John Bland-Sutton

Sir John Bland-Sutton, 1st Baronet (21 April 1855 – 20 December 1936), was a British surgeon.

[1][2] He was the son of Enfield Highway farmer Charles William Sutton and was educated at the local school.

In 1896, he was replaced as Lecturer in Anatomy at Middlesex Hospital by Arthur Robinson.

[3] In 1899, Bland-Sutton was asked to investigate why litters of lion cubs at the London Zoo were dying with a presentation that included rickets.

He recommended that the diets of the pregnant and nursing females and the weaned cubs be switched from lean horse meat to goat - including calcium- and phosphorus-containing bones - and cod liver oil, solving the problem.