Richard Hugh Carruthers was born on 6 September 1926 in Rotherham, Yorkshire, the first son of Hugh Boyton Carruthers, BA Cantab, a draper, and Constance Mary, a physiotherapist, daughter of Richard Reece Hardwicke, MRCS, LRCP, a surgeon born in 1859. He was educated at Chantry Mount Preparatory Sch

Melvyn Keith Tidman trained at University College Hospital and passed his FRCS in 1964. He moved to the Bristol area and became senior house officer in general and orthopaedic surgery to the Bristol Royal Infirmary and then surgical registrar to the Bath clinical area. He moved to Canada and practic

Kethieswaran Thuraisingham, known as Kethies, was a general surgeon in Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia. Born in Karainagur, an island near Jaffna, Sri Lanka in the mid-1930’s, he was the son of Vethavally Thuraisingham, née Saravanamuthu, and her husband. He passed the fellowship of the col

Richard Boggon, known to his friends as Dick, was a consultant general surgeon at the Mid-Essex Health Trust in Chelmsford. He was the son of Roland Boggon and Mollie Boggon née Newell. He schooled at Oundle and in 1954 proceeded to Clare College, Cambridge. His clinical studies were at St Thomas’s

Adrian Kenneth Lowe was born in Brighton, Victoria, Australia on 3 June 1928. His father Edward William Francis Lowe was a store guide and his mother Wilhemena née de Korte was a medical practitioner. After attending Firbank Preparatory School in Brighton, he moved to Brighton Grammar School, Wesley

Richard John Earlam, who was a consultant general surgeon at the Royal London Hospital, played a crucial role in the introduction of the air ambulance service to London thus contributing to a huge drop in deaths from trauma in the capitol. Born in Liverpool on 26 March 1934 he was the son of Francis

Hedley Edward Berry was born on 30 September 1936 and educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School. He studied medicine at London University and trained at King’s College Hospital, graduating MB, BS in 1960. Passing the fellowship of the college in 1964, he was appointed a consultant surgeon at King’s w

Roger Mitchell was a general surgeon in Jersey in the Channel Islands. 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

George Haines Dickson was born on 18 June 1936. He studied medicine at London University and trained at St Mary’s Hospital, graduating MB, BS in 1959. In 1964 he passed both the fellowship of the college and of the Edinburgh College of Surgeons. After house jobs at St Mary’s he was appointed consult

Philip Zachariah was born on 23 September in Bengal, the son of Kuruvila Zachariah, who was an historian, and his wife Shanti née Dey. He attended Bishop Cotton School in Bangalore and then studied medicine at the Madras Christian College, graduating MB, BS in 1960. He worked for a time at the Chris

Ken Edwardson was a general surgeon at Clatterbridge Hospital on the Wirral. He was born on 29 July 1935 in the Lancashire coastal village of Ainsdale, a suburb of the holiday resort of Southport, some 20 miles north of Liverpool. Despite the impending Second World War, this was an idyllic place for

Theodore Phillips Welch was born on 15 October 1932. He studied medicine at London University and University College Hospital Medical School, graduating MB, BS in 1958. He did house jobs at the Royal Northern Hospital in London and Barnet General Hospital before passing the fellowship of the college