Lieutenant-Colonel William Byam OBE MRCS LRCP (19 August 1882 – 25 October 1963)[1] was a British Harley Street physician whose home in Guernsey was occupied by the Germans during the Second World War.
William Byam junior was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, and studied medicine at St George's Hospital, London.
[1] In his autobiography, The Road to Harley Street (1963), Byam described his army service during the First World War and his research into trench fever, conducted at the Hampstead Heart Hospital.
Byam developed a deep interest in Egypt during his service there, later even decorating a room in his Harley Street house in an Arab style.
[3] Byam took up philately in 1923 as a method of relaxation from his stressful medical practice and joined the Royal Philatelic Society London (RPSL) in 1924.