Educated at Birmingham University he served in the first world war as a surgical specialist in the 2nd Rawalpindi Division 1914-19 and at the Aldershot Command 1920, retiring with the rank of Major, and was subsequently promoted an Honorary Colonel RAMC. He practised during the 1920s at Johannesb

Born 1881 at Worcester, the younger son of Tom Bates, MRCS 1868, and Alice Mary Davis, his wife. The elder son, Tom Bates, was also a Fellow. Mark Bates was educated at King's School, Worcester, and at St John's College, Oxford, where he took third-class honours in physiology in the final school of