Raymond Calderwood was born on 11 August 1919 and was educated at Wanstead High School and St Bartholomew's Hospital. While a student he represented his hospital and the Eastern Counties at Rugby football. After qualification he held house appointments at Croydon and Southend, before joining the RAMC during the second world war. He was posted to India and became a surgical specialist at Colaba and Minadpore. After he left the Army he became surgical registrar at Southend Hospital, and then orthopaedic registrar at St James's Hospital, Balham. He obtained his Fellowship in 1954 and soon became senior hospital medical officer in orthopaedics to the Pontefract group of hospitals, becoming a consultant there in 1962. Calderwood was a deeply religious man and a good musician: he became the chairman of the Pontefract branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society, and his services were often in demand as an organist at various churches in the district. He also became a governor of the King's School, Pontefract, and a member of the board of the Pontefract Charity Almshouse. For some years before his death he had greatly enjoyed his cottage at Edenhall, where he was able to sail his dinghy with his three sons. Apart from his routine work Calderwood's chief interest was in the creation of an accident and orthopaedic service, first at Castleford Hospital and later at the renovated Pontefract General Infirmary. Raymond Calderwood died suddenly on 7 July 1971 at the age of 52, while at his cottage in the Lake District. He was survived by his wife and three sons.