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

Born at Invercargill, New Zealand on 30 April 1912, son of Wilfred Francis Bisset a newspaper owner and his wife Christina Scott Rew, daughter of Robert Rew an Auckland merchant. He was educated at Invercargill and graduated from Otago Medical School, Dunedin in 1936. After a short time as a house s

Eric Ralph Davies, the son of Henry William Davies, a master printer and bookbinder, and of Louise Matilda (née Court), was born at Thornton Heath, Surrey, on 22 October 1908. He was educated at Steyning Grammar School, Sussex, and at Guy's Hospital where he won a scholarship and the Lubbock Prize f

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

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

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

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

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

Philip Henson qualified from St Bartholomew’s in 1939 and after junior posts became surgical registrar at New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton, and senior registrar at the East Glamorganshire Hospital, Ponthpridd. He was senior hospital medical officer in Accident and Emergency at the Manor Hospital, N

Alfred John Drew, known as ‘Jack’, was a former consultant general surgeon in Walsall. He was born in Ceylon on 17 February 1916, the son of the chief pilot for the harbour at Colombo. He was educated at Nuwara Eliya, and was then sent to Ipswich School at the age of 11. He became head boy and rugby

Bob Horton was a consultant surgeon at the United Bristol Hospitals. He was born in south London on 5 July 1917, the son of Arthur John Budd Horton, a schoolteacher, and Isabel Horton née Cotton, the daughter of a master mariner. He was educated at the Haberdashers’ Aske’s School, and studied medici

Charles Humphrey Jules Rey was a general surgeon in Guernsey. He was born on 15 August 1915, in Bognor Regis, into a family of French origins. His father, Jules Frederick Rey, was a general practitioner. His mother was Bertha Maud née Bevan. He was sent as a boarder to his preparatory school and fro