Anthony Booth, neurosurgeon, was born in Liverpool on 20 April 1934, the son of Edmund Booth, a company director, and Henrietta, a teacher. He was educated at Gordonstoun School and King's College, Cambridge, completing his medical studies at University College Hospital, London. His training in neurosurgery was at the National Hospital, Queen Square, under Professors Valentine Logue and Lindsay Symon, at the Middlesex Hospital with John Andrew, and at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. He was appointed consultant neurosurgeon at Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry, in 1973. The department had been established fairly recently and, until Booth's appointment, was a single-handed one. Booth greatly assisted in placing the department on a firm footing, doing much general neurosurgical work while establishing a number of specialist services in the area. He was particularly interested in paediatric neurosurgery but he also helped to develop a service for the relief of intractable pain, introduced trans-sphenoidal pituitary surgery, undertook the management of acoustic nerve tumours and published papers on spinal cysts and anterior meningocoeles. He also did a good deal of administrative work, being secretary of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons for a number of years and a member of the manpower advisory committee of the College and of the specialist advisory committee in neurosurgery. By his first wife, Margaret, whom he married in 1958, he had three sons - Edmund, a film producer, Sam, an architect and Adam, a sculptor - and by his second, Susan, whom he married in 1969, two daughters - Hannah, a psychologist and Emily. He married for a third time to Janet in 1989. His outside interests were in amateur dramatics, cooking and, after his retirement to France, the restoration of a water mill. He died on 13 December 1996.