Tucker, Antony Gower (1947 - 2013)
by
 
Sarah Gillam

Asset Name
E003735 - Tucker, Antony Gower (1947 - 2013)

Title
Tucker, Antony Gower (1947 - 2013)

Author
Sarah Gillam

Identifier
RCS: E003735

Publisher
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England

Publication Date
2013-03-20
 
2016-02-02

Subject
Medical Obituaries

Description
Obituary for Tucker, Antony Gower (1947 - 2013), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Language
English

Source
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows

Full Name
Tucker, Antony Gower

Date of Birth
12 December 1947

Date of Death
8 February 2013

Occupation
ENT surgeon
 
Otorhinolaryngolologist

Titles/Qualifications
MB ChB Sheffield 1972
 
FRCS 1977

Details
Antony Gower Tucker was a consultant otorhinolaryngologist at Bradford Royal Infirmary and an honorary senior lecturer at Leeds University. He was born on 12 December 1947 and studied medicine at Sheffield Medical School, qualifying MB ChB in 1972 and gaining his FRCS in 1977. Before he was appointed to his consultant post he was a registrar for the Avon Area Health Authority and honorary tutor in otolaryngology at the University of Bristol between 1975 and 1977. He then became a senior registrar in Liverpool and a lecturer at the University of Liverpool. He had a particular interest in voice disorders, benign head and neck surgery, and otology, including bone-anchored hearing devices. He was a member of the British Voice Association and the North of England Otolargyngology Society. For two weeks every year he and his team worked in Bangladesh's only ENT hospital. With his wife, Sheila Webb, a director of public health and a GP, he set up a charity, Digdeep for Bangladesh, to raise funds for the project and to sponsor Bangladeshi medics to go to Bradford to study. Antony Gower Tucker died on 8 February 2013. He was 65. He was survived by his wife and family.

Sources
West Yorkshire ENT Surgeons Antony Tucker www.wyents.org.uk/_explore/who_are_we/atucker.html - accessed 15 April 2015
 
BBC News 18 February 2006 Improving hearing in Bangladesh http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4608848.stm - accessed 15 April 2015
 
..digdeep for bangladesh.. http://digdeep.org.pagesperso-orange.fr/index.htm - accessed 15 April 2015

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/E003700-E003799

URL for File
375918

Media Type
Unknown