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E005098 - Johnson, Bernard Richard Miller (1905 - 1959)
Title:
Johnson, Bernard Richard Miller (1905 - 1959)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E005098
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2014-03-07
Description:
Obituary for Johnson, Bernard Richard Miller (1905 - 1959), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Johnson, Bernard Richard Miller
Date of Birth:
25 April 1905
Date of Death:
18 May 1959
Place of Death:
Sussex
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 10 November 1927

FRCS by election 12 April 1956

DA 1938

FFARCS 1948

LRCP 1927
Details:
Born on 25 April 1905 he was educated at Brighton College and the Middlesex Hospital, qualifying with the Conjoint diploma in 1927. He was appointed anaesthetist at the Middlesex Hospital, and in 1938 took the diploma in anaesthetics. In the second world war he served in the RAMC in the Central Mediterranean Force, and in 1944 was mentioned in dispatches. In 1948 he became an original fellow of the newly formed Faculty of Anaesthetists and became the second Dean of the Faculty. He was largely instrumental in interesting the pharmaceutical industry in the work and potential of the Faculty and obtained large benefactions as a result, in particular the Professorship of Anaesthesia, supported by the British Oxygen Company. He married Barbara Grace Scriven in 1933 by whom he had a daughter. Johnson died suddenly on Whit Monday 18 May 1959 at his country home in Sussex. He was very interested in sport, particularly cricket, and in wild life and was an accomplished gardener and smallholder.
Sources:
*The Times* 20 May 1959 p 14 a and 22nd p 15 e by Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor

*Brit med J* 1959, 1, 1415 with portrait, and p 1535 appreciation by Sir G Gordon-Taylor, DHP, CD, EA and RFW

*Lancet* 1959, 1, 1154 with portrait

*Ann Roy Coll Engl* 1959, 25, 197-198 by Sir G Gordon-Taylor and 1960, 26, 391 memorial fund
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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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Root/Lives of the Fellows/E005000-E005999/E005000-E005099
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