Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows

Hassan Agha Hashemian was a professor of surgery and head of the department of surgery at the Cancer Institute, Tehran. He was born in Kashan, Iran, on 14 April 1915, the son of Hossein Hashemian, a velvet merchant, and Nagar, a housewife. He was educated at Tehran Boys School, and then received a s

Brian Hayes was a consultant surgeon at East Glamorgan Hospital, Pontypridd. He was born in Tibshelf, Derbyshire, in 1929, the son of a miner. He was brought up in the north east of England, until the family moved to south Wales. He studied medicine in Newcastle, and went on to hold junior posts in

David Bonar Mackie was a consultant general surgeon in Salisbury, Wiltshire. His parents David Taylor Mackie and Mary Gray née Chittick were Scottish. His father was a GP in Aberdour, Fife, and then moved to a general practice in Exeter, where Bonar was born in 1936. Bonar was educated at Sherborne

John Marsh was a consultant surgeon to the South Warwickshire NHS Trust. His father, Alfred Marsh, was a general practitioner in Chorley, Lancashire, where John was born on 8 April 1925. His mother was Dorothea Maud née Saywell. From the Terra Nova Preparatory School in Southport he won a scholarshi

John Matheson was a former professor of military surgery at the Royal Army Medical College, Millbank, London. He was born in Gibraltar on 6 August 1912, the son of John Matheson, the then manager of the Eastern Telegraph station, and Nina. The family later moved on to Malta and then to Port Said. Jo

William Jones Owen was a consultant surgeon at Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals and a senior lecturer at King’s College, London. He spent his early life in north Wales, where he excelled at his academic work, rugby, music and Welsh. He won first prize in a recital group at the Urdd National Eisteddfo

Born on 6 January 1854, the second child and eldest son of William Roger Williams, draper, and his wife, *née* Williams, who was a cousin. He was educated at Gloucester and at the Bristol Medical School, and afterwards at University College, London, where he was demonstrator of anatomy, and in Paris

Born at Warrington on 24 April 1898, the eldest child of William Thomas Williams, draper, and Jane Jones, his wife. He was educated at Boteler Grammar School, Warrington, at Liverpool University, and at the London Hospital. He gained the Derby exhibition in clinical medicine and the Robert Gee Fello

Educated at Queen's College, Belfast, and at Guy's Hospital, he settled at Haverfordwest, Pembroke, immediately after he qualified, and was in partnership with Y H Mills, FRCS, becoming surgeon to the Haverfordwest Infirmary. He died on 5 August 1932. Publications: Double ovarian tumour followin

Born 16 September 1870 at Wandsworth Common, London, the eleventh child and eighth and youngest son of Joseph Wilson, MICE, and Harriet Ann Moore, his wife. He was educated at Dulwich College and at the Whitgift School, Croydon. He then entered the Medical School at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where

He was probably educated at St Thomas's Hospital, where William Anderson, FRCS, professor of anatomy and surgery at the Imperial Naval Medical College, Tokio 1873-90, was assistant surgeon and lecturer on anatomy in the medical school. Totsuka was a member of the surgical staff of the Imperial Naval

The Trotter family has long been settled in Gloucestershire, where it had an honoured connexion with the Baptist Church. Wilfred Trotter was born in London on 3 November 1872, the son of Howard Birt Trotter of Coleford, Gloucestershire, and Frances Lewes, his wife. His early years were spent at Cole