John W. Todd

He married Dorothy Joyce Young, a former nurse, in 1947. They had four children, two of whom became doctors. He died at his home in Farnham 4 April 1989.

In 1969 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, FRCP. He was an active member of the BMA and served on occasion as secretary and chairman of the Aldershot and Farnham Division. He often expressed his full support for the NHS and disagreed with the BMA position on such matters as terms of service. Nevertheless in 1988 he was elected as a Fellow of the BMA for his work with them.

From 1939 to 1942 he was Resident Medical Officer at the Middlesex Hospital. This was during the Blitz, from which however he escaped unscathed. In 1942 he joined the RAMC and served in India and Burma until the end of the war, after which he was in Sumatra. He rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, as Officer in Charge of the Medical Division. In 1947, having left the army, he was appointed as consultant physician at Farnham Hospital. In 1974 he added to this a similar appointment at Frimley Park Hospital. He retained these posts until retirement in 1977.

John Walford Todd (16 May 1912 in Middleton, Greater Manchester – 4 April 1989 in Farnham, Surrey) was an English physician and medical author.

John Todd, known to his family as "Jack", was born in Middleton, 16 May 1912, youngest child (jointly with his twin sister, Joan) of James Jackson Todd and his wife Winifred Mary Todd née Winter. When he was a small boy the family moved to Hazel Grove, Stockport. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and then gained a scholarship to study at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School where he graduated MBBS in 1935. He obtained his MRCP in 1938 and MD in 1939.