Raymond Nim-Wah Chan, known as Ray, was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Leicester and a surgeon at Leicester City Football Club, and one of the first Chinese orthopaedic surgeons to come to the UK. He was born on 28 July 1939 in Hong Kong, the son of Chan Ying Hung, a prominent lawyer, and Gladys Chan née Lee Wang Ying, originally from Canada, where her family ran a Chinese sausage factory. The Chan family endured life in British Army refugee camps in China after the evacuation of Hong Kong during the Second World War. Chan’s education began when the family eventually returned to Hong Kong. He attended Wah Yan College, a Jesuit school, and was later sent to Campbell College in Northern Ireland for his sixth form studies. He went on to win a place at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and then University College Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1965 and gained his FRCS in 1971. He was a house surgeon at Birmingham Accident Hospital, a registrar at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry and a senior registrar in Bath. In 1976 he was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Leicester Royal Infirmary, with clinics at Leicester General, specialising in spinal surgery and hip and knee replacements. He retired in 1999. He was an avid supporter of Leicester City Football Club and also keen on rugby, motorsport and cricket. He enjoyed good food and wine. In 1965 he met Patricia Jane Hutchin, who was training to be a nurse at University College Hospital. They married in 1968 and had four children, Alice, Olly, Ben and Vickie, and three grandsons. They divorced and he married Maureen Gough. She predeceased him in 2011. Chan died from complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder and emphysema on 1 April 2019. He was 79.