Arthur Lewis Eyre-Brook, or 'E-B', was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Bristol. He was born in Inverness, a son of the manse. The family moved south when his father retired, and Arthur was educated at Colyton Grammar School in Devon. He went on to Bristol Medical School, where he did junior posts, ultimately becoming the senior resident officer at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. While he was studying at Bristol he also took examinations in London as an external student, ultimately qualifying from both universities. He was a registrar at the Royal Cancer Hospital, the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, and the Wingfield Morris Hospital, where he was a Nuffield scholar, and was much influenced by G R Girdlestone, who arranged for him to spend a year at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York under Phillip Wilson. He was appointed consultant general surgeon to the Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children in 1938. At the same time, he also worked as an orthopaedic registrar for the fracture service at Bristol Royal Infirmary. He served in the Emergency Medical Service at Winford Hospital, dealing with air raid casualties in Bristol, until 1942, when he joined the RAMC and became surgeon in charge of a 1,000 bed hospital in Oribi near Pietermaritzburg in South Africa. He was subsequently an adviser in orthopaedic surgery to the 21st Army Group in Brussels, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel After the war he returned to Bristol, and was recognised as an orthopaedic surgeon, the first in Bristol. He was later the senior orthopaedic surgeon to the Bristol Royal Infirmary, the Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children, and the Winford Orthopaedic Hospital. His main interest was in children's orthopaedics. He wrote more than 30 papers, founded the Bristol Bone Tumour Registry, and was deputy chairman of the planning committee for the new building at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. He was a member of the Court of Examiners from 1965 to 1971, and President of the British Orthopaedic Association from 1972 to 1973. After he retired, he travelled extensively, helping to start orthopaedic services in developing countries, and was a leading figure at the foundation of World Orthopaedic Concern. He spent two and a half years in the Sudan, shorter periods teaching and operating in Malaysia and Burma, and after 1977 made annual visits to Malawi and Bangladesh, only giving up work in 1986 when he suffered a small stroke. He published a memoir in 1990. He married Edith Meriel née Wagstaff in 1946. They had six children and 13 grandchildren. He died on 16 August 1999.