Born on May 23rd, 1823, the ninth son of Thomas Lund, of Peckham, Surrey. He was apprenticed to Dr William Parker Hoare, of Faversham, Kent, and in 1842 entered as a student at Guy's Hospital. In 1848 he went to Manchester, where his talents as a surgeon soon brought him to the front. In 1850 he was appointed Anatomical Demonstrator in the Pine Street Medical School. Not only was he a fine teacher, but his personality was such that the students became warmly attached to him and testified their feeling by making him a presentation in February, 1854, at the Queen's Hotel, Piccadilly, Manchester. In 1855 he was elected Dispensary Surgeon to the Manchester Royal Infirmary with care of a district. He attended to his new duties most assiduously, treating out-patients and instructing students in minor surgery. In 1857 the Dispensary Surgeons were relieved of the obligation to visit patients in their homes. On the amalgamation of the Pine Street and Chatham Street Schools in Manchester, Lund became a member of the teaching staff of the Manchester Royal School of Medicine, where he had as his colleagues R C Smith, Thomas Turner, and George Southam (qv). In 1868, on the retirement of J A Ransome, he became full Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, and was active in effecting the union of the Medical School and Owens College, which gave a great impetus to medical education in Manchester. Southam and he became joint Professors of Surgery in the new Victoria University, and in 1874 Lund was admitted to the Senate of the University and succeeded Southam as sole Professor in 1877, the date of Southam's death. He held office as Professor till 1888. His lectures were notable. Lund had the great merit of having been one of the first to recognize the immense practical importance of Lister's employment of antiseptics in operative surgery, and his reputation and influence were very valuable in bringing about the acceptance of antiseptic surgery in Manchester. Lund's skill as an operator and his ingenuity in devising methods of treatment contributed largely to his success both as a teacher and practitioner. A humble but most useful invention, credibly attributed to him, is 'Lund's corkscrew lever', the uses of which are not necessarily connected with medicine bottles. He was a Member of Council of the Surgical Section of the International Medical Congress in 1881, in which year he was also chosen President of the Lancashire and Cheshire Branch of the British Medical Association. He served as a Member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons 1878-1894, an evidence of the esteem in which he was held as a surgeon throughout the North of England. In 1883 he was elected a Member of the Court of Examiners, and was appointed Hunterian Professor of Surgery and Pathology together with John Wood in 1884, delivering three lectures on "Injuries and Diseases of the Head and Neck, the Genito-urinary Organs, and the Rectum". He resigned from the Council and the Examinership in 1887, as he was then in a weak state of health. He had also resigned his post at the Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1882, and had been appointed Consulting Surgeon. In 1883 he gave an address before the Medical Society of London on "The Present Aspect of the Antiseptic Question". He married in 1849 Charlotte, youngest daughter of D H Webster, of Kirby, Northants. He died at his residence, Whalley Range, Manchester, on February 4th, 1898, was buried in the Southern Cemetery, and was survived by a daughter and three sons. He had practised at 22 John Street, Manchester. Lund's portrait is in Jamyn Brookes's portrait group of the Council which now hangs in the Royal College of Surgeons, and there is a good photogravure of him in the College Collection and another photograph in the Council Album. Publications:- *The Art of Medicine; its Objects and its Duties: an Address*, 8vo, London and Manchester, 1860. "Observations on Some of the More Recent Methods of Treating Wounds, and on Excision of the Knee-joint," 8vo, Manchester, 1870; reprinted from *Manchester Med Rep*, 1870, i, 260. *Case of a Foreign Body in the Bladder, with Stricture of the Urethra*, 8vo, plate, London, 1871. *The Present Aspect of the Antiseptic Question*, 8vo, Manchester, 1883. *Hunterian Lectures* (1885) *on Some of the Injuries and Diseases of the Neck and Head, the Genito-urinary Organs, and the Rectum*, 8vo, with photographs, London, 1886.