Born, 1883; premedical studies at the London Hospital medical college, 1900; St Mary's Hospital, London, graduated, 1906; assistant in the inoculation department of St Mary's Hospital medical school, 1907; Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, worked on wound infections, first at St Mary's Hospital and later in Almroth Wright's laboratory at no. 13 general hospital in Boulogne, 1914-1918; member of the scientific staff of the Medical Research Council, 1919; St Mary's Hospital, 1922; honorary director of the research laboratories of Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital, 1930-1939; colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps and bacteriological consultant to the British Expeditionary Force, France, 1939-1940; worked on the infection and treatment of burns, 1940; director of the Burns Investigation Unit of the Medical Research Council, first based at Glasgow Royal Infirmary, and then at the Birmingham Accident Hospital, 1942-1948; honorary fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1944; fellow of the Royal Society, 1945; retired, 1948; honorary fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1950; died, 1967.
From the guide to the Leonard Colebrook: 'First trials of "The Sulpha Drugs" in puerperal fever' album, August 1936 - November 1937, (Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists)
