Chambers was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying with the conjoint Diploma in 1909, and obtained the Diploma in Public Health from the University of Leeds in 1912. Through the war of 1914-18 he served in France as Surgeon to 1st Regiment of Household Cavalry (the Life Guards), winning the Military Cross and being mentioned in despatches. Chambers then settled in surgical practice in London. After acting as clinical assistant at St Mark's and St Peter's Hospitals, he was appointed assistant surgeon proctologist at the West London Hospital. He was for many years secretary and then Vice-President of the West London Medico-Chirurgical Society, and editorial secretary of the Chelsea Clinical Society. He lived at 36 Bolton Gardens SW, with consulting rooms at 146 Harley Street. He was also consulting surgeon to the Royal Isle of Wight County Hospital, and a visiting surgeon to H M Prisons. During the war of 1939-45 he was in command of the surgical division of the Army General Hospital and of the Army Head Injuries Hospital at St Hughes College, Oxford. Chambers retired to Berkeley House, Shillingford, Oxfordshire where he died on 7 August 1969, aged about eighty-two. Publications: Solitary ulcer of the bladder. *Brit med J* 1928,1, 1019-20. Foreign bodies in the alimentary tract. *Brit med J* 1942, 2, 362-5. Pruritis ani. *Postgrad med J* 1945, 21, 151-8.