D’Arcy Laidlaw was a radiologist in Brisbane, Australia. He was born in Witbank, Transvaal, South Africa, on 12 November 1921. His father John was an inspector of railways. His mother was Caroline née Wilson. He was educated at Reading School, from which he went to Oxford for his preclinical studies

Born at Bridgwater, Somerset, on 7 March 1863, second son of William Thomas Holland, pottery manufacturer and alderman, and Florence DuVal his wife. He was educated privately at the Rev W Hargreaves's school at Clifton before entering University College Hospital Medical School. Taking the Conjoint q

Robert Ollerenshaw was born in Manchester, the son of Robert Ollerenshaw, FRCS, and Florence Eleanor (née Watson). He studied medicine at Oxford and Manchester (clinical studies) graduating in 1938. He had an abiding interest in the Territorial Army and had enlisted as an other rank in the Royal Art

Born on 21 December 1906 son of Ernest Thomas Williams, he was educated at Epsom College and St Mary's Hospital, where in 1928 in his final year he was Cheadle Gold Medallist in clinical medicine. After filling various junior appointments he became assistant to Dr Courtney Gage in the X-ray departme

Graduating in engineering at London University in 1933, he later entered the medical school of the Middlesex Hospital, qualifying in 1938. He held a house surgeon's appointment at the West London Hospital and then became resident medical officer at the Radium Institute in 1931. In 1939 he joined the

Horace Montagu Jupe was born in Putney on 13 October 1893, the third child of William Digby Jupe, a jobber on the London Stock Exchange, and of Ella Jupe (née Hughes). After education at Hillside Preparatory School, Reigate, Charterhouse School, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, he qualifie

Born 19 July 1889 the eldest son and second child of John Howard Douglas Redding, MOH for the Huntingdon Urban District Council, who practised at Ramsey, Huntingdonshire, and Edith Mary Kelly, his wife. J M Redding was educated at Beaumont College, Old Windsor, 1903-07, and then began his medical ed

Born on 6 March 1877, the third son of F R Carling JP of Guildford, he entered the medical school of the Westminster Hospital in 1895; in 1900, while still a student, he volunteered for the South African war, serving with the Imperial Yeomanry Field Hospital and returning to qualify in 1901. The fol

William Mackie 'Bill' Ross was head of radiotherapy at Newcastle General Hospital and a former president of the Royal College of Radiologists. He was born in Glasgow on 14 December 1922. His father, Harry Caithness Ross, was a professional golfer in Durham; his mother, Catherine Ross née Mackie, was

Richard John Miller Whittle was a consultant radiologist at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He gained his FRCS in 1953. He died on 30 March 2011 after a long illness. He was 86. He was survived by his wife Pamela.

Michael Lea Thomas, who was elected to the Fellowship in 1989, was a distinguished radiologist. He received his medical education at Cambridge and St Thomas's Hospital. After qualifying in 1952 he spent some time in junior posts at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and St Stephens Hospital, London, before s

Lawrence Brock ('Laurie') was born of missionary parents in 1923 at Honan, China. His first degree was in chemistry, and then after qualifying he did research in neurophysiology with Professor Sir John Eccles and subsequently in Cambridge. He then trained in surgery, but decided after lumbar disc pr