Born in Adelaide on February 8 1896, the son of a schoolmaster, Leonard Lindon lost his father when he was only one year old. He was educated at Geelong Grammar School where his uncle was headmaster and then proceeded to St Peter's College, starting his medical course at the University of Adelaide i

Born on 8 April 1897 in Melbourne son of Charles Robert Rogers and Janet Chant, he was educated in Melbourne until 1915, when at the age of 18 he joined the Australian Naval Transport Service in which he served until 1917. He then came to the Middlesex Hospital to resume his interrupted medical stud

Born at Chester on 8 May 1873, the second child and eldest son of Edward George Sargent, a bank manager, and Emily Grose, his wife. His brothers were Dr Eric Sargent, the Rev D H G. Sargent (who died 19 July 1935), and the Rev E H Gladstone Sargent, and he had four sisters. He was educated at Clifto

Born 28 August 1907 at Gorleston, near Great Yarmouth, the third child and second son of Frederick William Willway, MRCS 1894, superintendent of the National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen, who afterwards lived at Streatham, and of Margaret, his wife, daughter of William Allison, MD Edinburgh 1865, w

Andrew Francis Masson was director of the emergency department and subsequently chairman of ambulatory care at the University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Canada. He was born in Kingston, Jamaica on 27 March 1927, the son of Ethel Mabel Masson née Thwaites and Andrew Francis Masson and grew up in

Rankin Hay was a neurosurgeon at the University of Manitoba’s faculty of medicine. 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

Henk Verbiest, Professor of Neurosurgery at the Utrecht University Hospital, was born on 16 July 1909 in Rotterdam to Cornelis Verbiest, member of the board of a shipping company, and his wife, Mary née Peters. He undertook his medical studies at Leiden University between 1927 and 1934, during which

Witold Rudowski was an eminent Polish surgeon. He qualified in medicine in 1943, studying at a secret medical faculty that had been set up during Nazi occupation. He then worked in the Dzieciatka Jesus Hospital in Warsaw until 1947, where the neurosurgery department was run by Jerzego Chorobskiego.

Ved Sachdev was born in Mitranwali, India, on 22 February 1932. His father, Gridhari Lal Sachdev, was a headmaster, and his mother, Amar Rawla, a housewife. During the riots that followed the partition of India he lost his eldest sister, and his family was obliged to flee to Amritsar, where he was e

Tony Kellerman was a consultant neurosurgeon at Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford and Southend 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

Charles Langmaid was a consultant neurosurgeon in Cardiff from 1951 to 1973. He was born in Cardiff on 29 July 1913, the son of Sidney Langmaid. He attended Cardiff University and did his house jobs at the London Hospital where he qualified in 1935 and won the Hepburn medal for the best student and

Charles Evans was born in Liverpool on 19 October 1918, the only child of Robert Charles Evans, a solicitor, and his wife Edith, née Lloyd Williams, a farmer's daughter. He was brought up largely by his mother in North Wales as his father was unfortunately killed in the closing stages of the first w