Alec Graeme ‘Chick’ Bond was a gynaecologist in Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Geelong, Victoria, on 18 September 1926, the son of Alec William Bond, a civil engineer, and May née Webb, the daughter of a grazier. He was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne, and then went on to Melbourne University. He spent time studying in the UK, gaining the fellowships of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and of England. When he returned to Australia he became a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, serving as secretary to the Australian Regional Council in 1975 and 1976. He was head of the gynaecology unit of Prince Henry’s Hospital, Melbourne, from 1968 to 1991 and was universally recognised as a skilled surgeon. He married June Lorraine née Hanlon, a trained nurse, in 1953 and they had two children, a son who became a solicitor and a daughter who became a teacher. He died on 27 January 2004.