Brian Hanbury Day was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at St Helier Hospital, Carshalton, and at Nelson Hospital, London, and Wilson Hospital, Mitcham. He studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School, qualifying MB BS in 1952. He gained his FRCS in 1959. Prior to his consultant appoin

Barry Crymble qualified in medicine in Belfast in 1945. He passed the FRCS in 1951 and practiced as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon for the Northern Ireland Hospital Authority. He was a member of the British Orthopaedic Association and the Ulster Medical Society. He died on 17 June 2002, aged 81.

Richard Harrison was a consultant orthopaedic and accident and emergency surgeon in south west Cumbria. He was born on 8 July 1922 and studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, London, qualifying MB BS in 1944. He was a house surgeon at the Royal Cancer Hospital, a senior registr

Colin Robertson was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon. 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

Professor Mahalaingamoorthy Natarajan was professor of orthopaedics at Madras Medical College, India. He was born on 18 March 1920 in Kamuthi, in what was formerly Madras State, the son of Mahalingamoorthy and Pakkam Natarajan. After graduating BA, he studied medicine at Stanley Medical College in

William Ramsay Risk was born on 20 June 1929 in Egypt. It is not known where he was educated or where he studied medicine. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1954 and became an orthopaedic surgeon working in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA. Married to Brenda Mary, they had a daughter Sara Da

James Bothwell Pyper was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Northern Ireland. He qualified in Belfast in 1946 and gained his FRCS in 1951. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a registrar at the Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital in Exeter and a senior registrar in orthopaedic surgery f

George Patrikios was chief of surgery at Sebokeng Hospital, Gauteng, South Africa. He was born on 13 February 1937 in Salisbury, Rhodesia, the third child and second son of Greek parents – Nestor Theodore Patrikios, a tobacco grader, and Eudokia Patrikios née Tselentis. He was educated at the David

Antony Roper was born on 1 February 1920. He studied medicine at Oxford University graduating BM, BCh in 1943 and worked as a registrar at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore. In 1949 he passed the fellowship of the college and travelled to Rhodesia where he became a senior orthopaed

Norman Desmond Ashe specialised in orthopaedics and plastic surgery. He qualified from Oxford University in 1945 and passed the fellowship in 1953. He became a house surgeon at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. Moving to London he took a post at the Hammersmith Hospital and then worked in the depar

Markus Froehling was chief medical officer and lead orthopaedic surgeon at the Cheshire and Merseyside NHS Treatment Centre. 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

Philip Jones was a surgeon commander in the Royal Navy. 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