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E003709 - Adams, Edmund Weaver (1869 - 1931)
Title:
Adams, Edmund Weaver (1869 - 1931)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E003709
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2013-03-20
Description:
Obituary for Adams, Edmund Weaver (1869 - 1931), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Adams, Edmund Weaver
Date of Birth:
12 May 1869
Date of Death:
24 September 1931
Place of Death:
Llandrindod Wells
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 11 February 1892

FRCS 14 June 1894

LRCP 1892

DPH 1894
Details:
Born 12 May 1869, third child and second son of William Adams, brick and tile manufacturer, by his wife Clara Simkin. He was educated at the City of London School and at King's College Hospital. Here he gained the first Warneford prize in 1890 and the prize in medicine in the following year; afterwards acting as house physician in the children's ward of the hospital and as resident accoucheur. In the medical school of King's College he was an assistant demonstrator of anatomy. Settling at Slough, Bucks, in general practice, he became medical officer of health for the district in 1894, and in later life devoted himself to establish a Slough maternity home. He raised the necessary money for the purpose, and a proposal was set on foot after his death to endow it by means of a "Dr Weaver Adams memorial fund". He married in 1894 Constance, daughter of Captain Cockell of the Madras Staff Corps, Indian Army, who survived him with a son and three daughters; a second son was killed whilst serving in the RAF during the war of 1914-18. He died suddenly at Llandrindod Wells, whilst on a motor tour, on 24 September 1931, and was buried in the churchyard of St Laurence in the parish of Upton-cum-Chalvey, Slough. Adams, in addition to his good professional work, distinguished himself at cricket as an excellent lob-bowler.
Sources:
*Lancet*, 1931, 2, 825

Information given by his son, Edmund Ralph Weaver-Adams, MB BCh
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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/E003000-E003999/E003700-E003799
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