Andrew Gordon Horsburgh was born on 1 August 1926, the third son of John Barber Horsburgh, an engineer, and his wife Catherine née Gordon. After attending St Paul’s Preparatory School, Colet Court, London, he finished his education at Clayesmore School in Dorset. He studied medicine at King’s College, London and the Westminster Hospital, where he did various house jobs. Other London hospitals he worked at as a house surgeon or registrar included the Gordon, Royal Marsden, and Queen Mary’s, Stratford. During this time he worked with many influential surgeons, including Sir Stanford Cade, Stanley Lee, Lawrence Abel, Stanley Aylett, Eric Crook and Ronald Raven. He served as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Korean War and passed the fellowship of the college in 1957. Eventually he became a consultant surgeon at Watford General Hospital. At the college he was a tutor and also a member of the Court of Examiners. He was a governor of York House School in Rickmansworth where he lived. In 1957 he married Ann Davis who graduated MB, BS London in 1955 and became a general practitioner and a magistrate. They had a daughter and a son who’s ambition was to follow his parents into the medical profession. A keen yachtsman, he enjoyed sailing his boat along the South coast, the coast of France and around the Channel Islands. He died on 1 June 2019, aged 92.