Adrian Weale was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. He was born in Kent on 29 March 1963 to Felix Weale, a consultant vascular surgeon, and Audrey Weale née Elliott, a nurse. He was educated at the King’s School, Rochester and Gravesend Grammar School. He read medicine at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, graduating MB BS in 1986. After house jobs in Hillingdon and St Mary’s Hospital, he was an anatomy demonstrator at the University of Manchester prior to undertaking general surgical training. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1991, underwent higher orthopaedic surgical training in the South West and was awarded the FRCS (Orth) in 1996. He was a research fellow and honorary senior registrar at the University of Oxford in 1997 and this work formed the basis of his MS thesis ‘The surgical management of osteoarthritis of the knee’, awarded by the University of London in 2001. He was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Bristol Royal Infirmary and Avon Orthopaedic Centre, Southmead Hospital in 1998 with a special interest in hand surgery, arthroplasty and trauma surgery. This developed during his consultant career and latterly he concentrated predominantly on knee arthroplasty, whilst continuing to contribute to the provision of general trauma surgery. He maintained an interest in academic surgery throughout his career and was widely published, particularly on the management of osteoarthritis of the knee. He developed a mature medico-legal practice, concentrating on personal injury reporting and was known for a forensic approach to this subject. He was a passionate teacher, highly regarded by his students and was awarded regional trainer of the year (runner up) in 2016. His personal approach and the guidance he provided to his trainees made him an extremely popular mentor to a generation of orthopaedic surgeons, many of whom attended his memorial service. He was married to Caroline (née Hayes) and had three sons, Christopher, Thomas and Toby, who were a source of great pride. He was also very proud of his family history and in particular his grandfather Frederick Weil, a Czechoslovakian journalist and a prominent critic of the Nazis, his father Felix, who arrived in England as a 14-year-old in 1938, and his brother, who predeceased him. He enjoyed life in its many guises. He was an accomplished skier and a lifelong, passionate supporter of Arsenal. His Monday morning trauma meeting would generally be prefaced by a discussion of events on the soccer field. He held firm views about the issues that were important to him and was a dependable friend to those he held dear. He was a complex man but, behind a veneer of formality, there lived a very generous and popular individual who will be missed by his family, friends and colleagues. Adrian Weale died following a myocardial infarction on 28 November 2018. He was 55.