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E004470 - Plowman, Sidney (1854 - 1932)
Title:
Plowman, Sidney (1854 - 1932)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E004470
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2013-10-04
Description:
Obituary for Plowman, Sidney (1854 - 1932), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Plowman, Sidney
Date of Birth:
1854
Date of Death:
27 April 1932
Place of Death:
Frankston, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 21 April 1884

FRCS 10 December 1885

LRCP 1885

LSA 1884
Details:
Educated at the School of Pharmacy of the Pharmaceutical Society, where he gained the junior Bell scholarship in 1872, and the senior Bell scholarship in 1873. He also gained medals in material medica and botany, in chemistry, practical chemistry, and pharmacy, and the Pereira medal in 1873. He subsequently studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital, won the open scholarship in surgery at the Society of Apothecaries in 1884, and was *proxime accessit* for the Murchison scholarship in clinical medicine at the University of Edinburgh. He was an examiner in chemistry to the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, and was tutor and joint lecturer on materia medica and therapeutics at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, where he was also apothecary and teacher of pharmacy in the hospital. He had been clinical assistant in the skin and the ear and throat departments. He landed in Melbourne, Victoria from RMSS *Valletta* at the end of 1889, having been invited by the council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia to teach chemistry, physics, and materia medica, as well as to direct the laboratory in the society's College of Pharmacy in Swanston Street, Melbourne. He died at Frankston, Victoria on 27 April 1932.
Sources:
*Austral med J* 1890, 12, 48

*Med J Austral* 1932, 1, 709, no memoir
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Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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Obituary
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Root/Lives of the Fellows/E004000-E004999/E004400-E004499
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