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E009263 - Gibson, David Stuart (1925 - 1995)
Title:
Gibson, David Stuart (1925 - 1995)
Author:
Tina Craig
Identifier:
RCS: E009263
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2016-10-27

2020-11-12
Description:
Obituary for Gibson, David Stuart (1925 - 1995), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Gibson, David Stuart
Date of Birth:
23 May 1925
Place of Birth:
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Date of Death:
6 November 1995
Place of Death:
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Titles/Qualifications:
MB BS Melbourne 1952

FRCS 1959

FRACS 1961
Details:
David Stuart Gibson was a cardiothoracic surgeon in Hobart, Tasmania. Born in Hobart on 23 May 1925, he was the second child and only son of Stuart Galloway Gibson, a medical practitioner, and his wife, Leonora née Whitham who was a pianist and music teacher. His paternal grandfather, George Harry Gibson, was also a medical man having qualified MB ChB at Edinburgh in 1887 and his maternal grandfather, Major Lawrence Yates Whitham, served in the Indian Army. He was educated at The Hutchins School in Hobart from 1933 to 1942 and was dux of the school the year that he left. At the University of Tasmania he was first in the science scholarship in 1942 and also won the Sir Richard Dry exhibition for maths. He also won prizes for geometry and plane trigonometry. His studies were interrupted by the second world war and he served in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) from 1943 until 1946 when he was discharged as a sub-lieutenant. From 1970 he continued to serve in the reserve as a surgeon lieutenant. In 1948 he enrolled as a resident of Ormond College, Melbourne University to study medicine and trained at the Royal Melbourne Hospital with J I Hayward graduating MB BS in 1952. Returning to Hobart he did house jobs at the Royal Hobart Hospital (RHH) for a year working with P Braithwaite before joining the staff of the Repatriation General Hospital Heidelberg, Victoria from 1955 to 1956. On travelling to the UK, he worked at the West Suffolk General Hospital from 1958 to 1959 before moving to the Royal Brompton Hospital in London where he was mentored by Lord Brock and Oswald Sydney Tubbs. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1959 and returned to Tasmania. Appointed consultant cardiothoracic surgeon to the RHH in 1960 he remained on the staff until 1992 becoming head of the unit in 1980. He was also visiting cardiothoracic surgeon to the Repatriation General Hospital in Hobart from for thirty years from 1960. From 1964 to 1972 he served on the Tasmania State Committee of the RACS latterly as chairman. A member of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand, he was also on the board of St John’s Hospital Hobart, from 1964 to 1972, the board of Hutchins School from 1974 to 1980 and president of the Tasmanian Club from 1979 to 1981. At university he had been a skilled oarsman and won a half blue at skiing. Later his favourite pastimes were gardening, fishing and swimming. He married Margaret Jeanne Bryce, a qualified nurse, on 14 May 1955 and they had four children. His son James Stuart became a maths teacher at The Hutchins School; Andrew David was a qualified GP and a lieutenant commander in the RAN; Peter Stuart was a police constable and Sarah Jane became a housewife. He died on 6 November 1995 aged 70 survived by his wife and family and sister, Margaret.
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