Ronald Edward Connor received his medical education at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, passing the Conjoint Diploma in 1944 and graduating MB BS in 1949, in which year he also obtained his Fellowship. After serving as a Sub-Lieutenant RNVR from 1946 to 1948, he became supernumerary surgical registrar at St Mary's Hospital and also Registrar at the Ministry of Health spinal centre at Park Prewett Hospital, and in 1954 was registrar in surgery to Haslemere Hospital. Thereafter he moved into general practice, first at Bletchley and then at Liphook. He retired to Dorchester in 1979 and died there on 19 December 1984, survived by his wife, Betty.