Noël Blockley was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Glasgow. He was born in Bolton on 22 December 1921, the son of Frederick Austyn Blockley, a leather factory manufacturer, and Nora Blockley née Jackson, a teacher. He was educated at Miss Coffee's Primary, Bolton School and then Kingswood School in Bath. He studied medicine at Manchester, qualifying in 1945. He then joined the RAF, initially based at RAF Wokingham, followed by a year in Aden. On his discharge from the RAF he worked for his masters degree in surgery in Liverpool. He was a senior house officer in Biddulph Hospital under Sir Harry Platt and then a senior registrar to John Charnley at Manchester Royal Infirmary. He was acting consultant at Altrincham General Hospital. He became the first orthopaedic consultant at Yorkhill Children's Hospital in Glasgow. He also held some clinics and had some beds at the Western Infirmary, Gartnavel and Killearn hospitals. He held the Barclay lectureship at the University of Glasgow. He was a member of the council of the British Orthopaedic Association from 1967 to 1968 and vice president in 1983. He published a number of papers on osteomyelitis and congenital dislocation of the hip. Outside medicine he enjoyed golf, walking in the hills, gardening, history and reading. In 1952 he married Joyce Mary Farqhuar Young. They had two sons, Ian and Graham, and a daughter, Fay. Noël Blockley died on 11 February 2007, aged 85.