Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E005173 - Molesworth, Theodore Henderson (1872 - 1955)
Title:
Molesworth, Theodore Henderson (1872 - 1955)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E005173
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2014-03-28
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Molesworth, Theodore Henderson (1872 - 1955), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Molesworth, Theodore Henderson
Date of Birth:
22 June 1872
Place of Birth:
Todmorden
Date of Death:
10 April 1955
Place of Death:
St Margaret's Bay
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 12 November 1896
FRCS 10 December 1903
LRCP 1896
BA Cambridge 1893
MB BCh 1898
Details:
Born on 22 June 1872 at Todmorden, the sixth son of the Rev. Rennell Francis Wynn Molesworth, rector of Washington, Co Durham, and his second wife Frances Elizabeth, daughter of Admiral George Henderson, he was descended from Robert, first Viscount Molesworth (1656-1725), ambassador and politician.
T H Molesworth was educated at Durham Grammar School and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1893. He qualified from St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1896, and served as senior house surgeon at Stockport Infirmary. During the South African War, 1899-1901, he was a civil surgeon with the field force.
He was in general practice at Pembury and later at St Margaret's near Dover, where he was medical officer to the Portal House and Morley convalescent homes. He died at Priory Lodge, St Margaret's Bay on 10 April 1955 aged 82.
Sources:
Venn *Alumni Cantabrigienses* part 2, v 4, p 434
*Brit med J* 1955, 1, 1293 without memoir
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/E005000-E005999/E005100-E005199
Media Type:
Unknown
