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Asset Name:
E000174 - Gough, David Christopher Simmonds (1947 - 2005)
Title:
Gough, David Christopher Simmonds (1947 - 2005)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E000174
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2006-01-13
Description:
Obituary for Gough, David Christopher Simmonds (1947 - 2005), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Gough, David Christopher Simmonds
Date of Birth:
7 July 1947
Place of Birth:
Almondsbury, UK
Date of Death:
29 March 2005
Titles/Qualifications:
MRCS and FRCS 1975

MB ChB Liverpool 1969

DCH 1971

FRCS Ed 1974

FRACS 1977
Details:
David Gough was consultant paediatric urologist at the Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital. He was born on 7 July 1947 in Almondsbury, near Bristol, to Alan Gough, an electrical engineer, and Gillian née Shellard. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Liverpool University, where he helped to build a magnificent steam engine float for rag week, and met his future wife, Elizabeth. After qualifying he completed junior appointments at Broadgreen, the Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital, Addenbrooke’s and the Welsh National School of Medicine, during which time he was greatly influenced by Walpole Lewin and P P Rickham. He then spent two years at the Royal Melbourne Children’s Hospital before being appointed to Manchester. At first he was a paediatric surgeon with a special interest in neonatal surgery, and gradually moved on to paediatric urology, where he was particularly interested in congenital abnormalities, including exstrophy (for which he set up the National Bladder Exstrophy Service) and spina bifida, for which he set up a special unit, the second in England. He was an enthusiastic proponent and founder-member of the British Association of Paediatric Urologists and of the European Society for Paediatric Urology. He inherited a passion for restoring old cars from his father, and in later life was interested in collecting art and enjoying good wine. A committed Christian, he worked tirelessly for the underprivileged in Manchester and Salford, for whom he established a refuge. He married Elizabeth Brice in 1970. They had three children, one of whom became a doctor. He died on 29 March 2005 after a short illness.
Sources:
*BMJ* 2005 330 1274, with portrait

information from J S Cohen
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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/E000000-E000999/E000100-E000199
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