Gordon Gordon-Taylor

The family returned to London and he entered the Middlesex Hospital school, graduating first-class honours B.Sc in anatomy in 1904.

[5] During the First World War he was made a Captain in the RAMC in March 1915 and served first at home and then in France, where he was involved in the battles of the Somme and Passchendaele.

After returning to England in December 1918, he established a worldwide reputation as a surgeon, pioneering the techniques of blood transfusion.

His main interests lay in the surgical treatment of breast, mouth and pharynx afflictions.

[6] He had married Florence Mary FRSA, FZS, eldest daughter of John Pegrume.