Educated at the Middlesex Hospital, he practised in London, with consulting rooms at 54 Harley Street. He died on 20 July 1958.

Albert Tompkin was born on 14 March 1921 in Nottingham, the son of Albert, an analytical chemist and his wife, Lucy, née Wilson, who was a teacher. He went to Nottingham High School and long before he left he had made up his mind to be a surgeon. In 1937 while still only sixteen years of age he was