Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E004160 - Gibson, John Monro (1905 - 1935)
Title:
Gibson, John Monro (1905 - 1935)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E004160
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2013-06-27
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Gibson, John Monro (1905 - 1935), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Gibson, John Monro
Date of Birth:
24 July 1905
Place of Birth:
Hampstead
Date of Death:
18 October 1935
Place of Death:
Pyrford, Surrey
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 14 February 1929
FRCS 11 June 1931
LRCP 1929
BA Oxford 1926
Details:
Born at 20 College Crescent, South Hampstead, NW on 24 July 1905 the younger child of Henry Wilkes Gibson, MRCS a general medical practitioner, and Jane Grant, his wife. He was educated at Rugby School and matriculated from University College, Oxford in October 1923. At Oxford he gained the Theodore Williams prize in anatomy and was elected an honorary scholar of his college in 1925. He graduated BA with a second class in the honours school of physiology in 1926 and then became a medical student at St Thomas's Hospital, London. Whilst acting as house surgeon he contracted pulmonary tuberculosis, but was accepted for a commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps. Progress of the disease prevented him from serving, and he died unmarried at St Nicholas Hospital, Pyrford, Surrey on 18 October 1935, aged 30.
Sources:
*Lancet*, 1935, 2, 1147
Information given by his father, Dr H W Gibson
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/E004000-E004999/E004100-E004199
Media Type:
Unknown
