Allan Warren Linford Row was born at Grenfell, New South Wales, on 4 July 1894. His father was a medical practitioner, MRCS LRCP MD (Brussels). His grandfather on his mother's side was George Mahood, MD, of Enniskillen, Ireland, a medical practitioner thought to be first Irish member of the BMA, who died in 1869. He was educated at Brisbane Grammar School and was dux of the school in 1912. He went on to the University of Queensland from where he was sent as a Rhodes Scholar in 1914 to Brasenose College, Oxford. His studies were interrupted by the first world war and from 1915 to 1918 he was a Lieutenant, 189 Heavy Battery Royal Garrison Artillery and served in Palestine, 1917-18. He returned to Oxford after the war, was senior Hulme Scholar in 1920 and obtained second class honours in physiology in 1922. He then went to the Medical College of St Bartholomew's and graduated BM BCh. He was house surgeon to the professorial unit at Bart's, demonstrator in anatomy and filled other posts from 1925-29 being influenced by Sir Holburt Waring, Professor Gask, Sir Thomas Dunhill, Sir Geoffrey Keynes and Sir James Paterson Ross, as well as Douglas Harmer and Bedford Russell in the ENT Department and Sir Harold Gillies. He returned to Australia, set up in practice at Toowoomba and joined the staff of the General Hospital to which he ultimately became senior surgeon from 1947 to 1963. He was President of the local BMA in 1934 and 1948 and from 1941 to 1946 was temporary Colonel RAAMC serving in North Africa (at Tobruk) and Australia. He was a keen fisherman, photographer and carpenter. He married Dorothy Lake. They had no family. He died on 20 June 1978, aged 84 years.