Richard Turner-Warwick was a consultant urologist at the Middlesex Hospital, London and a specialist in the reconstruction and functional restoration of the urinary tract. He was born Richard Warwick on 21 February 1925, the eldest of four children of William Turner Warwick, a vascular surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital, and Joan Warwick née Harris, who was also medically qualified and worked in post and antenatal medicine in the East End of London. Turner-Warwick added his father’s middle name to his surname to differentiate them when they were both working at the Middlesex. Turner-Warwick was educated at Bedales School and then Oriel College, Oxford, where he was president of Oxford University Boat Club and captained the victorious eight in the 1945 Boat Race against Cambridge. He went on to Middlesex Hospital Medical School for his clinical studies. He carried out his National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps as a plastic surgeon, and afterwards held training posts at the Middlesex Hospital in general, orthopaedic, urological, colorectal, gynaecological, thyroid and cardiothoracic surgery. In 1959 he held the Comyns Berkeley Travelling Fellowship at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York to gain experience of American urology. In 1960 he was appointed as a consultant general surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital. He took over the urological department in 1963 following the retirement of his mentor Sir Eric Riches, and in 1968 established the first urodynamic clinic. He was senior surgeon at the hospital from 1969 to 1990. From around 1975 he focused purely on functional reconstruction of the urinary system. He was an honorary senior lecturer at London University’s Institute of Urology from 1962. He travelled widely, with more than 300 surgical teaching visits, including three weeks each year between 1978 and 1987 as an honorary visiting urological surgeon to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney. He developed operative procedures for the reconstruction and restoration of function of the urinary tract, designed surgical instruments, contributed articles to scientific journals and, with Christopher Chapple, wrote *Functional reconstruction of the urinary tract and gynaeco-urology*, Oxford, Blackwell Science, 2002. He was a member of the council of the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) from 1975 to 1978 and 1982 and 1992, and president from 1988 to 1990. He was awarded the St Peter’s medal of BAUS in 1978. He was a founder member, in 1969, and president, in 1985, of the International Continence Society. At the Royal College of Surgeons of England, he was a Hunterian Professor in 1957 and 1976, and a member of council from 1980 to 1992. He was appointed as a CBE in 1991. In 1950 he married Margaret Moore; she became an eminent thoracic physician, the first female president of the Royal College of Physicians and a DBE. They had two daughters, Lynne, a consultant in rehabilitation medicine, and Gillian, an artist and teacher. The Turner-Warwicks built a house in Highgate, north London, and also owned a house in Dorset, where he swam in the sea, sailed, wind surfed, fished and water-skied. Richard Turner-Warwik died on 20 September 2020. He was 95.