Craig, Colin McKean (1915 - 2002)
by
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Asset Name
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E008448 - Craig, Colin McKean (1915 - 2002)
Title
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Craig, Colin McKean (1915 - 2002)
Author
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Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier
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RCS: E008448
Publisher
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London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date
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2015-10-13
2015-12-09
Subject
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Medical Obituaries
Description
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Obituary for Craig, Colin McKean (1915 - 2002), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language
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English
Source
:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name
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Craig, Colin McKean
Date of Birth
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11 November 1915
Place of Birth
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Manchester
Date of Death
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26 June 2002
Occupation
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General surgeon
Titles/Qualifications
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MRCS 1938
FRCS 1948
MB BS London 1940
LRCP 1938
Details
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Colin Craig was born in Manchester on 11 November 1915, the son of Colin McKean Craig, a medical practitioner of Kendal, Westmorland, and Sophia Maud née McKinna, a nurse. He was educated at Monkton Combe School and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He completed junior casualty posts under Harold Rogers at Bart's, Geoffrey Keynes at St Albans and Reginald Vick at Friern Barnet. He joined the RAMC in 1940, serving as medical officer to the 1st Battalion of the Lincolnshire Regiment in India and Burma, where he was mentioned in despatches and rose to the rank of Major.
After the war, he completed registrar posts at Liverpool and St James Balham under Henry Vernon and Norman Tanner, before being appointed as a consultant to the Lowestoft Hospital in 1952. There he found himself doing very general surgery, trephining skulls when necessary and operating on in-growing toe nails, but his main interests were in intestinal surgery and the thyroid. He was a founder member of the Surgical 60 Travelling Club.
He married in 1943 Irene Joan Deldham, a nurse serving in the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Nursing Sisters. They had one daughter, Jennifer, and one son, David M Craig FRCS, who is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Worthing. Colin Craig retired in 1980, and continued to enjoy game fishing, bird-watching and gardening. He died on 26 June 2002.
Sources
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*BMJ* 1999 319 856
Rights
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Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Image Copyright (c) Image reproduced with kind permission of the family
Collection
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Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format
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Obituary
Format
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Asset
Asset Path
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Root/Lives of the Fellows/E008000-E008999/E008400-E008499
URL for File
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380631
Media Type
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JPEG Image
File Size
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133.86 KB