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Asset Name:
E004430 - McCaw, Alexander Todd (1881 - 1943)
Title:
McCaw, Alexander Todd (1881 - 1943)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E004430
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2013-09-30
Description:
Obituary for McCaw, Alexander Todd (1881 - 1943), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
McCaw, Alexander Todd
Date of Birth:
9 April 1881
Place of Birth:
Otago, New Zealand
Date of Death:
21 June 1943
Place of Death:
Otago, New Zealand
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 13 February 1908

FRCS 14 December 1911

LRCP 1908

FRACS 1929
Details:
Born 9 April 1881, son of Hugh McCaw, MB CM Glasgow 1877, in practice at East Taieri, Otago, New Zealand, and Jane Macadam Todd, his wife. He was educated at the Otago Boys' High School and at Otago College, University of New Zealand, before coming to England to study medicine. He entered the London Hospital in 1905, qualified in 1908, served as house surgeon and pathological assistant at the London, and also worked at the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich. He took the Fellowship at the end of 1911, and during 1911-12 was senior resident surgical officer at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Children and Women. Returning to New Zealand he practised at 57 Don Street, Invercargill, and became surgeon to the Southland Hospital there. During the first world war he saw active service for two years in France, being commissioned captain in the New Zealand Army Medical Corps on 13 August 1917 and attached to the New Zealand artillery. He then returned to his work in New Zealand. In 1929 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and in 1934-36 he was chairman of the Southland division of the New Zealand branch of the British Medical Association. McCaw married on 31 March 1919 Mary, daughter of the Rev S Campbell Fry, minister of Girvan, Scotland. He died at Otago on 21 June 1943, survived by his wife; there were no children.
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Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
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Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E004000-E004999/E004400-E004499
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