Louis Arnold Ives was a consultant general surgeon at St Charles Hospital, London. He trained at London University and St Bartholomew's Hospital graduating MB, BS in 1938. At the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London he became honorary lecturer in surgery. While working in London he lived in H

William Parke was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon. He was born in Bootle, Lancashire on 3 March 1910 the oldest son of William and his wife Mary née McCourt. He was educated at St Francis Xavier's College, Liverpool and Liverpool University. From 1942 to 1947 he served as lieutenant colonel advisor

Moss Albert was an orthopaedic surgeon in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He was born on 18 April 1914 in the East End of London, the son of Barnett Albert and Lilian Albert née Rabinowitz, and studied medicine at University College London. He qualified in 1937. He was a house physician at University

Joseph Mason qualified from St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1935 and received his training in surgery at Chesterfield Royal Hospital and Hull Royal Infirmary. He had a special interest in urology and was resident medical officer at St Paul's Hospital. He was consultant surgeon to Hull and East Riding H

Tom O'Neill was a general surgeon at Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital in Dublin, Ireland. He was born on 22 May 1912 near Newmarket, County Cork, and attended Presentation College, Cork, and then University College, Cork, where he studied medicine. He qualified in 1935. After house posts, he went to Engl

George Fairlie-Clarke qualified from St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1938 and after a house surgeon post at Bart's he was resident surgical officer at the Kent and Sussex Hospital, Tunbridge Wells. He retired to Dartmouth where he died on 9 September 2002, aged 89 years.

James Moroney was born on 26 July 1916 and educated at St Francis Xavier's College and Liverpool University, graduating MB in 1938, in which examination he won the Gold Medal in surgery and operative surgery. Having passed his Primary FRCS whilst a medical student he took his Final FRCS in 1941 and

John Swift Joly was a consultant surgeon at Goondiwindi Hospital, Queensland, Australia. He was born in London on 21 March 1912, the only child of John Swift Joly, an eminent urologist and a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, and Mary Tottenham Fitzpatrick, the daughter of a Dublin bank manage

Hanns-Martin Goldberg was a consultant surgeon in Manchester. He was born in Sohrau, Germany, on 14 June 1913, and educated in Berlin and Heidelberg, where he received the early part of his medical training. With the coming of Hitler, he went to London where, thanks to University College, he was abl

Geoffrey Wooler was a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Leeds General Infirmary and a pioneer of open heart surgery. He was born in 1911, the son of a successful Leeds businessman. He was educated at Leeds Grammar School and Giggleswick School, before going up to Cambridge to read law. After two

Trevor Lewys Stanhope Baynes was born on 19 February 1911 in Brockley, Kent, the only son of an insurance official, Evan Lewys Baynes and his wife Ethel. He attended Lewisham Park Preparatory School and Dulwich College, before becoming a medical student at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, winning

Alan Leask was born in Hong Kong on 19 October 1914. His father, William Laughton Leask, was an architect and civil engineer practising in Aberdeen and Hong Kong. His mother was Mabel née Beaton. His elder brother Laughton Rennie Leask was also a Fellow (qv *Lives of the Fellows* Volume 8, p.186).