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E006685 - Lindon, Sir Leonard Charles Edward (1896 - 1978)
Title:
Lindon, Sir Leonard Charles Edward (1896 - 1978)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E006685
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2015-01-28
Description:
Obituary for Lindon, Sir Leonard Charles Edward (1896 - 1978), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Lindon, Sir Leonard Charles Edward
Date of Birth:
8 February 1896
Place of Birth:
Adelaide, Australia
Date of Death:
28 August 1978
Titles/Qualifications:
Kt 1964

MRCS and FRCS 1922

MB BS Adelaide 1919

MS 1923

FRCS Ed 1922

FRACS 1929
Details:
Born in Adelaide on February 8 1896, the son of a schoolmaster, Leonard Lindon lost his father when he was only one year old. He was educated at Geelong Grammar School where his uncle was headmaster and then proceeded to St Peter's College, starting his medical course at the University of Adelaide in 1914. He interrupted his studies to join the Australian Forces and saw service in Lemnos, Gallipoli and Egypt. Demobilized with other medical students he returned to Adelaide and qualified with distinction in 1919, won the Everard Scholarship as top student of his year and was selected as a Rhodes Scholar. At Oxford he worked under Sir Charles Sherrington and demonstrated in the department of anatomy. He was a house surgeon at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford and obtained the Fellowship of both the English and Edinburgh Colleges in 1922. In 1923 he returned to Adelaide and joined his father-in-law in practice, in the same year obtaining his MS at the University of Adelaide. He was appointed an honorary assistant surgeon to the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1925 and in 1933 was made honorary surgeon, a post he held until his retirement in 1951. He was also consultant to the Children's and the General Repatriation Hospital. His special field was neurosurgery doing pioneer work in the treatment of cerebral aneurysm and in 1946 he established the neurosurgical department at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. In the second world war he was a Lieutenant- Colonel in charge of a surgical division in the Middle East. He served the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons as a member of Council, then as Vice-President 1956-1958 and subsequently as President 1959-1961. In 1964 he received the honour of knighthood in recognition of his services to the profession. In 1921 he married Jean Monteith Marten, the daughter of an Adelaide doctor and she predeceased him. They had two sons both of whom are medical practitioners and a daughter who is married to a physician. He was a man of great charm and natural dignity, an excellent speaker, and a memorable letter writer. He died on 28 August 1978.
Sources:
*Med J Aust* 1979, 2, 141
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
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Root/Lives of the Fellows/E006000-E006999/E006600-E006699
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