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E004569 - Salisbury, Walter (1888 - 1935)
Title:
Salisbury, Walter (1888 - 1935)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E004569
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2013-10-30
Description:
Obituary for Salisbury, Walter (1888 - 1935), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Salisbury, Walter
Date of Birth:
30 May 1888
Place of Birth:
Bristol
Date of Death:
7 January 1935
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 8 May 1913

FRCS 14 June 1923

MB BS London 1913

MD 1920

MS 1921

LRCP 1913

MBCOG 1933
Details:
Born at Bristol on 30 May 1888, the second son and youngest child of Frederick George Salisbury, solicitor, and his wife, *née* Shaw. He was educated at Wycliffe College, Gloucester, at the University of Bristol, and at the London and St Thomas's Hospitals. He served as resident medical officer at Queen Charlotte's Hospital, as house surgeon at the Women's Hospital, Soho Square, and as house surgeon at the National Orthopaedic Hospital. During the war he received a commission as temporary captain, RAMC on 14 April 1916, and acted as a surgeon specialist. The war ended, he became consulting surgeon to Scunthorpe Hospital, and having settled at Northampton was elected assistant surgeon to the General Hospital on 30 March 1926 and surgeon on 30 November following. He was also consulting surgeon to the Mansfield Orthopaedic Hospital, Northampton, and to the Northampton Borough and Northamptonshire and Rutland County Councils. He was an active member of the British Medical Association, and was secretary and treasurer of the Northamptonshire division from its formation in 1932 until his death. He married on 9 December 1925 Constance Mary Wright, who survived him with two daughters. He died on 7 January 1935 of influenza and. pneumonia, within a few days of his colleague Basil L Laver, and was buried at Dallington cemetery, Northampton. Publications: The action of cutaneous anaesthetics, with A Rendle Short. *Brit med J* 1910, 1, 560. Chorionic carcinoma. *Ibid* 1933, 2, 916. Three cases of labour obstructed by ovarian cyst. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1915-16, 9, Obstet. p. 21. Diaphragmatic hernia. *Ibid* 1932-33, 26, 937.
Sources:
*The Times*, 8 January 1935, p lb, and 9th, p 15b

*Lancet*, 1935, 1, 181

*Brit med J* 1935, 1, 134

Information given by Mrs Constance Salisbury
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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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Root/Lives of the Fellows/E004000-E004999/E004500-E004599
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