Born 18 February 1885, the son of Sir John Bromley, CB, JP (1849-1915) of Seaford, Sussex, who was accountant-general to the Board of Education 1903-09, and his wife Marie Louise, daughter of Richard Bowman of Maidenhead. He was educated at St Paul's School and Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated with third-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part I, 1906. At St Paul's he was captain of the cricket XI and also excelled as a gymnast; he played cricket and hockey for his college at Cambridge, and golf for the university. He played hockey for Guy's in an eleven which won the inter-hospital cup in three successive seasons, and also played for Sussex. He kept up a life-long love of out-door sports, golfing, racing, yachting, and ski-ing with his family as they grew up. Bromley was trained at Guy's Hospital, where he was senior demonstrator of anatomy, house surgeon to Sir Alfred Fripp, and deputy resident surgical officer. He took the Conjoint qualification in 1909, and the Fellowship in 1912; at Cambridge he took the baccalaureate of surgery in 1911 and the mastership in 1913. He became surgical registrar at Guy's in 1911, and served as demonstrator and tutor in operative surgery. He was warden of college 1912-19 and dean of the medical school 1915-20; and was elected assistant surgeon in 1916. During the war of 1914-18 he saw active service as a captain, RAMC at Salonika and in Italy. In 1920 he was elected surgeon to Guy's, with charge of the neurological department. He was also surgeon to the Surbiton and Putney Hospitals, and from 1942 consulting surgeon to the Ministry of Pensions Hospital at Stoke Mandeville. He practised at 36 Queen Anne Street, W. For more than twenty years he examined in surgery at Cambridge, and always enjoyed the opportunities which this work provided for renewing his university connexions. He retired in 1942 to his home at Little Thatch, Seaford, Sussex. Bromley was a shy, modest, unassuming, and helpful man, known with affection to his colleagues and pupils as "Daddy". He married in 1914 Dora Ridgway Lee of Dewsbury, Yorkshire, sister of his contemporary at Guy's Medical School, Harry Lee FRCS, who practised as an ophthalmic surgeon at Leeds. He died on 17 December 1949 at Seaford, aged 64. Mrs Bromley survived him with their younger son, Lance Lee Bromley, FRCS, surgical registrar at St Mary's in 1949, and their daughter, the wife of R A P Hogbin, MRCS of Hampton Hill, Middlesex. Their eldest son, John, was killed in action while serving as a glider-pilot over Caen, on the opening day of the invasion of Normandy in 1944. Publications:- Acute abdominal conditions. *Practitioner*, 1922, 108, 137. Cordotomy in the cervical region. *Guy's Hosp Repts*. 1930, 80, 234. mall intestine obstruction. *Guy's Hosp Repts*. 1930, 80, 297.