Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E001424 - Dickson, Henry Arthur David (1870 - 1898)
Title:
Dickson, Henry Arthur David (1870 - 1898)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E001424
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2011-09-28
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Dickson, Henry Arthur David (1870 - 1898), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Dickson, Henry Arthur David
Date of Birth:
15 November 1870
Date of Death:
27 January 1898
Place of Death:
Sandgate, Kent, UK
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS November 9th 1893
FRCS December 12th 1895
LRCP Lond 1893
Details:
Born on November 15th, 1870, the third son of the Rev George D W Dickson, MA, Vicar of King's Somborne, Hampshire, and previously Vicar of St James-the-Less, Westminster. He was educated at St Paul's School, studied at St Thomas's Hospital, held the post of House Surgeon there in 1895, and exhibited marked ability and devotion to duty.
Entering for the Indian Medical Service, he passed 7th into Netley, and 5th out; he was gazetted on July 29th, 1896, Surgeon Lieutenant, IMS, Bengal, and on arrival went on plague duty to Kalyan, near Bombay, in February, 1897. In the month following he began to develop signs of pulmonary tuberculosis which increased on the journey to join his regiment at Agra, 800 miles distant. A Medical Board at once sent him home, where he arrived on July 10th, in an advanced stage of phthisis; he died at Sandgate, Kent, on January 27th, 1898, at the age of 27.
Sources:
*Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1898, i, 384, 580
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/E001000-E001999/E001400-E001499
Media Type:
Unknown
