 Bond was educated at Magnus Grammar School in Newark, Nottinghamshire and studied Medicine at the University of Sheffield.He graduated MBChB in 1961, undertook general medical training at Sheffield Royal Infirmary from 1961 to 1962, and worked as an Assistant Lecturer and Resident Registrar at the Department of Surgery of the University from 1962 to 1964 whilst carrying out research, for which he was awarded an MD in 1964.He then lectured in the Department of Psychiatry whilst undertaking a PhD, moving to the Institute of Neurological Sciences of the University of Glasgow, based at the city's Southern General Hospital, in 1967.