Born in Guernsey on 6 May 1868, the second son of the Rev N B Randall, congregational minister, and Mary Domaille of La Villette, Guernsey, his wife. He was educated at Mount Radford School, Exeter, and then after some private teaching went to University College, London. He had a brilliant career at the London University, where he obtained first-class honours in medicine at the MB examination and qualified for the gold medal at the MD; at University College and Hospital he was the Atkinson-Morley surgical scholar, house surgeon, resident obstetric assistant, house physician, assistant in the throat and ear department, and assistant demonstrator of anatomy. He also served as house physician at the General Lying-in Hospital in York Road, Lambeth, and in 1898 was house surgeon and obstetric house surgeon at the General Hospital, Bristol. He settled in general practice at Wimbledon on 1 January 1899 and retired on 31 December 1930, having quickly made a name for himself as a skilful surgeon. He was largely instrumental in starting the Nelson Hospital at Merton, SW20, and was surgeon to it from its foundation to 1930, when it maintained twenty beds. He married Edith Cooke, daughter of the Rev G F Cooke, rector of Litton, Bath. She survived him with two sons and a daughter. On his retirement, being much interested in the museum founded by Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, FRCS, he settled at Haslemere, Surrey, where he died on 7 December 1939 at Villette, Beech Road. Randall had many interests outside his profession. He was fond of shooting and was devoted to bird life which often led him to study birds and their habits in the Scilly Isles, was well read in general literature and delighted in reading aloud.