Born in 1884, son of Francis Charles Bryan MRCS of Littlehampton, Sussex. He was educated at Westminster School and St Mary's Hospital, and held house appointments there and at Great Ormond Street. He spent several years in research, was demonstrator of bacteriology at Oxford, worked in Almroth Wright's inoculation department at St Mary's, and in 1911 won the Middlemore prize of the British Medical Association for his essay on "Serum and vaccine therapy in connection with diseases of the eyes" *Brit med J* 1912, 1, 589-592, 662-665, 722-724. During the war of 1914-18 he was a consulting surgeon with the third Army in France and Belgium, was mentioned in dispatches, and won the Military Cross. He came back to St Mary's in 1919 as demonstrator of anatomy, and was surgeon to out-patients at Hampstead General Hospital. He was elected an assistant surgeon to St Mary's in 1920, with special charge of orthopaedic outpatients; he became full surgeon in 1943. He was also surgeon to King Edward Memorial Hospital, Ealing, and the Children's Hospital, Paddington Green, the London Fever Hospital, St Luke's Hospital, and the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls. He was recalled to the RAMC in the second war, was officer in charge of the surgical division of a military hospital, and consulting surgeon to the Southern Command. He was a Hunterian Professor at the College in 1921, lecturing on Injuries of the Diaphragm (*Brit J Surg* 1921. 9, 117-147). He was a Vice-President of the Harveian Society, and successively honorary secretary and honorary treasurer of the Royal Society of Medicine. He retired in 1946 to Croughton, Brackley, Northamptonshire, but suffered a serious heart attack soon afterwards. He had been a robust man, and had recovered from a fracture of the sternum sustained when he was young. He was careful, conscientious, kindly, and skilled with children. He had a quiet, critical mind, and held strongly to his opinions even when they were unconventional. Gordon Bryan was married twice: first in 1917 to Helen Pirie; they had two daughters. He married secondly Molly Sinclair in 1941. He died at Croughton on 28 November 1954 aged 70. Further Publications: Separation of epiphysis of the internal condyle of the humerus, with displacement into the elbow joint. *Brit J Surg* 1914, 1, 534-535. Diagnosis of acute abdominal illness in childhood. *Lancet* 1924, 2, 737-740. Treatment of diverticulitis of the colon. *Lancet* 1928, 1, 512-513.