Graham Roland Anderson was an orthopaedic surgeon at Brisbane General Hospital. He was born in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. His father, Leonard Ernest Anderson, was an import and export agent and a managing director; his mother Edith May Anderson née Kitchen was a housewife. He was educated at Brisbane Boys' College and then the University of Queensland. He qualified MB BS in 1945 - the medical degree course having been shortened because of the Second World War. He was a resident medical officer at Brisbane General Hospital from 1945 to 1946 and then a senior resident medical officer at Mater Hospital, Brisbane. In 1948 he was a part-time lecturer in anatomy at the University of Queensland Medical School and was subsequently a locum GP for six months, including two months with the Royal Flying Doctor Service. In 1949 he went to the UK, where he was a junior surgical registrar at Manchester Royal Infirmary, working with Sir Harry Platt, John Charnley and Michael Boyd. He gained his FRCS in 1950 (with the Hallett prize). In 1951 he returned to Australia, where he was an orthopaedic surgeon at Brisbane General Hospital (later renamed the Royal Brisbane Hospital) until 1956, when he was appointed as surgeon in charge of the hand clinic, taking over from Andrew Russell Murray, who had been tragically killed by a deranged patient, Karl Kast. Anderson was an assistant lecturer in orthopaedics at the University of Queensland from 1951 to 1982. From 1959 he was a council member of the Royal Flying Doctor Service (Queensland section) and president from 1969 to 1971. In 1980 he was president of the Australian Orthopaedic Association. He was a foundation member of the Australian Hand Surgery Society. Outside medicine, he enjoyed golf, tennis, fishing and photography. He was a member of the Queensland Club from 1966 to 2001. In 1948 he married Joan Blandford Earnshaw, a GP. They had four daughters - Jane Blandford, Catheryn Louise, Susan Earnshaw and Gillian Joan. Graham Roland Anderson died on 16 July 2010 at the age of 88.