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Asset Name:
E000075 - Hooton, Norman Stanwell (1921 - 2004)
Title:
Hooton, Norman Stanwell (1921 - 2004)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E000075
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2005-09-28

2012-03-22
Description:
Obituary for Hooton, Norman Stanwell (1921 - 2004), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Hooton, Norman Stanwell
Date of Birth:
8 November 1921
Place of Birth:
Warwick, UK
Date of Death:
6 September 2004
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS and FRCS 1949

MB BChir Cambridge 1944
Details:
Norman Stanwell Hooton was a consultant thoracic surgeon in the south east Thames region. He was born in Warwick on 8 November 1921, the only child of Leonard Stanwell Hooton, a land commissioner, and Marion Shaw Brown née Sanderson. He was educated at Oundle School and then went on to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and King's College Hospital, where he won the Jelf medal in 1944 and the Legg prize in surgery in 1949. He was house physician to Terence East at the Horton Emergency Medical Service Hospital, Epsom, in 1945, and subsequently a registrar in the thoracic surgical unit. In 1950 he was a resident surgical officer at the Dreadnought Seaman's Hospital and from 1951 to 1955 a senior surgical registrar at Brook Hospital in south London. He was subsequently appointed as a consultant thoracic surgeon to the South East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board, working at Brook Hospital, Grove Park Hospital, at Hastings, and at Kent and Sussex Hospital, Tunbridge Wells. He married Katherine Frances Mary née Pendered, the daughter of J H Pendered, a Fellow of the College, in 1951. They had two sons and five grandchildren. Norman Hooton died on 6 September 2004 after a long illness.
Sources:
*BMJ* 2005 330 150, with portrait
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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Obituary
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Root/Lives of the Fellows/E000000-E000999/E000000-E000099
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