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Irving received his secondary schooling at Kent School, Kent, Connecticut, attended Rice Institute, and The University of Texas Medical Branch, receiving his Doctor of Medicine in 1954, at which time he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha for academic scholarship.
After an internship at the Philadelphia General Hospital, he entered military service as an Army General Medical Officer in Europe. He returned to train in internal medicine at The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, followed by a fellowship in pulmonary disease at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. He then served as Chief Resident and Instructor in Medicine at The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston.
He returned to Houston and joined the Kelsey-Seybold Clinic and the Clinical Faculty of Baylor College of Medicine. He later joined the full-time staff at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, where he served ultimately as Chief of the Internal Medicine Service and Director of the Internal Medicine Training Programs for fourteen years for both Baylor College of Medicine and The University of Health Science Center, Houston. He held positions as Clinical Professor of Medicine at both Baylor College of Medicine and The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston. He practiced internal medicine and pulmonary disease for over thirty-five years in the Texas Medical Center. He valued highly his relationships with his patients, his fellow physicians, hospital professionals, and especially younger physicians in training.
He and his family enjoyed good times together in Kendall County, later Atascosa County, and especially in Port Aransas. He took particular pleasure in showing younger family members the flora and fauna of those beautiful worlds. His interests beyond his family and medicine included The Nature Conservancy of Texas, The University of Texas Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas, The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, and Kent School in Kent, Connecticut.