Legends in urology.

I feel greatly honored to be invited to contribute to the legend series but I do not feel mythological. I am acutely aware of the immense amount that I owe to so many friends and colleagues along the way, both senior and junior none more so than my lady wife Margaret. We met at Oxford in 1943 as contemporary medical students in the dark days of the war and married in 1950 when we qualifi ed we have integrated and supported each other’s fulltime professional lives ever since. She became the Professor and Dean at the Cardio-Thoracic Institute at the Royal Brompton Hospital and eventually President of the Royal College of Physicians (5 years’ hard labor and the fi rst lady president in 485 years of its history). She was appointed a Dame (DBE) in 1991. Many of the facets of our life are recorded in her thoughtful book ‘Living Medicine’ that she wrote for, and gave to, the RCP it is only obtainable from there (441 (0) 207 935 1174). We have two lovely daughters, one a professor of medicine and the other a teacher, an artist, and now a grandmother whether we managed to look after them properly is somewhat questionable, but certainly we were deeply indebted to the ever-caring presence and support of my mother who lived next door.