Geoffrey Joseph Bendeich was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Brisbane Hospital, Queensland, Australia. He was born on 30 December 1928, the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Bendeich and attended the Anglican Church Grammar School in Brisbane, where he played rugby in the first 15. He studied medicine at the University of Queensland and qualified in 1951. He went to the UK for further training in surgery and gained his FRCS in 1957. In 1958 he married Diana Austin, an English doctor he had met when they were both working at a hospital in London. They went back to Queensland, Australia and lived in Ascot, Brisbane. Bendeich became an orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Brisbane Hospital, specialising in the emerging fields of hand surgery and sports medicine. He was a founder member of the Australian Hand Surgery Society. He and Diana had six children: twins Richard and Julie, Graham, Tim, Mark and Suzie. Bendeich died on 9 April 2006. He was 77.