Natesan Rangabashyam, who was based in Madras, established the subspecialty of surgical gastroenterology in India. He was born on 5 November 1936, the son of a general practitioner. He originally intended to become a pilot, but joined Loyola College in Madras to study natural sciences. He then studi

Charles Grant Clark was born in 1926 and attended the academy at Fraserburgh, Scotland. On leaving school during the war he was initially accepted for the RAFVR but transferred to the Army serving in Bristol and India with the Blood Transfusion Service. He returned to Aberdeen for his medical traini

William Ashby was born in Prenton, Birkenhead, on 17 May 1925, the son of Ernest William Ashby, a consultant electrical engineer and his wife Dorothy Margaret (née Bennett). He went to school at Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool and graduated in medicine at the University of Liverpool in 1948. Th