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First Title value, for Searching Ainley, Roger Gwynne (1932 - 2006)

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by Enid Taylor
Publication Date 2008-10-24
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Roger Gwynne Ainley was an ophthalmic surgeon in the Merseyside area. He was born in Fringford, Oxfordshire, on 8 September 1932. His father, Joe Ainley, was a headmaster and his mother, Dora (née Carter), was a music teacher, both in schools and freelance. The family are related to the Shakespearian actor Henry Ainley. Roger Ainley attended Lord Williams’ Grammar School, Thame, and then the Old Grammar School, Bicester, from 1943 to 1950. His studies were then interrupted by National Service in the Royal Air Force for two years. In 1952 he went to Keble College, Oxford, to read zoology, but a year later changed to medicine. His clinical training was also in Oxford. His medical and surgical house jobs were at the Radcliffe Infirmary and then he began his formal ophthalmological training as senior house officer and registrar at Oxford Eye Hospital from 1961 to 1963. From 1965 to 1969 he was a lecturer and then senior lecturer at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital. During this period, in 1968, he was awarded the George Herbert Hunt travelling scholarship and visited ophthalmic departments in New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Ohio State University. In 1969 he was appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon to Merseyside Regional Health Authority and was postgraduate medical tutor to the Wirral Group from 1974 to 1976. He was a member of the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress, a charter member of the International Association of Ocular Surgeons and a member of Wallasey Medical Society, becoming president in 1989. He wrote quite widely on ocular subjects, but was particularly interested in vitamin B12 levels in ocular fluids and tobacco amblyopia. His other interests were diverse – music, playing the clarinet, sailing, squash and particularly a lifelong interest in butterflies and moths. Initially he collected specimens and his collection covered all European countries, USA, Thailand, Morocco, Costa Rica, Kenya, the Gambia and Mediera. Later he became more interested in conservation and was a member of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society, Butterfly Conservation and Cheshire Wildlife Trust. Between 1963 and 1991 he had six papers on butterflies and moths published in *The Entomologist* and *The Entomologist’s Record*. In December 1959 he married Jean Burrows, a nurse at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. They had two children, Elizabeth Anne, born in 1965, who is a chartered accountant, and Timothy Charles, born in 1967, a linguist. Roger Ainley died in 2006.
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First Title value, for Searching Sahoy, Ronald Rabindranath (1940 - 2008)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-11-14 2009-05-01
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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon General surgeon
Details Ronald Sahoy was a pioneering cardiothoracic and general surgeon in the Caribbean. He was born on 3 January 1940, in Essequibo, British Guiana (now Guyana). His father was Kunandan Ramdial Sahoy, a business man who owned a trucking service, and his mother was Baidwattee née Narayan, who had worked as a clerk in the civil service in London in the sixties. Ronald was educated at the Modern Educational Institute, which had been founded by a cousin, Ongkar Narayan, the Central High School, Guyana, and Queen’s College, Guyana, where he won the Guyana Government intercollegiate scholarship. He studied medicine at the University of the West Indies, where he qualified in 1965, winning the Wilson-James surgery prize. He completed internships at the University Hospital of the West Indies in general surgery and general medicine and cardiology, followed by a senior house officer post in general and cardiothoracic surgery and a casualty officer post. He then did a general surgical rotation for two years, from which he won a Commonwealth scholarship in 1969, which took him to London to study for the FRCS. In 1970 he was clinical assistant to Norman Tanner at St James’s Hospital, Balham. Having passed the FRCS, he returned to the University Hospital of the West Indies, where he was a senior registrar in general and cardiothoracic surgery for the next three years. In 1973 he became a consultant surgeon to the National Chest Hospital, formerly the George V Memorial Hospital. There he headed the cardiothoracic team. In 1976 he entered private practice at the Medical Associates Hospital, where he was the senior surgeon and medical director. He married Pauline Rohini Samuels in 1965. Their two sons both became airline pilots. He died suddenly on 6 April 2008.
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First Title value, for Searching Ellis, Frank Groves (1925 - 2003)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Norman Kirby
Publication Date 2009-02-10 2011-05-05
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Occupation Renal transplant surgeon Vascular surgeon
Details Frank Groves Ellis was a renal transplant and vascular surgeon at Guy's Hospital. He was born on 12 September 1925 into a long-standing farming family. After grammar school, he entered Guy's medical school in 1943, qualifying in 1949. He was an anatomy demonstrator in 1952. He gained a consultant post at the Royal Northern Hospital London as a general surgeon, gaining particular experience in oesophageal, breast and urinary surgery, but in 1969 was appointed as a renal transplant and vascular surgeon at Guy's Hospital. His first renal transplant at Guy's was in fact done in Brighton. In that early period transfer of the donor kidney was not easy, so he took the whole surgical team, with the recipient patient, to the south coast in his car. The operation was successful. Further developments made his department internationally renowned and he made countless working trips to the Middle East and built up a multitude of foreign connections. At one period, due to a shortage of established anaesthetists, he personally financed the employment of one to help lower his long waiting list. He genuinely enjoyed teaching students: he could be abrasive at times, but never talked down to them, or to junior colleagues. He did on occasion talk down to many of his seniors, which displeased a minority. However, this was usually regarded as professional tactlessness rather than intentional rudeness. He was particularly helpful to new consultants to Guy's. He was a staunch friend to his juniors. Alongside this thrusting personality was a man who was courteous with patients, NHS or private, who took careful case histories, with diligent note and record keeping, together with a comprehensive pre-operative examination and investigations. He was not a committee man, so did not rely on their decisions and usually did what he had decided to do. This undoubtedly did upset the committees, but benefited his patients. Frank belonged to many surgical societies and was a fellow of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. The Lettsomian lecture he gave to the Medical Society of London in 1975 was entitled 'Organ transplantation'. He was elected president of the society in 1978. In 1961 he was Hunterian Professor of our College. He published many papers on vascular surgical emergencies and angioplasty, and wrote a chapter on acute and chronic renal failure in *Surgery* by Kirk et al (London, Pitman). His wife and children endured with him the difficulties of the last phase of his life. He bore this period with great courage. He died on 10 August 2003.
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First Title value, for Searching Vellacott, Keith David (1948 - 2007)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-02-10
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Keith Vellacott was a consultant surgeon at Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport. He was born in Tavistock, Devon, on 25 February 1948, the son of Douglas Hugh Vellacott, a surgeon and a fellow of the College, and Lorraine Freda Tibbs. From Kelly College, Devon, Keith followed his father and grandfather to the London Hospital, where he qualified in 1972. He was a house surgeon to John Blandy in the urology department at the London, and a house physician in paediatrics. He then became a casualty officer and a demonstrator in anatomy at Bristol Royal Infirmary, where he went on to the senior house officer rotation, from which he passed the FRCS. After a year as registrar in general surgery at Cheltenham, he spent two years in Nottingham, where he worked with Jack Hardcastle on the development of flexible fibreoptic sigmoidoscopy (publishing his results in 1981) and played a major role in the ground-breaking study of screening for carcinoma of the colon, for which he was awarded the Patey prize of the Surgical Research Society in 1980. He returned to Bristol as a senior registrar in 1981. After a period as locum consultant in Gloucester, he was appointed as a consultant surgeon to the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport in 1986, becoming honorary senior lecturer in surgery there in 1997. By now an expert and accomplished endoscopist, Keith introduced flexible colonoscopy and endoscopic retrograde cholangiography to Newport, as well as laparoscopic cholecystectomy, and continued his work, now on a national basis, in the screening for colorectal cancer. He organised undergraduate teaching and was appointed clinical director. In 1973 Keith married Jinette, a nurse. They had two sons, Darren (who predeceased him) and Guy, and a daughter, Adele. Keith was, like his father, a man of quiet charm and serious demeanour, who was highly respected by his collegues. His hobbies included sailing, badminton, model-making and reading, and he played an active role in the St Woolos Rotary Club. By a strange irony, in 1999 he himself was found to have carcinoma of the colon, and over the next eight years underwent five successive resections, in spite of which he returned with undiminished energy to his work. His outstanding contributions were recognised by the award of the MBE in 2007, but sadly he died in harness, before he could be invested with his insignia.
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First Title value, for Searching Arnott, James Moncrieff (1794 - 1885)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-08-10 2016-01-29
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Chapel, near Ladybank, Fife, March 15th, 1794; educated at the High School and at the University of Edinburgh. Began his medical studies in Edinburgh, and continued them in London, Vienna, and in Paris under Dupuytren. He attached himself to the Middlesex Hospital, where he was for many years Surgeon, and was one of the founders of the Medical School of the Middlesex Hospital. He afterwards occupied the chairs of Surgery at King's and University Colleges. [1] He was an active member of the Royal College of Surgeons, being made one of the original Fellows in 1843; he was a Member of Council in 1840, and a Member of the Court of Examiners from 1847-1865. Became four times Vice-President and twice President, in 1850 and 1859, and in 1843 he delivered the Hunterian Oration. This oration is remarkable in that the orator had to commemorate Sir Astley Cooper, Sir Charles Bell, and Baron Larrey, who had recently died. He was instrumental in obtaining a grant of £15,000 from the Government to rebuild the Museum. [2] In 1865 he retired from practice and lived for a long time in Fifeshire. He died in London, May 27th, 1885. [3] His bust by H. Weekes, R.A., ordered by the College, is in the College house. The [4] portrait in the Secretary's office [5] is by an unknown painter, and was bequeathed by Miss Moncrieff Arnott in May, 1907. There are several [6] other portraits (engravings) in the College Collections. [7] [8] PUBLICATIONS: - Eight papers in *Med.-Chir. Trans.*, the chief of which was on "Secondary Effects of Inflammation of the Veins" (1829, xv, 1). [9] [Amendments from the annotated edition of *Plarr's Lives* at the Royal College of Surgeons: [1] Professor of Surgery, King's College 1836-40 (Lyle's *King's & some King's men*, p.19); at University College 1848-50 (information from Charles Marmoy, Thorne ? Library UCL, 1967); [2] in 1852; [3] aged 91; [4] oil; [5] 'Secretary's office' is deleted and 'College' added; [6] 'several' is underlined and a question mark added; [7] He bequeathed (subject to his daughter's life-interest) £1000 to found a demonstratorship on the contents of the Hunterian Museum; [8] watercolour by Daniel Maclise RA (see *Cat. Of Portraits*); [9] The rest are case-reports. He was President of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society in 1847; The annotations also include a family tree: James Moncrieff Arnott P.R.C.S. - - Arnott, Canon of Rochester - Scott Arnott, senior partner in Freshfields, solicitors - James Arnott MRCS (and) Phyllis m. John Kilmaine, Baron]
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First Title value, for Searching Green, Joseph Henry (1791 - 1863)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-08-10 2012-07-19
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born at 11 London Wall on Nov. 1st, 1791, the only child of Joseph Green, a wealthy London merchant, head of the firm of Green & Ross, of Martin Lane, Cannon Street, E.C., and afterwards of London Wall, his mother being Frances, sister to Henry Cline, Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital. A delicate boy, he was educated at Ramsgate and at Hammersmith until, at the age of 15, he accompanied his mother to Germany, where he spent three years, partly in Berlin and partly in Hanover. He was apprenticed to his uncle, Henry Cline, in 1809; and on May 25th, 1813 - the rule against the marriage of apprentices having just been rescinded - he married Anne Elizabeth Hammond, daughter of a surgeon at Southgate and the sister of one of Cline's dressers. Mrs. Green outlived her husband, but there were no children. For the next two years he lived at 6 Martin Lane, E.C., where his father was in business, and during this time he acted as Cline's anatomical prosector and gave a regular course of demonstrations on practical anatomy. He began to practise in 1816, first at 22 and afterwards at 46 Lincoln's Inn Fields, then the fashionable neighbourhood for surgeons. In the same year he was formally appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy at St. Thomas's Hospital, and in this position was called upon to perform many of the duties which now devolve upon a Resident Medical Officer. The summer of 1817 was spent with his wife in Germany reading philosophy with Professor Solger at Berlin. He was elected Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology jointly with Astley Cooper in 1818, and on June 14th, 1820, he was chosen Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital in the place of his cousin, Henry Cline the younger, who had died of phthisis at the age of 39. Shortly after his appointment as Surgeon he undertook the Lectureship on Surgery and Pathology in the United Schools of St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals, again conjointly with Astley Cooper. From 1824-1828 Green gave a series of lectures on comparative anatomy as Hunterian Professor at the College of Surgeons, in which he dealt for the first time in England with the whole of the animal sub-kingdoms. Richard Owen wrote of these lectures that they "combined the totality with the unity of the higher philosophy of the science illustrated by such a series of enlarged and coloured diagrams as had never before been seen. The vast array of facts was linked by references to the underlying unity, as it had been advocated by Oken and Carus." In 1825 he was elected F.R.S., and in the same year he was appointed Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy, a position he held until 1852. In the same year, too, came the unfortunate episode which led to the separation of the United Borough Hospitals. Sir Astley Cooper on his retirement wished to assign his share of the lectureship he then held to his nephews, Aston C. Key (q.v.) and Bransby Cooper (q.v.). Green, who had paid £1000 for his own half-share, agreed, but the hospital authorities declined to sanction the arrangement. Sir Astley Cooper thereupon began to lecture at Guy's on his own account, and a quarrel ensued. Green, true to his principles, behaved as a gentleman, protested, left the way open for reconciliation, and finally accepted an apology from Cooper. When King's College was founded in 1830 Green was nominated Professor of Surgery and held the post until 1836. He continued in office as Surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, resigning in 1853. He was co-opted to the Council of the College of Surgeons in 1835 to fill the place of William Lynn, Surgeon to the Westminster Hospital, and became a Member of the Court of Examiners in 1840 in the place of Sir Benjamin Brodie - both appointments being made for life. He was elected President in 1849 and again in 1858, having given the Hunterian Oration in 1840 and 1847. He succeeded Sir Benjamin Brodie as President of the General Medical Council in 1860. There is no means of knowing when or how Green became acquainted with S. T. Coleridge, the poet metaphysician, but they were on terms of intimacy as early as 1817, and from 1824 Green contrived to spend many hours every week with him at the Gillmans' house. Coleridge died in 1834, and Green made the post-mortem examination. He was left literary executor and trustee for the children, and spent the rest of his life in carrying out the duties thus imposed upon him. Green's father died in 1834, and left him so considerable a fortune that he retired to Hadley, near Barnet, keeping only a consulting-room in London. At Hadley he wrestled for thirty years with Coleridge's philosophy, teaching himself Greek, Hebrew, and Sanscrit in the process. He published as a result of his labours *The Literary Remains, The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit* (1849), *Religio Laici*, and prepared two volumes of *Spiritual Philosophy*, an endeavour to systematize the teaching of Coleridge. They appeared posthumously in 1865 under the editorship of Sir John Simon (q.v.), his apprentice and friend. Coleridge's influence appears markedly in Green's two Hunterian Orations. The first deals with "Vital Dynamics", the second with "Mental Dynamics or Groundwork of a Professional Education". In "Vital Dynamics" Green discusses the mental faculties and processes concerned in scientific discovery, and especially insists upon the importance of pure reason as the light by which nature is to be understood. He continues the same line of argument in "Mental Dynamics", and in both eulogizes John Hunter. Green died at The Mount, Hadley, on Dec. 13th, 1863, and was buried at Highgate. Sir John Simon gives a wonderful account of his death in the following words: - "I would show that not even the last sudden agony of death ruffled his serenity of mind, or rendered him unthoughtful of others. No terrors, no selfish regrets, no reproachful memories, were there. The few tender parting words which he had yet to speak, he spoke. And to the servants who had gathered grieving round him, he said, 'While I have breath, let me thank you all for your kindness and attention to me'. Next, to his doctor, who quickly entered - his neighbour and old pupil, Mr. Carter - he significantly, and pointing to the region of his heart, said - 'congestion'. After which, he in silence set his finger to his wrist, and visibly noted to himself the successive feeble pulses which were but just between him and death. Presently he said - 'stopped'. And this was the very end. It was as if even to die were an act of his own grand self-government. For at once, with the warning word still scarce beyond his lips, suddenly the stately head drooped aside, passive and defunct for ever. And then, to the loving eyes that watched him, 'his face was again all young and beautiful'. The bodily heart, it is true, had become more pulseless clay; broken was the pitcher at the fountain, broken at the cistern the wheel; but, for yet a moment amid the nightfall, the pure spiritual life could be discerned, moulding for the last time into conformity with itself the features which thenceforth were for the tomb." Green's reputation as a surgeon stood very high, especially in lithotomy, in which he always used the gorget of his uncle, Henry Cline. In appearance he was tall with a languid air, but he impressed his patients by his polished and benignant manners. There is a bust by H. Weekes, R.A., in the College, and an oil-painting hangs in the Grand Committee Room at St. Thomas's Hospital. Of this portrait it was said by a critic when it was exhibited at the Royal Academy: "There is no face in the whole collection, whether in manly beauty or in its expression of intellectual superiority, to be compared with the portrait of Joseph Henry Green, although there be statesmen, great soldiers, and philosophers around." Emerson was introduced to Green by the late Dr. Garth Wilkinson, and remarked on his typical 'surgeon's mouth', with its close-shut lips and air of restraint and firmness. The bust illustrates both these observations.
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First Title value, for Searching Beck, Thomas Snow (1814 - 1877)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-12-11
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Newcastle; after a grammar school education in Cumberland, became a pupil of Baird, Senior Surgeon to the Newcastle General Hospital, in which Beck resided for some time as an Assistant House Surgeon. Whilst acting in this capacity he was noted for his zeal in securing post-mortem examinations of the patients. In 1836 he entered University College Hospital, where he took prizes and qualified MRCS in 1839. During the following two years he studied in Paris, where he became Secretary of the Parisian Medical Society. He also visited hospitals in Switzerland and Germany before he settled in practice in the neighbourhood of University College, London. Beck became known from his controversy with Robert Lee (1793-1877), obstetric physician, over the nerves of the uterus. Lee had asserted that these nerves enlarge or multiply during pregnancy, and upon that statement made physiological speculations. Beck obtained from the Strand Union Workhouse the uterus of a woman who had died from haemorrhage early in labour. He proved by dissection that as to multiplication of nerves Lee had confused bands of cellular tissue with nerves. Also there was no evidence of an enlargement of nerves, unless of the fibrous sheaths of nerves, and even that was questionable. Neither controversialist was able to go beyond a naked-eye examination supplemented by a simple lens. Beck gave an improved description, distinguishing cerebrospinal nerves from sympathetic nerves and ganglia. The Royal Society granted him a Gold Medal in Physiology and elected him FRS in 1850. Beck served as Physician to the Farringdon General Dispensary and Lying-in Charity; he was Secretary to the London Medical Society of Observation; in 1852 he was elected on the Committee of the Graduates of the University of London; he was a member of the Pathological Society and a Fellow of the Obstetrical Society. He practised in later life at 7 Portland Place, where he died in 1877. Publications:– *On the Nerves of the Uterus*, 4to, 5 plates, London, 1846. A reprint of this paper communicated by Sir Benjamin Brodie, *Phil. Trans*., 1846, ii, 213. Todd and Bowman, *Cyclopoedia of Anatomy and Physiology*, V [Supplementary volume], 641. “Uterus Nerves”, also p.651, “Do the Nerves of the Uterus Enlarge or Multiply during Pregnancy?” with bibliographical note.
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First Title value, for Searching Mayo, Charles (1788 - 1876)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-06-12
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on Dec 29th, 1788, the third son of the Rev James Mayo, MA, Head Master of Queen Elizabeth’s Free Grammar School, Wimborne, and Rector of Avebury in succession to his father and grandfather. The Mayos may be described as a Wiltshire family, members of it having flourished there as clergymen and schoolmasters. To this Wiltshire family also belonged Thomas Mayo, MD, President of the Royal College of Physicians, Herbert Mayo, the distinguished physiologist, and others well known in literature. Charles Mayo received a sound education at the Grammar School under his own father. He became a good Latinist and Grecian and was taught French carefully by a French *émigré*, M Leprince, a man of good family compelled by the exigencies of the French Revolution, which had ruined him, to earn his living as a schoolmaster in England. The *émigré* lived nine miles from Wimborne at Ringwood, and was lent a horse by the head master in order to ride home half-way. “Young Mayo was sent to some appointed spot, whence he had to ride the horse back whilst Monsieur dismounted and finished his journey on foot. But it so happened that, some short time before, a frightful murder had been committed at Parley, a desolate village a mile or two to the south of the road between Wimborne and Ringwood, and the bodies of the two murderers were hung in chains from a gibbet on a heath within a very short distance from Parley, where, although the gibbet has vanished, the memory of the affairs surives to the present day (1876). On one occasion young Charles Mayo, when he was sent as usual to take the horse from the Frenchman, was tempted to leave the high road and go and inspect the remains of the murderers, whose bones and rags swung and creaked horribly in the wind, but when he returned to the high road, the Frenchman, not seeing him at the accustomed spot, had gone on towards Ringwood, and the truant did not return to Wimborne with the horse till long after the appointed time, and with no small fear of the consequences, for his father, amongst other accomplishments, was thought to excel in the use of the birch. Whether or not, however, this anatomical pilgrimage was considered to mark out his future destiny, the profession of medicine was chosen for him, and he began, at the age of fifteen, by being apprenticed to Mr Brown, a city apothecary, who flourished and kept a shop at the corner of Raven Row, Bethnal Green, just on the east of Bishopsgate Street. Mr Brown was a Member of the Society of Apothecaries - a body of men at that time of good culture and social position, amongst whom were many good botanists. The Society kept up the ancient and decent custom of examining the pupils of all its members in Latin at the beginning of their apprenticeship and gave them the opportunity, by means of herborising excursions, of cultivating a practical acquaintance with botany, a taste for which was preserved by the subject of this sketch up to a late period in life. In truth, the change from the life of the Wimborne schoolboy to that of the apprentice in Bishopsgate required some compensation. The business of an apothecary was a kind of compound between a trade and a profession, in which the professional skill supplied dignity, but the trading element supplied the means of living. Remuneration was obtained by supplying draughts, mixtures, and other forms of drugs, which were supplied profusely, and formed the items in a long bill of charges sent in at Christmas. That a medical practitioner shall supply his patients with medicine is reasonable and convenient, but that he shall make the medicine supplied the basis of remuneration, instead of his time and skill, is derogatory to himself and injurious to his patients. We have heard Mr Mayo describe the weak parts of this system, which were - the multiplicity of bad debts which crowded the ledger of the Bishopsgate apothecary, and the heavy cost of drugs, and particularly of bottles, which were taxed, in proportion to the receipts. “Meanwhile, the young apprentice’s life was not a cheerful one. The errand-boy slept under the counter, the apprentice had a bed in an adjoining closet, and the family lived in a dingy back-parlour; whilst a drawing-room upstairs, where the carpet and furniture were covered with brown holland, was used only about twice a year. “The apprentice had the recreation, if he chose, of accompanying the mistress once a week in a hackney-coach to hear a Calvinistic preacher at Clerkenwell. He had a book called ‘Tyrocinium Medicum; or, the Duties of Apothecaries’ Apprentices’, which will give some idea of the trade element amongst the general practitioners of the time (by William Chamberlaine, 1812, in the College Library). The dusting of shelves and bottles was held to be the chiefest of duties, and the writer enforces it on the medical apprentice in the terms in which Ovid excites the young men of his day to brush away the dust of the amphitheatre from off the clothes of the young ladies ‘Et si nullus erit pulvis tamen excute nullum’.” After some three years of this melancholy life young Mayo joyfully became a student at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, where, by contrast, the medical atmosphere was ‘elevated and dignified’ in a high degree. He studied anatomy with great ardour, and was for long dresser to Sir Charles Blicke, the founder of our College Library and at that time a leading London surgeon. He also came under the favourable notice of Abernethy, Lawrence, Stanley, and Wormald, as well as others on the high road to repute. After qualifying he went down to Winchester and was elected Surgeon to the County Hospital in 1811, and here till 1870 he gained a high professional reputation both in general surgery and as a lithotomist. Quite at first he met with some opposition at the hospital, and appealed to Abernethy to support him on the eve of his first operation for stone. The great Surgeon wrote as follows: “MY DEAR SIR, - If the Governors of any hospital entrusted me with the care of the patients, I would take care to do my duty to the best of my ability. I would not bleed and purge a patient repeatedly prior to an operation for lithotomy, to the extent you describe, at the suggestion of any man, if it did not appear to me proper. There is but one general rule for a man’s conduct: Do as you would be done unto. I would not defer the operation beyond that time when it seemed most conducive to the patient’s welfare to perform it. You know I use a gorget, which cuts as well as any knife that ever I tried, and has the advantage of being a conductor for the forceps. If I used a knife it should be such a one as Mr Cooper uses. I know not what to advise you to do. You represent your patient as much reduced, and if the subject were unfavourable for an operation, I would rather send him to a London Hospital than run the risk of his dying after an operation, however well you might perform it. This is the beginning of lectures; I have scarcely time to write. Had it happened at any other season I would have gone to Winchester. “Yours most sincerely, J ABERNETHY. *August*, 1812.” The operation was successful, and Mayo thereupon began a remarkable career. His success as a lithotomist reached a climax when he extracted without mishap, in December, 1818, one of the largest stones so far recorded, which weighed over 14 oz. In 1848 he performed two lithotomies in one day, but both proved fatal. His last was on a man of his own age (74) in 1861, which was successful. His procedure and implements, in imitation of Cheselden, were bold and simple. When he came to Winchester he found the best practice in the hands of long-established surgeons, who debarred him from ‘the Close’ and the ‘County’, but among lesser patients his vogue was very extensive. He exhibited in the strongest possible degree that incongruous combination of professional work which linked together Raven Row and St Bartholomew’s Hospital. At one time of the day he would be tying the subclavian artery or diagnosing an obscure fracture, whilst at another he would be busily superintending the dispensing of medicines for sick paupers or club patients, for he took all the practice that offered itself. He performed a number of capital operations for axillary and other aneurysms (some of which were published in the *Medico-Chirurgical Transactions*), cases of complete transposition of the viscera, deep encysted tumours of the neck (*Lancet*), and epispadias. At the age of 84 we find him entering his last case, one of obturator hernia, with a youth’s carefulness and clearness. The practice of the Winchester County Hospital was ‘homely but effective’ under Mayo. He set fractures with rough wooden splints in a manner which it would have been hard to outrival. A contributor to the *Medical Times and Gazette* (1876, ii, 638) wrote: “There was one thing which comes to the remembrance of the writer pretty vividly - the air of the Hospital: a compound of bad breath, unwashed skin, and ulcerated legs, which could be tasted as well as smelt the moment anyone entered the hospital door. Thirty or forty years ago people lamented the frequent deaths after operations from pleurisy or other apparently eccentric causes; but it is easy to see now (1876) that, in a purer air, Mr Mayo would have had a much larger percentage of successful lithotomy cases, whilst many a life might have been spared which was sacrificed to puerperal fever and erysipelas in the hospital and town.” Mayo loved his work, though much of it was beneath his talent. Winchester in his day became a centre of professional education and Mayo’s many pupils were deeply attached to him. In manner he outdid the great Abernethy, whom he is supposed to have copied: he was blunt, outspoken, and testy to the greatest degree, and when made angry, as he often was, he relieved himself and amused his hearers by a stream of half-humorous vituperative epithets of the quaintest and most original description. He was a man of exuberant health and activity, up early and late, and never seeming to feel hunger or fatigue - so, at least, some of his pupils used to think when he summoned them to make post-mortem examinations, dress compound fractures, and to do other unsavoury work at the hospital before breakfast. In 1870 this grand old lion of the ancient school resented the honour done him at his hospital when he was removed from the active to the consulting staff: in 1874 he grew blind, but fully believed himself fit to continue in practice. Latterly he grew less restless and consoled his dark hours by listening to the music of the daily cathedral services. In 1851 his fellow-citizens gave him a grand entertainment in honour of the fortieth anniversary of his hospital appointment. He was elected Mayor of Winchester. His memory remained vigorous almost to the last, and he delighted in telling of his early days. At the, very end of his life he talked of ‘going home’, and died painlessly in great old age at his residence in St Peter Street, Winchester, on Nov 27th, 1876. He married in 1835 Miss Dennis, the daughter of a clergyman, and of his two sons one was Dr Charles Mayo of Fiji, Fellow of New College, Oxford, the other the Rev James Mayo. There were two daughters of the marriage. Mayo was one of the last of those who had been “in practice prior to 1815”. PUBLICATIONS: “Successful Case of Lithotomy.” - *Med.-Chir. Trans.*, 1820, xi, 54. “Case of Aneurism in which a Ligature was placed on the Subclavian Artery.” - *Ibid.*, 1823, xii, 12. “Case of Axillary Aneurism Successfully Treated by Tying the Subclavian Artery.” - *Ibid.*, 1830, xvi, 359. “A Report on Lithotomy.” - *Prov. Med. Jour.*, 1846, 439. “Case of Strangulated Femoral Hernia Successfully Treated by Opium.” - *Ibid.*, 1847, 319. “Lithotomy and Hernia.” - *Prov. Med. Jour*., 1846-7. “Cervical Encysted Tumour.” - *Lancet*, 1847, i, 667.
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First Title value, for Searching Mangat, Teja Singh (1930 - 2004)

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Publication Date 2006-12-19
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Teja Mangat was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Dudley and Stourbridge Hospital and retired from clinical practice in 1995, after which he continued medico-legal work. Born on 7 May 1930 in Nairobi, Kenya, he was the fifth son of Waryam Singh Mangat, a pioneer who went to Kenya in 1908 and practised as an accountant, and Bachimt Kaur. His early education was at the Government Indian Primary School from 1935 to 1941, and the Government Indian High School from 1942 to 1946 in Nairobi. Going to the UK, he spent a further year at Woolwich Polytechnic before entering University College London for his pre-clinical course. His clinical education followed at University College Hospital Medical School. Following house appointments at the City Hospital, Nottingham, his interest in orthopaedics was kindled when working as senior house surgeon to Ross-Smith at Boscombe Hospital, Bournemouth, in 1956. Before taking his primary FRCS he spent time as a demonstrator of anatomy at his alma mater during 1957, passing the final FRCS in 1960. After this he returned to Africa and became surgical registrar at the Aga Khan Hospital in Nairobi. On returning to England, he became a senior registrar at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham, and Birmingham Accident Centre, where he gained much experience under the supervision of F G Allen and M H M Harrison. He enjoyed the personal injury side of medico-legal work, in addition to wider orthopaedic interests, being an active member of the Birmingham Medico-Legal Society and of the British Orthopaedic Association. Teja Mangat was extremely athletic, gaining colours at medical school in tennis, squash, hockey and athletics. He continued his sporting activities in Stourbridge and became a founder member of the local squash club, playing for the Worcestershire county side. He married Sharon Ahhwalia, daughter of G B Singh of Eldoret, Kenya, in 1961. They had two daughters, Tejina and Sharleen. Teja Mangat died on 29 July 2004.
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First Title value, for Searching Longworth-Krafft, Gerard (1913 - 2005)

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Publication Date 2006-12-19 2012-03-14
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Occupation Civil servant General surgeon
Details Gerard Longworth-Krafft was a medical officer at the Department of Health and Social Security. He was born in Manchester on 13 March 1913. His father, Gerardus Krafft, was a business man from Dordrecht, Holland. His mother was Sarah née Longworth. From Manchester Grammar School he won the Adams scholarship to Manchester University, where he graduated BA, intending to follow his father into business, but the outlook for business in the thirties was grim and he decided to enter medicine, went to St Mary's Hospital in 1935 and there developed a love of sailing which was to continue throughout his life. There he was much influenced by, and sailed with, Aleck Bourne. After qualifying, he did house jobs at St Mary's and then joined the RNVR as a surgeon lieutenant in 1942, spending two years on HMS *Broadway*, a destroyer accompanying North Atlantic Convoys, then on HMS *Gannett* based in Northern Ireland, and finally HMS *Chincara* in Cochin, where he prepared the medical facilities for the newly set-up base. After the war he continued his surgical training and, while a registrar at Southend General Hospital, met Catherine Johnston, also a doctor, whom he married, on which occasion he added Longworth to his name at the request of his mother, who was the last of the Longworths. Catherine later became a consultant radiologist. In 1955 he was appointed consultant surgeon to the West Dorset Hospital in Dorchester, but only for four sessions, not enough to support a growing family of four children, one of whom, Jenny, became a doctor. Reluctantly he forsook surgery and moved to the DHSS in 1960, doing medical assessment work, initially at Norcross and later at Basingstoke, before retiring in his seventies. He was a proud, clever man, fluent in several languages, and a keen amateur singer, sailor and skier. Catherine died at 81 in 2005. Gerard, his world having fallen apart, died six weeks later on 24 May 2005.
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First Title value, for Searching McGavin, Donald Burns (1906 - 2003)

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First Title value, for Searching Laidlaw, Cecil D'Arcy (1921 - 2004)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-12-19 2007-08-23
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Occupation Radiologist
Details D’Arcy Laidlaw was a radiologist in Brisbane, Australia. He was born in Witbank, Transvaal, South Africa, on 12 November 1921. His father John was an inspector of railways. His mother was Caroline née Wilson. He was educated at Reading School, from which he went to Oxford for his preclinical studies, going on to St Bartholomew’s. With the advent of the Second World War, D’Arcy was keen to serve in the forces, a desire intensified by the death of his brother, Kenneth Wilson Laidlaw, during the retreat to Dunkirk in June 1941. As a consequence, D’Arcy chose to study for the conjoint, the shortest route to qualifying as a doctor, gaining the MRCS LRCP in 1943. After completing a surgical house job at Leicester City General Hospital he joined the RNVR and served on the aircraft carrier HMS *Formidable*, mainly in the Pacific. The *Formidable* was attacked three times by kamikaze planes, which gave him and his colleagues much experience of trauma and burns. After VE day *Formidable* repatriated prisoners of war from South East Asia to their homes in India and Australia. On being demobilised, he became a casualty officer at the Royal Free Hospital, then held RSO posts in Grantham and Leeds. He then held a series of registrar jobs in Wakefield and Hereford, and then worked as an orthopaedic registrar in Bath, before passing the FRCS after attending the course at Guy’s. He then held registrar posts at the City General Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent, St Chad’s Hospital Birmingham, and in Bristol, where he became private assistant to R V Cooke in 1957. In the same year he gained his MB BS by sitting the London University examination. In 1958 he was a temporary senior surgical registrar at Cardiff Royal Infirmary, and for the next two years he was a senior registrar in Bristol and Exeter, and did research into the cause of clubbing which was published in Clinical Science in 1963. In 1962 he developed widespread severe acute rheumatoid arthritis, which forced him to give up surgery. He retrained in radiology at Bristol Royal Infirmary, qualifying DMRD in 1966. He emigrated to Australia in 1966 to become director of radiology at the Wimmera Base Hospital, Victoria, and then joined a private radiology practice in Melbourne. D’Arcy then took the position of director of radiology at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Brisbane, in 1972, where he taught medical students and registrars. In 1981 he established his own private practice at Sherwood, subsequently expanding this to Strathpine in Brisbane. He had a lifelong passion for art, especially painting and sculpture, and underwent a formal training, which culminated in a degree in fine art in 1989. He exhibited in Brisbane and Noosa, Queensland. In 1951 D’Arcy married Florence Lois née Smith, a general practitioner, who predeceased him in 1976. They had three children: their daughter, Ailsa Mary Carole, is a general practitioner, one son, Phillip Kenneth D’Arcy, was a medical student who died before he could qualify, and a second son, Andrew Alistair Louis, is an electrical engineer. D’Arcy Laidlaw died on 7 September 2004.
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First Title value, for Searching McKenzie, Evan Robert (1924 - 2005)

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Publication Date 2006-12-19
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Evan McKenzie was director of surgery at Timaru Hospital, New Zealand. He was born on 18 February 1924 in the old gold mining town of Naseby, Central Otago, the seventh child of the Rev Duncan Norman McKenzie and his wife Sarah. During his childhood the family moved around various parishes in the South Island, but spent most time in Outram, near Dunedin. He had his secondary education at the John McGlashan College in Dunedin, and then went on to study medicine at the Otago Medical School. He was a junior resident at Dunedin Hospital and then a demonstrator of anatomy at the medical school. In 1952 he went to England to specialise in surgery. He was a senior house officer at the City General Hospital in Sheffield, being promoted to registrar when he passed the FRCS. Later, in 1954, he moved to the Sallop Royal Infirmary in Shrewsbury, where he was resident surgical officer. He married Sylvia Killick in the same year. In 1955 he returned to Dunedin, where he held the post of assistant lecturer in surgery at the Otago Medical School and senior registrar at Dunedin Hospital. There he became a popular trainer of young surgeons, a part he continued to play after being appointed visiting surgeon at Oamaru Hospital. From Oamaru he moved north, in 1961, as junior consultant surgeon at Timaru, where he remained until he retired as deputy superintendent and director of surgery in 1989. When the call for volunteers to go to Vietnam came in 1968 Evan served as the senior surgeon with the 1st New Zealand Services Medical Team, and returned in 1970. His leadership was not forgotten by the Department of Health, who seconded him as consultant to Western Samoa in 1976. In 1982 he accepted the position of team leader for the International Committee of the Red Cross surgical team in Peshawar, Pakistan. His contributions to the Rotary Community were recognised by the award of the Paul Harris medal. He provided medical services for the racing clubs in Timaru, Waimate, Geraldine and Ashburton, the South Canterbury Rugby Union, and the Boxing Association. He and Sylvia had three daughters and in due course six grandsons. He died on 2 October 2005.
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First Title value, for Searching McMullin, Joseph Patrick O'Byrne (1921 - 2003)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Joseph Patrick O’Byrne McMullin (initially known as ‘Shos’) was a general surgeon at St Vincent’s Hospital, St Stephen’s Green/Elm Park, Dublin. He was born in 1921, the eldest son of Joseph Columba McMullin, a surgeon at the Shiel Hospital, Ballyshannon, and later county surgeon in Cavan, and Mary Frances O’Byrne. He was educated at Clongowes Wood College, for which he played scrum half, and University College Dublin. After qualifying he was a house officer at St Vincent’s, St Stephen’s Green. He then went to London, where he was casualty officer at the Westminster Hospital and surgical registrar at St John and Elizabeth’s Hospital. In 1956 he was appointed surgeon to St Vincent’s Hospital, St Stephen’s Green, Dublin, from which he won a travelling scholarship to the Lahey Clinic in 1957. He was also general surgeon to St Luke’s and St Anne’s hospitals. He was president of the Irish Society of Gastroenterology from 1983 to 1984. In Dublin he was generally known to his colleagues as ‘Joe Mac’. After he retired he went to Baghdad as medical director and general/transplant surgeon at the Ibn Al Bitar Hospital until 1990. There he carried out more than 300 live donor renal transplants, as well as a large range of complicated general surgery, especially of the thyroid and biliary tree. Apart from surgery, his passion was his home, ‘Hawthorn’ in Blackrock. There he designed and built a tennis court and swimming pool, and re-roofed and redecorated the entire house with his own hands. An avid skier, he continued into his seventies, and was devoted to classical music and opera. He married Raphael Aglaia Devlin in 1949. They had two daughters, Daireen and Raphael (both nurses), and three sons, one of whom, Liam, is a general surgeon at the County Hospital, Roscommon. McMullin died on 10 May 2003.
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First Title value, for Searching Braine, James William (1796 - 1870)

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First Title value, for Searching Braithwaite, Francis (1804 - 1863)

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First Title value, for Searching Bramley, Lawrence (1807 - 1882)

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First Title value, for Searching Branfoot, Sir Arthur Mudge (1848 - 1914)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

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Publication Date 2010-05-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on February 27th, 1848, the son of Jonathan H Branfoot, MD. Educated at Epsom College and Guy’s Hospital, and entered the Madras Medical Service as Assistant Surgeon on March 30th, 1872. He was appointed Civil Surgeon at Cocanada, and afterwards became Resident Surgeon at the General Hospital, Madras, until he was appointed in 1879 Superintendent of the Government Maternity Hospital, and in 1881 Professor of Midwifery and Gynaecology at the Madras Medical College. His promotions were, Surgeon (July 1st, 1873); Surgeon Major (March 30th, 1884); Brigade Surgeon Lieut-Colonel (April 1st, 1895); and Colonel (March 1st, 1898). On promotion to Colonel he returned to military duty as Administrative Medical Officer. In 1901 he was Surgeon General to the Government of Madras, and for a short time he served as Principal Medical Officer of the Bangalore and Southern Districts. He retired on May 19th, 1903, and on New Year’s Day, 1904, succeeded Sir William Hooper at the India Office as President of the Medical Board, with the honorary rank of Surgeon General. He held office until February 28th, 1913, when he retired, having reached the age limit of 65. He was a Member of the Advisory Board for the Army and Medical Services and of the Army Hospitals and Sanitary Board from 1904-1913, and a Member of Council of the Lister Institute. He married: (1) Alice Stewart, daughter of Deputy Surgeon General G S W Ogg, by whom he had two daughters, and (2) Lucy Inns, daughter of H R P Carter, CE, by whom he had a son and a daughter. He died at Folkestone on Tuesday, March 17th, 1914. General Branfoot did excellent work in the Indian Medical Service, and was rewarded with a CIE on May 21st, 1888, and with promotion to KCIE on Dec 11th, 1911. He made a great reputation for himself in Madras, and maintained it in Burma, as one who was ever ready and generous in help given to his fellow-practitioners, though he himself steadfastly declined private practice. He was of a modest and retiring disposition, kindly, and humorous. Publications: *Annual Reports of the Madras Government Maternity Hospital*, 1879-1898.
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First Title value, for Searching Carver, Edmund (1824 - 1904)

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First Title value, for Searching Witt, Margaret June (1930 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-11-22 2009-03-13
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Margaret Witt was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the North Middlesex Hospital, London. She was born on 14 June 1930 in Leyton, London, the oldest daughter of Henry Witt, a chauffeur, and Bertha, a lady’s companion until she married. Margaret won a state scholarship to Walthamstow County High School for Girls and went on to St Bartholomew’s to study medicine, the only woman applicant out of 80 men. There she won the treasurer’s prize in practical anatomy, the Harvey prize in practical physiology, the university scholarship in science (physiology), and the Mathew Duncan gold medal and prize in obstetric medicine. She then held junior house officer posts in the gynaecological and obstetric department at Bart’s, and was house surgeon to Sir Clifford Naunton Morgan and Ellison Nash, and house physician to A W Spence and Neville Oswald. After taking the primary from a job as demonstrator in anatomy, she was locum registrar in Croydon and the North Middlesex hospitals. She then specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology, completing a series of registrar posts at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Queen Charlotte’s and Charing Cross hospitals. She was the first female registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology at St Bartholomew’s, specially chosen by John Howkins, who was not known for favouring women applicants. She was appointed as a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist to the North Middlesex Hospital, becoming head of the department in 1991. She was honorary senior lecturer and honorary consultant endocrinologist at St Bartholomew’s and the Royal Free hospitals. She had a thriving private practice, with many patients from the Middle East, and she was often invited to see them in the Gulf states. She represented her consultant colleagues on various regional committees. She examined for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Many of her colleagues referred to her their major cancer cases. Margaret Witt never married. She had a zest for life, enjoying cooking, entertaining, fashion and travel, as well as music and the theatre. A colleague once said teasingly that:“Margaret was the only person who would take two fur coats, enough jewels to rival the Queen, and half a dozen pairs of Salvatore Ferragamo shoes for a weekend conference in Paris.” She was a member of the Harveian and Hunterian societies and the Medical Society of London. She sat on the committee of the Charitable Trust of the Royal Society of St George in the City of London, and was president of the Farringdon Ward Club and a governor of the Connaught School for Girls in Leytonstone, where a silver cup was dedicated to her memory for the girl who has achieved the highest all round points in the year, and a bench placed in the playground. She died on 30 October 2005.
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First Title value, for Searching Bennett, William Edward (1865 - 1927)

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First Title value, for Searching Bergmann, Ernst von (1836 - 1907)

