Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E006825 - O'Doherty, Doris Ethel (1902 - 1980)
Title:
O'Doherty, Doris Ethel (1902 - 1980)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E006825
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2015-02-18
2015-06-11
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for O'Doherty, Doris Ethel (1902 - 1980), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
O'Doherty, Doris Ethel
Date of Birth:
7 April 1902
Date of Death:
3 March 1980
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 1924
FRCS 1935
MB BS London 1924
LRCP 1924
Details:
Doris O'Doherty was born on 7 April 1902, the elder of two daughters of Charles Patrick O'Doherty, the assistant secretary of the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, and of Blanche Mary Clark. After education at the Mary Thatcher Girls' School in Camberwell she secured a St Dunstan's Science Exhibition in 1919, and entered the London School of Medicine for Women at the Royal Free Hospital where she won the surgery prize and was house surgeon to Clement E Shattock and Lionel Norbury. After a house physician appointment at Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children at Hackney, and further resident jobs, she passed the FRCS in 1935. She was appointed honorary surgeon to the Carshalton War Memorial Hospital in 1936 and remained there until her retirement in 1967. She married C J Chapman in 1945 and they had no children. Her husband predeceased her and she died, aged 77, on 3 March 1980.
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/E006000-E006999/E006800-E006899
Media Type:
Unknown
