Harold Scarborough

Harold Scarborough CBE FRCP FRCPE FRSE (27 March 1909–22 August 1988) was a 20th-century British physician and medical author.

He was born in Leeds on 27 March 1909, the son of Elizabeth Menzies and her husband, Dr Oswald Lowndes Scarborough, a general practitioner.

[1] In the Second World War he served as principal medical officer for blood transfusions in south-east Scotland.

His proposers were Alexander Robert Horne, John McMichael, David Murray Lyon, and E. D. W.

In 1963 he invited the Nigerian medical student Benjamin Oluwakayode Osuntokun to join the staff, forging a lifelong link with him and Nigeria.