Selvam Panchalingam was a Sri Lankan surgeon. She was born in 1919 and qualified FRCS in 1951. She lived in Colombo, Sri Lanka. A relative notified the Royal College of Surgeons of her death.

The Trotter family has long been settled in Gloucestershire, where it had an honoured connexion with the Baptist Church. Wilfred Trotter was born in London on 3 November 1872, the son of Howard Birt Trotter of Coleford, Gloucestershire, and Frances Lewes, his wife. His early years were spent at Cole

Born on 3 November 1922 only son of David Crombie, an engineer, who died in March 1955, and Mary King his wife; he was educated at Colston School, Bristol, and Edinburgh University, where he won the Mouat scholarship in the practice of physic in 1944. He held resident posts at Walsall General Hospit

Born 12 February 1869 eldest of the three sons of John Crowley, a hotel proprietor, and his wife née Deehan. He was educated at Xavier College and the University, Melbourne, and was a house surgeon at the Melbourne Hospital. Coming to England, he practised for several years at Beckenham, Kent, but i

Born at South Shields on 7 December 1893 son of George Gibb Miller and his wife Alice M Jones, he went to Canada in 1910, but served overseas during 1914-18 as a Captain in the Royal Highlanders. He qualified from the University of Western Ontario in 1922, and worked at the Henry Ford Hospital, Detr

Born 8 September 1877, second son of James Turner, a banker, and Evelyn Grey, his wife. He was educated at a private school at Newcastle-on-Tyne and at the Newcastle Medical School of the University of Durham, where he was Heath scholar and graduated with first-class honours in 1898. After further w

Born at Chigwell, Essex on 22 October 1855, younger son of George Turner, MRCS 1845, and Hannah Buchanan, his wife. His father, who was the second of three sons of Edward Turner of Sherborne to qualify as a Member of the College from St George's Hospital, practised at 37 Sussex Gardens, Hyde Park an

Born 25 January 1870, ninth and youngest child and fifth son of Frederic Turner of Nizels, Hildenborough, near Sevenoaks, Kent, a retired army clothier, and Martha Orr Faithfull, his wife, daughter of Lt-Col Richard Coventry Faithfull, HEICS. His father died when William was a very small child. He w

Born on 3 June 1876, grandson of Edmund Bevers, dental surgeon of Oxford, and son of Edmund A Bevers, who practised as a surgeon in Oxford in 1873 but later specialised in dental surgery and was elected the first dental surgeon to the Radcliffe Infirmary in 1886, Edmund Cecil Bevers was educated at

Born on 12 December 1860, the eldest son of Edward Waldy of Barmpton, near Darlington, and Jane Chiesman, his wife. The second son, a solicitor, was more than once mayor of Darlington. John Waldy was educated at Pemberton School kept by the Rev Christopher Jackson at Middleton St George, Co Durha

Born on 26 June 1884, eldest child of Charles Edward Walker, merchant, and Mary Webster Latimer, his wife. He was at school at Fulneck, and took his medical training at the Leeds Medical School and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He served as house surgeon at Derby Royal Infirmary, and as house physician

Born 12 January 1872 at Bitterne, Southampton, the seventh child and fourth son of James Dick Steward, a commander in the service of the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Company, and Mary L Harris, his wife. He was educated at Bedford until he entered the medical school at Guy's Hospital in October