Charles D'Oyly Grange was born at Moffat, Scotland, in 1887. His father was an Edinburgh graduate in medicine and a general practitioner, first at Moffat and later for many years at Harrogate during the summer and at Bournemouth during the winter. Grange's early professional training was at the L

Born on 8 December 1886 the son of William and Lucy Sutton Simmonds, he was educated at Bancroft's School, the Middlesex Hospital and St Bartholomew's, qualifying in 1910. He served as house physician, house surgeon and casualty officer at the Middlesex Hospital, and then went into general practice