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

Naguib Mahfouz was born at Mansoura, Nile Delta, in 1882 and educated at the American Mission School and the Government School of Mansoura, at both of which he acquitted himself outstandingly well. He was an avid reader and his interest in articles on Koch's discovery of the tubercle bacillus and on