Philip Bliss was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon and medical director at the Royal United Hospital, Bath. 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

Gordon Manson Chambers was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Peterborough. He was born on 17 March 1932, the son of Edward Tenyson Chambers, a civil servant, and Alva Isobel Chambers, a housewife. His father’s grandfather, Henry Chambers, was a surgeon and a member of the Royal College of Surgeons

Iain Stewart Duff was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at the West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth. Iain was of Scottish descent. His parents were devout, strict Christians. He was educated at King's College School, Wimbledon and became captain and fullback for the first XV rugby team. He e

Akos Béla Nevelös was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Bradford. He was born in Budapest, Hungary, on 5 November 1942, the son of Austin Nevelös and Emily Rosdy, both of whom were teachers. He was educated in state schools in Hungary, where he won prizes in physics and mathematics in the national

Few if any have had as great an impact on Australian orthopaedic surgery as had Tom Taylor. 'TKFT' was born in Sydney in 1932, the son of Dr Charles and Mrs Dot Taylor of Bondi. In 1941, when invasion by the Japanese appeared possible, Tom's education (on a scholarship at Sydney Grammar School) was

Peris Woodfine Edwards was a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at Nevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny. He was born in Bangor, Wales on 27 January 1934. His father, John Gwynan Edwards, was a pharmacist and optician; his mother was Elsie Edwards née Jones. He attended John Bright Grammar School

James Grayton Brown was born in Victoria, Australia on 27 February 1913. He was educated at the Melbourne Church of England Grammar School, Melbourne University, Trinity College and at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He qualified MB BS Melbourne in 1936 and MS Melbourne in 1939. In 1939 he won the Hal

David Verinder was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon for the Bassetlaw Health Authority, Worksop, Nottinghamshire. Born in 1945, he studied medicine at Sheffield University Medical School and qualified in 1968. He gained his FRCS in 1973. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a senior regist

Alexander Kates qualified in medicine from St Bartholomew's Hospital where he was a house surgeon. He became registrar at the Postgraduate Medical School, London, and then consultant in orthopaedic and traumatic surgery to the Kensington and Westminster Area Health Authority. During the second world

Charles Clinton-Thomas ('CT') was born on the 15 January 1912 in Dehra Dun, India, the eldest son of Brigadier Robert Clinton-Thomas RE and Evelyn Baddeley. He was educated at Charterhouse and University College Hospital and qualified with the conjoint diploma in 1937. His early appointments were at

Michael Broke Heywood-Waddington was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at Broomfield, Chelmsford and Black Notley hospitals, Essex. Born in Littlehampton on 24 April 1929, his father, William Broke Heywood-Waddington, was a general practitioner in Arundel and Littlehampton who had served i

Alec Benjamin was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at west Hertfordshire from 1961 until 1984. Initially, he was on the staff of Watford General and Hemel Hempstead hospitals, but in the early eighties he moved his sessions from Watford to St Albans. He was born at home in Stoke Newin