Colin Stewart McArdle was professor of surgery at the University of Edinburgh. He was born on 10 October 1939 in Glasgow, the son of Alfred McArdle and May McArdle née Baird. Both of his parents were teachers. His sister Helen also became a doctor. He was educated at Jordanhill College School and th

William Michael Mee was a consultant surgeon at Luton and Dunstable Hospital. He was born on 27 February 1928 and studied medicine at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1954. He gained his FRCS in 1960. Prior to his appointment at Luton and Dunstable Hospital he was a senior surgica

Ken Millar was chief of surgery at the Repatriation Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia. He was born in Wangaratta, Victoria, on 13 October 1926, the second son of schoolteachers Leonard James Millar and Marion Millar née Amiet. He grew up in a variety of rural towns in Victoria, before the fa

Arikkath Koottala Vasudevan came to England from India, and in 1968 he passed the examinations for Membership and Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He returned to India and practiced at the Surgical Nursing Home, College Road, Palghat, India. In January 1973 Mrs Vasudevan no

Ranfurly Percival Stanley Kelman was born in 1898 in Ranfurly, Central Otago, New Zealand, and went to the Otago Boys' High School where he distinguished himself at both rugby football and cricket. He then went to Otago University where he graduated in medicine in 1921. He spent the next two years i

Herbert George Tymms graduated MB in the University of Melbourne in 1894, and BS in 1895. He then became RMO at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1895-6, and subsequently came to England where he obtained the Conjoint Board Diploma in 1899 and the FRCS in 1901. On returning to Australia he settled in

John Turner was educated at Trinity Grammar School from whence he proceeded to the University of Melbourne where he gained the reputation of a first class tennis player and a keen student. He went into residence at Trinity College and graduated with top honours in 1928. For the next two years he

Brian McNeill Truscott was born in Hampstead on 29 February 1912, the son of Samuel John Truscott, Professor of Mining Engineering at the Royal School of Mines and Mary Truscott (née Vaughan). He was educated at Oundle School and the Middlesex Hospital where he held resident appointments after quali

Born at Peterborough on 18 December 1874, the third son of Thomas James Walker FRCS, he was educated at Haileybury, at Clare College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1896, and at St George's Hospital, where his father had been trained. After serv

Born on 1 November 1881 son of Charles Frederick Walton, he was educated at Framlingham College and the London Hospital where he gained many scholarships and prizes, qualifying in 1905. In the BSc examination in 1906 he obtained honours in anatomy and morphology, and on taking the MB BS degrees, he

Born in 1894 in Gateshead where his father was Mayor on several occasions, he was educated at Mill Hill School and then spent two years in training for a career in commerce before persuading his parents to allow him to study medicine which he commenced to do in 1913 at the old Newcastle medical scho

Born on 14 October 1875, he won a Grierson bursary at Edinburgh University in 1893 and qualified in 1898. After a term as assistant house surgeon at Cardiff Royal Infirmary in 1899 he attended the Yorkshire College, now Leeds University, and proceeded to the Edinburgh MD in 1905. While at Leeds he m