David Anthony Berstock was born in Manchester on 14 September 1946. He was the only son of Ellia Berstock, a general practitioner, and his wife Rene née Hall. Educated at Stockport Grammar School, he trained in medicine at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and London University, graduating MB, BS in 1970. He did house jobs at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading and passed the fellowship of the college in 1975. After working for a while as a lecturer and senior registrar at King’s College Hospital in London, he moved to Merseyside where he was appointed consultant surgeon to the Wirral Hospitals NHS Trust and was also a part-time clinical lecturer in surgery at Liverpool University. Later in his career he worked at the BUPA Murrayfield Hospital in Thingwall and was a consultant surgeon at the Wirral Breast Care Service. The game of cricket was one of his main enthusiasms. He retired in 2010 and died on 23 December 2021 aged 75.