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.

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

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

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

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

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

Sholem Glaser was a general surgeon at the Royal United Hospital in Bath. Born on 12 May 1912 in Cape Town, the son of Hessel Glaser, a fruit-grower, and Sonia née Zuckerman, he was educated at the South African College School and the University of Cape Town, where he followed his cousin Solly Zucke

Arnold Gourevitch was a consultant surgeon in Birmingham. He was born in Paris on 24 February 1914, the son of Russian Jewish émigrés. At the outbreak of the first world war his parents fled to England, eventually settling in Birmingham. His father, Mendel, later qualified as a doctor and became a g

James Brown was born in 1913 and educated at Bishops Stortford. In 1930 he entered Guy's Hospital and for two years studied dentistry before changing to medicine. After qualification in 1936 he held various house appointments at Guy's before obtaining the Fellowship in 1938. Brown was then appointed

Kenneth Edgar Bond spent much of his career as a surgeon working in India. The son of Edward Vines Bond, the rector of Beddington, and Rose Edith née Bridges, the daughter of a landowner, he was born on 24 October 1908 and was educated at Mowden School, Brighton, and Haileybury College, before going

Colonel John Watts was the first joint professor of military surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Royal Army Medical College, a post he held from 1960 to 1964. Watts was born on 13 April 1913 at Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, the only child of John Nixon Watts, a solicitor, and the Hono