Darryl Corry was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 10 February 1898, the son of William, a graduate of Belfast and also a surgeon, and his wife Lily Anne, née Meakin. His younger brother, a member of this College, became a general practitioner in Binnaway in Australia and was awarded the MBE for his work for the local community. Darryl Corry moved to England in 1900 and attended a preparatory school in Sidcup. After a year in a preparatory school in Montmartre, Paris, where he had been sent to learn French, he was sent to Epsom College where he won the school French prize in his first term, which was presented to him by the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill. He won a scholarship to University College but after the first term he enlisted in the Royal Artillery and served as a Lieutenant with a horse-drawn howitzer battery in Mesopotamia. In 1919 he resumed his medical studies and soon achieved many accolades at University College Hospital. He was awarded the Atkinson Morley Scholarship, the Erichsen Prize in operative surgery, the Liston Gold Medal in surgery and the Alexander Bruce Gold Medal in surgery and pathology. He held house appointments, including the casualty officer and obstetric assistant posts at University College Hospital before going to Ancoats Hospital as resident surgical officer and working for Harry Platt. He returned to University College Hospital where he was appointed registrar to Wilfred Trotter, Gwynne Williams and E K Martin. His future career appeared secure in London, but he was influenced by the words of his chief, Dr Herbert Spencer, who said after his last ward round "Don't walk every day from here to Harley Street - get into the country". He went to Oxford as surgeon to the Radcliffe Infirmary and demonstrator in anatomy in the University. A man of few words, he commanded great respect. In 1963 he became Vice-President of the Section of Surgery of the Royal Society of Medicine. He wrote papers on cancer of the breast, duodenal ulcer, milk for diverticular disease, saline for intestinal obstruction and the treatment of appendicular peritonitis with sulphonamides. Daryl Corry played rugger at school and hospital, but also played hockey up to and including his first few years as assistant surgeon at the Radcliffe. He excelled in sailing where he started in small boats and progressed to ocean racing in his boat *New Dawn* in which he was first in the Ryde-Brixham RORC race in 1958. He also collected pictures and was interested in old masters up to the Impressionists. In 1933 he married Colleen Rice, a doctor pioneering in family planning at the Radcliffe Infirmary, and also in child asthma problems. They had two sons, Martin and Robert, and a daughter, Sally. Martin, the elder son, became a doctor. He died at the Radcliffe, after a long illness, on 12 October 1984 aged 86 years, survived by his wife and family.