Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E000285 - Richards, Stephen Higgs (1928 - 2006)
Title:
Richards, Stephen Higgs (1928 - 2006)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E000285
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2006-11-09
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Richards, Stephen Higgs (1928 - 2006), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Richards, Stephen Higgs
Date of Birth:
8 April 1928
Place of Birth:
Llanbrynmair, Montgomeryshire, Wales
Date of Death:
9 March 2006
Place of Death:
Cornwall, UK
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 1951
FRCS 1959
MB BS London 1951
DLO 1959
LRCP 1951
FACS 1963
Details:
Stephen Higgs Richards was an ENT surgeon in Cardiff. He was born on 8 April 1928 in Llanbrynmair, Montgomeryshire, the fifth son of Sylfanus Higgs, a farmer, and Gwladys Jane née Brown. He went to Machynlleth County School and then to Guy’s Hospital, where he qualified in1951. After house jobs at Guy’s and Putney he did his National Service in the RAMC as RMO to the 5th Training Battalion RASC.
Following demobilisation, he was a registrar at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and then at the Radcliffe Infirmary, and became a lecturer at Manchester Royal Infirmary. He specialised in otorhinolaryngology and was appointed as a consultant ENT surgeon in Cardiff. He published on veingraft myringoplasty and mastoidectomy using an osteoplastic flap.
He married Dorothy Todd in 1956 and they had one son, Jamie, and two daughters, Jane and Aileen. Among his hobbies he enjoyed ancient cartography and shooting. He died in Cornwall on 9 March 2006.
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
Format:
Asset
Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E000000-E000999/E000200-E000299
Media Type:
Unknown
