Ernest William Ramsey was a pioneering Canadian urologist. 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

Kshiti ‘Kit’ De was a consultant surgeon at Jersey General Hospital, Channel Islands. 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

Major General Brian Mayes was director general of the Army Medical Services. 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

Andrew Gentles was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Harrogate District General Hospital and Ripon and District General Hospital. He studied at Cambridge University and gained his diploma in ophthalmology in 1962 and his FRCS in 1968. Prior to his consultant appointment he was a senior registrar

Howard Davies qualified in 1960 and worked first in Newport, and then as consultant to the accident and emergency department at Carmarthen, where he is thought to have worked for 15 to 20 years. After his wife died prematurely of breast cancer, he became rather a recluse and the College has little i

Raymond Carter Hodge was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Nevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny, Wales. He studied medicine in Bristol, where he gained his MRCS LRCP and MB ChB in 1960. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a senior house officer in plastic surgery and neurosurgery at Frenchay

Santanu Mukherji was a general practitioner in Yorkshire, with a special interest in cardiology. He was born in Calcutta. His father, Captain Maniklal Mukherji, was a founder member of the Indian Radiological Association, and physician to and friend of the poet Rabindranath Tagore, a winner of the N

Nicholas Eric Dudley was a general and paediatric surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Born on 28 December 1938, he studied medicine at London University and trained at Bart’s Hospital, qualifying MB MS in 1963. Passing the conjoint examination in that same year he did house jobs at the

Alan Thackray was professor of morbid histology at the Middlesex Hospital and a notable authority on breast, salivary and renal tumours. He was educated at Cambridge University, from which he won the senior university scholarship to the Middlesex Hospital. After house jobs he specialised in pathol

Jashbhai Patel was a general surgeon who practised in India, the UK and the USA. He was born on 30 November 1927 in Dharmpuri in the Baroda District of Gujarat State, the second son of a farmer, Nathabhai Ukabhai Patel and his wife Chanchalben. After initially attending local schools he won a schola

John Phillips Matthews was born on 28 July 1936. After qualifying he was a surgical registrar at the Singleton Hospital in Swansea before becoming a senior lecturer in the department of trauma and orthopaedic surgery at the Welsh National School of Medicine in Cardiff. He passed the fellowship of th

Derek Sampson was born in London in 1937 and went to medical school in Birmingham where he obtained a BSc in physiology in 1959. After graduating MB, ChB in 1962 he trained in general surgery passing both the English and Edinburgh fellowship examinations. He had developed an interest in transplantat