Donald Cecil Gardner was an orthopaedic surgeon with the Tunbridge Wells District Hospital Group. He studied at London University and King’s College Hospital passing his MB BS in 1953. After house jobs at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street and at King’s, he passed the fellowship in 1960. For many years he was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Kent and Sussex and Pembury Hospitals. He died at home in Hartfield, East Sussex on 12 February 2016 aged 85 and was survived by his wife Bridgett, children Helen, Matthew and James, and grandchildren Emily, Katherine, Elizabeth, Rebecca, Jonathan and James. His son Matthew became an anaesthetist and an FRCA.