Graeme Douglas Campbell was born in Eltham, Taranaki, the youngest of five children of dairy farmer Jack Campbell and schoolteacher, Winifred May Heather. Entering a sports-mad family (particularly rugby, tennis and swimming), he grew up on the family farm. After attending Eltham Primary School, Gr

Sukh Dev Singh passed the fellowship of the college in 1963. He was living in High Wycombe when he died on 4 March 2018.

Thomas Parker Davis, known as Todd, was a surgeon in New South Wales, 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

Max Harvey Ellis was an honorary surgeon at Blacktown Hospital, New South Wales. He was born in Bega, New South Wales on 8 September 1933. His father, Ashley Thomas Ellis, was a veterinary surgeon; his mother, Muriel Elizabeth Flora Ellis née Morrison, was the daughter of a grazier. He studied at Du

Zuhair Raouf Al-Bahrani was a distinguished professor of surgery in Baghdad. He was born in 1932 and qualified MB, ChB in 1955 in Iraq before travelling to the UK to study for his FRCS. After passing the LMSSA and the fellowship of the college in 1963, he spent some time as a surgical registrar at t

Iain Gillespie was a professor of surgery at Manchester University and an honorary consultant surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary. Manchester, at the centre of the Industrial Revolution, and the location of one of the ‘redbrick universities’, was characterised by the championing of Nonconformist v

John Hartley Williams died on the 6 June 2016 on the eve of his 90th year in Hobart. He was, for many years, one of the corner stones of the Department of Surgery of the Launceston General Hospital and our Fellowship mourns his death. John Williams qualified first as a pharmacist after the WW II,

Monoranjan Duari was a general surgeon at Burnley General Hospital. Born in Howrah in India, he moved to the UK in 1954 after graduating in medicine. He did house jobs in Edinburgh and Devon and spent some time at the Hartley Hospital in Colne. After passing the fellowship of the college in 1963, he

Patrick Francis O’Dwyer was a surgeon in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He was born on 9 December 1926 in Toowoomba, Queensland, the son of Edward and Catherine O’Dwyer, and was brought up in humble circumstances in Harristown on the outskirts of Toowoomba. O’Dwyer was educated at Newtown State Sc

Driving through an English snowstorm, on the way to board a ship and emigrate, Val Lishman’s mind was on fresh horizons. An Australian summer beckoned for him, wife Jean and three children. Six weeks later glaring reality hit. “We had read all about the beautiful Wildflower State but …everything see

Julian Neely was a consultant surgeon in north Sussex, working at Crawley Hospital, Horsham Hospital and the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead. His father, Geoffrey Cavendish Neely, was of Irish descent. He was a saxophonist who ran a dance band in London. His mother, Dorothy Isobel Bruce né

Albert William Russell was a general surgeon in South Australia. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1963. A long time member of the Australian Medical Association (South Australia Branch), he died on 12 October 2019.