Roland Maitland Alderton was born on 20 June 1902 in Hadleigh, Suffolk, son of David Simpson, a miller and corn merchant, and Margaret McLachlan, daughter of a clergyman. He was educated at Tonbridge School and the London Hospital, qualifying MRCS LRCP in 1930 and MB BS in 1931. After working as house surgeon and emergency officer at the London he gained the FRCS in 1932 and went to Hong Kong as medical officer at the Nethersole Hospital. Here he served from 1932-1958, but he was interned by the Japanese between 1942 and 1945 in Stanley, Hong Kong. In 1960 he was ordained minister in the Congregational Church in England and Wales. He was married twice, to Kathleen, née Blackman, who died in 1947 and to Bessie, née Partridge, in 1948. He had a son, Daniel Arthur, who became a physician, and a daughter. He died on 30 December 1991. **See below for an expanded version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 7 of Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk** Roland Maitland Alderton was a medical missionary in Hong Kong. He was born on 20 June 1902 in Hadleigh, Suffolk, the son of Daniel Simpson Alderton, a miller and corn merchant, and Margaret Watson Alderton née McLachlan, from Edinburgh, the daughter of a clergyman. He was educated at Tonbridge School and the London Hospital, where he qualified with the conjoint examination in 1930. He gained his MB BS in 1931. After working as a house surgeon and emergency officer at the London Hospital, he became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1932, the same year he went to Hong Kong as a medical missionary with the London Missionary Society. He worked as a medical officer at Nethersole Hospital until 1942, when he was interned by the Japanese in Stanley Camp. Following the liberation of Hong Kong in 1945, he stayed on in Hong Kong for another six months to help restore and reorganise Nethersole Hospital, and returned to the UK in early 1946. He had married Kathleen Blackman in Battle, Sussex in 1935. She died in January 1947 of ovarian cancer. In October 1948 he married for a second time, to Bessie Partridge in Sudbury, Sussex. He returned to Hong Kong with his new wife in January 1949 and resumed his work at Nethersole Hospital, specialising in obstetrics. He finally returned to the UK in 1958 and studied at Westminster College, Cambridge for two years to become a minister in the Congregational Church. He then took charge of the Congregational Church in Ingatestone, Essex and then at White Roding, also in Essex. He retired in around 1970. He had a son, Daniel Arthur, who became a physician, and a daughter, Margaret. Roland Maitland Alderton died on 30 December 1991 in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. He was 89. Sarah Gillam