Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E005533 - Grierson, John Darbyshire (1899 - 1961)
Title:
Grierson, John Darbyshire (1899 - 1961)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E005533
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2014-06-24
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Grierson, John Darbyshire (1899 - 1961), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Grierson, John Darbyshire
Date of Birth:
1899
Place of Birth:
London
Date of Death:
23 February 1961
Place of Death:
Bath
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS and FRCS 10 December 1925
FRCS Ed 1925
MB ChB Edin 1920
Details:
Born in London, the son of a Presbyterian minister, he was brought up in Plymouth and served with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders during the first world war. He read medicine at Edinburgh University and qualified in 1920.
In 1927 Grierson was appointed to the new post of surgeon specialist at the Public Hospital, Georgetown, British Guiana. He made a great success of his work there; Grierson revolutionised surgery in the colony, and was extremely popular with people of many races for his cheerful disposition and sense of humour. He had no time for red tape or inefficiency.
Owing to ill health he retired in 1949 to Cornwall and later to Bath, where he died 23 February 1961 at the age of 62, survived by his widow and three children.
Sources:
*Brit med J* 1961, 1, 1326
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/E005000-E005999/E005500-E005599
Media Type:
Unknown
