Turuvekere Dharmayya Venkata Krishnan was born on 4 June 1905, and after graduating in medicine in the University of Madras and holding junior posts in India he came to the United Kingdom and obtained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and also in 1938 the Conjoint Diploma

John Charles Hislop, son of a well-known Wellington surgeon, was born in Wellington, educated at Christ's College and Edinburgh University. He graduated MB ChB in 1932 and proceeded to take his FRCS in 1938. He had an unusually wide training as a house surgeon, registrar and resident surgeon and thi

Robert Sutherland Lawson was born in Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia, on 31 May 1908. His father was Sir Harry Sutherland Wightman Lawson, KCMG, Prime Minister of Victoria 1918-24. His mother was a distant relation of Sir James Clark, Physician to Queen Victoria. A younger brother, D F Lawson, is a

George H Kitchen graduated from the University of Toronto in 1932. He joined the surgical staff of St Joseph's Hospital and was former chief of staff and surgery at the Queensway Hospital. He died on 13 May 1982 aged 73, survived by his wife, Mary, daughter Heather and sons George, David, Paul and J

Eric Wilson McMechan was born on 13 August 1910 in Portaferry, Co Down. He was the third child of John Henry McMechan, a farmer and a local magistrate. He studied at the Methodist College and Queen's University in Belfast and there obtained his MB BCh. Moving to London he worked at St Mark's and the

Leon Chanock qualified MB ChB 1925, and in the same year his name appeared on the register of South African medical practitioners. By working through issues of the South African Medical Register, it seems that from 1977 until his death he practised at Bantry Bay, Cape Town. His death appeared in the

Thomson qualified from the University of Sydney in 1928 and worked at Sydney Hospital as resident medical officer 1928-29 and surgical registrar 1929-30. He was in England during 1932-33 when he obtained the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians of London and the Fellowship of the Royal Coll

Alan William Douglas was born on 23 October 1910 in Napier, New Zealand. He was educated at Napier Boys High School and Otago University, where he graduated MB ChB in 1933. Resident posts in Auckland preceded his arrival in England in 1934 when he became surgical registrar at Queen Mary's Hospital f

Edward Philomen Connolly, of whom little is known, was in practice in Manley, New South Wales, when he died on 21 August 1967. He was a member of the Australian Medical Association.

Arthur Littlewood Newson was born at Wishpool, Victoria, Australia, on 22 August 1906. He was educated at Caulfield Grammar School and Melbourne University, qualifying MB BS in 1932 and was resident medical officer at the Alfred Hospital. He came to England and worked with Rodney Maingot, obtaining

Anthony (Tony) Kelly was born in Melbourne on 8 November 1909, the son of Piers Lefanu Kelly, a mining engineer, and Anna Dorothy, née Keelan. He was educated at Bacchus Marsh High School in Victoria, St Patrick's College, Ballarat, Victoria, and the University of Melbourne Medical School, where he

Horgan was educated in the School of Physic, Trinity College, Dublin, qualifying in 1933. He then came to England and was, successively, a house surgeon at Bristol Royal Infirmary, and resident surgical officer at Bolton Royal Infirmary and at Brighton Municipal Hospital. He took the English Fell