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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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