Born on 24 July 1877 in London, the elder son of John Payne of Sydenham and later of Sevenoaks and South Africa, he was educated at Eastbourne New College, at Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1898, and rowed in the University VIII in 1

Born in 1907 at Alton, Hampshire, the son of Otto Vaughan Payne MB BCh, he was educated at Sherborne School and St John's College, Cambridge, and took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1929. He qualified in 1932 from Guy's Hospital, where he was demonstrator of anatomy and

Mohammed Elfatih Abdulla Hamadien passed his FRCS on 8 January 1975 while working in Birmingham and died suddenly on 9 February that same year.

Duncan Mackinnon Hamilton was born on 28 October 1918. He was educated at Belmont, Mill Hill, Balliol College and Oxford University Medical School. He obtained the BA in 1939, BM BCh in 1942 and served in the RAMC during the war in Malta, Austria and Italy, attaining the rank of Major. He was a regi

Ranald Montague Handfield-Jones was born in Wandsworth, London, on 12 May 1892. His father was a doctor and his mother the daughter of a doctor. His grandfather was MD FRCS, FRS and an uncle was MD FRCP. He was educated at Weymouth Grammar School and Epsom College. He entered St Mary's Hospital Medi

Bruce Campbell Hardy was born in Toronto and graduated in medicine from the University of Toronto in 1935. He did postgraduate work in England and was admitted to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1939. He was also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.

John Kilshaw was educated at Manchester University where he gained first class honours in physiology in his BSc in 1956 and qualified MB ChB in 1959. After qualification he held house posts and registrarships at Ancoats Hospital and Withington Hospital, Manchester, and at the Manchester Royal Infirm

Alexander Knipe was born in Chong-Pa, Western China, on 3 August 1904, the son of William Lascelles Knipe, a pioneer missionary in China and Tibet, and Margaret Anderson Stephen. He was educated at St Michael's Preparatory School in Limpsfield, Surrey, and Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh. H

Peter Knipe was born on 3 March 1929 in Whitehaven, the son of William Edward Knipe, a schoolmaster, and his wife, Doris Margaret. He was educated at Whitehaven Grammar School and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he played rugby football for the hospital and the United Hospitals XV, and gained honou

Phyllis Knocker had a brilliant medical career. She was the most distinguished graduate in surgery at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1947, and won the David Lurie memorial prize as well as the Students' Medical Council prize for this achievement. She was one of the first Fellows of the Colle

Laughton Leask was born on 15 October 1912, the eldest son of William Laughton Rennie, an architect, and Anne Elizabeth Mabel, née Beaton. He went to preparatory school in Hong Kong, thence to Edinburgh Academy and later to Highgate, before going to St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1930 where he won the

'Roley' Lee was born in 1906 to a Lincolnshire family, the youngest of ten children. He went to Brigg Grammar School where he was an outstanding athlete, excelling as much in swimming and tennis as he did in football. He won a scholarship to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and then went on to do his cl