Kshiti ‘Kit’ De was a consultant surgeon at Jersey General Hospital, Channel Islands. 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

Nicholas Eric Dudley was a general and paediatric surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Born on 28 December 1938, he studied medicine at London University and trained at Bart’s Hospital, qualifying MB MS in 1963. Passing the conjoint examination in that same year he did house jobs at the

Jashbhai Patel was a general surgeon who practised in India, the UK and the USA. He was born on 30 November 1927 in Dharmpuri in the Baroda District of Gujarat State, the second son of a farmer, Nathabhai Ukabhai Patel and his wife Chanchalben. After initially attending local schools he won a schola

Derek Sampson was born in London in 1937 and went to medical school in Birmingham where he obtained a BSc in physiology in 1959. After graduating MB, ChB in 1962 he trained in general surgery passing both the English and Edinburgh fellowship examinations. He had developed an interest in transplantat

Duncan McColl Paterson was a consultant surgeon at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Barrie, Ontario, Canada, from 1970 to 2006. He was born in Glasgow on 11 March 1938, the second son of Joseph Craig Paterson, an engineer, and Flora Paterson née Forbes. He was educated at Bellahouston Academy in Glasgow

William Lloyd Jones ('Will') was a consultant general surgeon at Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool. He was born into a farming family in Anglesey, Wales, and was taught in local schools. Deciding on a career in medicine, he chose to study in Liverpool, then a natural choice for a Welsh speaker. The fou

John Shennan was a consultant general surgeon for Wirral Hospitals NHS Trust. He was born in West Kirby on the Wirral on 28 July 1939, the son of William Millward Shennan, an architect from a family of architects who designed many of Liverpool's iconic buildings, and Pamela Mary Shennan née White, w

Robert Neill was a consultant general surgeon in Macclesfield from 1973 to 1995, where he was well respected by his patients and colleagues. He was the eldest of four children born to Scottish parents, Dorothy Knight Neill née Watson and Robert Andrew Neill, who was a general practitioner in Middlew