Nicholas Eric Dudley was a general and paediatric surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. Born on 28 December 1938, he studied medicine at London University and trained at Bart’s Hospital, qualifying MB MS in 1963. Passing the conjoint examination in that same year he did house jobs at the United Oxford Hospitals. He also spent time as a surgical research fellow at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia and gained the fellowship in 1968, together with that of the Edinburgh college. At the college he was a James Berry prizeman, a regional advisor in general and paediatric surgery and a member of the Court of Examiners. He died on 20 March 2016 aged 78.