Born at the Vicarage, Berden, Essex on 8 December 1862, the sixth child and fourth son of the Rev F Gifford Nash and Sarah Eliza Hacket, his wife. He was educated at Gloucester Cathedral School and entered the Middlesex Hospital in 1882, winning the entrance scholarship, the exhibition in anatomy and physiology, the senior Broderip scholarship, and the Murray scholarship. He served as house physician and obstetric house physician, and came under the influence of Sir Henry Morris and Sir John Bland-Sutton. He acted for a short time as house surgeon at the South Devon and East Cornwall Hospital, Plymouth. He afterwards took courses of surgery at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he made many friends. In 1891 he settled in practice at Bedford, and was appointed surgeon to the Bedford County Hospital on 23 November 1896 and consulting surgeon upon his retirement in 1933. He married Catherine Mabel Moore Wilson on 3 February 1893. She survived him, with two sons and four daughters, and died on 9 December 1951. One son was a Fellow of the College. Nash was not only a skilful operating surgeon, but he exercised a wide influence for good in Bedford. As president of the South Midland branch of the British Medical Association in 1902 he delivered an interesting address on cancer. He was a past president of the Bedford Medical Society, a vice-president of the Bedford Hospital Guild, chairman of the Convalescent Home committee and of the Trained Nurses Institute. He was a good surgeon and a great gentleman. In Bedford he was a pioneer of abdominal surgery. He died on 2 August 1935. Publications: Torsion of the spermatic cord causing strangulation of the testis and epididymis. *St Bart's Hosp Rep* 1893, 29, 163-179. This paper was amongst the first to make the condition widely known to British surgeons. Cancer with special reference to its distribution in north Bedfordshire. *Brit med J* 1902, 1, 1654. The paper dealt with the subjects of dual cancer and cancer houses. Hysterectomy for ruptured interstitial gestation. *Lancet*, 1905, 2, 592. Three cases of volvulus of the sigmoid flexure. *Brit med J* 1929, 1, 500.