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Asset Name:
E005464 - Taylor, Desmond Gerard (1925 - 2014)
Title:
Taylor, Desmond Gerard (1925 - 2014)
Author:
Sarah Gillam
Identifier:
RCS: E005464
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2014-06-13

2016-09-23
Description:
Obituary for Taylor, Desmond Gerard (1925 - 2014), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Taylor, Desmond Gerard
Date of Birth:
12 December 1925
Place of Birth:
Belfast
Date of Death:
30 March 2014
Titles/Qualifications:
MB BCh BAO Belfast 1948

FRCS 1952
Details:
Desmond Gerard Taylor was a cardiothoracic surgeon in Sheffield. He was born in Belfast on 12 December 1925 and was educated at a Christian Brothers' School. He then studied medicine at Queen's University, Belfast. After qualifying in 1948, he went to London, where he worked in Great Ormond Street, Guy's and Brompton hospitals. He then worked for Sir Russell Brock helping him perform, for the first time in the UK, successful open heart surgery using a heart bypass machine. After his National Service, he was appointed as a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon in Sheffield in 1960. He chaired Sheffield's consultants' committee and then the south Yorkshire consultants' committee. In retirement he travelled widely. Predeceased by his wife Colette, Desmond Gerard Taylor died on 30 March 2014, aged 88. He was survived by his three children, but one, John, a consultant in transplant surgery at Guy's, died three months after him. He had seven grandchildren.
Sources:
*BMJ* 2014 349 5742 www.bmj.com/content/349/bmj.g5742 - accessed 3 September 2016
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
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Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E005000-E005999/E005400-E005499
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