Batookrai Anopchand Kamdar was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at West Hill and Joyce Green hospitals, Dartford, Kent. He was born on 29 October 1939 and studied medicine at the MP Shah Medical College in Jamnagar, Gujarat, qualifying MB BS in 1965. He gained his fellowships of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1970 and of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (ad eundem) in 1998. Prior to his consultant appointment he was a registrar in orthopaedic surgery at Hammersmith and Heatherwood hospitals, and then a senior registrar in orthopaedic surgery at the Royal Free and Windsor group of hospitals. He was a fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association. Outside medicine he was interested in reading, music, philately, cricket, skiing and golf. He died on 21 January 2009, aged 69.