Keith Ross

Sir James Keith Ross, 2nd Baronet, FRCS (9 May 1927 – 18 February 2003) was a British consultant cardiac surgeon. He was one of the team who performed the first heart transplant in the United Kingdom.

Early life

Ross was born in London on 9 May 1927, the son of Sir James Paterson Ross, Surgeon to the Royal Household, and Marjorie Burton Townsend, a former surgical ward sister at St Bartholomew's Hospital.

Ross was educated at The Hall School, Hampstead and St Paul's School. He qualified in medicine at Middlesex Hospital prior to undertaking mostly sea-based National Service in the Royal Naval Reserve. He then returned to the Middlesex Hospital.

From 1972 to 1990, Ross was Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, for the Wessex Region, based at Southampton.