Professor Alan Glynn FRCP, FRCPath (1923-2014) was a British physician and bacteriologist. Glynn was born in Hackney, London, on 9 May 1923, the son of Charlotte, née Fluxbaum, and Hyman Glynn, an accountant. His Jewish parents had arrived in London from Poland/ Russia as children in the 1890s. He underwent National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1950, being stationed in occupied Hamburg, with the rank of captain. He was director of the from 1980 to 1988, when he retired. He died on 2 April 2014.