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E002111 - Harcourt, Richard Eugene (1858 - 1921)
Title:
Harcourt, Richard Eugene (1858 - 1921)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E002111
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2012-03-29
Description:
Obituary for Harcourt, Richard Eugene (1858 - 1921), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Harcourt, Richard Eugene
Date of Birth:
1858
Place of Birth:
New Jersey, USA
Date of Death:
19 May 1921
Place of Death:
Liverpool, UK
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS June 13th 1907

FRCS June 13th 1907

MB BCh Royal University of Ireland 1887

MD 1893

MD MS Uruguay 1893
Details:
Born in New Jersey, USA, and educated at Queen's College, Belfast, at Liverpool, and at King's College Hospital. After acting as House Surgeon at the Royal Southern Hospital under Sir Robert Jones, and at the Manchester Ship Canal Hospital, he was for ten years Medical Officer to the Buenos Ayres Port Works and Police. He also practised at Las Conchillas, Uruguay. He returned to England in 1898, and practised first at Warrington and then at Wavertree, Liverpool. Later he devoted himself to ophthalmology, and was appointed in 1911 Pathologist to the Liverpool Eye and Ear Infirmary, where he became Assistant Surgeon. He was also Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Bootle Education Committee, Assistant Surgeon to St Helen's Hospital, and Demonstrator of Ophthalmic Pathology in the University of Liverpool. During the War (1914-1918) he acted as Surgeon to St Paul's Eye Hospital. He suffered from dysentery which induced pernicious anemia, from which he died at Stoneleigh, near Oakfield, Anfield, Liverpool, on May 19th, 1921. He was survived by his wife, two sons, and three daughters. Publication:- "Fits due to Uncorrected Errors of Refraction." - *Liverpool Med. Clin. Jour.*, 1913.
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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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Root/Lives of the Fellows/E002000-E002999/E002100-E002199
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