O'Keeffe, Declan (1922 - 2005)
by
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Asset Name
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E000292 - O'Keeffe, Declan (1922 - 2005)
Title
:
O'Keeffe, Declan (1922 - 2005)
Author
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Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier
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RCS: E000292
Publisher
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London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date
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2006-11-09
Subject
:
Medical Obituaries
Description
:
Obituary for O'Keeffe, Declan (1922 - 2005), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language
:
English
Source
:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name
:
O'Keeffe, Declan
Date of Birth
:
18 February 1922
Place of Birth
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London, UK
Date of Death
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1 December 2005
Occupation
:
General surgeon
Titles/Qualifications
:
MRCS 1945
FRCS 1950
MB BS London 1945
DTM&H 1952
LRCP 1945
Details
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Declan O’Keeffe was a surgeon in Kenya. He was born in London on 18 February 1922, the son of Edmond, a furniture salesman, and Jessica Edith née Riches. From St Dominic’s Preparatory School, West Hampstead, he won a ‘free place’ to the Regent Street Polytechnic Secondary School. He later went to Guy’s Hospital on a senior county exhibition and scholarship. At Guy’s he won prizes in haematology and bacteriology and completed house jobs. He then joined the RAF medical service.
On demobilisation he was a junior and then senior surgical registrar at Guy’s, before joining the Colonial Medical Service in Kenya as a provincial surgical specialist. After he retired he remained in Mombasa in private surgical practice.
He married Isabella McNeill in 1947, by whom he had three sons and a daughter. His eldest son studied medicine at Guy’s. O’Keeffe died on 1 December 2005.
Rights
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Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection
:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format
:
Obituary
Format
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Asset
Asset Path
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Root/Lives of the Fellows/E000000-E000999/E000200-E000299
URL for File
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372479
Media Type
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Unknown