Edward Kadzombe was a consultant in accident and emergency surgery in Liverpool. He was born in Mgoza village in Balaka, Malawi. He was educated at Mtendere and Blantyre secondary schools before gaining a scholarship to study medicine at the University of Manchester. He qualified MB ChB in 1975. He

William Rutherford was one of the pioneers of accident and emergency medicine as a specialty in the UK. The son of a Presbyterian minister, he was born on 15 July 1921 at Warrenpoint, County Down. His family moved to Dun Laoghaire near Dublin, but he went to boarding school in Belfast. He rejected G

Chandra Pal de Fonseka was an accident and emergency surgeon in Bristol. He was born in Panadura, Ceylon, on 22 December 1919 into a family with many medical connections. His grandfather and two uncles were medical practitioners. His father, Hector Clarence de Fonseka, was a landowner who managed hi

Abani Kumar Chowdhury passed his MB in Calcutta in 1946 and his FRCS in 1958. He came to England and became a surgical registrar to the Walsall Hospital Group. In the 1960s he became senior casualty officer (and later consultant) to the accident and emergency department of Doncaster Royal Infirmary.

Leonard Penrynne Bandera Kiriclla received his professional education at the University of Ceylon, qualifying MB BS in 1947. After coming to Britain he gained the DLO in 1053 and both the English and the Edinburgh Fellowships in 1957. He held posts at St James's Hospital, Balham and at St Mary Ab

Idris William Adams was born at Tonyrefail, South Wales on 14 June 1940 the son of Philip Darwin Adams, a schoolmaster and Fiona Mary, née Jenkins, a headmistress. He was educated at Cowbridge Grammar School where he was head boy in 1958 before entering Charing Cross Hospital Medical School which he

Kareti Venkata Krishna Reddy was born on 21 October 1929 at Gadur, Nellore District, Andhra Pradesh, India, the third son of Kareti Ranga Reddy and his wife Kareti Seshamma. His early education was at the High School in Gudur before being admitted to Madras Medical College. He qualified in 1953 and

William Gissane was born in Sydney on 26 April 1898 and educated at Ignatius College, where he captained the cricket and boxing and played rugby for the public schools of New South Wales. He served in the RAA during the first world war and returned to Australia to study medicine at the University of

Ranjit Basu was born on 15 August 1926 and studied for his MB BS at Grant Medical College in Bombay. He became a Fellow of the College in 1957 and came to England to live in Liverpool. He became surgical registrar at Alder Hey Children's Hospital and then senior registrar at the Liverpool Thoraci

Olney, who was born in 1950, received his medical education at Westminster Hospital, qualifying with the conjoint diploma and the London MB BS in 1973. After a year working in various surgical specialties in Australia, he completed his training in Yorkshire. He was tutor in accident and plastic surg

John Hindle trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital and after junior posts specialised in accident and emergency surgery. He was a registrar to Tilbury and Riverside Hospital and Accident Officer at the Middlesex Hospital before being appointed consultant in charge of the emergency department at Luton

Howard Davies qualified in 1960 and worked first in Newport, and then as consultant to the accident and emergency department at Carmarthen, where he is thought to have worked for 15 to 20 years. After his wife died prematurely of breast cancer, he became rather a recluse and the College has little i