Tony Goode was a professor of endocrine and metabolic surgery at the Royal London and St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical Schools with Queen Mary College. He was also an honorary professor at the centre for biological and medical systems, Imperial College. He was born on 3 August 1944 in Newcastle upon Tyne, the eldest of four children of William Henry Goode, a sales manager, and Eileen Veronica Goode née Brannan. His early years were spent in the Walker and Kenton areas of Newcastle, before the family moved to Tynemouth in 1958, a place that was to be a constant in his life for the next 65 years. He attended St Aidan’s Grammar School in Sunderland, where he was educated by the Christian Brothers. Tony had fond memories of his school days, where he was academically bright, excelling in science subjects. He was head boy in his final year and, away from the classroom, he enjoyed playing rugby in the winter and, most of all, cricket in the summer; this became a lifelong passion. In 1963 Tony was the first member of the family to go to university when he enrolled to study medicine at Newcastle University. He graduated MB BS in 1968 and, after house jobs in the city, he spent a year as a demonstrator in the anatomy department of Newcastle Medical School whilst studying for his primary fellowship. In 1970, he joined the Newcastle upon Tyne surgical training scheme, working in the surgical units at Newcastle General Hospital, the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle and the regional cardiothoracic surgery unit, which at that time was at Seaham Hall in County Durham. He had happy memories of working with the likes of Alf Petty, Selwyn Griffin, Ross Taylor and Ivan D A Johnston. Tony obtained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1974 and was appointed as a senior research associate and honorary senior registrar in Newcastle University’s department of surgery. He undertook research into muscle metabolism and nutrition in surgical patients. In 1976 he moved to London, initially as a lecturer in surgery and as a surgical tutor at the Royal Postgraduate and St Mary’s medical schools. He continued his research, culminating in the award of his MD in 1978 for his thesis ‘Measurements of body cell mass and its clinical applications’. Between 1980 and 1983 he was a senior lecturer in surgery at Charing Cross Hospital, then he moved to the London Hospital Medical College initially as a reader in surgery in 1983 and in 1994 was appointed professor of endocrine and metabolic surgery at the merged Royal London and St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical Schools with Queen Mary College. He was also an honorary professor at the centre for biological and medical systems in Imperial College from 1996. This led him to several roles in these institutions combining clinical, research and educational aspects of his work, including supervisor for a number of research projects, chair of examination committees and clinical director for the London Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (from 1996 to 2002). He was an external examiner for the final MB BS at three UK medical schools and was actively involved in the undergraduate curriculum development for medicine and dentistry at Queen Mary College, University of London. His clinical work involved the management of emergency and elective general surgical patients with a special interest in the hormone aspects of breast disease and all aspects of endocrine surgery except pituitary disease. His practice became heavily weighted towards tertiary referral of complex or recurrent endocrine problems when surgery was a consideration. In line with this clinical interest, he was actively involved in bringing together several individual groups into the British Endocrine Societies and the establishment of the British Association of Endocrine Surgeons, acting as honorary secretary and treasurer from 1983 to 1985. His research into metabolic surgery, particularly into bone and muscle metabolism, opened new vistas for him. He worked during the early 1970s with the Royal Navy, looking into the metabolic effects of prolonged tours of duty in submariners. There then came an opportunity to work with physicians and scientists in the life sciences division of NASA, the space medicine program in the USA. This was an association that was to continue for over three decades. One of his colleagues from that time, Paul Rambaut, former head of the biomedical research program, writes: ‘In February 1974, the last of the three Skylab flights returned to Earth. At that time we began to analyze the data that had been obtained from these flights which were the first to feature medical science as a primary objective. We had seen hints of bone loss in preceding US and Soviet missions and had planned the Skylab experiments to follow up on these observations. Tony’s expertise in the bone area fitted well with this work and was very timely.’ In 1980 he published a paper ‘Man in space’ in *Nature* (283 525-6 1980) and in 1981 a paper in *The Lancet* on ‘Microgravity research: a new dimension in medical science’ (317 [8223] 767-9 1981). He was an early advocate of this important field, gave evidence to the House of Lords’ select committee on science and technology on medical research in microgravity in 1987 and over 25 years gave nearly 60 presentations on the subject to medical meetings and symposia in the UK and internationally. He was a Hunterian Orator in 1997 with a lecture entitled ‘A matter of gravity’. As an active academic and researcher, Tony strove to produce good quality research in a busy academic unit. This was often multidisciplinary, working with medical physics, biochemistry, bioengineering, physiology and pathology. He supervised a number of research fellows from the UK, China, Colombia, the USA, Greece, Russia, Singapore and India, resulting in 35 higher degrees (MS, MD or PhD) supported by grants of over £2.1 million; at several Higher Education Funding Council research assessment exercises the work was graded 5*. During his career Tony authored or co-authored 188 refereed publications, 241 abstracts, 48 book chapters, three books and monographs, 71 book reviews and 277 lectures or abstract presentations. In 1982, Tony joined the British Academy of Forensic Sciences, acting as assistant secretary general for five years. He was appointed as medical editor and editor-in-chief of their journal *Medicine, Science and the Law* in 1995 and was president of the Academy from 1999 to 2001. In 2000 he was made a fellow of the American College of Surgeons (ad eundem). Following his retirement from clinical practice, he spent the next 10 years as a medical member of the Appeals Tribunal Service. Tony married Patricia Flynn (a former assistant director of the anaesthetics unit at the London Hospital Medical College) in 1987. There’s was a long and happy marriage of shared interests, travel and constant companionship. After his retirement, he divided his time between London and Tynemouth, catching up with family and his friends that he had known from his childhood, school, university and work and continuing his travels with Patricia. He was always keen to follow the latest news about his nephew and seven nieces, supporting them in their careers, and hearing about the next generation of great nephews and nieces. Away from his main work, Tony was an enthusiastic follower of cricket and a longstanding member of the MCC and Durham County Cricket Club. He was a member of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Athenaeum, where he and Patricia regularly took visitors to London for dinner. He was also a member of the Scribes Club (where he was scribe to the Scribes from 1995 to 2013). In 1992 he was made a freeman of the City of London and a liveryman of the Society of Apothecaries in 1994. He was a lover of music and opera and would attend performances whenever the opportunity arose. He also delighted in comedy, particularly radio comedy of his youth in the 1950s. Patricia’s devotion to Tony during his final illness (supported by her sister Rosie and the fantastic staff of the NHS, an organisation he worked so tirelessly for) was a shining example of true love and she was by his side at the time of his passing on 25 February 2023 at the age of 78.