John Campbell Stubbings was an ENT surgeon in Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Red Cliffs, Victoria on 28 December 1931, the fourth and youngest child of Claude Henry Stubbings, a horticulturalist, and Catherine Campbell Stubbings née Bothroyd, the daughter of a state schools inspector. He atten

Peter McArthur went from Cambridge to St Bartholomew's to do his clinical studies and after doing house jobs did registrarships in Nottingham and Sheffield before becoming lecturer and honorary senior registrar to the United Liverpool Hospitals. He was appointed consultant surgeon to Stoke Mandevill

John Michael O’Brien was born in Birmingham, the son of Denis O’Brien, a general practitioner and a graduate of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland (RCSI). His mother, whose maiden name was Sheldon, was a graduate of Liverpool University, had a diploma in obstetrics and was also a student of an

Maldwyn Jones Griffith was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at West Wales General Hospital, Carmarthen, Wales. He was born in Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales on 27 May 1940, the son of Herbert Jones Griffith, a minister, and Lena Olwen Griffith née Jones. He studied medicine at Liverpool University,

Terence Verma (known as Terry) was a general practitioner and general surgeon on Prince Edward Island, Canada. He was born in Kalaw, Burma, on 6 October 1936, into a devout Brahmin Hindu family. His father, Bhagwan Das Verma, was a civil engineer; his mother was Devi Verma née Achara, the daughter o

Robert Wilson Thomson, known as Bob, was born in Scotland and educated at Ayr Academy. He entered Glasgow University initially to study modern languages but switched to medicine after a year, graduating MB, ChB in 1964. After early house jobs at the Victoria Infirmary in Glasgow, he worked as a surg

Patrick Booth (Pat) was an ENT surgeon at Gwynedd Hospital in Bangor. He was born on 17 March 1932. During the second world war he was evacuated from Hastings to St Albans and then sent with his two brothers, Geoffrey and Anthony, to Allhallows, a boy’s independent school in Rousdon, Devon in 1941.

After qualifying MB BS at the University of Adelaide, Peter Christopher Manessis held a number of posts at the Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, ending as a surgical registrar 1966-67. He moved in 1968 to a similar post at the Repatriation General Hospital, Heidelberg, and in 1969 at t

Alan Mearns was a cardiothoracic surgeon in Bradford. He studied medicine in Liverpool, qualifying MB ChB in 1963, and continued his surgical training in the city, passing his FRCS Edinburgh in 1969 and his FRCS in 1970. After a post as a senior registrar in cardiothoracic surgery at Killingbeck Hos

Abdallah Shukry Mishrick was a senior consultant surgeon at Syosset and Plainview hospitals on Long Island, New York. He was born in Lebanon on 28 November 1928, the son of Shukry Abdallah Mishrick, a doctor, and Matilda Mishrick née Fernainy. He was educated at the English Mission College, Cairo, E

Iain Stewart Duff was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at the West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth. Iain was of Scottish descent. His parents were devout, strict Christians. He was educated at King's College School, Wimbledon and became captain and fullback for the first XV rugby team. He e

Baharul Elem, known as ‘Baha’, was a professor of urology in Zambia. He was born on 23 May 1938 in eastern India, the son of Rebecca and Reyas Elem. The family later moved to Rangpur in what is now Bangladesh. Baha received his initial medical qualification from Dhaka Medical College Hospital in Ban