Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E001929 - Awdry, Philip Neville (1933 - 2010)
Title:
Awdry, Philip Neville (1933 - 2010)
Author:
Tina Craig
Identifier:
RCS: E001929
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2012-01-27
2013-08-29
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Awdry, Philip Neville (1933 - 2010), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Awdry, Philip Neville
Date of Birth:
1933
Date of Death:
1 May 2010
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS and FRCS 1966
BChir 1957
MB 1958
MA Cambridge 1968
DO Eng 1963
FRCOpth
Details:
Philip Neville Awdry was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at United Oxford Hospitals and Oxford Royal Hospital for the Blind. Born in 1933, he was the son of Neville John Awdry TD and his wife, Joan née Visger. Ophthalmologist to the Royal Commonwealth Society Blind Mobile Field Team, it is possible he worked in Rhodesia as he published a paper entitled "Vitamin A deficiency and blindness in N. Rhodesia" jointly in *Experimental eye research* in 1964. Other previous posts were senior resident officer to Moorfields Eye Hospital and lecturer in clinical ophthalmology to London University.
He married Miss Martin-Jones in 1957 and they had two daughters Johanna (born 1959) and Felicity (born 1964). He died on 1 May 2010 after a short illness survived by his wife and family.
Publications:-
Xerophthalmia. *Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society of the UK* 1968
Lymphangiectasia conjunctivae. *British journal of ophthalmology* 1969
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
Format:
Asset
Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E001000-E001999/E001900-E001999
Media Type:
Unknown
