He served as a major in charge of a medical division of the RAMC in Iraq, North Africa and Italy and was mentioned in despatches.
Mathilda Marks Kennedy, one of the five children of Michael Marks, gave half a million pounds to establish the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, affiliated to Charing Cross Hospital.
[2] Under the auspices of the Royal College of Physicians, he delivered in 1975 the Bradshaw Lecture on Inflammatory disease and its control in the different rheumatic disorders.
[3]In the late 1920s and early 1930s he paid for his medical school education by playing the saxophone in nightclubs.
He produced six long play records of his compositions, including his 'rheumatological song cycle', in which he put the story of modern rheumatology to music, building up his own accompaniment by successive synchronised tape recordings.