Charles Hierons was a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead. He was born on 16 August 1931. His mother’s maiden name was Ward. He studied medicine at Durham University and qualified in 1954. He gained his FRCS in 1963. Prior to his consultant appointment he was a house surgeon at Birmingham Accident Hospital and at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, and then a registrar at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle. He retired in 1999. In 1961, he married Audrey M Ashworth. They had four children, Charles, Nigel, John and Jennifer, and seven grandchildren, Elizabeth, Honor, Stephen, Christopher, Catherine, Daniel and Jessica. Predeceased by his wife and daughter, Hierons died on 10 June 2017. He was 85.