Material relating to medical student John Sinclair Manson graduating 1906

John Sinclair Manson was born in Govan, Glasgow, 2 June 1872. He lived in Aberdeen at the time of his study at Edinburgh University, and had attended Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen, for four years.

Manson first matriculated at Edinburgh in session 1901-1902 at the age of 28. He graduated in 1906 with the degrees of M.B., Ch.B., and again in 1913 with the degree of M.D.

He was also awarded the Diploma in Public Health, Victoria Manchester, in 1910. He was the Medical Officer of Health, Runcorn, and was a member of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (now the British Science Association). Latterly he was the Visiting Surgeon at Warrington Infirmary, and Senior House Surgeon at Oldham Infirmary.

His publications included: 'Hereditary lamellar cataract and Digital deformity in one family', in the Transactions of the Opthalmological Societies of the UK, 1911 'Hereditary transmission of sarcoma', in the Lancet, 1913; 'Hereditary syndactylism and polydactylism', in the Journal of Genetics, 1915; and 'Hereditary spastic paraplegia with ataxia and mental defect', in the British Medical Journal, 1920.

In May 1927, Manson was awarded the Sir Charles Hastings Clinical Prize (named after the founder of the British Medical Association, BMA) for his observations on human heredity.

John Sinclair Manson died of liver cancer on 24 October 1937 in Warrington Infirmary.