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Publication Date 2010-02-25
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Came of a family of Lutheran Pastors, of long standing in East Prussia and Livonia, his father being Pastor of Rujen in Livonia; but his mother, having to take refuge from an epidemic, he was born at Riga, then the capital of the Russian Baltic Provinces, in December, 1836. On leaving school he failed to get permission from the Czar to enter the theological faculty, so he matriculated in the medical faculty of the Germano-Russian University of Dorpat in 1854. He graduated in 1860 with a “Dissertation on the Passage of the Balsams of Copaiba and Cubebs into the Urine”. After visits to German Hospitals he settled down in Dorpat as a Clinical Assistant and qualified as Dozent in Surgery in 1863. Inspired by the renown of Pirogoff, he volunteered for employment in the Prussian and Austrian War of 1866, and after the battle of Königgrätz, which ended the fighting, was appointed to a Prussian Lazaret. Later he returned to Dorpat for the autumn session. Similarly he served as Chef-Artz at Base Hospitals in Alsace, at Mannheim, and Carlsruhe during the Franco-German War of 1870-1871. Upon this in 1871 followed his appointment to the Professorship of Surgery at Dorpat in succession to Adelmann. When in April, 1877, Russia declared war upon Turkey, Bergmann became Surgeon Consultant to the Army of the Danube invading Roumania. During the campaign up to the battle of Plevna he had the additional advantage of treating wounded under the better conditions supplied by the Baltic Hospital of the Red Cross. He then made a name for himself in the History of Military Surgery by adopting Lister’s antiseptic methods for the first time, for Lister’s proposals had been ignored in the Franco-German War. Moreover, Larrey’s immediate amputation had dropped out of use, being rendered largely impracticable by the wider manoeuvres of war. Bergmann had learnt the principles of Listerian surgery through Nussbaum and Richard Volkmann, and thus replaced the vague ideas concerning putridity and fermentations, about which Bergmann himself had written in 1865. Statistics from the American Civil War stated that of 1000 gunshot wounds of the knee-joint 837 died, of 1000 gunshot wounds of the elbow 194 died. After the battle of Gorni-Dubnik Bergmann dressed 15 cases of gunshot fractures involving the knee-joint, and that for the first time, some thirty to sixty hours after the injury, by thoroughly exploring and cleaning the wound and joint, using as fluid 5 per cent carbolic acid; 8 healed without suppuration, or as good as none; in 7 cases there was suppuration, in 2 slight, in 5 severe and prolonged; 2 dressed forty-eight and sixty hours after wounding underwent secondary amputation through the thigh and recovered. One dressed forty-eight hours after the injury, suffered from pyaemia, underwent secondary amputation, and died. There was much limitation of movement in all the healed cases, in many ankylosis. Among a more inclusive number of 59, 30 healed, 2 after secondary amputations; 24 died, 9 of whom had been amputated; and 5 cases were lost sight of. Even so, this was an enormous advance both in respect to the saving of life, and avoidance of amputation. Bergmann’s service was cut short by severe dysentery complicated by pyaemia. Upon his recovery he accepted the call to become Professor of Surgery at Würzburg, the title of his inaugural lecture in October, 1878, being “The Treatment of Gunshot Wounds of the Knee-joint in War”. There he remained until 1882, when the call to become Professor of Surgery at the Universität’s Klinik in Berlin placed him in the highest rank of German surgeons. Later he was raised to Geheimrath. Bergmann’s second memorial in the history of surgery is the establishment of the aseptic method. Lister’s antiseptic method reached its acme of fame and of general use on the occasion of the 7th International Congress held in London in 1881. After Koch’s report upon the effect of sublimate in destroying anthrax bacilli, Bergmann substituted for carbolic acid the use of perchloride of mercury. The further work of Koch at the Gesundheit’s Amt in Berlin introduced the bacteriological apparatus necessary to produce sterilization by heat. Numbers of Koch’s pupils explored all possible modes of infection of wounds, through the surgeon and his assistants, through the patient’s skin, the dressings, the hospital, the operating theatre, instruments, and apparatus, also the means of sterilizing by steam under pressure, by boiling water, to which salt or bicarbonate of soda was added. Neuber began, at a special hospital in Kiel, to attain sterility in everything coming in contact with a wound. Bergmann in his Klinik, together with his Assistant, Schimmelbusch, and others, adapted bacteriological apparatus and methods to the purposes of surgery. Thus at the 10th International Medical Congress at Berlin in July, 1890, Bergmann and Schimmelbusch demonstrated the methods which ensured sterility of dressing and apparatus, using the bacillus of blue pus as the naked-eye indicator. The Preface by Bergmann to the book by Schimmelbusch begins: “During the 10th International Medical Congress the undersigned exhibited in the Klinik the apparatus for the sterilization of dressings, and entrusted his surgical Assistant, Dr C S Schimmelbusch, with the demonstration of their efficacy against the micro-organisms which affect the course of healing and the treatment of wounds”. The illness and death of Frederick, Crown Prince and Kaiser, was a severe trial and a grave misfortune to Bergmann. The Crown Prince began to suffer from hoarseness in January, 1887. At the beginning of the following March, Gerhardt saw an irregular projection of the left vocal cord and on the diagnosis of a polypoid thickening the galvano-cautery was applied. There followed a further growth and a diminution of movement of the cord. On May 15th epithelioma was definitely diagnosed, and in consultation on May 16th Bergmann recommended laryngofissure and the removal of the affected cord, also possibly part of the thyroid cartilage if involved. It was common knowledge that Hahn in Berlin had successfully operated upon Montague Williams (*Dict Nat Biog*) in that way for the same disease. On May 18th Tobold confirmed the recommendation, and to the proposed operation the Crown Prince agreed, using the words, “Fort muss die Schwellung auf jeden Fall” (Buchholtz, s 462). The operation was fixed for the morning of May 21st, the Crown Princess, the promoter of nursing in Germany, in full accord and supervising preparations. Throughout the operation of complete laryngectomy had been specifically excluded. However, by a telegram sent to Queen Victoria, Morrell Mackenzie had been summoned, and he arrived at 5 pm on the 20th. He brought no instruments with him, and if the use of strange instruments had anything to do with his primary mistakes, quite apart from his persistence in them subsequently, then upon him lay the responsibility. At the consultation held at 6 pm immediately upon his arrival Mackenzie gave the opinion that the growth was of a non-malignant polypous or fibromatous nature. Gerhardt objected on the ground of his previous observations of the fixation of the vocal cord. Mackenzie proposed to nip off a bit for examination, to which Bergmann objected as complicating the operation and its result. On the following day Mackenzie punched off what proved to be a bit of normal mucous membrane, and there was afterwards visible a wound of the *right* vocal cord which had previously been seen to be quite sound. On June 8th, in the absence of Gerhardt, Mackenzie removed two superficial bits of tissue which Virchow reported to be specimens of ‘pachydermia’. As to Virchow’s aloofness in using an indefinite term ‘pachydermia’ instead of ‘leukoplakia’, already defined as a precursor of epithelioma, there is to be noted that the galvano-cautery had already been applied, and there was the uncertainty as to what Mackenzie had actually removed. As far as it went it was claimed for Virchow’s report that it favoured the diagnosis of a non-cancerous growth. Mackenzie persisted in making optimistic assertions as regards prognosis, whilst attributing the fixation of the cord and the steady progress of the disease to perichondritis. Even when Bramann, Bergmann’s first assistant, had been compelled to perform tracheotomy at San Remo on Feb 9th, 1888, Mackenzie continued to make and publish what he afterwards printed in his *Frederick the Noble* about the diagnosis and the adoption of the tracheotomy. Bergmann was urged to go to San Remo, where he arrived on Feb 11th, and spent miserable days arguing with Mackenzie over tracheotomy tubes (*see* his Diary in Buchholtz). After the return to Berlin on March 10th a piece of necrosed cartilage was coughed up, attributed by Mackenzie to perichondritis, but on April 12th Mackenzie had to send to Bergmann for help. When he arrived with Bramann they found the patient nearly asphyxiated, but when another tube was skilfully inserted the asphyxia was relieved and life was prolonged for a further six weeks. A local post-mortem examination was made on June 30th which fully confirmed the correctness of the original diagnosis. Henry Butlin (qv) on November 21st, 1888, addressed a letter to Bergmann on behalf of himself and colleagues expressing sympathy and appreciation. The College conferred the Honorary Fellowship on Bergmann on July 25th, 1900. His speech on receiving the diploma, delivered in vigorous German, was an *apologia pro vita sua*. Bergmann, in conjunction with his assistants, made a great number of contributions to surgery, including articles in the *Deutsche Chirurgie*. He continued active as the Professor of Surgery to the age of 70; towards the end it was noticed that his hand was becoming shaky. His remarkable position at the head of German surgery of his day is shown by the Festschrift in commemoration of his 70th birthday which fills two volumes of the *Archiv für klinische Chirurgie* (1906, lxxxi, with portrait), the first composed of contributions by friends and colleagues, the second volume by assistants and pupils. A fine portrait is included. He died at Wiesbaden on March 25th, 1907, after undergoing two operations for intestinal obstruction, due, as was shown at the post-mortem examination, to an inflammatory stricture of the splenic flexure of the colon. There was a State Funeral at Potsdam. Publications:– *Das putride Gift und die putride Intoxication*, Dorpat, 1868. *Die Resultate des Gelenkresectionen*, Giessen, 1874. “Die Diagnose der traumatischen Meningitis.” – *Volkmann’s Sammlung, klin. Vortr.*, 1876, No. 101, 837. “Kopfverletzüngen.” – *Pitha’s Handbuch*, 1873, Bd. iii, Abt. 1. *Die Behandlung der Schusswunden der Kniegelenks im Kriege*, Stuttgart, 1878, 274, 1. “Die Lehre von den Kopfverletzungen.” – Billroth und Leuke: *Deutsche Chirurgie*, 1880, Lief. 30. “Die Hirnverletzungen.” – *Volkmann’s Sammlung*, 1881, No. 190. “Die Erkrankungen der Lymphdrüsen.” – Gerhardt’s *Kinderkrankheiten*, 1882, Bd. vi, Abt 1. “Die isolerten Unterbindungen der Vena femoralis communis.” –* Würzburg Universität Festschrift*, 1882, Bd. i. Von Bergmann, E, und O Angerer: “Das Verhältniss des Ferment-intoxication zur Septicæmie.” – *Würzburg Universität Festchrift*, 1882. *Die Schicksale der Transfusion im letzten Decennium*, Berlin, 1883. “Die chirurgische Behandlung von Hirnkrankheiten.” – *v. Langenbeck’s Arch.*, 1888, 36, 2 Auf., 1889; 3 Auf., 1899. “Die chirurgische Behandlung der Hirngeschwülste.” – *Volkmann’s Sammlung*, N.F. 200, C 57. “Die Behandlung der Lupus mit dem Koch’schen Mittel.” – *Volkmann’s Sammlung*, N.F., 22, C 7. *Anleitung zur aseptischen Wundbehandlung von Dr. C. Schimmelbusch*. Mit einem Vorwort des Herrn Geheimrath Professor E. von Bergmann, Berlin, 1892. Von Bergmann, Von Bruns, und Von Mikulicz:– *Handbuch der praktischen Chirurgie*, 1902. *Arch. f. klin. Chir.*, 1906, Bd. lxxxi, Th. I, II.
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at Guy's Hospital. He practised at 73 High Street, Croydon, and died at his residence, Kirby Bedon, Lower Addiscombe Road, Croydon, in the period between November, 1889, and November, 1890.
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Occupation Urologist
Details Sir Norman Blacklock combined several careers; as a distinguished surgeon in the Navy, later as professor of urology at the University of Manchester, and as medical adviser to the Queen on her official trips abroad. He was born in Glasgow on 5 February 1928, the son of John William Stewart Blacklock, professor of pathology at Glasgow University and subsequently St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, and Isabella née Roger, a nursing sister. After the High School in Glasgow was bombed, Norman moved to the McLaren High School in Perthshire. He trained in Glasgow and was awarded the Rankine memorial prize and the Asher Asher gold medal. He graduated MB ChB in 1950. At the Western Infirmary he was influenced by Sir Charles Illingworth in surgery and William Snodgrass in medicine. At the Royal Infirmary professor of surgery, J A G Burton, and Arthur Jacobs awakened a lifetime interest in urology. National Service called and he volunteered for the Royal Navy, serving on HMS aircraft carriers *Theseus* and *Warrior*, where he dealt with injuries from flying training and crash landings. Back in civilian life, he became a surgical registrar and lecturer in surgery at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He then moved to Ipswich, and subsequently the Royal Masonic and St Bartholomew’s hospitals in London. He was asked to rejoin the Royal Navy and was posted to the Royal Naval Hospital Chatham and then, in the true service pattern, to Royal Naval hospitals Plymouth, Malta and Haslar (the principal Navy teaching hospital). There he developed a department of urology with a keen interest in urinary tract stone disease. He was always happy to advise patients from the other services. In 1972 he was appointed the Royal Navy director of surgical research and was appointed OBE two years later. In 1976 the Queen’s honorary surgeon was unable to accompany her to Luxembourg, so Norman was nominated in his place. For the next 17 years he accompanied the Royal party on their trips overseas, duties which had to be fitted into his busy clinical and academic career. Norman carried his ‘black bag’, which contained a range of urgent remedies, pills and potions, first aid instruments and equipment, including a miniature resuscitator/defibrillator. Fortunately these were not required and, apart from mild gastric problems in the Far East, the Queen did not require medical advice, though her staff often did. The Duke of Edinburgh christened him ‘Dr Hemlock’, but never reported sick. Norman was knighted after his last trip with the Queen, to Hungary in 1993. In September 1978 he retired from the Royal Navy as a surgeon captain. Unusually for a service surgeon, he was appointed to an academic post, as professor of urology at the University of Manchester, working at the University Hospital of South Manchester. He developed lithotripsy in the north, obtaining the machine and training a team to use it. This pioneering enterprise reflected his long interest and experience of renal stone formation. Microanatomy of the prostate and causes of hyperplasia formed other research interests in his department. He published extensively in refereed journals from 1965 until his retirement. Outside medicine, he was interested in gardening, bread-making and cooking, and travelling in a motor caravan. He married Marjorie Reid in 1956. They had a son, Neil, and a daughter, Fiona. Both are medical graduates. Sir Norman died on his 50th wedding anniversary, after falling and hitting his head.
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Basil Helal was an orthopaedic surgeon at Enfield, as well as at the London and Royal National Orthopaedic hospitals. He was born in Cairo on 28 October 1927, the son of Ibrahim Helal, director general of the state railways, and Helena née Sommerville. He was educated at the English School in Cairo, where he won prizes for literature, science and mathematics, and then entered the London Hospital, where he swam for the hospital and the university. After house appointments at the London, he became orthopaedic registrar to the United Liverpool Hospitals and then at the London, where he came under the influence of Sir Reginald Watson-Jones and Sir Henry Osmond-Clarke. He completed his orthopaedic training as a senior registrar at St George’s Hospital and the Woking and Chertsey Group of Hospitals, before his appointment as consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Enfield Group of Hospitals in 1965. He remained at Enfield until 1988, in the meantime becoming an honorary consultant to the London Hospital and, towards the end of his career, consultant hand surgeon to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. Basil Helal’s orthopaedic interests were wide, but he was particularly interested in the surgery of the hand and foot, and the surgical treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. He also had a long standing interest in sports injuries and was orthopaedic adviser to the British Olympic Association over five Olympics. He was a member of innumerable medical societies at home and abroad, and a regular attendee at their meetings, holding high office in many of them, including the presidency of the orthopaedic section of the Royal Society of Medicine, the British Society for the Surgery of the Hand, and the Hunterian Society. He published extensively and contributed to several orthopaedic text books, and in retirement wrote a biography of the German surgeon Richard von Volkmann. Basil was a good all-round sportsman with a charming personality which made him a popular life member of the Savage Club. He married Stella Feldman, a fellow junior doctor in 1952, with whom he had two daughters (Dina and Amanda) and a son (Adam). They divorced shortly before her death in 1977 and he married Susan Livett, a theatre sister, whom he had known for many years, with whom he had two sons (Matthew and Simon). He died at his retirement home in Dornoch, Scotland, on 17 July 2007, after several years of declining health.
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First Title value, for Searching Bennett, George (1804 - 1893)

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Details Born at Plymouth on Jan 31st, 1804. While still a boy he visited Ceylon in 1819, returning to England by way of Mauritius, where he stayed for six months. Entering on the study of medicine in his native town, he went afterwards to London and entered the Middlesex Hospital and the Windmill Street School, where his masters were Charles Bell, Herbert Mayo, and Caesar Hawkins. After qualifying he went on a voyage to New Zealand, and there studied coniferous trees including the Thuja pine, the Kawaka of the Maoris. (See Lond. Jour. of Botany, 1842, i, 570.) He also described the ‘moki’, or method of preparing heads, of the New Zealanders. His greatest discovery, however, during this early voyage was the Pearly Nautilus in its living state. It was found on Aug 24th, 1829, floating in Marakini, or Dillon’s Bay, Island of Erromango in the New Hebrides group. (See Bennett’s Gatherings of a Naturalist.) He sent this unique specimen to his friend Richard Owen, at that time assistant to William Clift at the Royal College of Surgeons’ Museum, and thus enabled Owen to write his brilliant description of it which was published in 1832. During this early expedition he visited and described several islands in the New Hebrides group. The child Elau, a native of Erromango, was brought home by the expedition in 1831, and was the first of her race to appear in England. She died at Plymouth in 1834. Other islands visited by him were the Philippines and the Caroline Group, Tahiti and the Sandwich Islands. He published in the Asiatic Journal an account of the Polynesian dialects and of the practice of medicine among the New Zealanders and other Polynesians. He revisited New South Wales in 1832 to study the natural history of the Colony, especially the habits and anatomy of the Ornithorhyncus. Many descriptions of the animal occur in some thirty letters which he wrote to Owen. They are preserved in the College (Owen Collection). In one letter he tells of two specimens brought by him to Sydney from the interior, whence they were with difficulty conveyed some two hundred miles on horseback. One has died, but the other is running about the room as he writes. These familiar letters are most interesting as showing the manner in which Owen obtained his specimens. The letters date from 1833 to 1840, and some are written from ship-board in the Indian Ocean when he was using the drag-net. Bennett visited Java, Sumatra, Singapore, and China after leaving Australia, and embodied his observations in his well-known work, The Wanderings of a Naturalist in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore and China, published in two volumes by Bentley in 1834. In this and in his Gatherings of a Naturalist is much for which we look in vain in the letters to Owen. Bennett sent numbers of specimens to the College in 1833 (see “Minutes of the Board of Curators”). His donations amounted to some five hundred. In the year 1834 the Royal College of Surgeons awarded him the Honorary Gold Medal for his discovery of the Pearly Nautilus and for preparations illustrating the developmental history of the Kangaroo and Ornithorhyncus. In 1832 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Zoological Society of London, and was the first to present to the Society’s collections a living specimen of the Mooruk or Morrup (Casuarius Bennettii or Bennett’s Cassowary), from New Britain, in 1857-1858, and specimens of the Kagu (Rhinochetus jubatus) from New Caledonia (1862-1863), the Tooth-billed Pigeon, or Little Dodo (Didunculus strigirostris) (1864), Eyton’s Tree Duck (Dendrocygna Eytoni) (1867), the New Caledonia Rail, the Wood Hen Rail from Lord Howe’s Island, and the Yellow Bellied Phalanger. He also presented specimens of the Ursine Dasyure or Tasmanian Devil, and the Australian Bustard (1859-1867). The Zoological Society awarded him its Silver Medal on May 7th, 1862. Bennett settled in New South Wales after 1834, and began to practise in Sydney in 1836 in order to add to the income (£100 per annum) derived from the Secretaryship of the Australian Museum Committee, to which he was appointed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies on the advice of the President of the Royal College of Surgeons and other College authorities. He continued constantly on the alert for fresh discoveries in natural science, and his liberality and energy in procuring new objects in order to make them known to the world, were frequently and widely recognized. In 1835, soon after reaching Sydney, he was appointed by Government to report upon the epidemic catarrh of sheep, which was very prevalent in the Colony and which threatened its wealth and resources. He pronounced it to be influenza. His findings, to which he refers in a letter to Owen, were published by Government after careful investigation. His connection with the Australian Museum was a long one. He was its first Secretary. In January, 1836, he writes to Owen to say that it is “arranged, classified and contains about 320 specimens”. He published a catalogue in 1837, and resigned in 1841, but, when this famous institution was incorporated in 1853, he was appointed a trustee and remained so for more than twenty years. He was active in establishing the Sydney School of Arts (1838-1850), and worked hard both as a Lecturer on Zoology and on the Committee, being Vice-President for many years. He allowed himself a respite from his many labours in 1859, and made a long European tour. When in London he published his best-known book Gatherings of a Naturalist (1860). It is a store-house of facts as to the natural and general history of Australia. He was appointed an Associate and a Member of the Committee of the Biological Section of the British Association (Aberdeen) in 1859, and held the same positions at the Oxford (1860) and Plymouth (1877) Meetings. He was elected a Member of the Board of Examiners in the Faculty of Medicine in the University of Sydney in 1856, and three years later Professor Harvey dedicated to him Volume II of his Phytologia Australica. In 1860 he was appointed a Member of the Imperial Australian Zoological and Botanical Society. An Acclimatization Society having been formed in Sydney in 1861, he delivered a lecture on “Acclimatization and its Adaptation to Australia”, which was afterwards published by the Melbourne Acclimatization Society and largely distributed in Sydney. He was Hon Secretary of the Sydney Acclimatization Society from 1863-1871. At the end of his tenure of office a long correspondence was carried on with the Government of India on the subject of the cultivation of silk, and that portion of it which related to New South Wales was published by the Government (1870). Bennett also corresponded with Japan on the same subject, and was sent full information and a collection of choice eggs to found an Australian silk-worm industry. He became a member by election of the Imperial Society of Cherbourg in 1864 and a corresponding member of the Royal Society of Tasmania. In 1871 he began a search for fossil mammalia and reptilia and discovered many important new specimens in the Queensland drifts. Professor Owen published his letter on his journey and his mode of search in the Annals of Natural History 1872 (4th Ser., ix, 314-21). Bennett was awarded the Silver Medal of the Acclimatization Society of Victoria in 1873 in recognition of his services in their cause, and in 1874 he was appointed Hon Consulting Physician to St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney. He took a trip to Europe in 1877, travelling via North America, and returned in 1879 via Bombay and Ceylon. During this visit he was elected Corresponding Member of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool, Hon Member of the Geographical Society of Rome, Fellow of the Royal Colonial Institute, and Hon Corresponding Secretary. He acted as Executive Commissioner representing the Ceylon Government at the Sydney International Exhibition (1879-1880), and in 1882 was elected President of the New South Wales Zoological Society. In 1888 he was elected President of the Natural History Association, and was re-elected in 1891, when the Society was re-named the Field Naturalists’ Society of New South Wales. In this year he presented a stained glass window to the Medical School of Sydney University. The Clarke Memorial Medal of the Royal Society (NSW), awarded “for Meritorious Contributions to the Geology, Mineralogy, or Natural History of Australia to men of science, whether resident in Australia or elsewhere”, was bestowed upon him in December, 1890, and the same year he bequeathed scientific works to the value of over £2000 to the Library of Sydney University. The gift included the valuable works of John Gould, with whom he had been much associated, and whom, with many other leading naturalists, such as Cumming, he often mentions in his letters. For the last ten years of his life Bennett took little active part in the work of his profession, though he continued to act as Co-examiner in Materia Medica and Therapeutics at the University, subjects in which he had always been greatly interested. His mental faculties remained remarkably clear to the close of his long life, and he died, full of honours – in fact, the Patriarch of Colonial Science – on Sept 29th, 1893, at his residence, 167 William Street, Sydney. He was then within four months of being a nonogenarian. He was buried in the Monumental Division of the Church of England Cemetery at the Rookwood Necropolis, Sydney, where his widow erected a handsome memorial. There is a fine photograph of George Bennett in the Council Album, which is reproduced in the Australasian Medical Gazette. There is an early photograph of him by Maull and Polyblank in the College Collection. Bennett’s name is remembered by Zoologists and others at every turn. “Bennett’s Wallaby” (Dendrolagus Bennettianus) is the Queensland Tree Kangaroo which he was the first to discover. It is figured in the Cambridge Natural History. Birds named after him are the Casuarius Bennettii, or Moruk of New Britain and the Ægotholes Bennettii (Bennett’s Cross Toad, Castlereagh River), and Diporophoron Bennettii, a lizard, discovered by Sir George Gray in North-West Australia. The following have also been named after him by various naturalists, etc: – Phanerogams – Eupomatia Bennettii, Queensland; Flindersia Bennettiana, Queensland; Mucuna Bennettii, New Guinea; Ficus Bennettii, South Sea Island; Antiaris Bennettii, Tucopia, Fiji. Cryptogams – Claudea Bennettiana, Spectacle Island. Insecta – Eupholus Bennettii, New Guinea. Mollusca – Helix Bennettii, Ipswich, Queensland; Goniodorus Bennettii, Angas, Port Jackson. Finally, Richard Owen commemorated his friend by naming two paleontological specimens after him – Diprotodon Bennettii, from Mandoona, NSW, and Chlamydosaurus Bennettii, from Gowrie Station, Darling Downs. Publications:– Bennett wrote voluminously, and to reconstruct his bibliography, even approximately, is no easy matter. The following are indications only:– Papers, descriptive of his first expedition to the South Seas, in the Asiatic Jour., United Service Jour., Med. and Phys. Jour., Med. Gaz., Loudoun’s Mag. Nat. Hist., and other scientific journals. Observations on the Coniferous Trees of New Zealand in Lambert’s Description of the Genus Pinus, Feb 6th, 1832. “The Mode of preparing Heads among the New Zealanders.” – Roy. Inst. Jour., 1831, June. Papers in the Mirror, 1831, edit. Timbs, including the first published account, with engraving, of the monument of La Pérouse, at Botany, Sydney. Papers on several of the Polynesian Islands, viz., Rotuma, Tongatalu, and some of the New Hebrides, in United Service Jour., 1831. Papers on the Islands of Erromango and Tanna, New Hebrides, Asiatic Jour., 1831-2. An Account of Elau, a Malayan Papuan Child, Native of the Island of Erromango, one of the New Hebrides Group, Southern Pacific Ocean, 8vo, with photograph, privately printed, Sydney, n.d. Papers on Manilla and on the Pulowat Islands, and on the Polynesian Dialects, Asiatic Jour., 1831. A number of papers, including “Notes on the Karaka Tree and on the Tutu or Wine-Berry Tree, the Puredi, and other New Zealand plants”, with engravings by Vizetelley, Lond. Med. Gaz., 1831-2, ix and x. Extracts from “A Journal of Natural History”, from England to New South Wales, Batavia, Sumatra, Singapore, etc., and notes on the Practice of Medicine among the New Zealanders and others of the Polynesians. Papers on the Kava, and on other plants, and on the intermittent fever of Erromango in Med. Phys. Jour. 1832. Notes on the Island of Tahiti, 1831. Notes on the Sandwich Islands, 1831. “Botany of Tahiti.” – Loudoun’s Mag. Nat. Hist., 1832, v. “Notices on the Native Plants of the Island of Rotuna.” – Ibid. “An Account of the Ungka Ape of Sumatra.” – Ibid. 1832, v, 131. “An Account of the Sandalwood Tree, and Observations on some Plants of the Sandwich Islands.” – Ibid. The Wanderings of a Naturalist in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore and China, 2 vols., 8vo, London, 1834. “Notes on the Natural History and Habits of the Ornithorhynchus Paradoxus.” – Proc. Zool. Soc., 1834, Part 2, 191; and Trans. Zool. Soc., 1835, i, 229. Report on the Epidemic Catarrh affecting Sheep, NSW Govt. publication, 1835. Catalogue of the Australian Museum, 1837. Papers on various subjects, Lit. News, 1837. Gatherings of a Naturalist in Australasia, 8vo, 8 col. plates, London, 1860. Acclimatization: its eminent Adaptation to Australia: a Lecture, 8vo, Melbourne, 1862. Selected portions of “Correspondence relating to the Cultivation of Silk in New South Wales”, published by Govt., Sydney, 1870. Series of illustrated articles on the results of an expedition to Queensland in search of fossil mammalia, etc., Sydney Mail, 1872; published as a Trip to Queensland in search of Fossils. “Notes on a Visit to Melbourne, Tasmania, and South Australia.” – Leisure Hour, 1879. Papers in the N.S.W. Med. Gaz., Australasian Med. Gaz., Zoological Proc. and Trans., Jour, of Botany, Gardener’s Chron., Sci. Gossip, Lancet, etc. Among the College Archives is the “General Account of Specimens of Comp. Anatomy and Natural History collected and presented to the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons by George Bennett”, MS. dated May 17th, 1834.
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Occupation Oral and maxillofacial surgeon
Details John Lowry was a distinguished consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon. He was born on 6 June 1942 in Timperley, Cheshire, the son of Leslie and Betty Lowry. From Altrincham Grammar School, Cheshire, he went to the University of Manchester Turner Dental School and qualified BDS in 1963. He was a house surgeon and then a senior house officer at the Turner Dental School, before becoming a senior house officer in oral surgery at the Manchester Royal Infirmary in 1965 and then a registrar at the regional plastic and maxillofacial unit, Bradford and Wakefield Hospitals. In 1966 he entered Manchester Medical School and qualified MB ChB in 1970. He then undertook his pre-registration year in the University Hospital of South Manchester, followed by a senior house officer surgical rotation from which he passed the FRCS Edinburgh in 1985. He then did four years as a senior registrar in oral and maxillofacial surgery in the Manchester Area Health Authority, rotating through all the major hospitals in Manchester, winning a Leverhulme travelling fellowship in Europe which enabled him to work with Wunderer in Vienna, Hugo Obwegeser in Zurich and Paul Tessier in Paris. Throughout these years, John worked as an associate in general dental practice. In 1976, he was appointed as a consultant in oral and maxillofacial surgery to the Royal Bolton Hospital and from there he launched a remarkable career. He received many honorary degrees and qualifications, including honorary fellowships in dental surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, from the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, the Royal College of Surgeons of England, the Faculty of General Dental Practice and the Royal College of Anaesthetists – a rare accolade for a surgeon. Posthumously he was made an honorary fellow of Manchester Medical Society, having been its past president and treasurer. He was president of the British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons in 2000 and dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 2001 to 2004. His many prizes included the Down surgical prize of the British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (2003), the John Tomes medal of the British Dental Association (2005) and the Colyer gold medal of the Faculty of Dental Surgery of our College (2006). In 2003 he was appointed CBE. From 1998 until his untimely death, John was secretary general of the European Association for Craniomaxillofacial Surgery. He was also chairman of the standing dental advisory committee to the secretary of state for health from 2000 to 2004. John was chairman of the British Academy of Cosmetic Practice and promoted the cosmetic surgery interface training group. The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) has established a memorial lecture known as the ‘Lowry lecture’ in his honour and his family attended the inaugural lecture at the BAAPS European Conference in Cardiff in September 2009. John published many articles and chapters in textbooks and edited many books and articles himself. He was a pioneer in telemedicine and produced many video and audio presentations. He sat on numerous scientific bodies and editorial boards and was a referee for many journals. He also gave invited lectures all over the world. In 2004 he was appointed as a visiting professor to the University of Central Lancashire and undertook many activities on its behalf. He was an honorary civilian consultant in postgraduate dental education to the Army in 2003. Throughout all his years as a consultant he remained an active clinician in all branches of oral and maxillofacial surgery. John was the most polite, unassuming and cheerful individual one could wish to meet. In his private life, John had many interests, including rallying and traditional jazz. In 1968 he married Valerie Joyce Smethurst. Their daughter, Michelle, is a dentist and their son, Johnny, is a TV film producer in Australia. John Lowry died on 29 September 2008. A memorial service was held by the College at St Clement Danes on 22 January 2009.
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First Title value, for Searching Hamer, John Drew (1936 - 2005)

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First Title value, for Searching Edwards, David Henry (1936 - 2008)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-01-27
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details David Edwards was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Stoke-on-Trent. He was born in Sutton on 27 July 1936, the son of Reginald William Edwards, a managing director, and Irene Bertha Grace née Coad. He was educated at King’s College School, Wimbledon, from which he won the Williams exhibition in natural sciences to Balliol College, Oxford. After qualifying, he did his house appointments at the Radcliffe Infirmary, where he was greatly influenced by A Elliot-Smith, J C Scott and R B Duthie. He went on to become a house surgeon at the Birmingham Accident Hospital and then a surgical registrar in Southampton and subsequently at the accident service at the Radcliffe Infirmary, where he became first assistant in 1971. He was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the North Staffs Royal Infirmary, Stoke-on-Trent, where he set up a children’s orthopaedic clinic and regularly visited schools for disabled children. In 1973 he was appointed as a senior clinical lecturer in the department of traumatic orthopaedic surgery at the University of Keele, where he helped to set up a chair in traumatic orthopaedics and was clinical director of the locomotor directorate across three hospital sites. He married Ann Gurney Bradley in 1966. They had one son, John (who became a consultant thoracic surgeon in Chesterfield), and one daughter. Among his many activities he was a national race officer for the Royal Yacht Association and was appointed as a licensed reader in the Diocese of Lichfield in 1978. He died on 14 July 2008 leaving his widow, Ann, two children and four grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Brewer, Jehoida (1801 - 1876)

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First Title value, for Searching Bridge, Stephen Franklin (1790 - 1877)

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First Title value, for Searching Wilkinson, Francis Owen Wharton (1924 - 2004)

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by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2010-01-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Francis Wilkinson was a consultant general surgeon with an interest in urology to the Macclesfield and District Group of Hospitals. He was born in Southampton on 29 November 1924, the son of the Reverend Charles Wilkinson, a Church of England priest, and Jane née Penny. He spent most of his early years in Dorset, and as an only child forged many friendships with local youngsters of his own age with whom he kept in touch throughout the years. Sent to Ravenscroft preparatory school at seven, he then entered Haileybury until it was time to proceed with his medical education. In his youth he was an active sportsman, playing rugby football and squash racquets. When at home in Dorset he ‘worked ferrets’, thus supplementing the family diet, but also helping to increase his own pocket money. He trained at the London Hospital and, before qualifying, first experienced “man’s inhumanity to man”. He was one of a group of students who were asked to go to Belgium for relief work after the Second World War. Instead, they were diverted to Belsen, which had been liberated by the American Army. His abiding memory was the appalling smell that he was always able to recall with horror. After qualifying, he completed several house appointments at the London Hospital and at Wanstead Hospital, where he was a casualty officer. He then entered the Royal Navy for National Service, serving as a surgeon-lieutenant on HMS Mauritius during the Korean War. Francis Wilkinson decided on a surgical career and, after passing the FRCS, he undertook a registrar post with a urological bias in Preston. His higher surgical training was centred on Manchester, where he became an assistant to Michael Boyd on the professorial unit, and was seconded to Salford Royal Infirmary to continue his senior registrar training. In his academic post he researched and published on gastric function before and after portosystemic anastomosis and also idiopathic megacolon. At a later date, his interest in urology led him to do some clinical research on cryosurgery of the prostate gland. He helped the Spembly Company produce the prototype of a cryosurgical apparatus, a rather cumbersome model that eventually led to a larger and more-effective multi-purpose machine. When established in his consultant post, relaxation came from sailing and field sports, including pheasant and partridge shooting, red deer hunting and salmon fishing in Scotland. An animal lover, he enjoyed working with spaniels when out shooting and supported his children’s interests in pets, ranging from horses to snakes. Francis was fond of good food and wine, and enjoyed cooking. This led him to go on several ‘cordon bleu’ courses, much to the benefit of his family and friends. He was a member of the Royal Society of Medicine, and enjoyed the winter skiing meetings of the section of urology. He regularly attended the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) annual meetings and those of the Manchester Medical Society. Francis enjoyed travel and was able to visit India and Sri Lanka, finding the latter country had changed little since his naval days. He loved the Greek island of Paxos, where he bought a villa and where locals fondly nicknamed him ‘Benny Hill’. For over a quarter of a century he gave informal ‘consultations’, always rewarded by a bottle of ouzo or olive oil, or both. His workload was heavy and when he retired from surgical practice he was replaced by a full-time general surgeon and a urologist. Francis Wilkinson married twice. He married Dorothy Howard in 1952, by whom he had four children – Oonagh Jane, who works in NHS bed management, Roger Geoffrey, who inherited his father’s love of sailing and builds boats, Dorothy Ann, an air hostess, and Annesley Charles, who is an architect and works in Singapore. In 1972, he married Anthea Cameron, with whom he spent 32 happy years. They had a family of two – (Anthea) Keri Jane, who is retail buyer, and Colin Francis, a disc jockey and music maker. Francis Wilkinson died on 30 May 2004 following a stroke. He is survived by his wife, Anthea, his children, and two grandsons, Daniel and Philip Griffiths. A funeral service was held at St Oswald’s Church, Hollington, attended by his family and many friends and was followed by a private cremation.
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First Title value, for Searching Brookes, William Penny (1809 - 1895)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-05-13
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in August, 1809, the son of a medical practitioner in Much Wenlock, Shropshire. He was educated at various schools in the county, and was then apprenticed to Dr Barnett, of Stourport. He became a student at Guy’s and St Thomas’s Hospitals in 1827, but soon afterwards went to Paris, where he studied under Dupuytren, Chopart, and Laennec. He is said to have graduated in Paris and at Padua. During his residence in the French capital the revolution of 1830 broke out, and the lives of English dwellers in Paris were in especial danger; a fellow-student was in fact shot whilst sitting at his window. Brookes succeeded to his father’s practice in Much Wenlock, the latter having died in 1830. He passed his life in his native town, and did not retire till 1891, when he was presented by his friends and admirers with an illuminated address and pieces of plate. Brookes was in many respects a remarkable man of wide influence. He was an active philanthropist, devoting his talents to the public service. When he first came into his practice Much Wenlock was a small insanitary place of less than 500 houses, but owing to Brookes’s endeavours an open sewer in the main street was covered over, gas lighting was introduced, a library and reading-room were added; here Brookes obtained for exhibition the ancient deeds of Much Wenlock Abbey, and a large collection of coins and local antiquities. He was an accomplished Latinist and Hebraist, and a diligent reader, and so convinced of the value of athletics in education that he took a leading part in the movement which resulted in the institution of the National Olympian Association in 1850. This was the germ of the International Olympian Society of Paris, which has held contests in Athens, Paris, and London within recent years. In the middle years of the nineteenth century Brookes was an ardent advocate of reform in the Royal College of Surgeons, and wrote much on the subject in the *Lancet*. He died at Much Wenlock on December 10th, 1895.
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First Title value, for Searching Brookes, William Philpot (1819 - 1865)

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First Title value, for Searching Brookhouse, Joseph Orpe (1835 - 1905)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-05-13
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373161373161
Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Brighton, being descended on his father’s side from a Staffordshire family, while on his mother’s he derived from the Halfords of Leicestershire. He was educated at Ashby-de-la-Zouche Grammar School and received his professional training at Guy’s Hospital. Two years after qualifying he settled in Nottingham (1859) in partnership with John Norton Thompson, MRCS. Later he succeeded to the practice of Dr (afterwards Sir) William Tindal Robertson, MP, and was appointed Physician to the Nottingham General Hospital. He was one of the founders of the Nottingham and Midland Eye Infirmary, and was for some years its Surgeon. He was Senior Physician to the Nottingham General Hospital at the time of his death, and was Chairman of the Medical Committee as well as Physician to the Sherwood Forest Sanatorium for Consumption, and Consulting Medical Officer to the Midland and Great Northern Railways. His duties in connection with these appointments often led to his appearance in courts of law, where his clear, fearless, and straightforward evidence was of the greatest value. His long experience of railway compensation cases made his opinion particularly valuable and supplied him with an almost inexhaustible fund of anecdote. At the meeting of the British Medical Association at Nottingham in 1892 he presided over the Section of Pharmacology and Therapeutics. He was a successful medical practitioner with simple unconventional methods, which inspired confidence. He also loved music and pictures and was in touch with the intellectual and social life of his day. His death occurred at Nottingham on October 27th, 1905. He practised at 1 East Circus Street, Nottingham. Publications:— “Obstruction of Bowel by Large Intestinal Concretion (consisting mainly of Cholesterin): Enterotomy. Death.” – *Lancet*, 1882, ii, 216. “On Defective Nerve Power as a Cause of Bright’s Disease.” – *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1876, i, 473. “Address to Therapeutic Section of the British Medical Association, Nottingham.” – *Ibid.*, 1892, ii, 250.
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First Title value, for Searching Story, Harold Frederick Rowe (1924 - 2009)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-10-14
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373231373231
Occupation Urologist
Details Harold Story was a urologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and at the Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria. He was born in Melbourne on 8 November 1924 and was educated at Melbourne University High School and Melbourne University, where he was awarded a prosectorship and Dwight’s anatomy prize. On qualifying, he was a resident medical officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital (from 1947 to 1948) and then became a demonstrator in anatomy while studying for the primary, at which he won the Gordon Taylor prize in 1949. He did junior posts at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, as a demonstrator in clinical surgery, in anatomy and in pathological histology. He then went to England to study for the final FRCS. Having passed the fellowship, he became a urological registrar at the Whittington Hospital and was later a clinical registrar and then a senior surgical registrar (resident surgical officer) at St Peter’s Hospital for Stone (from 1955 to 1956), where he worked under Alec Badenoch, John Sandrey and David Wallace. He then returned to the Royal Melbourne Hospital, at first as an associate assistant to J B Somerset and later as an honorary surgeon. He was the first urologist at the Austin Hospital, where he set up a urological department and remained its head for more than 40 years, becoming an expert in the treatment of urological tuberculosis and spinal injuries, and in particular the treatment of the large staghorn stones, which occurred in these patients. He was also the first urologist at the Peter MacCallum Clinic (Cancer Institute). He was a wing commander in the Specialist Reserve for the Royal Australian Air Force He married Jean Lesley McKenzie and they had two sons, Rowan (an oral and maxillofacial surgeon) and Ian. His many interests included the history of surgery and of surgical instruments, and he was the honorary curator of the collection at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. In 2005, a Harold Story Memorial annual lecture was inaugurated. He died on 12 July 2009.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001048
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First Title value, for Searching Broughton, Francis (1817 - 1882)

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First Title value, for Searching Chesman, Thomas ( - 1874)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-04-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Was at the time of his death Senior Surgeon to the Sheffield Public Hospital. He had also been Surgeon to the Public Dispensary. He practised at Upper Gell Street, Sheffield, and died on November 9th, 1874.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001154
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First Title value, for Searching Chester, Arthur (1835 - 1870)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-04-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in London on February 25th, 1835. He was gazetted Staff Assistant Surgeon on August 1st, 1857, joined the 74th Foot on July 13th, 1858, was placed on the Staff on January 14th, 1862, was transferred to the Royal Artillery on February 20th, 1863, and was again transferred to the Staff on June 3rd, 1868. He died at St Peter's Rectory, near Pembroke, on February 17th, 1870, being then stationed with the 3rd Depot Battalion at Pembroke Dock.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001156
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First Title value, for Searching Brown, George (1801 - 1870)

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First Title value, for Searching Chandrasekharan, Aluvangal Pulparambil (1956 - 2011)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-10-06 2013-11-06
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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon
Details Aluvangal Pulparambil Chandrasekharan was a cardiothoracic surgeon in the department of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery, Pushpagiri Medical College, Kerala, India. He died on 20 June 2011, aged just 54, after sustaining a head injury in a traffic accident three days earlier. He was survived by his wife, Jyothi Chandrasekharan.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001456
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First Title value, for Searching Bulteel, Christopher (1832 - 1897)

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First Title value, for Searching Bunce, John Strudwicke (1816 - 1875)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-11-11 2013-08-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at University College. He practised at Woodford, Essex, in partnership with William George Groves, MRCS, and died there after his retirement, on September 29th, 1875.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001072
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First Title value, for Searching England, Henry Richard (1917 - 2011)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-10-06 2013-12-09
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373641373641
Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Henry Richard England gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1954. He was originally from Auckland, New Zealand, and was born on 30 June 1917. He died in London, aged 94, on 18 August 2011. He was survived by his wife, Joy.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001458
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First Title value, for Searching Boon, Alfred Pearl (1850 - 1892)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-03-25
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373099373099
Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in St Kitts and educated at Totteridge Park Grammar School. He matriculated at the University of London, and received his professional training at St Mary’s Hospital, where he was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy and then House Surgeon. He gained the Sibson Clinical Prize in his student days (1870), the title of his essay being, “Heart Sounds in Bright’s Disease”. The examiners congratulated the young man’s father on the remarkable originality shown in the treatment of the subject. Soon after qualifying, Boon was appointed Medical Officer of St Paul’s Parish, Antigua, and later exchanged to a similar post in St Kitts. Here his professional skill, kindliness, and uprightness soon won him a name. He took an active, efficient, and useful part in public life, and was a Justice of the Peace, a Visiting Justice of the Gaol, a Water Comissioner for Sandy Point Waterworks, and held other important positions. He originated the idea of forming the Leeward Islands Branch of the British Medical Association, was Island Secretary for St Kitts and Nevis, and at the time of his death was one of the Vice-Presidents of the branch. He died of malaria at St Kitts on September 14th, 1892, and was survived by his widow and four children. Mrs Boon was a daughter of the Hon P Burns, Auditor-General of the Leeward Islands. On March 26th, 1892, he wrote an interesting account of the influenza epidemic of 1891-1892 as it affected St Kitts, having been brought thither by a lady and gentleman from Southampton, who landed on the island on December 14th, 1891. The epidemic spread from them in a very severe form over Basseterre, where Boon practised and where about a third of the population of 10,000 were attacked, and thence on to the surrounding villages.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000916
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First Title value, for Searching Bossey, Peter (1807 - 1862)

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First Title value, for Searching Bottomley, George ( - 1868)

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First Title value, for Searching Boult, Edmund (1815 - 1863)

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First Title value, for Searching Boultbee, Henry ( - 1850)

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First Title value, for Searching Boulter, Harold Baxter (1853 - 1916)

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First Title value, for Searching Boutflower, John (1797 - 1889)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-03-25
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373105373105
Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on November 1st, 1797, in Greengate, Salford, Manchester, and was the descendant of an old Northumbrian family. One of his ancestors was at Christ’s College, Cambridge, with John Milton, whose constant friend he remained. John Boutflower’s father was John Boutflower, surgeon, of Salford, and his brother, born in 1796, was Henry Crewe Boutflower, Hulsean Essayist and a well-known divine. John Boutflower was educated at the Manchester Grammar School, and then entered as a student at St George’s Hospital, London, afterwards completing his medical studies in Paris, where he was a pupil of Dupuytren and Boyer. In London he had also attended the lectures of Abernethy and Sir Astley Cooper. In 1820 he was House Surgeon to the Manchester Infirmary, and was for some years Lecturer on Surgery at the Chatham Street School. He was twice a candidate for the office of Surgeon of the Infirmary, but was defeated owing to adverse local influences, and refused to put up a third time. Most of' his work lay among the poor, in connection more particularly with the Salford Dispensary, which, largely owing to his fostering care, latterly developed into a large hospital. He served faithfully and ungrudgingly for forty-four years as Surgeon to the Dispensary, and, on his retirement in 1870, was presented with £200 in plate, while his portrait by Measham was placed in the board room of the institution. After his retirement Boutflower devoted himself to the wants of the poor. At the time of his death he was Consulting Surgeon to the Salford and Pendleton Royal Hospital and Dispensary, and Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. He died at his residence, 118 Great Ducie Street, Strange-ways, Manchester, on March 20th, 1889, being then in his ninety-second year.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000922
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First Title value, for Searching Cumming, Alexander (1793 - 1858)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Was gazetted a Hospital Assistant to the Forces on March 7th, 1814. He served in the campaign in the United States in 1814; was Assistant Surgeon of the 67th Regiment of Foot on December 23rd, 1824; served in the Burmese War in 1826; was promoted Surgeon (7th Foot) on March 13th, 1885, and Staff Surgeon (1st Class) on October 9th, 1846. He became Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals on August 14th, 1852; Inspector-General on October 27th, 1854, and retired on half pay on January 25th, 1856. He died in London on December 4th, 1858.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001354
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First Title value, for Searching Clarke, Thomas ( - 1857)

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First Title value, for Searching Clarke, Thomas Kilner (1843 - 1910)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-05-31
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373370373370
Occupation General surgeon
Details The son of Dr J W Clarke, of Huddersfield, praised by Sir William Broadbent as "the best general practitioner he had ever met". He graduated from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he had been a Foundation Scholar, and was 33rd Wrangler. He received his medical education at the University, and completed it in Paris and at Guy's Hospital. He then held office as House Physician at the London Fever Hospital, Clinical Assistant at the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children, and Resident Clinical Assistant at the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest. He succeeded to his father's leading position in Huddersfield at the age of 28, and it is to the credit of the father to record how successfully the son extended the practice. He was appointed Surgeon to the Huddersfield Infirmary, and devoted himself to surgery there till his death. Clarke was a hard worker, and when abdominal surgery was developing he gave himself a holiday by spending six months with Lawson Tait. He was abreast of the latest work and well equipped in every direction, as is shown by the fact that he was one of the first English surgeons to do a successful gastro-enterostomy with Senn's approximation plates, while his opinion upon chest cases was widely sought by his colleagues. For some twenty years Clarke was the leading consultant in and around Huddersfield. He possessed in a marked degree the 'aequanimitas' recommended by Sir William Osler, being at once shrewd, kindly, considerate to colleagues, full of experience, and never flurried. Clarke held many posts. He was Certifying Factory Surgeon, Referee under the Workmen's Compensation Acts, Medical Officer to the Post Office and to the Railway Companies. He had also served the office of President of the Yorkshire Branch of the British Medical Association, of the West Riding Medical Charitable Association, of the Leeds and West Riding Medico-Chirurgical Society, the Huddersfield Medical Society, and was Vice-President of the North of England Gynaecological Society. In private life he was a man of much charm, a keen sportsman, loving horses and so detesting the bearing-rein that he became President of the Huddersfield Branch of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He was a good shot, and his prowess as a fisherman was remarkable. Not many years before his death he brought back from the Gulf of Mexico the tarpon weighing 136 lb, now in the Huddersfield Technical College Museum. He was a churchman and a conservative, a member of the public library and art gallery committees, as well as a candidate at one time for the Town Council. He was made JP for the Borough of Huddersfield in 1903. He was full of reminiscence and anecdote in society, a shrewd man of business, typical of Yorkshire. He left off general practice within ten years before his death, but continued as a consultant at his address, 52 Trinity Street, until he retired entirely about the year 1909. Never very robust, he died of Bright's disease at his residence, Kotona, Trinity Street, Huddersfield, on February 14th, 1910, survived by Mrs Clarke. Publications:- "Removal of Tongue by Galvanic Ecraseur." - *Prov. Med. Jour.*, 1887, vi, 105. "Tuberculous Peritonitis treated by Washing out the Abdominal Cavity with a 1 per cent Solution of Carbolic Acid." - *Trans. Clin. Soc.*, 1888, xxi, 43. "Cases of Gastro-enterostomy." - *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1889, ii, 1089; 1891, i, 798; and *Tribuna Med.*, 1890. "Extra-uterine Gestation." - *Trans. N. of Eng. Gynaecol. Soc.*, 1893. "Cases of Venesection." - *Quart. Med. Jour.*, 1895-6, iv, 362.
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First Title value, for Searching Burchell, Peter Lodwick (1818 - 1892)

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First Title value, for Searching Burd, Henry Edward (1790 - 1854)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-11-11
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373259373259
Occupation General surgeon
Details The son of a land agent in Shropshire. He became apprentice at an early age to a Mr Taylor, of Middlewick, and after serving his term was assistant to Richard Hughes, the well-known Stafford surgeon, with whom he gained much experience. He then continued his studies at the London Hospital and at St. Bartholomew's, where he was a constant follower and favourite pupil of Abernethy. From 1815-1822 he was House Surgeon to the Salop Infirmary, and in 1822 was elected Surgeon and began private practice, continuing to hold this office till the time of his death. As an operator he was firm, decided, skilful, and humane. He twice successfully performed the operation for ovariotomy by the large incision. One of these cases is on record in the Transactions of the Medico-Chirurgical Society. He was a very successful accoucheur, his maxim being 'Meddlesome midwifery is dangerous'. A local lay paper thus eulogized him-the passage is interesting as showing the high position often held by Fellows in country practice: "He was, in the year 1822, elected Surgeon to the Salop Infirmary by a large majority of the trustees present, and by his attention and skill, during the long period he filled the office, he fully sustained the high character he had previously earned, and by his valuable services greatly tended to preserve to the charity the high professional character it maintains. He was unobtrusive and unostentatious in character-not seeking professional distinction; but the records of the Infirmary and the annals of medicine afford ample proof that he was entitled to high rank as a medical practitioner, and as a skilful operating surgeon. He was remarkable for unremitting perseverance in the discharge of his professional duties, even when frequently from ill health and feebleness of frame he as greatly needed relief as did those to whose sufferings he administered. In the various relations of life -as husband, father, and friend-he was beloved, respected, and esteemed, not less for the kindness and gentleness of his manners than for the high integrity of mind. He gained the confidence and affection of a large circle of friends, both professional and non-professional, who deeply deplore the loss." He was succeeded in his practice by his son, Edward Burd, MD Cantab, who was an examiner for the degree of Master of Surgery at Cambridge, and in due course by his grandson, Edward Lycett Burd. One of his granddaughters married Stephen Paget (qv). His death occurred at his house, Belmont, Shrewsbury, on July 22nd, 1854.
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First Title value, for Searching Burgess, Frederick Josiah (1812 - 1893)

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First Title value, for Searching Burgess, John Hay (1880 - 1914)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-11-11
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on January 10th, 1880, and was educated at St Mary's Hospital, where he gained an entrance scholarship in Natural Science in 1898, and won a number of prizes and distinctions during his student career, including the General Proficiency Scholarship 1900-1902. He showed a great liking and aptitude for clinical work, and served as House Surgeon and as Resident Obstetric Officer and House Anaesthetist. He was an athlete, and in 1901-1902 was captain of the St Mary's Hospital Rugby team, and in 1899-1900 a member of the fifteen which won the Inter-Hospital Rugby Cup. He joined the Indian Medical Service, being placed second in order of merit. He chose the Bengal side, was appointed Lieutenant IMS on August 31st, 1903, and was gazetted Captain on Aug 31st, 1906. He served four years in India before he was appointed Medical Officer of the 88th Carnatic Infantry on March 11th, 1908. When the Province of Bengal became a Governorship on April 2nd, 1912, he was selected Personal Surgeon to Lord Carmichael, the first Governor. He enjoyed the complete confidence and friendship of the Governor, and won many friends, the natives being especially devoted to him. He returned to England in 1910 and became House Physician to Dr Sidney Phillips at his old hospital. He went back to India with every prospect of a continuance of his brilliant career and every reason to expect he would reach the highest honours. He was appointed Surgeon to the Governor of Bengal and enjoyed a large private practice, both in Calcutta and Darjeeling, showed great enthusiasm in his profession, and as he was an expert in gynaecology it was frequently said of him that he was marked out to succeed to the charge of the Eden Hospital. He was taken ill early in June, 1914, and underwent two serious operations, dying, after a week's illness, in the Eden Sanatorium, Darjeeling, on the evening of June 10th, 1914. He was given a public funeral, the Governor of Bengal being chief mourner, and, besides heads of Departments and other officials, the natives in hundreds followed from the Sanatorium to the grave in the Singamari Cemetery. Captain Hay Burgess was survived by Mrs Burgess and by two young children. Mrs Burgess, whom he married in 1905, had been Sister Thompson of the Albert Ward, St Mary's Hospital.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001078
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First Title value, for Searching Burke, John Page ( - 1870)

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First Title value, for Searching Burleigh, Richard Clarke ( - 1901)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-11-11 2013-08-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Practised in Camden Town, London, and then in Bath. His name does not appear in the Fellows'*Register* under date August 7th, 1856, but remains in the List of Members in the Calendar. It is therefore to be presumed that he did not pay his Fellowship fees. He appears to have died in or before 1901, in which year his name was removed from the *Calendar* as not traceable.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001080
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First Title value, for Searching Cooper, Percy Robert ( - 1925)

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First Title value, for Searching Burroughs, John Beames (1806 - 1878)

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First Title value, for Searching Burrows, Sir John Cordy (1813 - 1876)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-11-11
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Eldest son of Robert Burrows, silversmith, of Ipswich, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of James Cordy, of London, was born at Ipswich on August 5th, 1813. He was educated at the Ipswich Grammar School and apprenticed to William Jeffreson, surgeon, of Framlingham. He completed his medical education at the United Borough Hospitals, and directly after he qualified acted as assistant to Edward Dix at Brighton from 1837-1839, and then commenced practice in Old Steine on his own account. He soon began to take part in the public life of Brighton, and in 1841 he projected with Dr Turrell the Royal Literary and Scientific Institute. He also took part in founding the Brighton Mechanics Institute, of which he was Secretary from 1841-1857 and afterward Treasurer. In 1849 he was one of the Town Committee who bought the Royal Pavilion from the Commissioners of Woods and Forests for the sum of £53,000; and when a Charter was granted to Brighton he was returned at the head of the poll for Pavilion Ward. His services were recognized on October 13th, 1871, when his fellow-townsmen presented him with a handsome carriage and a pair of horses. Two years later, on February 5th, 1873, he received the honour of knighthood as a result of a petition that his great services to Brighton might receive some recognition. Burrows was Brigade Surgeon of the Brighton Artillery Corps and Chairman of the Lifeboat Committee. He was one of the two promoters of the Extramural Cemetery, and at his own personal expense he obtained the order for discontinuing burials in the churches, chapels, and graveyards of the town. He also directed attention to the sanitary condition of Brighton, and under his advice the Health of Town Act was adopted. In 1846 he raised money for erecting a fountain on the Steine, and there laid out and planted the enclosures near it entirely at his own cost. His pet aversions were street-organ players and itinerant hawkers. He died at 62 Old Steine, Brighton, on March 25th, 1876, and was buried in the Extramural Cemetery. He married on October 19th, 1842, Jane, daughter of Arthur Dendy, of Dorking. She died in 1877, leaving one son, William Seymour Burrows, who succeeded his father in practice.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001083
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First Title value, for Searching Burt, George (1789 - 1874)

