George Anthony Lawrence, known as 'Tony', was a consultant general surgeon in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada, where he practised for 35 years. He served as a coroner and from 1984 to 1993 was chief of staff of the Highland View Regional Hospital and was also medical examiner for Cumberland County over many years. He was an enthusiastic volunteer manager of the Red Cross blood donor clinic. He left the UK when he was at senior registrar level as resident surgical officer to the Norfolk and Norwich and allied hospitals, and emigrated to Canada. He and his wife, Gillian, and family went to Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1965 to make a permanent home, highly recommended by his friend in Norwich, Joe Donachie, who had settled in the locality. Here Tony developed a fine reputation as a friendly practitioner who gave wise advice and took excellent care of patients on whom he performed a wide variety of general surgical procedures. Tony was born in Nottingham on 9 April 1925, the son of Ernest Lawrence, a dentist, and his wife Millicent. He had two sisters, Sheila and Bobbie, and was a great nephew of the writer, D H Lawrence. He was educated at Nottingham High School before entering Guy's Hospital for his medical training, whence he graduated in 1950. A gifted singer, he shunned a professional career in music to pursue medicine, but used his fine baritone voice to good effect in choirs, and also in Christmas shows, where his sense of fun became apparent as he mimicked consultants on the staff of the hospital. An all round sportsman, he played in the Guy's first XV as a scrum half. After house appointments, he entered the Royal Army Medical Corps and served as a captain in Egypt for two years before returning to Guy's for further surgical training. He met Gillian Wood, a medical student, whom he married: they had a family of six children, three boys and three girls. In Norwich, first as a registrar and from 1964 as a senior registrar, he was recognised as a superb diagnostician and an excellent surgeon. In Canada he developed the same reputation. His love of medicine was apparent as he retained a strong belief in the principle that the interests of patients were paramount. Outside medicine he had a love of the countryside even during his time in Norwich, when he and Gill lived in a 'wattle and daub' country cottage at Wreningham. They kept a variety of animals, including a donkey, 'Belinda', fed from hay in the fields, hand-mown by Tony and the many guests they entertained. In 1967, after a year or so in Canada, he moved to Burnside Farm as his permanent residence and in retirement was able to pursue his interest as a 'hobby farmer'. He was a proud Rotarian for over 40 years and his services were recognised with a Paul Harris fellowship and the Club's distinguished service award. He enjoyed a regular game of golf with his medical colleagues in the area. Tony Lawrence died at his home in Amherst, Nova Scotia, on 10 August 2010 from metastatic malignant melanoma. He was survived by his wife Gill, five children (Noel, Claire, Sarah, Anne and Michael) and nine grandchildren. He was predeceased by his son Mark.