Samareswar Bhattacharyya, known as ‘Samar’, was a general surgeon for the West Wales Regional Health Authority. He was born in Calcutta, India on 5 August 1919, the son of a radiologist, and studied medicine at the R G Kar Medical College in the city, qualifying in 1945. The same year he went to

Born in 1893, Naguib Bey Makar was a general surgeon in Cairo, Egypt. He became a fellow of the college in 1923. Credited with being the first Egyptian surgeon to practice urological surgery, he was also the author of numerous articles on schistosomiasis. He died in 1984.

Irfan Halim was a consultant general surgeon at the Great Western Hospital, Swindon. 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

Richard E Shaw was one of the first full-time urologists in the UK and one of the first to set up a urological department in a district general hospital, Walsgrave General Hospital, Coventry. He was born in Ravensthorpe, Yorkshire, the third of four siblings. His father, Edward Shaw, was a corn mill

Suleiman Saleem Dahabreh was a key figure in progressing medical and surgical training in Jordan and was the founder and first president of the Jordanian Association of Urological Surgeons. He was born in Shatana, a farming village in the north of Jordan, in 1933. His father, Saleem Issa, died wh

Robert Wilson Thomson, known as Bob, was born in Scotland and educated at Ayr Academy. He entered Glasgow University initially to study modern languages but switched to medicine after a year, graduating MB, ChB in 1964. After early house jobs at the Victoria Infirmary in Glasgow, he worked as a surg

Bernard Price was born in Kingston, Jamaica, on 27 January 1913, and studied medicine at Cambridge University and King's College Hospital, where he qualified in 1938. During the second world war he served in the RAMC and was awarded the MBE. On demobilisation he resumed his surgical training at the

Stephen Power was born in Reading in 1902 the son of a general practitioner in Stamford Hill in North London. He was educated at St Ignatius College and the London Hospital Medical School, graduating MB, BS in 1925. He was appointed house surgeon and subsequently clinical assistant at the London and

Bernard Sanger was at school in Hastings and received his medical training at the London Hospital where he qualified in 1934. He pursued his surgical career at the London Hospital before his appointment to Southend Municipal Hospital in 1938. Rodney Maingot was a visiting surgeon at that hospital

Arthur Elliot-Smith was born in Cairo on 3 June 1901. He was the son of Sir Grafton Elliot-Smith the distinguished anatomist and anthropologist; his mother's maiden name was Kathleen Macready. He graduated from Clare College, Cambridge, before coming to University College Hospital and on from which

Geoffrey Edward Parker was born on 24 June 1902 and was educated at Windlesham House School, Hove, Marlborough College, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He came to St Thomas's Hospital for his clinical course and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma and the Cambridge MB in 1926. Two years later he took t

Willinsky was born in Toronto on 29 November, 1900, a younger son of Myer Lionel Willensky and his wife, née Vise, immigrants from Poland. An uncle had emigrated to Rhodesia, and was the father of Sir Roy Welensky. He graduated in dentistry at the University of Toronto in 1922 and then completed his