Robert Lumsden

Robert Benny Lumsden TD, FRCSED (1903 – 8 October 1973) was a Scottish consultant ear, nose and throat (E.N.T.) surgeon.

Education Lumsden was educated at Strathallan School, the University of Edinburgh and for a short period at the University of Vienna.

At the outbreak of the Second World War, Lumsden, already serving with the Officers' Training Corps, was appointed E.N.T. specialist to a field general hospital. Shortly afterward, he was appointed as consultant adviser in E.N.T. to the Middle East Force. He retired from the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers on 17 April 1955 with the rank of lieutenant colonel. On 29 April 1955, he was awarded the Territorial Decoration (TD). Lumsden published several papers during his military career detailing some of his medical cases.

Following the end of the war, Lumsden spent time in Rome studying the treatment of Ménière's disease by destruction of the labyrinth of the inner ear by ultrasound and in Britain introduced the treatment at the experimental stage.