Obituaries

Sir Adolf William ‘Bill’ Asscher was a physician whose imagination and forward-thinking did much to establish renal medicine as a specialty through his influence as a clinical investigator, as a practitioner of humane medical science, as a mentor...

Paediatric nephrologist who led the development of his specialty in the UK and internationally.

Martin Barratt who has recently died aged 77 from a progressive form of muscular dystrophy, was Professor of Paediatric Nephrology at the...

Geoffrey Merton Berlyne was professor of medicine at the State University of New York. He was born in Manchester, the son of Charles Solomon Berlyne, a clothing manufacturer, and Miriam Hannah Berlyne née Rosenthal, the daughter of a watchmaker....

John Denys Blainey was professor of renal medicine at the University of Birmingham. He was born in Southampton, the son of Arthur Richard Blainey, a commissioned officer in the Australian Army. His mother, Joan née Cooke, was the daughter of an...

Professor Douglas B. Brewer, an important figure in the development of understanding of the kidney and one of the pioneers of renal biopsy pathology, died on 20 December 2016 aged 97.

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Frank Byrom was born in Wigan, the son of Thomas Henry Byrom FRIC FCS, chief analytical and research chemist of the Wigan Coal and Iron Companies, and lecturer at the Mining and Technical College. He came of an old Lancashire family which, in the...

Stewart Cameron was the complete professor of nephrology, founding and leading an internationally famous department at Guy’s Hospital. He had an...

William (Bill) Ross Cattell was a highly regarded nephrologist who helped to set up the first haemodialysis service for acute renal failure at St Bartholomew’s Hospital (Barts). Subsequently he set up a new Renal Unit between Barts and St Leonard...

BA (Cantab) 1955, MA (Cantab) 1958, MB BS (Lond) 1958, BSc, FRCP 1977

Geoffrey Cohen was Consultant Renal Physician at the Derby...

John Rodney Cove-Smith, known as Rodney (or ‘Rod’), was a consultant physician and nephrologist in Middlesbrough from 1978 until his death in 2004. In 2002 he became an honorary professor of medicine in the University of Durham.

He was...

John Rodney Ellis Dathan (‘Rod’) was a consultant physician in Southampton and Lymington. He was born in Stoke-on-Trent to Joseph Gilley Dathan, a consultant paediatrician at the North Staffordshire Royal infirmary, and his wife Ruby. He attended...

A transplant surgeon and researcher who worked at Hammersmith Hospital. He gave a paper to RA in April 1952 on “The nature of the disintegration of homo- transplanted...

Evert Dorhout Mees qualified from the University of Utrecht in 1951, where he became head of the Department of Nephrology & Hypertension in 1976. He was an early pioneer of home hemodialysis which he established in 1967 and founder of the...

Lennox Eales was born in Plumstead, South Africa. His father William Clarence Eales was a university lecturer and his mother Hilda Mary, née Webber, was the daughter of a businessman. His early education was at Rondebosch Boys High School and he...

Walter Elliott was born and educated in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. After A levels at Dame Allens School he did his National Service in the Army, serving in Egypt, before...

Ronald Finn’s research into the prevention of rhesus-induced haemolytic disease of the newborn resulted in the saving of hundreds of thousands of young lives the world over. For this work he was awarded the prestigious Lasker clinical research...

K.J. Franklin was born in London and educated at Christ’s Hospital, Horsham, from whence he won an Open Scholarship in Classics to Oriel College, Oxford, in 1915. He served as an officer in the Royal Artillery until the end of the war when he...

Pathologist. He began his career in Northern Ireland, then emigrated to Australia (Western Australia, then Monash, Melbourne),  returning to UK in 1967  to work at Children’s Hospital Birmingham where he worked with RHR White. In 1972 he returned...

Frank John Goodwin was born in Stratford. London, and died at the tragically early age of 49 years after a long and debilitating illness. He was married to Mary Rose Goodwin, ophthalmologist, and was the only son of John Leonard Goodwin, a cost...

George Haycock was the Ferdinand James de Rothschild professor of paediatrics at Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals School of Medicine, King’s College, University of London, from 1990 until his retirement in 2005.

He was born in Buxton...

John Hodson – known to all as ‘Hoddie’ – was one of the outstanding original thinkers in British diagnostic radiology. He will be remembered by those who trained under him as a fine clinical radiologist, and as a stimulating and exciting teacher...

Sir David Innes Williams (generally known as “DI”) had two careers of equal distinction and near equal length – as a surgeon and as an academic administrator...

Adolph Mark Joekes was known to all his professional colleagues and friends as ‘Jo’.

Born in Leiden, Netherlands, both his parents were doctors, and he came...

Brian James Ross Junor was a consultant nephrologist in the Renal and Transplant Unit at Glasgow’s Western Infirmary. After house jobs in Dundee he moved to train in nephrology in Aberdeen, where he completed his MD thesis on the use of...