Thomas Caldwell Litler-Jones was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School and qualified with the Conjoint Board Diploma in 1897. He was a house-surgeon and intern midwifery assistant at Bart's and during the Boer War served as a civil surgeon in the South African Field Force, and shortly after he qualified he was a plague medical officer in Bombay. After these early travels he took the FRCS in 1902 and settled in Liverpool where he was appointed assistant surgeon to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary, and later surgeon to the Hoylake and West Kirby Cottage Hospital. Litler-Jones also joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a surgeon in 1906, and at the outbreak of the first world war he joined the hospital ship *Rohilla* in which Prince Albert, who in 1914 was a midshipman, was conveyed to Aberdeen to have his appendix removed. Soon after that the ship was wrecked, and in escaping from his cabin he injured his back and suffered the after-effects of this accident for the rest of his life. After the ship-wreck Litler-Jones joined the RAMC and served in France as a Major during 1915-16, and was mentioned in despatches. Having been promoted to the senior consultant staff at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary in 1913 he returned there after the war, and also served as a lecturer in clinical surgery in Liverpool University. He retired from these posts in 1925, and ultimately went to live in Jersey in the Channel Islands, where he died 1 July 1967, aged 93 years. He was a most versatile character, and wrote a very interesting account of his reminiscences in response to the letter of congratulation sent him from the Council of the College on the 50th anniversary of his Fellowship. He took the greatest pleasure in recalling the appliances he had introduced for the support of paralysed or injured limbs, and also certain of his operations on diseased joints.