David William Guilford Budd was a consultant general surgeon at Horton General Hospital, Banbury. He was born in Cambridgeshire in 1937. He studied medicine at Birmingham University, qualifying in 1962. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a senior house officer in the accident service at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital, and in the casualty and orthopaedic departments of Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham, and a neurosurgical registrar and then surgical registrar at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. Budd died on 12 July 2019.