Education and Career
He attended Methodist Boys High School and King's College, Lagos for secondary education. He later moved abroad and went to study at the University of Glasgow from 1927 to 1932, graduating MB ChB in 1932, taking the Diploma in Public Health in 1935 and proceeding to a MD in 1939. His thesis title was Comparative study of Variola & Varicella in Nigeria. It was while in Glasgow that he met his wife: Beatrice Roberts. The couple returned to Nigeria in 1936, and later raised three daughters and a son.
He started his career as an assistant medical officer for health in Lagos. He was later promoted to the position of medical officer for health. As an health official, he started and promoted the British Red Cross Society of Nigeria, the society later became known as the Nigerian Red Cross Society. He also established the Infectious Disease Hospital in Lagos. In 1948, with the creation of the University College, Ibadan, he left his administrative attire for university drapery and was appointed lecturer, and later professor of preventive medicine.
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