Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E003364 - Wacher, Sidney (1865 - 1918)
Title:
Wacher, Sidney (1865 - 1918)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E003364
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2013-01-16
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Wacher, Sidney (1865 - 1918), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Wacher, Sidney
Date of Birth:
1865
Date of Death:
3 March 1918
Place of Death:
Canterbury
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS January 27th 1886
FRCS June 13th 1889
LRCP Lond 1886
Details:
Studied at Guy's Hospital, where he was a prizeman in anatomy, physiology, surgery, medicine, and midwifery, also Mackenzie Bacon prizeman in medical ophthalmology. A keen cricketer and football player, he was at one time Captain of both games. He acted as House Surgeon and Resident Obstetric Assistant. He then settled in practice at Canterbury in partnership with his two brothers, Frank Wacher, MRCS, and Harold Wacher, MRCS. He was Surgeon to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, to St Edmund's School, and to Kent College, and was a Medical Referee under the Workmen's Compensation Act. In general practice he became known as one of the most skilful surgeons in East Kent. When past cricket and football he followed with equal activity fishing and shooting.
At the end of a long round of work he was seized with acute illness which ended fatally after four days on March 3rd, 1918, at 9 St George's Place, Canterbury.
Sources:
*Guy's Hosp Gaz*, 1918, xxxii, 100, with good portrait
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/E003000-E003999/E003300-E003399
Media Type:
Unknown
