Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E006089 - Rooke, Alfred Basil (1886 - 1966)
Title:
Rooke, Alfred Basil (1886 - 1966)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E006089
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2014-10-06
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Rooke, Alfred Basil (1886 - 1966), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Rooke, Alfred Basil
Date of Birth:
1886
Date of Death:
26 February 1966
Place of Death:
Poole, Dorset
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 1907
FRCS 1909
LRCP 1907
Details:
Educated at University College Hospital, London, he was a demonstrator of anatomy in the medical school and a house physician in the Hospital, after qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1907. He took the Fellowship in 1909 and was appointed senior house surgeon at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital.
Rooke settled in practice in the Bournemouth area, and became surgeon to the Douglas House Hospital, Southbourne, and consulting surgeon to the Royal Victoria and West Hants Hospital, Milford-on-Sea, the Milford Memorial Hospital and the Victoria Hospital, Wimbome.
In retirement he lived at 1 Partridge Drive, Lilliput, Poole, Dorset, where he died on 26 February 1966, aged about eighty and survived by his wife and their three sons.
Publications:
Colon bacillus infections. *Practitioner*, 1925, 115, 205.
Sources:
*The Times* 1 March 1966 without memoir
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
