Cecil Lyster

Cecil Rupert Chaworth Lyster CBE (14 December 1859 – 26 January 1920) was a British physician, electrotherapist and radiologist.

Following travels in the United States and Europe, he was appointed medical superintendent of the Bolingbroke Hospital in 1885.

Lyster was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in January 1920 for his work in the First World War.

Lyster died from cancer caused by exposure to x-rays during his research,[3][4][5] the day before his CBE was gazetted.

[6] His name is included on the Monument to the X-ray and Radium Martyrs of All Nations erected in Hamburg, Germany, in 1936.