Born on 28 January 1917 he was educated at St Paul's School and Caius College, Cambridge, where he obtained a first class in the Natural Sciences Tripos of 1938, proceeding to St Bartholomew's Hospital for his clinical studies. He qualified in 1941 and entered the RAMC in which he rose to the rank o

Born in South Africa on 31 May 1915 the son of Harold Wilson Wostenholm, a financier, he was educated at St Andrew's College, Grahamstown and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he took third-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I in 1937. He took his medical training at the London Hospit