Ronald Bodley Scott

Sir Ronald Bodley Scott (10 September 1906 – 12 May 1982) was an English haematologist and expert on therapy for leukemia and lymphoma.

Biography After education at Marlborough College, he matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford, where in 1928 he graduated BA in natural sciences. He then studied at the medical college of St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was influenced by Walter Langdon-Brown, Thomas Horder, and Francis Fraser. He graduated BM BCh in 1931 from the University of Oxford. He qualified MRCP in 1933. and cancer chemotherapy.

Scott was elected FRCP in 1943. He was appointed in 1949 physician to the Household of King George VI and in 1952 physician to Queen Elizabeth II. He was made KCVO in 1964 and GVCO in 1973. He was consultant physician to several institutions. was elected FRCSE and was appointed OBE for his RAMC service as a surgical specialist in Mesopotamia in the First World War. In 1931 R. Bodley Scott married Edith Daphne McCarthy (d. 1977), daughter of Lieutenant Colonel E. McCarthy RMA. There were two daughters from R. Bodley Scott's first marriage. He married in 1980 Jessie Gaston, widow of Dr Alex Gaston of Sevenoaks, Kent. His brother Mark Bodley Scott (1923–2013) was a rower who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Selected publications

(Langdon-Brown Lecture)