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

Roger Edward Cudmore was a consultant paediatric surgeon at Alder Hey Hospital, Liverpool. He studied medicine in Sheffield and then served for two years in a Methodist hospital in Nigeria. He was appointed consultant surgeon to the children’s hospitals in Liverpool in 1972, where he was truly a gen

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

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

Edward Joseph Guiney (Eddie) was born on 31 January 1931. After attending Belvedere College he studied medicine at University College Dublin and graduated MB, BCh in 1956. He remained in Dublin doing house jobs at St Vincent’s Hospital (SVH) for a year before moving to Galway and spending two years

Edward Durham Smith was a consultant paediatric surgeon at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne and president of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons from 1987 to 1989. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary,

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

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

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

Reginald Augustus Carpenter was an emeritus professor of surgery at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica.

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

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