Sir Rustam Moolan Feroze, known as 'Mole', was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at King's College Hospital, Queen Charlotte's and the Chelsea Hospital for Women, and was a former president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He was the son of Jehangir and Diana Feroze. His father was a Parsee who qualified in Bombay and then went to England, where he was in general practice in London. After school at Sutton Valence, Mole went to King's College and King's College Hospital, where he qualified with a conjoint diploma in 1943. Serving in the Royal Navy for National Service, he was surgeon on a corvette of the Royal Indian Navy, which was posted off the Arakan coast of Burma. Following his National Service, he returned to King's College Hospital. He was a resident medical officer at the Samaritan and Soho hospitals, and then a senior registrar at the Middlesex Hospital and the Women's Hospital in Soho from 1950 to 1952. At the age of 31, he was appointed as a consultant to the Chelsea and King's College hospitals. In 1949 he became a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. In 1952 he gained his MD and became a fellow of our College. A consummate surgeon, surgery was his delight. He was admired for his immaculate technique and was a master of vaginal surgery. On one occasion Ralph Winterton, who was himself a meticulous operator in the abdomen, but less happy with vaginal surgery, suddenly exclaimed in theatre: 'I can't do this operation, get Feroze to come and show us'. Mole responded generously by coming to Soho and giving a wonderful demonstration of his technique to a large audience. He became dean of the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 1967 and was an elected as a member of the council of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1971. Further distinctions included his appointment as director of postgraduate studies in 1975, a post he held until he was elected president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1981, already having been vice-president. He was knighted in 1983. He published widely, particularly on gynaecological oncology, and contributed to *Bonney's gynaecological surgery* (London, Baillière Tindall, 1986). Mole had no enemies. He received many honours, gave eponymous lectures, gained honorary fellowships in America, Ireland and Australia, and was an examiner for the universities of London, Cambridge, Birmingham and Singapore. Away from medicine, he was a very keen skier until osteoarthritis of the hip made him limit his physical activities to tennis and gardening. Opera was another great joy and he was a member of Glyndebourne. He was also interested in bonsai. He was a member of the Royal Automobile Club (RAC). He married Margaret Dowsett, a radiographer who had X-rayed him after playing rugby, in 1947. Mole and Margaret had four children - three boys and one daughter, who tragically died in a domestic accident. Mole died on 8 February 2010.