Alfred Jones (Jim) Evans was born in Llanelli, Wales, on 13 August 1916. His father, Owen Garnon, was a meat purveyor and his mother Cicely Frances, née Evans, was a schoolmistress. He was educated at Christ College, Brecon, and St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, qualifying MRCS, LRCP in 1941. He served as Surgeon-Lieutenant RNVR during the second world war in the North Atlantic and the Far East, resuming his postgraduate medical education at St Mary's in 1946, passing MB BS London 1947 and the final FRCS in 1950. Extensive training in plastic surgery, influenced by Sir Harold Gilles, was followed by an appointment as consultant in plastic surgery and burns surgery at Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton, honorary consultant to the S W Metropolitan Region and to the Westminster Hospital. He was eminent in his field and as a teacher of undergraduates and postgraduates. He published many papers on burns and plastic surgery and was a member of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons. He possessed a musical gift, playing the saxophone in dance and jazz bands at St Mary's Hospital, on an aircraft carrier and in the plastic surgery hospital, Rookdsdown House, Basingstoke. Jim Evans was a kind, sincere and able surgeon. He married Joy, a nurse, in 1943. Of their four children, their son David became a doctor, Stephen became a microbiologist, Sian a radiographer and Alison a postgraduate careers adviser. He died on 5 August 1986, survived by his wife and family.