HOLMES à COURT, ALAN WORSLEY (1887-1957), physician, was born on 19 June 1887 in Brisbane, second surviving son of the Honourable Charles George Holmes à Court (fourth son of the 2nd Baron Heytesbury), parliamentary officer, and the second of his four wives Mary West, née Howe. He was educated at Brisbane Grammar School and St Andrew's College, University of Sydney (M.B., 1910; Ch.M., 1911; M.D., 1920), where early studies ran a poor second to his rowing. In 1911-12 he was a resident and later a registrar at Sydney Hospital. In 1913 he began general practice at Manly and on 3 June married a Sydney Hospital nurse Eileen Rouse.
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Alan Worsley Holmes à Court was a medical practitioner in New South Wales (NSW) from 1911. During World War I he served with the medical wings of the Australian Imperial Force in France and was awarded the French Médaille des Epidémies. Holmes à Court was a pioneer of blood transfusion techniques and a lecturer in anaesthetics and clinical medicine. He wrote many medical articles and was heavily involved in medicine's governing bodies: he was a long term member, and one-time president of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians; President and council member of the British Medical Association (NSW branch), a member of the NSW Medical Board and was appointed a Fellow of London's Royal College of Physicians.
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