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Asset Name:
E001590 - Sanford, Denis Astley (1912 - 2006)
Title:
Sanford, Denis Astley (1912 - 2006)
Author:
Sarah Gillam
Identifier:
RCS: E001590
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2011-11-16

2014-06-06
Description:
Obituary for Sanford, Denis Astley (1912 - 2006), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Sanford, Denis Astley
Date of Birth:
22 December 1912
Date of Death:
2006
Place of Death:
Cozes, France
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
OBE 1976

MB BS London 1936

FRCS 1939

MRCP 1940
Details:
Denis Astley Sanford was a senior general surgeon in Sunderland. He qualified MB BS in 1936 and, after a house physician post at University College Hospital, London, became a resident surgical officer at the Royal Infirmary, Sunderland. He served as a wing commander in the RAF and then, after the Second World War, returned to Sunderland, where he became a consultant, working between Ryhope and Sunderland General hospitals. He was a clinical tutor at Sunderland Medical Postgraduate Centre and an RCS tutor. He also served on the Ministry of Health's advisory committee on management efficiency. In 1976 he was awarded an OBE. He was chairman of the Sunderland Council of Voluntary Service and of Sunderland Old People's Council (later Age Concern), and a member of the Rotary Club of Sunderland for more than 40 years. He was married twice. His first wife, Eluned 'Lyn' Woodford-Williams, was a pioneering geriatrician who, with Oscar Olbrich, helped establish geriatric services in the Sunderland area. Sanford's second wife was Evelyne. He moved to her home town of Cozes in France in 2000 and died there, aged 94.
Sources:
*Evening Chronicle* 7 November 2006 www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/death--denis-sanford-1555267 - accessed 30 April 2014

The Royal College of Physicians *Munk's Roll* Vol VIII, p550 Eluned Woodford-Williams http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/4876 - accessed 30 April 2014
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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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Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E001000-E001999/E001500-E001599
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Unknown