Trevor Pickering was a consultant surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, a member of Australia’s first successful transplant team and president of the Australian Medical Association (AMA). He was born in Adelaide, South Australia, the only child of Hilda Hale Bleckly and

Ken Hobbs was a professor of surgery at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine and a pioneer in the field of liver surgery. He was born in London on 28 December 1936, the son of Thomas Edward Ernest Hobbs and Gladys May Hobbs née Neave. He moved as a child to south Norfolk and attended school in

Vijay Kakkar, professor of surgical science at King’s College School of Medicine and Dentistry, established the importance of giving the anticoagulant heparin to surgical patients, saving thousands of lives by preventing fatal blood clots. He was born in Sialkot in the Punjab, India on 22 March 1937

Graham Sherwood Peck (also known as ‘Pecky’) was a senior surgeon at the Western General Hospital, Victoria, Australia. He was born in Melbourne on 15 May 1930. His father, Claude Russell Lemuel Peck, was a transport manager; his mother was Mary Queenie Peck née Houghton, a housewife. He attended Me

Roger Hew Grace was a professor of colorectal surgery at the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

John Stuart Bailey (or 'JCB') was a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon in Leicester. He was born in Jerusalem, Palestine, and spent his early years in Cairo, before being evacuated in 1940 to Durban and on to England. He was educated at Sherborne School, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and St

James Dalrymple was a general and orthopaedic surgeon in the UK, Canada, Peru and South Africa, and later in his career became a gender reassignment surgeon. He was born in Cardiff on 20 December 1931, the son of Samuel Beggs Dalrymple, a medical practitioner, and Marjorie Dalrymple née Oxenham. He