Christopher John Spivey was an orthopaedic surgeon at Southend Hospital from 1970 to 2000. Born on 3 March 1937, he studied medicine at London University and trained at the London Hospital graduating MB BS in 1960. That same year he passed the conjoint examination and proceeded to gain the fellowship of the college in 1966. After house jobs at the London and at St Margaret’s Hospital, Epping he was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon to Southend Health District. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and of the British Orthopaedic Association and the author of papers on indentation studies of articular cartilage in normal and osteoarthrosic femoral heads. His wife Julia predeceased him. When he died on 9 August 2016 in Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford aged 79, he was survived by his second wife Sharon, sons Mark and Philip, and grandchildren Matilda, Joe and Olivia