Gerald Golden only revealed the year of his birth on his 90th birthday. He trained at the London Hospital, qualifying in 1923. Soon after he went to Brazil, mainly to work in a mission hospital and for his scientific work during a typhoid epidemic he was awarded MB by the University of Rio de Janeir

Rowan Pool was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Rowley Bristow Orthopaedic and St Peter’s hospitals. He was born on 16 November 1951. His mother’s maiden name was O’Gorman. He studied medicine at Leeds University, qualified in 1974 and gained his FRCS in 1980. Prior to his consultant appo

Christopher Tiwari was educated at Agra University and at the SW Medical College, Agra, gaining a BSc in 1947 and qualifying MB BS in 1952. After qualification he was a demonstrator in pathology at his medical college, before coming to Britain and gaining his Fellowship. Thereafter he held registrar

Geoffrey Joseph Bendeich was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Brisbane Hospital, Queensland, Australia. He was born on 30 December 1928, the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Bendeich and attended the Anglican Church Grammar School in Brisbane, where he played rugby in the first 15. He studie

Alan Jardine Watson was born on 2 December 1905. He received his medical education at the Middlesex Hospital and qualified with the conjoint diploma in 1927. He graduated MB BS two years later. He served in the RAMC from 1942 to 1946 in North Africa, Italy and Britain. After the second world war he

James Patrick Sidney England, known as Patrick, was an orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at the North Middlesex and Hammersmith hospitals in London. He was born on 5 May 1930 in London to Herbert Reginald England and Violet May England née King, the eldest of four children. His father was a consultant

Kenneth Peter Boardman was a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at Blackpool Victoria Hospital. 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

Sydney Mahaindra Nauth Jaikaran was a specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. He was born in British Guiana on 5 January 1934, the youngest of nine children. In 1952 he won a Guyana scholarship to study medicine at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Four

Fred Ehrlich was a professor of rehabilitation, aged and extended care at the University of New South Wales: his career in medicine and academia spanned orthopaedic surgery, psychiatry, geriatrics and rehabilitation. He was born on 23 March 1923 in Czernowitz, Bukovina (now divided between Romania a

Fiona Muir was a consultant orthopaedic hand surgeon at the Sussex Orthopaedic Treatment Centre. She was born on 9 August 1971 and studied medicine at Bristol University, qualifying in 1994. She gained her FRCS in 1998 and prior to her consultant appointment was a specialist registrar at the Quee