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First Title value, for Searching Hayes, Brian Robert (1929 - 2004)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-09-28
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Brian Hayes was a consultant surgeon at East Glamorgan Hospital, Pontypridd. He was born in Tibshelf, Derbyshire, in 1929, the son of a miner. He was brought up in the north east of England, until the family moved to south Wales. He studied medicine in Newcastle, and went on to hold junior posts in general surgery, urology and neurology. He was appointed to a senior registrar rotation between St Mary’s and Chase Farm Hospitals, until he gained a consultant post as general surgeon with a special interest in urology at East Glamorgan Hospital. Caring, jovial, calm and full of commonsense he was a keen skier and hill walker. He died from a myocardial infarction and renal failure on 1 September 2004, leaving his wife Edna, a retired doctor, and two sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Walker, Victor Gordon (1919 - 2004)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-10-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Gordon Walker was a consultant surgeon on the Isle of Wight. He was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1919. He studied medicine at Melbourne University, qualifying in 1942. Shortly afterwards, he joined the Royal Australian Air Force as a medical officer and was posted to the UK, attached to RAAF Spitfire Squadron 453. In 1944 he took part in the D-day landings on an American tank landing craft. After the war, he was demobilised in London, passed his primary and became house surgeon to Ian Aird at the Hammersmith Hospital. He attended lectures at the College and passed the FRCS in 1947. He was resident surgical officer in Colchester and registrar at St George’s Hospital. He was appointed as a consultant surgeon on the Isle of Wight. He was also surgeon to the prisons on the island and to the Osborne House Convalescent Home. He held these positions for the next 30 years. He was Chairman of the Wessex regional health board and a fundraiser for the Police Convalescent and Rehabilitation Trust, helping to establish a series of convalescent homes in the south of England. He was elected to the Court of Examiners in 1970 and was one of the first members of the Surgical 60 Club. In 1979, he went to Damam, Saudi Arabia, to help set up the surgical wing of the Abdulla Fuad Hospital. A year later he returned to Saudi Arabia to teach surgery in Dharan. He finally retired in 1982. He married Judith in 1947. They had four children and five grandchildren. He died from bronchopneumonia on 23 July 2004.
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First Title value, for Searching Wapnick, Simon (1937 - 2003)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-10-26
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Simon Wapnick was an anatomist based in New York. He was born on 25 October 1937 in Pretoria, South Africa, the son of Percy Jacob Wapnick and Fanny née Levitt. He was educated at Pretoria Boys’ High School and then went on to the University of Pretoria Medical School. He held house appointments at Pretoria General Hospital and Harari Hospital, in the then Rhodesia. In 1964 he went to London, where he was a locum registrar at St Stephens and King George’s Hospitals, London, and followed the basic science course at the College and the Fellowship course in surgery at St Thomas’s. In 1965 he was a senior house officer at Great Ormond Street. From 1966 to 1969 he worked as a registrar and clinical tutor at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School in Hammersmith. In 1969 he returned to Africa, as a lecturer and senior lecturer at the department of surgery at the Godfrey Huggins School of Medicine, Rhodesia. From 1972 he was a specialist surgeon at the department of surgery, Ichilov Hospital, Tel Aviv, Israel. He then emigrated to the US, where he was a surgeon at Brooklyn Veterans Administration Hospital in New York. He subsequently taught gross anatomy at Ross University Medical School in the Dominican Republic and at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. At the time of his death, Simon was an assistant professor in the department of cell biology and anatomy at New York Medical College. He taught gross anatomy to first year medical students and facilitated a postgraduate gross anatomy course for various residency programmes. He wrote papers on a range of topics, including skeletal abnormalities in Crohn’s disease, diverticular disease, hiatus hernia, and carcinoma of the oesophagus and stomach. He was actively interested in various Jewish organisations in Israel and in Africa. He married Isobelle née Gelfand, the daughter of Michael Gelfand, the author of books on tropical medicine and on the Shona people, in 1962. They had two daughters (Janette and Laura) and a son (Jonathan), and three grandchildren (Chloe, Jordan and Michael Joshua). A keen marathon runner, Simon Wapnick died on 26 May 2003 of an apparent heart attack, while out jogging in Central Park.
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First Title value, for Searching Kumarasinghe, Lachlan (1927 - 2006)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-16 2014-11-28
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Occupation Trauma surgeon
Details Lachlan Kumarasinghe was a trauma surgeon at Kettering General Hospital. He was born in Colombo, in what was then Ceylon, on 16 September 1927, the son of Cyril Mendis Kumarasinghe, an interpreter, and Florence Bridget Kumarasinghe née Fernando. Two of his brothers - Hiary and Merlyn - also became surgeons and fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons. Lachlan Kumarasinghe held his post at Kettering from 1970 until his retirement in 1992. His wife, Mrs B Kumarasinghe, informed the College of his death on 7 September 2006. He was 78.
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First Title value, for Searching Humphris, Philip Blake (1924 - 2009)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Susan Stewart
Publication Date 2011-12-16 2014-07-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Philip Blake Humphris was a general surgeon in Sydney, Australia. He was born in Parramatta, New South Wales, on 10 June 1924, the son of Frank and Alma Humphris. He was educated in rural New South Wales and finished his schooling at Armidale School. He joined the Australian Army just weeks after his 18th birthday in 1942 and saw action in Papua New Guinea. After the end of the Second World War, he studied medicine at the University of Sydney, graduating in 1952. The next year, Philip travelled to the UK, where he worked as a surgeon in London and Scotland. He gained his FRCS in 1958. After returning to Australia in 1959, Philip practised as a visiting general surgeon in Sydney, specialising in varicose vein surgery. After retiring at 65, he worked in the medico-legal sector for 10 years, as a consultant. Philip married Margery Mosman in 1955 in England. They had three children. In retirement, they loved travelling around Australia in their caravan, and made sure they kept up to date with the medical world and world news. They also catalogued his family tree. Philip became frail in his final years and died on 24 March 2009, with his wife and children by his side. He was 84.
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First Title value, for Searching Lund, William Spencer (1926 - 2010)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Andrew Freeland
Publication Date 2011-12-16 2022-01-31
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details William (Bill) Spencer Lund was a consultant ENT surgeon at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. He was born on 19 July 1926 to non-medical parents, Reginald James Spencer Lund and Beatrice Alice Lund née Cudemore. He thought he might join the Navy and was accordingly educated at Pangbourne College. Before entering National Service in the Navy, where he became a morse code expert, he decided to study medicine and subsequently enrolled at Guy’s Hospital. There he played for the first XV and developed his love of cricket. He did two preregistration house jobs at Guy’s, where he had the good fortune to meet a young nurse, Patricia Miles (Paddy), who soon became his wife. Bill decided on a career in ENT, demonstrated anatomy at King’s College, and, as a registrar at the Radcliffe Infirmary, gained his FRCS. It was at the Radcliffe that he developed his lifelong interest in swallowing and joined forces with the radiologist Gordon Ardran at the Nuffield Institute for Medical Research. Two and a half years of research work, both in Oxford and as a fellow at University Hospital, Iowa, led to some very significant findings on the mechanism of the function of the cricopharyngeal sphincter, particularly in relation to pharyngeal pouch development. For this work he gained an MS in 1963 and was appointed as an Arris and Gale lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1964. He was subsequently the author of many chapters and papers on swallowing problems. From Iowa he returned as a senior registrar at the Radcliffe Infirmary and then, in 1965, was appointed as a consultant ENT surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital. On the retirement of Ronald Macbeth from Oxford in 1968, Bill successfully moved to Oxford in December 1968. Gavin Livingstone, who pioneered congenital ear reconstruction in the UK, died within a month of Bill’s appointment, so he immediately took over this challenging area of ENT. Among the many children and adults suffering from ENT congenital defects treated by Bill Lund and his colleague Bernard Colman, were some affected by thalidomide. They introduced many new techniques to keep Oxford as the foremost department in this field. In 1987 Oxford was the first to use the new Swedish system of bone anchored osseointegrated hearing aids and ear prostheses, which revolutionised the management of those with congenital ear malformations. Bill Lund continued his interest in the management of swallowing problems and particularly pharyngeal pouch surgery. In 1987 he was elected president of the section of laryngology of the Royal Society of Medicine, where he delivered a brilliant and entertaining address on the technique of sword swallowing! He took a particular interest in teaching medical students and was named ‘His Rhinoplasty’ by the student Tingewick Society and was taken off beautifully in one of their pantomimes, where his characteristic ward round habit of putting one foot up on the patient’s bed while pinning the patient’s legs with his fine leather brief case was depicted very well! Retirement gave him more time for golf and, as a leading light and one time chairman of the Woodstock Players, he was equally happy as the pantomime dame, the spy Anthony Blunt or a bishop, which fitted his natural mannerisms! He was a true gentleman and was much loved by his patients and colleagues. His patients all considered Bill as their friend, and he was enormously popular with all who were fortunate to know him. He died on 22 July 2010 at the age of 84 and his thanksgiving service in Woodstock was packed with many friends and colleagues, all giving thanks for a man who lived life to the full and gave so much to so many. He had a very happy family life and was survived by Paddy, his adored wife of 54 years, their three children, Sarah, James and Kate, and six much-loved grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Langlais, Franz (1942 - 2007)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-16 2014-11-25
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Frantz Langlais was chairman of the orthopaedic department at University Hospital Sud, Rennes, France. He was born in 1942 in Plouër-sur-Rance, Brittany, the son of a general practitioner. He trained in orthopaedic surgery in Paris under Robert Merle d'Aubigné, Jean Gossett and Michel Postel, and then joined the University Hospital of Rennes. In 1979 he became professor of orthopaedic surgery, and in 1983 he was appointed chairman of the orthopaedic and trauma department. At Rennes he encouraged younger colleagues to develop specialised areas, including bone banking, arthroscopic surgery and microsurgery. His clinical work focused on arthroplasty of the hip and knee, particularly revision arthroplasty, and also on oncological surgery and allografts. He was in charge of the laboratory of experimental surgery at the University of Rennes and scientific director of the biomaterials and biomechanics laboratory. He published widely, in English and French, and was a lecturer or visiting professor in more than 40 countries. He was a member of numerous French and international organisations, including the French Académie de Chirurgie and Académie Nationale de Médecine, the International Hip Society and the French, European and North American Societies of Musculo-skeletal Oncology and of Orthopaedic Research. He became a fellow of Royal College of Surgeons in 2003. In 1989 he was president of the International Society of Limb Salvage and of the European Association for Musculoskeletal Transplantation in 1992. When he died he was president-elect of the French Society of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery and of EFORT, the European Federation of National Orthopaedic and Trauma Associations, of which he had been general secretary and then vice president. Frantz Langlais was killed in a car accident on 16 June 2007 as he was driving home from a postgraduate teaching session in La Baule, west France. He was 65. He was survived by his wife Mireille and their two sons Jonathan and Stéphane.
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First Title value, for Searching Lee, John Patrick (1946 - 2010)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2011-12-16 2014-11-25
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details John Lee was one of the world's most eminent ophthalmologists. A consultant ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital for 25 years, he was also the eighth president of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. He was particularly known for his use of 'botox' or botulinum toxin in the management of strabismus and blepharospasm (uncontrollable blinking), and started the first clinic in the UK specifically for the use of this toxin in eye disorders. He was born on 25 October 1946 in Kingston upon Thames of immigrant Irish parents, both of whom were teachers. He was the oldest of 11 siblings, and had seven sisters and three brothers. He was educated at St George's College, Weybridge, an independent co-educational Roman Catholic school, where he excelled and gained five A-levels - one of which he studied on his own, as the school did not allow pupils reading science subjects time to study English. Needless to say, he gained excellent grades in this 'extra' subject. In order to buy his school uniform and help the family finances, John Lee worked at a garage in his spare time. At the age of 17, he was accepted by University College, Oxford, for his preclinical studies. Admitting that he never took these studies seriously, he took full advantage of the many other attractions of university life. Enjoying collegiate existence, he rarely missed an undergraduate party, and it was at one of these that he met his future wife, Arabella Rose. They married in 1971 and had two sons. Strangely for someone who admitted he neglected his undergraduate studies, his depth of general knowledge was so good that he represented his college on the TV quiz *University Challenge*. He could also complete *The Times* crossword at an enviable speed, and possessed an encyclopaedic knowledge of film and music. He proceeded to the Westminster Hospital for his clinical training. After qualifying, John considered entering general medicine as a career, but after a brief spell working in infectious diseases, he changed his mind and his choice of specialties - happily for ophthalmology. So began his formal training in ophthalmology, first at the Oxford Eye Hospital, and then back in London at Moorfields, where he trained with Peter Fells. He then obtained a fellowship to study in the USA at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute of the University of Florida with John Flynn. Founded by Edward W D Norton, a neuro-ophthalmologist, retinal specialist, administrator and teacher, and named after Bascom H Palmer, an ophthalmologist who settled in Miami in the 1920s, the Institute has been consistently ranked as the best eye hospital in the USA. In 1981 he visited Alan Scott at the Smith-Kettlewell Research Institute in San Francisco to study a new treatment for strabismus using botulinum toxin. He returned from California with some bottles of the toxin tucked in his hand baggage, which he then stored in his fridge at home. A friend who was invited round for a drink helped himself to a beer, but was advised not to touch nor drink from the opaque bottles! In 1983 John Lee took up a post as a university lecturer at Moorfields and the Institute of Ophthalmology, and was appointed as a consultant ophthalmologist at Moorfields Eye Hospital two years later, holding appointments at both the High Holborn and City Road branches. At Moorfields, John developed a first-class service for patients with complex strabismus problems, and he inevitably attracted patients from across the UK. In Harley Street he saw also patients from many other countries. He rapidly gained recognition in the ophthalmological world for his technical brilliance and outstanding knowledge. Easily identifiable with his unruly crop of white hair and short beard, John Lee was often referred to as 'the old fellow' by candidates at examinations, although he was much younger than his fellow examiners. This facial feature, together with his rapid speech, made him a natural and popular choice for caricature, particularly in residents' reviews and shows. He wrote over 200 papers and many chapters in books. Having championed the use of botulinum toxin in strabismus, he published 45 papers on this important topic alone. John was a brilliant and inspirational teacher, and combined technical excellence with his unique ability to communicate. In constant demand as an authoritative and entertaining speaker, his 'pearls of wisdom', mixed with many humorous asides, were always delivered at high speed with a hint of an Irish accent. He taught at the American Academy of Ophthalmology for 20 years and organised the Moorfields squint grand rounds for nearly as long. Always approachable, he was keen to encourage young doctors, and there was no trace of snobbery or 'the great man syndrome' about him. He committed himself to improving the training of ophthalmologists in underdeveloped countries, and worked with Project Orbis, the international charity which works to prevent blindness. He taught strabismus surgery in Uttah Pradesh, India, and in Bangladesh, as well as imparting his knowledge to many of the leading surgeons in Europe and North America. In 2009 he was elected president of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, the first to be elected by fellow members rather than members of council. He was already proving himself to be effective, pragmatic and well-liked. He also served as president of the ophthalmology section of the Royal Society of Medicine and of the International Strabismus Association. Held in high regard by his colleagues in the USA, he was the first European to be elected to the Association for Research in Strabismus. John Lee managed to combine a very busy and successful professional life with a wide range of interests outside medicine, including music, theatre and the arts. He attended concerts with Arabella several times a week and, although classical music was a passion, he was equally at home with rock. He became a fan of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, which plays baroque, classical and romantic music, mainly at the Southbank Centre in London. He was interested in a wide variety of literature, from James Joyce's *Ulysses* to science fiction. Proud of his Irish roots, he loved to relax and spend time in the west of Ireland, where he enjoyed fly fishing. John Lee died suddenly on 8 October 2010, aged 63, while attending a conference in the USA at Traverse City, Michigan, leaving his many friends, colleagues and patients in a state of shock. He was survived by his wife, Arabella, and their two sons. A research fellowship, organised by the Medical Research Council and the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, has been established in his honour. The fundraising events included 'John Lee quiz nights'; extremely appropriate in view of John Lee's wide general knowledge and his 'quizzical' approach to many aspects of life.
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First Title value, for Searching Drain, Andrew John (1974 - 2010)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2011-12-20 2014-02-25
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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon
Details Andrew Drain was a cardiothoracic surgeon who was born in Northern Ireland on 9 June 1974. In 2006 he worked in the department of cardiothoracic surgery at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge. He was working at a prestigious New York hospital and about to return to the UK as a consultant when he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, aged 33 in September 2007. He was given chemotherapy and returned to Ireland - to Broughshane, near Ballymena - to have a bone marrow transplant. Initially he was thought to have been cured and preached a series of sermons on the book of Job. When he relapsed in June 2009 he wrote a book *Code red* about his sufferings and how his Christian faith had helped him to accept his fate, an obituarist commented "he found through Job that he could face death with confidence because 'I know that my Redeemer lives'". He died on 3 July 2010 survived by his wife, Ruth and children Josh, Conor and Olivia. Publications:- Pride or prejudice: an insight into surgical mentality. *Ulster med j* 2006 75 (3) p 174 *Code red *Christian Medical Fellowship, 2010.
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First Title value, for Searching Bultitude, Michael Ian (1936 - 2011)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Sir Barry Jackson
Publication Date 2011-12-20 2015-06-19
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Michael Bultitude was a much respected urologist at St Thomas' Hospital who helped set up the first public lithotripter service in the UK for renal stones and also made significant contributions to the study of urodynamics. He was born on 29 September 1936 in Withernsea, Yorkshire, the only child of Frank and Millicent Bultitude. When only a few months old his father, a serving Army officer, was posted to India and for the next several years the family lived in that country. Sadly, his father died when Michael was only seven years old and so the family returned to England and Michael attended the Royal Masonic School, where he excelled academically, winning a place at Trinity College, Cambridge, to study medicine. He was a keen oarsman, and in later years would proudly still display his oar from his Cambridge days. He proceeded to London for his clinical studies at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1965. House appointments were at Shoreham Hospital and Worthing Hospital, before he became a senior house officer on the urological unit at St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey. A rotating registrarship on the Wolverhampton circuit was followed by a seminal year as a resident surgical officer at St Peter's Hospital for Stone, London, which was the acknowledged centre for postgraduate urology. After a research urology post back at St Thomas' he was appointed as a senior registrar in urology and, in 1977, consultant urologist at both Lewisham Hospital and St Thomas', where he worked with Kenneth Shuttleworth and Wyndham Lloyd-Davies as colleagues. He left Lewisham in 1981 to work exclusively at his alma mater. Michael set up a urodynamics unit developing and equipping a cystometrogram unit for the investigation of functional disorders of micturition. He pioneered the use of prostaglandins in the atonic bladder and the use of sub trigonal injections of phenol for urge incontinence, publishing a number of papers on these areas. Other areas of research interest were urinary tract infection in relation to prostatectomy and the use of capsaicin for patients with chronic renal pain. This latter subject unusually resulted in a paper where the authors were father and son (for his son Matthew was then a medical student at St Thomas' and helped his father in the research) ('Loin pain haematuria syndrome: distress resolved by pain relief.' *Pain*. 1998 May;76[1-2]:209-13). In the early 1980s St Thomas' was the first NHS hospital in the UK to install an extracorporeal shock wave lithotripter for the treatment of urinary calculi and Michael was closely involved with the development of this service. In 1986 he was a co-author of a paper detailing the treatment of the first 1,000 patients by this machine ('Report on the first 1000 patients treated at St Thomas' Hospital by extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy.' *Br J Urol*. 1986 Dec;58[6]:573-7). Outside of urology his interests included sports cars and especially boating. His motor boat named *Shockwave* (after the lithotripter) was moored near Rochester and many a weekend was spent with his family either sailing it or tinkering with it. Holidays were spent in the sunshine of Lanzarote, where he owned a villa for some 20 years. Happily married to Margaret, a former radiographer, they had four children, three sons (the eldest Matthew, who also became a consultant urologist, Sam and Richard) and a daughter (Jessica). Retiring from St Thomas' in 1999 because of ill health, he moved from the London suburb of Dulwich to the sea air of Worthing, where he enjoyed a relaxed life despite battling with various illnesses which he bore with stoicism and fortitude. He died on 19 February 2011, aged 74.
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First Title value, for Searching Savage, Christopher Roland (1915 - 2004)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-11-02
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Occupation Vascular surgeon
Details Christopher Savage was a consultant vascular surgeon at Leamington and Warwick Hospital. He was born in Kingston on Thames on 31 August 1915. His father, Arthur Livingstone Savage, was an architect, and his mother was the artist Agnes Kate Richardson. He was educated at Gate House School, Kingston, and Canford School, Dorset, from which he went to St Thomas’s Hospital. After house appointments he worked at the Royal Salop Infirmary before joining the RAF in 1940, where he reached the rank of acting Wing Commander. After the war, he continued his surgical training at the Royal Leicester Infirmary, the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and St Thomas’s. At St Thomas’s he was much influenced by Sir Max Page and Sir Maurice Cassidy, at a time when vascular surgery was just being developed. He was appointed consultant at Leamington and Warwick Hospital in 1956, where he introduced vascular surgery, published extensively on aortic aneurysms, and wrote a textbook *Vascular surgery* (London, Pitman Medical, 1970). He introduced weekly teaching rounds for his registrars and housemen, as well as students from London teaching hospitals. He married in 1953, and had a daughter (Romilly) and two sons (Richard and Justin). He had a stroke in 2000, which impaired his hearing and vision. He died on 2 February 2004.
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First Title value, for Searching Frew, Ivor James Cunningham (1921 - 2009)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-21 2015-07-03
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Ivor James Cunningham Frew was a consultant ENT surgeon in Newcastle. He was born in Sheffield on 2 October 1921, the son of William Frew, an area manager of Terry's Chocolate, and Kate Gibb Frew née McGillivray, a housewife. He was educated at Glasgow High School and Liverpool College, then studied medicine at Liverpool University, where he was particularly influenced by Henry Cohen, later Lord Cohen of Birkenhead. From 1945 to 1947 he was a captain in the RAMC, with the 6th Airborne Division, seeing active service in Palestine. Following his demobilisation, he was a senior registrar at Liverpool Ear, Nose and Throat Infirmary on Myrtle Street. In 1950 he was appointed as a consultant ENT surgeon at Newcastle General, Hexham General and St Nicholas hospitals, Newcastle. He was also an examiner and an honorary lecturer at the University of Newcastle. He was a regional adviser for the Royal College of Surgeons. He retired in September 1983. He will be particularly remembered for his development (with his neurosurgical friend and colleague Ian McIver) of the use of tracheostomy in brain stem injury. This was later extended to other unconscious patients, especially those suffering from tetanus. First developed in Newcastle, this treatment is now accepted worldwide. He published papers on conductive deafness, tracheostomy and Ménière's disease, among other topics, and co-wrote *The facial nerve* (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1979). He was president of the North of England ENT Society and vice president of the section of laryngology at the Royal Society of Medicine. Outside medicine, he was chairman of the board of directors of the Newcastle upon Tyne YMCA, a regional chairman and a member of the national board. He enjoyed golf and was a member of Close House University and Alnmouth Village golf clubs. He was married twice. In January 1947 he married Elizabeth Mary Frew. They had two children, William David Cunningham and Jane Elizabeth. His first wife died in August 1987 and three years later he married Frances Moya Frew. Ivor Frew died in January 2009. He was 87.
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First Title value, for Searching Kelly, Martin Bernard Hirigoyen (1965 - 2008)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Brian Morgan
Publication Date 2012-01-05 2016-02-12
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Martin Kelly was a craniofacial plastic surgeon at the Chelsea and Westminster, and Royal Marsden hospitals. An extraordinarily talented surgeon, he died of a heart attack at the young age of 43, stunning his colleagues. He was born Martin Hirigoyen in London on 7 May 1965, the son of Bernard Hirigoyen, a French industrialist with a Basque background, and Diane Kelly. He was brought up in Paris and, when his parents separated when he was 17, he accompanied his mother and four sisters to London and later adopted her maiden name. He was educated in Paris and at Winchester College, and went on to study medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1989. He trained in surgery in Oxford and in London, and gained his FRCS in 1993. His early training in plastic surgery continued in Oxford and London. He then obtained a two-year travelling fellowship in microsurgery and craniofacial reconstruction at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. His research there led to an MD thesis in 1997. His formal training as a specialist registrar in plastic surgery also began in the same year on the London hospitals rotation and he obtained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in plastic surgery. During his training Kelly also studied in Paris with Darina Krastinova at the Hôpital Foch, the unit founded by Paul Tessier, the father of craniofacial surgery. In 2001 Kelly was appointed as a consultant craniofacial plastic surgeon at the craniofacial unit at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, and at the Royal Marsden Hospital. His main interest was reconstructing faces with congenital deformities and repair of defects after ablative surgery for head and neck tumours. In 2003, with his fellow consultant Norman Waterhouse, he founded the charity Facing the World, which treats children around the world disfigured by facial deformities. Earlier he had worked for Médecins Sans Frontières, operating on children in Afghanistan. He was a member of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons and the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, and an associate member of the European Society of Craniofacial Surgery. Martin was renowned for his surgical skill, professionalism and energy. The craniofacial and microsurgery meant many hours with one case in the operating theatre. He was described as a modest and compassionate man. Outside medicine, he wrote his own music and played the drums and bass guitar. He enjoyed playing tennis, horse riding and skiing. He painted and his association with the artist Jonathan Yeo led to a series of paintings by Yeo focusing on plastic surgery. Martin Kelly died on 20 May 2008. He was survived by his wife, the actress Natascha McElhone, and three sons: Theodore, Otis and Rex (born after Kelly's death).
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First Title value, for Searching Kelly, Langton Edmund Patrick ( - 1995)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2012-01-05 2014-07-25
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Langton Kelly was a general surgeon. He qualified in medicine in Queensland, Australia before coming to the UK and passing the fellowships of both the College and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1963. Returning to Queensland he practiced at the Medical Centre at Coolangatta on the coast and lived in Greenslopes, a suburb of Brisbane. He is believed to have died in 1995.
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First Title value, for Searching Organ, Claude H (1927 - 2005)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-11-23 2006-12-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Claude Organ was a distinguished American surgeon and the second African-American President of the American College of Surgeons. He was born in 1927 in Marshall, Texas, and educated at Terrell High School, Denison, and then Xavier University, Louisiana. Denied acceptance to the University of Texas on account of his colour, he studied medicine at the Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha. After qualifying in 1952 he served in the US Navy, before returning to Creighton to complete his surgical training, rising to become chairman of his department in 1971. There he became famous for encouraging his trainees to pursue bio-molecular research. He then went on to be professor and chairman of the department of surgery at the University of Oklahoma, leaving in 1988 to establish the University of California Davis-East Bay department of surgery in Oakland, now UCSF East Bay department of surgery. He remained there as chairman until 2003. He was chairman of the American Board of Surgery and President of the American College of Surgeons, being honoured by the distinguished service award of that Association, in addition to gaining numerous honorary degrees from all over the world, including the honorary Fellowship of our College. The author of more than 250 papers and five books, he was for 15 years the editor of *Archives of Surgery*. He was a frequent visitor to the UK, and in 1999 was invited to tour the British Isles as the *British Journal of Surgery* travelling fellow to review our methods of surgical training and the role of women in surgery, as a result of which he presented a detailed and perceptive report to the Association of Surgeons in 2000. He died on 18 June 2005 in Berkeley, California, and is survived by his wife Elizabeth Lucille Mays, five sons (Brian, Paul, Gregory, David and Claude) and two daughters (Sandra and Rita). The Claude and Elizabeth Organ professorship at Xavier University has been endowed in his memory.
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First Title value, for Searching Rajani, Manohar Radhakrishnan (1935 - 2004)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-11-23 2012-03-09
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 19 January 1935, Manohar Rajani qualified in Bombay and after junior posts went to England to specialise in surgery. After passing the FRCS he did a series of training posts, before going to Canada in 1965, where he passed the Canadian FRCS and settled down in practice in Toronto. He died on 13 April 2004.
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First Title value, for Searching Williams, Robert Edward Duncan (1927 - 2004)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-11-23 2006-12-21
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Bob Williams was a distinguished urological surgeon based in Leeds. He was born on 18 December 1927 in Motherwell, Lanarkshire, the son of Robert Williams, a steelworker, and Janet McNeil. He was educated at Dalziel High School, Motherwell, and Glasgow Medical School. After house jobs in Glasgow he did his National Service in the RAMC, serving as resident medical officer to the Northumberland Fusiliers in Hong Kong. On his return, he received his general surgical training under Sir Charles Illingworth in Glasgow and John Goligher in Leeds, before deciding to specialise in urology, which in those days was emerging as a separate entity. He became senior registrar to Leslie Pyrah in Leeds, who had set up a pioneering stone clinic. There he carried out a painstaking and far-reaching study of the natural history of renal tract stone, which won him his MD. After this he went to work with Wyland Leadbetter at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, in 1964, where he carried out research on total body water and whole body potassium, which was to win him a commendation for his MCh thesis. On his return he was appointed to the consultant staff of the University of Leeds urological department in 1966. He had many interests which were shown in his numerous publications, most notably on urinary calculi, bladder cancer and lymphadenectomy. He followed Leslie Pyrah in the energetic pursuit of the establishment of urology as a separate discipline in the British Isles, which won him the admiration and respect of his colleagues. Bob was president of the section of urology of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1989 and a very active member of BAUS, of which he was president from 1990 to 1992. He was awarded the St Peter’s medal of the Association in 1993. He examined for the Edinburgh and English Colleges, and was an invited member of Council of our College from 1989 to 1992. In 1958 he married Lora Pratt, an Aberdeen graduate who was a GP and part-time anaesthetist. They had a son (Duncan) and two daughters (Bryony and Lesley), all of whom became doctors. A genial, cheerful and amusing colleague, Bob was struck down by renal failure caused by polycystic disease of the kidneys, but continued with great courage to work and publish and play an active part in BAUS, despite the need for regular dialysis. A renal transplant unfortunately underwent rejection, and he was, reluctantly, obliged to retire in 1991. He died on 26 August 2004.
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First Title value, for Searching Annis, David (1921 - 2003)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

First Title value, for Searching Richardson, John Samuel, Lord Richardson of Lee in the County of Devon (1910 - 2004)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-01-13
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Occupation Physician
Details John Samuel Richardson was a former President of the General Medical Council and the British Medical Association who inadvertently played a key role in the resignation of Macmillan in 1963. The son of a solicitor, he was born on 16 June 1910 in Sheffield, where his grandfather had been Lord Mayor, Master Cutler, an MP and Privy Councillor. He was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge, going on to St Thomas’s to do his clinical studies, where he won the Bristowe medal and Hadden prize. After qualifying, he did his house jobs at St Thomas’s, winning the Perkins fellowship. He served in the RAMC in North Africa with the rank of lieutenant colonel, and there, in 1943, was assigned to be physician in attendance to King George VI (whom he treated successfully for sunburn), on which occasion he met and treated Harold Macmillan, with whom he became a close friend. After the war Richardson returned to St Thomas’s as a consultant physician, where he became very successful thanks to his considerable charm. In due course he became President of the General Medical Council, British Medical Association and the Royal Society of Medicine, and was the recipient of innumerable honours. Rather unfairly he is probably remembered today not for his many and considerable contributions to his profession but for being on holiday when Harold Macmillan developed acute-on-chronic retention of urine, formed the (wrong) impression that he was going to die of cancer and handed over the reins of government to Alec Douglas Home. Lord Richardson married the portrait painter Sybil Trist, who predeceased him. They had two daughters. He died on 15 August 2004.
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First Title value, for Searching Sanderson, Christopher John (1947 - 2005)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

First Title value, for Searching Sen, Adosh Kumar (1942 - 2005)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

