Vijay Chand Berdia was a general surgeon in North Carolina, USA. He was born in Gotegaon, Madhya Pradesh, India on 23 September 1935, the son of Seth Nandram Beria, a landlord and grain merchant, and Paras Bai Beria née Oswal. He was educated at the Municipal High School, Gotegaon, Maharashtra High

Dewi Wyn Owen was a consultant surgeon in Carmarthen, Wales. He was born and brought up in Caernarfon in a Welsh speaking community. He received his primary and secondary education in the Caernarfon area, firstly at the National School and then, in the fifth year, at the Sir Huw Owen Grammar School.

Bob Zollinger was born on 4 September 1903 in Millersport, Ohio, and received his medical education at the State University, graduating MD in 1927. He spent his intern appointments at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston and in 1929 married Louise, who gave him tremendous support throughout his

Clara Zilahi was a surgeon in Wisbech, Great Yarmouth and Lincolnshire, a campaigner against reform in the Catholic Church and a director of the pressure group Railfuture. She was born in Vienna, Austria, on 22 May 1927, the only child of Ladislaus Zilahi and Agnes Paula Zilahi née Beke, devout Cath

Bruce Christopher MacGregor Williamson was a general practitioner and an assistant surgeon at Melton and District War Memorial Hospital, Melton Mowbray. After qualifying MB BS in 1959, he held house posts at Middlesex Hospital. He went on to become an assistant lecturer at University College London

John Terblanche was head of the department of surgery at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Chandra Maulishwar Prasad Sharma was a consultant general and urological surgeon in Patna, India. He qualified MB BS in Patna in 1958 and gained his FRCS in 1965. He was a senior surgical registrar at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, and a surgical registrar at West Wales General Hospital, Carm

Colin Clement Ware was a consultant general and vascular surgeon to the Southend-on-Sea Hospital Group, Essex, from 1971 to 1992. He was born in Barking, East London, on 16 July 1932. His father, Albert Ware, was an electrical engineer, and his mother, Annie Jelley, had been employed in the Post Off

Sydney Mahaindra Nauth Jaikaran was a specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. He was born in British Guiana on 5 January 1934, the youngest of nine children. In 1952 he won a Guyana scholarship to study medicine at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Four