Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E004441 - Mercer, John Laurence (1932 - 2013)
Title:
Mercer, John Laurence (1932 - 2013)
Author:
Sarah Gillam
Identifier:
RCS: E004441
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2013-09-30
2015-09-01
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Mercer, John Laurence (1932 - 2013), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Mercer, John Laurence
Date of Birth:
1932
Date of Death:
25 July 2013
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MB BS London 1958
FRCS 1963
MS 1973
Details:
John Laurence Mercer was a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Broad Green and Fazakerley hospitals, Liverpool. He was born in 1932, the elder son of Major Laurence Walter Mercer, studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School and qualified MB BS in 1958. He won the Hallett prize in 1960 and became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1963.
Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a senior registrar at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, a senior house officer at the Brompton Hospital, London, and a surgical assistant at St Thomas' Hospital.
Outside medicine he was interested in silversmithing, pottery and conceptual physics.
John Laurence Mercer died on 25 July 2013.
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/E004400-E004499
Media Type:
Unknown
