there was a great deal of racial prejudice in the population and he and his fellow

John McGregor was a consultant plastic surgeon in Edinburgh and the Lothians. He was born on 21 April 1944 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, the only child of John Alexander McGregor, a chartered civil engineer, and Isabel Millar McGregor née Cummack, the daughter of a farmer. He was educated at Paisley Gra

Gearoid Lynch was born in Dublin on 17 February 1932, the son of Fionan Lynch and his wife Bridget née Slattery. He studied medicine at Belfast University, graduating MB, BCh, BAO in 1948. Travelling to London he worked as a surgical registrar at the Hammersmith Hospital and then as a registrar in p

Douglas Stewart Murray was a consultant plastic surgeon at the West Midlands Regional Plastic Surgery Centre, Wordsley 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