Obituaries


Among deceased past members of the UK Kidney Association are the leading nephrologists of their eras, as well as other ‘unsung heroes’ who played key roles in establishing nephrology in their own regions and institutions.

We honour them here and provide as much information as we can about their roles and achievements. As well as deceased past UKKA members we also include others from the UK and abroad, who were never UKKA members, but who made distinguished contributions to the development of nephrology in the UK. This resource is curated by John Feehally (UKKA Archivist), Joyce Popoola (UKKA Deputy-Archivist), Stewart Cameron, and Chris Winearls. Where a full obituary is not available, we provide a brief note outlining the individual’s key contributions.

If there is anyone on this list with no obituary posted, and you would be interested to write a piece; or if you have photographs or missing information which you would like to be posted; or if you think there are others whose names should be included here, please contact John Feehally

 

Last Name Name Life Span
Aber Geoffrey Michael Aber 19 February 1928 – 15 March 2014
Arneil Gavin Cranston Arneil 7 March 1923 - January 21 2018
Asscher Adolf William (Sir) Asscher 20 March 1931 - 20 July 2014
Bailey Ross Raymond Bailey 30 August 1941 – 02 April 1997
Barratt Martin Barratt 13 February 1936 – 17 January 2014
Barrington Frederick James Fitzmaurice Barrington 1884 – 1956
Berlyne Geoffrey Merton Berlyne 10 May 1931 – 18 May 2007
Black Douglas Andrew Kilgour Black 28 May 1913 – 12 September 2002
Blainey John Denys Blainey 21 March 1920 – 22 December 2005
Bradley Stanley E Bradley 1913- 1999
Brewer Douglas B. Brewer 05 August 1919 – 20 December 2016
Bull Graham Macgregor Bull 31 May 1918 – 11 February 1987
Byrom Frank Burnet Byrom 02 February 1902 – 10 February 1976
Bywaters Eric George Lapthorne Bywaters 06 January 1910 – 04 February 2003
Cameron John Stewart Cameron 05 July 1934- 30 July 2023
Cassidy Michael John Dolman Cassidy 04 May 1951 – 11 January 2009
Cattell William Ross Cattell 25 March 1928 - 11 April 2020
Chambers (Chapman) Catherine Louise Chambers (Chapman) 14 July 1973 – 14 July 2007
Cohen Geoffrey Frith Cohen b. 17 October 1931 d. 18th October 2021
Counahan Desmond Raphael Counahan 04 January 1946 – 03 August 1996
Cove-Smith John Rodney Cove-Smith 01 February 1943 – 02 March 2004
Darmady Edward Michael Darmady 03 October 1906 – 09 February 1989
Dathan John Rodney Ellis Dathan 9 October 1940 - 20 July 2015
de Wardener Hugh de Wardener 09 August 1915 – 28 September 2013
Dempster William J Dempster 1918 – 2008
Dent Charles Enrique Dent 08 January 1911 – 08 July 1976
Dorhout Mees Evert Joost Dorhout Mees 1925 – 2016
Dundon Sheamus (Jim) Dundon 1919 – 2017
Eales Lennox Eales 04 April 1918 – 05 January 1990
Eggleton (Marion) Grace Eggleton 1905 – 1970
Elliott Robert Walter Elliott 1929 – 2012
Evans David Bernard Evans 31 March 1932 – 01 July 1997
Finn Ronald Finn 06 December 1930 – 04 September 2004
Floyer Michael Antony Floyer 03 April 1920 – 01 July 2000
Franklin Kenneth James Franklin 11 January 1897 – 04 August 1966
George Charles Raymond Pax George 26 Nov 1940 - 5 Oct 2019
Glasgow Eric Ferguson Glasgow 1931 – 2001
Goggin Michael James Goggin 09 April 1934 - 15 November 2018
Goodwin Frank John Goodwin 02 February 1938 – 08 May 1987
Hardwicke John Hardwicke 05 March 1920 – 30 September 1999
Haycock George Burdett Haycock 05 June 1940 – 10 April 2012
Heptinstall Robert Hodgson Heptinstall 1920-2021
Hodson Cecil John Charles Guy Hodson 11 August 1915 – 12 January 1985
Hoffbrand Barry Ian Hoffbrand b. March 1934 d. 24 April 2020
Innes Williams David Innes Williams 06 December 1919 – 2013
Jackson Ralph Coburn Jackson 05 October 1914 – 11 January 1992
Joekes A. Mark ‘Jo’ Joekes
Jones Norman Fielding Jones 1931-2021
Junor Brian James Ross Junor 1946 – 2019
Kark Robert Manoah Kark 07 May 1911 – 09 December 2002
Kennedy Arthur Colville Kennedy 1922 – 11 June 2009
Kerr David NS Kerr 12 March 1927 – 2014
Lambie Anne Lambie 1928 - 2023
Leather Hugh Moffat Leather 07 June 1925 – 10 April 2012
