Lucas's working life was spent in orthopaedics, first as orthopaedic surgeon at Walton Hospital, Liverpool, and as first assistant in the orthopaedic department of Liverpool Royal Infirmary and later as orthopaedic surgeon to Bristol Royal Infirmary, to the Winford Orthopaedic Hospital, to Tetbury H

'Mannie' Lunz was born in Benoni on 4 May 1924. He was educated at King Edward VII School in Johannesburg and studied medicine at the University of Witwatersrand, qualifying in 1946. After junior posts at Johannesburg General Hospital he went to England to study orthopaedics under Professor Brian Mc

David John Fuller, the only son of Wilfred Evelyn Fuller, a civil servant, and of Joan Anne (née Lovering), was born on 23 September 1939 at Fowey, Cornwall. He was educated at Welwyn Garden City Grammar School and London University before entering Charing Cross Hospital Medical School. After qualif

John Bruce Kyle was born in Ballylinny, County Antrim, on 13 May 1909, the son of John Kyle, a Presbyterian minister and Grace, née Moore. His early education was at Campbell College, Belfast, and he won a scholarship to Trinity College, Oxford where he read classics and was captain of the boat club

John Lister Colless Lahz was born in Murgon, Queensland, on 29 November 1925, the son of Rudolf Sergius Lahz a surgeon, and Mary Regis, née Barron. He attended Loreto Convent, Coorparoo, Queensland, and St Joseph's College, Melbourne, and later the University of Queensland Medical School in Brisbane

John Gilmour, the eldest of the three children of the Rev. James Gilmour, a Presbyterian minister, and of Annie Campbell (née Brown), was born in Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland, on 1 December 1893. As a result of his father's varied domicile he was educated at Cowdenbeath Board School; the High School,

Arthur Carlisle Townsend was an orthopaedic surgeon at the Kent and Sussex Hospital, Tunbridge Wells. He was born in Amesbury, Wiltshire. His father, Eric Townsend, was a brigadier in the Royal Army Medical Corps; his mother was Dorothy Townsend née Carlisle. His grandfather, Meredith Townsend, was

Hugh Barry was a senior orthopaedic surgeon at Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He was born in Orange in 1912 and educated at Sydney Grammar School. He studied medicine at the University of Sydney, won a blue at rugby, and was awarded the Rhodes scholarship for New South Wales, which took him

The son of Edward Jones, a clergyman, and Mary Louise, née Evans, David Jones was born in Rhyl, North Wales, on 14 April 1910. He was educated at Taunton School, went on to pre-clinical training in Cardiff and did his clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying with the conjoint diplo

Edmund Henry Tregothwyn Hambly was born at Port Isaac, Cornwall, in 1914. He was educated at Blundell's and on leaving school entered St Bartholomew's where he graduated in 1937 obtaining his FRCS in the following year. Ill health prevented him from joining the forces in the second world war. He was

Jyotish Chandra Narendrarai Joshipura was an orthopaedic surgeon at Jaslok Hospital, Mumbai, India. 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

Michael Salz was an orthopaedic surgeon in Plymouth. He was born in Breslau, Germany, the only child of an eminent lawyer. He was sent to St John’s College, Cambridge, in 1935, and the family moved to England in 1938. From Cambridge Michael went to the Middlesex Hospital for his clinical studies, an