James David Bromage was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Kettering General Hospital, Northamptonshire. He was born in Ibadan, Nigeria on 23 September 1949, the son of James Richard Vincent Arthur Bromage, a civil servant in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and Frances Charlotte Bromage née Kerr, who had studied medicine at St Andrews University. Bromage attended St Mary’s School in Melrose and Sedbergh School in Yorkshire and went on to study medicine at St Mary’s Hospital. He qualified in 1973. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a registrar in orthopaedics at St Mary’s Hospital, a senior registrar in orthopaedics at Charing Cross Hospital and a lecturer in anatomy at the University of London. He gained his fellowships of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and of Edinburgh in 1979. Outside medicine he enjoyed skiing, golf, philately and wood work. Bromage died on 19 May 2020 at the age of 70.