James Anthony Walden Fitzgerald was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Southampton and at the Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital, Alton. He studied at Cambridge University and at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1961. He gained his FRCS in 1965. Prior to his consultant appointment, he

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

Richard Batten was the son of Lindsey Batten, FRCP, FRCGP, a Bart's-trained GP in Hampstead. Batten's disease, an inherited neurological condition, was named after his ancestor, also of Bart's. Richard trained at the Westminster Hospital, entered the RAMC on qualifying, and served in Italy. After de

Bertram Mendelsohn qualified from Leeds in 1951 and after junior posts specialised in orthopaedics. He was appointed consultant in trauma and orthopaedic surgery to the Bolton and District Hospital. He is thought to have died in June 1999, survived by his wife.

Robert Richardson qualified from Durham in 1961 and, after junior posts, specialised in orthopaedics, training in Newcastle, Middlesborough and at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Hospital, Oswestry. In 1974 he was awarded the Malkin travelling scholarship, before taking up his consultant appointment

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

Robert Alexander Bremner was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at York County Hospital and then York City General Hospital. He was born in Alloa, Scotland, the son of two schoolteachers. He attended Alloa Academy and then the University of Edinburgh, where he qualified in medicine in 1947.

Gordon Hadfield was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Rowley Bristow Hospital, Pyrford, Surrey. He was born in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire on 31 August 1924, the youngest of three brothers. Both his parents, James Arthur Hadfield and Grace Sherwood Hadfield née Calver, were consultant psychiatri

Gordon Andrew Hunter was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, the first and largest level one trauma centre in Canada, and professor in the department of surgery, University of Toronto. He was born on 25 May 1937 in London into a medical family. His father,

James David Bromage was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Kettering General Hospital, Northamptonshire. He was born in Ibadan, Nigeria on 23 September 1949, the son of James Richard Vincent Arthur Bromage, a civil servant in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and Frances Charlotte Bromage née Ke

Stuart John Birtwistle (Birty) was born on 2 December 1961. He studied medicine in Dundee and graduated MB, ChB in 1988. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1992 and worked for the NHS as an orthopaedic surgeon in Leicester for over 30 years. He died on 13 June 2020 aged 60 years, survi

Sennaporatti Sivashankar Viswanath Iyer was born in India. He studied medicine at Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute and qualified MB,BS in 1963. Initially he worked as a general surgeon and passed his MS in 1970. He was a lecturer in surgery at Mysore Medical College from 1971 to the