Born in Williamstown, Victoria in 1872, the son of George Jenkins, civil engineer, and his wife, Isabella Jenkins née Hall. He was educated in Melbourne until 1891, when he entered the University of Edinburgh, and graduated MB CM in 1895. Coming to London he attached himself to King's College, where he was appointed senior demonstrator of anatomy in 1900 and was promoted lecturer on applied anatomy in 1905. He then determined to devote himself to diseases of the ear, and in 1909 was clinical assistant in the otological department then in charge of Arthur Cheatle. He was elected assistant aural surgeon to King's College Hospital in 1910, became aural surgeon, director of the department, and lecturer on otology in 1928, resigned in 1932 and was made emeritus lecturer on otology. He was also surgeon to the ear, nose, and throat department at the German Hospital in Dalston from 1903, and held a similar position at the Florence Nightingale Home. He filled the post of secretary of the oto-laryngological section at the International Medical Congress which met in London in 1913, and served as president of the otological section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1925. During the war he was gazetted captain, RAMC (T) on 25 June 1915, and for his services was decorated OBE in 1919. He married A M Prickett on 25 June 1918; she survived him with two sons. He died at his house, 48 Wimpole Street, W1, after a short illness on 15 February 1939, and was buried at Annan, Dumfriesshire. Jenkins was a dextrous, resolute, and courageous surgeon, who did much good original work on otosclerosis, osteitis deformans, and paracusis. Publications: Serial microscopic sections of the labyrinth and middle ear, showing ankylosis of the stapes; otosclerosis. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1913-14, 7, Otol, p 40. Tinnitus associated with facial spasm. *Ibid* 1922-23, 16, Otol, p 8. Otosclerosis and osteitis deformans; a pathological and clinical comparison. *Ibid* 1922-23, 16, Otol, p. 21. Otitic meningitis. *J Laryng* 1923, 38, 304, and *Int otol Congr* 10, Paris 1922, 2, 205. **This is an amended version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 2 of Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk**