Colin Leo Brady was an oral surgeon in the department of oral surgery and oral medicine, Birmingham Dental School and at the West Midlands regional plastic and jaw surgery unit at Wordsley Hospital, Stourbridge. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are in

David Wynn-Williams was a consultant plastic surgeon at Nottingham Hospital. Born on 16 August 1914, his father was a general practitioner in Middlesborough. David was a medical student at the Westminster at the same time as his brother, George, who became a gynaecologist at the Chelsea Hospital for

Charles Henry Beard was born on 14 August 1938, the son of an eminent anaesthetist. He was educated at Westminster School, where he was a chorister, scholar and became school captain. As a chorister he had the distinction in 1953 to sing out 'Vivat, vivat Regina' when the crown was placed on Her Maj

Richard John Vulliamy Battle was born on 21 January 1907 at 49 Harley Street, London Wl, the son of William Henry Battle, surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital, London, and Annie Marguerite Vulliamy, who was descended from a long line of clockmakers. He was educated at Highfield School, Liphook, Gresham's

Wilfred Hynes was born in Leeds in January 1903, educated at Leeds Grammar School and graduated from Leeds University Medical School with first class honours in 1927, gaining the primary FRCS as a student. After a period as resident anaesthetist at Sheffield Royal Hospital he trained in surgery, and

Bertram Owen-Smith, or 'Owen' as he was known, was a plastic surgeon in the UK and later in Salisbury, Rhodesia. A member of the 'Guinea Pig Club', the group of injured Second World War airmen treated by the pioneering plastic surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe, he made the unusual transition from patien

Pamela Ball was a surgeon at Kidderminster General Hospital and at the West Midlands regional plastic surgery centre at Wordsley Hospital. She was born Pamela Margaret Moody on 28 November 1926 in Half Way Tree, a neighbourhood of Kingston, Jamaica. Her mother was Vera Holme Moody née Manley, sister

Born 23 October 1900 at Sutton St Nicholas, Herefordshire. His father, a working man, had migrated to Canada as a boy, and his mother only returned to her native Herefordshire village for his birth, and afterwards took him back to Canada. Some good fortune in dealing with property enabled the family

Born on 4 July 1856 at Fort St George, Scotland, eldest of the three sons and four daughters of Benjamin Lane, assistant surgeon 80th Regiment of Foot, and his wife Caroline Arbuthnot Ewing, daughter of Joseph Ewing (1790-1868), surgeon 80th and 95th Foot. Benjamin Lane was born at Limavady, Co Derr

Stewart Harrison was a leading consultant plastic surgeon and a former president of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand. He was born in Highgate, London, on 15 July 1912, the second son of Archibald Harrison, a manufacturer, and Marion Harrison née Taylor. Both his parents died when he was a

Alan Ross Wakefield, known as 'The Vicar', was an Australian plastic and hand surgeon of international renown. He will be particularly remembered for writing, with Sir Benjamin Keith Rank, the classic text *Surgery of repair as applied to hand injuries, etc* (Edinburgh/London, E & S Livingstone), fi

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