Martin Lowy was an orthopaedic surgeon at the Whittington Hospital, London. He was born in Aussig, Czechoslovakia, on 12 December 1933, the son of Julius Lowy, a general practitioner, and Helen Lowy née Wagner. He survived three years in a concentration camp and went to the UK at the age of 11 with his mother to join his father, who had escaped to England just before the outbreak of the Second World War. Lowy was educated at Bedford College and then Luton Grammar School. His father obtained British qualifications at the Middlesex Hospital in 1942, and Martin followed him, graduating in 1958. Martin Lowy was a house surgeon to Sir Thomas Holmes Sellors, who inspired him to take up surgery, and to Sir Herbert Seddon, who encouraged his interest in orthopaedics. After training at the Middlesex Hospital, the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, Lowy was appointed as an orthopaedic surgeon to the Royal Northern Hospital in 1972 and later to the Whittington Hospital. He was a senior lecturer in orthopaedic surgery and an examiner for the final MB BS. He retired in 1996. Martin's main interest was knee surgery: he pioneered arthroscopy in England and was a founder member of the International Arthroscopy Association. He was a member of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee, and a fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association. Outside medicine, he was interested in skiing, cricket and rugby, and enjoyed Wagner. In 1960 he married Clara Youngday, an endocrinologist. They had two sons, Jonathan Peter and Stephen Nicholas. He died on 19 December 2008, aged 75. His wife and children survived him. Sarah Gillam