Peter Morris (surgeon)

Sir Peter John Morris was an Australian surgeon, born in Horsham, Victoria, on 17 April 1934 and died on 29 October 2022. After Xavier College he studied medicine at the University of Melbourne and St Vincent's Hospital, graduating in 1957, and trained in Melbourne, the United Kingdom and the United States. In 1973, at 39, he took the Nuffield Chair of Surgery at the University of Oxford, held it for 28 years, and founded the Oxford Transplant Centre. He later served as President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 2001 to 2004 and directed the Centre for Evidence in Transplantation. His research centred on transplantation biology, including the immune response to histocompatibility antigens, and one of his key findings was the discovery of cytotoxic antibodies in patients after renal transplantation and their link to graft failure. He edited Kidney Transplantation: Principles and Practice and the Oxford Textbook of Surgery.