Epsom college 1900-1939: consultants, senior medical officers of health, and military doctors

MARTIN PAUL SHERWOOD (1916-2010). M.A., M.B., B.Ch. (Cantab.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), F.F.A.R.C.S., D.A. (Eng.).

Martin Paul Sherwood (1916-2010) [Epsom College 1930-1933] was the son of W. M. F. Sherwood, osteopath, of Edmonton, North London. He received his medical education at Queen’s College, Cambridge, and the Westminster Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Anaesthetist (Specialising in patients with Chronic Diseases), to the South West and South East Thames Regional Hospital Boards. “Paul was a man ahead of his time. His use of blood transfusion revolutionised surgery all over the world. As an anaesthetist, he measured the amount of blood loss in his patients, realising that to expedite a speedy recovery the patient needed the same amount of blood put back in. The result was that his patients recovered much more quickly than others. He was on the team working to develop the first heart transplant operation in the U.K., his job being to develop the necessary new anaesthesia techniques. Christiaan Barnard came over to observe the team’s progress and then returned to South Africa and performed the first heart transplant in 1967. Paul Sherwood was a pioneer in the treatment of non-specific back pain and developed the treatment that eventually became known as the Sherwood Technique, a treatment that involved looking beyond the actual attack of pain to the origin of the problem. This technique is now used by practitioners all over the world.

GEOFFREY ASHTON BECK (1916-1991). M.B., B.S., M.D. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., F.R.C.P. (Eng.)

Geoffrey Ashton Beck (1916-1991) [Epsom College 1925-1934. prefect. MacFarlane Cup. Carr, Sterry, Newsom Music, Ann du Bois and Gardiner Prizes] was the son of Dr E. A. A. Beck, of Bromyard, Herefordshire. He received his medical education at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Dermatologist at Peterborough, Stamford, King’s Lynn and Wisbech Hospitals (from 1957). He was previously Senior Registrar at the Royal Berkshire Hospital (1949-1952); Senior Registrar (Dermatology) at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge (1952-1953), and Assistant in the Dermatology Departments of St Thomas’s Hospital and St John’s Hospital for Diseases of the Skin (1953-1957). During the Second World War he served as a Flight Lieutenant (Medical Officer) in the R.A.F.V.R. (1941-1947), in the Middle East and Africa, and was mentioned in dispatches. He was a member of the United Hospitals Athletics Team.

JOHN RASHLEIGH BELCHER (1917-2006). M.B., B.S. (Lond.), L.R.C.P. (Lond.), M.S., F.R.C.S. (Eng.)

John Rashleigh Belcher (1917-2006) [Epsom College 1930-1934] was the son Dr O. R. Belcher, of Anfield, Liverpool. He received his medical education at St Thomas’s Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Thoracic Surgeon to the North West Thames Region, based at Harefield Hospital in 1951, and the Middlesex Hospital in 1955. He was previously Senior Registrar at the London Chest Hospital. In 1980, he was elected President of the Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. He was a Hunterian Lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons, and Co-Editor of the British Journal of Diseases of the Chest. He travelled extensively with the British Council (1969, Greece and Cyprus; 1975, Bolivia and Mexico; 1977, Yugoslavia) and set up cardiothoracic units abroad. During the Second World War he served as a Squadron Leader (Surgical Specialist) in the R.A.F.V.R. (1939-1945) and was posted to Canada, where “He promoted lobectomy for lung cancer at a time when conventional wisdom was that nothing short of pneumonectomy was of any use. As a cardiac surgeon he performed over 1,000 closed mitral valvotomies.”

LYALL ROBERTSON McLAREN (1917-1981). M.A., M.B., B.Ch. (Cantab.), L.R.C.P. (Lond.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.).

