Campbell, Ernest Kenneth (1861 - 1943)
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Royal College of Surgeons of England

Asset Name
E003877 - Campbell, Ernest Kenneth (1861 - 1943)

Title
Campbell, Ernest Kenneth (1861 - 1943)

Author
Royal College of Surgeons of England

Identifier
RCS: E003877

Publisher
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England

Publication Date
2013-04-18

Subject
Medical Obituaries

Description
Obituary for Campbell, Ernest Kenneth (1861 - 1943), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Language
English

Source
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows

Full Name
Campbell, Ernest Kenneth

Date of Birth
1 September 1861

Date of Death
10 March 1943

Place of Death
Tenterden, Kent

Occupation
Ophthalmic surgeon

Titles/Qualifications
OBE 1932
 
MRCS July 1884
 
FRCS 9 December 1886
 
MB Edinburgh 1884

Details
Born 1 September 1861, ninth son of Hugh Campbell, MRCS 1845, MD St Andrews 1863, of 23 Wimpole Street and of Hampstead and Margaretting, Essex, and Henrietta Johnston, his wife. He was educated at University College School, London, and at Edinburgh University, where he graduated MB in 1884. He also studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and in Dublin and Paris. He served as clinical assistant at the Royal London (Moorfields) and Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospitals, and at the Golden Square Throat Hospital. Campbell practised as an ophthalmologist in London and was appointed assistant surgeon, eventually becoming consulting surgeon, to the Western Ophthalmic Hospital, Marylebone Road. He joined the RAMC on the outbreak of the first world war, was gazetted captain on 25 July 1917 and subsequently promoted major. As an army ophthalmic specialist he served for eighteen years, and was awarded the OBE in 1932 for this service. Campbell married Rosamund, daughter of Colonel George Carson Gribbon, AMS (Johnston's *Roll* No 5867). There were no children. After retirement he lived at Millfield, Wittersham, Tenterden, Kent, and died on 10 March 1943. Publications:- "Advancement and tenotomy in cases of squint." *Lancet*, 1912, 2, 366. "Hysterical amblyopia." *Brit med J*, 1915, 2, 434.

Sources
Information given by his brother, G M Campbell, Finchampstead, Berks

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/E003800-E003899

URL for File
376060

Media Type
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