Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E004121 - Crowle, Thomas Henry Rickard (1863 - 1939)
Title:
Crowle, Thomas Henry Rickard (1863 - 1939)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E004121
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2013-06-20
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Crowle, Thomas Henry Rickard (1863 - 1939), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Crowle, Thomas Henry Rickard
Date of Birth:
1863
Date of Death:
7 January 1939
Place of Death:
London
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 24 January 1884
FRCS 12 December 1889
Details:
Educated at St Mary's Hospital, London, where he was in succession house surgeon, surgical registrar 1889-97, surgical tutor, and assistant lecturer on practical surgery. He was a candidate for the post of assistant surgeon in 1897 when H S Collier was elected. Being defeated he severed his connexion with the hospital, abandoned medicine as a career, and lived at the Devonshire Club in St James's Street, where he showed himself as having a skilled knowledge of billiards and cards. During the first world war he received a commission as temporary captain, RAMC, dated 1 April 1915. He edited the third edition of Pye's *Surgical handicraft* in 1891. He does not appear to have married and he died at 18 Montagu Street, W1 on 7 January 1939.
Sources:
Information given by V Warren Low CB FRCS
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/E004100-E004199
Media Type:
Unknown
