Laughton Leask was born on 15 October 1912, the eldest son of William Laughton Rennie, an architect, and Anne Elizabeth Mabel, née Beaton. He went to preparatory school in Hong Kong, thence to Edinburgh Academy and later to Highgate, before going to St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1930 where he won the

Dickson was educated at the University of Toronto, Canada, qualifying in 1920, but practised in the United States at Utica, New York. He was a founder-member of the American Board of Surgery, which successfully brought up the qualifying requirements of the individual States to a unified high standar

Born in Cardiff on 1 July 1912, Clive Howell Tanner was educated at Cardiff High School and the University of Wales, completing his undergraduate training at the London Hospital from which he graduated MB BS in June 1936. He was house physician and house surgeon at Cardiff Royal Infirmary and later

Francis Doran, commonly known as 'Mike', was a colourful character whose enthusiasm for blood sports in the hunting field competed with his devotion to the surgical care of his patients and with his intellectual exercises in the literary sphere. He was born in 1911, the only son of a Manchester dent

Eric Price Clarke was born on 14 October 1913 at Blackburn, Lancs, the only child of Lancashire-born parents; his father, a graduate of Manchester University, was a schoolmaster, later joining the Home Office as an Inspector of Factories. Eric was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Blackbur

Alan Wardle Bone was born on 17 April 1910, and educated at Felsted School, Essex, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He received his medical training at the London Hospital qualifying in 1936. He then decided to take up surgery and held a number of resident posts at the London Hospital a

Nothing is known about Charles Murray Dransfield except that he passed the Fellowship in 1946 and was living in Aston-under-Lyne, Lancs at the time of his death on 15 September 1981.

Charles Donald qualified in Melbourne in 1934 and served as RMO at Prince Henry's Hospital. In 1936 he came to London and was appointed house surgeon at the West London Hospital under Henry Tyrrell-Grey. He passed the Fellowship in 1938 while at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital before returning as s

John Coates was born in May 1911 and was educated at Keighley Grammar School and Leeds University. He had a distinguished academic career, graduating BSc with first-class honours in 1933 and qualifying three years later with honours. After various resident appointments at Leeds he became demonstr

Douglas William Guthrie was educated at Bayfield School and later at Auckland Grammar School. He graduated from Otago Medical School in 1935. After house surgeon years at Auckland Hospital he came to England and passed his Final Fellowship exams in 1939. He returned to Auckland Hospital where he

Edward George Tuckwell, the third of eight children and the eldest son of Edward Henry Tuckwell, a stockbroker, and of Annie Clarice (née Sansom), was born on May 12, 1910, at Godalming, Surrey. He was educated at Hillside School, Godalming; Charterhouse School, and Magdalen College, Oxford. He then

Like his brother MG and his cousin AK, Rangnath Gajanar was a member of the Talwalkar family of medical practitioners who obtained the Fellowship of the College in the 1930s. On returning to Bombay RG worked at the GT Hospital. All qualified from Grant Medical College, as did many other members of t