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

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

Roy Kenneth Rowley was a general surgeon whose career was largely spent overseas. He was born in Birmingham on 19 February 1931. His father was Harold Herbert Rowley, an inspector for Birmingham City Transport. His mother was Nellie May Perks. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, fro

Nagarajan Raghupati qualified MB BS at Madras University in 1956 and came to Britain and gained the Fellowship in 1966. Thereafter he practised at the Central Park Surgery, Leyland, Lancashire, where he died suddenly on 30 October 1991.

A former Professor of Surgery at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Sir Ian McAdam played a leading part in establishing the high reputation of the Makerere Medical School. He was born in the small town of Parys, South Africa, near the Rhodesian border, the son of W J McAdam, a mining engineer, a

John McCully qualified from Otago University in 1958 and came to England to train in surgery. After passing the FRCS he went to Yamba, New South Wales to practice. He died on 5 July 2001.

Singanellore V Vaidyanathan was born in Madras in 1931. His first significant professional post was an appointment as Assistant Professor of Surgery at Stanley Medical College in Madras. He came to England in 1963 and continued his post graduate training as a senior registrar to the Musgrove Park an

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

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

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

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

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