Hewet was educated at Manchester University where he gained a BSc and qualified MB ChB with honours in 1944, and gained his Fellowship in 1949. After qualification he was resident surgical officer and chief assistant in the surgical unit at Manchester Royal Infirmary, before becoming consultant surg

Duncan Mackinnon Hamilton was born on 28 October 1918. He was educated at Belmont, Mill Hill, Balliol College and Oxford University Medical School. He obtained the BA in 1939, BM BCh in 1942 and served in the RAMC during the war in Malta, Austria and Italy, attaining the rank of Major. He was a regi

Malcolm Roberts Stanley qualified MB, BS in Sydney in 1944 and was appointed junior resident medical officer to the Sydney Hospital and became surgical registrar in 1945. During the second world war he was a Captain in the Australian Army Medical Corps Reserve. He became a Fellow of the College i

Marjorie Agnes Powys was born on 25 March 1911 and was educated at the Mount, Leamington Spa, and St Margaret's, Bushey. Her medical training was at the London School of Medicine for Women and the Royal Free Hospital qualifying in 1935. After early house appointments she was resident surgical office

Noel Fowler qualified MB BS at Sydney University in 1942 and was resident medical officer at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney from 1942 to 1943 and served as a captain in the Australian Army Medical Corps from 1943 to 1947. Coming to Britain to work for his Fellowship he obtained house pos

Frederick Gabel was born in Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada on 21 September 1916, the son of John Gabel, the owner of a grocer's shop, and his wife Annie Broskie. After obtaining a BA from the University of Saskatchewan where he played hockey for the University, he went on to the University of Manitob

Kenneth McKeown was born on 31 October 1912 in Belfast. His father, Robert James McKeown, was a linen manufacturer and his mother was Sarah, née Owen. He received his medical training at the Royal Academical Institute in Belfast, and at Queen's University, where he achieved distinctions in anatomy a

Arthur (Pat) Murphy was born in Liverpool on 30 November 1919, and received his higher education at Liverpool University. He qualified MB, ChB at Liverpool in 1942 and following junior posts at Walton Hospital, Liverpool, he was appointed registrar and subsequently senior registrar at the David Lewi

James Kennedy Watt, the son of a general practitioner, was born close to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 30 August 1921. After education at the High School of Glasgow he went to Glasgow University where he had a distinguished undergraduate career, gaining the James Hunter Medal in pathology and gradu

Born in Baroda in 1917, the son of a farmer, Manibhai Patel went to Grant Medical College in Bombay and qualified MB BS and then obtained his MD in obstetrics and gynaecology. Proceeding to England he became FRCS in 1949 and then settled in Baroda. Here he became a prominent member of the medical sc

Ian Henderson was born in Hamilton, Scotland, on 4 November 1918, the son of Stewart Dalton Henderson and Grace Aird, née Masterson. He was an only child. From Biggar High School he went to Fettes as a foundation scholar and was awarded a James Begg memorial exhibition. At Guy's Hospital Medical Sch

Anthony Anscombe, known as 'Tony', was a consultant surgeon in Manchester and a former dean of clinical studies. He was born in Bath, Somerset, on 16 November 1923, the son of Reginald Thomas Anscombe, who served in the Indian Army. He was educated at Bishopshalt Grammar School and the London Hospit