Appointed consultant and lecturer to Cambridge and Huntingdon in 1976, he threw himself energetically into upgrading the cottage hospital to a full district general hospital with the help of the then local MP, Sir John Major KG CH. After surviving a major stroke in November 2018—the cruellest blow to a surgeon who had saved countless others from the same fate—he regained some quality of life only for him to be stolen from us, this wise, compassionate, and generous man, by covid-19. Emeritus consultant vascular surgeon University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (b 1941; q Westminster Hospital Medical School, London, 1965; MA Camb, MS Lond, FRCP Lond, FRCS), died from covid-19 on 24 April 2020