Alan Anderson was senior surgeon at Wellington Hospital, New Zealand. He was born in Wellington on 28 May 1926. His father, Ewart Gordon Anderson, was a surgeon who had qualified in Durham and went to New Zealand after the end of the first world war. His mother was Elsie Craig neé Ardrey. Alan was e

James Snyder was born on 3 November 1918 at Narberth, Pennsylvania. His father, Oscar, was a physician and founder of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy and his mother was Aline Ambrose Cantwell, the daughter of a physician. Oscar Snyder was responsible for the ruling by Congress that in the USA

Charles Frederick Noon was a consultant general surgeon at King George and Barking hospitals, Essex. He was born in Norwich on 21 May 1923, the son of Charles Noon, a general surgeon at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, and Cicely Elizabeth Ellen Noon née South, a nursing sister. He was educated at

Jason Giles Brice was born on 24 January 1927. Initially educated at a two-roomed Church of England School in the North Downs, he moved on to Gravesend Grammar School for Boys and started two years ahead of his age group. Due to the lack of science teachers during the second world war, he was more o

Owen Elias Owen was a surgeon at Caernarvon and Anglesey Hospital, Bangor. 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

Keith Vowles was a consultant surgeon at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. 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

Ian Murray Grant was a surgeon in Winnipeg and then medical administrator of Vancouver General Hospital. 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

Jean-Jacques Brossy was a surgeon in South Africa. He gained his FRCS in 1953. In May 2012 the Royal College of Surgeons was notified of his death in Cape Town.

Colin Kirkham was a consultant surgeon at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading and Newbury District Hospital. He was born on 14 January 1924 and studied medicine at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, qualifying in 1947. Prior to his consultant appointment, he held posts in London,

Betty Underhill was born on 22 December 1908, the only child of William Wood and Elizabeth Roberts, both head teachers. She was educated at North London Collegiate School and Somerville College, Oxford, where she gained a first class honours degree in zoology. She remained at Oxford doing research i

Eugene Anthony McVerry was a surgeon based on the Isle of Man. He was born on 16 September 1921 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He gained his FRCS in 1953 and married Olwen Croft in Bath, Somerset in 1957. He died in December 2014 at the age of 93. His last-known address was on the Isle of Man.

At 2.00 am on 25 May 2019, Don died at the age of 94 after more than seven years of invalidism from a series of strokes. At first Don’s walking was affected and he fought back to walking with support. However further lesser strokes occurred until he became bed-bound and his surgical hands ‘lost thei