Peris Woodfine Edwards was a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at Nevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny. He was born in Bangor, Wales on 27 January 1934. His father, John Gwynan Edwards, was a pharmacist and optician; his mother was Elsie Edwards née Jones. He attended John Bright Grammar School in Llandudno and then studied medicine at University College Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1957. He was a house officer at the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead and at the Whittington Hospital in London. From 1960 to 1963 he held a short service commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving at the British military hospitals in Kinrara, Malaysia and in Brunei. He was an orthopaedic registrar at the Whittington Hospital, and a senior registrar at Cardiff Royal Infirmary and the Prince of Wales Orthopaedic Hospital, Rhydlafar, Cardiff. In 1969, he was appointed to his consultant post in Abergavenny. He retired in 1995. He was chairman of the Gwent medical committee from 1989 to 1992 and a member of the Welsh medical committee for the same period. At the Royal College of Surgeons, he was a surgical tutor from 1988 to 1993 and a member of the Welsh board at the Royal College of Surgeons from 1990 to 1997. He was interested in golf, bridge and DIY. In December 1957, he married Judith E M Lines. They had three children – Gwynan, David and Jane. They divorced and in May 1981 he married Vanessa Mary Humphrys. They had a son, Benjamin James.