John Richard Carr Gardham, always known as Richard, was a consultant general surgeon and medical director of Chase Farm Hospital NHS Trust. Born in London on 26 April 1937, he came from a medical background. His father, Arthur John Gardham, was a consultant surgeon at University College Hospital and

John Hogg was a vascular and general surgeon in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia. He was born on 10 January 1943 in Sydney, the son of James Wilson Hogg, the headmaster of Trinity Grammar School, and Alyson Hogg. He was educated at Trinity, where he excelled academically and was al

Trevor Layzell was a general and vascular surgeon at Bishop Auckland General Hospital. He was born on 2 February 1949 and studied medicine at Newcastle University, graduating in 1972. He started his career at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, followed by a move to Sunderland Roya

Alban Barros D'Sa was a consultant general surgeon at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust. He was born in Nairobi, Kenya, into a Catholic family originally from Goa. Barros D'Sa later moved with his parents to Kisumu on Lake Victoria, where he went to school. He knew he wanted t

Maurice Feldman was a consultant general and vascular surgeon at Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham. He was born in Cardiff on 7 August 1927, the youngest son of Lewis Feldman, a retail and wholesale trader, and Leah Feldman née Volozhen, a housewife. He was educated at Wood Street and Roath Park elem

Ian Christopher Gordon-Smith was born in 1941 and was educated at Haileybury, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and the Middlesex Hospital. He qualified in 1964. After house officer posts at the Middlesex he was surgical registrar at Cheltenham General Hospital, taking the FRCS in 1969. He then

Edward John Immelman was a consultant vascular surgeon at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa. He was educated at Rondebosch Boys' High School and went on to study medicine at the University of Cape Town, where his academic ability was recognised with the award of the McCullogh and Aaron

Roy Miller was a senior consultant surgeon at Kenyatta National and Nairobi hospitals, Kenya. He was born in Croydon on 26 June 1921, the son of Arthur John Miller, assistant secretary of the Prudential Assurance Company, and Marjorie Louise Miller née Garrett. He was educated at Cumnor House School

Peter Henry Dickinson was a consultant surgeon at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, an honorary consultant in vascular surgery for the Newcastle Regional Health Board and a lecturer in clinical surgery at the University of Newcastle. He was born on 17 June 1922 and studied medicine

William George ('Bill') Jamieson was a general and vascular surgeon at the Victoria Hospital, London, Ontario, Canada. He was born and raised in Cobourg, Ontario. Before earning his BSc degree at Eastern Michigan University he was a successful minor league baseball player. He went on to medical scho

Edgar Williams Parry was a consultant surgeon at Broadgreen, Bootle and Waterloo hospitals, Liverpool, and a leader in the field of vascular surgery. He was born at Betws Garmon, a hamlet in north Wales, on 1 May 1919, the son of a farmer, and was educated at Caernarvon Grammar School. He studied me

Mike Butler helped establish and develop general surgical services in the Isle of Thanet, Margate and Ramsgate, Kent. He was born on 21 January 1924 in London, the third child and first son of Frank Butler and Ailsa Butler née Beckwith. His father served in the First World War and was a dentist, ori