William Grant Doig was an orthopaedic surgeon in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was born on 30 October 1922, the son of Keith McKeddie Doig, an Australian rules footballer and general practitioner from Colac, Victoria, who had served in the Australian Army Medical Corps in France during the First World War and was awarded the Military Cross, and Lewis (Louie) Maffra Doig née Grant. He had three siblings, an older brother Ronald, who become a physician, and two sisters, Jean and Alison, who became a distinguished mathematician and statistician. Doig attended Colac High School before his enrolment as a boarder at Geelong College, which he attended from 1934 to 1940. He was a school prefect, house captain and a member of the 1940 athletics team, a Cadet Corps corporeal and the winner of the 1940 College Cup. He studied medicine at Melbourne University and qualified in 1946. He went to the UK to train in surgery and gained his FRCS in 1951. He returned to Australia, to Melbourne, where he was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon. He was a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. In 1951 he married Doris (Doss) Lydia Berry. They had three children, Stephen, David and Rowan, and five grandchildren, Lachlan, Katherine, Fiona, Christopher and Katya. Doig died on 28 February 2011 in the presence of his family. He was 88.