Francis John Hector was born in Bristol on October 15 1894. He was educated at Bristol, King's College, the Middlesex Hospital and Guy's Hospital and qualified MRCS LRCP in 1922 and was appointed consulting gynaecologist to the Bristol United Hospital. A man of many great abilities and diverse inter

Graeme McLeish was born in Melbourne on 6 June 1930. His father, Roderick Simpson McLeish, was a salesman and his mother was Doris, née Hague. From Spring Road School he gained a scholarship to Scotch College, Melbourne, where he was Dux of the school in 1947 and school captain in 1948. He held RMO

Ian Logan Craft was born on 11 July 1937 in Wanstead, East London, one of twins, sadly his sister failed to survive the birth. He was the eldest of the three sons of Reginald Craft, an employee of Barclays Bank, and his wife Lois née Logan, who also worked for the bank until she married. Educated in

Donald Fraser was a consultant gynaecologist to St Bartholomew's. He was born in New Brunswick, Canada, on 9 June 1910, the son of Thomas Blake Fraser, a general practitioner who had qualified at McGill. His mother was Jenny Simon Green. He was educated at St John Grammar School and the University o

Alan Gillespie was born on 25 May 1928. He studied medicine at London University and trained at University College Hospital (UCH), graduating MB, BS with first class honours in 1951. After initial house jobs at UCH and the Samaritan Hospital for Women in London, he was appointed senior registrar in

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

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

Elliot Philipp was an eminent gynaecologist and obstetrician, author of numerous popular and technical medical works, and a committed religious and charitable Jew. He was born on 20 July 1915 to Oscar Isaac and Clarisse Philipp (née Weil) in Stoke Newington, London. He was educated at Warwick House

Jean Burton-Brown was a consultant gynaecologist to the east Kent group of hospitals. She was born in Rothsay on the Isle of Bute, Scotland, on 13 July 1908, the only daughter of Alexander Burton-Brown, a colonel in the Royal Horse Artillery and a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and Ethel

Went to Bury St Edmunds Grammar School, then to Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, to which the fame of Sir Astley Cooper attracted him as it did others. He settled in practice at Framlingham, Suffolk, and there gained for himself the honour of being amongst the first in England to remove an ovarian c

The son of Edward Lea, of Sandbach, Cheshire, and a nephew through his mother of Dr F W Warrington, of Congleton. He was educated at Parkhurst School, Buxton, and at Owens College. He afterwards held resident appointments at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, where he was House Surgeon, at the Hospital

Born in Exeter on June 19th, 1885, the son of Richard Ley, of Exmouth. He was educated at Malvern and at the London Hospital, where he won the Obstetric Scholarship and Prize in 1907 and was Pathological Assistant. In 1910 he became House Surgeon at the Gloucester Royal Infirmary, proceeding thence