Edward Hargadon qualified MB ChB at the University of Wales in 1948 and obtained the conjoint diploma in the same year. He gained the Fellowship of both the College and the Edinburgh College in 1957. After a house post in the Fracture and Orthopaedic Department of the Royal Infirmary, Cardiff, he made orthopaedics his specialty, and was successively senior orthopaedic registrar at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the West Manchester Hospital Group and honorary consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the North West Regional Hospital Authority. He published several papers on orthopaedic topics, fractures, and joint replacements. He died on 26 March 1993, survived by his wife Vivienne, son David and daughters Judith and Susan.