Sir John Marnoch KCVO DL (23 May 1867 – 2 February 1936)[1] was a Scottish surgeon and British Army officer.
[3][4] Alongside his medical roles, Marnoch was made a lecturer in clinical surgery at the University of Aberdeen in 1900.
[citation needed] Marnoch had been an army surgeon in the volunteer corps for many years [5] and at the outbreak of war he was commissioned in the 1st Scottish General Hospital RAMC with the rank of lieutenant-colonel (latterly Brevet Colonel).
Prince Albert, who was serving as a midshipman on HMS Collingwood, had suffered from abdominal problems from an early age but on this occasion appendicitis was diagnosed.
Marnoch performed an appendectomy on Albert in the Northern Nursing Home, Albyn Place, Aberdeen on 29 August 1914.
[7] [8] Marnoch was a keen amateur musician and through his friendship with Charles Sanford Terry, Burnett-Fletcher Professor of History and Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen, he received the bound final proof of the full score of Edward Elgar's Violin Concerto.