First Title value, for Searching Welbourn, Richard Burkewood (1919 - 2005)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-01-19
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Occupation Endocrine surgeon
Details Richard Welbourn was professor of surgery at Belfast and then at the Hammersmith Hospital, London, where he developed a reputation for endocrine surgery. He was born in Rainhill, Lancashire, on 1 May 1919, the son of Burkewood Welbourn, an electrical engineer, and Edith Annie Appleyard, a teacher. From Rugby School he went to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and did his clinical studies at Liverpool University. He qualified in 1942 and, after his first house job, joined the RAMC, where he served in field ambulances and a field dressing station, and took part in the invasion of Normandy in June 1944, after which he was posted to general hospitals in Belgium and Germany. He eventually became a graded surgeon in Hamburg, where he remained until he was demobilised in 1947. On returning to England he became a registrar with Charles Wells in Liverpool, becoming a senior registrar in 1948. In 1951 he spent a year at the Mayo Clinic under James Priestley, then pioneering adrenalectomy for Cushing’s syndrome under cover of the newly described cortisone. He returned as consultant lecturer in surgery at the Queen’s University, Belfast, in Harold Rodgers’ department, where he continued to study the role of adrenalectomy in Cushing’s and later in carcinoma of the breast and prostate. He became a consultant surgeon to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, in 1951 and later to Belfast City Hospital. In 1958 he was appointed professor of surgical science. On the death of Ian Aird, Welbourn was invited to the vacant chair at Hammersmith in 1963, taking with him to the new post Ivan Johnston, his senior lecturer from Queen’s, who soon afterwards went on to the chair at Newcastle. His department was active, particularly in endocrine surgery, but supervised all the other disciplines, including urology. A keen teacher, his postgraduate courses at Hammersmith were widely sought-after. He wrote many publications and among other honours was a Hunterian Professor of our College in 1958, received the James Berry Prize in 1970, and was a visiting professor at Yale and many other universities. Among his many interests, stemming from his early involvement with the Student Christian Movement, were the philosophy and ethics of medical care, and he was one of the founders of the Institute of Medical Ethics and was a joint editor of the *Dictionary of Medical Ethics* (Bristol, J Wright, 1977 and London, Darton, Longman and Todd, 1981). Unfortunately his last years were marred by a cardiac condition, worsened by the medication he was given. After retiring from Hammersmith in 1983 he was visiting scholar for research at UCLA, where he carried out a study of the history of endocrine surgery, which led to his last book in 1990. In 1944 he married Rachel Haighton, a dentist, by whom he had four daughters, Philippa Mary, Edith Rachel, Margaret June and Dorothy Alice, and one son, Charles Richard Burkewood Welbourn, a surgeon. He had 15 grandchildren. After a series of strokes he died in Reading on 3 August 2005.
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First Title value, for Searching Aylett, Stanley Osborn (1911 - 2003)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-07-06 2012-07-19
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Occupation Bowel surgeon General surgeon
Details Stanley Aylett was a distinguished bowel surgeon. He was born in Islington, north London, on 8 July 1911, the youngest son of Arthur John Aylett, a building contractor of the firm John Aylett and son, founded by Stanley's grandfather in the 1850s. His mother was Hannah Josephine née Henman. He was educated at Highgate School and won an open scholarship to read medicine at King's College Hospital, where he obtained a BSc in physiology with first class honours and qualified with honours in medicine. He captained the United Hospitals Rugby Football XV. He completed junior posts at St Giles' and King's College Hospital, and spent a year as a ship's doctor with the Blue Funnel Line, before becoming a resident surgical officer at East Ham and Gordon Hospitals. In 1939, he was a surgical registrar at King's and a clinical assistant at St Peter's Hospital, and then a senior registrar at King's. He resigned his post at the outbreak of the second world war, in order to join the RAMC. He and his anaesthetist joined a surgical team in France, at first in a general hospital and later in a casualty clearing station at Lille. During the retreat, he set up operating posts at several locations until he reached de Panne, close to Dunkirk. When ordered to leave on 29 May, he and his companions commandeered a beached pleasure launch, dragged it into the sea, loaded it with their wounded and set off. The leaking vessel soon began to sink, but Aylett and some 20 men were rescued by a destroyer, HMS Havant. After arriving in England, he was sent to Dover to set up a small hospital in the Citadel in anticipation of a German invasion. In 1941, he sailed to the Middle East, to a posting at Alexandria, and then requested a move to forward surgical units, into the Western Desert and Tobruk just as the Axis forces were recapturing it Aylett's was the last surgical unit to escape. In January 1944, he was back in Cambridge, to train and command a field surgical unit, with which he sailed on D-day and accompanied the forces into Germany. In May 1945, he was sent into Sanbostel concentration camp, as a part of the first RAMC unit to reach the camp. His repeated requests for a hospital were turned down, until Lieutenant General Sir Brian Horrocks appeared and at once agreed. Aylett was awarded the French Croix d'honneur for his work in the camp. Later he was sent to Copenhagen to help in the evacuation of German wounded from their hospitals in Denmark. In August 1945 he was posted to Hanover as officer in charge of a surgical division of a general hospital with the acting rank of Lieutenant Colonel. In November 1945 he was demobilised. After the war, he was briefly a surgeon in the Emergency Medical Service in the King's College sector and then a surgical registrar at the Royal Marsden Hospital. At the start of the NHS, he was appointed consultant surgeon to the Gordon, Metropolitan and Potter's Bar Hospitals and consulting surgeon to the Manor House Trade Union Hospital in Hampstead. He developed a special interest in the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, or colitis. At that time, the standard treatment was removal of the diseased bowel and a permanent stoma. Aylett pioneered a more conservative resection, allowing the retention of lower-most bowel, avoiding a stoma. The surgical establishment condemned his approach, with surgeons voicing concern that the patient would have intractable diarrhoea and would risk developing cancer in the retained bowel. However, Aylett soon showed good results and demonstrated that the risk of cancer could be overcome by careful follow-up. His approach, ileo-rectal enastomosis, became a standard treatment. Aylett gained many honours. He was Hunterian Professor at the College and in 1974 was made a member of the Académie de Chirurgie Française. He was President of the section for coloproctology at the Royal Society of Medicine, President of the Chelsea Clinical Society, and an honorary member of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons. He published extensively and wrote a textbook on colonic surgery, Surgery of the caecum and colon (Edinburgh and London, E & S Livingstone, 1954), as well as an autobiography based on his war diaries called Surgeon at war (Bognor Regis, New Horizon, c.1979). Among his hobbies were French history, gardening and cooking. In retirement, he enjoyed a full life, travelling to his beloved France and collecting antiques, porcelain and medical instruments. His first marriage to Winsome Clare in 1949 produced a son, Jonathan Stanley, a land agent in Devon, and two daughters, Deidre Clare, a nurse, who predeceased him, and Holly Josephine, a television producer and director. After his marriage was dissolved he married his outpatient sister, Mary Kathleen 'Kay' Godfrey. Stanley Aylett died on 7 January 2003.
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First Title value, for Searching Guthrie, Charles W Gardiner (1817 - 1859)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-07-07 2012-07-19
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The younger son of George James Guthrie (q.v.) by his first wife Margaret Paterson, daughter of the Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward's Island. He was educated at the Westminster Hospital, where he was elected Assistant Surgeon in 1843 on the resignation of his father in his favour. He became Surgeon and Lecturer on Surgery, and resigned on the ground of ill health shortly before his death. He was also Assistant Surgeon to the Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, where his father was Surgeon, and succeeded him as Surgeon. He practised at 18 Pall Mall East, but retiring to Clifton died there of ascites due to a liver complaint in August, 1859. He never married, his elder brother left no children, and his sister died unmarried, so that the family of Guthrie ended. Charles Guthrie was a capable surgeon and a dextrous operator, both in the large operations of general surgery and the more delicate ones on the eye. He was kindly, generous, and very sociable; a cause of much anxiety to his father, who on more than one occasion had to pay for cattle shot on the Thames marshes under the impression that they were big game. He might have done well. PUBLICATIONS: - *On the Cure of Squinting by the Division of one of the Straight Muscles of the Eye*, 8vo, London, 2nd ed., 1840. *Report on the Result of the Operations for the Cure of Squinting performed at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital between 18 April and 30 October,* 1840, 8vo, Westminster, 1840. *On Cataract and its Appropriate Treatment by the Operation Adapted for each Peculiar Case*, 8vo, plate, London, 1845.
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First Title value, for Searching Hames, George Henry ( - 1909)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-07-20 2012-03-28
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Lincolnshire; entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1871 and distinguished himself there, gaining the Foster Prize in 1872, being Brackenbury Medical Scholar in 1875, and Kirkes' Scholar and Gold Medallist. He was House Surgeon to G W Callender (qv) in 1875 and House Physician to Reginald Southey in 1876-1877. Meanwhile in 1873-1874 he was Prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons and for some years Hon Secretary of the Abernethian Society. After leaving St Bartholomew's he studied at the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, was Chloroformist at the Cheyne Hospital for Children, and Surgeon to the Western General Dispensary. He became a well-known practitioner in Mayfair at 29 Hertford Street, 125 Piccadilly, 113 Sloane Street, and died at 11 Park Lane on May 28th, 1909. Publication:- Hames was a contributor to the *Saturday Review*.
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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, John Douglas Chalmers (1924 - 2006)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-10-26
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details John Douglas Chalmers Anderson, known as ‘Jock’, was an ophthalmologist who spent much of his career working in Afghanistan. He was born in Redbourne, Lincolnshire, on 21 August 1924, the second of three sons of William Larmour Anderson, a general practitioner, and Eileen Pearl née Chambers. He was educated at Bedford School, where he won the Tanner prize in science, and then went to Peterhouse, Cambridge, on a state bursary. After a year his studies were interrupted by the war and he joined the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, where he was a technical assistant, working on magnetrons. During the war he also served in the Home Guard and found time to obtain a BSc and a certificate of proficiency in radiophysics from London University. He returned to Cambridge in 1947 to complete his preclinical studies, and then went on to Middlesex Hospital, where he won the Mrs Charles Davis prize in surgery. After qualifying he completed house jobs at Bedford General Hospital and, after a year as a trainee assistant in general practice, returned as a demonstrator in anatomy at Cambridge. He was then an orthopaedic registrar at Bedford General Hospital. Influenced by his deeply held Christian beliefs, he accepted an invitation to work as a general surgeon at the Church Mission Society in Quetta, Pakistan. He was later an ophthalmic registrar at the Christian Medical College in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. In 1959 he returned to the UK, as an ophthalmic registrar at Northampton General Hospital and completed a course in London for the diploma in ophthalmology. He also raised funds for Afghanistan, returning there in 1961 to set up a moveable ‘caravan hospital’, taking general medical, surgical and ophthalmic services to remote desert communities. He returned to the UK as a clinical assistant in ophthalmology at Southampton Eye Hospital to study for the final FRCS. In 1967, having gained his FRCS, he was appointed consultant ophthalmologist with the National Organisation for Ophthalmic Rehabilitation in Kabul, establishing a 100 bed eye hospital and teaching centre there, from which subsidiary outpost treatment camps were organised. His centre survived the invasion by the Russians and the enmity of the Taliban, with only occasional interruptions. In 1973 he was appointed associate director (West Asia) of the Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship, which involved two tours of three months every year in west Asia, taking him to Kunri, on the edge of the Sind Desert. In 1978 he returned to Southampton as a lecturer in ophthalmology, where he remained until 1980, when he returned to Kabul. Civil unrest meant he had to return to the UK earlier than expected. By now a world expert on trachoma, he joined the newly formed department of preventive ophthalmology at Moorfields and was appointed OBE in 1981. He carried out studies on the prevention of blindness in Zanzibar and the Sudan, and in 1984 was made an honorary consultant at Moorfields. He retired in 1988 after developing a tumour of the spinal cord. After several operations he became paraplegic. He married Gwendoline Freda Smith (‘Gwendy’), a Middlesex Hospital nurse, on 25 July 1953. They had two daughters (Ruth and Jean) and a son (Christopher). He died on 16 June 2006.
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First Title value, for Searching Wormald, Thomas (1802 - 1873)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-01-25 2012-03-08
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Pentonville in January, 1802, the son of John Wormald, who came of a Yorkshire family, a partner in Child's Bank, and Fanny, his wife. He was educated at the Grammar School of Batley in Yorkshire, and afterwards by the Rev. W. Heald, Vicar of Bristol in the came county. He was apprenticed to John Abernethy in 1818, lived in his house and became a friend. Abernethy used him as a prosector, caused him to teach the junior students, and made him assist Edward Stanley (q.v.) in his duties as Curator of the Hospital Museum. During his apprenticeship he visited the schools in Paris and saw something of the surgical practice of Dupuytren, Roux, Larrey, Cloquet, Cruveilhier, and Velpeau. When Abernethy resigned his lectureship Edward Stanley was appointed in his place, and it was arranged that Wormald should become a Demonstrator. But when the time arrived Frederic Carpenter Skey (q.v.), an earlier apprentice of Abernethy, was chosen, and 'Tommy', as he was known to everyone, was disappointed. He therefore became House Surgeon to William Lawrence, who was of the opposite faction, in October, 1824. It was not until 1826 that Wormald became Demonstrator of Anatomy conjointly with Skey, and when Skey seceded from the medical school to join the Aldersgate School of Medicine, Wormald remained as sole Demonstrator, and held the post for fifteen years. He was elected Assistant Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital on Feb. 13th, 1838, on the death of Henry Earle, and spent the next twenty-three years teaching in the out-patient department without charge of beds. He became full Surgeon on April 3rd, 1861, on the resignation of Eusebius Arthur Lloyd (q.v.), and was obliged to resign under the age rule on April 9th, 1867, when he was elected Consulting Surgeon. He was Consulting Surgeon to the Foundling Hospital from 1843-1864, where his kindness to the children was so highly appreciated that he received the special thanks of the Court of Management and was complimented by being elected a Governor. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was a Member of Council from 1840-1867, Hunterian Orator in 1857, a Member of the Court of Examiners from 1858-1868, and Chairman of the Midwifery Board in 1864. He served as Vice-President in 1863 and 1864, and was elected President in 1865. He married Frances Meacock in September, 1828, and by her had eight children. He died of cerebral haemorrhage after a few hours' illness whilst on a visit to the sick-bed of his brother at Gomersal, in Yorkshire, on Dec. 28th, 1873, and was buried in Highgate Cemetery. A pencil sketch by Sir William Ross (1846) is in the Conservators' Room at the Royal College of Surgeons, and a photograph taken later in life hangs by its side. Wormald was the last pupil of John Abernethy, and his death snapped the link connecting St. Bartholomew's Hospital with Hunterian surgery; but it is as a teacher of clinical surgery and not as a surgeon that Wormald is remembered. The long years first as a Demonstrator of Anatomy and afterwards in the out-patient room made him a teacher of the highest class. He was so perfect an assistant that it was said in jest he ought never to have been promoted. He is reported to have been cool, cautious, and safe as an operator, and in diagnosis remarkably correct, particularly in diseases and injuries of joints. He had some mechanical skill, for he invented a soft metal ring which was passed over the scrotum for the relief of varicocele, known as 'Wormald's ring', and would forge his own instruments. He read but little and trusted almost entirely to observation and experience. He exercised a great influence over students and put a permanent and effective stop to smoking and drinking in the dissecting-room. His manner was brusque but not offensive, and was modelled upon that of his master, John Abernethy, whose gestures and eccentricities he often mimicked. He drew well, and illustrated his demonstrations and lectures with freehand sketches on the blackboard. His style of speaking was easy, clear, and forcible. There was no hurry or waste of words, and he had the art of arresting and keeping the attention of his class, partly by his quaintness and originality, partly by his frequent reference to surgical points in the anatomy he was discussing, and partly by his inexhaustible fund of humour and of anecdotes, many of which were not quite proper. In person he was of a ruddy countenance, with light-brown hair lying thin and lank over his broad forehead, his eyes twinkling and roguish; his coat and waistcoat were 'farmer-like', his trousers tight-fitting, with pockets in which he usually kept his hands deeply plunged; his boots were thick and laced. He looked, indeed, more a farmer than a surgeon. PUBLICATIONS:- *A Series of Anatomical Sketches and Diagrams with Descriptions and References *(with A. M. MCWHINNIE, q.v.), 4to, London, 1838; re-issued in 1843. These sketches from one of the best series of anatomical plates made for the use of students. They are true to nature and not overloaded with detail.
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First Title value, for Searching Partridge, Richard (1805 - 1873)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-01-25 2012-03-13
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The tenth child and seventh son of Samuel Partridge, of Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire. He was born on January 19th, 1805, and was apprenticed in 1821 to his uncle, W. H. Partridge, who practised in Birmingham. During his apprenticeship he acted as dresser to Joseph Hodgson (q.v.) at the Birmingham General Hospital. He entered St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, in 1827 and attended the lectures of John Abernethy, acting afterwards as Demonstrator of Anatomy at the Windmill Street School of Medicine. He was appointed the first Demonstrator of Anatomy at King's College, London, when the medical faculty was instituted in 1831, and held the post until 1836, when he was promoted Professor of Descriptive and Surgical Anatomy in succession to Herbert Mayo (q.v.). John Simon (q.v.) became Demonstrator in his place two years later, in 1838. On November 5th, 1831, occurred the 'resurrectionist' case in London which was instrumental in causing the passing of the Anatomy Act in 1832. Bishop, Williams, and May brought the body of Carlo Ferrari, an Italian boy, to King's College asking nine guineas for it. Partridge, being on the alert owing to the Burke and Hare case in Edinburgh in 1830, suspected foul play and delayed payment until the police were informed, saying that he only had a £50 note for which he must get change. Bishop and Williams were hanged, May was respited and sentenced to transportation for life. On Dec. 23rd, 1836, Partridge was elected Visiting or Assistant Surgeon at Charing Cross Hospital; he was promoted to full Surgeon on January 8th, 1838, and resigned the office on April 13th, 1840, when he was appointed Surgeon to the newly established King's College Hospital in Clare Market. He remained Surgeon to King's College Hospital until 1870. In 1837 he was elected F.R.S. He held all the chief positions at the Royal College of Surgeons, serving as a Member of Council from 1852-1868; he was a Member of the Court of Examiners from 1864-1873; Chairman of the Midwifery Board in 1865; Hunterian Orator and Vice-President in the same year; and President in 1866. He filled many offices at the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society, where he was elected a Fellow in 1828; he was Secretary from 1832-1836; a Member of Council 1837-1838, and again in 1861-1862; Vice-President, 1847-1848, President, 1863-1864. Partridge succeeded Joseph Henry Green (q.v.) as Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy in 1853. He had himself some skill in drawing, having taken lessons from his brother John, the portrait painter. In the autumn of 1862 he went to Spezzia, at the request of Garibaldi's English friends, in order to attend the general, who had been severely wounded in the right ankle-joint at the Battle of Aspromonte. Having no previous experience of gunshot wounds, he unfortunately "overlooked the presence of the bullet", which Nélaton afterwards localized by his porcelain-tipped probe, and it was subsequently extracted by Professor Zanetti. This failure did him much harm professionally, though Garibaldi himself always wrote to him in the kindest terms, and he died a poor man on March 25th, 1873. Partridge has been described as a fluent lecturer, an admirable blackboard draughtsman, an excellent clinical teacher, and one who, though he operated nervously, paid close attention to the after-treatment of his patients. He was a painstaking but not a brilliant surgeon; minute in detail and hesitating in execution - a striking contrast to the brilliant performances of his colleague, Sir William Fergusson. He was somewhat of a wit, and it is recorded of him that, being asked the names of his very sorry-looking carriage-horses, he replied that the name of one was 'Longissimus Dorsi', but that the other was the 'Os Innominatum'. This was to a student. He wrote very little, and his copiously illustrated work on descriptive anatomy was never printed. There is a portrait of him by George Richmond, R.A., which was engraved by Francis Holl. There are in addition a lithograph by Maguire, dated 1845, and a photograph of a picture by an unknown artist representing Partridge attending the wounded Garibaldi; it is reproduced in the centenary number of the Lancet (1923, ii, 700, fig. 10).
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First Title value, for Searching Foss, Martin Vincent Lush (1938 - 2008)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-10-17
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Martin Foss was a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at Luton and Dunstable Hospital. He was born in Bristol on 12 February 1938, the son of George Lush Foss, a general practitioner, and Eileen Isabelle née Buller. His paternal grandfather, Edwin Vincent Foss, was also a general practitioner. Martin was educated at St Michael’s Preparatory School and at Marlborough, from which he entered Jesus College, Cambridge, going on to University College Hospital for his clinical course. After qualifying he became house surgeon to David Matthews and Doreen Nightingale at University College Hospital and then house physician to Lord Amulree at St Pancras Hospital, the UCH geriatric unit. Between 1964 and 1966 he worked for Donal Brooks and Kenneth Stone as orthopaedic and casualty senior house officer at the Barnet General Hospital, followed by a further year as an orthopaedic senior house officer at the North Middlesex Hospital. This was followed by two years as general surgical registrar at the Whittington Hospital, during which time he passed the FRCS of both colleges. He then specialised in orthopaedics and trauma, first as an orthopaedic registrar at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and then as a senior orthopaedic registrar at University College Hospital. In 1973 he was appointed consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital. He retired in 1996, having served as medical director of the Luton and Dunstable NHS Trust from 1991 to 1996. Martin undertook the full range of orthopaedic surgery in a very busy unit on the M1 motorway, but had a special interest in paediatric orthopaedics. His only publication was on bone density, osteoarthritis of the hip and fracture of the upper end of the femur in 1972. At Cambridge he played a full part in college life and won his oar in the successful first VIII. He loved the outdoor life, birdwatching, painting, walking and, after he retired, travelling. He was a lifelong freemason, gaining high office as provincial grand master for Bedfordshire. He married Anthea Noelle Johnson in 1963 (they divorced 1992), with whom he had two daughters, Victoria Charlotte and Caroline Louise. He died on 2 February 2008. Alan Lettin
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First Title value, for Searching Crowfoot, William Henchman (1780 - 1848)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-02-21 2011-09-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on Sept 9th, 1780, at Kessingland, a village on the Suffolk coast, where his father occupied a large farm. His mother, who was a daughter of the Rev J Henchman, died while he was an infant, and he was placed in charge of his uncle by marriage, the Rev W Clubbe, Vicar of Brandeston. Mr Clubbe, an elegant Latin scholar, taught him to love classical studies. In 1794 he was apprenticed to his uncle, Mr Crowfoot, of Beccles, who was a second father to him, and in 1799 he came to London and entered as a pupil at the Borough hospitals under Cline and Astley Cooper, the latter of whom became his friend in after-life. Sir Astley Cooper in his work on *Dislocations* (1842) refers to Crowfoot as one who, "to high professional skill, adds all the amiable qualities which can become a man." Crowfoot hoped to obtain through his patron's influence a medical appointment in India, but he failed in this and settled at Framlington. In 1803, his practice being limited there, he removed at his uncle's suggestion to Beccles, and in 1805 became his partner, thenceforward obtaining high professional credit and success. It was in the December of 1805 that he accidentally met a party bearing the body of a soldier who had been thrown on the beach at Kessingland and lain for several hours apparently dead. Finding that the precordia still retained some warmth, he caused the body to be carried to a house, and persevering in the means of restoration which his professional skill suggested, he at length revived the sufferer. For this action the Royal Humane Society awarded him a silver medal. He died, after an illness of only four days, on Nov 13th, 1848, of typhus fever, contracting the disease from a post-mortem on a typhus patient. At the time of his death he was Consulting Surgeon to the Beccles Dispensary. Publications:- Crowfoot's publications record the remarkable results of his own experience and are characterized by strong good sense. They include:- "On Carditis." - *Edin Med and Surg Jour*, 1809, v, 298. He stressed the connection between rheumatism and carditis before that connection was so much insisted upon as at present. "Surgical Cases." - *Ibid*, 1825, xxiv, 260. "On the Use of Extension in Fractures of the Spine." - *Jour Prov Med and Surg Assoc*, 1843, xi, 337. In this paper he showed the value and success of the treatment in cases too often regarded as hopeless.
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First Title value, for Searching Bryce, Alexander Graham (1890 - 1968)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-03-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Graham Bryce was born in Southport, Lancashire, the son of Elizabeth Dodds and Alexander Graham Bryce who was the managing director of a calico printing firm. He went to school at the Southport Modern School for Boys until the age of 11 when he proceeded to complete his secondary education at the Bickerton House School until he was 16. When he was 16 he matriculated and went very early to the Manchester University Medical School so that he graduated at what was a very tender age, at 21. He proceeded to the Degree of MD in 1913, and to the Diploma of Public Health in 1915. He gained his Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1923. At the University of Manchester, he was a diligent and successful student, obtaining distinctions and exhibitions in anatomy, physiology, pharmacology and medicine, and a host of prizes and medals. As house physician to Dr E M Brookbank, a cardiologist of high national repute, he was early acquainted with diseases of the heart. This served him well later in life when he entered the practice of thoracic surgery. His subsequent years of postgraduate study indicated that he practised what he subsequently preached, namely that hard experience in general medicine and surgery is an essential basis for later devotion to a specialty; as a house officer in medicine, he studied the problem of cancer of the stomach, to form the basis of his thesis for a doctorate which he obtained in 1913. Further postgraduate experience was gained as a resident medical officer at the Manchester Children's Hospital, and in 1914 as senior resident in the Manchester Tuberculosis Hospital. Like so many surgeons of his generation he served in the RAMC in artillery, infantry, and cavalry medical units, from 1915 to 1919. During this period he decided to enter the practice of surgery and held surgical house appointments from 1919 to 1921 at the Blackburn Royal Infirmary. He journeyed south to work as senior house surgeon at the Royal Dock Hospital for Seamen and subsequently at St George's Hospital. In 1923, having obtained his English Fellowship, he returned to Manchester as senior surgical registrar at the Royal Infirmary, where subsequently he was appointed resident surgical officer, holding the post for two years. At that time a galaxy of surgical stars, known throughout the world, held appointments on the staff of the Manchester Royal Infirmary, and fierce competition for places existed. His potential was recognized by his election as surgical tutor until 1927 when he moved to the Manchester Victoria Memorial Jewish Hospital as a consultant surgeon. An additional appointment as honorary assistant surgeon at Salford Royal Hospital placed him in the company of men as distinguished as Geoffrey Jefferson and J B Macalpine. Although in private practice, he found time and energy to commence a study of thoracic surgery and obtained appointments in sanatoria in the Manchester area. He published several papers on general surgery in 1913-1932 and in 1934, together with James E H Roberts, Sir Clement Price Thomas and a spontaneous pneumothorax and pulmonary lobectomy. In those early days of thoracic surgery, like many men of that era entering this specialty, he visited surgical centres in Great Britain and overseas; he studied in Berlin, Montreal, Toronto, Chicago, and during these tours he made abiding friendships amongst thoracic surgeons. In 1934 he achieved a cherished ambition when appointed to the honorary staff of the Manchester Royal Infirmary. His quiet, gentle and self-deprecatory manner did not decieve his many friends, as underneath a gentle exterior was a dogged determination to pursue the craft and science of surgery successfully. He established thoracic surgery in his district; at a meeting of the Association of Surgeons in Manchester in 1934, together with the late J E H Roberts, Sir Clement Price Thomas and a few others, he formed a small club over a drink in the Midland Hotel. He was the first secretary of this club which rapidly became known as the Society of Thoracic Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. For many years he held this post and the large and flourishing present day Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons owes much to him. Young men of the generation just behind his, know how much they are in debt to him. To them in particular he showed a real sympathy and encouragement which is not easily forgotten. Graham Bryce was happy in his family life. His wife Isabel Bryce was the daughter of the distinguished Professor James Lorrain Smith, FRS and she herself achieved success and fame, particularly in the field of sociology, with particular reference to medicine. At the time of his death, she was chairman of the Oxford Regional Hospital Board. For her work in the field of hospital administration she was awarded the DBE in 1968. To many thoracic surgeons her friendliness and human sympathy are widely recognised. It was always pleasant to think of her working in her garden while her husband attended to his main hobby, namely bee-keeping. Surgery owes much to both of them. Bryce died suddenly at his home in Upper Basildon near Reading, on 24 October 1968, leaving a widow and two sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Stanley, Edward (1793 - 1862)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-08-10 2012-07-19
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on July 3rd, 1793, the son of Edward Stanley, who was in business in the City; his mother was sister to Thomas Blizard. He entered Merchant Taylors' School in April, 1802, and remained there until 1808, when he was apprenticed to Thomas Ramsden, Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, who died in February, 1813; Stanley was then turned over to John Abernethy for the rest of his term. He was awarded the Jacksonian Prize for his essay "On Diseases of Bone", and was elected Assistant Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital on Jan. 29th, 1816, at the early age of 24. Even during his apprenticeship he had rendered important services to the Medical School, for his love of morbid anatomy led him, with Abernethy's assistance and approval, to enlarge the Museum so greatly that he practically created it. He subsequently compiled a valuable catalogue of the collection. He acted as Demonstrator of Anatomy until 1826, when he was appointed Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology in place of Abernethy and held the post without distinction until 1848, when he was succeeded by F. C. Skey (q.v.). He was elected full Surgeon in 1838, and then became famous as a clinical teacher. He was elected F.R.S. in 1830 for his pathological work, became President of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society in 1843, and was appointed Surgeon Extraordinary to Queen Victoria in 1858. At the Royal College of Surgeons Stanley was a Member of Council from 1835-1862, Professor Human Anatomy from 1835-1838, and Hunterian Orator in 1839, the Oration being published in London as an octavo volume in 1839. He was a Member of the Court of Examiners from 1844-1862, Chairman of the Midwifery Board in 1856, Vice-President in 1846, 1847, 1855, and 1856, and President in 1848 and 1857. He resigned the post of Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital in 1861, but continued to attend the weekly operations on Saturdays until May 24th, 1862. On that day, after witnessing the operations, being in his usual health and good spirits, he went with the other Surgeons, on the invitation of Sir William Lawrence, to see a patient in Henry Ward who was suffering from a swelling of the knee. Stanley bent over the patient for a short time, then drew himself up and said, "I think, Mr. Lawrence, this is a case of knee-joint disease, and that if all remedies have failed for many months in your hands the case would be one favourable for resection." He spoke clearly and evidently in full possession of all his faculties: a moment later he staggered against a bed and sank to the floor supported by those around him. He was at once raised and place on the 'state bed' in the front ward. Momentarily he seemed to regain consciousness, and when Mr. Wormald asked if he could do anything, Stanley replied: "I am quite well, Wormald; I never felt better in my life, it's only stomach." Tradition says that Lawrence, looking round, said to his House Surgeon, "Wrong again. Head." However this may be, Stanley quickly became unconscious, passing into a state of coma and died within an hour. He married a highly educated, talented and sympathetic lady by whom he had one son, the Rev. Rainey Stanley, and several daughters. He lived at first in Lincoln's Inn fields, afterwards at 66 Brook Street, the house afterwards occupied by Sir William Savory (q.v.). Stanley is described as being one of the most sagacious teachers and judicious practitioners of his day. He was vivacious in conversation, but solemn and impressive, and his language was clear and empathic when teaching in the wards, where the students knew him as 'the inspired butterman' because he was short and 'podgy'. His unattractive features were redeemed by large intellectual eyes, a genial smile and a face honest, earnest, and good-tempered. He was an eager inquirer after pathological knowledge, a patient, accurate, and intelligent investigator and collector, but was wanting in culture of the higher kind and was without any appreciation of the arts. He always took immense pains in studying his hospital cases, and as the result of this and his innate sagacity he was seldom wrong in the opinions he arrived at. He was never a brilliant operator, yet he shone in the operating theatre, because when grave or unexpected incidents arose he never lost his self-possession, and his courage rose with the emergency. His anatomical knowledge and quiet insistence carried him through all difficulties, and he was fortunate in having James Paget (q.v.) as his Assistant Surgeon. He was, too, a man of peace, and did much to compose the bitter quarrels in which the hospital staff engaged. To this end he was instrumental in arranging the Christmas Dinner which is still a feature in the life of the Hospital, where the members of the Staff and all teachers in the Medical School meet together and, if they are so disposed, play cards until a late hour. Stanley's writings and the specimens he added to the Museum show how extensive was his knowledge of diseases of bone. He had prepared specimens of the arthritis which occurs in locomotor ataxy and has since been called Charcot's disease. There are portraits of him in the College Collection. PUBLICATIONS: - *An Account of the Mode of Performing the Lateral Operation of Lithotomy*, 4to, London, 1829. *Illustrations of the Effects of Disease and Injury of the Bones with Descriptive and Explanatory Statements*, fol., 24 plates, London, 1849. The coloured plates are splendidly executed and are drawn from original preparations, many of which are still preserved in the Museum of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. *A Treatise on Diseases of the Bones*, 8vo, London and Philadelphia, 1849. These two books are classics. *A Manual of Practical Anatomy*, 12mo, London, 1818; 3rd ed., 1826.
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First Title value, for Searching Bastable, John Ralph Graham (1923 - 2003)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-09-07 2007-06-14
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Occupation Urologist
Details John Bastable was a consultant urologist at York. Born in 1923, he spent his childhood in Cornwall and studied medicine at Birmingham. He qualified in 1945. After National Service, he was a registrar to Alan Perry at Poplar Hospital and then at the London Hospital, where he became senior lecturer on the surgical unit under Victor Dix, and where David Ritchie supervised his MCh thesis on the effect of vagotomy on the oesophago-gastric junction. He specialised in urology, spending a year as resident surgical officer at St Paul’s Hospital and then at the London. In 1966, he was appointed consultant urologist at York, and remained there until he retired in 1988. At York, he developed a department of urology, introduced day surgery facilities, and also undertook parathyroid surgery, and was involved in the planning committee for the new district general hospital. He married Morag Millar, an anaesthetist. They had three children. In his retirement he found time for music, travelling, walking and history of art. He died after a stroke on 28 May 2003.
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First Title value, for Searching Bigelow, Wilfred Gordon (1913 - 2005)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-09-07
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Occupation Cardiac surgeon
Details Wilfred Gordon ‘Bill’ Bigelow, who helped develop the first electronic pacemaker, was a professor of cardiac surgery at the University of Toronto and a pioneering heart surgeon. He was born in Brandon, Manitoba, in 1913. His father, Wilfred Bigelow, had founded the first medical clinic in Canada. Bill trained in medicine at the University of Toronto and did his internship at the Toronto General Hospital, during which time he had to amputate a young man’s fingers because of frostbite, leading Bill to research the condition. During the second world war, he served with the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, in a field transfusion unit and then as a battle surgeon with the 6th Canadian Casualty Clearing Station in England and Europe, where he saw many more soldiers with frostbitten limbs. After the war, he returned to a surgical residency in Toronto, followed by a graduate fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He returned to Toronto in 1947 as a staff general surgeon. In 1950 he became a research fellow in the university department of surgery. He was made an assistant professor in 1953 and a full professor in 1970. He researched into hypothermia in a cold-storage room in the basement of the Banting Institute. He theorised that cooling patients before an operation would reduce the amount of oxygen the body required and slow the circulation, allowing longer and safer access to the heart. This work led to the development of a cooling technique for use during heart operations. He also discovered that he could restart the heart by stimulating it with a probe at regular intervals, work which led him on to develop the first electronic pacemaker, in collaboration with John Callaghan and the electrical engineer John Hopps. He published extensively and received many awards, including the Order of Canada and the honorary Fellowship of our College. He was President of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the Society for Vascular Surgery. He was predeceased by his wife, Margaret Ruth Jennings, and is survived by his daughter, three sons and three grandchildren. He died from congestive heart failure on 27 March 2005.
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First Title value, for Searching Bond, Alec Graeme (1926 - 2004)

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First Title value, for Searching Boustany, Wa'el Seifeddin (1931 - 2004)

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First Title value, for Searching Bowsher, Winsor Graham (1957 - 2004)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-09-14
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Winsor Bowsher was a consultant urological surgeon at Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport. He was born on Barton-on-Sea, Hampshire, the son of Graham Walter Bowsher, an art teacher, and Marjorie Wilfred née Munday, who taught public speaking. He was educated at Brockenhurst Grammar School and then Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he won a blue for golf. He did his clinical studies at the Royal London Hospital and was house surgeon to John Blandy, who inspired his interest in urology. He completed his general surgical training at Nottingham and Cardiff, before starting the senior registrar rotation at the Institute of Urology and St Bartholomew’s. He was then a lecturer and senior registrar at the Royal London, where he completed the research for his MChir thesis. In 1990 he was awarded the Shackman and Sir Alexander McCormack travelling fellowships of our college, going to St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, as visiting fellow and later staff consultant. There he carried out innovative laparoscopic surgery and radical prostatectomy for cancer. Shortly after his return he was appointed to the Royal Gwent Hospital in 1993 with Brian Peeling, where he rapidly established a reputation. He set up a trial of radical prostatectomy, published widely, edited *Challenges in prostate cancer* (Malden, MA, Blackwell Science, 2000), and was on the editorial board of the *British Journal of Urology*, *Prostate* and the European Board of Urology *Update* series. He set up a support group for prostate cancer patients called Progress, which was the first of its kind in the UK, and in 1996 was medical adviser to the BBC series *The male survival guide*, which won six BMA gold awards. He was married to Pauline and had three children, Harry, Abigail and Nicholas. A man of great charm and enthusiasm, Winsor was a keen fly fisherman, skier and mountaineer. In his last years he had a brief but successful battle with alcohol, but, having completely recovered, died suddenly from cardiac arrhythmia on 12 May 2004.
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First Title value, for Searching Bradfield, William John Dickson (1924 - 2003)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

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Publication Date 2005-09-14
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Occupation General surgeon
Details William John Dickson Bradfield, or ‘Bill’, was a consultant surgeon at Kingston Hospital in Surrey. He was born in London on 23 June 1924, the only son and second child of John Ernest Bradfield, a businessman, and Marjorie Elizabeth née Dickson, the daughter of a silk merchant. Bill was educated at Dulwich College and Sandhurst. In 1942, he went on to St Thomas’s to study medicine as a Musgrave scholar, but interrupted his training to join the 5th Iniskilling Dragoon Guards. As a troop leader of a tank squadron in Normandy, he was awarded the Military Cross in 1944 for showing leadership and skill in command. He returned to St Thomas’s in 1946, where he was a keen and fearless rugby player. He was appointed consultant surgeon to Kingston Hospital, Surrey, in 1964, but remained honorary president of St Thomas’s rugby club. Bill rejoined the Army as a Territorial in 1950, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. He was honorary medical officer to the Commonwealth Ex-Services League from 1985, and worked with the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. For a time he was a governor of the Star and Garter home for disabled soldiers, sailors and airman. He married Ellicott Hewes in 1971. They had no children. Throughout the years he kept in touch with the inhabitants of the two small French towns around which he saw action in 1944, and dignitaries from these towns attended his thanksgiving service. He died on 21 November 2003 from renal failure complicating carcinoma of the prostate.
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First Title value, for Searching Alford, Henry (1806 - 1898)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-09-18 2013-08-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Third son of the Rev Samuel Alford, of Queen's College, Oxford, who graduated BA in 1797 and MA in 1800. He was born at Curry Rivel, near Taunton. The Alford family had held property in West Somerset from the middle of the sixteenth century, and son had succeeded father in the church for several generations. Henry Alford (1810-1871), Dean of Canterbury, and Bishop Alford were cousins of Henry Alford, FRCS. Alford became a house pupil at the Bristol Infirmary in 1822, and five years later came to London to complete his medical education at St Bartholomew's Hospital. After qualifying, he practised at Ilminster until he was appointed Surgeon to the Somerset and Taunton Hospital in 1830, when he settled in Taunton. He resigned his office in 1859 and was appointed Consulting Surgeon. He was Bailiff of Taunton, a churchwarden of St Mary's Church, a keen politician, and a hearty supporter of Sir Robert Peel in his policy of repealing the Corn Laws. He died at South Road, Taunton, in his 92nd year on June 29th, 1898. He married twice, and by his first wife left four children. His son, Henry J Alford, MD MRCS, was also educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and was Medical Officer of Health for Taunton.
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First Title value, for Searching Alford, Richard (1816 - 1893)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