Lyall Robertson McLaren (1917-1981) [Epsom College 1930-1935] was the son of Dr J. S. McLaren, of Stratford-on-Avon. He received his medical education at Downing College, Cambridge and Guy’s Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Plastic Surgeon to the North West Regional Hospital Board, at Wythenshawe Hospital, The Christie Hospital, The Duchess of York Hospital, and Holt Radium Institute, Manchester. He was the first Kay-Kilner Prize Winner, in 1962, of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons, and a Founder Member of the World Health Organisation study group on melanoma. He served during the Second World War as a Surgeon Lieutenant in the R.N.V.R. (1940-1945), in the East Indies Station.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL HENRY EDMUND DOUGLAS FLACK (born 1917). R.A.M.C., M.B., Ch.B. (Liverpool).

Henry Edmund Douglas Flack (born 1917) [Epsom College 1931-1935. Cricket XI] was the son of Dr F. H. Flack, of Birkdale, Lancashire, and brother of Bertram Anthony Flack, H.M. Foreign Service [Epsom College 1937-1940]. He received his medical education at Liverpool University, and was appointed Consultant Psychiatrist at Exe Vale (Digby) Hospital, Exeter, having previously been Deputy Medical Superintendent of Paramatta Mental Hospital, Australia, and the Psychiatric State Hospital, Lidcombe, Sydney, Australia. During the Second World War he was Director of Psychiatry for the Army, and Adviser in Psychiatry for the Middle East Land Forces. He was mentioned in dispatches. He was a member of the Royal Medical Psychological Association.

JOHN VICTOR TOWNSEND GOSTLING (1917-2000). M.A., M.B., B.Ch. (Cantab.), M.R.C.S. (Eng.), F.R.C.Path.

John Victor Townsend Gostling (1917-2000) [Epsom College 1931-1936] was the son of Dr E. V. Gostling, of Needham Market, Suffolk. He received his medical education at Jesus College, Cambridge, and the Middlesex Hospital, and was appointed Honorary Consultant Virologist at the Middlesex Hospital. He was previously Consultant Virologist at the Public Health Laboratories, Portsmouth, and Senior Lecturer at the Bland Sutton Institute of Pathology, the Middlesex Hospital. During the Second World War he served as a Captain in the R.A.M.C. (1943-1946).

JOSEPH ABRAHAM ERULKAR (born 1917). M.B., F.R.C.P. (Lond.), D.C.H. (Eng.), D.P.M. (Eng.), F.R.C.Psych.

Joseph Abraham Erulkar (born 1917) [Epsom College 1930-1934] was the son of Dr A. S. Erulkar, of Bombay. He received his medical education at Newcastle University, and was appointed Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital (1968-1983). Joseph Erulkar trained in psychiatry at the Maudsley and Bethlem Royal Hospitals in the 1950s, and his first consultant post was at Booth Hall Hospital, Manchester, where, in 1968, he was invited to set up a new department of child psychiatry at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. As both departments were part of the university’s psychiatry department, he played a large part in the training of consultants in this specialty. He was a personal physician and friend of the spiritual and political leader of India, Mahatma Gandhi. His daughter married the President of Cyprus.

JOHN GRAHAM PEGG (1917-2001). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), F.F.A.R.C.S., D.A. (Eng.).

John Graham Pegg (1917-2001) [Epsom College 1931-1936] was the son of Dr J. H. Pegg, of Reigate, Surrey. He received his medical education at King’s College Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Anaesthetist at the Hospital of St Cross, Rugby, and Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry (from 1951). During the Second World War he went to Normandy with an R.A.F. hospital and burns unit, and treated casualties from Arnhem. His experience as house surgeon to Sir Archibald McIndoe at East Grinstead Hospital in 1943 proved invaluable during this period.

IAN FREDERIC BONNER JOHNSTON (born 1917). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.M.J. (Soc. Apoth.).

Ian Frederic Bonner Johnston (born 1917) [Epsom College 1931-1934. prefect. Rugby XV. Brande Prize] was the son of Dr W. G. Johnston, of Streatham Hill, South London, and brother of Dr Derek John Bonner Johnston [Epsom College 1933-1938]. He received his medical education at St Mary’s Hospital, and was appointed Regional Medical Officer to the North East Division of the Ministry of Health. During the Second World War he served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the R.A.M.C. (1939-1949).

