Background
Grabham was born on 19 July 1930 in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England.
Grabham was born on 19 July 1930 in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England.
Military service In 1954, Grabham began a period of National Service with the British Army. He was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps as a lieutenant on 25 April 1954. He was promoted to captain on 3 August 1955.
On 14 August 1956, he was transferred to the Territorial Army and granted the rank of captain with seniority from 3 August 1955.
On 6 June 1957, he was transferred to the Army Emergency Reserve of Officers, thereby ending his military service. During his military service, he served as a Regimental Medical Officer.
He completed two overseas posting: one to Celle, West Germany, and the other to Derna, Libya. Medical career.
He was Chairman of the British Medical Association in the late 1970s to early 1980s, and was a member of the General Medical Council for twenty years.