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Publication Date 2009-09-18 2013-08-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Son of the Rev Samuel Alford, of Curry Rivel, and younger brother of Henry Alford (qv). Educated at University College. Practised at Tewkesbury, where he was Surgeon to the Dispensary, and removed to Weston-super-Mare in 1855, continuing to practise there until 1886. He was one of the founders of the old Dispensary which developed into the Weston-super-Mare Hospital. He acted as Surgeon to the Dispensary and as Consulting Surgeon to the Hospital. He died at 6 Ozil Terrace, Weston-super-Mare, on March 30th, 1893. Publications: "A Case of Spasma Glottidis." - *Prov. Med. and Surg. Jour.*, 1847, 625. "A Case of Jugular Vein Opened by Ulceration: Death." - Quoted in Liston's *Practical Surgery*, 6th ed. "A Case of Mortification from Head of Fibula to Crest of Ilium; Recovery." -* Assoc. Med. Jour.*, 1853. "Induction of Premature Labour by Ergot of Rye and Puncturing the Membranes." - *Lond. Med. Rev.*, 1861-2, ii, 511.
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First Title value, for Searching Alford, Stephen Shute (1821 - 1881)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-09-18 2013-08-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at University College, London, and acted as House Surgeon to the North Staffordshire Infirmary. He moved to London, becoming Surgeon to the North St Pancras Provident Dispensary, Surgeon to the Keepers and Helpers at the Zoological Gardens, Hon Surgeon to the Asylum for Infirm Journeymen Tailors, Medical Officer to the Orphan Workhouse School at Haverstock Hill, and Surgeon-in-Ordinary to the North St Pancras Provident Dispensary. He lived at 7 Park Place, Haverstock Hill, and died on July 5th, 1881, as the result of a railway accident. Alford was an active supporter of the British Medical Association, and throughout his life was interested in the treatment of dipsomania. At the time of his death he was Hon Secretary to the Society for the Promotion of Legislation for the Control and Cure of Habitual Drunkards. Under the auspices of a Committee of the British Medical Association he had organized a home for that purpose near his house, 61 Haverstock Hill, which he had hoped to supervise. Publications: *A Few Words on the Drink Craving, showing the Necessity for Legislative Power as regards Protection and Treatment*. *Dipsomania, its Prevalence, Causes and Treatment.* *The Habitual Drunkards Act, with an Account of a Visit to the American Inebriate Homes.*
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First Title value, for Searching Melrose, Denis Graham (1921 - 2007)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-01-16
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Occupation Cardiac surgeon
Details Denis Melrose played a crucial role in designing and developing the first heart-lung machine. He was born in Cape Town on 20 June 1921, the son of Thomas Robert Gray Melrose, a surgeon, and Floray Collings. The family went to England before the Second World War, and Denis was educated at Sedbergh and University College, Oxford, going on to University College Hospital for his clinical studies. There he was taught by Sir Thomas Lewis, the cardiologist. After qualifying, he did junior jobs at Hammersmith and Redhill County Hospital, Edgware, before serving in the RNVR from 1946 to 1948. He returned to the Royal Postgraduate Hospital Hammersmith as a lecturer when Ian Air was the professor of surgery. Air encouraged Melrose in his dream of making a heart-lung machine. At that time a Hungarian refugee, Francis Kellerman, had set up a medical instrument firm called New Electronic Products (NEP) and generously offered to collaborate with Melrose in designing the Melrose-NEP heart-lung machine. This was first used at Hammersmith in 1957 on a patient with an atrial septal defect, who survived more than 25 years. The machine was soon used in other UK centres, New Zealand and Australia. In 1959 a group of Russian surgeons visited Hammersmith, decided to buy a Melrose machine, and Denis accompanied a team which included Bill Cleland, Hugh Bentall, John Beard, the anaesthetist, and Arthur Hollman, the cardiologist. There was half a ton of equipment. Four children with severe congenital heart lesions were successfully operated on, as well as two others. Melrose’s second great contribution to cardiac surgery was his introduction of a method of reversibly stopping the heart beat using cold solutions of potassium salts. In 1956 he was Nuffield travelling fellow in the USA and Fulbright fellow in 1957, becoming associate in surgery at Stanford University Medical School in 1958. Melrose was successively promoted to reader and then professor and continued to work at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School until his retirement in 1983. Melrose had the ideal temperament to lead innovative methods in medicine: exceptionally friendly and out-going, he was full of fun and at the same time exceedingly practical. In 1945 he married Ann Warter, and had two sons. His hobbies included skiing and sailing. He died in Ibiza on 2 July 2007.
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First Title value, for Searching Amyot, Thomas Edward (1817 - 1895)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-09-25
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Eldest son of Thomas Amyot, FRS, Treasurer of the Society of Antiquaries and sometime Private Secretary to the Right Honourable William Wyndham. His mother was Jane, daughter of Edward Colman, of Norwich, surgeon. Thomas Amyot was born on Jan 28th, 1817, and was admitted to Westminster School on Jan 12th, 1829. Educated professionally at the Hunterian School of Medicine and at St Thomas’s Hospital. Married on Oct 28th, 1847, Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev Francis Howes, Minor Canon of Norwich Cathedral, and had issue one son and a daughter. He practised at Diss in Norfolk, and died there on Dec 15th, 1895. Amyot appears to have inherited the versatility of his father, for his leisure hours were spent in microscopy, astronomy, geology, and botany. He is also said to have had musical and literary tastes. He was President of the Norfolk and Norwich Medico-Chirurgical Society and of the East Anglian Branch of the British Medical Association. Publications: “Diabetes: Saccharine Treatment – Death – Autopsy.” – *Med. Times and Gaz.*, 1861, i, 327. “A Case of Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus with Bursting of the Head.” – *Ibid.*, 1869, i, 330. “Foot and Mouth Disease in the Human Subject.” – *Ibid*, 1871, ii, 555.
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First Title value, for Searching Stewart, John Oscar Reginald (1922 - 2008)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2009-11-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details John Oscar Reginald Stewart, known as ‘Oscar’, was one of three general surgeons serving the whole of Lincolnshire from Lincoln County Hospital in the days when no government targets had to be reached and, as a result, waiting lists were small. He was born in Belfast on 2 November 1922. His father, J C P Stewart, was a civil servant and his mother Emilie (née Shaw), a housewife. After schooling at the Royal School Dungannon, County Tyrone, Oscar obtained his medical training at Queen’s University, Belfast. He admired many of his tutors, particularly Sir Ian Fraser. After qualification, house appointments followed at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, and were supplemented by a further house surgeon post at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford, and later at the Lancaster Royal Infirmary. As a surgical specialist he served in the RAF in Egypt, and then continued his surgical training in Sheffield as a surgical registrar. His definitive senior registrar training was obtained at Addenbrooke’s Hospital Cambridge with mentors such as Brian Truscott and John Withycombe. Oscar married Mary Wilkie in 1959 and she continued her medical career as a community medical officer, schools and company doctor and magistrate for over 20 years. This, combined with looking after three children and supporting Oscar, led to a busy life. As a true general surgeon, Oscar Stewart moved easily between endocrine, vascular, gastrointestinal and urological surgery, often on the same operating list, as did so many trained in that era. He had little time for sub-specialisation in the context of a busy hospital in the east of England. For years he ran the casualty department until an orthopaedic surgeon took over the ‘Dickensian’ premises. Universally loved by colleagues, nurses and secretarial staff, he was renowned for his dedication and kindness and always held to the maxim “Never destroy hope”. Thus he helped as many as he could and comforted those he could not. Oscar’s meticulous surgical technique was passed on to many others and he was respected by the juniors who learned their craft from him. He never was one to suffer fools gladly and was at times thought to conduct his ward rounds rather like a figure played by James Robertson Justice, particularly after being invited to a Buckingham Palace garden party during his period as sheriff. Oscar was elected city sheriff in 1988 and he and his wife occupied the post with great dignity. His impish sense of humour was displayed when he and the mayor paid an annual Christmas visit to Lincoln County Hospital. Oscar took great delight in wearing his ‘badge’ and armed himself with a water pistol: very few nurses escaped attention from the ‘sheriff of Lincoln’ during the visit! At other times he, with the rest of the medical staff and nurses, dressed up in pantomime clothes, to entertain patients, and then carve the turkeys and serve patients with Christmas lunch. No one suffered ill effects, but the advent of pre-cooked meals and ‘health and safety regulations’ stopped this ritual in Lincoln, as was the case in most provincial hospitals. No staff party was ever complete without Oscar encouraging the singing with a medley of popular tunes. Very knowledgeable and interested in the history of medicine, in retirement Oscar Stewart pursued this as a hobby and gained a diploma in the subject from the Society of Apothecaries. He opened a medical museum at Lincoln County Hospital, which following his death was named the ‘Oscar Stewart Museum of Medical History’: it was officially opened by his son, James, a consultant physician. Oscar also served as president of the Lincoln Medical Society. Oscar Stewart gained a great insight into civic buildings, and after he became sheriff of Lincoln he co-authored with Joe Cooke a book, *The Stonebow and guildhall guide* (1990), still available in the tourist centre in Castle Square, Lincoln. The sale of first batch of books repaid the £10,000 loaned by the city council and the proceeds continue to expand the mayor’s charity. Bound copies of the book are given to visiting VIPs. Until he himself became chairman of the group staff committee, when meetings were drawing to a close, they were often enlivened by Oscar asking, under ‘any other business’, the question: “What can be done about consultant car parking at the front of the hospital!” He leaves three children. Charles is a financial consultant with British Gas, Catherine is a housewife and James is a consultant gastroenterologist in Leicester. There are five grandchildren. He died on 22 November 2008. His wife, Mary, having predeceased him.
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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, Alexander Dunlop (1794 - 1871)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-10-02 2013-08-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Son of Andrew Anderson, merchant, of Greenock, and nephew of Professor John Anderson, founder of the Andersonian University, Glasgow. Born in Greenock, he pursued his preliminary studies in Glasgow, and completed his medical training in Edinburgh and London. He was appointed a Surgeon's Mate (General Service) in 1813, and on March 13th was Hospital Assistant to the Forces. On May 12th, 1814, he joined the 49th Foot as Assistant Surgeon, but was afterwards placed on half pay, was re-employed by exchange on full pay, was again placed on half pay, and finally commuted on Sept 3rd, 1830. He served in Canada for a part of the time. He practised in Glasgow in 1820 and was elected Surgeon to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary in 1823, being appointed Physician to the Institution in 1838. Also served as Physician to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, and from 1852-1855 was President of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons. He married in 1829 a daughter of Thomas McCall, of Craighead, Lanarkshire, and had by her four sons and two daughters. Of the sons one, Dr T McCall Anderson, became Professor of Medicine in the Andersonian University. A D Anderson died at 159 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, on May 13th, 1871. He wrote only a few articles for professional papers, and is best remembered by that "On the Treatment of Burns by Cotton," published in the *Glasgow Medical Journal* for 1828. He is said to have enjoyed an extensive share of what is called "the best practice". He had a delicate sense of honour, and always showed himself acutely sensitive in regard to the feelings of others. His portrait by Sir Daniel Macnee, painted in 1870, hangs in the Faculty Hall at Glasgow.
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First Title value, for Searching Harris, John (1803 - 1861)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-03-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Practised at Bedford in the firm of Harris & Son. He was co-proprietor with Henry Harris, LRCP Edin, Resident Physician, of the Springfield House Lunatic Asylum. He was also Surgeon to the Bedford General Infirmary, and Visiting Surgeon of Lunatic Asylums in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, and Huntingdonshire. He died on June 26th, 1861.
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First Title value, for Searching Badley, John (1783 - 1870)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-03-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at St Bartholomew’s Hospital; practised at Dudley, Worcestershire, where he died on April 16th, 1870. He was a favourite pupil of Abernethy, and Badley’s notebooks of Abernethy’s lectures were presented by his grand-daughter, Miss Laura E Badley, to Queen’s College, Birmingham. It does not appear that he ever held any public appointment.
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First Title value, for Searching Vaux, Bowyer (1782 - 1872)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-03-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The son of Jeremiah Vaux, whom he succeeded as Surgeon to the General Hospital, Birmingham, an office held by Dr Jeremiah Vaux from the foundation of the institution. Bowyer Vaux held office from 1808-1843. He died at Teignmouth, South Devon, where he had resided for seventeen years, on Saturday, May 4th, 1872.
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First Title value, for Searching Tjandra, Joe Janwar (1957 - 2007)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-03-27 2013-11-25
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Occupation Colorectal surgeon
Details Joe Tjandra was a colorectal surgeon at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the Royal Women's Hospital, and associate professor of surgery at the University of Melbourne. He was born in Palembang, Indonesia, to Hasan and Tini Tjandra, who were of Chinese origin. His father ran a small trading business. After primary school in Indonesia, Joe Tjandra was sent to Singapore, where he learnt English. He went on to Melbourne, Australia, to Mentone Grammar School, and then studied medicine at the University of Melbourne. He was house surgeon to Alan Cuthbertson and Gordon Clunie in the colorectal unit at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He then went to the UK, where he trained under Les Hughes at Cardiff. He gained his FRCS in 1986. In 1987 he returned to Australia and carried out clinical research with Ian McKenzie at the Research Centre for Cancer and Transplantation at the University of Melbourne. They worked on monoclonal antibodies, hoping to target toxins specifically to cancer cells. Among the volunteers for his project was his old headmaster at Mentone. Tjandra was awarded his MD for this research and, in the following year, gained his FRACS while a surgical registrar in the colorectal unit. Tjandra then spent a year with John Wong in Hong Kong, after which he went to the Cleveland Clinic, USA, to work for two years with Victor Fazio. He then spent a further year with Les Hughes in Cardiff. In 1993 he returned to Australia and was appointed colorectal surgeon to the Royal Melbourne Hospital and to the Royal Women's Hospital. In 2002 he was made an associate professor at the University of Melbourne and, three years later, coordinator of the Epworth Gastrointestinal Oncology Centre. He also established a large private practice. He published over 150 scientific papers, wrote 70 chapters and edited six books. His *Textbook of surgery* (Malden, Mass/Oxford, Blackwell Scientific) is now in its third edition. He was frequently a visiting lecturer/professor, particularly in the Asian Pacific region, but also in the US and Europe. He was editor of *ANZ Journal of Surgery* for several years and was on the board of a number of international journals. He died on 18 June 2007, aged just 50, following a ten-month battle with bowel cancer. He leaves a wife, Yvonne Pun, a rheumatologist, two sons (Douglas and Bradley) and a daughter (Caitlin).
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First Title value, for Searching Cousins, Adrian Gordon (1928 - 2006)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-03-27 2014-04-08
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Adrian Cousins was a consultant surgeon in Sydney, Australia. He was born in Sydney, New South Wales, on 20 July 1928. His father, Gordon James Cousins, was a doctor, and his mother, Yvonne Effie Matild Zani née de Ferranti, a housewife. He was educated in Sydney; at Belmore Primary School, the Erskinville Opportunity Class for Gifted Children (from 1938 to 1939) and then Sydney Boys High School. He then studied medicine at Sydney University. He undertook surgical training in England as there was no surgical training in Australia after the Second World War. He was a surgical resident at Haymeads Hospital, Bishop's Stortford. He studied anaesthetics at St George's on Hyde Park Corner, orthopaedics under Tommy Sergeant at Nuneaton, thoracic and plastic surgery at Hyde Park Corner in 1954. In 1955 he studied accident and emergency surgery under Lionel Jones at Nuneaton and general surgery under Trevor Berrill in Coventry. In 1956 he studied general surgery under Sir Rodney Smith at St George's. The friendships he made during his postgraduate training were enduring. In December 1957 he returned to Australia. In 1959 he was appointed as a consultant surgeon to the Canterbury Hospital, Sydney, a post he held until 1962. He was then a consultant surgeon at the Sutherland Hospital, Sydney, until 1976. From 1976 to 1988 he was director of surgical services at the Sutherland Hospital. He retired in 1988. He was a member of the Australian Medical Association, the Australian Association of Surgeons, and the sections on colon rectal surgery and general surgery at the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He was a member of the Society for Growing Australian Plants and the Australian Stock Horse Society. He enjoyed skiing, tennis, rugby union, squash, swimming, farming (sheep, cattle and horse breeding) and cultivating Australian native plants. He was a member of the Volunteer Bushfire Brigade in Bungonia, New South Wales. He married Helen Collier Southward in 1953 in London. They had two sons (Peter Gordon Ziani, now deceased, and Timothy James Ziani) and two daughters (Penelope Joy and Hilary Jane). He had six grandchildren. He died on 12 May 2006 in Canberra, in a nursing home, of respiratory failure.
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First Title value, for Searching Chapman, Sir John (1773 - 1849)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

First Title value, for Searching Attree, William ( - 1846)

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First Title value, for Searching Campbell, George Gunning ( - 1858)

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First Title value, for Searching Langstaff,(1) George (1780 - 1846)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-04-03
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Richmond in Yorkshire, in or about the year 1780, and received his preliminary education in that town. Proceeding to London to study medicine, he was attracted by the reputation of Abernethy and entered St Bartholomew's Hospital. Here he soon distinguished himself by his love of observation. “His interest in the study of morbid action would seem to have been only increased by the death of his patient, for he diligently sought every opportunity of verifying the results of his observation by a careful examination of the diseased organs, and of determining the traces impressed by disease on the human frame.” Before settling in practice he made several voyages to the East and West Indies, and became a zealous naturalist and zoologist, laying the foundations of the collection of specimens which afterwards grew into his museum. During an eastward voyage he made some important observations on the cause of the luminosity of the sea at night. In the years following his Membership examination - that is, between 1804 and 1813 - he settled in St Giles's Cripplegate, and in the latter year received the appointment of Surgeon to the workhouse, where he had abundant opportunities of studying both pathology and practical anatomy. During many years he acquired a large local practice. He was a good surgeon and operator, and was the first to call attention to that bulbous condition of the extremities of the nerves in an amputated limb, which he termed ‘ganglionated’. He possessed several specimens in his collection illustrative of this condition (*see Lancet*, 1846, 439). Besides drawing largely for his collection on the specimens afforded him in the Workhouse Infirmary, he wrote important papers on pathology in the *Transactions of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society*, of which body he became a Fellow in 1814. In 1842 he published the catalogue of his museum, in the compilation of which he had been assisted by one of his pupils, Erasmus Wilson (q.v.). The full title of the work is *Catalogue of the Preparations illustrative of normal, abnormal, and morbid structure, human and comparative, constituting the Anatomical Museum of George Langstaff,* 8vo, pp. 518, London (Churchill), 1842. In his *catalogue raisonnée* he records the great work of his life: 2380 preparations are described, and Langstaff refers to it as a brief abstract of ten bulky MS volumes, in which he had preserved careful descriptions, case-histories, collateral circumstances, etc. “The consequences of Mr Langstaff's excessive devotion to his museum, and the resulting neglect of the calls made upon his attention by practice, began to be apparent towards the latter years of his life.” But he still supported himself with the belief that present loss of income could be compensated for by the sale of his museum, in which he had sunk thousands of pounds in the purchase of alcohol (methylated spirit was as yet unknown) and glass. Pleasant and sociable, a typical collector ever ready to impart his experience to others, he impressed his friends and admirers as a great man with a magnificent hobby that might prove his ruin. His *Lancet* biographer, who was probably George Macilwain, his contemporary among the Fellows of 1843, writes as follows: “The catalogue being finished, the preparations were transferred to the auction-rooms of Mr Stevens, in Covent Garden. The sale commenced; and, to Mr Langstaff's chagrin and disappointment, many of the preparations sold at prices less than the original cost of the glass and spirit. With the hope of averting the sacrifice, the sale was suspended. But now another evil presented itself - the collection was too bulky and fragile to be moved without difficulty; while, on the other hand, the rent of the rooms would each day be diminishing its proceeds. In this dilemma, application was made to the Council of the College of Surgeons, who consented to receive the collection and purchase such of the preparations as were suitable for the Hunterian Museum. The sum given by the College was very small, and another and a smaller sum was offered for the remainder of the collection.” The Museum Committee actually paid £165 15s 6d, for 1500 preparations. This was in October, 1842. Langstaff had previously sold to the College some 257 specimens, and he was proud that he had always put up the preparations with his own hands. The poor prices were probably accounted for by the state of the specimens. The College at that time gave large prices and was buying freely. Thus in January, 1842, they gave £800 13s Od for a specimen of Mylodon. In March, Liston offered 307 specimens, which were bought for £450 (his own price). Langstaff's biographer concludes:- “Such was the honour and reward of the devotion of a life and fortune to science. The disappointment naturally preyed upon Mr. Langstaff's mind, and weakened his constitution; and his death, which took place at his house at New Basinghall Street, on the 13th of August [1846], was undoubtedly hastened by this sad blight of his expectations and hopes. It is remarkable that his Commonplace Book, a bulky folio, preserved in the College Library, says nothing of this sale, though it contains many interesting accounts of cases, notably his own first attack of gout, in describing which he follows Sydenham's precedent. Among the College Archives are two MS lists by Clift, entitled severally, “Mr Langstaff's Collection. List of Specimens proposed to be taken by the Royal College of Surgeons, July, 1835”, and “List of Preparations selected…July, 1835”. In Sir James Paget's handwriting we find a note on the title-page of the last-mentioned MS to the effect that “Mr Langstaff sent the College detailed descriptions and histories of nearly all the pathological specimens named in this list, and these descriptions and histories were used in describing for the catalogue all those of this portion of his Museum which are still preserved in the Pathological Series.” Publications:- “A Case of Fungus Thematodes.” - *Trans. Roy. Med.-Chir. Soc.*, 1812, 277. “A Case of Fungus Hæmatodes, with Observations; to which is added an Appendix by William Lawrence, Esq.” - *lbid.*, 1817, viii, 272. “Practical Observations on the Healthy and Morbid Conditions of Stumps.” - *Ibid.*, 1830, xvi, 128. “A Case of Polypus of the Uterus.” - *Ibid.*, 1882, xvii, 63. “History of a Case of Medullary Sarcoma which affected several important Viscera; with a Description of the Morbid Appearances which were observed on Dissection.” - *Ibid.*, 1833, xviii, 250. Besides these he contributed several papers to the *Lancet*. (1) The name is so spelt by himself: Clift spells it LONGSTAFF.
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First Title value, for Searching Appleyard, John (1848 - 1905)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-10-02 2016-01-29
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at University College and at the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin. House Surgeon at University College Hospital, at the Male Lock Hospital, and at the South Staffordshire General Hospital, Wolverhampton. He went to Bradford, where, for a time, he was Dispensing Surgeon at the Bradford Infirmary. Later he became Assistant Surgeon to the Eye and Ear Hospital, and after that was appointed to the Staff of the Bradford Royal Infirmary. At the time of his death, on Nov 4th, 1905, he was Consulting Surgeon to the Bradford Royal Infirmary and Honorary Surgeon to the Bradford Girls' Home. He practised at Clifton Villas, Manningham, Bradford. [1] [Amendments from the annotated edition of *Plarr's Lives* at the Royal College of Surgeons: [1] where his son William (d.1961) FRCS 1907 succeeded him.]
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First Title value, for Searching Archer, Edmond ( - 1869)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-10-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Practised first at the Cape of Good Hope. He died at King’s Lynn on Aug 12th, 1869, where he was Physician to the West Norfolk and Lynn Hospital.
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First Title value, for Searching Bradley, Charles (1841 - 1892)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

First Title value, for Searching Ashe, Evelyn Oliver (1864 - 1925)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-10-07 2013-08-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at Owens College, Manchester, and at the London Hospital, where he was Scholar in Anatomy and Physiology (1883-1884), and in Anatomy, Physiology, and Chemistry (1884-1885). He was also Surgical Scholar, and obtained an Honours Certificate in Obstetrics in 1886-1887. After qualification he was House Physician, House Surgeon, Dental Assistant, and Resident Accoucheur at the London Hospital. In 1892 he went out to Kimberley, Cape Colony, as Senior House Surgeon to the Kimberley Hospital. Started practice in Kimberley in 1894, and became Surgeon to the De Beer's Consolidated Mines and Surgeon to the Kimberley Hospital, where he was Senior Surgeon at the time of his death on April 27th, 1925. His qualities were such that he was accorded a public funeral. Publications: *Besieged by the Boers: a Diary of Life and Events in Kimberley during the Siege*. 8vo, New York, 1900. "Galyl in Malta Fever." - *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1918, i, 454. "Cæsarean Section for Eclampsia - Survival of Mother and Child." - *S. Afric. Med. Record*, 1919.
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First Title value, for Searching Ashley, William Henry (1819 - 1874)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-10-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at University College, London, in Edinburgh, and in Paris. Practised in London from 1840 to 1874, but owing to illness, from which he died on Aug 23rd, 1874, at 28 Ladbroke Square, was unable to provide for a family of ten children. A subscription in aid of his widow and family was promoted by the *British Medical Journal* after his death. His photograph is in the College Album.
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First Title value, for Searching Bradley, William Henry (1807 - 1881)

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First Title value, for Searching Bradshaw, William Wood (1801 - 1866)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-05-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The second son of John Bradshaw, of St James’, Bristol; educated at the Westminster and Middlesex Hospitals. He practised at Andover and then at Reading, where he was at one time Vice-President of the Pathological Society and of the Royal Berkshire Hospital. He was also a corresponding Member of the Royal Jennerian Society of London and of the National Vaccine Institute. He matriculated at the University of Oxford on Nov 14th, 1844, being then 43, as a gentleman commoner of New Inn Hall, and was created MA on June 17th, 1847. Whilst he was in residence he became a member of the Oxford University Art Society. He lived at Portland Place, Reading, and died there on Aug 18th, 1866. Bradshaw is described as being a quiet, home-loving, studious man, who diligently cultivated his mind both in literature and in science. Fourteen years after his death the Bradshaw Lectureships were founded by bequests of £1000 to the Royal College of Physicians and a similar sum to the Royal College of Surgeons. The bequests were made by the will of Mrs Sally Hall Bradshaw, dated September 6th, 1875, proved on August 26th, 1880, to institute a lecture to be given annually at each college, and to be called the Bradshaw Lecture. She desired that the lecture should be connected with medicine or surgery, and that the choice of the lecturer should rest with the President of the College for the time being. She made no stringent regulations, and seemed to have wished only to maintain her husband’s name in good repute by associating it with the advancement of the science which he loved, and to testify her gratitude for the happiness which she owed to him. Sir James Paget (qv) delivered the first Bradshaw Lecture on December 13th, 1882 (*Lancet*, 1882, ii, 1017). There is a portrait in Sir Rickman J Godlee’s Bradshaw Lecture for 1907. Publications:- “On the Use of Cod-liver Oil in Chronic Rheumatism.” – *Prov. Med. and Surg. Jour.*, 1845, 753. “On Chronic Abdominal Abscess.” – *Lancet*, 1846, ii, 529. Various articles over the signature Beta in (Bentley’s ?) *Miscellany* and other periodicals.
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First Title value, for Searching Ashworth, Percy (1865 - 1929)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

First Title value, for Searching Aspland, Alfred (1816 - 1880)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-10-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at King’s College and Guy’s Hospital, and practised at Ashton-under-Lyne, where at the time of his death he was Consulting Surgeon to the Infirmary and Surgeon to the 4th Battalion Cheshire Rifle Volunteers. He was JP for the Counties of Chester and Lancaster and the City of Manchester. He was the author of a number of articles on Government Reports which appeared in the Transactions of the Manchester Statistical Society, Manchester, 1863. For the Holbein Society he also edited several important reproductions: *Theatrum Mulierum*, *Quatuor Evangel*. (Arab. et Lat.), Burgmair’s *Triumph of the Emperor Maximilian*, and Caxton’s *Golden Legend*, with Memoir.
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First Title value, for Searching Carter, John Collis ( - 1866)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

First Title value, for Searching Carter, Robert Brudenell (1828 - 1918)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-02-11
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Little Wittenham, Berkshire, on October 2nd, 1828, traced his descent from Thomas Carter, armiger, of Higham, Bedfordshire, who lived in the reign of Edward IV. When he had authenticated his descent to the satisfaction of the Heralds’ College, and established his right to armorial bearings, he became qualified in the Order of St John of Jerusalem to be promoted from a Knight of Grace to a Knight of Justice. A later ancestor, the Rev Nicolas Carter, preached before the Long Parliament. His grandfather, the Rev Henry Carter, was Rector of Lower Wittenham for fifty-seven years. The sister of his grandfather was Elizabeth Carter (*Dict. Nat. Biog.*), the Greek scholar who translated Epictetus, and was the friend of Johnson, Edmund Burke, and Horace Walpole. His father, Major Henry Carter, Royal Marines, and his wife were staying with the grandfather when he was born. He was christened Robert Brudenell, the name of his father’s neighbour and lifelong friend Robert, sixth Earl of Cardigan, the father of Lord Cardigan of the Light Brigade. Carter’s mother died soon after his birth, and he was brought up by Mrs Fearne. After serving an apprenticeship to a general practitioner, he entered the London Hospital at the age of 19, and qualified in 1851. He then acted as an assistant to a practitioner in Leytonstone, during which he made his first publication, *The Pathology and Treatment of Hysteria* (1853). In 1854 he moved to Putney and published a second book, on *The Influence of Education and Training in Preventing Diseases of the Nervous System*. One may smile at the subjects adopted by a young medical assistant, but his account of hysteria, which he based upon the teaching of Stephen Mackenzie, to whose memory he dedicated the book, shows remarkable literary talent together with much observation, apparently made during his apprenticeship in the country. The obituary in *The Times* noted this first evidence of his talent. With the Crimean War he volunteered and was appointed a staff surgeon in Turkey, where he came under the notice of W H Russell, correspondent of *The Times*; with this introduction he wrote letters to *The Times* from the front, which subsequently determined his future; also letters and contributions to the *Lancet*. He received both the English and Turkish War Medals. On his return he moved from Putney to Fulham, then to Nottingham for five years. There in 1859 he took part in founding the Nottingham Eye Infirmary, and at the same time began to direct special attention to ophthalmology. Once again, in 1862, he moved to Stroud to a partnership with George Samuel Gregory, and had a share in establishing the Gloucestershire Eye Institution. Meanwhile he published *The Physiological Influence of Certain Methods of Teaching, The Artificial Production of Stupidity, The Principle of Early Medical Education, The Marvellous*. In spite of all this, he said: “Nevertheless I was able to go up from my country practice for the FRCS examination without either rest for study or coaching – and to pass.” He married at the age of 40, and looking around for better opportunities he applied to *The Times*. Concerning this crisis he referred to himself in a letter to the *Lancet* as “a conspicuously unsuccessful general practitioner in the country.” His Crimean letters were looked up, and as a result he was put upon the editorial staff. This determined him to settle in London. In the following year, 1869, he was appointed Surgeon to the Royal Eye Hospital, Southwark, and held the post until 1877. He became Ophthalmic Surgeon to St George’s Hospital in 1870 in succession to Henry Power (qv), and was appointed Consulting Surgeon in 1893. His literary abilities gave distinction to his writing on ophthalmology, and his *Students’ Manual* was the most widely used of the day. Another of his appointments was that of Ophthalmic Surgeon to the National Hospital for Paralysis and Epilepsy. In addition to *The Times* Carter joined the staff of the *Lancet*, and at that time James Wakley (qv) was desirous of initiating the ‘Hospital Sunday’. Carter wrote on this and also in *The Times*. On the start of the Mansion House Fund Carter was elected a member of the first Council. He was Hunterian Professor at the College in 1876-1877; Orator in 1874; Lettsomian Lecturer in 1884, and President in 1886, of the Medical Society of London. From 1887-1900 he was the representative of the Apothecaries’ Society on the General Medical Council, and was instrumental in introducing a modification in the procedure of that body, whereby before deciding upon an offence an interval of probation might be afforded by postponing a definite decision until the following session. But it was his position on the staff of *The Times* which enabled him to place the views of the medical profession on subjects of the day before the general public, and the lucidity of his style always enabled him to do so with effect. Said the *Lancet*: “Eloquent, incisive, more than occasionally bitter, he was also a generous writer, and few members of the Medical Profession have wielded greater power with the pen, while he possessed the equally valuable gift of being able to speak in public with the same command of language and high level of literary style. Carter’s ‘leaders’ belong to an older day; he used the Latin ‘period’ and a rotund full-dress method; but any appearance of pomposity thus given to his writings was purely superficial; no writer of to-day is more fastidious than was Carter in his choice of language, or more resolutely averse from the use of ‘stale metaphors, trite tags and obvious morals’.” Although his handwriting was good, he was the first on *The Times* to use a typewriter. Carter sat on the first London County Council, and obtained a special committee to report upon the Care of the Insane. The Council did not accept the recommendations, and he was not re-elected. At the age of 87 he volunteered to write again for the *Lancet* whilst the staff were depleted by the War. He died at his house on Clapham Common on October 23rd, 1918, in his ninety-first year, and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. There is a portrait of him by ‘Stuff’ in the *Vanity Fair Album* wearing two pairs of spectacles, a habit also noted by ‘Jehu Junior’ in the biographical note, *Vanity Fair*, April 9th, 1892. There is also a portrait in the *Leicester Provincial Medical Journal*, 1890. Carter was twice married: (i) to Helen Ann Beauchamp, daughter of John Becher, and (ii) to Rachel Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen Hallpike, and widow of Walter Browne. He had four sons. Publications:– *On the Pathology and Treatment of Hysteria*, London, 1853. *On the Influence of Education and Training in Preventing Diseases of the Nervous System*, London, 1855. “Hints on the Diagnosis of Eye Disease,” Dublin, 1865; reprinted from *Dublin Quart. Jour. Med. Sci.*, 1865. “The Training of the Mind for the Study of Medicine” (Address at St George’s Hospital), London, 1873. *A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Eye*, with plates, Philadelphia, 1875. Translations of Schaller on “Ocular Defects”, 1869, and of Zänder on “The Ophthalmoscope”, 1864. Contributions to Holmes’s *System of Surgery*, and to Quain’s *Dictionary of Medicine*. *Ophthalmic Surgery* (with W A Frost), 1887; 2nd ed. 1888. *On Defects of Vision remediable by Optical Appliances* (Hunterian Lecture RCS), London, 1877. *Eyesight Good and Bad.* A treatise on the exercise and preservation of vision, London, 1880; translated into German, Berlin, 1884. Cantor Lectures on “Colour Blindness” delivered at the Society of Arts, London, 1881. “Eyesight in Civilization,” London, 1884; reprinted from *The Times*, 1884. “The Modern Operations for Cataract” (Lettsomian Lectures, Medical Society of London), London, 1884. “Eyesight in Schools” (Lecture before the Medical Officers of Schools), London, 1885; reprinted from *Med. Times and Gaz.*, 1885. “On Retrobulbar Incision of the Optic Nerve in Cases of Swollen Disc.” – *Brain*, 1887, x, 199. “On the Management of Severe Injuries to the Eye.” – *Clin. Jour.*, 1894, iv, 317. *Sight and Hearing in Childhood* (with A H Cheatle), London, 1903. *Doctors and their Work; or Medicine, Quackery and Disease*, London, 1903. “Medical Ophthalmology” in Allbutt’s *System of Medicine*, vi.
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First Title value, for Searching Aveling, Charles Taylor (1844 - 1902)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-11-04 2016-01-11
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at St Thomas's Hospital, where he became House Surgeon. Settled in practice at 14 Portland Place, Lower Clapton, London, where he held a number of public appointments - Public Vaccinator, Police Surgeon, Medical Referee to the Edinburgh Assurance Company, and Medical Officer of the City of London Union House. Later he resided at Cedar House, 136 Stamford Hill, London, where he was in partnership with John Bradshaw White, MD. He was a member of the British Medical Association, of the Hunterian Society, and a Fellow of the Obstetrical Society. He was drowned at Mullion Cove, Cornwall, on Sept 5th, 1902, in a brave attempt to rescue a lady from the like fate.
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First Title value, for Searching Avery, John (1807 - 1855)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-11-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details A pupil of William Cother, a very able surgeon, at the Gloucester Hospital, which, being situated in the midst of an extensive manufacturing district, gave abundant opportunities for practice in the art of operative surgery. The surgeons of that day were not generally operators, and consequently all operative surgery in the county and even in South Wales was concentrated in the hospital and in the private practice of its surgeons. Under Cother and his colleague, R Fletcher, young Avery proved an observant pupil. Entering St Bartholomew’s Hospital “he spent the greater part of his time either in the wards or the dissecting-room. Here he laid the foundation of that distinction as an operating surgeon which he afterwards reached.” He devoted much of his time to minute dissections of the dead body, and became an excellent anatomist. After qualifying he went to Paris and took the MD degree, but did not use the title. From Paris he travelled through different countries and continued his studies. He possessed ample means, but was never tempted to become an idler. Whilst he was in Italy there was war in Poland, and he conceived the idea of entering the Polish service, where he was at once appointed Surgeon-in-Chief to the 5th Polish Ambulance. He was made prisoner, lost his papers and baggage which were seized by the Russians and, being unable to communicate with his friends, lived for many months on an allowance of tenpence a day. After his release he began practice as a consultant in London, and was appointed Surgeon to Charing Cross Hospital in 1841. At the time of his death, he had accomplished much that was original in practice, particularly in the treatment of cleft palate with large deficiency of bone, in the treatment of urethral stricture, and in the inspection of the internal canals of the body. By means of his lamp, tubes, and reflectors he was able to examine the ear, urethra, bladder, oesophagus, and larynx, as probably no surgeon had ever examined them before him. He was the originator of an improved method of treating cleft palate in the worst cases of this malformation, by dissecting the soft palate away from the vault of bone, and uniting the flaps thus obtained in the centre. In this way he cured cases which his more skilful contemporaries had attempted in vain. He had also made improvements in the exploration and treatment of stricture. He published nothing on this last subject, for he was waiting, as he told his admiring friends, to perfect his views. His only formal publications were his papers in the Lancet in 1850 on cleft palate. With him, operations, particularly in their results, were a source of pleasure – of real enjoyment. No sculptor, no artificer in silver or gold, ever viewed his work with more delight than that with which he contemplated his operations when, as was generally the case, they turned out well. A handsome stump, a symmetrical fracture, an effaced hare-lip, a cleft palate restored, a stricture relieved, would give him the most heartfelt satisfaction. For his invention of a lamp for the examination of the outer passages of the body Avery received two medals, one from HRH Prince Albert, as President of the Society of Arts, and the other from the adjudicators of the Great Exhibition in 1851. For some time before his death he suffered from an obscure disease, which he and others suspected to be a malignant affection of the stomach. He was frequently harassed by vomiting and extreme pain, and to assuage these took inordinate quantities of opium and chloroform. Of the latter he inhaled sometimes three or four ounces in a day. He died at his residence, Queen Street, Mayfair, on March 3rd, 1855, and must have been literally starved to death. So popular was he that his decease excited much attention, and a post-mortem examination showed evidence of generalized tuberculosis. His brother and sister had both died of phthisis. Publications: “Illustrations of the Successful Treatment of Cleft Palate by the Division of the Levator Palati and Palato-pharyngeus, and sometimes the Palato-glossus Muscles.” – *Lancet*, 1850, ii, 337. “An Apparatus for Exploring the Internal Cavities of the Body.” This was an endoscope somewhat similar to that used by Segulas at Naples in 1827, and by Warden, of Edinburgh, in 1844.
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First Title value, for Searching Miller, George Sefton (1891 - 1916)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-15
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Was the son of Leonard Miller, Vice-Chairman of the Miller General Hospital, London, SE. At Colfe Grammar School, Lewisham, he became head boy and won the leaving scholarship. He entered Guy's Hospital in 1907, and in 1910 gained the Junior Proficiency Prize and the Sands-Cox Scholarship in Physiology. He was Dresser to Messrs F J Stewart and L A Dunn (qv), Clinical Clerk to Sir William Hale-White and Dr Newton Pitt, House Surgeon to Sir William Arbuthnot Lane and to Mr Rowlands. He had thus won for himself the best opportunities at Guy's. For the next fifteen months he was Resident Medical Officer at Lambeth Infirmary, meanwhile attending Guy's as Chief Clinical Assistant in the Throat Department, and in December, 1914, he passed the FRCS examination, although, being but 23, he could not get the Diploma until 1916. Meanwhile he found time to become the leading spirit in the Physiological and Debating Societies, and was on the Guy's Hospital Gazette Committee. In April, 1915, he was commissioned Lieutenant RAMC, and was promoted Captain a few months before his death. After joining he was first attached to the Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot, and was then temporarily a Regimental MO; he was detailed to No 1 Field Ambulance. He thus experienced the two extremes of military medical life. He wrote of his military duties in a certain place as consisting of waiting in a room all the morning in case orders might arrive, and then being let off to amuse himself in a town where there was nothing to do. This caused him to apply for a transfer to a post in the most exposed of positions. Just before his death he had ridden ten miles to see if he could do anything for a fellow-officer. The following is the account by a fellow-officer under his command during the Battle of the Somme:- "A local attack was taking place which attracted very fierce retaliation on the part of the enemy artillery. Long before the enemy's artillery had abated, Miller started out with eight stretcher-bearers about 9 pm on September 8th, 1916, from the little ambulance post about a quarter of a mile behind the fire trenches. The regimental aid-post was situated practically in the front line trench and was subsequently blown in by enemy shell fire. While on his way back Miller was helping a stretcher-bearer to lift a wounded man out of a trench into the open, near High Wood, when a shell came which killed him, the patient, and the stretcher-bearer. His body was brought in with a smile on his face as if death had been instantaneous ; he was buried near the village of Mametz." His name is included in the College Roll of Honour.
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First Title value, for Searching Takaki, Baron Kanchiro ( - 1915)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-28
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Was a native of Japan, where he became acquainted with William Anderson (qv), Surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital, whose knowledge of the country gave him a considerable influence. Takaki entered at St Thomas's Hospital and became a very successful and distinguished student. He rose to the rank of Director-General of Medical Services in the Japanese Navy. He sent his two sons, as well as a number of other Japanese, to St Thomas's Hospital; the sons became House Surgeon and House Physician respectively, and were very efficient and popular. Takaki practised in Tokyo, Japan, his address being 13 Higashi Toriizaka, Azaba. He died at Tokyo in 1915.
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First Title value, for Searching Roden, Thomas Clark (1818 - 1888)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-14
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Studied at University College, London, and at Queen's College, Birmingham. He first practised at 8 Newhall Street, and at Soho Hill, Handsworth, Birmingham, and was Surgeon to the National Guardian Life Assurance Society. He then went into practice at Rothbury House, Llandudno, was Physician to the Sanatorium, and died there on August 26th, 1888. He gained the Warneford Prize for the year 1838 with an essay on "The Valvular Structure of the Veins Anatomically and Physiologically Considered", an essay having the objective of the Bridgwater Treatises. It was published in 1839 with the Oxford imprint. In 1858 he contributed to the *British Medical Journal*, p. 370, a paper on the "Topography and Climate of Llandudno".
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First Title value, for Searching Roden, William (1814 - 1884)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-14
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Knowle, Warwickshire, he was articled to a general practitioner of the neighbourhood, studied at Queen's College, Birmingham, and graduated in Arts and Medicine at St Andrews. He settled in Kidderminster and practised throughout at Morningside, Kidderminster, latterly in partnership with Henry Edward Langford. He was active both in municipal and parliamentary politics, was a member of the Corporation and four times Mayor of Kidderminster, also Medical Officer of Health and Medical Referee to various Assurance Societies. Three or four years before his death he was temporarily disabled by an attack of apoplexy, but was able to resume work; a few weeks previously he had presided at a meeting to consider the cause of a severe epidemic of enteric fever then raging in the town, when an ingravescent form of apoplexy recurred whilst he was on his morning round; by the evening he had lost speech, and he died three days later, on October 19th, 1884. He had sought relaxation in horticulture, frequently contributed to horticultural journals, and spent the afternoon of his last day before taking to bed in visiting his much-loved greenhouse and garden.
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First Title value, for Searching Blusger, Isak Nahum ( - 1942)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-10
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Occupation General surgeon
Details After graduating BA at Capetown University with distinction in physiology in 1930, Blusger came to England and took the Conjoint qualification in 1933 from St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he served as senior house surgeon. He also served as house surgeon at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, and became resident surgical officer and subsequently clinical surgical assistant at the Connaught Hospital, Walthamstow. He took the Edinburgh and the English Fellowships in 1938. After the outbreak of war in 1939 he became resident surgeon in the emergency medical service hospital at Black Notley, near Braintree, Essex. In November 1942 he sailed for South Africa, intending to join the South African Army Medical Corps, but the ship was lost with all passengers. Blusger played centre three-quarter in the St Bartholomew's Hospital rugby football XV, and was also a keen lawn-tennis player and fond of riding. Publications:- Fractures: some hints on diagnosis and treatment. *The Livingstonian*, 1939. Circumcision, a new technique. *Brit Med J*. 1940, 2, 190. Osteomyelitis of the spine, with E C B Butler. *Lancet*, 1941, 1, 480. Local anaesthesia in cystoscopy, with J H Dixon. *Lancet*, 1943, 1, 111 [posthumously].
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First Title value, for Searching Pearce, George (1839 - 1886)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Studied at St Thomas's Hospital, where he won prizes in general proficiency. After serving at Salisbury Infirmary, he practised first at Market Harborough and was Surgeon to the Dispensary, then at Leicester, where he was Surgeon to the Infirmary, also to Wyggeston's Hospital and the Leicester and Rutland County Lunatic Asylum. At one time he was President of the Midland Branch of the British Medical Association. He died at 46 London Road, Leicester, on October 1st, 1886.
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First Title value, for Searching Pearse, Francis Bryant ( - 1895)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Francis Bryant Pearse, of a Devonshire family, studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and practised in succession at Dunster, Somerset, at Marsden Villa, Haverstock Hill, London, NW, at Bramshott House, Rayleigh, Essex, at Haslemere, Surrey, at 124 Gladstone Road, Wimbledon, and at 12 Norfolk Street, Southsea. He died in 1895. He had an only son, Thomas Frederick Pearse (qv).
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First Title value, for Searching Colgate, Henry (1850 - 1940)

