John McGregor was a consultant plastic surgeon in Edinburgh and the Lothians. He was born on 21 April 1944 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, the only child of John Alexander McGregor, a chartered civil engineer, and Isabel Millar McGregor née Cummack, the daughter of a farmer. He was educated at Paisley Gra

Gearoid Lynch was born in Dublin on 17 February 1932, the son of Fionan Lynch and his wife Bridget née Slattery. He studied medicine at Belfast University, graduating MB, BCh, BAO in 1948. Travelling to London he worked as a surgical registrar at the Hammersmith Hospital and then as a registrar in p

Rajaratnam (Raj) Sundarason was born in Singapore on 3 July 1929. Sponsored by the Colombo Plan, he travelled to Australia in 1950 when he was 21 to study medicine at Melbourne University. Sadly it was at a time when there was a great deal of racial prejudice in the population and he and his fellow

David Erskine Tolhurst was a pioneering plastic surgeon. Born in Wellington, New Zealand on 24 September 1934, he was the son of Robert Erskine, a stockbroker, and his wife Joan Morton née Henderson. He attended the Huntley School in Marton, where he won the Sherriff Memorial Prize and the Wanganui

Jack Mustardé founded and ran West Africa’s first reconstructive plastic surgery unit and established the charity ReSurge Africa. 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

David Ian Wilson was born on 4 July 1962 in Birmingham. Regarded as the cleverest of his family, he won a scholarship to Warwick School. He trained in medicine at St Georges’s Medical School, passing his MB, BS London in 1985 and from there proceeded to Derriford Hospital, Plymouth to begin his trai

Niall Kirkpatrick was a consultant plastic surgeon at the Royal Marsden Hospital and president of the charity Facing the World. 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

Nicholas Bernard Hart was a consultant in plastic and reconstructive surgery in Grimsby. 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

Professor Velupillai Sivaloganathan was a plastic surgeon who lived in Sydney, New South Wales. 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

Malcolm Deane was a consultant plastic surgeon at City Hospital, Nottingham. 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

John Prichard Bennett was a consultant plastic surgeon at the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead. Born in Portsmouth, Hampshire on 3 July 1939, he was the son of Russell Percy Bennett, a headmaster, and his wife Margaret Enid née Prichard who was a hairdresser. After attending Court Lane Primar

Seamus (Morgan) O’Riain was a plastic surgeon in Dublin. 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