James Learmonth

Sir James Rögnvald Learmonth KCVO CBE FRSE FRCSE (1895–1967)[1] was a Scottish surgeon who made pioneering advances in nerve surgery.

[5] This was followed by a period of research that led to a Rockefeller Scholarship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, USA, for the year 1924–5.

[10] The corresponding Lister Oration, given at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, was delivered on 4 April 1952, and was titled 'After Fifty-Six Years'.

[5] He moved to Broughton with his wife, Charlotte Newell Bundy, whom he had met and married in 1925 during his first period working at the Mayo Clinic.

[5] Early in 1967, Learmonth, who was a heavy smoker, was diagnosed with lung cancer; he died at his home in Broughton later that year on 27 September 1967.

[1][5] Obituaries were published in the Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England,[1] The British Medical Journal,[3] The Lancet,[12] and the Glasgow University Gazette.

[2] One of the tributes in the British Medical Journal stated that Learmonth "ranks with William Mayo, Harvey Cushing and Geoffrey Jefferson as one of the surgical giants of our time".