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E004359 - Littler, Robert Meredith (1866 - 1941)
Title:
Littler, Robert Meredith (1866 - 1941)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E004359
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2013-08-28
Description:
Obituary for Littler, Robert Meredith (1866 - 1941), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Littler, Robert Meredith
Date of Birth:
13 December 1866
Date of Death:
22 October 1941
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 13 November 1890

FRCS 14 June 1894

BSc Manchester 1904

DPH 1894

LRCP 1890
Details:
Born 13 December 1866, second son of Thomas Albert Littler, law stationer, of Manchester, and Mary Meredith his wife. He was educated at the Manchester Grammar School and entered Owens College after private tuition with the Rev R M Leigh, of Norbreek near Blackpool. He was afterwards elected an Associate of Owens College. Littler served as house surgeon at the General Infirmary, Burton-on-Trent, and under Sir William Japp Sinclair, MD, at the Manchester Southern Hospital for Diseases of Women, and at the Royal Infirmary under Walter Whitehead, FRCS Ed. He settled in practice at Southport, Lancashire, about 1900 and was elected in 1905 surgeon to the Southport Infirmary, served as chairman of the medical board in 1924-5, and retired as consulting surgeon. He was a member of the North of England Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society, served as the first secretary of the Southport Medical Society and was its president in 1910, and president of the Southport division of the British Medical Association in 1912. After retiring he lived at Hatherwood, Grange Road, Heswall, Cheshire. Littler married on 23 February 1909 Catherine Campbell Darroch, who survived him with two sons. He died on 22 October 1941.
Sources:
*Brit med J* 1941, 2, 673

Information given by his brother, O Collier Littler of Manchester, his sister-in-law Mrs H L Littler of Bournemouth, and Dr W A Mackay of Southport
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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/E004000-E004999/E004300-E004399
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