Maldwyn Jones Griffith was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at West Wales General Hospital, Carmarthen, Wales. He was born in Newtown, Montgomeryshire, Wales on 27 May 1940, the son of Herbert Jones Griffith, a minister, and Lena Olwen Griffith née Jones. He studied medicine at Liverpool University, where he was president of the Student Christian Movement. He worked at Liverpool Royal Infirmary, Wrightington and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and was an associate professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. As a junior doctor, Maldwyn was awarded the Royal Humane Society medal for bravery. In 1951 he became the first orthopaedic surgeon to be appointed as a Hunterian professor by the Royal College of Surgeons of England for research into adolescent hip disease. He was co-author of papers that established the Charnley hip replacement as the gold standard for several decades. He was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at West Wales General Hospital and became director of surgical services for the Carmarthen and District NHS Trust. In 1998, he was appointed OBE for services to medicine. His book *The historical Jesus: the origins of Christian belief* (Austin Macauley Publishers) was published in 2018. Maldwyn was recognised for his kindness and expertise. He died on 11 January 2020 aged 79 after a period of ill health and frailty. He was survived by his wife Elizabeth (née Tudor), two sons, Owen and Hugh, and five grandchildren.