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First Title value, for Searching Copeman, Edward (1809 - 1880)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-07-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on December 26th, 1809, the son of Edward Breese Copeman, a merchant living at Great Witchingham in Norfolk. He received his early education at the Grammar School in Trunch, and was then apprenticed in Norwich, first to A Brown, and then to J G Crosse ('Crosse, of Norwich'), whose midwifery cases he afterwards described. He served as a Dresser at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, and then entered St George's Hospital, London. Returning to Norwich, he was elected House Surgeon to the hospital. He started in general practice at Cottishall, near Norwich, in partnership with W Taylor, where he obtained a considerable reputation, and settled at Norwich in 1848 as a consulting physician. He was elected Physician to the Hospital in 1851 and was connected with that institution throughout life, becoming Consulting Physician in 1878. As a consulting physician he enjoyed an extensive practice, and as a consulting obstetrician was held in especial repute. He was a strong advocate for the use of the vectis, his favourite instrument. Besides being for many years Physician to the Hospital, he was at the time of his death Physician to the Norwich Eye Infirmary and the Norwich Magdalen, Consulting Accoucheur to the Norwich Lying-in Charity, and had been one of the founders, and also the first Physician, of the Jenny Lind Hospital for Children. In 1863 he was President of the East Anglian Branch of the British Medical Association, and presided over the Norwich Meeting of the Association in 1874, being elected Vice-President on his retirement in the following year. Copeman was an enthusiastic musician, and played the violoncello admirably. He was for many years Chairman of the Sub-committee of Management of the Norfolk and Norwich Musical Festivals. He took a deep interest in this work, and, on his retirement from it some years before his death, was presented with a handsome testimonial by the Lord-Lieutenant and leading citizens of the county and city of Norwich. Though failing in health for some time, Copeman continued to see patients until the day before his death. He died in an attack of heart failure on February 25th, 1880. Publications: *Remarks on the Poor Law Amendment Act, with reference to Pauper Medical Attendance and Medical Clubs*, 8vo, Norwich, 1838. *Collection of Cases of Apoplexy, with an Explanatory Introduction*, 8vo, London, 1845. *Records of Obstetric Consultation Practice; and a Translation of Busch and Moses on Uterine Haemorrhage*, 8vo, plate, London, 1856. *Brief History of the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital; with a few Biographical Observations on the late W Dalrymple and J G Crosse*, 8vo, Norwich, 1856. *An Essay on the History, Pathology and Treatment of Diphtheria*, 8vo, Norwich, 1859. *Illustrations of Puerperal Fever*, 8vo, London, 1860. Copeman also translated Jean Antoine Gay's work, "On the Nature and Treatment of Apoplexy" (with an Appendix), 8vo, London, 1843. His contributions to the medical journals were numerous and important. He published a paper on "Flooding after Delivery" in the *Med Gaz* and wrote largely in the *Brit Med Jour*. The latter says of his works and of these contributions: "He called attention to the abuse of bleeding in that affection [apoplexy] and was thus one of the first to show the necessity of a more restricted use of the lancet. It is interesting that one of his last contributions - a paper published in this journal on Dec 18th, 1879 - was a paper on bloodletting, in which he gave the result of his matured experience, and, suggesting that the reaction against blood-letting had gone too far, described the conditions in which in his opinion it might be useful."
Resource Identifier RCS: E001271
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First Title value, for Searching Corbin, Marc Antony Bazille ( - 1908)

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First Title value, for Searching Corbould, Francis John (1819 - 1884)

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First Title value, for Searching Cordwent, George (1815 - 1900)

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First Title value, for Searching Corkey, Isaac Whitla (1892 - 1927)

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First Title value, for Searching Bowden, Stephen ( - 1896)

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First Title value, for Searching Bowen, Essex (1829 - 1890)

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First Title value, for Searching Byass, Thomas Spry (1807 - 1890)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-11-11
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Cuckfield, in Sussex, his father having been for many years an inhabitant of the town. Father and son, indeed, were connected with Cuckfield for nearly a century. Byass received his professional training at Guy's Hospital, and after qualifying settled at Cuckfield, where he practised for some sixty years. He was for a long period a most active member of the Court of Assistants of the Apothecaries' Company, and as Master during the International Medical Congress of 1881 he entertained at the Hall a large number of distinguished guests. He belonged to the party of progress, and in London was well known to most of the leading consultants for his sound common sense and ripe experience. At Cuckfield he took a keen interest in the volunteers from their earliest days, and was for many years Acting Surgeon Major. He was President at one time of the Brighton and Sussex Medico-Chirurgical Society, and was always well abreast of professional knowledge and progress. After the completion of fifty years of practice, Byass was presented with a testimonial consisting of a silver salver, a purse of 500 guineas in an antique silver casket, and a finely illuminated album. Patients showed him constant attention in his old age, and thus testified their affection for him, but occasionally this enthusiasm took the form of calls to a great distance from home, so that he had often "to journey to London and to Brighton on the same day, as well as doing a hard day's work in the country". His small spare frame was full of restless activity, and he never knew what it was to tire in his work. He had the conscience and manners of a true gentleman, was liberal to the poor, and retained a fair share of physical strength until a few months before his death. His full mental vigour remained till the last. He died at his residence, Marshalls, Cuckfield, on Sunday, July 13th, 1890. At the time of his death he was a Certifying Factory Surgeon, Medical Referee to the London Life Assurance Company, and Medical Examiner, Government Insurance. Dying in his 84th year he severed a connecting link with a long-past generation. He was a contemporary at Guy's of the two Coopers, Aston Key, Addison, etc., and told entertaining stories of medical life sixty years ago. His funeral on July 17th was masonic, as he was a Past Provincial Grand Officer of the Province of Sussex and one of the founders and a Past Master of the Ockenden Lodge.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001097
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First Title value, for Searching Byerley, Isaac ( - 1896)

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First Title value, for Searching Bynoe, Benjamin (1803 - 1865)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-11-11 2018-07-04
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Occupation Botanist General surgeon Naturalist Naval surgeon
Details Entered the Royal Navy and retired with the rank of Staff Surgeon. He died at Old Kent Road, SE, on November 15th, 1865. See below for an expanded version of the published obituary uploaded 4 July 2018: Benjamin Bynoe was a Royal Navy surgeon, botanist and naturalist who served aboard the *Beagle* during Charles Darwin's epic five-year voyage. He was born in Barbados on 25 July 1803, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth Bynoe, and was baptised on 26 December 1803 at Christ Church, Barbados. There are no records of his medical education, but on 20 May 1825 he became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons and on 26 September 1825 joined the Royal Navy as an assistant surgeon. He joined the maiden voyage of HMS *Beagle*, tasked with surveying the coasts of South America south of the Rio Plata. In July 1828, the ship's surgeon Evan Brown was invalided home and Bynoe was made acting surgeon in his place. The *Beagle* surveyed Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego and the channels adjoining the Straits of Magellan and the island of Chiloe. During the voyage, Bynoe collected geological and other specimens, and two landmarks were named after him - Cape Bynoe and Bynoe Island. By October 1830 the *Beagle* had returned to England and Bynoe was living on half-pay in the New Kent Road area, London. He studied through the winter and on 5 July 1831 passed his examination as a surgeon in the Royal Navy, but promotion was slow, and two days later he rejoined the *Beagle* with the rank of assistant surgeon, serving under the surgeon Robert McCormick. Also on board was Charles Darwin, then just 22, a guest of the captain, Robert FitzRoy. The rest of the year 1831 was spent preparing the ship for the voyage; Bynoe made sure the medical supplies included foods to prevent scurvy, including 'pickles, dried apples, and lemon juice - of the best quality'. On 27 December 1831, the *Beagle* set sail and passed via the Canaries to the Cape Verde Islands. Towards the end of April 1832, McCormick invalided himself home, disgruntled that Darwin had in effect been made the ship's naturalist, a role he assumed, as surgeon, was his own. Bynoe was made acting surgeon, in which role he continued for the rest of the long voyage. The ship sailed across the Atlantic and then coasted South America, visiting Bahia, Rio, Monte Video, Buenos Aires, Bahia Blanca and Teirra del Feugo. Bynoe found himself dealing with unknown fevers among the crew (probably yellow fever), together with the more familiar pulmonary tuberculosis. In the autumn of 1834, the *Beagle* had reached Valparaiso, Chile. After visiting Santiago and the Andes, Darwin became ill at the end of September; Bynoe attended him ashore for a month while the ship was being repaired and restocked with supplies. After further cruises off the Chilean coast, they reached Callao, the port of Lima, Peru, then headed to the Galapagos Islands, where Darwin made the observations which led to his theory of natural selection. For nine days Bynoe and Darwin were ashore with just three seamen with them, studying the rocks, lizards, tortoises and vegetation. The *Beagle* then sailed west to Polynesia, Tahiti and New Zealand, before heading home via Sydney, Keeling Island, Mauritius, the Cape, St Helena, Brazil and then the Azores and home, setting anchor at Falmouth on 2 October 1836. Once again, Bynoe returned to London on half-pay. In December 1836, he married Charlotte Ollard and in the same month, after many years as an acting surgeon he was, on the recommendation of FitzRoy, officially confirmed in his post as surgeon. He rejoined the *Beagle*, this time commissioned to survey Australian waters. The ship left Plymouth in July 1837. After investigating western Australia, the *Beagle* continued eastwards, visiting Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), Sydney and the Great Barrier Reef. They then turned south, to the Adelaide River and then north to the Timor Sea, where a bay in what is now the Northern Territory was named Bynoe Harbour. In August 1841, the ship was in the Gulf of Carpentaria in northern Australia, when one of the officers, Fitzmaurice, who was surveying onshore, was accidentally shot in the foot by a musket. Bynoe attended the injured man and saved his foot; the river Fitzmaurice had been investigating was named Bynoe River in his honour. During the voyage, Bynoe collected numerous specimens and wrote several papers, including one on marsupial gestation and on geological formations in Queensland. The ship eventually sailed back to England via Mauritius and Cape Verde, arriving back in 1843. In February 1844, he was appointed surgeon superintendent of the convict ship *Blundell*, which was sailing to Norfolk Island with prisoners from Millbank prison. The journal he wrote during the first part of the journey has survived, listing the case he treated, including patients with diarrhoea, rheumatism, an injured finger (which required amputation) and a case of pulmonary tuberculosis. On 26 August 1844, Bynoe was made a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Bynoe left the *Blundell* in April 1845. His next appointment was on the *Lord Auckland*, another convict ship, this time bound for Hobart, which left England in March 1846. With him was his long-suffering wife; the couple may have been planning to emigrate to New South Wales. But in July, the ship landed in Simon's Bay, in southern Africa, so Bynoe, who was ill with pneumonia, could be transferred to Cape Town Hospital. Once he recovered, the Bynoes boarded the *Maria Soames* and returned back to England in October 1846. His next appointment was to Ireland, then facing serious famine after the failure of successive potato crops. At the end of February 1847, he was directed to go to Cork 'to aid in carrying out measures for the relief of the Distressed Irish'. A relief centre was set up at Belmullet, which Bynoe joined in April, to help with outbreaks of typhus and dysentery. But the promised medical supplies were slow to arrive and Bynoe himself became sick with dysentery. By September his appointment had ended and in October he was back in London and on half-pay. He then had two short appointments, to the *Ocean* and the *Ganges*, and then in February 1848, joined the *Wellington*, where he remained for nearly three years. He was subsequently appointed to the *Monarch*, on which he served until March 1851. In November 1851, he was appointed to the *Aboukir*, another prison vessel taking convicts to Van Diemen's Land. His journal of the voyage survives and describes treating a prisoner for advanced tuberculosis (and carrying out a post mortem), treating catarrh, constipation and diarrhoea, and directing that the woodwork of the living quarters be washed down with the antiseptic chloride of zinc. On 22 March 1852 Bynoe arrived in Hobart, and a few weeks later sailed homeward. After almost a year on half-pay in London, in the autumn of 1853 he was appointed to the *Madagascar*, a receiving ship at Rio, where he spent almost six gruelling years, returning on the *Industry* in the spring of 1859. In the autumn of 1860, Bynoe was promoted to staff surgeon, but was not appointed to any further voyages and on 23 January 1863 was placed on the retired list by the Admiralty. Benjamin Bynoe died in the Old Kent Road, London on 13 November 1865 and was buried at Norwood Cemetery, Lambeth. Despite taking part in several important surveying voyages, aiding Darwin with his ground-breaking work and collecting a large number of specimens in his own right, his name had been largely forgotten. Even during his lifetime, he arguably failed to get the credit he was due; only one species (of acacia) was named after him - *Acacia bynoeana*. But, perhaps just as importantly, he was remembered as a kind and caring surgeon by his colleagues and crew: Robert FitzRoy, his long-standing captain on board the *Beagle*, noted movingly of the 'affectionate kindness of Mr Bynoe…which…will never be forgotten by any of his shipmates'. Sarah Gillam
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First Title value, for Searching Cary, Walter ( - 1878)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-11-24
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Received his professional training at St George's Hospital, where he was Perpetual Pupil to Robert Keate (from Sept 20th, 1825) and House Surgeon (June, 1830). He was in practice at Cheltenham in 1852, and died in July, 1878.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001100
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First Title value, for Searching Buchanan, Andrew ( - 1877)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-05-26 2013-08-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Was in general practice at 61 Broad Street, Ratcliff Cross, in 1847, then at Heath House, Commercial Road, E, where he was Surgeon to the Mercers' Almshouses, Stepney, to the Coopers' Almshouses, Ratcliff, and to the Government Vaccination Station, Stepney. By 1858 he had emigrated to New Zealand, where he died in or before 1877.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001011
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First Title value, for Searching Martin, Kenneth Whittle (1917 - 2009)

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by Sir Barry Jackson
Publication Date 2010-06-10 2018-05-10
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373195373195
Occupation General surgeon
Details Kenneth Whittle Martin, known as 'Poppy' to his family, was a general surgeon in Worthing with an interest in urology. He came from a long line of doctors dating back to at least 1774. He was born on 18 July 1917 in Singapore, the son of William Whittle Martin, an army ENT surgeon, and his wife Katie, née Partington, the daughter of a mill owner. When aged three, his family moved from the Far East to Hove in Sussex, a county in which he lived for almost all of the rest of his life. He attended Mowden School in Hove and then Charterhouse, where he was a senior scholar and captain of cricket. Following the family tradition, he decided to read medicine and went to St Thomas' Hospital Medical School, armed with a shilling a day pocket money given to him by his mother. Qualifying in 1940, he was house surgeon to W H C 'Hugo' Romanis and Norman 'Pasty' Barrett, before enlisting in the Royal Navy and serving as a surgeon lieutenant from 1941 to 1946. During his war service he served in hospitals at home and in the Indian Ocean on HMS *Fortune* and in the Far East on HMS *Duke of York*. Three years before his death he wrote an account of his wartime experiences in a privately published book entitled *Poppy's war*. After demobilisation, he returned to St Thomas' as a surgical registrar, during which time he passed the FRCS examination. He was then appointed as a resident assistant surgeon, a particularly busy post but one which gave him extensive operative experience. In 1954 he was appointed as a consultant surgeon at Worthing Hospital, allowing him to return to his Sussex roots, and he remained on the staff of that hospital for 28 years, retiring at the age of 65 in 1982. Although he practised a wide range of general surgery, he developed a particular interest in urology and had an enviable local reputation as *the* waterworks specialist. In retirement he enjoyed fishing and bridge and developed considerable expertise in investment management. He founded the Bosham Investment Club and became adept at tracking the movement of stocks and shares by complicated graphs on his computer. He also enjoyed overseas travel, both with his family and as a longstanding member of the Grey Turner Travelling Surgical Club. Ken married Daphne Esplin Stewart in 1941 and they had two sons and two daughters. He and Daphne were inseparable throughout their 68 years of marriage. Both were notably somewhat non-conformist and idiosyncratic. On one occasion Ken was asked to look after a leg which a colleague had amputated when the hospital incinerator was closed. He put the leg in the boot of his car and drove to a secluded area of the beach where he threw the limb into the sea, resulting in a police investigation after it was later washed up on the beach. He was wonderful company, being a fund of stories and good humour. Apart from increasing deafness, he retained good health throughout his long life until he died of old age on 22 July 2009, four days after his 92nd birthday.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001012
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First Title value, for Searching Clerke, (or Clerk) Jonathan ( - 1869)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-06-02 2013-08-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Practised first at Rathmines, and then at Castlemartyr, Co Cork, where he died June 29th, 1869.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001198
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First Title value, for Searching Clifton, Nathaniel Henry (1818 - 1881)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-06-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on November 29th, 1818, in the house in Cross Street, Islington, where his father and his grandfather had practised before him. He was educated at the Islington Proprietary School and at Charterhouse. He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1837, and was made a Governor of the institution on Nov 26th, 1846, acted as Steward in 1852, as Auditor in 1853, and was put on the House Committee, in 1857. After qualifying in 1841 he took a week's holiday, and then joined his father in practice. Thereafter he went for thirty-seven years without twenty-four hours' holiday. His holiday, which consisted chiefly of a few hours' fishing, was always preceded by a day's work. Within these sharply defined limits he found time to dine with a friend or take part in public affairs. He made a point, in the late hours of the night, of making up his books and his list of patients for the morrow. If he were disturbed at night, as he was very often, he never went back to his bed, but took such rest as he could get in an easily extemporized position in his study. His practice was indeed very large and very arduous, and included many obstetric cases. At the time of his death Clifton was a Justice of the Peace for Middlesex, Consulting Surgeon to the Islington Dispensary, and a cordial supporter of the Medical Benevolent College and kindred institutions. He founded the Islington Medical Society. His father was the founder of the Islington Savings Bank, and he was for many years its Treasurer. In politics a Conservative, and an active member of the party, he yet conducted his contests, political and even ecclesiastical, with a characteristic absence of acerbity. He was genial, kindly, and quietly benevolent, with an underlying strength of character that compelled the respect of men of all parties, and especially of members of his own profession, by whom he was looked up to as a guide and friend. He himself was a model of professional behaviour. A man of large and powerful frame, he showed signs of failing health for several years before the end. He was for long ill of diabetes and albuminuria, being affectionately nursed by his sisters, and died unmarried at the old family house, 20 Cross Street, Islington, on Friday, January 21st, 1881. For many years he was in partnership with his father, Nathaniel Clifton, and latterly with Frank Godfrey. His portrait is in the Fellows' Album. The following interesting note on the association of an old family practice is from the *Lancet*, 1881, i, 195: "Some practices are the creation of one man. A larger number represent a principle of continuity, not to say heredity. The name of Mr Clifton carries the people of Islington back more than a hundred years. And yet over all this time a large section of the people of Islington have enjoyed the privilege of being attended by Mr Clifton or his immediate ancestors. It is not the least credit of the family that for this more than century of work only three successive members of the family have been necessary. The subject of our present notice was wont to tell how his grandfather took up his abode, lodging with a worthy baker, in Cross Street, Islington, over a hundred years since. Mr Clifton's grandfather was born in 1751, and was in practice before 1778. He died in 1822 in Cross Street, and was succeeded by his son, Nathaniel Clifton, who was born in 1786 and died in 1861 - all in Cross Street. Here too Mr Nathaniel Henry Clifton was born. "There is an element of permanence, a faithfulness to groove and place, in most good families, which is not to be unnoted. Cross Street, as it exists now, may not seem to passers through a romantic spot to which to fix one's existence, but to a man of Mr Clifton's character, with its historical baker's shop - which, by the way, still, we believe, survives - it had a claim and a charm to which the new-built villa has no pretensions."
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First Title value, for Searching Clippingdale, Samuel Dodd ( - 1925)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-06-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The son of Samuel D Clippingdale, who practised in Colet Place, Commercial Road East. He received his medical education at the University of Aberdeen and at the London Hospital, where he was Surgical Scholar and House Physician. He was at one time a candidate for the Surgical Registrarship in competition with Sir Frederick Treves. He was for a considerable period Surgeon to the Kensington Dispensary and Children's Hospital, and was at one time President of the West London Medico-Chirurgical Society and Vice-President of the Section of Balneology and Climatology of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was also Police Surgeon for Kensington, and came before the public in his official capacity in the sensational Kensington murder trial, when a jealous husband, an Army officer, shot his wife's lover, but was subsequently proved to be of unsound mind due to shell-shock. Clippingdale was a familiar and respected figure in London medical circles and in the College Library. He possessed much charm of manner, being sympathetic and courteous after the fashion of the old school. As a medical biographer and antiquarian he belonged to the small body of those who devote themselves, with very little hope of reward or recognition, to the history of the profession. As a biographer he went into minute detail, relying much upon pedigrees, inscriptions on tombstones, and wills. He was a diligent searcher among the registers at Kensal Green Cemetery, where numbers of medical men, including Fellows of the College, lie buried. Heraldry, particularly medical heraldry, especially interested him. On the occasion of the bicentenary of the death of Joseph Addison, Mr Victor G Plarr bethought him of an idea which would at once interest and gratify this most charming modern representative of eighteenth-century amenities. He obtained leave, through Miss Nauen, the Secretary and Librarian to Lord Ilchester at Holland House, to be present with Dr Clippingdale in Addison's death-chamber at the same hour and minute when 'Mr Spectator' passed from this world. Addison died in the afternoon of June 17th, 1719, and late in the afternoon of June 17th, 1919, Dr Clippingdale and Mr Victor G. Plarr sat in the room in Holland House where the death occurred. Clippingdale had resided during his active years at 36 Holland Park Avenue, W, but after his retirement went to live at 17 Malvern Road, Hornsey, N. He died of enlarged prostate in the wards of the London Hospital on June 6th, 1925. Publications: "The Clay and Gravel Soils of London and the Relative Advisability of Dwelling upon them." - *Jour. Balneol. and Climat. Soc.*, 1902, vi, 14, 38, etc. "West London Rivers Extant and Extinct, and their Influence upon the Fertility and Salubrity of the Districts through which they Pass or Passed." - *West Lond. Med. Jour.*, 1909, xiv, 1. "A Medical Roll of Honour - Physicians and Surgeons who remained in London during the Great Plague," 8vo, London, 1909; reprinted from *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1909, Feb. 6th. "Medical Parliamentary Roll (1558-1909)," 8vo, London, 1910; reprinted from *Brit. Med. Jour.* "Medical Baronets, 1645-1911," 8vo, London, 1912; reprinted from *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1912, May 25th. "The Crest of Thomas Greenhill, Surgeon. An Heraldic Tribute to Human Fecundity," illustrated; reprinted from *West Lond. Med. Jour.*, 1914, xix, 286. "Heraldry and Medicine," original proof-sheets with illustrations of article in the *Antiquary*, 1915, Nov-Dec. (A printed copy of this is all that represents the author in the Surgeon-General's Library.) "Medical Court Roll, Physicians and Surgeons and some Apothecaries, who have attended the Sovereigns of England from William I to George V, with a Medical Note on Harold"; MS, 2 vols, fol. The two foregoing books were specially presented to the Library by the author. To the *London Hospital Gazette* he contributed a series of very careful biographies of former members of the Staff of the London Hospital, of whom a dozen were Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons. - *London Hosp. Gaz.*, xix, xx, xxii, 1912. In the College Scrap-Book is a portrait of Margaret Nicholson, who attempted to assassinate George III. This was presented by Clippingdale and is accompanied by one of his careful biographical notes. "Quackery in Hammersmith in the 18th Century." - *West Lond. Med. Jour.*, 1909, xiv, 74.
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First Title value, for Searching Cotterell, Edward (1857 - 1898)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-08-19
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at University College, London, where he was Atkinson-Morley Scholar in 1881, House Surgeon to Christopher Heath, and Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy. He practised for some years at Bicester, where he won a high reputation, chiefly by his boldness and skill in dealing with surgical emergencies. He had at this time two other addresses-one at 1 High Street, Banbury, the other at 7 Welbeck Street-and was Medical Officer to the Stoke Lyne District of the Bicester Union and Acting Surgeon to the 2nd Oxfordshire Rifle Volunteers, as well as Medical Referee to the Commercial Union Assurance Company. Removing to London in 1891, he settled at 39 Weymouth Street, W, and was appointed Surgeon to Out-patients at the Lock Hospital. He was also, at the time of his death, Surgeon to the West End Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System, and to the Cancer Hospital. He died of pneumonia at his residence, 5 West Halkin Street, Belgrave Square, W, on April 5th, 1898. Publications: *The Pocket Gray; or Anatomist's Vade-Mecum*, 5th ed, 1901. *Roaring in Horses. A Popular Description of its Causes and its Radical Cure*, 16mo, London, 1888. *Syphilis: its Treatment by Intramuscular Injections of soluble Mercurial Salts*, 16mo, London, 1893. He was editor of 2nd ed of Alfred Cooper's *Syphilis*, 8vo, London, 1895. "Successful Case of Removal of the Entire Uterus for Cancer affecting Cervix." - *Brit. Med. Jour*., 1887. "Two Cases of Uretero-Lithotomy." - *Trans. Roy. Med.-Chir. Soc*., 1894, lxxvii, 255. "Stone Impacted in the Ureter; its Consequences, Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment." - *Lancet*, 1894, ii, 1189. "On the Frequent Occurrence of Epithelioma of the Tongue after Syphilitic Lesions of that Organ, and its Treatment." - *Med. Week*, 1894. "A Rectangular Splint for Use after Removal of the Breast." - *Brit. Med. Jour*., 1898, i, 442.
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First Title value, for Searching Dalrymple, Donald (1814 - 1873)

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First Title value, for Searching Dalrymple, John (1803 - 1852)

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First Title value, for Searching Dowse, David William James (1937 - 2009)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-09-30
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Occupation General surgeon
Details David Dowse was a general surgeon in Nova Scotia, Canada. He was born in Dublin on 17 January 1937, the son of Richard Victor Dowse, a gynaecologist and obstetrician, and Ellen née Heard. His parents moved to Ceylon, where his father was a physician in Colombo, and then, during the Second World War, moved to Kenya. David was educated at Michaelhouse, in Natal, South Africa, and then returned to Ireland, to study medicine at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1962. As an undergraduate he won university and national titles for swimming and diving. He completed his junior posts in Dublin and in Northern Ireland, and then worked for a time in general practice before specialising in surgery. He did registrar posts at St Catherine’s Hospital, Tralee, at Greenwich District Hospital and at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Roehampton. After passing his FRCS, he emigrated to Nova Scotia, Canada, where he was appointed as a general surgeon to the Fishermen’s Hospital in Lunenberg (1972 to 1996) and to South Shore Regional Hospital, Bridgewater (1980 to 1996). He had many interests, chief of which was sailing in the waters of Nova Scotia. He died of Alzheimer’s disease on 23 September 2009, leaving his wife Heather née Stuart, two sons (Martin and Peter) and two daughters (Suzanne and Rosalie).
Resource Identifier RCS: E001023
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First Title value, for Searching Cox, William Sands (1802 - 1875)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-08-19
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The eldest son of E T Cox, a well-known Birmingham surgeon (1769-1863). After education at King Edward VI Grammar School and at the General Hospital, Birmingham, he studied at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, (1821-1823), and at the École de Médecine, Paris (1824). Early in his career he conceived the idea of establishing a school of medicine in Birmingham on the lines of Grainger's school in London. After visiting numerous schools, both British and Continental, he settled in Birmingham, was appointed Surgeon to the General Dispensary in 1825, and commenced to lecture on anatomy, with physiological and surgical observations, on Dec 1st, 1825, at Temple Row. In 1828 he succeeded, after opposition, in founding, in conjunction with Drs Johnstone, Booth, and others, the Birmingham School of Medicine, himself lecturing on anatomy at first, and later on surgery. He took an active part in the formation of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association (now the British Medical Association): in 1840-1841 he founded the Queen's Hospital, Birmingham, and became its Senior Surgeon. In 1843 he secured a Royal Charter for his medical school by the title of Queen's College, and its scope was enlarged to that of a College in Arts in 1847, and in Theology in 1851. Cox's aim was to make his college into a university for the Midlands, but it appears his administrative ability was not equal to his creative power and he became embroiled in serious quarrels with his associates. This led to an inquiry in 1860 by the Charity Commissioners, with the result that the hospital and college were separated; thereafter Cox ceased to take part in the work of either. He left Birmingham on his father's death in 1863 and lived at Bole Hall, near Tamworth, at Leamington, and at Kenilworth, where he died on December 23rd, 1875. Cox left nothing to the institution he had founded, but he bequeathed £3000, with his medical library and instruments, to the Cottage Hospital at Moreton-in-the-Marsh, as well as other charitable bequests. There is a Maguire lithograph of him in the College Collection, dated 1854, and a portrait in Barker's *Photographs of Eminent Medical Men*, 1865, i, 61. Publications: *A Synopsis of the Bones, Ligaments and Muscles, Blood-vessels, and Nerves of the Human Body*, 1831. *A Letter to J T Law on establishing a Clinical Hospital at Birmingham*, 1849.
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First Title value, for Searching Crabb, Alfred (1814 - 1875)

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First Title value, for Searching Crabtree, Angelo Matteo ( - 1925)

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First Title value, for Searching Craddock, William (1818 - 1872)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-08-19 2012-03-22
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born in July, 1818, the son of John Craddock, of Radstock, Somerset. He joined the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon on Jan 30th, 1843, being promoted to Surgeon on May 31st, 1857, and to Surgeon Major on January 30th, 1863. In 1857 he was attached to the 70th Native Infantry, and saw service in the First Sikh or Sutlej War (1845-1846) and in China (1858-1859). He retired on December 25th, 1870. He died on board the ss *Scotland* off Cape St Vincent, on April 18th, 1872.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001307
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First Title value, for Searching Janikoun, Samuel Hirsch (1913 - 2008)

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by Norman Kirby
Publication Date 2011-08-25
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Samuel Hirsch Janikoun was joint professor of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Royal Army Medical College. He was born in the East End of London on 12 March 1913 into a Jewish family. He won a scholarship to Hackney Downs Grammar School and from there went on to University College London to read medicine, qualifying MRCS LRCP in 1937. During the Second World War he first treated war casualties in a civilian hospital in Croydon. In 1942 he joined the RAMC as a surgical trainee and was posted to the Cambridge Military Hospital in Aldershot. The following year he was sent on an urgent mission as a senior medical officer on board HMS Orion with reinforcements to North Africa. On his return from this mission he was posted to 33 Casualty Clearing Station as a junior surgical specialist training for the invasion of Europe in 1944. He went on to serve in France, Holland, Belgium and Germany, operating on shattered limbs in tents behind the front line. He subsequently moved to India in January 1945, serving in Secunderabad and Barrackpore as a senior surgical specialist until he was discharged in June 1946. On demobilisation, he became a resident surgical officer at Acton Hospital and passed his FRCS in 1950. He rejoined the RAMC in 1955. His initial posting on returning to the service was as officer in charge of the surgical division at BMH Catterick. With the intensity of action in Malaya, the Far East troops were reinforced and he was posted to BMH Singapore, qualifying for the general service medal with the Malayan clasp. On his return to the UK in 1960 he became the senior consultant at Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital, Millbank, the central reference hospital for Army patients from home and abroad. Here he gave tremendous support to UK surgeons. If they had difficult cases he would readily give second opinions and advice, and on many occasions accepted the patient on transfer. This was an invaluable service. After six years he returned to the BMH Singapore for a short tour before his appointment as professor of military surgery based at the Army Medical College, but he soon re-established his consulting role at Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital, Millbank. In 1967 he was promoted to brigadier as the command consulting surgeon at the headquarters of the British Army of the Rhine, Rheindahlen, Germany. He retired on 12 March 1973 and was soon appointed as a consultant surgeon at the limb fitting centre at Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton. He extended this service, taking on not only the cases from the Far East and Northern Ireland, but also the large numbers of patients from the Second Wold War who needed regular reviews as the grew older. He also gave a large amount of time and consultation to the Israel Army wounded when he was on leave. He was given a special tea party for his 90th birthday attended by his extended family and friends. The director general of the RAMC held a special lunch in his honour at the headquarters mess of the Army Medical Services, attended by many retired surgical colleagues. His wife Magaly, who was a dental student when they met, predeceased him after nearly 60 years of marriage. He died on 15 December 2008 and was survived by two sons and two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Lawrence, George Anthony (1925 - 2010)

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by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2011-08-25
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Occupation General surgeon
Details George Anthony Lawrence, known as 'Tony', was a consultant general surgeon in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, Canada, where he practised for 35 years. He served as a coroner and from 1984 to 1993 was chief of staff of the Highland View Regional Hospital and was also medical examiner for Cumberland County over many years. He was an enthusiastic volunteer manager of the Red Cross blood donor clinic. He left the UK when he was at senior registrar level as resident surgical officer to the Norfolk and Norwich and allied hospitals, and emigrated to Canada. He and his wife, Gillian, and family went to Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada in 1965 to make a permanent home, highly recommended by his friend in Norwich, Joe Donachie, who had settled in the locality. Here Tony developed a fine reputation as a friendly practitioner who gave wise advice and took excellent care of patients on whom he performed a wide variety of general surgical procedures. Tony was born in Nottingham on 9 April 1925, the son of Ernest Lawrence, a dentist, and his wife Millicent. He had two sisters, Sheila and Bobbie, and was a great nephew of the writer, D H Lawrence. He was educated at Nottingham High School before entering Guy's Hospital for his medical training, whence he graduated in 1950. A gifted singer, he shunned a professional career in music to pursue medicine, but used his fine baritone voice to good effect in choirs, and also in Christmas shows, where his sense of fun became apparent as he mimicked consultants on the staff of the hospital. An all round sportsman, he played in the Guy's first XV as a scrum half. After house appointments, he entered the Royal Army Medical Corps and served as a captain in Egypt for two years before returning to Guy's for further surgical training. He met Gillian Wood, a medical student, whom he married: they had a family of six children, three boys and three girls. In Norwich, first as a registrar and from 1964 as a senior registrar, he was recognised as a superb diagnostician and an excellent surgeon. In Canada he developed the same reputation. His love of medicine was apparent as he retained a strong belief in the principle that the interests of patients were paramount. Outside medicine he had a love of the countryside even during his time in Norwich, when he and Gill lived in a 'wattle and daub' country cottage at Wreningham. They kept a variety of animals, including a donkey, 'Belinda', fed from hay in the fields, hand-mown by Tony and the many guests they entertained. In 1967, after a year or so in Canada, he moved to Burnside Farm as his permanent residence and in retirement was able to pursue his interest as a 'hobby farmer'. He was a proud Rotarian for over 40 years and his services were recognised with a Paul Harris fellowship and the Club's distinguished service award. He enjoyed a regular game of golf with his medical colleagues in the area. Tony Lawrence died at his home in Amherst, Nova Scotia, on 10 August 2010 from metastatic malignant melanoma. He was survived by his wife Gill, five children (Noel, Claire, Sarah, Anne and Michael) and nine grandchildren. He was predeceased by his son Mark.
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First Title value, for Searching Craigie, John Livingston (1814 - 1864)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-08-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Received his medical education at the London Hospital, where he was afterwards for some time Lecturer on Dental Surgery. He practised at 42 Finsbury Square, EC, and died at The Woodlands, Chigwell, Essex, on January 14th, 1864.
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First Title value, for Searching Hill, David William (1926 - 2008)

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by Enid Taylor
Publication Date 2011-08-26
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details David William Hill was research professor in ophthalmology at the Royal College of Surgeons and a consultant ophthalmologist at Moorfields Hospital, London. He was born on 5 May 1926 in Croydon, Surrey, the son of a bank manager and a housewife. He attended Whitgift School, Croydon, before becoming a medical student at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying in 1948. After house jobs at St Bartholomew's, he began training in ophthalmology at Brighton Eye Hospital. He did his National Service in the RAMC, serving in Austria and Trieste, and was the sole ophthalmic trained doctor in this area. He was then appointed as an ophthalmic surgeon to Edgware General Hospital and to a research post at Hammersmith Hospital. He subsequently became research professor in ophthalmology in our College in 1967, his research covering retinal circulation and diabetic retinopathy. At the same time he was appointed as a consultant ophthalmic surgeon to Moorfields Eye Hospital, where he continued his clinical work with a special interest in cataract surgery. He examined for the Royal College of Surgeons and also worked with the Royal National Institute for the Blind. He married Jean Adams, who was a part-time general practitioner and taught and examined in first aid. They had three children, one daughter qualifying as a doctor. There are eight grandchildren. After retirement in 1991 he was able to devote more time to the church as a lay reader and sacristan. He was keen on mountain walking, climbed the Matterhorn twice, and also found time to pursue his other interests of carpentry, bird watching and classical music. Sadly in April 2006 he suffered a stroke and died on 5 February 2008. He was survived by his wife Jean, their children and grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001311
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First Title value, for Searching Watts, John Cadman (1913 - 2010)

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by Norman Kirby
Publication Date 2011-08-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Colonel John Watts was the first joint professor of military surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Royal Army Medical College, a post he held from 1960 to 1964. Watts was born on 13 April 1913 at Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, the only child of John Nixon Watts, a solicitor, and the Honorable Amy Bettina Watts née Cadman, a teacher. He was educated at Alleyn Court Preparatory School and Merchant Taylors' School, where he joined the Officer Training Corps. His medical career started at St Thomas' Hospital, London. Here he joined 'Mitchener's Army' in the University of London Officer Training Corps. Phillip Henry Mitchener was one of the most colourful figures in surgery and a consultant surgeon to St Thomas' Hospital. John, his house surgeon, asked him for career advice. He was advised to join the RAMC as war was imminent, and in February 1938 he did. In the run up to the Second World War, Watts served in Palestine with the Black Watch, and then with the No 8 General Hospital. Between 1942 and 1944, he was officer in charge of 41 Field Surgical Unit, in Italy. With the surgeon Robert Stephens, Watts developed field surgical teams for war. On D-day he took an airlanding field surgical team by glider to Normandy and operated under fire for several weeks. On seeing the red cross, one of the defending German soldiers attended his unit with a wound he had sustained on the Russian front which had broken down - this was properly treated and the patient evacuated. After several months, the lightly equipped field surgical team returned to the UK to prepare for the airborne Rhine crossing, by which time John had been promoted to deputy assistant director of medical services. For his gallant actions in these battles he was awarded the Military Cross and was mentioned in despatches. He was promoted to command 225 Parachute Field Ambulance, which, after training in UK in July 1945, went to South East Asia. He was again mentioned in despatches. In 1946, in command of 195 Parachute Field Ambulance, he returned to Palestine and was awarded the third clasp. After a spell at the RAMC College, Millbank, he became officer in command of the surgical division in the British Commonwealth Hospital in Korea and Japan. He wrote articles on the treatment of war wounds and of frostbite in Korea. Returning to the Cambridge Military Hospital in Aldershot, adjacent to the Airborne Forces Depot, he maintained his expertise in the treatment of parachute injuries. He later went to Cyprus at the start of the EOKA campaign, the nationalist struggle to end British rule, as officer in charge of the surgical division at the military hospital in Nicosia and later Dhekelia. During the Suez campaign, he was able to train another parachute field surgical team for the 3 Para drop on El Gamil airfield in November 1956. The EOKA campaign resulted in 704 British casualties and these were reviewed by Watts and presented to the RCS in his Hunterian Lecture, in January 1960. After a short tour at Iserlohn with the British Army of the Rhine, in February 1960, he was appointed as the first joint professor of military surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Royal Army Medical College and was promoted to colonel. Retiring from the Army in 1965, he was appointed as a consultant in trauma and orthopaedics at Bedford General Hospital. He was a senior fellow of British Orthopaedic Association. In 1955 he published *Surgeon at war* (Allen & Unwin), which described his many adventures at war, but also expressed the many principles of war surgery that he had learnt and taught. Watts retired from the NHS in1976 and moved to Suffolk, where he could enjoy his lifelong passion of sailing the tidal waters of East Anglia. In 1938 he married Joan Lilian Inwood, a nurse. They had a daughter, Stephanie Carol, and three sons (John Michael, Jeremy Christopher and Richard Charles). His wife and one son predeceased him. John Cadman Watts died on 17 December 2010.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001312
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First Title value, for Searching Hartley, Charles Edwin (1922 - 2009)

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by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2010-09-30
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Occupation General surgeon missionary
Details Charles Hartley served much of his professional life as a missionary and surgeon at Vom Christian Hospital, Nigeria. He later entered general practice in Falmouth. He was born in Newcastle, Staffordshire, on 22 January 1922. His father was Harold Hartley, a senior consulting surgeon at North Staffordshire Hospital, who had won a gold medal for his London MD in 1902. His mother was Janet Stuart née Laird, the second woman to gain the FRCS Edinburgh with the gold medal. Together with Elsie Inglis of the Scottish Women’s Hospital, she went to Serbia, to provide medical services for the White Russians. His mother died when Charles was 13, and he recalled being told by his housemaster “not to cry, as it was selfish”. His two older brothers went to Eton, but when it was time for young Charles to be educated, his father’s finances were somewhat constrained. He was educated first at Summer Field School, Oxford, and then went to Epsom College (from 1934 to 1939), where he was encouraged to enter medicine. As a rather shy bespectacled schoolboy, he had a good academic record before going to Peterhouse College, Cambridge, to study natural sciences in a foreshortened two year course. From 1939 to 1941, he captained the Peterhouse tennis team and was the only medical student in his year. In his first few days as an undergraduate he received an invitation to attend a ‘fresher’s squash’, a meeting for newcomers aimed at giving a Christian message. The speaker was ‘Jim’ (Charles Gordon) Scorer, a Cambridge graduate from Emmanuel College, who gave an evangelical talk that impressed at least one young undergraduate. Charles was also influenced in his early spiritual journey by a contemporary at Peterhouse, John Swinbank, later chaplain to Bradfield College. Charles went to St Bartholomew’s Hospital for his clinical training, but, because of the war, spent only three months in Smithfield, with much of his clinical training taking place at Hill End Hospital, St Albans and later at Friern Hospital. In his first year Charles Hartley lodged in St Albans and was provided with full board and lodging for performing regular Air Raid Precaution (ARP) duties. In the second year, he was billeted in Hill End Hospital, much liked by students, nurses and resident doctors because of the friendly and informal atmosphere, not apparent in Smithfield. The rather gloomy atmosphere at Friern Barnet in his final year was offset by excellent ‘digs’, run by a Miss Pepper, a staunch Congregationalist. She encouraged the students to attend the local church, run by one of the first female ministers in the UK, the Reverend Elsie Chamberlain, who was married to the local Anglican priest. Charles won the Brackenbury prize in surgery, the Matthews Duncan prize and gold medal in midwifery and gynaecology and the Walsham prize in surgical pathology. He was house surgeon to (Sir) James Paterson Ross and John Hosford at a time when Reggie Murley became chief assistant. He then became chief assistant in neurosurgery to John O’Connell and passed the primary FRCS. In 1947 Charles Hartley entered the RAMC as a surgical specialist in Graz and on trains from Trieste to the Hook of Holland. Towards the end of his National Service, he developed jaundice and was admitted to hospital for several weeks. Once he was demobilised, Charles felt he should go abroad as a missionary. As part of his training, he took a crash correspondence course with the London Bible College, did surgical locums and ironed out gaps in his knowledge, passed the final FRCS at the third attempt and the DTM&H after a course in tropical medicine. The Sudan United Missionary Society desperately needed a surgeon in northern Nigeria, and Charles set sail for Lagos in 1953. The Vom Hospital stood on a 4,000 foot high plateau. The work at this newly built hospital was demanding. On operating days he worked from dawn to dusk: caesarean sections were common emergencies, and he became adept at treating patients with vesicovaginal fistula. In quieter moments he explored the countryside, indulged in bird watching and added to his carefully annotated researches on the history of art. Despite poor health, he was determined to explore Africa and made the long journey to Lake Chad and then back along the river Benue. He left the mission field in 1966, after some 15 years of service. After extensive investigations at Bart’s, he was found to have contracted a rare form of leprosy. After treatment, he was left with a weak leg and decided to give up surgery. He became a GP in Falmouth. Charles loved the work as it brought new challenges. He retired from general practice reluctantly at the age of 60, but continued to work for the National Blood Transfusion Service across Cornwall until 1992, when he reached 70. He enjoyed golf and was an active member of the Falmouth Baptist church. He first met Ruth E A Doble, a nurse at Bart’s, in the sluice room of the operating theatre at Hill End Hospital. They married in February 1947, and had two daughters, Jane Deborah, born in 1948, who became a teacher, and Philippa Ruth, born in 1950, who became a solicitor. One of Charles’ hobbies during his time as a GP was collecting old Bibles. His was the second largest private collection and included first edition authorised versions and a psalter that had belonged to Mary, Queen of Scots. When his daughter Philippa sadly died of breast cancer in 2004, he lost heart for collecting and sold his collection at Sotherby’s for £250,000, with which he established the Bible Heritage Trust, a charity supporting Christian missions at home and abroad. Charles Hartley died on 6 October 2009, after four weeks of increasing weakness, but remained mentally alert to the last. He was survived by his daughter Jane, her husband, their three surviving children (Anna Grace, John Melville and Esther Ivy) and Philippa’s two children, Jonathan Hugh and Naomi Ruth.
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First Title value, for Searching Hulme, Allan (1917 - 2008)

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by E C Hulme
Publication Date 2010-10-13
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Occupation Neurosurgeon
Details Allan Hulme was chief of neurosurgery at Frenchay Hospital, Bristol. He was born in June 1917 in Seaton Carew, but spent his childhood in Stockport, Lancashire. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School, where he was in receipt of a scholarship. In 1935, he won an exhibition to St John’s College, Cambridge, to read agricultural science. A year after going to Cambridge, he decided that his true vocation lay in medicine, and the university and college authorities allowed him to switch courses. In 1939, he graduated BA in medicine. Allan Hulme returned to Manchester, to pursue his medical training at the Manchester Royal Infirmary as a house surgeon under the tutelage of Sir Geoffrey Jefferson, newly appointed professor of neurosurgery at the University of Manchester, a mentor for whom he developed the utmost regard and admiration. In 1942, Allan Hulme gained his BChir. He also married Christine Annie Pepper, whom he had met in Cambridge whilst she was nursing at Addenbrooke’s Hospital. Their marriage lasted for 59 years. In 1942, Allan Hulme joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving first in East Africa (Nigeria), then being transferred to India, and finally Burma. While in India, his interest in neurosurgery was kindled by having to deal with combat-related traumatic head injuries. During this highly formative period, he was strongly influenced by a second mentor, Gordon Paul, a surgeon from Bristol, who informed him of the possibility of obtaining a position in Bristol after the war finished. After his demobilisation in 1946, Allan returned briefly to Manchester, but influenced by this advice, applied for and obtained a post in neurosurgery at Frenchay Hospital in Bristol. This had been developed as an Emergency Medical Services hospital, housed in a series of single-story brick buildings, by the US forces during the Second World War, and it was during this period that neurosurgery was established. After the war, when the hospital was handed back to the newly-formed NHS, Frenchay became the south-western regional centre for the specialty of neurosurgery. In 1947, shortly after starting work at Frenchay, Allan obtained his FRCS. At the time of his appointment, the chief of neurosurgery was George Alexander, another strong influence. He was acknowledged in an important paper which Allan Hulme published in 1960 on the surgical approach to thoracic intervertebral disc protrusions, which is still being cited more than 40 years later (*J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry*. 1960 May;23:133-7). Allan was promoted to senior registrar then full consultant by the early 1960s. The third consultant was Douglas Phillips. Work in the unit was arduous and demanding, with long and frequently unsocial hours. He showed paramount devotion to the welfare of his patients, often making the journey from his home in Long Ashton in the western suburbs of Bristol, even when not on duty, to check on the progress of patients in person. Because of his wide geographical coverage of the Frenchay neurosurgical unit, he also held regular clinics in Taunton and Exeter. On the retirement of Douglas Phillips in the late 1960s, Allan became chief of neurosurgery. Arising from his surgical work, he developed a strong interest in the mechanisms of control of intracranial pressure. He initiated and undertook pioneering research into this with colleagues at the Burden Neurological Institute, particularly Ray Cooper. They studied the control of intracranial pressure during anaesthesia, after traumatic head injury, and before and after surgery for intracranial space-occupying lesions. These studies involved the implantation of miniaturised subdural pressure transducers into the skull, along with other intracranial monitoring devices such as oxygen electrodes and thermistors to monitor local blood flow. Allan retired from his post as chief of neurosurgery in 1979, and retired to Balquhidder in Perthshire, where he passed a long, productive and happy retirement amongst his beloved Scottish hills, which he loved to paint and photograph to the very end of his life. He died on 29 December 2008 and was survived by his three children, Edward, Martin and Catherine.
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First Title value, for Searching Jenkins, Ian Lawrence (1944 - 2009)

