Andrew Roy Banham was the only son of Sydney Marshall Banham, a general practitioner, and of Sophie Grace Banham (née Hacking) herself a medical practitioner who practised ophthalmology. He was born in Ealing on 15 October 1904. After early education at Yardley Court, Tonbridge, he secured an open scholarship to Uppingham School and ultimately a leaving exhibition before obtaining Archdeacon Johnson Exhibition and becoming a foundation scholar at Clare College, Cambridge. He took the first class natural science tripos with honours in 1926 and, in the same year, a university entrance scholarship to the Middlesex Hospital where he shared the Broderip Scholarship in 1929. After qualifying he was house physician, general house surgeon and house surgeon to the ENT and orthopaedic departments at the Middlesex, as well as casualty officer and then surgical registrar to Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor, whose house surgeon he had also been and whose influence he much appreciated. After appointment as assistant surgeon at Northampton General Hospital in 1935 he became full surgeon in 1938 and remained there during the second world war and thereafter. He was a busy surgeon who published little, but was active in his local medical societies, being honorary secretary of the Northampton branch of the BMA, and later its President in 1951. He was President of the Provincial Surgical Club from 1959 to 1961 and of the Northampton Medical Society from 1965 to 1966. He served as a member of the Oxford Regional Hospital Board 1948-59 and as honorary secretary of the medical staff committee of his hospital 1943-63. Outside his professional work he was a member of the Brington parish council for ten years, and its chairman for eight years. A keen squash player in his youth, his later interests were in golf and gardening. He married Pamela Mary Ingham in 1938 and, when he died on 25 February 1985, aged 80, he was survived by her and by his two sons and a daughter.