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Born at Guildford, 1901; Educated St Paul's School, London (after obtaining scholarship); Graduated BA, Magdalen College, Oxford (after obtaining a scholarship) 1st class, Physiology, 1923; University scholar, St Mary's Hospital Medical School, 1924; BM,BCh, 1926; Awarded Radcliffe travelling fellowship: studied endocrine disease and metabolism, Berlin and Vienna, 1927; MRCP, 1928; Medical Registrar St Mary's Hospital (from 1930 Consultant Physician); DM, 1930; Helped to inaugurate Mediterranean and European Society of Gastroenterology, 1932; FRCP, 1935; Wartime service in Royal Army Medical Corps, 1940-1945; Returned to St Mary's Hospital, 1945; President, Mediterranean and European Society of Gastroenterology (1st International Congress), 1956; President, British Society of Gastroenterology, 1956-1957; President, World Organisation of Gastroenterology (OMGE), 1962-1966; Awarded CBE, 1964; Helped to set up Digestive Disorders Foundation (British Digestive Foundation) - its Chairman for 10 years, 1970; Harveian Orator, 1972; died, 1980.