Brendan Hickey was a consultant general surgeon and urologist at Morrison Hospital, Swansea, and spent some time as a professor of surgery in Khartoum and as a surgical specialist to the Iraq government. He was born on 20 June 1912 in Newton Hyde, Cheshire, where his father, John Edward Hickey, was

Paul Hickinbotham was a consultant surgeon in Leicester. He was born in Birmingham on 21 March 1917, the second son of Frederick John Long Hickinbotham, an export merchant and JP, and Gertrude née Ball. He was educated at West House School, Birmingham, and Rugby, and went on to Birmingham to do his

Alan Pollock was a consultant surgeon at Scarborough Hospital, Yorkshire. He was born on 10 September 1921 in Johannesburg, South Africa, and went to school and University in Cape Town, where he graduated in medicine in 1943, winning a medal in surgery along the way. After house appointments he join

Robert Rihan was a consultant surgeon at Good Hope Hospital, Sutton Coldfield. He was born on 22 October 1927 in Birmingham, the son of Alexander Rihan, a general practitioner, and Ruby Lillian Floyd. He attended Edgbaston preparatory school and, during the war years, Rydal School, Colwyn Bay. In 19

Eric Travers was a consultant surgeon to Sedgefield and Stockton and Thornaby hospitals. He was born on 7 June 1910 in Brantingham, Yorkshire, where his father John (‘Jack’) Francis Travers was a solicitor. His mother was Beatrice Mary Horsley. The eldest of three, he and his two younger sisters (Ma

Munro Walker-Brash was a consultant general surgeon at Orpington and Sevenoaks hospitals. He was born in London on 15 November 1920, the second son of John Walker-Brash, a general practitioner, and his wife Gloria Lilian née Parker. He was educated privately at Colet Court in Hammersmith and Clivede

Tom Williams was chairman of the department of surgery at the University of Alberta, Canada. He was born in Rhewl, Wales, on 17 April 1925, and spent his childhood and youth in north Wales. He studied medicine in Liverpool, where he completed junior surgical posts, before going to Edmonton, Alberta,

David Bell was a surgeon at Belfast City Hospital. The son of William George Thompson Bell, a farmer and mill-owner from Cookstown, Northern Ireland, and Emma Jane Bell, he was born on 20 June 1920. A great uncle, cousin and brother were all doctors. From the Rainey Endowed School he went to Queen’s

Entered Guy's Hospital in 1877, where he became House Surgeon. He settled in practice at Norwich, and acted as Surgeon to the Dispensary, to the Eye Infirmary, and to the Jenny Lind Infirmary for Children, practising at 10 Surrey Street. He was keenly and actively engaged in surgery, as is shown by

Alex Warrington was a consultant surgeon in Sunderland. He was born in Senglea, Malta, on 6 January 1935, where his father, John Warrington, worked in the Naval Dockyard Office on the Sanglea promontory, which was heavily bombed during the Second World War. Fortunately the Warrington family had been

Born in Bristol, the son of John Morton, Superintending Surgeon - a rank discontinued in 1872 - in the HEIC's service in the Madras Presidency. He was educated at Clifton College and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he gained numerous prizes, including the Brackenbury Medical Scholarship. He beca

George Smith was a consultant general surgeon at Scarborough General Hospital. He was born on 19 August 1936 in Nainital in the foothills of the Himalayas. His father was a civil engineer in the Indian Service of Engineers and his mother was a dentist, who had graduated from Edinburgh in the early 1