Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows

Lawrence Iregbulem was a plastic and reconstructive surgeon at Cambridge Private Hospital. Born in Ifakala, Nigeria on 9 November 1938, he was the eldest child of Philip Iregbulem, a businessman, and his wife, Elizabeth. He was educated at St Patrick’s College, Calabar, Nigeria which he attended as

Ivor Barwell-Clarke was a plastic and reconstructive surgeon in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada. He was born on 25 December 1920 in Cardiff, the son of Uriah Barwell Clarke and Mary Elizabeth Clarke née Williams. His father died in October 1925. Barwell-Clarke graduated from the National S

Professor Jacques Caspar Henricus Van der Meulen was a plastic and reconstructive surgeon who was head of the academic department of plastic surgery in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. When he was awarded the honorary fellowship of the college in 1993 it was noted that he was one of the foremost academi

Rustom Jamshed Maneksha was head of the department of plastic surgery at Gokuldas Tejpal Hospital in Mumbai. Born on 14 February 1920 in Bombay, he was the second child of Jamshed Maneksha, assistant professor of anatomy at Grant Medical College and his wife, Goolbai. His maternal grandfather, Jehan

Tom Milliken was born in Christchurch in 1925 to Thomas, a solicitor, and Winifred Kate. He had two younger sisters, Dawn and Betty. Tom commenced school at Fendalton Open Air School in 1930 and moved to Julius House at Christ's College in 1938. At the age of 16, and as a result of the death of his

John James, always known as Jimmy, was a consultant plastic and reconstructive surgeon who spent much of his career in Africa. He was born on 25 September 1940 in Lusaka, the fourth child of missionary parents. His father, Henrik Gerard James, was Dutch and a French Protestant pastor, trained at the

Born in South Africa on 12 September 1954, Jan Jouke van Wingerden studied medicine at the University of Pretoria and at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg. He travelled widely to extend his skills in his specialty of plastic and reconstructive surgery, becoming a fellow of the American Colleg

Robert (Bob) Smith, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, inventor of Solugel and raconteur extraordinaire, was born on 2 August 1937 in Mittagong, New South Wales, to parents Clare Smith and Robert Frederick Smith. He is "R A Smith" to his hospitals, "Boss" to his family and "Algy" to his close frien

Bernard McCarthy was educated at Melbourne University, gaining a BSc there in 1948, qualifying MB BS in 1950 and received the Melbourne MS in 1955. After early appointments at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, and as a demonstrator in anatomy and clinical surgery at Melbourne University, he came to

Arthur Michael Wood, the second son of Arthur Henry Wood, CB, a civil servant in the Board of Education, and of Katherine Mary Altham Wood (née Cumberlege), was born at Guildford, Surrey, on 28 January, 1919. He was educated at Lambrook School, Berkshire, Ringwood School, Winchester College, the Éco

Sydney Bradley Williams qualified MB BS in Durham in 1956. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1960 and a Fellow of the College in 1962. He was appointed senior registrar in plastic surgery at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and held this post for

Fenton Braithwaite was born on July 28 1908, the third of four sons of Abraham Braithwaite, farmer, of Marton in the Fylde, Lancashire, and of his wife Ann. He attended Baines Grammar School before entering Manchester University to read for an honours degree in mathematics. He then proceeded to rese