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First Title value, for Searching Cooke, Sir James Douglas (1879 - 1949)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-06
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Occupation General surgeon Politician
Details Born at Melbourne in 1879, eldest child of John Cooke, pasturalist, who had formerly lived in New Zealand, and Edith Marshall, his wife. He was educated at Melbourne University, where he qualified in 1901, and served as house physician at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He took the BS in 1902 and then came to the London Hospital, where he served as house surgeon and resident anaesthetist. He took the English Conjoint qualification at the end of 1903, and the Fellowship in 1905. Cooke practised for many years with success at Stanmore, Middlesex. During the 1914-18 war he served in the RAMC, was promoted major in 1918, and was mentioned in despatches. He took a prominent part in local social life and politics, and in 1929 stood as a Conservative candidate for Parliament at Peckham. At the general election of 1931 he was returned as MP for South Hammersmith, which he represented until 1945. His principal interest was the promotion of trade between the countries of the Empire. He was knighted in 1945. Cooke married in 1907 Elsie Muriel, daughter of General James Burston of Melbourne, who survived him with a son and three daughters, one of whom married the eldest son and heir of Sir W E C Quilter, second baronet. Sir Douglas Cooke died on 13 July 1949 at 48 Kingston House, Princes Gate, SW7, a block of modern apartments looking over Kensington Gardens. He had previously lived at 35A Great Cumberland Place. His favourite recreations were tennis, golf, and shooting.
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First Title value, for Searching Galpin, George Luck (1857 - 1941)

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First Title value, for Searching Wood, Abraham ( - 1874)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-02-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Practised at Rochdale, Lancashire, and died there on October 23rd, 1874.
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First Title value, for Searching Gask, George Ernest (1875 - 1951)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 1 August 1875, the fourth and youngest son of Henry and Elizabeth Gask, he was educated at Dulwich College. He studied at Lausanne, Freiburg, and Baden before entering St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College in 1893. He qualified in 1898, and was appointed house surgeon to John Langton. He held the usual posts of demonstrator of pathology and surgical registrar, and in 1907 was elected assistant surgeon under D'Arcy Power. By 1914 he was recognized as an excellent consultant and teacher, and well-known as an expert mountaineer and alpinist. He was particularly interested in the surgery of the chest, at that time a new specialty. The outbreak of war in August 1914 found him ready and equipped to play a distinguished part in the RAMC. He went to France in 1916, was four times mentioned in despatches, and won the DSO in 1917. He was appointed consulting surgeon to the Fourth Army in 1918, and was created CMG in 1919 for his services. He was active throughout in securing the most up-to-date surgical treatment for wounds of the chest and lungs. The West London Medico-Chirurgical Society awarded him its gold medal for his part in this work. Gask was not only an extremely able surgeon and a man of imperturbable character, he was moved by a deep sense of mission to improve the education of younger surgeons. Though silent and reserved, he exerted considerable personal magnetism and evoked warm affection in those who knew him well. He was withal a shrewd judge of men, and determined and unhurrying in the pursuit of any goal that he set before himself. Before and during the war he prepared the way for the introduction of whole-time professorial units in the teaching hospitals, and when he was appointed the first professor of surgery in the University of London in 1919, he was ready at once to start his unit at St Bartholomew's. He was bold enough to bring (Sir) Thomas Dunhill from Melbourne as his deputy, and had as his assistants Geoffrey Keynes and R Ogier Ward. This brilliant team established the success of Gask's innovation beyond criticism. Gask served as professor till 1935, when he retired at the age of sixty and was succeeded by (Sir) James Paterson Ross. Gask instituted the exchange of duties with leading surgeons from outside his hospital, thus bringing to St Bartholomew's among others Harvey Cushing, Moynihan, (Sir) David Wilkie, G Grey Turner, and (Sir) Max Page, all Fellows of this College. He usually walked to the Hospital from his house at 4 York Gate, Regent's Park, nearly 3 miles away, arriving at 9 am. During the period of his professorship Gask took an active part in professional activities. He was an original member of the Radium Trust, and served on the Medical Research Council 1937-41; he was one of the originators of the project for a Postgraduate Medical School in London, which he hoped to see established at one of the old undergraduate teaching hospitals, whose great traditions might thus be carried on at a new level. When the British Postgraduate Medical School was set up at the London County Council's Hammersmith Hospital he gave himself wholeheartedly to its service, as perhaps the most active member of its governing body. He took a leading part in the conduct of the *British Journal of Surgery*, attracting a wider membership to the general committee as the original founders gave up the work, and he himself succeeded Moynihan as chairman of the editorial committee and maintained the very high standard which the *Journal* had won. He examined in surgery for the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London, and Bristol. At the College he was a member of Council 1923-39 and vice-president 1933-34, being elected in March 1933 after the sudden death of Sir Percy Sargent. He gave a Hunterian lecture in 1930, and the Vicary lecture the same year; he was Bradshaw lecturer in 1932, and gave a special Hunterian lecture in 1937, describing the lately discovered papers of John Hunter's army service in Portugal in 1762-63. He was president of the Medical Society of London in 1935. With all this busy practice and administrative work Gask found time for much writing both professional and historical. With W G Spencer he issued a revision of Walsham's Practice of surgery in 1910, which was long a popular textbook, and with J Paterson Ross he published a pioneer study of the *Surgery of the sympathetic nervous system* in 1937. His historical writings were reprinted in a volume which his numerous friends and admirers gave him on his seventy-fifth birthday in 1950. Gask retired completely from all this activity in 1935 at the age of 60, settled in the country, and devoted himself to gardening. He served as a magistrate and on the rural district council. If he had not returned to full activity during the second world war, which broke out four years later, it might have been asked how a man of such great abilities, personal eminence, and successful achievement failed to win the very foremost position in his profession. Gask's very qualities were his only drawback he was ambitious not for himself but for his ideas, he was without guile and without a sense of rivalry. His calm and happy nature had the infinite patience of genius, but not its driving impetus. Immediately war broke out in September 1939, Gask was invited act temporarily as a surgeon at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, and a took part in the work of the rapidly expanding Oxford medical school. He was made a member of the high table at Christ Church, where his scholarly and friendly nature was warmly appreciated, and he admitted MA by decree of the University. He had been elected emeritus professor of surgery in the University of London when he retired in 1935 and consulting surgeon and a governor of St Bartholomew's. As the war went on he added to his duties at Oxford, becoming adviser in surgery for the region (Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire) under the Ministry of Health's Emergency Medical Service, and also working for the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust and for the Bucks and Oxon region hospitals Council. Gask married in 1913 Ada Alexandra, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Crombie, CB MD of the Indian Medical Service. He died on 16 January 1951, aged 75, at his home Hatchmans, Hambleden Henley-on-Thames, survived by his wife and their son, Dr John Gask. He had suffered for some months from coronary thrombosis. The funeral at Hambleden was conducted by the Dean of Christ Church, and the memorial service was held at St Bartholomew-the-Less on 1 February. He left £1,000 to St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College. Gask practised a technique of extreme gentleness in the handling of tissues, at a time when the importance of this was barely appreciated, and later developed and taught the "no-touch" technique, the tissues being moved entirely by forceps. He was never ruffled even in the most trying circumstances, and an unexpected crisis made him pause for reflection rather than rush ahead. He believed in learning from the work of other surgeons, was an early member of Moynihan's Chirurgical Club for visiting surgical clinics in Britain, and for many years organized the very successful European tours of the Surgical Pilgrims. Earlier he had been a regular visitor to Switzerland for climbing and was honorary secretary of the Alpine Club. Many foreign honours came to him: he was an honorary Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, of the Académie de Chirurgie in Paris and the Société chirurgicale at Lyons, and a corresponding member of the Roman Academy of Surgery. He was decorated with the Legion of Honour (Officier) in 1937. The *British Journal of Surgery* for July 1950 (vol 38, no 149) was dedicated to him in honour of his seventy-fifth birthday. It contains a good photograph and an unsigned appreciation by Geoffrey Keynes. Gask was a man of splendid physique and fine appearance. Principal publications:- *The practice of surgery*. 10th edition of W J Walsham's *Surgery, its theory and practice*, by W G Spencer and G E Gask, London, 1910; 11th edition, *Surgery, a textbook*, by Gask and H. W Wilson, 1920. Methods of treating wounds of the chest, Lettsomian Lectures. *Trans Med Soc Lond* 1921, 44, 161. A contribution to the study of the treatment of epithelioma of the tongue by radium. Hunterian lecture, Royal College of Surgeons. *Lancet*, 1930, 1, 223. Vicary's predecessors. Thomas Vicary lecture, RCS 1930. *Brit J Surg* 1931, 18, 479-500. Experiences of the surgery of the sympathetic nervous system. Bradshaw lecture, RCS 1932. *Brit J Surg* 1933, 21, 113-130. *Surgery of the sympathetic nervous system*, with J Paterson Ross. London, Bailliere, 1937. A German translation of this book was published. Clean wounds, ancient and modem. Annual oration 1934. *Trans Med Soc Lond* 1934, 57, 270. Changing surgery. Presidential address 1935. *Trans Med Soc London*, 1936, 59, 1. John Hunter in the campaign in Portugal 1762-63. Special Hunterian lecture, RCS *Brit J Surg* 1937, 24, 640-668. *Essays in the History of Medicine*. London, Butterworth 1950, with portrait photographs of Gask. This volume was prepared by a group of his friends, published by subscription, and presented to him at a small gathering in his sick-room on his seventy-fifth birthday, 1 August 1950.
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First Title value, for Searching Gauvain, Sir Henry John (1878 - 1945)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in the Channel Isle of Alderney on 28 November 1878, the eldest surviving son of Captain William Gauvain, HM Receiver-General for the Island, and his wife Catherine Le Ber. After a severe attack of scarlet fever while at a preparatory school in England, he was educated privately in Alderney and London till he won a scholarship at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took first class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part 1, 1902. He received his medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was senior science scholar and served as house surgeon, midwifery assistant, and clinical assistant in the departments of children's diseases and orthopaedics. In spite of his youth and recent qualification (1906), he was appointed in 1908 the first medical superintendent of Lord Mayor Treloar's Cripples Hospital and College at Alton, Hants. The man and the hospital mutually made each other. Gauvain's first interest was in the surgery of bone and joint tuberculosis. These branches of surgery were then in their heroic age, but Gauvain believed the conditions to be curable by fresh air and sunlight, and with rare prevision set out to make his hospital the best of its kind. While always remaining an active and able surgeon, he threw himself wholeheartedly into a campaign for the recognition of "natural" treatment for tuberculous child-patients, nor did he neglect the good effect on their health of regular education. Auguste Rollier had been before him in his famous open-air clinic at Leysin (1903) in Switzerland, but Gauvain believed and taught that the variety of weather available in England, with the accessibility of the sea, made this country peculiarly suitable for successful treatment. He was also influenced by the example of Berck-sur-Mer in France which for at least twenty years had devoted itself to the sea-air cure of tuberculous patients. At the sea-side and the country Gauvain devised "sun-traps" with draught-free aeration giving protection by wind-break hurdles and heat from braziers where necessary. He paid several visits to the Finsens Institute in Denmark and was elected an Honorary Member of the Copenhagen Medical Society. Though always ready to improvise, Gauvain did not disdain to use the most modem methods, and after thirty years he lived to see Alton fully rebuilt and equipped with the finest electrotherapeutic devices as "the hospital of his dreams". He had begun with old South African War huts which he turned into five efficient surgical units, on a terrace which was the show-piece for foreign visitors. In 1920 he started a seaside branch at Hayling Island, and the experiments which Sir Leonard Hill, FRS carried out for him fully proved the value of the system of alternation of sea and sunlight which Gauvain had established. He also started a "trade-teaching" college for his young patients, and was thus a pioneer of "occupational therapy" and "rehabilitation" twenty years before those expressions became current. Gauvain created the modern view of bone and joint tuberculosis. He also made himself an authority on hospital planning. He was an excellent speaker and administrator, and was in demand for consultation and as a lecturer. He was consulting surgeon to the King Edward VII Welsh National Memorial Association for treatment of tuberculosis, and consulting surgeon in tuberculosis to the London and Essex County Councils, and consulting surgeon to the Hampshire County Council and the King George's Sanatorium for Sailors at Bramshott, where he established an Open-air ward. He examined in tuberculosis-treatment for the University of Wales. At the Royal Society of Medicine Gauvain served as president of the sections of electrotherapeutics and of diseases of children. He was chairman of the Joint Tuberculosis Council (see the life of Ernest Ward), a vice-president of the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis and of the International Light-treatment Commission. From 1932 to 1937 he was a vice-president of the Institute of Hygiene and, till his death, of its successor the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene. In 1935 he went to Australia for the Melbourne meeting of the British Medical Association and was president of the sections of tuberculosis and public health, speaking on "Sea-bathing in the treatment of tuberculosis". The next year, 1936, he was in the United States and was honoured with the Gold Key of the American Congress of Physical Therapy. In 1938 he was making plans to establish a hydro-therapeutic centre for the treatment of anterior poliomyelitis at Hayling Island. Cheerful and optimistic, Gauvain was as friendly with his child patients and their parents as with the City Fathers, who were the patrons of his hospital and whom he persuaded to look on it as their week-end cottage. He also started at Alton a private hospital, the Morland Hall Clinics. In 1940 he took in at Alton a hundred Belgian refugee cripple children from a home at Ostend. Gauvain was elected FRCS, as a Member of twenty years' standing, in 1927; he had been knighted in 1920. He was also a Commander of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. Gauvain married in 1913 Louise Laura (Lulie), daughter of William Butler, MRCS, IMS. He died at Morland Hall, Alton on 19 January 1945 aged 66. Lady Gauvain survived him only two months, and died on 15 March 1945. Their son had died before them; their daughter, Suzette, married Major Ronald Ormiston Murray, RAMC, sometime resident medical officer at the Treloar Hospital. A memorial service was held on 2 February 1945 at St Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield. It was attended by the Belgian Ambassador, and the Archbishop of York, Dr C F Garbett, delivered the funeral oration. Gauvain's recreations were travel, sailing, and fishing. He took a keen interest in the welfare of his native Isle of Alderney. One of his last acts was to write a letter to *The Times* on behalf of the other Channel Islanders who were still under German occupation, although the mainland of France had been liberated for several months; the whole population of Alderney had been successfully evacuated to England in 1940. Gauvain's career ran parallel to that of W T G Pugh at Carshalton, and he was succeeded at Alton by one of Pugh's former staff, E S Evans, FRCS. Publications:- The sun cure. *The Times*, 11 May 1922. The pioneer light-treatment department at Alton. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1925, 19, electrotherapeutics, p 1; *Lancet*, 1925, 2, 10. Evolution of hospital schools, with Evelyn Holmes. *Lancet*, 1929, 1, 789 and 838. Mechanical treatment of spinal caries. *Lancet*, 1911, 1, 568. A sign of pathological activity in tubercular disease of the hip joint. *Lancet*, 1918, 2, 666. All-weather balconies. *Lancet*, 1927, 1, 755; 1933, 1, 321. Planning a hospital, Annual oration. *Trans Med Soc Lond* 1938, 61, 246. Gauvain was an advisory editor of the *British Journal of Tuberculosis*.
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First Title value, for Searching Gemmill, William (1880 - 1946)

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First Title value, for Searching George V (1865 - 1936)

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First Title value, for Searching Gibbs, Charles (1868 - 1943)

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First Title value, for Searching Gibson, John Monro (1905 - 1935)

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First Title value, for Searching Giles, Leonard Thomason (1868 - 1933)

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First Title value, for Searching Dolbey, Robert Valentine (1878 - 1937)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 14 February 1878 at Stafford House, Sutton, Surrey, the second son and second child of Thomas Hamer Dolbey, barrister-at-law of the Middle Temple, and Louisa Ann Jones, his wife. She was the daughter of Robert Jones, MRCS 1842, LSA 1830, of Strefford, Craven Arms, Shropshire. Dolbey was educated at Dr Clifford's preparatory school, Sutton, and during 1890-97 at Dulwich College, where he proved himself a good athlete, and afterwards entered the London Hospital Medical School. His student career was interrupted by his acting as a dresser during the South African war, when he was rewarded for his services by receiving the King's medal with five clasps. Returning to the London Hospital he qualified, acted as house surgeon, senior resident accoucheur, assistant resident anaesthetist, clinical assistant in the throat department, and assistant pathologist. Migrating to British Columbia in 1906, he practised successfully at 553 Granville Street, Vancouver until 1914, and was elected a foundation Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. At the outbreak of the war he was attached from 12 August 1914 as medical officer to the 2nd battalion of the King's Own Scottish Borderers, was taken prisoner and remained in Germany from November 1914 to May 1915. He was gazetted temporary captain, RAMC on 10 July 1917, served in Tanganyika and on the Italian front, and was promoted to the rank of major. In 1919 he was appointed professor of clinical surgery at the Royal School of Medicine, Cairo, and surgeon to the Kasr-el-Aini Hospital. He was also for some years surgeon to the Anglo-American Hospital at Cairo. These posts he resigned at the end of 1930 when he returned to London and, practising at 97 Harley Street, lived at Chelsworth Hall, Chelsworth, Suffolk. He married on 22 June 1925 Virginia, daughter of William Gay, of Reno, Nevada, the widow of R T Stimpson of San Francisco. She survived him with a son and a daughter. He died at Chelsworth Hall on 12 November 1937; his ashes were buried at Winstanstow, Shropshire. Dolbey was a good organizer, a popular teacher, and a ready writer. He had great personal charm and was an influence for good over all with whom he was brought into close contact. His work in organizing dressing stations in Italy is said to have been of outstanding merit. Publications:- Epidemic jaundice in South Africa. *Brit med J*. 1902, 2, 1587. Slow continuous fever in South Africa. *Ibid*. 1902, 2, 1707. Role of the lymphoid tissue in inflammatory conditions of the alimentary canal. *Surg Gynec Obstet*. 1909, 9, 339. The treatment of gunshot wounds of the lung and pleura. *J R Army med Corps*, 1916, 27, 158. Treatment of gunshot wounds involving the knee-joint. *Ibid*. 1917, 28, 35. *A regimental surgeon in war and prison*. London, 1917. *Sketches of the East Africa campaign*. London, 1918. On Bilharzial papillomatosis of the rectum, with I Fahmy. *Lancet*, 1924, 1, 487. Hydrophobia in Egypt, with Abdullah el Katib. *Ibid*. 1924, 1, 538. The incidence of cancer in Egypt, an analysis of 671 cases, with A W Moozo. *Ibid*. 1924, 1, 587. Surgical tuberculosis in Egypt, analysis of 2500 cases, with A W Moozo. *Ibid*. 1924, 1, 1153. Some notes upon blood transfusion in Egypt, with A W Moozo. *Ibid*. 1924, 2, 547. A note concerning the incidence of goitre in Egypt, with an analysis of 216 cases, with Mustafa Omar. *Ibid*. 1924, 2, 549.
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First Title value, for Searching Shirley, Henry James (1819 - 1871)

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First Title value, for Searching Shute, Gay (1812 - 1891)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-17
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Occupation Obstetrician
Details Born on November 1st, 1812, at Gosport, where his father was a medical practitioner. He was privately educated at Watford, whither his family moved. He entered as a student at University College Hospital in 1829, and after qualifying was for five years (1837-1842) House Surgeon at the Chichester Infirmary. Here he gained considerable experience and performed most of the operations. When thirty years of age he bought the practice of Frederick Colton Finch at Bexley House, Greenwich, and later moved to Dr Watford's house at Croom's Hill. He practised in the Greenwich and Blackheath district for forty-eight years, and was greatly trusted, being regarded as a very able obstetrician and being called in consultation in most difficult midwifery cases. He was a man of fine physique, and had enjoyed perfect health till a year before his death. He died at Croom's Hill early on the morning of May 4th, 1891. At the time of his death he was Consulting Surgeon to the Miller Hospital, and was locally regarded as the Father of the Profession. He married twice: (1) to Miss Rixon, of Chichester, and left surviving two sons and two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Lilley, Ernest Lewis (1876 - 1948)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-08-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Leicester 30 May 1876, elder child and only son of Samuel John Lilley, carriage builder, and Martha Lewis, his wife. His father was one of the first builders of motor-car bodies. He was educated at Wyggeston School, Leicester, and at Charing Cross Hospital where he won an entrance scholarship. He took the Conjoint qualification in 1899, and won honours in surgery at the London MB, BS examination in 1901. He served as house surgeon, house physician and resident medical officer at the Hospital, took the Fellowship in 1903, and settled in practice at Leicester in 1904. He was appointed the first medical officer in charge of the Leicester and Leicestershire Maternity Hospital in Causeway Lane, a post he held till its amalgamation with the Royal Infirmary, when he was appointed consulting surgeon. He was also anaesthetist to the Leicester School Clinic, first at Richmond House and latterly at Clarendon Park Road. During the war of 1914-1919 Lilley served at first as surgeon to the 5th Northern General Hospital, and then from September 1916 to February 1919 in Egypt, as skiagraphist at the Citadel Military Hospital, Cairo, and latterly as medical officer in charge of a prisoner of war camp in the desert. He also served as examiner in anatomy at the Royal Egyptian School of Medicine. After his return to Leicester Lilley took an increasing share in public duties. He became Leicester factories' surgeon and president of the Leicester public medical service, and was president of the Leicester Medical Society. He was president of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society in 1932, and continued to contribute papers to the philosophical section in later years. He served on the council of Leicester University College, and founded and fostered its music department and music library. He was also chairman of the Leicester Recruiting Board. He was a member of council of the British Medical Association and of the Medical Defence Union, and served on the Ministry of Health's advisory committees on medical therapeutic substances and the *National War Formulary*. He contributed an account of the *National Formulary* to Sir Humphry Rolleston's book *Favourite prescriptions* in "The Practitioner" series. Lilley married in 1913 Margaret Nora, younger daughter of Richard Wood, MD, MRCS, of Llanbedr, Merioneth, North Wales, who survived him, but without children. He died suddenly in his consulting rooms at the corner of Waterloo Street and New Walk, Leicester, on 22 November 1948, aged 72; he had just come in from his morning's work at the School Clinic. His home was at Delapre, Scraptoft, Leicester. Subject to a life interest, he left £2,000 to the Great Vestry Meeting of East Bond Street, Leicester, for the maintenance and improvement of the musical aspects of the Great Meeting services; £500 to the Incorporated Association of Organists Benevolent Fund; and after numerous other legacies and bequests his residue to University College, Leicester. Lilley's recreation was music. He was for forty years organist and choirmaster of the Unitarian Great Meeting Chapel, East Bond Street, Leicester, and was a founder and active member of the Leicester Chamber Music Club.
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First Title value, for Searching Duer, Charles (1861 - 1937)

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First Title value, for Searching Duffett, Henry Allcroft (1870 - 1937)

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First Title value, for Searching Paterson, Herbert John (1867 - 1940)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Glasgow, 10 March 1867, the first surviving child of the Rev Hugh Sinclair Paterson, a minister of the Free Kirk of Scotland, who was admitted a Doctor of Medicine by the University of Glasgow in 1863, and Katherine Maria Anderson, his wife. He was educated at King's College, London, at Lausanne, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a foundation exhibitioner and graduated BA. At St Bartholomew's Hospital he gained the senior entrance scholarship in natural science and, after qualifying, was appointed an assistant resident anaesthetist. In this position his inherent obstinacy failed to please his colleagues, who unceremoniously "ducked" him in the hospital fountain. He was appointed house surgeon to the National Temperance Hospital in 1893, became assistant surgeon in 1901, surgeon in 1913, and emeritus surgeon on his resignation in 1934. During his period as assistant surgeon he instituted and organized an out-patient department at the Hospital. At the Royal College of Surgeons of England he gained the Jacksonian prize in 1904, and two years later he was a Hunterian professor of surgery. He was examiner in surgery to the Universities of Glasgow and Cambridge, consulting surgeon to the Ministry of Pensions Hospital, and during the war of 1914-18 was honorary surgeon in charge of Queen Alexandra's Hospital for Officers, and afterwards surgeon to King Edward VII Hospital for Officers. Other activities included the honorary medical secretaryship of the Royal British Nurses' Association and a long period of service on behalf of the Fellowship of Medicine, as honorary secretary, 1919-31, and as chairman of the executive committee 1931-40, his interest in postgraduate education dating back to long before the establishment of the Hammersmith School. He married on 13 July 1910 Tempe Langrish, daughter of G H Faber, MP for Boston, Lincolnshire. She survived him but without children. He died at Glasgow on 31 May 1940, after having lived at The Whins, Berkhamsted, Herts. He left £1,000 to Trinity College, Cambridge, for an annual Paterson medal and exhibition to a medical student, and £500 to the Medical College of St Bartholomew's Hospital. Paterson was a pioneer in postgraduate teaching; a man of pleasing personality, cultivated mind, and modest demeanour. Throughout his life he was a total abstainer from alcohol, and an excellent conjuror. His reminiscences were published posthumously. Publications: *Diagnosis and treatment of such affections of the stomach as are amenable to surgical interference*. Jacksonian prize essay, RCS, 1904. W J Waisham. *Handbook of surgical pathology*, 4th edition, by H J Paterson, London, 1904. *Gastric surgery*. Hunterian lectures, RCS, 1906. Jejunal and gastrojejunal ulcer following gastrojejunostomy. *Ann Surg* 1909, 50, 367-440. Appendicular gastralgia. *Lancet*, 1910, 1, 708. *The surgery of the stomach*. London, 1913; 2nd edition, 1914. *Indigestion, its differential diagnosis and treatment*. London, 1929. *A surgeon looks back*. London, 1941.
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First Title value, for Searching Smee, Alfred (1818 - 1877)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-02-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Camberwell on June 18th, 1818, the second son of William Smee, accountant-general to the Bank of England. He entered St Paul's School, then situated in St Paul's Churchyard, on November 7th, 1829, and became a student at King's College, London, in October, 1834. Here he won the Silver Medal and prize for chemistry in 1836 and the Silver Medals for anatomy and physiology in 1837. He afterwards entered St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he dressed for William Lawrence and obtained the prize in surgery. He lived the greater part of his student life in the Bank of England, where his father had an official residence, and it was here that he carried out the work on chemistry and electrometallurgy which afterwards made him famous. He practised as a surgeon in Finsbury Circus, devoting himself more especially to the treatment of diseases of the eye, but was always more occupied in the solution of chemical problems and in the study of electrical science. Smee's battery of zinc and silver in sulphuric acid was the outcome of this work; it was largely employed for trade purposes and gained the Isis Gold Medal at the Society of Arts. In January, 1841, he was appointed Surgeon to the Bank of England, a post specially created for him by the Court of Directors upon the recommendation of Sir Astley Cooper, who thought the Bank could turn his scientific abilities to good account. In 1842 he invented a durable writing-ink, and in 1854, with Mr Hensman, the engineer, and Mr Coe, the superintendent of printing at the Bank, he perfected a system of printing the cheques and notes. Certain modifications were introduced into the manufacture of the notes to render it impossible any longer to duplicate them by horizontal splitting. His communication on "New Bank of England Notes and the Substitution of Surface Printing from Electrotypes for Copperplate Printing" was read before the Society of Arts in 1854. Smee was elected FRS in June, 1841, and in 1842 he was appointed Surgeon to the Royal General Dispensary in Aldersgate Street. He also lectured on surgery at the Aldersgate Street School of Medicine and was Surgeon to the Central London Ophthalmic Institution. He was much occupied with a work, *Elements of Electro-biology*, which appeared in 1849 (8vo, London) and was republished in a more popular form in 1850 under the title, *Instinct and Reason*. It was a pioneer excursion into the territory of electrical physiology. Smee took a great interest in the welfare of the London Institutions, and in 1854 was instrumental in establishing a system of educational lectures which proved attractive and were of great value. He was one of the founders of the Gresham Life Assurance Society and of the Accident Insurance Company. He devoted himself to horticulture in later life and maintained an experimental garden at Wallington in Surrey. The results were published in a magnificent work, *My Garden: Its Plan and Culture* (1872), which is written somewhat upon the lines of White's *Selborne*. A second edition which appeared in the same year is illustrated with thirteen hundred cuts. Smee contested Rochester in the Conservative interest in 1865, 1868, and 1874, but each time without success. He married Miss Hutchinson on June 2nd, 1840, and by her had issue, a son, Alfred Hutchinson, who was a Fellow of the Chemical Society, and two daughters, one of whom married William Odling, FRS, Professor of Chemistry in the University of Oxford. Smee died of diabetes at 7 Finsbury Square, EC, on January 11th, 1877, and was buried at St Mary's Church, Beddington, Surrey. Had Smee lived a few years later he would have become a distinguished electrical engineer. His chief achievement dealt with electro-metallurgy, including the art of electrotyping. His medical work was subordinated to other and, as it proved, more important issues, yet even here his acumen enabled him to carry out improvements in the details of everyday practice. He invented, while yet a student, that method of making splints from plastic materials, known as 'gum and chalk', which was superseded by 'Croft's splints' (*see* Croft John), and he was quick to turn to account the physical properties of gutta-percha. He also employed electrical means to detect the presence of needles impacted in different parts of the human body. There is a portrait of him in the College Collection. Publications:- *Elements of Electro-metallurgy*, 8vo, London, 1840. A valuable work dealing with the laws regulating the reduction of metals in different states as well as a description of the processes of platinating and palladiating, so that reliefs and intaglios in gold can readily be obtained. Smee was also the first to discover a method of making perfect reverses in plaster by rendering the plaster non-absorbent. The second edition was published in 1843, the third in 1851, and it was translated into Welsh, 12mo, 1852. *On the Detection of Needles . . . Impacted in the Human Body*, 8vo, London, 1845. *Vision in Health and Disease*, 8vo, London, 1847 ; 2nd ed., 1854. *A Sheet of Instructions as to the Proper Treatment of Accidents and Emergencies*, 12mo, New York, 1850 ; 10th ed., London, undated. Translated into French, 12mo, Paris, 1872, and into German, 8vo, Berlin, undated.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Cornelius (1808 - 1861)

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First Title value, for Searching Lobo, Victor John Eudes Dominic ( - 2008)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-06-12 2015-06-05
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Victor Lobo was a consultant ENT surgeon in the Maidstone and Medway areas of Kent. He was educated at St George's College, Weybridge, and then studied medicine at St Mary's Hospital Medical School. Victor Lobo died on 2 November 2008. He was survived by his wife Barbara, two children, Louise and Gavin, and four grandchildren (Charles, Jessica, Luke and Charlotte).
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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, Edward (1857 - 1946)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-03
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 10 December 1857, son of C Harrison, cotton manufacturer of Derby. He was educated at Derby School 1868-75, and was elected to a scholarship in natural science at Clare College, Cambridge, 1873, to senior scholarship in 1875 and a foundation scholarship in 1878, in which year he took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos and was also a prizeman of his college. He was assistant university demonstrator of anatomy at Cambridge 1879-80, and later examined in anatomy for Clare and Caius Colleges 1881-82, and was a university extension lecturer in physiology 1882. He entered St George's Hospital Medical School in January 1882, and in 1883 was appointed assistant house surgeon to Huddersfield Infirmary. Harrison moved to Hull in 1885 on appointment as house surgeon to the Royal Infirmary there. He practised at Hull for the rest of his working life, becoming eventually consulting surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, and had been surgeon to the Hull Dispensary. He lived first at 3 Wright Street, and later at 19 Victoria Avenue, Hull. During the first world war Harrison served as a captain, RAMC(T), at the Military Hospital, Hornsea. Harrison took an active part in the professional and cultural life of Hull. He was president of the East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire branch of the British Medical Association in 1898, and served the office of president to both the Astronomical and the Literary and Philosophical Societies of Hull. He was also a keen member of the Hull Philharmonic Society and acted as deputy organist of Holy Trinity church. After retiring Harrison lived at 34 St Andrew's Road, Paignton, South Devon, where he died on 18 March 1946, aged 88. Publications:- Valvular obstruction of ureter. *Brit med J*. 1904, 2, 1572. Musculo-spinal nerve injuries. *Practitioner*, 1909, 83, 698. Treatment of wounds of thoracic duct. *Brit J Surg*. 1916, 4, 304.
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First Title value, for Searching Duval, Pierre (1874 - 1941)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Paris on 24 June 1874. His father, a lawyer, died when Pierre was seven years old, leaving a widow and six children. He was educated at the Lycée Monge and the Lycée Condorcet, at Heidelberg, and at the University of Paris, where he passed every examination with honours. In 1898 he began his internship, serving under Edouard Quénu, Reclus, Lannelongue, and Guyon. At the Faculty of Medicine he served as demonstrator to Faraboeuf, assistant in anatomy 1899, and prosector 1901. In 1902 he graduated MD with a thesis on the semiology of cancer of the pelvic colon, and won the gold medal. He proceeded agrégé in surgery 1904, and chirurgien des hôpitaux 1905. From 1901 to 1912 he acted as assistant to Edouard Quénu, with whom he did considerable research, including a study of anastomosis of the ureters into the large intestine. He always remained interested in genitourinary surgery. Quénu turned his interest primarily to the surgical pathology of the large intestine. In his thesis Duval described for the first time the mobilization of fixed segments of the large intestine by colo-parietal décollement, a revolutionary technique which was universally adopted. In 1913 he made a remarkable report on surgery of the pelvic colon to the Congrès de Chirurgie. Through this period Duval had worked on a wide variety of surgical problems. With Quénu he published the first French account of splenectomy in Banti's disease; and he contributed sections on genito-urinary surgery and on diseases of the intestine, rectum, and peritoneum to well-known textbooks. In 1912 Duval became head of the surgical clinic at Bicêtre, but before he could make his mark he was called to the army as aide-major in the ambulance service of the 10th Army. He served in the withdrawal from Belgium, autumn 1914, and the first battle of the Marne. Then he was posted to Fougères at the base, and soon given surgical direction of the 10th Region with control of 14,000 beds. He proved himself a brilliant administrator. In 1916 he returned to active service as médecin-major 1st class, in charge of Ambulance Corps 21 at Bray-sur-Somme and at Noyon. In 1917 he assumed the surgical control of the Army of Flanders with headquarters at Zuydcoote, halfway between the casualty clearing stations and the base hospitals of Amiens and Abbeville. Later he went to Malmaison, was consulting surgeon with the Army of Alsace, then to Flanders again, to Montdidier, and finally was officer in charge of 4,000 beds at Pontoise. His war work gave rise to numerous special studies and four major researches. First, thoracic surgery where he advocated direct intervention for chest wounds. His results and theories were published in his *Plaies de guerre du poumon* 1918. Secondly, he was a fervent and successful advocate of serotherapy for the prevention of gas gangrene. Thirdly, he introduced the practice of delayed primitive suture in the armies under his charge; that is to say, excision of wounds was to be effected in the field and primitive suture completed some days later at the base. Finally, he studied traumatic shock, proving its toxic origin in the chemical breakdown of the injured tissues. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre with a bar, and created Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur 1915, promoted Officier in 1918, and became Commandeur in 1934. He was sent on special missions to the Belgian and British armies, to Italy, and to America. He was elected to the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain, to the American College of Surgeons, and on 2 February 1920 an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Returning to civil practice, Duval became surgeon to the Lariboisière Hospital and was elected professor of operative surgery in the Paris Faculty 1919. Two years later he was made head of the new University Hospital at Vaugirard, and professor of clinical surgery. Here he established a surgical clinic after his own heart, supported by a battery of specialist subsidiaries, medical, biochemical, radiological, etc. Duval took a particular interest in the radiological study of his surgical cases. Duval was now the centre and head of an elaborate team, whom he inspired to fulfil his conception of physiological surgery, a conception similar to Moynihan's "pathology of the living". A vast output of surgical research came from Duval and his team in the twenty years remaining to him. He worked again on various aspects of surgery of the large intestine, thoracic surgery, duodenal ulcer. In particular he stressed the importance of pre-operative treatment of bacterial infection in cases of ulceration. He advocated urgent gastrectomy for perforated ulcer. His *Etudes médico-radio-chirurgicales sur le duodenum*, with J-Ch Roux and H Béclère, was an outstanding contribution to the subject, and differentiated three distinct affections previously confused (1924). Duval explored and improved the surgery of the pancreas, gall bladder, liver, and spleen. In 1931 he opened a crusade on behalf of immediate intervention, in the first 24 hours, in all cases of appendicitis. But his most important work was his study of post-operative toxicity, and of general infection after burns. Both arose from his earlier work on shock and were inspired by his ideal of physiological surgery and his realization of the importance to the surgeon of biochemical investigation. Duval was throughout his career an inspiring teacher, of dynamic intellect, to whom his pupils and assistants became devoted friends. Duval served as president of the Society (now Academy) of Surgery in 1932, and had become president of the Academy of Medicine in January 1941, just before his sudden death. He had travelled widely in Europe and North and South America, and was a corresponding member of the surgical academies of numerous capitals. When war began again in September 1939, Duval took an active part in the background of medico-military work. He was a prompt supporter of the introduction of sulfonamide treatment. When Paris fell in June 1940, he remained at his post at Vaugirard, and carried on his surgical work, both clinical and research, with unabated energy. He married Carmen Laffitte, whose death between the wars was a great shock to him. Their sons distinguished themselves: Charles-Claude, a lawyer, married a daughter of M Deschamel, at one time President of the Republic, and Paul-Marie became professor of geology at the Sorbonne. Duval died after a very short illness on 7 February 1941, survived by his sons, the younger of whom was a prisoner-of-war in Germany at the time of Pierre Duval's death. He had lived at 119 Rue de Lille, Paris. Duval was a man of great beauty of character, and wide interests, warm-hearted though a little formal, and absolutely upright.
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First Title value, for Searching Dyall, Thomas James (1865 - 1932)

