Nick Laurence was an honorary consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Brighton. He was born on 12 August 1918 and qualified in 1940. He was a wing commander and orthopaedic specialist in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and trained as a resident surgical officer at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital and as a registrar in orthopaedics at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. From the 1950s he worked as a consultant at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children, Brighton General Hospital and the Royal Sussex County Hospital. He was a fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association. In the late 1960s, with his colleague Austin Brown, he advised on the design of the new accident and emergency block and orthopaedic department at the Royal Sussex County Hospital. Nick Laurence died on 20 May 2005, aged 86, from head injuries following an accident. He was survived by his widow Eileen, children David, Sue and Nicholas, and six grandchildren.