Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E005177 - Morel, Mervyn Philip (1907 - 1959)
Title:
Morel, Mervyn Philip (1907 - 1959)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E005177
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2014-03-28
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Morel, Mervyn Philip (1907 - 1959), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Morel, Mervyn Philip
Date of Birth:
19 September 1907
Place of Birth:
Penarth, Glamorgan
Date of Death:
25 March 1959
Place of Death:
Barnstaple, Devon
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 11 May 1933
FRCS 14 December 1939
LRCP 1933
BCh Cambridge 1933
MB 1937
Details:
Born in Penarth, Glamorgan, on 19 September 1907, he was educated at Clifton College, Christ's College, Cambridge, and St Bartholomew's Hospital where he was a house surgeon and surgical chief assistant. Joining the RAFVR before the second world war he served in France and West Africa, and then as squadron leader and surgical specialist at Wroughton, Wiltshire. After the war he settled in Barnstaple in 1946 and was appointed surgeon to the North Devon Infirmary, but with the advent of the National Health Service he became a senior hospital medical officer in the North Devon Hospital Group. He was area surgeon for North Devon in the St John Ambulance Brigade, and for his work in this field he was appointed a Serving Brother in the Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem.
He died at Barnstaple on 25 March 1959 aged 51, survived by his wife née Daphne Anne Elmslie, and their two sons and a daughter.
Sources:
*The Times* 26 March 1959
*Brit med J* 1959, 1, 1047 by MKL
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
