After qualifying MB BS at the University of Adelaide, Peter Christopher Manessis held a number of posts at the Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, ending as a surgical registrar 1966-67. He moved in 1968 to a similar post at the Repatriation General Hospital, Heidelberg, and in 1969 at t

Michael Aidoo was born in Mpohor, Ghana on 11 February 1935. His father was a farmer. He was educated at St Augustine's College, Cape Coast, Ghana, and the University College of Gold Coast. He attended King's College, London and the Westminster Medical School. He died on 22 December 1975. He had one

Asif Hassan Ismail Lalljee came to England and gained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1970. He died on 27 January 1973.

Joseph Harris obtained a BSc (anatomy honours) in London in 1958, qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1961 and the FRCS in 1970. He studied at University College and University College Hospital, London, and there became lecturer in surgery and honorary surgical registrar. He had also worked as re

Ambrose Wasunna was head of the department of surgery at the University of Nairobi and director of the programme on health technologies at the World Health Organization (WHO). He was born on 4 August 1938 in the village of Nyahera, Nyzana province, Kenya and attended Maseno High School and then Make

David Baumber was a consultant surgeon in Bury. Born in 1942, he was educated at King's College Hospital, where he qualified in 1965 and was house surgeon and house physician. Specialising in surgery, he was a registrar at Sheffield Royal Infirmary before being appointed to Bury. In the year of h

Neal Hamilton Masters was a general surgeon who lived and worked in Johannesburg, South Africa. He gained his FRCS in 1970. He died on 5 July 2013.

Peter John Fenn was a general surgeon at Maidstone Hospital. He was born on 6 May 1930 in Penge, London and spent his childhood in the Bromley area, attending Bromley Grammar School. As a child, he watched the Battle of Britain going on above his head and this sparked his first love, of aircraft. On

Kerry Larkin was a consultant surgeon in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. 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

David Bouchier-Hayes was a professor of surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). He was born on 30 December 1940 in Dublin, one of 12 children of Thomas Bouchier-Hayes and Mona Bouchier-Hayes née Graham. His father was born in Limerick in 1907 and became a prominent and much-loved

Born on 18 December 1939 in London, David Jagelman was educated at St Joseph's College, Beulah Hill and King's College London, before going on to Westminster Hospital Medical School. After qualifying in 1963 he was surgical registrar, research lecturer and senior registrar at the Metropolitan, Westm

Robert Wilson Thomson, known as Bob, was born in Scotland and educated at Ayr Academy. He entered Glasgow University initially to study modern languages but switched to medicine after a year, graduating MB, ChB in 1964. After early house jobs at the Victoria Infirmary in Glasgow, he worked as a surg