Dipak Khandubhai Desai, first son of Khandubhai Desai, a medical practitioner, and of Lilayatiben Desai, was born in Naysan, India, on 2 January 1932. He was educated at Naysan High School, Elphinstone College and then Grant Medical College, Bombay. After resident appointments there he held various

Ahmed Zaki El Ghatit was born in Egypt on 2 October 1931, the eighth child of Aly, a lawyer, and Fatma. He was educated at the College des Frères and at Cairo University, graduating MB, BCh in 1955. He passed the FRCS (and MRCS) examinations in 1964 and FRCS Ed in 1963 . He worked at the London Hosp

Chaman Lal Sarin received his medical education at the University of the Punjab where he qualified MB BS in 1958. After coming to Britain and gaining the Fellowship in 1964, he moved to the United States where he practised in the 1970s at West Bloomfield, Michigan, though thereafter he gave his addr

Saibal Ranjan Sen became a Fellow of the College in December 1964. He practised in Calcutta until he died suddenly on 26 December 1989 survived by his wife, Manisha.

After passing his FRCS, Mohamed Chaaban returned to work in Egypt, where he died on 2 May 1997.

John Turner Ward, the son of Richard Fowler Ward, a surgeon, and of Mary Lilian (née Turner), a physiotherapist, was born at Ipswich, Suffolk, on 31 October 1932. His paternal grandfather had also been a surgeon in Ipswich. He was educated at Epsom College and Queen's University, Belfast, where he g

After receiving his medical education in Bombay, Anant Kolgaonkar came to England to specialise in surgery and passed the FRCS in 1964. He then went to practice in Tanga, Tanzania where he died in 1999. Unfortunately the College has no details of his subsequent career.

John Kilshaw was educated at Manchester University where he gained first class honours in physiology in his BSc in 1956 and qualified MB ChB in 1959. After qualification he held house posts and registrarships at Ancoats Hospital and Withington Hospital, Manchester, and at the Manchester Royal Infirm

Geoff Giles was born in Coventry, Warwickshire, on 17 December 1936. He was educated at Bablake School and then obtained a major scholarship to enter the University of Manchester Medical School, qualifying from there MB ChB in 1960. After spending two years in junior appointments he commenced his in

John Nicholas Rimmer was born in Widnes, Lancashire, on 26 July 1924. His father was John Rimmer, a farmer, and his mother was Florence Woods. His father-in-law, Harold Frederick Leese, LDSRCS, was a dental surgeon in Mossley Hill, Liverpool, for forty years. John Rimmer attended Wade Deacon Scho