Born on 26 August 1898 son of A W Roques FRIBA he was educated at Highgate School. In 1916 he joined the Army and served in France as a Lieutenant in the 2nd Brigade, Royal Artillery. After the war he went to Clare College, Cambridge and in 1921 entered Middlesex Hospital where he won prizes and scholarships. He became house surgeon to Comyns Berkeley, Victor Bonney and Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor. He was also anatomy demonstrator to Professor T Yeates. He was resident medical officer at the Chelsea Hospital for Women and then gynaecological registrar and subsequently gynaecological surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital. He was also on the staff of the Royal Masonic Hospital, the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth, the West Herts and Gerrards Cross hospitals, and built up a very large consultant practice. He was a fine operator and a great teacher. On the outbreak of war in 1939 he served in the RAF and became an Air Commodore; after the war he was appointed civilian consultant to the RAF. He had greatly enjoyed his work at the RAF Hospital at Halton, where he appreciated living in the country. He moved his home from Hampstead to Buckinghamshire and took up pig-breeding, but continued to practise at 55 Harley Street. He gradually withdrew from much of his hospital work, keeping up his service to the Middlesex, the Royal Masonic and the Hospital for Women, Soho Square. He was President of the section of Obstetrics in the Royal Society of Medicine in 1952 and editor of the 1959 edition of the "Ten Teachers" textbooks. He was examining for the Conjoint Board the day before he died. Freddie Roques was a friendly hospitable man, who enjoyed literature, music, and country life; he was a devout Anglo-Catholic churchman. He died on 14 July 1964 aged 65 at Tal-y-Llyn Farm, Wigginton, Tring survived by his wife and the two sons of his first marriage; his first wife Jean Wanklyn had died in 1956.