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Paying tribute to Fellows who are no longer with us.

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The College regrets to inform you that it has been notified of the deaths of the following Fellows. Here we pay tribute to those who are no longer with us.

To notify the College of a Fellow who has passed away, please contact Fellowship Services on +61 3 9249 1163 or email [email protected].

2024

Prof Raja Bandaranayake (Sri Lanka)
Prof Joseph Wan Yee Lau (Hong Kong) (DOCX 148.98KB)
Dr Graeme Skeggs
Dr Robert Michael Sharp
Dr Timothy William Proudman AM (DOCX 274.98KB)
A/Prof Michael Denton
Dr Kevin Barham
Dr Reno Rossato OAM
Dr Errol Paddey John King MB BCH, FRCS (ED) (PDF 356.77KB)
Dr Allan Askew
Dr Ian McNeil Miller
Dr Nicholas Walter Harry
Dr Graham Thompson
Dr Anthony Moore
Dr Peter Holman
Dr Roland Wilbur Farmilo
Dr William Miller
A/Prof Nabeel Ibrahim
Dr Onkar Nath Mehrotra
Dr Janardhana Rao
Dr Harry Hansen-Knarhoi 
Dr John Hubbard McKessar
Dr Stuart Buckle Renwick AM
A/Prof Colin Ogilvie Holms Russell 
Dr William Nichol Tucker
Dr Bryan John Thorn


 

2023

Dr Michael Patkin AM (DOCX 182.77KB)
Dr Cary Glynne Mellow
Dr Francis Breslin (DOCX 146.73KB)
Dr William Walker OAM (DOCX 1.69MB)
Dr Justin Kelly OAM (DOCX 275KB)
Professor John McLeod Hunn (DOCX 148.27KB)
Emeritus Professor Stuart Pegg AM (DOCX 147.93KB) 
Professor John S Wright 
Dr David R Craddock
Dr Frank H Garlick
Associate Professor Bryan Pyman
Associate Professor Joseph Freidin
Professor Edward Henry Bates AM
Dr Ian (Cas) Edgeworth McInnes OAM
Dr Denis King
Dr Ian Macdonald
Dr Ross Finemore
Emeritus Professor Thomas Smith Reeve AC CBE by Professor Stephen A Deane; John Brereton (PDF 925.98KB) | by Emeritus Professor Bruce Barraclough, AO FRACS, past President RACS; Emeritus Professor Leigh Delbridge, FRACS, FACS; Professor Stephen A Deane; John Brereton (DOCX 185.09KB)
Dr Mervyn John Cross OAM (DOCX 921.01KB)
Dr Elizabeth Ann Lewis AM
Dr David Wallace
Professor Russell Stitz AM RFD (DOCX 1.2MB)
Emeritus Professor John Miles Little EP AM AO (DOCX 265.28KB)
Dr Ken Wing King Loi
Dr Joseph David Robin
Dr Dennis Deane Arnold
Dr Jacob Goldstein (DOCX 148.17KB)
Mr Brian Charles Randall OAM
Dr Russell Worth ONZM
Dr Bruno Gomes
Dr John Connolly
Dr Shailendra Dass
Dr Alastair Brown
Dr James MacDiarmid

Paul Frederick Mountfort


2022

Brian Buxton (DOCX 151.21KB)
Remo Cantamessa (DOCX 147.74KB)
Dr John William McKenzie Upjohn (DOCX 16.48KB)
John Hargraves Hodgson (DOCX 162.59KB)
Errol John Maguire (DOCX 153.84KB)
Alan Morton Cuthbertson (DOCX 150.62KB)
Harry Watts (AoNZ)
Andrew Alexander MacDiarmid (DOCX 132.77KB)
Douglas George Sneddon (DOCX 15.08MB)
Nicholas Constantine Anastas (DOCX 492.12KB)
Charles William Butcher (DOCX 148.55KB)
Professor Hock Lim Tan (DOCX 151.89KB)
Warrick Raymond Harper (DOCX 726.06KB)
Rosemary Swift (NSW)
Phillip Geoffrey Thompson AM
Graeme Robert Elliott (NSW)
Francis John Harvey OAM (NSW)
William Renton-Power (QLD)
Neil Thompson (NSW)
Kenneth Phoon (NSW)
Peter Alan Harbison (SA)
Robert Mulligan (AoNZ)
Joseph Devadetta (India)
David Stewart Forbes (NSW)
Richard O'Connor (NSW)
David Charles Johnson (NSW)
Edward (Ted) Michael Schutz (VIC)
Joseph Epstein (VIC)
Kingsley Wallis Mills (VIC)
Frank George Hugh Stening (NSW)
Harry Lawrence McIntyre Smith (AoNZ)
Stuart Whitaker Brown (AoNZ)
John Dixon Hughes (NSW)
(Duncan) Scott Stevenson (AoNZ)
John D J Bourke (VIC)
Malcolm Gordon Dunshea (AoNZ)
John Robert Thomson (VIC)
Douglas Beard (SA)
William Downing Walker (NSW)
Sir Peter Morris AC (VIC)
John Bower Morton (AoNZ)
Douglas James Caspersonn (NSW)
Jeffrey Adrian Feint (AoNZ)
David Murray Morton (SA)
Professor Sir Peter Morris (DOCX 2.18MB)
Terence Adrian Darby
Con Nicholas Moshegov
George Janiszewski 
Benjamin Cohney
Dr Thomas Hoong Leung

