Alan Brock McCarten was a surgeon in Edmonton, Manitoba. Born in Winnipeg on 11 January 1919, he was the second son of Daniel Alexander McCarten, a dental surgeon, and his wife, Ella Isobel née Goldthorpe, the daughter of a lumber mill operator. After attending Kelvin High School in Winnipeg he won

Hyman Gaylis (Hymie) was born in the small mining town of Boksburg, outside Johannesburg, South Africa, on 17 December 1921, the son of Bennie and Mina Gaylis. His parents were Lithuanian Jews who had immigrated to South Africa in the early years of the twentieth century to escape persecution. His e

Boushra Riad Mikhael was chief of urology at Queensway Carleton Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Born in Assyout, Egypt on 2 June 1936, his parents were Riad and Labibal Mikhael and he was the tenth of their eleven children. After attending medical school in Cairo he travelled to the UK and studie

Born in October, 1816, the son of William Boyes, merchant, of London. He entered the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon on Aug 1st, 1841, being promoted Surgeon to the 2nd Bengal Calvary on October 8th, 1855. He was officiating Medical Storekeeper at Cawnpore when the Indian Mutiny broke out, and succ

Abdallah Shukry Mishrick was a senior consultant surgeon at Syosset and Plainview hospitals on Long Island, New York. He was born in Lebanon on 28 November 1928, the son of Shukry Abdallah Mishrick, a doctor, and Matilda Mishrick née Fernainy. He was educated at the English Mission College, Cairo, E

Was a Surgeon in the Royal Navy, and served on HMS *Wilberforce* in the Niger Expedition of 1841, concerning which he published *Some Account of the African Remittent Fever, which occurred on board HMS Wilberforce in the River Niger* and while engaged on service on the West Coast of Africa. Nearly e

Was one of the leading surgeons of Belgium, and for more than twenty-five years was Surgeon to the Bon Pasteur Hospital, Brussels. His name is connected specially with gastric operations. He died on April 20th, 1912. His portrait is in the Honorary Fellows' Album. Publications:- Lambotte was the au

John Ludbrook undertook medical studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin, and showed an early interest in medical research by completing a BMedSci with no less than Jack Eccles, a Nobel Laureate. His residency training was at Green Lane Hospital, Auckland, with Douglas Robb. He received a NZ Un

Born at Crosbane, Co Mayo, in October, 1789, and received his professional training at the Middlesex Hospital and other schools. He entered the Bombay Army as Assistant Surgeon on April 4th, 1823, being promoted to Surgeon on December 24th, 1835. He saw active service in Burma (1824-1825), for which

William Henry Bickersteth, entered in the College Calendar as Henry Bickersteth, was born in 1813 and became distinguished both as a Physician and as Surgeon to the Somerset Hospital, Cape Town. He died at Cape Town on Aug 6th, 1862, and in the Medical Circular (1865, NS. xxvi, 447) there appeared t

David Pothier was a consultant otologist at Toronto General Hospital, Canada. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa, the son of an ENT surgeon. His father developed a national system for supporting deaf children and those needing hearing aids that continues to help thousands of underprivileged Sout

Hugo Lorenz Obwegeser was internationally recognised as the father of modern orthognathic surgery who initiated huge advances in the development of plastic surgery of the facial skeleton. He was born on 21 October 1920 in Hohenems, Austria and initially graduated in medicine at Innsbruck. In 1945 he