Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E008294 - Potter, Jeffery (1929 - 1993)
Title:
Potter, Jeffery (1929 - 1993)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E008294
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2015-10-01
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Potter, Jeffery (1929 - 1993), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Potter, Jeffery
Date of Birth:
27 September 1929
Place of Birth:
Manchester
Date of Death:
1993
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS and FRCS 1963
MB ChB Manchester 1954
FRCS Ed 1962
DLO 1958
Details:
Potter was born on 27 September 1929 in Manchester, the son of James Henry Francis Potter, a wholesale tobacconist, and Marion, née Knott. He was educated at the South Manchester Grammar School, The King's School, Macclesfield, and Manchester University Medical School, qualifying MB ChB in 1954. In 1955 he married Miss Newbold.
After qualification and early house appointments he specialised in oto-rhino-laryngology and held registrarships in his specialty at the Ear Nose and Throat Infirmary, Liverpool, at Warrington General Hospital and the Victoria Hospital, Blackpool, before becoming consultant ENT surgeon to the Barrow-in-Furness Hospital Group.
He published papers in the *Journal of Laryngology and Otology* on dysphagia in myasthenia gravis and on the surgical treatment of hemifacial spasm. He was a keen golfer, fell walker and gardener. He died before May 1993, survived by his wife and three sons.
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/E008000-E008999/E008200-E008299
Media Type:
Unknown
