William Edward Granville Griffiths was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Portsmouth. He was born on 13 September 1938 in Neath, Glamorgan, the son of Melvin Griffiths, an engineer, and Sarah Vivienne Griffiths née Hughes. He was educated at Coedffranc Junior School, Skewen, and Neath Grammar School. In 1956, he went to King's College, London, for his preclinical course, and then to Westminster Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1962. He held two pre-registration posts at the Westminster Hospital, under Harold Ellis and Charles Drew, and was then a senior house officer at St James' Hospital, Balham, in the accident and emergency and gastric surgery departments. From 1965 to 1967 he was a surgical registrar at Orsett and Tilbury in Essex. He then carried out his orthopaedic training at the London Hospital in Whitechapel from 1969 to 1973. During this period, he also rotated to Black Notley Hospital and spent time at the Crippled Children's Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, and Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg, Sweden. He was particularly influenced by Dan Desmond, Norman Tanner, Dennis Dunn, Sir Henry Osmond-Clarke, William Alexander Law, Oliver Vaughan-Jackson and Michael Freeman in the UK, Wood Lovell in Atlanta and Alf Nachemson in Sweden. In 1973, he was appointed as a consultant in orthopaedics and trauma to Portsmouth and south east Hampshire and held this post until he retired in July 2000. From 1994 to 2000 he was associate clinical director of orthopaedics and trauma at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth. He taught undergraduates from Southampton and from the Royal London/St Bartholomew's. He developed special interests in scoliosis, the management of Perthes' disease, slipped upper forward epiphysis and surgery for back pain. In 1976, he became a founder member of the British Scoliosis Society. He was a member of the council from 1992 to 1995. He represented Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, and was a member of the council of the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association from 1984 to 1995. Outside medicine, he enjoyed sports as a young man. He was Welsh champion at the 440 yards in 1959 and played rugby for Westminster Hospital, Wimbledon, Thurrock and Havant. He sang and was a member of Portsmouth Choral Union and Portsmouth Festival Choir (chairman from 1992 to 1997). In 1962 he married Dawn Venetia, an occupational therapist. They had four children: Jason Stephen, Rebecca, Sarah and Matthew Anders. William Edward Granville Griffiths died on 5 December 2014. He was 76.