Oxford DNB, Sept. 10, 2007 (Cantlie, Sir James; physician and medical administrator; b. Jan. 17, 1851, Keithmore Farm, Dufftown, Banffshire, Scotland; graduated in 1871 from the University of Aberdeen, MA in natural science; began medical training at Aberdeen; after one year he left to join a friend at the Charing Cross Hospital, London, for the summer session; returned to Aberdeen to graduate MB CM in 1873 with honourable distinction; returned to London to take up a post as instructor in anatomy at the Charing Cross Hospital, where he later became demonstrator in anatomy, house physician, house surgeon, and surgical registrar; in 1882 he joined the London Scottish Volunteers as a surgeon; this was the inspiration behind the Volunteer Medical Staff Corps (established in 1883), which was the brainchild of Cantlie and the army medical reformer George Evatt; expert in tropical diseases; d. May 28, 1926, London)