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E000419 - Crawford, Bernard Searle (1919 - 2007)
Title:
Crawford, Bernard Searle (1919 - 2007)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E000419
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2007-11-08
Description:
Obituary for Crawford, Bernard Searle (1919 - 2007), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Crawford, Bernard Searle
Date of Birth:
30 November 1919
Place of Birth:
Rotherham, Yorkshire, UK
Date of Death:
24 January 2007
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS and FRCS 1950

MB ChB Sheffield 1943

LRCP 1950
Details:
Bernard Crawford was a plastic surgeon in Sheffield. He was born in Rotherham, Yorkshire, on 30 November 1919. His father, Alfred Edgar Crawford, was a teacher, and his mother, Nellie Cooper, a nurse. He was educated at Rotherham Grammar School and Sheffield University, where his teachers included Ernest Finch, James Lytle, Wilfred Hynes and Sir Frederick Holdsworth. He completed house officer jobs at the Royal Hospital, Sheffield, and then joined the RAMC as a graded surgical specialist, serving in India and Burma, and ending his service in 1947 as officer in charge of the surgical division, No 1 Burma General Hospital. On his return to the UK he became a supernumerary registrar at the Royal Infirmary, Sheffield, and was then house surgeon at the Northern General Hospital, and RSO at the Royal Hospital, Sheffield. He then specialised in plastic surgery and worked as a house surgeon, registrar and then senior registrar at the plastic and jaw department of Fulwood Hospital, Sheffield, where he was appointed as a consultant in 1960. He published on surgery for hypospadias, for which he was awarded a Hunterian Professorship in 1966, as well as other congenital lesions, including buried penis. His main interests were in reconstructive surgery after major burns and injuries. He was a keen teacher and encouraged his pupils to publish and carry out research, admonishing them: “surgery was not invented for the benefit of surgeons”. He married Hilda Fenn, a nurse, in 1949. Their son John became a professional violinist. His hobbies included copying old master paintings in acrylic. He died on 24 January 2007.
Sources:
*Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery*, Vol.60, 6, p.697
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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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