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Asset Name:
E004624 - Smith, Kenneth Halstead (1918 - 2013)
Title:
Smith, Kenneth Halstead (1918 - 2013)
Author:
Sarah Gillam
Identifier:
RCS: E004624
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2013-11-08

2015-12-14
Description:
Obituary for Smith, Kenneth Halstead (1918 - 2013), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Smith, Kenneth Halstead
Date of Birth:
16 October 1918
Place of Birth:
Burnley, Lancashire
Date of Death:
3 June 2013
Place of Death:
Deganwy, Wales
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS LRCP 1943

MB ChB Manchester 1943

FRCS 1952
Details:
Kenneth Halstead Smith was a consultant surgeon at Caernarvon and Anglesey Hospital. He was born on 16 October 1918 in Burnley, Lancashire, the son of Samuel Driver Smith, a schoolmaster, and Amelia Smith née Halstead, the daughter of a cotton manufacturer. He was educated in elementary schools in Burnley and then Burnley Grammar School. He went on to study medicine at Victoria University, Manchester, and carried out his clinical studies at Manchester Royal Infirmary. He qualified in 1943. From 1944 to 1946 he was a captain and general duty officer in the RAMC. He was a surgical tutor and a house surgeon to Alexander Michael Boyd at Manchester Royal Infirmary. He was a resident surgical officer at Ancoats Hospital, Manchester, and then a senior registrar and tutor at Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. Prior to his consultant appointment at Caernarvon and Anglesey Hospital, he was a consultant in accident surgery at the General Hospital, Northampton. He was an associate member of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand and a fellow of Manchester Medical Society. In 1949 he married Elizabeth Makinson. They had two sons, Robert and Andrew, and one daughter, Susan. He died on 3 June 2013 at home in Deganwy. He was 94. He was survived by his widow and children, and grandchildren Caroline and Eleanor.
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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/E004600-E004699
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