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by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2010-10-13
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Surgeon Vice-Admiral Ian Jenkins retired from the Royal Navy after a distinguished career and was appointed Constable and Governor of Windsor Castle in February 2008. His predecessor in this office was Air Chief Marshall Sir Richard Johns, and it was considered that he would be a hard act to follow. Windsor was the pinnacle of Ian’s career and, with his quiet approach, he soon mastered his brief and became much respected both within and without the castle. In this position he was the Queen’s ‘right-hand man’ and his duties included greeting heads of state. In June 2008, he had the privilege of leading the annual Garter procession down the hill to St George’s Chapel, when Prince William was installed as a member of the Order. Ian Jenkins was born in Cardiff on 12 September 1944, the son of Gordon Eaton Jenkins MBE and Edith Jenkins (née Rouse). His father had served in the Airborne Forces during the Second World War, and was a senior hospital administrator for Wales. Ian was educated at the Howardian Grammar School in Penylan, and in his youth cycled for Glamorgan. He graduated from the Welsh National School of Medicine in 1968 and married Elizabeth Lane, an occupational therapist the following year. Embarking on a career in surgery, Ian retained a love for the sea and, in 1973, he joined the Royal Naval Reserve. He attended the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, for only two weeks, which did not deter him from taking the Dartmouth Passing Out Parade years later, much to the bemusement of senior colleagues! Transferring to the Royal Navy as a surgeon lieutenant-commander in 1975, he was mentored by Sir James Watt and specialised in urology under Surgeon Captain (later Sir) Norman Blacklock and Keith Yeates in Newcastle, and became a consultant in 1979. His naval service included spells with HMS *Ark Royal*, the Royal Naval hospitals at Haslar, Plymouth and Gibraltar, as well as with Five Commando Royal Marine surgical support team. While with Marines, he undertook an Arctic survival course in Norway, commenting that “he had never really been so cold ever since. Once you have learned how to dig out and survive in a snow hole you never complain about the weather in Wales again.” Ian Jenkins returned from Gibraltar to RNH Haslar as head of urology in 1982. In 1988, he was appointed professor of naval surgery and then became the medical officer in command at RNH Haslar (from 1990 to 1996) and Honorary Surgeon to the Queen in 1994. Jenkins was also a mentor to some of the best surgeons that the Navy recruited. As a surgeon commodore he became the first Defence Postgraduate Dean and commandant of the new Royal Defence Medical College: this appointment coincided with the launch of the Calman initiatives for specialist training. He was a member of the Conference of Postgraduate Medical Deans (COPMeD) under (later Sir) John Temple. In April 1999, he became the Medical Director General (Naval) as a Surgeon Rear Admiral directly responsible to the Second Sea Lord for maritime medical strategy and for the delivery of medical services to the surface and submarine flotillas and to the Royal Marines. In October 2002, he was appointed Surgeon General of Her Majesty’s Armed Forces with the rank of surgeon vice-admiral. Ian was then responsible to the Secretary of State and to the Chief of the Defence Staff for the quality and standards of defence medicine, medical intelligence, defence medical research and education and for the leadership and strategic direction of all three Defence Medical Services. Despite these achievements and the high standards he set himself and others, he was widely recognised as a caring consultant and a ‘Christian’ gentleman. Ian Jenkins was appointed as Medical Officer Abroad to the Prince of Wales in 1982. He attended their Royal Highnesses the Prince and the Princess of Wales on a number of foreign engagements, but was not really impressed when he was mistakenly identified as a member of the royal bodyguard during a visit to Australia. He had a flair for administration, which was exercised with efficiency, effectiveness and thoughtfulness. Ian relinquished the baton of Surgeon General at the end of October 2006, but he was far from idle. Retirement interests included chairmanship of the council of Portsmouth Cathedral, co-patron of Children and Families of Far East Prisoners of War, governor of Sutton’s Hospital in Charterhouse, director of the White Ensign Association, trustee of the Queen Alexandra’s Hospital Home and chairman designate of Seafarers UK (King George’s Fund for Sailors). Ian regularly attended meetings of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and was a valued member of the Travelling Surgical Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, to which he was elected in 1984. He and his wife Liz were outgoing members at meetings of the ‘club’ at home and abroad. Ian contributed papers on many visits that reflected his urological interests. The Jenkinses organised a home visit of ‘club’ members at the Royal Naval Hospital Haslar in 2000 and Ian gave an erudite paper on ‘The life and wounds of Lord Nelson’. Outside interests included painting, classical music and fly-fishing. In the Windsor area he was soon elected as president of the Windsor Music Festival and attended many local concerts. The Jenkins Christmas cards often had watercolours painted by Prince Charles, but Ian always declared that he did not have the talent or access to the scenes as his ‘boss’. Ian died suddenly at breakfast on 19 February 2009. The Queen was said to be devastated by his premature death and the flag on the Round Tower at Windsor Castle was lowered to half-mast as a mark of her respect. Ian Jenkins’ funeral service took place in St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, on 6 March 2009. The Military Knights of Windsor mounted a vigil beside the coffin before the service, which was conducted by the Dean of Windsor, the Very Reverend David Conner. The Duke of Edinburgh represented the Royal Family. The chapel was full to capacity with over 800 people, including family mourners, friends and service personnel. An address was given by the Reverend Jeremy Ames, Chaplain Royal Navy and Master of St Nicholas Hospital, Salisbury, and a private committal followed the very moving service. A requiem to Ian Lawrence Jenkins was celebrated at Sutton’s Hospital, Charterhouse, at which the address was given by the Master, James Thomson. In this Jenkins was described as a “Much loved God-fearing man who had many strands to his life, and whose life touched so many.” He was survived by his wife Elizabeth (Liz), their son Michael, daughter Georgina and her husband and three grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Shires, Peter Rodney (1930 - 2010)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-02-10
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Peter Shires was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal County Hospital, Guildford, Surrey. He was born in Huddersfield, the son of Frank Shires, a wool merchant, and Marion née Eastwood. He was the nephew of Bertram Shires, a radiologist at St Thomas' and Great Ormond Street hospitals. He was educated at Terra Nova School, Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, from which he won a scholarship to Winchester. He went up to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 1948 with an exhibition in natural sciences and qualified in 1954. He was a casualty officer at St Thomas' and a house surgeon to R H O B Robinson and T W Mimpriss. He did his National Service in the RAMC, as a junior specialist in surgery in Germany, returning to be a surgical registrar at Fulham Hospital. He then specialised in orthopaedics, starting as a registrar at the Rowley Bristow Hospital and at St Thomas', continuing there as a senior registrar, before being appointed as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Royal Surrey County Hospital. He married Irene Margaret Ann Hyde, a St Thomas' nurse, in 1955. They had three sons (Peter, Richard and Nicholas), none of whom went into medicine. His hobbies included golf, swimming and watercolour painting. He died on 28 July 2010.
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First Title value, for Searching Eve, Sir Frederick Samuel (1853 - 1916)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-30
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Occupation Curator General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Son of William Eve, The Manor, North Orthendon, Essex; entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1872, and was House Surgeon to Luther Holden (qv) in 1876-1877. After that he studied surgery at Leipzig, and becoming FRCS, was appointed Curator of the St Bartholomew's Hospital Museum in 1879. In conjunction with Anthony A Bowlby (qv) he compiled in 1882 a catalogue of the Museum, and meanwhile made several communications to the *St Bartholomew's Hospital Reports*. In 1881, with the support of Paget, Flower, and others, a pathological curatorship in the Museum of the College was instituted, and Eve was appointed; he held the post until 1890. In the *Transactions* of the Pathological Society are some sixty papers by Eve, with descriptions of pathological specimens. As Erasmus Wilson Lecturer (1882-1884) he gave his first description of cystic tumours of the jaw (distinguishing the unilocular from the multilocular) and the connection with disturbed enamel formation. A revised account "On Cystic and Encysted Solid Tumours of the Jaws" appeared in the *Transactions* of the Odontological Society, 1886. Eve dwelt in particular upon tumours and cysts, adding the microscopic appearances to the clinical ones. Among descriptions of museum specimens may be noted: those relating to diseases of animals, rare tumours of the great omentum, renal tumours combining sarcomatous and embryonic muscle tissue, endotheliomata of the brain, cystic tumours of the testis, gigantism of the extremities, psorospermic cysts in the mucous membrane of the ureter; enlargement of lymphatic glands was demonstrated to be tuberculous although caseation was absent, and lupus was identified as a tuberculous disease. An appointment upon the staff of the London Hospital caused Eve to leave St Bartholomew's; he was at first Surgical Registrar, in 1884 Assistant Surgeon, Surgeon in 1888, Consulting Surgeon in 1914. He also acted as Ophthalmic Surgeon before a special department was instituted, and lectured on pathology. He served as Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital and was Surgeon to the Evelina Hospital for Children. He published many surgical observations, his surgery being infused with his pathological knowledge, microscopical as well as naked-eye - for example, in his cases of melanotic tumours following injury, and those of tumours at the base of the tongue. He was Secretary of the Section of Surgery at the Nottingham Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1892, Vice-President of the Section of Diseases of Children at Bristol in 1894, and President of the same Section at Cheltenham in 1901. He was a Member of the Court of Examiners of the College from 1902-1911, was elected to the Council in 1904, gave the Bradshaw Lectures on "Acute Hemorrhagic Pancreatitis" in 1914, and was Vice-President at the time of his death. He was knighted in 1911. At the outbreak of the War he became Major RAMC (TF), 2nd London General Hospital, and in December, 1914, he was appointed Surgeon to the Eastern Command with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. This post involved him in long journeys. In July, 1915, with the assistance of Dr A S Woods, he organized a special hospital at Croydon for Gunshot Injuries of Nerves. He was attacked by influenza, followed by pneumonia, and he died on December 15th, 1916. There was a memorial service at All Saints', Margaret Street. He was survived by Lady Eve, a daughter of H E Cox, of Jamaica, by a son then serving in France, and by a daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Maurice, Brian Armstead (1927 - 2008)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-03-03
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Brian Maurice was a consultant general surgeon at Kent and Sussex Hospital in Tunbridge Wells. He was born on 28 July 1927 in Sutton, Macclesfield, Cheshire, the elder son of Norman B Maurice, a chemist who carried out pioneering research into synthetic nylon, and his wife Dorothy (née Armstead), who was the first woman graduate in biology from Manchester University and the last of the family of Armsteads. Brian was educated at Oundle School, where he played in the first XV, was gymnastic champion and became a fine tennis player. He entered Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he rowed for the college. He went on to St Thomas' Hospital for his clinical training. There, in 1953, he and 20 other medical students went to Zierikzee to help in the flood relief, commemorated in his diary, which recorded the bitter cold, the daily recovery of cadavers and the diet of bread and tomato soup: Brian never ate tomato soup again. After qualifying, he did house appointments and had a spell as a casualty officer. He did his National Service in the RAF as a flight lieutenant, and played rugby for the Command XV. He returned to civilian life as a senior house officer at St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey, as a demonstrator of anatomy, and then worked at the Rowley Bristow Orthopaedic Hospital. He was then registrar at St Thomas' and senior registrar at King's College Hospital, during which time he published on direct arterial surgery for claudication, pilonidal sinus and ultra-violet fluorescence of bladder tumours following the administration of tetracycline. A much later medical publication was *Surgery for general practitioners* (Castle House, 1989). In the College, he was a surgical tutor for many years in the Tunbridge Wells area and, with his colleague Ronnie King, established the postgraduate centre at the Kent and Sussex Hospital. At the age of 57, he contracted hepatitis from a needle injury and was in coma for some time. He miraculously recovered, but decided to retire. Three years later, he underwent quadruple heart bypass surgery and an aortic valve replacement. Brian Maurice had many fascinating interests and hobbies outside medicine, particularly genealogy, water gardens and 'koi' fish. He was an avid collector of playing cards, including the commemorative ones of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards, of which he became master in 1970. He later became a liveryman of the Barbers Company. An enthusiastic golfer, he was chairman of Scientific Putting Ltd, designing a putter which was approved by the Royal and Ancient Golf Club, and publishing a book on the subject. He was a keen bridge player throughout his busy life. In 1958 he married a Nightingale nurse, Marjorie Sammons, a theatre sister known as 'Sammy'. They had three children. His son, Adrian, became a loss adjustor and followed his father into the livery of the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards, becoming master in 2007, the third generation of his family to hold the honour. His daughter Laura Jane Armstead is married with three sons, while his son Christopher Armstead now works for British Telecom. Brian Armstead Maurice died on 22 December, 2008.
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First Title value, for Searching Perera, George Nelson (1915 - 2009)

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by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2011-03-03
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Occupation Urologist
Details George Nelson Perera was a pioneer urologist in Sri Lanka, formerly Ceylon. His consultant career spanned the years 1957 to 1971, first as a general surgeon and then as a specialist in genito-urinary surgery. He had to overcome considerable opposition from his general surgical colleagues in order to switch to urology as they still regarded the discipline as an integral part of their own work. He served the General Hospital in Colombo faithfully, training many of Sri Lanka's present generation of urologists. He was born on 14 November 1915 in Moratuwa, in what was then Ceylon, the son of Cornelius Sylvester Martin Perera. His father was the first Ceylonese to be appointed as a superintendent of a British-owned tea estate. His mother, Stella née Dharmaratne, was a housewife. Educated first at Prince of Wales College, Moratuwa, Perera moved to St Joseph College, Colombo, passed the London University matriculation examination in 1935 and went on to study medicine at the Ceylon Medical College of Colombo from 1936 to 1941, qualifying with first class honours. As a medical student he served from 1939 in the Ceylon Medical Corps and was demobilised at the end of the war with the rank of captain. Much of his own training was under the guidance of the Milroy Paul, doyen of surgery in Ceylon, a man of great presence and striking appearance, who had strong connections with the College. When George Perera went to England in 1953, he worked with, and was much influenced by, Charles Wells in Liverpool, a friend to many aspiring surgeons from the Commonwealth. Perera built up the urology unit with great care and patience. He equipped the theatres with state of the art instruments, established a dedicated male ward, a recognised number of female beds, and sent two male nurses to train at the Institute of Urology in London. The first endoscopic resection of the prostate was done using a McCarthy resectoscope by his registrar, Lalith Perera (no relation), who was guided through the operation by his mentor. George Perera was a keen teacher who inspired many trainees to continue in surgery, some entering urology as a career. He retired in December 1971 from the state sector, but continued to work in private practice for a few years. He was a keen member of the BMA (Ceylon branch) and the Ceylon (now Sri Lankan) Medical Association, and became a patron of the Sri Lanka Association of Urological Surgeons. Outside medicine, he enjoyed power-boat racing, water-skiing and fishing. He was a member of the Catamaran Club, as well as the Power Boat Association of Sri Lanka. He enjoyed a game of golf and was a member of the Royal Colombo Club. He married Phoebe née Peiris in 1942 and they had a family of three. Their daughter, Lahari, born in 1943, is married. Their elder son, Gayan, born in 1944, became a doctor, while their youngest, Sarath, born in 1955, is an engineer. Perera died on 27 January 2009 and was survived by his wife and three children.
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First Title value, for Searching Savage, Christopher Smallwood (1915 - 2007)

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by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2011-11-14 2013-07-11
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Christopher Savage was a consultant ENT surgeon at the Chelmsford and Essex Hospital, and the Southend General Hospital, where he developed a special interest in microsurgery of the ear. Born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, on 21 November 1915, he was part of the third generation of a family of surgeons. His father, Ernest Smallwood Savage, who gained his FRCS in 1896, was a gynaecologist at Birmingham and Wolverhampton. His grandfather, Thomas Savage, who was awarded the FRCS in 1869, was a professor of gynaecology in Birmingham. Christopher Savage's mother Constance was a housewife. Savage was educated at West House School, Edgbaston, Marlborough College, Gonville and Caius, Cambridge, and then the London Hospital. He managed to do his pre-registration house jobs at the Haymeads Hospital, Bishop's Stortford, before serving as a surgeon lieutenant in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve on HMS *Havelock* on the North Atlantic convoys. At the end of the Second World War he became a supernumerary registrar at the London Hospital, during which time he gained experience in general surgery and otolaryngology with Charles Keogh, Alan Bowen Davies and Johan Lindahl. Their influence led him to become first assistant to the aural department at the London from 1948 to 1952. He contracted polio in 1953, but fortunately made a near complete recovery. In 1949 he was appointed to his first consultant post, in Chelmsford, and, in 1953, he was also made a consultant at Southend. Among his consultant colleagues he was respected for his hard work, humour and principles. He retired in April 1979. He continued to sail at the Blackwater Sailing Club and took up woodcarving and fly fishing. He died from pneumonia on 10 December 2007 at the age of 92. He was survived by his wife Jill née Dawe, whom he married in April 1951, and his three children. His sons James and Robert have continued the family tradition, becoming a general practitioner and a consultant orthopaedic surgeon respectively. His daughter became a physiotherapist. Three of his seven grandchildren have also become doctors.
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First Title value, for Searching Chapman, Henry Wilson (1808 - 1875)

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First Title value, for Searching Ewart, Robert John (1877 - 1923)

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First Title value, for Searching Ewen, Henry (1804 - 1869)

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First Title value, for Searching Faircloth, John Marlborough Cowell ( - 1879)

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First Title value, for Searching Creed, George (1798 - 1868)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-02 2022-10-03
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at St George's Hospital. He was Surgeon to the West Suffolk Militia in 1824 and at one time Surgeon to the Suffolk General Hospital. He died at Bury St Edmunds, where he had practised, in 1868. **See below for an expanded version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 1 of Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk** George Creed was a general surgeon in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. He was born in Bury St Edmunds, the son of John Stephens Creed, a surgeon, and Emilia Creed née Herring on 18 December 1798. Creed’s twin brother Henry went on to become the rector of Mellis in Suffolk. He attended King Edward VI Free Grammar School in Bury, left before 1817 and became apprenticed to his father. He later studied at St George’s Hospital in London. He gained his MRCS in 1821 and the licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries in 1822. He went on to become a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1844. He was a surgeon at Suffolk General Hospital in Bury St Edmunds from 1825 to 1847 and a surgeon in the West Suffolk Militia for 44 years. In 1828 he used the skin of the notorious murderer William Corder to bind an account of his trial. The book includes an inscription: ‘The binding of this book is the skin of the murderer William Corder taken from his body and tanned by myself in the year 1828. George Creed Surgeon to the Suffolk Hospital.’ Creed was also a farmer, first at Boarhunt Farm, Fareham, Hampshire, where he farmed 472 acres and employed 24 labourers, and later at Hall Farm, Great Whelnetham, Suffolk. He was a magistrate, a trustee of the Guildhall Feoffment, which provided almshouses, and a free burgess of Bury St Edmunds. He was mayor of Bury St Edmunds in 1839. He was married to Louisa (née Powell). They had no children. He died at his home in Albert Street, Bury St Edmunds, on 28 November 1868 just before his 70th birthday. Sarah Gillam
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First Title value, for Searching Crellin, Frederick (1801 - 1860)

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First Title value, for Searching Keynes, William Milo (1924 - 2009)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-10-13
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Occupation General surgeon Medical editor Writer
Details William Milo Keynes was an honorary consultant surgeon at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, and subsequently a writer and medical editor. He was born on 9 August 1924, the third son of Sir Geoffrey Keynes, a former vice president of the College, and Margaret Elizabeth née Darwin, a descendant of Charles Darwin. Milo was the only one of Sir Geoffrey’s sons who followed him into surgery. (The only other son in a related discipline was Richard, who became professor of physiology at Cambridge.) Milo Keynes was educated at Oundle in Northamptonshire. With family connections in Cambridge – both civic (his paternal grandfather had been mayor) and academic (through his economist uncle, Maynard), the city inevitably became a magnet and Milo chose to study at Trinity College. The cultural and artistic life he enjoyed whilst an undergraduate was cast aside somewhat reluctantly when he went to his father’s hospital (St Bartholomew’s) in London for his clinical studies. There he won the Shuter scholarship in anatomy and physiology (in 1945) and then went on to obtain the Brackenbury scholarship in surgery (in 1948). Following a house appointment on the surgical unit at St Bartholomew’s under Paterson Ross, he spent four years in Cambridge as a demonstrator in anatomy, and then carried out his National Service in the Air Force (from 1950 to 1952). In 1953, he returned to St Bartholomew’s Hospital as a junior registrar. At the end of this appointment, in 1954, he was awarded an Arris and Gale lectureship at the College. He then returned to Cambridge, as a surgical registrar, before leaving on a Nuffield Foundation medical fellowship to Harvard and the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. On his return to the UK, he was a senior surgical registrar at St Bartholomew’s, a post which was combined with a research assistantship at St Mark’s. He then became a senior lecturer in surgery at the London Hospital under Victor Dix, from which he went to the Nuffield department of surgery at the University of Oxford as a first assistant, and as an honorary consultant in surgery at the Radcliffe Infirmary. In 1973, he migrated back to Cambridge, where he was a part-time clinical anatomist. While in his Cambridge post, he became an editor of medical books for William Heinemann publishers, and developed a career as a writer and historian. He wrote books on, among other subjects, the history of science, on Isaac Newton, and on Mendelism in human genetics. He edited a book of essays on his uncle, John Maynard Keynes, and wrote a biography of his uncle’s wife, Lydia Lopokova. Milo Keynes died on 18 February 2009.
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First Title value, for Searching Le Vay, Abraham David (1915 - 2001)

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by K M N Kunzru
Publication Date 2010-10-13 2015-11-13
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Details David Le Vay was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon to Woolwich Brook General Hospital, London, for more than 30 years. During this time, he spent a year at the World Health Organization in Geneva and was later a visiting professor of surgery at the Shiraz Medical School, Iran. After his retirement from the NHS, he continued to work overseas, with time spent in Australia, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Ireland. He combined his medical work with a literary career. Fluent in French, German, Spanish and Latin, he translated innumerable medical textbooks and journal articles, as well as literary works. As a writer, he produced biographies of Hugh Owen Thomas, the 19th century surgeon, and Alexis Carrel, the Nobel prize-winner. In 1948 he published the popular *Anatomy* and also *Physiology* in the 'Teach Yourself' series (English Universities Press). These were continuously in print until he combined the titles as *Teach yourself human anatomy and physiology* in 1974 (London, English Universities Press). The last edition appeared in 2001. His magnum opus *A history of Orthopaedics* (Parthenon, 1989) is the definitive work on the subject. He married four times and had 11 children. He died on 16 July 2001 and was survived by his fourth wife, Sonja Hansen, and his children.
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First Title value, for Searching Cridland, Arthur John ( - 1860)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-02 2013-08-07
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Was in general practice at Chelsea; at Maidenhead; at 60 Old Steine, Brighton, where he was a Member of the Brighton and Sussex Medico-Chirurgical Society; and at Putney, where he was in partnership with Charles Shillito, MRCS. He died in or before 1860.
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First Title value, for Searching Cripps, William Harrison (1850 - 1923)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The second of three sons of Henry William Cripps, QC, sometime Recorder of Lichfield, and Julia, the eldest daughter of Charles Lawrence and niece of Sir William Lawrence (qv). His eldest brother, Henry, was a prominent member of the Parliamentary Bar, and his younger brother was created Lord Parmoor. A bad attack of scarlet fever left Harrison Cripps a weakly boy for many years and unable to go to school. He was placed under the care of a private tutor, and encouraged to take open-air exercise. Perhaps it was then he developed a taste for 'shootin' and fishin'', as he used to call it, which lasted the length of his life. His connection with the Lawrence family brought him naturally to St Bartholomew's Hospital, which he entered about 1868 or 1869. Immediately after qualification in 1872 he became House Surgeon to Thomas Smith (qv). Later he was an Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Medical School, which post he held till 1879, when he was appointed Surgical Registrar. In 1882 he was elected Assistant Surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital, having previously contested an election in which he was beaten by W J Walsham (qv). From 1880 to 1890 he served as Surgeon to the Great Northern Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital, but the bulk of his work was done at St Bartholomew's. In 1876 he gained the Jacksonian Prize of the Royal College of Surgeons for his essay on "The Treatment of Cancer of the Rectum, particularly as regards the possibility of Curing or Relieving the Patient by Excision of the Affected Part". This essay marked Cripps as a coming man, and he made his name as a rectal specialist, an abdominal surgeon, and a teacher. He attained the zenith of his fame both as an operator and as a teacher during the long period of twenty years for which he was Assistant Surgeon. He was at his best in the out-patient room, where twice a week he held a class, in which the students sat round him in a ring - and woe betide the man who was late! Thirty years have scarcely dimmed the memory of those classes, in which Cripps taught with dogmatism, enlivened by caustic wit and shrewd thrusts. The capacity he had for saying sharp and clever things often gave offence, and earned for him a reputation for cynicism which was hardly deserved. Cripps was a man who liked not to let his left hand know what his right hand did, and his alms were in secret. In 1892, while still an Assistant Surgeon, he was appointed Surgeon to the Gynaecological Wards, then under the charge of Sir Francis Champneys, who did not undertake abdominal operations. This work was dear to Cripps's heart, and he appeared to prefer it to his general surgical work. As a rectal surgeon credit is due to Cripps for his advocacy of colostomy, both as a palliative and as a preliminary measure to the extensive perineal and trans-sacral excision of the rectum which he favoured. As an operator he was quick, neat, and clean, and for many years he was the only surgeon at his hospital who made a complete change of clothes before operating. In January, 1902, he was elected Surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital on the retirement of Alfred Willett (qv). His long service in the out-patient room may have exhausted his energies, for though he did his routine work, it cannot be said that, as a full Surgeon, he increased the reputation he had already made. He retired in 1909, when he was elected Consulting Surgeon and a Governor of the Hospital. He was elected to the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1909, served as a Member till 1920, and was Vice-President in 1918 and 1919. He served on the Finance Committee, where his business acumen was of great assistance, for he took an active part in the negotiations which led to the transference of the Examination Hall from the Embankment to Queen's Square. His business capacity had already brought Cripps a considerable sum of money, for he realized early the capabilities of electrical enterprise and he bought founders' shares in the Metropolitan Electric Supply Company, of which he became Chairman. A considerable portion of this company was purchased by the St Marylebone Borough Council, and Cripps reaped the reward of his foresight. He lived for many years at 2 Stratford Place, W, and for some time rented Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott. In later years he bought a large estate at Glendarnel in Argyllshire, where he could get the sport he loved and where it gave him the greatest pleasure to entertain his friends. He married twice. His first wife was Blanche, daughter of Richard Potter, of Standish, Gloucestershire; she was one of nine sisters, one of whom married Lord Parmoor and one became Mrs Sidney Webb. By her he had three sons and two daughters. One son, Lawrence, entered the medical profession. His second wife was Signorina Julia Ravogli, a well-known Italian *prima donna*, who survived him. He died on November 8th, 1923, at his London residence, at the age of 73.
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First Title value, for Searching Critchett, George (1817 - 1882)

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First Title value, for Searching Croft, Charles Ilderton (1812 - 1860)

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First Title value, for Searching Croft, Charles Percy (1816 - 1873)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at Edinburgh and at University College, London, where he was in close relation with Liston, whose House Surgeon he was. His hospital career was distinguished, as he obtained several gold and other medals, including the Fellowes Gold Medal of University College in 1838-1889, and was also Resident Medical Officer. He spent some years in London practice and was among the promoters of the Great Northern Hospital, in the success of which he took much interest. He also held the appointment of Surgeon to the Victoria Rifles until his death. For a time he went out to Brazil, and at Rio had medical charge of some 4000 workmen engaged on improvements in that city. During the last four years of his life he practised at Newark-on-Trent. He died on April 7th, 1873, after a long and painful illness, and was buried in Newark Cemetery.
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First Title value, for Searching Croft, John (1833 - 1905)

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First Title value, for Searching Farman, William (1802 - 1881)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-30 2022-06-09
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Practised in Bedford Street, Bedford Row, and died apparently in 1897 or 1898. **See below for an expanded version of the published obituary uploaded 9 June 2022:** William Farman was a surgeon and coroner who practised in Hobart, Tasmania. He was born in England and practised in Bedford Street, Bedford Row. He gained his MRCS in May 1830 and his FRCS in August 1854. Later the same year he sailed on the *Derwentwater* to Australia as a ship’s surgeon. He settled in Claremont, Clarence Plains, Tasmania, where he established a surgical practice. He later became a coroner. In November 1855 he married Fanny Wilcock (née Nichols). They had two daughters, Bertha and Lydia, and a son, Francis Othniel. He died on 24 December 1881 of ‘natural decay’ aged around 79. Sarah Gillam
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First Title value, for Searching Wakefield, Alan Ross (1917 - 1985)

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by Brian Morgan
Publication Date 2011-11-30 2013-04-24
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Occupation Hand surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Alan Ross Wakefield, known as 'The Vicar', was an Australian plastic and hand surgeon of international renown. He will be particularly remembered for writing, with Sir Benjamin Keith Rank, the classic text *Surgery of repair as applied to hand injuries, etc* (Edinburgh/London, E & S Livingstone), first published in 1953 with three further editions. The importance and value of this book extends beyond 'the hand': the classification the authors introduced of wounds into 'tidy' and 'untidy' continues to be cited in most papers and books on trauma. The son of George Thomas and Florence Ann Wakefield, he was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and then at the medical school at Melbourne, qualifying in 1941. On completion of his basic training, he joined the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps and served in New Guinea, Brisbane and Heidelberg Military Hospital, where he joined the No 2 maxillofacial and plastic unit. It was here he learnt his plastic surgery from Rank. Wakefield ended his military service in 1946 as a captain and with the Pacific Star medal. Following his demobilisation, he became an honorary assistant plastic surgeon at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and passed his MS and FRACS in 1947. He then travelled to the United Kingdom and spent a year training in plastic surgery. He passed his FRCS in 1948. He returned to Melbourne, as a plastic surgeon at the Royal Children's Hospital and at the Repatriation Hospital, Heidelberg. As head of the plastic surgery department at the Royal Children's Hospital he successfully developed the hospital's reputation, especially for cleft lip repair. As well as his epic work on hand injuries, he published work on cleft lip and palate, and on intersex problems. On trips to the United States he developed many long-lasting contacts. In 1964 he was invited to give the founder's lecture at the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. In later years, he retired from private practice, but retained his Royal Children's Hospital appointment. When his role there ended, he became medical director of the Victorian Plastic Surgery Unit. He was also a farmer, and bred sheep and cattle. He was president of the Murray Grey Beef Cattle Society, and did much to develop this new breed of beef cattle. He also grew roses and was a keen exhibitor and show judge. He married twice. By his first wife, Mary, he had four children and six grandchildren. His second wife was Valerie. Alan Ross Wakefield died following a long illness on 22 July 1985 at his home in San Remo, Victoria, Australia.
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First Title value, for Searching Tessier, Paul Louis (1917 - 2008)

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by Brian Morgan
Publication Date 2011-12-01 2015-05-22
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Occupation Craniofacial surgeon
Details Paul Tessier was a giant of surgical innovation who gave hope to many with severe facial deformities by developing the specialty of craniofacial surgery. He was born in August 1917 in Heric, near Nantes, France, the son of a family of wine merchants. He began his medical training in Nantes in 1936, but his studies were interrupted by the Second World War and he was interred as a prisoner of war in 1940. A year later he developed typhoid myocarditis and was released from detention. He continued his studies, but in 1943 Nantes was heavily bombed by the Allies and the hospital was destroyed. Tessier moved to Paris, where he found work in an administrative post and then as a steelworks medical officer. In 1946 he was appointed to the paediatric department at Hôpital Foch, in Paris, where he carried out his ground-breaking work. By the mid-1950s he had become head of his department. From the late 1940s he made regular trips to the UK to learn from the plastic surgeons Sir Harold Gillies and Sir Archibald McIndoe, who were developing ways of responding to severe military injuries. Decades later he established a connection with Great Ormond Street Hospital, carrying out the first craniofacial procedures in the UK in 1971. He was a visiting professor there into the 1990s. He became interested in the treatment of cleft lip and palate, and developed the classification of facial clefts which bears his name. In 1957 he was introduced to a patient with a severe facial deformity, a condition now known as Crouzon syndrome, characterised by poor development of the upper jaw and eye sockets. Tessier had the idea that it should be possible to free the facial skeleton from the cranium and reposition it. Anatomical research confirmed this and in the first case he was able to advance the facial skeleton 25mm and secure with bone grafts. Tessier also worked with the neurosurgeon Gérard Guiot to devise a technique for separating the eye sockets from the skull, to relocate the eyeball and protect vision. In 1967 Tessier presented a series of cases at the International Congress of Plastic Surgery in Rome, to an audience of distinguished surgeons. Paris went on to become recognised as the birthplace of craniofacial surgery and attracted surgeons and trainees wishing to learn the techniques Tessier had pioneered. The International Society of Craniofacial Surgery was founded in 1983 and Tessier was made honorary president. He received many other awards and accolades, including the Jacobsen innovation prize of the American College of Surgeons, the gold medal and Gillies lectureship of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons and, in 1984, an honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons. In 2005 he was awarded the Chevalier de legion d'honneur. In his surgery nothing was left to chance. He is remembered for his tenderness and concern for his patients and his phenomenal capacity for work with long hours of operating. His interests away from surgery were big game hunting, sculpture, fine wines, food and cigars! Paul Tessier died on the 6 June 2008. He was 90. He was survived by his wife Mireille and their two children.
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First Title value, for Searching Stoyle, Thomas Frederick (1926 - 2010)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-01 2015-04-24
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Thomas Stoyle ('Tom') was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Leicester Royal Infirmary and Glenfield General Hospital, Leicester. He was born on 21 April 1926 in Glasgow. His father was a regular soldier; his mother was German and the family regularly visited Germany for holidays. He was educated at the Cardinal Vaughan School in London. In 1943, in the middle of the Second World War, aged 17, he volunteered for the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm. He spent six months reading classics at Oxford University before he was sent to Texas to learn to fly. He returned to the UK just before the war ended. After his demobilisation, he studied medicine at King's College, London, and St George's Hospital. He was a house officer and casualty officer at St George's, an orthopaedic registrar at St Bartholomew's Hospital and then a senior orthopaedic registrar at Sheffield Royal Infirmary. In 1965 he was appointed to his consultant post in Leicester. With Joss Hill, director of orthopaedic surgery, he played a major role in the development and planning of the Leicester hospitals, particularly the Royal Infirmary. He eventually took over the running of the orthopaedic department and was chairman of the orthopaedic division in the Leicester hospitals until 1988. He developed two special areas of interest - children's orthopaedic surgery and hip arthroplasty. He was president of the Leicestershire and Rutland division of the British Medical Association in 1974 and was on the council of the British Orthopaedic Association from 1978 to 1979. As a medical student he rowed, and continued playing tennis all his life. He enjoyed rugby and supported the local team, the Leicester Tigers, and had a passion for fast cars. He had a deep attachment to Spain, learnt Spanish and had an apartment in Alicante. Thomas Stoyle died on 24 January 2010, aged 83. He was survived by his wife Pennie, his daughter Amanda, his son Laurence and grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Nayar, Raman Tampi Kesavan (1910 - 2005)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-01 2014-09-12
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Occupation General surgeon
Details R Kesavan Nayar was professor of surgery at Medical College, Trivandrum, and the first superintendent of the Medical College Hospital. He was born in Trivandrum, southern India, on 6 September 1910, the second child and eldest son of Raman Tampi, a physician and chief medical officer of Travancore state, and Chellamma Tampi. He was educated at Sree Moola Vilasam School in Trivandrum, University College, Trivandrum, and then Madras University, where he studied medicine. He qualified MB BS in 1933 and gained the Hobart prize for surgery. He trained in orthopaedics in Vienna and in radium treatment in Glasgow. He gained his FRCS in 1937. He later joined the General Hospital, Trivandrum, as chief of surgery. When the then prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru commissioned the Medical College and Hospital in Trivandrum in 1954, Nayar was appointed as the chief surgeon and superintendent. He held this post until 1962, when he joined Calicut Medical College. When he retired in 1966 he was principal of Kottayam Medical College. He was president of the Kerala Medical Association and of the Travancore-Cochin Medical Council. He was also a member of the Medical Council of India. From 1955 to 1956 he was president of the Rotary Club of Trivandrum. He was also an honorary member of the Kerala Football Association, the Kerala Sports Council, Trivandrum Tennis Club and various religious organisations. In 1938 he married Sarojini Amma. They had four sons and a daughter. One son became a surgeon. Nayar died on 30 July 2005, aged 94.
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First Title value, for Searching Farmer, Gabriel William Stahel (1865 - 1915)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-12-07 2012-02-10
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373863373863
Occupation General surgeon
Details The second son of John Farmer, of West Hill House, Byron Hill, Harrow, the well-known Harrow School music master and afterwards Organist of Balliol College, Oxford, who died in 1901, and Marie Elizabeth Stahel, of Zurich. He matriculated at Balliol College on October 24th, 1885, and was an Exhibitioner of his college. He was educated at the London Hospital, where he was Receiving Room Officer, House Physician, and House Surgeon. Later he was Senior Resident Medical Officer of the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn Road. He lived at Oxford, and in 1894 was elected Radcliffe Travelling Fellow. On returning to Oxford he resided at 11 Beaumont Street, and was appointed Surgeon to the Radcliffe Infirmary in 1899 - a post he held until 1903 - Examiner in Human Anatomy to the University, and a member of the Board of Faculty of Medicine. He was later appointed Lichfield Lecturer in Surgery and was also Surgeon to the London and North-Western and the Great Western Railways. During the closing years of his life he was living at Silverspier, Queensland. He died in or before June, 1915. Publications: "Aseptic Surgery in Germany." - *Med. Mag.*, 1896, v, 240. "Case of Acute Intussusception: Laparotomy: Recovery." - *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1900, I, 1284. "Case of Supposed Foreign Body in the Pharynx." - *Ibid.*, I, 1405.
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First Title value, for Searching Palmer, Edward ( - 1860)

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First Title value, for Searching Denman, Eric Edward (1927 - 2009)

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by Rosemary Denman
Publication Date 2011-12-14 2023-02-21
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Eric Denman was a senior consultant orthopaedic and accident surgeon at the Princess Margaret Hospital, Swindon from 1965 to 1990. Eric was born to Albert Edward Denman and Gertrude Ann Harrison on 19 August 1927. His father was a civil servant; his mother was the daughter of a master mariner and was herself a Cape Horner (a sailor who has sailed round the treacherous Cape Horn). Eric was educated at Harrow Grammar School and then carried out his National Service in the airborne Royal Signals. He began his medical training at Cambridge University and then at University College Hospital. He went on to posts in Chichester and Leicester, and was a senior registrar at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. He practised for a year in the Sudan from 1964 to 1965, where his wife and children joined him. Later he worked for six months in Swaziland. In 1965 Eric was appointed as a consultant in the new hospital in Swindon. He and his team were on duty when, in 1987, a lone gunman opened fire on the people of nearby Hungerford, killing and injuring several; the victims of the ‘Hungerford Massacre’ were sent to the Princess Margaret Hospital. Eric was also a regular anatomy demonstrator at Oxford University and sat on the *viva* examination panel for the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. After retiring, he moved from Marlborough in Wiltshire to Madjeston, near Gillingham, Dorset, where he studied a variety of subjects with the Open University and gained a degree in astronomy in his late seventies. During his lifetime, his hobbies included marathon running, hill walking, squash and photography. Eric died on 22 January 2009 aged 81 after a short illness. He was survived by his wife Elizabeth Jean née Drummond, whom he married in 1955, and their two children, David and Rosemary.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001755
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First Title value, for Searching Dunning, Mervyn Walter Frank (1917 - 2010)

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by Sir Miles Irving
Publication Date 2011-12-14 2013-07-11
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Mervyn Dunning was a consultant general surgeon in Shrewsbury. He was educated at Hampton Grammar School, London. He initially trained as a dentist at the Royal Dental Hospital, qualifying in 1941. He held junior posts, as a house surgeon and then senior house surgeon in maxillofacial surgery. He then took up a commission in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. The allied invasion of Europe was looming, and when D-Day occurred Mervyn was stationed at the Royal Naval Hospital in Plymouth charged with dealing with war injuries from the front line. This experience convinced him that he should gain a medical qualification so, in 1946, after serving as a surgeon lieutenant in a combined services hospital in Trincomalee (in what was then Ceylon), he went to the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1950 and served as house surgeon to Rupert Vaughan Hudson, the senior surgeon at Middlesex. Mervyn subsequently held a surgical appointment at the Royal Naval Hospital in Malta. He returned to Middlesex Hospital in 1952 as a demonstrator in anatomy and then proceeded to hold appointments at senior house officer and registrar level. He obtained his FRCS in 1957. After a number of senior registrar appointments in the north of England, he was appointed in 1963 as a consultant general surgeon to the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. Mervyn was a courteous and attentive surgeon well-liked by his patients. He was widely read, fond of classical music, and an accomplished artist. He and his wife Elizabeth lived in a beautiful town house dating from the 1660s, where they were welcoming and generous hosts. Towards the end of his life he was in poor health and eventually needed bilateral leg amputations. He died in August 2010 aged 93, and was survived by his wife and his daughter Penny from his first marriage.
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First Title value, for Searching Khan, Mohammad Zafar Ullah ( - 2009)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2011-12-15 2015-09-11
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Mohammad Khan was a consultant general surgeon at East Reach Hospital, Taunton Somerset. He qualified in the Punjab in 1957 and gained the fellowship of both the College and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1975. He died on 21 August 2009, survived by a daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Griffin, Peter John Anthony (1946 - 2009)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-15 2015-03-06
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Occupation Transplant surgeon
Details Peter John Anthony Griffin was a transplant surgeon at Cardiff Royal Infirmary. He was born on 19 July 1946 and studied medicine in Cardiff, gaining his MB BCh in 1970. He was a house surgeon at Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, and a senior house officer in the accident department at Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. He then became a surgical registrar in Cardiff and was later a specialist there in transplant surgery. He was involved in the World Transplant Games Federation and, after his death on 31 May 2009 at the age of 62, the Peter Griffin award was introduced for the winning team of the men's swimming freestyle relay.
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First Title value, for Searching Farquhar, Alexander ( - 1890)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-12-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Practised in Chelsea in 1845; later he moved north and practised for some years at Strichen, and then for a long period at Turriff, Aberdeenshire. He died in or before 1890.
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First Title value, for Searching Mearns, Alan James (1940 - 2008)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Tom Treasure
Publication Date 2011-11-03 2015-05-22
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373678373678
Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon
Details Alan Mearns was a cardiothoracic surgeon in Bradford. He studied medicine in Liverpool, qualifying MB ChB in 1963, and continued his surgical training in the city, passing his FRCS Edinburgh in 1969 and his FRCS in 1970. After a post as a senior registrar in cardiothoracic surgery at Killingbeck Hospital, Leeds, he was appointed to his consultant post in Bradford in January 1980. Alan was widely read but very down to earth. He got on well with patients and staff alike with an easy going nature on the ward and in the outpatient setting. He was good at oesophageal surgery, bringing the same easy going nature to the theatre as on the wards. He published numerous papers and contributed to major textbooks. A series of studies on pain reduction after thoracotomy was a particularly important contribution. He worked closely with his colleague 'Sabba' Sabanathan and their anaesthetist colleagues, completing an influential randomised controlled trial. As a result, continuous paravertebral intercostal nerve block has become a standard method of postoperative pain relief in thoracic surgery ('A prospective, randomized comparison of preoperative and continuous balanced epidural or paravertebral bupivacaine on post-thoracotomy pain, pulmonary function and stress responses.' *Br J Anaesth*. 1999 Sep;83[3]:387-92). He was a regular attendee and frequent contributor at society meetings, appearing as a tousle-haired, sometimes sandal-wearing and somewhat eccentric figure. His views were forthright but well-founded and delivered with generosity to his colleagues and trainees, and always with good humour. He is spoken of with great affection by his one-time trainees. He created an ambience of good will in his staff, which had a positive influence on patient care. His first wife died young and he married for a second time, to Sally. Alan James Mearns died on 23 May 2008. He was 68. He was survived by Sally and by seven children from his two marriages and six grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Parsons, Howard Michael (1918 - 2010)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2012-01-11 2013-05-23
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Howard Michael Parsons was an ENT surgeon in Lewisham and then Croydon. He was born in Paddington, London, on 14 April 1918, during a Zeppelin raid, the third child of John Parsons, a master builder, and his wife Maude Parsons née Percival. He was educated at St Andrews Prep School, Eastbourne and then Radley College. He then read medicine at University College Hospital Medical School, London, where he was 'fast tracked' through medicine during the Second World War. On qualifying in 1942, he was soon recruited into the RAMC as a medical officer with the rank of captain, serving with the Long Range Desert Group in North Africa and Italy. His daring rescue of his commanding officer, who had been severely injured in a parachute drop into the occupied Albanian mountains, speaks of his courage and adaptability. Having diagnosed a fractured spine and encased his boss' back in plaster, he then escorted him via mountainous mule tracks to the coast and to repatriation to Brindisi. On the journey he treated numerous wounded partisans, often operating on kitchen tables lit by oil lamps. After his wartime exploits, Michael Parsons returned to civilian life and trained as an ear, nose and throat surgeon. He served as a consultant to the Lewisham Hospital Group for 16 years, and then to the Croydon Group for 17 years. He was also the assistant director of the speech and hearing centre (audiology unit) and a consultant surgeon at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, Gray's Inn Road and Golden Square in London for three years, and a senior consultant otologist to London County Council for four years. Having retired in 1983, he nevertheless continued in private practice until the age of 72. His practice was general ENT, with a particular interest in head and neck cancer. He was an experienced and popular medical manager, who chaired many committees in Croydon and led the development of Shirley Oaks, Croydon's first private hospital, becoming the first chairman. In 1942 he married Sarah Muriel Foley, a staff nurse at University College Hospital, who served with Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service during the war. She landed in Normandy shortly after D-Day and was nursing in Caen while it was being bombed by the Allies. They shared an enthusiasm for motor racing; in the 1950s this led to annual trips to watch the Le Mans 24 Hours race. Later this experience was replicated at home by owning a succession of Jaguars and Aston Martins. Michael Parsons died on 21 September 2010 at the age of 92, leaving his wife, son Christopher, daughter Luise, a general practitioner, and four grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Thomas, William Robert Griffith (1935 - 2009)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-13 2014-04-09
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Occupation General surgeon
Details William Robert Griffith Thomas was a consultant general surgeon at Glangwili General Hospital, Carmathen, Wales. He studied medicine in Wales, qualifying in 1957, and gained his FRCS in 1965. He died on 30 January 2009, aged 73. He was survived by his wife Jenny and children Ruth, Edward, Kate and Casper.
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First Title value, for Searching Thomson, Henry Harron ( - 2006)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Michael Pugh
Publication Date 2012-01-13 2015-05-22
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Henry Harron Thomson was a consultant gynaecologist at Central Middlesex Hospital and Willesden General Hospital, London. He studied medicine at St George's Hospital Medical School, London, qualifying MB BS and MRCS LRCP in 1952. Prior to his consultant appointments he was a house surgeon at St George's, an obstetric registrar at Hillingdon Hospital and then chief assistant in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He gained his FRCS in 1966 and his fellowship of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1980. He was a member of the Chelsea Clinical Society and the Hunterian Society. Outside medicine his great interest was horse racing. He had two horses, King's College Boy and Champagne Charlie; on his sideboard was a cup won at Cheltenham. Henry Harron Thomson died on 14 December 2006 after a long illness. He married Sybil and they had three children - Stephanie, Toby and Tim. The marriage was dissolved.
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First Title value, for Searching Thompson, John Douglas ( - 2003)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2012-01-13 2013-02-14
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Occupation General surgeon
Details John Douglas Thompson was a general surgeon living in Sunderland at the time of his death. He served as a temporary surgeon commander in the Royal Navy Voluntary Reserve during the second world war. In March 2003 his widow, Marjorie, notified the College that he had died.
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First Title value, for Searching Parker, Charles Gunning (1811 - 1887)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

