Thomas Stoyle ('Tom') was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Leicester Royal Infirmary and Glenfield General Hospital, Leicester. He was born on 21 April 1926 in Glasgow. His father was a regular soldier; his mother was German and the family regularly visited Germany for holidays. He was educated a

Andrew Philip Thomas was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Wolverhampton. He was educated at Dulwich College, where his father was a housemaster, and then Selwyn College, Cambridge, and St Thomas' Medical School. After qualifying in 1976, he trained in surgery, mainly at St Mary's Hospital, Londo

Nigel Harris was respected in the orthopaedic world, particularly for his participation in British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) conferences, where his pertinent questions often brought meetings to life. He had outspoken views on medico-social and medico-political issues and wrote many letters to *T

David Evans was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Queen Mary's and the Westminster Hospital, London. He was born in London on 21 September 1919, the son of Arthur Evans OBE FRCS who was a general surgeon at the Westminster and Royal Masonic Hospitals and his wife, Dorothy, née Briant. His eldest b

Maurice Patrick Robinson was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry, Shropshire. He qualified in 1952, gained his FRCS in 1958 and was formerly a senior registrar at the Middlesex Hospital. He died on 8 September 2010.

Philip John Pownall was an orthopaedic surgeon in Bolton. He was born on 22 February 1937 and studied medicine at Manchester University, qualifying MB ChB in 1961. He gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and of England in 1971 and 1972 respectively. Prior to his consu

Graham Belham was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon and, for a time, clinical director of surgery at Mount Vernon and for the Watford Hospital NHS Trust. He also practised privately in local hospitals. He was born in Thetford, Norfolk, on 3 March 1955, the son of Walter and Joyce Belham. He had one b

Guillaume Tom du Toit, known as 'Gumee', was professor of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He was born in Johannesburg on 22 November 1909, the son of Guillaume Johannes Izak du Toit, headmaster of the Abraham Kriel Orphanage at Langlaaglte, which had been founded for

Robert Bruce Salter, known as 'Bob', a sixth generation Canadian, was a pioneer in orthopaedic surgery in children. He was born in Stratford, Ontario, on 15 December 1924 and graduated from the University of Toronto. He then worked for two years at the Grenfell Medical Mission in Newfoundland, and s

John Buck was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in the Woolwich and Greenwich area. He was born in Hove, Sussex, on 30 October 1915, the son of Arthur Herbert Buck, a general surgeon, and Lilian Maude Bligh, a theatre sister who was a direct descendant of the captain of the Bounty. John was brought u

Robert Duthie was Nuffield professor of orthopaedic surgery at Oxford University. He was born in Detroit, USA, on 4 May 1925, the second son of James Andrew Duthie, an engineer with the Ford Motor Company, and Elizabeth Jean née Hunter. He was educated at Aberdeen Grammar School and King Edward VI G

Robert Roaf was a distinguished orthopaedic surgeon and one of the few remaining pre-war Himalayan climbers. He was born into a Canadian academic family in Golders Green, London, on 25 April 1913, the second son of Herbert Eldon Roaf, professor of physiology at Liverpool, and Beatrice Sophia, the da