Sir John Lumsden - articles or references in books

This is a study of the impact of the Great War on women's everyday lives in Ireland, focusing on the years of the war and its immediate aftermath. In it she mentions that Sir John Lumsden,

...praised the provincial contribution to the war hospital supply depots and acknowledged the increased difficulties associated with war work in rural areas.

This book examines the role of the Irish medical profession in the First World War. In discussing the role played by Ireland as providing medical assistance during the war Durnin wrote:

At the Dublin docks to oversee the arrival of the wounded were some of the country's most eminent medical personnel including Dr. John Lumsden, Deputy Commissioner SJA [St. John Ambulance]. Lumsden had extensive medical and administrative experienced and played a key role in the RAMC's [Royal Army Medical Corps] casualty dispersal process in Ireland for the duration of the war.

On 25 June 1938, Douglas Hyde became the first President of Ireland and this book describes Hyde's impact on the how the role of President developed and was perceived. In one story, 

In 1944, Hyde's aide-de-camp, Captain Thomas Manning, wrote a memo complaining that the British Representative had sought to lead the procession of official mourners following the funeral of Sir John Lumsden, the founder of the St John Ambulance Brigade of Ireland, at Christ Church.

Instead, a member of the Gardaí stopped Manning to ensure that the President was leading the procession.

1916 - What the People Saw by Mick O'Farrell

Rosemary Cullen Owens looks at the importance of class and land ownership as key determinants for women’s lives. In looking at poverty in Dublin, she discusses a meeting of the Welfare Section of the St. John's Ambulance Brigade in November 1941 and how Sir John Lumsden described how:

...two poor Dublin mothers owned one pair of shoes between them, and wore them in turn to attend the welfare dining room of the Brigade to avail themselves of dinners, at a time when the Herald Boot Fund was providing boots for poor children.

The book looks at the history of food and famine in Ireland from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. It describes what people ate and drank, how this changed over time, and what were the economic and social influences behind these changes. In one chapter on nutrition, health, and demography, they discuss the use by poorer people of tea as a drink, and how Dr. Lumsden noted:

the pot [was] allowed to remain on the range or near the fire for hours on end, and [was] replenished with water as long as any colouring matter [could] be produced. Thus all its tannin is extracted, and no doubt a very injurious effect upon the alimentary canal ... is brought about.

This is Aidan Higgin's classic novel depicting the demise of the old order of power in 1930s Ireland. In one chapter he describes how one character who worked at Guinnesses had been ill and how Sir John Lumsden looked after him and the other patients.

Surrounded by medical students Sir John Lumsden had walked through the wards addressing the patients whose names he had marked down on a list; asking the men how they were and assuring them that they would be up and about soon.