Painter and draughtsman, by profession a surgeon, who during his student days lived in Edgbaston, showing with the RBSA, 1932–40, living at the same address as artist Gerald C Forty and influenced by his painter friend Bernard Munns. After marrying an anaesthetist, Irene Maude, Forty moved to Mill Hill, northwest London, joining the Mildon Art Society; then Edgware, joining the Edgware General Hospital; and finally Stanmore, Middlesex, where he joined Stanmore Society of Artists. In 1969 began showing with RBA, RSMA and Paris Salon; in 1970, when he was also accepted by the PS, the Salon gave him an Hon. Mention. In addition to his many views of the countryside north of London, Forty worked in Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal and Italy. His early style was formal but in later years it became freer with vibrant colour, under the influence of the French Impressionists.