Professor Peter Williams was an outstanding anatomist who was known and respected world-wide for the editing and revision of *Gray's Anatomy*. He was born on 11 November 1926 at Caerleon in Gwent, the elder son of Jack Williams, a Welsh education and child-welfare officer. His father, who held st

Born on 11 November 1906, George Mitchell studied medicine at Aberdeen University, where he qualified in 1929. He was for a time surgeon in the Scottish Highlands, but then took up anatomy. During the second world war he served in the RAMC in North Africa, the Middle East and Europe, finally reachin

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

Joseph Mendel Yoffey was a professor of anatomy at the University of Bristol and a pioneering investigator into lymphoid tissues and bone marrow. He was born in Manchester in 1902 into an orthodox Jewish family and was educated at Manchester Grammar School. He went on to study medicine at Manchester

Gilbert Causey was born on 8 October 1907 in Wigan, Lancashire, the son of George Causey and Ada, née Hargreaves, who were shopkeepers. He was educated at Wigan Grammar School and Liverpool University. In 1930 he qualified MB ChB with first class honours, having been awarded numerous prizes and meda

Mary Frances Lucas was born on 15 August 1885, in Gravesend, the daughter of George John Lucas, who was a dental surgeon. She attended Rochester Grammar School for Girls and Eversley School, Folkestone. She entered the London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women in the 1904/5 sessio

David Moffat was professor of anatomy at Cardiff University. He was born in Swansea on 3 October 1921. His father, William Burns Moffat, was a master tailor; his mother, Christine Alice Moffat née Williams, was a housewife. Moffat attended Swansea Grammar School and began studying medicine at St Bar

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

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 12 November 1863 at 5 Westcombe Villas, Blackheath, SE, son of Thomas Cox Parsons, silk broker, and Lucy Susannah Kilvert, his wife. He was educated at St Thomas's Hospital, where he won the Grainger scholarship and became demonstrator of anatomy, lecturer (1886 to 1899) and for thirty years (1

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