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E005036 - Hartley, Harold (1873 - 1952)
Title:
Hartley, Harold (1873 - 1952)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E005036
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2014-02-26
Description:
Obituary for Hartley, Harold (1873 - 1952), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Hartley, Harold
Date of Birth:
29 March 1873
Date of Death:
6 December 1952
Place of Death:
Oxford
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS and FRCS 9 June 1904

MB ChB Manchester 1897

MB London 1899

MD 1902

BS 1910
Details:
Born on 29 March 1873, second but eldest surviving son of William Hartley, cotton spinner, and Maria Fawsitt his wife, he was educated at Manchester Grammar School and Owens College, which he entered with the Dauntesey medical scholarship in 1893, graduating with honours in medicine and surgery in 1897; he took honours in forensic medicine at the London MB in 1889. He was Bradley scholar in clinical surgery at the Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1897, and served as house surgeon there and at the Manchester Maternity Hospital and Southern Hospital for Women and Children. He settled in practice at Newcastle, Staffordshire, served as house surgeon at the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary, and ultimately became consulting surgeon. He was consulting surgeon also to the Burlem and Tunstall Hospital and the Longton Hospital, and consulting gynaecological surgeon to the Infectious Diseases Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent. He lived at Hillesden, Lancaster Road, Newcastle. He served as president of the North Staffordshire Medical Society, and as president of the Staffordshire branch and chairman of the North Staffordshire division of the British Medical Association. Hartley married Janet Laird in 1918; they had three sons. He died on 6 December 1952, aged 79, at his son's house, Huggins Cottage, Old Road, Headington, Oxford.
Sources:
Information from his son, H W L Hartley MA
Rights:
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/E005000-E005999/E005000-E005099
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