Dudley Churchill-Davidson was an honorary consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, London. He was born on 11 May 1927, the son of Frederick Churchill-Davidson and Marie Peacock Churchill-Davidson née Jacques. His father, a University of Edinburgh-educated doctor, had fought in the First World War in France with the 1st Cameronians and was awarded a Military Cross in 1915. His mother was a former nurse. His older brother Harry became a consultant anaesthetist. Churchill-Davidson studied at Cambridge University and St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1952. In October 1954 he joined the Royal Navy. He gained his FRCS in 1958. He was a first assistant in the orthopaedic department of St George’s Hospital. As well as his post at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, he was an honorary consultant to British Airways and the AA (Automobile Association) and an honorary colonel in the Royal Marines Reserve (City of London). He was a former honorary surgeon to the Queen and a former captain in the Royal Naval Reserve. Churchill-Davidson died on 20 September 2008 on Malta after a long illness. He was 81.