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E004523 - Roberts, John Lloyd (1863 - 1932)
Title:
Roberts, John Lloyd (1863 - 1932)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E004523
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2013-10-23
Description:
Obituary for Roberts, John Lloyd (1863 - 1932), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Roberts, John Lloyd
Date of Birth:
23 January 1863
Place of Birth:
Llanrwst, Wales
Date of Death:
3 September 1932
Occupation:

Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS 10 May 1888

FRCS 11 June 1891

BA BSc MB London 1888

MD 1890

BS 1891

LRCP 1888

MRCP 1900
Details:
Born at Llanrwst, North Wales, on 23 January 1863, the eldest son of Lloyd Roberts, corn merchant, and Jane Pierce, his wife. He was educated at Llanrwst Grammar School, at Wesley College, Sheffield, and at Guy's Hospital. At the University of London he obtained honours in medicine, obstetric medicine, physiology, physics, and organic and inorganic chemistry in 1888, and at Guy's Hospital he was president of the Physical Society, house physician, resident obstetric officer, and clinical editor of the *Guy's Hospital Gazette*. Settling in Liverpool he became physician to the Stanley Hospital and to the Royal Southern Hospital, 1 January 1904, and lecturer and examiner in clinical medicine and lecturer in medical applied anatomy in the University. When the Territorial medical service was established he accepted a commission as captain in July 1908, and when war began in August 1914 he was called up with the rank of major to serve with the First Western General Hospital, afterwards being placed in charge of the neurological section of the Alderhey Special Military Hospital. He married in 1893 Maude Rose Watts, who survived him with one daughter. He died on 3 September 1932, having retired from active practice in 1924. Publications: Pericolitis sinistra. *Lpool med-chir J* 1908, 28, 279. Case of tetanus. *Ibid* 1909, 29, 323. Rupture of aortic aneurysm into superior vena cava. *Ibid* 1910, 30, 96. Ankylostomiasis. *Med Press*, 1906, 133, 355. Early symptoms of mediastinal tumours. *Lancet*, 1912, 2, 1714.
Sources:
*Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury*, 15 September 1932

Information given by Mrs Maude Roberts
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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/E004500-E004599
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