First Title value, for Searching Parker, Charles Lewes (1810 - 1848)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-19
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The second son of Joseph Parker, the bookseller, of St Michael's, Oxford. He matriculated at Wadham College on December 8th, 1827, in which year he attended the lectures of Dr C G B Daubeny (1795-1867), took a pass degree in 1831, and is remarkable as being the first Oxford graduate among the Fellows and the first member of the University to be elected Surgeon to the Radcliffe Infirmary. After studying in London he settled in practice at Oxford, where his father allowed him £750 to buy a house and £4,400 for the purchase price of his partnership. He was elected Surgeon to the Radcliffe Infirmary on January 27th, 1836, receiving 152 votes as against 51 votes cast for his competitor, William Fisher. He treated Dr Routh, President of Magdalen, when he was bitten by his gardener in a fit of madness. He died on December 19th, 1848, at his residence in St Aldate's, leaving a wife, five sons, and two daughters. His surgical instruments were presented by his father to the Radcliffe Infirmary. Parker seems to have had considerable skill as a surgeon, and his opinion was always valued. He was instrumental in bringing about improved sanitary conditions in the wards of the Radcliffe Infirmary.
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First Title value, for Searching Maurice, David Greatrex (1919 - 2006)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-03 2015-05-01
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details David Greatrex Maurice was a consultant plastic surgeon at the regional plastic surgery unit in the Newcastle and Hartlepool Hospitals Group and then at Sharoe Green Hospital, Preston. He studied medicine at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, London, and qualified with the conjoint diploma in 1943. He gained his MB BS in 1945 and his FRCS in 1952. He was a senior registrar at the regional plastic surgery unit, Newcastle, before he was appointed to his consultant post. He wrote articles on clip lip and palate, and repair of pharyngocutaneous fistula. David Greatrex Maurice died on 20 October 2006. He was 86. He was survived by his wife Cynthia, children and grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001496
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First Title value, for Searching Melville, Robert Pope (1913 - 2003)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Robert Melville
Publication Date 2011-11-03 2020-01-06
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Occupation General surgeon Breast surgeon
Details Robert Pope Melville was a consultant general and breast surgeon in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was born at Wollongong, New South Wales on 23 May 1913. One of five children, his father, Hector Pope Melville, a school principal and advocate for education, encouraged his sons and daughters to learn. His mother was Beatrice Lillian Melville née Arey. From an early age, Bob always wanted to be a doctor. From country New South Wales townships, the family moved to Sydney, where Bob gained a bursary to Fort Street Boys’ High School, from which he gained entry to Sydney University’s school of medicine. He graduated with second class honours in 1938, and also represented the university at tennis. His first postings were as a resident medical officer at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney and as a junior fellow at the postgraduate school of medicine. With the start of the Second World War he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF), in the medical corps attached to the 2/6th battalion. They sailed on the *Queen Mary* to Palestine, where he was a doctor assigned to the jail in Tel Aviv. He spoke little of the war, except the evacuation from Greece, when he was in charge of the walking wounded, bringing up the rear. He returned to Australia and was then assigned to an AIF field hospital in Lae, Papua New Guinea, where he and his 1938 classmate, Doug Sturrock, an orthopaedic surgeon, worked their magic. Straight after the war, Bob sailed to England, to study for the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was awarded the Hallet prize and the Nuffield travelling fellowship in 1946. He gained his FRCS in 1947. From 1947 to 1949, he was a surgical registrar at Southend Hospital, where he worked under the senior surgeon Rodney Maingot. In 1949, he returned to Australia to be with his father before his death. He became a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1950, where he was on the council of examiners from 1968 to 1973. He was an assistant to Sir Benjamin Edye at the Scottish Hospital in Paddington, Sydney. He later became the senior surgeon there, with the matron Marg Barry and sister Webb presiding. He was also an honorary surgeon at St George Hospital, Kogerah from 1950 to 1973 . Here he was on call for many nights, operating on car crash victims ‘for whatever time it took’. He also operated at many other hospitals, including the Sutherland, the Masonic, Wolper, St Luke’s and Quirindi hospitals. From 1957 to 1961 he was a lecturer at Sydney University. In the mid 1950's he was a founding member of the Prince of Wales Hospital’s special unit for cancer. After his mother died from breast cancer, this became his branch of investigation within that unit. His enquiry into breast cancer took him to America where, in the early 1960's, he met George ‘Barney’ Crile, the pioneering breast surgeon. They were of the same opinion that breast cancer should be treated by removing lumps rather carrying out full mastectomies. As well as general surgery, diagnosing and removing breast lumps, became his specialist field. He was chairman of the management committee during the establishment of the Sydney-Square Breast Clinic (from 1977 to 1978), and surgeon at the clinic from 1978 until the mid 1980's. He was a member of the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia, where he was chairman of the breast oncology group (from 1973 to 1976), vice president (from 1977 to 1979) and president (from 1979 to 1981). He was also vice president of the Medico-Legal Society of New South Wales in 1980. In the 1960's he travelled behind the Iron Curtain, to Moscow, to visit hospitals there. In return, two Russian doctors visited Sydney. From 1968 to 1973 Bob served on the World Health Organization’s international reference center for the evaluation of the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer. Bob was made a fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1962. In his old age, at over 80, he continued to attend at the Prince of Wales Hospital for a morning a week, assisting the younger brigade and looking on as they negotiated new key hole methods and techniques. He was a great surgeon and was much liked and admired by theatre staff and fellow doctors alike. In 1952, he married Judy Gainford (who had been Miss Australia 1947). She supported his efforts while looking after their three children – Robert, Fiona and Douglas. Home was a place where visiting and local doctors enjoyed parties given in their honour. Bob died on 7 July 2003 at the age of 90. This Aussie boy from humble beginnings did his family and country proud. His life of achievement, saving and extending people’s lives, was a mighty, noble effort.
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First Title value, for Searching McVey, Ian Lumsden (1927 - 2008)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Cass McInnes
Publication Date 2011-11-03 2015-03-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Brisbane, Ian Lumsden McVey's early schooling days were spent in Queensland. The family subsequently moved to Melbourne and he finished his schooling at Wesley College. He began medicine at Melbourne University, being a student at the Alfred Hospital and graduated MB BS in 1949 was subsequently Resident and Registrar at the Alfred in 1950 and 1951 and Associate Surgeon in 1952-1954. At the same time he was demonstrator of anatomy at the University, and won the Sir Gordon Taylor Prize for Excellence in The Primary Fellowship Examination in 1953. He travelled to England to further his studies, he worked at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London (with Sir James Patterson Ross who was then President of the Royal College of Surgeons of London), obtained FRCS in 1955 and finished his United Kingdom training as Registrar at the West Middlesex Hospital. He returned to Melbourne and was appointed Honorary Surgeon to Outpatients at the Alfred Hospital in 1957 obtaining FRACS in 1958. He was subsequently appointed Honorary Surgeon to Inpatients and Head of the Unit at the Alfred in 1965, a position he held until 1983. During this period he proved himself a skilful, often conservative and thoughtful surgeon. His main area of clinical interest was in diseases of the breast and to whom credit must go for the initiation of a multidisciplinary breast clinic. The profession however, was not yet ready for that, so it struggled for a few years and never obtained the status that he had envisaged. His lectures to his students and nurses, were always clear, and given his command of the language and caring approach were always popular - particular his lectures to the nursing staff. He was Examiner in Surgery at Melbourne University and latterly at Monash University. In 1983 the Motor Accident Board (now the TAC) and the Staff nominated Ian to be Director of the Road Trauma Service - a position he held until 1996. His ability to organise and obtain the desired result was apparent. With the assistance of initially Bill Dott and later Alex Rollo and support of his life long secretary Pauline Smith, the revolutionary Helipad structure of the Trauma Centre and its organisation and reception of casualties became a reality and the Alfred Hospital became the prime centre for management of road trauma in Victoria. Appointed to the Consultative Council on emergency and critical care, he was pivotal in the development of trauma services in Victoria and the Road Trauma Centre at the Alfred Hospital remains a monument to him. During this time he was appointed Associate Professor to the Department of Forensic Medicine at Melbourne University and co-ordinator of the Professional Practice Program. During a career studded with Committee work, he was a member of the Alfred Board of Management and Vice President from 1987 to 1994. He was a member of the Council of AMA (Victorian Branch) from 1963 to 1978 and President in 1973. He was a member of the Medical Practitioners Board, member of the Council of the Medical Defence Association of Victoria and its President in 1973-1990. A member of the Medical Benefits Schedule Advisory Committee meant that he was involved with the development of the Medicare Schedule and in addition he was a member of the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria. He was Chairman of Victoria Medical Insurance Agency and Director of Professional Indemnity Insurance Company of Australia and subsequently was instrumental in establishing the Medical Indemnity Protection Society when the United Kingdom based Medical Protection Society withdrew from Australia. He was appointed Senior Consultant Surgeon to the Royal Australian Navy in 1962. He was a master of organisation and committees. He had the ability to think on his feet, and could influence a meeting. He had a strong and clear vision for the profession - a facility which on occasions upset his colleagues. He married Norma Hayden a Senior Staff Sister at the Alfred, and together they developed a property on the Mornington Peninsula raising Murray Grey cattle - he became president of the Murray Grey Society and was influential in consolidating its position and development. He was a man of great vision with strong beliefs in the rights and also the responsibilities of the profession ¬ particularly the surgical profession. A was a most generous host and strong believer in the beauty and benefits of rural Australia. He and Norma sold the farm at the turn of the century and built a residence in Mornington where Norma resides. He is survived by Norma, his brother Dan, daughter Ann and two grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Gregory, Irene Dorothy Rosalie (1922 - 2003)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-15 2015-04-24
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Irene Gregory was a consultant ophthalmologist at Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup. She was born on 8 October 1922 and studied medicine at Bristol University, qualifying MB ChB in 1944. She was a house surgeon at Bristol Royal Infirmary and Bristol Eye Hospital, and went on to a senior registrar post at Guy's Hospital, London. She gained her diploma in ophthalmic medicine and surgery (DOMS) in 1946 and her FRCS in 1953. She became a part-time consultant ophthalmologist in Sidcup and to the Inner London Education Authority. She was a member of the Christian Medical Fellowship. Irene Gregory died on 8 December 2003. She was 81.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001760
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First Title value, for Searching Thornhill, Cecil William (1922 - 2004)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-13 2015-04-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374045374045
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Cecil William Thornhill was a senior consultant ophthalmic surgeon at Bradford Royal Infirmary. He qualified in 1945 with the LRCPI and LRCSI, the licentiates of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, together with the licentiates in midwifery from both colleges. He gained his diploma in ophthalmology in 1952 and his FRCS in 1959. Prior to his consultant appointment he was a senior registrar at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London and at University College Hospital. Cecil William Thornhill died on 26 August 2004. He was 82.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001862
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First Title value, for Searching Crosby, Sir Thomas Boor (1830 - 1916)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-06 2014-06-19
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Gosberton, near Spalding, Lincolnshire, the son of a farmer. Educated at University College School and University College, London, and received his professional training at St. Thomas's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon and Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Medical School. He started practice in Fenchurch Street, EC, where his partner was Charles Brodie Sewell. The City was at that time still somewhat of a residential quarter, and Messrs Sewell and Crosby enjoyed a busy practice among City families. Later he moved to Finsbury, where he enjoyed a large practice in a recognized medical district less than fifty years ago. His connection with municipal affairs dated from 1877, when he was elected a Common Councillor of the City for the Langbourn Ward. In 1898 he became Alderman for the same Ward. In 1906-1907 he was one of the Sheriffs, and during his year of office he paid, with other representatives of the Corporation, a visit to Berlin as the guest of the Municipality of that City. He was knighted the same year (1906). Being the senior Alderman below the Chair in 1911, he was elected Lord Mayor of the City of London. He was then 82 years of age, and the choice of the City gave him the double distinction of being the first medical man to occupy the civic chair in the metropolis, and of being the oldest citizen who had ever undertaken the responsibilities of Lord Mayor of London. He was conscientious and untiring in carrying out his official duties, his daughter assisting him as Lady Mayoress. On a notable occasion he dined at the Royal College of Surgeons, and his Lord Mayoralty is marked by two important events - the tragedy of the sinking of the White Star passenger steamship Titanic, and a coal strike, which at that time was regarded as threatening a national disaster. A Mansion House Fund for the sufferers by the foundering of the great ship was immediately opened, and £450,000 was raised. In a critical stage of the coal strike he convened at a few hours' notice a meeting of Lord Mayors, Mayors, and Provosts from all parts of the country, and the resulting intention on the part of the municipalities to take concerted action against impending danger did much to relieve the stress of a dangerous social situation. On retiring from the position of Lord Mayor the vote of thanks accorded to him in Common Hall was especially cordial, as it was recognized that he had used his civic position with great promptitude in the public cause. In private life Sir Thomas Crosby was a shrewd, witty, kind, homely man, and his success was the outcome of persistent habits of hard work and self-restraint. He had no great learning, but he was an admirable magistrate, whose decisions were informed throughout with that real knowledge of the life of the people which the successful and industrious general practitioner cannot fail to possess. He died after a brief illness on April 7th, 1916. His London addresses were at 19 Gordon Square, WC, and Cullum House, 136 Fenchurch Street, EC. There is a good portrait of him in his Lord Mayoral robes in the *St Thomas's Hospital Gazette* (1911, xxi, 293), and another in the *Lancet* (1916, I, 836, 884).
Resource Identifier RCS: E001341
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First Title value, for Searching Mills, Eleanor Mary (1911 - 2003)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-03 2014-09-12
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Eleanor Mary Mills was a consultant gynaecologist at North Manchester General Hospital and Stretford Memorial Hospital, Manchester. She was born in Royton, Lancashire, the only child of Joseph Mills, a cotton mill manager and director, and Ada Eleanor Mills née Wood, the daughter of an engineer. She was educated at Miss Rees' School in Royton, Oldham Grammar and Queen Ethelburga's School in Harrogate. She then went on to study medicine at Manchester University. She qualified MB ChB in 1936 and gained her conjoint diploma in 1937. She was a house surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary and to St Mary's Hospital, Manchester. She then became a resident surgical officer at Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute. She was an assistant resident obstetric officer at Withington Hospital, Manchester, and subsequently a surgical chief assistant at Manchester Royal Infirmary. She was then appointed as a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Crumpsall Hospital and Stretford Memorial Hospital, and later became a consultant at North Manchester General Hospital. She was a member and then fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and served as an examiner for the membership examinations. Outside medicine, she enjoyed gardening. In 1937 she married and became Mrs Heslop, although she used her maiden name in her profession. She had no children. She died in 2003.
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First Title value, for Searching Halton, John Prince (1797 - 1873)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details The eldest son of the Rev John Halton, MA, St Peter's, Chester; educated at the University of Edinburgh and at Guy's Hospital under Sir Astley Cooper. After Continental travel he settled in Liverpool, and in 1820 was elected Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, an appointment he held until 1856, when he became Consulting Surgeon. In 1844 he published a pamphlet attacking the heavy mortality following operations at the Liverpool Northern Hospital, as compared with that at the Royal Infirmary during the previous twenty-two years. The reply by the Surgeons of the Northern Hospital as to the salubrity and ventilation of the building breathes a considerable spirit of deference to Halton. He caused a rule to be passed excluding the Surgeons at the Royal Infirmary from the practice of pharmacy, for a surgeon, he said, should restrict himself to cases in surgery. Further, he advocated education at universities and large centres of population. Thus, as a successor of Park and of Hanson, Halton did much to advance the reputation of surgery in Liverpool. He retired from practice in 1885 and died at Woodclose, Grasmere, Westmorland, on Jan 27th, 1873. He married in early life; his wife, a daughter of John Foster, of Liverpool, died in 1871.
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First Title value, for Searching Fergusson, Sir William (1808 - 1877)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Prestonpans on March 20th, 1808, the son of James Fergusson. He was educated at Lochmaben, Dumfriesshire, at the High School, and at the University of Edinburgh. He was placed by his own desire in a lawyer's office at the age of 15, but finding the work uncongenial he changed law for medicine when he was 17. He became a pupil of Robert Knox, the anatomist, then at the height of his reputation, who appointed him demonstrator in 1828, when the class consisted of 504 students and the lectures had to be repeated thrice daily. Fergusson quickly became a skilled anatomist, and it is said that he often spent sixteen hours a day in the dissecting-room, and he soon began to lecture in association with Knox. He was elected Surgeon to the Edinburgh Royal Dispensary in 1831, and in that year tied the third part of the right subclavian artery for an axillary aneurysm, an operation which had been published only twice previously in Scotland. He described the appearances seen at the post-mortem examination in the *London and Edinburgh Journal of Medical Science* (1841, i, 617). In 1855 he employed the dangerous method of direct compression of a subclavian aneurysm (*Lancet*, 1855, ii, 197). He married Helen Hamilton Ranken on Oct. 10th, 1833. She was the daughter and heiress of William Ranken, of Spittlehaugh, Peebleshire, and the marriage at once placed Fergusson in easy circumstances. He continued zealous in his profession, and in 1836, when he was elected Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, he shared with James Syme (q.v.) the best surgical practice in Scotland. In 1840 Fergusson accepted the Professorship of Surgery at King's College, London, with the Surgeoncy to King's College Hospital, which was then situated in the slums of Clare Market. He settled at Dover Street, Piccadilly, whence he removed in 1847 to George Street, Hanover Square. His fame brought crowds of students to King's College Hospital to witness his operations. He became Member of the College of Surgeons in 1840, Fellow in 1844, was a Member of Council from 1861-1877, and of the Court of Examiners from 1867-1870, Vice-President in 1869, President in 1870, and Hunterian Orator in 1871. As Arris and Gale Lecturer he delivered two courses on "The Progress of Anatomy and Surgery during the Present Century", in 1864 and 1865. In these lectures Fergusson mentioned three hundred successful operations for hare-lip performed by himself. In 1849 he was appointed Surgeon in Ordinary to Prince Albert, and in 1855 Surgeon Extraordinary to H. M. the Queen. He was made a baronet in 1866, and Serjeant-Surgeon in 1867. The occasion of his receiving a baronetcy was seized upon to make a presentation of a dessert service of silver plate which was subscribed for by three hundred of his old pupils. He was elected F.R.S. in 1848, President of the Pathological Society in 1859-1860, and of the British Medical Association in 1873, and Hon. LL.D of Edinburgh in 1875. He resigned the office of Professor of Surgery at King's College in 1870, but retained the post of Clinical Professor of Surgery and Surgeon to the hospital until his death. He invented the term 'conservative surgery', by which he meant the excision of a joint rather than the amputation of a limb. He introduced great improvements in the treatment of hare-lip and cleft palate, and his style of operating attracted general attention and admiration. As an operator, indeed, he is justly placed at the pinnacle of fame. Lizars said he had seen no one, not even Liston himself, surpass Fergusson in a trying and critical operation, and his biographer, Mr. Bettany, says in the *Dictionary of National Biography*: "His manipulative and mechanical skill was shown both in his mode of operating and in the new instruments which he devised. The bulldog forceps, the mouth-gag, and various bent knives for cleft palate, attest his ingenuity. A still higher mark of his ability consisted in his perfect planning of every detail of an operation beforehand; no emergency was unprovided for. Thus, when an operation had begun, he proceeded with remarkable speed and silence till the end, himself applying every bandage and plaster, and leaving, as far as possible, no traces of his operation. So silently were most of his operations conducted, that he was often imagined to be on bad terms with his assistants." Fergusson was celebrated as a lithotomist and lithoritist, and it was said that to *wink* during one of his cutting operations for stone might involve one's seeing no operation at all, so rapidly was the work performed by that master hand. On one occasion when performing a lithotomy the blade of the knife broke away from the handle. He at once seized the blade in his long deft fingers, finished the operation, and quietly told the class: "Gentlemen, you should be prepared for any emergency." He died in London of Bright's disease on Feb. 10th, 1877, and was buried at West Linton, Peebleshire, beside his wife, who died in 1860. He was succeeded in the title by his sons, James Ranken; a younger son, Charles Hamilton, entered the Army, and there were three daughters. Fergusson's personality was marked. Tall and of fine presence, with very large and powerful hands, he was genial and hospitable. He was beloved by hosts of students whom he had started in life, and of patients whom he had aided gratuitously. Those who could afford to pay sometimes gave him very large sums for an operation. Like John Hunter, he was a good carpenter, and had besides a number of social pursuits and accomplishments. He was a staunch friend, forgiving to those, such as Syme, who opposed him, and his best monument is the life and work of the many pupils whom he influenced and stimulated as few have ever done. He made many contributions to surgical literature, and wrote a *System of Practical Surgery*, of which a fifth edition appeared in 1870. An expressive and nearly full length oil painting of Fergusson by Rudolf Lehmann hangs in the Secretary's office at the College, and there are numbers of portraits in the College Collection. The portrait was painted in 1874, and a replica hangs in the Edinburgh College of Physicians. He was extremely social and given to kind and friendly hospitality in private life. He sometimes invited a small circle of friends to dine at a well-known city hostelry, The Albion Tavern. On one of these occasions he invited the then Editor of *Punch*, who responded in these terms: "Look out for me at seven, look after me at eleven. - Yours, Mark Lemon." PUBLICATIONS:- *A System of Practical Surgery*, of which the first edition in 18mo was published in London, 1842; 2nd ed., in 12mo, 1846; 3rd., 1852; 4th ed., 1857; 5th ed., 1870. The work deals with the art rather than the science of surgery, and was a good text-book for medical students. Paper on lithotrity in the *Edin. Med. and Surg. Jour.*, 1835, xliv, 80. Paper on cleft palate in the *Med.-Chir. Trans.,* 1845, xxviii, 273. The Hunterian Oration, 8vo, 1871, is chiefly remarkable for the generous eulogium of James Syme, his former colleague, with whom relations had been somewhat strained.
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First Title value, for Searching Busk, George (1807 - 1886)

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Occupation Biologist Naval surgeon
Details Born at St. Petersburgh on August 12th, 1807, the second son of Robert Busk (1768-1835), merchant, and a member of the English colony there, by his wife Jane, daughter of John Westly, Custom House clerk at St. Petersburgh. His grandfather, Sir Wadsworth Busk, was Attorney-General of the Isle of Man. Hans Buck (1772-1862), scholar-poet, was his uncle; Hans Busk the Younger (1816-1862), a principal founder of the Volunteer movement in England, was his cousin. George Busk was educated at Dr. Hartley's School, Bingley, Yorkshire, and seved a six years' apprenticeship to George Beaman, being articled at the Royal College of Surgeons. He was a student at St. Thomas's Hospital, and for one session at St. Bartholomew's. In 1832 he was appointed Assistant Surgeon to the *Grampus*, the Seamen's Hospital Ship at Greenwich, and afterwards to the *Dreadnought* which replaced it. He served in this capacity for twenty-five years. During his service he worked out the pathology of cholera and made important observations on scurvy. In 1843 he was one of the first batch of Fellows of the College; from 1856-1859 he was Hunterian Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology; from 1863-1880 a Member of the Council; a Member of the Court of Examiners from 1868-1872; Chairman of the Midwifery Board in 1870; Vice-President for the year 1872-1873, and again in 1879-1880; President in 1871; and Trustee of the Hunterian Collection from 1870-1876. He was a Member of the Senate of the University of London, and was for a long period an Examiner for the Naval, Indian, and Army Medical Services. He was also a Governor of the Charterhouse, Treasurer of the Royal Institution, and the first Home Office Inspector under the Cruelty to Animals (Vivisection) Act. The last office he held until 1885, performing the difficult and delicate duties with such tact and impartiality as gained him the esteem both of physiologists and of the Home Office. When he resigned his post of Surgeon to the *Dreadnought* in 1855, Busk retired from the active practice of his profession and turned to the more congenial subject of biology. In this department he did excellent work, more especially in connection with the Bryozoa (Polyzoa), of which group he was the first to formulate a scientific arrangement which appeared in 1856 in his article in the *English Cyclopaedia*. His collection is now in the Natural History Museum at South Kensington. The name *Buskia* was given in his honour to a genus of Bryozoa by Alder in 1856, and again by Tenison-Woods in 1877. The Royal Society elected him a Fellow in 1850, and he was four times nominated a Vice-President, besides often serving on the Council. He received the Royal Medal in 1871. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society in December, 1846, acted as its Zoological Secretary from 1857-1868, served frequently on the Council, and was Vice-President several times between 1869 and 1882. He joined the Geological Society in 1859, served twice on the Council, was the recipient of the Lyell Medal in 1878, and of the Wollaston medal in 1885. He became a Fellow of the Zoological Society in 1856, assisted in the formation of the Microscopical Society in 1839, and was its President in 1848 and 1849. He was one of the Editors of the *Quarterly Journal of Microcopical Science*. In 1863 he attended the conference to discuss the question of the age and authenticity of the human jaw found at Moulin Quignon. His attention being thus drawn to palaeolontogical problems, he visited the Gibraltar Caves in company with Dr. Falconer, and henceforth devoted much time to the study of cave fauna and later to ethnology. He was President of the Ethnological Society before it was merged in the Anthropological Institute, of which he was President in 1873 and 1874. One result of his visit to Gibraltar was his gift of the Gibraltar Skull to the Museum of the College. He died at his house, 32 Harley Street, London, on August 10th, 1886. He married on August 12th, 1843, his cousin Ellen, youngest daughter of Jacob Hans Busk, of Theobalds, Hertfordshire, and by her had two daughters. Busk was full of knowledge, an unwearying collector of facts, a devoted labourer in the paths of science, and cautious in the conclusions he drew from his observations. He wrote but little in surgery, though his surgical work at the Dreadnought was altogether admirable and he was an excellent operator. He was a man of unaffected simplicity and gentleness of character, without a trace of vanity, a devoted friend, and an upright, honest gentleman. A good portrait painted by his daughter, Miss E. M. Busk, hangs in the Meeting-room of the Linnean Society at Burlington House. It was presented by the subscribers in 1885. There is a fine engraved portrait by Maguire and a large photograph of him as an old man. Both are in the College collection. PUBLICATIONS:- *A Catalogue of Marine Polyzoa in the British Museum*, 3 parts, London, 1852-75. Report on the Polyzoa collected by H. M. S. Challenger, 4to, 2 vols., London, 1884-6. An article on "Venomous Insects and Reptiles" in Holmes's *System of Surgery*, 1860. He was a joint translator with T. H. Huxley of Von Kölliker's *Manual of Human Histology* for the Sydenham Society, 2 vols., London, 1853-4, and he translated and edited Wedl's Rudiments of Pathological Histology also for the Sydenham Society in 1855. Buck was editor of the *Microscopical Journal* for 1842, and of the *Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science* from 1853-1868; of the *Natural History Review* from 1861-1865; and of the *Journal of the Ethnological Society* for 1869-70. Notable amongst his papers in the *Philosophical Transactions* are: (1) "Extinct Elephants in Malta", and (2) "Teeth of Ungulates".
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First Title value, for Searching Curling, Thomas Blizard (1811 - 1888)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Tavistock Place, London, on Jan. 1st, 1811, the son of Daniel Curling, F.S.A., Secretary to the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs, and Elizabeth, daughter of William Blizard and sister of Sir William Blizard. He was educated at The Manor House, Chiswick, and was afterwards apprenticed to his uncle Sir William Blizard (1743-1835), Surgeon to the London Hospital. During his apprenticeship he was a student at the London Hospital and attended the lectures of Edward Stanley (q.v.) and Sir William Lawrence (q.v.) at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where Blizard, his master, had himself been educated. Curling began to write before he was qualified, and communicated an article on the cranium to Partington's *Cyclopoedia*, and another, on cases he had observed at the London Hospital, to the Hospital Reports in the *London Medical Gazette*. Sir William Blizard resigned his office of Surgeon to the London Hospital in 1833, James Luke (q.v.) was promoted, and Curling was elected Assistant Surgeon in January 1834, after a severe contest with William Coulson (q.v.). In the same year he gained the Jacksonian Prize at the Royal College of Surgeons for his essay "On Tetanus", which was published in 1836. About a year after his election Curling was required to reside in the immediate neighbourhood of the hospital, and for seven years he occupied a place called 'The Mount', in the Whitechapel Road, a name given, it is said, because of the accumulated rubbish carted there after the Great Fire of London. He devoted much time to surgical pathology whilst acting as Assistant Surgeon, made the post-mortem examinations, and lectured on morbid anatomy. In 1841 he was appointed, in conjunction with James Luke, Lecturer on Surgery at the London Hospital, and in 1849 was appointed Surgeon in the place of John Goldwyer Andrews (q.v.). He was admitted a F.R.S. on June 6th, 1850, and bequeathed at his death the sum of £200 to the Scientific Relief Fund of the Royal Society. Curling was Consulting Surgeon to the Jewish, to the German, and to the Portugese Hosptials: he was also Consulting Surgeon to the London Orphan Asylum and a member of the Medical Board of the Royal Sea-Bathing Hospital at Margate, in the affairs of which he took an active interest. At the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society he filled the office of Surgical Secretary in 1845-1846 and President in 1871-1872. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was a Member of Council from 1864-1880, a Member of the Court of Examiners from 1871-1879, Chairman of the Midwifery Board in 1872, Vice-President in 1871 and 1872, and President in 1873. He discovered during his long tenure of office in the out-patient room of the London Hospital that the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the testicle needed revision. He published a paper in 1841, "Some Observations on the Stucture of the Gubernaculum and the Descent of the Testis in the Foetus", and in 1843, *A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Testicle, Spermatic Cord, and Scrotum. *The book met with a hearty reception, ran through many editions, and was translated into foreign languages, the Chinese version being made by Sir Patrick Manson in 1866. Curling published in 1851 *Observations on the Diseases of the Rectum*, which also had a large sale, and, like "Curling on the Testis", became a standard work. His paper at the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society seems to have been the first to draw attention to the occurrence of duodenal ulcer after burns of the skin. He died at Cannes on March 4th, 1888. Curling's punctuality at the London Hospital was proverbial; he entered the gates as the clock struck the hour. In the wards he was exact and conscientious to a degree, his strong sense of duty to the patient leading him into the minutest supervision of the dresser's work. His sound judgement was grounded on vast clinical experience; he was consequently opposed to fanciful inductions. "His practice and his teaching were not at variance; both were sound, upright, and just." He was not personally popular, for his manner was cold, yet he was a staunch and sincere friend, whom to know was to trust and to honour. He was punctual in the performance of his duty in a remarkable way. He was not a good speaker, and instructed his pupils rather by what he did than by what he said. They could readily perceive that Curling's treatment of his patients was guided by fixed princicples, and that they could gain from him much valuable information. He was a careful and cautious operator, whose first consideration was a regard for the good of the individual patient. At the College he enjoyed the complete confidence of his colleagues on account of his zeal and the great interest he took in his work. The estimation in which his judgement was held by his contemporaries was shown by the fact that he was appointed five times to the important post of Surgical Referee at the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society, the last time succeeding the period of his Presidency. Curling was a man of commanding stature. There is an engraving of him from a daguerrotype in the *Medical Circular*, a photograph in the Fellows' Album, and another in *Photographs of Eminent Medical Men* (Barker and Edwards, 1867, i), and there is an engraving in the possession of the London Hospital. In later life he is described as a gentleman, tall, erect with white hair, pale complexion, and an inheritor of the large nose which marked the Blizard family.
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First Title value, for Searching Paget, Sir James (1814 - 1899)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Great Yarmouth on Jan. 11th, 1814, the eighth of seventeen children of Samuel Paget by Sarah Elizabeth, his wife, daughter of Thomas Tolver, of Chester. Sir George Edward Paget (1809-1892), Regius Professor of Physic at Cambridge, was a brother. The father was a brewer and a shipowner who served the office of Mayor of Great Yarmouth in 1817. He got into financial difficulties when shipping fell away after the Napoleonic Wars, and incurred debts which were afterwards honourably discharged by the self-denying efforts of George and James Paget. James Paget went to a private school in Yarmouth, and subsequently extended his education, which included a knowledge of German, by private study. He was apprenticed in 1830 to Charles Costerton, who had been educated at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, was admitted a Member of the College of Surgeons in 1810, and was Surgeon to the Yarmouth Hospital and Dispensary. During his apprenticeship James Paget found time to write, with his brother Charles, *A Sketch of the Natural History of Yarmouth and its Neighbourhood, containing Catalogues of the Species of Animals, Birds, Reptiles, Fish, Insects and Plants at present known,* printed by F. Skill at Yarmouth in 1834 and sold at the price of half a crown. It was written in the hope of making a little money for current expenses, but it had the good fortune of bringing the authors under the notice of Sir William Hooker, the Regius Professor of Botany in Glasgow, who had been educated in Norfolk. Paget came to London and entered St. Bartholomew's Hospital as a medical student on Oct. 1st, 1834. Whilst dissecting on Jan. 2nd, 1835, his attention was drawn to numerous gritty specks in the muscles of the subject. He took some of the tissue to John George Children, principal Keeper of the Zoological Department at the British Museum, who sent him on to Robert Brown, Keeper of the Botanical Collection, as Children did not own a microscope. Paget made a careful study of the parasite, and his original sketches are preserved in the Library of the Royal College of Suregons. The preparation was examined by Richard Owen (q.v.), who determined the nematoid nature of the worm, named it *Trichina spiralis*, and took the credit. In 1835-1836 Paget acted as Clinical Clerk to Dr. Peter Mere Latham (1789-1875), because he could not afford the 'dressing fee' payable to the Surgeons of the Hospital, and he therefore never became a house surgeon. He was admitted a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in the spring of 1836, and after a short visit to Paris settled in London and supported himself by teaching and writing. He was sub-editor of *The Medical Gazette* from 1837-1842, and in 1841 he was elected Surgeon to the Finsbury Dispensary. At St. Bartholomew's Hospital Paget was appointed Curator of the Museum in succession to W. J. Bayntin in 1837, and in 1839 he was chosen Demonstrator of Morbid Anatomy. He proved himself so good a teacher that on May 30th, 1843, he was promoted to be Lecturer on General Anatomy and Physiology. On Aug. 10th, 1843, he was elected Warden of the College for Resident Students, then newly established at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, a post he resigned in October, 1851. In 1846 he drew up a catalogue of the anatomical and pathological museum of the Hospital, which showed evidence of the careful descriptions and literary excellence which marked his later work at the Royal College of Surgeons. He was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Hospital on Feb. 24th, 1847, after a severe contest. The opposition was based on the ground that he had never filled the office of dresser or house surgeon, posts which had always been considered essential qualifications in every candidate for the surgical staff. Paget, however, came out at the top of the poll with 142 votes - Andrew Melville Mcwhinnie (q.v.), who was Demonstrator of Anatomy and Lecturer on Comparative Anatomy, receiving 78, and Robert Rainey Pennington, nephew of a well-known and fashionable apothecary, 22 votes. He lectured on physiology in the medical school from 1859-1861; became full Surgeon in 1861; held the Lectureship on Surgery from 1865-1869, and resigned the office of Surgeon in May, 1871, although he gave an occasional lecture as Consulting Surgeon. He was Surgeon to the Bluecoat School (Christ's Hospital), then situated in Newgate Street, from 1862-1871. At the Royal College of Surgeons he prepared the descriptive catalogue of the pathological specimens contained in the Hunterian Museum, which appeared at intervals between 1846 and 1849. He was Arris and Gale Professor of Anatomy and Surgery from 1847-1852; a Member of the Council from 1865-1889; a Vice-President in 1873 and 1874; Chairman of the Midwifery Board in 1874; and President in 1875. He was also the representative of the College at the General Medical Council from 1876-1881; Hunterian Orator in 1877; the first Bradshaw Lecturer in 1882, when he took as his subject "Some New and Rare Diseases"; and the first Morton Lecturer on cancer and cancerous diseases in 1887. Paget was appointed Surgeon Extraordinary to Queen Victoria in 1858, when he was only Assistant Surgeon at his Hospital. He attended Queen Alexandra, when Princess of Wales, during a long surgical illness, and was gazetted Surgeon to King Edward VII, whom as Prince of Wales he attended during the attack of typhoid fever in 1871. From 1867-1877 he held the office of Sergeant-Surgeon Extraordinary, and in 1877 he became Sergeant-Surgeon on the death of Sir William Fergusson (q.v.). He was created a baronet in August, 1871. He was President of the three chief medical societies of his time in London. He filled the chair of the Clinical Society in 1869, of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society in 1875, and of the Pathological Society in 1887. He acted as President of the International Medical Congress of Medicine held in London in 1881 with conspicuous success. In 1860 he became a member of the Senate of the University of London, and in 1883 he acted as Vice-Chancellor on the death of Sir George Jessel. He was elected F.R.S. in 1851, and held honorary degrees at Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Dublin, Bonn and Würzburg. He married in 1844 Lydia, daughter of the Rev. Henry North, domestic chaplain to the Duke of Kent and master of a private school at 1 Cornwall Terrace, Regent's Park, which was affiliated to King's College, London. She died in 1895, having made his home ideally happy. The family consisted of four sons and two daughters. The eldest son, John, was a barrister and inherited the title; the second son, Francis, was successively Dean of Christ Church and Bishop of Oxford; the third, Henry Luke, became Bishop of Chester; Stephen (q.v.) inherited much of the talent of his father as a very skilful writer and an excellent speaker. The elder daughter married the Rev. H. L. Thompson, Warden of Radley College and afterwards Vicar of St. Mary's (the University) Church, Oxford; the younger daughter, Mary Maude, remained unmarried. Paget after leaving the Warden's house at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where his children were born, moved to 24 Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square, in 1851, and in 1858 to 3 Harewood Place, Hanover Square, then shut off from Oxford Street by locked gates. Here he spent all his professional life, the accommodation for patients consisting of a single waiting-room which served as the dining-room, and a small consulting-room looking out on to a tiny garden; yet through these two rooms passed nearly all the interesting cases and many of the nobility of England. After he retired from practice he lived at 5 Park Square West, Regent's Park, and here he died peacefully of old age on Dec. 30th, 1899. He was buried in the Finchley Cemetery after the funeral service in Westminster Abbey. There is a tablet to his memory on the west wall of the church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less. A bust of Paget by Sir V. Edgar Boehm, Bart., R.A., is on the College staircase. It is a good likeness and there is a replica in the Museum at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. A three-quarter-length in oils by Sir John Everett Millais, R.A., of which there is an engraving, represents Paget lecturing at the age of 57, and hangs in the Great Hall at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. The portrait is a telling likeness, but shows signs of his recent recovery from a severe attack of blood poisoning caused by a post-mortem wound. It represents him with a sad expression, which was not usual with him. An admirable caricature by 'Spy' appeared in *Vanity Fair*; the likeness is poor, but the attitude is characteristic and perfect. It is reproduced in the *St. Bartholomew's Hospital Journal* (1925, xxxiii, frontispiece). He also appears in Jamyn Brooke's portrait group of the Council, 1884. Paget occupied a prominent position in the surgery of his day. He founded a school which would have been larger and more influential had it not been almost immediately eclipsed by the birth of bacteriology and the teaching of Lister. It is the peculiar merit of Paget that he made use of the microscope to elucidate the true nature of morbid growths. He was a good and efficient but not a great operating surgeon; his strength lay in diagnosis, which was perfected by his robust common sense, and in later life by his unrivalled experience. His sound knowledge of morbid anatomy, gained partly in museums and partly in the more perilous field of the post-mortem room, where he twice nearly lost his life, made him a link connecting the surgery of John Hunter with that of the present day. His perfect tact, his courtesy, and his real eloquence gave him ready access to the best circles in the Victorian era. The position he occupied as a teacher at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and the classical English of his writings, enabled him to exercise a much wider influence than would have been expected from his modest demeanour and somewhat retiring disposition. He was a great teacher because he was able to grasp principles and clothe them briefly and clearly in exquisite language. Those who will read aloud his Hunterian oration can still hear the cadences but not the actual tones of the orator. The influence of heredity was well shown in each of his distinguished sons, who reproduced quite unconsciously his attitude, his facial appearance, and many of his traits of character. Scrupulously honest and fair-minded, he acquired the chief surgical practice in London. During the busiest period of his life he was never outwardly in a hurry nor was he ever unpunctual in keeping an appointment. He had strong religious convictions and was always careful in the religious observances of the Church of England. In person he was slightly built and a little above medium height, his face rather long, his cheeks somewhat flushed, and his eyes bright. His voice was soft and musical; he spoke quietly, fluently, and apparently extemporaneously. His public utterances were carefully prepared beforehand, and were given an air of spontaneity by slight pauses, as though hesitating for an instant in the flow of thought. They were in reality flawless and were delivered without gesture of any sort. W. E. Gladstone thought so highly of his public speaking that he said he divided people into two classes, those who had and those who had not heard Sir James Paget. It was his habit to write in his carriage short paragraphs on torn pieces of paper, which, being placed together, formed a lucid and continuous statement. The names of Sir James Paget is associated with a chronic eczematous condition of the nipple associated with cancer of the breast, and with a chronic inflammation of the bones to which the name osteitis deformans has been given. A bibliography is given in the *Index Catalogue of the Surgeon General's Library* (series I and ii). The most interesting, and perhaps the most lasting, of his writings are *Studies of Old Case Books*, published in 1891.
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First Title value, for Searching Beare, Robin Lyell Blin (1922 - 2007)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Brian Morgan
Publication Date 2012-02-06 2015-05-01
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Robin Lyell Blin Beare was a consultant plastic surgeon at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, and St Mary's Hospital, London. He was born on 31 July 1922 in Weybridge, where his father was a surgeon/GP. Robin went to Radley School, where he was a junior scholar. In 1940 he joined the RAF, trained as a pilot, and was shot down on a bombing raid over Berlin. He parachuted to safety, but was captured and from 1941 was a prisoner of war. After the war he worked as a test pilot researching ejector seats designed by Martin Baker, which left him with lasting back problems. When he left the Royal Air Force he continued to fly, then in 1947 decided to train in medicine at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1952 with a distinction in surgery, the Charles Bell prize in anatomy and the Leopold Hudson prize in surgical pathology. He was an assistant lecturer in the Bland Sutton Institute of Pathology, and then trained in general surgery at the Middlesex Hospital and in plastic surgery at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, under the tutelage of Sir Archibald McIndoe. In 1956 he was appointed as a consultant at Queen Victoria Hospital and also at Mary's Hospital, Paddington, and had a regular clinic at Brighton. He continued working closely with McIndoe, and when McIndoe died in 1960 Robin succeeded him in his NHS work and also in his private practice at 149 Harley Street. His clinical interests were in facial reconstruction, cleft lip and palate, and burns. He was author of papers on surgical subjects including irradiation injuries of the perineum, skin grafts and flaps. He worked with his colleague John Watson on the design of the building of the new and quite revolutionary burns unit at Queen Victoria Hospital, which was opened in 1963. He was interested in fostering research in plastic surgery and was an original trustee of the Blond McIndoe Research Foundation. His private, mostly cosmetic, practice was considerable and one newspaper rated him as one of the top eight in the world. His colleagues remember him as a 'man of action' and very generous. He had a meticulous surgical technique and demanded a similar performance from others. He was a member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was honoured with the grand officer, first class, of the Order of Al-Istiqlal, Jordan. He was a passionate fisherman and enjoyed shooting and engineering projects. He also designed and made ornaments in silver and gold. Robin Lyell Blin Beare died on 1 December 2007, aged 85. He was survived by his wife Iris, sons Julian and John (an ophthalmic surgeon), and daughters Virginia and Karen.
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First Title value, for Searching Penhall, John Thomas (1833 - 1916)

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First Title value, for Searching Pennell, Theodore Leighton (1867 - 1912)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The son of a gifted medical practitioner in Brazil who died whilst his son was an infant; he was brought up by a devoted mother, who was herself a proficient linguist. She had set before him the course of a medical missionary, directing him in his medical career and in the reading of missionary biographies and travels. From Eastbourne College Pennell obtained in 1885 the Medical Entrance Exhibition at University College and Hospital in London. There, in 1889, he gained the Atchison Scholarship, the Bruce and the Liston Medals, in 1890 the Atkinson Morley Scholarship, and he graduated brilliantly in medicine at the University. Meanwhile he acted as Secretary of the University College Christian Association, which he represented on the Medical Prayer Union, and he was a leader in the University College Working Lads' Institute in Tottenham Court Road. A striking appearance, over six feet in height, marked him out for a commanding position. Dr Frederick Roberts referred to him as the most distinguished student of his year. In 1892 he went out to India under the Church Missionary Society to the Medical Mission at Dera Ismail Khan. In 1893 he was transferred to the North-West Frontier at Bannu to open out a new medical mission. He was accompanied by his devoted mother, who remained with him on the Afghan border until her death in 1908. Pennell published *Among Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier*, to which Lord Roberts wrote a preface. From very small beginnings he became known as the best friend of the tribesmen throughout a wide circle. He developed a hospital with ninety beds; in 1910 the in-patients numbered 1309, the out-patients 67,294. He did a number of operations, 300 cataract operations in one year. The wounded from both sides after a tribal conflict found themselves occupants of the same ward. Pennell went on visits among the tribes and was welcomed where few others would have dared to venture. The Government of India recognized his worth by awarding him in 1903 the Kaisar-i-Hind Medal of the 2nd class, and in 1910 that of the 1st class. He encouraged athletics to stiffen the fibre of Indian boys, and took the football team of the Bannu High School for a tour in North India to play matches with other mission schools; he was also a keen entomologist and botanist. In the summer of 1908 he took a short leave, which gave occasion for an address from both Hindoos and Mohammedans at Bannu, in which they referred to his selfless devotion as a medical man, his attendance at any hour to a call whether from rich or poor, the excellent arrangements for in-patients and out¬patients treated alike with sympathy and kindness. In the costume of an Afghan he had joined in their social gatherings as one of themselves, and his efforts to bridge the gulf between Europeans and Indians were highly admired. He had made a home in their hearts, and whilst praying for a happy voyage, they looked forward to welcoming him back. His leave in England was broken by the sudden death in India of his mother; he also underwent an operation for removal of a loose cartilage from the knee. On his return to India he married a Parsee lady, Miss Alice M Sorabji, BS Bombay, MB, BS Lond., who especially shared in the Zenana part of his work. She returned to England with him two years later, after he had been much exhausted by an attack of typhoid fever. At Bannu on March 20th, 1912, when operating upon a colleague, Dr W H Barnett, an old St Bartholomew's student, for septicaemia, Pennell also contracted septicaemia, and died on March 23rd, shortly after Barnett, who had died on the 20th. A memorial service was held at St Pancras Church, which was attended by the Provost, Secretary, Dean of the Medical School, and friends from University College and Hospital.
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First Title value, for Searching Williams, Carl John (1967 - 2006)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-23 2014-06-03
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Carl John Williams was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester. He studied medicine at University College London, gaining a BSc in medical microbiology in 1989 and qualifying MB BS in 1992. He was a senior house officer in general surgery at Blackpool, and then a clinical lecturer and specialist registrar in orthopaedic surgery in Manchester. He became a fellow of the Edinburgh College in 1997 and of the London College in 1998. Outside medicine, he enjoyed snowboarding, mountain biking and windsurfing. Carl Williams died on 4 December 2006, aged just 38, following a five-year struggle with a melanoma and subsequent multiple metastases.
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First Title value, for Searching Willetts, Gordon Stephen ( - 2005)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-23 2014-07-25
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Gordon Stephen Willetts was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at York District Hospital. He studied medicine in Birmingham, qualifying in 1956. He decided to become an ophthalmic surgeon, gained his diploma in ophthalmology in 1958 and became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1966. He died on 18 April 2005 in St Leonard's Hospice, York, and was survived by his wife Jean, daughter Stephanie and son Michael.
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First Title value, for Searching Wetherell, Geoffrey Alfred (1918 - 2006)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Norman Kirby
Publication Date 2012-01-23 2015-05-29
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Geoffrey Wetherell was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Clatterbridge Hospital, Wirral, Merseyside. He was born on 6 June 1918, the son of Gertrude Blanche Wetherell née Hapgood and Alfred Wetherell. He studied medicine in Liverpool and, after qualifying in 1943, did his house jobs there. He carried out his war service in the Royal Air Force Medical Services, serving in the Far East Land Forces, and was demobilised as a squadron leader. After the war he returned to Liverpool for further training in orthopaedics, working with T P McMurray and others. He passed his FRCS 1952. In 1953 he was awarded the degree of master of surgery in orthopaedics from Liverpool University. Subsequently he was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon to Clatterbridge Hospital, where he spent a busy surgical life. An early practitioner of hip replacement surgery, he was an enthusiast for the use of metal-on-metal prostheses. He did not support metal-on-plastic experiments. Spinal surgery was also an expertise he developed. After retiring he remained very energetic and developed many hobbies. He was a keen woodworker and gardener, and enjoyed DIY. In 1948 he married Rosemary (née Mann) and they had three children. David was a solicitor, Roderick was a consultant hand and reconstructive surgeon, and Lindsay trained as a physiotherapist. Geoffrey Wetherell died on 17 July 2006.
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First Title value, for Searching Sharma, Chandra Maulishwar Prasad (1933 - 2009)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-18 2014-06-06
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Chandra Maulishwar Prasad Sharma was a consultant general and urological surgeon in Patna, India. He qualified MB BS in Patna in 1958 and gained his FRCS in 1965. He was a senior surgical registrar at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, and a surgical registrar at West Wales General Hospital, Carmarthen. He then became a consultant general surgeon for Dyfed Area Health Authority. In 2009 the Royal College of Surgeons was notified of his death.
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First Title value, for Searching Brummelkamp, Willem Hendrik (1928 - 2010)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2011-11-04 2013-08-14
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Willem Hendrick ('Pim') Brummelkamp was a leading Dutch surgeon who, in 1971, became professor at the University of Amsterdam. Initially he worked at Binnengasthuis, the hospital of the old Municipal University of Amsterdam, then at St Luke's Roman Catholic Hospital, and finally at the modern Academic Medical Centre. He was very much a general surgeon, who in later years concentrated on gastric and colo-rectal surgery. His father, Reindet Brummelkamp, was a surgeon to the Mission Hospital in Java and Pim Brummelkamp was born at Keboemen on 21 March 1928. In 1933 the family, including a brother, Reidert, and two sisters (Anna and Jean), returned to the Netherlands, where the father practised as a surgeon in Winterswijk. Willem Hendrick went to Haarlem High School, after which he studied medicine at Groningen University, graduating *cum laude* with a dissertation on meningiomas. His surgical training was directed by Ite Boerema at the Wilhemina Hospital. He developed an early interest in hyperbaric treatment with oxygen, and was a pioneer in the treatment of gas gangrene and acute dermal gangrene using this method. This breakthrough was reported by Brummelkamp and Boerema in 1960. Later Pim supervised the MD thesis of D J Bakker, which discussed the historical, physiological, general aspects and aetiology of these potentially fatal conditions, and the results of treatment in Amsterdam of these conditions over 20 years. At a time when Pim was working with Boerema in 1961, he published an interesting case report 'Unusual complication of pulmonary arteriovenous aneurysm: intra-pleural rupture' (*Chest* 1961;39[2];218-21). A lady of 34 had presented as an emergency with a violent haemoptysis and needed two operations to cure this complication of Rendu-Osler disease. Following his increased specialisation in gastro-intestinal surgery, Pim published quite widely. One of his joint papers, written with A F Engel, ('Secondary surgery after failed postanal or anterior sphincter repair' *Int J Colorectal Dis* 1994;9[4]:187-90) reported good results of secondary surgery after failed post-anal repair or anterior sphincter repair. An interest in stoma work led him to found the Dutch Ostomy Association (or the Harry Bacon Club). This support group catered for patients needing ileostomy, colostomy, urinary diversion and also continent conduits. Pim Brummelkamp was a tall and somewhat whimsical man: to some he appeared somewhat aloof. An excellent teacher of students, he inspired many - except those who fainted or had to leave the first lecture in their surgical course: it was a slideshow of patients after major trauma! A great Anglophile, he welcomed many visitors from the United Kingdom. The Travelling Surgical Club (TSC) and now Travelling Surgical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (TSS) visited Holland for meetings on many occasions. Founder members went on their first overseas visit to Holland in 1925, one year after it was founded in Leeds, and the Netherlands were visited on many occasions thereafter. In 1970 members watched a wide variety of operations, heard scientific papers from their hosts and saw several demonstrations, being welcomed on this occasion by W H Brummelkamp at St Luke's Roman Catholic Hospital. On a tour of the hospital and ward rounds, the Dutch hosts introduced members of the TSC to the Chief Rabbi, who had been operated on by a Protestant surgeon and in a Roman Catholic hospital! In May 1983, members of the TSC were again warmly welcomed by Pim Brummelkamp, now professor at the newly-built Academic Medical Centre (Academisch Medisch Centrum) in Amsterdam. When complete, it was destined to become the largest building in Holland. It was strategically placed close to the motorway network and to Schiphol International Airport. The hospital was well-planned, had very spacious parking facilities and a separate energy unit, which generated electricity for the whole complex. Very impressive and modern, this state-owned hospital had all the latest medical equipment, envied by all the UK surgeons attending. When receiving his honorary FRCS, the citation was given by Harold Ellis, who noted that Brummelkamp had been president of the Association of Surgeons of the Netherlands, one time editor of the *Netherlands Journal of Surgery*, and was also honorary fellow of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the New York Academy of Sciences. Outside medicine, Pim Brummelkamp was an art lover, particularly of modern art, and especially the work of the COBRA artists. COBRA (formed by the first letters of the capitals of Denmark, Belgium and Holland - Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam - where the artists were based) included Christian Dotrement, Asger Jorn and Karel Appel. All the COBRA artists experimented with spontaneity, and were inspired by primitive art and also by children's drawings. Pim was responsible for the selection of works of art and the construction of an exhibition centre when the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam was planned and built. Appropriately, this was named the Brummelkamp gallery, and is the largest non-museum art collection in the Netherlands. In 1989 he co-wrote *Fifteen movements in Dutch painting after 1945 from the collection of the Academic Medical Centre* (Veenman/Academic Medical Centre). Brummelkamp met his wife Hetty van Joost when they were both working in St Luke's Hospital in 1968. Hetty's father was a chest physician who initially practised in the Dutch East Indies before returning to Holland, where he had a notable career in the field of tuberculosis. Pim and Hetty married in 1975, but had no children. She trained in Leyden and became an anaesthetist who worked in Amstelven. Over the years she, Pim and her older brother Michael worked together in the same hospitals. Willem Hendrick Brummelkamp died on 7 September 2010, at the age of 81. His wife, Hetty, died in March 2013 of acute leukaemia.
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First Title value, for Searching Pennington, William ( - 1870)

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First Title value, for Searching Penny, Henry James (1816 - 1901)

