Hanuš Weisl was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon in South Glamorgan, Wales. He escaped his native Prague in the last kindertransport to London in June 1939. His parents, Alfred, a dentist, and Marie née Mandler, a doctor, eventually joined him in England after the Second World War. After

Arthur Powell Wyatt was a consultant surgeon in the Greenwich health district. He was born in Hornsey, Middlesex, on 14 October 1932. His father, Henry George Wyatt, a medical missionary in China, died as a neutral during the Sino-Japanese War in 1938. His mother, Edith Maud née Holden, also a missi

Crawford Jamieson was one of the country's leading peripheral vascular surgeons. He made major academic contributions to the literature of that specialty and became president of the Vascular Surgical Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 1995. The son of Crawford John Baird Jamieson, an industria

Howard Jayne was a senior consultant general surgeon at St Stephen's and St Mary Abbott's hospitals, London, and a senior surgical tutor at the Westminster Hospital Medical School. He studied medicine at King's College, London, and then Westminster, where he was a keen cricketer. He was an excellen

Neil McGuire had a varied surgical career, ranging from active service in the RAMC during the Second World War, followed by general surgical training, 11 years in the Colonial Medical Service, further senior registrar posts (initially in cardiothoracic surgery, before changing to ENT surgery) and fi

John Neville Ormrod was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon in Kent. He was born in Birmingham on 12 December 1922 to James Ormrod, a dental surgeon, and Dorothy Ormrod née Wilson. His early schooling was in Birmingham at Chigwell House and Lickey Hills preparatory schools, and then at Aldenham School,

Born at Putney on May 2nd, 1854, the son of John Bullar, of Basset Wood, Southampton. He was a pupil of C Scott, of East Molesey, Surrey, and matriculated from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1872, having been admitted a pensioner on October 12th in that year. He obtained a first class in the Natural

Born at West Downham, Isle of Ely, where his father was curate. He was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and after qualifying was for a short period assistant to a medical man at Birmingham. Soon, however, he went to Ipswich as assistant to Mr Stibbins, whose pupil he had been, and on the latte

Born on May 18th, 1808, the son of J Bulley, who came of an old Berkshire family long connected with Reading. His mother was a Blagrave, another ancient Reading family, which produced a regicide, distinguished mathematicians, and for three centuries the Reading Members of Parliament. Bulley's father

Educated at St George's Hospital and at Lane's School, he matriculated but never graduated at London University. He was at one time Resident Surgeon at St Mary's Hospital and Demonstrator of Anatomy in the School adjacent to St George's Hospital, as well as a Member of the Court of Examiners of the

Was educated at St Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals, then united. He practised at Congleton, Cheshire, where he was Union Medical Officer, and he was also Member of the London Vaccine Institution. He died at Congleton on March 26th, 1863.

Educated at St George's Hospital. He started practice in partnership with Dr Warren Isball at Stonehouse in 1856, where he remained for many years (62 and later 84 Durnford Street). He was Surgeon to the Royal Albert Hospital and Eye Infirmary, Devonport, and at the time of his death Consulting Surg