This famous chest specialist is a man of mirth and has obviously enjoyed his life to the fullest. In his `In the Footsteps of my Father’ (sounds familiar?), he describes his encounter with caning whilst in school saying `..One had to lie down quickly, the better to allow the perpendicular and unimpeded descent of the cane!’ He tells us of his father’s disdain for `all those who slackened in their labours in tendering the fountain of knowledge’. He shares an early lesson he picked in his youth as: `mere progress without purpose is meaningless. It may take you far – but in the wring direction’. Can you beat that?