Born in Dublin on 15 October 1912, son of a well-known naval architect, he was educated at St Peter's School, York, Emmanuel College, Cambridge and St Mary's Hospital, London. He was senior surgical registrar at St Paul's Hospital for Genito-urinary Diseases, supernumerary surgical registrar and

Educated at St Mary's Hospital, he qualified as war broke out, served in the RAMC in charge of the surgical division of a General Hospital, was mentioned in dispatches and rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. After a term as resident surgical officer at St Peter's Hospital for Stone and then as a

Frank Hurford qualified in Bristol and after junior posts joined the RAMC where he became a surgical specialist, taking the FRCS whilst still serving. After the war he lectured in anatomy at King's College Hospital before going back to Bristol where he specialised in urology, becoming senior registr