John Charles Alexander Innes qualified with the Conjoint Diploma from the London Hospital in 1939 and graduated MB BS in 1940, obtaining the Fellowship in 1947. After some house appointments he emigrated to Southern Rhodesia, where he practised at Bulawayo, Umtali and Salisbury, holding posts as hon

Peter Blaxland was very much a family man, with a warm and welcoming manner and an appreciation of the simple pleasures of life. These characteristics concealed a considerable intellectual ability, and gave no hint of his understanding of the problems of surgery, and his gifts, both innate and culti

Peter Rees-Davies was born on 23 February 1913 at Long Ditton, Surrey, the son of John Rees-Davies, a general practitioner, and his wife Grace, née Etheredge. He was educated at Epsom College, and then received his medical education at the London Hospital, as had his father before him. In the sec

John Temple was born in Hong Kong on 10 December 1916, the eldest son of John Robinson Temple and Ruth Margaret, née Barrowclough, both of whom were Methodist missionaries. He won an exhibition to the Leys School, Cambridge, and later was awarded an entrance exhibition to St Bartholomew's Hospital f

Bryan Brooke pioneered the surgical management of inflammatory bowel disease, especially that of ulcerative colitis. He was born on 21 February 1915 in Croydon, the son of a numismatist. Following initial schooling at Bradfield College he went to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, for which he retai

George Desmond Cribb was born on 14 August 1917 at Northwood, son of a dental surgeon, and educated at Sherborne and University College Hospital, where he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1939. At the beginning of the second world war he joined the RAMC. Taken prisoner at Dunkirk, he was medic

John Eric Richardson was a consultant surgeon at the London Hospital. He was born on 24 February 1916, to Beatrice née Sharpe and Cecil George Richardson, a general practitioner in Loughborough. He was educated at Clifton, where he played rugby in the 1st XV, and entered the London Hospital Medical

Owen David Morris, born in Port Madoc, Wales, on 24 February 1916, was the eldest son of John Morris, master mariner, and Mary Jones. He was educated at Port Madoc Grammar School and St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, where he qualified MRCS LRCP in 1939. He was the twenty-second member of h

Alexander Abraham was born on 23 October 1915. He trained at the Middlesex Hospital and became registrar in plastic surgery to the United Norwich Hospital Group. He moved to Canada and became surgeon to the Sarnia (Ontario) General Hospital. He retired to Eastbourne and his daughter notified the Col

Noel, as he was known, was born on 21 December 1917 in London, son of F S Glover, a Guy's dental graduate who had come from New Zealand and who was on the staff of the London Hospital. He went to school at Dulwich and entered Guy's Hospital in 1934. He was to serve the hospital 'man and boy' until r

Hilary (Larry) Wade was born on 13 February 1916 at 25 Park Place, Cardiff, the house where his father James (Jimmy) Wade OBE, FRCS (qv *Lives of the Fellows* 1952-64) a distinguished surgeon and anatomist had lived, and where he himself was to live and practise for over thirty years. His mother Kat

Denis Ebrill was born in Limerick, Ireland, on 7 March 1916. His father, Charles, was an attorney. His mother was Margaret née Foley. He was educated at St George's College, Weybridge, King's College, London, and St George's Hospital, where he held junior posts and was resident assistant surgeon. He