Edward Nangle was an orthopaedic surgeon in Zimbabwe. He was born Edward Jocelyn Nangle Freer in East London, South Africa on 18 March 1916 (he changed his name to 'Nangle' in 1937). His father, Cecil Charles Freer, was a dentist. His mother was Dorothy Ismay Nangle. He was educated at Plumtree School in what was then Rhodesia, and went on to study medicine at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He qualified in 1940. He held junior posts at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, and then joined the South African Medical Corps. He served in Italy during the Second World War with the rank of major. In 1939 he had won a Beit fellowship for postgraduate training, and after the war, following his demobilisation in 1945, he went to the UK. He trained at St Thomas' Hospital in London, the Wingfield-Morris Orthopaedic Hospital in Oxford, and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore under Herbert Seddon. In late 1950 he moved to Rhodesia and started in private practice. He was also an honorary orthopaedic surgeon for the government, and treated patients from the Army, Air Force and Police. He also saw welfare cases free of charge. In Salisbury he established a centre to help victims of polio. He served on many advisory boards, even after he retired in 1998. He wrote *Instruments and apparatus in orthopaedic surgery* (Oxford, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1951). In 1957 he was elected a fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association. He was a member of the Royal Salisbury Club and the Royal Commonwealth Society. He enjoyed sailing and photography. In 1950, in England, he married Valerie Mercer Ainslow. They had five children: John Stuart, Ismay Susan, Nancy Elizabeth, Caroline Joan and Rosemary Joyce. Edward Nangle died on 20 March 2008, aged 92.