Herbert Spencer was born in Barnet, Hertfordshire, on 8 February 1915, the son of Hubert John Spencer, a coat manufacturer, and his wife Edith Maude, née Lodge. His early education was at Highgate Junior and Senior Schools, and he entered St Mary's Hospital Medical School for his medical studies, wh

Anthony George Ackerley was a consultant pathologist in Leicester. Born in Wolstanton, Staffordshire on 3 February 1925, he was the only child of George Ackerley, a schoolmaster and his wife Ethel née Edge. She was the daughter of Andrew Edge, a shoemaker who was to become Burgess of the Borough of

Jean Pringle (née Rankin) was head of the department of morbid anatomy at the Institute of Orthopaedics, London. She was born on 30 August 1936 to parents who were relatively elderly. Her mother was a teacher and her father was head of the technical college in Coatbridge, Scotland. He was over 60 at

David George Lowe was a professor of surgical pathology at St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine. 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

Sir Roddy MacSween, professor of pathology at the University of Glasgow, was unquestionably one of Scotland’s most distinguished medical practitioners of his time. He was, as the popular press once put it, ‘top doc’, a man with a huge range of interests, both within and outside the sphere of medicin

Born at Tattenhall, Cheshire on 4 June 1868 the fourth son of the Rev J Watkins-Pitchford, Vicar of St Jude's, Southwark, and his wife Louisa Read of Westbury, Wilts, he was educated at St Olave's Grammar School, Southwark and St Thomas's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon. By the time he to

Born 20 March 1858 at The Grange, Ware, Herts, the fifth of the seven sons of Robert Lawrence, owner of maltings at Ware and Hertford, and of Elizabeth Dawes, his wife. He was educated at the Cholmely School, Highgate under J Bradley Dyne, DD, and played rugby in the first XV. He began to study law

Julian Bloom was born in Sheffield on 30 June 1923 and moved to London at the age of seven where he was educated at the Fleet School, Kilburn, and the Regent Street Polytechnic. In 1942 he entered Middlesex Hospital Medical School and in 1946 was student house surgeon to Lord Webb-Johnson, Sir Eric

Raleigh Barclay Lucas, Emeritus Professor of Oral Pathology, died on 11 October 2011. He was a distinguished oral pathologist and academic and for 15 years was the Dean of the Royal Dental Hospital School of Dental Surgery. He was born in Edinburgh in 1914 and educated at George Watson’s School

Colin John Smith was a professor of oral pathology at Sheffield University. 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

Emeritus Professor Ivor Robert Horton Kramer who was Professor of Oral Pathology and Dean and Director of Studies of the Institute of Dental Surgery from 1970 to 1983 has died aged 93. He qualified in dentistry from the Royal Dental Hospital London in 1944 and spent the next four years in part-

Born 25 October 1889, the son of H A Costobadie, Lionel Palliser Costobadie was educated at his father's old school, Haileybury College, Hertford, from 1905 to 1908. He went to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took his BA with 1st class honours in the Natural Science Tripos. He then e