Douglas Burland Duffy was born on 13 September 1919. He was the son of Bessie Rose Grant and Leontine Joseph Duffy, a manager. He attended Geelong College and Ormond College of the University of Melbourne where he qualified MB BS in 1942 and MS in 1947. He won the exhibition and Beaney Prize in surg

Samuel Scher started his medical studies at the University of Cape Town and, being a very bright student, he was awarded the MA in anatomy in 1926 with such brilliant classmates as Sir Solly Zuckerman, Tom Dry and David Slome. He then entered University College Hospital in London, qualified in 1930

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

David Rees was a consultant urologist and head of surgery at Benenden Hospital, Kent. He was born in 1942, the son of the well-known psychiatrist Linford Rees. He was passionate about rugby and played for his school, for London Welsh Schools, and for Bart's, where he qualified in medicine in 1968. H

John Vinnicombe was a consultant urologist in Portsmouth. He was born in Hounslow on 17 January 1930, the younger of two boys. His father, Francis William Vinnicombe, was an export agent in textiles. His mother was Marjorie Florence Vinnicombe née Shuff. John was educated at Godalming County Grammar

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

George Forbes Abercrombie (known as Forbes) was a urologist in Portsmouth. Born on 28 March 1935 in Edinburgh, he was the son of George Abercrombie, a general practitioner, and his wife, Maria. His father was the first president of the section of general medicine at the Royal Society of Medicine in

Basil Page was a specialist in urology at North Middlesex Hospital. He was born in Ilkley, Yorkshire, on 7 January 1910, the son of Frederick James Page, a mechanical engineer, and his wife Margaret née Casswell. He was educated at Clarence School, Weston-super-Mare, and Canford School, Dorset, from

John Connell Park was born on 4 May 1933 in Newtownards, County Down, the son of Samuel Park, a general practitioner, and Edith Helen Connell, a schoolteacher. He was educated at Repton and Queen's University, Belfast. He did his junior appointments at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, and then

Stuart Taylor was born in Braidwood, NSW and had a carefree childhood growing up as a country boy, attending Braidwood Primary School (often on horseback). He attended SCEGS (Shore), North Sydney as a boarder, having an enjoyable and successful school life and matriculated in 1952. He was accepte

Ronald Yaxley was a urologist in Brisbane, Queensland. 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

Baharul Elem, known as ‘Baha’, was a professor of urology in Zambia. He was born on 23 May 1938 in eastern India, the son of Rebecca and Reyas Elem. The family later moved to Rangpur in what is now Bangladesh. Baha received his initial medical qualification from Dhaka Medical College Hospital in Ban