Alfred Irving Shepheard Walwyn

Alfred Irving Shepheard-Walwyn was born in Windermere on 29 October 1881. He graduated MB ChB from the University of Edinburgh in 1905 and was awarded the MD in 1909. His early appointments included Clinical Assistant, House Physician, and House Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, and House Physician at Paddington Green Children's Hospital. He later settled in practice at Wetheral, Cumberland, moved to Carlisle, and became Physician to the Cumberland Infirmary. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh on 4 May 1926. He retired in 1946 and died at Aglionby, near Carlisle, on 6 April 1959 aged 77.