Background
He was the son of Enfield Highway farmer Charles William Sutton and was educated at the local school.
He was the son of Enfield Highway farmer Charles William Sutton and was educated at the local school.
He then entered a private anatomy school run by Thomas Cooke, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons., teaching anatomy to earn enough money to study at the Middlesex Hospital, becoming a lecturer there from 1886 to 1896. In 1886 he also became an Assistant Surgeon, specializing in pelvic operations on women. In 1889 he changed his name from John Bland Sutton to John Bland-Sutton.
In 1905 he was appointed Surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital, resigning in 1920 to become Consulting Surgeon.
Knighted in 1912, Bland-Sutton was President of the Royal Society of Medicine between 1920 and 1922 and of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 1923 to 1925. He delivered the Bradshaw lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1917.
Interested in zoology, he served as vice-President of the Zoological Society of London. In 1925 he was created a Baronet, of Middlesex Hospital in the County of London.
He died in December 1936 and at his own request his ashes were given to the Museum of the Middlesex Hospital.
They had no children and his title became extinct.