Roeland Raymakers was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester General Hospital and Loughborough General Hospital. He was born in the south of the Netherlands on 3 February 1933, but moved with his family to Accrington, Lancashire, in 1934. He studied medicine at Westminster Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1957. He gained his FRCS in 1965. He was a resident medical officer and a casualty registrar at Westminster Hospital, and then a registrar at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and a senior registrar at Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital. He also spent some time in Scandinavia on a travelling scholarship to study orthopaedic practice. In 1971, he was appointed to his consultant post in Leicester. He was clinical head of orthopaedics at Leicester Royal Infirmary from 1986 until he retired in 1993. In his retirement, he enjoyed travelling in Europe, watching sports and being in the Leicestershire countryside. In 1960, he married Joan S Creasey, a nurse. They had four children (Christopher, Katharine, Dominic and Susanna) and eight grandchildren (Eleanor, Otis, Anna, Lois, Max, Eve, Theo and Gabriel). Roeland Raymakers died on 21 March 2017. He was 84.