Evan Price was an orthopaedic surgeon in Barnsley, where he worked for nearly 40 years from his appointment as a consultant in 1959. He was born on 22 March 1921 in the village of Llanon in Cardiganshire. His father, Evan James Price, was a farmer who had been a medical student for two years before training as a mechanical engineer; his mother was Anne Florence Lewis. He had two sisters, one of whom, Madeleine, had a paralysed leg following polio at the age of two. Financial difficulties in the late 1920s led the family to move to Cardiff, where his father worked as an engineer in Cardiff docks. Evan went to Cardiff High School for Boys. He was good at schoolwork but was also very practical; he wired the family house as a teenager when electricity came to their street. He decided to apply to do medicine partly because he wanted to contribute to tackling disabilities such as those of his sister. At 17 he entered the University of Wales Medical School in Cardiff, qualifying in 1944. He served in the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1945 to 1948 in Trieste, North Africa and Palestine (Haifa), receiving the Palestine Service medal in 1948. While in the Army he learnt Latin, was taught to drive by a London cabby who also drove the ambulance, and read and memorised huge quantities of poetry, much of which he could still recall 50 years later. On his return to civilian life, he became a senior house officer in Liverpool. He took the external medical degree from the University of London in 1948, and gained the MRCP in 1949. He decided to specialise in orthopaedics ‘because it was clear that orthopaedics could make a quick and lasting difference to many people’s lives’. His MRCP came in very useful when he was a surgical registrar in Bath. A young female doctor, Althea Matthews, asked him if he could help her prepare for the MRCP viva. After she passed, she took him out for dinner. It turned out that Althea also knew the family of the renowned orthopaedic surgeon Norman Capener, who they visited together. They got married two years later. Evan took up the post of senior registrar in orthopaedics in Sheffield, where he worked with the presidents of the British Orthopaedic Association Frank Holdsworth and W J W Sharrard, among others. When the post of consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Barnsley became vacant in 1959, Evan was encouraged to apply. The workload in the 1960s in Barnsley was prodigious. He inherited a four-year waiting list for routine surgery and was responsible for up to 40 inpatients at a time at Barnsley’s Beckett Hospital, plus the accident and emergency department, beds in a convalescent hospital in Penistone, and also beds and one operating session a week at the King Edward VII Orthopaedic Hospital in Sheffield. In addition to him there was another part time consultant and one senior house officer or registrar. He was on call two weeks in three. Working at night and weekends was the norm. He did however take his allocated holidays, exploring far flung corners of the British Isles, including Sark, the Gap of Dunloe in County Kerry, and Argyll. At Christmas he would arrive at the hospital with his wife and children, and with his Siamese cat Vicky on his shoulder. After a ward round involving the whole family, he would proceed to carve the turkey on a trolley in the middle of the ward, occasionally passing a morsel to the cat, to the apparent delight of patients and staff. He enjoyed teaching nurses and paramedical staff and supporting junior colleagues. His registrars, many from Greece, others from India and South East Asia, were frequent visitors to his house and they in turn invited him to visit them. He did several study tours to Greece. Closer to home, he visited John Charnley as well as Ken McKee in Norwich before starting to do total hip replacements in the early sixties. He was very excited about hip replacement surgery and kept a selection of hip prostheses on the mantelpiece to show family and friends. In the late sixties he studied hip trauma in Buffalo, USA. His research interests included techniques for assessing the viability of the femoral head after injury (‘A dye technique for the assessment of viability of the femoral head’ *Proc R Soc Med*. 1961 Dec;54[12]:1101). Planning for the new Barnsley District General Hospital began in the late 1960s and he was actively involved in its design and, with colleagues, also lobbied for an additional orthopaedic consultant or two. He took the opportunity of a temporary closure of theatres to push for the latest in orthopaedic tent and air flow technology to be used in the interim. Inevitably the new hospital, which opened in 1974, turned out not to meet all expectations, but it did coincide with an expansion of staffing. At the same time changes in ethical codes and NHS management put a stop to the turkey carving! After his official retirement in 1986, he continued to work for the NHS part time well into his seventies as a locum and on waiting list initiatives. He also worked for the charity Remap, making custom-made equipment for disabled people, and continued to provide opinions on medico-legal matters. He saw his last patient just before his 80th birthday. He remained active in his later years as a student and lecturer in the University of the Third Age and died of ‘old age’ at the age of 99. Predeceased by his wife Althea, who died in 2005, he was survived by his three children – Charles, Penelope and Elizabeth.