Anthony Howard Norman Roberts

Anthony Roberts OBE. OStJ FRCS FRCSG FRSB FRGS (born 1938) is a British retired plastic and reconstructive surgeon. He was a consultant plastic and hand surgeon at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Buckinghamshire from 1985 to 2001, and director of the Oxford regional burn unit at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. He then worked for periods for the Ministry of Defence as a plastic surgeon and as a general surgeon during the years 2001 to 2005.

He was a lecturer in chemical engineering at the University of Surrey and then returned to Cambridge University, and then to Oxford University to study medicine. Greece

His other work was teaching junior military surgeons from the United Kingdom, Egypt 1961–1964: Research student in chemical engineering at the University of Cambridge, researching heat transfer in fluidised beds 1966: ICI Agricultural Division, working on a potential new method of making fertilisers 1981–1982: His surgical research has predominantly been on burns and also on hand and reconstructive surgery, including a year in Melbourne at the O'Brien Microvascular Research Centre under Bernard O’Brien and Wayne Morrison 1991: Founded the charity Stoke Mandeville Burns and Reconstructive Surgery Research Trust (later renamed Restore – Burn and Wound Research), whose Patron is His Royal Highness, The Duke of Kent KG FRS. Roberts was Chairman (2006–2010) and then President (2011– ). The charity have done major work on the pathology of the burn wound and subsequent attempts to reduce scarring. They have produced multiple research degrees, publications and papers to date. He has done ornithological research in the UK, Europe, Australia, USA and Africa from 1976 to the present day

Books Scholarship Boy to Engineer, Plastic Surgeon and Sportsman. Published by Troubadour Publishing

Honours and awards 2019 – OStJ (Officer of the Venerable Order of St John) 2013 – MStJ (Member of the Venerable Order of St John) 2012 – OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) For Services to the Medical field, Ornithology and to the Community on the Isle of Wight She worked as an NHS GP and the construction of the Roberts Nature Reserve He also runs residential ringing courses at Haseley Manor as part of the Isle of Wight Ringing Group.

Retirement Since retiring from then NHS and the Ministry of Defence, Roberts has continued working and teaching overseas the Scouts as County Commissioner, and now Vice President, and St John Ambulance as County President.