Edmond Graham Roberts gained MB BS at University of Melbourne in 1953. He was resident medical officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital from 1954 to 1955, and in 1957. In 1958 he became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He came to Great Britain and in 1959 he gained the Fello

John Anderson came from a well-known St Andrews golfing family. His grandfather, Jamie, won the Open Championship three times, 1877-78-79 and he was noted for his precision and flair. Anderson was educated at Madras College, St Andrews, Strathallan School, Perthshire, and St Andrews University where

Hiralal Vadilal Shah was born in Tarasali Tal-Baroda in Gujarat State, India. He went to the Shre Sayaji High School in Baroda and he entered Grant Medical College in Bombay, qualifying in 1952, his clinical training being at the Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals. After obtaining his FRCS he joined t

Ian Cour-Palais was educated at Cambridge and the Westminster Hospital where he qualified in 1955. After junior posts, during which he carried out an important study on retractile testes, so often misdiagnosed as being undescended, he returned to the Westminster as senior registrar. He was appointed

Amarajeeva Wijesinghe received his medical education at the University of Ceylon and qualified MB BS in 1951. He passed the Fellowship examination in 1959. Thereafter he returned to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and practised in that country, mainly in Colombo. His death was reported to the College by his w

After qualifying from Sydney University, he worked in New Zealand 1953-1955 holding house appointments at Dannevirke Hospital, Hawke's Bay and Dunedin Hospital and as surgical registrar at Christchurch Hospital. He came to England in 1956, and after periods at St James's Hospital, the London Ches

Puspanathan Sadasivan Vaithilingam was born in Durban, on 19 September 1927, the eldest son in a family of eight brothers and one sister. His father, Sadasivan Vaithilingam, was a successful farmer, and his mother was Pappathee, née Reddy. After schooling at Sastri College he emigrated to Scotland i

Francis Sandor was born in Budapest on 13 July 1905. His father, Ignac, was a businessman in Budapest and his mother, Jenni Cipszer, was a teacher. He left Hungary with the advent of Communism and went back to medical school in Edinburgh and re-qualified as LRFPS (Glasgow) in 1952. He originally tra

Dick Aldridge was a surgeon in Wellington, New Zealand. He was born in Auckland on 18 June 1930. He was educated at Palmerston North Boys High School, where he was dux of the school. He attended Victoria University College and qualified from Otago Medical School in 1953. He was a house surgeon in We