Robert Benny Lumsden Territorial Decoration, FRCSED was a Scottish consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon.
Education
Robert Lumsden was educated at Strathallan School, the and for a short period at the University of Vienna. He graduated in medicine (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) from Edinburgh in 1926 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of s of Edinburgh (FRCSED) in 1932.
Career
After his house appointments Lumsden joined the East.N.T department of the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, where he would eventually become honorary consultant. In 1928 he was appointed consultant to the East.N.T department at Stirling Royal Infirmary and the Deaconess Hospital, Edinburgh. At the outbreak of World World War II, Lumsden, already serving with the Officers" Training Corps, was appointed East.N.T specialist to a field general hospital.
Shortly afterward he was appointed as consultant adviser in East.N.T to the Middle East Force.
Lumsden was promoted to captain on 11 April 1945. He retired from the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers on 17 April 1955 with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
On 29 April 1955 he was awarded the Territorial Decoration (Territorial Decoration). Lumsden published several papers during his military career detailing some of his medical cases.
Following the end of the war, Lumsden spent time in Rome studying the treatment of Ménière"s disease by destruction of the labyrinth of the inner ear by ultrasound and in Britain introduced the treatment at the experimental stage.
While based at the Wilkie Surgical Research Institution at the University of Edinburgh he conducted extensive research on the effects of ultrasound on the inner ear. Lumsden retired from the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh in 1967.