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Asset Name:
E008638 - Graham, Alexander Joseph Paul (1921 - 1999)
Title:
Graham, Alexander Joseph Paul (1921 - 1999)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E008638
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2015-10-30
Description:
Obituary for Graham, Alexander Joseph Paul (1921 - 1999), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Graham, Alexander Joseph Paul
Date of Birth:
15 February 1921
Place of Birth:
Witbank, Transvaal, South Africa
Date of Death:
17 August 1999
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS and FRCS 1947

MB BS London 1944
Details:
Alexander Graham was born at Witbank, Transvaal, South Africa, on 15 February 1921. His father, Alexander Chimes Graham, was a mine manager. His mother, Mary Josephine McKenna, was the daughter of Joe McKenna, the mine captain who assisted Winston Churchill in his escape from the Transvaal during the Boer War. Alexander was educated at Prior Park College, Bath, and at Guy's. After junior appointments, he was lecturer in surgery in Edinburgh to Sir James Learmonth, and then registrar to Lord Brock at Guy's. He subsequently went to the Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith under Ian Aird. After working with Henry Swan in Denver, Colorado, and Michael de Bakey at Houston, he went to Salisbury, Rhodesia (as it was then called), to set up their cardio-thoracic unit. He was the first to practice open-heart surgery in Central Africa. He was active in Rhodesian politics and the activities of the church. He married Alison Mary Brydone in 1947, she was a doctor who was the daughter of James Marr Brydone of London, and god-daughter of Lady Bland-Sutton. They had two daughters, one a doctor, and two sons. He died on 17 August 1999.
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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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Root/Lives of the Fellows/E008000-E008999/E008600-E008699
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