Born in London, 5 April 1868, the only surviving child of Frederick James Furnivall, MA, DPhil (1825-1910), scholar and editor (see *DNB*), and his wife Eleanor Nickel, daughter of George Alexander Dalziel. He was educated at University College School and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was house surgeon and assistant demonstrator of anatomy. In 1897 he was awarded the Jacksonian prize for an essay on "The pathology, diagnosis, and treatment of the various neoplasms met with in the stomach, small intestine, caecum, and colon". In 1901 he was Hunterian professor of pathology and surgery, and took as his subject "Neoplasms of the stomach and intestine". He was elected surgeon to St Mark's Hospital for Diseases of the Rectum, being already assistant surgeon to the Metropolitan Hospital. In January 1899 he was made assistant surgeon to the London Hospital, and soon acquired popularity with his colleagues on the staff by his geniality and friendliness and with the students by his interest in their sports. In 1919 he was obliged for reasons of health to resign his London appointments and to settle at Northam in North Devon, where he died on 3 May 1938. He married Olive Mary, the eldest daughter of Sir Henry Trentham Butlin, Bart, FRCS. She survived him with three daughters. Furnivall inherited none of the literary ability of his father, but although outspoken and somewhat caustic in his remarks he was wholly free from his father's lack of tact. He was a good clinical teacher and an excellent operator. Like his father he was always interested in athletic sports, which led him rather to the racing track than to the river. During the years 1885-86 he was the amateur short distance champion bicyclist and tricyclist. Publications:- He was co-editor with Dr F J Furnivall of *The Anatomie of the Bodie of Man*, by Thomas Vicary, published in 1888 for the Early English Text Society (Extra series No 53); Part 1 was alone published. The edition is characteristic of Dr Furnivall and mainly due to him. Appended to the text are many facts concerning Vicary and his times, which were gathered together from various sources. Physical training for high speed competitions. *The Wayfarer Society of Cyclists*, 1887, no. 4, pp. 283-294; 3rd edition in Vicary's *Anatomie of Man*. A personal account of the after-effects of the modern treatment of carcinoma. *Brit med J*. 1938, 1, 450. This is an account of his own experience of treatment by radium of the epithelioma of the left tonsillar fold from which he died three months later.