Arthur Edward Durham FRCS Eng was a member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, and a Vice-President of the College; he was President of the Medical Society in 1885, then Treasurer until his death; Vice-President of the Royal Medical and Chirargical Society; President of the Metropolitan Counties Branch of the British Medical Association in 1886; invented the tracheotomy tube, named after him, and of many other surgical instruments; he was elected a member of Photographic Society 1877.