Brian John Stoodley was a consultant general surgeon at Eastbourne District General 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

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

William Tudor Davies was a general and vascular consultant surgeon in Cardiff. He was born on 17 July 1940. Qualifying MB, ChB in 1963, he did house jobs at the Middlesex Hospital in London and the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. In 1967 he passed the fellowship of the college. He spent tim

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

Peter Catts was a general surgeon in New South Wales, Australia. He was born in Sydney, New South Wales on 12 April 1940, the son of Stanley Victor Catts and Vera Jean Catts née Reynolds. He went to the UK for surgical training and gained his FRCS in 1967. He then returned to Australia, where h

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

Prasert Sukhum was a surgeon in Bangkok, Thailand. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, qualified MB BS in 1959 and then specialised in surgery. He worked at various hospitals in the UK and gained his FRCS in 1967. He returned to Thailand, where he was a lecturer and assistant prof

Prabhakar Shankar Phatak, known as 'Prabhu', was a consultant general surgeon at the Whittington Hospital. He was born in Pusad, Maharashtra, India, on 20 March 1936, the son of Shankar Ganesh Phatak, a lawyer, and Uma Phatak née Kelkar, a housewife. His mother's father was a doctor. He attended the

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

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