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Asset Name:
E008938 - Smith, Robin Barker (1946 - 2000)
Title:
Smith, Robin Barker (1946 - 2000)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E008938
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2015-12-07
Description:
Obituary for Smith, Robin Barker (1946 - 2000), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Smith, Robin Barker
Date of Birth:
22 August 1946
Place of Birth:
Furness, Cumbria
Date of Death:
24 May 2000
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS and FRCS 1975

MB ChB Leeds 1969

ChM 1979
Details:
Robin Smith was a consultant general surgeon to the Royal Hospital, Bath. He was born in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, on 22 August 1946, the son of Arthur Smith, a head gardener, and Mary née Thompson. He attended Ulverston Grammar School and Leeds University. After junior posts in the professorial department of surgery at Leeds General Infirmary, under John Goligher and David Johnston, ending as registrar on that firm, he was appointed to the Oxford surgical rotation. He was appointed clinical tutor and honorary senior registrar in 1975 and became a lecturer in vascular surgery in the Nuffield department of surgery under Peter Morris. There he won Wellcome, Fulbright and Philip Allison fellowships, which enabled him to spend a year at Northwestern University in Chicago. In 1981 he was appointed consultant general surgeon to the Royal United Hospital, Bath, and later became clinical director of surgery. From 1994 on wards he suffered from rheumatoid arthritis, but continued to work even when in pain. He was a special adviser to the NHS ombudsman and was closely involved with the new Royal United Hospital. He was an enthusiastic liveryman of the Society of Apothecaries. His first marriage to Judith Anderson, a nurse, was dissolved and he subsequently married Carol Peden, an anaesthetist. He had two children, Victoria and Matthew. He suffered a subarachnoid haemorrhage and, despite successful intubation at home by Carol, he died, after a few days, on 24 May 2000.
Sources:
*BMJ* 2001 322 867, with portrait

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Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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Obituary
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Root/Lives of the Fellows/E008000-E008999/E008900-E008999
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