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E004670 - Thomas, Gordon Wilson (1881 - 1943)
Title:
Thomas, Gordon Wilson (1881 - 1943)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E004670
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2013-11-20
Description:
Obituary for Thomas, Gordon Wilson (1881 - 1943), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Thomas, Gordon Wilson
Date of Birth:
18 June 1881
Place of Birth:
Llanelly, Wales
Date of Death:
26 November 1943
Place of Death:
Guildford, Surrey
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 9 February 1905

FRCS 8 December 1910

MB BS London 1905

LRCP 1905
Details:
Born at Llanelly, South Wales on 18 June 1881, second son of Henry Roger Thomas and Edith Anne Thomas, his wife. He was educated at the Friends School, Bootham, entered the Leeds Medical School in 1898, and afterwards studied at the London Hospital, whence he took the London and Conjoint qualifications in 1905. He then served during four years as house surgeon, house physician, resident obstetric officer and resident casualty officer at the Leeds General Infirmary, and took the Fellowship in December 1910. Thomas settled in practice at Wakefield, where he became surgeon and subsequently consulting surgeon to the Clayton Hospital, and lived at The Elms, 9 Bond Street, Wakefield. He was a member of the Leeds and West Riding Medico-chirurgical Society and in 1930-32 was chairman of the Wakefield, Pontefract and Castleford division of the British Medical Association. He married in 1910 Edith Ella Cranswick, who survived him with two sons and a daughter. Thomas retired in August 1943 to Sunnyhurst, 8 Downside Road, Guildford, Surrey, where he died on 26 November 1943. Publications: Severe injury of hand; operation; result. *Brit med J* 1911, 2, 72. A suppurating "branchial" cyst, with C A Robinson. *Ibid* 1913, 1, 763. A large retropharyngeal swelling due to an aneurysm. *Practitioner*, 1918, 101, 169.
Sources:
*Brit med J* 1943, 2, 766

Information given by Mrs Edith Thomas
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Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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Obituary
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Root/Lives of the Fellows/E004000-E004999/E004600-E004699
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