Prabhat Ranjan Das Gupta was a surgeon in Kolkata, India. He gained his FRCS in 1950 and died on 2 October 1990.

Jamshed Madan was a surgeon who worked in Mumbai, India. He was born on 28 January 1918 and gained his FRCS in 1950. The Royal College of Surgeons was notified of his death on 22 August 2013. He was 95.

Alexander James Spence was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Fife, Scotland.

George James was an orthopaedic surgeon. He qualified MB, ChB from Manchester University in 1943 and served as a temporary surgeon lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1944. After the war he moved to Salisbury in what was then known as Southern Rhodesia, and then continued to practice in Durban, South Af

William Mervyn Owen was a consultant ENT surgeon who worked in Liverpool. He was brought up in Caernarfon, Wales, and studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, qualifying with the conjoint diploma in 1937 and the MB BS in 1938. During the Second World War he served in the RAMC and in

Martin Singer was a pioneering hand surgeon who established the first hand clinic in South Africa at the Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town. 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

Rodney Hewitson was head of the department of cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Cape Town. 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

Harold Richards was a consultant thoracic surgeon at the Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney. 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

David Bailey was a consultant surgeon at University College Hospital (UCH). He was born on 1 March 1922. Qualifying in medicine from the University of Cambridge and UCH his first post was at the latter. After proceeding to the Royal Northern Hospital and Barnet General Hospital as consultant surgeon

William Sewell received his medical education at Guy's Hospital, qualifying with the conjoint diploma in 1940 and obtaining the London MB BS in 1952, having previously gained his FRCS in 1950. He was surgical registrar at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, before becoming senior surgical registrar a

Lawrence Adam Eckert, known as ‘Larry’, was a general surgeon in Toronto, Canada. He was born in Buffalo, New York, USA, the son of Georg and Eva Eckert. The family went to Romania when he was two and immigrated again when he was 14, to Canada. He was raised as a devout Catholic. He attended the

Robert Henry Cram was on the medical staff of the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He was born in Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada on 10 December 1916, the son of Henry Wilkes Cram and Helen Elizabeth Cram née Martin and grew up in London, Ontario. He studied medicine at the University of Western Ontari