Born at Edgbaston, Birmingham son of K M Pardhy FRCS, he received his medical education at Caius College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I, 1934, and at the Birmingham Medical School. He was surgical superintendent of St George's Hospital, Bombay when he died in December 1956. Update: See below for an updated and expanded version of the published obituary uploaded 4 July 2025 Anand Krishna Pardhy was the surgeon superintendent of St George’s Hospital, Bombay, India. He was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham on 23 July 1912, the son of Krishna Moreshwar Pardhy, a consultant surgeon at the Midland Hospital, and Irene Pardhy née Hannam. He was educated at West House Preparatory School, Birmingham and Shrewsbury School and studied natural sciences at Caius College, Cambridge. He went on to Birmingham for his clinical studies. He was a resident surgical officer at the Queen’s Hospital, Birmingham and then at the General Hospital, where he remained for five years until he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in June 1945. He served in Burma and India. For part of his service, for six months from 1946 to 1947, he was a graded surgeon in a casualty clearing station in Prome, on the Irrawaddy River, Burma. Following his demobilisation, he decided to return to India and to settle there and was appointed as the surgeon superintendent of St George’s Hospital, Bombay. In 1945 he married Beryl Christina Forrester, a nurse. They had two sons, Arjun Krishna and Vikram. Pardhy died on 15 December 1956 at St George’s Hospital aged just 44. A prize for the best surgical student at Mumbai University has been named in his honour.