- Tom was a Consultant Trauma Surgeon on Team 3 working with Peter London
- He was born in South Africa and came to the UK to escape apartheid
- He lived in a house previously used for making weapons for the Battle of Waterloo
- He was an avid pipe smoker and on one occasion his white coat in outpatients caught fire when he failed to extinguish his pipe effectively
- His daughter was recognised as the British Business Woman of the Year sometime in the mid-1980s