Peter Willoughby Ingram was born in Muswell Hill, London, on 30 August 1910, the son of a general practitioner surgeon. His early education was at Highgate School and his pre-clinical studies were at Cambridge University. He graduated BA in 1931 and went to Aberdeen for his clinical studies, qualifying from Aberdeen University in 1934. After junior surgical appointments he passed the FRCS Edinburgh in 1937 and was Garden Scholar in clinical research at Aberdeen working under Professor Learmonth. In 1939 he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving with the British Expeditionary Force and eventually being evacuated from Dunkirk in one of the last boats. He subsequently served in North Africa where he met Professor Ian Aird. After the war he remained in the Army Emergency Reserve attaining the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. After demobilisation he initially worked at St James's Hospital, Balham, under Norman Tanner and later was lecturer and honorary consultant in surgery at the Postgraduate Medical School under Professor Aird before being appointed consultant surgeon to the Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester. He was elected FRCS ad eundem in 1962 and maintained a special interest in gastroenterology. He was a founder member of the Surgical Sixty Travelling Club and also a member of the British Society of Gastroenterology. He had to retire early from his post at Winchester because of ill health but he maintained his interest in surgery and subsequently worked in a mission hospital in Pakistan. For a time he was in general practice and in 1977 joined the academic department of surgery at the Royal Free Hospital as honorary lecturer under Professor Hobbs. He was responsible for much of the undergraduate teaching in the five years he spent in the department. Throughout his life he maintained an interest in others less fortunate than himself and in 1968 he was responsible for the foundation of the Wessex Council for Alcoholism. Much time and effort was spent raising funds and the Council's large premises in Southampton is called "Peter Ingram House" to commemorate his efforts on behalf of these patients. After retiring he spent much of his time at his cottage in Suffolk while retaining a flat in Camden. He died in hospital in Colchester on 10 September 1985. His first wife Lecky predeceased him but he is survived by his second wife Ruth and two daughters of his first marriage.