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MD, DLitt, FRCP(L), FRCP(E), FRCPath, DCH

Consultant Haematologist

Nineteenth President of the Society, 1995-98
Born is Peterhead, son of the manse, and educated at Peterhead Academy and Edinburgh University. Surg. Lieut, RNVR mainly in the Far East. Served in HMS Yingchow, which in its civilian days was famed in the China Seas for the size of its cocjroads; and was seconded to a merchant navy high-octane petrol tanker. Senior Medical Officer to 7th Algerine Minesweeping Flotilla sweeping Japanese mines. Registrarship with Prof. Sir Stanley Davidson. Fellowship at Postgraduate Medical School, New York University.

Most of his subsequent professional life was spent at the United Sheffield Hospitals, and he was also Clinical Dean at the Medical School of Sheffield University. President, British Society for Haematology 1981-82. Amassed and then catalogued all the worthwile artefacts from the former Sheffield Infirmary and Sheffield Royal Hospital before the move to the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in 1979.

Published an updating of the 1828 beginnings of the Sheffield Medical School and other works. Discovered and published two important Sheffield Royal Infirmary case-notes recording the successful clinical use of penicillin in 1930. Always interested in research, and applied that interest later to medical history.