Ivan Ballantyne Tait was a consultant in charge of genitourinary medical services at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He was born on 14 September 1928 in Stepps, Lanarkshire, Scotland. His father, also Ivan Tait, was a civil engineer; his mother was Elise Alexander Tait née Forsyth. He studied medicine at t

Robert Morpeth Jameson was a consultant urologist for the Liverpool Area Health Authority, the regional urological centre, Royal Liverpool Hospital, and the regional paraplegic centre, Promenade Hospital, Southport. He studied medicine in Durham, qualifying in 1957. He gained his FRCS in 1962. He

Sean Bryan Morris was a consultant urologist at Birmingham Heartlands and Solihull hospitals. He was born on 21 July 1961. He studied medicine at St George's Hospital Medical School, London, and qualified in 1985. He gained his FRCS in 1990. He died in October 2014.

David Richard John qualified MB BS in 1955 having studied at the Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, and gained his Fellowship in 1963. After junior posts at St Peter's Hospital and the Institute of Urology he became a surgical registrar at the Charing Cross and Royal Masonic Hospitals, before be

James Cyril Angell received his medical education at the Middlesex Hospital. After qualification he was for a time resident surgical officer at St Mark's Hospital and senior surgical registrar at the Central Middlesex Hospital and the Middlesex Hospital before moving to specialise in urology, and

Alec Badenoch was born in Banff on 23 June 1903, the son of John Alexander Badenoch, a chartered accountant, and Georgina Dingwall Joiner, daughter of a master mariner. He was educated at Banff Academy and went on the Marischal College, Aberdeen, to read English Literature, but later changed to medi

Born in Edinburgh on 16 December 1946, Beynon studied medicine at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and St Thomas's Hospital. He was a surgical registrar in Wolverhampton and at St Thomas's Hospital, a senior registrar in urology in Edinburgh and consultant urologist at New Cross Hospital. With his

Rob was appointed as a consultant urologist to the Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust in 2005. He was born on 21 October 1969 in London, the son of Malcolm I Brierly and Margaret A Brierly née Howard. He qualified from St Bartholomew Hospital Medical School in 1993, received his specialist training in Londo

Mike Snell was a consultant urologist at St Mary's Hospital, London. He was born in Nyasaland (now Malawi), where his father was a tea and coffee planter. He studied medicine at St Mary's, where he qualified in 1960, and was very much influenced by Kenneth Owen. After several junior posts, he decide

James Sutherland, known as Hamish to his friends and colleagues, was a urologist in Quincy, Illinois, USA. He was born on 27 March 1922 in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of William James Sutherland, a police officer, and Jean Cummings Sutherland née Johnston. He attended Hyndland Senior Secondary School

John Fitzpatrick, professor and chairman of the department of surgery, Mater Misericordiae Hospital and University College, Dublin (UCD), was an internationally-renowned urologist. The son of a prominent lawyer, he was born in Dublin on 15 July 1948. He was educated at Gonzaga College and won a plac

Sean Vesey was a consultant urologist on Merseyside. He was born on 2 July 1954 and studied medicine at University College Cork, qualifying in 1979. After completing his basic surgical training, he went to London in 1984 to the Institute of Urology and then continued his specialist training in Taunt