Paul Seargeant was the only child of an automobile engineer, Thomas William Seargeant, and May Lilian née Sanders. He was born in Bristol on 25 February 1924. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Bristol University, where he won gold medals in medicine and surgery, and the Royal Hospital go

Colin Kirkham was a consultant surgeon at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading and Newbury District Hospital. He was born on 14 January 1924 and studied medicine at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, qualifying in 1947. Prior to his consultant appointment, he held posts in London,

Betty Underhill was born on 22 December 1908, the only child of William Wood and Elizabeth Roberts, both head teachers. She was educated at North London Collegiate School and Somerville College, Oxford, where she gained a first class honours degree in zoology. She remained at Oxford doing research i

William John Dickson Bradfield, or ‘Bill’, was a consultant surgeon at Kingston Hospital in Surrey. He was born in London on 23 June 1924, the only son and second child of John Ernest Bradfield, a businessman, and Marjorie Elizabeth née Dickson, the daughter of a silk merchant. Bill was educated at

David Graham Leighton Davies was a consultant general surgeon at East Glamorgan General Hospital, Pontypridd, and an honorary clinical tutor in surgery at the Welsh National School of Medicine. He studied in Cardiff, gaining a BSc degree with a distinction in anatomy, in 1943 and at Guy's Hospital M

Alan Anderson was senior surgeon at Wellington Hospital, New Zealand. He was born in Wellington on 28 May 1926. His father, Ewart Gordon Anderson, was a surgeon who had qualified in Durham and went to New Zealand after the end of the first world war. His mother was Elsie Craig neé Ardrey. Alan was e

James Snyder was born on 3 November 1918 at Narberth, Pennsylvania. His father, Oscar, was a physician and founder of the Philadelphia College of Osteopathy and his mother was Aline Ambrose Cantwell, the daughter of a physician. Oscar Snyder was responsible for the ruling by Congress that in the USA

Eugene Anthony McVerry was a surgeon based on the Isle of Man. He was born on 16 September 1921 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He gained his FRCS in 1953 and married Olwen Croft in Bath, Somerset in 1957. He died in December 2014 at the age of 93. His last-known address was on the Isle of Man.

Owen Elias Owen was a surgeon at Caernarvon and Anglesey Hospital, Bangor. 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

Barry Shandling was born in South Africa on 20 February 1928 and graduated in medicine from the University of Cape Town in 1950. While he was in training he was inspired by the surgeons Christian Barnard and Jannie Louw. On travelling to the UK he did house jobs at the Hospital for Sick Children, Gr

Alan Morgan was a general surgeon in Wellington from the 50's to the 80's. Alan was a true generalist and served the community well in this role. He remained a generalist in an era when sub specialist practice was slowly developing in New Zealand. He remained committed to the broad specialty of gene

Gerald Kane was a general surgeon who lived in California, USA. 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