Ram Prasad Chakrabarty was head of the department of orthopaedics at the Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi. He was born on 5 June 1918. In the run up to the Partition of India he was a resident medical doctor at Calcutta Medical College and gave first aid to the victims of bloody riots in the city

John Beverley King studied medicine at the London Hospital Medical College and graduated MB, BS in 1967. During his orthopaedic training at the London, he was also attached to the knee unit at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital for a time. Later he obtained a fellowship to study in France with

George Attara was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Gwynedd Hospital in Bangor, Wales. He was born in Cairo, Egypt on 29 December 1945 to an Egyptian father, Antoine Karim Attara, a merchant, and a Greek mother, Anastasia Attara née Mazarakis. This background gave him a deep appreciation of differ

Andrew Ransford, known to friends and colleagues as ‘Andy’, was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at University College Hospital (UCH), London and at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore, who specialised in spinal surgery. He was born in Kenya, where his father, Oliver Ransford, was a

Clare Marx was a pioneer in British surgery and medicine in general, breaking through the glass ceiling in a variety of places. She was one of the first consultant female orthopaedic surgeons in the country, the first female president of the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) and of the Royal Col

Nigel St John Pasfield Dwyer was a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon to East Birmingham Hospital and later the first paediatric trauma and orthopaedic surgeon in Birmingham. He was born on 19 June 1935. His parents were Michael Arthur Vincent Dwyer, a draughtsman, and Joyce Dallas Dwyer née

Two references written in1956 for the young Robert Dykes, after he had worked for a year as a Surgical Registrar at Tilbury hospital in London, aptly described him. Mr W. H. Hamer, Consultant Surgeon, wrote - “Mr Dykes...has without any question been the best Registrar we have ever had.” The other,