Amarajeeva Wijesinghe received his medical education at the University of Ceylon and qualified MB BS in 1951. He passed the Fellowship examination in 1959. Thereafter he returned to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and practised in that country, mainly in Colombo. His death was reported to the College by his w

Leslie Turner studied medicine at Manchester and after junior posts in Manchester and Ancoats Hospital became consultant surgeon at the Withington Hospital and the Christie Hospital and Hold Radium Institute. He was a member of the Court of Examiners and an Arris and Gale lecturer in the College. He

Ian Cour-Palais was educated at Cambridge and the Westminster Hospital where he qualified in 1955. After junior posts, during which he carried out an important study on retractile testes, so often misdiagnosed as being undescended, he returned to the Westminster as senior registrar. He was appointed

After serving in the Australian Imperial Forces from 1942 to 1966, Donald Norman Leckie qualified MB BS at Sydney in 1953. From that time he held a number of posts at the Balmain District Hospital, Sydney, including that of medical superintendent, until he came to Britain in 1957. Here he held posts

William Roberts was born in Cape Province in 1924, the son of William Morton Roberts, a businessman, and his wife Winifred Mary, née Birmingham, a music teacher. He attended Oudtshoorn Boys' High School before entering the University of Cape Town Medical School, where he qualified MB ChB in 1947. Af

After qualifying from Sydney University, he worked in New Zealand 1953-1955 holding house appointments at Dannevirke Hospital, Hawke's Bay and Dunedin Hospital and as surgical registrar at Christchurch Hospital. He came to England in 1956, and after periods at St James's Hospital, the London Ches

Puspanathan Sadasivan Vaithilingam was born in Durban, on 19 September 1927, the eldest son in a family of eight brothers and one sister. His father, Sadasivan Vaithilingam, was a successful farmer, and his mother was Pappathee, née Reddy. After schooling at Sastri College he emigrated to Scotland i

Francis Sandor was born in Budapest on 13 July 1905. His father, Ignac, was a businessman in Budapest and his mother, Jenni Cipszer, was a teacher. He left Hungary with the advent of Communism and went back to medical school in Edinburgh and re-qualified as LRFPS (Glasgow) in 1952. He originally tra

Dick Aldridge was a surgeon in Wellington, New Zealand. He was born in Auckland on 18 June 1930. He was educated at Palmerston North Boys High School, where he was dux of the school. He attended Victoria University College and qualified from Otago Medical School in 1953. He was a house surgeon in We