Arthur Carlisle Townsend was an orthopaedic surgeon at the Kent and Sussex Hospital, Tunbridge Wells. He was born in Amesbury, Wiltshire. His father, Eric Townsend, was a brigadier in the Royal Army Medical Corps; his mother was Dorothy Townsend née Carlisle. His grandfather, Meredith Townsend, was master of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries from 1913 to 1918. Townsend was educated at Wellington College and then Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and Middlesex Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1948. He was a house physician and house surgeon at Middlesex Hospital. He carried out his National Service as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Korean War. On returning to the UK he worked in Oswestry and Exeter before being appointed to his consultant post in Tunbridge Wells. He retired to the south coast, where he pursued his love of sailing. In 1958, he married Sheila Budd. They had three sons and a daughter, six grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Arthur Carlisle Townsend died on 6 August 2015. He was 89.