He was born in Birkenhead, Lancashire, the son of a Scottish architect and educated at the Liverpool Institute and the Victoria University of Manchester, qualifying M.B.
[2][3][4] In 1907 he was appointed Assistant Physician and set up the first specialised heart department in the north of England.
During World War I he served at the 1st Western General Hospital, becoming a lieutenant-colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps.
[citation needed] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1915 and in 1923 delivered their Bradshaw Lecture on Prognosis in Angina Pectoris.
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