Derek Spencer Porter was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon for Greenwich District Health Authority. He was born on 26 September 1930. He studied medicine at St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1954. He gained his FRCS in 1963. He served in the Royal Navy and subsequently became an orthopaedic registrar at the Rowley Bristow Orthopaedic Hospital and a senior orthopaedic registrar at King’s College Hospital, London, before being appointed as a consultant at Greenwich. He wrote papers on Austin Moore arthroplasty and was a fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association. Porter died on 12 December 2017. He was 87.