Daniel Jacob du Plessis (known as 'Sonny') was professor of surgery at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, vice president of the College of Medicine of South Africa from 1969 to 1974, and chairman of the steering committee and first president of the Surgical Research Society of Southe

Peter Joseph Wilkinson Monks was a consultant general surgeon at Torbay Hospital, Devon. He was born on 3 March 1922 in Warrington, Cheshire. After attending John Lyon Grammar School in Harrow, he studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London and qualified in 1944. During his pre-clinical

Thomas Emanuel Antonie was a general surgeon at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne between 1961 and 1986. Tom Antonie was born in 1921 and received his secondary education at St Patrick's College, East Melbourne, matriculating in 1940. He studied medicine at Melbourne University graduating in 1945.

Patrick ('Paddy') Collins was professor of surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and a consultant surgeon at Jervis Street Hospital, Dublin, and later at Beaumont Hospital. Paddy was the eldest of five children born to Patrick Archibald 'Archie' Collins and Mary Ann (née Collins). B

Walter Selwyn Georgeson (he was always known as ‘Brux’ to his colleagues) was born on 13/3/1918 in Brisbane and lived with his parents and sister in Clayfield. He was educated at the Brisbane Boys College where he showed his abilities by always being near the top of his class. He was a keen rower at

John Partridge was a consultant surgeon at North Devon District Hospital, Barnstaple. He was born on 15 June 1921 in Weymouth, Dorset, the son of George James Partridge and his wife Gwendoline Partridge née Brewster Jones. George ('Jimmie') Partridge had served in the First World War as an officer i

John Andrew McCredie, known as Jack, was professor of surgery at the University of Western Ontario. He was born on 8 September 1923 in Annahilt, County Down, Northern Ireland. His father, Andrew McCredie, was a draper; his mother was Agnes McCredie née McCandless. He was educated at the Royal Belfas

Shelton Aloysius Cabraal was the father of neurosurgery in Sri Lanka. Having passed the fellowship in 1951, he returned to Colombo and, in 1956, founded the first neurosurgical unit in the country. State of the art for its time, it was located in the General Hospital. Initially the unit had 12 beds

Timothy Hoi Kit Kong was a surgeon based in Hong Kong. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

David Hodge was a surgeon who lived in Thames, New Zealand. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

Andrew Charles Hicks was born on 25 November 1918 in Longreach, Queensland, Australia, the son of Cannon Charles Maurice Hick and his wife Elizabeth née Smith. He studied medicine at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School in London. After house jobs at the Middlesex from 1947 to 1950 (during which ti

John Samuel Hopkirk was born in Kelburn, Wellington, to Cyril Hopkirk (a veterinarian) and Dorothy (née Saunders, a ballet dancer and teacher). He had two sisters, Mary and Patricia and a brother, Alan. John’s early life was coloured by his father’s absence for veterinary studies at Melbourne. Money