Edward Leslie Martyn Lobb, known to his friends as John, was educated at Guy's Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1908 with the Conjoint Board Diploma and the MB BS of the University of London. He proceeded to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1910, and the MS in 1911. In the first world war he served as a Temporary Captain RAMC and subsequently settled in Maidstone as honorary consultant surgeon to the West Kent General Hospital, and also to the Kent County Ophthalmic and Aural Hospital, and to Ashford Hospital. At one time he held the post of Ho Tung Professor of Clinical and Operative Surgery in Hong Kong. When Lobb reached retiring age he went to live in the Isle of Man, and ultimately moved to Nottingham where he died at the age of 85 on 21 January 1971.