Born on 4 May 1888, the eldest of the three sons of Edward Alfred Dingley, MD, MRCS, JP, of Wednesbury, Staffordshire, and Emily Habberfield, his wife. The second son John Ralph Dingley, MRCS became medical superintendent of the East Sussex Sanatorium at Robertsbridge. The third son died in infancy. L A Dingley was educated at Epworth College, Rhyl, North Wales, and at University College Hospital, where he won the Fellowes gold medal in clinical medicine and the prize in clinical surgery. He took both the London University and Conjoint qualifications in 1912, and served as house surgeon to Sir Rickman Godlee and house physician to Risien Russell. He joined his father in general practice at Wednesbury, and afterwards took into partnership Alan Wilson, MC, MRCS and B J Shaw, FRCS. He lived at first at Longcroft, Walsall Street, and later at Brunswick House, Holyhead Road, Wednesbury. While in this general practice he was also surgeon, and ultimately senior surgeon, to the West Bromwich and District General Hospital, which he largely developed, and surgeon to the Hallam Hospital, West Bromwich. He was twice chairman of the West Bromwich and Smethwick division of the British Medical Association. Dingley was commissioned captain, RAMC(T) on 1 April 1915, and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre for his service in the war of 1914-18. During the war of 1939-45 he was chairman of the West Bromwich and Smethwick medical war committee. He was a medical referee for the Ministry of Pensions, and for the Royal National Hospital for Consumption at Ventnor; and he examined for the General Nursing Council. After the introduction of the National Health Service in 1948 he became chairman of the Birmingham Regional Hospital Board and of the West Bromwich Hospitals Management Committee. Dingley married on 3 June 1930 Martha Auguste Bauknecht, who survived him with a son and daughter. He died at The Nest, Lower Road, Myddle, Salop, to which he had retired, on 16 March 1950, aged 61. He was a deeply religious man, and had served as a Methodist preacher. He was a warm friend, with a ready laugh. Publications:- Massive collapse of lung following surgical operations. *Lancet*, 1914, 1, 1305. Case of CCI, poisoning due to bursting of a patent fire extinguisher. *Lancet*, 1926, 2, 1037. Sudden death due to a tumour of the pituitary gland. *Lancet*, 1932, 2, 183.