Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows

Peter Rickham was one of a small group of pioneering surgeons who helped to establish the specialty of paediatric surgery in the UK. He was born in Berlin on 21 June 1917, where his father, Otto Louis Reichenheim, was professor of physics at Berlin University. His mother was Susanne née Huldschinsky

Duncan Forrest was a distinguished member of that first generation of paediatric surgeons, most of whom trained at Great Ormond Street in the early years of the National Health Service, who pioneered specialist surgical units in children’s and in general hospitals across the country. Later in life h

John Scott was the first full-time paediatric surgeon in the then Northern Region when he was appointed as a senior lecturer and honorary consultant in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1960. He continued to provide the service essentially single-handed for the next decade. He was born in Zanzibar, East Africa

Born 18 November 1860 at Wellington, New Zealand, the eldest son of Stewart Murray, a bank manager, and Louisa Bourne, his wife. He was educated at Sydney Grammar School, New South Wales, and afterwards privately in Edinburgh. He then came to London, entered Guy's Hospital School of Medicine and was

Jin-Zhe Zhang was surgeon-in-chief at Beijing Children’s Hospital, China. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

Jimmy Lister was an emeritus professor of paediatric surgery at the University of Liverpool and a former vice-president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Born in London on 1 March 1923, the son of Thomas Lister, a chartered accountant, and Anna Rebecca Lister, two of his siblings – John

Andrew Wilkinson was the first Professor of Paediatric Surgery in the UK and as such received honours in many countries. Although his father was of Scottish extraction he was born in Taunton, Somerset, on 19 April 1914. He was educated locally and then at Weymouth College before going up to Edinburg

Samia Salem was born in Alexandria in 1948, where her father Hassan Salem was Professor of Tropical Medicine and her mother, Ehsan Naby, was an art teacher. She was educated at the Lycée Français in Alexandria, and then accompanied her father to Iraq in 1964 where she qualified from the University o

James Alexander Scott Dickson was a consultant paediatric surgeon at Sheffield Children’s Hospital (SCH). He was born in Nairobi, Kenya on 24 March 1931. His father, Walter Scott Dickson, was headmaster of a Church of Scotland mission school in Tumutumu and his mother was Isa née Nicol. During his

Donald Manton Llewelyn was a paediatric surgeon at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney. He was born in Sydney on 11 December 1929, the sixth child and fourth son of Arthur Stuart Llewelyn, an insurance executive, and Loys Llewelyn née Bartrim, the daughter of a farmer. He was educated at Roseville

David Allden Lloyd was a professor of paediatric surgery at the University of Liverpool and an honorary consultant paediatric surgeon at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. He was born on 11 May 1940 in Paulpietersburg, a small town in what was then the province of Natal, South Africa. His grandfather, J

Christopher Hugh Rance was a consultant paediatric surgeon at Nottingham City Hospital. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk