Dr. J. C. Mottram

J. C. MOTTRAM was born at Holt, Norfolk, in 1880 and educated at The Beacon, Sevenoaks. He entered University College, London, in 1898, and five years later graduated in medicine. After a period of postgraduate study at Cambridge he took the D.P.H. in 1906. In the Cancer Research Laboratories of the Middlesex Hospital he worked in collaboration with Prof. Sidney Russ, and later was appointed director of the Research Department of the Radium Institute. With the inception of the Mount Vernon Hospital as a cancer hospital in 1931, he became its senior pathologist and director of pathological research, which position he held until his death on October 4.