David Le Vay was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon to Woolwich Brook General Hospital, London, for more than 30 years. During this time, he spent a year at the World Health Organization in Geneva and was later a visiting professor of surgery at the Shiraz Medical School, Iran. After his retirement fr

David Le Vay was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Woolwich Brook Memorial Hospital, and a writer and linguist. He was born in London on 14 May 1915, the son of Montague Le Vay, a retailer, and Eva née Goldstein. He was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School, in Hampstead, from which he entered U