Robert Alexander Murdoch Lawson, b 1938.

Lawson was consultant cardio-thoracic surgeon to Wythenshawe Hospital Manchester and later to the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. He had qualified in 1961 from Edinburgh University, and held cardiothoracic appointments in America and at the Brompton and London Chest Hospitals. Lawson became FRCS (Edin) in 1966 and FRCS (Lond) in 1971. He was also a member of the Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons and the Cardiac Society. Lawson was a council member of the surgical section of MMS.