Ernest John Wallace Gumpert

John Gumpert (“Wally”) was a highly respected and much loved neurologist and neurophysiologist at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital until retirement in 1995.

He was born in Sheffield into a medical family. Both parents, his brother, and his uncle were doctors. He trained at Queens’ College, Cambridge, and Guy’s Hospital, London.

After pre-registration posts at Guy’s, he worked for Lord Brock, which was more than fitting because a decade earlier, in 1951, …