Richard Wellesley Morgan Rees was a consultant urologist at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. He was born on 13 January 1935 in Stourbridge, Staffordshire, the son of Theodore Foulkes Rees, a pharmacist, and Edith Louise Rees née Colley. He studied medicine at the University of Birmingham, qualifying in 1957. Prior to his consultant appointment at Cardiff, he was a house surgeon for the United Birmingham Hospitals and then a registrar at Derby Royal Infirmary and a registrar in urology at the Royal Hospital in Sheffield. At Cardiff he was also an honorary clinical teacher at the University of Wales’ College of Medicine. He was a member of the Welsh Urological Society and the British Association of Urological Surgeons. Rees died on 1 June 2018. He was 83.