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Asset Name:
E000269 - Gray, John Gowan (1927 - 2005)
Title:
Gray, John Gowan (1927 - 2005)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E000269
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2006-10-26
Description:
Obituary for Gray, John Gowan (1927 - 2005), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Gray, John Gowan
Date of Birth:
1927
Place of Birth:
Dalkeith, Midlothian, Scotland
Date of Death:
11 December 2005
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS and FRCS 1958

MB ChB Edinburgh 1950

FRCS Edinburgh 1956

LRCP 1958
Details:
John Gowan Gray, known as ‘Ian’, was a consultant surgeon at the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary, Stoke-on-Trent, and the Leek Memorial Hospital. He was born in Dalkeith, Midlothian, and qualified at Edinburgh, where he completed junior house posts. During the Korean War he served his National Service in the RAMC in the Far East. He returned to train in surgery, first at Glasgow Royal Infirmary and then at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, where he was a lecturer on the surgical unit. During this time he won a research fellowship to the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, doing transplant surgery under Paul Russell and carrying out the research which gained him a Hunterian Professorship in 1966. In 1965 he was appointed consultant surgeon in North Staffordshire, remaining there until he retired in 1992. His main interest was in transplant surgery, but latterly he turned his attention to the surgery of tumours of the breast and parathyroid. A keen golfer, he was captain of the Trentham Golf Club in 1987. His wife Margaret predeceased him. He died on 11 December 2005 from carcinoma of the pancreas, leaving six children.
Sources:
BMJ 2006 332 1218
Rights:
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/E000000-E000999/E000200-E000299
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