Harold Hassall was a consultant surgeon to the South Cheshire Group of Hospitals and the driving force behind the new Leighton Hospital. He was born in Radcliffe, Bury, Greater Manchester, on 3 February 1916, the son of Harold Hassall, a clockmaker, and Mary Hannah Hassall, a schoolteacher. He was e

Harley Kilgour Baxter was a surgeon in Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Melbourne on 6 August 1946, the son of Rex Ransley Baxter, a businessman, and Kathleen Anne née Hyland. His grandfather was J M Baxter, an ENT surgeon. He was educated at Trinity Grammar School, Kew, Victoria, and Melbourn

Hujohn Ripman was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in the Ipswich and East Suffolk area. He was born in London on 3 January 1918, the son of Christian Hugo Ripman, a physician who had trained at Guy's Hospital Medical School, and Freda Beatrice Ripman née Jacks, who had been a dance teach

Theo Legate Schofield was a general surgeon at Royal United Hospital, Bath. He was born on 3 April 1918 in Southport, Lancashire, the youngest of seven children. His father, John Thomas Schofield, who owned a successful confectionary business in Manchester, died while Theo was very young. His mother

Peter Napier Robson was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle. He was born in Newcastle on 5 November 1923, the son of Hubert Napier Robson, a company director, and Isabella Alice Robson née Thompson, the daughter of a master mariner. He attended preparatory sch

George Emile Rousseaux was a consultant surgeon at Warrnambool Hospital, Victoria, Australia. He was born on 26 August 1926. He graduated in medicine from Oxford University in 1950 and passed his FRCS in 1958. During his time at Oxford he was resident medical officer at the Radcliffe Infirmary from

Denis Astley Sanford was a senior general surgeon in Sunderland. He qualified MB BS in 1936 and, after a house physician post at University College Hospital, London, became a resident surgical officer at the Royal Infirmary, Sunderland. He served as a wing commander in the RAF and then, after the S

Arthur Espie Porritt was born in Wanganui, New Zealand, the elder son of E E Porritt, VD, MD, FRCS, and of Ivy Elizabeth, née Mackenzie, whose father was also a medical practitioner. After education at Wanganui Collegiate School and Otago University, where he had an outstanding athletic record, he s

Received his professional training at St George's Hospital (1840-1844). He settled at Bristol in 1844 and soon obtained a large practice. After taking the Fellowship in 1852, he was elected one of the Surgeons to the Bristol General Hospital, retiring in 1874, when he was appointed Consulting Surgeo

Sir Hedley Atkins was the son of a distinguished Guy's general practitioner, Sir John Atkins KCMG, KCVO, FRCS, and Elizabeth May (née Smith) Hedley, by which name he was always known, was educated at Rugby, Trinity College, Oxford and Guy's. He was a man of commanding presence and excellent physique

Born at Campsall in Yorkshire on August 30th, 1815, the son of Thomas Dawson Bowker, of Hatfield, and Elizabeth, *née* Steer, of Temple Belwood, Isle of Axholme. He was apprenticed at the age of 16 at the Nottingham General Dispensary, and practised for some years at Bingham, Notts. He then made two

Son of William Colborne, MRCS, whose family had for centuries been settled in Chippenham, where they held an honoured position. William Henry Colborne was educated at University College in the years 1842-1845, and was House Surgeon to Robert Liston (qv). Joining his father in his long-established pr