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First Title value, for Searching Watts, John Inwood Michael ( - 2009)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-23 2015-07-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details John Inwood Michael Watts' last known address was in Minyip, Victoria, Australia. He studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1965. He gained his FRCS in 1973. He was a house surgeon at St Thomas' Hospital, a house physician at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, and a major in the RAMC. In the mid-1970s he became a medical officer for British Petroleum and was then a surgical registrar at Stockton Hospital. In October 2009 the Royal College of Surgeons was notified that he had died on 3 September 2009.
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First Title value, for Searching Wilmot, Thomas James (1920 - 2011)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-23 2015-07-03
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Thomas James Wilmot was a consultant ENT surgeon in Tyrone and Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. He was born in 1920. His father was a general practitioner in Louth, Lincolnshire, but was originally from County Kerry. His mother was from Inverness. Wilmot was educated in Norfolk and at Epsom College, and then studied medicine at Middlesex Hospital Medical School. He was evacuated to Leeds and Bristol during the Second World War and qualified MB BS in 1944. His first posts were in Inverness and at Mount Vernon Hospital. He then returned to Middlesex Hospital, first as a surgical registrar and then as an ENT registrar. From 1947 to 1949 he served in the Royal Air Force as a graded ENT specialist. In 1950 he was based at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, where he gained his FRCS and MS. He then returned to Middlesex Hospital as a senior ENT registrar. In 1951 he was appointed to a consultant post at Omagh in County Tyrone, where he set up the first ENT service outside Belfast. Working with colleagues at Middlesex Hospital and the University of Geneva, he installed specialist auditory and rotational equipment for the study of sensorineural deafness and vertigo, then the most advanced equipment in the British Isles. He published papers, wrote a monograph on Ménière's disease and contributed to text books on otology, audiology and occupational medicine. He was president of the otology section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1973 and of the Irish Otolaryngology Society in 1981. In the 1970s he was awarded the Dalby, Jobson Horne and Norman Gamble prizes. He was a founder member of the Otorhinolaryngological Travelling Club. Outside medicine, he had a passion for fishing and was a skilled painter in oils. He also made his own wine. In later years he developed Parkinson's disease. His first wife Pat died in 1986. He died on 31 March 2011 and was survived by his second wife, Ivy, his son Tom and daughter Heather, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Whittle, Richard John Miller (1924 - 2011)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-23 2014-04-07
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Occupation Radiologist
Details Richard John Miller Whittle was a consultant radiologist at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He gained his FRCS in 1953. He died on 30 March 2011 after a long illness. He was 86. He was survived by his wife Pamela.
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First Title value, for Searching Gaskell, Samuel (1807 - 1886)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-02-08
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at Manchester and Edinburgh. He early directed his attention to the treatment of the insane, and in 1840 was appointed Medical Superintendent of the large Asylum for the County of Lancaster, at a time when the treatment of the insane in England was only just beginning to emerge from a long-established system of ignorance, and various barbarous modes of restraint were in general use. At the time when Conolly was carrying out the non-restraint system at Harwell, Gaskell was doing the same at Lancaster, and with equally beneficial results. His good work soon became known to Lord Shaftesbury, who appointed him a Medical Commissioner in Lunacy in 1849, a post which he held till his resignation in 1866. This was the first time that an expert had been appointed Commissioner. Gaskell was a remarkably well-informed and painstaking official. He was not popular at the institutions which it was his duty to visit, on account of the thoroughness of his inspections. Proprietors and superintendents who did not look too minutely into details for themselves were greatly surprised, and not at all pleased, to find the dignified Commissioner looking into beds and cupboards, and all manner of uninvestigated places. Both at the Lancaster Asylum and at Whitehall Place he helped forward the great and general movement in the treatment of the insane, which succeeded the new Lunacy Law of 1845. At the Lancaster Asylum, where John D Cleaton was his assistant, Gaskell adopted the then novel system of non-restraint, and he did much in his attempts to develop in his patients those faculties, or parts of faculties, of the mind which were not involved in the destructive processes of disease. The Earl of Shaftesbury has left on record the surprise and admiration with which he observed, under Gaskell's care, a number of female lunatics, each of whom had a young child to look after, with such beneficial results that Lord Shaftesbury declared to his audience that he then and there resolved that Gaskell should be the next medical colleague whom he would receive at the Board of the Commissioners. After his appointment as Commissioner, Gaskell carried out, by his strenuous advice and support, a practical reform in the management of the insane. He caused each patient who was liable to be wet or dirty to be aroused, and placed in a condition to attend to the calls of nature at stated intervals, with the result that wet and dirty beds were reduced to units where they had been counted by scores, or even by hundreds. This alone was a vast step in asylum management, but it does not quite stand by itself, seeing that it led, too gradually perhaps, to a revolution in the system of night-nursing in asylums, which was put on quite a different footing from the perfunctory pretence of night-watching and nursing with which superintendents were more or less satisfied, with the general result of decrease of suicides, decrease of noise and violence at night, and a very general increase in the comfort and well-being of the inmates of all well-managed public asylums and hospitals for the insane. It should never be forgotten that what is designated the non-restraint system is not alone the abolition of mechanical restraint, but that it connotes a revolution in the treatment of the insane in a great number of particulars. After a retirement of twenty years, Gaskell died at his residence in Walton, Surrey, at the end of March, 1886. Publication: *On the Want of Better Provision for the Labouring and Middle Classes when Attacked or Threatened with Insanity*, 8vo, np, nd.
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First Title value, for Searching Crossling, Frank Turner (1927 - 2011)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2011-11-09 2014-04-09
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Frank Crossling was a consultant general surgeon at Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow. He was born on 16 August 1927 in Aberdeen, the son of Wilfred Ormston Crossling, a printer and commercial traveller, and his wife, Jean née Turner. Educated at Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen and at Aberdeen University, he graduated MB ChB in 1949. In 1965 he was appointed consultant at Stobhill Hospital and was said to be strikingly innovative in his early years, among other procedures he was credited with being one of the first to use stapling techniques. During 1967-8 he took a sabbatical year working in a hospital in Nairobi and regaled students and colleagues for a long time afterwards with tales of his time in Kenya. He retired in 1991. Frank married Margaret Elizabeth Abdy, a radiographer, on 7 October 1950, and they had a son who became a vet. He was a man of many interests outside medicine, particularly climbing, skiing, photography, classical music and travel. Sadly Margaret died suddenly and unexpectedly soon after his retirement and he moved to the north of Aberdeenshire, to Kildrummy to be near his son. He died on 28 April 2011, aged 83 years survived by his son and three grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001526
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First Title value, for Searching Clyne, Andrew Jack (1907 - 1994)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by R P Craig
Publication Date 2011-11-09 2018-02-22
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Major General Andrew Clyne, a hugely experienced military surgeon who served in a number of campaigns, was director general of medical services for the Royal Australia Army Medical Corps. He was born on 30 June 1907 in Melbourne, Australia, the eldest son of Andrew Morrison Clyne, a stock and station agent, and Ethel Kathleen Clyne née Kentish. He was educated at the University High School in Melbourne, and then studied medicine at the University of Melbourne, gaining a BSc and qualifying MB BS in 1932 with the Keith Levi memorial prize in medicine and the Jamieson prize in clinical medicine. After a post as a resident medical officer at Melbourne Hospital, he went to the UK and joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1934 as a lieutenant, proceeding to the rank of captain in March 1935. In the pre-war years he was based in India. During the Second World War he was a staff captain at the Southern Command (India) and deputy assistant director of medical services and then assistant director at the Army headquarters between December 1942 and July 1943. From July 1943 and October 1944 he was officer commanding the 13 Indian Casualty Clearing Station, and officer commanding 51 MFTU (malaria forward treatment unit) between October 1944 and March 1945. He was then in command of the British Military Hospitals in Deolali, in Bombay and finally in Delhi between September 1945 and July 1946. In 1947 he was at the Royal Army Medical College, Millbank, and in 1949 was a clinical assistant at Miller Hospital, Greenwich. He gained his FRCS in 1949, followed by a series of appointments as a consultant surgeon, firstly in the Far East between February 1950 and May 1956, which covered most of the Malayan Emergency. He also served in Korea. Between August 1956 and February 1959 he was a consultant surgeon at the headquarters of the British Army of the Rhine at Rheindahlen, West Germany. From there, he became a consultant surgeon to the Middle East Land Forces based in Cyprus, between February 1959 and June 1960 - the period when EOKA (Ethnikí Orgánosis Kipriakoú Agónos) was fighting for independence. He then returned to the United Kingdom and was promoted to honorary brigadier. He relinquished his commission after being appointed by the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps as their next director general of medical services. He served in this role from 1960 to 1967. He was made an honorary major general around 1963. He was an honorary surgeon to The Queen. He was clearly a surgeon of considerable ability and served with distinction as a senior medical administrator. He was awarded with the 1939-1945 Star, the Burma Star, and the Defence and War medals for his service in the Second World War. Later he gained the Malayan General Service medal, and the Korean and UN medals. In 1954 he was appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his service in the Far East. He married Queenie Decima Ford in 1935. They had two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Dark, John Fairman (1921 - 2009)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Raymond Hurt
Publication Date 2011-11-09 2012-11-07
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Occupation Thoracic surgeon
Details John Fairman Dark was a thoracic surgeon in Manchester. He was born in London on 18 April 1921, the son of Leonard Dark, a sales manager, and Dorothy Rose Dark née Fairman, a London Hospital nurse. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, where he won Harrison and Kitchener scholarships, and then Manchester University Medical School. In 1944 he served for four and a half months in an Emergency Medical Service hospital at Conishead Priory. He gained his MB ChB in 1945. Following junior hospital posts at Manchester Royal Infirmary, in 1949 he began to train in his chosen specialty of thoracic surgery at Baguley Sanatorium, also in Manchester. In 1952 he was appointed as a consultant thoracic surgeon at Baguely and at other hospitals in the region. Twenty years later, in 1972, he was appointed to the regional cardiothoracic unit at Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester. By the 1970s, pulmonary tuberculosis surgery had largely disappeared with the introduction of chemotherapy, and the major part of thoracic surgery was the treatment of bronchial carcinoma and, to a lesser extent, the treatment of oesophageal carcinoma. Dark always had a special interest in the treatment of oesophageal carcinoma, and he was very proud of the statistics that he and his team published in *Thorax* in 1981 for oesophageal resection for this disease ('Surgical treatment of carcinoma of the oesophagus' *Thorax* 1981 Dec;36[12]:891-5). Of the 449 operations they reported, there was a hospital mortality rate of only 7.6 per cent and a five year survival rate of 18 per cent above the average rate for that time. In 1968 Dark began open-heart surgery with the hypothermia technique at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. Then, like other thoracic surgeons of that era, he became more involved in closed heart surgery - mitral valvotomy and the treatment of congenital heart disease (patent ductus arteriosus and aortic coarctation). For six years he was an examiner for the Edinburgh cardiothoracic fellowship examination and, from 1980 to 1985, an adviser in cardiothoracic surgery to the Department of Health. He was president of the Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, and president of the Manchester Medical Society in 1989. He had an extremely friendly personality and was greatly respected by his peers. He married Prudence Mary Holden in June 1949. They had four children - John Henry (a fellow of the College and professor of cardiothoracic and transplant surgery at Newcastle), Jeremy (who died infancy), Robert Fairman and Julia Mary. Dark developed a contained abdominal aortic aneurysm, which became a full rupture about 35 hours later and was not repaired because of a recent stroke. He died on 9 April 2009.
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First Title value, for Searching El-Gailani, Tahrir Ismail (1926 - 2009)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2011-12-09 2014-03-10
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Tahrir El-Galiani was professor of surgery at Baghdad University. He was born in Hit, Iraq in 1926. His mother's name was Hidna Turky and his father, Ismail Ahmed El-Galiani was a land owner on the Euphratus. He was their seventh child and the fourth of their sons. After primary school in Hit, he attended secondary school in Ramadi and then the Preparatory Central School in Baghdad. At the Royal Iraqi Medical School he qualified MB, ChB in 1949 and won prizes in public health and medicolegal studies. Between 1950 and 1953 he was resident in surgery at the Royal Teaching Hospital in Baghdad before coming to the UK and taking up a post at the North Herts Hospital Hitchin in 1954 where he worked under W E M Wardell and J Shipman. In 1956 he went to Green Bank Hospital, Plymouth. He passed the College fellowship in 1958 and the Edinburgh fellowship the following year. Returning to Iraq he eventually became professor of surgery at the Medical College of Baghdad University. In 1967 he married Ms H Al-Saigh and they had a son and a daughter. His hobbies were photography, classical music and swimming. He died on 11 May 2009. Publications: Traumatic diaphragmatic hernia. *Brit j clin surg*20:12 1966 Gallstones and cholecystitis. *Int surg* 47:3 1967 Radical mastectomy in the treatment of cancer of the beast. *J Fac Med Baghdad* 8:1 1966 Vagotomy and gastrojejunestomy in the treatment of duodenal ulcer. *Ann Coll Med Mosul* 1:118 1966
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First Title value, for Searching Evans, David Lawrence (1919 - 2010)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2011-12-09 2014-04-02
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details David Evans was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Queen Mary's and the Westminster Hospital, London. He was born in London on 21 September 1919, the son of Arthur Evans OBE FRCS who was a general surgeon at the Westminster and Royal Masonic Hospitals and his wife, Dorothy, née Briant. His eldest brother, Briant Evans FRCS FRCOG was an obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Westminster, Chelsea and Queen Charlotte. David attended St Piran's School, Maidenhead and Rugby School. He studied medicine at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and Westminster Hospital Medical School, where he was president of the student's union and, in 1942, won both the Bulkeley medal and the Chadwick clinical surgery prize. From 1943 to 1946 he served in the RNVR as a surgeon lieutenant. He was on HMS *Pathfinder* for a year taking part in Atlantic convoys, serving in the Mediterranean, and the Indian Ocean. Following this he was with the Royal Marines at Trincomalee, Ceylon and MO to Mountbatten's fleet force, landing at Arakan and taking the surrender of the Japanese in Sabang (North Sumatera) - a time which he described as "A marvellous, occasionally alarming but seldom boring adventure at HM's expense". After the war David joined the staff of the Westminster Hospital as surgical registrar to Sir Stanford Cade and also worked at the Hospital for Sick children at Great Ormond Street. Appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon to Southend General Hospital in 1957 he remained there for 2 years before taking up a consultancy at the Westminster where he worked until retirement in 1985. In the early 1960's he was also at St Stephen's Hospital in Chelsea, staying there until 1972, and from 1961-1985 he was consultant orthopaecdic surgeon to Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton. At the College, he was on Council from 1983 to 1991, Vice-President from 1989 to 1991, RCS visitor to the RCOG Council 1985 to 1990 and Robert Jones Lecturer in 1985. With Peter Bevan he initiated the Overseas Doctors Training Scheme. He was a member of the British Orthopaedic Association for many years and served as its President in 1980. In 1987 he was made an honorary fellow of the section of orthopaedics of the Royal Society of Medicine, having been the section President in 1979. For many years he was on the editorial board of the *Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery*(British Volume) and contributed numerous article to that and other professional journals. He married Betty McCrea, a nurse at St Thomas's, on 14 January 1951. She was the daughter of Dr H Moreland McCrea OBE MD. They had a son Tim who became a general practitioner and three daughters, Joanna Burgess, a speech therapist in London; Phillipa Ford, who lived in Harare, Zimbabwe and Gillian Adkins who practised as a physiotherapist in Portland, Oregon, USA. At university and medical school he was a keen hockey player and an enthusiastic all round sportsman. In later life he enjoyed golf (he was Captain of the Royal Wimbledon Golf Club in 1981), tennis and skiing (he was founder of the British Orthopaedic Skiing Group). Fishing, especially dry fly, was another favourite pastime plus bridge and what he described as "African adventures". He died on 5 March 2010 aged 90, survived by his family which by 2001 included 12 grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Evans, Geoffrey (1935 - 2010)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-09 2015-02-20
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Occupation Vascular surgeon
Details Geoffrey Evans was an associate professor of surgery at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He was born on 25 January 1935 in Mountain Ash, Glamorgan, Wales, the son of William Garfield Evans, a schoolmaster, and Hannah Evans née James. He attended Mountain Ash Grammar School and then studied medicine at St Mary's Hospital Medical School in London. He was a house surgeon on the surgical unit at St Mary's and then a house physician at Paddington General Hospital. From May to December 1959 he was a casualty surgeon at St Mary's and subsequently a tutor in anatomy and physiology at the medical school there. From May to December 1960 he was a senior house officer at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, and then became a surgical registrar at Southlands Hospital, Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex. He returned to London in 1963, as a surgical registrar at Paddington General and a senior registrar in surgery at St Mary's. In 1967 he went to Canada, where he was a Canadian Heart Foundation fellow in the department of pathology at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario. He stayed on to become an assistant professor of surgery in 1969 and then, from 1970, an associate professor of surgery. He carried out research into thromboembolism and transient cerebral ischaemia. He was a member of the Society of University Surgeons, the Society for Academic Surgery, and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society and the Canadian Heart Foundation. Outside medicine he enjoyed skiing, sailing, squash, photography and music. In 1959 he married a Miss Martin. They had a son and twin daughters. Geoffrey Evans died in 2010.
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First Title value, for Searching Feroze, Sir Rustam Moolan (1920 - 2010)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Michael Pugh
Publication Date 2011-12-09 2013-08-16
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Sir Rustam Moolan Feroze, known as 'Mole', was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at King's College Hospital, Queen Charlotte's and the Chelsea Hospital for Women, and was a former president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He was the son of Jehangir and Diana Feroze. His father was a Parsee who qualified in Bombay and then went to England, where he was in general practice in London. After school at Sutton Valence, Mole went to King's College and King's College Hospital, where he qualified with a conjoint diploma in 1943. Serving in the Royal Navy for National Service, he was surgeon on a corvette of the Royal Indian Navy, which was posted off the Arakan coast of Burma. Following his National Service, he returned to King's College Hospital. He was a resident medical officer at the Samaritan and Soho hospitals, and then a senior registrar at the Middlesex Hospital and the Women's Hospital in Soho from 1950 to 1952. At the age of 31, he was appointed as a consultant to the Chelsea and King's College hospitals. In 1949 he became a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. In 1952 he gained his MD and became a fellow of our College. A consummate surgeon, surgery was his delight. He was admired for his immaculate technique and was a master of vaginal surgery. On one occasion Ralph Winterton, who was himself a meticulous operator in the abdomen, but less happy with vaginal surgery, suddenly exclaimed in theatre: 'I can't do this operation, get Feroze to come and show us'. Mole responded generously by coming to Soho and giving a wonderful demonstration of his technique to a large audience. He became dean of the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 1967 and was an elected as a member of the council of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1971. Further distinctions included his appointment as director of postgraduate studies in 1975, a post he held until he was elected president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1981, already having been vice-president. He was knighted in 1983. He published widely, particularly on gynaecological oncology, and contributed to *Bonney's gynaecological surgery* (London, Baillière Tindall, 1986). Mole had no enemies. He received many honours, gave eponymous lectures, gained honorary fellowships in America, Ireland and Australia, and was an examiner for the universities of London, Cambridge, Birmingham and Singapore. Away from medicine, he was a very keen skier until osteoarthritis of the hip made him limit his physical activities to tennis and gardening. Opera was another great joy and he was a member of Glyndebourne. He was also interested in bonsai. He was a member of the Royal Automobile Club (RAC). He married Margaret Dowsett, a radiographer who had X-rayed him after playing rugby, in 1947. Mole and Margaret had four children - three boys and one daughter, who tragically died in a domestic accident. Mole died on 8 February 2010.
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First Title value, for Searching Griffith, Gwilym Huw (1933 - 2004)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Brian Rees
Publication Date 2011-12-09 2013-02-14
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Gwilym Huw Griffith was a consultant general surgeon at the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport. He was born on 2 May 1933 in Denbigh, Wales, the younger of two children. His father was a Welsh Presbyterian minister and his mother was a teacher at Howell's, an independent girls' school. Gwilym was educated at Denbigh Grammar School and, in October 1950, at the age of 17, went on to St Mary's Hospital in London to study medicine, qualifying in 1956. Between 1956 and 1958 Gwilym completed various house jobs in and around London. From September 1958 to October 1960, he served as a captain in the RAMC for his National Service, acting as a junior specialist in surgery at the Military Hospital in Dhekelia, Cyprus, and at Benghazi, North Africa. Having gained his FRCS in 1962, he worked as a surgical registrar and was latterly appointed as a surgical registrar at St George's Hospital, Hyde Park Corner, London, where he worked under the watchful eyes of Charles Drew and Harold Siddons. In 1963 he was appointed as a registrar at Llandough Hospital and the Cardiff Royal Infirmary. He worked closely with David Crosby, and assisted him with the first renal transplant to be performed in Wales. He became a senior registrar at the surgical unit of the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, under Patrick Forrest. In August 1967 he became a senior registrar in surgery at Singleton Hospital, Swansea. Gwilym had a very thorough and comprehensive training in general surgery, with a specialist interest in endocrine surgery, an interest he developed under the influence of Hilary Wade in Cardiff. In May 1972 he was appointed as a consultant in general surgery at the then Newport and East Monmouthshire hospitals. He started his career as a consultant on 1 September at St Woolos Hospital, later transferring to the Royal Gwent Hospital. Gwilym quickly developed a very large practice in general and endocrine surgery. His commitment and care of his patients were exemplary. The training of junior surgeons was also important to him. He helped establish the Welsh Surgical Travellers Club and became president of the Welsh Surgical Society. In August 1987 he was elected chairman of the medical executive committee, and in 1993 was appointed medical director of the then Glan Hafren NHS Trust. In 1995 Gwilym was diagnosed with malignant myeloma. He responded well to treatment and was able to return to work a year later. In 1998 he was awarded an OBE for services to medicine. Gwilym was proud of his Welsh roots. He had a fine singing voice and enjoyed listening to music. He was a member of the executive committee of the National Eisteddfod in Newport in 1988 and was also chairman of the literature committee. A keen mountaineer from the 1950s, he helped St Mary's Climbing Club buy a hut in North Wales, which is still in use. He delighted in spending time in the French Alps near Chamonix, where he had an apartment. He was an enthusiastic skier and when snow shut the roads in Newport in 1982 he skied to the hospital to see his patients. He married Elan in 1964 and they had three daughters. Gwilym Huw Griffith died on 12 January 2004 in Newport, Wales, aged 70.
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First Title value, for Searching Goodman, Helene Valerie (1925 - 2010)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Michael Pugh
Publication Date 2011-12-09 2013-11-25
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Occupation Rheumatologist
Details Helene Valerie Goodman was a consultant rheumatologist at St Stephen's, Westminster and Royal Marsden hospitals, London. She was born in London on 18 October 1925, the daughter of Isaac Harris Goodman, a South African businessman and exporter, and Hilda Goodman née Lubetzki. She was known as 'Paddy' since childhood, a nickname allegedly given to her by her father, who had wanted a boy (when she was born there was a play running with the title *Paddy, the next best thing*). Paddy and her older sister Phyllis went to St Paul's Girls School and then to Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Paddy read medicine and did her clinical training at St George's, qualifying in 1951. She was very keen to become a surgeon, at a time when women were not encouraged to follow a surgical career. In 1952 she joined the primary course at the Royal College of Surgeons, where she met Anthony Woolf. They became engaged and married on 3 September 1952, which coincided with the primary examination for the London fellowship. They decided to go up to Glasgow to sit for the exam: Paddy passed and Anthony did not. She became a house surgeon at the Miller Hospital, then at St James', Balham, where she came under the tutelage of Norman Tanner. Realising that a surgical career was difficult for a married woman, she chose to become a rheumatologist. She gained a registrar appointment at Middlesex Hospital under Archie Boyle and, through the Middlesex, came to the notice of Roger Gilliat, the consultant neurologist. In cooperation with him, she researched nerve production using electromyography. This work formed the basis of her DM thesis, and the work was seminal in the development of treatment for carpal tunnel syndrome. She was awarded her DM in 1962 and, after this, she completed her fellowship of our College. She was then a registrar and a senior registrar at St Thomas' Hospital in the department of rheumatology under Phillipe Bauwens and James Cyriax. She was appointed as a consultant rheumatologist at St Stephen's Hospital, the Westminster and the Royal Marsden Hospital, and was an accredited teacher at the University of London. She was also on the staff of the Dispensaire Français, where consultations were conducted in French. After she retired she worked as a locum at Charing Cross Hospital, helping to clear their long list of patients waiting for electromyography. Paddy greatly valued her classical education and took a lifelong interest in Latin. Music for her was a special joy; she played the piano and she greatly enjoyed opera at Covent Garden and Glyndebourne. Her husband, Anthony, became a consultant gynaecologist and obstetrician in Hackney. They had two daughters, Serena Jane and Caroline Rosemary, and a granddaughter, Antonia. On holiday in South Africa, Anthony and Paddy were the victims of an armed holdup and car hijacking. This disturbed Paddy and, through an error of judgement, she stepped into a scalding bath. She was admitted to Morningside Mediclinic in Johannesburg, but died a week later, on 21 January 2010, of adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). She was 84.
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First Title value, for Searching Gilchrist, Kenneth James (1910 - 1992)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-09 2015-04-24
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Kenneth Gilchrist was Fiji's first surgeon specialist and principal of the Fiji School of Medicine from 1964 to 1970. He was born in London on 8 March 1910, the second son of James Gilchrist, a doctor and a graduate of Aberdeen University, and Constance Lilian Gilchrist née Osmond. He was educated at West Hill Preparatory School in Sydenham and Dulwich College, and went on to study medicine at Guy's Hospital Medical School, where he won prizes for anatomy and physiology. He qualified MRCS LRCP in 1932 and with the MB BS degree in 1933. After house appointments at Guy's and Kent and Sussex Hospital, and after gaining his FRCS in 1935, he joined the Colonial Medical Service in 1936 as a surgeon. He was civil surgeon to Gibraltar for ten years through the Spanish Civil War and Second World War, during which time he liaised with the RAMC as a 'civilian with status of lieutenant colonel'. In 1946 he was appointed to a surgical post in Fiji. Three years later he was transferred to northern Nigeria, but returned to Fiji in 1952. In 1956 he began to work full-time at the Fiji School of Medicine (then the Central Medical School of the South Pacific), where he stayed until his retirement in 1970, for the last six years as principal. He was president of the BMA Fiji branch from 1964 to 1965, and a BMA member from 1936 to 1969. He was awarded an OBE in 1968 and the Fiji Independence medal (FIM) in 1970. In retirement he lived in the town of Lami, where he was affectionately known to the local Fijians as 'Professor'. He built up an extensive collection of fossil seashells, going back some 7,000,000 years, which he catalogued. Kenneth James Gilchrist died in October 1992, aged 82. He was unmarried.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001709
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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, Stewart Hamilton (1912 - 2011)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-09 2015-03-06
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Occupation Hand surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Stewart Harrison was a leading consultant plastic surgeon and a former president of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand. He was born in Highgate, London, on 15 July 1912, the second son of Archibald Harrison, a manufacturer, and Marion Harrison née Taylor. Both his parents died when he was a young child and he was brought up by his maternal grandparents in Dunblane, Scotland. He was educated at Stanley House School, Bridge of Allan, and then studied medicine and dentistry at Edinburgh University. He was a house surgeon at Ancoats Hospital, Manchester. During the Second World War he spent five years as a major in the Royal Army Medical Corps, in Nigeria and in north-west Europe. Following his demobilisation, he joined the Birmingham Accident Hospital and started his career in plastic surgery. He trained with Sir Harold Gillies and Rainsford Mowlem at Mount Vernon Hospital, and spent much of his career at Wexham Park Hospital in Berkshire, where he developed the plastic surgery unit there. Throughout his career he pioneered several new surgical techniques. In 1949 he and Gillies carried out an innovative operation to reconstruct the face of a patient born with a recessed upper jaw, which involved moving the middle third of the face forward. Later, he developed an operation to help children born with upper limb deformities, particularly as a result of their mothers using Thalidomide. He transferred the index finger to the normal position of the thumb, enabling the patient to pinch and hold, meaning the child could write and feed themselves. He also improved treatments for people with rheumatoid arthritis, finding ways of stabilising joints, and for people with tendon injuries to the finger. In 1979 he was a Hunterian professor at the Royal College of Surgeons. He was a founder member of the Hand Club, which became the British Society for Surgery of the Hand in 1968. He was president of the Society in 1972 and of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons in 1976. After he had retired from the NHS, he became the first president of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons. In 1943 he married Phyllis Eustace and they had a son. Stewart Harrison died on 12 May 2011, aged 98.
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First Title value, for Searching Haw, David William Martin (1926 - 2010)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2011-12-09 2013-02-14
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details David Haw was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in York who had very broad interests, but enjoyed paediatrics as a subspecialty. He had an abiding interest in clinical anatomy, and in retirement taught anatomy to medical students for 11 years. He was born on 17 September 1926 at Batticaloa, Ceylon, into a Methodist missionary family, and was the second son of Rev Albert Haw and Kathleen Ellen née Turk, the daughter of a commercial traveller. His father contracted pulmonary tuberculosis and the family returned to England so the condition could be treated without the benefit of drug therapy. Sadly, this was unsuccessful and Albert died within a few years. The family struggled to come to terms with their loss. His elementary school education, due to family moves over this period, took place at three schools - St Michael's (Leeds), West Street (Farnham, Surrey) and Western (Harrogate), before he proceeded to the Priors Court Preparatory School in Thatcham, Berkshire. He then joined his older brother, Richard, at the boarding school Kingswood in Bath, founded in 1715 by John Wesley. He had six years of secondary education during the war years, some of this time being spent in buildings also occupied by boys from Uppingham School. He had a distinguished academic career alongside a fine record on the rugby field and the athletic track. He formed two lifelong friendships, with Bill Courtney and Russell Keeley, at the school. He developed a love of natural history, which he shared with Russell, and this pointed them both to a scientific career and a desire to study medicine. This love of nature and particularly the works of Charles Darwin did not combine easily with the rather strict views in the family household. David also showed considerable merit as an artist, and painting became a lifelong hobby. His earlier works had a striking and abstract dreamlike style: later he turned to landscape painting. David gained a Frank Parkinson scholarship to Leeds University Medical School in 1944 and added to this a state scholarship, which allowed him to undertake a BSc course in anatomy under Archibald Durward, who had a great influence on him. Durward was in post for nearly 30 years from 1936, as was his colleague, Hemingway, in physiology. They were diligent research workers and excellent teachers, and both left a lot of valuable archival material in the Leeds University collection. Durward performed some excellent work on the blood supply of the nervous system, relating this to traumatic and compression syndromes. Little wonder that David Haw undertook a post as demonstrator of anatomy in preparation for his FRCS examination. On qualification, he undertook a wide variety of house appointments before deciding on his future career. He worked as house physician in the VD department in Leeds, combined as it was in the 1940s with dermatology, and then proceeded to a house physician post in Leeds. General surgical house jobs followed in Leeds and Harrogate, before he entered the RAF in 1952 for three years on a short service commission. As a student he met an attractive medical student Marjorie, the youngest daughter of Arthur Hetherington, a bank manager and his wife, Mary. She was born in Silloth, Cumberland, a small port and fishing village overlooking the Solway Firth. Arthur Hetherington died in 1934 when Marjorie was eight years of age. She was educated at Durham High School and her interests veered towards science, as well as literature and drama. Her sixth form science subjects were studied at Houghon-le-Spring Grammar School. She gained a scholarship to enter Leeds University and achieved her ambition of studying medicine. David and Marjorie had a whirlwind romance and became a couple early in their university careers. Although she was a science student, she loved English literature and drama, and the University provided ample opportunity to mix with people with literary interests, and to take an active part in the University drama society. She also took a great interest in David's outside interests in athletics and painting. In 1947 the two of them organised, as students, an art exhibition in Leeds City Hall, featuring works of Lowry, Nash and other artists of the 1940s. Some of David's own works were exhibited at Leeds University in 1948, and in addition he gained a 'consolation prize' in a *Daily Mirror* national competition. From his schooldays David Haw was an excellent athlete, particularly in long distance running. He was English Universities champion at three miles in 1948 and 1950, and at cross-country distances in 1946, 1948 and 1950. He ran at various distances for Yorkshire, Suffolk and Northern counties, and later for the RAF and Combined Services athletic teams. As a 20-year-old David ran for England in Edinburgh, and was fully expected to be selected to run in the 5,000 metres for England at the 1948 London Olympics. A newspaper cutting of that time noted 'this loose limbed powerful medical student ran for England in yesterday's international tournament in Edinburgh. He has carried everything before him across the country this winter - he is almost sure to be running for us in the Olympic Games next year'. Unfortunately, he contracted pneumonia in January 1948 and was not in a position to compete in the summer. Much to the displeasure of both families, who thought they were far too young to make a commitment that would endure, Marjorie and David married in 1948 when still completing their medical studies. This was something virtually unheard of in those days. Marjorie produced their first born, Judith, in 1949, just before sitting her final examinations. Post qualification, she seemed adept at fitting in house jobs, gaining clinical experience and having two more children, Catherine and Roger, around David's commitments and her duties as a mother. All this was at a time when junior doctors worked long hours. So there were obviously many periods of separation in the Haw household. They had a happy married life, and a family of two sons and three daughters. An abiding memory of their progeny in early childhood was a move nearly every year - not an uncommon phenomenon in family life when climbing the surgical ladder in those days. Deciding on surgery as a career, he obtained a senior house officer post at the Manchester Royal Infirmary and continued his general training as a resident surgical officer at Ashton under Lyne, and recorded his gratitude at the excellent teaching he obtained in operative techniques from Roland Grime. An interest in orthopaedics started in Manchester when working with Sir John Charnley. Also on this senior house officer rotation he gained experience in the management of head injuries under John McEwen Potter, who was working in the north before becoming director of postgraduate medical education in Oxford. Deciding finally on orthopaedics as a career specialty, he undertook a senior house officer post at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. Progressing to registrar grade at the Lord Mayor Treoloar Hospital, he was fortunate to come under the guidance of Evan Stanley Evans, who had first been appointed in 1946 as medical superintendent to the hospital, and was successor to Sir Henry Gauvain, who died in harness. The care of children crippled by surgical tuberculosis, osteomyelitis and poliomyelitis was all too common in these early years, and later the hospital became a regional centre for patients of all ages. Evans was a good general and paediatric orthopaedic surgeon, with balanced views of the needs of disabled children and adults, including their educational and vocational requirements. This post broadened David Haw's outlook on the need to manage the 'whole' patient. He moved as a registrar to Guy's Hospital, one of the first hospitals to appoint specialist orthopaedic surgeons. Here he came under the influence of John Stanley Batchelor, a New Zealand born orthopaedic surgeon who pioneered a modification of the Grice subtalar fusion and an excision osteotomy of the hip. With an international reputation in congenital dislocation of the hip, the frog plaster is also attributed to Batchelor. He also worked with 'Tim' (Temple Theodore) Stamm, the third of orthopaedic appointees at Guys' Hospital, a rather shy and retiring man who was highly regarded by his juniors for his technical excellence and unhurried operating. At least three of David Haw's publications were in the *Guy's Hospital Reports* in the 1960s: 'Dislocation of the hip in a case of neurofibromatosis' (1963;112:103-12), 'Compression studies of fractures of the carpal scaphoid' (1963;112:94-102) and 'A review of fifty-one cases of arthrodesis of the hip' (1964;113:6-16). 'Complication following fracture dislocation of the hip' appeared in the *British Medical Journal* in 1965 (Apr 24;1[5442]:1111-2). His senior registrar training was on rotation between the Leeds General Infirmary, Bradford and Hull. During this period he was very much influenced by Arthur Naylor of Bradford, whom he regarded as a 'master operator' and who wrote many papers on 'accident services' and 'back injuries'. Naylor had been both Hunterian professor in 1952 and an Arris and Gale lecturer in 1961. Appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon in York in 1965, David, Marjorie and their five children settled in East Court, Shipton-by-Beningbrough, Yorkshire, and converted a tumble-down wreck into a warm family home with a garden, which they opened to the public each year. Marjorie re-started her own medical career and trained in anaesthetics at Leeds. She gained a consultant post in Wakefield, which she held until she was 62 years of age, when she retired and then took a history degree. David gained the respect of patients, colleagues, trainees, nurses and physiotherapists over his many years of service. He was a dedicated and compassionate man who inspired loyalty, and was particularly interested in paediatric orthopaedic problems. Well-known for an ability to strike up a conversation with anyone, whatever their status, David Haw was never boastful of his many achievements. He was an active member of numerous societies. With his outward-looking approach, he arranged for the 'Holdsworth Club' to visit Germany and California. He also attended meetings of the British Orthopaedic Association, and for many years continued his athletic activities by running with the 'Northern Veterans'. From its foundation in 1977, David Haw regularly attended the summer and winter scientific meetings of the British Association of Clinical Anatomists, always taking part in a quiet and responsible way. In retirement, the Haws enjoyed travel to the Amazon, Jamaica, the USA, Australia, Indonesia and Sri Lanka, as well as undertaking regular visits to their villa in Spain and timeshares in the Lake District. David Haw died peacefully on 30 July 2010 in St Catherine's Nursing Home, Shipton-by- Beningbrough after a short illness, and a well-attended funeral service was held at the local Church of the Holy Evangelists. His wife of 62 years, Marjorie Haw, died within a year, and he was survived by his three daughters, Judith, Catherine and Sally, and two sons, Roger and Marcus. There are 11 grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Hattam, Harold Bickford (1913 - 1994)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-12 2015-03-13
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Occupation Art collector Artist Gynaecologist
Details Harold Bickford Hattam, known as 'Hal', was a gynaecologist and a landscape artist and art collector. He was born in Edinburgh on 14 January 1913, the son of Bickford Hattam. The family moved to Australia in 1920 when Hattam was seven. He joined the Australian Army in January 1941 and served in the Middle East, New Guinea and the UK. He was discharged with the rank of captain in January 1947. He gained his FRCS in 1946 and established a medical practice in Melbourne. He also began to paint, although he had no formal training. Between 1962 and 1988 he held a number of solo exhibitions, mostly of abstract seascapes, and participated in a number of group shows. Hattam and his wife also collected a large body of works of Melbourne artists from the 1950s, including paintings by the leading Australian landscape artist Fred Williams. Hattam was married to Kate. They had three daughters (Katherine, Frances and Victoria), a son (John) and six grandchildren. Hattam died on 29 January 1994 in the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne. He was 81.
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First Title value, for Searching Giles, Keith Wilson ( - 2010)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-12 2015-02-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Keith Giles was a consultant general surgeon at the Lister Hospital, Stevenage, and the Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, Welwyn. He qualified in 1953 from the London Hospital Medical School. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a surgical specialist in the Royal Army Medical Corps, a surgical registrar at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, London, and surgical first assistant at the London Hospital. He died on 10 November 2010.
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First Title value, for Searching Havard-Jones, Edward Llewelyn (1919 - 2007)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-12 2015-03-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Edward Llewelyn Havard-Jones was a consultant general surgeon in Neath and Port Talbot, and a clinical assistant in the department of genitourinary surgery, United Cardiff Hospitals. He studied medicine at Oxford, qualifying BM BCh in 1942. He was a house surgeon at Hammersmith Hospital, London, and the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, and then a senior registrar in Oxford before he was appointed to his consultant post. He was chairman of the Mid Glamorgan division of the British Medical Association. Edward Llewelyn Havard-Jones died at home on 24 July 2007. He was 88. He was survived by his wife Denny, their two children, Bob and Jane, and five grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Hart Hansen, Ole (1938 - 2009)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-12 2015-03-06
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Ole Hart Hansen was a consultant urological surgeon in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was born on 7 November 1938. He trained in surgery mainly in Copenhagen, becoming a specialist in surgery in 1974 and, in 1976, in gastroenterology. In 1980 he defended his thesis on cellular renewal in the human gastric mucosa. From 1979 to 1984 he was a consultant and chief surgeon at Saint Lucas Hospital, Copenhagen, and, from 1984 to 2004, at Hillerød Hospital (north of Copenhagen). He retired at the age of 65. He suffered a cerebral haemorrhage and died two years later, in October 2009. He was 70.
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First Title value, for Searching Harrop-Griffiths, Hilton ( - 2010)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-12 2015-03-13
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373899373899
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Hilton Harrop-Griffiths was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Gwent. He gained his MB BCh in 1947 and his FRCS in 1958. Before being appointed to his post in Gwent, he was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon for the Hull and East Riding Hospital Group, a senior registrar at Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital, Mansfield, and a registrar at the Prince of Wales Orthopaedic Hospital, Rhydlafar. Hilton Harrop-Griffiths died on 14 March 2010.
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First Title value, for Searching Hayes, Keith Leslie (1921 - 2009)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by T T King
Publication Date 2011-12-12 2013-12-16
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373900373900
Occupation General practitioner Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Keith Hayes was an orthopaedic surgeon at Stawell District Hospital, Victoria, Australia. He was born in Melbourne on 4 August 1921, the third child and only son of Francis Leslie Hayes, a chartered accountant, and his wife, Isobel Oliver Hayes née Young. He obtained a scholarship to Malvern Church of England Grammar School and finished his secondary education at Melbourne Boys' Highs School. He studied mining engineering at Melbourne University, from 1939 to 1941, and then joined the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) as a flight lieutenant, flying Curtiss Kittyhawk fighters in northern Australia. On his return to civilian life, he entered Melbourne University medical school, completing his clinical years at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, where he was a resident medical officer between 1950 and 1952. He was influenced there particularly by the surgeons Sir Albert Coates and Sir Alan Newton, and the physician Sir Clive Fitts. In 1952 he became a general practitioner in Stawell, in the western part of Victoria, and a visiting medical officer at the local district hospital. There he developed an interest in surgery and, having decided to obtain surgical qualifications, in 1958 he returned to Melbourne as a senior surgical registrar at St Vincent's Hospital, taking a particular interest in orthopaedic surgery. In 1959 he obtained his fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and in 1960 he travelled to England to gain his fellowship of the English College. Returning to Stawell, he was in practice there as a surgeon and a visiting medical officer at the district hospital, from 1961 until 1986, during which time he had a busy surgical practice. He maintained a special interest in orthopaedic surgery and trauma, the latter being common as a result of motor and farming accidents in the country area. In 1986 he left Stawell and conducted a medico-legal practice in Melbourne, until 2003. He was a member of the Medico-Legal Society of Victoria, and served on the Australian Health Insurance Commission from 1967 until 1993. Outside medicine, his interests included painting and the breeding and training of horses. He was a member of the Victoria Racing Club and a life member of the Stawell Racing Club, the Stawell Trotting Club and the Melbourne Harness Racing Club. He was married three times. His first wife was Ada Lillian Martin. Their marriage was dissolved and he married Margaret Mary Noble in 1965. Tragically, she was killed in a motor accident in 1967. His third wife was Susan Mary Hayes, who survived him, along with four of his five children: Rowan Keith Martin, Annabelle Margaret, Paul Timothy Francis and Peter Edward. A daughter, Danielle Susan, predeceased him in 1999. Keith Leslie Hayes died on 28 December 2009, at the age of 88.
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First Title value, for Searching Heath, David Vincent (1941 - 2004)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-12 2015-03-06
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373901373901
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details David Vincent Heath was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at University Hospital of North Durham. He was born on 3 June 1941 and studied medicine at Middlesex Hospital Medical School, gaining his MB BS in 1965. He was a registrar and senior registrar in orthopaedic surgery in Bradford, Leeds General Infirmary and St James's Hospital, Leeds. He then became a consultant surgeon at West Cumberland Hospital, Whitehaven. He later moved to Shotley Bridge General Hospital, Consett, and latterly the University Hospital of North Durham. David Vincent Heath died in 2004.
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First Title value, for Searching Kershaw, Will Wear (1932 - 2008)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2011-12-12 2014-07-25
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Will Kershaw was a consultant general surgeon at Bronglais General Hospital, Aberystwyth. He was born on 7 January 1932 and studied medicine at Leeds University where he qualified MB, ChB in 1956. In Leeds he was surgical registrar at St James's Hospital and the General Infirmary and then senior surgical registrar to the United Leeds Hospitals. He moved to Wales and lived in Borth while working at Bronglais. At the time of his death on 5 December 2008 he was living in Machynllth, North Cardiganshire. His wife, Gwyneth Margaret, a state registered nurse, predeceased him.
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First Title value, for Searching Laurence, Walter Nick (1918 - 2005)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-12 2015-04-24
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Nick Laurence was an honorary consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Brighton. He was born on 12 August 1918 and qualified in 1940. He was a wing commander and orthopaedic specialist in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and trained as a resident surgical officer at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital and as a registrar in orthopaedics at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. From the 1950s he worked as a consultant at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children, Brighton General Hospital and the Royal Sussex County Hospital. He was a fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association. In the late 1960s, with his colleague Austin Brown, he advised on the design of the new accident and emergency block and orthopaedic department at the Royal Sussex County Hospital. Nick Laurence died on 20 May 2005, aged 86, from head injuries following an accident. He was survived by his widow Eileen, children David, Sue and Nicholas, and six grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Kadzombe, Edward Andrews Maonga (1947 - 2004)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-13 2015-03-13
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon
Details Edward Kadzombe was a consultant in accident and emergency surgery in Liverpool. He was born in Mgoza village in Balaka, Malawi. He was educated at Mtendere and Blantyre secondary schools before gaining a scholarship to study medicine at the University of Manchester. He qualified MB ChB in 1975. He was a house physician and senior house officer at Manchester Royal Infirmary and then a registrar in surgery for the South Lothian Health Board in Edinburgh. He subsequently went to Liverpool as a senior registrar at Aintree Hospital and the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, Alder Hey. He then became a surgical registrar at North Manchester General Hospital and a consultant in accident and emergency surgery at Fazekeley and Aintree hospitals, Liverpool. He was also a founding member and the first chairman of the charity Malawi Health Care Support UK. Edward Kadzombe died after a short illness on 8 January 2004 at University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool. He was 56. He was survived by his wife Cecilia and three children - Chapuka, Zaithwa and Nthambi.
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First Title value, for Searching Kay, Sir Andrew Watt (1916 - 2011)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sir Miles Irving
Publication Date 2011-12-13 2013-12-09
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Sir Andrew Watt Kay was regius professor of surgery at Glasgow and an archetypal Scottish academic surgeon. Known by surgical trainees worldwide through his book *A textbook of surgical physiology* (Edinburgh/London, E & S Livingstone, 1959), written with R Ainslie Jamieson, Kay stood alongside many other surgical giants from north of the border. Kay (known affectionately as 'Drew') was born in Ayr on 14 August 1916, the eldest son of David Watt Kay and Jean Cuthbertson Kay née Muir, both of whom were pharmacists. He attended Ayr Academy and studied medicine at Glasgow University, graduating in 1939, having won the Brunton memorial prize as the most distinguished graduate of the year. He was later awarded an MD and the Bellahouston gold medal in 1944, the medical faculty's highest award. Between 1942 and 1945, and then again from 1948 to 1956, he was an assistant to the regius professor of surgery at Glasgow, the redoubtable Sir Charles Illingworth, thus obtaining a major formative apprenticeship, second to none for an aspiring academic surgeon. During the intervening years, from 1946 to 1948, he carried out his National Service, continuing his surgical training at Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital in London, where he held the rank of major. In 1956 he became a consultant in charge of the surgical wards at Glasgow Western Infirmary. Two years later, he was appointed professor of surgery at Sheffield University, where he established a renowned surgical training school notable for spawning a clutch of surgical professors trained with an ethos linking the long academic tradition of the Scottish medical schools with the practicalities of providing surgical services to a large industrial city. In 1964 he returned to Glasgow, to succeed Illingworth as regius professor, and was almost immediately made a member of the Royal Commission on Medical Education. It was between these two environments, Sheffield and Glasgow, that Kay developed his research interests in gastroenterology in general and peptic ulceration in particular. In this latter arena he gained worldwide recognition. It was during his tenure at Sheffield that he was awarded an FRCS *ad eundem* by the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Thereafter further accolades were bestowed upon him, and inevitably his involvement in administrative and political activities steadily increased. In 1969, during his tenure as president of the Surgical Research Society, he took up the Sir Arthur Sims Commonwealth travelling professorship. He was awarded the Cecil Joll prize and the Gordon Gordon-Taylor lectureship and medal. In 1971 he was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and, in the following year, became president of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. He was surgeon to the Queen in Scotland and part-time chief scientist to the Scottish Home and Health Department from 1973 to 1981. He was knighted in 1973. In 1943 he married Janetta Roxburgh. They had two sons and two daughters. Janetta predeceased him in 1990, and he subsequently married Phyllis Gillies, in 1992. Kay died on 1 February 2011 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, at the age of 94.
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First Title value, for Searching Ellis, James Morrison (1922 - 2009)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Norman Kirby
Publication Date 2012-01-05 2015-04-24
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Occupation Military surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Jim Ellis was an orthopaedic surgeon in Sydney, Australia. He was born in Rylstone, New South Wales, in 1922, the second of five children of Ashley Ellis and his wife, Flora Ellis née Morrison. Ashley worked in many jobs, then became a stock inspector. Flora had been a teacher and, after Ashley retired, returned to her love of art. She was still painting at 97. James was tutored at home as well as at local schools. He entered Sydney University at 16, graduated with a BA degree and then went on to study medicine, training at the Royal North Shore Hospital and qualifying MB BS in 1943. He served with the Australian Army at the end of the war, in New Guinea and New Britain. He was a medical officer at the Japanese War Crimes Tribunal in Rabaul, helped rebuild medical facilities in New Britain and cared for prisoners. His duties involved dealing with the repatriation of thousands of Japanese soldiers and several thousand Indian and Chinese who had been co-opted to do war work. He remained in the regular Army until 1948. He had developed an interest in tropical medicine, and on his return to Australia attended Sydney University to study for his fellowship of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (FRSTM&H). He worked at Concord Repatriation Hospital. In 1952 he went to London, where he trained at St Thomas' Hospital as a registrar with Sir Denis Browne and George Perkins. He passed his FRCS in 1953. Returning to Sydney, he settled on the North Shore. From 1957 he was in private practice, until 1964, when he joined Mona Vale and Sydney hospitals. He was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon for 30 years. He was president of the Australian Hand Surgery Society on two occasions, and pioneered open reduction, internal fixation and grafting of complex fractures, as well as new ways of treating pelvic fractures. From 1967 he also worked in war zones with the Red Cross and the federal Foreign Affairs Department, in Vietnam, East Timor, Cambodia and Thailand. During the Vietnam War he spent six months as a surgeon at Le Loi Hospital in Vung Tau. Here he operated on many victims of war, as well as more routine surgical cases in austere conditions. This was the period of the Tet Offensive and the workload was heavy. In 1972 he returned to Vietnam, to Bien Hoa Hospital, which was also a busy appointment. In 1975 he was in East Timor during the civil war, working near to the area where Indonesia had invaded. In 1984 he served as a surgeon in the Khao-I-Dang refugee camp on the Thai-Cambodian border. He loved to teach and helped surgeons from the Far East regions to go to Australia to train, and returned many times to Cambodia, in particular, to support and nurture the surgical profession there. At the time of his death he was working on a field guide for surgeons operating in war conditions. *136 quick surgical tricks* contains many practical tips and tricks for medical staff working away from well-stocked hospitals. He was awarded the Australian Red Cross medal for meritorious service, and in 1994 he was made a member of the Order of Australia for services to orthopaedics. Jim Ellis died on 14 June 2009, aged 87, and was survived by his wife Ruth (née Cameron), a former nurse whom he married in 1945, their children, Sue, Michael, Elizabeth, Peter and Andrew, 11 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Hague, John Malcolm Seaforth ( - 2007)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-05 2015-03-06
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details John Malcolm Seaforth Hague was a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at Kettering General Hospital. He studied medicine at Middlesex Hospital Medical School, qualifying MB BS in 1953. He was a registrar in general surgery at Ipswich and East Suffolk Hospital before specialising in orthopaedics. He was a registrar and senior registrar at the Middlesex Hospital prior to his appointment to his consultant post at Kettering. He is believed to have died in 2007.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001816
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First Title value, for Searching Wadge, Winifred Joan (1904 - 2010)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2011-11-25 2014-06-06
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Winifred Joan Wadge was a consultant ENT surgeon at the Royal Ear Hospital (University College Hospital) and the Nelson Hospital, Wimbledon. She was born on 22 May 1904 in Ilford, Essex, the second of three children to Frederick Collett Wadge, a solicitor, and Winifred Hardwick Wadge née Shacklock, whose father was the owner and manager of Mansfield Brewery. Both her brothers became doctors. Educated at St Paul's Girls' School from 1915 to 1923, Winifred Wadge went up to Newnham College, Cambridge, to read natural sciences and physiology. On completion of her BA in 1926 she became a research assistant to B A McSwiney in Leeds. With him she published two papers on the sympathetic nervous system in the *Journal of Physiology* ('Effects of variations in intensity and frequency on the contractions of the stomach obtained by stimulation of the vagus nerve.' *J Physiol*. 1928 Aug 14;65[4]:350-6, 'The sympathetic innervation of the stomach: I. The effect on the stomach of stimulation of the thoracic sympathetic trunk.' *J Physiol*. 1930 Oct 31;70[3]:253-60). It is highly probable that this experience led Winifred Wadge to consider medicine as a profession, as her next move was to study anatomy at University College, London (UCL) (from 1929 to 1931), before starting her clinical studies at University College Medical School in 1931. As a student she continued her interest in physiology as an assistant in the UCL department of physiology. After qualifying MB BS in 1936, she became a house surgeon to the ENT department of University College Hospital, which was situated in the Royal Ear Hospital and was encouraged to do ENT by F E Watkyn-Thomas and Myles Formby. Part of this job was to work with the general surgeons Gwynne Williams (who in 1935 also became dean of the medical school) and E K Martin, both of whom also influenced her choice of career. No doubt torn between these surgical specialties, Winifred Wadge became casualty officer at King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor, and later undertook several short-term anaesthetist appointments at UCH, before electing to pursue a career in ENT, starting as a registrar at UCH in 1937. Throughout the Second World War she held the post of first assistant and in 1946 she was appointed as an assistant surgeon. She was advanced to full surgeon in 1948. In 1953 she wrote the section on throat and oropharynx in Watkyn-Thomas' *Diseases of the throat, nose and ear* (London, H K Lewis & Co). On her retirement in 1969 she became consulting surgeon. Winifred Wadge led a busy life outside medicine. She followed the country pursuits of riding and gardening, loved music and collected antique furniture and pictures. Perhaps her greatest pursuit was to breed, exhibit and judge Pembroke Welsh corgis of the Whielden line. Winifred Wadge died on 6 April 2010, aged 105. She never married.
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First Title value, for Searching Ebsworth, Alfred (1821 - 1882)

