Scott , Marcus Maurice , 1900-1978 , physician

Dr Marcus Maurice Scott, was a GP of Newington Causeway and later Herne Hill.Born, 1900; studied at the Welsh National School of Medicine, Cardiff (graduated B.Sc) and then University College London, qualified 1927; set up in general practice at 24 Newington Causeway, Southwark, London SE1, 1929; member of the Society of Occupational Medicine and the Association of Factory Certifying Surgeons, and was appointed factory doctor for Southwark; Medical adviser to a number of local firms, the local Treasury and Civil Service Medical Officer, and police surgeon; joined the St John Ambulance Brigade in 1931 and eventually became surgeon-in-chief, 1966; awarded the CBE for work with St John and civil defence during Second World War, 1971; died, 1978.