Ledingham John Gerard Garvin Ledingham 19 October 1929 - 13 June 2023
Levinsky Roland Jacob Levinsky 09 April 1943 – 01 January 2007
Linton Adam Linton 1932 – 1994
Little Peter John Little 15 November 1930 – 19 May 2011
Lockwood Christopher Martin Lockwood 12 February 1945 – 08 July 1999
Loughridge Lavinia Winifred Loughridge 04 August 1930 – 02 October 2014
Lowe Kenneth Gordon Lowe 28 May 1917 – 12 August 2010
Macanovic Momir Macanovic 01 February 1938 – 04 November 2007
Macdonald Mary K Macdonald 03 February 1923 – 03 December 2014
Macdougall Alastair Iain Macdougall 1927 – 24 August 2018
Maizels Montague Maizels 08 June 1899 – 01 October 1976
Mansell Martin Mansell 28 September 1948 - 24 April 2020
Marsh Francis Patrick Marsh 15 April 1936 - 16 January 2011
McCance Robert Alexander McCance 09 December 1898 – 05 March 1993
McEvoy Joseph McEvoy 1936 – 2011
McGeown Mary Graham McGeown 18 July 1923 – 21 November 2004
Milne Malcolm Davenport Milne 04 October 1915 – 04 March 1991
Nash Denis Ellison Nash 1913 – 2000
Newman David Newman 1959 – 2003
Oleesky Samuel Oleesky 07 May 1921 – 20 November 2013
Oliver Desmond Oswald Oliver 25 October 1930 – 24 October 1997
Onwubalili James Kenechukwu Onwubalili 24 April 1947 - 4 May 2017
Osman Arthur Arnold Osman 23 May 1893 – 25 April 1972
O’Donoghue Donal Joseph O’Donoghue 15 August 1956 - 3 January 2021
Parsons Victor Parsons 16 December 1929 – 21 October 1995
Parsons Frank Maudsley Parsons 1918-1989
Payne Wilfrid Walter Payne 25 March 1894 – 28 December 1978
Peart William Stanley Peart 31 March 1922 - 14 March 2019
Petrie James Colquhoun Petrie 07 September 1941 – 30 August 2001
Pickford Lilian Mary Pickford 1902 – 2002
Plange-Rhule Jacob Plange-Rhule 27 July 1957 - 10 April 2020
Platt Robert Platt 15 April 1900 – 29 June 1978
Platts Margaret Machon Platts 7 January 1924 – 29 September 2017
Porter Kendrick Arthur Porter 21 March 1925 – 12 April 2013
Preston Emma Chevallier Preston 1971 – 2009
Pryor Jack Sydney Pryor 03 July 1933 – 21 December 1988
Pyrah Leslie Norman Pyrah 1899 – 1995
Pyrah Leslie Norman Pyrah 1899 – 1995
Qasim Faieza Qasim 6 December 1961 - 2 December 2020
Raine Anthony Evan Gerald Raine 20 July 1949 – 13 October 1995
Rainford David John Rainford 27 July 1946- 27 October 2019
Ralston Anthony James Ralston 27 April 1932 - 17 October 2018
Rees Lesley Rees b. Hertfordshire 10 May 1951, d. London 23 May 2022
Reid Ronald Reid 1900 – 1965
Rennie John Basil Rennie 22 July 1904 – 27 November 1996
Richet Gabriel Richet 26 December 1916 - 10 October 2014
Robinson Brian Hugh Bartlett Robinson 09 February 1930 – 22 October 2012
Robson James Scott Robson 1921 – 2010
Rosenheim Max Leonard Rosenheim 05 March 1908 – 02 December 1972
Ross John Hugh Ross 1920 – 2016
Scribner Belding H. Scribner 18 January 1921 – 18 June 2003
Sevitt Lewis Howard Sevitt 03 June 1938 – 29 November 2015
Shackman Ralph Shackman 29 March 1910 - June 1981
Shaldon Stanley Shaldon 06 November 1931 – 20 December 2013
Smellie Jean McIldowie Smellie 14 May 1927 - 14 September 2020
Sophian(opoulos) John Sophian(opoulos) 1898 – 1976
Squire John Rupert Squire 19 August 1915 – 06 January 1966
Stanbury Sydney William Stanbury 20 April 1919 – 29 February 1996
Stevens Marion Elizabeth Stevens 07 August 1948 – 15 April 1995
Stewart William Kinnear Stewart 28 April 1926 – 23 February 2014
Sutton Roger Adrian Livingston Sutton 17 April 1937 – 09 September 2014
Tuckwell Edward Tuckwell 1910 – 1988
Turnberg Daniel Turnberg 20 February 1970 – 15 June 2007
Uldall Peter Robert Uldall 12 March 1935 – 23 June 1995
Walls John Walls 25 December 1939 – 01 March 2001
Wardle Edwin Nigel Wardle 24th October 1934 - 19th May 2020
Wemyss-Smith Frank Wemyss-Smith 1912 – 1990
White Richard Henry Reeve White 1926-2020
Wing Antony John Wing 01 May 1933 – 13 January 2012
Winsbury-White Horace Powell Winsbury-White 1889 – 1963
Winterborn Michael Hugh Winterborn 02 June 1939 – 19 May 1993
Winton Frank R Winton 1894 – 1985
Wolstenholme Gordon Ethelbert Ward Wolstenholme 27 May 1913 – 28 May 2004
Wrong Oliver Wrong 07 February 1925 – 24 February 2012

