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Asset Name:
E007313 - Harcourt, Richard Brian (1934 - 1987)
Title:
Harcourt, Richard Brian (1934 - 1987)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E007313
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2015-05-18
Description:
Obituary for Harcourt, Richard Brian (1934 - 1987), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Harcourt, Richard Brian
Date of Birth:
3 March 1934
Date of Death:
3 November 1987
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS and FRCS 1966

BCh Cambridge 1958

MA MB 1959

DO 1962
Details:
Brian Harcourt was born on 3 March 1934, the son of John Ellison Harcourt, a scientific instrument manufacturer in Liverpool and Bertha Florence Kneen. His grandfather, Richard Eugene Harcourt FRCS (1858-1921), was an ophthalmic surgeon, also in Liverpool. Harcourt was educated at Quarry Bank High School, Liverpool. His clinical training was at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he was Brackenbury Surgical Scholar in 1958. He was house surgeon to H B Stallard at St Bartholomew's and Moorfields Eye Hospital and later was resident surgical officer at Moorfields. He served as an ophthalmic specialist in the RAF, attaining the rank of Squadron-Leader, and he was appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the United Leeds Hospitals and lecturer in ophthalmology in the University of Leeds, in 1968. He became a member of the Council of the Faculty of Ophthalmologists and secretary of the Section of Ophthalmology at the Royal Society of Medicine. He married Margaret Silk in 1958 and they had three sons and a daughter. He was a keen gardener, fell walker and ornithologist. He was survived by his wife, two sons (one a medical student), and a daughter, also an ophthalmologist, when he died on 3 November 1987.
Sources:
*The Times* 17 November 1987
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
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Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E007000-E007999/E007300-E007399
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