Sir John Bland-Sutton, 1st Baronet (21 April 1855 – 20 December 1936), was a British

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Biography

He was the son of

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farmer Charles William Sutton and was educated at the local school. From there, he entered a private anatomy school run by Thomas Cooke, teaching anatomy to earn money so he could study at the

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. There, he became a lecturer. He did this job from 1886 to 1896. In 1886, he also became an Assistant Surgeon, specializing in pelvic operations on women. In 1889, he changed his name from John Bland Sutton to John Bland-Sutton. In 1896, he was replaced as Lecturer in Anatomy at

by Arthur Robinson. In 1905, he was appointed Surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital, resigning in 1920 to become Consulting Surgeon. Knighted on 1 July 1912, Bland-Sutton was President of the

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between 1920 and 1922 and of the

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from 1923 to 1925. He delivered the

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at the

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in 1917. Interested in zoology, he served as vice-President of the

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. On 26 June 1925 he was created a

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, of the

in the

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. He married twice; firstly in 1886 to Agnes Hobbs of Didcot, and secondly in 1899 to Edith Goff Bigg (1865-1943), the younger daughter of Henry Heather Bigg. They had no children and his title became extinct. He died in December 1936 and at his own request his ashes were given to the Museum of the Middlesex Hospital.

Selected works

*''Ligaments'' (1887) *''Evolution and disease'' (1890) *''Tumours, innocent and malignant'' (1893); several editions *''Diseases of women'' (1897)
''Gall-stones and diseases of the bile-ducts''
(1907)
''Man and beast in eastern Ethiopia''
(1911) *''Selected lectures and essays'' (1920) *''Orations and addresses'' (1924) *''The story of a surgeon'' (1930) *''Men and creatures in Uganda'' (1933)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bland-Sutton 1855 births 1936 deaths People from Enfield, London 20th-century English medical doctors Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Presidents of the Royal Society of Medicine English surgeons Medical doctors from London 20th-century surgeons