[2][3] After education at Cranleigh School, V. Warren Low studied medicine in London at St Mary's Hospital.
During the Second Boer War he served from 1899 to 1902 as a civil surgeon with the British field force and was awarded the Queen's South Africa Medal with seven clasps.
[2] He first came into prominence by his remarkable operative treatment of upper-arm palsy in children, reported jointly with Wilfred Harris, MRCP, at the annual meeting in 1903 of the British Medical Association.
Basing his surgery on the latest physiological researches of Sherrington, Ballance, and others, he successfully undertook cross-union of the nerve roots.
On 31 May 1902 at St Mary's, Staines, V. Warren Low married Mabel Ashley, eldest daughter of John Ashley, J.P.[4] When Low died in 1942, the day after his 75th birthday, he was survived by his widow, four sons, and two daughters.