Bryan graduated from Sydney University in 1961. He completed internship at Royal North Shore Hospital in that year. In 1962 he accepted his first appointment to Prince Henry, Prince of Wales Hospitals. These hospitals were to become his clinical home for his professional life. Like so many at tha

Mohammed Kabiruddin Ahmed was professor and head of the department of surgery at the Medical College and Hospital, Sylhet, Bangladesh. He was born on 31 March 1934 in Sylhet, the son of Mohammed Asghar, a mathematics graduate and a magistrate in the Assam Civil Service, and Umirunnessa née Choudhury

David Owen was a surgeon who lived in Nairn, Scotland. 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

Anthony Higham was a surgeon from Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire. He studied medicine at Manchester University graduating MB ChB in 1962. Five years later, in 1967, he passed the fellowship of the college and of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He died in 2013.

John Beaugié was a consultant general surgeon at North Middlesex Hospital, London. He was born on 26 September 1939 in Folkestone, Kent, the eldest of five children. His father, Donald McNicoll Beaugié, had been a missionary doctor in Nigeria before succumbing to ill health and returning to the UK t

John Hanson Hall was a consultant general surgeon in Peterborough and Stamford. He was born on 13 September 1937 at Stalybridge, near Manchester, the only son of George Sydney Hall and Lucy Hall née Hanson. His father spent several years away from 1939 to 1951, firstly in the Far East during the Sec

Richard Simons was a surgeon based in Sutton Coldfield. 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

Komaluru Radhakrishna Visvanathan, known as ‘Vishy’, was a general surgeon in Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada. He was born in Salem, Tamil Nadu, India on 3 September 1929, the second of eight children of K V Radhakrishna and Mahalakshmi. He studied medicine in Madras and qualified in 1954. He trave

John Craven was a consultant general surgeon at York District 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

David William Guilford Budd was a consultant general surgeon at Horton General Hospital, Banbury. He was born in Cambridgeshire in 1937. He studied medicine at Birmingham University, qualifying in 1962. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a senior house officer in the accident service at

Dhananjay Goradia was a general surgeon. 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

Noel Desmond Sherson was a general surgeon in Melbourne, Australia. He was born on 26 February 1936 in Geelong, Victoria, the only child of Charles Stanley Sherson, a coach builder, and Ella Myrtle Sherson née Wilson. He attended Geelong College, where he was *dux* of the school in 1954. He went on