Arnold Stott

Major-General Sir Arnold Walmsley Stott, (7 July 1885 – 15 June 1958) was a British physician, specialising in cardiovascular disease.

Military career Stott was born on 7 July 1885 in Bardsley, Lancashire, England. He qualified Member of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP) in 1912. He was an assistant to the noted cardiologist Sir Thomas Lewis, and worked in the pathology and children's departments of St Bartholomew's Hospital as a house physician.

During the First World War, he served as a pathologist with the Royal Army Medical Corps, seeing active service in France. After the end of the war, in 1919, he joined the staff of Westminster Hospital and the Royal Chest Hospital. He served as a consulting physician to the British Expeditionary Force from 1939 to 1940. and the local rank of major general on 12 August 1942.

After the end of the war, he returned to Westminster Hospital as a consulting physician. With the succession of Elizabeth II to the throne in 1952, he was re-appointed to the role in her Household.

After a long illness, Stott died on 15 June 1958 at his home near Guildford, Surrey, England; he was 72 year old.