Ken Lennox was born in Tongue, Sutherland, on 19 August 1910, the youngest son of Peter Lennox, a customs and excise officer, and Jessie, née Macdonald, the daughter of a draper. He was educated at Tongue School and Inverness and Hamilton Academies, and at Glasgow University Medical School, where he

John Leslie was born in Bath on 22 December 1914. His father, George Herbert Leslie, was a schoolmaster and inspector of schools for the London County Council, having served in the Royal Artillery in the first world war and then with the Army Education Corps. His early education was at Wellington

Leslie Le Souëf was born in Perth on 28 January 1900, the son of Ernest Albert Le Souëf, the designer and director of the Zoo in Perth, and great-grandson of William Le Souëf who had arrived in Melbourne in 1838, four years after its foundation. His mother was Ellen Hagenauer, daughter of a Moravian

Linehan was educated at University College Cork, qualifying in 1949. His working life was spent in Cork, where he was the Ainsworth travelling scholar, surgical registrar at St Finbarr's Hospital, surgeon to the Mercy Hospital and external surgeon to the South Charitable Infirmary. He died on 6 D

George Armitage was born at Rothwell, near Leeds, on 20 April 1896 the son of George Armitage, a company director and chairman of the family brickworks. His mother was Annie Elizabeth Flocton, the daughter of a prison governor. He was educated at the village school at Ackworth and entered Leeds Medi

Born at Castlerea, Co Roscommon, Ireland on 25 July 1907, fourth child and second son of the Rev Robert Irvine Ford, BD, Rector of the parish and Rural Dean of Elphin, and his wife Dora Frances Elizabeth Maunsell, whose brother C B Maunsell, FRCSI, was surgeon to Mercer's Hospital, Dublin. Ian Fo

He was educated at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, qualifying in 1948, and held resident posts at Palmerston. After taking the Fellowship in 1954 he was house surgeon at the Royal Northern Hospital, London. He then settled at Suva in the Fiji Islands, where he was surgeon to the War M

Phillip Foster was born in April 1885 and first lived in Timaru. He was educated in Hawera and later went to the Otago Boys' School. His medical education took place at Otago University where he qualified in 1909. Foster began his medical career at Christchurch Hospital, an association which was to

Born on 11 February 1883 the youngest son of Frederick Joseph Frankau, a barrister, Claude Frankau was educated at Rugby and St George's Hospital, to which he devoted his career. After qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1907 he held resident posts in the hospital. He took the Fellowship at the

Roland Arthur Hertslet Fulton was the son of a doctor, and was educated at Otago Boys' High School and the University of Otago Medical School where he graduated in 1914. In his final year as a medical student he won a travelling scholarship and came to England in 1914. On the outbreak of war he join

Arthur Latchmore qualified in 1929 and after junior posts in Leeds specialised in surgery. He was resident surgical officer at the General Infirmary Leeds, and surgical tutor in the University of Leeds. During the war he served in the RAMC as Lieutenant-Colonel. He returned to Leeds as consultant su

Ramkrishna Chaudhuri qualified MB BS in Calcutta in 1956. He passed the FRCS in 1965 and worked at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, before returning to Calcutta where he died on 7 July 1977.