Brendan Keane was a surgeon at the Whakatane Hospital, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. He was born in Dublin on 9 May 1926, one of six children. His father rose to become private secretary to Eamon de Valera and head of the Irish Civil Service. His mother was a teacher from the Aran Islands, where the f

Rodney John Hall was a surgeon in Adelaide, South Australia. He was born on 7 April 1928 at Waikerie, South Australia, and studied medicine at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1957. He was a resident medical officer at the Bendigo and Northern District Bone Hospital from 1957 to 1958. He

John James McGhee, known as ‘Jack’, was a surgeon in the Canadian town of Prince Georgia, British Columbia (BC). He was born in Princeton, BC, on 6 December 1931 and raised in Trail. His parents, Thomas Doyle McGhee, a miner, and Agnes Wilson McGhee, both originally from Glasgow, agreed that Jack an

Nitya Bhattacharjee was a consultant surgeon who worked in Manchester. He died on 14 August 2010 aged 79 years, survived by his wife, Christa and sons Jonathan and Nicholas.

John Turner Ward, the son of Richard Fowler Ward, a surgeon, and of Mary Lilian (née Turner), a physiotherapist, was born at Ipswich, Suffolk, on 31 October 1932. His paternal grandfather had also been a surgeon in Ipswich. He was educated at Epsom College and Queen's University, Belfast, where he g

Chaman Lal Sarin received his medical education at the University of the Punjab where he qualified MB BS in 1958. After coming to Britain and gaining the Fellowship in 1964, he moved to the United States where he practised in the 1970s at West Bloomfield, Michigan, though thereafter he gave his addr

After passing his FRCS, Mohamed Chaaban returned to work in Egypt, where he died on 2 May 1997.

Graham Farrington was a consultant general surgeon to Kingston Hospital, Surrey, from 1971 until his retirement at the age of 60 in 1994. He was born in Whetstone, London, on 31 October 1934 into a non-medical family. His father, Percy Morgan Sibley Farrington, owned a garage and his mother, Iris Li

Dipak Khandubhai Desai, first son of Khandubhai Desai, a medical practitioner, and of Lilayatiben Desai, was born in Naysan, India, on 2 January 1932. He was educated at Naysan High School, Elphinstone College and then Grant Medical College, Bombay. After resident appointments there he held various

John Kilshaw was educated at Manchester University where he gained first class honours in physiology in his BSc in 1956 and qualified MB ChB in 1959. After qualification he held house posts and registrarships at Ancoats Hospital and Withington Hospital, Manchester, and at the Manchester Royal Infirm

Born in Bengal, Nripendra Nandi qualified from the National Medical School of Calcutta in 1959 and after junior posts did postgraduate work in Delhi, where he obtained the MS. He came to England and studied for the FRCS, working for a time as a locum consultant surgeon in Ards Hospital, Newtownards,

After qualifying and holding training posts in Prince Henry's Hospital, and in Concord and Broken Hill, Robin Colman came to England in 1963, working mostly at Cheltenham, and passed the Fellowship in 1964. He returned to Australia to practise in Vaucluse, New South Wales, and died on 20 August 1979