Ronald Evans was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Birmingham Accident Hospital. He was born on 13 November 1933 in Liverpool. His father was Thomas James Evans, an oil company employee; his mother was Doris Selina Anne Evans née Foster. He attended the Liverpool Institute High School and went on to study medicine at the University of Liverpool. He qualified in 1958. During the late 1950s he carried out his National Service as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps including a posting in Cyprus. He held house posts in Liverpool and was then a registrar at Westminster Hospital and a senior registrar at Luton and Dunstable Hospital. He gained his FRCS in 1967 and a masters of orthopaedic surgery in 1972, and in the same year was appointed to his consultant post in Birmingham. During his training, he remembered being particularly influenced by Lawrence William Plewes. In 1969, he married Gillian M Roberts. They had two sons, James and John, and four grandchildren, Rhiannon, Sam, Rhys and Harry. He retired to Llanaelhaearn in Caernarfonshire. Evans died on 17 August 2017 in Glan Clwyd Hospital in Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire. He was 83.