Clive Parker was a consultant urological surgeon at the Royal Infirmary in Sunderland. Born in 1933, he studied medicine at Edinburgh University and graduated MB ChB in 1957. He became a fellow of the college in 1966. On 24 March 2016 he died aged 83.

Boushra Riad Mikhael was chief of urology at Queensway Carleton Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Born in Assyout, Egypt on 2 June 1936, his parents were Riad and Labibal Mikhael and he was the tenth of their eleven children. After attending medical school in Cairo he travelled to the UK and studie

Himadri Sarkar was a urological surgeon in Calcutta, India. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

Robert Pickard was professor of urology at Newcastle University. He was born on 23 June 1961 in Chessington, Surrey, the second of three sons. His father, Peter Pickard, was a laboratory administrator, and his mother, Margaret, was a nurse. The family lived in Leatherhead and Rob attended Kingston G

Grant Williams was a urological surgeon at Charing Cross Hospital, London. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

John Pritchard Williams was a consultant urological surgeon to St Peter’s Hospital, Greenwich District Hospital and King Edward VII’s Hospital for Officers in London. He was also an honorary consultant urologist to the Army. ‘JP’, as he was always known to friends and colleagues, was born on St V

John Roberts was a consultant urological surgeon in Bristol. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

John Leighton Williams was a consultant urological surgeon in Sheffield who had a major impact on the development of urological services both locally and nationally. He was born near Swansea and was brought up between Swansea and Gilwern in the Welsh valleys, where his father was a steel works engin

Reginald Wyndham Lloyd-Davies was head of clinical urology at St Thomas’ Hospital, London.

Phil Thomas was a consultant urological surgeon in Brighton. A Welshman of exceptional ability, he made particular contributions to his specialty interest in transgender surgery and to the development of urology in East Africa. He was born in Cardiff on 30 September 1958, into a strongly medical fam

John Steyn was a consultant urological surgeon in Aberdeen. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

‘Kwashie’ Quartey had an international reputation for his work on the surgery of urethral stricture, and was one of the father figures of surgery in his home country, Ghana. He was the sixth of the seven children of Peter David Quartey snr, headmaster of the Government Junior School in James Town, a