Second son of John James Street Driberg and Amy Mary Irving Bell, his wife, of Uckfield Lodge, Crowborough, he qualified from the London Hospital where he was surgical registrar and first assistant in the surgical unit and became an assistant surgeon. He served in the RAMC during the war of 1914-18, won the Military Cross, and rose to the rank of Colonel. Driberg practised at 6 Park Crescent, London W1. He was surgeon to the Poplar Accident Hospital, and a surgical specialist under the Ministry of Pensions. Towards the end of his life he lived with his younger brother, Tom Driberg MP, at Bradwell Lodge, Bradwell-on-Sea, Essex. He died at Exeter on 29 November 1956, and asked that donations might be made in his memory to the London Hospital. Publications: Methods of treatment of fractures of the femur. *Lancet* 1919, 2, 311. Fracture of the head of the radius. *Practitioner* 1924, 112, 262.