Born 25 March 1886 at Blackford, Perthshire, the third child and second son of John Lawson, banker, and Lillias J Sharp, his wife. He went to school at Crieff Academy and then entered Edinburgh University, where he graduated in arts and later took first-class honours in medicine. He served as house

Ruth Wynne-Davies was a unique and important figure in British orthopaedics. As a geneticist she made significant contributions to our understanding of diverse musculo-skeletal conditions, both common and rare. She had an international reputation in the area of skeletal dysplasias (developmental dis