Vid Moshakis was a consultant surgeon at Leicester. He was born in Athens, where his father Jhon was an accountant. His mother was Eudokia Karamolegoy. At Anauryta National School he won a scholarship in medical studies which took him to the London Hospital, where he was a brilliant student, taking prizes in pathology and medicine. He was house surgeon to David Ritchie. After junior posts he was registrar on the St George’s Hospital scheme with the Royal Marsden Hospital and Frimley Park, before moving to Leicester, where he became consultant surgeon and clinical tutor at the University of Leicester Medical School. He married Georgia Robertson in 1969 and had one son. He moved back to Athens, where he died on 20 September 2005.