Patrick Brendan Moroney received his medical education from Liverpool University and from St Bartholomew's and Guy's Hospitals, qualifying with the conjoint diploma in 1931 and graduating MB ChB at Liverpool in the same year. He gained his Fellowship in 1935 and two years later obtained the MChir Orth at Liverpool. During his career he was clinical lecturer in orthopaedic surgery at the University of Liverpool and was consulting orthopaedic surgeon at the Walton Hospital, Liverpool and at the Liverpool Royal United Hospitals. He died on 7 March 1993, survived by his wife Rhoda and his children and grandchildren.