Mahavir Pershad Chaturvedi was a general surgeon. His last-known address was in New York, USA. He was born in Benares, India, on 12 May 1922. His father, Mulchandji Chaturvedi, was a railway claims inspector. His mother, Phoolkunwar Chaturvedi née Chowdry, was the daughter of a banker. He was educat

Enid Wheldon was born on 18 June 1933 in Chester-Le-Street, County Durham. Her father, Joseph William Wheldon was a farmer and her mother, Jane née Rutter was a school teacher. After attending Chester-Le-Street Grammar School, she went up to Girton College Cambridge to study medicine and trained at

Sydney Mahaindra Nauth Jaikaran was a specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. He was born in British Guiana on 5 January 1934, the youngest of nine children. In 1952 he won a Guyana scholarship to study medicine at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Four

John Walkden was a senior orthopaedic registrar at the United Liverpool Hospitals and orthopaedic and surgical registrar to the professorial unit of Broadgreen Hospital Liverpool. He then became a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at West Cheshire and Central Wirral Hospitals. He was a member of the Li

Ronald Philip Quirk was an orthopaedic surgeon in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia who specialised in treating foot injuries. He was born in St Kilda, Victoria, the only child of Henry Philip (Phil) Quirk, a sales representative, and Alice Havilland Quirk née Nase, the daughter of a grazier. He was ed

Abdelaal Abdalla Osman was head of the department of surgery at the University of Khartoum, Sudan. He was born on 30 December 1930 in Omdurman, Sudan, the son of Abdalla Osman, a businessman, and Fahima Osman née Zeinelabdin, a housewife. He attended Bakht Elruda Primary School, Elduem Rural Interme

Frank Charles Robson was an ENT surgeon in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He was born in London, England on 20 October 1930, the son of Frank Herbert Robson, an insurance broker and member of Lloyd’s, and Helen Ruth Robson née Barr. He attended Monmouth School from 1944 to 1949 and then carried out his

George Forbes Abercrombie (known as Forbes) was a urologist in Portsmouth. Born on 28 March 1935 in Edinburgh, he was the son of George Abercrombie, a general practitioner, and his wife, Maria. His father was the first president of the section of general medicine at the Royal Society of Medicine in

Francis Edwyn Swinnerton Keiller, known as 'Frank', was a senior consultant surgeon in the Royal Air Force, retiring with the rank of wing commander. He was born on 20 July 1927 in Nottingham. The family name was originally 'Killer' but, as he writes, he 'changed to Keiller on taking up medicine'. H

Alan Patterson was born on 6 May 1933. At his secondary school he was one of the only two students considered good enough to attend university. He studied medicine at Liverpool University commencing in 1950 and qualifying in 1956. Awarded the Robert Gee fellowship in anatomy, he obtained a doctorate

Francis Colin Schwerdt was born in Hertfordshire and educated at Winchester College before receiving his medical training at Oxford where he qualified in 1952. After his national service as regimental medical officer to the 3rd Royal Hussars he embarked on his chosen specialty in ophthalmic surgery

Peter Cosmo Shaw was an orthopaedic surgeon in Bromley. He was born in Streatham, London, on 24 February 1934, the son of Eric Cosmo Shaw, a dental surgeon and orthodontist, and Dorothy Margaret Shaw née Butler, a maths teacher. Shaw's grandfather, David Cosmo Shaw, a dentist in Aberdeen, was said t