Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows

John Seddon Hopkins was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon in Nottinghamshire, at King’s Mill, Newark General and Harlow Wood Orthopaedic hospitals. He was born in Hamilton, New Zealand, on 4 March 1930. His father, Allan Hopkins, was a general surgeon, general practitioner and hospital med

Ray Davies was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Gloucester. He was born in Romford, Essex on 9 September 1933 to Arthur Davies, a London dock official, and his wife, Elsie, a chiropodist. An only child, he grew up in Hornchurch. His secondary education was at Brentwood School, where he was an aca

Stuart John Birtwistle (Birty) was born on 2 December 1961. He studied medicine in Dundee and graduated MB, ChB in 1988. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1992 and worked for the NHS as an orthopaedic surgeon in Leicester for over 30 years. He died on 13 June 2020 aged 60 years, survi

Huw Owen Thomas was an orthopaedic surgeon at Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge hospitals on the Wirral. He was born in 1941 into a medical family. He gained his MB BCh in Cardiff in 1966 and was a house surgeon in the accident unit at Cardiff Royal Infirmary. He went on to train in orthopaedic surge

Ronald Lawrie Huckstep was the inaugural professor of trauma and orthopaedic surgery at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, and before that at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. He was born in Chefoo, China, on 22 July 1926. His father, Herbert George Huckstep, was appointed dir

Charles Clinton-Thomas ('CT') was born on the 15 January 1912 in Dehra Dun, India, the eldest son of Brigadier Robert Clinton-Thomas RE and Evelyn Baddeley. He was educated at Charterhouse and University College Hospital and qualified with the conjoint diploma in 1937. His early appointments were at

James Cyril Fraser Cregan, consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Manchester, the son of James Grattan Cregan and his wife Gertrude, née Fraser, was born in London on 16 November 1918. His uncle, grandfather and great-uncle had all been doctors in London, Warwickshire, Manchester and Cheshire. His early

Roeland Raymakers was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester General Hospital and Loughborough General Hospital. He was born in the south of the Netherlands on 3 February 1933, but moved with his family to Accrington, Lancashire, in 1934. He studied medicine at West

Iain Stewart Duff was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at the West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth. Iain was of Scottish descent. His parents were devout, strict Christians. He was educated at King's College School, Wimbledon and became captain and fullback for the first XV rugby team. He e

Derek Spencer Porter was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon for Greenwich District Health Authority. He was born on 26 September 1930. He studied medicine at St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1954. He gained his FRCS in 1963. He served in the Royal Navy and subsequent

Gordon Andrew Hunter was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, the first and largest level one trauma centre in Canada, and professor in the department of surgery, University of Toronto. He was born on 25 May 1937 in London into a medical family. His father,

Adrian Weale was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. He was born in Kent on 29 March 1963 to Felix Weale, a consultant vascular surgeon, and Audrey Weale née Elliott, a nurse. He was educated at the King’s School, Rochester and Gravesend Grammar School. He read medicine