Born 16 March 1899 the only son of Martin William Reddington, a civil servant. He was educated at the University of Otago, Dunedin, where he graduated in 1922, and came to England for postgraduate work at the Middlesex and Guy's Hospitals, with the intention of specializing in gynaecological surgery. He served as senior resident officer at the Jessop Hospital for Women, Sheffield, surgical registrar at the Grosvenor Hospital for Women, London, and gynaecological registrar at the Royal Waterloo Hospital for Children and Women. Reddington married about 1928 and settled in practice near Colchester, Essex, in 1931, but moved into London in 1933. He had been commissioned as a surgeon lieutenant-commander in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. On the outbreak of war in 1939 he was appointed to serve at sea, and while he was abroad his wife died, leaving three young sons. He was invalided out of the service in the middle of the war, and practised at Bridgwater till he felt well enough to return to London, where, however, he was injured in an air-raid. He recovered sufficiently to resume a busy and active life. He was appointed gynaecologist to the Royal Hospital, Richmond, and became senior obstetric surgeon at the Woolwich Memorial Hospital. He was a consulting gynaecologist to the Admiralty, and to Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, and other hospitals in South London. He served on the hospitals, remuneration, and nursing liaison committees at the British Medical Association, and was an active member of the North London Medical Society. He practised at 50 Weymouth Street, W1, and latterly at 51 Harley Street. Reddington married secondly on 2 February 1951 Beryl Walker, Mrs Cookson, who survived him with the three sons of his first marriage. He died after nearly eighteen months' illness on 25 May 1951, aged 52, in the Middlesex Hospital, and was buried at St Marylebone cemetery, East Finchley. He was a keen games-player, had played rugby football for Middlesex Hospital, and played real tennis and golf in later years. He was also a well-read connoisseur of literature, and wrote poetry and a play in verse. Publications: Total versus sub-total hysterectomy. *Lancet*, 1942, 2, 113, Post-partum haemorrhage. *Lancet*, 1943, 1, 509, Problems in obstetrics. *Clin J* 1944, 74, 15.