Alan Doyle Everett was born in London on 8 October 1905, the first son of Herbert, a linen merchant, and Rhoda (Doyle) the daughter of an engineer. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St Bartholomew's Hospital qualifying MRCS in 1929 and gaining the FRCS and also the MS London in 1930. After working under Sir Thomas Dunhill and John Hosford he entered general practice in Leatherhead, Surrey to be a general practitioner surgeon, a service of 50 years only interrupted by the second world war when he served in the RAMC in Africa and Burma, becoming Lieutenant-Colonel. He was medical officer to St John's School, Leatherhead. For services to the community he was awarded the MBE in 1980. Besides being a good doctor he enjoyed fishing and gardening. In 1931 he married Miss Harris, sister of Sir Charles Harris, and they had two sons and one daughter. He died on 12 January 1987, aged 81.