Mike Morgan was a consultant surgeon in Essex. He was born in Swansea on 15 March 1940, the son of William Walter Herbert Morgan and Marie McGruther Morgan née Bragg, and remained a proud Welshman throughout his life. As a young boy he became critically ill with meningitis; penicillin had just becom

Colin Rees was born in Machynlleth, North Wales, on 22 January 1940 and when he was four the family moved to Llanfyllin where his father kept a greengrocery store. After early education at Llanfyllin High School he entered St Mary's Hospital Medical School with a Kitchener Scholarship. He qualified

William (‘Bill’) Richmond pioneered the development of urology services at what is now Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust. He was born on 1 June 1943 in Ulverston Cottage Hospital, Lancashire to David Alan Richmond, an orthopaedic surgeon, and Eira Richmond (née Osterstock) a nurse,

Keith Batten served as the chief surgeon and hospital warden of the St John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital for a decade between 1969 to 1979, and later as their hospitaller between 1989 and 1992. He oversaw many of the significant occasions in the history of the hospital and left a tremendous impact on t

Fraser-Moodie was christened William but he was always known as Alistair. He was born on 17 April 1942 into a medical family. His mother, Christina, had trained in medicine against her parent’s wishes (they thought it an unsuitable career for a woman) and eventually ran a single handed GP practice o

David Dowse was a general surgeon in Nova Scotia, Canada. He was born in Dublin on 17 January 1937, the son of Richard Victor Dowse, a gynaecologist and obstetrician, and Ellen née Heard. His parents moved to Ceylon, where his father was a physician in Colombo, and then, during the Second World War,

Born in 1940 in Hove, Sussex, the son of a general practitioner, George Nigel Boobbyer was educated at Prestonville, Brighton, and Haileybury. He read medicine at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, graduating MB BS London, in 1964 and gaining the Conjoint Diploma in that year. He was house surgeon i

David Rowlands studied medicine at University College Hospital and qualified with the conjoint diploma in 1933. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Europe throughout the second world war and then embarked on a long career in the Taunton area. He was on the staff of Taunton and Somerset H

Tony Rickwood, paediatric urologist at Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, played a seminal role in establishing paediatric urology as a recognised specialty in the United Kingdom and was a founder member of the British Association of Paediatric Urologists in 1990. He was an internationally re

John Talbot was born to Graeme Talbot, a New Zealander who following postgraduate training had secured a consultant position as an Ophthalmic Surgeon in London, and Joan Betts, the daughter of a London journalist and newspaper editor. John had an identical twin brother, Richard, and a younger sister

Rita Auden was a surgeon at the London Hospital, until mental illness forced her to abandon her career. She was born in Simla, India, on 22 August 1942. Her father, John Bicknell Auden, was a geologist with the Geological Survey of India, and the last European to be appointed to the permanent cadre