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E002832 - Oakden, William Marshall (1886 - 1928)
Title:
Oakden, William Marshall (1886 - 1928)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E002832
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2012-09-05
Description:
Obituary for Oakden, William Marshall (1886 - 1928), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Oakden, William Marshall
Date of Birth:
19 December 1886
Place of Birth:
Sherwood
Date of Death:
12 August 1928
Place of Death:
Lowestoft
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS November 9th 1911

FRCS June 12th 1913

MB BCh Cantab 1913

LRCP Lond 1911
Details:
Born on December 19th, 1886, at Sherwood, the son of William Oakden of Bank House, Retford. He was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Retford, and at the Nottingham High School under G J Turpin, DSc. He obtained a foundation scholarship at Peterhouse, Cambridge, in December, 1905, but did not matriculate in the University until October, 1906. He took first-class honours in the first part of the Natural Science Tripos in 1909. He then entered St Thomas's Hospital with a scholarship and subsequently gained the Bristowe Medal. He served as Casualty Officer, House Surgeon, Resident Anaesthetist, and Clinical Assistant in the Ear Department at St Thomas's Hospital, and as Resident Assistant Surgeon and Surgical Registrar at St George's Hospital. He was sent to Salonika as surgical specialist with the acting rank of Major RAMC during the War, in 1919 he was appointed Orthopaedic Surgeon at Springfield Park Ministry of Pensions Hospital, Liverpool, and in 1920 became Senior Assistant Surgeon at Queen Mary's Hospital, Carshalton. On the opening by the Metropolitan Asylums Board of St Luke's Hospital, Lowestoft, for the treatment of surgical tuberculosis in 1922 Oakden was appointed Medical Superintendent. He died unmarried at St Luke's Hospital on August 12th, 1928. Oakden was singularly shy and reserved, with a curiously hesitating manner of speech. He proved himself a good organizer and a fine administrator, but his bias was towards medicine rather than surgery.
Sources:
*Lancet*, 1928, ii, 432

*Brit Med Jour*, 1928, ii, 360

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Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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Obituary
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Root/Lives of the Fellows/E002000-E002999/E002800-E002899
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