Sir Harold Himsworth was elected to the honorary Fellowship in 1965, during his tenure of the office of Secretary of the Medical Research Council. 'Harry' was born in Huddersfield on 19 May 1905, and was educated at King James Grammar School in nearby Almonbury. He came to London for his medical edu

Born on 21 May 1873 second child and only son of Thomas Headland Gordon-Wilson and his wife née Kelly, he was educated at Highgate School, and won an entrance scholarship in science to the London Hospital. At his qualification he took honours in forensic medicine in 1897. He served as senior house s

Ivan Stuart Wilson was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1883. After qualifying in medicine from the University of Otago he came to England for postgraduate experience. He was demonstrator of anatomy at the London Hospital under Professor William Wright and then worked at the Chelsea Hospital for Wom

Eric Scowen was Professor of Medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He was born in London on 22 April 1910 and trained at Bart's. After being chief assistant at the Royal Chest Hospital, he returned to Bart's as assistant physician in 1937, being made physician in 1946. He was appointed as the Profe

Lord Robert Kilpatrick was dean and professor of medicine at the University of Leicester Medical School, and a former president of the General Medical Council (GMC) and the British Medical Association (BMA). He was born in Wemyss, Fife, Scotland, the only child of Robert Kilpatrick, a mine worker. A

Charles Hollenberg was professor of medicine and chair of the department of medicine at the University of Toronto, and physician-in-chief of Toronto General Hospital. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email

Andrew Raffle, former chief medical officer of London Transport Executive, was an expert on medical standards for driving. He was born on 3 September 1918 in Newcastle upon Tyne, where his father, Andrew Banks Raffle, a barrister and a doctor, was medical officer for health for South Shields (he was

Dame Cicely Saunders established St Christopher's Hospice in London, which became the model for hundreds of other hospices. She was born in Barnet, Hertfordshire, on 22 June 1918, the daughter of Gordon Saunders, a domineering estate agent, and Mary Christian Wright. She was educated at Roedean and

Dennis Walder, professor of surgical science at the University of Newcastle, was a leading researcher in the field of decompression sickness ('the bends') and hyperbaric medicine. Surgery as a specialty has always been encompassed by wide boundaries, but Dennis' research must surely rank as a topic

Born on 3 March 1866, the son of the Rev John Box and his wife Sarah Bray. He was educated at Dulwich College, and started work in business in the City. Finding this uncongenial he entered St Thomas's Hospital medical school, where his student career was brilliant. He took honours in physiology in 1

Born at Blackheath on 22 April 1874, the eldest child and only son of Captain William Maxwell, merchant navy, and his wife, *née* Dobell. He was educated at Weymouth College and Trinity College, Cambridge, of which he was sizar and exhibitioner. He took first-class honours in part 1, 1896, of the Na

Hugh Baron was a consultant physician-gastroenterologist at St Mary's and Hammersmith hospitals, London. Of all his qualities, the foremost was his love of scholarship. He hungered for knowledge in all his many areas of interest, and from his research and ideas he added to most of them. He described