Wilfred Widdas was a stalwart of The Physiological Society. A member for over 50 years, he was on the Editorial Board of The Journal of Physiology , and was its chairman (1970–72). A medical graduate from Newcastle (1937), he served as a doctor in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the war. He then trained for his PhD on placental glucose transport at St Mary’s Hospital with Prof A. Huggett, contributing to placental and fetal research until 1960. His most important papers concerned erythrocyte glucose transport and he collaborated over a long period with Graham Baker. A Reader in Physiology at Kings College London by 1954, he later became Foundation and only Professor of Physiology at Bedford College, member of the Senate of London University and Chairman of the Board of Studies in Physiology, London University.

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