John Alistair McArthur was a general surgeon in Armadale, Victoria, Australia. He was born in Melbourne on 3 December 1926, the son of George Alexander Douglas McArthur, an ENT surgeon, and Helen Fraser McArthur née Piggott. He attended Geelong Grammar School and served as a private in the Second Au

Alan Brock McCarten was a surgeon in Edmonton, Manitoba. Born in Winnipeg on 11 January 1919, he was the second son of Daniel Alexander McCarten, a dental surgeon, and his wife, Ella Isobel née Goldthorpe, the daughter of a lumber mill operator. After attending Kelvin High School in Winnipeg he won

John Andrew McCredie, known as Jack, was professor of surgery at the University of Western Ontario. He was born on 8 September 1923 in Annahilt, County Down, Northern Ireland. His father, Andrew McCredie, was a draper; his mother was Agnes McCredie née McCandless. He was educated at the Royal Belfas

Donald Campbell McKinnon was a surgeon in Wayville, South Australia. Born on 8 April 1933 in Adelaide, South Australia, he was the son of Robert McKinnon, a teacher, soldier and army educator and his wife Beatrice Ray née Edwards, also a teacher. His paternal great grandfather, Roderick, had been a

Arthur Louis Webster was born in Johannesburg on 8 October 1936, the son of Louis Martin Webster, a company director, and Dorothy May née Warren. He was educated at St Paul's Parochial School and St David's College, Inanda. Directly after leaving school he was a laboratory assistant in the African e

Born on 2 March 1914, Thomas Fenwick was the son of William Stephen Fenwick FRCS of Charing Cross Hospital. He was educated at Sherborne, and then went on to study at Cambridge and St Thomas's Hospital, representing each of these institutions at rugby and cricket. He did house jobs at St Thomas's, b

David Skeffington Johnson's forebears were notably medical. His father Alex Johnson was a well-known surgeon on the staff of Prince Alfred Hospital. St Ignatius College, Riverview was the school where he was dux; excelling in Latin and Greek. As well he was runner-up in the Cooper Scholarship Exa

Horace Fleming qualified in Dublin in 1929 and specialised in surgery. He held house officer posts at Cheltenham General and was a resident surgical officer at Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Royal Hospital. He was appointed county surgeon in Enniskillen and was later director of the Erne Hospital

David Fletcher was born in Beccles, Derbyshire, in 1930. He completed his medical education in Leeds and specialised in surgery, particularly in colorectal surgery. He was appointed consultant surgeon to Scarborough Hospital in 1968, where he became chairman of the Scarborough district medical staff

'Gus' Fraenkel was foundation dean and chairman of the school of medicine at Flinders University, South Australia. He was born in Berlin on 29 May 1919, the first child of Eduard David Fraenkel, who later was to become professor of Latin at Oxford, but came from a medical family: his uncle Albert Fr

John Blair Logan Taylor was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, on 13 June 1923, the son of John Binnie Taylor, a GP, and his wife, Margaret Godfrey Logan. He received his early education first at the Glasgow Academy and later at Manchester Grammar School. He entered the Manchester University Medical S

John Connolly, always known as 'Jack', was the founding chair of the department of surgery at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), an internationally admired academic surgeon and a noted anglophile. He was born on 21 May 1923 in Nebraska to Earle and Gertrude Connolly, and was inspired by