Robert Liveing, the son of Edward Liveing, MRCS, was born at Nayland in Suffolk. He went up to Christ’s College, Cambridge, with a scholarship in 1852 and graduated in the mathematical tripos in 1856. He obtained his medical education at King’s College, London, where he won a Warneford scholarship, and at Paris, proceeding to the Cambridge M.B. degree in 1861. After holding two house appointments at King’s College Hospital in 1861-62, he became lecturer on anatomy and physiology at the Middlesex Hospital. He served on the staff of the latter as assistant physician (1866-72), physician (1872-76) and physician to the skin department (1879-88), and was made consulting physician to the skin department on retiring. Liveing delivered the Goulstonian Lectures in 1873, and wrote a Handbook on Diseases of the Skin in 1887. He examined both for the Royal College of Physicians and for Cambridge University. In 1888 he was elected to a fellowship at King’s College, London. Travelling and gardening were his main recreations and he was a vice-president of the Alpine Club. He married Adelaide, daughter of Admiral Edward Hawker, and had a son and a daughter. He was a brother of Edward Liveing, Registrar of the Royal College of Physicians.

G H Brown

[Lyle, 81; Who was Who, 1916-28, 635]