Donald Gebbie was the foundation professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Nairobi. 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

Alan Gerald Amias was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at St George’s Hospital, London. Having spent his early years in the East End of London where he was born on 25 June 1929, he was evacuated to Bedford when he was eleven years old to escape the Blitz. Although he managed to gain swift

Catherine Hamlin, Australia’s most renowned obstetrician and gynaecologist, co-founded Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia with her husband Reginald Hamlin, a healthcare network treating women who suffer from the debilitating effects of obstetric fistula – a horrific childbirth injury. To say Catherine was a