Ian Jackson was a leading London obstetrician and gynaecologist. He was born on 11 November 1914 in Shanghai, where his father was a doctor. He was sent to England at a young age to commence his education. In due course he moved on to Marlborough, from which he won a scholarship to Trinity Hall, Cam

John Clifford Newbold was born in Lincoln on 21 August 1911, the son of John Davidson Newbold and Annie Ethel Allpress Laws. He was educated at Bishop Stortford College, where he became head of the School and captain of swimming and rugby football. He went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obt

Wellege Hemachandra Fernando was an obstetrician and gynaecologist in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Born on 1 July 1958 in Pussellawa, Ceylon, he was the second child of Wellege Simon Fernando, a medical practitioner employed by the Ceylonese Department of Health and his wife Adeline Grace née Da Silva. He wa

George Pinker, Surgeon-Gynaecologist to the Queen from 1973 to 1990, was born in Calcutta on 6 December 1924, the son of Ronald Douglas Pinker and Queenie Elizabeth née Dix. Like so many English children in those days, he went to England at the age of four, and was educated at Reading School. He wen

Margaret Witt was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the North Middlesex Hospital, London. She was born on 14 June 1930 in Leyton, London, the oldest daughter of Henry Witt, a chauffeur, and Bertha, a lady’s companion until she married. Margaret won a state scholarship to Walthamstow Cou

Harvey Evers was born on 28 May 1893 in one of the mining towns in Northumberland, where his father was a general practitioner. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and studied medicine at the College of Medicine in Newcastle which at that time formed part of King's Coll

Mary Mayeur was born in London on 16 July 1910, the daughter of Eugene Francois Mayeur, the actor, and Helen (née MacArthur). She was educated at St Paul's Girls' School (foundation scholar) and at the Royal Free Hospital, winning scholarships and prizes and qualifying in 1933 with a distinction in

Winston Sullivan Smith qualified in medicine at the University of Melbourne in 1936 and his early appointments were as resident medical officer to the Royal Melbourne Hospital and later to the Children's Hospital, Melbourne. He was then appointed to the Gresswell Sanatorium, Victoria, and in the ear

Wilfred George Mills was born in Birmingham on 20 August 1915, the son of George Percival Mills, FRCS (see *Lives* 1952-64, pages 289-290). One uncle, Humphrey Humphreys was Professor of Dental Surgery in Birmingham; another uncle, Seymour Barling was Professor of Surgery in Birmingham and his elder

Ian Alexander McDonald was born in Perth, Western Australia, on 1 April 1922, the son of Neil McDonald, a Presbyterian Minister, who at one stage was Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Western Australia. His paternal grandfather had emigrated from the Western Isles, and his grandmother Munroe,

Lloyd received his medical education at the Middlesex Hospital. After obtaining his FRCS he moved into obstetrics and gynaecology and indeed became an eminent Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He was gynaecological and obstetrical surgeon to the United Cambridge Hospit

Receiving her medical education at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, Sybil Grace Mocatta graduated MB, BS with distinction in midwifery in 1922, the following year proceeded MD and was awarded the University Medal for diseases of women. Her whole career was spent in her speciality of obstetrics