1. Peter Edward Darrell Sheldon Wilkinson was a leading figure in dermatology who was consultant at Aylesbury and High Wycombe, co-edited the first edition of Rook's 1968 Textbook of Dermatology and founded the International Foundation for Dermatology in 1987.
Darrell Wilkinson served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, after which he pursued a medical career in London and later High Wycombe.
Darrell Wilkinson made some of the earliest dermatological descriptions of skin diseases including perioral dermatitis, photocontact dermatitis and Sneddon-Darrell Wilkinson disease.
Darrell Wilkinson was born in Gillingham, Kent, the son of Edgar Sheldon Darrell Wilkinson, a surgeon commander in the Royal Navy and later a general practitioner in London, and Muriel Kathleen nee Edgar, who later became Muriel Howarth.
Darrell Wilkinson's mother, Muriel, a concert pianist, became director of the Institute of Atomic Information for the Layman and was an early "nuclear" enthusiast.
Darrell Wilkinson was educated at Epsom College, where initially he studied classics, achieved the status of prefect and won the Claude Calthrop Essay, Botany and Carr Divinity Prizes.
Darrell Wilkinson later went to St Thomas' Hospital with a scholarship, qualifying with the Conjoint in 1942.
Darrell Wilkinson then returned to St Thomas's Hospital to train in dermatology.
In 1947 Darrell Wilkinson became consultant dermatologist at Hitchin Hospital and at Epsom, Farnham and Guildford hospitals.
Darrell Wilkinson continued working as a consultant dermatologist at St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey and to the Aylesbury and High Wycombe hospitals, until his retirement from the NHS in 1981.
Darrell Wilkinson appreciated the less popular areas of dermatology including community dermatology, leg ulcers and specialist nursing.
Darrell Wilkinson was particularly recorded to have made many early dermatological descriptions including subcorneal pustular dermatosis, perioral dermatitis, glucagonoma syndrome, dequalinium balanitis, forefoot eczema and the first report of photocontact dermatitis, as well as other curiosities such as black heel and 'Chiltern chaps'.
Darrell Wilkinson was president of the St John's Dermatology Society from 1966 to 1967.
Darrell Wilkinson received the British Association of Dermatologists' highest award, the Sir Archibald Gray medal in 1984.
Darrell Wilkinson has been described as one of the greatest dermatologists of the 20th century.
Darrell Wilkinson was regarded as hospitable to his colleagues and foreign guests, hosting garden parties and dinners.
Darrell Wilkinson played the cello and piano and displayed homemade fireworks.