Perkins, Alan Christopher Temple, son of the Rev. Jocelyn Henry Temple Perkins, Minor Canon of Westminster Abbey, by Emma Zillah, eldest daughter of Alfred Claude Taylor, M.D., of Nottingham; b. June 15, 1897; adm. as exhibitioner Sept. 22, 1910 (A); left July 1915; 2nd Lieut. R.G.A. (S.R.) Nov. 27, 1915; served in France with 8th Anti-Aircraft Battery; wounded Oct. 1916; seconded to R.F.C. May 1917, and served with 35th Squadron; wounded Nov. 1917; Lieut. R.A.F. April 1, 1918; served with 20th Squadron until March 1919; M.C. Oct. 18, 1917; King's Coll. Hospital; M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. 1923; M.B. and B.S. (Lond.) 1924; Warneford Scholar 1925; Resident Med. Officer, King's Coll. Hospital, Dec. 1924; M.D. 1927; Hempson Essay Prize of the Brit. Medical Association 1929; Asst. Medical Officer, West Suffolk County Council, 1927-9, and Middlesex County Council, 1930-40; Deputy Medical Officer of Health, Middlesex County Council, 1940-8; Medical Officer of Health, Middlesex County Council, 1948; m April 30, 1927, Doris Macdonald, only daughter of Percy Speedy, A.M.l.E.E., of Worcester Park, Surrey.