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2021

Giovanni Lucchese
Belinda Mary Scott (DOCX 149.45KB)
Eric Graham Holmes (DOCX 147.76KB)
Howie Keith Forbes Wilson (PDF 42.32KB)
John Hunter Williams (PDF 42.15KB)
Patrick John Molloy (PDF 44.31KB)
Ronald Geoffrey Kay (PDF 44.06KB)
Keith McDowell Ewen (PDF 42.77KB) (AoNZ)
Brian Miller (PDF 65.53KB)
Richard Tooth (PDF 41.55KB)
William Wybrow Hallwright (PDF 50.48KB)
Harold Raymond Schaeffer (PDF 111.66KB)
Wylie D Gibbons (PDF 91.49KB)
Peter Crowe
Fredy Jacob Daniel (VIC) (PDF 111.23KB) 
Colin George Davis
James May (NSW) (PDF 96.22KB)
Timothy McGahan
Helen Rae Noblet (QLD) (PDF 85.43KB) 
Bill Proudman (SA) (PDF 57.88KB) 
John Rice (SA)
William Thomas (QLD)
Douglas Reiunehr (VIC)
John Rutherford (QLD)
James Ewen Kirkwood Galbraith (VIC)
Irwin Hunter Hanan (NSW)
Wylie Gibbons (QLD)
Brian Swan Purssey (QLD)
Kush Raj Shrestha (SA/NT)
John Cambell Gillman (AoNZ)
Noel Wesley Kinny (NSW)
Michael Joseph Barry (QLD)
Maurice Maguire (SA)
Michael James Kamenjarin (VIC)
Michael Eagleton (NSW)
Kerry Kelsall Larkin (QLD)
Kenneth Stuchbery (VIC)
Robert Francis Clifford Jones (NSW)
Gregory Mitchell (VIC)
Gabriel Kune (VIC)
David Bracy (VIC)
Albert Victor Forage (TAS)
Bryan Chester (NSW)
John Milton Saunders (WA)
Dr Monica Robotin
Adrian Vorbach
Dr Kewal Krishan Jain (DOCX 148.85KB)
Dr David Nott (DOCX 150.41KB)
Dr Edward Fleming (DOCX 717.43KB)
Dr Francis Breslin (DOCX 150.2KB)
Dr Kush Shrestha (DOCX 152.6KB)
Mr John Buntine (DOCX 161.8KB)
Mr Lindsay Roberts (DOCX 220.21KB)
Mr William Gilmour (DOCX 278.6KB)
Dr Trevor Pickering (DOCX 155.87KB)
Dr John Corbet

2020

John Kendall Francis (PDF 100.67KB)
Dean Southwood (SA)
Associate Professor Stephen Bradshaw (ACT) 
Layane Gamage (PDF 96.28KB) (NZ) 
Robert Dykes (NZ)
John Coutts (PDF 77.33KB) (NZ)
Professor Frank McDermott (VIC)
Andrew Sutherland (SA)
Kenneth Brearley (VIC)
Ronald Bruce Davey (SA)
Barry Partridge (NZ)
Robin Cripps (NT)
John C. Hargrave (NT)
James T. Cummins 
John A.B. Hokin (PDF 94.47KB) 
Jacob Johannes (John) de Geus (PDF 394.06KB) 
John Hunter Williams (PDF 218.13KB) 
G.E. Scarff
P.A. Rogers
Ronald Geoffrey Kay
Patrick John Molloy
G.K. Williams
R.N. Westmore (PDF 155.01KB)
D.Ch. Healey
J.H. Alexander
C.D. Lewis
J.J. De Geus (PDF 394.06KB)
J.K. Francis (PDF 99.23KB)
O. Eremin
R.L. Pearce 
Hugh James Tighe (VIC)
James Kevin Evans (NSW)
Gabriel Reisner (VIC)
Kelvin Kam Wing Liu (HK)
David R.V. Dickens

