Christopher Cheyne was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Good Hope Hospital, Sutton Coldfield. He studied medicine at Liverpool, qualifying in 1957. He gained the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1966 and of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (ad eundem) in 1979. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a chief resident in orthopaedics at the University of Rochester, New York, and a senior registrar in orthopaedics for the United Bristol Hospitals. Christopher Cheyne died on 4 June 2015.