Joe Siegenberg was a surgeon in British Columbia, Canada. He was born on 3 January 1927 in Johannesburg, South Africa, the son of Lewis (Lou) Siegenberg and Sarah Siegenberg née Bernstein. He was a self-starter, an individual who, even though he came from a challenging, difficult background, managed

Slabber du Toit was an ophthalmic surgeon based in British Columbia, Canada. He was born on 23 September 1932 and raised in Kakamas, a small farm town in northwest South Africa. Slabber was the third child (second son) of four children. His mother, Maria Johanna du Toit née Slabber, was the daughter

Sir Donald Acheson was Chief Medical Officer for England from 1983 to 1991, a period that included the rise of HIV infection and the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) crisis. He was born in Belfast on 17 September 1926, the son of Malcolm King Acheson, a doctor specialising in public health, an

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

Howell Pritchard Jones was a consultant general surgeon at Birkenhead who retrained as a physician in rehabilitative medicine following a stroke. He was born in Cerrig-y-drudion, north Wales, on 2 September 1918, the son of William Thomas Jones and Jane Jones née Hughes. The family moved to Rhewl, n

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

Practised at 13 Harley Street, and then at 4 Harley Street. At the time of his death he was Senior Physician to the Metropolitan Free Hospital and to the Infirmary for Consumption, Margaret Street. He died at 4 Harley Street on June 6th, 1871. Publications: *On the Use of Perchloride of Iron and ot

Born in Sydney and was educated at three local schools. He came to Europe to finish his general education, and was enrolled as a student of medicine at University College, London, where he obtained medals for proficiency in anatomy and in medicine, and won the Fellowes Gold Medal as the most profici

Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He then became House Surgeon of the Brighton and Hove Hospital for Women and Children and Lying-in-Hospital, afterwards going into practice at Pangbourne, where he was Medical Officer at Bradfield College. From 1890 onwards he practised at Reading, where he was

Educated at Guy's Hospital. He was for a time Resident Medical Officer, Registrar, and Chloroformist of the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children. He then settled at Peterborough, where at the time of his death he was Physician to the Infirmary and Medical Officer of Health of the Peterborough Rural an

Educated at Guy's Hospital, acted as Assistant to H S Powis at Clapham Common, and practised at Kingston-on-Thames in partnership with W S Roots. At the time of his death he was Consulting Physician to the Surbiton Cottage Hospital. He was a Fellow of the Microscopical Society, a member of the Patho

Came of a Swiss family and received his early education in arts and sciences at Lausanne, studying for his profession subsequently at Strasburg, Heidelberg, Geneva, Bâle, and St Thomas's Hospital. He was appointed Physician to the French Hospital and Dispensary, London, and was well known in medical