2019

Robert Mitchell (NSW)
Wyn Beasley (NZ) 
Warren Fraser (NZ)
Samuel Sakker (NSW)
Donald Leaming (QLD)
Sam Mellick (QLD) 
Julie Lawrence (SA)
Stuart Taylor (NSW)
Professor Donald Trunkey (US) 
John Boulton (NZ)
Anthony Power (NSW)
Warwick John Cook (NSW)
Charles Roe (QLD)
Daryush Aderbad Irani (UK)
David Birks (VIC)
Michael Moreny (QLD)
Roger Chambers (NZ)
Hugh Williams (ACT)
John Herron (QLD)
Geoffrey Wynne-Jones (NZ)
Geoffrey R. Gibson (NSW)
Graeme Douglas Campbell (NZ)
John M Harrison (NSW)
David Collis Burke (VIC)
Douglas Ivor Roberts (TAS)
Laurence Simpson (VIC)
Kevin Orr (NSW)
Ross David Gurgo (QLD)
Louis Waller (VIC)
Brian Courtice (QLD)
Anthony Lawler (VIC)
Donald Trunkey (United States)
William Robertsal
Alan Trist (NSW)
Peter Cant
Patrick Spencer (NZ)
Alexander Donn (NZ) 
Dibyendu Bikash Gope 
John Erik Lorang

2018

Kevin Bleasel (NSW)
Elfrith Foottit (QLD)
Tony Pierre (NZ)
Chong Yew Khoo (Singapore)
Terry Mulhearn (QLD)
Edwin William Carr (NSW)
Toga Tuki Potoi (Western Samoa)
Andrew Forsyth (UK)
Henry Abeyasundara (QLD)
Sarin Wongprasartsuk (VIC)
Peter Cant (UK)
Bernard Catchpole (WA)
Michael Quinn (NSW)
Leslie (Keith) Jobbins (QLD)
Henry Crock (VIC)
John Robert Oakley (TAS)
Bruce Shepherd (NSW)
Bruce Neil Procter Benjamin (NSW)
Colin Moore (SA)
David Wilson (Peter) Low (NZ)
Richard Cowdery (NSW)
Neville Way (WA)
Donald Simpson (SA)
James Rohrsheim (NSW)
Brian Williams (NZ)
Herbet Rawson (NZ)
Piratla Viswanatham (USA)
Ivan Cher (VIC)
Frank Spencer (USA)
Hunter Fry (NSW)
Clem Nommensen (QLD)
Kenneth Carroll (QLD)
William Heape (VIC)
William Phillipps (NZ)
Richard (Dick) Clayton Bennett (VIC)
Brendan Dooley (VIC)
Michael Polke (VIC)
Neil Turner (WA)
John Lee (QLD)
Gavin Cottrell (VIC)
Terence Farrell (QLD)
Peter Alfred Staer (WA)
Donald Marshall (VIC)
Geoffrey Chiam (Singapore)
Paul Kierce (VIC)
Barry Bracken (NSW)
Neil Bright (NSW)
Thomas Parker Davis (NSW)
John Payne (NSW)
Thomas Connelley (NSW)
Colin Lomas (QLD)
Basil Ireland (NSW)
William Fleming (VIC)
Graham Fetherston (VIC)
Frank Yam Wang Kwok (NSW)
James Harris (SA)
Campbell MacLaurin (NZ) 
David Cull (TAS)

2017

Patrick Cregan (NSW)
Brett Adams (NSW)
James Downie (VIC)
William Thomas Sugars (QLD)
John Garland Lester (NZ)
Rodney Laing (NSW)
William Lennon (NSW)
Anthony Hugh Taylor Hodgkinson (NSW)
William (Bruce) Conolly (NSW)
Nikolas Kosanovic (VIC)
Robert Smith (NSW)
Terence Brumm (QLD)
Robert Loh (Singapore)
Dean Mackie (SA)
Brian Shearman (NSW)
Solomon Levitt (WA)
James McKinnon Watts (SA)
John Reimer (NSW)
Donald Cam (NSW)
Edward Pockley (NSW)
Ngoh Tan (Singapore)
George Alexander Wilson (NZ)
Samuel Lindsay Cooke (WA)
Mark Sharam Byrne (QLD)
Peter Gustav Bryan Nelson (VIC)
James Patrick O'Collins (VIC)
Nigel Sacks (VIC)
Robin Rushworth (NSW)
Anthony Oliver Robertson (QLD)
Keith Henderson (VIC)
Brian Cornish (SA)
John Ludbrook (VIC)
Colin Holloway Hooker (NZ)
Patrick Pritzwald-Stegmann (VIC)
John Royston Crellin (VIC)
Aiyadurai Sundar Prakash (VIC)
Norman Stokoe (UK)
Alan Donald Hewson (NSW)
Beverley Lindley (NSW)
Maxwell Bruce Simpson (NSW)
John Simpson (NZ)
Raymond Barry King (VIC)
Brian Otto (NZ)
Lindsay Grigg (ACT)
Geoffrey Claude Morlet (WA)
Akkinepalli Badri Narayan Rao (VIC)
Kethieswaran Thuraisingham (NSW)
Roy Francis Le C. Taylor (NSW)
Edward Watson (NZ)
Martin Flood (NSW)
Ernst Gerhard Ibach (WA)
George Kalnins (NSW)
Julian Keogh (VIC)
John Alexander O'Brien (SA)
Rodney Dalziel (VIC)
Max Harvey Ellis (NSW)
Grosvenor Charles Thomas Burfitt-Williams (NSW)
John Samuel Hopkirk (NZ)
Edward Marzec (SA)
Sir Ian Pelham Todd (UK)
Kenneth Francis Hume (SA)
John Stanislaus Roarty (NSW)
Peter Kenneth John Gerard (NSW)
Gordon James Ormandy (SA)
Peter Battlay (VIC)
Owen Deacon (VIC)
Edward Marzec (SA)

