Graham Sherwood Peck (also known as ‘Pecky’) was a senior surgeon at the Western General Hospital, Victoria, Australia. He was born in Melbourne on 15 May 1930. His father, Claude Russell Lemuel Peck, was a transport manager; his mother was Mary Queenie Peck née Houghton, a housewife. He attended Melbourne Church of England Grammar School and then the University of Melbourne, where he studied medicine. He qualified in 1957. While at university played cricket and Australian rules football. He held training posts at Prince Henry’s Hospital, Melbourne, where his principal tutor was S F Reid, who went on to become president of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Peck gained his FRACS in 1963 and, from 1964 to 1965, trained in the UK, with Robin Pilcher at University College Hospital, London. He became an FRCS in 1964. He returned to Australia, becoming a consultant surgeon at Prince Henry’s Hospital, Melbourne. He was head of the colorectal unit from 1974 to 1977, and established the colonoscopy service. From 1976 to 1996 he was a senior surgeon at the Western General Hospital, and head of the unit there. He also established and headed the colorectal unit at the Western. He was also an honorary senior lecturer at Monash University, clinical dean of the Western General Hospital (from 1985 to 1991) and a supervisor of registrar training (from 1991 to 1996). Outside medicine he enjoyed cricket, Australian rules football, skiing and oil painting. In 1958, he married Mary Hughes and they had two sons, Michael and Anthony. In 1979, he married Barbara Ann Lacey. They had three sons – Simon, Christopher and Nigel. Peck died in his sleep on 28 July 2015 at the age of 85 and was survived by four of his sons and seven grandchildren.