Helen Parkhouse was a well-respected urological surgeon, a senior lecturer with honorary consultant status in the department of urology at St Thomas' Hospital, London. Born in Manchester into a non-medical family on 5 February 1956, Helen was the only daughter of Austin Fitzmaurice, a shopkeeper, an

Peter Riddle was a well-known urologist who worked all his consultant life in London. He was emeritus surgeon at University College London and at St Peter's Hospital, and had been sub-dean at the Institute of Urology. He was born on 1 September 1933. His father, Leonard, was an assurance broker and

Born at Petworth on January 7th, 1844, the son of William Morris, surgeon of that place, and grandson of a Morris practising in North Wales. The surname Morris has been traced in particular to families of mixed Welsh and Jewish descent who settled on the Welsh border after the explusion of the Jews

Sir David Innes Williams (generally known as 'DI') had two careers of equal distinction and near equal length - as a surgeon and as an academic administrator. However, he was first and foremost a surgeon. He was born on 12 June 1919 in London into a distinguished medical family. His father, Gwynne E

Ian Langdale Gregory qualified MB ChB from Manchester University in 1943 and passed the Conjoint Diploma the same year. He worked as supernumerary chief assistant at the Manchester Royal Infirmary and then became surgical registrar to the Withington Hospital, Manchester. He moved to London and was a

Born in 1885 son of Thomas Henry Attwater, a barrister of Lincoln's Inn, he was educated at Merchant Taylors School and won an exhibition to Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1906. His father had been a scholar of Pembroke. He qua

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,

Educated at St Mary's Hospital, he qualified as war broke out, served in the RAMC in charge of the surgical division of a General Hospital, was mentioned in dispatches and rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. After a term as resident surgical officer at St Peter's Hospital for Stone and then as a

Born on 15 May 1873 at Elizabeth, New Jersey, son of Edward Lawrence Keyes (1843-1924) afterwards distinguished as a genito-urinary surgeon in New York, he was educated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, graduating in 1895. Keyes practised as a urological surge

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

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

John Barry Anderson was a consultant urological surgeon at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield. He was born on 10 April 1952 in Redhill, Surrey, the eldest son of Edward James Anderson, a hospital administrator and ex-bomber pilot, and Catherine Elizabeth Anderson née Boland, a nurse who had e