The youngest son of James Nance (qv). He received his professional training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was *proxime accessit* for the Brackenbury Surgical Scholarship in 1880. He was at one time Senior Resident Medical Officer of the Children's Hospital, Pendlebury, Manchester, and House Surgeon to the Whitehaven and West Cumberland Infirmary. Removing to Norwich, where he practised for the greater part of his life, he was for six years House Surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. He joined the staff of the Jenny Lind Infirmary for Sick Children and was successively Assistant Surgeon, Surgeon, and at the time of his death Consulting Surgeon, to that Institution. He was also Surgeon-Accoucheur to the Norwich Lying-in Charity. He died after a long illness on October 2nd, 1927, at Glinton, near Peterborough. Before his retirement his Norwich address was 35 St Giles's Plain, Norwich. Publications: "Ether v Chloroform: showing Safety of Ether and Mortality of Chloroform." - *Lancet*, 1890, ii, 44. "Oöphorectomy and Cancer of Breast." - *Münch Med Woch*, 1905, etc.