Ahmed Amir Mohamed Fouad Azmy was a consultant paediatric urological surgeon at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Glasgow. He was born in Kafr el-Sheikh in Egypt on 1 November 1939, the son of Mohamed Fouad, an engineer, and Sania Mahmoud née Hassan, a teacher. He was educated in the port city o

David Gough was consultant paediatric urologist at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. He was born on 7 July 1947 in Almondsbury, near Bristol, to Alan Gough, an electrical engineer, and Gillian née Shellard. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Liverpool University, where he helped

Tony Rickwood, paediatric urologist at Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, played a seminal role in establishing paediatric urology as a recognised specialty in the United Kingdom and was a founder member of the British Association of Paediatric Urologists in 1990. He was an internationally re

Herbert Bernhard Eckstein was born in Dusseldorf, Germany, on 11 July 1926. His father Albert Eckstein was Professor of Paediatrics in Dusseldorf, Hamburg and then in Ankara (Turkey) where his family settled in the early 1930's. His mother, Erna, was the daughter of Professor A Schlossmann, Professo

John Chapman was a consultant urologist at Northampton General Hospital. He was born on 30 November 1936 in Leicestershire to Walter Chapman and Edith Chapman née Towers. Walter was by then a police constable, walking the beat with his police dog. He had previously worked on the railways as a steam