Alfred Mark Abrahams was born on 30 December 1912 in Norwich, the third son of Herman Abrahams, minister of religion, and Zelda. He was educated at Holy Trinity School and King George V Grammar School Southport, from where he was the first boy to win a Southport Borough Scholarship and the Robert Gee Scholarship to read medicine at Liverpool University. He graduated in 1937, having been president of the Medical Students' Society. He became lecturer in physiology and anatomy and subsequently resident surgical officer at Liverpool Royal Infirmary. During the war he became a Squadron Leader in the Royal Air Force serving in the United Kingdom, Africa, Italy and Yugoslavia. After the war he was appointed consultant surgeon at Victoria Central Hospital, Liverpool; St Catherine's Hospital, Birkenhead; the Cottage Hospital, Hoylake; and Leasowe Children's Hospital. He retired in 1973. Noted as an excellent teacher, Alfred Abrahams held the post of postgraduate tutor and also served on the Hospital Management Committee, Wallasey. He was founder of the League of Friends, Wallasey Hospital, and became President of the Liverpool Jewish Medical Society. In 1983 he was made a life member of the Liverpool Medical Institution. Outside medicine he had a great interest in rose growing, ornithology, gardening and fell walking. In his time he was president of the Rotary Club in Wallasey. He always wore a rose in his buttonhole, became an international judge in rose growing competitions, and developed a new rose that he named 'Grandma Nancy' after his wife, Nancy Levy, MBE, JP, whom he married in 1942. He had one son, Peter, who became a doctor. Late in life he endowed the Abrahams Leukaemia Fellowship at Liverpool University so as to enable research into ways of improving the quality of life of patients with leukaemia, a disease of which he himself died on 26 March 1988, aged 75. He was survived by his wife and son.