Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows

Paul Townsend was born on 27 December 1937 in Hendon. During his early years the family lived in Radlett, Hertfordshire and, during the early years of the second world war, he remembered that he could see the bombs falling on London during the Blitz. His father worked as an army officer and later be

David Erskine Tolhurst was a pioneering plastic surgeon. Born in Wellington, New Zealand on 24 September 1934, he was the son of Robert Erskine, a stockbroker, and his wife Joan Morton née Henderson. He attended the Huntley School in Marton, where he won the Sherriff Memorial Prize and the Wanganui

Thomas John Starling Patterson (TP) was a consultant plastic and reconstructive surgeon in Oxford. He was born on 27 November 1920 in Melbourne, where his father, Sydney Wentworth Patterson, was working as a physician. His mother, Muriel Patterson née Starling, was the daughter of Ernest Starling, a

David Ian Wilson was born on 4 July 1962 in Birmingham. Regarded as the cleverest of his family, he won a scholarship to Warwick School. He trained in medicine at St Georges’s Medical School, passing his MB, BS London in 1985 and from there proceeded to Derriford Hospital, Plymouth to begin his trai

Robert Craig was a consultant plastic surgeon in Manchester. 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

Robert Arnold Fischl was chief of the plastic surgery section of Danbury Hospital, Danbury, Connecticut. He was born in Dresden, Germany on 18 June 1928. His father, Emil Fischl, was a paper manufacturer; his mother, Bettina Hahn, was the daughter of a banker. They left Germany in 1939 and settled i

Seamus Morgan O’Riain studied medicine at the National University of Ireland and qualified MB BCh in 1954. He did various house appointments at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in London, the Hammersmith Hospital and became a senior registrar at the Wessex Centre for Plastic and Reconstructive

Nicholas Bernard Hart was a consultant in plastic and reconstructive surgery in Grimsby. 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

Ronald Pigott, a consultant at Frenchay Hospital, Bristol was one of the most influential plastic surgeons of his generation, especially in the field of cleft lip and palate. Although he was the quintessential English gentleman, Ron actually carried an Irish passport. He was born on 16 September 193

David Maisels was a consultant plastic surgeon in Liverpool. He was born on 23 November 1924 in Johannesburg, South Africa. His father, Israel Maisels, was the first urologist in South Africa and a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh; his mother was Fanny Beatrice Maisels née Marks,

Norma Timoney was a consultant cleft lip and palate surgeon and paediatric plastic surgeon at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust for 20 years. She was born in Dublin and attended Loreto College at Stephen’s Green prior to studying dentistry at Trinity College D

Professor William (‘Bill’) Henry Reid was a plastic surgeon in the West of Scotland unit. He was president of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons in 1992 and vice president of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow from 1994 to 1997. He was born in Glasgow on 30 November