Educated at Colombo and at the Middlesex Hospital, he took postgraduate courses in Birmingham and at University College Hospital, London. He served on the staff of the General Hospital Colombo, and died in Ceylon in or before 1957.

Born at The Close, Stratton St Margaret, near Swindon on 29 March 1906 the only son and eldest of the three children of E Francis Glynn, major, Royal Field Artillery (TF) and Phyllis Anne, his wife, daughter of Philip Glynn Messent, chief engineer to the River Tyne Commissioners. He was educated at