James Hodsdon

[2] He studied medicine at Queen's College, Belfast and the University of Edinburgh, graduating MD around 1880.

[5][6] In 1914 he succeeded Francis Mitchell Caird as president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

[8] This period, during the First World War, also saw him concurrently serving as a major in the Royal Army Medical Corps, based in Edinburgh at the 2nd Scottish General Hospital at Craigleith (now Edinburgh's Western General Hospital).

[10] He died in a sleeping car of a train travelling from London to Edinburgh on 28 May 1928.

[11] He is buried in Dean Cemetery in western Edinburgh with his wife and mother, on the south path of the northern Victorian Extension, towards the east end, backing onto the original cemetery.