Neville Seymour, a retired orthopaedic and trauma surgeon qualified in Leeds (UK) where he trained in general surgery, trauma surgery, and orthopaedics at Leeds General Infirmary. He also was an anatomy demonstrator at Leeds Medical School during that time. Having decided to pursue a career in orthopaedics he worked in London, Edinburgh, and Sheffield publishing his most famous case series on juxta-epiphysial fractures of the terminal phalanx of the finger, which later was coined as Seymour fracture. He then obtained his consultant post in Plymouth in 1967. At his interview for this position, the panel quizzed him whether he was overqualified for a small place like Plymouth as most of his referees were knights of the realm. However, he felt that quality of life was important for his young family, and he realised that medicine in Plymouth had great potential. Indeed, this proved to be true, and he subsequently attended many meetings relating to the development of the new hospital in Derriford. He retired from the NHS at the age of 60 and thereafter had a thriving medicolegal practice for a number of years. He married a fellow medical graduate in 1962, despite the protests of their families as Neville came from a Jewish background, while Virginia was from a Catholic one. The marriage produced three boys, two of whom became doctors. Neville had six grandchildren, one of whom is also a doctor. Orthopaedic and trauma consultant Neville Seymour died from a lower respiratory tract infection secondary to longstanding bronchiectasis on 4 December 2021.