David Brockway Rogers was a consultant general surgeon at Auckland Hospital, New Zealand. He was born in Auckland on 30 September 1922, the son of Lionel Brockway Rogers and Whittier Rogers née McLeod. He attended Auckland Grammar School and then went to Auckland University. After a year, once he ha

John Partridge was a consultant surgeon at North Devon District Hospital, Barnstaple. He was born on 15 June 1921 in Weymouth, Dorset, the son of George James Partridge and his wife Gwendoline Partridge née Brewster Jones. George ('Jimmie') Partridge had served in the First World War as an officer i

Born on 4 January 1925, son of Maxwell Levy and Rose Harrison, Alan Harrison Levy was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Bristol University where he was awarded the Suple Gold Medal in 1948. He held resident appointments at the Royal Infirmary and the Bruce Wills Hospital, Bristol, later serving

Shelton Aloysius Cabraal was the father of neurosurgery in Sri Lanka. Having passed the fellowship in 1951, he returned to Colombo and, in 1956, founded the first neurosurgical unit in the country. State of the art for its time, it was located in the General Hospital. Initially the unit had 12 beds

Reginald Hollows was a surgeon in Muskoka, Ontario, Canada. 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

John Samuel Hopkirk was born in Kelburn, Wellington, to Cyril Hopkirk (a veterinarian) and Dorothy (née Saunders, a ballet dancer and teacher). He had two sisters, Mary and Patricia and a brother, Alan. John’s early life was coloured by his father’s absence for veterinary studies at Melbourne. Money

Arthur Richard Cecil ('Dick') Butson was a general surgeon in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He was born in Hankow, China, to British parents, Cecil Walter Butson, a consultant engineer, and Doris Neave Butson née Stanton-Cook, an artist, on 24 October 1922. He was educated at Leighton Park School, Read

Thomas Emanuel Antonie was a general surgeon at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne between 1961 and 1986. Tom Antonie was born in 1921 and received his secondary education at St Patrick's College, East Melbourne, matriculating in 1940. He studied medicine at Melbourne University graduating in 1945.

John Solomon ‘Jack’ Indyk was a surgeon in Sydney, Australia. 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 Cassie was a general surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth II (QEII) Hospital in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, where he provided surgical services from 1962 until his retirement in 1986, with only one half-time colleague. Cassie was born in Aberdeen, the second son of James Harvey Cassie, a

David Hodge was a surgeon who lived in Thames, New Zealand. 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

John was the son of Dr Robert Goldie, a Scottish migrant who settled in Corrimal near Wollongong, in NSW. By 1919, Robert had served four years in the British army in France. In 1920 he married Margaret Sellers, daughter of a mine manager. John was born in 1922 and grew up in Wollongong. He atten