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E004657 - Sylvester, George Holden (1856 - 1934)
Title:
Sylvester, George Holden (1856 - 1934)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E004657
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2013-11-20
Description:
Obituary for Sylvester, George Holden (1856 - 1934), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Sylvester, George Holden
Date of Birth:
25 October 1856
Place of Birth:
South Petherton, Somerset
Date of Death:
23 March 1934
Place of Death:
Bournemouth
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 16 April 1878

FRCS 9 December 1886

LRCP 1878

DPH RCPS 1889
Details:
Born 25 October 1856 at South Petherton, Somerset, the eldest of ten children (seven sons) of Samuel Augustus Sylvester, who had retired from his sheep station in Australia in 1855, and Mary Catherine, his wife, daughter of the Rev Joseph Holden Johnson, Vicar of Tilshead, Devizes. He was educated at Weston-super-Mare and received the early part of his medical education from Samuel Grose, FRCS, at Melksham, Wilts, before he proceeded to St Bartholomew's Hospital. He became surgeon, AMS, 31 July 1880, surgeon-major and major, RAMC, 31 July 1892, lieutenant-colonel 1900, and was granted local rank of colonel whilst acting as PMO of a General Hospital in South Africa, 12 February 1901. He retired on 19 October 1907, and was re-employed during the war from 1 February 1915. He was on the Livery of the Grocers' Company, and was then a freeman of the City of London. He died unmarried at Bournemouth on 23 March 1934, and his ashes were buried at Tonbridge.
Sources:
*Brit med J* 1934, 1, 782

Johnston's *Roll of the AMS*, No 6756

Information given by his sister, Mrs Johnston
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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/E004600-E004699
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