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First Title value, for Searching Ebsworth, Richard Cogswell (1859 - 1922)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-09
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Carlisle, and was educated at Edinburgh University, where he acted as Assistant to the Regius Professor of Medicine, Sir Thomas Fraser, FRS, later as Demonstrator of Anatomy, and also as Resident Physician at the Royal Infirmary. He next became Assistant Physician at Wye House Asylum, Burton. He settled in practice at Swansea, where he was successively Surgeon to the Ear and Throat Department, and Surgeon to the Hospital. He there built up a large surgical practice, and was consulted widely in the country around. During the War, 1914-1918, he served as Major RAMC(T) in charge of the 3rd Western General Hospital, Cardiff. A septic infection of a finger from which he suffered weakened his health, and he died suddenly at 152 St Helen's Place, Swansea, on May 28th, 1922. Publications:- Ebsworth published a number of communications on the surgery of Intestinal Obstruction, Prostatic Enlargement, and other subjects.
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First Title value, for Searching Eccles, Alfred (1822 - 1904)

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First Title value, for Searching Eccles, William (1801 - 1846)

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First Title value, for Searching Eddison, Booth (1809 - 1859)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-09
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The fifth son of John Eddison, of Gateford, Notts, who died in 1812. His father belonged to the Society of Friends. His mother, niece of Abraham Booth, Baptist minister, was left a widow with eight children under eleven years of age, but with remarkable energy she fitted them all to fill responsible positions, one of them, Edwin, becoming Town Clerk of Leeds. Booth Eddison became an apprentice at the General Hospital, Nottingham, and after two years he continued his education at St George's and Westminster Hospitals. After qualifying he was elected Resident Surgeon at the General Hospital, Nottingham, and held the post for five years. After further study at the Lying-in Hospital, Dublin, and in Paris, he started practice in Leeds, then joined John Higginbottom, senr (qv), in partnership at Nottingham until 1842, after which he practised by himself. In 1850 he was elected Surgeon to the General Hospital, Nottingham, and became proprietor of the Broom House Private Ladies' Asylum at Mansfield. He was President at the Nottingham Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1857. He began to suffer from pulmonary tuberculosis and went to live in Devonshire, then in Italy, and finally in January, 1859, in Madeira, accompanied by his wife and two daughters. He died at Funchal on March 7th, 1859, and the post-mortem examination disclosed tuberculous disease with cavities in both lungs. He was buried as a Quaker in the English Cemetery.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001541
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First Title value, for Searching Ede, John Robert ( - 1877)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-09
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373725373725
Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Liskeard, Cornwall. After serving as apprentice to a local practitioner he entered University College Hospital under Robert Liston. He then settled in practice, acting as Surgeon to St Mary's, Islington, Workhouse and Infirmary, to the Holloway and North Islington Dispensary, and the Royal Caledonian Asylum. For his service at the Workhouse Infirmary he was awarded a pension on retirement. He died at The Rest, Avenue Road, Bexley Heath, on March 24th, 1877, after suffering for two years from the effects of apoplexy, and was buried at Christchurch, Bexley Heath. His portrait is in the Fellows' Album. Publications: "A Case of Ligature of the External Iliac." - *Lancet*, 1858, I, 555. In a man aged 46, he noted a swelling below Poupart's ligament on the left side for three years, after a slip from a ladder. There was a swelling the size of a walnut, strongly pulsating, 2 in below the ligament, the veins of the leg being markedly varicose. After consulting with Sir John Eric Erichsen (qv) and in his presence, with the patient under chloroform, Ede ligatured the external iliac, following Liston's directions. The ligature came away at the end of a fort¬night, and four months later the patient could walk three or four miles, quite relieved of the aneurysm and of the varicose veins. This was written from Hemingford House, Barnsbury, Islington.
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First Title value, for Searching Houghton, Paul Winchester (1911 - 2009)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Mark Houghton
Publication Date 2011-12-13 2014-05-02
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373906373906
Occupation General surgeon
Details Paul Winchester Houghton was a general surgeon in Worcester, and served with distinction in the Second World War. He was born in west London into a naval family on 30 September 1911 and was educated at Whitgift School. Until his last days he could remember the hunger caused by rationing during the First World War, and his uncle Herbert returning from the Western front. He recalled: 'My mother stood him on a big white sheet in the living room, for he was covered in mud from head to foot.' He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School and qualified MB BS in 1935. His first surgical training post was at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, where he sustained a burn to his finger while aiming a firework at the matron's window. In 1938 he joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, after his father warned him: 'here we go again'. He worked in a naval hospital at Lowestoft before, in 1940, joining the destroyer HMS *Zulu*, in which he took part in Atlantic convoys. 'I was rowed out to the ship and climbed the vertical steel ladder to salute the quarterdeck. You never forget the thrill of joining a warship getting up steam to head out into the Atlantic.' During his wartime service he treated everything from tuberculosis to missing limbs, head injuries, flash burns, splinter wounds and survivors of the aircraft carrier HMS *Eagle*, who had skinned themselves while sliding down her barnacled hull as she rolled over. It was difficult for Houghton to treat the wounded in the small *Zulu*, and often he could only provide palliative care. Even in the battleship HMS *Nelson*, which he joined as a surgical specialist in 1941, Houghton was appalled to find long knives, saws and tarred string for tying off blood vessels, all in a brassbound box, apparently as issued in the days of Nelson himself. He promptly wrote directly to the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, asking for modern instruments. This earned him a reprimand for not using official channels, but soon so much equipment arrived he was able to share it with other ships. On 27 September 1941, HMS *Nelson*, the flagship of the Malta convoys, was torpedoed and Houghton found himself trapped below decks. 'In the darkness I walked forward to feel if the watertight bulkhead was holding. After an hour I made the same journey; but this time I was walking back up a steep hill. Sometime later we heard a dreadful roaring over our heads. Then we heard the watertight door being opened for the wonderful release of daylight. We discovered the noise was my friend Commander Blundell at work. He saved the ship by organising the crew to winch and drag the enormous anchor chain from the front to the rear of the ship. This change of weights raised the bows until the torpedo hole was out of the water.' In autumn 1942, while HMS *Nelson* was in the Mediterranean, Rear Admiral Philip Vian, one of the war's most distinguished fighting admirals, consulted Houghton in secret. Vian was clearly ill and had been relieved of command of Force A, based at Port Said. Examination revealed a large infected scalp sebaceous cyst concealed by matted hair, which in Houghton's opinion was life threatening. Houghton operated successfully, the episode was kept confidential, and Vian made a complete recovery, going on to command part of the invasion fleet on D Day. In January 1943, when the *Nelson* was the flagship of Force H, the South African-born Vice Admiral Neville Syfret consulted the ship's surgical specialist after four days of abdominal pain. Houghton found him acutely ill with appendicitis and operated at once. Afterwards, while waiting for him to recover, he and a colleague were playfully trying on the admiral's hat. A sudden roar from the patient('take that bloody thing off') put an end to their games. 'No hopes of a medal for me,' Houghton predicted. After the war Houghton took a surgical job in Shrewsbury, where he met and treated his future wife of 62 years when she cut her finger on the anchor chain of a captured German yacht. He was then appointed as a consultant general surgeon in Worcester, working at Ronkswood Hospital. On retiring at the compulsory age of 65 (in 1976), he continued as a locum in Worcester and then elsewhere in South Africa, St Lucia and the UK. His last post, at the age of 75, was at the Nazareth Hospital, Israel. As usual for his generation, he had a very wide surgical practice, including initially orthopaedics. A man of enormous personal integrity, he always kept his patients fully informed of their prognosis, but his watchword was 'never destroy hope'. Houghton was the antithesis of the clubbable man, despising 'shallow affability'. Yet he enjoyed good dinners and had a wide range of personal friends who appreciated his many stories and his vast store of memorised verse. His whimsical sense of humour was famous, but did not conceal his compassion. He was sustained throughout his life by a steadfast Christian faith, and began every operation with a quiet prayer, said without ostentation and not usually noticed by others. As ill health took its toll towards the end of this long life, he longed in his own words for 'the land of heaven'. He died at home from heart failure on 5 August 2009, at the age of 97, and was survived by his wife Jean, daughter Pippa, a theatre nurse, son Mark, a GP, and his three grandchildren - Celia, Daniel and Fiona. In 1995 a meeting was held in Worcester to mark the passing of 50 years since the end of the Second World War. Paul Houghton spoke of his wartime experiences. He showed a black and white photograph that he had taken from HMS *Nelson* at sunset of burials at sea from the aircraft carrier HMS *Indomitable*. At this point he broke down in tears and was unable to continue, a moment of unforgettable poignancy for those present.
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First Title value, for Searching Higgs, Brian (1935 - 2008)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-13 2015-03-13
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373907373907
Occupation General surgeon
Details Brian Higgs was a consultant general surgeon in Wycombe and Amersham. He was born in Bedford on 21 June 1935, and was educated at Bedford College and then Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied medicine. In 1957 he went on to Westminster Hospital Medical School, where he won several prizes, including the Hanbury and Arthur Evans memorial prizes. He qualified MRCS LRCP in 1959. He was then a house surgeon at Gordon Hospital, London, where he worked under Lawrence Abel. He went on to gain experience in a wide range of surgical specialties. He was a research assistant at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, USA, and a senior registrar at St Peter's Hospital for Stone and St Thomas' Hospital, before he was appointed to a consultant post at Wycombe Hospital in January 1969. He retired in 1998, due to ill health, and spent 10 years battling leukaemia. He eventually died on 4 October 2008. He was 73. In 2007 he had married his long term partner, Rosemary. He was survived by her, his two sons and by his three grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001724
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First Title value, for Searching Griffith, Iolo Pyrs (1933 - 2011)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Vera Griffith
Publication Date 2011-12-13 2016-05-27
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373908373908
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Iolo Griffith was a consultant ENT surgeon at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, who, as an otologist, co-established the South Wales Cochlear Implant Programme and, as a laryngologist, served the Welsh National Opera. He was greatly respected as a modest, private and diligent man, and admired for his hatred of dishonesty, drama or affectation. He was born in Llanaelhaearn, in the foothills of Snowdonia, the third of three sons of John Pierce Griffith, a farmer, and Rebecca Ellen Griffith née Jones. Iolo Griffith decided that he wanted to become a doctor at an early age after falling off a wall at school and fracturing a leg. He was educated at Pwllheli Grammar School, which hitherto had not taught A-level biology. The North Walian characteristic of stubbornness prevailed and he won a state scholarship to read medicine at University College London. He qualified in 1959, having won the prize in anatomy. After house posts at University College Hospital (in surgery) and the Charing Cross Hospital (in medicine) and a year in casualty and orthopaedics at Barnet General Hospital, he decided to become a surgeon. In preparation for the primary FRCS, Iolo became a demonstrator and later an assistant lecturer in the department of physiology at St Bartholomew's Medical College, London (from 1962 to 1966). Whilst at St Bartholomew's he developed testicular cancer and received linear accelerator treatment at the Royal Marsden at Sutton. During his recuperation he was encouraged by Robin McNab Jones to prepare a PhD thesis on the subject of 'Neurophysiology of taste'. Much of this work involved the use of the dissecting microscope, which naturally stimulated an interest in other uses of a microscope and a career in ENT. The thesis, which had been supervised by Norman Joels, was awarded in 1967. Iolo Griffith started as a senior house officer at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, Golden Square, followed by a registrar post at the Westminster Hospital working with E H Miles Foxen and Christopher Holborow. In 1969 he became a senior registrar at the Middlesex Hospital, where he was influenced by Douglas Ranger, R A Williams and D Garfield Davies. Always anxious to serve his fellow countrymen, Iolo Griffith returned to Wales in 1972 as a senior lecturer and honorary NHS consultant to University College of Medicine and University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff. Later in 1978 he changed to a maximum part-time contract, which he held until his retirement in 1998. Among his many professional appointments was membership of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (from 1989 to 2000) and the presidency of the section of otology of the Royal Society of Medicine (from 1997 to 1998). In September 1962 he married a fellow North Walian Vera Parry, a physiotherapist trained at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, and later a magistrate. They had two children - Gwyn, who gained a doctorate in mycology and worked in research for 15 years before retraining as a probation officer and Ffion, who has had a successful career in human resources. Iolo and Vera Griffith had five grandchildren. Iolo Griffith shared a love of gardening and music with his wife. He used his ENT expertise to help many musicians associated with the Welsh National Opera. Above all, he gave himself to his profession and his patients. He is remembered as a modest person who honoured everyone with deep respect, believing strongly in their right to be treated with dignity. The last few years of his life, troubled by Alzheimer's, were hard, but his family and friends guarded his dignity and in the end he died peacefully on 27 June 2011 in his own home nursed by his loving wife. He was 77.
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First Title value, for Searching Bentley, John Philip (1916 - 2011)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by R M Kirk
Publication Date 2012-02-10 2015-03-13
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374187374187
Occupation General surgeon
Details John Philip Bentley was a consultant general surgeon at the Connaught, Harrow and Wanstead hospitals. He was born on 5 January 1916 in Bexleyheath, Kent, the son of Roland Cunard Bentley, a chartered secretary, and Margaret Bentley née Budd, the daughter of a medical practitioner. John was the third child and the second son. His great grandfather was William Budd, professor of medicine in Bristol and a pioneer in epidemiology. John was educated at Upton College, Bexleyheath, Christ's Hospital and then Charing Cross Hospital Medical School. He qualified MRCS LRCP and MB BS in 1938 with prizes in medicine and surgery, and a medal as the best student in his year. As a house surgeon he was influenced by Norman Lake, the senior Charing Cross Hospital surgeon. In 1940 he joined the Royal Air Force and served until 1946. He reached the rank of wing commander and, in 1942, gained his FRCS with the Hallet prize for the primary examination. In 1947 he won a Commonwealth Fund travelling fellowship, and became a lecturer at Columbia University, New York. He returned to London in 1948 and became a senior registrar at the Charing Cross Hospital, where he was highly admired. Like many surgeons of his era, he acquired consultant appointments in a number of places: small peripheral hospitals had high reputations for providing excellent training. John was on the staff of the Connaught Hospital in Walthamstow, Harrow and Wanstead. He named his leisure activities as swimming and golf, and was also a member of a French-oriented food and wine society. He married Daphne Kathleen Renwick in 1946 and they had a son. John Philip Bentley died in 2011.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002004
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First Title value, for Searching Bhattacharjee, Nitya Gopal (1931 - 2010)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2012-02-10 2013-08-29
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374188374188
Occupation General surgeon
Details Nitya Bhattacharjee was a consultant surgeon who worked in Manchester. He died on 14 August 2010 aged 79 years, survived by his wife, Christa and sons Jonathan and Nicholas.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002005
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First Title value, for Searching Fishbone, Harold ( - 2008)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-02-10 2013-08-13
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374189374189
Occupation General surgeon
Details Harold Fishbone was a surgeon who worked at the Brooklyn-Cumberland Medical Centre, New York and was a Professor of Surgery at State University of New York. He qualified MB BS in London in 1946 and passed the Fellowship in 1952. He moved to New York and was awarded the Fellowship of the American College of Surgeons in 1963. He died on 17 December 2008.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002006
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First Title value, for Searching Davies, Gareth (1945 - 2007)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sir Miles Irving
Publication Date 2012-02-10 2017-10-27
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374190374190
Occupation General surgeon
Details Gareth Davies was a consultant surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital, Margate. As his name suggests, his background was Welsh, an ancestry of which he was inordinately proud, and he grew up within the close London Welsh community. He received his secondary education at Dulwich College, where he read classics, regarded by many at that time, and since, as an ideal education prior to reading medicine. He commenced his medical studies at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, and during his time there undertook an intercalated BSc, which sparked his interest in surgery and research. His subsequent undergraduate career was marked by winning the Jackson Burrows prize in orthopaedics, and becoming the runner-up in both the Willett medal in operative surgery and the Brackenbury scholarship in surgery. He qualified MB BS and MRCS LRCP in 1972, and undertook his surgical house officer post on the professorial unit at Bart's. He then held a lecturer post in the department of anatomy between 1974 and 1976, confirming that surgery had become his chosen career, a decision that was proved correct when he gained the Hallett prize for his performance in the primary FRCS. He then returned to clinical training, holding registrar appointments at the Hammersmith, Harold Wood, North Middlesex and St Bartholomew's hospitals. He gained the FRCS in 1978, and soon afterwards was awarded, jointly with others, the Moynihan prize of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. Between 1979 and 1982, he held a British Digestive Foundation Smith, Kline and French research fellowship in gastroenterology at St George's Hospital under the supervision of John Hermon-Taylor. He undertook research into the growth of human colonic and pancreatic tumours as xenografts in nude rats, which subsequently led to him being awarded the MS in 1983 ('Growth of human digestive-tumour xenografts in athymic nude rats', *Br J Cancer*. 1981 January; 43[1]: 53-8). He returned to clinical surgery as a senior registrar on the St Bartholomew's rotation in April 1982, completing his training programme in March 1988. During his training he particularly enjoyed working with John Griffiths, a Welsh speaking consultant surgeon. It is said they both enjoyed irritating their clinical colleagues on ward rounds by discussing the progress of Welsh patients in their native language. In 1989 Gareth was appointed as a consultant general surgeon at Thanet District General Hospital, now the Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital. In the same year, he was appointed to the Court of Examiners of the College. During his time at the hospital he developed specialist colo-rectal and endocrine services, and opened the first dedicated day surgery unit in East Kent, of which he was appointed director. He was particularly interested in minimal access surgery and, following a visit to America to refine his knowledge of laser technology, he pioneered the use of the Holmium YAG laser in his hospital. Tragically, in June 1998, Gareth suffered a stroke, which forced his retirement on the grounds of ill health the following year. Despite this, he and his wife were able to enjoy overseas travel and the beaches of Kent, as well as spending time with family and friends. Gareth was married firstly to Gay, also a doctor, with whom he had two sons, Michael and Nicholas, and, secondly, to Susie, with whom he shared two step-children, Lisa and James. Gareth was regarded as having, in abundance, all the attributes of a good surgeon, namely technical competence, kindness, compassion and a congenial nature. All of this was combined with an infectious sense of humour. These attributes led to him being regarded with great affection by all who knew him. He died on 14 November 2007 at the age of 64.
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First Title value, for Searching Ellis, Frank ( - 2005)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-02-10 2015-05-22
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374191374191
Occupation General surgeon
Details Frank Ellis was a consultant surgeon in Darlington and Northallerton. He studied medicine in Durham, qualifying MB BS in 1948 and gained his FRCS in 1955. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a registrar at the Newcastle Regional Thoracic Surgical Centre and a senior surgical registrar at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, and at University College Hospital, London. He was a member of the North of England Surgical Society. Frank Ellis died on 8 June 2005.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002008
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First Title value, for Searching Chaudhuri, Maitreyee (1910 - 2010)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-02-10 2015-02-20
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374192374192
Occupation General surgeon
Details Maitreyee Chaudhuri was born on 19 May 1910 and died on 6 June 2010, at the age of 100. She gained her FRCS in 1947.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002009
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First Title value, for Searching Henley, Francis Austin (1914 - 2009)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-13 2022-06-15
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373911373911
Occupation Gastrointestinal surgeon General surgeon
Details Francis Henley was a consultant gastrointestinal surgeon at the Central Middlesex Hospital, London. He was born in Liverpool on 23 May 1914, the son of Francis Henley, a director of a sports business, and Julia Virginia Henley née Kowrach, a housewife. He was educated at several Catholic schools, and then studied medicine at Middlesex Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1939, just before the beginning of the Second World War. He was a house surgeon at Middlesex Hospital under Gordon Gordon-Taylor and Rupert Vaughan Hudson, and then joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He initially served in Norway, and was subsequently involved in establishing the Royal Navy's blood transfusion service. He was then assigned to HMS *Argonaut* in the Mediterranean, landing troops in North Africa. The ship was torpedoed twice, in the Mediterranean and in the Bay of Biscay, in a convoy heading back to the UK in February 1943. On the second occasion, the crew, including casualties, had to be transferred in an open boat at night. Henley eventually returned to Gibraltar and travelled to Algiers and then Tunisia, where he set up a naval hospital at Ferryville by requisitioning a school. He returned to the UK in June 1944 and spent two years at HMS *Vernon*, a 'shore' establishment, based at Eastbourne College. He was demobilised in 1946 with the rank of surgeon lieutenant commander. From 1947 to 1948 he was a house surgeon and then neurological house surgeon to Douglas Northfield at the London Hospital. He then returned to Middlesex Hospital, where he was registrar and senior registrar. He gained his FRCS in 1949 and from 1952 to 1953 he was a Hunterian professor of surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons, and also held a Fulbright scholarship to the USA, working in Chicago. He was appointed as a consultant and then a senior consultant surgeon at Central Middlesex Hospital. He wrote papers on gastrointestinal topics, including blood supply of the bile duct, jejunal replacement of the stomach in gastrectomy, and carcinoma of the liver treated with hemi-hepatectomy. He retired in 1979. He was also an honorary professor of surgery at Firouzabadi Hospital, Teheran, Iran, and a visiting surgeon to the Libyan government and a visiting professor in Benghazi. In 1944 he married Ann Mumby. They had a son, Raymond Alan. In 1960 he married for a second time, to Elizabeth McDonald Sellars, a RADA-trained stage and film actress. Francis Austin Henley died on 31 January 2009, aged 94.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001728
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First Title value, for Searching Freeman, James (1914 - 2010)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-13 2018-06-26
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details James Freeman was a consultant ENT surgeon in Bristol. He studied medicine at Middlesex Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1940. He gained his FRCS in 1948 and his diploma in laryngology and otology in 1950. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a house surgeon at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, a resident surgical officer at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, and then a senior registrar at Bristol General Hospital. He had five children - Wendy, Sue, Joy, James ('Jim', who is a consultant anaesthetist in Kettering) and Pamela. His first wife, Hilda Mary, died in 1973 and he later married Dorothy, his dearest companion through his retired years. He died on 25 April 2010, a day before his 96th birthday. At the time of his death he had eight grandchildren; Heidi, Christian, Jessica, Joceline, Petrina, Laura, Harriet and Emily; and four great grandchildren; Joseph, Holly, Isobel and Hebe.
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First Title value, for Searching Dooley, Denis (1913 - 2010)

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by R M Kirk
Publication Date 2011-12-13 2013-02-14
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Occupation Anatomist Public health officer
Details Denis Dooley was Her Majesty's Inspector of Anatomy from 1965 to 1980. He was born on 10 December 1913. He was educated at St Ignatius' College, Stamford Hill, London, and then went on to study mathematics and Latin, gaining a BA degree from London University in 1936. He then returned to his old school as a teacher. In 1938, he developed peritonitis from a burst appendix and was an inpatient at St George's Hospital for three months, after which he decided on a medical career - financed as a wartime fire-watcher. He trained in medicine at St Mary's Hospital, London. He was determined to gain a house post working for the prominent surgeon Arthur Dickson Wright, who he knew appointed only the most outstanding graduates. Denis had no illusions about his place on the list, but noted that Dickson Wright's house surgeons were worked so hard that they almost invariably failed to last the full six-month appointment. Denis decided to wait. Sure enough, the next successful candidate lasted only a few weeks, and Denis stepped into the breach. Sadly, he lasted for an even shorter period, before taking to his bed in the residency. The next morning, the door of his room opened sufficiently to reveal Dickson Wright's nose. He asked: 'Dooley, how soon before you are back at work?' Denis groaned: 'Sir, the way I feel now, I shall never work again.' The nose was withdrawn, the door closed, and the appointment terminated. In 1946 Denis became a house surgeon to Sir Zachary Cope and, a year later, became a research registrar to Sir Alexander Fleming, administering the recently available penicillin to treat a patient suffering from bacterial endocarditis. From 1948 to 1952, he was a resident medical officer at Charing Cross Hospital. He was generous in helping out during busy periods. One day, when the casualty department was busy, he undertook to see the male revisits. Soon the queue had disappeared, but the treatment area was bulging with patients. An anxious nurse emerged, holding a stack of casualty cards. On each was written 'RUS.DD'. When Denis was asked the meaning, he admonished the junior doctors for their lack of Latin, replying: 'Quite simple; *Rep. ut supra* (repeat as above) Denis Dooley'. His role at Charing Cross included the health care of medical students, resident doctors and nurses. At that time most of the newly qualified doctors were ex-servicemen, and they were expected to adhere to pre-war rules, including being banned from living a married life. Denis tried to protect them from the oppressive restrictions, but only with partial success. His support for the juniors brought him into conflict with the governing body and he was warned not to apply to have his appointment renewed. From 1952 to 1954 he was a general practitioner in Barnes and Wimbledon. He then served as a medical officer for the Ministry of Health, becoming a senior medical officer in 1973. By chance, one of his duties was to inspect the London teaching hospitals. He arrived to inspect the governance of Charing Cross Hospital, and he could not help but feel contempt for the unctuous greetings he received from the same people who had in effect sacked him for attempting to protect the resident doctors from authoritarian restrictions. From 1965 to 1980 Denis served as Her Majesty's Inspector of Anatomy. One of his duties was to regulate the use of bodies for dissection in the study of anatomy. Out of this appointment came a series of reports and lectures, including the Arris and Gale lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1972 (published as 'A dissection of anatomy' *Ann R Coll Surg Engl* 1973 July; 53[1]:13-26), a Royal Institution lecture in 1974 ('The rediscovery of anatomy'), and the Medical Society of London annual oration in 1977 ('On the anomaly of anatomy' *Transactions of the Medical Society of London* 92-93;192-208). In 1972, in recognition of his work, he was made a life member of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and in 1979 he was awarded an OBE. He was a devote Roman Catholic. In 1946 he carried a cross 500 miles to Vézelay Abbey in Burgundy, France, as part of a group marching for peace. Friends remember him for his generosity and for his rejection of personal possessions. He was a master of the portentous-seeming entrance, soon to be punctured by a humorous and sly, witty follow-up - the ultimate 'character'. Outside medicine, he enjoyed golf, bridge and scrabble. He met his wife Eileen at St Mary's Hospital. They had a son, Michael, and a daughter, Johanna. Denis Dooley died on 19 May 2010 at the age of 96. His last words were the Lord's Prayer, recited in Latin.
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First Title value, for Searching Field, Alfred George ( - 1902)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-12-14 2012-02-10
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at St George's Hospital, and then became Surgeon to the Reading Dispensary, and later to the Royal Sea-Bathing Infirmary, Margate, when he resided at Westbrook, close by. He had removed to 40 Great Marlborough Street before 1855, was also Surgeon to the Blenheim Street Dispensary, and had been appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy at his old medical school. He next removed to Brighton, living at 28 Old Steine, and then 22 Denmark Terrace, Montpelier Road, where he was Surgeon to St Mary's Hospital. He went out of practice before 1875, and resided at Alveston Manor, Stratford-on-Avon, and then at Benson, Wallingford, Berks. He died at Wallingford on May 15th or September 15th, 1902. His photograph, which is full of character, is in the Fellows' Album. Publications: "Discovery of Physiological Effects of Nitroglycerine." - *Med. Times*, 1858, N.S. xvi, 291; 1859, N.S. xviii, 339. "A New Mode of Removing the Os Calcis, with Cases." - *Ibid.*, 1852, xxvi, 137. "Pyaemia from Simple Fracture of the Ulna." - *Ibid.*, 1855. "On the Closure of Fissures caused by Diseases of the Hard Palate." - *Ibid.*, 1856, xxxiv, 190. "Case of Spontaneous Rupture of the Bladder." - *Ibid.*, 1856, N.S. xiii, 590.
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First Title value, for Searching Field, Octavius Adolphus (1812 - 1884)

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First Title value, for Searching Fife, Sir John (1795 - 1871)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-12-14
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where his father was a medical practitioner. He served for a few months at Woolwich as an Army Assistant Surgeon, but joined his father at Newcastle in 1815. He soon gained a reputation as a surgeon and was renowned for the long distances he would ride to visit his patients. When the original Newcastle-upon-Tyne School of Medicine and Surgery was founded in 1834 he took an active part with his brother George in its establishment, and being already Surgeon to the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Infirmary, was appointed Lecturer on Surgery, a post he held from 1832-1838. Before the crisis at the School in 1851 he joined the minority party and assisted in establishing the College of Medicine and Practical Science, becoming President and Lecturer on Surgery. On the reunion of the rival schools in 1857 to become the medical faculty of the University of Durham, Fife was placed on the Council, elected Professor of Military Surgery, and given an honorary MA degree. He retained his office as Professor until 1870. In politics Fife was so advanced a Liberal that he was stigmatized as a Chartist in his younger days. He was influential in forming the Northern political union which agitated for the Reform Bill. He was elected one of the first members of the new corporation of Newcastle in 1835, was immediately chosen an Alderman, and was elected Mayor in 1838. He displayed conspicuous courage and sound judgement in suppressing the dangerous Chartist riots at Newcastle in July, 1839, and received the honour of knighthood for his public services on July 1st, 1840. He was elected Mayor for a second time in 1843, and continued a member of the Corporation until 1863. He was also Deputy Lieutenant for the counties of Argyll and Northumberland. He was a promoter of the Volunteer movement in Newcastle in 1859, became Lieutenant-Colonel, and was presented by the regiment with a silver centrepiece of the value of £100 on resigning his commission in 1868. He was also President of the Newcastle Mechanics Institute. He married Miss Bainbridge, by whom he had four sons. The eldest, Henry William Fife, became Demonstrator of Anatomy and Lecturer on Operative Surgery in the Newcastle School of Medicine and lectured on Operative Surgery in the College of Medicine and Practical Science. The second son was Joseph Bainbridge Fife (qv). Sir John Fife retired to Reedsmouth, North Tyne, in 1870 and was there operated upon for stone in the bladder by Sir William Fergusson (qv). He died on January 15th, 1871.
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First Title value, for Searching Fife, Joseph Bainbridge (1823 - 1891)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-12-14
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details The second of the four sons of Sir John Fife (qv), who was the leading operator in the North of England, and a founder of the Newcastle College of Medicine. His mother was a Miss Bainbridge, and his paternal grandfather was a Scottish medical man who settled in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He entered the newly-formed Newcastle-upon-Tyne School of Medicine and Surgery in the session 1836-1837. His father was lecturing upon the Principles and Practice of Surgery, and the School had just engaged, at a rental of forty pounds a year, the Hall of the Worshipful Company of "Barber Surgeons together with Wax and Tallow Chandlers" in 'The Manors' adjoining the east end of the Jesus Hospital. He was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy jointly with his brother, W H Fife, in October, 1843, but only held the office for a year. It is not until October, 1851, that he appears as a teacher of operative surgery in the school. This post he held until 1854, when he was appointed to teach clinical ophthalmic surgery. He was also one of the Surgeons to the Newcastle Eye and Ear Infirmary and to the Newcastle Hospital for Sick Children. Fife is described as a good general and ophthalmic surgeon with a large consulting practice as an eye specialist. He retired many years before his death, and though retaining for a time his address at 9 Hood Street, Newcastle, he withdrew eventually to a hunting seat at Croft, near Darlington, his hereditary practice passing to Christopher Samuel Jeaffreson. He was unmarried, and very like his father in appearance and manners, the latter being described in the *Dictionary of National Biography* as courtly in manner and neat in person. The father worked very hard in his profession, but the son disliked drudgery and was always glad to escape for a day with the hounds. Old Newcastle men remembered their favourite lecturer as 'Joe' Fife. He died at Croft, where he had a house as early as 1839, on February 12th, 1891.
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First Title value, for Searching Figgins, Henry (1813 - 1881)

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First Title value, for Searching Finch, Charles Denyer (1819 - 1861)

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First Title value, for Searching Findlay, John ( - 1890)

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First Title value, for Searching Firth, George Warren Watts ( - 1878)

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First Title value, for Searching Fisher, Frederick Charles (1858 - 1918)

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First Title value, for Searching Gowland, Peter Yeames (1825 - 1896)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-02-15
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The son of Captain Richard Gowlland, RN, whose father, Richard Gowlland, a merchant and Freeman of Canterbury, had married Sarah Sankey, sister of Mathew, Mayor of Canterbury. Peter Gowlland seems to have obtained his second name from family friends who were Russian merchants. He was educated privately and entered the London Hospital in 1845. He served as House Surgeon and became Senior Demonstrator of Anatomy. He was elected Assistant Surgeon on March 25th, 1858, and was appointed Lecturer on Anatomy. He proved a successful teacher and was a good draughtsman. Some of his diagrams were long used by succeeding lecturers, and a fine collection of his signed water-colour sketches of cases of surgical pathology, accompanied by manuscript explanations, are preserved in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons. In addition to his work at the London Hospital he was for ten years Surgeon to the Islington Dispensary and was for some time Surgeon to St Mark's Hospital for Fistula and Diseases of the Rectum. Having acquired a large private practice in the treatment of rectal diseases, he resigned his post at the London Hospital on reaching the position of Senior Assistant Surgeon in April, 1862. He practised for forty years at 40 Finsbury Square, EC, and moved to 163 Gloucester Terrace, Regent's Park, in 1893, where he died on August 11th, 1896, and was buried in Highgate Cemetery. He married Elizabeth Rosina Susan, daughter of John Wilkinson, and by her had a son and a daughter. Peter Yeames, his son - a barrister - died before his father at the age of 28; his daughter Rose married Douglas Barry. Peter Yeames Gowlland was Brigade Surgeon to the Honourable Artillery Company and acted as Hon Surgeon to the Artists' Annuity Fund. He was a member of the FitzRoy Lodge of Freemasons, No 569, which is attached to the HAC. He was a good sportsman and was extremely fond of fishing at Chartham in Kent. He was also a good shot, and the heads of many deer were hung as trophies in his dining-room. A portrait, presented by his daughter, Mrs Barry, hangs in the London Hospital Medical School.
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First Title value, for Searching Fisher, Sir John William (1788 - 1876)

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First Title value, for Searching Fisher, William ( - 1858)

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First Title value, for Searching Fitzgerald, Thomas George (1829 - 1881)

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First Title value, for Searching Green, Thomas (1801 - 1878)

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First Title value, for Searching Green, William (1787 - 1858)

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First Title value, for Searching Nielubowicz, Jan (1915 - 2000)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-02-17 2014-08-22
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Occupation General surgeon Transplant surgeon
Details Jan Nielubowicz was professor of surgery at the Insitute of Surgery at the Hospital of the Infant Jesus in Warsaw. He was born in German-occupied Warsaw during the First World War on 28 October 1915, the son of Kazimierz and Wanda Nielubowicz. He came from a medical family: his father was a surgeon and urologist in Warsaw, and his grandfather, Wlayslaw Nielubowicz, was a surgeon and director of a hospital in Kremenchuk in Ukraine. Jan Nielubowicz attended high school in Warsaw, but in 1929 his father died and his mother decided to move to Vilnius, Lithuania. In Vilnius Nielubowicz graduated from high school and enrolled at the University of Vilnius. In 1936 he returned to Warsaw, and continued his studies at the Jozef Pilsudski University. He graduated in March 1939, and during the Second World War worked as a doctor, first in Vilnius and Kaunas, and then, from 1943, as the only doctor in a small hospital in Valozhyn, in what is now Belarus. When the Second World War ended, he returned to Warsaw and started working in the department of surgery at the Hospital of the Infant Jesus, where his father had worked. He became an associate professor of surgery in April 1962 and a professor in July 1970. From 1974 to 1986 he was director of the Institute of Surgery at the Hospital of the Infant Jesus. From 1981 to 1986 he was president of the Medical University of Warsaw. In 1947 he defended his doctoral thesis on phlegmon of the stomach and intestines. His post-doctoral research was on acute necrosis of the liver. From 1958, thanks to a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship, he spent a year in the department of surgery at Harvard. Back in Warsaw, he helped reform Polish surgery, introducing new techniques and encouraging scientific research. In 1966 he carried out the first sucessful tranplantation (a kidney transplant) in Poland. Jan Nielubowicz was a member of 14 international scientific socieities, and in 1980 became an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. He gained honorary degrees from six Polish medical schools. In 1997 he received the Commander with Star of the Order of St Pope Sylvester from the Pope, and in 1990 the Grand Cross of the Order of the Rebirth of Poland. Jan Nielubowicz died on 2 February 2000, aged 84.
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First Title value, for Searching Fenton, John (1817 - 1877)

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First Title value, for Searching Holbrow, Anthony ( - 1873)

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First Title value, for Searching Holding, Charles ( - 1901)

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First Title value, for Searching Holland, Joseph (1813 - 1901)

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First Title value, for Searching Holman, Henry Martin (1821 - 1881)

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First Title value, for Searching Holmes, Charles (1816 - 1915)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Was apprenticed at the age of 14 to Dr John Turner, of High Wycombe, after which he studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital and qualified in 1838. He was at first assistant to Dr John Symonds, of Oxford, and after five or six years set up in practice at Chipping Norton, where he was Medical Officer to the Union. In 1861 he had removed to Newport, Isle of Wight; in 1863 to Slough, where he was Surgeon to the Great Western Provident Society, Hon Secretary to its Medical Staff, and in 1875 Medical Officer of Health of the Slough Union District. Owing to unsatisfactory health, he moved to Blockley, in Gloucestershire, and then to Emsworth, in Hampshire; towards the close of the century he was living at Cotswold, St Branock's, Ilfracombe. He had reached the age of 99, being then probably the Senior Fellow, when he died on August 6th, 1915. Publications:- "Case of Amputation of the Leg in which no Ligature was Employed." - *Assoc Med Jour*, 1856, 334. "On Small-pox after Vaccination." - *Med Circular*, 1860, xvi, 184. *Sick Paupers and their Medical Attendants*, 1878.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002251
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First Title value, for Searching Frogley, Ralph Allen (1784 - 1864)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-01-25
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The son of a surgeon at Hounslow; received his Medical education at the Windmill Street School and at St George's and Westminster Hospitals. On account of his father's failing health, he entered into active practice at once after qualifying. So great was his energy and determination of character, it is said, combined with rare professional knowledge and skill, gentlemanly manners, and an address which inspired confidence, that he speedily established himself in a lucrative and extensive practice, which he carried on alone until the year 1889. Among his pupils who distinguished themselves were Samuel Lane, and Christopher B Emmott of Egham. He took the latter into partnership, and on Emmott's retirement was associated with Thomas Warburton Benfield, afterwards Surgeon to the Leicester Infirmary. From 1849-1854 his partner was Dr Alfred Hall, of Brighton, succeeded by F R A Douglas and Henry Bullock, who carried on Frogley's practice after his death. Frogley was well known as a skilful accoucheur and operator. He tied the carotid and femoral arteries, cut for stone, and on one occasion amputated the thigh close to the hip-joint, the patient suffering from an enchrondroma. The amputated limb weighed four stone, upwards of a third of the patient's body, but the patient survived for years. He published this case and another like it in the *Medico-Chirurgical Transactions*, xxvi, 133. He was widely sought after in consultation. He was at different times Medical Officer to the Parishes of Feltham, Bedfont, Norwood, Hanworth, Heston, Cranford, and Harlington, to the School of St George's and St Giles's Bloomsbury, at Heston; and was also Surgeon to the 'T' Division of Police, and to Curtis and Harvey's large powder mills. Frogley is described as one of the most able of the hard-working surgeons who have devoted their time and energies to practice in what was then a country district - a position in which all the capabilities of the physician and operative surgeon may at any time be called into requisition. He stood well with his socially important patients and was noted for his great kindness to the poor. Despite his hard professional labours he cultivated a large farm for many years and was known as a good judge of stock. He was instrumental in obtaining the erection of Hounslow Town Hall. He died at Brighton on March 15th, 1864, and was buried at Hounslow.
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First Title value, for Searching Frost, Charles Maynard (1814 - 1899)

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First Title value, for Searching Fry, Frederick (1810 - 1878)

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First Title value, for Searching Humphreys, Frederick William ( - 1920)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Son of Thomas Bennett Humphreys (qv); studied at Guy's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon. He practised first with his father, 19 Trinity Square, London, E, and then at 121 Lansdowne Road, Notting Hill. Later he and his father exchanged addresses. From Trinity Square he further changed addresses in succession to 24 Sinclair Gardens, West Kensington; 44 Addison Gardens; and 78 Lansdowne Road, Notting Hill. He was Assistant Surgeon to the 26th Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, later Surgeon Major in the 15th Battalion of the same regiment, He died on January 29th, 1920.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002294
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First Title value, for Searching Humphreys, Thomas Bennett (1812 - 1892)

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First Title value, for Searching Camps, William ( - 1887)

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First Title value, for Searching Canney, George (1820 - 1875)

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First Title value, for Searching Cantlie, Sir James (1851 - 1926)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-02-11
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on January 17th, 1851, at Dufftown, Banffshire, the son of a banker interested in farming, who handed on to his son a love of outdoor life. He was educated at the Milne Institution, Fochhaber, then at the University of Aberdeen, being the only student in attendance wearing the kilt. After graduating in Natural Science with Honours in 1871, he proceeded to Charing Cross Hospital for his clinical studies under the influence of Dr Mitchell Bruce, who knew him from boyhood and was then teaching anatomy. Cantlie became House Surgeon and then Demonstrator and Lecturer on Anatomy (1872-1887), and in 1877, having become FRCS he was appointed Assistant Surgeon to Charing Cross Hospital, becoming Surgeon in 1886 and resigning his office in 1888. Cantlie first became interested in the work of the St John Ambulance Association and later in that of the Red Cross when in 1878 Surgeon Major Peter Shepherd, AMS, left with Mitchell Bruce and Cantlie the proofs of his *First Aid to the Wounded*. Shepherd had been ordered to the war in Zululand, where he fell at Isandlwana. It was in 1883 that Cantlie commenced the classes at Charing Cross Hospital which developed into the systematic framing of the RAMC Territorial Force. In 1883 he was one of twelve young medical men who were sent to Egypt to assist in dealing with the epidemic of cholera introduced by pilgrims from Mecca. In a lecture he delivered at the Parkes Museum of Hygiene on Jan 27th, 1887, entitled “Degeneration amongst Londoners”, his mildly extravagant statements directed to the encouragement of exercise in fresh air met with a good deal of cheap ridicule in the public Press, generally epitomized in the statement that Londoners die out in the third generation. He had just become full Surgeon to the hospital when he accepted Patrick Manson’s invitation to join him at Hong Kong and become Dean of the Chinese School of Medicine. At the same time he engaged in a large surgical practice. Among the students at the College of Medicine was Sun Yat Sen, who subsequently was concerned in converting the Empire into a Republic. And when Sen in October, 1896, was held captive in the London Chinese Legation, Cantlie was instrumental in getting him released. He also inquired into the distribution of leprosy in China and adjacent parts of the East Indies, and in 1894 encountered an outbreak of plague. He returned to London in 1897 and set to work to advocate a Tropical Medical School in London, a Tropical Section at the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association, and a Tropical Medical Journal published in London. Backed up by Sir Patrick Manson, then Medical Adviser to the Colonial Office, he read a paper at the Imperial Institute urging a School of Tropical Medicine for medical officers going to the Tropics. A Committee was formed at Manson’s house, Mr Joseph Chamberlain’s interest was secured, and he presided at a dinner with the result that £16,000 was collected and the London School of Tropical Medicine was opened in 1899. The British Medical Association Section of Tropical Medicine was inaugurated at the Edinburgh Meeting in 1898; and Manson, the President, read out the telegram from Sir Ronald Ross announcing the discovery of the malaria parasite in the mosquito. Cantlie was Secretary of the section, and at subsequent meetings Vice-President and President. The first number of the *Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene*, with Cantlie and Professor Sir William Simpson as editors, appeared in 1898; Manson and later Cantlie were Presidents of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine, and Cantlie presented the gold chain and insignia for the President. He contributed many articles on tropical surgical affections, but gradually his attention concentrated itself upon ambulance work. On the formation of the Territorial Armies he became Hon Colonel RAMC (TF), 1st London Division. He held classes and lectured at the Polytechnic on first aid to the wounded. From that he passed on to found the College of Ambulance for the training of both men and women. The training of VADs started in 1908, but with the outbreak of war in 1914 it was greatly developed under Lady Cantlie. Among numerous inventions which are owing to his genius and untiring exertion are a portable X-ray apparatus, and exercises graduated for people of mature age; he attacked the Eton jacket for exposing the loins, also the ‘baby’s comforter’ as the transmitter of infection. At the Newcastle Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1921 Cantlie was President of a special section of Ambulance. The same year, 1921, marked the decline of his active career owing to the death of Lady Cantlie. In private life Cantlie was a delightful and entertaining companion and host, abounding in Scotch humour, whilst the faculty of imitation and the instincts of a born actor made him an admirable after-dinner speaker and singer. He started a Students’ Dinner, and presided over the dinner of the Caledonian Society. He preached at St Martin’s Church on Hospital Sunday, and addressed a Jewish audience on the hygiene of Moses. After prolonged retirement and ill health, latterly accompanied by mental disturbance, he died in London on March 25th, 1926. Cantlie married in 1884 Mabel Brown, daughter of Robert Barclay Brown, and there were four sons. His wife was his great helper in all private and public work. To her he was entirely indebted for the management of his finances. Upon her too fell the severe work of conducting the training of the VADs in ambulance work, and her death in 1921 was an irreparable loss. Publications:– *Degeneration amongst Londoners*, London, 1885. *Leprosy in Hong Kong*, Hong Kong, 1890. *Report on the Conditions under which Leprosy occurs in China*, etc., London, 1897. *Plague and how to Recognize and Treat Plague*, London, 1901. *Physical Efficiency: A Review of the Deleterious Effects of Town Life upon the Population of Britain*. Preface by Sir Lauder Brunton; Foreword by Sir James Crichton Browne, London, 1906. *First Aid Manuals*, revised 1915, 1926, etc. A great number of other publications.
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First Title value, for Searching Kinsey, Robert Bancroft (1816 - 1865)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-14
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at sea on May 24th, 1816, and was educated at St George's Hospital, where he became twelve months' surgical pupil to George Gisborne Babington on January 20th, 1837. He entered the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon on February 17th, 1839, being promoted Surgeon on March 15th, 1853, Surgeon Major on February 17th, 1859, and Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals on December 17th, 1863. He saw active service in the Indian Mutiny in 1857-1858, and was latterly stationed at Dinapore. He was also Civil Surgeon at Purneah. He died at Calcutta on April 1st, 1865.
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First Title value, for Searching Kirkman, Joseph Thomas ( - 1886)

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First Title value, for Searching Mander, Jeffory George (1927 - 2011)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by David A K Watters
Publication Date 2012-06-28 2015-08-19
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Jeff Mander was Bendigo's first Orthopaedic surgeon where he was in practice from 1969 to 2002. He was instrumental in the accreditation of orthopaedic training in Bendigo with the first trainee commencing in 1989. He was born and raised in Reading, the only child of George and Constance Mander. He graduated from St Mary's medical school in 1952. He met Sylvia, a nurse there, and they married in 1953, before he enlisted for 16 years' service in the RAF. He gained his Fellowship in General Surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons in England in 1960, before specialising in Orthopaedics. The RAF posted him overseas for two year terms in the Yemen, Aden and Cyprus and as a service medic he rose to the rank of Wing Commander. The family moved to Bendigo in 1969, where he joined the practice of Eugene Sandner and Ian Gordon. He performed the first total hip replacement in Bendigo, and was an enthusiastic teacher of medical and nursing staff. He was elected to Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1977 under article 21. In addition to his surgical and orthopaedic practice he was on the Board of the Mt Alvernia private hospital and was for a period chairman of the medical staff group at the Bendigo Base Hospital. In practice, he was joined by Bill Hannah, a general surgeon, and in 1985, a second orthopaedic surgeon, Travis Perera. In running his practice in Bendigo, Jeff had a reputation for being punctual, efficient, thorough and fair. His surgical management was precise as were his habits. When he retired from surgical practice in 1997 he established a further career in medico-legal consultation, and his services and unbiased advice were sought all over Australia. In the latter stages of his career Jeff gave considerable support to orthopaedic training programs in Fiji and Papua New Guinea. Ikau Kevau, now the head of surgery in Port Moresby and also one of his early trainees, wrote of how he was inspiring, pioneering, and distinguished. Jeff was a specialist who though he liked things to be done properly, was willing to work at ground level in the developing world and help establish foundations for orthopaedic surgery where formerly there was only surgery in general. Today Papua New Guinea has seven orthopaedic surgeons and a well-established orthopaedic unit in the teaching centre of Port Moresby General Hospital. After moving to Bendigo, he adopted the Cats as his Australian Rules Football team although during his own playing career he played rugby union. He was also an enthusiastic actor in amateur productions and an able singer. He loved classical music and relished the spoken word and the sound of language. Never one to be inactive, he began reading for Vision Australia's radio station and was recording a book for them at the time of his death. 'Poppa' enjoyed his family and loved to entertain his grandchildren with whom he shared his interests in soccer (Arsenal), in board games (Rummikub), television (*Vicar of Dibley*), movies (James Bond) and puzzles (Sudoku). In between meals he was particularly fond of Mars Bars. During his final illness he suffered from complications of the management of fractures, but showed courage and determination, remaining cheerful and articulate throughout his hospital stay. Jeff is survived by his wife, Sylvia, son Alastair, daughter Jane, daughter-in law Sally, son-in law Alwyn, and grandchildren Hamish, Annabel, Lachlan and Nicholas.
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First Title value, for Searching O'Neill, Thomas (1912 - 2000)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-06-28 2014-06-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Tom O'Neill was a general surgeon at Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital in Dublin, Ireland. He was born on 22 May 1912 near Newmarket, County Cork, and attended Presentation College, Cork, and then University College, Cork, where he studied medicine. He qualified in 1935. After house posts, he went to England. He trained at Halifax Royal Infirmary and was a surgeon in the Emergency Medical Service in London in the Second World War, working through the Blitz. He was then a resident surgical officer and surgical chief assistant at Manchester Royal Infirmary. In 1949 he became a consultant surgeon at Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital in Dublin. At the time, his appointment caused controversy: it was then unheard of for a Catholic surgeon to be appointed to a Protestant hospital. He stayed at the hospital until his retirement in 1977. He was also a lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin. He wrote mainly on partial gastrectomy for peptic ulcer, for which he invented a useful modification. He was president of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland from 1988 to 1990. He was also retained by leading insurers as a medical expert. Outside medicine, he played hurling as a student, and then golf later on. In 1945 he married Dorothy Moriarty, who was also a doctor. They had five sons. Tom O'Neill died in 2000.
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First Title value, for Searching Hutchinson, James (1796 - 1870)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-05-02
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374493374493
Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on May 6th, 1796, the son of John Hutchinson, RN, of Lettercross, Stonehaven; entered the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon on April 6th, 1819, and was promoted Surgeon on November 18th, 1829. He was at one time Secretary of the Medical Board, Calcutta. He was one of the twenty-nine officers of the HEIC's Medical Service who were elected Fellows on August 26th, 1844. He retired on July 17th, 1845, and died at Belle Ombre, Wynberg, Cape of Good Hope, on July 9th, 1870. Publications: *Indian Diseases and Prison Observations on some of the most Important Points connected with the Consideration and Treatment of Cholera Asphyxia*, Calcutta, 1832. Dedicated to Lord William Cavendish Bentinck, Governor-General. *A Report on the Medical Management of the Native Jails*, to which are added some observations on the principal diseases to which native prisoners are liable, 1835; 2nd ed, 1845. He was also learned in Hindustani, translating from and into that language.
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First Title value, for Searching Clutton, Henry Hugh (1850 - 1909)

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First Title value, for Searching Dickin, Oswald ( - 1865)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-06-07 2013-08-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373387373387
Occupation Public health officer
Details Was Surgeon Inspector of Factories and Printing Works, External Medical Officer of Oldham Union, and a member of the British Medical Association. He died at Middleton, Manchester, in 1865.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001204
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First Title value, for Searching Dampier, Nathaniel John (1821 - 1857)

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First Title value, for Searching Daniel, George (1813 - 1861)

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First Title value, for Searching Daniel, James Stoke (1804 - 1884)

