Born in 1874, a Brahmin, he spent his professional life in Edgbaston, Birmingham. He figured in the news in December 1943 when he was acquitted of a serious charge (*Brit med* 1944, 1, 56 quoting *Birmingham Post* 15, 16, 17 Dec 1943). His son was Anand Krishna Pardhy FRCS. Pardhy died in a Londo

Abdel Fatah Mostafa was born on 31 December 1932 at Sält, in Jordan, his father having been a merchant at that city. He was the eldest son and was educated at the Sält government school and the University of Cairo where he graduated in Medicine in 1957. Later he came to Britain for training in surge

Gerald Thomas Mullally was born on 31 October 1887 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, whither his father, William Mullally, MD, who had been in family practice in Tipperary, had emigrated, and where he died of acute appendicitis with peritonitis when young, Gerald being 7 years old at that time. H

Allan Rigden Finn was born on 23 June 1879. His father William George Finn was a prosperous farmer who resided at Grove House, Faversham, Kent; he and his wife, Ellen Ann Finn had a family of thirteen children, six boys and seven girls, of whom Allan was the youngest boy. He was educated at King's S

Born at Castlerea, Co Roscommon, Ireland on 25 July 1907, fourth child and second son of the Rev Robert Irvine Ford, BD, Rector of the parish and Rural Dean of Elphin, and his wife Dora Frances Elizabeth Maunsell, whose brother C B Maunsell, FRCSI, was surgeon to Mercer's Hospital, Dublin. Ian Fo

He was educated at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, qualifying in 1948, and held resident posts at Palmerston. After taking the Fellowship in 1954 he was house surgeon at the Royal Northern Hospital, London. He then settled at Suva in the Fiji Islands, where he was surgeon to the War M

Phillip Foster was born in April 1885 and first lived in Timaru. He was educated in Hawera and later went to the Otago Boys' School. His medical education took place at Otago University where he qualified in 1909. Foster began his medical career at Christchurch Hospital, an association which was to

Born on 11 February 1883 the youngest son of Frederick Joseph Frankau, a barrister, Claude Frankau was educated at Rugby and St George's Hospital, to which he devoted his career. After qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1907 he held resident posts in the hospital. He took the Fellowship at the

Roland Arthur Hertslet Fulton was the son of a doctor, and was educated at Otago Boys' High School and the University of Otago Medical School where he graduated in 1914. In his final year as a medical student he won a travelling scholarship and came to England in 1914. On the outbreak of war he join

Arthur Latchmore qualified in 1929 and after junior posts in Leeds specialised in surgery. He was resident surgical officer at the General Infirmary Leeds, and surgical tutor in the University of Leeds. During the war he served in the RAMC as Lieutenant-Colonel. He returned to Leeds as consultant su

Born at Rochester, Minnesota, 28 July 1898, son of Charles Horace Mayo and his wife Edith Graham. After leaving Princeton he studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1927, when he joined the Mayo Foundation as a Fellow in Surgery, the fourth member of that remarkable family

William Joseph Metcalfe was born on 7 March 1921 in Winnipeg. His parents came from Yorkshire, but he went to school at St Bernadene's College in Buckinghamshire. It was in 1944, at the age of 23, that he started medical studies at Manchester University and graduated MB ChB in 1949. He had a brillia