Norman Walter Nisbet was a former director of research at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Hospital, Oswestry. He was born in Edinburgh on 23 March 1909, the son of a science master. He first qualified as a dentist, but abandoned dentistry in favour of medicine. After completing his training in ge

Sardar Ali Sheikh was professor of surgery at King Edward Medical College (now University), Lahore, the second oldest medical school on the Indian subcontinent. He joined the college in April 1947 as a demonstrator in the department of anatomy, went on to become a clinical assistant, and finally pr

John Andrew Cunningham, usually known as Derek, was a wing commander in the RAF. Born in Belfast on 21 January 1924, his father was Joseph Cunningham, a draper and his mother, Elsie née O'Connell, was a housewife. He attended Farranferris School in Cork and Belvedere College in Dublin. At the Royal

Sir Robert Shields enjoyed a distinguished career in surgery and in academic and health service administration. He was professor of surgery and chairman of the department of surgery and honorary consultant to the Royal Liverpool University and Broadgreen hospitals from 1969 to 1996. His unit was int

William Dawson MacDonald was born in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, on 27 April 1931, the elder of two sons of William Grant MacDonald, a doctor of medicine, and Edith Christie MacDonald née Dawson. He was educated at Victoria Public School, and then the Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate Institute and the

Robert Price Davies ("Bob") studied chemistry in Manchester after doing his National Service. Changing to medicine he did house jobs at Manchester Royal Infirmary and became an anatomy demonstrator. Awarded a Geigy research fellowship he trained both in the north west and in Bristol and passed the M

Little is known about Cyrus Alexander Ghods who changed his name from Mohammed Ali Nakhai Ghods. He graduated MB BS in 1961 and became a member and Fellow of the College in 1966. He practised for a while in Hove, Sussex and is thought to have died in 1980.

Arthur Thomas, born 12 April 1936 in Durham, was the second child of Professor David Winton Thomas, Regius Professor of Hebrew, Cambridge University, and Edith (Higgins) and, as might be expected, was educated at Cambridge, beginning in the King's College Choir School, then The Leys School and final

Little is known about Shanker Mehta. He never supplied information to the Medical Directory, but his name does occur in the Medical Register. He qualified MB BS Agra in 1956 and gained his Fellowship in 1966, having obtained the Edinburgh Fellowship in the previous year. He seems to have practised i

David Ritchie was born on 24 September 1920 in Falkirk, one of the four children of George Ritchie, a licensed grocer. At first he seemed destined for the Presbyterian ministry, and graduated MA with honours in theology and classics from Glasgow, but then changed his vocation and read medicine at Ma

Little is known about Nariman Behman Kutar except that he qualified MB BS in Madras in 1957 and practised in Belfast. He was living in Blackburn, Lancs at the time of his death which is thought to have been in 1978.

Chee Yong Tan was living in Singapore when he died in April 1979 survived by his wife Anne.