John Reginald Turner Newham returned to South Africa for some years after passing his Fellowship in 1952. He came back to the UK to practice in Wales and lived in Cowbridge, South Glamorgan. His death was reported to the College in 2002.

Born in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada, on 19 May 1920, Allin Herbert Moore studied medicine at the University of Manitoba. After internships at the Vancouver General Hospital, he served as a Captain in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps at Shaughnessy Military Hospital. Following the war he speci

George Pestell was born in Perth, Western Australia, on 17 March 1921. His father George was a bank manager. His mother was Lilian May née Parker. One of his ancestors was the loyalist poet and chaplain to King Charles 1st, Thomas Pestell, and another, Paul Pestell, helped to start the Decembrist Re

Brian McEvedy was a consultant in general surgery at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He was born in Manchester on 13 December 1923, the second of three medical sons of Peter McEvedy of Ancoats Hospital, one of the great names in hernia surgery. His mother was Lilian Grace née Denn

Daniel Gerard Lane was born on 29 April 1924, the son of Dr Morgan Lane of Brisbane, Queensland, who introduced him as a child to the Mater Misericordiae Hospital. He was educated at Nudgee College and entered the Medical School in Brisbane in 1942. He graduated with honours in 1947 and then did res

John Blair Logan Taylor was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, on 13 June 1923, the son of John Binnie Taylor, a GP, and his wife, Margaret Godfrey Logan. He received his early education first at the Glasgow Academy and later at Manchester Grammar School. He entered the Manchester University Medical S

Alexander Leonard Black was born in Liverpool on 7 November 1914, the son of Alexander Black and Gertrude (née Beardwood). He was educated at Bootle Grammar School and Liverpool University Medical School, qualifying in 1938. While he was doing house appointments the second world war was declared and

Jagat Singh Karanwal was surgeon superintendent at the Hindu Rao Hospital in Delhi when he died suddenly of a heart attack on 5 July 1976 aged fifty-eight years. He was survived by his wife, Dora.

Linehan was educated at University College Cork, qualifying in 1949. His working life was spent in Cork, where he was the Ainsworth travelling scholar, surgical registrar at St Finbarr's Hospital, surgeon to the Mercy Hospital and external surgeon to the South Charitable Infirmary. He died on 6 D

William Douglas Friend was visiting surgeon at the Royal Brisbane Hospital. He was born on 22 September 1924, in Brisbane, where his father Percy Alfred Friend was a sheep-farmer. His mother, Dorothy Frances, née Webb, had served as a staff nurse with the 2nd Australian General Hospital in Egypt and

'Bill' Irvine was born 19 March 1925 in Glasgow, the son of George Irvine. He was educated by his father and then at the University of Glasgow. After qualifying he planned his own programme of surgical training and successively worked with Sir Charles Illingworth (Glasgow), Peter McEvedy (Manchester

Pulakeri Venkata Rao became a Fellow of the College in 1952. He returned to India and practiced at Father Muller's Hospital in Mangalore. He died on 20 April 1983 at Harrisburg, USA survived by his wife, Meera.