Harold Park was horn on 26 July 1909 at Preston, Lancashire, and studied medicine in Edinburgh, qualifying in 1932. His early appointments included the posts of casualty officer at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, and resident medical officer at St Paul's Hospital for Genito-Urinary Diseases. In 1938

William Eric Joseph was born in 1898, the only son of a Congregational minister. He was educated at Taunton School and in 1916 won an open scholarship to Peterhouse College Cambridge. By then he had entered the Artillery Cadet Training School in Exeter, and the scholarship was kept open for him unti

Vijay Vasant Karkhanis was born on 23 June 1939 in Thane, India. His father Vasant Raghunath Karkhanis was a doctor and his mother, Snehal, was a teacher. After attending M H High School in Thane he studied medicine at Elphinstone College, Bombay University. After becoming a Fellow of the College in

Denis Keown was a consultant general surgeon in south east Kent. He studied medicine in Glasgow and gained his FRCS in 1962. He died on 9 May 2015, aged 84.

Robert Nicholson was a consultant surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, and Blackburn and Victoria hospital, Accrington. 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

Edward Gerard MacMahon was born on 4 April 1904 at Cootamundra, New South Wales, one of the large family of a solicitor. Four of his family became doctors, and his brother John was a senior surgeon at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney. Educated at St Patrick's College, Goulburn, and Sydney Un

James Rupert Magarey was born in Adelaide on 21 February 1914, the son of Elsie Magarey, née Cowell, and Dr R E Magarey who was honorary gynaecologist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and was President of the South Australia Branch of the British Medical Association from 1937 to 1938. His early educat

Ramaswami Mahadevan was born on 6 January 1903 in Tamil Nadu, South India, the ninth child of Ramaswami Iyer, headmaster of a secondary school. He was educated at Presidency College, Madras, before entering the University of Madras Medical College from which he qualified in 1926. After hospital appo

Nikhendu Majindar qualified MB BS Calcutta in 1960. Coming to Britain he gained the Fellowship of the Edinburgh College in 1967 and the following year obtained the English Fellowship. Moving to Canada, he practised at Porcupine Plain, Saskatchewan, from 1973 and worked at the Porcupine Carragana

After qualifying MB BS at the University of Adelaide, Peter Christopher Manessis held a number of posts at the Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, ending as a surgical registrar 1966-67. He moved in 1968 to a similar post at the Repatriation General Hospital, Heidelberg, and in 1969 at t

Tom Wilson was consultant surgeon to the Eastbourne group of hospitals. He was born on 28 November 1904 at Antony in Cornwall, the son of Thomas Wilson, a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland who had served as an Army surgeon during the Boer war, and Edith Mary Crichton (née Boxer), th

Owen William Roberts was born on 8 March 1894 at Colwyn Bay, North Wales, the eldest son of a builder, John Thomas Roberts. He was educated at Ruthin Primary School, Whitgift Middle School and the Croydon Polytechnic. He began his medical course at King's College, London, in 1914 and won the Rabith