Charles Barry D'Arcy Fearn was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton. He was born on 4 March 1934 in Manchester. His father, Charles Henry Fearn, was a dental surgeon in Rochdale; his mother, Lily Gladys Fearn née D’Arcy Jones, was a housewife and mother. His brother, Alan D’Arcy Fearn, went on to become a dental surgeon. Fearn was educated at Homewood Preparatory School in Freshfield, Lancashire and Shrewsbury School. He went on to study medicine at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1959. He was a house surgeon at St Mary’s to Arthur Dickson Wright and Kenneth Owen, and then a house physician at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, where he worked for Patrick Mallam. From 1960 to 1962 he carried out his National Service as a captain in the RAMC, as a regimental medical officer to the Royal Irish Fusiliers in Tripoli, Libya and Celle, West Germany. From 1969 to 1970 he was a senior lecturer in orthopaedics at the Kitchener School of Medicine, Khartoum University, Sudan. In October 1972, he was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic and accident surgeon at the Royal County Hospital, Brighton, Cuckfied Hospital, West Sussex (to 1990) and at the Princess Royal Hospital, Haywards Heath (from 1990). He also had a private practice. He was an executive trustee of the Brighton and Sussex Institute of Orthopaedics Charitable Trust, chairman of the orthopaedic and specialty training committee for the South East Thames region and a senior tutor in orthopaedics. He retired in 1997. He was a member and archivist of the Girdlestone Orthopaedic Society, president of the Brighton and Sussex Medico-Chirurgical Society in 1994 and a liveryman of the Society of Apothecaries. He was a member of the Territorial Army, as a regimental surgeon to the Kent and County of London Yeomanry, 71st (Yeomanry) signal regiment. As a student, he rowed at Cambridge and was captain of the St Mary’s Hospital Boat Club. He raced horses (he recorded that he was ‘part owner of several slow horses’), played polo in the Army, acted as a student and was later a regular theatre and opera goer. He also enjoyed travelling. In April 1962, he married Gay Barbara Ann Smythe. They had four children – Giles Barry D’Arcy, Alexandra Gay, Victoria Tana Nancy and Jocasta Mary Elizabeth. Charles Barry D’Arcy Fearn died in 2016.