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Asset Name:
E000022 - Bastable, John Ralph Graham (1923 - 2003)
Title:
Bastable, John Ralph Graham (1923 - 2003)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E000022
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2005-09-07

2007-06-14
Description:
Obituary for Bastable, John Ralph Graham (1923 - 2003), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Bastable, John Ralph Graham
Date of Birth:
1923
Date of Death:
28 May 2003
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
FRCS 1951

MB ChB Birmingham 1945

MCh 1963
Details:
John Bastable was a consultant urologist at York. Born in 1923, he spent his childhood in Cornwall and studied medicine at Birmingham. He qualified in 1945. After National Service, he was a registrar to Alan Perry at Poplar Hospital and then at the London Hospital, where he became senior lecturer on the surgical unit under Victor Dix, and where David Ritchie supervised his MCh thesis on the effect of vagotomy on the oesophago-gastric junction. He specialised in urology, spending a year as resident surgical officer at St Paul’s Hospital and then at the London. In 1966, he was appointed consultant urologist at York, and remained there until he retired in 1988. At York, he developed a department of urology, introduced day surgery facilities, and also undertook parathyroid surgery, and was involved in the planning committee for the new district general hospital. He married Morag Millar, an anaesthetist. They had three children. In his retirement he found time for music, travelling, walking and history of art. He died after a stroke on 28 May 2003.
Sources:
*BMJ* 2003 *327* 754.
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/E000000-E000999/E000000-E000099
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