Robert Dunning Nicholson was a consultant general surgeon at Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, Somerset. He was born on 18 January 1921 and grew up in Barnet, attending Highgate School in the 1930s. On leaving school he went to St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School to train as a doctor. At the outbreak of the Second World War he and other trainees were evacuated to Cambridge, where he continued his studies at Queens' College. He returned to Bart's to complete his training and qualified in 1943 with the conjoint diploma. He spent a short time in the Home Guard, often doing the night watch during the Blitz, and then joined the Navy as a ship's doctor. In 1944 he crossed to Juno Beach with the D-day forces, making several trips to bring back the wounded and take more troops, before being shipped out to India for the final year of the war. After the war Bob lectured briefly at Newcastle University while qualifying for his FRCS. He then moved south to take up medical positions at Bart's Hospital, Winchester and Swindon through the 1950s. In 1962 he moved to west Somerset to take up a single-handed practice in Dunster combined with surgery at Minehead Hospital. In 1972 he returned to full-time general surgery at Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton. He retired in 1986. He died peacefully on 4 November 2014, aged 93.