Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E004070 - Cooley, Geoffrey Glover (1914 - 1943)
Title:
Cooley, Geoffrey Glover (1914 - 1943)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E004070
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2013-06-06
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Cooley, Geoffrey Glover (1914 - 1943), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Cooley, Geoffrey Glover
Date of Birth:
10 March 1914
Date of Death:
14 May 1943
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 8 February 1940
FRCS 13 June 1940
MB BS Sydney 1937
Details:
Born 10 March 1914, the fifth and youngest child and third son of Percy Glover Cooley, MB ChM Sydney 1898, and Eleanor Lavinia Alphen, his wife. He was educated at Cranbrook School, Rose Bay, Sydney and at Sydney University, where he graduated in medicine in 1937. He served for a time as resident medical officer at Sydney Hospital, and then came to England. He studied at Guy's Hospital and took the Fellowship in 1940. Cooley married in May 1942 Mary Younger, who survived him but without children. He was lost at sea, aged 29, on 14 May 1943, when the hospital ship Centaur was torpedoed.
Sources:
Information from his cousin, Dr Beryl Glover Cooley of Sydney
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/E004000-E004999/E004000-E004099
Media Type:
Unknown