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First Title value, for Searching Haslam, William Frederic (1856 - 1932)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-03
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born 24 August 1856 at 4 Friar Street, Reading, the son of James Haslam, a land and estate agent and auctioneer, and Catherine Clarke his wife. He was educated at Amersham Hall School, Caversham, and at Marlborough Grammar School, and was early apprenticed to a surgeon on the staff of the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading. Entering St Thomas's Hospital, London, on 1 October 1874 he acted as prosector in 1875-76 and in that year gained the first College prize. In 1876-77 he was appointed, whilst yet a student, assistant demonstrator of anatomy, and was selected as a prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons on account of the beauty of his dissections. He also gained the Cheselden medal for anatomy and surgery. He acted as house surgeon in 1878-79 and was afterwards non-resident house physician. During 1879-82 he was demonstrator of anatomy in the medical school of St Thomas's, and served as resident accoucheur in the Hospital in 1881. Later in this year he acted as assistant medical officer at the Deptford Fever Hospital. He was appointed assistant surgeon at the Birmingham General Hospital, in February 1882, becoming surgeon in 1891, and consulting surgeon in 1914. At Queen's College, Birmingham, he was appointed medical tutor in 1883, and acted as demonstrator of anatomy 1884-92. When the University of Birmingham was established he was appointed the first lecturer in applied anatomy, a post he occupied for eight years. In the University, too, he lectured on surgery to dental students 1908-13, and was joint professor of surgery 1913-19. On his retirement from the chair of surgery in 1919 he was appointed dean of the Faculty of Medicine, and began again to lecture on applied anatomy; during 1919-28 he taught osteology to the first year students, and spent the greater part of his working day in the dissecting room. At the Royal College of Surgeons of England he was examiner in anatomy 1891-99 and 1919-24. He was a member of the Court of Examiners 1903-13, and a member of Council 1908-24, being a vice- president in 1917-18. He married on 2 October 1888 Amy, daughter of Lewis Cooper, of Caversham Hill, Reading, but there were no children. He died on 18 February 1932 after a long illness and was buried at the Lodge Hill Cemetery, Selly Oak, Birmingham. Haslam was certainly the best beloved teacher of his generation in Birmingham. On the occasion of his retirement in 1928 he was presented by his colleagues and friends with a silver tray and a cheque as a mark of their affection, and during his life time a "Haslam Oration" was founded by the Birmingham Medical Society. The first Oration was delivered by Dr J C Brash, his successor in the chair of anatomy 3 February 1930. He was humble-minded, versatile, absolutely trustworthy and always ready to help a colleague by sound advice, or by taking place temporarily in the lecture room or operating theatre. He was perhaps, one of the last surgeons to base his surgery upon a profound study of anatomy. Publication:- A review of the operations for stone in the male bladder. The Lettsomian lectures, 6 and 20 February and 5 March 1911. *Trans Med Soc Lond*. 1911, 34, 145, etc.
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First Title value, for Searching Edge, Frederick (1863 - 1937)

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First Title value, for Searching Edington, George Henry (1870 - 1943)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-21 2015-06-16
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born on 10 January 1870 at 14 Buckingham Terrace, Glasgow, W, second child and eldest son of George Brodrick Edington, iron-founder, and Charlotte Jane his wife, daughter of Peter Watt, MD. He was educated at Kelvinside Academy and Glasgow University and at King's College, London. At Glasgow he graduated with commendation in medicine and surgery in 1891, and proceeded MD with commendation in 1895. The following year he took the English conjoint qualification, and was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Faculty at Glasgow in 1897. Edington held numerous clinical and academic posts at Glasgow. He served as senior demonstrator of anatomy and from 1908 as professor of surgery at Anderson College, and lecturer in anatomy and surgery at the Western Medical School. He was lecturer and assistant to the professor in clinical surgery at the University (Sir Hector Cameron), and also examiner in surgery; was extra surgeon at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, and was on the staff of the Western Infirmary, where he was early associated with Sir William Macewen, and became surgeon in 1913 in succession to Sir George Thomas Beatson. In the same year, 1913, he was admitted DSc Glasgow for a thesis on "Congenital occlusion of the oesophagus and lower bowel". He edited the *Glasgow medical Journal* from 1902 to 1918. Edington took a very active interest in soldiering, in the Volunteer Medical Staff Corps from 1901 (captain 1904), and in the RAMC(T) from 1908 (major); he was promoted lieutenant-colonel in 1912. He served in command of the 1st Lowland field ambulance at Gallipoli in 1915, and was promoted colonel AMS in 1916. He then served as officer commanding the 78th General Hospital at Alexandria, was ADMS to the 52nd (Lowland) Division, and later senior medical officer at a base camp in Palestine. He was subsequently Honorary Colonel, RAMC units attached 52nd Division. During the second world-war he served on the Scottish civil nursing reserve advisory committee and on the Council of the Scottish National Blood-transfusion Association. In 1911 he had commanded the RAMC detachment at the Coronation of King George V. Edington took a leading part in professional societies in the cultural life of Glasgow. He was a Fellow of the Association of Surgeons and the International Society of Surgery, and a member of the Moynihan Club, at whose gatherings, especially when abroad, his genial humorous spirit was welcome. In 1927-29 he was president of the Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and from 1928 till 1940 he represented the Faculty on the General Medical Council. From 1930 he was chairman of the executive of the Scottish branch of the British Red Cross Society, of which he was a member of Council. In 1937 he was president of the Royal Medico-chiruigical Society of Glasgow, giving his presidential address on the connexions of embryology with clinical surgery. He improved the Society's house by providing an adequate setting to combine the fire-place from Lister's accident ward in the old Royal Infirmary, presented by J H Teacher, MD, with the plaque of Lister presented by Sir Hector Cameron, FRCP. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1942. Edington had a large consulting practice. He was an Honorary Physician in Scotland to King George V from 1922 to 1927, and was elected FRCS England as a Member of twenty years' standing in 1931. He was a Deputy Lieutenant and a Justice of the Peace for the City and County of Glasgow, and was assessor elected by the general council of the university to the University Court. In 1941 he received a rare appointment for a medical man of membership of the Royal Company of Archers, the King's Bodyguard in Scotland. Edington's health began to fail about the age of seventy and he underwent an operation. He died in the Western Infirmary, after suffering a heart attack while fishing, on 24 September 1943. He was never married, but lived with two sisters at 20 Woodside Place, Glasgow, C3. Fishing, travel, poetry, and books had been his chief relaxations. Publications:- *The soul of a voluntary hospital*, 1931. Chole-fistulo-gastrostomy. *Brit J Surg*. 1933, 20, 679. Cysts in hernial sacs. *Lancet*, 1935, 1, 670. Embryology and clinical surgery, illustrative examples from the cephalic and caudal ends of the body. (Presidential address.) *Trans Roy Med-chir Soc Glasg*. 1937, 32, 1.
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First Title value, for Searching Edmond, William Square (1882 - 1950)

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First Title value, for Searching Pepper, Augustus Joseph (1849 - 1935)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 7 November 1849 at Barrowden, Rutlandshire, the second son; of Anthony Sewell Pepper, butcher, and Rachel Swann, his wife. He was educated at Barrowden and at Billesdon School, Leicestershire. He then entered University College, London with a scholarship, and in the medical faculty won the Atkinson-Morley surgical scholarship, the Filliter exhibition in pathology, and the Bruce medal in surgery and pathology. At the University of London he was equally successful: in 1873 he gained the exhibition of £40 and gold medal value £5 in anatomy, the gold medal in physiology and histology, the gold medals in chemistry and materia medica at the first MD and at the final MB in 1876 the gold medals in medicine, forensic medicine, and obstetric medicine. He served as house physician, obstetric assistant, and surgical registrar at University College Hospital, and as demonstrator of anatomy under G Viner Ellis, who remained his friend for life, in the medical school. He was also teacher of practical surgery. He was appointed in 1880 an assistant surgeon supplementary to the staff at St Mary's Hospital, where he was lecturer on histology and medical tutor 1880-82. He was in charge of out-patients 1882-97, surgeon 1897-1910, and consulting surgeon from 1910 until his death. He lectured on clinical surgery jointly with Herbert Page 1897-1900, with A Quarry Silcock 1900-05, and with J E Lane 1905-06. Pepper was an accomplished anatomist, a remarkably good operator, a precise pathologist, and a first-rate teacher. These qualities led him almost by accident to become one of the leading exponents of forensic medicine, on the gross pathological side as opposed to toxicology. He was at first called in by the coroner, Dr Danford Thomas, to make autopsies and give evidence at the inquests which it was Thomas's duty to conduct. Pepper was so careful and clear a witness that his fame spread, and he was summoned by the Home Office to unravel the more difficult cases often associated with crime and he was thus associated with the trials of Crippen and the Moat Farm murderer and was a witness in the Druce case. It may be noted that as early as 1882 Pepper gave a postgraduate course at St Mary's Hospital on practical legal medicine. Pepper is described as a short man of very vivid personality. When confronted with a difficult case he at once stripped the history of all extraneous matter and went straight to the point, making an exact diagnosis, which was nearly always correct. His clear mode of thinking and his logical mind made him a brilliant, popular, and impressive clinical teacher and lecturer. He was at his best in the operating theatre, where his exact knowledge of anatomy caused him to be perfectly at home even in the most difficult operations, whilst his courage and resource in sudden emergencies were outstanding features. He was somewhat retiring in private life; he was a fine whist player and an expert horticulturist. Sir Leander Starr Jameson of the "Jameson raid" in South Africa, who had been a fellow student, remained throughout life an intimate friend. He died on 18 December 1935 at Bracknell, Foots Cray Lane, Sidcup, Kent, survived by his wife, Rachel Lockley, whom he married on 7 March. 1898. There were no children. Publications: *Elements of surgical pathology*. London, 1883; 4th edition, 1894; German translation, Leipzig, 1887. Perforating ulcer of the foot in a patient affected with remarkable degenerative changes in the spinal cord and nerves, with A Quarry Silcock. *Trans Path Soc Lond* 1884 85, 36, 63. Lectures on practical legal medicine. *Lancet*, 1887, 2, 399; 555; 903. Excision of the thyroid for malignant disease; recovery. *Ibid*. 1891, 1, 770.
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First Title value, for Searching Perrin, Walter Sydney (1882 - 1935)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at 50 Camberwell Road, SE, on 25 April 1882, the eldest son of J Walter Perrin, a City merchant, and Harriet S Savage, his wife. He was educated at Wilson School under Mr McDowell, at Richmond Hill School under Mr Whitbread, and at the City of London School under Mr A T Pollard. On 1 October 1901 he was admitted with a Tancred scholarship to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He graduated BA in 1904, after gaining a first class in Part 1 of the Natural Sciences Tripos and a first class in zoology in Part 2. He had by this time come under the influence of Adam Sedgwick of Trinity College, who was starting a school of protozoology at Cambridge. Perrin was given the Shuttleworth research scholarship and the Thruston prize by Caius College and was sent to Austria, where he went to the zoological station at Rovigno, Istria, and worked in the laboratory of Prowazek during the autumn of 1904 and the first half of the year 1905. On his return to England he was awarded the Walsingham medal and £20 given by the University of Cambridge for papers published as a result of his work on protozoology with Prowazek, and was given the post of University demonstrator of zoology under Sedgwick. He remained in Cambridge trying unsuccessfully for a Fellowship at Caius College and maintaining himself by coaching until 1907, when he realized that zoology would not maintain him and turned to medicine. He entered the London Hospital as a student, gained an entrance scholarship and two years later the Jonathan Hutchinson prize for an essay on intussusception, was awarded the medical and surgical scholarships, and was admitted MRCS and LRCP in 1912. He took the Mastership of Surgery at Cambridge in 1914, but never graduated MB. At the London Hospital he filled the posts of house surgeon, house physician, and surgical registrar, was elected assistant surgeon in 1921, and became surgeon in 1928. He also acted in the medical school of the hospital as demonstrator of anatomy when William Wright was head of the department. During the war Perrin acted first as officer in charge of the Belgian Field Hospital at Fumes; he was gazetted temporary lieutenant, RAMC on 12 March 1918 and temporary captain a year later, on appointment as a surgical specialist at various casualty clearing stations in France. On demobilization he returned to his ordinary civil duties. He married Dorothy Edith Rafferty on 9 December 1916; she survived him with two sons and a daughter. He died after a short illness on 8 December 1935 at 16 Upper Wimpole Street, aged 53. Perrin, had his means allowed of it or had he gained a properly remunerated teaching post, would have been as good a protozoologist as he afterwards became a surgeon. He was excellent at research and a trained teacher of students. As a surgeon he devoted himself more especially to the diseases of the rectum, and was president of the subsection of proctology at the Royal Society of Medicine in 1932-33. His last appointment was as surgeon to the Royal Masonic Hospital. Publications: A preliminary communication of the life history of Trypanosoma balbianii. *Proc Roy Soc* 1905, B 75, 368. Researches upon the life history of Trypanosoma balbianii. *Arch Protistenk* 1906, 7, 131. Preliminary communication on the life history of Pleistophora periplanetae. *Proc Camb Phil Soc* 1906, 13, 204. Observations on the structure and life history of Pleistophora periplanetae. *Quart J micr Sci* 1905-06, 49, 615. Note on the possible transmission of sarcocystis by the blowfly. *Spolia Zeylan* 1907, 4, 58. Intussusception, a monograph based on 400 cases, with E C Lindsay. *Brit J Surg* 1921-22,9, 46-71. The ambulatory treatment of piles. *Lancet*, 1929, 1, 569.
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First Title value, for Searching Warner, Francis (1847 - 1926)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-23
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Occupation Physician
Details Born on July 10th, 1847, the son of James Neatby Warner; was educated at home until at the age of 20 in 1867 he won a junior scholarship at King's College, London. At the first MB University of London Examination he gained 1st class honours in chemistry and materia medica, in the second MB 1st class honours in midwifery. In 1870, after qualifying, he was House Physician at King's College Hospital. Upon this followed his appointment as Medical Registrar at the London Hospital; in due course he was elected Assistant Physician, then Physician, and after nearly forty years at the London Hospital he became Consulting Physician to the Hospital in 1913. It was, however, his election as Assistant Physician to the East London Children's Hospital, Shadwell, which determined Warner's researches into the development and mental physiology of the child, and into the physical and mental condition of school-children in London. A guiding principle in his research was that the state and functions of the child's brain could be interpreted by the muscular movements to which they gave rise. He observed the child whilst at rest, and while performing certain simple movements, looking at an object, holding the hands straight in front of the body with the palms down. Muscular overaction or underaction of various kinds was indicative of nervous instability; slack or convulsive positions of the hand, knitting of the eyebrows, indicated nervous strain, or such a physical defect as hypermetropia. He published from *Brain* (1880-1881) his *Visible Muscular Conditions as Expressive of the State of the Brain and Nerve Centres* (8vo, illustrated, London, 1881). In 1888 he read to the Royal Society a paper on the significance of the spontaneous movements of newborn infants, and of older babies, mental action showing itself through muscular movements - such observations led up to diagnosis and treatment of mental deficiency and disorders. Muscular movements in response to mental action were recorded by means of Marey's tambours. He had in the previous year, February, 1887, delivered three Hunterian Lectures on "The Anatomy of Movement: A Treatise on the Action of Nerve Centres and Modes of Growth" at the Royal College of Surgeons. Assisted by the British Medical Association, he made long and laborious inquiries into the mental condition of 100,000 school-children, the effect of environment on mental processes, hereditary capabilities and limitations. In classifying children he enumerated sixty-three signs of defects in bodily development. In 1889 he was a witness before the Royal Commission on the Condition of Blind, Deaf, Dumb, and Defective Children which led to the provision of special schools by the London School Board. In 1896 he was the active member of the Departmental Committee of the Local Government Board on the Feeble-Minded and on the Committee of the Home Office on Reformatory Schools; in 1898 on the Departmental Committee of the Education Department on Defective and Epileptic Children, in 1903 on the Royal Commission of Physical Training in Scotland. At the London Hospital his principal teaching was as Lecturer on the Neuroses and Psychoses of Children, and he continued to lecture up to 1914. During the War (1914-1918) he lived in the London Hospital and worked every day as a Physician for three and a half years. In 1921 he was granted a Civil List Pension in recognition of his national services. He had during his active career a busy consulting practice with children, and after becoming FRCP was Examiner in Medicine for the Royal College of Physicians and for several of the Universities. He had a country house at Whitbourne, Warlingham, Kent, and died on October 26th, 1926. He married in 1880 Louisa Loder, daughter of William Howard, of Hampstead, who survived him with a daughter, and a son in the medical profession.
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First Title value, for Searching Warren, John Collins (1842 - 1927)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-23
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on May 4th, 1842, in Boston, Mass, the son of Jonathan Mason Warren and his wife, Annie Crowninshield. The Warren family is of old New England stock. In the life of his eponymous grandfather, Dr J Collins Warren, he states: "John Collins Warren was born in Boston on August 1st, 1778. His grandfather, Joseph, was a prosperous farmer settled in Roxbury. His father, Dr John Warren, was the younger brother of Dr Joseph Warren, the Revolutionary patriot, who was killed at Bunker Hill. John Warren was one of the founders of the Harvard Medical School. Warren's mother, Abigail, was the daughter of John Collins, Governor of Rhode Island from 1786 to 1789." (*Surg, Gynecol and Obst*, 1926, xlii, 142.) The subject of this memoir was educated in the Boston Latin, and Mr Dixwell's Schools, and studied for two years in London, Edinburgh, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna. He was the Instructor of Surgery in the Harvard Medical School from 1871-1882; Assistant Professor from 1882-1887; Associate Professor from 1887-1893; Professor of Surgery from 1893-1899; Moseley Professor of Surgery from 1899-1907; Professor Emeritus from 1907 until his death; and Overseer of Harvard University from 1908-1914. He was Surgeon to Out-patients and later Visiting Surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1869-1905. He was President of the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary from 1886-1899, member and past President of the Humane Society of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and member and past President of the Bunker Hill Monument Association; hon member of the Phi Beta Kappa (Harvard, 1913); Editor of the *Boston Medical and Surgical Journal* from 1873-1881; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Hon Fellow of the American College of Surgeons; member of the American Surgical Association (President, 1896), the American Medical Association, the Massachusetts Medical Society, the College of Physicians, Philadelphia, and of the Harvard Cancer Commission (Chairman, 1899-1922). He was also a member of the Somerset and Harvard Clubs and the Massachusetts Historical Society. Warren took a very active part in the founding of the Collis P Huntington Memorial Hospital in 1911, and in the Harvard Medical School Buildings on Boylston Street in 1883 and on Longwood Avenue in 1906. He died in November, 1927. He married Amy Shaw, daughter of Gardner Howland and Cora (Lyman) Shaw on May 27th, 1873. He was survived by two sons - John Warren (d July 17th, 1928), Associate Professor of Anatomy at the Harvard Medical School, who supplied the above data; and Joseph Warren, Vice-Dean and Bussey Professor of Law at the Law School of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, who married Constance Martha Williams in 1905. There are four grandchildren. His portrait is in the Hon Fellows' Album. He left behind him a pleasant memory as of a frank and cordial American gentleman of the old school, highly cultivated and living in an atmosphere of inherited beauty. His house was filled with artistic treasures collected by himself and inherited from his forbears. In old age he grew completely blind, but retained his keen interest in affairs. Publications: *Healing of Arteries in Man and Animals after Ligature*, 8vo, New York, 1886. *Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics*, 8vo, Philadelphia, 1895; 2nd ed, 1900. Editor and part author of *International Text-book of Surgery* by American and British Authors, 2 vols, 1900; and many other medical papers. His very extensive bibliography will be found in the *Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office*.
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First Title value, for Searching Balgarnie, Wilfred (1865 - 1955)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

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Publication Date 2013-01-23 2014-07-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in the 1860s, he was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon. He practised in the north of Hampshire and was senior surgeon to the cottage hospital at Fleet. During the first world war he served as a Captain RAMC, and was created OBE. After retirement he lived at The Dutch House, Hartley Wintney, Hampshire (1), but returned to the Basingstoke district, where he died at Roseneath, Hook, in April 1955, aged nearly 90. [(1) Corrected from 'Oxon' - 23 January 2013].
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First Title value, for Searching Warry, Elias Taylor (1802 - 1866)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-30
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon. He afterwards practised at Sidmouth, Devonshire, and died there on September 16th, 1866.
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First Title value, for Searching Warwick, John ( - 1897)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Was at one time Assistant Medical Superintendent of Sussex House, Bournemouth, and then Resident Medical Superintendent of Laverstock House, Salisbury, both private lunatic asylums. He resided in later years at Oxford Terrace, London, and died in 1897 or 1898. Publications: Warwick contributed several papers to the *Jour of Psychological Med*.
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First Title value, for Searching Mansell-Moullin, Charles William (1851 - 1940)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Guernsey on 24 October 1851, the second child and second son of James Mansell Moullin, MRCS, who was then surgeon to St Mary de Castro Hospital in the Island, and his wife Matilda Emily Grigg of Newbury, Berks. His father moved afterwards to 80 Porchester Terrace, London, W2, and practised there for many years, becoming district accoucheur at St Mary's Hospital. Charles was educated at a private school and matriculated from Pembroke College, Oxford, after obtaining a scholarship on 26 October 1868. He gained a second class in classical moderations in 1870 and a first class in the final school of Natural Science in 1872. In 1877 he was elected to the medical Fellowship at Pembroke College and held it until 1886. He won the Radcliffe Travelling Fellowship in 1875 and took postgraduate courses in Vienna, Paris, and Strassburg, and was an examiner in the final school of Natural Science in 1883. Receiving his medical education at St Bartholomew's Hospital, he filled the offices of house surgeon, house physician, and assistant chloroformist. Finding that there was a likelihood of a surgical vacancy on the staff of the London Hospital, he applied for and was elected surgical registrar there in 1880, became assistant surgeon in 1882, then surgeon, and finally consulting surgeon on his retirement in 1909. In the Medical School attached to the Hospital he lectured on comparative anatomy, was senior demonstrator of anatomy, lecturer on physiology and subsequently on surgery. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was an examiner in physiology 1884-92, was a member of the Council 1902-15, and vice-president. He was a Hunterian professor of surgery and pathology in 1892 and 1914. He delivered the Bradshaw lecture in 1912 "On the biology of tumours". During the war he served with the rank of brevet colonel, RAMC(T), at the second London General Hospital and was decorated CBE as a reward for his services. He married Edith Ruth Thomas in 1885. She survived him with one son, who entered the RAF; Mrs Mansell-Moullin died on 5 March 1941. He died on 10 November 1940 at 2 Cottesmore Court, W8, aged 89. Mansell-Moullin was one of the most brilliant graduates of University of Oxford trained under the old regulations when biology, taught as a whole, was based on a sound training in Latin and Greek. Quiet and unassuming, his career at the London Hospital was somewhat overshadowed by that of his colleague and contemporary, Sir Frederick Treves. He worked untiringly with his wife for more than twenty-five years to secure for women the right to be trained as doctors, and was a prominent supporter of the Suffragette movement. His surgical work fell into three periods. At the beginning he was interested in genito-urinary surgery, and his Hunterian lectures in 1892 dealt with the operative treatment of enlarged prostate. He then turned to the stomach and appendix, and even in 1900 could show excellent results from gastro-enterostomy. He often operated for gastric haemorrhage. From 1910 onwards he became absorbed in seeking the origin of carcinoma. He was a rapid operator, and it was told of him that once when removing a testicle his reply to the statement by the anaesthetist that "The patient is ready now, Sir", was "Thank you, I have just finished and am putting in the last suture". He was a sound practical teacher, who inspired loyalty and affection in his house surgeons and dressers. His textbook of surgery, though very good, never achieved popularity. Publications: *On the pathology of shock* (MD thesis). London, 1880. *Sprains, their consequences and treatment*. London, 1887: 2nd edition, 1894. *Surgery*. London, 1891; 3rd edition, 1895. *The operative treatment of enlargement of the prostate* (Hunterian lectures). London, 1892. *Enlargement of the prostate, its treatment and radical cure*. London, 1894; 4th edition, 1911. *Inflammation of the bladder and urinary fever*. London, 1898. *The surgical treatment of ulcer of the stomach*. 1902. *When to operate in inflammation of the appendix*. 1908. *The biology of tumours* (Bradshaw lecture). 1912.
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First Title value, for Searching Maples, Ernest Edgar ( - 1948)

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First Title value, for Searching Edmunds, Walter (1850 - 1930)

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First Title value, for Searching Bennett, Vivian Boase (1867 - 1938)

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First Title value, for Searching Bennett, Sir William Henry (1852 - 1931)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Chilmark, near Salisbury, on 20 March 1852, the eldest son of William Francis Bennett, a country gentleman, and Selina Solf, his wife. He was educated at Weymouth College and entered St George's Hospital on 16 September 1869, after living for a year with a general practitioner in the country. At St George's Hospital he gained the Henry Charles Johnson prize for anatomy in 1871, a prize which carried with it the paid post of demonstrator of anatomy in the medical school in the winner's third year. He was awarded the Treasurer's prize and the third year's proficiency prize in 1872, the Treasurer's prize for the second time in 1873, and the William Brown exhibition of £100 in 1875. He was a founder of the *Students' Journal and Hospital Gazette*, 1873. In 1877 he succeeded John Hammond Morgan as surgical registrar and, after travelling with Sir Watkin Wynn as his medical attendant, was elected assistant surgeon to St George's Hospital in July 1880. The vacancy was caused by the resignation of Edward Charles Stirling, who resigned on his return to Adelaide. Bennett became surgeon to the hospital in 1887 in succession to Timothy Holmes, and was nominated consulting surgeon, a governor, and a member of the house committee when he resigned in 1905. He lectured on surgery from 1877 to 1899. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was an examiner in anatomy from 1884 to 1893 and was a member of the Court of Examiners from 1897 to 1902. He was for many years inspector of anatomy for the metropolis, his senior colleague being Thomas Pickering Pick. Bennett interested himself throughout his professional life in helping the sick, quite apart from his hospital work, and was publicly thanked by Lord Roberts for the services which he rendered to the sick and wounded soldiers on their return from the Boer war. During the war of 1914-18 he resigned all other appointments to devote his energies to the service of the British Red Cross and the Order of St John, and for these services he was appointed a Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, having been decorated KCVO in 1901. He was also made a Commander of the Royal Order of the Redeemer of Greece. For many years he was chairman of the Invalid Children's Association. He was president of the Institute of Hygiene and of the Illuminating Engineers Society. He married: (1) Isobel Lloyd (d 1911), daughter of Dr Thomas Dickinson; and (2) in 1914 Gladys Florence, only daughter of the Rev Allen Stewart Hartigan of Monkstown, Co Dublin and St Leonards-on-Sea. There were no children by either marriage. He died at 3 Hyde Park Place, London, W, on 24 December 1931. Lady Bennett died on 30 May 1949. Sir William Bennett was a well-set-up and good-looking man, limping slightly, as he had suffered from an attack of infantile paralysis, always immaculately dressed and with pleasing manners. He was a capable surgeon who devoted himself more especially to the operative treatment of diseases of the veins. He was also a good and practical teacher of students. His exemplar in life was Sir Prescott Hewett, who helped him greatly in his early professional life and whose house he took after his master's retirement. Like Sir Prescott he had an engrossing interest in art, and was known for many years as one of the most fastidious of connoisseurs and collectors who was never satisfied with anything but the best. He formed a fine collection of blue and white china which he described in articles in *The Burlington Magazine*, 1904, and afterwards sold. He then began to develop his coloured and enamelled "oriental" porcelain and carvings in jade and other hard stones. It consisted only of ninety-nine pieces of china and twenty-five carvings, but they were all of the very highest order and included exquisite examples of Ming and Kang-Hei, a jasper vase and cover carved out of one stone and a group of nine pieces of blue agate. This collection was also sold during his life-time. The collection left at his death was sent to the American Art Association. It consisted of bronzes, pictures, and furniture of such outstanding merit as to be illustrated in *The Times* of 29 February 1932. Publications:- *On appendicitis; two clinical lectures delivered at St George's Hospital*. London, no date. *On varicocele, a practical treatise*. London, 1889. *Clinical lectures on abdominal hernia, chiefly in relation to treatment, including the radical cure*. London, 1893. Injuries and diseases of the spine, in Treves' *System of surgery*, 1896, 2, articles 38 and 40. *On varix, its causes and treatment with especial reference to thrombosis*. London, 1898. *The present position of the treatment of simple fracture of the limbs, to which is appended a summary of the opinions and practice of about 300 surgeons; an address*. London, 1900; and *Brit med J*. 1900, 2, 1005 and 1012. An address entitled some reflections, mainly ethical, on the present position of operation in the practice of surgery. Annual oration of the Medical Society of London, 18 May 1903. *Trans med Soc Lond*. 1903, 26, 304; *Lancet*, 1903, 1, 1423, and as a pamphlet. Recurrent effusion into the knee joint after injury, with especial reference to internal derangement commonly called slipped cartilage; an analysis of 750 cases (a clinical lecture delivered at St George's Hospital, 11 illustrations). *Lancet*, 1905, 1, 1, and as a pamphlet. *Injuries and diseases of the knee joint considered from the clinical aspect*. London, 1909. *On the use of massage and early passive movements in recent fractures and other common surgical injuries and the treatment of internal derangements of the knee-joint*. 12 illustrations. London, 1900; 1902; 5th ed 1910.
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First Title value, for Searching Berg, John Wilhelm (1851 - 1931)

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First Title value, for Searching Berkeley, Sir George Harold Arthur Comyns (1865 - 1946)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

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Publication Date 2013-04-10
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born 16 October 1865, eldest son of G A Berkeley of Belgrave Road, London, SW, a wine importer, and his wife Sarah Louisa, second daughter of Thomas Moore of The Wergs, Wolverhampton. His father was related to the family of Berkeley, Earls of Berkeley. Comyns Berkeley was educated at Marlborough and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took third-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos Part I, 1887, and entered the Middlesex Hospital 1888. He served as house physician, house surgeon to (Sir) Henry Morris, and obstetric house surgeon to William A Duncan. In 1901 the post of obstetric registrar was created and Berkeley was elected by one vote against a strong candidate from another place; he also served as obstetric tutor. Berkeley had been house physician at the Brompton Hospital and the Great Ormond Street Hospital, and was appointed in 1897 assistant surgeon to the Chelsea Hospital for Women, where he had been registrar since 1895. He was elected assistant obstetric and gynaecological surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital in 1905, attaining to the full staff in 1908, and became consulting gynaecological surgeon in 1930. On the reconstitution of the City of London Maternity Hospital in 1907 he was appointed senior surgeon there. He was also consulting obstetric and gynaecological surgeon to the Hornsey Central, Eltham, and Clacton Hospitals. During the war of 1914-18 he served at the Middlesex Military Hospital at Clacton. After retiring from active practice in 1930, Berkeley's services were retained on the administrative boards of his hospitals. Berkeley also took a very large share in public administration. He was appointed to the Central Midwives Board as representative of the Royal College of Physicians in 1930, and became its chairman in 1936. He actively promoted the Midwives Act 1936, which established a national service of salaried midwives. Berkeley was prominent in founding the British, now Royal, College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, became a charter fellow 1929 and first honorary treasurer; he helped to found the Royal College of Nursing, and acted as honorary treasurer to it and its affiliated Cowdray club. His part in the formation of the Royal College of Nursing led to some controversy with other nursing bodies. Gynaecological surgery had been given a great impetus at the Middlesex Hospital by Sir John Bland-Sutton. Berkeley improved the tradition that he inherited from Bland-Sutton, and with his junior colleague Victor Bonney, FRCS did pioneer work in the surgery of carcinoma of the uterus, and he was early interested in the radium treatment of that disease. He established a radium clinic for this purpose at the Lambeth Hospital and was its director from 1928 to 1939, at first under the MAB and later the LCC, who subsumed the Board's duties. He was appointed to the first National Radium Commission in 1929 and became vice-chairman. He was British representative to the League of Nations Commission on radium and promoted its publication of Annual reports on radium treatment of cancer of the uterus. He was closely connected with the work of the Ministry of Health, and helped in that department's investigation of maternal mortality in childbirth, which resulted in the valuable Reports of 1930 and 1932. Through all this activity and with a large private practice, Berkeley's chief interest lay in teaching. He was prominent in all social and athletic activities at the Middlesex Hospital, and took much care for the welfare of his students and nurses. He was the moving spirit of the Middlesex Hospital club and its masonic lodge, and with Herbert Charles, MRCS was prominent at the annual concert and dance. He was keenly interested in the rebuilding .of the hospital. He examined for the Conjoint Board (1909-13), the Society of Apothecaries, and most of the English, Welsh and Scotch medical schools. His assistant and collaborator of many years, Victor Bonney, has described how he made time to write the long series of his very successful text-books and to edit the *Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire* by sitting up into the small hours of the night; at the end of these arduous vigils Berkeley would refresh them with fine Stilton and audit ale. For he was a delightful host, urbane and witty, whose knowledge of wine and food was notable and his dinner parties famous. In early life Berkeley suffered from infantile paralysis of one leg. But this did not deter him from the assiduous and strenuous work which led to such great success. Although determined and outspoken, he was a most popular man, both in and outside the profession, and especially at the Garrick Club. Berkeley was elected FRCP 1909 and served on the council 1931-33; he was elected FRCS 1929 as a Member of 20 years' standing; and in the same year he became a foundation FRCOG. He was created a KB in 1934. Berkeley's recreations were golf and travel. He had visited North and South America, Egypt, and South Africa. He married in April 1894 Ethel Rose, younger daughter of Edward King Fordham, DL, JP of Ashwell Bury, Herts. Lady Berkeley died in September 1945; they had no children. Berkeley's last years were troubled by his being bombed out of his home of fifty years, 53 Wimpole Street, during the German raids on London, and again out of the house to which he removed, 73 Great Peter Street, SW 1. Berkeley died in the Middlesex Hospital on Sunday, 27 January 1946, aged 80, and was buried at St Marylebone Crematorium, East Finchley. A memorial service was held at Middlesex Hospital chapel on 30 January, at which his cousin the Very Rev Thomas Crick, CB, CBE, MVO, Dean of Rochester, officiated. He left the residue of his fortune for medical fellowships at Caius College, Cambridge. Berkeley was born the same day, 16 October 1865, took the Conjoint qualification the same day, 30 July 1891, and died the same day, 27 January 1946, as Sir John Broadbent, Bt, FRCP, physician to St Mary's, whose obituary memoir appeared beside Berkeley's in *The Times*. Publications:- *A handbook for midwives and obstetric dressers*. London, 1906; 12th ed. 1943. *Gynaecology for nurses and gynaecological nursing*. London, 1910; 9th ed 1943. *A textbook of gynaecological surgery*, with V Bonney. London, 1911; 4th ed 1941 *The difficulties and emergencies of obstetric practice*, with V Bonney. London, 1913; 3rd ed 1921. *A guide to gynaecology in general practice*, with V Bonney. London, 1915; 2nd ed 1919. *The annals of the Middlesex Hospital at Clacton-on-Sea, 1914-1919*, with V Bonney. London, 1921. *An atlas of midwifery*, with G M Dupuy. London, 1926; 2nd ed 1932. *A guide to the profession of nursing*. London, 1931. *The abnormal in obstetrics*, with V Bonney and Douglas Macleod. London, 1938. *Pictorial midwifery*. London. 4th ed. 1941. Contributor to Churchill's *System of treatment*; Eden and Lockyer's *System of Gynaecology*. London, 1917; and the *Encyclopaedia of medicine*. Editor of *Midwifery by ten teachers*. London, 1917, and *Diseases of women by ten teachers*. London, 1922. Editor 1923-46 of the *Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire*, to which he contributed a special memorial supplement: The seven stages of John Bland-Sutton and an epilogue, April 1937.
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First Title value, for Searching Pilcher, Edgar Montagu (1865 - 1947)

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Publication Date 2013-10-02
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born in Meerut, India, on 25 April 1865, son of Surgeon Jesse Griggs Pilcher, IMS, afterwards Deputy Surgeon-General and FRCS. He was educated at Clifton College and at Clare College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1887. He took his clinical training at Guy's Hospital and qualified in 1890. Pilcher was commissioned a surgeon-lieutenant in the newly organized Army Medical Staff on 30 January 1892, being the first officer so gazetted under the Royal Warrant in 1891, and the first to hold this new rank. The reorganization was intended to prepare for the formation of the Royal Army Medical Corps, which duly took effect in 1898. He was promoted surgeon-captain 30 January 1895, becoming captain, RAMC, in 1898. He had been posted to India immediately he received his commission and served at Lucknow during the cholera epidemic of 1896. He was in camp with the East Lancashire Regiment, and his attention to the sick of the battalion was such that he was elected an honorary life member of the officers' mess of the regiment. He saw active service on the North-West Frontier in the Tirah campaign of 1897-98, and won the medal with two clasps. He was then sent to South Africa, where he served throughout the war, 1899-1902, and was present at the relief of Ladysmith; he was mentioned in despatches, won the Queen's medal with five clasps and the King's medal with two clasps, and was awarded the DSO. He was promoted major on 30 January 1904, and in 1905 took the Fellowship though not previously a Member of the College. After five years' service as a surgical specialist he was appointed on 1 August 1910 professor of surgery in the newly formed Royal Army Medical College at Millbank, a post which he held till 1919; but from 1917 he was serving in France as consulting surgeon with the British Expeditionary Force, and was mentioned in despatches. He had been promoted brevet lieutenant-colonel on 26 November 1913, lieutenant-colonel on 1 January 1914, brevet colonel on 12 September 1916, and colonel in July 1917, and subsequently major-general, Army Medical Service. He was appointed consulting surgeon to the Army in 1919, and retired in 1924. He had been appointed an honorary surgeon to the King in 1917, and was created CB 1918 and CBE 1919. Pilcher married twice: (1) in 1899 Lilias Mary, eldest daughter of Captain Henri Campbell, ISC; Mrs Pilcher died suddenly at Gloucester on 8 September 1940; (2) in 1940 Brenda Georgiana, younger daughter of Augustus Frederick Warr, MP for Liverpool 1895-1902, who survived him. There were no children. After his retirement Pilcher lived for a time at Stroud, Gloucestershire; then at St Mary Abbots' Court, Kensington; and finally at Thirty Trees, Ashtead, Surrey, where he died on 26 December 1947, aged 82; the funeral was at Ashtead parish church. Pilcher was an amateur of music and literature.
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First Title value, for Searching Sturton, Clement (1900 - 1936)

