Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E004804 - Wilson, Norman Octavius (1870 - 1940)
Title:
Wilson, Norman Octavius (1870 - 1940)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E004804
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2013-12-18
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Wilson, Norman Octavius (1870 - 1940), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Wilson, Norman Octavius
Date of Birth:
16 September 1870
Place of Birth:
London
Date of Death:
5 June 1940
Place of Death:
South Africa
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 10 November 1872
FRCS 10 October 1895
LRCP 1892
Details:
Born 16 September 1870 at Wandsworth Common, London, the eleventh child and eighth and youngest son of Joseph Wilson, MICE, and Harriet Ann Moore, his wife. He was educated at Dulwich College and at the Whitgift School, Croydon. He then entered the Medical School at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he served as ophthalmic house surgeon in 1873 under Henry Power and Bowater J Vernon. For reasons of health he then migrated to South Africa, where he died on 5 June 1940, having practised at Rondebosch, CP. He married Margaret L White on 24 June 1897. She survived him with one daughter.
Sources:
Information given by Mrs Margaret Wilson and by his brother-in-law, Sir Joseph A Arkwright, FRS, MD
*St Bart's Hosp J* 1940, 50, 230
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
Format:
Asset
Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E004000-E004999/E004800-E004899
Media Type:
Unknown
