Gordon Manson Chambers was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Peterborough. He was born on 17 March 1932, the son of Edward Tenyson Chambers, a civil servant, and Alva Isobel Chambers, a housewife. His father’s grandfather, Henry Chambers, was a surgeon and a member of the Royal College of Surgeons who emigrated to Adelaide. Chambers attended Adelaide High School and then went on to study medicine at Adelaide University, qualifying in 1957. He gained his FRCS in 1964. Prior to his consultant appointment at Peterborough District and the Edith Cavell hospitals, he was a senior registrar at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham and the Birmingham Accident Hospital. He was a member of the Territorial Army. Outside medicine, he enjoyed tennis. He was married twice. His first wife, Caroline, died in 1991. They had two children, Sarah and Paul. In 1995, he married Susan. He died on 5 January 2016 at the age of 83 and was survived by his second wife, children and two grandchildren – Monty and Amelie.