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E002798 - Newbolt, George Palmerston (1863 - 1924)
Title:
Newbolt, George Palmerston (1863 - 1924)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E002798
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2012-08-29
Description:
Obituary for Newbolt, George Palmerston (1863 - 1924), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Newbolt, George Palmerston
Date of Birth:
1863
Place of Birth:
Weymouth
Date of Death:
9 March 1924
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
CBE 1918

MRCS January 22nd 1885

FRCS April 12th 1888

MB Durham 1884
Details:
Came of a naval and military family; was born at Weymouth, and was educated at Weymouth College. He was intended for the Army, but an attack of rheumatic fever left him with aortic stenosis and he decided to enter the medical profession. He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1881 and in due course served the office of House Surgeon, passing his final Fellowship examination at the age of 23 and graduating at Durham University in 1884. Here he acted as Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy, and in 1896 won the Heath Scholarship with an essay on "Diseases of the Jaws". Newbolt was elected Senior House Surgeon at the Stanley Hospital, Liverpool, in 1887, and when the Manchester Ship Canal was begun he was appointed Surgeon to the Ellesmere Port Hospital with Sir Robert Jones as his colleague. In due course he became Surgeon to the Stanley Hospital, a post he resigned in 1897 on his election as Surgeon to the Royal Southern Hospital at Liverpool. At the time of his death he was Lecturer on Clinical Surgery in the University of Liverpool, Consulting Surgeon of the Clerical Union NW District, and Surgeon of the Leasowe Hospital for Children, where a brass tablet recalls his services. He early took an interest in the Liverpool Central Division of the British Medical Association, of which he became Chairman, and was again elected Chairman when the Divisions were amalgamated. He was also President of the Liverpool Medical Institution in 1924, and was for many years churchwarden of his parish. He acted as Operating Surgeon at the Myrtle Street Auxiliary Hospital, Liverpool, during the European War, and at the Officers' Hospital, Croxteth Hall. For his services he was decorated CBE. He married twice, leaving two daughters and a son by his first wife, and a daughter by his second wife, and lived at 5 Gambier Terrace, Hope Street, Liverpool. He died suddenly on March 9th, 1924. Newbolt was distinguished both as a diagnostician and as an operating surgeon; silent and somewhat taciturn, his friends knew that he was kind of heart and ever ready to help when occasion required. Publications:- Several papers in the *Liverpool Med-Chir Jour* and in the *Liverpool Southern Hosp Rep*.
Sources:
*Brit Med Jour*, 1924, i, 503, 553, with portrait

*Lancet*, 1924, i, 626
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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/E002700-E002799
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