Peter Bruce was born Vienna 26 February 1931. He arrived in Australia in 1939 with his parents Paul and Mizzi Bruce. Peter's grandfather, Richard Bruchsteiner, was born in Hungary but moved to Vienna where he established a specialist printing works. Paul became manager of the business. In the afterm

John Maddern, a major founder of the Urology training scheme, recently died on 8.3.2015. He has left a lasting legacy. John was born in 1925, schooled in Adelaide, and graduated MBBS at Adelaide University in 1948. He commenced a 40-year association with Royal Adelaide Hospital when he started as

Burjor Nusserwanji Colabawalla was head of the department of urology at St George's Hospital, Bombay, from 1959 to 1976. He was born on 18 August 1922 in Karachi, the son of Nusserwanji Burjorji Colabawalla and Khorshed Colabawalla (née Panthaky). He studied at St Patrick's High School in Karachi an

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

George Schnitzler received his medical education at Sydney University, qualifying MB BS with honours in 1951. After qualification and house posts in Sydney he came to London and gained the Fellowship in 1955. On returning to Sydney he specialised in urology, and in addition to his private practice h

Denis Poole-Wilson, a consultant surgeon at Salford, was an outstanding urologist of the post-war years, whose pupils went on to staff many of the most successful departments. He began by transforming the situation in Manchester. By demonstrating that treatment, especially for cancer, could be more

Alan Hart was a consultant urologist at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Llantrisant. He was born in Northern Rhodesia. His parents had migrated to central Africa supported by the Colonial Office; his English father was an agricultural officer and his Scottish mother was a teacher. He was the middle ch

Born in Manchester in 1934, John Bowden Garland studied medicine at Manchester University. After junior appointments, he specialised in urology and completed registrar appointments in Preston under Harry Graham and Dennis Poole-Wilson at Salford Royal Hospital. He wrote his MD thesis on chronic pros

Dan Lenaghan was born on 5 September 1925 in Creswick, Victoria, Australia, the son of Richard Lenaghan, a farmer, and Josephine, née Downey. Dan was the eldest of nine children, three others of whom entered the medical profession. He was educated at the state primary school in Tourello, before a ju

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

Geoffrey Yates-Bell was born in London on 6 December 1902, and educated at St Dunstan's College and King's College Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1925 and subsequently held junior appointments at King's. In 1930, at the early age of 28, he was appointed consultant urologist to King's Colle

Tony was the fourth child in a family of five of Patrick and Madeline Tynan, an Irish Catholic working class family living in Kogarah. He was educated locally first at St Patrick’s and then at Marist Brothers High School. He was a good student and always dreamed of becoming a doctor. His Dad, a