Inspiring Physicians

Welcome to Inspiring Physicians, also known as Munk's Roll, our series of obituaries or biographies of fellows of the Royal College of Physicians, starting from 1518 to the present day.

Indexes

Volume I (1518-1700)

Volume II (1701-1800)

Volume III (1801 - 1825)

Volume IV (1826 - 1925)

Volume V (1926 -1965)

Volume VI (1966-1975)

Volume VII (1976-1983)

Volume VIII (1984-1988)

Volume IX (1989-1993)

Volume X (1994-1997)

Volume XI (1998-2004)

Volume XII (2005 onwards)

Featured

Muriel Simisola Buxton-Thomas

b.16 May 1945 d.16 October 2016 MB BS Newcastle(1971) MRCP(1974) MSc Lond(1978) FRCP(1989)

Muriel Buxton-Thomas, a consultant at King’s College Hospital, London, was an internationally-recognised physician in nuclear medicine who contributed actively to...

Thomas Ariba Ogada

b.12 January 1936 d.? 2002 MB ChB East Africa DTM&H MRCP(1972) FRCP(1982) FRCP Edin(1983)

Thomas Ariba Ogada was a former dean of the faculty of medicine, University of Nairobi, and Kenyan ambassador to the...

Charles Édouard Brown-Séquard

b.8 April 1817 d.1 April 1894 MD Paris FRCP(1860) FRS Hon FFPS Glasg

When the Royal College of Physicians elected Charles Edouard Brown-Séquard to a Fellowship in 1860, it honoured a man whose...

Dame Janet Maria Vaughan

b.18 October 1899 d.9 January 1993 DBE(1957) OBE(1944) BM BCh Oxon(1925) DM(1931) MRCP(1933) FRCP(1939) Hon DCL Oxon(1967) Hon ScD Wales(1964) DCL Lond(1968) Hon DSc Leeds(1970) Hon DSc Liverp(1973) FRS(1979)

Dame Janet Maria Vaughan was one of the six women who were featured in the BBC’s series Women of our...

Vicky Veronica Clement-Jones

b.23 December 1948 d.30 July 1987 MA Cantab(1971) MB BChir(1974) MRCP(1976) FRCP(1986)

Vicky was born in Hong Kong, the daughter of Teddy and Susie Yip. She moved with her family to East...

Sarah Walters

b.14 October 1958 d.8 April 2018 OBE(2004) BSc Surrey(1980) MB BS Lond(1985) MRCP(1988) MFPHM(1992) FRCP(1999) FFPHM(1999)

Sarah Walters was a senior lecturer in public health and epidemiology at the University of Birmingham. She was born in...

Charles Montague Fletcher

b.5 June 1911 d.15 December 1995 CBE(1952) BA Cantab(1933) MA(1937) MRCS LRCP(1939) MB BS(1939) MB BChir(1940) MRCP(1941) MD(1945) FRCP(1947) FFPHM(1974)

Charles Fletcher was a leading epidemiologist, but was better known to the general public as one of the first 'TV...

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