Background
He was born in Briton Ferry, Carmarthenshire, Wales but educated at the Sir John Leman High School, Beccles, Suffolk and at Street Bartholomew"s Hospital Medical School, where he qualified in medicine in 1934.
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Career
As a house physician he became interested in gastroenterology and based his successful future clinical career on the treatment of stomach and bowel ulceration. In 1940, he was appointed as Physician to the staff of the Central Middlesex Hospital, where he joined a group of specialist gastroenterologists, remaining in the post until 1974. He also acted as consultant to Street Mark"s Hospital (1948-1978) and the Royal Navy {1950-1978}.
He was editor of the journal Gut from 1965 to 1970.
Made a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians he delivered a Goulstonian Lecture in 1947, a Lumleian lecture in 1956, a Croonian Lecture in 1969 and the Harveian Oration in 1980. He was awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1966 and knighted in 1970.
He served as president of the Medical Society of London in 1977-1978. He died in Chichester, West Sussex on 30 April 1998.
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