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Asset Name:
E001337 - Singha, Hiran Sirikantha Kirthi (1927 - 2007)
Title:
Singha, Hiran Sirikantha Kirthi (1927 - 2007)
Author:
John Blandy
Identifier:
RCS: E001337
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2011-09-02

2014-08-19
Description:
Obituary for Singha, Hiran Sirikantha Kirthi (1927 - 2007), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Singha, Hiran Sirikantha Kirthi
Date of Birth:
14 February 1927
Place of Birth:
Moratuwa, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
Date of Death:
1 October 2007
Place of Death:
London, UK
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
FRCS 1955

MB BChir Cambridge 1951

MChir 1963

FRCS Edinburgh 1955
Details:
Sri Singha was professor of surgery in Kandy, Sri Lanka. He was born on 14 February 1927, in Moratuwa, in what was then Ceylon, the son of A C Fernando, a doctor from Colombo, whose name he bore when he arrived in the UK. He was educated at St Thomas's College and the Royal College, Colombo, where he passed the London matriculation examination. He travelled to England and went to Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge, before going to the London Hospital. Many in his year group were ex-servicemen. He changed his name by deed poll to Singha in 1947. After qualifying, he was a house surgeon to the orthopaedic firm of Watson-Jones, Osmond Clarke and Scotty Law at the London Hospital, did three months in the receiving room and then spent two years as a registrar in associated hospitals, including the Devon and Cornwall Hospital in Plymouth under Mike Reilly. He then returned to the London as a junior registrar to surgical outpatients. He then went to Ceylon, as a senior lecturer in surgery at the University of Ceylon and honorary consultant surgeon to the Peradeniya General Hospital in Kandy, being promoted to founding professor in 1965. He published on surgical aspects of amoebiasis and ascariasis. He eventually left Sri Lanka and returned to England, where he became a GP in Southampton. He was married twice: firstly to a German woman, by whom he had two sons, and secondly to Chrisanti, a Sri Lankan. He died peacefully at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on 1 October 2007.
Sources:
Information from Chrisanti Kirthisingha

*The Sidney Sussex College Annual 2008*, 157-8

*BMJ* 1965 2 1009
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
Format:
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Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E001000-E001999/E001300-E001399
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Unknown