David William Daly was a consultant surgeon in Nottingham. He qualified in 1955 and gained his FRCS in 1958. He was a Hunterian professor at the Royal College of Surgeons. In February 1968, he was appointed to the General and Children’s hospitals in Nottingham. Six years later, when two paediatric surgeons were appointed, he was asked to start a clinic for breast diseases, where he worked with W D Fraser, a consultant radiotherapist. The clinic was one of the earliest places in the country where a surgeon and radiotherapist worked jointly. He was elected as a consultant representative on the hospital management committee, serving two periods of three years, first on the Nottingham no 1 committee, then on the newly-formed University Hospital management committee. During his career, he witnessed how the hospital service in Nottingham changed with the development of the school of medicine. David William Daly died on 10 May 2016.