Born at Stellenbosch, South Africa, in 1888, the eldest son of P G Beyers. of Sunnyside, Pretoria. He was educated at Stellenbosch Boys' High School and Victoria College, where he read zoology under Robert Broom. He graduated in 1908, and deputized for Professor Broom for nine months during 1909. He retained his interest in zoology and anthropology, and was associated with Robert Broom and Raymond Dart in their discoveries of prehistoric races of man in South Africa. He took his clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, qualifying in 1915. He then went to France on active service, as a captain in the RAMC, and later served at Richmond military hospital. After the war, he took the Fellowship at the end of 1920. He had played rugby football for Stellenbosch and for Bart's, and kept his interest in the game after he gave up playing. Beyers now returned to South Africa and served as house surgeon at the Pretoria Hospital and as surgical registrar at the General Hospital, Johannesburg, where in due course he became assistant surgeon and then surgeon. He practised privately at Rosettenville, Johannesburg. At the University of the Witwatersrand he was demonstrator of anatomy, lecturer in surgical anatomy and in clinical surgery; he proved a popular teacher. He visited England in 1928, and took the London MS degree. Beyers died in the Johannesburg General Hospital on 3 December 1933, from carcinoma of the colon, aged 45. He was survived by his wife, but there were no children. He had transferred from the RAMC to the South African Medical Corps on settling in the Union, and was promoted lieutenant-colonel. He was a man of outstanding intellectual and athletic ability, modest, thorough, and much beloved. Publications:- A case of subpleural lipoma in a child. *Lancet*, 1923, 1, 283. Case of renal sarcoma in an infant. *Med J Sth Afr*. 1925, 1, 38.