 


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David Nichol Sharp Kerr was born in Hackney on 27th December 1927.   He was educated at George Watson’s Boys School in Edinburgh, and studied medicine at the University...

A pioneer in UK nephrology and, as one of a handful of women academic physicians of her era, she oversaw one of the early services for acute renal failure in the United Kingdom and was closely involved in the earliest successful transplant...

Hugh Leather was a consultant physician in Plymouth. He was born in Birmingham, the son of Douglas John Leather, a bank manager, and Edith Leather née Walker, the daughter of an engineer. He attended King Henry VIII School, Coventry, and...

 

John Ledingham was a commanding presence in Oxford medicine for nearly three decades. He was the archetypal general physician not tied to the...

Roland Jacob Levinsky was a consultant paediatrician at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), London, where he performed the UK’s first bone-marrow transplants in children, and a leading immunologist who researched into the use of gene therapy for...

Adam Linton qualified from the University of Edinburgh in 1955 and then did postgraduate training in medicine and nephrology in Glasgow, where, as a newly appointed consultant nephrologist, he was responsible for establishing the dialysis unit at...

Head of the Department of Nephrology, Christchurch Hospital 1967 to 1979
President of the Australasian Society of Nephrology 1976 to 1978

Peter Little was...

Christopher Martin Lockwood was a reader at Cambridge University, a consultant physician at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, and one of the leading innovators in the emerging field of therapeutic immunology. He was born in Halifax, the son of Eric...

Lavinia Loughridge, a senior lecturer in medicine and an honorary consultant physician at Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, was an early pioneer in the development of kidney transplantation, but she was first and foremost one of the...

Kenneth Gordon Lowe (‘Ken’) was a pioneer in cardiology and nephrology and a consultant physician at Dundee Royal Infirmary. Born in Arbroath, his father was Thomas John Lowe, a law agent, and his mother, Flora Macdonald née Gordon, was the...

Momir Macanovic was a distinguished nephrologist who worked in Bosnia (in the former Yugoslavia), the UK and the United Arab Emirates. He suffered multiple misfortunes throughout his personal and professional life, but never allowed them to...

Dr.Mary Macdonald was educated at Perth Academy where she excelled academically and also in athletics as a sprinter, the latter as a result purely of natural talent...

Alasdair Iain Macdougall was a consultant physician and nephrologist at Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow. Born in Lanarkshire and brought up in Glasgow he was awarded a bursary...

Montague Maizels, affectionately known as ‘Monty’, was the youngest of four children and the only boy. His father, Joseph Maizels, was a silversmith who had emigrated from Prague and settled in London, and his mother, Deborah, was one of the nine...

Martin Andrew Mansell, who has died aged 71, was an esteemed consultant nephrologist and one of the premier expert witnesses in the field of nephrology, who did much to develop and contribute to the field of medico-legal opinion in the UK.

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Francis Patrick Marsh was a consultant nephrologist at the London Hospital. Born in Birmingham, the family moved to Leeds when he was a child. He was the son of Horatio Septimus Marsh, an office manager, and his wife, Violet. Educated at Leeds...

Robert Alexander McCance was born in the country south of Belfast. His father was a linen merchant and owned linen works near the family home. He went to school at St...

Joseph McEvoy was a nephrologist in Northern Ireland, New Zealand and latterly the United States.

Mollie McGeown was an outstanding renal physician and clinical scientist. Originally trained in laboratory medicine and biochemistry, she later pioneered both dialysis...

Malcolm Milne, one of the outstanding clinical scientists of his time, was born at Woodley, Cheshire, the son of Alexander Milne, a pharmaceutical chemist, and Clara,...

Nash gave the first ever paper to the RA in 1950, entitled:. ‘Form & function in the renal tract: a review & prospect’.

He was a urologist and worked at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, Sydenham Children’s Hospital and St Thomas’...

