Geoffrey Cecil Winchester Baker studied medicine at London University and trained at Guy’s Hospital. He graduated MB, BS in 1955 and passed the fellowship of the college in 1960. After house jobs at Guy’s he went to the Sheffield Royal Infirmary and Children’s Hospital as a surgical registrar. Deciding upon a career in orthopaedics, he moved to Scotland as a lecturer in orthopaedic surgery at Edinburgh University. He then moved to the Midlands and was orthopaedic consultant to the North Derbyshire Health District working at Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital in Mansfield and becoming clinical teacher in orthopaedics and accident surgery at the University of Nottingham. A fellow and member of council of the British Orthopaedic Association and a member of the British Medical Association, he contributed various articles to the medical literature on topics such as leg development in childhood. He lived in Chesterfield and died on 14 April 2020.