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Asset Name:
E007314 - Harris, Eric Oliver (1904 - 1984)
Title:
Harris, Eric Oliver (1904 - 1984)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E007314
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2015-05-18
Description:
Obituary for Harris, Eric Oliver (1904 - 1984), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Harris, Eric Oliver
Date of Birth:
18 October 1904
Place of Birth:
Canterbury
Date of Death:
28 September 1984
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 1927

FRCS 1941

MB BS London 1929

LRCP 1927
Details:
Eric Harris was born on 18 October 1904 in Harbledown, Canterbury, the son of a pharmacist. He was educated at the King's School, Canterbury, and the Middlesex Hospital. He qualified MRCS, LRCP in 1927 and MB, BS in 1929, and he became FRCS in 1941. During the war, he held temporary appointments as ENT surgeon to the Connaught Hospital, Walthamstow, and Hillingdon Hospital and he later became consultant ENT surgeon to the Hampstead General Hospital, St Andrew's Hospital, Dollis Hill, Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, Hackney and Hounslow Hospital. After he retired, he was appointed senior lecturer in anatomy at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School, a post he held until his 78th year. He was a senior Fellow of the British Association of Clinical Anatomists and honorary consultant surgeon to the Royal Masonic School for Girls for 25 years. Golf was his favourite recreation. He married Hilda Dorothy Innis on 2 March 1941. They had no children. He died on 28 September 1984, in his 80th year, survived by his wife.
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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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