Hugh Graham Wills

A native of the English border city of Carlisle, Hugh Graham Wills attended Austin Friars School before being accepted to study medicine at Newcastle University Medical School. After graduating he worked at hospitals in England and Scotland for the next four years, in Blackpool, Whitehaven, Southampton, Plymouth, and Ballochmyle (Ayrshire).

After considering a career as a hospital consultant, Hugh eventually decided to go into general practice and returned to Plymouth, where in 1968 he had previously worked as a senior house officer in the neurology department of Freedom Fields Hospital; the favourable impression that the …