John Kilshaw was educated at Manchester University where he gained first class honours in physiology in his BSc in 1956 and qualified MB ChB in 1959. After qualification he held house posts and registrarships at Ancoats Hospital and Withington Hospital, Manchester, and at the Manchester Royal Infirm

Born in Bengal, Nripendra Nandi qualified from the National Medical School of Calcutta in 1959 and after junior posts did postgraduate work in Delhi, where he obtained the MS. He came to England and studied for the FRCS, working for a time as a locum consultant surgeon in Ards Hospital, Newtownards,

Rodney John Hall was a surgeon in Adelaide, South Australia. He was born on 7 April 1928 at Waikerie, South Australia, and studied medicine at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1957. He was a resident medical officer at the Bendigo and Northern District Bone Hospital from 1957 to 1958. He

Graham Farrington was a consultant general surgeon to Kingston Hospital, Surrey, from 1971 until his retirement at the age of 60 in 1994. He was born in Whetstone, London, on 31 October 1934 into a non-medical family. His father, Percy Morgan Sibley Farrington, owned a garage and his mother, Iris Li

Brendan Keane was a surgeon at the Whakatane Hospital, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. He was born in Dublin on 9 May 1926, one of six children. His father rose to become private secretary to Eamon de Valera and head of the Irish Civil Service. His mother was a teacher from the Aran Islands, where the f

John James McGhee, known as ‘Jack’, was a surgeon in the Canadian town of Prince Georgia, British Columbia (BC). He was born in Princeton, BC, on 6 December 1931 and raised in Trail. His parents, Thomas Doyle McGhee, a miner, and Agnes Wilson McGhee, both originally from Glasgow, agreed that Jack an

Chaman Lal Sarin received his medical education at the University of the Punjab where he qualified MB BS in 1958. After coming to Britain and gaining the Fellowship in 1964, he moved to the United States where he practised in the 1970s at West Bloomfield, Michigan, though thereafter he gave his addr

John Cameron Mountain was born in Southend on 8 April 1935. Educated at Latymer Upper School and Charing Cross Hospital he graduated in medicine in 1959. After house appointments he gained the Primary FRCS and held posts in Birmingham at the Accident Hospital, General Hospital, and Children's Hospit

Born on 9 February 1924 in East London, South Africa, Israel was the son of Maxwell Angorn, a master dry cleaner and actor, and his wife, Helen (née Goldberg). He attended Selborne College in East London and then studied medicine at Witwatersrand University where he graduated MB ChB in 1951. He unde

After receiving his medical education in Bombay, Anant Kolgaonkar came to England to specialise in surgery and passed the FRCS in 1964. He then went to practice in Tanga, Tanzania where he died in 1999. Unfortunately the College has no details of his subsequent career.

After passing his FRCS, Mohamed Chaaban returned to work in Egypt, where he died on 2 May 1997.

Nitya Bhattacharjee was a consultant surgeon who worked in Manchester. He died on 14 August 2010 aged 79 years, survived by his wife, Christa and sons Jonathan and Nicholas.