Pablo Juan Bautista Allamand was the doyen of surgery in Chile. Born on 5 August 1909, he was made an honorary fellow of our College in 1972 during the presidency of Sir Edward Muir. He died on 27 July 2009.

Educated as an Associate Scholar at King's College, London, and professionally at King's College Hospital, where he served as House Physician. After qualifying in London in 1861 he spent some time in Edinburgh, where he acted as Dresser and Clinical Clerk in the Edinburgh Infirmary, and then proceed

Born on April 17th, 1862, the eldest son of William Allingham, (qv); was educated at Chatham House, Ramsgate, and University College School in London. He entered St George's Hospital in 1879, where Timothy Holmes (qv) and Pickering Pick (qv) were surgeons. Here he rapidly developed a marked talent f

Educated for the profession of architecture at University College, where he gained prizes. He even practised as an architect, exhibited studies at the exhibitions of the Royal Academy, and obtained honourable mention for a design of a building to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. In this year, how

Born at Starcross, South Devon, the second son of the Rev Richard Ambler, of Hardwick, in the parish of Norbury, Shropshire, which had been in the Ambler family for upwards of four centuries. Educated at Middlesex Hospital, and was for some years an assistant in a practice at Stalbridge, Dorset. He

Studied at University College, London, and the Middlesex Hospital, at the latter becoming House Surgeon. He practised first at 66 High Street, Stourbridge, Worcestershire, where he was medical officer to the Dispensary and to the Stour-bridge District Union. He next moved to London and practised at

Studied at the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, and at Guy's Hospital. He practised at 4 Percy Street, Bedford Square, London, where he was Medical Officer to the Egyptian Mission, to the British and Foreign Musicians, and to the European Assurance Society. He was a corresponding Fellow of the Aca

Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was scholar in chemistry and histology and later Clinical Assistant to Medical Out-patients, and then House Surgeon at Westminster Hospital. He served with the South African Field Force during the Boer War, started practice at 42 Kempshott Road, Streath

Studied at the Cecilia Street School of Medicine, and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he was prizeman in anatomy, chemistry, and the practice of medicine. He then acted as House Surgeon to the Kidderminster Dispensary and settled in practice in Rotherham, at Market Square and Chilton Lodge. He was

Practised in Leeds, and died in retirement at 95 Gower Street, London, in September or October, 1867. Publications: Hare published several tracts on Spinal Curvature, also a Statistical Report of 190 Cases of Insanity at the Retreat near Leeds during 1830-40.

Practised at Tunbridge Wells, where he was surgeon to the Infirmary and Dispensary. He died there on August 16th, 1856.

Sir Andrew Watt Kay was regius professor of surgery at Glasgow and an archetypal Scottish academic surgeon. Known by surgical trainees worldwide through his book *A textbook of surgical physiology* (Edinburgh/London, E & S Livingstone, 1959), written with R Ainslie Jamieson, Kay stood alongside many