Arthur James De Bruin qualified MB BS Ceylon in 1945. He became a Fellow of the College in 1960. Appointed casualty surgeon to the Lyell McEwin Hospital in Elizabeth, South Australia in 1968, he later became medical superintendent at the same hospital. In 1973 he became a Fellow of the Royal Austral

David Millward Davies was born in Gwaelod-y-Garth and educated at Pontypridd Grammar School before entering the Welsh National School of Medicine where he graduated BSc in 1941 and MB, ChB in 1944. His first appointment was at Morriston Hospital, Swansea, under the wartime Emergency Medical Service.

Graeme Ballantyne Smaill was born in Gisbome, New Zealand, in 1928 and was educated at Gisbome High School and Otago University where he graduated MB, ChB in 1954. In his student days he was keen on surf lifesaving and on tennis. After graduation he spent three years at Wellington Hospital as house

Donald Urquhart-Hay was a well-known New Zealand urologist who enjoyed an enviable worldwide reputation. He had an excellent postgraduate training in the United Kingdom, mainly in London and organised by the Institute of Urology, and pioneered renal transplantation in Wellington, New Zealand. When s

Patrick James Chesterman was born in Hillingdon on 15 June 1928, the son of G.H. Chesterman, and after early education at Gunnersbury Roman Catholic School entered St Mary's Hospital Medical School in 1944 at the unusually early age of sixteen. During his student days he captained the medical school

Francis John Ensell was born on 27 May 1926 and graduated in medicine at Birmingham in 1949. He held house appointments at Queen Elizabeth Hospital and the General Hospital, Birmingham, and took the FRCS in 1960. He had served in the Royal Air Force and was awarded the George Medal for bravery while

Howard Calvin Smith was licenced to practice medicine in California in 1946. He took the Membership and Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1960. Returning to the USA he joined the faculty of the Medical School of Loma Linda University in California. He moved to Mexico in the m

David Jeremiah McAuliffe was born in 1932 and after early education entered the University of Adelaide Medical School, qualifying in 1954. Having completed junior appointments in Australia he came to Britain and worked as lecturer in the department of ophthalmology at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh.

Alan Blower served in the medical branch of the RAF as a consultant surgeon for 17 years, but had to retire on health grounds in 1970. He retrained in radiology, and became a successful and popular consultant at Peterborough. He was born in Greenwich on 31 January 1927, the only son of Thomas Paske

David Haw was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in York who had very broad interests, but enjoyed paediatrics as a subspecialty. He had an abiding interest in clinical anatomy, and in retirement taught anatomy to medical students for 11 years. He was born on 17 September 1926 at Batticaloa, Ceylon,

Wilbert McNeill Orr, known as ‘Willie’, was a renal transplant researcher and surgeon, and later a general surgeon in Manchester. He was born on 3 April 1930 in Trim, County Meath, Ireland, the son of David Orr, a bank manager, and Wilamena McNeill, a teacher. He attended Sligo Grammar School and en

Teja Mangat was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Dudley and Stourbridge Hospital and retired from clinical practice in 1995, after which he continued medico-legal work. Born on 7 May 1930 in Nairobi, Kenya, he was the fifth son of Waryam Singh Mangat, a pioneer who went to Kenya in 1908 and pract