Born 5 April 1897, the second son of Edward Walker, MBE, MD (Edin) who was consulting physician to the Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, Arnold Learoyd Walker was always proud of his Yorkshire origins. He went to Oundle School before going up to Cambridge. The first world war intervened and he served in

Born on 7 August 1888 he was educated at Glasgow High School and Glasgow University. Qualifying in 1910 he became house surgeon and then resident gynaecological officer at Western Infirmary, Glasgow, followed by a period as house surgeon at Glasgow Maternity Hospital, as house physician at Bristol R