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

Hanuš Weisl was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon in South Glamorgan, Wales. He escaped his native Prague in the last kindertransport to London in June 1939. His parents, Alfred, a dentist, and Marie née Mandler, a doctor, eventually joined him in England after the Second World War. After

Lord Wolfson was a businessman and an outstanding philanthropist. He was born in London, the only child of Edith and (later Sir) Isaac Wolfson, the son of Russian immigrants who had settled in Glasgow, and was educated at King’s School, Worcester. He succeeded to the Great Universal Stores business

Arthur Powell Wyatt was a consultant surgeon in the Greenwich health district. He was born in Hornsey, Middlesex, on 14 October 1932. His father, Henry George Wyatt, a medical missionary in China, died as a neutral during the Sino-Japanese War in 1938. His mother, Edith Maud née Holden, also a missi

John Harvey was appointed as a consultant general surgeon at the Llandough Hospital in 1982. The hospital later became an integral part of Cardiff Medical School, and was renamed 'University Hospital Llandough' in 2008 during the celebrations marking the 75th anniversary of the hospital and 125 year

Edward John Williams was a consultant vascular and general surgeon at St Mary's Hospital, London, and Wexham Park Hospital, Slough. He was born in Towyn, a small village in Clwyd, north Wales, on 3 February 1928, the son of D C Williams. He was educated locally and did his undergraduate studies at t

Practised as a Surgeon in Gloucester, where at one time he was Surgeon to the General Infirmary. He gave an address at Ealing in 1863. His death occurred at 11 Spa Walk, Gloucester, on November 29th, 1875.

Received his professional training at Owens College and the Royal School, Manchester. He was from 1870-1872 Resident Medical Officer at the Manchester Royal Infirmary in charge of the medical and fever wards, and in this capacity he displayed a memorable ability and devotion to duty. For many years

Educated at University College and Hospital. He was elected House Surgeon and acted as Surgical Registrar for the year 1900-1901, when he was appointed Assistant Surgeon, succeeding to the full Surgeoncy in 1909. He was Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery with Sir Rickman J Godlee (qv) as Home P

Was the son of a surgeon. He received his medical education at St George's Hospital. At the time of his death he was Surgeon to Rugby School, and died at Rugby on February 1st, 1863. According to Dean Stanley, Samuel Bucknill, although referred to in the Life of Dr Arnold as 'the usual medical atten

Educated at St John's, Cambridge, and St Bartholomew's Hospital. Before qualifying he served during the Franco-German War as Surgeon's Assistant in the Hessian Service of the German Army, being posted to the Alice Hospital, Darmstadt, in 1871. For his services he received the Hessian Sanitäts Kreuz

Born at Seringapatam, the son of Major G Hayward Budd, of the 43rd Regiment of the Madras Native Infantry. He was brought to England at the age of 6 years, and began his medical training at the Worcester General Infirmary under his uncle, Herbert Cole, son of Pennel Cole, who was Senior Surgeon of t