William (‘Bill’) Richmond pioneered the development of urology services at what is now Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust. He was born on 1 June 1943 in Ulverston Cottage Hospital, Lancashire to David Alan Richmond, an orthopaedic surgeon, and Eira Richmond (née Osterstock) a nurse,

Bruce Clarkson Rennie was born in Perth, Western Australia, in 1904, and educated at the Waitaki Boys' High School and the University of Otago Medical School where he graduated in 1925. He was appointed house surgeon and resident surgical officer at the Wanganui Hospital, and subsequently came to En

Born in 1870 Pardoe was educated at Aberdeen University where he qualified in 1892, and after postgraduate work at Charing Cross and King's College Hospitals in London he took the English Conjoint Diploma in 1895, obtaining the Fellowship in 1902. Specialising in urology he was a house surgeon at

Born on 18 November 1903, he received his medical education at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and St Thomas's Hospital, qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1929. In 1932 he proceeded to the degree of MD being awarded the Raymond Horton-Smith Prize for his thesis and in 1933 he was admitted a

John Creyghton Ainsworth-Davis was born on 23 April 1895 at Aberystwyth. His father was Professor of Biology in the University of Wales and later Principal of the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. He was educated at Westminster School and from there went up to Christ's College, Cambridge, wit

Ronald Ogier Ward was born on 6 March 1886, the son of a general practitioner, Dr Allan Ogier Ward, and was educated at Magdalen College School, Queen's College, Oxford, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he qualified in 1912 and took his Oxford degree in 1913. He was most distinguished, bot

John Douglas Fergusson was born on 5 December 1909 at Great Malvern, Worcestershire, the son of John Newberry Fraser Fergusson, FRCS Edinburgh, radiologist at York County Hospital. He was educated at St Peter's School, York, and St John's College, Cambridge, where he was college prizeman and scholar

Anthony Richard Charles Higham was born at Murree, Punjab, on 11 June, 1907, eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel B Higham, CIE, IMS, and Florence Parsons, whose father was acting Governor of Madras Presidency. He was educated at Epsom College, 1919-24, King's College, University of London, 1924-27 and

Born in 1892 at Queenstown, Eastern Province, South Africa, he was educated at Rhodes University College, Grahamstown, and at the King's College Hospital, London. On the outbreak of war in 1914 he enlisted in the London Rifle Volunteers and saw service in France as a combatant, with the rank of corp

Gerald Francis 'Joe' Murnaghan, Professor of Surgery at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, can be said to have been the father of upper tract urodynamics, although his work and influence extended far beyond this important area. He was born on 20 September at St Helen's, Lancashire, the son o

Imtiaz Husain, known as 'Tazi', was a consultant urological surgeon at Bedford Hospital. Educated at King Edward's Medical College in Lahore, Pakistan, where he obtained his medical degree, Tazi went to Oldham in 1965 for a house post. He was then a registrar at Northampton General in 1969. After

Born in 1885, he was educated at Epsom College, Exeter College, Oxford and the London Hospital, where he qualified in 1911 and was appointed house surgeon to Percy Furnivall and Frank Kidd, which probably stimulated his special interest in urology. After this he became house physician, resident acco