Background
He was born in north London, the son of John William and Jessima Alice (née Guyett) Scadding.
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John Scadding
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Career
He was appointed physician at the Brompton Hospital, London from 1939 to 1972 and at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, from 1946 to 1972. He was also Dean of the Institute of Diseases of the Chest at London University from 1946 to 1960, their Director of Studies from 1950-1962 and Professor of Medicine (Emeritus) from 1962 to 1972. He was best known for his seminal work on sarcoidosis and his studies in fibrosing alveolitis.
He was Editor of Thorax from 1946 to 1959 and delivered the Bradshaw Lecture at the Royal College of Physicians in 1949 on sarcoidosis.
President of the British Tuberculosis Association, 1959-1961 and President of the Thoracic Society, 1971-1972 he was a major influence in the 1982 merger of the two societies (by which time the British Tuberculosis Society had evolved into the British Thoracic Association) as the British Thoracic Society. He died at Beaconsfield in 1999.
