Jack Mustardé founded and ran West Africa’s first reconstructive plastic surgery unit and established the charity ReSurge 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

Christopher Teik-Kooi Khoo was a hand and breast surgeon at Stoke Mandeville Hospital and Wexham Park Hospital in Slough. 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

Arthur MacGregor Morris was a distinguished consultant in plastic and reconstructive surgery in Dundee. He was born on 6 May 1941 and was educated at Dulwich College, Selwyn College, Cambridge and Guy’s Hospital Medical School, London. He qualified in 1965. He held his house posts at Guy’s and wa

Morris Hensman Heycock, or ‘Bob’ or ‘Bobby’ as his family, friends and colleagues knew him, was a consultant plastic surgeon in Hull. He was born in Dublin on 31 October 1928. His father, Morris Sadler Heycock, read natural sciences at King’s College, Cambridge and was a chemist before becoming head

Donald Neil Robinson was a plastic surgeon in Adelaide, South Australia. He was born on 28 October 1924 in Salisbury, South Australia. His father, Edwin Alexander Robinson, was a bank manager; his mother was Mary Robinson née Nicholson. From 1939 to 1941 Robinson attended Scotch College in Adelaide

Hugo Lorenz Obwegeser was internationally recognised as the father of modern orthognathic surgery who initiated huge advances in the development of plastic surgery of the facial skeleton. He was born on 21 October 1920 in Hohenems, Austria and initially graduated in medicine at Innsbruck. In 1945 he

Gordon Robertson was a specialist in plastic surgery in Winnipeg and an associate professor at the University of Manitoba’s faculty 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.

Andrew Michael Munster was professor of surgery and plastic surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore and president of the American Burn Association. He was born in Budapest, Hungary on 10 December 1935. His father, Leo Stephen Munster, was a merchant; his mother was Marianne

Air commodore Ronald ‘Ronnie’ Brown was a consultant in burns and plastic surgery in the RAF. He was born in London on 11 September 1925. His father, Oscar Frank Brown, was director of telecommunications research during the Second World War and prominent in the development of radar. His mother, Dori

Michael Timmons was a highly-respected plastic and reconstructive surgeon at Bradford Royal Infirmary and St Luke’s Hospital, Bradford. His special interests were cleft lip and palate surgery, and surgeries on other complex congenital problems, such as hypospadias. He was born on 17 February 1949

Jacob Goldin was a pioneering craniofacial surgeon and a former president of the European Society of Craniofacial Surgery. 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

“Kua hinga te totara i te wao nui a Tane – A mighty totara has fallen in the forest of Tane” aptly describes the sudden and unexpected death of JJ de Geus some months ago. John de Geus was a great teacher, colleague and friend to many. A well-loved surgeon, colleague, employer, friend and family man