Born on July 10th, 1817. He appears to have practised at Limerick and then at Fairview, Co Dublin, before joining the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon on June 14th, 1845. He was promoted Surgeon on April 21st, 1859, having seen active service in Burma, 1852-1858, for which he received the Medal. He

Practised at 83 Fitzroy Street, St Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne, and was Assistant Surgeon to the Alfred Hospital. He died from pneumonia following influenza on May 29th, 1912, leaving a widow and infant child.

John Philip Bentley was a consultant general surgeon at the Connaught, Harrow and Wanstead hospitals. He was born on 5 January 1916 in Bexleyheath, Kent, the son of Roland Cunard Bentley, a chartered secretary, and Margaret Bentley née Budd, the daughter of a medical practitioner. John was the third

Nitya Bhattacharjee was a consultant surgeon who worked in Manchester. He died on 14 August 2010 aged 79 years, survived by his wife, Christa and sons Jonathan and Nicholas.

Harold Fishbone was a surgeon who worked at the Brooklyn-Cumberland Medical Centre, New York and was a Professor of Surgery at State University of New York. He qualified MB BS in London in 1946 and passed the Fellowship in 1952. He moved to New York and was awarded the Fellowship of the American Col

Gareth Davies was a consultant surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital, Margate. As his name suggests, his background was Welsh, an ancestry of which he was inordinately proud, and he grew up within the close London Welsh community. He received his secondary education at Dulwich Col

Frank Ellis was a consultant surgeon in Darlington and Northallerton. He studied medicine in Durham, qualifying MB BS in 1948 and gained his FRCS in 1955. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a registrar at the Newcastle Regional Thoracic Surgical Centre and a senior surgical registrar at th

Maitreyee Chaudhuri was born on 19 May 1910 and died on 6 June 2010, at the age of 100. She gained her FRCS in 1947.

Roger James was a general surgeon who lived and worked in Canada. He qualified from the University of Sheffield in 1953 and passed the fellowship in 1960. He moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba where he was on the staff of the Misericordia General and Victoria General Hospitals. He died on 18 January 2007.

Reginald Seymour Lawrie, always known as 'Rex', was a consultant general surgeon to Guy's Hospital from 1948 until 1977. He did much pioneering work in paediatric surgery before it became recognised as a specialty. He also worked at the Evelina Hospital, holding appointments at Sydenham Children's,

Born at Market Drayton, Shropshire, and studied at King's College and Hospital, where he was House Surgeon. He was then Resident Surgical Officer at the Birmingham General Hospital for five years; commenced practice at 47 Newhall Street, and became Surgeon to the Hospital, also Surgeon to the Childr

Born at Gravesend on January 4th, 1843, the second of four brothers, one of whom, Dr Frederick Goodsall, at one time practised in the City. Their father, relatively late in life, was a student at St Bartholomew's, where he died of the effects of a finger-prick received during a post-mortem on the ev