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First Title value, for Searching Daniell, William Freeman ( - 1865)

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First Title value, for Searching Darby, William (1790 - 1867)

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First Title value, for Searching Darling, William (1802 - 1884)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

First Title value, for Searching Davenport, Cecil John (1863 - 1926)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-14
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373566373566
Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1863, the son of Robert Davenport, of Adelaide, and his wife, Dorothea Fulford, daughter of John Fulford, of London; he was the grandson of George Davenport, of Oxford. He was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon. After taking the Fellowship he went to China as a medical missionary of the London Missionary Society. He established a medical mission in Chungking, and after some years of pioneer work there was moved to Wuchang. Here he carried on the medical work till the time of the Boxer Rising, when he was invalided home. In 1905 he received the appointment of Medical Superintendent of the Chinese Hospital, Shantung Road, Shanghai, and held this post for the rest of his life. Originally this was a mission hospital, but, under the control of local committees, in 1905 the hospital was in straits from lack of a qualified staff. Under Davenport's superintendence it rose to a high standard of efficiency, many thousands of poor Chinese being treated yearly in the wards and out-patient departments, and many doctors and nurses being trained. The hospital was founded in 1846 by Dr William Lockhart and is under the London Missionary Society, from whose missionaries its staff is derived. In 1925, owing to local disturbances, the hospital went through a revolutionary period, many of the Chinese staff and patients deserting. Davenport's report for 1925 gives an interesting account of the work done during this troublous crisis, and contains also curious details, furnished by Dr Agnes Towers, of 'women opium suicides'. During 1926 the hospital, which with the help of Davenport and others had continued to hold its own against all odds, received a vast accession of fortune under the terms of the will of Henry Lester, merchant, and an old resident in Shanghai. This magnificent gift was in the form of £350,000 in money and land. With these funds it was proposed to reconstruct the hospital on modern lines, to build a convalescent home, and to form an endowment fund. Davenport's retirement had been planned to take effect in 1927, but he was now urged to stay in China to help and advise in the rebuilding of the hospital and the founding of its medical school. He was therefore fain to stay and take up administrative duties so heavy that he had with regret to give up much of his surgical work. Doubtless he overstrained his capacities, for he died quite suddenly in the midst of his labours on September 4th, 1926. He had no wish for personal advancement or distinction, but as a President of the China Medical Missionary Association and the recipient of a decoration from the Chinese Government, he was shown some formal recognition. Davenport's life was given up entirely to the forwarding of his work; his keenness, upright character, and kindliness endeared him to the many of all nationalities with whom he was brought into contact. The chaotic state of the China he loved, and the events of the few years prior to September, 1926, were causes of much anxiety and grief to him, but his efforts to improve the conditions of medical work in that country were maintained to the end. In 1890 he married Miss A Miles, at one time 'Sister Martha' of St Bartholomew's Hospital. She was one of the first fully trained British nurses to go to China, and was from the beginning one of her husband's chief helpers. The children of the marriage were two daughters and a son, Robert Cecil Davenport, FRCS, ophthalmic surgeon.
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First Title value, for Searching Nyhus, Lloyd Milton (1923 - 2008)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2012-02-01
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374114374114
Occupation General surgeon
Details Lloyd Nyhus was the first Warren Cole professor and head of surgery, and the second academic surgeon, at the University of Illinois, Chicago. During his 22 years as head of the department, Nyhus developed innovative, multidisciplinary residency programmes for more than 300 doctors and recruited top-flight doctors and scientists to the department. He was part of a recognised generation of academic surgeons with national and international acclaim, and managed to foster relationships with students, residents, staff and colleagues worldwide. With a kind and calm disposition and an innate sense of humour, he was a mentor and role model to a generation of outstanding surgeons. He was born on 24 June 1923 in Mount Vernon, Washington, USA, the son of a Lutheran principal. Lloyd's subsequent interest in science and medicine were merely an extension of the caring and nurturing philosophy of his parents. After graduating in 1947 from the University of Alabama College of Medicine at Birmingham, he was fortunate to receive his surgical training in Seattle, Washington, under the tutelage of Henry N Harkins. Harkins had a profound effect on Lloyd Nyhus, whose subsequent career mirrored and built on that of his mentor. After finishing his surgical training in 1956 he served in the US Naval Reserve Medical Corps and then returned to the University of Washington, Seattle, in a productive scientific and clinical career until 1967, when he was recruited to the University of Illinois department of surgery. The Seattle ulcer group, led by Harkins and Nyhus, became well known for their studies on peptic ulcer surgery. Over a 15-year period their work helped to define the operation of vagotomy and antrectomy as the 'gold standard' by which duodenal ulcer treatments were judged, certainly in the USA. In these years they published their landmark textbook *Surgery of the stomach and duodenum* (London, J & A Churchill, 1962), detailing the physiological and clinical factors which had influenced the development of gastric surgery. Prominent among the many topics investigated were burns, disorders of the digestive tract and hernias. Lloyd Nyhus published more than 370 scientific papers in refereed medical and surgical journals, edited in English and foreign translations, and wrote 133 textbook chapters in surgery. His other textbooks, *Mastery of surgery* (Boston, Mass, Little, Brown, 1984) and *Hernia* (Philadelphia, Pitman Medical Publishing Co/J B Lippincott, 1964), in addition to *Surgery of the stomach and duodenum*, persist in updated editions with new editors, and so continue to educate and influence new surgeons worldwide. In 1968 he established a transplant surgery unit at the Chicago school, making it the first large medical institution in the area to commit to human heart transplantations. He was well known for having his residents 'on parade' at 6.30 am, after performing their own rounds. They would be required to discuss each patient's status, and he would instinctively be aware if any detail had been missed out. In surgical procedures he insisted on trainees following the techniques he taught, and his students 'had to put a suture within a millimetre of where he instructed them', so related Donald Wood, an associate professor of surgical oncology, who had studied under Nyhus in the early 1970s. He served on the editorial boards of many surgical journals, including as a senior member of the board of *Hernia*, an excellent and growing journal. He was heavily involved in numerous professional organisations, spending terms as chairman of the American Board of Surgery, as president of the Central Surgical Association, the International Society of Surgery, the Chicago Surgical Society, the Society of University Surgeons, the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract, the Illinois Surgical Society and the Warren H Cole Society. He was first vice president of the American College of Surgeons and of the American Surgical Association. Lloyd Milton Nyhus died peacefully at the age of 85 years from natural causes on 15 December 2008 in a Glenview nursing home. Predeceased by his wife, Margaret, in 2006, he left a son, Leif, a daughter, Sheila Massey, and two grandchildren. A memorial service to commemorate his life and works was held at Ascension Lutheran Church, Northfield, Illinois. A fund was set up to support an annual Lloyd M Nyhus memorial lecture in surgery.
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First Title value, for Searching Ikin, Joshua Ingham (1813 - 1887)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-05-03 2022-06-09
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374499374499
Occupation General surgeon
Details *He was born in 1813 in Mirfield, Yorkshire the son of John Ikin and Mary Ikin née Ingham. After study at Leeds, Edinburgh, London, and Paris was in general practice in Leeds and York - at Cookridge Street and 19 Park Place, Leeds; at 24 St Paul's Square, York; at 29, Reginald Terrace, Leeds. He lectured on anatomy and physiology at the Leeds School of Medicine, and was Surgeon to the Leeds Hospital for Women and Children, to which he was also Secretary and Collector of Funds for completion of a new hospital. This work was recognized publicly at the presentation of a silver tea service by the committee of the hospital in April, 1863. As Surgeon to the 4th West Yorks Regiment of Militia from 1853-1868 he examined medically some 13,000 recruits, and published recommendations for their more efficient examination in a paper read to the Public Medicine Section (President, Sir John Simon, FRS) at the Oxford Meeting of the British Medical Association, 1868. It was republished under the title, *On the Comparative Results of the Inspection of Recruits*, etc, 1868. He was at one time President of the Leeds Philosophical Society, and was a voluminous writer on medical controversies of his day. Besides the Examination of Recruits may be mentioned his translation of Pariset's *Memoir of Baron Dupuytren*, with Notes. *Opening sentence added on 9 June 2022 based on information provided by Ancestry.com
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First Title value, for Searching Illingworth, Henry Stanhope (1809 - 1871)

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First Title value, for Searching Ilott, Edward (1827 - 1887)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-05-03
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374501374501
Occupation General surgeon
Details The elder son of William Ilott and his wife, whose maiden name was Cooper. His father had practised at Bromley in Kent, first in partnership with his uncle, who was born at Broadwell Grove, near Burford, Oxon, and afterwards independently. The younger son, James John, was a student at the London Hospital and afterwards became Medical Officer to the Whitechapel Infirmary. Edward Ilott was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital and at the medical schools in Paris. He then returned to Bromley, where he was for many years Parish Medical Officer, Medical Officer to the Union Infirmary, and Public Vaccinator. For the last three or four years of his life he was also Medical Officer of Health for Bromley, and Medical Officer to the Joint Infectious Hospital or the Bromley and Beckenham Unions at Bromley Common. He married Hannah Julia Fennell in the Chapel of the College for the Widows of the Clergy at Bromley in 1859, and by her had Arthur, educated at Charing Cross Hospital (d1914); Percy, who took Holy Orders, becoming a schoolmaster; Julian, a National Provincial Bank manager; and Bessie, who married and went to Canada. Ilott died at his residence, 26 Tweedie Road, Bromley, Kent, on Sunday, September 18th, 1887, and was buried in the churchyard of St Mary's, Plaistow, Bromley, Kent.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002318
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First Title value, for Searching Image, William Edmund (1807 - 1903)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-05-03
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374502374502
Occupation General surgeon
Details William Edmund Image, born in 1807, of French Huguenot extraction, was apprenticed to John Greene Crosse of Norwich, then studied at Guy's Hospital and in Paris, where he graduated Bachelier ès Lettres. At the outbreak of the Revolution in 1830 he returned and settled in practice at Bury St Edmunds, where he was Surgeon to the Hospital and gained a local reputation and general respect. Arsenical poisoning was a matter of wide popular suspicion in East Anglia, and Image was a witness at three trials; at the last in 1849, Katherine Foster was executed at Bury St Edmunds for the murder of her husband. He rose to the chief practitioner consulted within the radius of twenty miles around Bury St Edmunds - until his retirement in 1873. For the next thirty years he lived as a country gentleman at Herringswell, Mildenhall, Suffolk, served as a JP for the County, and in 1877 as High Sheriff. He died there on September 26th, 1903, at the age of 96, being the senior FRCS. He was twice married, his second wife being a person of property. His son, Dr Francis Edward Image, MA Cantab, followed his father in practice at Bury St Edmunds; J M Image, a nephew, was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and another nephew, Mr Selwyn Image, was Slade Professor of Art at Oxford. Publications: "Case of Enlargement of the Left Mamma." - *Med-Chir Trans*, 1847, xxx, 105.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002319
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First Title value, for Searching Impey, Elijah George Halhed (Halhead) ( - 1868)

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First Title value, for Searching Ince, John ( - 1867)

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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Arthur Newell ( - 1870)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-05-23
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374555374555
Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at University College and Hospital. He practised first at Bideford, where he was Magistrate and JP for the Borough. He lived latterly at Berkeley Villa, Cheltenham, and died there in 1870.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002372
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First Title value, for Searching Shaw, Peter Cosmo (1934 - 2012)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-06-28 2014-06-30
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374738374738
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Peter Cosmo Shaw was an orthopaedic surgeon in Bromley. He was born in Streatham, London, on 24 February 1934, the son of Eric Cosmo Shaw, a dental surgeon and orthodontist, and Dorothy Margaret Shaw née Butler, a maths teacher. Shaw's grandfather, David Cosmo Shaw, a dentist in Aberdeen, was said to have assisted Sir Arthur Keith in examining the jaw of the notorious 'Piltdown man', which was claimed to be an example of an early human ancestor and was later proved to be a hoax. Shaw was educated at Dulwich, but spent some time at school in Scotland when he was evacuated to an aunt in Scotland during the Second World War. He went on to Guy's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1957. He held house surgeon posts at Guy's and St Helier hospitals, where he was influenced by the general surgeon Aubrey York Mason. He then joined the RAMC for his National Service, choosing to take a short service commission. He entered as a lieutenant and served for three years as a surgeon at the Royal Herbert Hospital in Woolwich. He left the Army in 1963 having been promoted to the rank of captain. From 1963 to 1964 he was a surgical registrar at Sutton General Hospital. He was then a casualty officer at St James' Hospital, Balham, and a senior house officer at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital for a further six months. He returned to Guy's Hospital in 1965, as a surgical registrar in plastic surgery. From 1966, for 18 months, he was a senior registrar in orthopaedics at Guy's, and then at King's College Hospital for another four months. In 1969 he became a locum consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Bromley group, working at Farnborough, Bromley, Beckenham, Sydenham Children's and Cheyne hospitals. In October of that year he was appointed to the staff of these hospitals. From 1985 he also taught orthopaedic surgery. He retired from the NHS in 1999 and from private practice in 2002. Earlier in his career he was particularly interested in hand surgery, but later focused on all forms of joint replacement surgery, especially hip replacement. He enjoyed being able to help his patients and greatly loved teaching his junior doctors. He was generally admired and respected by his medical colleagues and the nursing staff. An anaesthetist, who was also a friend, wrote: 'His operating was neat beyond compare, wielding his tools like a paintbrush, unhurried but no time wasted, punctual, never a harsh word and never ever flustered.' He was a member of the British Orthopaedic Association and KROC (King's Rotational Orthopaedic Club). Outside medicine, he enjoyed squash (playing to county standard), tennis, scuba diving and underwater photography, gardening, walking, swimming and horse riding. He liked to draw and painted in oils and acrylics. He married Angela Dodman, a theatre sister, in 1958. They had a daughter, Jennifer Caryl, and a son, Nigel Cosmo, and four grandchildren. Peter Cosmo Shaw died on 14 April 2012 from a glioblastoma. He was 78.
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First Title value, for Searching Isbell, Warren John (1813 - 1870)

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First Title value, for Searching Jackson, Arthur (1855 - 1921)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-05-03
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The son of Daniel Jackson, of Chadwell Place, Grays, Essex. After school at Brentwood he studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and was Clinical Assistant at St Luke's Hospital, London, and House Surgeon at the Beckett Hospital, Barnsley. In 1884 he joined in partnership, J R Humphreys, who was then the Senior Surgeon to the Shrewsbury Infirmary. In 1890 Jackson was himself appointed Surgeon to the Shrewsbury Infirmary, having as colleagues Henry John Rope, FRCS, and W Eddowes, MRCS. The Listerian methods were in general being but tardily accepted; Jackson adopted them with enthusiasm, and later copied the practice of Horsley, the Mayos, Freyer, and Moynihan. He thus attained to high esteem as a surgeon in Shropshire and Mid-Wales, and held other posts, such as Surgeon to the New Town Infirmary, Montgomeryshire, to the Lady Forester's Hospitals, Much Wenlock and Broseley, to the Bicton Asylum, and to the Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Shirleet. During many years he was an active member of the British Medical Association, was President of the Shropshire and Mid-Wales Branch in 1900, and read a paper "On Diseases of the Breast". He had reached the retiring age but continued active work at the Infirmary during the War (1914-1918) up to November, 1919. He was much distressed at the sudden death of his only son, Arthur H Conway Jackson, ICS, in India in December, 1920. He fell ill of influenza, complicated by pneumonia, died at 13 College Hill, Shrewsbury, on January 9th, 1921, and was buried in the General Cemetery. He was survived by his widow, Florence Eleanor, daughter of the Rev S Sunderland, of Penistone, Yorkshire, and by a daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Jackson, Alexander Russell (1798 - 1855)

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First Title value, for Searching Heath, Henry ( - 1855)

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First Title value, for Searching Heath, William Lenton (1854 - 1912)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-12
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was Kirkes Gold Medallist and Brackenbury Scholar in 1877, and held the posts of House Physician, House Surgeon, Midwifery Assistant, and Assistant Chloroformist. He then settled in practice at the corner of Cromwell and Gloucester Roads, South Kensington, and for thirty years his fine presence was familiar to the residents of that district. His hair early turned white, and his appearance resembled that of Sir Samuel Wilkes. He had a charming personality and was a prominent member of many societies. He died at St Ann's Heath on August 25th, 1912.
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First Title value, for Searching Davey, Henry W. Robert ( - 1870)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-14 2013-08-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at the Middlesex Hospital and at the Great Windmill Street School. He was at one time Assistant Surgeon to the 7th Royal Fusiliers, and then, settling in Suffolk, was Surgeon to the Beccles Dispensary. He was at the same time a member of the Suffolk Institute of Archeology, and of the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society; he was also President of the Norfolk and Norwich Pathological Society. At the time of his death he was living in retirement at 13 Steyne Road, Worthing, and was President of the Local Board of Health, and a member of the Sussex Archeological Society. He died at Worthing in 1870.
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First Title value, for Searching Davies, Benjamin ( - 1895)

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First Title value, for Searching Davies, David (1821 - 1910)

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First Title value, for Searching Davies, Frederick (1809 - 1877)

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First Title value, for Searching Hadduck, Edward ( - 1887)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-03-22 2012-04-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Studied at the Birmingham Hospital and at University College Hospital, London, and was House Surgeon at the Wolverhampton Hospital. He practised successively at Dudley, at Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, at Oucham, Isle of Man, and at Biddulph, Congleton, Cheshire. He died in or before 1887.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002079
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First Title value, for Searching Crossley, John (1923 - 2012)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-04-12 2014-03-21
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details John Crossley was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Southmead Hospital, Bristol. He was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, the son of Walter Crossley, a manufacturer of bedding ware, and Annie Crossley née Burniston, a housewife. He was educated at Blackburn Grammar School and then Repton. He went on to study medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and Guy's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1947. He remembered fire-watching on the roof of the hospital during his time as a medical student during the war. He held preregistration posts at Guy's, and was then a house surgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital. He was a demonstrator in anatomy at Cambridge and at Guy's. Deciding on a career in obstetrics and gynaecology, he was a resident obstetric officer at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital for Women, and then a registrar at Churchill Hospital, the Radcliffe Infirmary and Stoke Mandeville Hospital. From 1955 to 1957 he was a senior registrar at St Thomas' Hospital. In 1957 he was appointed as a consultant at Southmead Hospital. He was an examiner for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and also in Khartoum, Sudan. He was an active member, and often secretary and president, of many local medical societies, including the Medical Reading Society of Bristol. Outside medicine, he had many interests. He worked in wood. He sang in various choirs, including the Thornbury Choral Society, the local church choir and in an a cappella group, and played the accordion. He was a skilled artist and exhibited his work with local art societies. He fished and played golf and, with his wife, created a large garden. He cycled and canoed and travelled extensively, including with the Gynaecological Travellers Club. After an extremely busy professional life, he enjoyed, in his own words, 'an equally hectic retirement'. In 1955 he married Gillian ('Gill') Tarnoky née Shelton, whom he met when they were both working at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. They had three children - Nicholas, Alison and Michael. John Crossley died on 18 February 2012 after a short illness. He was 88.
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First Title value, for Searching Lacy, Edward (1799 - 1870)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-14 2017-05-04
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Professionally educated at St George's Hospital. He practised first at Stockport, where he was Surgeon to the Infirmary Fever Wards and to the Queen's Lying-in Institute. At the latter institution he lectured on midwifery and the diseases of women and children. Removing to Poole, he was at the time of his death Surgeon to the Bournemouth General Dispensary and Surgeon to the 4th Dorset Rifle Volunteers. He died at Poole on October 7th, 1870. Publication: "Treatment of Fistula in Ano by Chloride of Zinc." - *Med Times and Gaz*, 1852, xxv, 576. See below for an amended version of the published obituary: Edward Lacy made his name as a surgeon and leading citizen in Poole, Dorset. He was born in Salisbury in 1799 and baptised in Salisbury Cathedral on 17 March 1800, although his parents were both from Dorset: his father, James, was born in Poole, his mother, Mary née Bemister, in nearby Wimborne. He began his medical career as a pupil at the County Infirmary in Salisbury, before moving to London to the Marylebone Infirmary; he then studied at St George's Hospital as a pupil and dresser to Sir Edward Home and Sir Benjamin Brodie, receiving his diploma in 1823. He gained his membership of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1822, the same year he was awarded his licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1852. His first post was in Stockport, perhaps chosen because his brother Henry was at that time in Manchester, when he was appointed as a house surgeon at the Stockport Infirmary in March 1823. He also worked at the Dispensary and House of Recovery, moving on later to the Queen's Lying-in Institution, Manchester, where he lectured on midwifery and diseases of women and children. Edward applied several times, unsuccessfully, to be elected as a surgeon at the Manchester Royal Infirmary during the 1830s. A case study of one of his patients with diabetes mellitus, from his practice in King Street, Manchester, appears in Edward Carbutt's book *Clinical lectures in the Manchester Royal Infirmary* (London, Longman and company, 1834). It was while in Manchester that he became embroiled in 1832 in a law suit concerning grave-robbing. The Rev Gilpin of Stockport was successful with a libel case against an activist and publisher, Mr Doherty, who had stated that a body was removed from the graveyard attached to the church to the dissecting room of the surgeon Mr Lacy, who happened to be the Rev Gilpin's brother-in-law. The case featured strongly in the local and London newspapers, and must have been very embarrassing both professionally and personally for Edward. He had moved to Poole by 1844, taking over the medical practice of Thomas Barter at 90 High Street. Before this move, he had gained considerable experience in hospital work, but there was no hospital in Poole at that time or indeed during his lifetime. His living was therefore from general practice, plus the various contracts available to doctors. He became honorary surgeon to the 4th Dorset Rifle Volunteers, surgeon to several different friendly societies and the Amity Lodge. Another role was medical officer to the Kinson, Canford and Parkstone district of the Poole Union. He was able to later become involved in Bournemouth's first hospital development. He was listed in 1859 as a member of the founding committee of the Bournemouth Public Dispensary for the Sick Poor, as well as working there as an honorary surgeon. The dispensary was established to provide for the poor in the fast-developing town of Bournemouth, but also covering adjoining areas including Poole. As a dispensary, it did not have inpatients, although before his death it had become a cottage hospital, forerunner to the Royal Victoria Hospital. As he grew older, he took William Turner as a partner in his practice in Poole. His medical interests are shown by publications in the *Medical Times and Gazette* on ingrowing toenails, treatment of naevi, effects of use of lead powder by actors, and use of zinc chloride in the treatment of anal fistulae. He prepared a report for presentation to the inaugural meeting of the Dorset County Association of General Practitioners in June 1848 on the use of chloroform in surgery, which represented an early clinical review of experience. He was a local secretary of the New Sydenham Society, linking local doctors with the publisher. A further interest must have been public health, as in 1848 he was invited to present a lecture at Poole Guildhall on 'The health of towns'. The context was the passing of the Public Health Act in that year, but the worry of cholera outbreaks was a constant factor locally and nationally. Using his experience in Manchester, he compared life expectancy in Poole, a small town in a rural area, with northern cities, although stressing nevertheless how Poole's filthy streets affected the health of its population. The bulk of his lecture was educational, using diagrams and other aids, to demonstrate the impact of poor living conditions, showing how cholera could arise. He ended by stating that however well the Poor Law guardians provided aid and nutrition for the poor, they could do nothing to affect ventilation and cleanliness for the general population, suggesting that therefore the poor suffered the most in times of cholera. He offered, should cholera hit Poole, that his surgery would be open at all hours to the suffering poor. He was first elected to the Poole Town Council in 1848, representing the north-west ward as a Conservative, and remained a councillor until his death. In November 1860, as a long-serving member, he was elected by the town council as the mayor, and by this time he was also chief magistrate for the town. When he died the newspaper headline recorded it as the death of a magistrate, rather than surgeon; perhaps in his later years his presence on the bench was more marked than his medical work. Outside his medical career, he had at least one business interest. This was the time of 'railway mania', and Manchester was at the forefront. Edward was attracted to the possibilities and developed this interest after moving to Poole. He was heavily involved in the efforts to develop a railway link from Poole to Salisbury. This link was for a time known locally as the 'Lacy line'. There is no evidence this business venture brought him the same financial success as achieved by his brother Henry Lacy, a director of the London and South Western Railway and MP for Bodmin. Edward married Frances Gilpin on 2 September 1828; she was born in Broughton in Furness, Lancashire, the daughter of a local magistrate. They had four children while living in Manchester: Caroline Mary died in infancy in 1840, but Ruth, Bernard and Frances all grew up in Poole. Bernard Gilpin Lacy is listed in the 1871 census as an 'MD USA not in practice'. Edward Lacy died on 7 October 1870, aged 70, and was buried in Poole Cemetery on 13 October. The funeral was a large affair, with a procession of civic dignitaries and an honour guard of 30 men from the Rifle Volunteers; flags were at half-mast on the Guildhall and church. His obituary in the local newspaper was accompanied by a eulogy, highly complimentary about his medical career, including his Christian charitable approach to those unable to pay for his care. As a surgeon and leading citizen of the town, Edward Lacy made his mark in his adopted home of Poole. He was a part of the first hospital development in Bournemouth and Poole, and became Poole's civic leader. The obituary and eulogy published in the local newspaper demonstrate the town held him in high regard as 'a worthy magistrate, a skilful surgeon, and most upright and honourable gentleman'. Publications: New mode of treating ingrowing toenails. *Medical Times and Gazette* 1852 Aug 172-3. Treatment of fistula in ano by chloride of zinc. *Medical Times and Gazette* 1852 June 576. Use of lead powder by actors. *Medical Times and Gazette* 1852 Aug 223. Treatment of naevus by pressure. *Medical Times and Gazette* 1852. John Bartling Gill
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First Title value, for Searching Jackson, John (1820 - 1903)

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First Title value, for Searching Jackson, Mark Wilson (1802 - 1862)

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First Title value, for Searching Jackson, Thomas Carr (1823 - 1877)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-05-16
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born of a good Yorkshire family on January 4th, 1823, the son of John Jackson, surgeon, Paradise Street, Rotherham; he went to Merchant Taylors' School at Crosby, and was then apprenticed to James Garstang (qv), of Lytham, Lancashire, a well-known practitioner and county magistrate. After that he was a student at St Thomas's Hospital, and was dresser to Joseph Henry Green (qv). He was appointed House Surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital, then Assistant Surgeon; but subsequently was elected Surgeon to the Great Northern Hospital, where he was a most efficient member both of the staff and of the Executive Committee. A good anatomist and a bold and skilful operator, he performed lithotomy on twenty-eight patients without a mishap. In the autumn of 1877 he began to suffer from prostatic disease, and died at 91 Harley Street on April 23rd, 1878. His wife had died in November, 1877; of his five children his eldest son, Ernest Carr Jackson MRCS, continued his father's practice at 91 Harley Street but died at the end of 1879. Publication:- *Circumscribed Abscess of Bone*, 8vo, London, 1868.
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First Title value, for Searching Simpson, Elisabeth Davis Liken ( - 2012)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-06-28 2014-07-04
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Elizabeth Davis Liken Simpson was an honorary ophthalmic surgeon at St James' Hospital, Balham, St George's Hospital, Tooting, and the South London Hospital for Women and Children. She qualified MB BCh BAO in Dublin in 1941, and gained the diploma in ophthalmic medicine and surgery in 1944. Prior to her appointments in Balham and Tooting, she was an ophthalmic surgeon at Queen Mary's Hospital for Children in Carshalton. She also served in the RAF as a squadron leader, and was a chief clinical assistant at Moorfields Eye Hospital. She died on 31 January 2012.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Redmond John Hamilton (1923 - 2012)

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by Ron Marsh
Publication Date 2012-06-28 2013-10-18
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Redmond Smith was an ophthalmologist in London and an expert on glaucoma. He was born in Barnes on 10 April 1923, into a medical family: his paternal and maternal grandfathers, and his father, Hector, were all doctors. His mother was Maud Smith née Hamilton. He was educated at the Oratory School, Caversham, and entered St Mary's Medical School in 1941. He enthusiastically entered into medical school life, and was elected secretary of the students' union (the equivalent of today's president). During his period of office he welcomed the Queen Mother and her two daughters to a performance of the *Mikado*. Redmond was an enthusiastic member of the cricket and rugby clubs, and played regularly for the first teams. There is a photograph of the distinguished 1947 1st XV at Teddington, showing an easily recognisable young Stan Peart and Redmond, both enviably ageless. He continued to support the club and took part in the famous post war tour to Lyons, supervised by Arthur Dickson Wright, where one of the players was rather carelessly lost and has not been seen since. Redmond qualified in 1946 and became house surgeon to the ENT and ophthalmic departments at St Mary's, and started his interest in eye surgery. In 1954 he was appointed to the Royal Northern Hospital and to St Mary's in 1957 (with the eye department shortly moving to its present site at the Western Eye Hospital). In 1960 he was appointed to the staff at Moorfields. Redmond combined the best features of the old and new wave of ophthalmologists: whilst preserving simple, well-proven remedies, he was always looking critically at new developments and rapidly adopted worthwhile techniques, skilfully avoiding gimmicks. Apart from a considerable reputation as a general ophthalmologist, he was a foremost authority on glaucoma, bringing a much needed touch of realism to this enigmatic disease. To many of us his teaching was outstanding and his ward rounds were a joy. He attributed much of the inspiration for his teaching (like many of his contemporaries) to Sir George Pickering. Surgically he encouraged us to use simple techniques and instruments, although he was one of the first to use the operating microscope. We didn't just learn ophthalmology: we were shown how to construct a tennis court, a cider press, a Persian rug and a split cane fishing rod, and were given 101 uses for cling film and Blu-tack. Redmond had a distinguished career in research. Whilst at Mary's in the 1950s, along with Harry Keen, he carried out pioneering work on the natural history of diabetic retinopathy. At the same time, at Moorfields and the Institute of Ophthalmology, he directed his research towards rubeotic glaucoma. During his career he produced a steady stream of interesting papers and his book on glaucoma (*Clinical glaucoma* London, Cassell, 1965) was a concise classic. In 1984 he became editor of the *British Journal of Ophthalmology*. His placid temperament and modesty, amongst many other virtues, were a great example and endeared him to junior staff and colleagues. Last but not least, Redmond was a family man. Stella (née Richardson), his wife, whom he married in 1948, and his two sons and daughter were a great source of support to him. Stella helped the Friends of St Mary's for many years. Redmond died of cancer on 27 January 2012 at the age of 88, after a short illness.
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First Title value, for Searching Lloyd, John Augustus ( - 1874)

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First Title value, for Searching Lloyd, Thomas (1809 - 1876)

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First Title value, for Searching Coe, Thomas (1816 - 1884)

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First Title value, for Searching Colborne, William Henry (1822 - 1869)

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First Title value, for Searching Colby, James George Ernest (1861 - 1913)

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First Title value, for Searching Lockwood, Charles Barrett (1856 - 1914)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-07-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Stockton-on-Tees, the third son of George Lockwood, a shipbuilder. He was educated at the Stockton Grammar School and at Bramham School. After leaving school he spent a short time with a well-known firm of surgeons in Stockton (Richardson & Tarleton), and thus was enabled at an early age to see a considerable amount of operative surgery, and himself to perform minor operations. In 1874 he entered as a student at St Bartholomew's Hospital, to which he remained attached until his death. As a student he was known as a hard worker and an original thinker, and even at that period he seems to have been capable of chastising with his tongue. In 1878 he took the diploma of MRCS, and shortly after became House Surgeon to the Dean Street Lock Hospital, where he had time to spare to work for the FRCS examination, which he passed in 1881. In 1879 he became Assistant Resident Anaesthetist, and in 1880 House Surgeon to Alfred Willett (qv). Immediately after this post he was appointed a Demonstrator of Anatomy, in which he was associated with William Bruce Clarke (qv), and later with W H H Jessop (qv). In 1891 he left the dissecting-rooms on his appointment as Surgical Registrar, and held office until he was elected Assistant Surgeon in 1892. On the death of W J Walsham (qv) in 1903 he became full Surgeon to the hospital. In 1912 he resigned the surgeoncy on account of failing health, and was elected Consulting Surgeon. In the Medical School he lectured on descriptive and surgical anatomy, and on general surgery - lectures which attracted a large audience on account of their originality. It is noteworthy that in the years 1890, 1891, and 1892 he gave, in association with Dr Vincent Harris, the first classes in bacteriology held at St Bartholomew's Hospital. The subject of bacteriology, then in its infancy, attracted Lockwood, and he worked at it by himself in the small museum of the Great Northern Hospital which had been fitted up for him as a laboratory. Here he came to the conclusions which led to what was probably Lockwood's greatest contribution to surgery - those embodied in his book on *Aseptic Surgery*. The phase of surgery through which Lockwood lived was an interesting one, for he saw the change brought about by the introduction of antisepsis, and the gradual awakening to the real truths of asepsis. Lockwood was in the van of this movement and was largely responsible, at any rate at St Bartholomew's Hospital, for initiating the modern methods of aseptic as distinguished from antiseptic surgery. He was the first to use gloves for operating at St Bartholomew's Hospital; these were made of white cotton, but shortly afterwards the rubber gloves were introduced which have remained. Lockwood's life was a strenuous one; starting with only a moderate school education, he educated himself, studying philosophy and history and the lives of great men, such as Napoleon and Caesar. He was a shy man who tried to cover his shyness with an air of cynicism and a sarcastic manner, and in consequence he was often misunderstood. As a surgeon he was careful, neat, and safe, though withal rather slow. In the later years of his life he suffered much from neuritis, and he began to feel the strain of the big operations, so exacting for the surgeon, which just then were beginning to be undertaken, owing to the safety of aseptic surgery. It was to ease this strain of work that he resigned in 1912. In October, 1914, he pricked his finger while operating for appendicular peritonitis, and died of septicaemia after an illness of five weeks' duration. He was buried at Instow, North Devon. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was Hunterian Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology from 1886-1889, when he lectured on "The Development and Transition of the Testicles, Normal and Abnormal", upon "The Development of the Organs of Circulation and Respiration including the Pericardium, Diaphragm, and Great Veins", and upon "The Morbid Anatomy, Pathology and Treatment of Hernia". From 1894-1895 he was Hunterian Professor of Surgery and Pathology and lectured on "Traumatic Infection". He was Examiner in Anatomy at the Fellowship examination, and a Member of Council from 1908 till his death. At the Medical Society of London he delivered the Lettsomian Lecture in 1904 on "Aseptic Surgery in Theory and Practice", and was President in 1908. In 1908 he married Florence Edith, second daughter of W D Wallace, of North Finchley, by whom he had one son and two daughters, all of whom survived him. His widow married Herbert Williamson, MD, Physician-Accoucheur to St Bartholomew's Hospital (d 1924). There is a photograph of Lockwood in the Council Album, and in the Medical Society of London. Publications: "Preliminary Report on Aseptic and Septic Surgical Cases." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1890, ii, 943. *Aseptic Surgery*, 12mo, Edinburgh and London, 1896. *The Radical Cure of Hernia, Hydrocele and Varicocele (Young)*, 12mo, Edinburgh and London, 1898. *Appendicitis: its Pathology and Surgery*, 8vo, London, 1901.
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First Title value, for Searching Davies, John (1817 - 1868)

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First Title value, for Searching Loney, William ( - 1898)

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First Title value, for Searching Long, James (1810 - 1879)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-07-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The son of James Long, a Lancashire merchant. He was probably born at Poulton, and was apprenticed to Mr Halton, a Surgeon to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary. To the apprenticeship system Long used often to attribute that thorough grasp of practical detail in medicine and surgery on which his success as a practitioner was based. He completed his professional training at University College, London, where his brother George was afterwards the distinguished Professor of Greek and Latin (d 1879). His first appointment was that of House Surgeon to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary. He then settled in practice and was appointed Surgeon to the Dispensaries, a position held by him until 1855, when he returned to the Infirmary as one of its Surgeons. In 1867 he resigned and was appointed Consulting Surgeon, retaining to the last his interest in the Infirmary. Long assisted in founding the School of Medicine of the Infirmary, and was actively connected with it during thirty-two years, both as an Hon Secretary and as teacher, lecturing successively on anatomy, physiology, and surgery. He was deeply interested in the education of the nurses of the Infirmary, and his lectures to them, since published, were remarkably sound as well as easy and engaging in style. As a practitioner he was conspicuous for his power of diagnosis. Not a brilliant operator, he yet often obtained brilliant results by a judicious selection of cases and scrupulous care in after-treatment. His practice was for many years very large, and he was constantly called in consultation. He was a great reader and a keen observer. Being possessed of much determination and disposed to be sanguine, it can well be understood how it was that the remark was so often made about him: "Long never gives a patient up". His brusqueness undoubtedly sometimes interfered with his professional success. It was almost Abernethian, both in character and manner. But he was not unkind, though he often made remarks out of due season, and his friends knew him to be warm-hearted under a somewhat rough exterior. Long had just celebrated the seventieth anniversary of his birthday, when he died somewhat unexpectedly at his residence, 15 Hardman Street, Liverpool, on Saturday, December 20th, 1879. He was survived by a widow, four sons, and a daughter. His eldest son was Surgeon Major Long. He was buried in Hedge Hill churchyard on Dec 24th, 1879, his funeral being numerously attended by the profession and by representatives of all classes. Publications: Long published his *Lectures to Nurses* shortly before his death, and to the last was a contributor to the medical journals. His contributions are described by the *Lancet* as essentially practical. He drew attention to the use of aconite in the treatment of rigors after catheterism.
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First Title value, for Searching Kendall, James Gordon (1921 - 2012)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2012-04-12 2013-09-30
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details James Gordon Kendall was an orthopaedic surgeon who became medical director of Derwen College for the Disabled in Oswestry, Shropshire. He qualified in medicine from Birmingham University and passed the conjoint examination of the college the same year. An early appointment was as senior registrar to the Prince of Wales Orthopaedic Hospital in Cardiff before he moved to Cornwall as consultant orthopaedic surgeon. In the RAMC he served as a major and orthopaedic specialist. He died suddenly on 15 January 2012 aged 91 years, survived by his family, Joan, David, Michael and Libby.
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First Title value, for Searching Hainsworth, John (1804 - 1883)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-03-22
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Studied at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, and practised, first at Lincoln, where he was Surgeon to the General Dispensary and City Prison, then he moved to 11 Cornwall Crescent, and 138 Camden Road, London, N. He was a member of the Court of Examiners, and at the time of his death Master of the Apothecaries'' Society. This was after his retirement to 5 Queen's Road, Edmonton, where he died on March 29th, 1883. Publications: "On Revival of the Ancient Treatment of Callous Ulcer." - *Med. Times and Gaz*., 1854, viii, 568. "On Suicide by Carbolic Acid." - *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1871, I, 423.
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First Title value, for Searching Peach, Alfred Nowell Hamilton (1913 - 2012)

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by Meg Parkes
Publication Date 2012-04-13 2013-10-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Nowell Peach was a GP surgeon in Horsham, Sussex. He was born in Bristol on 30 June 1913, the son of Alec Hamilton Peach, an insurance agent, and Madeleine Lucy Pugh Peach née White. He was educated at Clifton College and went on to study medicine at the University of Bristol's medical school, qualifying in 1937. Following a succession of house officer posts, at Bristol Royal Infirmary and Southmead Hospital, Peach decided to train as a surgeon. He was due to start a primary fellowship anatomy and physiology course at Middlesex Hospital on 4 September 1939, but fate intervened: he was called up to serve as a medical officer in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and, in July 1940, was posted to Singapore. Later he was moved up country to the RAF base at Alor Setar on the northwest coast of Malaya. In December 1941 the Japanese invaded northern Malaya and Peach oversaw the evacuation of patients while under heavy bombardment, remaining at the hospital until almost the last moment. He was mentioned in despatches for safely evacuating all of the sick. His own retreat to Singapore was executed in typical Peach style, at the wheel of an 'old thirty horsepower Ford V8, secondhand from the Chinese garage in Singapore, which went like a train'. He arrived safely in Singapore later the same day. Peach was then posted to Palembang in Sumatra, but his medical unit had again to beat a hasty retreat, this time to Java, when Japanese paratroopers landed nearby. By the end of February 1942 Peach was working alongside the legendary Australian surgeon and commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Edward 'Weary' Dunlop at the No 1 Allied General Hospital in Bandung. Following the Dutch surrender (during the night of 8/9 March), the Japanese allowed the staff to continue treating battle casualties for a further six weeks before suddenly closing the hospital. During that time Dunlop, knowing of Peach's intention to become a surgeon, found a secondhand 1936 American edition of *Gray's anatomy* in Bandung and presented it to him. After gaining Japanese permission to keep the text book (evidenced by a rubber-stamped 'chop' or mark), Peach read it from cover to cover throughout the three and a half years of his captivity, memorising the contents. This was to prove invaluable to him on his return to medical practice after the war. Equipped with little more than his knowledge and a handful of portable instruments, Peach, along with other medical officers, was sent to the nearby Bandung prisoner of war camp for several months. Then, in late summer, he was moved again, this time to Batavia (now known as Jakarta), where he spent a week, before being transferred to the large transit camp at Tandjong Priok. For the next six months he busied himself not only with medical duties, but also with research into a painful side effect of vitamin deficiency. His meticulously recorded a unique study into what was known as 'burning feet' syndrome, undertaking the detailed neurological screening of over 50 men, all suffering appalling discomfort due to nerve damage caused by malnutrition. Peach needed to understand more about the condition and devised a comprehensive series of neurological investigations, typing up the results for each man. However, before he could start he lacked one essential instrument, a patellar hammer, needed to test reflexes. He turned to the Royal Engineers in the camp, who made him one: the head was part of a generator attached to a steel syringe plunger, fixed into a teak handle whittled by Peach. In mid-1943 Peach was transferred again to work at the prisoner of war hospitals in Batavia, established in the St Vincentius and Mater Dolorosa convents. Shortly before the end of the war he was moved one last time back to Bandung, from where he was liberated in late August 1945. While awaiting liberation, Peach assisted local Dutch civilians who had been interned and were in a very poor state. He also wrote up a detailed report of his experiences as a medical officer. Peach returned to Britain on board the repatriation ship *Cilicia* from Singapore, arriving in Liverpool on 29 October 1945. The evening before, he and the other medical officers on board were each presented with a handwritten, four-paragraph testimonial of thanks from the RAF contingent on board. The second paragraph reads: 'When medical supplies were unavailable and your fight against overwhelming and ever-increasing odds seemed futile and thankless, never once did you give up the fight or fail to keep up the high standards and traditions of your profession.' He treasured this document above all others. Peach initially resumed his surgical career in London. In April 1946, a mere six months after his return, he passed the primary fellowship examination, thanks to Dunlop's thoughtful gift and his own determination and indomitable spirit. In 1948 he achieved his fellowship. In the postwar years he worked at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, at the Sussex County Hospital, Chichester, and at Portsmouth Royal Infirmary. For two years he was a civilian surgical specialist to Colchester Military Hospital. However, in 1954, frustrated that he was unable to progress beyond senior registrar posts, Peach decided to become a GP surgeon in Horsham, where over the next couple of decades he undertook over 3,000 operations. Retired Horsham GP Geoffrey Gover was in partnership with Peach and worked as his anaesthetist at Horsham Hospital. He said: 'I will never forget the first day I met Dr Nowell Peach in June 1959 when I was interviewed…for the post of assistant to the North Street Partnership in Horsham…. After introductions, my first question was from this rather daunting and seemingly severe surgical partner who asked me if I could give anaesthetics. I soon discovered his bark was worse than his bite and gradually we became the best of friends. His knowledge of anatomy was second to none. It was a privilege to work with such a fine surgeon who could turn his hand to any aspect of surgery.' Apart from his family, his other great love was ornithological photography. A gifted cameraman, his photographs taken over the past 50 years are quite remarkable. What started as a hobby aged eight developed in his teens when he joined the Natural History Society at Clifton and learned the art of photographing birds. Ornithology and sketching native species within the camps also proved a great distraction while he was incarcerated in Java, as his many notebooks, kept secretly throughout his captivity, reveal. In 2007, nearly 30 years into his retirement, Peach took part in the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine's Far Eastern prisoner of war oral history study. In all he gave three interviews, generously and meticulously sharing his memories of those times for the benefit of future generations. Peach was possessed of a marvellous sense of humour, an insatiable curiosity and a zest for life. In his final months he relished mastering the wonders of the iPad. He was a modest, gifted man who believed himself to be an 'ordinary' fellow - one who just happened to have led an extraordinary life. In 1949 he met and married Pauline Patricia Esther Ward, a registered nurse, who was the love of his life. Nowell Peach died peacefully on 13 January 2012, aged 98, and was survived by Pauline, their five children (Caroline, Michael, Judith, Elizabeth and Patricia), 13 grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Lang, Basil Thorn (1880 - 1928)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-20
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on October 3rd, 1880, the only son of William Lang, FRCS, Consulting Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital and to the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields. Educated at Abbotsholme School in Derbyshire, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge and graduated BA with first class honours in the Natural Science Tripos in 1902. He then entered St Bartholomew's Hospital, and served as House Surgeon to W Bruce Clarke (qv) and Ophthalmic House Surgeon in 1906-1907 to W H H Jessop (qv) and T Holmes Spicer. For some years he spent his time in clinical appointments in the eye wards at St Bartholomew's, at Moorfields, at the Royal Westminster and Central London Hospitals whilst assisting in the practice of his father in Cavendish Square. During the European War he was mobilized in August, 1914, with No 8 General Hospital, which was stationed on the heights above Rouen. His fluent knowledge of French, his industry, and his engineering capability made him especially useful, and in addition to his ophthalmic work he undertook the X-ray department, proving himself so successful that he was ordered to take a mobile X-ray apparatus round the front line. He resumed practice at the end of the War, became Assistant Surgeon to the Western Ophthalmic Hospital, Hon Ophthalmic Surgeon to St Andrew's Hospital, Dollis Hill, Surgeon to the Royal Eye Hospital, and Visiting Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Royal Northern Hospital in Holloway Road. He died of pneumonia on January 18th, 1928, survived by his wife, whom he had married eleven months previously. There was no child. Lang was possessed of great mental power somewhat dissipated by the number of his interests. He made a hobby of colour photography, and obtained most satisfactory results; as an ophthalmic surgeon he was a refractionist more than an operator.
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First Title value, for Searching Moore, Nathaniel ( - 1865)

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First Title value, for Searching Moore, Thomas (1838 - 1900)

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First Title value, for Searching Mordey, William (1803 - 1863)

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First Title value, for Searching Morton, Andrew Stanford (1848 - 1927)

2026-06-15T10:52:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-22
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Studied at Edinburgh, at University College Hospital, London, and in Paris. At the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, he was first House Surgeon in 1876 under Bowman and George Critchett, having as his colleague Marcus Gunn, then for sixteen years Clinical Assistant, when he was appointed Assistant Surgeon on the resignation of George Lawson (qv) in 1886 and full Surgeon in 1891, resigning in 1909. Meanwhile he had become Surgeon to the Royal South London Ophthalmic Hospital, Southwark, and later Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Great Northern Hospital. Morton gained a permanent place in the history of ophthalmology by the production of his ophthalmoscope, based on an invention of John Couper (qv). It consisted of a set of lenses capable of being moved in front of the sight-hole by a geared wheel for the estimation of refraction before the days of retinoscopy. Adapted to an electric installation, its success continued, owing largely to the excellence of its British manufacture. He had remarkably sound judgement based on clinical experience and was a very dexterous operator, yet never seemed to realize the advantages of modern aseptic methods. He operated with much success on conical corneae, excising a small elliptical portion, and he described his methods at the Swansea Meeting of the British Medical Association (*Brit Med Jour*, 1903, ii, 717). Whilst he was working as a clinical assistant retinoscopy for the correction of errors of refraction came into use, and Morton wrote a small book on *Refraction of the Eye* which immediately became popular. The classes in which he was accustomed to demonstrate on pigs' eyes the chief ophthalmic operations were always popular. He was an excellent draughtsman, and his drawings of the fundus of the eye were reproduced in the *Transactions* of the Ophthalmological Society; the originals are preserved in Moorfields. He received the Order of Chevalier of the Crown of Italy for his services as Surgeon to the Italian Hospital. Lieut-Colonel A E J Lister, Professor of Ophthalmology at King George's Medical College, Lucknow, described a cataract operation by Morton in the *British Medical Journal* (1927, ii, 117). Morton practised at 133 Harley Street. He retired in 1920 and went to live among his relatives at Clifton, where he died on April 11th, 1927. Publications: Morton's numerous publications appeared in the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital *Reports* and in the *Transactions* of the Ophthalmological Society. *An Improved Student's Ophthalmoscope*, 8vo, London, 1884. *Refraction of the Eye: Its Diagnosis and the Correction of its Errors, with a Chapter on Keratoscopy*, 8vo, London, 1881; 7th ed, 8vo, 1906, with a chapter on the use of prisms.
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First Title value, for Searching Moreton, James Earl (1831 - 1914)

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First Title value, for Searching Morgan, David ( - 1887)

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First Title value, for Searching Morgan, David Lloyd (1823 - 1892)

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First Title value, for Searching Morse, Thomas Herbert ( - 1921)

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First Title value, for Searching Morton, Charles Alexander (1860 - 1929)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-22
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Bristol, the son of John Morton, Superintending Surgeon - a rank discontinued in 1872 - in the HEIC's service in the Madras Presidency. He was educated at Clifton College and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he gained numerous prizes, including the Brackenbury Medical Scholarship. He became House Surgeon at the Stanley Hospital, Liverpool, in 1881, and House Physician at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1882. He then held office as House Surgeon at the Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle, was Resident Medical Officer at the Children's Hospital, Pendlebury, Clinical Assistant at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, and Resident Clinical Assistant at the Leicester Infirmary. Returning to Bristol, he was appointed Registrar to the Bristol General Hospital in 1891, Assistant Surgeon in 1893, and for twenty-seven years he served on the surgical staff of the Hospital, from which he retired as Consulting Surgeon in 1920. He was also Surgeon to the Bristol Children's Hospital and had Surgical Charge of the Cossham Memorial Hospital. With the exception of J Greig Smith (qv) he was the first member of the Bristol School to devote himself wholly to surgery. Morton's work as a surgical teacher began with his appointment as Professor of Systematic Surgery in University College, Bristol, in 1897, and he held the post until 1925, when he resigned and was made Emeritus Professor in the University of Bristol. He became a Member of the Bristol Board of Guardians after his retirement from hospital work, and strongly advocated the correlation of the work of the Voluntary and Poor Law hospitals. He died unmarried at Zurich whilst on a holiday on September 14th, 1929. Morton was a man of strong individuality with a marked critical faculty which sometimes brought him into collision with his colleagues. As a teacher of students he was so acutely aware of the contradictory nature of many of the statements contained in the current text-books that he advocated a scheme for the production of a standard text-book of surgery for the use of examiners and those whom they examined. As a surgeon he spared no effort in diagnosis, and was so extremely careful in the preparation for and carrying out of operations that he left little for others to do. During the European War his work lay at the Beaufort Territorial Hospital, where he specially interested himself in the treatment of wounds of the nerves and blood-vessels. He received the OBE for his services. He was never physically robust. Publications:- "Treatment of Wounds." - *Lancet*, 1915, ii, 303. "Unusual Form of Gunshot Arteriovenous Aneurysm." - *Ibid*, 1916, i, 557. "Malignant Disease of the Breast with Special Reference to the Supraclavicular Extension of the Operation." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1923, i, 178. "Pathology and Treatment of Genu V algum." - *Ibid*, 1925, i, 346.
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