Born in 1930, Dulal Ghosh was raised by a widowed mother in humble circumstances and won a scholarship to the Calcutta Medical College, qualifying MB BS in 1954 and gaining the Calcutta MS in 1961. He came to Britain in 1966 and passed the Fellowship in 1969, gaining the Edinburgh Fellowship in 1968

'Grant' Tulloh was a consultant ophthalmologist at Bristol Eye and Frenchay Hospitals. He was born on 31 October 1926 in Newcastle. His father, Frank Henry Tulloh, was in banking; his mother was Elsie Minnie née Earle. His paternal uncle was an ophthalmic surgeon and two of his brothers became docto

David Steel Chapman was a consultant surgeon at Ashington Hospital and a former professor of surgery at Natal University, South Africa. He was born in Choppington, Northumberland, in 1919. He qualified from Durham in 1942 and won the Hallet prize. Joining the Army in 1943, he was with the British ra

Madhira (Mike) Dasarhadi Ram, the son of Madhira Ram, an advocate, and of Madduri Lakshmi Bai Ram, was born at Visakhapatnam, India, on 6 April 1935. His medical education was at Andrha Medical College, Visakhapatnam, where he took a BSc in 1952 and graduated in medicine in 1957. He won a number of

Peter Choyce was a leading ophthalmic surgeon who championed and developed artificial lens implants. He was born on 1 March 1919 in London. His father, Charles Coley Choyce, was professor of surgery at University College Hospital, and a member of Council at the time of his death in 1937. His mother