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First Title value, for Searching Evans, David John (1890 - 1947)

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First Title value, for Searching Evans, Daniel Martin Baden (1900 - 1929)

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First Title value, for Searching Berry, Sir James (1860 - 1946)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 4 February 1860 at Kingston, Ontario, eldest son of Edward Berry, solicitor and shipowner, and Ada, his wife, daughter of Elhanan Bicknell of Herne Hill. Edward Berry came from Leicester; he lived at Croydon when in England, and at Kingston, Ontario, when business took him to Canada. James Berry was educated at Whitgift School, Croydon and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he quickly made his mark. He was handicapped by a short leg and a cleft palate, but his spirit was indomitable and he never allowed these physical drawbacks to impede his work. In fact, besides standing up to the arduous work of a busy London consultant, he enjoyed long bicycle expeditions in eastern Europe and practised elocution so thoroughly as to become an excellent teacher and a fluent speaker in several languages. At the London BS examination 1885 he took first-class honours and won the university scholarship and gold medal. He served as house surgeon at St Bartholomew's to Sir Thomas Smith, and was demonstrator of anatomy. Then as surgical registrar he made a remarkable impression by his high technical standards, and won the affection and roused the enthusiasm of all who came under his influence. He seemed marked for promotion on the surgical staff. But in those days there was no regular retiring age, and when a vacancy did occur it was filled by contested election, for which the candidates had to canvass all the governors, mostly City merchants and aldermen, to secure their personal votes. When Berry's chance came in 1898, he found this canvassing most distasteful, aware that he would not be judged on his surgical merits and confident that they entitled him to election. His rival was D'Arcy Power, whose real interests lay in physiology and medical literature. Power, however, was five years senior, had already successfully filled many junior posts in the hospital and medical school, and was eldest son of one of the most popular and influential of the hospital's surgeons, Henry Power. It was generally felt that Berry would make his mark anywhere, but that Power needed the post to give him adequate standing for the development of his talents. Power was elected assistant surgeon by a narrow margin: seventy-one to sixty votes, and Berry's disappointment was bitter; but both he and Power were large-hearted enough to remain personal friends for more than forty years. In 1891 Berry was elected surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital; he had, since 1885, been surgeon to the Alexandra Hospital for Diseases of the Hip, in Queen Square. His energy and ability, both as surgeon and teacher, quickly established him as one of the leading general surgeons in London, with a special interest in the surgery of cleft-palate, to which he was drawn by his own case, and of goitre. He married in 1891 Dr Frances May Dickinson (see p 75), anaesthetist to the Royal Free, and they were closely associated as surgeon and anaesthetist, both in hospital and private practice, throughout their professional careers. Their friendly altercations in the operating theatre were the cause of some kindly amusement. Berry's cleft palate surgery was an advance on what had been done before and was remarkably successful. He summarized his work in a book (1912) in which his junior colleague, T P Legg, collaborated. In thyroid surgery he was a pioneer. For fifty years excision of the thyroid had from time to time been practised with success. J H Green is credited with performing the first thyroidectomy in England at St Thomas's Hospital in 1829, and in the seventies and eighties the problems of thyroid surgery were being widely explored, notably by Theodor Kocher at Bern and nearer home by Sir Patrick Heron Watson at Edinburgh, Sir William Stokes in Dublin and (Sir) Victor Horsley in London. Berry, however, established thyroid surgery on a sure foundation of successful experience, with no attempt to disguise his failures. He won the Jacksonian prize 1886 for his essay on "The pathology, diagnosis and surgical treatment of diseases of the thyroid gland", and was made a laureat of the Académie de médecine in Paris. He delivered three Hunterian lectures, on 1, 3, and 5 June 1891, on "Goitre, its pathology, diagnosis and surgical treatment". He published his book, *Diseases of the thyroid gland*, in 1901; it was for long the standard authority and made his work generally known. His prestige in thyroid surgery passed to his brilliant pupil Cecil Joll, who died a year before him; Joll's book of the same title replaced Berry's in 1932, and has since been re-edited (1951) by F F Rundle. Berry and his wife often spent their holidays bicycling in south-eastern Europe. He had a fluent knowledge of French, German, Magyar and Serbian and acquired a particular affection for the south Slavs. When he got home he usually gathered his friends to hear an account of the holiday's adventures, illustrated by his own photographs, at his house, 21 Wimpole Street. He addressed wider audiences on his experiences in the Near East at the Medical Society of London, and at the Society of Antiquaries, of which he was a Fellow, in 1919, when he read a paper on the fortified churches of southern Transylvania. His antiquarian interests were chiefly concentrated on the Anglo-Saxon period and he made some excavations at his country home near Aylesbury. After his retirement he collaborated in a scholarly study (1938) of the life and work of his seventeenth-century namesake, an administrative officer of the Commonwealth. When war broke out in 1914 Berry's knowledge of Serbia led him and Mrs Berry to volunteer for medical service there. They organized the Anglo-Serbian hospital unit, under the British Red Cross Society and largely from the Royal Free Hospital, and established it early in 1915 at the warm sulphur springs of Vrnjatchka Banja, previously a fashionable health resort. They gradually built up six hospitals with 360 beds, but had to provide not surgery for the wounded but primitive hygiene for a rout of refugees, and successfully mastered the typhus epidemic by a routine of the strictest personal de-lousing, often at temperatures far below zero. They were over-run in 1916 by the Austro-Hungarian army who, however, treated Berry's unit with courtesy, and an exchange of the prisoners was arranged. Berry subsequently led a Red Cross unit in Rumania, and was with the Serbian army again at Odessa in south Russia 1916-17. His services were rewarded with the Orders of the Star of Rumania, St Sava of Serbia, and St Anna of Russia. He published an account of his war experiences. He came back to England in 1917 and was honorary surgeon at the military hospitals at Napsbury and Bermondsey. He stepped at once into his old position as a leading consultant and took a prominent share in the work of professional societies. He was president of the Medical Society of London 1921-22, a member of Council of the College 1923-29, and president of the Royal Society of Medicine 1926-28. He had delivered the Lettsomian lectures at the Medical Society of London in 1913 and gave the Annual Oration there in 1932. He was knighted in 1925. He retired in 1927 and was elected consulting surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital. Berry married twice: (1) in 1891, as stated above, he married Frances May Dickinson, MD London, daughter of S S Dickinson, MP for Stroud, and elder sister of W H Dickinson (1859-1943), first Lord Dickinson, PC. Mrs Berry was anaesthetist to the Royal Free, assistant medical officer (education) to the London County Council, president of the association of registered medical women, and honorary secretary of the section of anaesthetics at the Royal Society of Medicine. She accompanied her husband in all his professional work and in his expeditions to the Near East, both in peace and war. She collaborated with him in the account of the Serbian hospital and herself published Austria-Hungary and her Slav subjects, 1918. Lady Berry died on 15 April 1934, aged 76, at their country house, Bramblebury, Dunsmure, Wendover, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. She left £500 each to the Royal Free Hospital and its school of medicine for women and £1000 to the fund for medical scholarships for Serbian girls (*The Times*, 17 April 1934; *Brit med J*. 1934, 1, 780, with portrait); (2) on 4 May 1935 Berry married, as his second wife, Mabel Marian Ingram, MRCS, daughter of the late T Lewis Ingram of The Priory, Wimbledon Common. Berry now settled at Kirby Gate, Westmead, Roehampton, and Lady Berry continued to practise in the district. She had been a member of his Red Cross units in Serbia, Rumania, and south Russia. There were no children of either marriage. He died on 17 March 1946, aged 86, survived by his wife. Berry was a man of great energy and ability, and of the utmost integrity. His sympathies were liberal and he was a keen champion of women's professional equality with men. Warm-hearted and beloved by his friends, he was outspoken and pugnacious for what he believed to be right. Of medium height, Berry had an impressive brow and must have been the last leading London surgeon to wear a beard. His portrait by Herbert Arnould Olivier was reproduced on a Christmas card which he sent to his friends in 1936, and he appears in the College Council group-portrait of 1927, which was engraved. Lady Berry presented his papers to the College, and generously endowed a prize in his memory. Select bibliography:- *Goitre, its pathology, diagnosis and surgical treatment*; Hunterian lectures, 1891. [Speech of acceptance of presentation when resigning the post of surgical registrar.] *St Bart's Hosp J*. 1898, 5, 109. The thyroid, in Sir Henry Butlin's *Operative surgery of malignant diseases*. 2nd ed. London, 1900. *Diseases of the thyroid gland and their surgical treatment*. London, 1901. *A manual of surgical diagnosis*. London, 1904. *Hare-lip and cleft palate*, with T P Legg. London, 1912. Surgery of the thyroid gland (Lettsomian lectures, Medical Society of London). *Lancet*, 1913, 1, 583, 668, 737. Clinical notes on malignant tumours of long bones. *Clin J*. 1914, 43, 465, 487. *The story of a Red Cross unit in Serbia*, with F M Berry and W L Blease. London, 1916. Fortified churches of southern Transylvania. *Archaeologia*, 1919. Fallen idols (annual oration). *Trans Med Soc Lond*. 1932, 55, 261. *A Cromwellian Major-General, the career of Colonel James Berry 1610-1691*, with Stephen G Lee. Oxford University Press, 1938. Colonel Berry was administrative major-general for all Wales and the four border counties of Salop, Hereford, Worcester, and Monmouth, 1655-57.
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First Title value, for Searching Beyers, Christian Frederick (1888 - 1933)

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First Title value, for Searching Tait, Henry Brewer (1859 - 1935)

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First Title value, for Searching Tanner, Charles Edward (1861 - 1934)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Tidcombe Manor, Wilts, on 31 March 1861, the third of five sons of John Tanner, yeoman, of Poulton, Marlborough, and Marian Canning, his wife. He was educated at Clifton College from May 1873 to July 1878, at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and at the Durham School of Medicine, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He served as house physician at the Royal Free Hospital for a year, and passed from there to Durham University, where he graduated after a short visit to Italy. He acted as locum tenens in various practices, and finally settled at Farnham in partnership with James Hussey, MD. Here his good looks, courteous manners, and sound professional knowledge soon gave him a wide and influential practice, carried on by means of a high dog-cart, which was always drawn by a blood mare. Paying a tribute to Dr Tanner, Archbishop Lord Davidson said that the doctor had known successively six bishops. at Farnham Castle, five of them had been his patients and he had known them inside and out. He had mended them in heads and hearts and legs and middles, and in those ways, in ways no one else did, there had sprung up an intimacy of home life, a relationship of affection, such as they entertained for those in the home circle. Such a relationship Dr Tanner also held with the richest and the poorest, with soldiers, lawyers, country gentlemen, and labourers. He was medical officer for the Farnham Rural District and of the Farnham Infirmary, and was a magistrate. He was, too, founder of the Children's Convalescent Home at Tilford, and acted for many years as chairman of its trustees. He was instrumental in forming the Wey Valley Water Company, was a director of the Farnham Gas and Electricity Company, and was the moving spirit in establishing the Farnham swimming baths. He retired from practice in 1924, and his friends then took the opportunity of making him a presentation "in token of their gratitude and affectionate regard". He married on 7 February 1905 Mary Louise Graham, who survived him with a son and three daughters. He died at his house, Tancred's Ford, Farnham, Surrey on 12 April 1934.
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First Title value, for Searching Santi, Philip Robert William de (1863 - 1947)

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First Title value, for Searching Sargent, Sir Percy William George (1873 - 1933)

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Occupation General surgeon Neurosurgeon
Details Born at Chester on 8 May 1873, the second child and eldest son of Edward George Sargent, a bank manager, and Emily Grose, his wife. His brothers were Dr Eric Sargent, the Rev D H G. Sargent (who died 19 July 1935), and the Rev E H Gladstone Sargent, and he had four sisters. He was educated at Clifton College and at St John's College, Cambridge. In 1895 he competed for the University entrance scholarships at St Mary's Hospital and at St Thomas's, and having been elected to both he chose to go to St Thomas's Hospital. Here he acted as house surgeon to William Anderson in 1899, was elected surgical registrar in 1901, resident assistant surgeon in 1903, assistant surgeon in succession to F C Abbott and demonstrator of anatomy in 1905, surgeon and lecturer on surgery in 1916, and part-time, unpaid director of the surgical unit in 1930. In 1905 he was appointed assistant surgeon at the Victoria Hospital for Children, Tite Street, Chelsea, becoming surgeon in the following year. On 15 May 1906 he was elected assistant surgeon to the National Hospital, Queen Square, for the Relief and Cure of Diseases of the Nervous System including Paralysis and Epilepsy, where he became surgeon on 19 January 1909. From 30 March 1912 he held a commission as medical officer in the First County of London Middlesex Yeomanry (T) and on the outbreak of the war he was gazetted captain, RAMC (T), and went to France. His services as a specialist were quickly recognized, and with Dr Gordon Holmes he was employed, with the rank of temporary honorary lieutenant-colonel from 13 December 1914, to form a small neurological unit, whose aid could be invoked in difficult cases throughout the whole British Expeditionary Force in France. The work they did was not only invaluable to their colleagues but materially advanced knowledge about the localization of function in certain areas of the brain. He took charge at a later period of a department established for the treatment of those still suffering from remote injuries of the nervous system, and rendered much assistance to the Ministry of Pensions. For his services he was rewarded with the DSO in 1917 and with the CMG in 1919, and was created a Knight Bachelor in 1928. At the Royal College of Surgeons he delivered the Erasmus Wilson lecture in 1905 taking as his subject "Peritonitis, a bacteriological study", and in 1928 he acted as Hunterian professor of surgery and pathology, when he lectured on the "Surgery of the posterior cerebral fossa". In 1923 he was elected a member of Council, and at the time of his death he was acting as junior vice-president. He married in 1907 Mary Louise (d 1932), daughter of Sir Herbert Ashman, Bt, the first Lord Mayor of Bristol, who had received the honour of knighthood on the steps of the Council House when Queen Victoria visited Bristol on 15 November 1899. He died in London after an acute attack of influenza on 22 January 1933 survived by his father, two sons and a daughter, and was buried at Redland Green cemetery, Bristol. As a surgeon, Sargent operated with great dexterity, rapidity, and gentleness. His operations were models of skill and almost perfect restraint. He did not restrict himself to the surgery of the brain, but throughout his professional life he performed his duties at St Thomas's Hospital as a general surgeon. As a teacher he was brilliant, and made his rounds in the wards so interesting and amusing that one of his pupils described them as being a succession of social gatherings. As a man he was slightly above middle height with a well modelled figure and keen intellectual features, soft voiced and somewhat caustic in speech, though his remarks were always tempered with a pleasant and disarming smile. He was possessed of a strong vein of benevolence and charity, which was perhaps inherited, for two of his brothers were ordained in the Church of England, to which he himself, though born a nonconformist, was admitted late in life. His father was well known for half a century in the religious life of Bristol, and Percy Sargent was interested in the welfare of children from an early period in his career and did much work for the Children's Invalid Aid Society, where he succeeded Sir D'Arcy Power as chairman of the Battersea branch. Later in life he was the active and useful secretary of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund. Early initiated in the Cheselden lodge, he made rapid progress in masonry, took high rank in many of its branches and was appointed a senior grand deacon in the United Grand Lodge of England in 1915. Lionel Horton- Smith published two copies of Latin verses addressed to him, one a birthday greeting on his coming of age, the other a mock elegy upon him as slain in a combat of wit. Publications: *The bacteriology of peritonitis*, with L S Dudgeon. London, 1905. *Surgical emergencies*. London, 1907. *Emergencies in general practice*, with A E Russell. London, 1910. Closure of cavities in bone. *J Roy Army med Cps*, 1919, 32, 83. Diseases of the appendix. Choyce's *System of surgery*, 1912; 2nd edition, 1923. Haemangiomatous cysts of the cerebellum, with J Godwin Greenfield. *Brit J Surg* 1929-30, 17, 84. Treatment of gliomata and pituitary tumours with radium, with Stanford Cade. *Ibid* 1930-31, 18, 501.
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First Title value, for Searching Savage, John James (1889 - 1948)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details John James Savage was born on 10 January 1889 at Broken Hill, New South Wales, the son of John James Savage and Annie Savage née O’Connor. He was educated in Western Australia, went to Brasenose College, Oxford as a Rhodes scholar in 1911, and completed his clinical training at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, where he served as house surgeon. He held resident posts at the Metropolitan Hospital, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's, the Freemasons', the North Eastern Fever Hospital, and the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading. He qualified in 1917, was commissioned in the RAMC and attached to the Royal Air Force, with which he served during the remainder of the war of 1914-1918. He took the Fellowship in 1926, and then returned to Western Australia, where he practised at Mackie Street, Victoria Park, Perth, and later at 40 Falcon Street, Narrogin. During the war of 1939-45 he was medical officer in command of the Narrogin Military Camp from 1940 to 1943. He was an exceptional athlete in many fields. He died at Narogin in 1948. **This is an amended version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 3 of Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk**
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First Title value, for Searching Scholes, John Lelean (1914 - 1938)

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First Title value, for Searching Scotson, Frederick Charles (1869 - 1939)

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First Title value, for Searching Scott, James Andrew Neptune (1868 - 1944)

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First Title value, for Searching Scott, Malcolm Leslie (1882 - 1931)

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First Title value, for Searching Stacy, John Edward ( - 1881)

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Publication Date 2013-03-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details For a time practised at Randwick, West Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Subsequently he returned to Epsom, Surrey, and at the time of his death was living in Cavendish Road, St John's Wood, London, NW. He died in March, 1881.
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First Title value, for Searching Ewart, George Arthur (1886 - 1942)

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Publication Date 2013-05-29
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 1 June 1886, the only son of James Cossar Ewart (1851-1933), MD, FRS, for forty-five years (1882-1927) Regius Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh University, and his second wife Edith Sophia, daughter of George Turner, MRCS, of Sherborne, and sister of Sir George R Turner and Edward B Turner, both Fellows of the College (For a memoir of J C Ewart, see Royal Society of London, *Obituary notices of Fellows* 1932-35, 1, 189, with portrait.) G A Ewart was educated at Edinburgh Academy, at Clifton College 1900-04, and at Edinburgh University, where he was Vans Dunlop scholar 1905; he became a scholar of Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1906. He took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part I, in 1908, and represented the University against Oxford as a cross-country runner the same year. At St George's Hospital Medical School, where he entered on 24 November 1909, he won the Brackenbury surgery prize in 1911, the William Brown scholarship in 1912, and the Herbert Allingham surgical scholarship in 1913. He served as house physician to Sir Humphry Rolleston, and house surgeon to Sir Crisp English, and as surgical registrar. He was appointed assistant surgeon in 1914, becoming, in due course, surgeon and lecturer in operative and practical surgery. He was also surgeon to the Atkinson Morley Convalescent Hospital and to the Rupture Society, and consulting surgeon to the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth. He was a Fellow of the Association of Surgeons. During the war of 1914-18 he was commissioned captain, RAMC(T), on 4 January 1915, and later promoted major. He served at the 54th General Hospital with the BEF in France, and at the 4th London General Hospital at the Duke of York's Headquarters. Ewart married in 1914 his first cousin Dorothy, younger daughter of Sir George Turner, FRCS, surgeon to St George's Hospital. Mrs Ewart survived him with a son and two daughters. He practised at 44 Brook Street and later at 26 Queen Anne Street, and lived in Norfolk Crescent and later at the Old House, Weybridge, where he died, after one day's illness, on 2 October 1942, aged 56. Ewart's dramatic methods in surgery were based on a sound and sure technique. He excelled at emergency operations for acute abdominal diseases. He was a good teacher and a hospitable host. Shooting, photography, and natural history made up his non-professional occupations. Publications:- Acute retention of urine complicated by perforation of a duodenal ulcer. *Brit med J*. 1921, 1, 420. A case of hour-glass stomach. *Brit J Surg*. 1921, 9, 42. Gastric diverticula, with report of a case before and after operation. *Brit J Surg*. 1936, 23, 530.
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First Title value, for Searching Goldie, Walter Leigh Mackinnon (1879 - 1937)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Simla, 6 June 1879, son of Colonel J Goldie. He was educated at Charterhouse 1892-96 and then passed into Sandhurst, as it was intended that he should enter the army. Disqualified on account of defective vision, he went to St Mary's Hospital where he served as house surgeon and house physician. He then acted as clinical assistant at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, and at Mount Vernon Consumption Hospital. In 1905 he went as assistant medical officer to the East African Protectorate, contracted malaria, and was invalided home after three years service. He was then appointed assistant medical officer of health and tuberculosis officer at Norwich. He joined the Royal Naval Medical Service on the outbreak of the war and served until demobilization in 1919, when he was decorated OBE (mil) in reward for his services. In 1920 he was chosen medical officer of health, school medical officer, and bacteriologist for the Borough of Leamington Spa, Warwickshire; these posts he held until his death on 4 May 1937. Publications:- Etiology and diagnosis of German measles. *Lancet*, 1910, 2, 1012. Pancreatitis with jaundice in the infectious diseases. *Ibid* 1912, 2, 1295.
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First Title value, for Searching Gooddy, Edward Samuel (1863 - 1937)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Meltham, Yorkshire on 26 April 1863, the third child and only son of Edward Coleman Gooddy, MA, Glasgow, the owner of a cotton mill, and Jane Barker, his first cousin and wife. Being of delicate health he was educated privately by his sisters and was afterwards sent to two small preparatory schools where he was badly taught and poorly fed. He entered Clifton College in 1877, but left in the following year when his father's mill, which was not insured, was burnt down. Having borrowed sufficient money he entered St Thomas's Hospital where he acted as house surgeon and ophthalmic house surgeon and was clinical assistant at the Eye Hospital in Moorfields. For a time he was resident medical officer at the York Dispensary, and later was in the employment of the British South African Company's police. Returning to Britain he practised at Llandudno, where he was honorary physician and surgeon to the Sarah Nicol Hospital. During the war he received a commission as temporary lieutenant, RAMC, and was promoted captain on 13 April 1918. He acted as deputy commissioner, medical service, Ministry of Pensions for the Potteries area, Stoke-on-Trent. On demobilization he settled in practice at Cavendish, Suffolk, where he died on 6 November 1937. He married on 9 June 1900 his second cousin, Mary Cavin Barker; she survived him without children.
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First Title value, for Searching Adams, Edmund Weaver (1869 - 1931)

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First Title value, for Searching Adams, James (1850 - 1937)

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First Title value, for Searching Adams, John (1851 - 1938)

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First Title value, for Searching Faull, William Collins (1888 - 1936)

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First Title value, for Searching Fawcett, John (1866 - 1944)

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Publication Date 2013-06-05
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Occupation General surgeon Physician
Details Born at Brixton on 13 August 1866, eldest son and second of the seven children of John Bisdee Fawcett, of Lloyd's, and Ellen Hyslop, his wife. His father and mother both died when he was eleven, and the children were brought up by their uncle, Robert Grant, and his wife. He was educated at Dulwich and at Guy's Hospital, to which he was attached for more than fifty years. He served as demonstrator of morbid anatomy and as curator of the museum, and later won the Beaney research scholarship, under which he worked on the pharmacology and therapeutics of the salicylates. Although he took the FRCS in 1892 he had already begun to turn from surgery to medicine, having taken the London MD the previous year. In 1895 he took the MRCP, and was elected FRCP in 1902. Meanwhile he had been appointed to the honorary staff at Guy's in 1899. He became surgeon in 1906, and was elected consulting surgeon on his retirement in 1926. He also served as lecturer on medicine and was dean of the Medical School from 1900 to 1903, in succession to his great friend Lauriston Elgie Shaw, FRCP (1859-1923). Fawcett and Shaw planned to concentrate the pre-clinical work of all the London medical schools in a central school; when the board of Guy's, who had at first supported them, voted against the proposal Fawcett resigned the office of dean. He became later a governor of the Medical School of Guy's, in which he always retained a keen interest, and was also a member of council of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. He succeeded Shaw also as chairman of Guy's medical committee. On Shaw's resignation the committee agreed to appoint their future chairmen by election instead of seniority, Fawcett being the senior eligible candidate, and then immediately elected Fawcett unanimously; he served the office for ten years. At the Royal College of Physicians Fawcett served as examiner 1916-20, councillor 1920, and a censor in 1920, 1921, and 1923. He represented the Physicians on the Senate of London University from 1920 to 1929, and examined in medicine for the universities of London, Sheffield, and Wales (Cardiff), and from 1916 to 1920 for the Conjoint Board. He was at one time assistant physician to the Royal Free Hospital and was an advocate of single-sex medical schools, taking much interest in the London School of Medicine for Women attached to the Royal Free. He was a member of council and for many years treasurer of Epsom College, and was vice-chairman of the Invalid Children's Aid Association. He was also founder and treasurer of the Old Alleynians' endowment fund. Fawcett was commissioned captain *à la suite* on 23 December 1908 on the formation of the RAMC Territorial Force, and served during the first world war at the 2nd London General Hospital, and was promoted brevet major on 3 June 1917. He was vice-president of the section of medicine at the Nottingham meeting of the British Medical Association in 1926. He represented the Board of Education on the General Nursing Council from 1928 to 1932, and served on the departmental committee of the Ministry of Health on morphia and heroin addiction, and on the Ministry of Pensions' Disability committee. Fawcett married on 15 July 1899 May Fleming, daughter of Herbert Fleming Baxter, who survived him with a son and a daughter. He practised at 66 Wimpole Street, later moving to 10 Chester Terrace, NW1, and again to 21 St John's Wood Court, NW8, and also had a country house, Oakdene, St Mengan's, Ruthin, North Wales. He was ill for many years at the close of his life, but never lost his confident spirit. He died in a London nursing home on 18 February 1944, aged 77, and was cremated after a funeral service at Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone. Mrs Fawcett died a few months later; she left £1000 to Guy's Hospital and £500 to the Ladies' Guild of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund, among other charitable bequests. "Honest John" Fawcett was a most punctual, painstaking physician, who based his clinical practice on a profound knowledge of morbid anatomy. He believed in thorough examination of his patients, to whom he showed very human kindness. He was a good though not inspiring teacher, with a real interest in education. Fawcett was a loyal and friendly man, of very conservative temperament. He had been a good football player in youth, and in middle life his recreations were shooting, golf, and walking, which he chiefly enjoyed on his regular holidays in Scotland. Publication:- Chronic intestinal pneumonia, in Allbutt and Rolleston's *System of medicine*.
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First Title value, for Searching Fenton, Thomas Gerald (1876 - 1947)

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First Title value, for Searching Powell, Rhys Vaughan (1891 - 1951)

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First Title value, for Searching Powell, William Wyndham (1857 - 1944)

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Occupation Genito-urinary surgeon Urologist
Details Born 30 October 1857 at Penyfai, Bridgend, Glamorgan the fifth of the six sons and tenth of the twelve children of Griffith Powell, farmer, and Ann Jenkins, his wife. He was educated privately at Bridgend and at Mumbles near Swansea, and took his medical training at the Westminster Hospital. He won the Treasurer's exhibition in 1884 and was President's scholar in 1885. He served as senior house surgeon, senior house physician, demonstrator of anatomy, and surgical registrar. After a period of postgraduate study in Paris he specialized in genitourinary surgery and was for seven years chief clinical assistant at St Peter's Hospital for Stone. He was also surgeon to the Westminster General Dispensary. Powell was an honorary member of the American Urological Association. He practised at 28 Devonshire Place, W1, and lived at Wimbledon. During the heavy bombing of London in 1940-41 he moved to 4 Newton Villas, Porthcawl, Glamorgan, where he died on 2 July 1944, aged 86. He never married. Powell's brothers and sisters all lived long: one lived to be 92 and two others past 90. He was survived by one sister, Mrs Lloyd, a year younger than himself. Publications: Operative urethroscopy: an improved urethroscope. *Lancet*, 1921, 2, 175. Urethroscopy, in E R T Clarkson's *The Venereal Clinic*, London, Bale, 1922.
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First Title value, for Searching Prain, John Leay (1869 - 1943)

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First Title value, for Searching Pratt, James John (1860 - 1937)

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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born 12 June 1860 at Valence, France, the second son and second child of William Rew Pratt, FRCS, and Maria Louisa Harvey, his wife. Mrs Pratt claimed descent from the family of which William Harvey was an illustrious member. Pratt was educated privately at Newtown, Montgomeryshire, and at Westminster Hospital. He then entered Netley where he gained the Herbert prize and Montefiore medal and the Army Medical scholarship 1883-84. He was gazetted surgeon I.M.S. on 29 September 1883, chose the Bengal side and in 1884 took part in the Zhob Valley expedition, North-West Provinces. He was promoted surgeon-major, 21 September 1895, lieutenant-colonel, 29 September 1903, was placed on the selected list for promotion on 22 June 1909, and retired with an extra pension on 27 December 1912. He was civil surgeon in the United Provinces 1889-1910. He rejoined for war service 2 December 1914, was appointed officer in charge of the Hospital for Indian Wounded at Brighton, and was promoted brevet-colonel on 1 January 1918. He was a member of the board for wounded officers at Caxton Hall, Westminster, and served as its president during the years 1917-18-19. He was also inspector of surgical instruments at the India Office. In 1912 he became a student at the London School of Tropical Medicine, and was surgeon to the Hospital for Tropical Diseases at the Royal Albert Dock from 1914 until 1925. He lectured on surgery in the tropics at the School of Tropical Medicine from 1914 and was lecturer on tropical diseases at the Westminster Hospital from 1913. He married Ethel Mayne Fendall Currie on 4 January 1892, and died in London on 12 August 1937, survived by her, a son and a daughter. His son presented a statuette of Harvey to the College in his memory.
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First Title value, for Searching Price, David Cromwell (1903 - 1949)

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Occupation Medical Officer
Details Born at West Norwood, London, on 19 March 1903, the second son of John Sidney Price, an official in the General Post Office, and his wife, *née* Wilson. He was educated at Purley County Secondary School and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was orthopaedic house surgeon. He qualified in 1926, and served as house surgeon, orthopaedic house surgeon, and casualty officer at the Royal Northern Hospital, London, and as orthopaedic resident at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Price became a medical officer of the Ministry of Pensions, and served for a time in the Ministry's hospitals before being appointed to the administrative staff. He took the Fellowship in 1936, and was promoted to be a principal medical officer in 1939. He was chiefly occupied with supervising the provision of surgical appliances, other than artificial limbs, to pensioners, and gave much time and care to training his juniors up to his own high standard for this work. Price married in 1939 Miss Borthwick, who survived him but without children. They lived at 139 Wavertree Road, Streatham Hill, SW2. He died in St Bartholomew's Hospital, after only three weeks' illness from an obscure anaemia, on 18 November 1949, aged 46.
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First Title value, for Searching Gould, Eric Lush Pearce (1886 - 1940)

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Publication Date 2013-07-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 23 January 1886 at 10 Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square W1, the second son of Sir Alfred Pearce Gould, KCVO, surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, and his second wife, a daughter of Mr Justice Lush and grand-daughter of Lord Justice Sir Robert Lush (1807-81), of whom there is an account in the Dictionary of National Biography. He was educated at Charterhouse School and won a science scholarship at Christ Church, Oxford, graduated in arts with a first class in school of natural science, gained the Radcliffe Travelling Fellowship in 1913 and visited Berlin, Canada, and the United States. In 1914-17 he served as a temporary surgeon in the Royal Navy, was appointed a consulting surgeon, and in 1939 received a commission as temporary Surgeon Rear-Admiral, RN, when he served at the Roy Naval Hospital, Plymouth. At the Middlesex Hospital he filled the posts of house surgeon, house physician, surgical registrar, and casualty surgical officer. In 1920 he was elected assistant surgeon, became surgeon and lecturer on surgery, and during 1925-29 was dean of the Medical School. During his term of office as dean the Hospital was rebuilt, the Institute of Biochemistry was equipped, and the restaurant for students established. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was on the Court of Examiners from 1936 and a member of the Council from 1932, holding both positions at the time of his death. His legal inheritance, derived from his mother's side, enabled him to make an admirable chairman of the Medical Defence Union from 1933, a position requiring tact and ability to deal with the numerous difficult cases which came under review. He married in 1916 Audrey Mitchell, daughter of Mr Justice Lawrence Jackson, KC, of the Federated Malay States; she outlived him, but there were no children. He died on 1 August 1940 at the Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth from the sequelae of a perforated duodenal ulcer. Eric Pearce Gould had many of the traits characteristic of his father, modified by a better education and wide travel, and softened perhaps by his lifelong martyrdom to asthma. A total abstainer from alcohol and deeply religious, he did much good social service and was more especially interested in prisoners and their after-care. Like his father he was a fluent and gifted speaker; the prepared discourse was delivered in flawless style, but he was also quick in debate and clever at repartee. The after dinner speech was always erudite, often brilliant, and always free from any story verging on the indelicate. These gifts made him a first-rate lecturer and attracted students to his classes and lectures at Hospital. His characteristic pose is well represented by W R Barrington in the sketch reproduced in the *Middlesex Hospital Journal*, 3, 38, 114. His literary output was marked by merit rather than abundance. As a surgeon he was especially interested in the cure of hernia by transplantation of the fascial aponeurosis, and in the operative treatment of congenital hypertrophic stenosis of the pylorus. Publications:- *Surgical pathology*, Students' synopsis series. London, 1922. Three mesenteric tumours. *Brit J Surg* 1915, 3, 42. Bone changes in von Recklinghausen's disease. *Quart J Med* 1918, 11, 221. A case of B. Welchii cholecystitis, with L E H Whitby. *Brit J Surg* 1927, 14, 646. Recurrence of carcinoma of the stomach eighteen years after partial gastrectomy. *Ibid* 1927, 15, 325. Primary thrombosis of the axillary vein; a study of eight cases, with D H Patey. *Ibid* 1928, 16, 208. Primary subtotal thyroidectomy for Graves' disease in a child four years of age, with J D Robertson. *Ibid* 1938, 25, 700. Editor of Sir A. Pearce Gould's *Elements of surgical diagnosis*, 4th to 7th editions, 1914-28. Honorary editor of the *Transactions of the Medical Society of London*, 53-62, 1930-39.
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First Title value, for Searching Gow, John (1887 - 1944)

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First Title value, for Searching Grant, John William Geary (1865 - 1947)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 27 November 1865 at Plymouth, the only son of Admiral John Frederick George Geary Grant, RN and his wife Eliza Jane Gardner. Grant suffered from a lame leg, or he would probably have entered the Navy for his grandfather had also been an admiral. He was educated privately and at St Thomas's Hospital. He was house surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Halifax, and clinical assistant at the Evelina Hospital, London, and in 1900 was appointed resident medical officer at the Royal Infirmary, Cardiff. From 1901 to 1909 he was in general practice at Llanwrtyd Wells, but feeling a vocation to surgery he took the Fellowship at the end of 1909 and then returned to Cardiff, where he was soon appointed to the staff of the Royal Infirmary. During the war of 1914-18 he served at the Western General Military Hospital at Whitchurch near Cardiff. When wholetime professorial "units" were set up after the war, Grant was appointed first assistant under A W Sheen in the surgical unit at the Welsh National School of Medicine; he was an inspiring teacher. Grant was consulting surgeon to the Treherbert Hospital, the King Edward VII Welsh National Memorial, and the miners' hospitals at Porth, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Abertwssyg, and Pentwyn. He was appointed consulting surgeon to the Cardiff Royal Infirmary on reaching the age limit. He served as vice-president of the section of surgery at the Cardiff meeting of the British Medical Association in 1928. He practised for thirty-four years at 19 Windsor Place, Cardiff. Grant married twice: (1) in 1901 Margaret Beatrice Buttery, whose two daughters survived him; (2) in 1932 Alice Olwen Waddleton, who survived him, but without children. He retired in 1946 to 44 Southland Road, Rodwell, Weymouth, where he died on 23 October 1947 aged 81. Grant was a very upright man, lovable, courteous, cheerful, and kind. He was an omnivorous reader of the professional literature. Publications:- Acute necrosis of the pancreas. *Brit med J* 1928, 1, 1101. Cancer of the rectum. *Clin J* 1932, 61, 570. Half a century of surgery. *Med Press*, 1944, 212, 59 and 78.
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First Title value, for Searching Sheen, Alfred William (1869 - 1945)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-30
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 30 April 1869, eldest of the eleven children of Alfred Sheen, MD, MRCS, surgeon to Cardiff Royal Infirmary, and Harriet Nell, his wife. A younger brother rose to be an engineer rear-admiral, Royal Navy. Their father is reputed to have performed the first successful ovariotomy at Cardiff. Educated at the University College of South Wales, he took his medical training at Guy's Hospital, where he was house surgeon to Arthur Durham and obstetric resident. He also served as house surgeon at Bethlem Royal Hospital and at Cardiff Royal Infirmary, where he was in due course elected assistant surgeon. Sheen was the second man to set up in South Wales as a surgical consultant doing no general practice; John Lynn-Thomas alone preceded him. Sheen served in the South African war as surgeon to the Imperial Yeomanry field hospital and was mentioned in despatches. He discovered an aptitude for soldiering, which stood to him when the first world war broke out. In the meantime he renewed his Cardiff practice, duly becoming surgeon to the Infirmary, and proving himself an excellent teacher and administrator. On 1 February 1909 he was commissioned lieutenant- colonel, RAMC, and in 1914 was appointed officer commanding and senior surgeon to the 34th (Welsh) General Hospital at Netley, Hants, and went with it to India in 1916, working chiefly at Deolali, and being subsequently consulting surgeon to military hospitals in India. He was created a CBE 1918 and came home in 1919. For a year he practised as a consultant in London, and was on the staff of the orthopaedic hospital at Shepherd's Bush. Under a twenty-years' tenure rule Sheen had to resign his surgeoncy at Cardiff Infirmary at the very moment when his ability and experience were at their zenith. He was, however, called back to Cardiff to develop the new Welsh National School of Medicine. He was appointed the first professor of surgery and director of the surgical unit in 1921, and became provost of the School when he handed over the professorial chair to Lambert Rogers. On the outbreak of the second world war, 1939, Professor Rogers volunteered for service in the Navy and Sheen resumed his duties. When the Conjoint and other examinations of the Royal Colleges had to be evacuated from London on account of the air-raids and took place in various provincial capitals, Sheen was appointed to the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons and officiated at Cardiff. Sheen took an active part in the work of professional societies and served as president of the Guy's Physical Society, the Cardiff Medical Society, Cardiff Medical Students' Club, Cardiff Naturalists' Society, and the Hunterian Society of London. He was an authority on John Hunter's work. He was president of the section of surgery at the Cardiff meeting of the British Medical Association, 1928. Sheen was county director for Glamorgan of the Voluntary Aid Society, in which capacity his quasi-military leadership was notably useful. At the Senghenydd mine disaster he was among the first to reach the pit-head and did sterling service in directing the rescue parties. His manner though brusque was essentially friendly, and he was generally and popularly known as "The Colonel". He was a military member of the Glamorgan Territorial Association. He was a member of the Moynihan Chirurgical Club and the International Society of Surgery. Sheen was early an advocate of prostatectomy and of splenectomy. He wrote many articles on surgery, and was much interested in reablement after industrial injuries. He was a hospitable man, and a good talker with a fund of anecdotes. His recreations were fishing and golf. Sheen married in 1898 Christine, daughter of J P Ingledew. There were no children; Mrs Sheen died in 1939. Sheen died at the Royal Infirmary, Cardiff on 28 March 1945, one month less than 76 years old. He contracted acute heartstrain in February, by walking three miles through a severe blizzard to keep an appointment at the offices of the National School of Medicine. The funeral was at Llandaff Cathedral on 3 April. Sheen had lived at Llandough House, Cardiff, and later at Blackgates, Llandaff. A memorial lecture was founded in his memory at the Cardiff Medical Society.
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First Title value, for Searching Shepherd, Francis John (1851 - 1929)

