Resource Name:
Resource Type:
External Resource
Asset Name:
E004903 - Billimoria, Bomy Rustomjee (1916 - 1962)
Title:
Billimoria, Bomy Rustomjee (1916 - 1962)
Author:
Royal College of Surgeons of England
Identifier:
RCS: E004903
Publisher:
London : Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date:
2014-01-22
Subject:
Description:
Obituary for Billimoria, Bomy Rustomjee (1916 - 1962), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Language:
English
Source:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Full Name:
Billimoria, Bomy Rustomjee
Date of Birth:
1916
Place of Birth:
Poona, India
Date of Death:
8 October 1962
Occupation:
Titles/Qualifications:
OBE
MRCS 11 November 1937
FRCS 12 December 1940
Details:
Born at Poona in 1916, the son of a doctor who founded the Bel Air Sanatorium, Panchgane, Poona, he received his medical education at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying in 1937. After house appointments he worked at Harefield Hospital, Middlesex as assistant to Sir Thomas Dunhill, and eventually became chief assistant to Sir Thomas Holmes Sellors.
At the end of the war he returned to India and was appointed thoracic surgeon to St George's Hospital, Bombay, and Bel-Air Hospital, Poona. His competence as a thoracic surgeon became recognised throughout India.
He was married with a young family, and died at the age of 46 on 8 October 1962.
Sources:
*Brit med J* 1962, 2, 1199 by NLR]
Rights:
Copyright (c) The Royal College of Surgeons of England
Collection:
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format:
Obituary
Format:
Asset
Asset Path:
Root/Lives of the Fellows/E004000-E004999/E004900-E004999
Media Type:
Unknown
