John Campbell Clothier was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Sandwell General Hospital, West Bromwich. He was born on 25 February 1944, the son of John G Clothier and Annabella Clothier née Gibson. He was educated at Repton School and then went on to study medicine at Oxford, gaining his MRCS LRCP in 1969 and a BM BCh in 1970. Prior to his consultant appointment he was a house surgeon, house physician and senior house officer in the accident and emergency department at Stafford General Infirmary. He gained his FRCS in 1976 and was a senior registrar in orthopaedics at St George’s Hospital, London. He was chair of Sandwell Healthwatch. Clothier died on 16 March 2020. He was 76.