Educated at Bombay and St Bartholomew's Hospital, he practised at 514 Sandhurst Road, Bombay, and died there between July 1957 and June 1958.

S H Wass, the only child of Isaac Wass of Nottingham, was born on the 5 December 1907. He was educated at University College Nottingham, and came to Guy's Hospital as a preclinical student in 1928. He qualified in 1934, became FRCS in 1935 and MS of London University in 1936. Because of the second w

Born in South Africa on 2 February 1908, the eldest child of Benjamin Levitt a landowner and Jenny Goodman his wife, he was educated at the University of Cape Town, where he took first-class honours in anatomy in 1929 and in physiology in 1930. He was an assistant lecturer in the University for a sh

Born in Surrey, on 19 November 1908, the second son of Edmund Henderson Hunt, MCh, FRCS (Eng) and Laura Mary, daughter of Sir James Buckingham. His elder brother, John, was elected a Fellow of the College *ad eundem* for services as a co-opted Member of Council and to medicine. Educated at Charte

Francis Sansome Mitchell-Heggs, the fourth child and third son of Francis Raymond Mitchell Heggs, a medical practitioner, and of Maud (née Sansome) whose father had been surgeon to West Bromwich Hospital, was born at Ventnor, Isle of Wight, on 16 August 1911. After education at Nottingham High Schoo

Anthony Stedman Till, known as ‘Tim’, was a consultant surgeon in Oxford. He was born in London, on 5 September 1909, the eldest son of Thomas Marson Till OBE, an accountant, and Gladys Stedman, the daughter of a metal broker in the City. Tim was educated at Ovingdean Hall, Brighton, and Marlborough

Thomas Williams was a consultant general surgeon at the West Suffolk General Hospital, Bury St Edmunds. He was born into a medical family in Canterbury, Kent, on 6 May 1910, the son of Moses Thomas Williams FRCS. Tom’s schooling was first at Sir Roger Harwood’s Grammar School, Sandwich, and then Rug

Satyanarayana Synkavelly came to England from India. In 1934 he passed the Conjoint Examination, and the Fellowship in the same year. He returned to West Godavari in Southern India where he practiced until his death. He died about 1971.

Sydney Krantz had a good record at school at Prince Alfred College, and played for the school and afterwards for the University of Adelaide at cricket and football. He studied medicine in the University of Adelaide and graduated MB BS in 1927. After junior appointments in Adelaide he came to England

John Reginald St George Stead was born in Grahamstown, South Africa, on 20 June 1908. His father was William Yewdall Stead, a missionary priest, and his mother, Miriam Peterson, was the daughter of an architect. He was the sixth child in the family and the third boy. He was educated at St Andrew's P

John Hughes studied medicine at Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital. After early appointments as house surgeon at the Miller General Hospital and Hampstead General Hospital he became assistant medical officer to Down's Hospital, Sutton. He became a Fellow of the College in 1936 and moved to Shef

Born in 1910, Francis Rundle was educated in Newcastle and graduated from Sydney University Medical School with first class honours and the University Medal in 1932. During his early training in the competitive environment of the university hospitals in London, he won the Jacksonian Prize of the Col