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E004630 - Sowry, George Herbert (1870 - 1933)
Title:
Sowry, George Herbert (1870 - 1933)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E004630
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2013-11-13
Description:
Obituary for Sowry, George Herbert (1870 - 1933), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Sowry, George Herbert
Date of Birth:
10 November 1870
Place of Birth:
Leeds
Date of Death:
12 March 1933
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 9 May 1895

FRCS 8 December 1898

MB BS London 1895

MD 1906

LRCP 1895

MRCP 1923
Details:
Born at Leeds on 10 November 1870, the second child and second son of Thomas Arthur Sowry and Elizabeth Stead, his wife. He was educated at the Leeds Grammar School and the Yorkshire University, Leeds, where he won the Akroyd scholarship. He then entered St Bartholomew's Hospital, and acted as clinical assistant in the orthopaedic department, filling similar positions at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital and at the Central London Hospital for Diseases of the Throat, Nose and Ear. At the London University he took his degree with honours in anatomy, medicine, and midwifery. In 1890 he settled at Newcastle-under-Lyme and rapidly built himself an extensive practice. He was elected assistant physician to the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary and nine years later was appointed physician. He retired under an age limit in 1929 and was then appointed a vice-president and honorary physician. He gave up general practice in 1919 and devoted himself entirely to consulting work. He had been president of the North Staffordshire division of the British Medical Association and president of its Staffordshire branch. He was also physician in charge of the experimental oxygen chambers at the North Staffordshire Infirmary for the Medical Research Council, and was consulting physician to the Staffordshire Orthopaedic Hospital. He married on 23 June 1904 Stella Caddick. He died after a long illness on 12 March 1933, survived by his widow and a family of four boys and two girls. He was buried in the cemetery at Newcastle-under-Lyme. Sowry was neither a speaker nor a writer, but he did excellent work in committee, and was instrumental in establishing a pay department at the North Staffordshire Infirmary, and in organizing the "oxygen wards" in the Infirmary, which proved of use for soldiers gassed in the first world war.
Sources:
*Brit med J* 1933, 1, 543

*Med Press*, 1933, 186, 226

Information given by Mrs Stella Sowry

personal knowledge
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Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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Obituary
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Root/Lives of the Fellows/E004000-E004999/E004600-E004699
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Unknown