Peter Herent Lord was a consultant surgeon at Wycombe General Hospital, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Born in Oldham, Lancashire on 23 November 1925, he was the son of Sir Frank Lord, a builder and developer who became the Mayor of Oldham in 1952 and was also the High Sheriff of the County. His mother, Rosalie Jeanette née Herent had been born in Brussels and was also from a family of architects and builders. John, his younger brother, became a County Court Judge on the Northern circuit. Having attended Werneth Council School in Oldham and Manchester Grammar School he went up to St John’s College, Cambridge to study medicine and graduated MB in 1948. At St George’s Hospital, where he trained under Sir Claude Frankau, he won the Allingham prize in surgery and a pathology scholarship. After house jobs at St George’s he worked at Salford Royal Hospital with the urologist Denis Smith Poole-Wilson and the Christie Hospital in Manchester with Wilson Harold Hey, the radiologist and famous mountaineer. Appointed a junior surgical specialist with the RAMC he worked at the military hospitals in Tideworth, Trieste and at Millbank – at one time with colonel John Watts. Among other surgeons who influenced him during what he described as a *prolonged period of bondage* were Sir Ralph Marnham and Lord Smith of Marlow. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1955 and took up his consultant post at Wycombe General Hospital remaining there until his retirement. At the Royal College of Surgeons of England he was Penrose May teacher and a tutor on the fellowship course from 1967 to 1977. Elected to council in 1978, he later became vice-president. Master of the Worshipful Company of Barbers, he was also secretary of the section of proctology and surgery at the Royal Society of Medicine. In 1952 he married Shirley née Hurst and they had four children; Rozanne, Frank, Janine and Peter. His elder daughter Rozanne also took up medicine and became a transplant surgeon practising in Wales. Outside medicine he enjoyed sailing, photography, gardening, travelling and, as he put it, *inventing*. When he died on 16 February 2017, aged 91, he was survived by his wife, children, eight grand-children and two great grand-children.