John Bernard Michael Roberts (*Michael*) was born on 19 January 1929 in Bradford, Yorkshire, the son of Albert Edward Roberts, an engineer, and his wife Frances née Dennison. He attended Pudsey Grammar School from 1939 to 1942 when he started at St Bede’s Grammar School in Bradford where he stayed for four years. In 1946 he enrolled at Leeds University to study medicine and graduated MB, ChB in 1952. After house appointments at the Bradford Royal Infirmary where he was mentored by Henry Hamilton Stewart, he was called up to do his national service. From 1953 to 1956 he served in the RAMC as a captain and was based in Dorchester. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1957 and prided himself on being the first Leeds graduate to win the Moynihan prize. On leaving the army he moved to Sheffield and was a registrar to William James Lytle and Sir Frank Holdsworth at the Royal Infirmary. From there he moved to the Southmead Hospital in Bristol and worked with the urological surgeons, Robert Cooke, Ashton Miller, John Phillimore Mitchell and Norman Slade. In 1966 he became a consultant urological surgeon at Southmead and in 1971 was appointed to the staff of the Bristol United Hospitals. He took up the post of postgraduate dean for the University of Bristol in 1980 and as this was a half time post, continued his role as senior urological surgeon. Later he gave up surgery entirely to become postgraduate dean for Bristol and the south-west of England and, due to this, was made an honorary fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners. At the college he was an enthusiastic member of the Court of Examiners and would regale students with tales of his own examination career. He was a member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons, a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a member of the Moynihan Chirurgical Club. Outside medicine he enjoyed collecting rare books, antiques and paintings. Other pleasures in later life were gardening, dog walking and spending time with family and friends. He married Jill Foster in 1953 – she was a theatre sister at Leeds General Infirmary. They had three girls and two boys, eleven grandchildren, six great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren. His granddaughter Nadia Roberts, now a consultant in emergency medicine in the Wirral, is the only member of his family to have taken up a career in medicine. Jill died in 2006 and eventually he developed vascular dementia and entered a nursing home where his gentlemanly behaviour made him a favourite with the staff. He died on 27 October 2019.