Peter Jennings was a consultant general surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital, Rochester, and Medway Hospital, Gillingham. He was a big man and towered over the surgical department in the Medway towns during his career. He enjoyed his work as a general surgeon but, in his own words, written in 2008,

Born on 15 August 1934, Charles Denys Murphy passed the fellowship of the college in 1963. He lived and worked in Western Australia and died on 10 July 2019 aged 84.

Graeme Douglas Campbell was born in Eltham, Taranaki, the youngest of five children of dairy farmer Jack Campbell and schoolteacher, Winifred May Heather. Entering a sports-mad family (particularly rugby, tennis and swimming), he grew up on the family farm. After attending Eltham Primary School, Gr

Max Harvey Ellis was an honorary surgeon at Blacktown Hospital, New South Wales. He was born in Bega, New South Wales on 8 September 1933. His father, Ashley Thomas Ellis, was a veterinary surgeon; his mother, Muriel Elizabeth Flora Ellis née Morrison, was the daughter of a grazier. He studied at Du

Chitral de Silva was a general surgeon in Sri Lanka. He was born in Ceylon on 15 April 1927, the son of S H de Silva, an engineer, and H W de Silva. He came from a medical family: his uncle H O Gunewardene was a radiologist, while two of his brothers (H S de Silva and G L de Silva) and a sister (S M

John Stewart Simpson Stewart was a surgeon in Wigan. Of Scots origin, he was born in March 1928 and studied medicine at Glasgow University graduating MB, ChB in 1951. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1963. He died on 19 March 2018.

Anil Kumar Roy was a general surgeon at Humboldt District Hospital, Saskatchewan, Canada. He was born in Jhargram, West Bengal, India on 3 August 1936, the second youngest of eight children. His father, Hari Pada Roy, was a civil servant; his mother, Sabitri Roy née Sarkar, was a house wife. He atte

Patrick Francis O’Dwyer was a surgeon in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He was born on 9 December 1926 in Toowoomba, Queensland, the son of Edward and Catherine O’Dwyer, and was brought up in humble circumstances in Harristown on the outskirts of Toowoomba. O’Dwyer was educated at Newtown State Sc

John Harvey Drew was a general surgeon. Born in North Sydney on 21 December 1932, he was the son of Edward George Douglas Anderson Drew and his wife Elizabeth Ida. Her father, John Cappie Shand, was a general practitioner. He was educated at Griffith High School in New South Wales and attended Sydne

Thomas Parker Davis, known as Todd, was a surgeon in New South Wales, 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

Julian Neely was a consultant surgeon in north Sussex, working at Crawley Hospital, Horsham Hospital and the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead. His father, Geoffrey Cavendish Neely, was of Irish descent. He was a saxophonist who ran a dance band in London. His mother, Dorothy Isobel Bruce né

Iain Gillespie was a professor of surgery at Manchester University and an honorary consultant surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary. Manchester, at the centre of the Industrial Revolution, and the location of one of the ‘redbrick universities’, was characterised by the championing of Nonconformist v