Education
Street Thomas"s Hospital Medical School.
Street Thomas"s Hospital Medical School.
He was a pioneer of dialysis treatment and the first doctor in the United Kingdom to perform renal biopsies. Educated at Malvern College and Street Thomas" Medical School, he worked at a hospital until the outbreak of World World War World War II He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps during the war and was posted to Singapore soon before its fall to the Japanese. He spent the rest of the war as a Prisoner Of War in the notorious Changi camp, during which time while treating fellow prisoners he established that beriberi is caused by a deficiency of Vitamin B1, not as was previously thought by excessive consumption of alcohol.
He was awarded a military Administration Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1946.
He was Professor of Medicine, University of London, Charing Cross Hospital, 1960-1981, and subsequently Emeritus professor He was Honorary Consultant Physician to the Army, 1975 1980.
He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire on his retirement in 1982.