Obituaries

(Based on information supplied by his family and friends)

Judging by the many, many tributes paid to him by past students, colleagues, patients, family and friends Mailoo Visuveratnam...

(Contributed by Angus Gibson)

Alistair (Derrie) MacDonald was born in Shanghai in 1911 where his father was Deputy Commissioner in the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs.

Keith Morgan died on 1st April 2007 in Ontario, Canada in his 77th year.

(Contributed by his wife, Diana, and children, Elisabeth, Raymond, Peter and Sheena)

George was born on 3rd December 1914 in Alice, South Africa where his father, was the...

(Based on an obituary in the BMJ)

Stephen John Hadfield was born in Clapton, London, the son of an anaesthetist.

(Contributed by Gordon MacKinlay, consultant paediatric surgeon)

Jon Pritchard, a leading pioneer in the field of paediatric oncology died of a brain tumour on 20th January 2007.

(Contributed by daughter Mrs C Kulatunga)

Dr AFS Perera was born on the 17th February 1907 in the coastal town of Negombo to middle class parents.

Vijaya Chandra Ratnesar was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka (Ceylon).

(Contributed by Dr Les.

(Contributed by Dr Brian Cooper)

Vic Melikian was born into an Armenian family in Abadan, Iran.

(Contributed by Gita Conn)

Paediatric geneticist Dr Maurice Super MD, FRCP, FRCPCH, who has died of leukaemia just short of his 70th birthday was a man of passion...

(Contributed by his wife, Beth and members of his family)

Dr Michael (’Mike’) Higgins

Mike was born in Sheffield in 1937.