Born in 1895 John McNeil Milloy was educated at Glasgow University, where he qualified MB, ChB with honours, and the London Hospital. His earliest hospital appointments were at the Greenwich and Deptford Hospital, and later he worked at Birkenhead Borough Hospital, Tooting Bec Hospital, St Peter's Hospital for Stone, and St Andrew's Hospital, Bow, before becoming medical superintendent at Archway Hospital. He retired in 1965 from being surgical superintendent at St Mary Abbots Hospital, Kensington. He was for many years honorary secretary of the Medical Superintendent's Society and was later its President. He died in his 90th year on 29 October 1984.