Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E005599 - Killen, Thomas (1880 - 1951)
Title:
Killen, Thomas (1880 - 1951)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E005599
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2014-06-26
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Killen, Thomas (1880 - 1951), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Killen, Thomas
Date of Birth:
1880
Place of Birth:
Larne, County Antrim, Ireland
Date of Death:
21 January 1951
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS and FRCS 10 December 1908
BA RUI 1900
MB BCh BAO 1903
Details:
Born at Larne, Co Antrim about 1880 the son of John Moore Killen MD, he was educated at Queen's College, Belfast and graduated in arts in the Royal University of Ireland, winning first-class honours and an exhibition; he proceeded to his medical degrees in 1903. After postgraduate study at the London Hospital, he was house surgeon at the Bolingbroke Hospital, Wandsworth, and took the Fellowship in 1908. He served as house surgeon and anaesthetist at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, and was demonstrator of anatomy at Queen's College.
Killen practised for most of his life at Larne, and succeeded his father as medical officer to the Lame District and Fever Hospitals. He was also Admiralty Surgeon and Agent there, and was a Fellow of the Ulster Medical Society. He died on 21 January 1951.
Sources:
Information from Miss Jessie B Webster, Medical Librarian, Queen's University of Belfast
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
