After qualifying in Sri Lanka (then called Ceylon), Hiary Kumarasinghe worked as a house officer in the General Hospital for four years and then as a registrar in the University Hospital, before going to England to specialise in surgery in 1964. He did junior posts at the Chelmsford and Essex Hospit

Donald Forsyth Lawson graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1933 and his early appointments included that of resident medical officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1934. He passed the diploma in gynaecology and obstetrics at Melbourne in 1936 and following this was medical superintenden

Ruby Grace Sharp was born in Cape Town in 1906, the third daughter of Dr Robert Sharp, a surgeon in Cape Town at that time, and was educated at Wynberg Girls' High School. She was a talented and clever girl and legend has it that she required a wheelbarrow to take home her trophies on prize-giving d

Bryce Blair was born on 31 March 1911. He received his medical education at St Thomas's Hospital, where he was senior obstetric house physician. Later he was a senior registrar at the Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith. He was subsequently appointed as a consultant gynaecologist at the Royal U

David Gordon was a gynaecologist at Epsom. He was born in Kohat, India, on the North West frontier, where his father was a Brigadier with the 2/8th Gurkha Rifles. As was usual in those days, David was sent to England at the age of eight to live with an aunt at Lyme Regis. He was later sent to Wellin

Born on 15 December 1884 at Pentre, Glamorgan, son of Elias Henry Davies, an influential figure in the public service of South Wales, and Ann Jones, his wife, he was educated at Porth County School and University College, Cardiff, graduating with first-class honours in science in 1906, and was award

Born 26 October 1882 at Ocker Hill, Tipton, Staffordshire, nine miles out of Birmingham, elder son of Michael J. Whitehouse, ironmaster, and his wife, nee Beckwith. He was educated at Malvern College and at St Thomas's Hospital, where he entered with the first science scholarship and in 1902 won the

Born at Melbourne in 1886, elder son of Michael Ulick O'Sullivan LRCP&S Edinburgh, gynaecologist to the Woman's Hospital and St Vincent's Hospital. His younger brother Brendan became a physician and practised at Fitzroy, Victoria. He was educated at the University of Melbourne, qualifying in 1909, a

Victor Bonney was one of the great masters of gynaecological surgery. He looked on himself as a surgeon who had cultivated one specialty, and could not agree that gynaecologists should be considered a third estate in the medical profession. He was not only a brilliant technical operator but a man of

Born in 1901, son of R J Burt White, cotton goods buyer, of Crouch End, he was educated at Epsom College and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he won the Foster prize in anatomy and the Harvey prize in physiology. He was house surgeon to W McAdam Eccles and Girling Ball, and served as intern midwifer

Henry Harron Thomson was a consultant gynaecologist at Central Middlesex Hospital and Willesden General Hospital, London. He studied medicine at St George's Hospital Medical School, London, qualifying MB BS and MRCS LRCP in 1952. Prior to his consultant appointments he was a house surgeon at St Geo

Peter Diggory was a consultant gynaecologist at Kingston and the Royal Marsden, who, as medical adviser to the Liberal MP David Steel, played a significant role in the passing of the Abortion Act in 1967. He was born in Titley, Herefordshire, the fourth child of Edwin Ernest Diggory, a stationmaster