Robert Bransby Zachary (1 March 1913 – 1 February 1999) was an English paediatric surgeon who spent the majority of his career at Sheffield Children's Hospital.
He changed specialties in 1945 to paediatric surgery and received a grant to train at Boston Children's Hospital.
[3] Zachary suffered from severe scoliosis and wrote of his connection with spina bifida patients: "In my own small way I feel a common bond with all those who have spina bifida when I say, 'We who were born with a deformed spine...'"[2] Zachary was a founding member of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons and served as president in 1962–63.
He received numerous awards and honorary appointments; these included a personal chair in paediatric surgery at Sheffield University, the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons' Denis Browne Gold Medal (1977),[4] and Knight Commander with Star of the Order of St. Gregory the Great.
[2] In 1943 Zachary married Faith Alice Stewart, a theatre nurse whom he worked alongside at Leeds General Infirmary;[2] she died from cancer in 1981.