Little is known about Colin Landon Smith except that he graduated MB BS in London in 1953 and was a Fellow of both the London and Edinburgh Royal Colleges of Surgeons. He practised in Harley Street and died in 1979.

Born 7 November 1884 at Rochdale, Lancashire; his father was a Primitive Methodist minister. He was educated at Owens College, Manchester, where he served as demonstrator of anatomy, and qualified in 1906. He served as house surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Manchester, and at the Seamen's Hospital, G

Cyril Moulson Smithies lived in St Helier, Jersey. He is presumed to have died in 1976.

Arthur William Mayo Robson was born on 17 April 1853 at Filey in Yorkshire, where his father John Bonnington Robson was a chemist; he assumed the double surname in middle age. He was educated at Wesley College, Sheffield, and passed from there to the Leeds School of Medicine, where from 1870 he had

Born 24 April 1875 the fourth child and third son of Alfred Charles Mayo, MRCS 1870, of Mildenhall, Suffolk, and afterwards of Great Yarmouth, and Eleanor Matthews his wife. He was educated at Epsom College, and at Clare College, Cambridge, where he was a senior scholar in 1893 and took first-class

Born 19 November 1865, at Stockton, Wilts, the third child and second son of Richard William Melsome, farmer, and Sophia Dean, his wife. He was educated at Lancing College and at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in both parts of the Natural Sciences Tripos, 1886 and 1887

Born 10 August 1864 at Owen Sound, Ontario, the fourth child and third son of John Middlebrough, miller and contractor, and Margaret Burrow, his wife. He was educated at Old Stone School, now Strathcona Public School, Owen Sound, at the Model School, Collingwood, and at the Medical School of Toronto

Born in Natal, South Africa on 30 September 1899 the fourth son of George Hodgson Middleton, civil engineer, and Nannie Hester Hazlewood, his wife, afterwards of 38 Inverleith Place, Edinburgh, and Mansefield, Strathmiglo, Fife. His three elder brothers were killed in the war of 1914-18. He was educ

When an aspiring surgeon wins the Hallett Prize in the Primary FRCS examination, passes the Final FRCS in the following month and later wins the Jacksonian Prize (a prize double not hitherto achieved) then it is certain that a surgeon will have rare qualities and is one likely to succeed. Such a man

Born in Manchester, 10 May 1870, eighth child and fifth son of William Ray, law stationer, and Sarah Ann Howson, his wife. He was educated at Owens College, where he was Dauntesey medical scholar at entrance 1890, and won the Turner and Agnew scholarships 1894, when he graduated in the Victoria Univ

Born at Orangeville, Ontario about 1866. He was educated at Orangeville High School and graduated with honours at Trinity Medical School, Toronto. He practised at Tillsonburg, Ontario, and married May Spence, who survived him with three sons and a daughter. The eldest son Dr John Spence Reid, MD Tor

Desmond Ian Ralph Higton, always known as 'Ian', was a general surgeon in Bromley. He was born on 9 December 1934, the elder son of John William Higton, managing director of a coach building company, and Olive Gwendoline Higton née Smith. He was educated at Farnham Grammar School, Surrey, King's Col