Sean Bryan Morris was a consultant urologist at Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull hospitals. He was born on 21 July 1961. He studied medicine at St George's Hospital Medical School, London, and qualified in 1985. He gained his FRCS in 1990. He died in October 2014.

Ian Potts was a consultant urologist in Sydney. He was born in Sydney on 30 September 1921, the son of Theodore Kenneth Potts and Violet Mary Potts née Canning. His father, uncle, brother, nephew and cousin were all doctors. He was educated at Newington College, where he was *dux*, and then went on

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

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 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

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

Born in 1889 in New Zealand son of the Public Trustee in Blenheim, he was educated at Marlborough College NZ and the University of Edinburgh where he qualified in 1914 and then held an appointment as house surgeon. After serving as resident surgical officer at St Peter's Hospital for Stone he was

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

Alder was born in Victoria, Australia and educated at Melbourne graduating from the University in 1949. After holding resident posts at the Prince Henry (1949-50) and Royal Children's (1951) hospitals, he came to England in 1953, served as Nuffield Demonstrator of Anatomy at Oxford, and took the Fel

Dermot O'Flynn was a consultant surgeon in the urology department at the Meath Hospital and County Dublin Infirmary, Dublin. He was born on 21 January 1920 and studied medicine at Cork, qualifying in 1942. After house jobs in Mansfield and Lincoln, he joined the RAMC, which took him to West Afric

Dr William Hamilton Cadzow, who was senior visiting urologist at Brisbane's Princess Alexandra Hospital from 1986 to 2001, died on 13 September. Bill was a urologist at that hospital almost continuously from 1966 until his full retirement 40 years later. Bill gained his MB BS from the University

Born in London in 1896 the son of Raphael Roche and Grace Simon he was educated at St Paul's School, Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he obtained a classical scholarship, and St Bartholomew's Hospital. After qualifying he held a series of house appointments at St Bartholomew's, culminating in tha