Robert 'Bobbie' Cox, formerly senior surgeon to the Westminster Hospital, was born in Batu Gajah, Perak, Malaya, on 24 October 1912, the son of Irish parents who came from Cork. His father, Robert, was a doctor, and his mother, Mary Ann neé Cummings, a nurse. At the age of eight, the family relocate

Donald Thomas Hardy Paine was a urologist and general surgeon in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. He was born in London, England, on 20 July 1921, the son of Stanley William Thomas Paine, an engineer, and Rosina May Paine née Baker. He was educated at Trinity School of John Whitgift in Croydon from 1935

Hugh Fraser Anderson was born in Manchester on 19 April 1910, the son of William Thomson Anderson, a mining electrical engineer, and his wife, Madeleine, née Grubb. He was educated at King William's College in the Isle of Man. In 1929 he gained an entrance exhibition to Caius College, Cambridge, and

Alan Green was a consultant surgeon and urologist at Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and a former president of the Travelling Surgical Society. He was born on 2 July 1927 in Leicester into a non-medical family. His father, Norman George Edwin Green, was a clerk for the Inland Revenue and his mother, Li

Norman Murdoch Matheson was born in Stanway and was educated at Wellington College, New Zealand, and despite a serious rugger injury which necessitated six months in hospital he joined the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and served in an infantry battalion in France in 1918. He was demobilised in 19

John Gordon Smart was appointed to the Leicester Royal Infirmary as a general surgeon with an interest in urology in 1965. Later he became the first pure urologist to the hospital and was responsible for building up the urology unit to become the largest in the Trent region. Possessing an administra

Born on 24 September 1897, son of Lieutenant-Colonel H L Donovan RAMC, he was one of a large family which contributed notably to medicine and the Services. Major-General Sir Patrick Hehir, Indian Medical Service, was an uncle, and three of Donovan's brothers became well-known Birmingham doctors.

Born on 2 November 1901 he was educated at Wyggeston School, Leicester and at the London Hospital, where he was awarded the Buxton Prize in anatomy and physiology in 1921. After qualification he held numerous house appointments at the London Hospital, where he became first surgical assistant and reg

Ken Owen was a well-known urologist in London with an international reputation, particularly in the Middle East and throughout Europe, especially in Scandinavia and Italy. His first consultant appointment was as a general surgeon to the Royal Northern Hospital in 1957, succeeding McNeill Love, who s

John Dunlop was born on 29 June 1915 in India, where his father, John Dunlop, was a doctor. He was educated, with an entrance scholarship, at Epsom College, and in 1932 gained a scholarship to St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, and qualified in 1937. After holding a number of resident posts at St

Manushehr Sabetian was a consultant surgeon at the London Welbeck Hospital. He studied medicine at Durham University, qualifying in 1954. He gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1958, his ChM from Liverpool University in 1962 and the fellowship of the Royal Colle

Born in 1872 at Holstein, Canada, he received his early education at Mount Forest, and practised there for a year after graduation from the University of Toronto in 1895. He took postgraduate work in London, and was admitted to the Royal College of Surgeons as a Member in 1900; he took the Fellowshi