John Aloysius Henderson was a visiting medical officer at Geelong Hospital, Victoria, Australia. He was born in Gundagai, New South Wales on 26 August 1932. His love of flying may have begun when, in his mother’s arms, he was the youngest ever passenger, at the time, to be flown by Charles Kingsford

William (‘Bill’) Richmond pioneered the development of urology services at what is now Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust. He was born on 1 June 1943 in Ulverston Cottage Hospital, Lancashire to David Alan Richmond, an orthopaedic surgeon, and Eira Richmond (née Osterstock) a nurse,

Keith Batten served as the chief surgeon and hospital warden of the St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital for a decade between 1969 to 1979, and later as their hospitaller between 1989 and 1992. He oversaw many of the significant occasions in the history of the hospital and left a tremendous impact on t

Fraser-Moodie was christened William but he was always known as Alistair. He was born on 17 April 1942 into a medical family. His mother, Christina, had trained in medicine against her parent’s wishes (they thought it an unsuitable career for a woman) and eventually ran a single handed GP practice o

David Dowse was a general surgeon in Nova Scotia, Canada. He was born in Dublin on 17 January 1937, the son of Richard Victor Dowse, a gynaecologist and obstetrician, and Ellen née Heard. His parents moved to Ceylon, where his father was a physician in Colombo, and then, during the Second World War,

Born in 1940 in Hove, Sussex, the son of a general practitioner, George Nigel Boobbyer was educated at Prestonville, Brighton, and Haileybury. He read medicine at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, graduating MB BS London, in 1964 and gaining the Conjoint Diploma in that year. He was house surgeon i

David Rowlands studied medicine at University College Hospital and qualified with the conjoint diploma in 1933. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Europe throughout the second world war and then embarked on a long career in the Taunton area. He was on the staff of Taunton and Somerset H

Robin Gray was a consultant surgeon for the Greenwich Health District, a medical coordinator for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and then a medical officer at the World Health Organization in Geneva. He was born on 18 March 1942 at Epsom, Surrey, the son of Charles Horace Gray, a

Tony Rickwood, paediatric urologist at Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, played a seminal role in establishing paediatric urology as a recognised specialty in the United Kingdom and was a founder member of the British Association of Paediatric Urologists in 1990. He was an internationally re

Colin Fontaine was a consultant general surgeon and medical director at Prince Charles Hospital, north Glamorgan. He was born in Barry Docks, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales on 19 June 1940 to Roy Astill Fontaine and Dylys Eleanor Fontaine née Biss. His younger sister, Lesley, went on to train as a chiropo

John Talbot was born to Graeme Talbot, a New Zealander who following postgraduate training had secured a consultant position as an Ophthalmic Surgeon in London, and Joan Betts, the daughter of a London journalist and newspaper editor. John had an identical twin brother, Richard, and a younger sister

Rita Auden was a surgeon at the London Hospital, until mental illness forced her to abandon her career. She was born in Simla, India, on 22 August 1942. Her father, John Bicknell Auden, was a geologist with the Geological Survey of India, and the last European to be appointed to the permanent cadre