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Asset Name:
E001636 - Tweedie, James Hamilton (1950 - 2011)
Title:
Tweedie, James Hamilton (1950 - 2011)
Author:
Sarah Gillam
Identifier:
RCS: E001636
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2011-11-28

2014-04-07
Description:
Obituary for Tweedie, James Hamilton (1950 - 2011), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Tweedie, James Hamilton
Date of Birth:
31 March 1950
Place of Birth:
Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
Date of Death:
15 July 2011
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
BSc London 1970

MB BS 1973

FRCS Edin 1978

FRCS 1979

MS 1984
Details:
James Hamilton Tweedie was a consultant general surgeon at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Aylesbury. He was born in Rabui, New Guinea, on 31 March 1950, the eldest son of George Carrick Tweedie, a surgeon, and Gladys Mary Tweedie. He was educated at Loughborough College School and then went on to study medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1973 and gaining the Knott prize in surgery (in 1971) and the Willet medal in operative surgery. He was a house surgeon on the surgical professorial unit at Bart's, and then a resident surgical officer at the Royal Marsden Hospital. He subsequently became a senior registrar at St Mark's Hospital in London, a research fellow at the University of Missouri, Columbia, USA, and a senior registrar in general surgeon in Nottingham. He was then appointed to his consultant post at Stoke Mandeville. Outside medicine he was interested in rugby and art. On 15 July 2011 he died after a two-year battle with cancer. He was survived by his wife Julia and two children, George and Juliette.
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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/E001000-E001999/E001600-E001699
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