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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born 25 November 1851 the second of the ten children of Robert Ward Shepherd, general manager of the Ottawa River Navigation Co, and his wife, * née* Delesderniers, who was of Swiss origin. He was born at Port Cavignal, afterwards named Como, a village about 38 miles from Montreal on the southern side of the Lake of Two Mountains. Educated at the village school he passed to the Montreal High School, and appears to have entered the Arts Faculty at McGill in 1868. On 1 November 1869 he was a member of the newly established Medical Faculty of McGill. He made a short visit to the United States as soon as he had graduated in 1873, as there was no resident appointment vacant at the Montreal General Hospital. The years 1874 and 1875 were spent in postgraduate study. He visited London first, became a student at St Thomas's Hospital, and passed the first and second examinations for the MRCS with the intention of entering the Indian Medical Service. From London he passed to Marburg and from there to Vienna, where he took out courses in dermatology under Hebra and in anatomy under Zückerkandl. Whilst he was in Vienna his friend Osler wrote in April 1875 telling him that he had been appointed demonstrator of anatomy at McGill. He accepted the post and retained it until 1883, when he was appointed lecturer on anatomy, a position he held until his retirement in 1913, when he was succeeded by Sir Auckland Geddes. When Shepherd began to teach anatomy the subjects had to be obtained by resurrectionist methods. He was instrumental in 1883 in obtaining a legal supply, and he insisted that anatomy could only be learnt by dissection. In 1878 he was appointed medical officer to the Montreal Dispensary, and in May of the following year he was elected surgeon to out-patients at the Montreal General Hospital. In 1883 he exchanged this post for that of physician to the Charity and undertook the surgical work. He was also made temporary registrar of the Faculty of Medicine at McGill. In 1908 he became dean of the Faculty in succession to Sir Thomas Roddick, and remained dean until 1914. In 1883 too he was vice-president of the Students' Medical Society, which had been established by his contemporary and colleague William Osler in 1877, and during 1882-95 he acted as librarian of the Faculty. Shepherd gave valuable advice during the building of the Royal Victoria Hospital in 1891-93, but was never a member of the staff. In a similar manner he was greatly interested in the Montreal Maternity Hospital from 1886 until his death. He married Lilias Gertrude Torrance in 1878. She died in 1892 leaving two daughters. His only son was killed in action at Cambrai. He died suddenly on 18 January 1929, probably of coronary thrombosis. Shepherd was *felix opportunitate vitae*. He came to McGill in its infancy and took a very large share in raising it to the position it now occupies. He had a life-long friend in his McGill contemporary, Sir William Osler, and like him was a frequent visitor to the medical schools in Europe. He was too a man of culture, who trained himself to a knowledge of art, was president of the Montreal Art Association, 1918-29, and chairman of the board of trustees of the Canadian National Gallery, Ottawa. A portrait by Miss Des Clayes, painted by subscription in 1924, hangs in the Assembly Hall of the Medical Building at McGill University. Another, by Alphonse Jongerz, is in possession of the family. A memorial lecture was established at McGill University in 1953. Publications: Howell's *F J Shepherd - surgeon* contains as an appendix a list of his very numerous writings.
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First Title value, for Searching Blackstock, Anthony (1895 - 1931)

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First Title value, for Searching Blackwell, Arthur Seal (1869 - 1931)

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First Title value, for Searching Blair-Bell, William (1871 - 1936)

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Publication Date 2013-04-10
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born at Rutland House, New Brighton, Cheshire on 28 September 1871. He was the second son of the nine children of William Bell, JP, MRCS, LSA and Helen, his wife, daughter of General Butcher. An elder brother, John Herbert Bell, solicitor, was adjutant of the prisoners-of-war camp at Donington Hall during the war of 1914-18, and another brother was a cotton broker in St Louis, USA. William entered Rossall School during the third term of 1885 and left at midsummer 1890, having been for two years in the school cricket eleven. He entered King's College, London, winning a Warneford scholarship in 1900, was Tanner prizeman in 1895, and became a Fellow of the College in 1928. The Tanner prize was awarded for proficiency in diseases of women and children, and in 1895 Gilbert H Lansdown and William B Bell were bracketed equal. He graduated MB at London University in 1896, but neither at college nor at the university did he show any marked intellectual superiority. He was a member of the King's College Hospital association football team, was captain of the hospital's cricket eleven, and was a good hurdler. He went into general practice at Birkenhead as soon as he was qualified but, deciding to specialize in obstetrics and gynaecology, made time to pass the London University higher examinations in medicine and surgery, graduating MD in 1902 and BS in 1904. In 1905 he was appointed gynaecological surgeon in charge of out-patients at the Royal Infirmary, Liverpool, and gynaecologist to the Wallasey Cottage Hospital, in 1913 he was senior gynaecological surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, and in 1935 he was appointed president of the charity. In the University of Liverpool he succeeded Henry Briggs as professor of obstetrics and gynaecology in 1921 and resigned in 1931, when he was followed by Prof Leith Murray and was complimented with the title of emeritus professor. At the Royal College of Surgeons of England he was awarded the Hunterian bronze medal and the triennial prize of £50 for the years 1910-12 for his stimulating essay on "The anatomy and physiology of the pituitary body and the relationship with disease of its abnormal and morbid conditions". He delivered the Arris and Gale lectures in 1913 on "The genital functions of the ductless glands", a subject which gained him the Astley Cooper prize at Guy's Hospital. In 1916, as a Hunterian professor of surgery and pathology, he lectured on "Experimental operations on the pituitary body", and advanced the theory that the reproductive functions are directed and controlled by all the organs of internal secretion acting in conjunction, rather than by the gonads alone. It was not until 1929 that he was elected a Fellow of the College as a Member of 20 years' standing. In 1911 Blair-Bell founded the Gynaecological Visiting Society of Great Britain. The number of members was at first limited to twenty with a retiring age from the active list at fifty-five. Two meetings were held each year, one of which was usually at a continental centre. From this society came the British (now Royal) College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, which was incorporated in 1929. The suggestion to form such a college came from Dr William Fletcher Shaw, professor of clinical obstetrics and gynaecology in the University of Manchester. It was carried into effect by Blair-Bell, who was elected the first president, and to him was owing its prestige and ultimate success, for the project at first met with very considerable opposition. From an early period in his career Blair-Bell became interested in the subject of the causation of cancer and its cure. His first investigations were made in 1909 on the hypothesis that the chorionic epithelium was normally a malignant tissue and his experiments were made with placental and embryonic extracts. When these failed he tried the effect of lead, assuming that as lead could be used as an abortifacient it might possibly restrain the growth of tumour cells. From 1920 he treated cases of inoperable carcinoma of the breast by the injection of a colloid lead iodide (address to Toronto Academy of Medicine 1925). A few of his cases appeared to derive much benefit, but when it was tried on a larger scale it failed to justify itself, proving to be both painful and dangerous. In 1931 he delivered the Ingleby lecture at the University of Birmingham, and in 1932 he gave the Lloyd Roberts lecture at Manchester on "The present and future of the science and art of obstetrics" (*Brit Med J*. 1932, 1, 45). He married his niece, Florence Bell, on 7 June 1898. She was the daughter of his eldest brother, John Bell, solicitor, living at Surbiton, Surrey. She died in 1929 without issue. Blair-Bell died suddenly in the train on a night journey between London and Shrewsbury on 25 January 1936. As a university lecturer Blair-Bell was lucid and interesting; as a clinical teacher he was less effective. Towards the solution of any problem he brought immense industry, a minute attention to detail, a complete knowledge of the literature and a highly trained mind. He was one of the great driving forces in the world of British gynaecology during the first quarter of the twentieth century. He was an egotist and it was well said (of him that he was "the restless, lovable torch-bearer who never forgot nor allowed anyone else to forget that he was bearing a torch". He was a good hater as well as a good friend; he was largely devoid of tact and he was therefore often unable to carry his schemes into full effect. He combined in a curious manner idealism with a practical outlook. A portrait-drawing by Sir William Rothenstein is in the possession of the Liverpool Medical Institution. Publications:- *The sex complex*. London, 1916; 2nd ed 1919. *Principles of gynaecology*. London, 1910; 2nd ed 1917; 3rd ed 1919; 4th ed 1934. *The pituitary*. London, 1919. *Some aspects of the cancer problem* (editor). London, 1930. For complete bibliography see Sir Stanford Cade's Blair-Bell memorial lecture of 1950, published at Liverpool, 1952.
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First Title value, for Searching Modlin, Monte (1917 - 1980)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-10
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Occupation General practitioner Urologist
Details Monte Modlin was born in Bloemfontein in 1917. He attended the South African College School in Cape Town and then entered the University of Cape Town Medical School. During the second world war he served for three years in the SAMC in Egypt. In 1943 he returned to South Africa and joined the air school in Oudtshoorn. After general practice in Oudtshoorn for six years he decided to specialise and spent the next four years working at Trinity College, Dublin, the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, and Leeds General Infirmary, studying surgery and calcium metabolism. During this time he made many friends and developed what was to become a lifelong interest in the problem of renal stone formation, an interest which was stimulated by his work with Professor Pyrah at Leeds University. In 1954 he obtained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons. Returning to South Africa in 1956, he commenced private practice in Cape Town and was appointed part-time consultant urologist at Groote Schuur Hospital where he started the renal stone clinic in 1962. Over the next twenty years he accumulated a mass of data on renal stones and did some excellent research work on their rarity in black people. He was acknowledged to be a world authority in this field and was regularly invited to international symposia. In June 1965 his research resulted in an MD thesis entitled *Some chemical and physical properties of urine with relation to renal stone formation - an inter-racial study*. He delivered a Hunterian Lecture in 1966 on the aetiology of kidney stones and, in spite of a series of illnesses and operations he started an ambitious study of the structure of stones using sophisticated apparatus - work which was halted by his death. His home in Sea Point reflected the diversity of his interests. He spent what leisure time he had pottering in his garden with his dogs and relaxing in his study while pursuing his interest in history with an emphasis on Jewish, Greek, Roman and Ancient Egyptian. He had a respectable knowledge of Egyptian and Greek archaeology and, in later years, studied Greek in order to understand the subtleties of ancient history better. He married Julia Judith Green, a fellow student from the University of Cape Town, in 1943 and they had a son, Irwin, who also studied medicine. It was while visiting his son, who was in the department of surgery at the State University of New York, that Modlin died suddenly. He was attending a symposium at Williamsburg, Virginia when he collapsed. He died on 23 June 1980 survived by his wife, Julia, his son and a granddaughter, Carmen.
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First Title value, for Searching Shirwalkar, Raghunath Dadoba (1890 - 1941)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at Bombay University and in London at University College Hospital and St Bartholomew's Hospital. His address in 1919, when he took the Fellowship, was Tembavali, Devgad Ratnagiri, Bombay. At the time of his death he was serving at the Charak Clinic, Queen's Road, Charni Road Station, Bombay.
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First Title value, for Searching Moir, Percival John (1893 - 1981)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Sir Barry Jackson
Publication Date 2015-02-10 2018-05-24
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Percival John Moir was born in Glasgow on 26 July 1893 to Frederick Moir, a calico printer, and his wife Constance Ada, née Dickie. He attended Kelvinside Academy and Glasgow University, qualifying in 1914. He served as house surgeon to the Western Infirmary, Glasgow, for three to four months before joining the RAMC and serving throughout the first world war in Gallipoli, Egypt, Palestine and France with the rank of Captain. He was awarded the Military Cross and mentioned in dispatches. Returning to Glasgow in 1919 he was appointed lecturer in the department of anatomy before taking his FRCS in 1923. A year later he was appointed honorary assistant surgeon to the General Infirmary Leeds. He was influenced in these early years by Lord Moynihan, whose house surgeon he had been, Sir William Macewen, Sir George Beatson and L R Braithwaite. Moir was a neat and tidy surgeon who read widely and attended many meetings with the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland and the Moynihan Club. He introduced many new technical procedures to Leeds and gradually became accepted by his colleagues in his adopted home. His commanding presence, reserved manner and self-assurance made him sometimes appear rather aloof - even from his fellow Scots, whom he never cultivated and never entertained. In 1940, Moir was appointed Professor of Surgery to the University of Leeds and in 1952 assumed the position of Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Professor of Clinical Surgery. He was a member of the Leeds Regional Hospital Board from 1948 and the Board of Governors of the United Leeds Hospitals from 1952. He was a member of the General Medical Council from 1952 to 1960 and in his time served on the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. His hobbies were reading, bridge, golf and art. Regrettably, these interests were curtailed in his last years by Parkinsonism and failing sight. He died on 8 December 1981 at the age of 87, survived by his wife, Joan, whom he married in 1926 and his son Alan.
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First Title value, for Searching Bensley, Edwin Clement (1837 - 1923)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

First Title value, for Searching Dyke, Thomas Jones (1816 - 1900)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

First Title value, for Searching Dyson, Herbert Jekyl (1860 - 1907)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

First Title value, for Searching Stirling, Sir Edward Charles (1848 - 1919)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-20
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Occupation Ethnologist General surgeon Palaeontologist Politician
Details Born at Strathalbyn in South Australia in 1848, and was educated at St Peter's College, Adelaide. He was one of a group of young men who in the mid-sixties left South Australia for Cambridge, and matriculated from Trinity College. On his way to England he spent a year or more in Germany and France. While still at Cambridge he began the study of his profession, and after graduating BA with honours in the Natural Science Tripos in 1869 went to St George's Hospital, where he was appointed House Surgeon and worked his way up through the staff through the usual gradations, becoming in time Assistant Surgeon and Lecturer on Physiology as well as on Operative Surgery in the Medical School. He was Surgeon at the same time to the Belgrave Hospital for Children. In 1877 he took a trip to South Australia, married, and returned to London, intending to settle there as a consultant. Nostalgia however, and other reasons influenced him and his wife, and they returned to Adelaide in 1881. Here there was plenty of scope for a man of Stirling's energy and abilities. His experience as a lecturer on the subject pointed to him as the fit and proper person in the community to undertake the teaching of physiology in the newly founded University of Adelaide. His high qualifications also secured for him the position of Hon Medical Officer for the Adelaide Hospital. His scientific tastes predisposed him to the study of anthropology. For a hobby he amused himself with gardening. Not content with four such strings to his bow, he entered Parliament, and served as a Member for North Adelaide for three years, but was not re-elected. The young University lacked laboratories and apparatus, and Stirling was necessarily confined to teaching the elements of biology. It was his great merit, however, that he saw the possibility of establishing a curriculum for the MB degree. Through him, too, a wealthy colonist, Sir Thomas Elder, endowed a Chair of Chemistry, and the Medical School of the University started in 1885. After about two years Stirling chiefly arranged for the continuance of the MB course with the help of local talent. He was for thirty-four years the acknowledged doyen of the Medical School. His lectureship was converted into a professorship in 1900, and he was also in his active period a Member of the University Council, and Dean of the Faculties of Medicine and Science. Soon after Stirling's appointment to the Adelaide Hospital the staff became differentiated into Physicians, Surgeons and an Ophthalmologist. For several years Stirling acted as a Surgeon, and did most creditable work; he published reports of the first successful removal of a uterine fibroid by the abdominal route, making use of the serre-noeud (*Australas Med Gaz*, 1885, iv, 53), and of the first successful vaginal extirpation of the uterus for cancer (*Ibid*, 1886-7, vi, 89; *Med Jour Austral*, 1887, ix, 1). His reports now seem almost too minute in detail, but they are written in an excellent style, his Cambridge training coming strongly into evidence. He did indeed once endeavour to start as a Consulting Surgeon; fortunately he was independent of practise, for the patients did not come. Stirling shone as an ethnologist and palaeontologist, and the Adelaide Museum is a lasting memorial of his work as director of the institution. Its ethnological department is second to none in the Australian states. In palaeontology his name will always be associated with the *Diprotodon*, the mammoth wombat which was restored from bones found in 1892 in the dry Lake Callabonna (otherwise Lake Mulligan) (*Zool Soc Proc*, 1893, 473), and the *Genyornia Newtoni*, the rival of the Moa, found in the same districts (*S Austral Roy Soc Trans*, 1896, xx, 171; with A H C ZIETZ). His researches gained him a FRS in 1893. On such vexed questions as whether the platypus lays eggs, and as to the phenomena attending the parturition and lactation of the ordinary marsupials (*Zool Soc Proc*, 1889, 433), Stirling dissipated many long-cherished fairy-tales. Another biological triumph was his description of the *Notoryctes typhlops*, the blind marsupial mole (*S Austral Roy Soc Trans*, 1891, xiv, 154 etc). He was too, something of an explorer. His ride across Australia with Lord Kintore's party may not have been one of the highest importance to science, though it gained him the CMG in 1892; but a far more important piece of work was his association with the Horn Expedition of 1894, when he acted as Medical Officer and anthropologist. He was an active public man, was President of the first State Children's Council, was connected with societies for the prevention of cruelty to animals, and succeeded in carrying through Parliament the Act enfranchising the women of South Australia. He was conspicuous as a preserver of the fast-disappearing fauna of South Australia; took great pride in his garden at Mount Lofty, a show place; shot well and could ride camel or horse. When it is added that his delight was to do the work of 'Jerry Cruncher' in an aboriginal burying-ground or to pay a visit to a whale stranded about five hundred miles away from the city, some idea has to be given of his many activities, his boundless energy, and full life. When out duck-shooting on January 1st, 1919, with a temperature of 105 in the shade, he contracted an illness which led to his death by heart failure on March 20th, 1919. In 1877 he married Miss Jane Gilbert, daughter of the owner of a well-known station and vineyard, Pewsey Vale. At the time of his death he was Professor of Physiology at the University, Consulting Surgeon to the Adelaide Hospital, and Director of the Adelaide Museum. He was succeeded in the Professorship by his son-in-law, T Brailsford Robertson, who died January 18th, 1930. Publications:- "Observations on Certain Eruptions of the Skin, which occur after Recent Operations and Injuries," 8vo, London, 1880; reprinted from *St George's Hosp Rep*, 1879, x 519. "Address in Surgery," 8vo, Melbourne, 1889; reprinted from *Trans Intercolon Med Cong Australas*, Melbourne, 1889. "Hydatid Disease" (with JOSEPH COOKE VERCO) in Allbutt's *System of Medicine*, 1907, ii. *Anthropology of the Horn Exploring Expedition to Central Australia*.
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First Title value, for Searching Visick, Arthur Hedley Clarence (1897 - 1949)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-09 2014-08-07
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Occupation Gastroenterological surgeon
Details Born at Hampstead on 26 June 1897, second child and only son of Charles Hedley Clarence Visick, MRCS 1892, and Katherine Mary Cook, his wife. His father practised as an anaesthetist in North London; his grandfather and great-grandfather had also been medical men. His mother was related to Sir Albert Cook, CMG, MD, a prominent medical missionary in Uganda, and his sister, E M Griffith, MRCS, wife of J R Griffith, FRCS, is a gynaecological surgeon. He was educated at Epsom College and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he won an entrance scholarship in 1915. He served during the war as a combatant soldier, and began his medical training in 1918. He won a succession of prizes and scholarships: the Treasurer's anatomy prize 1919, the Foster anatomy prize 1920, the Walsham pathology prize 1922, and the Willett operative surgery prize and Brackenbury surgical scholarship the same year. He then served as demonstrator of anatomy, house surgeon in the ear, nose, and throat department, house surgeon to Sir Holburt Waring, and chief assistant to Sir Charles Gordon-Watson in the surgical unit. After a period as clinical assistant at St Peter's Hospital for Stone, he went in 1926, as a Rockefeller scholar, to Michigan University where he served as instructor in orthopaedic surgery and assistant surgeon to Max M Peet, FACS, and became particularly interested in thyroid surgery. He also reorganized the clinical record-keeping methods. He came back from America and settled at York in 1927, and was elected surgeon to the York County Hospital in 1928. He was also surgeon to the North Riding Mental Hospital, and consulting surgeon to the hospitals at Malton and Easingwold, and to the York City General Hospital, which was opened in 1942. He was surgical specialist to York Military Hospital, and to the Northern Command. His chief interest was at first in thyroid surgery, but from 1914 he became more interested in gastric surgery, especially the treatment of peptic ulcer. He discussed 500 cases of gastrectomy in his Hunterian lecture at the College in 1948. He had a large private practice, first at 25 High Petergate and latterly at The Old House, Fulford; every Wednesday he held a follow-up clinic, keeping personally in touch with every patient, and bringing in all his assistants, with a model system of detailed records. Visick was a member of the Leeds and West Riding Medico-Chirurgical Society, and was chairman of the York division of the British Medical Association 1938-43; the association awarded him the Bishop Harman prize in 1948. He was chairman of the house committee of the County Hospital, and a member of the York Hospital Management Committee. Though always ready to speak his mind, Visick was an appreciative and understanding colleague. At the time of his early death he was one of the most outstanding surgeons in the north. Visick married in 1929 Christine Ruegg, who survived him with two sons and a daughter. He died in the County Hospital, York, on 4 April 1949, aged 51. A memorial service was held in York Minster. He was devoted to country pursuits, which he enjoyed at a cottage outside York. Publications: Anatomy of tendon-sheaths of the hand in relation to suppurating tenosynovitis. *St Bart's Hosp J* 1925, 32, 184. Conservative treatment of acute perforated peptic ulcer. *Brit med J* 1946, 2, 941. Five hundred cases of gastrectomy, Hunterian lecture. *Ann Roy Coll Surg Engl* 1948, 3, 266.
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First Title value, for Searching Mothersole, Robert Devereux (1865 - 1950)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

First Title value, for Searching Muecke, Francis Frederick (1879 - 1945)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-21
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born in Australia on 6 December 1879, son of the Hon H C Muecke of Adelaide, he was educated at Prince Alfred College and University, where he won the Davies Thomas scholarship, 1900, and graduated with first-class honours in medicine, 1902. Coming to England in 1903, he studied at the London Hospital and served as senior clinical assistant at the Golden Square Throat Hospital; he was elected assistant surgeon to the Central London Throat Hospital in 1908. Muecke was appointed to the staff of the London Hospital as aural registrar and demonstrator in 1909, and took the Fellowship that year, though not previously a Member. He was elected assistant aural surgeon, 1918, aural surgeon, 1923, and consulting surgeon to the ear, nose, and throat department on his retirement, 1936. At the Golden Square hospital he was elected assistant surgeon shortly before the outbreak of war in 1914, but having joined the RAMC he was away from London for almost the whole period of this appointment. He saw active service at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, 1915, on the Somme, 1916, and afterwards at Arras and Passchendaele, and was mentioned in despatches. He then transferred to the RAFMS, as ear, nose, and throat specialist, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was awarded a military CBE, 1919. Muecke resumed his London practice, and became aural surgeon to Maida Vale Hospital and consulting specialist to the LCC. He served as secretary of the section of laryngology at the British Medical Association's Glasgow meeting, 1922, vice-president of the section of oto-laryngology at Winnipeg, 1930, and president of the section of oto-rhino-laryngology at Melbourne, 1935. Muecke married twice: (1) in 1905 Ada Crossley, the Australian singer, for whom he acted as manager on some of her tours; they lived in St John's Wood, NW; Mrs Muecke died in 1929; (2) in 1930 Jean McMurtrie, daughter of James Henderson of Cumnock, Aberdeenshire, who survived him but without children. He died in the London Hospital on 13 April 1945, aged 65. He had practised in Queen Anne Street and later at 36 Cavendish Square, and retired to The Greenings, Charlwood, Surrey, where he enjoyed farming and rough-shooting. Muecke was a keen freemason and secretary of the London Hospital Lodge for twenty-five years. He was a big man in every way, a lover of life and of his fellow-men. He was an excellent operator and teacher. While an undergraduate Muecke played cricket, lacrosse, and lawn-tennis for Adelaide University, and rowed in the boat. In later life he was a keen player of golf. He left £5,000 to the London Hospital. Publications: Acute aural meningitis. *Brit med J* 1922, 2, 1077. Hemilaryngectomy. *Lancet*, 1923, 1, 78.
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First Title value, for Searching Lloyd Jones, William (1940 - 2013)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Sir Miles Irving
Publication Date 2013-11-08 2014-09-24
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Occupation General surgeon
Details William Lloyd Jones ('Will') was a consultant general surgeon at Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool. He was born into a farming family in Anglesey, Wales, and was taught in local schools. Deciding on a career in medicine, he chose to study in Liverpool, then a natural choice for a Welsh speaker. The founding of the docks in Liverpool at the end of the 18th century had encouraged the inhabitants of north Wales to migrate in their thousands to the rapidly expanding port city, where they settled and created a large, vibrant Welsh-speaking community. Amongst the immigrants were talented professionals such as Hugh Owen Thomas, who, along with his nephew Robert Jones, founded the specialty of orthopaedics. The rapid growth of this talented Welsh medical community in the city hospitals led to Liverpool University Medical School becoming a mecca for Welsh-speaking medical students who could maintain their cultural heritage by daily contact with Welsh clinicians, academics and patients. Will qualified MB ChB in 1963 and it was inevitable that he should become a house surgeon to John Howell Hughes, who had a huge practice of patients referred to the Liverpool Royal Infirmary from north Wales. Two small surgeons of similar cultural background and interest, they became mentor and student. At times their ward rounds were conducted almost entirely in Welsh, in deference to the many patients from the north Wales mountains and Anglesey who spoke only Welsh. As Will's career progressed, he always acknowledged with gratitude the influence and support he had received from Howell Hughes. It is noteworthy that these two surgeons are both referred to on the Liverpool Welsh website as 'outstanding Welsh medical giants'. Will's surgical training took place in the city hospitals of Liverpool and the surrounding suburbs, during which time he passed the fellowships of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and of England, and became a senior registrar at Broadgreen Hospital, where he was able to work alongside another Welsh surgical mentor, Edgar Parry. In the early seventies, he spent a year in Boston working with the famous biliary surgeon Ken Warren. In America he published reviews of a large series of malignant tumours of the bile ducts and of symptomatic non-parasitic cysts of the liver, as well as undertaking cardiovascular research. At one stage, after returning to Liverpool, Will was appointed as a senior lecturer in surgery, but he eventually moved back into NHS practice and was appointed as a consultant surgeon at Broadgreen Hospital, from where he pursued a fruitful surgical practice, both in the NHS and privately. Throughout his career he remained a general surgeon who was much sought after, especially by his surgical colleagues when they needed surgical treatment. He was known as a 'surgeon's surgeon', well-loved and respected by all who worked with him and by his patients. He maintained an extensive private practice in Rodney Street, the fashionable district in the shadow of Liverpool's Anglican cathedral which, both professionally and architecturally, was very much a rival to Harley Street. Towards the end of his career he suffered several episodes of illness, finally retiring from the NHS in 2006 and giving up his private practice two years later. His post retirement years were spent in his beloved Wales, where he gardened and took part in local activities, amongst which was being president of the Anglesey Show. Will married twice, and in his latter years lived happily with his partner Jenny. He died in Walton Hospital, aged 72, on 3 September 2013. He was survived by Jenny, his two daughters, Angharad and Teleri, and a grandson, Harry.
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First Title value, for Searching Wightman, Cecil Frank (1870 - 1937)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-11
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Bungay, Suffolk, 7 January 1870, the fifth son of Henry Wightman, draper, and his wife, *née* Hambling. He was educated at the Grammar Schools at Bungay and Great Yarmouth, before proceeding to St Bartholomew's Hospital. From the Hospital he passed the final examination for FRCS at the age of 23. He filled the offices of house surgeon at the Scarborough Hospital, at the Chichester Infirmary, and at the Bolton Infirmary. In 1896 he entered into general practice in Leicester, but soon moved to Cornwall Gardens, London, where he practised as a consultant. Failing health led him to settle at Royston in 1902, where he entered into partnership with Dr C W Windsor, and retired in 1926 when his eyesight began to fail. He acted for many years as surgeon to the Royston Hospital, and was instrumental in getting it enlarged as the Royston and District Hospital. During the war he served with the Hertfordshire Regiment, and retired with the rank of major. He died unmarried at the Old Palace, Royston on 4 May 1937, and was buried at Therfield, Royston, Herts. He left £100 to St Dunstan's Home for the Blind. Dr Wightman did much for Royston. He was a good churchman, being Vicar's warden 1917-1929, was interested in the Boy Scout movement, and was the mainstay of the Social Club, where he was president for many years, until he resigned the position in 1933. Publication: *First Aid in Accidents*, with Sir John Collie. London, 1912.
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First Title value, for Searching Richards, William Hunter (1869 - 1933)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

First Title value, for Searching Ridley, Nicholas Charles (1863 - 1937)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-16
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born 6 April 1863 at Spilsby, Lincolnshire, the eldest son of the Rev Charles George Ridley, who came from Kimbolton, and Mary Vine, his wife. He was educated at Boston Grammar School and at St Mary's Hospital, where he gained scholarships in natural science and pathology. He acted subsequently as house surgeon, ophthalmic house surgeon, and senior clinical assistant in the ophthalmic department, and was for a time assistant demonstrator of physiology in the Medical School. In 1886 he was placed in the honours list at the intermediate MB examination at the University of London, and to improve his knowledge of diseases of the eye acted as chief clinical assistant at the Royal London (Moorfields) Ophthalmic Hospital. In 1889 he passed into the medical service of the Royal Navy and served until 1892, when he was invalided out for ankylosis of the right knee following a pyogenic infection after fever contracted in the tropics. He settled in practice in Leicester in 1895, and was later in partnership with Maurice Holdsworth Barton, MC, FRCS Ed, MRCS, the two partners specializing in ophthalmology. Ridley was appointed ophthalmic surgeon to the Leicester Royal Infirmary on 12 May 1896, becoming consulting ophthalmic surgeon on 1 May 1923, and was also ophthalmic surgeon to the Blind Institution and Infant Orphan Asylum at Leicester. He was president of the Midland Ophthalmological Society and was Middlemore lecturer in 1923. He married Margaret Parker on 9 July1905. She survived him with two sons, Nicholas Harold Lloyd Ridley, FRCS and Nicolaus Charles Alder Ridley, barrister-at-law, serving in the Colonial Service, Northern Rhodesia. He died on 8 July 1937 at 27 Horsefair Street, Leicester. Publication: Notes and specimens of a case of intraorbital neoplasm. *Brit J Ophthal* 1923, 7, 545.
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First Title value, for Searching Colyer, Sir James Frank (1866 - 1954)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-05
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Occupation Curator Dental surgeon
Details Born on 25 September 1866 he trained as a dental surgeon at the Royal Dental Hospital, and completed his medical education at the Charing Cross Hospital. He served as house surgeon and demonstrator of operative dentistry at the Royal Dental Hospital, and was subsequently surgeon to the Hospital and Dean of its School 1904-09. At Charing Cross Hospital he was elected dental surgeon in 1893. During the first world war he was consulting dental surgeon to Croydon War Hospital, the Queen's Hospital for Facial Injuries at Sidcup, and to the Ministry of Pensions. He took a prominent part in the work of the British Dental Association, the Odontological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine of which he was president in 1919, and the British Society of Dental Surgeons of which he was the first president in 1932. From 1900 he was honorary curator of the museum of the Odontological Society which was vested in the Royal Society of Medicine and transferred in 1908 from the Royal Dental Hospital to the Royal College of Surgeons. Sir Frank built up this museum during more than fifty years' work and largely at his own cost to be the most comprehensive collection of comparative odontology in the world. On this collection he based his invaluable historical books. His textbook, first published as *Diseases and Injuries of the Teeth* in collaboration with Morton Smale, was revised with the help of Evelyn Sprawson and ran to eight editions under the title of *Dental Surgery and Pathology*. Colyer was universally respected and loved for his sterling and forthright character, the simplicity with which he carried his great knowledge, and his ever-youthful zest. In younger days he was an active player of ball games and continued to follow them with keen interest. In later years he could not easily accept the changing policy of the College Council who, in his view, put the social life and teaching work of the College too far before the interests of the Hunterian Museum of which he was a Trustee. However he loyally carried on his work as honorary curator, even when his exhibits were partially dismantled. Colyer was elected a Fellow of the College in 1916 and was created KBE for his war-work in 1920. The Royal Society of Medicine founded a triennial Colyer prize in 1926 to commemorate his first 25 years service to the Museum, and the Faculty of Dental Surgery, whose Fellowship he accepted in 1947, awarded him its first Colyer medal in gold in 1954. He was a vice-president of the section of comparative medicine at the centenary meeting of the British Medical Association in London in 1932, and was elected an honorary member of the British Dental Association. He married in 1895 Lucy Olivia Simpson who died on 5 September 1950. He died on 30 March 1954, aged 87, survived by his son, Norman Colyer, a house-master at Epsom College, and his daughter Mrs Bilham. His other daughter, Eileen Colyer, a prominent lawn tennis player, had died very young. Sir Frank Colyer's portrait, by Clarence White, was presented by his admirers to the British Dental Association on his eightieth birthday in 1946, and his own replica was given after his death to the Odontological Museum by his son. Publications: *Diseases and Injuries of the Teeth*, with Morton Smale 1893; 8th edition (*Dental Surgery and Pathology*, with Evelyn Sprawson) 1942. *Dental Disease in its relation to general medicine*. 1911 *John Hunter and odontology*. 1913. *Chronic general periodontitis*. 1916. *Variations and diseases of the teeth of animals*. 1936. *Old Instruments for extracting teeth*. 1952.
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First Title value, for Searching Mills, Frank Harland (1910 - 2008)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Miles Little
Publication Date 2013-09-30 2013-12-09
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Occupation Cardiac surgeon General surgeon
Details Frank Harland Mills was a pioneering Australian heart surgeon. He was born on 20 June 1910 in Armidale, New South Wales, and grew up on the south coast of the state, mostly around Ulladulla. Frank's mother died when he was young, and his father, a local magistrate, had to raise Frank, his brother Roy, sister Joyce and an older sister (who was killed in a car crash at the age of 18) on his own. Frank described his childhood as idyllic, free and full of adventure. He claimed never to have worn shoes until he went to school. He fished and swam, climbed trees, shot rabbits, ate shellfish and played with the local children. He won a scholarship to Wollongong High and went on to the University of Sydney to study medicine. He graduated in 1933, and was a junior resident at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in 1934, where he was paid 30 shillings a week. He became involved with Frank Rundle's work on thyroid disease, work which he developed further when he went to London on a Walter and Eliza Hall travelling fellowship to gain his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons. He studied for his fellowship with his close friend Edward 'Weary' Dunlop (later Sir Edward), whose heroism on the Burma-Thai railroad is widely celebrated. Just before the outbreak of the Second World War, Frank delivered a Hunterian lecture on thyroid disease in London. He returned to Sydney just as the war began, and was appointed as an assistant surgeon at Royal Prince Alfred and St Vincent's hospitals until he was called up. He sailed in the *Queen Mary* (via Antarctica) to Singapore with the 10th Australian General Hospital. When Singapore was invaded by the Japanese, Frank set up a small hospital in two or three houses with large rooms. He looked after about 250 wounded soldiers under harrowing conditions, with the fighting at times just 300 metres away. He had little equipment, few supplies and the bombardment was almost continuous. When Singapore fell on 15 February 1942, Frank was sent to Changi until June, when the imprisoned troops were divided into A and B Forces. A Force was sent to Thailand, and B Force, which Frank joined, went to Sandakan in Borneo. Treating illness in Sandakan required ingenuity, courage and stamina from both patients and doctors. Supplies had to be improvised, grown or stolen. Peptic ulcers were treated with emulsions made of the alkaline ash from fires. Tropical ulcers on the legs were patiently cleaned and dressed with a strong solution of wood ash. Amputations were rare in Sandakan, although common in other camps. After about 15 months in Sandakan, in October 1943, the officers were taken from the camp and moved to Kuching. Most of the Kuching prisoners were still alive at the end of the war nearly two years later, whereas only six of the 2,000 Sandakan prisoners survived the infamous Sandakan death march between February and June 1945. In Kuching, Frank occupied himself by designing a heart-lung machine - a project he was to work on when he returned to Sydney and civilian life. The oxygenator of his device was a bamboo tube, whose tiny natural holes allowed oxygen to permeate the blood in the machine. The work of Gibbon in the US, generously funded by General Motors, progressed more rapidly, and Frank abandoned his work before all his technical problems were resolved. Frank gained his fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1947. Sir Hugh Poate asked him to become his assistant at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney and expanded Frank's interest in thyroid surgery. A Carnegie fellowship allowed him to visit most of the major surgical centres in the US and the UK, and he came to know many of the surgeons who founded modern surgery - people such as Lord Brock, Alfred Blalock, Edward Churchill, Francis Moore, Hank Bahnson and Frank Spencer. These men were particularly influential in starting cardiac surgery, and Frank too began to operate on the heart and great blood vessels in the late 1940s. This new-fangled and dangerous surgery was not encouraged by the administration at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. Undeterred, Frank continued to perform operations for coarctation of the aorta, patent ductus and mitral stenosis. His series of mitral valvotomies was enormous by any standards, and his results were incomparably good. He himself survived some complex surgery for peptic ulcer, and rapidly returned to work. Over the ensuing years, in the 1950s and 1960s, he pioneered peripheral vascular surgery, and surgery of the liver and the pancreas in Sydney. More than anything, he brought something special to surgical training. He had seen how Blalock, Churchill and Francis Moore had implemented training schemes that encouraged the best trainees to develop skills as surgeons and investigators. Frank worked hard to bring the same environment to Australia, to nurture talent and stimulate enquiry. Frank married Elayne Smith in October 1960. They had a daughter Corinna and a son, Jonathan. Frank himself developed cancer in the early 1970s, and survived for 37 years after his surgery. His survival meant that he enjoyed the company and support of his wife Elayne, and was able to see Jonathan and Corinna make their own lives. He watched with particular pride as Jonathan developed his distinguished career as a composer, becoming director of the Edinburgh Festival. Frank was particularly moved by Jonathan's now famous *Sandakan threnody*, a major composition reflecting on the cruelty and courage shown in the prison camp. In retirement, Frank travelled, entertained innumerable friends of all ages, swam daily at Bondi, ate well, and drank wine with discretion and expertise - both he and Elayne were members of the Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin, which brought together wine enthusiasts, and Frank was one of the 11 founders of the Rothbury Estate winery in the Hunter valley. His longevity (he was 97 when he died) he ascribed to his regular contact with bacteria from the Bondi sewage (until the long ocean outfall was installed about 1990), which he believed developed a range of skills for his immune system, making him resistant to chance infection. He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1990 for his services to medicine, and the University of Sydney conferred on him a doctorate of medicine in 2005. He died on the morning of 2 April 2008.
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First Title value, for Searching Wilkinson, Edmund (1867 - 1938)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-11
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Occupation Epidemiologist Medical Officer Military surgeon
Details Born 9 January 1867 at the East Cornwall Bank, Launceston, Cornwall, the first child of John Wimble Wilkinson, the bank accountant, and Emma Sophia Shilson his wife. He was educated at Blundell's School, Tiverton, Devon, and at University College, London. At University College Hospital he held resident posts, and entering the Indian Medical Service was gazetted surgeon on 28 July 1891, went to Bengal, was promoted major on 21 July 1903, lieutenant-colonel on 28 July 1913, and retired on 13 November 1914. He served on the NW Frontier, Waziristan 1894-95 (medal and clasp), at Mohmand 1897-98, and was in the Buner action of Tanga pass (medal and clasp). In the Punjab he was chief plague medical officer, and was acting sanitary commissioner for East Bengal and Assam. During the war he was liaison officer in England between the civil and military authorities to establish the sanitary arrangements for military camps and hospitals. On 1 April 1914 he was appointed a medical inspector under the Local Government Board, which became the Ministry of Health after 1919, and served until 1932, when he retired to live the life of a country gentleman in Cornwall. He married twice: (1) Eva Marion Haig on 2 February 1899; and (2) Gertrude Mary, widow of Prebendary Daugar of Exeter, on 15 April 1925; she survived him, with four daughters of his first marriage. He died at Hornacott Manor, near Launceston, on 1 May 1938. Mrs Wilkinson died on 12 August 1947 at the same place. Wilkinson had a distinguished career as an epidemiologist both in India and in England. His plague experience in India enabled him to render invaluable aid to the Port sanitary authority in London and in preventing the spread of the disease in East Anglia. Publication: *Tropical medicine and hygiene*, with C W Daniels: Part 1, *Disease due to protozoa*, London, 1909; parts 2-3 and 2nd edition by Daniels alone.
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First Title value, for Searching Murray, John Douglas Ridout ( - 1982)

