Charles Renton was a consultant general surgeon in Hereford, specialising in vascular and breast surgery. He was born on 22 September 1930 in Glasgow, where his father and grandfather had been surgeons. He father was James Mill Renton, who worked at the Western Infirmary. His mother died three days

Graham Harris was a consultant surgeon at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary with a particular interest and expertise in surgery of the breast. He was born in Swindon village, Gloucestershire, on 5 June 1928, the son of Walter Albert Harris and Sarah Anne née Pitman. He was educated at Wycliffe College be

Henry Ralph Johnson, generally known as Harry, was born on 18 October 1930, the son of a senior officer in the Victoria Public Service, and was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and Trinity College, obtaining the degrees of BSc in 1951 and MB BS of Melbourne University in 1954. He then held a ser

Alexander David Lyall was born in Aberdeen on 13 November 1928, the son of Dr Alexander Lyall who was a physician and head of the department of clinical chemistry in the University of Aberdeen. Alexander went to the Aberdeen Grammar School and afterwards to the University where he graduated MB ChB i

Howard Calvin Smith was licenced to practice medicine in California in 1946. He took the Membership and Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1960. Returning to the USA he joined the faculty of the Medical School of Loma Linda University in California. He moved to Mexico in the m

The son of a general practitioner in London, Gibson was born on 1st May 1927 in London, and was educated at Charterhouse, St John's College Cambridge and St Mary's Hospital Medical School, being influenced at St Mary's by Arthur Dickson Wright FRCS (q.v. *Lives* 1974-82: 424-5). After qualificati

Arthur James De Bruin qualified MB BS Ceylon in 1945. He became a Fellow of the College in 1960. Appointed casualty surgeon to the Lyell McEwin Hospital in Elizabeth, South Australia in 1968, he later became medical superintendent at the same hospital. In 1973 he became a Fellow of the Royal Austral

Geoffrey Scarlett was born on 3 January 1928 in Sydney, the son of a businessman, Wilfred Lea Scarlett, and Constance Mary, née Tuttill. Educated at De La Salle College, Ashfield, Sydney and the University of Sydney Medical School, Scarlett qualified MB BS in 1951. During his career he held posts

Having qualified in New Zealand, Kevin Ross came to England to specialise in surgery and passed the FRCS in 1960. He then returned to Hutt, where he was on the staff of the Department of Surgery, Hutt Hospital. He died in late 2000, survived by his wife, Phillippa.

David James Adams was born in Liverpool on 1 March 1925, the son of William Adams, director of a building firm, and Alice Maud Stringfellow, part of a large extended family of practising Christians in Independent Methodism. An appendicectomy at the age of seven inspired him to become a surgeon, i

Colin Howe was born in Port Talbot, Glamorgan on 14 April 1929, the son of Benjamin Edward, solicitor and coroner, and Eliza Florence (née Thomson), a grocer's daughter. Colin's elder brother, Sir Geoffrey, was a prominent member of the Conservative Party and held office in the Government of Margare

Alan Blower served in the medical branch of the RAF as a consultant surgeon for 17 years, but had to retire on health grounds in 1970. He retrained in radiology, and became a successful and popular consultant at Peterborough. He was born in Greenwich on 31 January 1927, the only son of Thomas Paske