John Inwood Michael Watts' last known address was in Minyip, Victoria, Australia. He studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1965. He gained his FRCS in 1973. He was a house surgeon at St Thomas' Hospital, a house physician at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, and a major in the RAMC. In the mid-1970s he became a medical officer for British Petroleum and was then a surgical registrar at Stockton Hospital. In October 2009 the Royal College of Surgeons was notified that he had died on 3 September 2009.