Brian Knight Madden was an orthopaedic surgeon in Yeovil, Somerset. Born on 22 April 1924 he studied medicine at Cambridge University graduating MB BCh in 1949. After house jobs at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, the Middlesex Hospital and the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Hospital in Oswestry, he passed the fellowship of the college in 1957. He was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Yeovil General and Taunton and East Somerset Hospitals. In 1962 he contributed to the book *Introduction to sports medicine*. A fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, he was also a fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association. He died at home in Yeovil on 24 June 2016 aged 92 and was survived by his children Bella, Susannah and David, and grandchildren Jemima and Charlie. His wife Scilla and their son Richard predeceased him.