Born 12 December 1882, son of Henry Joseph Bristow of Bexley, Kent, underwriter, and Fanny Clara Sheppard, his wife. He was educated at Brighton Grammar School, and at St Thomas's Hospital, where he served as demonstrator of anatomy, and house surgeon to Sir George Makins. He was early interested in

Born at The Close, Stratton St Margaret, near Swindon on 29 March 1906 the only son and eldest of the three children of E Francis Glynn, major, Royal Field Artillery (TF) and Phyllis Anne, his wife, daughter of Philip Glynn Messent, chief engineer to the River Tyne Commissioners. He was educated at

Educated in Australia, he graduated from the University of Sydney in 1920 and then came to London, where he worked at St Mary's and Guy's Hospitals. After taking the Fellowship in 1923 he held resident posts at St George's, the West London and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospitals. He then marrie

Born near Lyon in 1868, he had a brilliant school and university career there. He qualified in 1893 with a thesis on difficulties of bone-growth following experimental and clinical lesions of the conjugatory cartilages. Nové-Josserand intended to enter the factories of the Creusot engineering compan

Born at Blackburn, Lancashire, on 4 September 1882, the eldest of the two sons and three daughters of George Ollerenshaw, JP, merchant, of Cherry Tree near Blackburn, and his wife Hannah Higginbottom. His father later lived at Glossop, Derbyshire. Ollerenshaw was educated at Manchester Grammar Schoo

Sydney Michael Lewis Nade was foundation professor of orthopaedics at the University of Western Australia. His parents, Louis Nade, an electrical engineer from Warsaw Polytechnic, and Ludwika Nade née Kaftal, a law graduate, fled to Australia from Poland in 1938. Their first son, Sydney, named in ho

Ratan Cavashah Edibam was an orthopaedic surgeon in Perth, Western Australia. He gained his FRCS in 1963 and subsequently studied at Liverpool University. He was also a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He died in July 2012.

Born 28 April 1878 at Croxall Lodge, Bromham Road, Bedford, the son of James Aberdour Elmslie and Cecilia Cheyne, his wife. His father, a master marine and lieutenant RNR, was captain of the *La Hogue* and the *Sobraon*, noted clippers on the Australian run. His mother came of distinguished medical

Philip Victor Seal, known as 'Vic' to family, friends and colleagues, was a popular and highly respected orthopaedic surgeon in Hereford. He was born in Brighton, Sussex, from humble stock. His father, Eric Joseph Seal, was a carpenter, killed in action in 1945. His mother, Emily Nellie Seal née Ell

Philip Vlasto was an assistant orthopaedic surgeon to the West Dorset Health Authority. He was born on 25 November 1919, just after the end of the First World War, to Augustus Vlasto, a businessman, and his wife, Milly. Philip was educated at Lockers Park School and then Charterhouse, where his fasc

Born 3 September 1871, the younger son of Worthington Evans (1827-1901) of York Terrace, Regent's Park, London, and his second wife, Susanna Jane, daughter of James Laming of Birchington Hall, Kent. The family derived from Thomas Evans of Tyreymynech, Guilsfield, Montgomery, who died in 1742. An eld

Born on 4 August 1907 the son of W W Coltart MRCS of Epsom he was educated at Epsom College and St Bartholomew's Hospital, to which he had won a scholarship. He qualified in 1930 and was, in succession, house surgeon to Sir Girling Ball, J P Hosford, R C Elmslie, S L Higgs and Sir Harold Gillies. Fo