Smith, Barbara Furnell (1922 - 2004)
Asset Name:
E010751 - Smith, Barbara Furnell (1922 - 2004)
Title:
Smith, Barbara Furnell (1922 - 2004)
Author:
Sarah Gillam
Identifier:
RCS: E010751
Publisher:
The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2025-04-09
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Smith, Barbara Furnell (1922 - 2004), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
IsPartOf Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Date of Birth:
27 September 1922
Place of Birth:
London
Date of Death:
2004
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
FRCS 1949
MB ChB Bristol 1944
PhD 1965
MD 1968
Details:
Barbara Furnell Smith was a senior lecturer in pathology at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. She was born in London on 27 September 1922, the daughter of Ernest Smith and Alice Smith née Furnell, who had married in Bombay, India. She studied medicine at the University of Bristol, qualified in 1944 and gained her FRCS in 1949.
She was awarded a fellowship in clinical research by the Medical Research Council. She gained a PhD in 1965 and an MD in 1968 and became a senior lecturer at Barts. She was a member of the Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
She published papers and a book *The neuropathology of the alimentary trace* (London, Arnold, 1972).
Smith died in 2004.
Sources:
Ghilchik M. *The fellowship of women: two hundred surgical lives* St Ives Cambridgeshire, Smith-Gordon, 2011
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/E010000-E010999/E010700-E010799
