The following obituary was published in volume four: Born at Hong Kong son of Archibald D Spalding MRCS, surgeon Royal Navy, he was educated at St Lawrence College, Ramsgate and Guy's Hospital, where he won an open entrance scholarship in science, prizes in anatomy and physiology, and the Golding

Murphy was educated at University College London, graduating in science and proceeding to the Master of Science degree in 1934, before qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1935 and taking the London medical and surgical degrees in 1936. During the second world war he served as medical officer in