David Evans was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Queen Mary's and the Westminster Hospital, London. He was born in London on 21 September 1919, the son of Arthur Evans OBE FRCS who was a general surgeon at the Westminster and Royal Masonic Hospitals and his wife, Dorothy, née Briant. His eldest brother, Briant Evans FRCS FRCOG was an obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Westminster, Chelsea and Queen Charlotte. David attended St Piran's School, Maidenhead and Rugby School. He studied medicine at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and Westminster Hospital Medical School, where he was president of the student's union and, in 1942, won both the Bulkeley medal and the Chadwick clinical surgery prize. From 1943 to 1946 he served in the RNVR as a surgeon lieutenant. He was on HMS *Pathfinder* for a year taking part in Atlantic convoys, serving in the Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean. Following this he was with the Royal Marines at Trincomalee, Ceylon and MO to Mountbatten's fleet force, landing at Arakan and taking the surrender of the Japanese in Sabang (North Sumatera) - a time which he described as "A marvellous, occasionally alarming but seldom boring adventure at HM's expense". After the war David joined the staff of the Westminster Hospital as surgical registrar to Sir Stanford Cade and also worked at the Hospital for Sick children at Great Ormond Street. Appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon to Southend General Hospital in 1957 he remained there for 2 years before taking up a consultancy at the Westminster where he worked until retirement in 1985. In the early 1960's he was also at St Stephen's Hospital in Chelsea, staying there until 1972, and from 1961-1985 he was consultant orthopaecdic surgeon to Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton. At the College, he was on Council from 1983 to 1991, Vice-President from 1989 to 1991, RCS visitor to the RCOG Council 1985 to 1990 and Robert Jones Lecturer in 1985. With Peter Bevan he initiated the Overseas Doctors Training Scheme. He was a member of the British Orthopaedic Association for many years and served as its President in 1980. In 1987 he was made an honorary fellow of the section of orthopaedics of the Royal Society of Medicine, having been the section President in 1979. For many years he was on the editorial board of the *Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery*(British Volume) and contributed numerous article to that and other professional journals. He married Betty McCrea, a nurse at St Thomas's, on 14 January 1951. She was the daughter of Dr H Moreland McCrea OBE MD. They had a son Tim who became a general practitioner and three daughters, Joanna Burgess, a speech therapist in London; Phillipa Ford, who lived in Harare, Zimbabwe and Gillian Adkins who practised as a physiotherapist in Portland, Oregon, USA. At university and medical school he was a keen hockey player and an enthusiastic all round sportsman. In later life he enjoyed golf (he was Captain of the Royal Wimbledon Golf Club in 1981), tennis and skiing (he was founder of the British Orthopaedic Skiing Group). Fishing, especially dry fly, was another favourite pastime plus bridge and what he described as "African adventures". He died on 5 March 2010 aged 90, survived by his family which by 2001 included 12 grandchildren.