Humphrey Kay
Humphrey Edward Melville Kay (10 October 1923 – 20 October 2009) was an English pathologist and haematologist who oversaw clinical trials for leukaemia treatments for the Medical Research Council (United Kingdom), Medical Research Council in the 1960s and 1970s. Early life Kay was born in 1923 in Croydon. He and his mother, a missionary doctor, moved to Lahore, where his father worked as an Anglican minister. The family returned to England when Kay was four years old, and he attended The Downs Malvern prep school, where he was taught English by W. H. Auden. He then attended Bryanston School and qualified from St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in 1945. After joining the RAF Volunteer Reserve in 1947, he was transferred to the Aden Protectorate. He married April Powlett, a rheumatologist, in 1950. Career After returning to London from Aden, Kay worked for six years as a pathologist at St Thomas' Hospital. He was appointed a consultant pathologist at the Royal Marsden Hospital, ...
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