Algernon was educated at Owens College, Manchester, and at the Edinburgh and Manchester Universities, graduating M.B., C.M. in 1884. For some years after he held several local appointments - as house-surgeon of Hertford General Infirmary; as resident medical officer of the District Hospital, Great Grimsby; and as medical superintendent of the Grimsby Corporation Small-pox Hospital, - he then settled in a large general practice at Great Grimsby. For 20 years he served the Grimsby and District Hospital as surgeon and just before his resignation was made a consulting officer. He had also been surgeon to the Grimsby borough police and honorary physician to the Grimsby District Nursing Home, as well as the Grimsby Church Schools. He had also been Vice-President of the East Yorkshire and North Lincoln Branch of the British Medical Association. Algernon gained a commission in the R.A.M.C. (T.F.) on 14th October 1908 with the 4th Northern General Hospital. He held the rank of Major and shortly after the outbreak of war he was appointed president of the local medical recruiting committee. This and the extra work involved in his appointment on the staff of the Brigham Gate War Hospital and the medical charge of Weelsby Camp resulted in a serious cardiac breakdown in January 1918. On 25th May he was taken suddenly ill with severe pain over the heart, and he died of angina pectoris at his residence soon after arriving home. Algernon’s colleagues spoke of him as a careful and painstaking operator, a man of sound judgment, and ever willing to give all the assistance in is power, and as a practitioner held the best traditions of the profession. He was the third son of Edward and Caroline Westlake of Woolston, Southampton; and the husband of Sybil M W Westlake of 306 Hainton Avenue, Grimsby.