[1] He was born at 244 Main Street, Barrhead, Scotland, and qualified in 1925 from Glasgow University.
He was Chairman of the Blood Transfusion Service of the South West Metropolitan Region of the NHS.
[4] In October 1962 he went to the University of Chicago to talk to students about the fight for socialized medicine.
[5] For many years he edited the Socialist Doctor, Medicine Today and Tomorrow, and Socialism and Health.
He wrote innumerable articles on the health service under his own name and under pseudonyms, specially that of Irwin Brown.