Elwin George Currow was chief executive officer of the Royal Newcastle Hospital, New South Wales, Australia. Born on 16 September 1926 in Auckland, he was the son of George Arthur Currow, a school master and his wife Marguerite Dulce Marion née Fury who was also a teacher. He attended several schools in New South Wales run by the Seventh Day Adventists; the primary school at Cooranbong from 1933 to 1936; then the Wahroonga central school until 1939; followed by the Burwood High School and finishing at the high school in Cooranbong from 1941 to 1942. After spending the next five years at Sydney University Medical School he qualified MB BS in 1948 and passed the fellowship of the college in 1956. He became medical superintendent and surgeon specialist at the Maitland Hospital in New South Wales in 1958 and moved to the post of chief executive officer at the Royal Newcastle in 1965, retiring from there in 1986. A member of the Hunter District Water Board from 1974 to 1982 and the Newcastle Rotary Club from 1967 to 1986, he was also on the council of the Newcastle College of Advanced Education from 1980 and its chairman from 1985. On 4 May 1950 he married Rachael Narelle Cox who was a teacher. They had four children. Their eldest daughter Helen Elizabeth (born 1955) was an anaesthetist and Katherine Suzanne (born 1957) and David Christopher (born 1965) became general practitioners. Stephen John (born 1959) became a clergyman. Outside medicine he enjoyed listening to classical music; bush walking; leather work; swimming and photography. He died on 19 October 2016 aged 90, having been delighted to receive a card from the college on his 90th birthday one month earlier.