Bernard Crawford was a plastic surgeon in Sheffield. He was born in Rotherham, Yorkshire, on 30 November 1919. His father, Alfred Edgar Crawford, was a teacher, and his mother, Nellie Cooper, a nurse. He was educated at Rotherham Grammar School and Sheffield University, where his teachers included Ernest Finch, James Lytle, Wilfred Hynes and Sir Frederick Holdsworth. He completed house officer jobs at the Royal Hospital, Sheffield, and then joined the RAMC as a graded surgical specialist, serving in India and Burma, and ending his service in 1947 as officer in charge of the surgical division, No 1 Burma General Hospital. On his return to the UK he became a supernumerary registrar at the Royal Infirmary, Sheffield, and was then house surgeon at the Northern General Hospital, and RSO at the Royal Hospital, Sheffield. He then specialised in plastic surgery and worked as a house surgeon, registrar and then senior registrar at the plastic and jaw department of Fulwood Hospital, Sheffield, where he was appointed as a consultant in 1960. He published on surgery for hypospadias, for which he was awarded a Hunterian Professorship in 1966, as well as other congenital lesions, including buried penis. His main interests were in reconstructive surgery after major burns and injuries. He was a keen teacher and encouraged his pupils to publish and carry out research, admonishing them: “surgery was not invented for the benefit of surgeons”. He married Hilda Fenn, a nurse, in 1949. Their son John became a professional violinist. His hobbies included copying old master paintings in acrylic. He died on 24 January 2007.