Arthur Beresford Beresford-Jones was born on 8 April, the son of the Rector of Winalton, Co Durham. He was educated at St Paul's Choir School, London, and at the University of Durham College of Medicine, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He graduated MB BS in 1906 and was house surgeon to Rutherford Morison. He proceeded to MS in 1922. During the first world war he served as a Captain in the RAMC and was badly gassed in France. From 1917 he was stationed at Canterbury Hospital where, in 1918, he was appointed honorary surgeon. Essentially a general surgeon he had a special interest in fractures and orthopaedics and formed an orthopaedic department, at that time quite an unusual feature in a provincial hospital. He had two ambitions, the improvement of surgery and the development of the hospital into a fully functioning, self-sufficient unit. When he retired in 1946 he could see that many of his objectives had been realised. He dedicated himself to the hospital, not only as a surgeon, but as a member of the medical committee, board of management, the new hospital building committee and governor. He also gave unstinted help to the Whitstable and Tankerton and the St Augustine's Hospitals. In 1950 the Royal College of Surgeons paid him the rarely offered compliment of election as a Fellow. In 1917 he married Evelyn Freeman of Burwood House, Chertsey, who survived him. He had one son who was killed in the second world war whilst serving with the Fleet Air Arm. He had one surviving daughter. He died at his home in Canterbury on 12 November 1974 at the age of 92.