Horace Luther Davies was born on 21st April 1910, at Birkenhead. He went to Woodchurch Road Junior School and Birkenhead Institute. He received his medical training at the University of Liverpool, qualifying in 1932 and then proceeding to the Master of Orthopaedic Surgery degree in 1935, and Master of Surgery in 1939. He was Robert Gee Fellow and demonstrator in human anatomy and histology in the Medical School from 1932 to 1934. He was the Lady Jones Research Fellow in Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Liverpool from 1939 to 1940. He held resident posts at the Liverpool Royal Hospital and Birkenhead General Hospital, and was assistant orthopaedic surgeon at Bootle General Hospital. While he was at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary he was influenced by Sir Reginald Watson Jones, Robert Kennon and Cosbie Ross. He became consultant orthopaedic surgeon to St Catherine's Hospital, Birkenhead from 1946 to 1967. He was a Member of the Executive Committee of the British Association of Sport and Medicine and was elected to its Honorary Life Membership; he was also Honorary Medical Officer of the English Schools Athletic Association, and Honorary Orthopaedic Consultant to Tranmere Rovers Football Club, Birkenhead. While in practice he lived at Prenton, Birkenhead, but retired to Naphill, Buckinghamshire about 1967, having suffered a cerebral haemorrhage. He married Lilith Esme Osborne BA, daughter of the Reverend George and Mrs Osborne of Birkenhead in 1939, and had two sons and a daughter. The elder son, Michael Osborne Davies is a general practitioner in Madeleg, Staffs. His hobbies included golf and swimming, and he was a member of the British Astronomical Association and British Interplanetary Society. He was President of the Liverpool Astronomical Society for three years. He was also a member of Prenton (Birkenhead) Literary and Debating Society, and was its President in 1967. After further strokes he died at his home in Naphill, near High Wycombe on 31 August 1971 aged 61. Publications: The unstable semilunar bone. *Lancet* 1948, 1, 831. Quintus metatarsus valgus. *Brit med J* 1949, 1, 664. Diabetic gangrene. *Brit med J* 1951, 2, 1254.