William Lloyd Jones ('Will') was a consultant general surgeon at Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool. He was born into a farming family in Anglesey, Wales, and was taught in local schools. Deciding on a career in medicine, he chose to study in Liverpool, then a natural choice for a Welsh speaker. The founding of the docks in Liverpool at the end of the 18th century had encouraged the inhabitants of north Wales to migrate in their thousands to the rapidly expanding port city, where they settled and created a large, vibrant Welsh-speaking community. Amongst the immigrants were talented professionals such as Hugh Owen Thomas, who, along with his nephew Robert Jones, founded the specialty of orthopaedics. The rapid growth of this talented Welsh medical community in the city hospitals led to Liverpool University Medical School becoming a mecca for Welsh-speaking medical students who could maintain their cultural heritage by daily contact with Welsh clinicians, academics and patients. Will qualified MB ChB in 1963 and it was inevitable that he should become a house surgeon to John Howell Hughes, who had a huge practice of patients referred to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary from north Wales. Two small surgeons of similar cultural background and interest, they became mentor and student. At times their ward rounds were conducted almost entirely in Welsh, in deference to the many patients from the north Wales mountains and Anglesey who spoke only Welsh. As Will's career progressed, he always acknowledged with gratitude the influence and support he had received from Howell Hughes. It is noteworthy that these two surgeons are both referred to on the Liverpool Welsh website as 'outstanding Welsh medical giants'. Will's surgical training took place in the city hospitals of Liverpool and the surrounding suburbs, during which time he passed the fellowships of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and of England, and became a senior registrar at Broadgreen Hospital, where he was able to work alongside another Welsh surgical mentor, Edgar Parry. In the early seventies, he spent a year in Boston working with the famous biliary surgeon Ken Warren. In America he published reviews of a large series of malignant tumours of the bile ducts and of symptomatic non-parasitic cysts of the liver, as well as undertaking cardiovascular research. At one stage, after returning to Liverpool, Will was appointed as a senior lecturer in surgery, but he eventually moved back into NHS practice and was appointed as a consultant surgeon at Broadgreen Hospital, from where he pursued a fruitful surgical practice, both in the NHS and privately. Throughout his career he remained a general surgeon who was much sought after, especially by his surgical colleagues when they needed surgical treatment. He was known as a 'surgeon's surgeon', well-loved and respected by all who worked with him and by his patients. He maintained an extensive private practice in Rodney Street, the fashionable district in the shadow of Liverpool's Anglican cathedral which, both professionally and architecturally, was very much a rival to Harley Street. Towards the end of his career he suffered several episodes of illness, finally retiring from the NHS in 2006 and giving up his private practice two years later. His post retirement years were spent in his beloved Wales, where he gardened and took part in local activities, amongst which was being president of the Anglesey Show. Will married twice, and in his latter years lived happily with his partner Jenny. He died in Walton Hospital, aged 72, on 3 September 2013. He was survived by Jenny, his two daughters, Angharad and Teleri, and a grandson, Harry.