After qualifying MB BS at Osmaria University, Rai came to Britain and worked at Hereford General Hospital before gaining both the Membership and the Fellowship in May 1959. Thereafter he practised at Narayanguda, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. He died on 30 June 1973.

Eliezer Leslie Judkowski qualified in medicine from the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He became resident surgeon to the Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died on 7 December 1980 survived by his wife, Patricia.

Leslie Turner studied medicine at Manchester and after junior posts in Manchester and Ancoats Hospital became consultant surgeon at the Withington Hospital and the Christie Hospital and Hold Radium Institute. He was a member of the Court of Examiners and an Arris and Gale lecturer in the College. He

Amarajeeva Wijesinghe received his medical education at the University of Ceylon and qualified MB BS in 1951. He passed the Fellowship examination in 1959. Thereafter he returned to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and practised in that country, mainly in Colombo. His death was reported to the College by his w

Edmond Graham Roberts gained MB BS at University of Melbourne in 1953. He was resident medical officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital from 1954 to 1955, and in 1957. In 1958 he became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He came to Great Britain and in 1959 he gained the Fello

Hiralal Vadilal Shah was born in Tarasali Tal-Baroda in Gujarat State, India. He went to the Shre Sayaji High School in Baroda and he entered Grant Medical College in Bombay, qualifying in 1952, his clinical training being at the Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals. After obtaining his FRCS he joined t

David William Hill was research professor in ophthalmology at the Royal College of Surgeons and a consultant ophthalmologist at Moorfields Hospital, London. He was born on 5 May 1926 in Croydon, Surrey, the son of a bank manager and a housewife. He attended Whitgift School, Croydon, before becoming

Little is known of the career of Richard Neville Austin. He worked in England as orthopaedic registrar at St Bartholomew's Hospital and as a house surgeon at Northampton General Hospital. He was a member of the British Medical Association and became a Fellow of the College in 1959. It is probable th

Ian Cour-Palais was educated at Cambridge and the Westminster Hospital where he qualified in 1955. After junior posts, during which he carried out an important study on retractile testes, so often misdiagnosed as being undescended, he returned to the Westminster as senior registrar. He was appointed

After serving in the Australian Imperial Forces from 1942 to 1966, Donald Norman Leckie qualified MB BS at Sydney in 1953. From that time he held a number of posts at the Balmain District Hospital, Sydney, including that of medical superintendent, until he came to Britain in 1957. Here he held posts

Jack Magell was a consultant general surgeon at Blackburn Royal Infirmary and Accrington Victoria Hospital. He was greatly admired by his colleagues and his trainees were devoted to him for the support he provided and the good grounding he gave to them for their future careers. Jack’s father, Abra

Ernest Lewis graduated at the University of Witwatersrand in 1953 and served his residencies in the Johannesburg Teaching Group of Hospitals. He subsequently worked at the Doctors' Hospital in New York, the Birmingham Accident Hospital and the University of Bristol. Obtaining his FRCS he returned to