Edmond Graham Roberts gained MB BS at University of Melbourne in 1953. He was resident medical officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital from 1954 to 1955, and in 1957. In 1958 he became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He came to Great Britain and in 1959 he gained the Fello

John Anderson came from a well-known St Andrews golfing family. His grandfather, Jamie, won the Open Championship three times, 1877-78-79 and he was noted for his precision and flair. Anderson was educated at Madras College, St Andrews, Strathallan School, Perthshire, and St Andrews University where

Eliezer Leslie Judkowski qualified in medicine from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He became resident surgeon to the Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died on 7 December 1980 survived by his wife, Patricia.

Little is known of the career of Richard Neville Austin. He worked in England as orthopaedic registrar at St Bartholomew's Hospital and as a house surgeon at Northampton General Hospital. He was a member of the British Medical Association and became a Fellow of the College in 1959. It is probable th

After qualifying MB BS at Osmaria University, Rai came to Britain and worked at Hereford General Hospital before gaining both the Membership and the Fellowship in May 1959. Thereafter he practised at Narayanguda, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. He died on 30 June 1973.

Hiralal Vadilal Shah was born in Tarasali Tal-Baroda in Gujarat State, India. He went to the Shre Sayaji High School in Baroda and he entered Grant Medical College in Bombay, qualifying in 1952, his clinical training being at the Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals. After obtaining his FRCS he joined t

William Roberts was born in Cape Province in 1924, the son of William Morton Roberts, a businessman, and his wife Winifred Mary, née Birmingham, a music teacher. He attended Oudtshoorn Boys' High School before entering the University of Cape Town Medical School, where he qualified MB ChB in 1947. Af

Arthur Pinkerton Crawford, the son of Andrew Pinkerton Crawford, a doctor, and his wife Lilian Mary, née Donnelly, was born on 22 September 1923 at Caboolture, Queensland, Australia. At the age of ten he spent a year confined to bed as a result of polio and was educated at the Church of England Gram

Barclay Chivas Abernethy was born on 18 January 1928 in Aberdeen, son of Andrew, a commission agent, and Anne Hendry. He was educated in Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen, and Aberdeen University, qualifying in 1949. After house appointments in Aberdeen his postgraduate education included posts at N

David Stanley Leitch was born in Leeton, New South Wales, on 9 January 1923, the son of John Stanley Leitch, a farmer and grazier and Marian, née Killen. He was educated at All Saints' College, Bathurst, New South Wales and at St Andrew's College, Sydney University, before joining the Australian Arm

After serving in the Australian Imperial Forces from 1942 to 1966, Donald Norman Leckie qualified MB BS at Sydney in 1953. From that time he held a number of posts at the Balmain District Hospital, Sydney, including that of medical superintendent, until he came to Britain in 1957. Here he held posts

Walter Ramsay Allan, known as ‘Peter’, was a consultant surgeon at Bolton Royal Infirmary. Born on 26 October 1927, he was the second of four sons of Walter Ramsay Allan, a general practitioner based in Edinburgh who had fought in the first world war before completing his medical studies at Glasgow