William Hamilton Heslop Garvie was a surgeon who lived in Aberdeen. 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.

John Harvey Drew was a general surgeon. Born in North Sydney on 21 December 1932, he was the son of Edward George Douglas Anderson Drew and his wife Elizabeth Ida. Her father, John Cappie Shand, was a general practitioner. He was educated at Griffith High School in New South Wales and attended Sydne

Anil Kumar Roy was a general surgeon at Humboldt District Hospital, Saskatchewan, Canada. He was born in Jhargram, West Bengal, India on 3 August 1936, the second youngest of eight children. His father, Hari Pada Roy, was a civil servant; his mother, Sabitri Roy née Sarkar, was a house wife. He atte

Chitral de Silva was a general surgeon in Sri Lanka. He was born in Ceylon on 15 April 1927, the son of S H de Silva, an engineer, and H W de Silva. He came from a medical family: his uncle H O Gunewardene was a radiologist, while two of his brothers (H S de Silva and G L de Silva) and a sister (S M

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

Colac lost a great champion of rural health care when Mathew Green died in July 2012. His surgical work along with an active obstetrics practice was invaluable to health services in Colac from 1963 until his retirement in 1999. Mathew was born in St. Kilda in 1931 and spent his early years in

Michael Peter Aroney was a general and trauma surgeon in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was born on 16 August 1934 in Brisbane, Queensland. His father, Peter Nicholas Aroney, was a confectioner; his mother was Irene Adie née Mavromatis. He attended Brisbane State High School and then went on

Peter Staer was a general surgeon and gynaecologist at Fremantle Hospital, Western Australia (WA). Born in Loxton, WA on 12 June 1935, he was the son of Alfred Lansell Staer, a farmer, and his wife Gladys Amy née Dolling. After primary education in Leederville he won a scholarship to Perth Modern Sc

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

William (Bruce) Conolly was a pioneering hand surgeon. Born in Molong, New South Wales on 1 February 1935, he was the eldest son of William Arnold Conolly, a doctor who was responsible for founding the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. His mother Ruth née King was a direct descendan

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,

Graham Julian Santer was a consultant general and vascular surgeon at Walton and Fazakerley hospitals. He was born on 16 December 1930 in Liverpool, of orthodox Eastern European Jewish heritage, and was educated at the Liverpool Collegiate School, which set him on a sound foundation for a highly aca