Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E004076 - Cowell, Sibert Forrest Antrobus (1863 - 1949)
Title:
Cowell, Sibert Forrest Antrobus (1863 - 1949)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E004076
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2013-06-06
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Cowell, Sibert Forrest Antrobus (1863 - 1949), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Cowell, Sibert Forrest Antrobus
Date of Birth:
24 September 1863
Date of Death:
13 January 1949
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
Secretary RCS 1901-34
BA Oxford 1886
MA 1911
Details:
Born 24 September 1863, the son of Thomas William Cowell, MRCS. He was educated at Westminster, where he entered in 1876, and was elected a Queen's Scholar in 1879, and at University College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1886.
He became assistant secretary of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1888 and succeeded Edward Trimmer as Secretary in 1901. He resigned in 1934, and was succeeded by his nephew.
Forrest Cowell never married. Having lived throughout his working life in London, he moved to St Albans in 1940 and died there on Thursday, 13 January 1949, aged 85. His portrait is included in the council group of 1927, and there is a separate portrait in oils in the college's collection.
Sources:
*The Times*, 15 January 1949, p 6e
Personal knowledge
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
