Green-Armytage, Vivian Bartley (1882 - 1961)
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Royal College of Surgeons of England

Asset Name
E005530 - Green-Armytage, Vivian Bartley (1882 - 1961)

Title
Green-Armytage, Vivian Bartley (1882 - 1961)

Author
Royal College of Surgeons of England

Identifier
RCS: E005530

Publisher
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England

Publication Date
2014-06-24

Subject
Medical Obituaries

Description
Obituary for Green-Armytage, Vivian Bartley (1882 - 1961), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Language
English

Source
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows

Full Name
Green-Armytage, Vivian Bartley

Date of Birth
14 August 1882

Date of Death
11 April 1961

Place of Death
London

Occupation
Obstetrician and gynaecologist

Titles/Qualifications
MRCS 26 July 1906
 
FRCS by election 3 April 1952
 
LRCP 1906
 
MRCP 1917
 
FRCP 1927
 
FRCOG foundation 1929
 
MB ChB Bristol 1910
 
MD 1912

Details
Born on 14 August 1882 son of A Green-Armytage of Clifton and York, he was educated at Clifton College, at Bristol University and the Royal Infirmary, and in Paris. He was Montefiore surgical medallist at the RAMC College, was commissioned Lieutenant IMS in 1907, promoted Captain in 1910, Major in 1919, became Lieutenant-Colonel in 1927, and retired in 1933. During the war of 1914-18 he was three times mentioned in dispatches, receiving the Mons Star, the Croix de Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur and the Order of the White Eagle, Serbia with crossed swords in 1917. From 1911 to 1922 he held the appointment of resident medical officer at the Eden and Presidency General Hospitals in Calcutta, becoming Professor of Gynaecology and Obstetrics at the Eden Hospital 1922-33. On his retirement from Calcutta, he was presented with a volume of his selected addresses by medical women of India, printed and published by them at Calcutta as a token of their esteem for and appreciation of a great teacher and loyal friend during twenty-five years work in Bengal. Returning to England he set up in practice as a consulting gynaecologist, and was appointed to the West London, British Postgraduate, Italian, and Tropical Diseases Hospitals. He was president of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Royal Society of Medicine and vice president of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and was an examiner in these subjects for the University of Cambridge and for the Royal Colleges. In 1958 he was promoted Officier de la Légion d'Honneur. He was a skilful exponent of the operation of vaginal hysterectomy, as a result of his experience in India. He was very helpful to overseas postgraduate students and endowed a visiting fellowship tenable for four years at the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecologists. A great raconteur he delighted to entertain his friends and visiting gynaecologists at his clubs, the Oriental and the East India and Sports. He died on 11 April 1961 in London, aged 78, survived by his wife.

Sources
*The Times* 12 April 1961 p 15 c
 
*Lancet* 1961, 1, 894 with appreciations by MS and JCMcB, and p 1178 by M J Fenton
 
*Brit med J * 1961, 1 , 1176 appreciations by W C W Nixon and N Moore White, and p 1260 by CHB
 
Crawford *Roll of IMS*

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/E005000-E005999/E005500-E005599

URL for File
377713

Media Type
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