John Reginald Thompson was born on 13 March 1917 in Paignton, Devon, the son of John Thompson FRCS, GP surgeon of Torquay and Paignton and Elsie, née Royle. His mother was one of the first women to qualify as a doctor when she passed the MD in Manchester in 1909. He was educated at Sherborne School

Ken Wilkinson qualified from St Mary's Hospital in 1942. After house jobs he served in the RNVR as surgeon lieutenant, returning to complete his training at the Canadian Red Cross Hospital, Taplow. He was a true general surgeon, and although his main interest was in urology, he resisted the separati

Clarence Stanley Day was born in Toronto on 4 March 1908, the second child and first son of Amy Lillian, nee Gilroy, and Walter Arthur Day. He attended Withrow Public School, Humber Collegiate and Riverdale Collegiate. He studied medicine at the University of Toronto and became chief surgical reside

Richard Pelham Warren was born on 2 October 1919, the second son of Richard Warren DM, MCh, FRCS (*Lives of the Fellows*, 1952-1964, p.429) assistant surgeon to the London Hospital and later surgeon to Weston-super-Mare Hospital, and his wife Violet Irene, née Jenkin. His early education was at Char

Henry Montague Lewis was a general surgeon at Potchefstroom General Hospital, South Africa. 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

Anthony James Walton, the son of Sir James Walton, consultant surgeon to the London Hospital, was born on 11 September 1913. After education at Rugby School and Cambridge University he became a clinical student at the London Hospital where he won the inpatient dressers' and the Anderson Prizes in hi

Douglas Vellacott was born on 12 November 1914, in Stoke, Devonport. His father, Harold Fitz Vellacott, MC, FRCS, was a consultant surgeon in Plymouth. His mother, Josephine Sempill, SRN, had been a sister at Poplar Hospital, London. He was educated at Sherborne School, Dorset, then for a year at Ki

Arthur Bullough was born on 15 January 1910 in Wigan. He qualified from Manchester University in 1934. After junior posts, he joined the RAMC and was in command of no.10 Field Surgical Unit. After the war, he returned to Manchester to become consultant surgeon at the Hope Hospital, Salford, and Tame

Frank Ivor Tovey was born on 1 September 1921 in Bath, the son of Ernest and Ellen Louise Tovey. He was educated at Kingswood School and then entered Bristol University Medical School, graduating in 1944. The following year he applied to work overseas under the aegis of the Methodist Missionary Soci

John Shipman was a consultant surgeon at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage. He was born in London on 20 September 1917. His father, Henry, was in business, his mother was Rachel née Harwich. He studied medicine at University College Hospital, where he qualified in 1941 and after junior posts joined t

George Herbert Ashby 'Bertie' Simmons was a surgeon in Guernsey. He was born on 31 August 1911 in Hackney, where his father, George Wickham Simmons, was a bank clerk and a Congregational lay preacher. His mother was Margaret née Offer. The family moved to Mill Hill and he went to Mill Hill School, w

John Coxon was a consultant urologist in Halifax, West Yorkshire. He was born in Cambridge. His father, Thomas Coxon, was an industrial chemist with ICI; his mother was Florence Madelaine Proctor Coxon née Lucas. He was educated at Sedbergh School in Cumbria and then studied medicine at St Thomas’s