GEORGE STEPHEN CLIVE SOWRY (1917-2002). M.D., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S. (Eng.), F.R.C.P. (Lond.), F.R.C.P. (Edin.).

George Stephen Clive Sowry (1917-2002) [Epsom College 1931-1935] was the son of Dr G. H. Sowry, of Newcastle, Staffordshire. He received his medical education at St Mary’s Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Physician at Edgware General Hospital (from 1953), where he established the diabetic clinic, and where in 1957 he was appointed Medical Administrator. He was influential in the educational activities of the Royal College of Physicians, playing a major part in the modernising of the M.R.C.P. Examination. He laid the basis of a strong educational tradition at Edgware Hospital, which led to the endowment of university hospital status. During the Second World War he served as a Surgeon Lieutenant in the R.N.V.R. (1941-1945), and saw active service in the North Atlantic.

JAMES ARSCOTT RALEIGH BICKFORD (1917-2009). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), F.R.C.Psych., D.P.M.

James Arscott Raleigh Bickford (1917-2009) [Epsom College 1931-1934] was the son of Surgeon-Captain B. R. Bickford, D.S.O., and brother of Bertram John Bickford, F.R.C.S. [Epsom College 1927-1931]. He received his medical education at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Psychiatrist and Superintendent of the De la Pole Hospital, Willerby, East Yorkshire (1956-1981), and Consultant Psychiatrist at Hull. During the Second World War he served as a Surgeon Lieutenant in the R.N.V.R. (1942-1945), on board the destroyer H.M.S. Goathland. After demobilisation, he worked at Bodmin Mental Hospital (1946) before co-authoring a Synopsis of Neurology in Bristol, and setting up a psychiatric unit in Dundee’s Maryfield Hospital (1951-1953). At De la Pole Hospital, a large Victorian mental hospital, he unlocked wards, developed activity programmes, educational classes, and arranged holidays for patients, as well as exchange visits where patients could swap hospitals. During the 1960s, he made several highly commended films about the work of this hospital and its philosophy. “These provided enormously valuable insights into the work and philosophy of De la Pole, and remain a valuable historical and clinical resource.”

JAMES KEITH FARQUHAR (born 1917). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.A. (Eng.), F.F.A.R.C.S.

James Keith Farquhar (born 1917) [Epsom College 1930-1934] was the son of Captain James Farquhar, R.A.M.C., and brother of Dr Donald George Farquhar [Epsom College 1932-1938]. He received his medical education at St Mary’s Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Anaesthetist for the Bexley, Cray Valley and Sevenoaks Hospital Group, and the Lewisham Hospital Group, having previously been an Anaesthetic Registrar at the Middlesex Hospital. He was a member of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain.

IAN GORDON FERGUSSON (1917-2005). M.D. (Lond.), B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S. (Eng.), M.R.C.P. (Lond.)

Ian Gordon Fergusson (1917-2005) [Epsom College 1930-1934] was the son of Surgeon Captain G. D. G. Fergusson, R.N., and brother of Dr Patrick Drummond Fergusson [Epsom College 1933-1937]. He received his medical education at the Westminster Hospital, where he passed the M.B., B.S. Examination with Honours, and was appointed Consultant Physician to the Star and Garter Home, Richmond, as well as Clinical Assistant in the Department of Medicine at the West London Hospital, the Richmond Royal Hospital, and in the Department of Gastroenterology at Charing Cross Hospital. He was previously Senior Medical Registrar and Chief Assistant at the Westminster Hospital. He was a member of the Chelsea Clinical Society. During the Second World War he served as a Surgeon Lieutenant in the R.N.V.R. (1940-1945).

JOHN HOLMES TASKER (born 1917). M.A., M.B., Ch.B. (Cantab.), L.R.C.P. (Lond.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.).

