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William Ross Cattell

William Ross Cattell (“Bill”) was a pioneer in nephrology at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. He was an excellent clinician, much respected by his colleagues, and he undertook important research on urinary tract infection, renal imaging, and a wide variety of other nephrological topics.

Bill grew up on a farm in north east Scotland. There he enjoyed the freedom of the countryside but also absorbed a strong work ethic from his parents as he and his two older brothers helped on the farm. He was educated at Inverness Royal Academy, where he was a gold medallist in physics and chemistry and an Anderson prize winner in natural sciences. He studied medicine at Edinburgh, and graduated with first class merits in five subjects.

After a house physician post at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness, national service took him to the Suez Canal Zone, first as a regimental medical officer, and then in the busy military hospital, where he was responsible for two tuberculosis wards. By the time Bill left the army, he had decided on a career in hospital medicine. He returned to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary as house physician to Professor Stanley Davidson. Two further posts in Edinburgh in chest medicine led to a post at the Brompton Hospital in London. While there, he passed the Edinburgh and London MRCP examinations.

He then moved to a registrar post on the professorial unit at University College Hospital (UCH), where he worked for Professor Max Rosenheim and …