Educated at Clare College, Cambridge, winning first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I in 1908, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was senior house surgeon to the throat and ear department, he practised at 14 Leeds Road, Harrogate, was aural surgeon to the General Hospital,

Robert Anstruther Ramsay was born in Montreal on 18 February 1887, his forebears having emigrated to Canada from Aberdeenshire in the latter part of the eighteenth century. He went to school in Canada, the USA and Switzerland and then to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where in 1908 he obtain

Born in London on 27 April 1887, second son of John McNair of Paisley, an underwriter at Lloyds, he was educated at Aldenham School, Emmanuel College, Cambridge where he took second-class honours in Natural Sciences, and at Guy's Hospital. During the first world war he served with the Royal Navy and