David Martin Burgess was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. He was born in London on 10 February 1928, the son of Gilbert Beckett Burgess and Margaret Jessie Burgess née Morley. He attended Charing Cross Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1954. He gained his FRCS i

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