Peter Henry Dickinson was a consultant surgeon at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, an honorary consultant in vascular surgery for the Newcastle Regional Health Board and a lecturer in clinical surgery at the University of Newcastle. He was born on 17 June 1922 and studied medicine at Durham, qualifying in 1945. He gained his FRCS in 1951. Before his appointment to his consultant posts he was a house physician and house surgeon at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, and a research fellow in surgery at the University of Illinois, Chicago, USA. He was a member of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland and the Moynihan Chirurgical Club. He was awarded an MBE in 1995 for his work on medical appeals tribunals. Peter Henry Dickinson died on 11 June 2013. He was 90.