Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E005531 - Greenwood, Henry Harold (1873 - 1962)
Title:
Greenwood, Henry Harold (1873 - 1962)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E005531
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2014-06-24
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Greenwood, Henry Harold (1873 - 1962), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Greenwood, Henry Harold
Date of Birth:
17 September 1873
Place of Birth:
Halifax
Date of Death:
9 June 1962
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 11 February 1897
FRCS 12 June 1919
MB ChB Leeds 1905
MB London 1904
BS 1917
Details:
Born on 17 September at Halifax, he was educated at Skipton Grammar School and Leeds University where he won several scholarships and gold and silver medals. He qualified in 1897 with the McGill surgery prize. Later he practised in Headlingley and was honorary surgeon to Leeds Public Dispensary. He joined the RAMC(T) and in 1914 was attached to the East Leeds War Hospital and the Ministry of Pensions Orthopaedic Hospital at Beckett Park, Leeds.
Having gained his Fellowship, he became surgeon to the Great Western Railway Accident Hospital at Swindon. During this period he was Chairman of the Swindon Division of the British Medical Association and President of the Wiltshire Branch in 1926-27. He retired to Bedfordshire but, on the outbreak of war in 1939, he became a surgeon in the Emergency Medical Service at Arlesey and consulting surgeon to the Ministry of Pensions.
Greenwood was a capable artist and made the line drawings in *Aids to Surgery*. He died on 9 June 1962 aged 88, survived by a married daughter.
Sources:
*Brit med J* 1962, 2, 487 with appreciation by SWB
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/E005500-E005599
Media Type:
Unknown
