Brendan Keane was a surgeon at the Whakatane Hospital, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. He was born in Dublin on 9 May 1926, one of six children. His father rose to become private secretary to Eamon de Valera and head of the Irish Civil Service. His mother was a teacher from the Aran Islands, where the f

Martin Corry was born on 23 May 1937 in Oxford, the son of D C Corry, a distinguished surgeon in that city and a Fellow of the College. It seems to have been assumed from early on that he would follow his father's profession and, after schooling at the Dragon in Oxford and at Rugby, he went up to Qu

Rodney John Hall was a surgeon in Adelaide, South Australia. He was born on 7 April 1928 at Waikerie, South Australia, and studied medicine at the University of Melbourne, graduating in 1957. He was a resident medical officer at the Bendigo and Northern District Bone Hospital from 1957 to 1958. He

John James McGhee, known as ‘Jack’, was a surgeon in the Canadian town of Prince Georgia, British Columbia (BC). He was born in Princeton, BC, on 6 December 1931 and raised in Trail. His parents, Thomas Doyle McGhee, a miner, and Agnes Wilson McGhee, both originally from Glasgow, agreed that Jack an

David Robert Ernest Reeve studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital and graduated MB BS in 1964, passing the Conjoint Diploma the same year. He became casualty surgeon to St Charles's Hospital, London, lecturer in anatomy to King's College, London and surgical registrar to Bart's. He was then ap

Ahmed Zaki El Ghatit was born in Egypt on 2 October 1931, the eighth child of Aly, a lawyer, and Fatma. He was educated at the College des Frères and at Cairo University, graduating MB, BCh in 1955. He passed the FRCS (and MRCS) examinations in 1964 and FRCS Ed in 1963 . He worked at the London Hosp

Born in 1940 in Hove, Sussex, the son of a general practitioner, George Nigel Boobbyer was educated at Prestonville, Brighton, and Haileybury. He read medicine at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, graduating MB BS London, in 1964 and gaining the Conjoint Diploma in that year. He was house surgeon i