Nicholas Robert Allan Trickey (Nick) was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Heatherwood Hospital, Ascot. He was born in West Kensington, London on 5 January 1937, the son of Allan Gilbert Trickey and Roberta Molly Aileen Trickey née Saffell and, after a disrupted early education due to evacuation from London during the Second World War, he attended Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith from 1947 until 1955. Nick surprised himself (and his teachers) with respectable ‘O’ and ‘A’ level results and, despite initially thinking of a career in the Navy, he was advised that he would be a good fit for medical school. Helped by his role as school rugby captain, he successfully applied to St Mary’s Hospital Medical School and was enrolled in 1957. During his medical training Nick was particularly drawn towards obstetrics and gynaecology as a potential future specialty, largely because of his admiration for one of his lecturers, George Pinker. While recognising that gynaecology was not an easy area to practice in, he saw that Pinker had such a natural charm with the patients who felt completely at ease with him: Nick thought that if he was able in some way to replicate his expertise, it would be a satisfying specialty to work in. He qualified from St Mary’s in 1962 with honours in obstetrics and gynaecology. After graduating, from 1962 to 1970 Nick worked in many obstetrics and gynaecology positions in London, at St Mary’s, King Edward VII Hospital, Whittington Hospital, St Mary Abbots Hospital, Queen Charlotte’s Hospital and the Chelsea Hospital for Women. During this period of his career, he started as a house surgeon and progressed to becoming a senior registrar in 1970 when he rotated for two years between Southampton General Hospital and St George’s Hospital in London. Nick gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in May 1967. Nick continued his studies in obstetrics and gynaecology and became a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in January 1970 and in 1972 he was appointed as a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist for the East Berkshire Health Authority. His main role was primarily at a new maternity unity at Heatherwood Hospital in Ascot, where he worked for the next 23 years and built up a successful unit delivering over 2,000 babies each year with one of the lowest perinatal mortality rates in the country. This was probably achieved through his dogged attention to detail and refusal to compromise on risk when dealing with his patients’ care. As a good example of this, in the early 1980s there was a stand-off at the hospital when he refused to admit any patients to 10 newly acquired maternity beds in the unit. Until the hospital could provide additional midwives with the relevant training to use the new foetal heart monitors and to maintain the right staff to patient ratio, Nick stood his ground and the beds remained empty. Accused in the local press of being an idealist rather than a realist, he pointed out that patient welfare was his highest priority. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1983. Nick’s contribution to medicine and in particular obstetrics and gynaecology over the years was considerable and varied. He was an examiner for the Central Midwives Board, for the diploma and membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and for the Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board (PLAB). He was also the Oxford regional adviser to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists from 1983 to 1989 and was a member of the Oxford Regional Health Authority’s higher awards advisory committee from 1990 to 1994. Nick was president of the Windsor Medical Society from 1993 to 1994 and was on the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists’ fellowship selection committee from 1994 to 1996. Nick also worked as a medical legal expert witness for some years post-retirement. Nick was happily married to Annie (née Wadden) for 58 years until her death in 2020 and together they had five daughters, Sarah, Charlotte, Vicky, Rachel and Polly, 16 grandchildren and one great granddaughter. After his retirement from medicine in 1995 Nick fully embraced his passion for golf as a member of both Sunningdale and Swinley Forest golf clubs. He also kept himself busy following international rugby, travelling, playing bridge, socialising with friends and spending time with his ever-expanding family. Nick died on 20 April 2025 at the age of 88.