Michael Leighton Huntley Flindt

Michael Leighton Huntley Flindt was educated at Bryanston School and St Thomas’ Hospital, London. He qualified in 1945 and held posts as house physician and senior casualty officer at St Helier Hospital, Carshalton, and as resident anaesthetist and house surgeon at St Thomas’ Hospital.

He then spent three years in Borneo as a surgeon with an oil company, but for much of the time he was sole doctor in charge of a 100-bed hospital with a large outpatient load. Back in England, after periods as an anatomy demonstrator, general practitioner, and medical editor, he worked as an industrial medical officer with Unilever on Merseyside before going on to Manchester University, where …