Jim Mortensen was a urological surgeon in Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Yarrawonga, Victoria, Australia, on 15 May 1926, the only child of Henry Newman Mortensen and Lorna née Bray, who were both general practitioners. His father went to England in the early 1930s to specialise in surgery and

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

Ole Hart Hansen was a consultant urological surgeon in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was born on 7 November 1938. He trained in surgery mainly in Copenhagen, becoming a specialist in surgery in 1974 and, in 1976, in gastroenterology. In 1980 he defended his thesis on cellular renewal in the human gastric

Born at Brooklands, Blackheath Park, SE on 30 March 1878, the second child of the marriage of Joseph Kidd, MD, with Frances Rouse, his second wife. His father, the seventeenth of a family of eighteen, was a well-known homoeopathic physician in London; a brother by a previous marriage was Percy Kidd,

Born on 11 February 1882 one of the four sons of Sir George Watson Macalpine Kt (1850-1920) of Accrington, a colliery owner, brick manufacturer and President of the Baptist Union, and of his wife Arianne, daughter of James Barlow JP of Accrington, he was educated at Mill Hill School and Manchester U

Born on 16 June 1903, Chapman received his medical education at Glasgow University where he graduated in 1928. He was appointed a senior house surgeon at the Western Infirmary, and later was a demonstrator of anatomy at the University. Coming to London for postgraduate study he worked at St Bartholo

Born in Dublin on 15 October 1912, son of a well-known naval architect, he was educated at St Peter's School, York, Emmanuel College, Cambridge and St Mary's Hospital, London. He was senior surgical registrar at St Paul's Hospital for Genito-urinary Diseases, supernumerary surgical registrar and

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

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

Winsor Bowsher was a consultant urological surgeon at Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport. He was born on Barton-on-Sea, Hampshire, the son of Graham Walter Bowsher, an art teacher, and Marjorie Wilfred née Munday, who taught public speaking. He was educated at Brockenhurst Grammar School and then Gonvill

Peter Brooman was a consultant urological surgeon at Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport. He was born in London, the son of Edward Brooman, a wholesale newsagent, and Irene Brooman née Ward. He was educated at Purley Grammar School and then studied medicine at Sheffield University. He held an orthop

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