Sir Theodore "Robbie" Fortescue Fox FRCP (26 November 1899 – 19 June 1989) was a British physician and medical editor. After graduating from Leighton Park School in 1918, Theodore Fox, as a Quaker, joined the Friends' Ambulance Unit and served in France for eight months. With the benefit of a scholarship, he matriculated in 1919 at Pembroke College, Cambridge. After education at the University Cambridge and medical training at the London Hospital, he qualified MRCS, LRCS (i.e. Member of the RCS, Licentiate of the RCS) in 1924. At the London Hospital he was house physician to Sir Robert Hutchison. After a round trip to India as a ship's surgeon, Fox undertook in 1925 locum work at the editorial office of The Lancet. He graduated in 1926 BChir, in 1937 MB, and in 1938 MD from the University