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E006440 - Wilson, George Stewart Murchison (1914 - 2011)
Title:
Wilson, George Stewart Murchison (1914 - 2011)
Author:
Sarah Gillam
Identifier:
RCS: E006440
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2014-11-25

2017-02-24
Description:
Obituary for Wilson, George Stewart Murchison (1914 - 2011), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Wilson, George Stewart Murchison
Date of Birth:
29 October 1914
Place of Birth:
Edinburgh
Date of Death:
30 May 2011
Titles/Qualifications:
MB ChB Edin 1937

FRCS Edin 1940

FRCS 1950

LMCC 1951

FRCPC

FRCSC
Details:
George Wilson was a urologist and chief of staff at the Welland Hospital, Ontario, Canada. He was born in Edinburgh on 29 October 1914, the son of George Stewart Wilson, a civil servant, and Catherine Wilson née Campbell. He was educated at George Heriot's School in Edinburgh and then went on to study medicine at Edinburgh University. He qualified in 1937. He was a resident surgical officer at Newcastle General Hospital and then, in April 1940, joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as a major. He served in France, Nigeria and India. Following his demobilisation in April 1946, he briefly returned to Newcastle General Hospital and was then a resident surgical officer at Crumpsall Hospital, Manchester. In 1951 he emigrated to Canada. He began his career in Welland working as a general surgeon, but then specialised in urology. He became chief of staff of Welland Hospital. As medical chairman of the Welland Hospital building committee in the 1950s, he was instrumental in efforts to build the new hospital, which opened in 1960. He was a member of the Buffalo Urological Society, where he regularly participated in lectures and rounds, and was a senior member of the Canadian Urological Association. Outside medicine, he enjoyed golf, curling and sailing and working in the machine shop. He was president of the Welland Club, Welland Curling Club and Lookout Point Golf and Country Club. In 1944 he married Eleanor Hewitt. They had two sons, Ronald and Iain, and a daughter, Elspeth. George Stewart Murchison Wilson died on 30 May 2011. He was 96.
Sources:
*Can Urol Assoc J* Aug 2011 5(4):292 www.cuaj.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/681/484 - accessed 16 February 2017
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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/E006000-E006999/E006400-E006499
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