Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E007838 - Brain, Robert Henry Field (1914 - 1993)
Title:
Brain, Robert Henry Field (1914 - 1993)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E007838
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2015-09-02
2018-03-05
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Brain, Robert Henry Field (1914 - 1993), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Brain, Robert Henry Field
Date of Birth:
17 October 1914
Date of Death:
15 October 1993
Place of Death:
Surrey
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 1937
FRCS 1940
MB ChB Birmingham 1937
LRCP 1937
Details:
Robert Brain studied medicine at Birmingham University and trained at the Middlesex and St Bartholomew's Hospitals. He became a Fellow of the College in 1940. He had early house appointments at the General and Queen Elizabeth Hospitals in Birmingham. During the second world war he served as a surgical specialist with the RAMC.
Moving to London he became thoracic surgeon to Guy's and the King Edward VII Hospital in London. He was also thoracic surgeon to the South East Metropolitan Regional Health Board. A member of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain, he was also a member of the Association of Thoracic Surgeons of Great Britain.
He published several articles on the management of hernias and oesophageal strictures. It is not known when he died.
[Date of death confirmed as 15 October 1993. Ancestry.co.uk 23 February 2018.]
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/E007000-E007999/E007800-E007899
Media Type:
Unknown
