Born at Carmarthen in 1871, he was educated there and at Charing Cross Hospital, where he was Llewellyn scholar. He qualified in 1898, served as house physician and house surgeon at Charing Cross, and was assistant demonstrator of anatomy in the medical school. After postgraduate study in Vienna he took the Fellowship in 1899, and was appointed surgical registrar at his hospital. He also filled the posts of pathologist and curator of the museum, assistant in the electrical department, and lecturer and tutor in surgery. He was elected assistant surgeon in 1905, later became surgeon, and was appointed consulting surgeon in 1931. During the war of 1939-45 he rejoined the surgical staff of the evacuated hospital at Ashridge. Daniel was also consulting surgeon to the Metropolitan Hospital, the Gordon Hospital for Diseases of the Rectum, the Willesden Hospital, and the cottage hospitals at Sutton and Hampton and Molesey. He was at one time pathologist to the hospital of Saints John and Elizabeth. He was a medical referee of the Cremation Society, and for some years secretary of the Harveian Society. Daniel was an unassuming and modest man, who exerted a great influence for good. He was universally friendly and of great kindness and consideration. Conscientious and disliking publicity, he had very sound judgement. His practical common-sense was always at the service of those who sought his advice, and he was an excellent teacher and chairman. Daniel was a keen freemason. He helped to found the Chère Reine lodge at Charing Cross Hospital, and after serving as chairman was its treasurer for twenty years. He was always open to new ideas, and with William Hunter, CB, MD, FRCP (1861-1937) he directed attention to the dangers of oral sepsis in relation to arthritis. Daniel practised at 1A Upper Wimpole Street, and retired to Gilcroft, Checkendon, Oxford, where he died suddenly on 28 July 1950, aged 79, survived by his wife and only son. This son Peter Maxwell Daniel, MB, MRCS was awarded the triennial prize and John Hunter medal of the College in 1948, for his share in the discovery of afferent nerves and muscle spindles in the external ocular muscles, and for his contributions to the discovery of the shunt in the renal circulation, while working at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. Mrs Daniel died on 25 February 1952. Publications:- *Arthritis, a study of the inflammatory diseases of joints*, edited by James Cantlie. London: Bale, 1911. 515 pages. Colotomy and some misconceptions of its results. *Lancet*, 1911, 2, 1390. Some points in abdominal diagnosis. *Brit med J*. 1921, 2, 470.