Niall Kirkpatrick was a consultant plastic surgeon at the Royal Marsden Hospital and president of the charity Facing the World. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

Paul Townsend was born on 27 December 1937 in Hendon. During his early years the family lived in Radlett, Hertfordshire and, during the early years of the second world war, he remembered that he could see the bombs falling on London during the Blitz. His father worked as an army officer and later be

Robert Arnold Fischl was chief of the plastic surgery section of Danbury Hospital, Danbury, Connecticut. He was born in Dresden, Germany on 18 June 1928. His father, Emil Fischl, was a paper manufacturer; his mother, Bettina Hahn, was the daughter of a banker. They left Germany in 1939 and settled i

John Prichard Bennett was a consultant plastic surgeon at the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead. Born in Portsmouth, Hampshire on 3 July 1939, he was the son of Russell Percy Bennett, a headmaster, and his wife Margaret Enid née Prichard who was a hairdresser. After attending Court Lane Primar

Gearoid Lynch was born in Dublin on 17 February 1932, the son of Fionan Lynch and his wife Bridget née Slattery. He studied medicine at Belfast University, graduating MB, BCh, BAO in 1948. Travelling to London he worked as a surgical registrar at the Hammersmith Hospital and then as a registrar in p

Hunter Fry was a plastic surgeon at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

Ronald Pigott, a consultant at Frenchay Hospital, Bristol was one of the most influential plastic surgeons of his generation, especially in the field of cleft lip and palate. Although he was the quintessential English gentleman, Ron actually carried an Irish passport. He was born on 16 September 193

David Ian Wilson was born on 4 July 1962 in Birmingham. Regarded as the cleverest of his family, he won a scholarship to Warwick School. He trained in medicine at St Georges’s Medical School, passing his MB, BS London in 1985 and from there proceeded to Derriford Hospital, Plymouth to begin his trai

Jack Mustardé founded and ran West Africa’s first reconstructive plastic surgery unit and established the charity ReSurge Africa. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

Arthur MacGregor Morris was a distinguished consultant in plastic and reconstructive surgery in Dundee. He was born on 6 May 1941 and was educated at Dulwich College, Selwyn College, Cambridge and Guy’s Hospital Medical School, London. He qualified in 1965. He held his house posts at Guy’s and wa

John McGregor was a consultant plastic surgeon in Edinburgh and the Lothians. He was born on 21 April 1944 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, the only child of John Alexander McGregor, a chartered civil engineer, and Isabel Millar McGregor née Cummack, the daughter of a farmer. He was educated at Paisley Gra

David Erskine Tolhurst was a pioneering plastic surgeon. Born in Wellington, New Zealand on 24 September 1934, he was the son of Robert Erskine, a stockbroker, and his wife Joan Morton née Henderson. He attended the Huntley School in Marton, where he won the Sherriff Memorial Prize and the Wanganui