Firoz Dara Mistry was a general and vascular surgeon in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. He was born in Bombay, India on 29 October 1938, the son of Tehmi and Dara Mistry and studied medicine at the G S Medical College in Bombay. He gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in

When Ade (as he was universally known) died, the President of Nigeria said that his country had lost an icon. Ade would have liked the word because of its classical connotations; not only was he an academic surgeon with an international reputation, but he was also an author and an historian with a w