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Asset Name:
E000329 - Smith, Beatrice Gwendoline (1903 - 1990)
Title:
Smith, Beatrice Gwendoline (1903 - 1990)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E000329
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2007-02-01
Description:
Obituary for Smith, Beatrice Gwendoline (1903 - 1990), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Smith, Beatrice Gwendoline
Date of Birth:
21 April 1903
Place of Birth:
Stowmarket, Suffolk, UK
Date of Death:
1990
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 1926

FRCS 1929

MB BS London 1926

MD 1930

LRCP 1926
Details:
Beatrice Smith was a surgeon at the South London and Marie Curie hospitals. She was born on 21 April 1903 in Stowmarket, Suffolk, the only child of Walter James Smith, a corn merchant, and Beatrice Amy née Gostling. She was educated at the Mount School, York, and University College Hospital, where she did house appointments in medicine and obstetrics and gynaecology. After a period as house surgeon at the County Hospital in York she returned to London as a surgical registrar at the Royal Free Hospital. She was appointed consultant surgeon at the South London and Marie Curie hospitals. During the war Beatrice served in the Emergency Medical Service. She married in 1936. Her married name was Riekie. After her retirement she devoted herself to music and gardening.
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
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Root/Lives of the Fellows/E000000-E000999/E000300-E000399
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