Michael Everett was a general practitioner who worked in Plymouth. He studied medicine at the London Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1956. He gained his FRCS in 1965. Prior to becoming a general practitioner, he was a surgical registrar in Cardiff. Michael Thornton Everett died on 25 Ma

Patrick Leonard James was a consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon at the London Hospital.

Peter Stiles was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford. He was born in Twickenham on 23 April 1933, the son of Frederick James Stiles, a brewery engineer, and Hilda Florence Stiles née Smith. He attended St Catherine's Convent School, Twickenham, and then th

Malcolm Sharp was a consultant ENT surgeon with a special interest in head and neck surgery at St Helier Hospital, Carshalton, St George's Hospital, Tooting and the Royal Marsden Hospital, London. Following a visit to the United States to Duke University, North Carolina and Penn University, Philadel

Godfrey William Arthur was a consultant general surgeon to Worthing District Health Authority. He was born on 17 October 1931 in Pontypool, Gwent, South Wales, the only son of William Arthur, a company director with a building firm, and Elizabeth Arthur née Walby, a nurse. He went to school at the J

Charles Cory was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon in east Surrey. He was born in 1932, the son of John Walter Edward Cory, a doctor. He was educated at Epsom College and then studied at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and King's College Hospital Medical School, London. Shortly after qualifying, he held a tem

Stuart Craig Lennox was a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at the Brompton Hospital, London. He was born on 25 May 1932 in Aberdeen, the son of James Craig Lennox and Agnes Lennox née Hadden. He was educated at Robert Gordon College in Aberdeen and then, from the age of 14, when he moved to London,

In many countries, less than 30 years ago it was possible to become a senior ophthalmologist, even a professor, without ever having passed a postgraduate examination in the specialty. Peter Watson, a consultant ophthalmologist at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and Moorfields in London, changed a

Peter Wilson was a meticulous neurosurgeon at Swansea who was committed to the highest standards of clinical care and fostered the same work ethic in his colleagues. He was born in Portsmouth on 8 April in 1933, the elder son of Herbert Wilson and Kathleen Wilson née Humphries. His father was an