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E002947 - Phillips, Llewellyn Caractacus Powell (1871 - 1927)
Title:
Phillips, Llewellyn Caractacus Powell (1871 - 1927)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E002947
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2012-09-26
Description:
Obituary for Phillips, Llewellyn Caractacus Powell (1871 - 1927), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Phillips, Llewellyn Caractacus Powell
Date of Birth:
28 July 1871
Place of Birth:
Tir Caradoc Taibach, Glamorganshire, Wales
Date of Death:
January 1927
Place of Death:
Cairo, Egypt
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS July 30th 1894

FRCS December 9th 1897

LRCP Lond July 30th 1894

MRCP 1903

FRCP 1909

BA Cantab 1892

MB BCh 1895

MA 1896

MD 1903
Details:
The only son of James Mathias Phillips, MD, and of Mary Anne Powell, his wife; born at Tir Caradoc Taibach, Glamorganshire, on July 28th, 1871. He was educated at Epsom College and was admitted a pensioner at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, on October 1st, 1889. Here he was a scholar from midsummer, 1891, to midsummer, 1892. He graduated BA after gaining a 1st class in the first part of the Natural Science Tripos in 1892, having been awarded the Smart Prize for botany in 1891. He studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and was an Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Medical School after acting as House Surgeon. After acting as House Physician at the Royal Free Hospital, he practised for a time in Cardigan, and in 1901 was appointed Resident Surgical Officer at Kasr-el-Aini Hospital, Cairo. Subsequently he became Physician to the Hospital and Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Medical School until he retired in 1925. He acquired a large practice, both native and European, for at the beginning he made an excellent impression by his fine work during a cholera epidemic. During the War (1914-1918), in the Gallipoli Campaign, he served as Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel RAMC in Command of the British Red Cross Hospital at Giza, his wife acting as Matron. He was four times mentioned in dispatches, and received the 3rd class Ottoman Order of the Medjidie and the 3rd class Order of the Nile. He made a remarkable collection of old Arab glass weights and coins, and died at his house in Cairo in January, 1927. Publications: Phillips published important papers on Tropical Medicine including:- "Phlebotomus Fever" in Bryan and Archibald's *Practice of Medicine in the Tropics*, v *Amoebiasis and the Dysenteries*, 8vo, London, 1915.
Sources:
*Lancet*, 1927, i, 364

*Brit Med Jour*, 1927, i, 83

*Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College*, ii, 509
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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/E002000-E002999/E002900-E002999
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