Born on 19 August 1875, the eldest of the three children of Samuel Daw and his wife, *née* Davy; he was educated privately. Daw qualified at the age of thirty from the medical school of Guy's Hospital, where he then served as resident surgical officer. After serving as resident surgical officer and surgical registrar at the General Infirmary, Leeds, he settled in practice there, living latterly at 24 Park Square, and specialized as an orthopaedic surgeon. He ultimately became consulting orthopaedic surgeon to the General Infirmary, to the Leeds Education Committee and Public Health Department, to Batley Hospital and Clayton Hospital, and to the Wakefield and Dewsbury Infirmary. Daw served for a time as surgical tutor at the University of Leeds. He was also consulting surgeon to the Kirbymoorside Orthopaedic Hospital and the Herzl-Moser Hospital, both at Leeds. During the first world war he was commissioned captain, RAMC(T) on 29 August 1914 on the staff of the 2nd Northern General Hospital. Daw was a Fellow of the Association of Surgeons, and a member of the British Orthopaedic Association and the Leeds and West Riding Medical Society. He was vice-president of the section of orthopaedics at the British Medical Association's annual meeting at Nottingham in 1926. Daw married in 1914 Joan Humphreys, who survived him with two sons and a daughter. One son, Nigel Selden Daw, MB, ChB Leeds 1940, was serving as surgeon-lieutenant, RNVR at the time of his father's death. After retiring Daw lived at The Briars, Polegate, Sussex, where he died on 19 June 1944, aged 68. He had long suffered from rheumatoid arthritis. Publications:- *Orthopaedic effects of gunshot wounds and their treatment*, with foreword by Sir R Jones and appendix on functional disabilities by W C Morton. London: Frowde, 1919. Treatment of disabilities of joints of the upper extremity, with N Dunn, in *Orthopaedic surgery of injuries by various authors* edited by Sir Robert Jones, London, 1921, 1, 209.