Michael Hugh Carr was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Bradford Royal Infirmary. Born on 29 March 1929 in Horseforth, Yorkshire, he was the eldest child of George Herbert Carr and his wife Kathleen née Boddy. Both his parents were medically qualified. After attending Bradford Grammar School he studied anatomy and then medicine at Leeds University where he won the Scattergood prize in obstetrics and graduated MB ChB in 1955. After initial house jobs at Leeds General Infirmary working under John Cedric Goligher he moved to the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Hospital in Oswestry as a registrar in orthopaedics. He passed the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1960 and that of the college two years later. Moving to Bristol he worked as a tutor in orthopaedics at the university with Arthur Lewis Eyre-Brook. Other orthopaedic surgeons who mentored him were Robert Roaf and Arthur Negus. He then moved to Bradford to take up his consultant post. A member of the British Orthopaedic Association he was their representative on the Joint Tuberculosis Committee of the British Thoracic and TB Association. In 1957 he married Pamela and they had two sons and a daughter. Outside medicine he enjoyed playing golf and had a handicap of four. He died in 2012.