Douglas Harold Barnbrook, known as 'Barney', was a consultant general surgeon and professor of anatomy at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He studied medicine at Birmingham University, gaining his MRCS LRCP in 1946. He passed his FRCS in 1951 and in the same year emigrated to Halifax, to his post at Dalhousie. He then practised general surgery in Kapuskasing and several surrounding towns in northern Ontario. He later continued his practice in Hamilton at St Joseph's, Chedoke and Joseph Brant hospitals. He also volunteered as a surgeon in Singapore. Later he worked in Toronto for a number of years before retiring. He collected classical music recordings and shared his wife's passion for collecting 18th century porcelain. Douglas Harold Barnbrook died on 24 October 2012 after suffering from dementia with Lewy bodies. He was 89. He was survived by his wife Margarita, his daughter (Nicola) and son (Matthew), four grandchildren and a great-grandson.