Born at Sydney on 25 April 1888, son of Clarence Bridge, a woolbroker, and Helen MacMahon, his wife. Educated at St Ignatius College, Riverview, Sydney 1901-06 and at Sydney University 1907-11, he was a student of the first clinical school at Sydney Hospital 1909 and graduated with honours at the be

Born at Grafton, New South Wales, he was educated at Fort Street School, Sydney, from which he won an exhibition to the University. After service in the Army during the first world war, he qualified in 1918 and was a resident medical officer at Sydney Hospital. He then spent several years in England

John William Thomson Walker was born at Newport, Fife on 6 August 1871, the second child and second son of John H Walker, chairman of the Caldrow jute works, Dundee, and Isabella Thomson, his wife. He was educated at the Dundee High School and at the Edinburgh Institution. He then matriculated at th

Michael Hall was a consultant urologist at the Forest Groups of Hospitals. He was born on 2 April 1925 in Peking, China. His father qualified in medicine from Durham. Soon after, in 1922, he took up a post at a mission hospital in China, moving with his newly-married wife to Peking. There he stayed

Rikus Schoonees was a urologist in Cape Town, South Africa. He was born in Kuruman, South Africa, on 20 October 1937. His father, Diderikus Anthonie Schoonees, was a university lecturer; his mother, Maria Magdalena Schoonees née Van Der Bergh, was the daughter of a farmer. He was educated at Paul Ro

John McNamara was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 29 October 1912, a son of Mathew, an accountant, and Alice (née Gunning). His brother Matthew, also a doctor, died in 1942 while a prisoner of war of the Japanese. John was educated at the Jesuit Colleges of St Patrick and Xavier and at St Vincent's

Born in 1903, David Rymal Mitchell received his medical education at the University of Toronto in 1927 and obtained his Fellowship in 1932. He spent his career specialising in urology, being appointed chief urologist at Toronto General Hospital in 1961, and was associate Professor of Surgery at Toro

James Cyril Angell received his medical education at the Middlesex Hospital. After qualification he was for a time resident surgical officer at St Mark's Hospital and senior surgical registrar at the Central Middlesex Hospital and the Middlesex Hospital before moving to specialise in urology, and

Bruce Pearson was born in Cairns, Queensland, on 29 July 1926, the son of Dr Henry Roy Pearson, a general practitioner with a special interest in obstetrics, and Louisa Agnes Crum. He went to Armidale High School, Perth Modern School and Sydney University, where he represented his school and college

Born in Edinburgh on 16 December 1946, Beynon studied medicine at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and St Thomas's Hospital. He was a surgical registrar in Wolverhampton and at St Thomas's Hospital, a senior registrar in urology in Edinburgh and consultant urologist at New Cross Hospital. With his

Ivan Ballantyne Tait was a consultant in charge of genitourinary medical services at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He was born on 14 September 1928 in Stepps, Lanarkshire, Scotland. His father, also Ivan Tait, was a civil engineer; his mother was Elise Alexander Tait née Forsyth. He studied medicine at t

Burjor Nusserwanji Colabawalla was head of the department of urology at St George's Hospital, Bombay, from 1959 to 1976. He was born on 18 August 1922 in Karachi, the son of Nusserwanji Burjorji Colabawalla and Khorshed Colabawalla (née Panthaky). He studied at St Patrick's High School in Karachi an