Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E000292 - O'Keeffe, Declan (1922 - 2005)
Title:
O'Keeffe, Declan (1922 - 2005)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E000292
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2006-11-09
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for O'Keeffe, Declan (1922 - 2005), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
O'Keeffe, Declan
Date of Birth:
18 February 1922
Place of Birth:
London, UK
Date of Death:
1 December 2005
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 1945
FRCS 1950
MB BS London 1945
DTM&H 1952
LRCP 1945
Details:
Declan O’Keeffe was a surgeon in Kenya. He was born in London on 18 February 1922, the son of Edmond, a furniture salesman, and Jessica Edith née Riches. From St Dominic’s Preparatory School, West Hampstead, he won a ‘free place’ to the Regent Street Polytechnic Secondary School. He later went to Guy’s Hospital on a senior county exhibition and scholarship. At Guy’s he won prizes in haematology and bacteriology and completed house jobs. He then joined the RAF medical service.
On demobilisation he was a junior and then senior surgical registrar at Guy’s, before joining the Colonial Medical Service in Kenya as a provincial surgical specialist. After he retired he remained in Mombasa in private surgical practice.
He married Isabella McNeill in 1947, by whom he had three sons and a daughter. His eldest son studied medicine at Guy’s. O’Keeffe died on 1 December 2005.
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/E000000-E000999/E000200-E000299
Media Type:
Unknown
