Natesan Rangabashyam, who was based in Madras, established the subspecialty of surgical gastroenterology in India. He was born on 5 November 1936, the son of a general practitioner. He originally intended to become a pilot, but joined Loyola College in Madras to study natural sciences. He then studi

Erik Amdrup was director of surgical gastro-enterology and professor of surgery at Aarus Kommune Hospital, Denmark. He was born on 21 February 1923. His PhD thesis in 1960 was on the dumping syndrome. Later he developed a method of 'precise antrectomy' to avoid that complication and carried out rese

William Ashby was born in Prenton, Birkenhead, on 17 May 1925, the son of Ernest William Ashby, a consultant electrical engineer and his wife Dorothy Margaret (née Bennett). He went to school at Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool and graduated in medicine at the University of Liverpool in 1948. Th

Born on 1 June 1880 at Haverhill, Massachusetts, son of Thomas Lahey and Honora Frances Powers, he qualified in 1904 and served as intern at Boston City Hospital and Long Island Hospital 1904-05 and resident surgeon at Haymarket Square Relief Station in 1908. He became surgeon to the New England Bap

Charles Grant Clark was born in 1926 and attended the academy at Fraserburgh, Scotland. On leaving school during the war he was initially accepted for the RAFVR but transferred to the Army serving in Bristol and India with the Blood Transfusion Service. He returned to Aberdeen for his medical traini

William Melville Capper was born on 25 January 1908 at Newport, Monmouthshire, and went to Canford School where he did well in classics. He came to St Bartholomew's Hospital for his medical course, where he also distinguished himself as a formidable rugby forward. He qualified with the Conjoint Dipl

J H Conyers was born in British Guiana on 4 August 1906, son of the Surgeon-General. After leaving Cheltenham he received his university education at Cambridge where he obtained a BA honours degree in Natural Science in 1927 and an MA in November 1934. He completed his medical training at St Thomas'

John Alexander-Williams was one of the country's best known gastroenterological surgeons noted not only for his surgical skill, teaching and many research contributions, but also for his *bonhomie* and *joie de vivre*, making him the life and soul of any meeting. John, often affectionately known

Born at Hampstead on 26 June 1897, second child and only son of Charles Hedley Clarence Visick, MRCS 1892, and Katherine Mary Cook, his wife. His father practised as an anaesthetist in North London; his grandfather and great-grandfather had also been medical men. His mother was related to Sir Albert