Joseph Richard Domingo was an orthopaedic surgeon in Durban, South Africa. He was born on 8 September 1933. He gained his FRCS in 1970. He retired in 2008 and died on 25 July 2017 at the age of 83.

Desmond Cowan was an orthopaedic surgeon and chief of staff of East Kootenay Regional Hospital in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada. He was born in Rochford, Essex on 18 June 1924, the son of Will Cowan and Tommy Cowan née Greer, the middle child of three siblings. He studied medicine and qualifie

Royston ‘Roy’ Reed-Davis was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Chedoke and Hamilton Civic hospitals, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He was born in London on 8 October 1921. His birth was registered in Hackney and his mother’s maiden name was Reed. In 1939 he was living in Ampthill, Bedfordshire, a

Michael Hubbard was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Glan Clwyd Hospital and the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry. He was born on 27 June 1938 in Woburn, Bedfordshire, into a not entirely happy marriage. His father, Geoffrey Owen Hubbard, was a company director; his moth

Joscelyn (‘Jos’) Penrose was an orthopaedic surgeon for some 37 years, progressing from his first post at St Thomas’ Hospital, London, to his retirement as a senior consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Coventry and Warwickshire group of hospitals. Born on 15 August 1915 in Banbury, Oxfordshire,

Neil Boughey was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Pilgrim Hospital, Boston, Lincolnshire. He was born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, on 3 January 1931. His father, William Boughey, was born in Dublin in 1874 and worked as a solicitor in Ireland for many years. He married Eileen Hosken, a Cor

David Hirschowitz was born in Johannesburg in 1943 and spent his early years in South Africa and Zimbabwe. He studied medicine at Cape Town University, commencing in 1961 and, having been based at Groote Schuur Hospital, by a happy coincidence he graduated on the same day in 1967 that Christiaan Bar

John Glover Gill was born in Ossett, Yorkshire on 3 March 1925. He studied medicine at Cambridge University and St Thomas’s Hospital, where he initially specialised in obstetrics. After then working as a casualty officer at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, he moved to Leeds United Hospitals as a

Charles Barry D'Arcy Fearn was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton. He was born on 4 March 1934 in Manchester. His father, Charles Henry Fearn, was a dental surgeon in Rochdale; his mother, Lily Gladys Fearn née D’Arcy Jones, was a housewife and mother. His

William Grant Doig was an orthopaedic surgeon in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was born on 30 October 1922, the son of Keith McKeddie Doig, an Australian rules footballer and general practitioner from Colac, Victoria, who had served in the Australian Army Medical Corps in France during the Firs

Geoffrey Burwell was professor of experimental orthopaedics at the University of Nottingham. He was born on 1 July 1928 in Leeds, the third son of Arthur Reginald Burwell and Mabel Walker Burwell née Robinson. He attended Leeds Grammar School from 1936 to 1939 and then Harrogate Grammar School from

Jeremy Hopkins was an orthopaedic surgeon at Wellington Hospital, New Zealand. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk