John was educated at the Bedford Grammar School, and entered Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1900, and M.B., B.C., in 1903. After holding the appointments of Clinical Assistant to Out-Patients, Receiving Room Officer, House-Physician, House-Surgeon, at the London Hospital," he acted as traveling Physician to Prince Leopold of Battenberg, spending two winters with him in Khartoum . In 1906 he joined the Staff of the Union Medical College at Pekin, and during the outbreak of pneumonic plague, in Manchuria, five years later, he volunteered his services to the Chinese Government, and remained at Harbin until the disease had been stamped out. For his services he was decorated with the Order of the Double Dragon. During the Boxer rising in China, 1911-12, he accompanied the Army, doing Red Cross work. Being in England, on furlough, at the outbreak of the Great War, he immediately offered his services to the Royal Army Medical Corps, and received a commission, at the rank of Temporary Lieutenant, on 24th August 1914. After some months of work at home he went to France, where he was attached to a General Hospital until November, 1915, when he was transferred to the Royal Field Artillery, and it was while serving with them, on 18th July, that he received the spinal wound which proved fatal later. He died in No 8 General Hospital. He was awarded the Military Cross “For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty during several days of operations when attending the wounded under heavy shell-fire. He repeatedly exposed himself when dressing wounds, then finally was himself wounded.” The Colonel of his Brigade wrote that John was a man who tended the wounded under the heaviest shell-fire without any thought of his personal safety, and added that he had been recommended for the D.S.O. The following letter was received by the Editor of the London Hospital Gazette:- “There must be many old " Londoners" who felt when they read of Jack Stenhouse's death from wounds, that no better or cleaner-hearted man has died in this War. Throughout his life he was typical of the best sort of man that England produces. As a much looked-up-to schoolboy at Bedford where I first remember him, and later as a Student at the Hospital, a companion in rooms, and afterwards as a resident I knew him well, and be was always the same, a fine, simple, upstanding gentleman, and one of the best men that ever breathed. From early boyhood he had a very deeply, unquestioning religious bent of mind, but he seldom spoke his religion, though he lived it as it is given to few men to do; and it was common knowledge among his friends that he turned aside from brilliant opportunities to act as a comparatively obscure and poorly paid lecturer at a Christian University in Pekin. Here he did a great work in helping to train Chinese Students in modern medicine, also being on the Staff of a Hospital, where any amount of practical work was always being done. But he was a man who enjoyed life in many capacities. He was very fond of most out-door sports. And one of my last memories of him is of his big laugh at a little dinner in a Piccadilly Restaurant, while on leave from his work in China, in the winter before War. To his widow and children there must be very many who would like to offer their deepest sympathy. May the earth rest lightly on him. The world was better for him. Yours, H H Bashford” John was the second son of Major-General William Stenhouse (Indian Army) and Mrs. Stenhouse; and the husband of G H Stenhouse of 56 Clarendon Villas, Hove, Sussex - they had two children.