Francis Ward Allinson was born in Alford, Lincolnshire on 12 July 1904 the son of Sidney Ward Allinson and his wife Frances Mary. He attended Aldenham Preparatory School and studied medicine at University College London, qualifying in 1928. He held early appointments at the Miller Hospital, Greenwich, the West London Hospital and the City of London Maternity Hospital. During the second world war he served as Major in the IMS and was captured in Singapore in 1942. He was a prisoner of war of the Japanese for three and a half years. After the war he became Superintendent of the Presidency General Hospital in Calcutta, India. In 1948 he was appointed Professor of Surgery at the Dacca Medical College in East Pakistan. He moved to the United States in 1953 and was in private practice in Phoenix, Arizona for 37 years. He was very popular and was on the staff of several hospitals. He married Edith in 1953 and they had two children, Eva and Richard. His son is an eye surgeon specializing in retina and vitreous work. In his youth he enjoyed skating and he later took up golf and swimming. He was always a keen walker. His twin brother Sidney Ward Allinson was also a Fellow of the College - he gained the Fellowship a year before Francis in 1932 and he died a year later than his brother in November 1991. Francis Ward Allinson died on 1 November 1990 in Phoenix survived by his wife and family.