The work of Wallace Aykroyd: international nutritionist and author.

Wallace Ruddell Aykroyd (1899–1979) had an English father, whose business was in Ireland, and an Irish mother. He attended high school in England as a boarder and then joined the Royal Air Force. After the end of World War I he returned to Ireland for medical studies at Trinity College, Dublin (1,2). In 1924 he graduated as Bachelor of Medicine and also received the Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for English Prose. We will continue to see how he used his abilities in both areas.