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E005919 - McClure, James (1875 - 1966)
Title:
McClure, James (1875 - 1966)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E005919
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2014-09-12
Description:
Obituary for McClure, James (1875 - 1966), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
McClure, James
Date of Birth:
11 March 1875
Place of Birth:
Riccarton, Kilmarnock
Date of Death:
9 December 1966
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 1897

FRCS 1902

MB CM Glasgow 1896

MD 1911
Details:
James McClure was born at Riccarton, Kilmarnock, on 11 March 1875. His father was master of the local school, and there James started his education, which was continued at Kilmarnock Academy where he acquired a good grounding in the classics. He did his medical course at Glasgow University where he graduated MB CM in 1896. He then spent two years as a demonstrator of anatomy, before his appointment as house surgeon to the Royal Infirmary where he came under the influence of Sir William Macewen and decided on a surgical career. After a further resident post at Middlesbrough he passed the FRCS examination in 1902 and settled in London. He started in general practice in Chelsea but was later enabled to specialize in surgery by obtaining the appointment of assistant surgeon to the National Temperance Hospital where he worked till he retired as senior surgeon at the beginning of the second world war. Yet this was not the end of his surgical career, for he worked during the war in the Emergency Medical Service outside London, and had attachments to several of the smaller hospitals in the London region till he finally gave up practice in 1949. McClure had a very large consulting practice in general surgery, being highly successful in the abdominal field, and earned a reputation for sound judgement as well as surgical skill. He was careful to keep up to date, and the attention he gave to the training of his juniors was much appreciated. He married Rita Bryce and her premature death in 1936 was a blow from which he never really recovered. He had many kind friends, but died a lonely old man at his home in Harley House on 9 December 1966.
Sources:
*Brit med J* 1966, 2, 1599
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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Obituary
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Root/Lives of the Fellows/E005000-E005999/E005900-E005999
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