John Holmes Tasker (born 1917) [Epsom College 1926-1935. prefect. Rugby XV] was the son of Dr L. S. B. Tasker, of Warrington, and brother of Dr Robert Gadsden Tasker [Epsom College 1933-1937]. He received his medical education at Christ’s College, Cambridge, and University College Hospital. He was appointed Consultant Surgeon at the Manchester Northern Hospital, Crumpsall and Ancoats Hospitals. Before this appointment he was Surgical First Assistant at Sheffield Royal Infirmary (1949-1955). He was a member of the Association of British Urological Surgeons. During the Second World War he served as a Major in the R.A.M.C. (1939-1945), and was mentioned in dispatches. He was a member of the Cambridge University Gymnastics Team.

SURGEON CAPTAIN GEOFFREY GARFITT WALLIS (1918-1999). R.N., M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), M.D. (Lond.), F.R.C.Psych., D.P.M. (Eng.).

Geoffrey Garfitt Wallis (1918-1999) [Epsom College 1928-1936. Carr Divinity and Ann du Bois Prizes] was the son of Surgeon Commander J. G. Wallis, R.N. He received his medical education at University College Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Psychiatrist at High Royds Hospital, Menston and St James’s University Hospital, Leeds (1972-1983). He was formerly Consultant Psychiatrist to the Royal Navy (1956-1972); Adviser in Psychiatry to the Director General (Medicine), of the Royal Navy, and Chairman of the Military Section of the World Psychiatric Association. He was awarded the Gilbert Blane Medal in recognition of his contribution to psychiatry in its application to Naval service and, in particular, his study of stress as a predictor of schizophrenia. He retired from the Royal Navy in 1972, when he was appointed Consultant Psychiatrist at Leeds. He was a Foundation Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, and served as a member of the Clinical Tutor Sub-Committee and Executive Committee of the North-East Division. He was also a Clinical Lecturer at Leeds University; Chairman of the Leeds Regional Psychiatric Association, and President of the Leeds and West Riding Medico-Legal Society (1995-1997).

ROBERT ARMSTRONG CRAIG (1918-1994). B.Sc., M.D., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S. (Eng.), F.R.C.P. (Lond.).

Robert Armstrong Craig (1918-1994) [Epsom College 1931-1936. Ralph Gooding Chemistry Prize] was the son of Brigadier A. H. Craig, D.S.O., M.C., I.M.S. He received his medical education at Guy’s Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Chest Physician at Ham Green and Southmead Hospitals, Bristol (from 1950). Previously he was Assistant Resident Medical Officer at the Brompton Hospital, London. He was a Founding member of the Southmead Hospital Research Foundation. During the Second World War he served as a Captain in the R.A.M.C. (1942-1946), in West Africa and India. In his obituary it is written: “He was faced with an enormous clinical load as he helped to marshal the forces which defeated tuberculosis locally in the next decade. His organizational skills and his innovative ideas for out-patient supervision of tuberculous patients taking chemotherapy were important factors in the defeat of his old enemy. His ability, as an administrator was recognized by his appointment to the Southmead management team, on which he served with distinction.”

ALAN JOHN WALKER (1918-1994). M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.), F.R.C.S. (Canada), F.A.C.S.

Alan John Walker (1918-1994) [Epsom College 1931-1935. Gardiner Prize] was the son of A. G. Walker, dairyman, of Putney, South London. He received his medical education at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and was appointed Consulting Surgeon at the Vernon Jubilee Hospital, British Columbia (1973-1985) and Chief of Surgery at the Vernon Jubilee Hospital from 1977-1981. He was previously Surgical Registrar at Leeds General Infirmary (1950), but in 1951 he emigrated to Canada and was appointed Surgeon at Drumheller General Hospital, Alberta (1951-1973), and Director of the Alberta Medical Association (1969-1973), and Chairman of the Alberta Cancer Committee. During the Second World War he served as a Captain in the R.A.M.C. (1941-1945), in the Middle East and Italy.

JOHN WYLMER PAULLEY (1918-2007). M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S. (Eng.), M.D. (Lond.), F.R.C.P. (Lond.).

