Leslie Herbert Worthy Williams was born at Newport, Monmouthshire on 27 February 1893, the son of the late Mr T Gill Williams and Mrs Williams (née Willey). He was educated at Newport Intermediate School, University College, Cardiff and University College Hospital, London, where he qualified with

Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital and at the Universities of Edinburgh and Dublin. He was born at Portsmouth and was the scion of a Norfolk family, his father being John Goodeve, banker, latterly of Bury Hall, Hants. Through his mother, Elizabeth Hurry, he claimed kindred with Sir John Hurry, th