Born 6 March 1869, sixth of the eleven children of Thomas Bevan Rake, MRCS 1848, of Fordingbridge, Hampshire, and his wife, *née* Neave. He was educated at Queenswood College and at Guy's Hospital, where he won an entrance scholarship and the Sands-Cox scholarship in physiology, and was elected president of the Physical Society. He took honours in the London MB and BS examinations 1891, and went to Breslau for postgraduate study. Rake served as house surgeon and surgical registrar at Guy's, and was also registrar and pathologist at the East London Children's Hospital. He settled in practice in Camden Town, but retired early owing to ill-health. Shortly before his death he broke his arm when getting off a bus. He died on 12 November 1946, aged 77, after falling down stairs and fracturing his skull the previous day. He was a Quaker, a keen field-botanist, and a bibliophile. Rake married in 1909 Clare Reynolds, who survived him but without children. Mrs Rake was well known as an artist. They lived at 23 Lawn Crescent, Kew Gardens, Surrey. Publication: C Schimmelbusch *The aseptic treatment of wounds*, translated from 2nd German edition. London, H K Lewis, 1894. 250 pages.