Sir John Croot was born on 14 October, 1907, in Portsmouth, the son of Horace Croot, LDS, RCS, a dental surgeon in Southsea, and Emily Winifred, née Daw. He was educated at Eastman's School, Southsea, and then at Haileybury College, Hertford, from 1921 to 1925, where he was a senior scholar. He trai

George Desmond Cribb was born on 14 August 1917 at Northwood, son of a dental surgeon, and educated at Sherborne and University College Hospital, where he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1939. At the beginning of the second world war he joined the RAMC. Taken prisoner at Dunkirk, he was medic

George Qvist was born on 13 August 1910, in London, the third son of Emil Qvist, a bookseller, and his wife Emily. After education at Quintin School he entered University College, London, for his preclinical studies and was elected Bucknill Scholar at University College Hospital. He was awarded the

Aubrey Radford was born at Colenso, Natal, South Africa, on 29 December 1889. He was educated at Oakfield Priory, Verulam and Maritzburg College, South Africa and at Edinburgh University, where he graduated MB ChB in 1913. After being house surgeon to Struthers at the Royal Infirmary he did post-gra

Edward Holmes Rainey was born at Paignton on 5 April 1886 and educated at Bedford School and the London Hospital, qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1909. He was house surgeon to Russell Howard and in 1913 took the FRCS. He then settled in general practice at Eastbourne, Sussex, but soon volunt

Robert Anstruther Ramsay was born in Montreal on 18 February 1887, his forebears having emigrated to Canada from Aberdeenshire in the latter part of the eighteenth century. He went to school in Canada, the USA and Switzerland and then to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where in 1908 he obtain

Kenneth Charles Trineman Rawle was born at Exeter, Devon, on 7 September 1902. The family moved to Australia in 1913. He was educated at Blackheath Public School, NSW, Sydney Boys' High School and at Sydney University. In 1926 he graduated MB ChM with first-class honours, the University Medal and th

Ronald Maxwell Rawle was born in Greenham, a small village near the border between Dorset and Somerset, in 1907. When he was six his parents emigrated to Australia, taking him and his two brothers. They settled first in Canberra and then moved to Blackheath. He attended Blackheath Public School, Syd

Pannala Padma Reddy was a civil surgeon specialist and superintendent in Hyderabad, India. He died of a heart attack on 10 February 1979 survived by his only son Dr P Narsimha Reddy.

Hector Hamilton Stewart was born on 4 November 1901. His father, Hector Joseph Stewart, was a civil and mining engineer, also a pastoralist and a member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia. After attending Perth Modern School and the University of Western Australia as a state exhibitione

David Aiken qualified in Dublin in 1940 and retained a home in Londonderry all his life. He became a Fellow of the College in 1947 and practised in the Sheffield area. After holding posts as senior surgical registrar at the United Sheffield Hospital and resident surgical officer for the Christie Hos

Eardley Samuel Allin was born on 26 August 1907, in Toronto, Ontario, the only son of Edgar William Allin, a surgeon, and of Rose Mary Allin (née Kember), a registered nurse. He was at primary and high schools in Edmonton before entering the University of Alberta where he took a BSc in 1927. He then