2016

Robert Nall (NSW)
James Fenton (NZ)
Leon Gillam (NSW)
Tom Taylor (NSW)
Robin Gilmore (NZ)
Jack Mackay (VIC)
Gordon Clunie (VIC)
Thomas Taylor (NSW)
Terence Morgan (TAS)
David Adamthwaite (QLD)
Gordon Bougher (WA)
Samir Bishara (NZ)
Geoffrey Buckham (QLD)
Lindsay Castles (VIC)
John Critchley (VIC)
Anand Dixit (NSW)
Kimbal Frumar (NSW)
Peter Court Grayson (NZ) 
Victor Hadlow (NZ)
Andrew Jenkins (QLD)
Robert Andrews Leggatt (VIC)
Ian (Val) Lishman (WA)
Peter Meffan (NZ) 
Donald (Scotty) Macleish (VIC)
Robert Nall (NSW)
Choo Teoh (Singapore)
Robert Peter Silverton (NSW)
Thomas Stevenson (SA)
Frank Sullivan (QLD)
Ralph Upton (VIC)
Etika S Vudiniabola (Fiji)
Geoffrey Ward (SA)
George Wardrop (VIC)
John Bruce Russell Wells (NZ/VIC)
John Hartley Williams (TAS)     
Anthony Tynan (NSW)  
Denton Arthur Cooley (USA)
Leo Rozner (VIC)
Dr John Gwynn Jones (WA)

2015

Norman W. Thompson
Ross Adie (VIC)
Michael Armstrong
Peter Thomas Bruce
Alan Bromwich (VIC)
Ross Campbell (NSW)
Elizabeth Cant (SA)
Peter Catts (NSW)
David J Cohen (QLD)
Geoffrey Coldham (NZ)
Anjaparavanda Chinnappa (VIC)
Salil R Chowdhury (NZ)
Ann Davies
Umesh Dhanjee (QLD)
Gavin J Douglas
John Doyle
Katherine Edyvane (WA)
William J Garrett (NSW)
Rex D Fairbairn
Victor Fazio (USA)
Ian Arch Fletcher (SA)
Bruce Filmer
Peter Freeman
James Gray
Anwar Girgis (SA)
James Guest
David Gunter
Frank Ham
Ronald L Huckstep
William B James (QLD)
Alexander Jeffery (NZ)
John Hall-Jones (NZ)
John Jose
John Kille (TAS)
Kevin King (VIC)
Sarah Kruger (NZ)
Peter Kudelka
Robert Kyd
Keith H Langford (USA)
Donald Manton Llewelyn (NSW)
John Maddern
John McLeish (VIC)
Edgeworth McIntyre (TAS)
Roderick D MacDonald (NSW)
John Masterton (VIC)
Madappa Maiyah (VIC)
Labeeb McGuire (QLD) (PDF 2.44MB)Donald C McKinnon (SA)
George McLeod
Thomas Milliken (NZ)
Peter B Milsom
Dipen Mitra
Christos Mitrofanis (NSW)
Patrick Moore
Thomas Nash (NSW)
Antonio (Tony) C Oposa (Philippines)
Dennis Craig Paterson (SA)
Graham Peck (VIC)
Maxwell P Redman
Michael E Shackleton (NZ)
John Wasley Smith
Fred Stephens (NSW)
John Taylor
John Raeburn Talbot (NZ)
John Ichsan Tan (QLD)
Ian Philip Torode (VIC)
Allan Tye
John Walker (NSW)
Ian Henderson Warner
Robin Williams (VIC)
Vanessa Wright (UK)
Vivian Francis Sorrell (NZ)

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