Lindsay Black was superintendent of the Westland Hospital, New Zealand, and orthopaedic surgeon to all the west coast hospitals on the South Island. He was born in Auckland on 20 November 1914, the third child of Wilfred Alick Black, a solicitor, and Linda née Culpan. He was educated at King's College, Auckland, where he was a successful athlete and cricketer, and studied medicine at Otago University from 1934 to 1940. He was house surgeon at Wellington Hospital and then from January 1941 to November 1944 served as a Captain in the New Zealand Army Medical Corps and the New Zealand Artillery, in New Zealand and the Pacific islands. After the war, he returned to Wellington Hospital as a house surgeon, and from 1946 to 1948 was surgical registrar at Cook Hospital, Gisborne. In 1948, he went to England to specialise in orthopaedics, one of the Kiwis who were taken under the wing of Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor. He was a registrar at Wharncliffe Hospital (attached to Sheffield Royal Infirmary) under F W Holdsworth, and later at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, under Sir Hugh Seddon and Jackson Burrows. After passing the FRCS, he returned to Hokitika, New Zealand, in 1952, and became superintendent of the Westland Hospital, and orthopaedic surgeon to all the West Coast hospitals of the South Island - Westland, Greymouth, Buller and Reefton - until their amalgamation in 1968, when he was transferred to a 'base' hospital at Greymouth. In 1958, he returned to London for a year's study leave at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. He was a member of the New Zealand Orthopaedic Association. He married Grace Sorenson in 1941, by whom he had three daughters, none of whom have entered medicine. He married a second time in 1959, to a Miss Wood. His outside interests included golf, fishing and music. He died in December 2000.