Educated at the London Hospital where he held various resident posts after qualifying in 1907, he practised for a time at Beaconsfield, but emigrated about 1914 to Chile, where he became surgeon to the British and American Hospital at Valparaiso. After retirement he lived at Southdowns, Bramshott

Born in 1884, James Turton was the son of a surgeon who practised in Brighton. He was educated at Epsom College and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He passed the Conjoint examination in 1907 and graduated MB BS in 1909, becoming FRCS two years later. He was house surgeon to Sir Crisp English at St George