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Asset Name:
E001766 - Large, John Garner (1920 - 2008)
Title:
Large, John Garner (1920 - 2008)
Author:
Sarah Gillam
Identifier:
RCS: E001766
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2011-12-16

2014-10-24
Description:
Obituary for Large, John Garner (1920 - 2008), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Large, John Garner
Date of Birth:
12 August 1920
Place of Birth:
Beira, Mozambique
Date of Death:
24 October 2008
Place of Death:
Melbourne, Australia
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MB BS London 1943

FRCS 1948

MS 1952

FRACS
Details:
Paul Large was a general surgeon in Durban, South Africa, and then in Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Beira, Mozambique, on 12 August 1920, but was brought up in Durban. He was educated at Michaelhouse, a rural boarding school in Natal, and then, in 1938, went to the UK to study medicine at Guy's Hospital Medical School. He qualified MB BS in 1943, during the Second World War, and then became a house surgeon and house physician. In 1944 he returned to South Africa. He joined the South African Air Force as a medical officer, and was demobilised at the end of the war. He chose to return to Guy's, in 1946, to train in surgery. He gained his FRCS in 1948 and his masters degree in surgery in 1952. After a six-month fellowship in New York, Large returned to Durban in 1953 to work in private practice, and as a visiting surgeon at McCord Hospital and at the fledgling medical school based at King Edward VIII Hospital. In 1958, disillusioned with Apartheid, Large decided to move to Melbourne, Australia. He was in private practice and was also a surgeon at Western General Hospital. He worked until his early eighties. On three occasions (in 1966, 1969 and 1972) he went to South Vietnam, as part of a civilian surgical team, treating battle injuries from the ongoing war. Outside medicine, he continued his boyhood enthusiasm for dinghy sailing, and followed international rugby. He was also interested in history, and had a love and respect for the English language. In 1952 he married Susan May, a nurse from Guy's. They had five children - Peter, Susanna, Richard, Catherine and Jonathan. Paul Garner Large died on 24 October 2008, aged 88.
Sources:
*Med J Aust* 2009 190 (6): 325

*BMJ* 2009 338 268
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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/E001700-E001799
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Unknown