Alan Boyd Holmes was a giant of surgical practice in Tasmania and a pioneer of urology in the state. He died on 13 December 2013, at the age of 87. Three weeks earlier he was snorkelling with his family in Queensland. Alan grew up in Sydney, where he was dux of Artarmon opportunity school, and

Robert Morpeth Jameson was a consultant urologist for the Liverpool Area Health Authority, the regional urological centre, Royal Liverpool Hospital, and the regional paraplegic centre, Promenade Hospital, Southport. He studied medicine in Durham, qualifying in 1957. He gained his FRCS in 1962. He

William 'Bill' Thomas took up skiing at the age of 40 and, enjoying the challenge, soon made himself a competent skier by sheer hard work. He died suddenly while on a skiing holiday in St Moritz on 26 February 1982. He was educated at Dulwich College and Pembroke College, Oxford, completing his c

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

René Francis Anthony was a urologist at the Dr Georges L Dumont and the Moncton City hospitals, New Brunswick, Canada. He was born on 10 August 1934. He gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1967. He was also a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada. He died on 18 Octo

Sean Vesey was a consultant urologist on Merseyside. He was born on 2 July 1954 and studied medicine at University College Cork, qualifying in 1979. After completing his basic surgical training, he went to London in 1984 to the Institute of Urology and then continued his specialist training in Taunt

Michael Salvaris qualified in medicine in Melbourne in 1940 and became resident medical officer to the Royal Perth Hospital in 1941. During the second world war he served as a Captain with the AAMC, 194143. He held posts at various hospitals while studying for his FRCS in the early '50's. He was sur

Douglas Burland Duffy was born on 13 September 1919. He was the son of Bessie Rose Grant and Leontine Joseph Duffy, a manager. He attended Geelong College and Ormond College of the University of Melbourne where he qualified MB BS in 1942 and MS in 1947. He won the exhibition and Beaney Prize in surg

Samuel Scher started his medical studies at the University of Cape Town and, being a very bright student, he was awarded the MA in anatomy in 1926 with such brilliant classmates as Sir Solly Zuckerman, Tom Dry and David Slome. He then entered University College Hospital in London, qualified in 1930

Patrick Michael Kelly was born in Dublin on 23 July 1912, the son of Sir Patrick Kelly, CIE, Commissioner of Police in Bombay. He was sent home with his mother who was expected to die of diabetes but she became one of the first recipients of insulin and lived on into her 80's still taking insulin! H

Born at North Shields, 14 September 1856, in the family of five sons and three daughters of Samuel Fenwick, MD (1821-1902), then in practice at Newcastle, afterwards physician to the London Hospital, and FRCP, and of Amy Sophia, his wife, daughter of Captain Bedford Pim, RN. All five sons entered th

John Fitzpatrick, professor and chairman of the department of surgery, Mater Misericordiae Hospital and University College, Dublin (UCD), was an internationally-renowned urologist. The son of a prominent lawyer, he was born in Dublin on 15 July 1948. He was educated at Gonzaga College and won a plac