Robert Price Davies ("Bob") studied chemistry in Manchester after doing his National Service. Changing to medicine he did house jobs at Manchester Royal Infirmary and became an anatomy demonstrator. Awarded a Geigy research fellowship he trained both in the north west and in Bristol and passed the Manchester MD in 1962. He obtained the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1964 and the FRCS in 1966. Two years later he was appointed consultant general surgeon at the Wythenshawe Hospital where he took a special interest in paediatric surgery. He retired in 1993 after 25 years in post and began work on a history of the hospital chronicling its origin from a tuberculosis sanatorium (the Baguley) to a modern teaching hospital. The book was published in 2002 to mark the hospital's centenary after Bob had spent nine years researching the archives and carried out hundreds of interviews with former patients and staff. He was a member of the Macclesfield male voice choir, a keen golfer and a loyal Welsh rugby supporter. He died on 5 April 2011 aged 80 and was survived by his wife, Anne, children Mike, Jane, Chris and Simon, seven grandchildren and one great grandson.