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Asset Name:
E005603 - Sanders, Alfred William (1874 - 1941)
Title:
Sanders, Alfred William (1874 - 1941)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E005603
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2014-06-26
Description:
Obituary for Sanders, Alfred William (1874 - 1941), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Sanders, Alfred William
Date of Birth:
1874
Date of Death:
1941
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 29 July 1895

FRCS 8 June 1899

LRCP 1895

MB London 1896

MB 1898
Details:
Born about 1874 he was educated at St Mary's Hospital, qualified in 1895 and proceeded to the London doctorate in 1898 and the Fellowship in 1899. He then went to South Africa and served as a civil surgeon with the field force during the war. Afterwards he settled at Pretoria, where he served for thirty-two years as surgeon and finally senior surgeon to the Pretoria Hospital. His work was so highly appreciated that the main operating theatre and a new orthopaedic wing of the hospital were named after him. He was a man of great generosity and unselfishness, esteemed equally by the English, Dutch, and African communities. When he died in 1941 his funeral was attended by most of the diplomatic representatives at Pretoria and by Field-Marshal Jan Smuts. He was survived by his wife; one of their daughters married Judge Walford Dowling.
Sources:
Information from Mrs Sanders

*SA med J* 1942, 16, 95, eulogy by Dr A Machol
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
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Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E005000-E005999/E005600-E005699
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Unknown