Michael Broke Heywood-Waddington was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at Broomfield, Chelmsford and Black Notley hospitals, Essex. Born in Littlehampton on 24 April 1929, his father, William Broke Heywood-Waddington, was a general practitioner in Arundel and Littlehampton who had served in the Royal Navy in the First World War. His mother was Edna Madeleine Heywood-Waddington née Goddard, the daughter of a bank manager. He was educated at Dorset House, Littlehampton and Epsom College, and was awarded a major open scholarship to St John’s College, Cambridge. After clinical studies at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, he qualified in 1953. After a house physician post at the Middlesex Hospital, he went to Jamaica, where he was a house officer and senior house officer under Sir John Golding. While in Jamaica he was involved in treating the survivors of polio. From 1956 to 1959 he held a short service commission as a flight lieutenant in the RAF. He was posted to Iraq, as chief medical officer at the RAF base in Habbaniya, looking after 10,000 personnel. He returned to the UK, where he was a registrar in general surgery at Mount Vernon Hospital and a registrar in orthopaedics at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, where he trained under Norman Capener. From 1962 to 1967 he was a registrar and then senior registrar at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, where he worked for Sir Herbert Seddon. In 1967 he was appointed to his consultant post in Essex. He organised the orthopaedic training rotation in East Anglia. He was a member of the British Orthopaedic Association, president of the orthopaedic section of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1989 to 1990 and chairman of the regional advisory committee in orthopaedics for the North East Thames Regional Health Authority. Following his retirement in 1992 he developed a busy medico-legal practice. He was a member of the MCC and orthopaedic surgeon to Essex County Cricket Club. He was also interested in skiing, photography and steam engines. He had a heart attack in his fifties, but following surgery was able to continue working until his retirement. Michael Heywood-Waddington died on 17 February 2016 at the age of 86 and was survived by his widow, Virginia Susan (née Crichton), whom he married in 1969, and their son, John.