Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E008766 - Mathams, Alan James (1953 - 1999)
Title:
Mathams, Alan James (1953 - 1999)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E008766
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2015-11-18
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Mathams, Alan James (1953 - 1999), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Mathams, Alan James
Date of Birth:
1953
Date of Death:
17 November 1999
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MCRS 1977
FRCS 1981
MB BS London 1977
LRCP 1977
DRCOG 1985
MRCGP 1986
Details:
Alan Mathams was a general practitioner in East Sussex. He did his medical training at the Westminster Hospital, where he qualified in 1977. After junior posts, he chose a career in surgery and was registrar at St James Hospital, Balham, and Epsom District Hospital. He decided to become a GP, joining a practice in Mayfield, East Sussex. He worked long hours and was devoted to his patients.
He had a bluff and ebullient, though sympathetic, manner and was hospitable, always the life and soul of the party, frequently one he had given himself. He was a keen Territorial, served with the evacuation hospital in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf war and, shortly before his death, spent two weeks in Gibraltar, providing medical cover for an exercise.
Alan enjoyed skiing and sailing, only failing to complete the Fastnet race in 1985 because of a broken boom. He reached the finals of the Sussex bridge pairs in 1986. He married Penny and they had two daughters, Harriet and Alice. He died on 17 November 1999.
Sources:
*BMJ* 2000 320 60
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/E008000-E008999/E008700-E008799
Media Type:
Unknown