Lawrence Iregbulem was a plastic and reconstructive surgeon at Cambridge Private Hospital. Born in Ifakala, Nigeria on 9 November 1938, he was the eldest child of Philip Iregbulem, a businessman, and his wife, Elizabeth. He was educated at St Patrick’s College, Calabar, Nigeria which he attended as a boarder and was a senior prefect in his final year. He studied medicine in London and trained at St Bartholomew’s Hospital (Barts), graduating MB, BS in 1962. After working as a dresser to Sir James Patterson Ross at Barts, he did house jobs at the Royal Marsden Hospital where he was mentored by Wilfred Peter Greening. Moving to the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and the Hammersmith Hospital, he became registrar in plastic and reconstructive surgery to James Calnan. In 1971 he passed the fellowship of the college. He was appointed consultant plastic surgeon to the Middlesborough Hospital, the South Tees Hospital, the Hartlepool General Hospital and the South Tees Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. Returning to Nigeria, he worked as a reconstructive surgeon at the National Orthopaedic Hospital in Enugu. He was a research fellow of the plastic unit of the Hammersmith Hospital and of the Royal Postgraduate Medical School. A member of the New York Academy of Sciences and the European Academy of Cosmetic Surgery, he was also an associate professor of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons and past president of the Nigerian Society for Burn Injuries. He died on 10 May 2018, aged 79 and was buried in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire.