Geoffrey Darke qualified from St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1937, and after house appointments joined the RAMC where he was mentioned in despatches in 1940 and 1945. After the war he continued his training at Bristol Royal Infirmary, the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and St Bartholomew's, where he was senior registrar to Alec Badenoch. He was appointed consultant urological surgeon to Taunton and Somerset Hospital, the West Somerset Hospital in Minehead, and later to Bridgwater Hospital. He died on 9 December 2002, survived by his wife, Elizabeth, children and grandchildren.