Kenneth Rostron received his medical education at Cambridge and Manchester and qualified in 1937, obtaining the DOMS in 1947 and his Fellowship in 1950. After qualifying and deciding to specialise in ophthalmology he was chief clinical assistant at the Westminster branch of Moorfields and at the Cen

William Paterson was born in Leeds on 23 January 1917. His father Alexander was a mining engineer. His mother was Mary Hunter. He was educated at West Leeds High School for Boys and studied medicine at Leeds University, where he qualified with second class honours. After junior posts at Leeds Genera

Gerald Joseph Siegler, or ‘Jo’ as he known to colleagues, was an ENT consultant in Liverpool. He was born in London on 3 January 1921, and studied medicine at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. He held junior posts in Huddersfield, Lancaster, Nuneaton and Birkenhead, before completing his National Service w

Henry Shaw was a pre-eminent otolaryngologist and head and neck surgeon. He was born in Stafford on 16 March 1922, the son of Benjamin Henry Shaw, a physician, psychiatrist, artist and fisherman, and Adelaide née Hardy, who became a JP and Staffordshire County councillor. His father came from a dist

Richard Neve was born in Croydon on 23 November 1923. His father, Clement Treves Neve, FRCS (qv *Lives of the Fellows* 1930-1951) was a surgeon, and his mother, Elsie Mabel, née Pedley, was the daughter of Richard Pedley, a medically qualified dental surgeon. His father's three uncles were Sir Frede

Born in South Africa, Morris David Gelfand was educated at Wynberg, Cape Town and began his medical career at the University of Cape Town, graduating MB ChB at the age of 21. He held house appointments at Congella Hospital, Durban, and from there joined the practice of Hymie Penn and Aaron Porter in

Born on 29 November 1906 in Rome, Aldo was the first child of Alfredo Calo, MD and Ida, nee Ottlenghi. He obtained the 'Maturità' Classica', equivalent to a BA degree, from the Liceo Ginnasio Ennio Quirino Visconti in Rome before qualifying MD from the Facolta di Medicina e Chirurgia, R Università d

Warren Leishman Thompson was educated at Christ's College, New Zealand, from 1933 to 1937 where he, like his brother, Bruce, was a distinguished athlete representing the school at both cricket and rugby for some years and being a champion fives player and school prefect. On leaving school he entered

David Bell was a surgeon at Belfast City Hospital. The son of William George Thompson Bell, a farmer and mill-owner from Cookstown, Northern Ireland, and Emma Jane Bell, he was born on 20 June 1920. A great uncle, cousin and brother were all doctors. From the Rainey Endowed School he went to Queen’s

Solomon Lewis Citron was born in London on 5 November 1920 the son of Alik Citron, a tailor, and was educated at Regent Street Polytechnic before entering University College Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1943 and after house appointments at the medical unit of Hammersmith Hospital and the

John Shelswell was born in Warwickshire on 19 January 1919. His father, Henry Bower Shelswell, was a hospital administrator, his mother was Lily née Johnson. He was educated at King Edward VII School, Sheffield, and Manchester Grammar School, before going on to read medicine at Manchester University

David Steel Chapman was a consultant surgeon at Ashington Hospital and a former professor of surgery at Natal University, South Africa. He was born in Choppington, Northumberland, in 1919. He qualified from Durham in 1942 and won the Hallet prize. Joining the Army in 1943, he was with the British ra