John Wylmer Paulley (1918-2007) [Epsom College 1931-1935] was the son of Dr John Paulley, of Ufford, Suffolk. He received his medical education at the Middlesex Hospital, where he won the John Murray Medal for Medicine, the Hetley Clinical Prize for Medicine, and the Freeman Scholarship for Obstetrics. He was then awarded the Will Edmunds Research Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians. He was appointed Consultant Physician to the Ipswich Hospital Group, having previously been First Assistant and Deputy on the Professorial Medical Unit at the Middlesex Hospital. He was President of the Society for Psychosomatic Research (1959-1960); a Council Member of the Royal College of Physicians; a member of the Royal College of Physicians Working Party on General Medicine (1979-1980), and Leader of the E.E.C. Working Group on Stress and the Gastro-intestinal tract, Brussels (1980). In 1967, John Paulley wrote a letter to The Times in which he said “Is it not time to examine the possibility of creating at least one new university in this country on the pattern of those great private foundations in the USA, without whose stimulus and freedom of action the many excellent state universities in that country would be so much poorer.” This idea was taken up by a number of people in the business and academic worlds, and in March 1973 the University College at Buckingham was incorporated, in the form of a non-profit making company registered as an educational charity. The University of Buckingham clearly owes its origin to the inspiration of John Paulley.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL IAN NANCE DARBYSHIRE (1918-2006). B.A., M.B., B.Ch. (Cantab.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.P.H., M.F.C.M.

Ian Nance Darbyshire (1918-2006) [Epsom College 1931-1936. Captain of Cricket XI. Propert, Watts Science, Martin Maths., Ralph Gooding Chemistry and Sealy Physics Prizes] was the son of Commander L. M. Darbyshire, R.N. He was an Exhibitioner of Peterhouse College, Cambridge, and completed his medical training at St Thomas’s Hospital. He was appointed Regional Specialist in Community Medicine at the North West Thames Regional Hospital Board. During the Second World War he was commissioned in the R.A.M.C. (1943) and posted to North Africa and the Middle East. He was Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services, Western Command (1949-1950); D.A.D.M.S. Malaya (1950-1952); Commanding Officer of the 16^th Field Ambulance (1950-1952); Commanding Officer of the British Military Hospital, Nicosia, Cyprus (1958); the British Military Hospital, Benghazi (1958-1959); Chief Instructor at the Depot and Training Establishment and Headquarters, R.A.M.C. (1962-1964), and Deputy Assistant Director-General Army Medical Services, Ministry of Defence (1966-1968).

COLONEL IAN McCLELLAND CARMICHAEL (1918-1998). R.A.M.C., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.M.R.D. (Eng.).

Ian McClelland Carmichael (1918-1998) [Epsom College 1932-1937. head prefect. Captain of Rugby XV. Cricket XI. Hodgkin Prize] was the son of Dr Henry Carmichael, of Wandsworth, South London. He received his medical education at St Thomas’s Hospital and was commissioned in the R.A.M.C. No details of his military career are known. After leaving the R.A.M.C. he went into general practice in Wandsworth, South London.

WILFRED NOBLE COOMBES (born 1918). M.A., M.B., B.Ch., (Cantab.), F.R.C.S. (Eng.).

Wilfred Noble Coombes (born 1918) [Epsom College 1932-1936] was the son of Dr G. W. Coombes, of Radcliffe, Lancashire. He received his medical education at Clare College, Cambridge, and Liverpool University. He was appointed Chief Orthopaedic Surgeon and Consultant Surgeon at the Civic and St Joseph’s General Hospital, North Bay, Ontario, Canada. He was previously the Chief Surgeon to the Royal Canadian Air Force at Rockliffe Hospital, Ottawa. During the Second World War he served as a Lieutenant in the R.A.M.C., and was mentioned in dispatches. He was a member of the Cambridge University Gymnastics Team.

ROBERT JOHN EVANS (born 1918). M.D., B.S. (Lond.), F.R.C.Path.

