Rundle, Henry (1845 - 1924)
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Royal College of Surgeons of England

Asset Name
E003177 - Rundle, Henry (1845 - 1924)

Title
Rundle, Henry (1845 - 1924)

Author
Royal College of Surgeons of England

Identifier
RCS: E003177

Publisher
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England

Publication Date
2012-11-20

Subject
Medical Obituaries

Description
Obituary for Rundle, Henry (1845 - 1924), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Language
English

Source
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows

Full Name
Rundle, Henry

Date of Birth
1845

Date of Death
19 March 1924

Place of Death
Southsea

Occupation
General surgeon

Titles/Qualifications
MRCS April 26th 1865
 
FRCS June 9th 1870
 
LSA 1866
 
LRCP Lond 1869

Details
Apprenticed to W J Square (qv) at Plymouth and studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital. On the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, he was one of six surgeons selected and sent by the British Red Cross Society to aid the wounded. In company with W E B Atthill and J C Galton, he first proceeded to Berlin, then to the 'Alice' Hospital at Darmstadt founded by Princess Alice (known in Germany as Princess Louise of Hesse Darmstadt) as a reserve hospital for the Hessian wounded. He passed on to military hospitals near Metz and Strasbourg, and entered the latter after the capitulation. He received the War Medal of the Hessian Cross, also, thirty years later, the French War Medal. On his return he was for two years (1871-1873) House Surgeon at the Royal Hampshire Hospital, Winchester. He then settled in practice at Southsea and was appointed Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Portsmouth Hospital, where he was Surgeon from 1882-1908. He acted as Hon Medical Adviser to the Royal Seamen and Marines' Orphan Home from 1877, and was also Surgeon to the Southsea Home for Sick Children. At the Portsmouth Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1899 he was the very energetic Secretary of the Surgery Section. During the last fifteen years of his life he was in feeble health, but enjoyed entertaining a large circle of young men, medical, clerical, and others, until the death of his sister, Miss Emma Rundle, who predeceased him by about five years. He had great attractions for and influence over young men, and kept up a correspondence with his former House Surgeons. He was a strong Churchman, but with wide and tolerant views. His chief recreation was reading the literature of the day. He was a courteous gentleman who wrote charmingly. He died at 13 Clarence Parade, Southsea, on March 19th, 1924. Publications: Besides medical cases Rundle also published: *With the Red Cross in the Franco-German War, AD* 1870-1. Some reminiscences. With an Introductory Note by F Howard Marsh, with portrait, 4to, London, 1911.

Sources
*Lancet*, 1924, i, 677
 
*Brit Med Jour*, 1924, i, 609, with portrait

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/E003000-E003999/E003100-E003199

URL for File
375360

Media Type
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