Christopher Donald Farrier was born in Shenfield, Essex on 30 November 1930. He was the only child of Frederick John Farrier, a decorator, and his wife Daisy Anne née Seward. Educated at Harrow County School, he studied medicine at King’s College London and St George’s Hospital Medical School, qualifying MB, BS in 1954. House jobs at St. George’s in orthopaedics were followed by work at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, Margate General Hospital and, as senior house surgeon, at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Dover. At St George’s his orthopaedic mentors were Bryan Hartop Burns, Robert Henry Young, George Charles Lloyd-Roberts and Peter Reginald French. After joining the forces, he was a surgeon in Indonesia from 1963 to 1965 and was also involved in the withdrawal from Aden in 1967 – the same year in which he passed the fellowship of the college. He became consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Cambridge Military Hospital in Aldershot and also worked at the Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital, in the Accident and Emergency Department of the Wellington Hospital in New Zealand and at the RAF Hospital in Wroughton. He eventually became consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Poole General Hospital. A fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association, he was also a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. He married Ms Everett in1955 and they had a son and a daughter. Outside medicine he enjoyed skiing, water skiing and sub aqua sports. He died on 20 October 2019