Thomas Laird Barclay was a consultant plastic surgeon at Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield, St James Hospital, Leeds and St Luke's Hospital Bradford. Born in Huddersfield on 26 March 1925, the son of William and Mary Frances Barclay, he studied medicine at Edinburgh University. He qualified MB ChB in 1947 and was house surgeon to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary for a year. He was senior registrar in plastic surgery to Mount Vernon Hospital in Northwood from 1955 to 1960 when he became consultant plastic surgeon to the Bradford Hospitals group. A member of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons, he served as its president in 1983. He was a major in the Royal Army Emergency Reserve from 1962 to 1968 and was a keen golfer. He married Isabel Mary Raffan on 19 September 1953 and they had two children, William and Philippa. He died on 3 March 2007 aged 81 years. Publications: *Burns and their treatment*1962; 3rd ed 1968. Fluid balance in burned patients. (jointly) *Lancet* 1954 Diplopia in association with fractures of the zygomatic bone. *Brit Jl Plastic Surg * 1958 Oedema following operation for Dupuytren's contracture. *Plastic and reconstructive Surg* 1959