Geoffrey Marshall physician

Sir Geoffrey Marshall (1887–1982) was an English physician, pulmonologist, and pioneer in anaesthesia. He studied medicine at Guy's Hospital, earning his MB BS Lond in 1911. After working as a demonstrator in physiology and medical registrar at Guy's Hospital, he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) in 1914 and served as a medical officer in France during World War I. While there, he invented gas and oxygen anaesthesia and was twice mentioned in despatches. He was appointed OBE in 1917 and married Belle, a British nurse, shortly before the Armistice. After demobilization, Marshall resumed academic work, earning a higher MD with gold medal in 1920 and qualifying as MRCP later that year. He worked at Guy's Hospital, becoming subdean of the medical school and FRCP in 1928. In 1934, he joined the staff of the Royal Brompton Hospital and later contributed to the use of streptomycin for pulmonary tuberculosis. He chaired the clinical trials committee of the Medical Research Council and delivered the Harveian Oration in 1949. Marshall co-founded the Thoracic Society (now part of the British Thoracic Society) and served as president of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1958 to 1960. He was awarded CBE in 1951 for his service to the Ministry of Pensions and KCVO for his role as physician to King George VI, who underwent surgery for lung cancer in 1951. Marshall's professional contributions included co-editing *Diseases of the Chest* (1952) and authoring numerous medical articles. In his personal life, he lost his first ...