Barbash was a foundation Scholar of St John's College, Cambridge, graduated with honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1917, and received his clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he was a house surgeon after qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1919. He took the Cambridge medi

George Frederick Grant Batchelor was born in Dundee on 6 April 1902, the son of Robert, a merchant and his wife, Margaret Grant, née Hill. He attended Dundee High School, then trained in medicine at St Andrew's University, University College, where he came first in operative surgery, pathology, opht

Philip Reginald Hawe was born at Callan, Co Kilkenny, Eire, in 1900. The family moved to Liverpool in 1905 and as a result he was educated there at the Catholic Institute in Hope Street. In his senior year he was awarded the Robert Gee Scholarship in medicine and the John Rankin Scholarship in engin

Frederick William Markham Pratt was born in 1898 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the eldest son of a well known general practitioner, Dr E F Pratt. He went to Shrewsbury School and Durham University, coming to St George's Hospital to complete his medical course and qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 19

Geraldine Mary Barry was born on 4 October at Wakes Colne, Essex, the daughter of the Reverend Walter and Anna Barry. She was educated at Queen Anne's School, Caversham, and was originally destined to read mathematics at Cambridge, but this was changed by the visit of Professor Winifred Cullis (Prof

Patrick Kiely was a professor of surgery at the University of Cork. 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

George Pitt was born in Marylebone, London, on 17 July 1898, the third child and elder son of George Newton Pitt, MD, FRCP, and Jane Elizabeth Heriot, a banker's daughter. After education at Leas Court, Folkestone, and Highgate School he served as a Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery from 1916 to 191

Alfred Charles King studied medicine at the London Hospital where he became surgical registrar and first assistant. After working as a surgeon to the Nairobi Native Hospital, Kenya, he returned to London and was appointed resident surgical officer (accidents) to the Poplar Hospital. He died on 9 Feb

Shankar Ramchandra Joglekar was born in Poona on 10 July 1894. His father, Rao Bahadur R N Joglekar was a civil servant for the Government of Bombay and his mother, Sitabai Joglekar, née Pendse, was the daughter of a civil servant. He was their third child and first son. He attended Poona High Schoo

Ranfurly Percival Stanley Kelman was born in 1898 in Ranfurly, Central Otago, New Zealand, and went to the Otago Boys' High School where he distinguished himself at both rugby football and cricket. He then went to Otago University where he graduated in medicine in 1921. He spent the next two years i

This surgeon has obituaries in two printed volumes (eight and nine). Volume eight: David Levi was born on 11 March 1901 in London, and was educated at St Marylebone Grammar School. At the age of 16 he entered St Mary's Hospital Medical School and won a scholarship which continued throughout hi

Kenneth Owen Parsons was born at Swansea on 12 January 1898, the second son of Tom Parsons, a printer and his wife Florence, née Williams, and was educated at Swansea Grammar School and later at Bristol Grammar School. On leaving school in 1916 he joined the Royal Welsh Fusiliers; he was twice wound