Born 7 December 1888, the eldest child of Ernest Colquhoun, actuary, of 16 Westbourne Terrace, London, W, and his wife, née Simkin. He was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge, and entered St George's Hospital Medical School in 1911. War broke out in August 1914, three months afte

Born on 28 March 1889 in London, he was educated at King William College, Isle of Man and St Bartholomew's Hospital. While at the latter he gained the Jeafferson exhibition and Foster prize and while still a student volunteered for service with the Greek forces during the Balkan War of 1912-13 for w