Bevis Brock was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Salisbury. He was born in Cambridge in 1922, the son of H M Brock, a well-known cartoonist and illustrator. Bevis attended the Perse School in Cambridge and subsequently Cambridge University, before undertaking his clinical training at King’s College Hospital. After military service in the RAMC he returned to King’s as a registrar, first in general surgery and then in orthopaedics. After completing his orthopaedic training as a senior registrar at Guy’s Hospital, Bevis was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Salisbury group of hospitals in 1961. He was a highly respected orthopaedic surgeon and a wise and thoughtful doctor. He married Margaret, the superintendent physiotherapist at King’s. In 1947 their son Christopher was born. During her pregnancy Margaret developed rubella, but declined termination. Sadly, Christopher was born deaf, dumb and blind. Margaret and Bevis later founded the Rubella Group (for which she was awarded an OBE). This developed into the charity Sense. A daughter, Elizabeth, was born in 1950, but after qualifying as a physiotherapist she died from multiple sclerosis in her early forties. Following his wife’s death in the early 1990s, Bevis married Mary, a long-serving sister in the Salisbury hospitals and the daughter of a local GP. She also predeceased him. He died on 7 November 2005.