Tusi se faaauauina o lenei palakalafa - Peter H Beighton (na fanau i le 1934) o se fomaʻi e suʻesuʻeina mea totino. Na fanau i Lancashire i Egelani i le 1934 ma agavaa i vailaau i le 1957 i le St Mary's Hospital, Iunivesite o Lonetona. Ina ua maeʻa ni aʻoaʻoga, na avea Beighton ma Ofisa Faʻafomaʻi i le Parachute Regiment ma le United Nations Force i le taimi o le Congo Crisis
. I le 1966 na amata ai ona aʻoaʻoina Beighton i vailaʻau i totonu i le St Thomas' Hospital i Lonetona ma faia se suʻesuʻega a le Fulbright i le faʻamaʻi faʻamaʻi i le 1968-69 ma Dr. Victor McKusick i le Johns Hopkins Hospital i Baltimore, USA.