Robert John Evans (born 1918) [Epsom College 1932-1937. prefect] was the son of A. G. Evans, woollen merchant, of Croydon, Surrey. He received his medical education at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and was appointed Director of Pathological Services and Consultant Pathologist to the North West Surrey Health District (Woking and Chertsey Hospitals). He was previously Senior Lecturer in Bacteriology at the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, a member of the Pathological Society of Great Britain, and a member of the Society of General Microbiology. During the Second World War he served as a Squadron Leader in the R.A.F.V.R. (1943-1945).

RICHARD MORRELL MACKENZIE (1918-1973). M.B., B.S. (Lond.), M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.A. (Eng.), F.F.A.R.C.S.

Richard Morrell Mackenzie (1918-1973) [Epsom College 1932-1937. prefect. Rugby XV] was the son of Dr J. R. M. Mackenzie, of Bournemouth. He received his medical education at St Mary’s Hospital, and was appointed Senior Consultant Anaesthetist to the Scarborough group of hospitals (1952-1973). He was previously Senior Registrar in Anaesthetics at St Mary’s Hospital. During the Second World War he served as a Squadron Leader (Specialist Anaesthetist) in the R.A.F.V.R. (1943-1945). He was Chairman of the Scarborough Division of the British Medical Association (1966).

PHILIP CHARLES WATSON (born 1918). M.B., B.S. (Lond.), L.R.C.P., F.R.C.S. (Eng.).

Philip Charles Watson (born 1918) [Epsom College 1932-1936. prefect. Gardiner Prize] was the son of A. H. Watson, company director, of Lowestoft, Suffolk. He received his medical education at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, where he won the Gold Medal in the Final M.B., B.S. Examinations. He was appointed Consultant Surgeon to the Boston Hospital Group, Lincolnshire. Before that he was Surgical Tutor and Chief Assistant on the Surgical Unit of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and Senior Registrar at St Mark’s Hospital, and the Surgical Unit at Bristol Royal Infirmary.

JOHN PETER STOCKWELL WHITEHEAD (born 1918). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), F.R.C.Path.

John Peter Stockwell Whitehead (born 1918) [Epsom College 1932-1936] was the son of Dr Thomas Whitehead, of Halifax, West Yorkshire. He received his medical education at the London Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Pathologist to the Scarborough Hospital Group. He was a member of the Association of Clinical Pathologists. During the Second World War he served as a Captain in the R.A.M.C. (1944-1946).

ANTHONY FINNEMORE OLLERENSHAW (1918-2002). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), F.R.C.Path.

Anthony Finnemore Ollerenshaw (1918-2002) [Epsom College 1932-1937. Newsom Music and Prosser-White French Prizes] was the son of Frank Ollerenshaw, schoolmaster, of St. Lawrence, Isle of Wight. He received his medical education at University College Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Pathologist at the Pathology Group Laboratories of Preston Royal Infirmary. He was a member of the Association of Clinical Pathologists. During the Second World War he served as a Captain in the R.A.M.C. (1944-1946).

THOMAS GERALD SOMERVILLE MURRAY (1918-1999). M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (Eng.), D.O.M.S. (Eng.).

Thomas Gerald Somerville Murray (1918-1999) [Epsom College 1932-1936] was the son of Surgeon Captain W. H. Murray, R.N. He received his medical education at King’s College Hospital, and was appointed Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Portsmouth Group Hospitals. During the Second World war he served as a Lieutenant-Commander in the R.N.V.R. (Assistant Ophthalmic Surgeon) at the Royal Naval Hospital, Portsmouth. He was a member of the Southern Ophthalmological Society.

NEVILLE LESLIE MASON BROWNE (born 1919). M.A., M.B., Ch.B. (Edin.), L.M.C.C., Dip.Psychiat. (Canada).

Neville Leslie Mason Browne (born 1919) [Epsom College 1932-1936] was the son of Dr W. A. Browne, of Edinburgh. He received his medical education at Edinburgh University, and was appointed Consultant Psychiatrist to the Provincial Gaol Service, Vancouver, Canada. He was previously Physician to the Crease Clinic of Psychological Medicine, Vancouver. During the Second World War he served as a Captain in the Royal Artillery (1939-1946).