Born on 16 June 1903, Chapman received his medical education at Glasgow University where he graduated in 1928. He was appointed a senior house surgeon at the Western Infirmary, and later was a demonstrator of anatomy at the University. Coming to London for postgraduate study he worked at St Bartholo

Born on 18 November 1903, he received his medical education at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and St Thomas's Hospital, qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1929. In 1932 he proceeded to the degree of MD being awarded the Raymond Horton-Smith Prize for his thesis and in 1933 he was admitted a

John Douglas Fergusson was born on 5 December 1909 at Great Malvern, Worcestershire, the son of John Newberry Fraser Fergusson, FRCS Edinburgh, radiologist at York County Hospital. He was educated at St Peter's School, York, and St John's College, Cambridge, where he was college prizeman and scholar

James Firth Heslop was born in South Shields and studied medicine at Manchester University, where he graduated with honours in 1933. As a house surgeon he came under the influence of John Morley and took the FRCS in 1936, becoming in turn registrar to the surgical outpatients department, resident ca

Anthony Richard Charles Higham was born at Murree, Punjab, on 11 June, 1907, eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel B Higham, CIE, IMS, and Florence Parsons, whose father was acting Governor of Madras Presidency. He was educated at Epsom College, 1919-24, King's College, University of London, 1924-27 and

Ian Langdale Gregory qualified MB ChB from Manchester University in 1943 and passed the Conjoint Diploma the same year. He worked as supernumerary chief assistant at the Manchester Royal Infirmary and then became surgical registrar to the Withington Hospital, Manchester. He moved to London and was a

Joel Gabe was educated at King's College, London, and the Westminster Hospital and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1925 and graduated MB BS in 1927, gaining the Fellowship in 1931. After junior posts at St Paul's Hospital and at the Royal Northern Hospital, he specialized in urology and wa

David Farrar was appointed as a consultant urological surgeon at Selly Oak Hospital in 1978 and, in 1993, with hospital mergers, moved to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, where he remained until his retirement in 2003. He was born on 3 July 1942 in Rawdon, Yorkshire, the only son of James

Born on April 2, 1899 at Newcastle, New South Wales, a son of the manse, James was educated at the University of Sydney. After qualifying in 1921, he held resident appointments at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, and later in London at the West London Hospital and St Bartholomew's. He speci

Born in Australia in 1903, John Gordon Sandrey went to Sydney High School where he won a scholarship to Sydney University from which he graduated MB, ChB with honours in 1926. After two years he came to London where he trained in surgery while holding posts as resident surgical officer at St Mark's

Ashworth received his medical education at Manchester, whence he qualified MB ChB in 1940. After war service in the RAMC he obtained the FRCS in 1950 and made his career in urology, holding consultant posts at the Crumpsall Hospital Manchester, at the Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute, the

David Wallace was one of the foremost urological surgeons in Britain after the second world war, and his work with Dr Roger Pugh at the Institute of Urology led to important advances in our understanding of urological malignancies. Working with Julian Bloom he also set up a multi-centre trial for th