Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E000527 - Bowen, David Ivor (1937 - 2007)
Title:
Bowen, David Ivor (1937 - 2007)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E000527
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2008-06-26
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Bowen, David Ivor (1937 - 2007), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Bowen, David Ivor
Date of Birth:
7 March 1937
Date of Death:
5 February 2007
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS and FRCS 1970
BChir Cambridge 1961
MB 1962
FRCS Edinburgh 1969
LRCP 1970
FRCOphth 1990.
Details:
David Ivor Bowen was a consultant ophthalmologist in Harrogate, Yorkshire. He was born on 7 March 1937 and studied at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He went on to St Thomas’ Hospital for his clinical training.
After junior posts, he travelled around the world as a ship’s doctor, before deciding to specialise in ophthalmology. He was a senior registrar on the Cardiff/Swansea rotation, before becoming a lecturer at St Paul’s Eye Hospital in Liverpool.
In 1972 he was appointed as a consultant in Harrogate. He was secretary and president of the North of England Ophthalmological Society and president of the Harrogate Medical Society.
He was a keen distance runner and enjoyed golf, fell-walking, classical music and poetry. His second wife, Clare, died soon after he retired in 2001. He died from cancer on 5 February 2007.
Enid Taylor
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/E000500-E000599
Media Type:
Unknown
