Mark Phillip James Wright was a consultant urological surgeon at Bristol Royal Infirmary. He was born on 15 September 1965, the son of Phillip J Wright and Margaret Jean R Wright née Hern. He had a brother, James. He studied medicine at St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School in London, qualifying in 1990. He gained his FRCS in 1994, an MD from Bristol in 2001 and the specialist urological FRCS, also in 2001. He was a leading kidney and prostate surgeon and a pioneer of keyhole and robotic surgery in Bristol. He was a member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. In 1995, he married Phedra Kibi L Osborne. They had four children, Eliza, Oliver, Hector and Oscar. Mark Wright died on 22 April 2017 at the age of 51. The Mark Wright surgical fellowship has been established in his memory.