Andrew Francis Masson was director of the emergency department and subsequently chairman of ambulatory care at the University of Alberta Hospital, Edmonton, Canada. He was born in Kingston, Jamaica on 27 March 1927, the son of Ethel Mabel Masson née Thwaites and Andrew Francis Masson and grew up in Belize. At the age of 17 he went to the UK to study medicine at St Thomas’ Hospital Medical School. He returned to Jamaica, where he practised neurosurgery at the University of the West Indies and taught medical students. In 1975 he moved with his family to Edmonton, Canada and worked at the University Hospital. He retired in 1992. In retirement, he continued his passions of cooking, reading, listening to music, gardening and growing orchids. Andrew Francis Masson died on 19 August 2015 at the age of 88. He was survived by his widow, Sheila, whom he married in 1955, their children Rebecca, Andrew and Edward, and six grandchildren.