Graham Allwright was a general practitioner in Formby, Merseyside. He was born on 9 July 1953 in Shoreham, Sussex, where his father, Fred, was a civil servant. He attended a number of schools as his father was posted abroad, ending at Sutton High School. He studied medicine at the London Hospital, where he qualified in 1976. He completed house jobs in Luton and Dunstable, before returning to the London as an anatomy demonstrator to read for the primary. He then did the Whipps Cross registrar rotation, passed the final FRCS, and became a senior registrar at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, Kent. He decided to change track, to general practice, in 1986, completed a vocational training scheme in Bury St Edmunds, and became a general practitioner in Formby. Well-liked and popular, he continued his interest in minor surgery and audit, and was keen on football and the local Rotary Club. He had just taken up scuba diving when he drowned in a diving accident at Fort William, Scotland, on 1 December 2001, leaving his wife Jane, who had been a radiographer, a son, Stuart, and a daughter, Fiona.