Suresh Bhimbhai Rambhai Desai was a consultant surgeon at Scunthorpe General Hospital. He was born on 8 February 1937 and studied medicine at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School. He held house posts at Charing Cross Hospital and was then a surgical registrar there. He subsequently became a senior

David Herbert was a plastic surgeon in Preston, Nottingham and Huntingdon. He studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital and qualified MB BS in 1961. He gained his FRCS in 1966. He was awarded the Arris and Gale lecture in 1978; his topic was 'The anatomical basis of facial reconstruction'. He

Little is known about Cyrus Alexander Ghods who changed his name from Mohammed Ali Nakhai Ghods. He graduated MB BS in 1961 and became a member and Fellow of the College in 1966. He practised for a while in Hove, Sussex and is thought to have died in 1980.

Mervyn Bell was consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Wigan from 1977 to 2004. Born in Hove in 1937, he qualified from Guy's Hospital in London working in the fields of general surgery and neurosurgery. On developing an interest in orthopaedics he moved to the Royal Free Hospital and the Nuffield Orthop

Michael Aidoo was born in Mpohor, Ghana on 11 February 1935. His father was a farmer. He was educated at St Augustine's College, Cape Coast, Ghana, and the University College of Gold Coast. He attended King's College, London and the Westminster Medical School. He died on 22 December 1975. He had one

Michael Treherne Barton qualified MB BS in 1961 and worked as research surgical officer at St Paul's Hospital, London, surgical registrar at the Bromley Hospital and junior lecturer in anatomy at Guy's Hospital Medical School. He passed the FRCS in 1969 and was Freemasons Research Fellow of the Roya

Howard Smith was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich, Princess Royal University Hospital, Bromley and Queen Mary's, Sidcup. Born in Macclesfield on 4 April 1938, he was the son of Frank, a coachbuilder and his wife Annie née Holland. His secondary education was

Victor Odigie Naiwu Odiase was a senior lecturer at the University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria. He was born in Owo, Nigeria on 25 March 1935, the first child of Bernard Onaiwu Odiase, an administrator and later chairman of the Benin Central Local School Board, and Adepate Odiase née Bello, the dau

Geoffrey Smith was professor of cardiac surgery at the University of Sheffield. He was born in Derby on 11 November 1937. His father, Stanley James Smith, was a greengrocer. His mother was Barbara née Perston and his maternal grandfather was a mechanic at Rolls-Royce in Derby. He was educated at Der

John Dormandy was born on 3 May 1937 in Budapest. He was the son of Paul Szeben, a pea grower who was accustomed to exporting his crop to the UK, and his wife Clara, who was an author and dramatist. He had a sister, Daisy, and his elder brother, Thomas, was to become a consultant chemical pathologis

Hugoe Matthews was an eminent thoracic surgeon who was an expert on the diseases of the oesophagus; he was also an authority on the Victorian nature writer and mystic Richard Jefferies. He was educated at Sutton County Grammar School where, even as a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a surgeon. He q

Duncan McColl Paterson was a consultant surgeon at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Barrie, Ontario, Canada, from 1970 to 2006. He was born in Glasgow on 11 March 1938, the second son of Joseph Craig Paterson, an engineer, and Flora Paterson née Forbes. He was educated at Bellahouston Academy in Glasgow