Gaston Arthurs was a consultant neurosurgeon and general surgeon who worked in Australia and Zambia. He was born on 10 March 1917 in Fulham, the son of an Italian father, Guiseppe Nunzio Artuso (the family name was anglicised to Arthurs in 1926) and a mother with a French background, Lilian Blanch B

Born in Manchester on April 7th, 1861, the son of John Thorburn, Professor of Obstetric Medicine at Owens College, Manchester, and Physician to the Manchester Royal Infirmary. He was educated at Owens College, and received his professional training at the Infirmary and in London, where his passage t

Born at Chester on 8 May 1873, the second child and eldest son of Edward George Sargent, a bank manager, and Emily Grose, his wife. His brothers were Dr Eric Sargent, the Rev D H G. Sargent (who died 19 July 1935), and the Rev E H Gladstone Sargent, and he had four sisters. He was educated at Clifto

Born 28 August 1907 at Gorleston, near Great Yarmouth, the third child and second son of Frederick William Willway, MRCS 1894, superintendent of the National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, who afterwards lived at Streatham, and of Margaret, his wife, daughter of William Allison, MD Edinburgh 1865, w

Born at Nhill in the west of Victoria in 1894, he moved to Melbourne with his parents at an early age. He was educated at Brighton Grammar School and the University of Melbourne, qualifying in 1916. He joined the Australian Imperial Force immediately, without serving any resident hospital appointmen

Born at Coburg, Ontario, Canada on 13 June 1869, fifth son of the Hon John Douglas Armour, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario and his wife, *née* Clinch. He was educated at Upper Canada College and graduated with honours in natural science at the University of Toronto in 1891. He then cam

Born on 8 April 1897 in Melbourne son of Charles Robert Rogers and Janet Chant, he was educated in Melbourne until 1915, when at the age of 18 he joined the Australian Naval Transport Service in which he served until 1917. He then came to the Middlesex Hospital to resume his interrupted medical stud

John Kelly was born in Bombay in 1902, the son of an army officer. He was educated in Ireland, proceeding to the University College Cork for the medical course and graduating with the MB of the National University of Ireland in 1925, having won a clinical prize in surgery and the Blayney Scholarship

Born in Adelaide on February 8 1896, the son of a schoolmaster, Leonard Lindon lost his father when he was only one year old. He was educated at Geelong Grammar School where his uncle was headmaster and then proceeded to St Peter's College, starting his medical course at the University of Adelaide i

Illtyd James was born in Barry, Glamorgan, on 12 July 1900, the eldest son of Evan Thomas James, a master tailor, and Elizabeth Jones, a farmer's daughter. He was educated at Barry County School, where he held a county scholarship, and later at University College Cardiff (where he took a BSc in 1921

There was always something of a military bearing about Alan Stammers. Handsome, upright, level-headed, he had an able and generous mind and was always to be counted on to do the right thing by his patients, his medical students, young aspiring surgeons and his colleagues. It was characteristic that

Andrew Francis Masson was director of the emergency department and subsequently chairman of ambulatory care at the University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Canada. He was born in Kingston, Jamaica on 27 March 1927, the son of Ethel Mabel Masson née Thwaites and Andrew Francis Masson and grew up in