Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E001970 - Bell, Mervyn Stuartson (1937 - 2005)
Title:
Bell, Mervyn Stuartson (1937 - 2005)
Author:
Tina Craig
Identifier:
RCS: E001970
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2012-02-06
2013-09-30
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Bell, Mervyn Stuartson (1937 - 2005), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Bell, Mervyn Stuartson
Date of Birth:
1937
Place of Birth:
Hove, UK
Date of Death:
1 August 2005
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 1961
FRCS 1967
MB BS London 1961
LRCP 1961
Details:
Mervyn Bell was consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Wigan from 1977 to 2004. Born in Hove in 1937, he qualified from Guy's Hospital in London working in the fields of general surgery and neurosurgery. On developing an interest in orthopaedics he moved to the Royal Free Hospital and the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford before moving to Lancashire for his first consultant post. He specialised in surgery of the knee and spine and contributed what must have been an early article on hang gliding injuries to the journal *Injury* in 1976. Elected president of the Wigan division of the BMA in 1986 he continued working until shortly before his death.
Travelling and languages were his passions and he was fluent in Spanish (in which he had a degree), French and German - he was working towards a degree in the latter before he became ill. He died from T cell lymphoma on 1 August 2005 leaving his wife, Dolores, and two daughters.
Sources:
*BMJ* 2005 331 1342.3
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
