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BY the tragically sudden death on January 30 of Sir Pendrill Varrier-Jones in his fifty-eighth year the medical profession has lost a pioneer in the full tide of his activities. The only son of Dr. C. Morgan Jones of Glamorgan, he was educated at Epsom College and St. John's College, Cambridge, where he was a foundation scholar and prizeman, graduating in the first class of the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part 1. Proceeding to St. Bartholomew's Hospital he qualified there and became house physician. On the completion of his term of office he returned to Cambridge for pathological research under Sir German Sims Woodhead. At the outbreak of the War of 1914–18 the Cambridgeshire tuberculosis officer joined the R.A.M.C., and Varrier-Jones, who was graded as unfit for military service, was asked to undertake his work temporarily. He accepted with some reluctance, for hitherto his interests had been directed purely to laboratory research.
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LANGDON-BROWN, W. Sir Pendrill Varrier-Jones. Nature 147, 290–291 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147290b0
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