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E009247 - Youngleson, John Henry (1926 - 2004)
Title:
Youngleson, John Henry (1926 - 2004)
Author:
Tina Craig
Identifier:
RCS: E009247
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2016-08-25

2019-09-06
Description:
Obituary for Youngleson, John Henry (1926 - 2004), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Youngleson, John Henry
Date of Birth:
8 January 1926
Place of Birth:
Harrismith, Orange Free State, South Africa
Date of Death:
2004
Place of Death:
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Titles/Qualifications:
MB ChB Cape Town 1950

FRCS 1961

FRCS Edin 1961
Details:
John Henry Youngelson was a plastic surgeon in Durban, South Africa. Born in Harrismith in the Orange Free State on 8 January 1926, he was the son of Adolph Henry Youngelson, a business executive and his wife Laetitia Rosabelle née Sinclair. Both his parents were 27 years old at the time. After attending Michaelhouse School in Balgowan, Natal from 1939 to 1943 he began studies at the University of Cape Town graduating MB ChB in 1950. During the second world ward he served with the 6th South African Armoured Division in Italy from 1944 to 1945. Working initially at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town in 1951 he came under the aegis of Jan Hendrick Louw before entering general practice in Kokstad, Cape Province where he stayed until 1959. After returning to Groote Schuur as a casualty officer in 1960, he travelled to the UK to study for the college fellowship which he passed the following year. He did house jobs at the Royal Portsmouth Hospital in 1962 where he was mentored by John Barren and at the plastic surgery unit of Odstock Hospital, Salisbury in 1963 alongside Charles Murray. On his return to South Africa he joined the department of plastic surgery at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in 1964 working with Dan Jacob Du Plessis and Johannes Albertus Myburgh. Two years later he took a post as part-time consultant plastic surgeon at the University of Natal in Durban and combined that with private practice until his retirement in 1991. He was a founder member and past president of the South African Society for Surgery of the Hand. In his youth he was a keen rugby player and played for the University of Cape Town and for Western Province team. His wife Dawn Vera Griffiths was born on 12 January 1924 in Uitenhage, South Africa and they married on 31 December 1951. They had four children; Erica Jane who graduated with a degree in fine arts from the University of Cardiff; Jonathan Sinclair who obtained a PhD in microbiology; Nicholas Julian who had a BA from Natal University and Adrienne Stella who became a registered nurse. He died in 2004 in Durban, Kwa-Zulu, Natal aged 78.
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Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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Obituary
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Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009200-E009299
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