Roy Butterfield was a GP surgeon in Teignmouth. He was born in Bolton on 26 January 1929, the son of Howard Vincent Butterfield, a cotton yarn executive, and his wife, Edith née Entwistle. He was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He went on to the Westminster Hospital for his clinical training, and there captained the University Football Club. He did his National Service in the RAMC in Egypt and returned to the Royal Marsden Hospital for two years. He was then a registrar at the Miller Hospital in Greenwich. He went to Canada in 1957 for nine months, but returned to England, as a registrar at Boscombe Hospital, Bournemouth, and then went to Teignmouth in 1961 as a GP surgeon, where he remained until he retired in 1985. He married Marie Margaret Overne in 1959, a Canadian nurse. They had two sons and a daughter, none of whom went into medicine. He was a keen golfer and was captain of the Teignmouth Hospital in 1972. He loved sea fishing and angling. He died on 7 August 2002 from Alzheimer's disease.