Ernest William Ramsey was a pioneering Canadian urologist. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

John Wickham was a renowned urologist who pioneered keyhole surgery. He was born on 10 December 1927, the son of Alfred James Wickham, a company director of a business at Littlehampton on the south coast, and Hilda May Wickham née Cummins. John’s father died when he was just six years old and from a

Appointed to a consultant post at Southmead Hospital, Bristol, in 1957, Norman Slade's professional career as a urologist was distinguished by many valuable contributions; his publications invariably concluded with a pertinent, practical message. His initial studies focused on postoperative urinary

John Boulton was born in Taihape, central North Island, the third son of Edward Clive Boulton and Mary Patricia Reade, the family farming in the King Country south of Te Kuiti. He had two older brothers, David and Philip. In 1947 the family shifted to Palmerston North where John commenced school, fi

Richard Heslop was a consultant urologist in Hull. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

Patrick Joseph Bradshaw Smith, or Paddy as he was known, was a consultant urologist at Bristol Royal Infirmary. He was born in Exeter on 22 January 1939, the son of Richard Smith and Bridget Smith née Kelly, successful art and antique dealers. As a child he was lucky to escape death when a German bo

Rohan Ravindra Nauth-Misir was a consultant urologist at University College Hospital, London. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

Jonathan Gerald Sullivan was a consultant urologist at Alexandra Hospital, Redditch and Kidderminster Hospital. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

Roger Hole was a consultant urologist at the James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk

Colin McRae was a distinguished New Zealand surgeon and a former President of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He was born in Waipukurau, New Zealand, on 18 March 1942. His father, Colin, and mother, Freda, were both schoolteachers. He was educated at Henderson High School, Auckland, and

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

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