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Asset Name:
E006936 - Shepherd, Francis William (1906 - 1978)
Title:
Shepherd, Francis William (1906 - 1978)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E006936
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2015-03-10
Description:
Obituary for Shepherd, Francis William (1906 - 1978), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Shepherd, Francis William
Date of Birth:
6 December 1906
Place of Birth:
Nottingham
Date of Death:
21 August 1978
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 1933

FRCS 1937

BSc London 1929

MA Cambridge 1933

BCh 1933

MD 1937

LRCP 1933
Details:
Francis William Shepherd, who was born in Nottingham on 6 December 1906, grew up in Castletown, Isle of Man. With a London BSc he studied medicine at Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital. After holding posts in Hampstead and Ilford he was appointed RSO at Huddersfield in 1938 and, it is said, served there with great devotion throughout the war years becoming in 1947 honorary assistant surgeon and in 1948 consultant in general surgery. He was at one time President of the Huddersfield Medical Society and was also active in BMA affairs. He devoted himself to the care of his parents and it was only after both of them had died that he married Mary Hyde, a childhood friend from the Isle of Man, but she died suddenly very soon after they retired to a converted farmhouse near Douglas. He died on 21 August 1978, aged 71 years.
Sources:
*Brit med J* 1978, 2, 964
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
Format:
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Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E006000-E006999/E006900-E006999
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