Background
He was born in Chorley, Lancashire, the eldest son of Isaac Waring, a schoolmaster, and his wife, Catherine Holburt.
He was born in Chorley, Lancashire, the eldest son of Isaac Waring, a schoolmaster, and his wife, Catherine Holburt.
He attended Owen"s College, Manchester, (now the University of Manchester) and gained a Bachelor of Science in physiology (1888), an Bachelor of Medicine (1890) in medicine and forensic medicine, a Bachelor of Science (1891) and Mississippi in 1893.
He became Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1891. He was demonstrator of anatomy and teacher of surgery at Street Bartholomews and rose to become consulting surgeon. During the First World War he was a colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps and consulting surgeon in addition to his hospital work.
He was an officer of the Légion d"honneur.
He represented the Faculty of Medicine in the Senate of the University of London and in 1920 he was elected Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, and was Vice-Chancellor of the University from 1922-1924. He was also the first Vice-President of the Street Bartholomew"s Hospital Medical College and instrumental in getting it affiliated to the university.
He was elected President of the Medical Society of London (1925-1926) and in 1935 was elected President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, serving until 1937.