Born at St Ives, Cornwall, on 5 December 1888, the son of William Faull, JP, of Ayr Cottage, St Ives, and Fanny Collins, his wife. He received his medical education at St Mary's Hospital and after acting as house surgeon at the Northampton General Hospital went to South Africa. He registered there in January 1925 and practised at 1 Edmund's Road, Durban, in partnership with Dr E W Dyer. He was surgeon to the Addington Hospital, Durban, from 1932 to 1936. He married Elizabeth Butchart Watt, MA, of Arbroath, Angus, who survived him. He died suddenly of coronary thrombosis on 13 May 1936 at 7 Elms Road, London, SW4, three days after his arrival in England, and was buried at St Ives, Cornwall.