Stanhope Bayne-Jones
Stanhope Bayne-Jones (November 6, 1888 – February 20, 1970)  was an American physician, bacteriologist, medical historian and a United States Army medical officer with the rank of Brigadier General.

Early years

Bayne-Jones was born on November 6, 1888 in New Orleans, Louisiana as the son of physician. His grandfather Joseph Jones was also a physician and served in the medical department of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. In this way, Bayne-Jones was influenced in his future career choice. Bayne-Jones attended the Dixon Academy in Covington, Louisiana and then enrolled the Yale University. He graduated in 1910 with A.B. degree. Subsequently, Bayne-Jones matriculated at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, receiving his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1914.

He became a teacher and also a researcher in the fields of bacteriology and immunology. Bayne-Jones received a commission of First Lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps, U.S. Army on August 7, 1915.

Notes

As a member of the United States Surgeon General's Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health, he had a significant role in the 1964 report linking smoking to cancer.

Bayne-Jones was the subject of a biography in 1992.

Bayne-Jones Community Hospital at the US Army's Fort Polk is named in his honor, as is a professorship at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

His papers were donated to the United States National Library of Medicine in the late 1960s.

Bayne-Jones was the first master of Yale University's Trumbull College from 1932 to 1938.

Decorations

Shown below is the ribbon bar of Bayne-Jones as a Brigadier general: