Oliver Holmes was a BSc student at University College in the 1950s and subsequently Bayliss- Starling Scholar, studying for his MSc with GL Brown and completing his medical degree and pre-registration posts. His research focus was experimental epilepsy, as MRC Fellow with GD Dawson at the Institute of Psychiatry, then Senior Lecturer at Leicester, Special Wellcome Research Fellow to the Royal Postgraduate Medical School with Professor Sir Gordon Robson and finally, at the Institute of Physiology in Glasgow (from 1975). To enhance this research, he studied computer programming and mathematics and collaborated widely, contributing significantly to basic epileptology. In later life, he turned to work on gastric secretion and served the Physiological Society in several roles. After retiring as Senior Lecturer in 1998, he remained Honorary Research Fellow in the Faculty of Biomedical and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow.

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