Educated at the University of Cairo and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, he practised as an ear nose and throat surgeon in Cairo. He was distinguished in his specialty, and well-known to his European colleagues through his membership of the International Collegium Otolaryngologicum. He had intended to

Cole Rous was a brilliant teacher of surgery and after twenty years at the University of Cape Town became Professor of Surgery there in 1947. Unfortunately ill-health forced him to resign in 1948. He was vice-chairman of the steering committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of South Afric

Born at Oldham 7 October 1903, son of Llewellyn Buckley, yarn broker, and Sarah Henthorne his wife, he was educated at King Edward VII School, Lytham St Anne's, at St John's College, Cambridge and at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He was house surgeon to Sir Geoffrey Keynes and Harold Wilson at Bart's a