Thomson was born on 14 July 1919 in Brisbane, the son of Frederick Thorpe Thomson, an insurance executive, and his wife Ann Margaret, née Evans. He was educated at Brisbane Boys' College, before winning an open scholarship to the University of Queensland where he won the W N Robertson medal for firs

Stephen de Carteret Barclay was born on 26 August 1918 in New Zealand. He qualified there and came to England after the war to specialise in surgery. He returned to New Zealand to practice in Leamington, Cambridge, where he is thought to have died sometime in 2002.

Kenneth McKeown was born on 31 October 1912 in Belfast. His father, Robert James McKeown, was a linen manufacturer and his mother was Sarah, née Owen. He received his medical training at the Royal Academical Institute in Belfast, and at Queen's University, where he achieved distinctions in anatomy a

Ferguson graduated from University College, Dublin in 1942, and was living at Cork in 1943. He took the Fellowship in 1949, and then settled in Canada where he was appointed surgeon to the Memorial Hospital at Sackville, New Brunswick; he lived at 32 Charles Street, with consulting rooms in the M

Iskander, an Egyptian, took the Fellowship in 1949 and then returned to Egypt and practised as a surgeon in Cairo for about fourteen years. His death was reported to the College by A A K Motawi FRCS on 25 April 1965.

Hewet was educated at Manchester University where he gained a BSc and qualified MB ChB with honours in 1944, and gained his Fellowship in 1949. After qualification he was resident surgical officer and chief assistant in the surgical unit at Manchester Royal Infirmary, before becoming consultant surg

Anthony Anscombe, known as 'Tony', was a consultant surgeon in Manchester and a former dean of clinical studies. He was born in Bath, Somerset, on 16 November 1923, the son of Reginald Thomas Anscombe, who served in the Indian Army. He was educated at Bishopshalt Grammar School and the London Hospit

Noel Fowler qualified MB BS at Sydney University in 1942 and was resident medical officer at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney from 1942 to 1943 and served as a captain in the Australian Army Medical Corps from 1943 to 1947. Coming to Britain to work for his Fellowship he obtained house pos

Robert Cecil Ronald Loane was born in Belfast on 8 June 1919, went to school at the Methodist College, and then proceeded to Queen's University where he graduated in medicine in 1942. He joined the RAF, and on demobilization became a surgical registrar at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, which

James Kennedy Watt, the son of a general practitioner, was born close to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 30 August 1921. After education at the High School of Glasgow he went to Glasgow University where he had a distinguished undergraduate career, gaining the James Hunter Medal in pathology and gradu

Thomas Kelly was born on 27 March 1912 at Burra in South Australia, the son of a farmer and a farmer's daughter, and was educated at a convent school and the Christian Brothers College at Rostrevor. He went to medical school in Adelaide where he obtained the Duncan Hughes and Lady Duncan Scholarship

Ian Henderson was born in Hamilton, Scotland, on 4 November 1918, the son of Stewart Dalton Henderson and Grace Aird, née Masterson. He was an only child. From Biggar High School he went to Fettes as a foundation scholar and was awarded a James Begg memorial exhibition. At Guy's Hospital Medical Sch