Albert Isaac Hatchuel was a dental surgeon in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was born into a Jewish family in Salisbury, Rhodesia on 5 May 1916. His mother, Theodora (‘Dora’) Pilowsky Hatchuel née Cohen, was originally from Lodz in Poland; his father, Haim Hatchuel, was born in Tetouan, in northern Morocco. An ancestor on his father’s side, Solica Hatchuel, refused to convert to Islam, and was beheaded in Fez in 1834. She was declared a martyr by the rabbinate. Hatchuel became a dental surgeon and practised in Johannesburg, South Africa. He gained his FDSRCS in 1975. In 1962 in Salisbury he married Roma (‘Ronnie’) Fuhr. They had three children, including David. Hatchuel died on 20 May 1996 in Johannesburg. He was 80.