Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows

George Bell was born at Shelford, Victoria, on 10 July 1882. He was the eldest of the large family of Lewis and Annie Bell (née Armstrong), who were among the early pioneering pastoralists of south-western New South Wales. From Scots College, Sydney where he was dux and captain, as well as playing c

Elmhirst-Baxter was born on 18 December 1915 and was educated at Wellington College and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he won the Wix prize in 1938 for his essay on David Pitcairn. He qualified in 1939, and dropped his second surname by public advertisement. During the war of 1939-45 he served in

Ramkrishna Chaudhuri qualified MB BS in Calcutta in 1956. He passed the FRCS in 1965 and worked at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, before returning to Calcutta where he died on 7 July 1977.

Little is known of Abani Mohan Chaudhuri except that he served as a Colonel in the IMS and was survived by his wife when he died on 19 May 1978.

Douglas Mackenzie qualified MB BS at Sydney University in 1952 and held house posts at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, before obtaining a registrarship at the Southend General Hospital, Sydney. He subsequently came to Britain and gained the Fellowship in 1957. Returning to Australia, he wa

Born on 27 December 1914, at Dunoon, Renfrewshire, the son of a Scottish minister, Hugh lived in Naples as a child and went to school in Switzerland. He qualified MRCS LRCP from Westminster Hospital Medical School in 1939 and MB BS (London) in 1940. During the war-time bombing of London he worked at

Umesh Chandra Chakraborty became director of the Institute of Child Health in Calcutta. He died on 11 July 1976 survived by his son Dr Mishir Chakraborty MB BS DCH (Eal).

Kenneth Herbert Taylor was born on 7 August 1915, the fourth in a line of a family of doctors, and was educated at Epsom College and St Thomas's Hospital, graduating in 1938. At the outbreak of the second world war he joined the RAMC and served with the Welsh Guards during the evacuation from Dunkir

Edward Ernest Thurlow Taylor was born in Bolton, Lancashire on 3 February, 1910. He was the younger son of Herbert Taylor, a cotton manufacturer, and of Edith Taylor (née Thurlow). His early life was varied and interesting. He was educated at Cheltenham College, and went from there to Balliol Colleg

Peter Billings was a general and colorectal surgeon at Wrexham Maelor Hospital in North Wales. His grandfather, Robert, was a toolmaker in London; his father, Ronald, had gained a scholarship to the Grocers' Company School in Hackney and became a bank manager, ultimately in Orpington. Peter was born

Roshan Lall Gupta was a surgeon in Meerut, India. He was born on 9 January 1928 in Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India and gained his FRCS in 1957. He died on 30 November 2009 in Macclesfield, England, at the age of 81.

Richard Hugh Carruthers was born on 6 September 1926 in Rotherham, Yorkshire, the first son of Hugh Boyton Carruthers, BA Cantab, a draper, and Constance Mary, a physiotherapist, daughter of Richard Reece Hardwicke, MRCS, LRCP, a surgeon born in 1859. He was educated at Chantry Mount Preparatory Sch