DAWSON OF PENN, BERTRAND EDWARD DAW SON, ISt. VISCOUNT, British physician, studied medicine at Univer sity college and the London hospital, where in 1896 he became an assistant physician, and in 1906 physician. By his extensive researches on gastric affections he became one of the authorities on this subject. He was appointed physician extraordinary to Edward VII. in 1907, and later physician in ordinary to George V. and in 1923 to the prince of Wales. During the World War he worked on war diseases, publishing various papers on para typhoid and infective jaundice. He was made G.C.V.O. in 1917, K.C.M.G. in 1919 and in 1920 was raised to the peerage. Dawson has published The Diagnosis and Operative Treatment of Diseases of the Stomach (1908), and other similar works. He was made a Privy Councillor in June, 1929, and a Viscount in 1936.