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[[Major-General]] '''Harold Rothery Nutt''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FRCS}} (1876–1953) was Surgeon-General to the Bombay Government, Honorary Surgeon to the [[Governor-General of India|Viceroy of India]] and Honorary Surgeon to King [[George V]].<ref>Obituary in ''[[The Times]]'', ''Maj.-Gen. H.R. Nutt'', 3 January 1953, p.8</ref><ref name="rcseng.ac.uk">{{cite web|url=http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/biogs/E005200b.htm|title=Nutt, Harold Rothery - Biographical entry - Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online|work=rcseng.ac.uk}}</ref>

==Early life==
Nutt was born on 28 December 1876, the third of four sons of William Henry Rothery Nutt, an official of the [[Bank of England]], and his wife Kathleen Laura (née Bloxham). He was educated at [[Bedford Modern School]] and St Mary’s Hospital, London where he was 'house surgeon, assistant demonstrator of physiology, and clinical assistant and demonstrator in the skin department'.<ref name="rcseng.ac.uk"/>

==Career==
Nutt was commissioned as a lieutenant in the [[Indian Medical Service]] on 27 June 1901, seeing active service on the [[North-West Frontier Province (1901–55)|North West Frontier]]. He was promoted to captain on 27 June 1904 and served as a civil surgeon in the [[United Provinces of British India|United Provinces]] (1908–14) being promoted to the position of major on 27 December 1912.<ref name="rcseng.ac.uk"/>

During [[World War I]] he served in [[Egypt]] in 1915 and then in hospital ships. Nutt was promoted to lieutenant-colonel on 27 December 1921 and then served as professor of surgery at the [[University of Lucknow]]. From 1930 to 1933 Nutt was inspector-general of civil hospitals and was president of the [[United Provinces of British India|United Provinces]] branch of the [[British Medical Association]] (1931–32). He was promoted major-general in 1933 and retired in 1935.<ref>{{Cite web|url-access=subscription|url=https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/10.1093/ww/9780199540891.001.0001/ww-9780199540884-e-241368|title=Nutt, Major-Gen. Harold Rothery, (28 Dec. 1876–2 Jan. 1953), Indian Medical Service, retired|website=WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO|year=2007|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U241368|isbn=978-0-19-954089-1}}</ref>

==Family life==
In 1909 Nutt married Minnie, daughter of William McKerrow, who survived him with a daughter. He died in [[Eastbourne]] on 2 January 1953.<ref name="rcseng.ac.uk"/>

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