Christopher Michael Vickery was a consultant general surgeon in west Cornwall. He studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Medical School and qualified in 1953. He gained his FRCS in 1959. He went to the United States and was a surgical research fellow at Harvard University Medical School and an assist

Albert ('Bert') Thompson was a general and transplant surgeon at St Thomas' Hospital, London. He was born on 16 April 1928 in Newport, Monmouthshire, the son of John Percy Thompson (known as 'Jack') and Cordelia Ann Leach, a farmer's daughter. His father was a wholesale butcher with Swift and Co of

John Douglas Thompson was a general surgeon living in Sunderland at the time of his death. He served as a temporary surgeon commander in the Royal Navy Voluntary Reserve during the second world war. In March 2003 his widow, Marjorie, notified the College that he had died.

James Crowe Davidson Mill was a surgeon in Elizabeth, South Australia. He was born in Croydon, the son of James Mill and Rita Crowe. The family eventually emigrated to Australia, and Mill finished his education at St Peter's College, Adelaide. He started studying medicine at the University of Adelai

Charles Webster was a surgeon based at Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia. Born in Aberdeen on 1 January 1928, he was the son of Alexander Urquhart Webster, a general practitioner in Fraserborough, and his wife Grace née Findlay. After primary education in the local school in Fraserborough,

John was born in Palmerston North to Charles and Lillian Coutts, dairy farmers. One of two children, he was schooled locally, at Whakarongo Country School. He had an early exposure to social justice when on his first day at school his brand-new slate was annexed by his teacher and allocated to anoth

Martin Flood was a general surgeon in New South Wales, Australia. He was born on 21 November 1925 in Warren, New South Wales, Australia; his twin brother died at birth. Martin didn't start school until 1936, when he was 10, having been brought up, home schooled, on a big country farm. He completed h

Desmond O’Rourke was a surgeon from Toowoomba, 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

Soon Wong was a surgeon and former minister of agriculture and social development in Malaysia. 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

Newton, who spent much of his career in the Royal Army Medical Corps in which he rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, received his medical education at Manchester, graduating MB ChB there in 1952. Having held registrarships at the Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute, Manchester, he was la

Victor Ariyaratnam Benjamin was a general practitioner in Goodooga, New South Wales, Australia. He was born in Jaffna in what was then Ceylon, the son of Charles Ariyanayagam Benjamin, a railway clerk and later station master, and Catherine Rose Gnanatheraviam Benjamin née Asirwatham, the daughter o

Richard English Dunstan (known as Dick) was a general surgeon at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, South Australia. He was born on 2 July 1923 in Adelaide, a much-loved son of Josephine Bayliss Dunstan née English and Harold Frank Dunstan, a general practitioner. He spent the early years of his life grow