Roger Lester Williams studied medicine at Cambridge, St Bartholomew's Hospital and Vienna. He held the post of clinical assistant at St Peter's Hospital for Stone and was resident surgical officer at the Sheffield Royal Infirmary. At Bart's he became senior house surgeon. He was a member of the BMA

Keith Mitchell Keitley Duff qualified at Guy's Hospital, London, and practised in England, in Kenya and in the Transvaal, South Africa. He died on 28 July 1980 at Andover in Hampshire, England aged 87 years. He was survived by his sons Robin and John. John Keitley Duff is also FRCS and specialises i

Barbash was a foundation Scholar of St John's College, Cambridge, graduated with honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1917, and received his clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he was a house surgeon after qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1919. He took the Cambridge medi

Harold Blacow Yates was born on 17 May 1896 and was educated at Downing College, Cambridge where he graduated BA with honours in 1920, and at St George's Hospital where he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1919 and then took the Cambridge MB BCh in 1921. At St George's he won prizes for bacteri

Shankar Ramchandra Joglekar was born in Poona on 10 July 1894. His father, Rao Bahadur R N Joglekar was a civil servant for the Government of Bombay and his mother, Sitabai Joglekar, née Pendse, was the daughter of a civil servant. He was their third child and first son. He attended Poona High Schoo

George John Sophian was born in Calcutta on 25 September 1894, the son of John Sophianopoulos, a jute merchant. George changed his surname to Sophian in 1921. His mother was the first female in the line of descent of Emin of Armenia (1546). He attended St Xavier's College, Calcutta, and then came to

George Perkins was born in Staines, Middlesex, on 22 September 1892, the second child and elder son of George James Perkins, a butcher, and Lilian Straker, a retired stationer. Perkins was deeply indebted to his father whom he described as a 'marvellous man' who left school at the age of 12 and late

Hugh Reid was born, one of twins, in Bebington, Cheshire, on 19 January 1893, the son of a forwarding agent. The family soon moved to Lancashire and Hugh went to Merchant Taylor's School, Crosby. His studies at the Liverpool Medical School were interrupted by the first world war and he served as a S

John Myles Bickerton was born at Hoylake, Cheshire on 28 August 1894, the youngest son of Thomas Herbert Bickerton, and Mary Jessie, née Burton. He was educated at the Leas School, Hoylake, Leighton Park School, Reading, Pembroke College, Cambridge, and King's College Hospital Medical School where h

Philip Clermont Livingston was born in Cowichan Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, in 1895. His father was managing director of the family shipping firm. He went to school in Vancouver Island and then studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he won a rowing blue with the victorious c

John Gilmour, the eldest of the three children of the Rev. James Gilmour, a Presbyterian minister, and of Annie Campbell (née Brown), was born in Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland, on 1 December 1893. As a result of his father's varied domicile he was educated at Cowdenbeath Board School; the High School,

William Stirk Adams was born at Acocks Green, Worcestershire, on 31 May 1896 and educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham. His father was a schoolmaster. He won an entrance scholarship to Birmingham University in 1915. He served as a Surgeon Probationer RNVR in 1916 to 1917; qualified MRCS LRCP