Nicholas Coe was associate director of surgical education at Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, Massachusetts and a professor of surgery at Tufts University School of Medicine. He was born in Surrey on 8 May 1946, the son of Stuart Coe and Joan Coe née Whittley. He attended school in Abingdon and went on to study medicine at Guy’s Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1969. He gained his FRCS in 1974 and emigrated to the US a year later, settling in Massachusetts. He became a US citizen in 1981. He was president of the Association of Surgical Education. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and a member of the American Surgical Association and the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons. He was a published author, as well as a composer and musician who played violin in the Holyoke Civic Symphony. In addition, he was a nature lover and an animal lover. He was married to Pamela (née Copeland) for 40 years. Nicholas Coe died on 27 November 2015. He was 69.