David was born in 1959 and grew up in Surrey. He attended Woking County Grammar School and later read Biochemistry as an undergraduate at the University of Bristol. He began his training in clinical biochemistry as a student on the MSc course at...

Samuel Oleesky was a consultant physician at Manchester Royal Infirmary and a lecturer and examiner at Manchester University. He was born in Manchester, the son of Morris Oleesky, a butcher, and Anne Oleesky née Cohen, of Liverpool, the daughter...

Des Oliver came to England in 1960 for a little postgraduate experience and to get the membership. Little did he know that he was to become a leader of the cadre of young...

James was born on 24th April 1947 in Imo State in Nigeria. His father, an Anglican priest, died when James was 3 years old and he was brought up by his mother and 3 older...

A.A. Osman, formerly physician in charge of the renal unit at Pembury Hospital, and the first president of the Renal Association, died at his home at Crowborough, Sussex...

Professor Donal O’Donoghue was a clinical nephrologist and the first National Clinical Director for Kidney Care  for England. A passionate advocate on behalf of people...

Victor Parsons was born in London, but spent much of his youth in the Far East, where his father and mother were missionaries. This background gave him a firm Christian basis to his life, and he was eventually to enter the Church. Educated at...

 

Frank Parsons was one of the pioneers of haemodialysis, his work leading to Leeds becoming in 1956 the first centre in the...

Wilfrid Payne was born at Brighton, the son of William Henry Payne, an accountant with the London, Brighton and South Coast railway, and his wife, Alice Flora Smith. He...

William Stanley Peart (usually known as Stan) was amongst the great British clinician...

Jim Petrie completed his three year tenure as president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 28th February 2001 and immediately set off with his family on their customary annual skiing holiday in France. Within a few days he had...

She was present at the first RA meeting in 1950, but there is no evidence of her continuing involvement with RA, she never presented a paper at an RA meeting.

She was a neuroendocrinologist. She studied at University College Hospital...

Professor Jacob Plange-Rhule, physician and physiologist, died in Accra, Ghana as a result of COVID-19 infection.  At the time of his death he was Rector of the Ghana...

As the man mainly responsible for the move of the College house from Pall Mall East to Regent’s Park, Robert Platt has an assured place as one of the College’s great presidents. He was also the first whole time professor to hold the office; the...

Margaret Platts was a Reader in Medicine at the Sheffield University Medical School and Consultant Renal Physician at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals.

Margaret was the first to publish in a European journal the association of high aluminium...

An essential ingredient of any well-found programme of research into organ transplantation is access to high quality histopathology. So there can be no greater...

Emma Preston died tragically in a skiing accident on the cusp of being appointed as a consultant nephrologist.

Born in Nicosia, Cyprus she came to the UK as a child with her family and was educated at Queenswood School, Hatfield and...

Jack Pryor was consultant physician, with a special interest in renal diseases, at the Norfolk & Norwich Hospital, Norwich. He was born in London, the son of Robert William Pryor, who served in the Merchant Navy. He received his medical...

Professor of Urology in Leeds. He gave paper to RA October 1955 on ‘Renal calcification and calculus formation’.

 

Leslie Pyrah was a charismatic figure in academic surgery, and the first professor of urology in the UK. He played a pivotal role in the establishment of haemodialysis in Leeds.

Born in Leeds, he read medicine at Leeds University...

 

Faieza was born in Nairobi, Kenya, went to school in Bradford and attended Newnham College, Cambridge from 1980-85, and returned there for a PhD in vasculitis from 1988-1991. She was well-known for her all-inclusive...

The early death of Tony Raine has deprived British nephrology of one of the outstanding intellects of his generation. His main contribution lay in focusing...

b.27 July 1946 d.27 October 2019

MB BS Lond(1969) MRCS LRCP(1969) MRCP(1972) MBE(1978) OstJ(1978) FRCP(1985)

Air...

Tony Ralston was an eminent and respected physician and nephrologist at Withington Hospital, Manchester who made considerable contributions to medical education and renal services in the northwest of England
He was born in Ilkeston in...

MB ChB (1974), MRCP (UK) (1977), MD (1982), FRCP (1994),  FRCPCH (1998)

Professor Lesley Rees was an internationally recognised leader in...

Ronnie Reid was a urologist in Colchester. He performed the first peritoneal dialysis in the UK in 1946.

He was at the first RA meeting in 1950, but did not give a...

Basil Rennie’s professional life was one of distinguished service to the Glasgow Medical School and to three of its teaching hospitals. At different stages his career encompassed paediatrics, general medicine and the developing specialty of...

Gabriel Richet was emeritus professor of renal medicine at University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. He was  born in Paris during the First World War into a medical family. He was the fourth in a famous line of academic medical doctors, all...

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