Joseph Attard (known to all as ‘Pep’) was a consultant general surgeon in Malta. He was born on 14 September 1932 in Senglea, a town in the Grand Harbour area of Malta. His father was Caesar Attard, a general practitioner and junior surgeon at the main civil hospital of Malta in Floriana. His mother

Guthrie Clothier was chief medical officer to the British Petroleum Company (BP). He received his medical education at King’s College Hospital. He then completed junior posts at St Charles Hospital and was a senior registrar at St Stephen’s Hospital. During the Second World War, he served as a major

Muriel Crouch was a consultant surgeon at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, the South London Hospital for Women and Children and Mount Vernon Hospital. She was one of the early female surgeons whose faith as a committed Christian pervaded all that she did. Born in 1914 into a Christian ho

David Dowse was a general surgeon in Nova Scotia, Canada. He was born in Dublin on 17 January 1937, the son of Richard Victor Dowse, a gynaecologist and obstetrician, and Ellen née Heard. His parents moved to Ceylon, where his father was a physician in Colombo, and then, during the Second World War,

Studied at Guy's Hospital, and practised at Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, where he was for some time in partnership with Joseph Brampton Wright, and died there after retirement on May 30th, 1888.

Son of Robert Druitt, senr, surgeon, of Wimborne, Dorsetshire. He was a pupil for four years of Charles Mayo, Surgeon to the Winchester Hospital, and in 1834 entered as a medical student at King's College, London, and Middlesex Hospital. He took up general practice, living in Bruton Street, Berkeley

Peter Bevan was professor of surgery at Birmingham and a former vice-president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He was born in Birmingham on 13 December 1922, of Welsh and Yorkshire roots, the elder son of Thomas John Bevan, a Congregational minister who served as a chaplain at Gallipoli

Entered the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon on Jan 24th, 1845, was promoted Surgeon in 1858, Surgeon Major in 1865, and retired in 1870. He saw active service in the 1st Sikh or Sutlej War, 1845-1846. Died at Agra.

Surgeon to the General Hospital, Nottingham, and to the County Gaol. He went to Jersey about 1863 and practised for many years at St Brelade's. He died before 1891. [Amendments from the annotated edition of *Plarr's Lives* at the Royal College of Surgeons: ? connected with John Attenborrow, Surgeon

At one time Assistant Surgeon in the Royal Navy to the Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth, and the Portsmouth Division of the Royal Marines. He settled in practice at Ramsgate, where he became Surgeon to the Ramsgate Dispensary. At his death on June 17th, 1861, he was in partnership with Henry Curling (

John Stanislaus Kenefick was a consultant surgeon at Barnet General Hospital. He was born in Cork, Ireland, on 10 February 1937, the son of Thomas Kenefick, a merchant, and Margaret Kenefick. He was educated at Presentation Brothers College in Cork, and then studied medicine at University College, C

Leslie Le Quesne was professor of surgery at the Middlesex Hospital, London. He was born in Ashburton, Devon, on 24 August 1919. His father, Charles Thomas Le Quesne, was a prominent barrister, originally from Jersey; his mother, Florence Elizabeth Eileen Pearce Gould, was the granddaughter of Sir A