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

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

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

Leslie Turner studied medicine at Manchester and after junior posts in Manchester and Ancoats Hospital became consultant surgeon at the Withington Hospital and the Christie Hospital and Hold Radium Institute. He was a member of the Court of Examiners and an Arris and Gale lecturer in the College. He

Ian Cour-Palais was educated at Cambridge and the Westminster Hospital where he qualified in 1955. After junior posts, during which he carried out an important study on retractile testes, so often misdiagnosed as being undescended, he returned to the Westminster as senior registrar. He was appointed

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

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.

Amarajeeva Wijesinghe received his medical education at the University of Ceylon and qualified MB BS in 1951. He passed the Fellowship examination in 1959. Thereafter he returned to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and practised in that country, mainly in Colombo. His death was reported to the College by his w

Jack Magell was a consultant general surgeon at Blackburn Royal Infirmary and Accrington Victoria Hospital. He was greatly admired by his colleagues and his trainees were devoted to him for the support he provided and the good grounding he gave to them for their future careers. Jack’s father, Abra

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

John de Beaux spent much of his career working in the Colonial Medical Service, and then worked in Elgin, Scotland, as a consultant surgeon. He was born in Amritsar, India, on 3 December 1921, into an old Anglo-Indian family with many connections in the Colonial Service. His father, Louis Dudley de

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.