Peter Morris was born in Horsham, Victoria, in 1934, was appointed the Nuffield Professor of Surgery at the University of Oxford at age 39 and became a world leader in renal transplantation, clinical immunology and tissue typing. He retired from the Nuffield chair in 2001 and was elected President of the Royal College of Surgeons, England, serving until 2004. He then established the Centre for Evidence in Transplantation at the Royal College of Surgeons. Peter was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1994, awarded the Lister Prize in 1997, the Medawar Prize in 2006, was knighted for services to Medicine in 1996 and made a Companion of the Order of Australia for services to Medical Sciences in 2004. Peter trained numerous antipodean surgeons and physicians who went on to run transplant units in Australia and New Zealand. Peter was also a great family man, a proud Australian and a very keen cricketer, golfer and tennis player.