Pope, Harry Campbell (1849 - 1906)
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Royal College of Surgeons of England

Asset Name
E002974 - Pope, Harry Campbell (1849 - 1906)

Title
Pope, Harry Campbell (1849 - 1906)

Author
Royal College of Surgeons of England

Identifier
RCS: E002974

Publisher
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England

Publication Date
2012-10-10

Subject
Medical Obituaries

Description
Obituary for Pope, Harry Campbell (1849 - 1906), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Language
English

Source
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows

Full Name
Pope, Harry Campbell

Date of Birth
1849

Place of Birth
Tring, Hertfordshire

Date of Death
2 January 1906

Place of Death
London

Occupation
General surgeon

Titles/Qualifications
MRCS May 2nd 1871
 
FRCS June 8th 1876
 
LSA 1871
 
MB Lond (Hons) 1873
 
BS 1874
 
MD 1878

Details
Born at Tring, Hertfordshire, the only son of Edward Pope, MRCS, in practice there. He went to school at Haileybury, and then studied medicine at Liverpool and was Resident Clinical Assistant to Edward Bickersteth (qv) at the Royal Infirmary. He passed to University College Hospital, was for a year House Surgeon at the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, and for four years Medical Tutor and Demonstrator of Anatomy at Queen's College, Birmingham. In 1876 he married and settled in practice at Shepherd's Bush, London, where he acquired a large practice and developed an active interest in the public medical questions of the time. He took an active part in founding the West London Medico-Chirurgical Society, and was successively Secretary, Editor of its *Proceedings*, Vice-President, and in 1889 its President. For a time he was Hon Secretary of the Medical Defence Union, a Vice-President, and continued a Member of Council until his death. In 1903, under the new constitution of the British Medical Association, he became the first chairman of the Kensington Division with its 400 members. He was also District Medical Officer to the London County Council, and Physician to the Jewish Rescue Home. Pope had a good baritone voice, sang in the choir of St Luke's Church, Uxbridge Road, and played the piano and organ. As a practitioner he was genial and shrewd; he spoke well, with weight and humour. He had practised at 6 Ashchurch Grove and at Bromsgrove Villa, 280 Goldhawk Road, Shepherd's Bush, where he died suddenly from heart trouble on January 2nd, 1906, and was buried in Hammersmith Cemetery. He left a widow, four daughters, and two sons, the eldest then a student at St Mary's Hospital. There is a good portrait of him in the *West London Journal* (1906, xi, 77). A Campbell Pope Memorial Fund was set on foot in May, 1906.

Sources
*Lancet*, 1906, i, 265
 
*Brit Med Jour*, 1906, i, 116

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/E002000-E002999/E002900-E002999

URL for File
375157

Media Type
Unknown