At one time was busily engaged in practice in Liverpool, but for the last thirty years of his life lived in Wray Castle, near Ambleside, on Windermere, where he was long gratefully remembered for the ready help he was always willing to give to the poor of the district when in search of sympathy and

James Dawson was born at Kilsyth, Glasgow, on 2 August 1898. No details of his early education are available, but after his first year as a medical student at Glasgow he volunteered for the Army. Having been in the Officer's Training Corps he was commissioned into the Lancashire Regiment and was in