Eric Philip Simkin was a consultant surgeon at Royal Liverpool University Hospital. He attended Jesus College, Cambridge, where he studied medicine, qualifying in 1952. He was an accident officer at Middlesex Hospital, London, and then a surgical registrar at Liverpool Royal Infirmary. Prior to his appointment as a consultant in 1978, he was a senior surgical registrar for the Liverpool Regional Health Board. He specialised in anorectal surgery, and opened a specialist clinic at Sefton General Hospital and then at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. He retired in 1992 and subsequently held a number of locum positions. He died on 25 January 2012, in his 85th year, and was survived by his wife Marilyn, two children and three grandchildren.