Born on 28 October 1911, second son of Joshua Davies, farmer, and Mary Emma Ryder, of Dolfonddu, Cemmaes, he was educated at Cemmaes Primary School, Montgomeryshire and Towyn County School, where he gained an entrance scholarship to University College, London. There he was awarded a gold medal in ph

Born at Wigan, 24 February 1874, the second child and first son of Joseph Wright, clothier, and Agnes Rae, his wife, both parents being of Scottish extraction. He was educated at Wigan Grammar School and at Owen's College, Manchester. He practised for a short time as a general practitioner, in partn

Born 1862, the son of James Robinson, of Manchester, he was educated at Edinburgh University, where he took honours when he graduated in medicine and surgery in 1883, and won the gold medal at the MD examination 1890 for his thesis on the development of two rodents. After serving as demonstrator of

Born in Ireland in 1870, he was educated at Queen's College, Belfast and the University of Edinburgh. After a period on the staff of the Department of Anatomy at Newcastle, he became a senior demonstrator in the Department of Anatomy at Birmingham University. In 1915 he was appointed head of the

William James Hamilton was born in County Antrim on 21 July 1903 and educated at Queen's University, Belfast, where he took the BSc with first-class honours in 1926 and obtained first place and first-class honours in the final medical examinations in 1929. He proceeded MSc in 1931 and went to Glasgo

Born on 5 June at Hemel Hempstead the second of the three sons of the Rev Travers Clark, he was a grandson of Frederick Le Gros Clark, President of the College in 1874, member of Council from 1864 to 1879 and surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital. For his education Le Gros Clark went to Blundell's School,

Professor Chummy Sinnatamby was an anatomist and the long-standing author and editor of Last’s Anatomy. 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

Alexander Galloway was educated at Fraserburgh Academy and Aberdeen University, graduating MA in 1921 and qualifying in medicine in 1925. He went to Canada as Professor of Anatomy at the University of Saskatchewan in 1927, but in 1932 he migrated to Johannesburg, South Africa, where he was senior le

Born 19 June 1869 at Hogsthorpe, Lincolnshire, son of Robert Addison, a farmer, and Susan Fanthorpe his wife. He was educated at Trinity College, Harrogate, and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was later demonstrator and lecturer in anatomy. He qualified in 1891 and took the Fellowship in 1895. H

James Robinson, formerly senior surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, was born on 25 June 1921 in Brisbane, Australia. At an early age his parents moved to France, where his father, Ernest Longton Robinson, died in 1928. His mother, Mary Gordon Olive née Love, then married Rupert Shelton Cor

Pugh, Roger CouRoger Pugh, a distinguished morbid anatomist, was elected to the Fellowship of the College in 1983 on his retirement, in recognition of his many contributions to surgical pathology. He was born in Talgarth, Brecon, Wales on 23 February 1917, the son of the local doctor, Robert Pugh, w

Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital and at the Universities of Edinburgh and Dublin. He was born at Portsmouth and was the scion of a Norfolk family, his father being John Goodeve, banker, latterly of Bury Hall, Hants. Through his mother, Elizabeth Hurry, he claimed kindred with Sir John Hurry, th