John Walton Spence was a general surgeon in Lindfield, New South Wales, Australia. He became a fellow of the college in 1945 and died in Australia on 24 April 1994.

Donald Gebbie was the foundation professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Nairobi. 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

Russell Gill was a general surgeon in Bowmansville, Ontario, Canada. 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

Ernest Joachim Joseph Borges held an appointment at the Tata Memorial Hospital in Bombay at the time of his death on 3 March 1969. His daughter, Dr Anita M Borges, MD, MRC Path. joined the staff of the same hospital in 1981.

Barst received his medical education at the Middlesex Hospital and qualified with the conjoint diploma in 1938. Obtaining his Fellowship in 1945, he worked for a time as senior orthopaedic registrar at the Whittington Hospital before taking a post as surgical specialist with the Sudan Government Min

Jacob Zimmerman qualified from St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1943. He was a foundation member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, a Fellow of the New York Academy of Science and an Hunterian Professor of our College in 1966. He was an assistant Professor of Anatomy and Surgery at the New York Medica

Born in Keighley, Yorkshire, on 15 February 1915, the son of David Feather, a printer and bookbinder, David Feather was educated at the Keighley Trade and Grammar School until 1927, when he went to the Royal Masonic School at Bushey, Hertfordshire. He received his medical training at Leeds and did j

Ralph Harrison Gardiner studied medicine at Oxford University, King's College Hospital, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and in Vienna. After an early appointment at Grimsby District Hospital in the late 1930s he moved to Buckinghamshire where he spent the rest of his career, eventually be

Francois Darné was an eminent surgeon in Mauritius and, as a former ambassador to France, a renowned diplomat. During the war he served in the Emergency Medical Service in London and also gave lectures in anatomy at the University of Cambridge and at UCL, where he was the first Mauritian to be appoi

Ken Hulbert was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Dartford, Sydenham Children’s Hospital and Chailey Heritage Hospital. He was born on 24 December 1912, the son of a Methodist minister, and was educated at Kingswood School, Bath. He went on to Middlesex Hospital to study medicine. His special int

Ivor John Thomas qualified from the London Hospital in 1942 and within three years had obtained both Edinburgh and English Fellowships. During the latter years of the war he was resident surgical officer at Cardiff Royal Infirmary, assistant surgeon in the Emergency Medical Service and surgical regi

Philip Graham Somerville was a consultant general surgeon with a vascular interest at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton. He was a man of great professional integrity with superb surgical skills. At Brighton he achieved a great deal and raised the surgical standards to the level they curren