Gordon Stuart Baron-Hay was a consultant paediatric surgeon at the Princess Margaret Hospital for Children in Perth, Western Australia. He was born in Perth on 26 June 1935. His father was George Kingston Baron-Hay, an agriculturalist; his mother, Vera, was a psychiatrist. He was educated at Wesley College, Perth, and then the University of Adelaide, South Australia. He held junior posts at the Royal Perth Hospital between 1959 and 1963 and then at the Prince Margaret Hospital for Children and Prince Henry's Hospital, Melbourne. From 1966 to 1968 he worked at Hackney Hospital in London and in 1966 gained his FRCS. He returned to Western Australia, to the Royal Perth Hospital. From 1973 to 1974 he was attached to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Yorkhill, Glasgow. From 1974 he was a consultant in paediatric surgery at the Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, Western Australia. He retired in 2002. He concentrated on gastroenterological problems, as well as malignant disease and neonatal surgery. He was a member of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons, the Australasian Association of Paediatric Surgeons and the Pacific Association of Pediatric Surgeons. He was chairman of the Western Australia state committee of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons from 1993 to 1995 and a committee member for nine years. The Gordon Baron-Hay medal of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons was established in his honour for the best paper given by a registrar at the Western Australia annual scientific meeting. Outside medicine, he was interested in sailing, tennis, hockey and golf. He was a member of the Royal Freshwater Bay Yacht Club and the Royal King's Park Tennis Club. In 1960 he married Patricia. They had two daughters (Margaret and Sally) and two sons (Richard and Stuart). Gordon Stuart Baron-Hay died in 2011.