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E004641 - Stawell, Rodolph de Sails (1871 - 1947)
Title:
Stawell, Rodolph de Sails (1871 - 1947)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E004641
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2013-11-13
Description:
Obituary for Stawell, Rodolph de Sails (1871 - 1947), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Stawell, Rodolph de Sails
Date of Birth:
30 November 1871
Place of Birth:
Australia
Date of Death:
26 July 1947
Place of Death:
Falmouth, Cornwall
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
OBE 1920

MRCS 4 August 1896

FRCS 14 December 1899

LRCP 1896

BA Cambridge 1893
Details:
Born in Australia on 30 November 1871, the youngest child of Sir William Foster Stawell, afterwards Chief Justice of Victoria, and his wife, *née* Greene. An elder brother, Sir Richard Rawdon Stawell, KBE, MD (1864-1935) became consulting physician to Melbourne Hospital. Stawell was educated at Geelong Grammar School, Victoria, and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part 1, 1893. He received his medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon and extern midwifery assistant, and was vice-president of the Abernethian Society. He then settled in practice at Shrewsbury, becoming physician to the Royal Salop Infirmary there, and surgeon to the Shropshire Surgical Home at Baschurch. He was president of the Shropshire and Mid-Wales branch of the British Medical Association in 1914-15. After retirement Stawell lived at Agan Trigva, Falmouth, Cornwall, where he died on 26 July 1947, aged 75. He had married in 1900 Maud, daughter of Admiral Sir Astley Cooper Key, GCB, who survived him but without children. Mrs Stawell died on 27 March 1949.
Sources:
Information from Mrs Maud Stawell
Rights:
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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