John Whigham was born in Brook Street, London, and educated at Westminster City School, where he won the gold medal as the best pupil of his year and a scholarship to St Mary's Hospital. He qualified in 1913 at the age of 21. He joined the East Lancashire Regiment at the outbreak of the first wor

Born in Urmia, Persia on 2 September 1881 he graduated from Columbia University, New York in 1908 and subsequently became Valentine Mott Professor of Surgery there at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He served throughout his career on the staff of the Presbyterian Hospital, New York and was D

Born on 29 May 1866 at Romsey, Hampshire, third child and second son of the Rev John White and his wife Martha Fisher, he was educated at Monkton Combe School and University College Hospital, where he served as demonstrator of anatomy for several years and held the usual resident posts. He took hono

Israel Preiskel was born on 7 July 1907 in Lithuania but early in his infancy the family moved to Paris and came to England when he was seven. He was educated at the Grocers' Company School in Hackney, from which he won a scholarship to St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School. A brilliant student,

Marjorie Agnes Powys was born on 25 March 1911 and was educated at the Mount, Leamington Spa, and St Margaret's, Bushey. Her medical training was at the London School of Medicine for Women and the Royal Free Hospital qualifying in 1935. After early house appointments she was resident surgical office

Keith William Powell was born in Australia in 1915 and entered St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1938. After early hospital appointments he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in the early years of the war but was invalided out in 1943 with the rank of Captain. He passed the FRCS ex

Leslie Simon served in the RAMC and qualified MB, ChB in Edinburgh in 1947. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1952 and a Fellow of the College in 1955. He held posts at the Northern Regional Surgery Centre at Shotley Bridge and at the St Mary Abbots Hospital in Lond

Shafik Shalaby was born in Cairo, Egypt, on 17 March 1898, the son of Mina Shalaby who was a Chief Judge. After primary and secondary education in government schools he entered the Faculty of Medicine of Cairo University and graduated with honours, the third in his class, in 1919. All his junior sur

Saibal Ranjan Sen became a Fellow of the College in December 1964. He practised in Calcutta until he died suddenly on 26 December 1989 survived by his wife, Manisha.

Born at Edinburgh 10 August 1888, John Berry Haycraft was the elder son of the late Professor Berry Haycraft of the physiology department of the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire. His mother, before her marriage, was Miss Lily Stacpole, the well-known artist. He was educated at

Born on 25 June 1890 he was one of the sons of Gustav Julius Hellström, an electrical engineer, and Carolina Cecilia Osterberg. They lived at Katrineholm and he commenced his education in Katrineholm Primary School, later proceeding to Norrköping Grammar School. He began his preclinical medical stud

Duncan Campbell ('DJC') was a consultant general surgeon at Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham. He was born in Bristol on 15 August 1943, the son of Duncan Campbell, an aero engine inspector for Bristol Siddeley Engines, and Joyce Annie Lillian Campbell née Cheetham, a cook at a council day centre. DJC'