Ernest James England was a consultant urological surgeon at the Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia. He was born in Bunbury, Western Australia, on 26 May 1927. His father, Ernest Roy England, was a bus driver who had served at Gallipoli and in France during the First World War; his mother, Bessi

Noel James Bonnin was born on Christmas Day 1909 in Adelaide. He was the son of Winifred, née Turpin, and James Atkinson Bonnin who had become a Fellow of the College in 1898 and was a Foundation Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons in 1927. His older brother, Lansell, was an orthopaed

Terence Millin, internationally famous for the introduction of the operation of retropubic prostatectomy, was born in Helen's Bay, County Down, on 9 January 1903. He was educated at St Andrew's College and Trinity College, Dublin, gaining a Kidd Entrance Exhibition in 1921. As an undergraduate he wa

Richard Arthur Mogg was born in Cardiff on 2 September 1911 and educated at Cardiff High School whence he entered the Welsh National School of Medicine, qualifying in 1935 with prizes in anatomy and physiology and distinctions in pharmacology, gynaecology and obstetrics, medicine and surgery. He ser

Ronald Ogier Ward was born on 6 March 1886, the son of a general practitioner, Dr Allan Ogier Ward, and was educated at Magdalen College School, Queen's College, Oxford, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he qualified in 1912 and took his Oxford degree in 1913. He was most distinguished, bot

David Farrar was appointed as a consultant urological surgeon at Selly Oak Hospital in 1978 and, in 1993, with hospital mergers, moved to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, where he remained until his retirement in 2003. He was born on 3 July 1942 in Rawdon, Yorkshire, the only son of James

Iorwerth Havard Griffiths, always affectionately known as 'Griff', was born at Barry in Glamorgan on 12 January 1909. His father Roland was a master baker and caterer and his mother Celia, née Havard, a housewife. His older brother, G J Griffiths FRCS (1901-1987) was consultant surgeon at Bedford. H

Edgar Freshman received his medical education at Manchester University and at the London Hospital qualifying MB ChB in 1922 and passing the Conjoint examination two years later. He spent most of the early years of his professional life in Manchester and Birmingham, before moving to London, where he

Joel Gabe was educated at King's College, London, and the Westminster Hospital and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1925 and graduated MB BS in 1927, gaining the Fellowship in 1931. After junior posts at St Paul's Hospital and at the Royal Northern Hospital, he specialized in urology and wa

Kenneth Perry was born in London on 25 August 1929. His father, John, was a chef and his mother, Cecilia Gertrude, née Berry, a nurse. From Surrey County School he went to St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, where he qualified MB BS, and afterwards held appointments at Princess Beatrice Hospital and the

Born on 24 May 1914, Walter was the first son of William Theophilus Wiggins-Davies, a manufacturing stationer in Birmingham. He was educated at King Edward School in Birmingham and at Trinity College, Cambridge, before his clinical studies at St Thomas's Hospital. He became a senior surgical registr

Ashworth received his medical education at Manchester, whence he qualified MB ChB in 1940. After war service in the RAMC he obtained the FRCS in 1950 and made his career in urology, holding consultant posts at the Crumpsall Hospital Manchester, at the Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute, the