George Simon Edmund Dowd was an orthopaedic surgeon in London. Born on 9 November 1946 he studied medicine at Liverpool University and graduated MB ChB in 1971. After house jobs in orthopaedics at the David Lewis Northern and the Sefton General Hospitals in Liverpool he passed the fellowship of the college in 1975. Senior registrar in orthopaedics at the Royal Liverpool Hospital, he was appointed lecturer then senior lecturer in orthopaedics at Liverpool University. He became honorary consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Royal Liverpool, Broadgreen and Royal Southern Hospitals. Subsequently he moved to London where he took up a consultancy at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, a senior lectureship at the Institute of Orthopaedics and a consultant post at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. Finally he joined the staff of the Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead. Among his notable papers were those on supracondylar fracture in children and skin viability studies. He was a member of the British Association for the Surgery of the Knee, the British Orthopaedic Research Society and the British Orthopaedic Association. On 4 April 2016 he died aged 69 and was survived by his wife Angela.