Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E006085 - Rothwell, William Henry (1910 - 1969)
Title:
Rothwell, William Henry (1910 - 1969)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E006085
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2014-10-06
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Rothwell, William Henry (1910 - 1969), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Rothwell, William Henry
Date of Birth:
1910
Date of Death:
14 November 1969
Place of Death:
Kuwait
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS and FRCS 1945
MB ChB New Zealand 1933
FRCS Ed 1944
Details:
Rothwell qualified in New Zealand in 1933. Towards the end of the second world war he took the Edinburgh Fellowship in 1944 and the English Fellowship in 1945, having served as surgeon at the Emergency Medical Service Northern Hospital at Winchmore Hill.
After serving as assistant surgeon to outpatients at the London Hospital, he practised for a time at Bridgwater, Somerset, where he was surgeon to the District Hospital. During the 1950s he moved to Southport, Lancashire, where he was assistant surgeon to the Infirmary.
He later took an appointment at Kuwait on the Persian Gulf, where he died on 14 November 1969 in his late fifties.
Publication:
Branchial Fistulae. *Brit med J* 1949, 2, 1025.
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/E006000-E006999/E006000-E006099
Media Type:
Unknown
