Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E008809 - Myers, Geoffrey Alexander (1908 - 2002)
Title:
Myers, Geoffrey Alexander (1908 - 2002)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E008809
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2015-11-25
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Myers, Geoffrey Alexander (1908 - 2002), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Myers, Geoffrey Alexander
Date of Birth:
24 January 1908
Date of Death:
30 January 2002
Place of Death:
New Zealand
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 1932
FRCS 1937
MB ChB New Zealand 1933
FRACS 1945
FACS 1946
LRCP 1932
Details:
Geoffrey Myers was born on 24 January 1908. He passed the FRCS in 1937 and, during the second world war served with both the RAMC and the NZMC. He spent his career in general surgery working for such organisations as the United Fruit Company Inc. and the North and West Africa Socony Mobil Oil Company Inc. He retired in 1976 and went to live in Andorra where he kept up his interests in the English language, linguistics and lexicography, and completed a '*Dictionary of Anglo-American homophones*'. He was an honorary member of the Bermuda Medical Society.
He died, aged 94, on 30 January 2002 while travelling in New Zealand. He was predeceased by his wife, May and survived by his children, Pamela, Rosalie and Anthony; grandchildren Lucy, Kate, Andrew, Adrian and Nicholas; and great grandchildren Georgia, Oscar and Oliver.
Sources:
*The Times* 13 February 2002, without memoir
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/E008000-E008999/E008800-E008899
Media Type:
Unknown
