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

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

Jim Peters died at home in Melbourne on 28 September 2010. The caption on his obituary in *The Melbourne Age* on 4th October epitomised his life: 'Amateur champion kicked goals on the field and as a medical specialist.' He loved his profession, his family and his sport. Jim grew up in Victorian c

Initially trained as a general surgeon, John Considine later specialised in urology and spent his consultant career at Heartlands Hospital (formerly East Birmingham Hospital) in the West Midlands. He was born in County Clare, Ireland, on 30 January 1925 and was educated at University College Dublin

Helen Parkhouse was a well-respected urological surgeon, a senior lecturer with honorary consultant status in the department of urology at St Thomas' Hospital, London. Born in Manchester into a non-medical family on 5 February 1956, Helen was the only daughter of Austin Fitzmaurice, a shopkeeper, an

Donald Urquhart-Hay was a well-known New Zealand urologist who enjoyed an enviable worldwide reputation. He had an excellent postgraduate training in the United Kingdom, mainly in London and organised by the Institute of Urology, and pioneered renal transplantation in Wellington, New Zealand. When s

Francis Rankin Kilpatrick, known as ‘Kilp’, was a urological surgeon in London. He was born in Windsorton near Kimberley in Cape Province, South Africa, on 18 September 1908. His father had been a draper’s assistant who emigrated from Northern Ireland to South Africa in 1897, where he flourished, en

Horace Noble Guthrie Hudson was a urological surgeon for the North East Metropolitan Regional Health Board. He studied medicine at Middlesex Hospital Medical School, qualifying with the conjoint diploma in 1937. He gained his FRCS in 1942. His previous appointments included working as a surgical re

Timothy (Tim) Christmas was a consultant urological surgeon at Charing Cross and the Royal Marsden Hospitals in London and, at his untimely death, was "widely regarded as one of Britains's great urological surgeons". Born in Cheltenham on 2 February 1956, he was educated at Bournemouth School. He wo

Michael Bultitude was a much respected urologist at St Thomas' Hospital who helped set up the first public lithotripter service in the UK for renal stones and also made significant contributions to the study of urodynamics. He was born on 29 September 1936 in Withernsea, Yorkshire, the only child o

Ken Shuttleworth helped establish the urology department at St Thomas' Hospital, London. He was born on 30 April 1922 in Bradford to Frederick and Edith Shuttleworth. His father won a scholarship to Oxford from Bradford Grammar School to read mathematics: his mother was at Girton College, Cambridge.

Son of James Walter Everidge, he was educated at King's College School and King's College Hospital, where he was junior scholar in 1904, senior scholar in 1907 and Alfred Hughes anatomy prizeman. He qualified in 1908, and in 1912 became Sambrooke surgical registrar and surgical tutor at King's Colle