Frances Selsnick, one of the most remarkable women of her generation, was the first female general surgeon in the United States and the first female American Fellow of our College. Frances was born in New York on 23 December, 1917, the daughter of Harry Selznick and Florence née Greenfield. Having b

D’Arcy Power was born on 11 November 1855 at 3 Grosvenor Terrace, afterwards 56 Belgrave road, Pimlico, SW, the eldest of the six sons and five daughters of Henry Power, then assistant surgeon at the Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital and Ann, his wife and first cousin, youngest daughter of Thomas Simp

Kelvin Thomas was a consultant surgeon at Nottingham General and King Mill hospitals. He was born in Hong Kong on 11 November 1926, the son of George Harold Thomas, a surgeon, and Nora née Gourdin. His father was formally admitted as a fellow by election by Sir Arthur Porritt in 1961, who went to Ho

Gwyn Roberts was a consultant general surgeon at the Hastings group of hospitals. He was born in Kampala, Uganda, on 26 April 1929, where his father, Clifford Ellis, was a surgeon and his mother, Lydia Flay, a nurse. He was educated at the Prince of Wales School, Nairobi, and Millfield, in Somerset,

Belonged to a family prominent through several generations at East Stonehouse between Plymouth and Devonport, where for many years his father was in practice. He, too, practised at East Stonehouse for some twenty years until 1859. From 1856 he was in partnership with Christopher Bulteel, who was Sur

The son of Daniel Jackson, of Chadwell Place, Grays, Essex. After school at Brentwood he studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and was Clinical Assistant at St Luke's Hospital, London, and House Surgeon at the Beckett Hospital, Barnsley. In 1884 he joined in partnership, J R Humphreys, who was then

Born at Ely in Cambridgeshire on Sept. 11th, 1818, the second son of William Marshall, solicitor, an excellent naturalist. John Marshall's elder brother, William (d. 1890), sometime Coroner for Ely, was an enthusiastic botanist, who first elucidated the life-history of the American pond-weed, *Anach

Studied at King’s College Hospital, where he became Prosector to Professor Richard Partridge. He had worked in Charing Cross Hospital at a time when there was no Medical School, and also at the Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital. He was appointed Assistant Surgeon to Charing Cross Hospital in 1841, and

Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals. Practised at Burton-on-Trent, where for many years he was Surgeon and then Consulting Surgeon to the Infirmary. After his retirement he lived for some twenty years at 'The Heath', Stapenhill, Burton-on-Trent, and died in 1900-1901

Educated at Guy’s Hospital. He went to Brisbane, where, at the time of his death, he was a colonist of forty-five years’ standing. He was at one time Visiting Surgeon to the Lady Bowen Hospital; Hon. Consulting Medical Officer to the Hospital for Sick Children; Member of the Queensland Board of Heal

Donald McGavin was a general surgeon at Leicester Royal Infirmary. He was born on 23 September 1906 in Wellington, New Zealand, the son of Mary Allan née Chapple and Major General Sir Donald Johnstone McGavin, FRCS, who had been director general of the New Zealand Army Medical Services at the end of

John Collis Carter – John Carter in the *Fellows’ Register* – was one of the earliest members of the Royal College of Surgeons, the Charter of which is dated March 22nd, 1800, as George Gunning Campbell (qv) was one of the last to be admitted a member of the old Corporation of Surgeons. Dates of his