Born Georgetown, British Guyana 10 Sep 1917 Died Wellington 30 Jun 1989 
Educated at Clongowes Wood College, Ireland. Medical education at St Bartholomew's Medical College and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine HS / HP, Dulwich Hospital, London 1940 Surgeon Lieutenant, RNVR 1941 - 1945. Destroyer duties 1940-42. Haslar Naval Hospital and St Vincents Fleet Air Arm Hospital, Portsmouth 1942-1944. Final year in charge of laboratory on the hospital ship Ophir. Pathology Registrar, Edgeware General Hospital 1946 Pathologist, Nigerian Medical Services - Lagos General Hospital, Kano General Hospital and at the Medical Research Institute, Yaba 1947 - 1952 Assistant Director (Microbiology), National Institute of Health, Wellington 1953 - 1956 Director, National Health Institute, Wellington 1956 - 1970 WHO Fellowship 1966, studying advances in laboratory organisation and methods Leading authority on laboratory diagnosis of Toxoplasmosis Consultant Medical Microbiologist, Wellington Hospital 1970 - 1982 Clinical Lecturer, Wellington School of Medicine 1978 Clinical Reader, Wellington School of Medicine 1982 photograph courtesy Grace Manning |