Arthur Boulton Watson received his medical education at the University of Birmingham and qualified MB ChB in 1938. He gained his Fellowship in 1942 and the Birmingham ChM in 1946. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the second world war as a major and surgical specialist. After the war he was resident surgical officer at Leicester Royal Infirmary and later consultant surgeon to the Birmingham United Hospitals. He subsequently became consultant in orthopaedic and traumatic surgery at the East Birmingham and Solihull Hospitals. He died on 24 April 1991, survived by his wife, children and grandchildren.