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First Title value, for Searching Williams, Henry Thomas Hadley (1864 - 1932)

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First Title value, for Searching Anthony, Rene Francis (1934 - 2013)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-12-16 2015-12-14
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Occupation Urologist
Details René Francis Anthony was a urologist at the Dr Georges L Dumont and the Moncton City hospitals, New Brunswick, Canada. He was born on 10 August 1934. He gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1967. He was also a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada. He died on 18 October 2013, aged 79.
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First Title value, for Searching Mynors, John Malbon (1921 - 1979)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

First Title value, for Searching Nagar, Felix Robert ( - 1974)

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First Title value, for Searching Negus, Sir Victor Ewings (1887 - 1974)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-18
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Victor Ewings Negus was born in London on 6 February 1887, the third son of a solicitor, William Negus JP, and his wife Emily (Ewings). He was educated at King's College School, King's College, and entered King's College Hospital in 1909 with a Sambrooke Exhibition, qualifying in 1912. As a student earlier that year he had been an usher in Westminster Abbey at the funeral of Lord Lister. After house appointments at the hospital, during which he was a dresser to Sir Watson Cheyne, he joined the RAMC immediately on the outbreak of the first world war and early in August 1914 went to France with the 1st General Hospital. After serving at the base he joined a regiment in the first battle of Ypres and after being blown up in the trenches, was appointed to hospital barges. Indeed, he was left with a tinnitus that persisted throughout his life. In 1916 he was posted to Mesopotamia and served there with the 3rd Lahore Division until the end of the war, during which he was awarded the Mons Star and was mentioned in despatches. In 1921 he graduated MB BS took the FRCS and was house surgeon at the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat, Golden Square. He studied at Bordeaux, attended Chevalier Jackson's courses on peroral endoscopy at Philadelphia and then became clinical assistant in St Clair Thomson's ENT department at King's. On his return from America he had advocated the use of Chevalier Jackson's methods and instruments, but in collaboration with Mr Schranz, of the Genito-Urinary Company in London, he redesigned the laryngoscopes, bronchoscopes and oesophagoscopes and later these were used all over the world. Among the many instruments he helped to devise was the Negus bronchoscope, which gave both proximal and distal illumination and by incorporating a funnel shape in the proximal portion facilitated the insertion of forceps. In 1924 he was awarded the Gold Medal at the MS examination of the University of London and that year was appointed junior surgeon in the ENT department at King's, becoming surgeon in 1931 and senior surgeon in 1940. In 1946 he was appointed consulting surgeon. It was said that he was one of the first King's College Hospital consultants who recognised the importance of teaching house surgeons to operate. Once satisfied about a man's capabilities he became the perfect guide, philosopher and friend. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was Arris and Gale Lecturer in 1924, Hunterian Professor in 1925 and was awarded the John Hunter Medal and Triennial Prize for 1925-27. He was President of the Listerian Society from 1939 to 1941 and was awarded the Lister Medal in 1954. He became a Fellow of King's College, and a member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons to represent otolaryngology. He was a member of numerous otolaryngological societies at home and overseas and was elected President of the Thoracic Society for 1949-50 and of the British Association of Otorhinolaryngologists in 1951. In 1949 he was President of the International Congress of Otolaryngology in London. For 20 years until 1956 he was honorary treasurer of the Collegium Oto-rhino-laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum and was President at its annual meeting in London in 1954. He was knighted in 1956. Negus was a tireless worker and strove to keep laryngology a strict surgical science, and did much to enhance the status of the speciality. He undertook fundamental research into the comparative anatomy and physiology of the larnyx and paranasal sinuses. His *Mechanism of the larynx* was published in 1929. *Comparative anatomy and physiology of the nose and paranasal sinuses* appeared in 1958. The fourth edition of *Diseases of the nose and throat*, originally by St Clair Thomson, appeared in 1937 in association with Victor Negus and he edited its sixth edition published in 1955. This was Negus's major literary contribution to clinical medicine. *The Biology of respiration* appeared in 1965. When he left the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons he was actively employed at the College as a Trustee of the Hunterian Collection from 1954. It was under his Chairmanship of the Trustees that the catalogues of the surviving Hunterian specimens were published, the pathological series in 1966 and 1972, the physiological series in 1970-71. He also wrote the official history of the Hunterian Trustees in 1965, and the catalogue of the artistic possessions of the College in 1967. His thoroughness and attention to detail has become a legend. In his leisure time Sir Victor was equally energetic, playing tennis with great cunning until he was 70. Later he concentrated on golf, played regularly in the winter and was President of the Medical Golfing Society. For many years he played golf or tennis in the matches between staff and students at King's College Hospital, and when he retired from King's in 1952 and became director of the Ferens Institute at the Middlesex Hospital he played golf for the staff against the Middlesex students. His dexterity at billiards was such that he was seldom beaten by the students or colleagues. Besides salmon fishing, one of his favourite occupations was felling trees. He married Winifred Adelaide Gladys (Eve) Rennie in 1929, and she accompanied him on his numerous tours to all parts of the world. They had two sons, one of whom became a consultant surgeon. In his later years, living in Haslemere, he was President of the Friends of the Holy Cross Hospital, and of the local arthritis council in Haslemere. He died on 15 July 1974.
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First Title value, for Searching Neilson, Drevor Frederick Acton (1891 - )

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

First Title value, for Searching Nevin, Robert Wallace (1907 - 1980)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Sir Barry Jackson
Publication Date 2015-02-18 2018-05-24
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Robert Wallace (Bob) Nevin was born in Burton-on-Trent in 1907, the son of a general practitioner. He was educated at Clifton College and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He joined St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in 1929 and had a distinguished undergraduate career, winning the Cheselden and Clutton Medals in surgery before qualifying in 1933. In his early postgraduate years he was awarded the Perkins Travelling Fellowship and the Louis Jenner and Anderson Scholarships before the second world war interrupted his training. He became a member of the RAMC and initially served in France, taking part in the evacuation of Dunkirk. He then served in the Middle East and Yugoslavia, rising to the rank of Colonel. After demobilization, he was appointed to the surgical staff of St Thomas's Hospital, which institution he served with distinction for the rest of his life. An outstanding undergraduate surgical teacher, Nevin was sometime examiner in the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London and Glasgow and served as a member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 1947 he was Hunterian Professor and his lecture on the surgical aspects of intestinal amoebiasis was published in the first volume of the *Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England*. Appointed Dean of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in 1957, Bob Nevin continued in this appointment for ten years during which time he was instrumental in securing much academic development within the Medical School as well as playing a large part in the planning of the re-development of the war-damaged hospital buildings. He was chief surgeon to the Metropolitan Police from 1957 to 1977 and served on the Senate of the University of London from 1966 to 1969. Bob Nevin had a remarkable personality, being warm-hearted, genuinely concerned for the individual, devoid of all malice and a man of the highest integrity. He was legendary among medical students for knowing everyone by name and background which he remembered long after they had left the School. To them he was 'Uncle Bob'. His colleagues would often turn to him for advice both in regard to personal matters and in regard to their health. At St Thomas's he was truly a legend in his lifetime and the main lecture theatre is now called after him, so that his name lives on. In private life he was blessed with a very happy marriage to Audrey Spencer Leeson, daughter of the Bishop of Peterborough and sometime Headmaster of Winchester College. He had an interest in church architecture at home and abroad and took an active part in helping to run the parish of Greywell, Hampshire, where he lived. He was a Past Master of The Salters' Company and for twenty-five years was secretary of the Travelling Surgical Club. He died suddenly on 20 December 1980 and was survived by his wife, two daughters and a son who is a housemaster at Winchester College.
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First Title value, for Searching Beale, Peyton Todd Bowman (1864 - 1957)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-22 2021-02-09
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 20 June 1864 son of Lionel Smith Beale FRS, FRCP, Professor of Medicine at King's College, London, and Frances his wife, daughter of the Rev Peyton Blakiston FRCP, he was educated at Westminster School and King's College, London. He was a house surgeon 1889-90 at King's College Hospital, where his father was consulting physician, was assistant surgeon from 1893, and became surgeon in 1901. He retired in 1910, and was elected a consulting surgeon in 1925. Beale was lecturer in biology at King's College 1891-1900, and demonstrator in physiology and histology 1891-1904; for some years he was lecturer in physiology and artistic anatomy at King's College for Women; he was elected a Fellow of King's College in 1909. From 1906 to 1910 he was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of King's College, and was thus the first Dean of the present Medical School which came into existence in 1909. Beale was also consulting surgeon to the Royal Northern Hospital. He was an examiner in physiology and surgery to the Society of Apothecaries of London, and also examined in surgery for Glasgow University, and in biology for the English Conjoint Board. Beale left London in 1910 to practise in Southampton, and in 1920 moved to Milford-on-Sea, where he was consulting surgeon to the cottage hospital. He was a keen gardener; and was affectionately known to his friends as "Toddles". He married Gertrude Louisa Attwell in 1892; they celebrated their golden wedding in 1942, and Mrs Beale died on 23 July 1949. His elder brother, Edwin Clifford Beale FRCP, celebrated his 100th birthday on 16 October 1951 (*Brit med J* 1951, 2, 965 with portrait), and lived till 31 January 1953. Peyton Beale died at Lymore End, Milford-on-Sea, Lymington, Hampshire on 24 December 1957, aged 93, survived by his two daughters. He was the senior Fellow of the College, as his brother had been of the Royal College of Physicians. He was among the first of surgeons to leave the arm free after amputation of the breast, thus obviating difficulty in obtaining free movement of the arm after operation. He used to open appendix abscesses retro-peritoneally through an incision in the loin, obtaining drainage by gravity and avoiding the peritoneal cavity. He was a regular donor of specimens to the College Museum and of books to the Library. Publications: *Practical lessons in elementary biology for junior students*. London 1894. *Aids to physiology*. London 1903; New York 1906.
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First Title value, for Searching Beattie, Davis Andrew (1909 - 1961)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-22
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Occupation General surgeon
Details He qualified from St Bartholomew's Hospital and was appointed to the staff of the Royal Northern Hospital. He worked for some years in the Malayan Medical Service, and after the war of 1939-45 was elected surgeon to the General Hospital, Leicester. He was a Hunterian Professor at the College in 1948, lecturing on the treatment of peptic ulcer by vagotomy (*Annals of the College*, 1948, 2, 248-260). Beattie emigrated to Canada, where he was surgeon to the Union Hospital, Swift Current, Saskatchewan, and in 1954 was elected President of the medical staff. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons at Ottawa, and of the American College of Surgeons and the International College of Surgeons, both at Chicago. In later years he changed the order of his first names from "Davis Andrew" to "Andrew Davis", but was generally known as David Beattie. He died suddenly on 24 November 1961, aged about 52, and was survived by his wife.
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First Title value, for Searching Culpin, Millais (1874 - 1952)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-05
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Occupation General surgeon Neurologist Psychiatrist
Details Born on 6 January 1874 at Ware, second child and eldest son of Millice Culpin LRCP & SEd, and Hannah Munsey his wife. He was educated at the Grocers Company's School, where he acquired his life-long interest in entomology. His father emigrated to Taringa, Queensland, Australia in search of health and practised there from about 1890. Culpin as a young man worked in gold mines, travelled to Cape York peninsula, and was for four years a schoolmaster there and at Townsville. In his late twenties he came home and entered the London Hospital Medical College. He was Buxton scholar in 1897, won the junior Letheby prize in 1898 and the senior in 1900, when he took first-class honours at the intermediate MB examination. He served as house surgeon, orthopaedic house surgeon, and resident anaesthetist at the London Hospital, and then went back to Queensland to practise. From 1908 to 1913 he practised successfully in China, and was very busy as a surgeon at various hospitals during the revolution of 1911-12, working particularly at the Shanghai-Nanking Railway Hospital. On the outbreak of war in 1914 he was commissioned a Captain in the RAMC, and served as a surgical specialist at the Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth in 1915 and in France 1916-17. Culpin was among the first who realised that "shell-shock" and the deep effects of fear in war, such as disordered action of the heart, were emotional disturbances, more acute than the anxiety neuroses of peace. His views were accepted and from 1917 till the end of the war he was a neurological specialist in the Army, and subsequently under the Ministry of Pensions. He did excellent work in this field, practising at Maghull near Liverpool, and collaborating with Drs Bernard Hart, T H Pear, and Aldren Turner. He wrote his thesis for the London doctorate on psychoneuroses of war. After his earlier experience in surgery and tropical medicine, Culpin proved a highly original and successful psychiatrist. He was appointed lecturer in psychoneurosis at the London Hospital in 1920, and built up a large private practice at 1 Queen Street. His methods were never spectacular, but he was a pioneer of dynamic psychology. He gave much time and thought for various public bodies. He acted for the Industrial Health Research Board in 1923 as an independent referee on the Report on telegraphists' cramp drawn up by Eric Farmer and May Smith. He helped to solve the problem of the causation of miners' nystagmus when serving on the British Medical Association's special committee on the subject; he also served on the committee of the psychological medicine group of the Association and on its committee on mental health. He was a frequent contributor to the professional journals and wrote several useful books. He was appointed lecturer in 1933 and professor in 1934 of medical and industrial psychology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and resigned in 1939. He was President of the British Psychological Society. His work on war neuroses was extensively used during the second world war. Culpin married in 1913 Ethel Maude daughter of E Dimery Bennett. They lived at Loughton and Park Village East, and latterly at 17a Hatfield Road, St Albans. He died suddenly on 14 September 1952 aged 78, survived by his wife and their daughter Frances, Mrs Stephen MacKeith. For all his love of controversy Culpin was a humble man, of strong moral and humanitarian compulsion, who achieved remarkable advances in psychology after an earlier period as a successful surgeon. His sound sense and wit endeared him to a group of colleagues, with whom he regularly lunched at the Royal Society of Medicine, for he was a first-rate talker. The natural history of birds and insects was his chief non-professional interest. Publications: *Psychoneuroses of war and peace*, London MD thesis. Cambridge University Press 1920. *Spiritualism and the new psychology*. London: E. Arnold 1920. *The nervous patient*. London: H. K. Lewis 1924. *Medicine and the man*. London: Kegan Paul 1927. *The nervous temperament*, with May Smith. Industrial Health Research Board, Report 61. HM Stationery Office, 1930. *Recent advances in the study of the psychoneuroses*. London: Churchill 1931. *Mental abnormality, facts and theories*. London: Hutchinson 1948.
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First Title value, for Searching Downie, Robin John Gordon (1927 - 2013)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Ian Stevenson
Publication Date 2013-12-16 2014-03-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Robin Downie was a consultant general surgeon in Liverpool. He was born on 2 May 1927 in Hightown, Merseyside, the son of a dentist. He was educated at Holmwood School, Formby, and Shrewsbury, where he excelled at sport. He then carried out his military service, during which time he took a six-month course in engineering at Manchester University, sponsored by the Royal Engineers. Once he left the Army, he entered Liverpool Medical School, qualifying in 1954. He was president of the medical students' society. He held junior posts in the Mersey region and it was at the Royal Southern Hospital that he met Dilys Edwards, a staff nurse, who was to become his wife. They married in 1958 and she was to offer great strength, encouragement and understanding during his busy and time-consuming clinical life. Following further surgical training, notably under Charles Wells, for whom he acted as an unofficial bag carrier as well as a senior registrar, he was appointed as a consultant surgeon to Walton Hospital, Liverpool, and Bootle Hospital in 1965. Following closure of the latter in 1974, he transferred those sessions to Fazakerley Hospital. Robin had a strong sense of duty combined with compassion. He was of a generation who understood the meaning of continuing patient care and this he pursued throughout his clinical life. This obviously restricted his private life on occasions, but was of great benefit to his patients. In the earlier part of his consultancy he developed an interest in gastroenterology and greatly helped Robin Walker to develop his gastrointestinal unit. This led to the development of the then newer techniques such as ERCP (endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography) and biliary stone extraction; much of this work was aided by advances in imaging technologies. His work often involved the surgery of complex gastrointestinal tract problems, many of these procedures being of a repeat nature. His dedicated aftercare often produced remarkable results in what appeared to be forlorn cases. For those patients whose illnesses did not offer the prospect of recovery, he set up palliative care on his surgical ward, at a time when the hospice movement was still in its relative infancy, demonstrating his holistic approach to surgical practice. As a surgical trainer, Robin offered both support and loyalty to his junior staff. Registrars and senior registrars were offered emergency and elective surgical procedures commensurate with their experience and ability, but, in return, were expected to offer the patients concerned detailed and personal aftercare. Those who failed to reach the required standard were left in no doubt as to the error of their ways. When compared with the modern situation of working time directives, with the inevitable effects on practical surgical experience and continuity of care, these times do indeed seem to be well in the past, in most cases. As one would expect, Robin was active in education and administration. He served as an RCS clinical tutor for many years and, in 1984, he was elected chairman of the then south Sefton medical executive. During this period, he was able to put in place the initial moves towards the amalgamation of Walton and Fazakerley hospitals, which, after his retirement, led eventually to the closure of Walton Hospital and the emergence of what is now Aintree University Hospital. In his later clinical years, Robin concentrated more on breast surgery and was able to set up a dedicated breast clinic, being supported by his wife, Dilys, who became a breast care sister. His long term quest was for a specialist palliative care ward, and this was duly realised at the time of his retirement in 1992, the unit being under the expert leadership of Gerard Corcoran. In his retirement, Robin's passion for dedicated palliative care continued and he was rewarded for his work in 1996 when the Woodlands Day Hospice was opened, followed by an in-patient facility in 2009. He served, in retirement, as chairman and then life president of the Woodlands Hospice Charitable Trust and was actively involved until the age of 80. His last years were sadly defined by a gradual deterioration in health, during which time he was ably cared for by Dilys. He died on 11 October 2013, aged 87, and was survived by his wife, three sons, a daughter and five grandchildren. His eldest son, Ian, is a consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon.
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First Title value, for Searching Hogarth, Robert George (1868 - 1953)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 15 May 1868 only son of George Hogarth of Eccles Toft, Berwickshire, he was educated at Felsted School and St Bartholomew's Hospital. In his boyhood in the Border country he excelled at field sports, and at school he won most of the athletic events, while at Bart's he became captain of cricket and football, and was also captain of the United Hospitals XI. He played football for the Casuals, the Corinthians, and the Caledonians, and for Wolverhampton while a house surgeon there, and was President of Nottingham Forest and surgeon to the Notts County football club, and President of the County cricket club. He won the amateur long jump championship of Great Britain in 1890. After holding resident posts at Bart's and Wolverhampton, Hogarth went to Nottingham General Hospital as resident medical officer in 1984, and ultimately became senior surgeon and President of the Hospital, and from 1943 a life governor. He was largely responsible for the creation of the Radio-Therapeutic Institute established at Nottingham by the British Empire Cancer Campaign; it was named after him the Hogarth Institute in 1948, and he left it £1000 and the option to purchase at probate value his house and its appurtenances. He was also surgeon to the Women's and Children's Hospitals at Nottingham, and to Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital, which he had helped to develop from its origins as a Cripples Home. He was President of the Nottinghamshire Medico-Chirurgical Society, and President of the British Medical Association in 1926. He was a Member of the Council of the College 1928-36. He married in 1897 Winifred Mabel Lynam; they had one son. Mrs Hogarth died on 12 March 1952, and he died at his house, 48 The Ropewalk, on 29 June 1953 aged 85. Their son died on active service in Italy as a Major in the Grenadier Guards on 19 July 1944. Publications: The medical practitioner and the public. Presidential address to BMA *Brit med J* 1926, 2, 145. *The Trent and I go wandering by*. Nottingham 1949.
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First Title value, for Searching Holman, Charles Colgate (1884 - 1954)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-26 2018-02-09
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Born at East Hoathly, Sussex on 18 September 1884, where his father and grandfather had practised, he was educated at Eastbourne College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. There he took second class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I in 1905, and following the family tradition did his clinical training at Guy's, qualifying in 1908. After holding resident appointments at Guy's and at hospitals in the provinces, he took the FRCS in 1912 and the same year began his long association with the Northampton General Hospital. During the first world war Holman served in the RAMC and was in Mesopotamia for a year. On his return to Northampton he became assistant surgeon in 1919 and surgeon in 1925. He was senior surgeon from 1926 until his retirement in 1952, when the title of emeritus surgeon was conferred on him. In 1939 he formed the first fracture unit at Northampton General Hospital and from then until 1946 he dealt with all fractures coming to the hospital in addition to his general work. He was the first surgeon to the Manfield Orthopaedic Hospital, Northampton in 1925, surgeon to the Children's Orthopaedic Clinic there and consulting surgeon to Kettering General Hospital 1943-52. Holman lived for his work, and was rarely away from the hospital for more than ten days in a year. The first man in Northampton to specialise solely in surgery, in his early days he practised as gynaecologist, obstetrician and orthopaedist as well as general surgeon. Charles Holman throve on difficulties. He had an original mind and devised several new techniques, such as an abdominal approach to femoral hernia and a method of supra-pubic puncture. He also designed special instruments for the insertion of Smith-Petersen pins. For many years he served on the board of management and the house committee of the Northampton General Hospital and was chairman of the medical staff committee. He was president of the Northampton Medical Society, and president in 1933 and 1947 of the Northampton branch of the British Medical Association. He kept meticulous records, read widely, and frequently contributed incisive letters to *The Lancet*. For recreation Holman played bridge and tennis which he continued into his sixties despite a limp caused by poliomyelitis contracted at the age of twenty-one. He was twice married: his first wife V E Fowell died in 1921 leaving two sons, the elder being John Colgate Holman MD, MRCS, MRCOG. In 1923 Holman married Violet Lewis. Two years after retiring, Charles Holman was found dead at his home, Fourview, Woodway, Dodford, near Daventry, on 17 June 1954, aged 69. Publications: Nature and treatment of acute osteomyelitis. *Lancet* 1934. Gastro-jejuno-colic fistula. *Lancet* 1951. Urinary tuberculosis with extensive calcification of bladder. *Brit J Surg* 1952.
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First Title value, for Searching Holmes, Thomas Sydney Shaw (1884 - 1964)

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First Title value, for Searching McFarland, John Bryan (1930 - 2013)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Sir John Temple
Publication Date 2013-12-16 2014-03-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details John McFarland was a consultant surgeon in Liverpool. He was born on 17 September 1930 in Rodney Street, Liverpool, into a well-established medical family. His father, Bryan McFarland, was professor of orthopaedics at the city's university; his mother, Ethel McFarland née Ashton, was also a doctor. John spent his early childhood in Liverpool, but was probably as often in Trearddur Bay, Anglesey, where his father built a holiday home 'Bryn Ion', which overlooked the ninth tee of the Holyhead golf course. John's early schooling was at Trearddur House School, where no doubt he began his long affection and interest in the sea and sailing. Senior school followed at Shrewsbury, from where he entered Liverpool Medical School in 1948. He qualified in 1954 and, after house posts, began his National Service, as was the norm at that time. He spent the next two years serving in the RAMC, mainly in Kenya at the height of the Mau Mau troubles. While in Kenya he often acted as an anaesthetist, which might explain why he was always kinder to and more tolerant of his anaesthetic colleagues than many others with a surgical leaning. He never talked about his time in the Army: like many ex-service men, he may have felt that those who didn't have similar experiences would never be able to understand, particularly the actions, deprivations and necessities entailed in military service, in what was effectively a war zone. Returning to civilian life, he became a demonstrator in anatomy. During this time he met a childhood acquaintance, Meryl McKie Reid, the daughter of Andrew McKie Reid, an ophthalmic surgeon. It turned into a love match and they duly married in 1962. Surgical training in Liverpool followed at Sefton General, Alder Hey, the Royal Infirmary and, of course, the Royal Southern Hospital. The opportunity to spend two years in America arose, then considered essential for an academic or teaching hospital career in many disciplines. He went to work in Owen H Wangensteen's department at the University of Minnesota. His research was centred on gastric freezing as a method for reducing gastric bleeding associated with peptic ulcers. This was a major area of upper gastrointestinal research at that time inspired, particularly in Liverpool, by the work of the Rod Gregory and his discovery of the hormone gastrin. In the early autumn of 1963, John and Meryl travelled from Minnesota down to New Mexico by Greyhound bus, a journey that took the best part of three days. By chance, a fellow traveller was Lee Harvey Oswald, the reputed assassin of President Kennedy in November 1963. John never said much about this episode, but both he and Meryl were questioned by the FBI and figure in the Warren Report. Whenever any new investigation occurred into that tragic event, the American agents from the Liverpool consulate would appear to re-question John and Meryl. John wrote up his research and unusually did this as two separate theses, for his MD and ChM. He furthered his academic leanings by being appointed as a senior lecturer in surgery with an honorary consultant contract, based at the Liverpool Royal infirmary in Frank Stock's department. It might have been thought that this indicated a serious intent to follow an academic career, leading to a professorial position like his father, but John finished his training and settled upon an NHS teaching hospital career. In 1968 John moved across to consultant status. He was first, for a year, at the Northern and Walton hospitals, and then went to the Royal Southern Hospital, where he remained until it closed in 1978. Thereafter he transferred to the new Royal Liverpool University Hospital. He was a popular teacher of both undergraduates and trainees, renowned for his diagnostic prowess, surgical dexterity, kindness, hospitality and subtle, quiet sense of humour. He never sought power or influence in medical politics either locally or nationally, but preferred to devote his extra medical energies to teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. This brought college involvement as a regional tutor, and as a member of the Court of Examiners (from 1973 to 1979). Other, even more prestigious, peer recognition of his qualities and achievements as a surgeon did come along. He was elected to the Liverpool XX Club, and was one of two Liverpool members of the Moynihan Chirurgical Club. He became a James IV traveller in 1976. This opportunity afforded him the chance to travel to Asia, including in Afghanistan, India and Iran, and other countries on the north west frontier to teach, lecture and operate. Subsequently he became a full member of the James IV Association of Surgeons. His hospitality was always convivial and relaxed. Visitors to his lovely family home in Fulwood Park might be invited to take a sauna, which John had built in the cellar. Unfortunately, the pine wood, bought from a local timber merchant in Liverpool, had not been properly seasoned. Guests were advised to try to avoid the hot resins and oils that continually seeped and dropped from the ceiling. John decided to retire at the relatively early age of 61 in 1991, a conscious decision having seen his own father die whilst still in harness at a similar age. Immediately following his retirement party at the Royal he went down to Liverpool Marina and sailed off with his son Jonathan into retirement on the next full tide in his Vancouver 32 *Nuada*. The next four years were spent sailing around the Mediterranean, sometimes with Jonathan, but often alone, before settling in Soller, Majorca, where he bought an apartment in the port. Here he had built his last *Nuada*, a Menorcan Llaut. Sadly he didn't get many opportunities to enjoy this vessel as his health problems began to limit his mobility. In early retirement, John devoted much time to teaching and operating in a small hospital in Kerala, India. There are many anecdotes involving such a colourful character, but John will be best remembered for his generosity of spirit, both ethereal and actual, his knowledge, skill and humanity as a general surgeon, his gifts as a teacher, his genuine pride and pleasure in the success of those he helped to train, and his unfailing courtesy and friendship to the many he encountered during a long life. John McFarland died on 5 October 2013, aged 83. Predeceased by his ex-wife Meryl, who died in 2000, he was survived by his son Jonathan.
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First Title value, for Searching Nolan, Bernard (1926 - 2013)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-12-16 2015-12-14
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Occupation General surgeon Transplant surgeon Vascular surgeon
Details Bernard Nolan was a consultant surgeon at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary who took part in the first kidney transplantation in the UK. He was born on 17 August 1926 in Eccles, Lancashire, the son of Edward Nolan, an engineer, and Mary Nolan née Howarth, a teacher. His brother John would also go on to study medicine, becoming a consultant ophthalmologist, also at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Bernard Nolan was educated at St Joseph's College, Blackpool, and then went on to Edinburgh University Medical School. At university he was a member of the air squadron and the athletics club, played rugby and participated in student union activities. He graduated MB ChB in 1949. Until October 1950 he worked as a house surgeon to (later Sir) Walter Mercer, whose operative versatility influenced his decision to pursue a career in surgery. From 1950 to 1951 he was a senior house officer in surgery at Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle. He then carried out his National Service in the RAMC in Egypt and Libya, as a junior specialist in surgery. Leaving the Army with the rank of captain, he returned to Edinburgh, as a demonstrator in anatomy and then as a surgical registrar at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children. In 1956, at the start of the Suez Crisis, he was recalled to the Army as a surgical specialist with the rank of major. From 1957 to 1959 he was a surgical registrar on the rotational training scheme at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh. In February 1959 he became a senior registrar on the professorial surgical unit, under (later Sir) Michael Woodruff, and in May of the same year he was appointed as a lecturer in the department, with involvement in the transplantation research programme and the Edinburgh-based Medical Research Council's group on transplantation. On 30 October 1960 he assisted Michael Woodruff in carrying out the first ever kidney transplantation in the UK, between identical twins, and was largely responsible for the pre- and post-operative care of both donor and recipient. The recipient, who had end-stage kidney failure, did not need immune-suppressive medication and lived another ten years. Over the next two years, Bernard Nolan greatly increased his experience of transplantation. In 1962 he was a research fellow at Harvard University Medical School, where he worked with Joseph Murray, 'the father of transplant surgery'. Also in 1962, he was appointed as a senior lecturer in surgery at Edinburgh University with honorary consultant status at the Royal Infirmary. In 1965 he transferred to the NHS as a consultant general surgeon, but, in close association with Michael Woodruff, continued to run the Edinburgh transplant service. As an NHS consultant surgeon, Nolan became increasingly committed to vascular surgery and pressed for the establishment of a surgical unit devoted to this specialty. In 1982 this was achieved, when the Edinburgh Specialist Vascular Surgery Service was set up at the Royal Infirmary. Nolan headed the unit and, with two other dedicated vascular surgeons, provided an exceptional emergency service. He was an examiner for both the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and of England. Nolan retired in February 1989. In retirement he and his wife indulged their love of travel, but unfortunately this was curtailed by the effects of serious road accident Nolan suffered while walking near their home. Recovery proved long and difficult. He then developed pulmonary fibrosis, which led to increasing disability. Bernard Nolan died on 18 October 2013 in Edinburgh. He was 87. He was survived by his widow, Margaret Winifred Nolan née Coleman, known as 'Peggy', a former dermatologist at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, whom he married in September 1958, and their two sons, Geoffrey and John.
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First Title value, for Searching Holst, Johan Martin (1892 - 1953)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details He was born on 23 June 1892 at Christiania, son of Dr Peter F Holst (1861-1935), professor of internal medicine at the University, and a descendant of Frederick Holst MD (1791-1871) of whom he afterwards wrote a memoir. J M Holst won a scholarship to the University of Oslo, as the city was called after the separation of Norway from Sweden in 1905, and served at the University Clinics and Pathological Anatomy Institute, at Ullevaal Hospital and at the Oramnien General Hospital. In 1918 he led a Norwegian ambulance unit in Finland during the war of liberation, and again in 1939 he went on a similar expedition. He took the MD degree in 1923, was appointed assistant surgeon in the State Hospital, becoming senior assistant in the surgical division and surgeon to the first University Clinic in the Hospital in 1930. The same year he was elected professor of surgery in succession to Johan Nicolaysen, Hon FRCS. Holst was at first drawn to the surgery of goitre; then he devoted himself to improving the operative treatment of cancer, especially the ablation of gastric cancer, for which he was one of the early advocates of a thoracoabdominal approach. But he made most mark in developing the surgery of tuberculous disease of the lung, initiated in Norway by Peter Bull, Hon FRCS Holst published valuable accounts of his work, in Norwegian, German, or English. Early in 1940, when war threatened Norway, he was recalled from the Finland campaign to reorganise the medical services of the Norwegian forces. After Norway had been completely overrun by the Germans he continued for a time to work "underground". Finally escaping to Scotland in dramatic circumstances, as his son too escaped, he was appointed Director-General of the Norwegian Army Medical Services in Iceland and Britain, attached to the 52nd Allied Division. He moved frequently to the scattered positions of his command, and was often in forays on the Continent. During these years 1940-45 he cemented his friendships with leading British surgeons. In 1945 he resumed his university and hospital appointments at Oslo. He served as President of the Norwegian Medical Association, and was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences at Oslo in 1936. He was created a Commander of the Royal Order of St Olaf of Norway. He was an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, London, and a corresponding member of the Académie de Chirurgie, Paris, and of the Swedish and Finnish Medical Societies. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the College in 1943, at the centenary of the foundation of the Fellowship. Holst died at Oslo on 17 February 1953 aged 60, of myeloblastic leukaemia, survived by his wife and son. He was a generous host to British surgeons at his home, Gablesgate 46, and at his country house on an island in the bay. His favourite recreation was to explore the fjords and snowfields of Norway, alone; for he had a mystical love of wild nature. He was a generous-hearted man of fine physique, keen intellect, and noble character. Principal Publications: Pathogenetic foundations of iodine therapy of thyrotoxicoses. *Amer J Surg* 19 29 7, 39. Local selective thoracoplasty. *Acta chir scand* 1932, 71, 396 and 1934, 74, 477. Surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. *Acta chir scand* 1935, Supp. 37; 136 pages. Twenty years experience with surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. *Edin med J* 1951, 58, 349.
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First Title value, for Searching Cunninghame, John Keith (1909 - 1957)

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First Title value, for Searching Bellwood, Kenneth Benson (1890 - 1955)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-22
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Born at Middlesbrough, he won a scholarship at Pembroke College, Cambridge, took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1911, and won the Shuter scholarship at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He qualified just after war broke out in 1914, and served for four years as a surgeon in the Royal Navy. He was created OBE for his service. After the war he settled in general practice at Bedford in partnership with W H Miller FRCS, but soon specialised as a laryngologist. In 1930 he was appointed ear nose and throat surgeon to the County Hospital and subsequently to the General Hospital, where he became consulting surgeon in 1949. Bellwood married in 1921 Florence Violet Cooper. They usually spent their holidays walking on the Yorkshire moors. Bellwood became ill in 1940 but continued to practise. He died at his home, 4 De Parys Avenue, Bedford, on 17 April 1955, aged 64, survived by his wife and their two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Newton, Noel Curtis (1917 - 1974)

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First Title value, for Searching Oates, Geoffrey Donald (1929 - 2013)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Sir Miles Irving
Publication Date 2013-12-16 2014-03-14
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Geoff Oates was a general surgeon in Birmingham with a special interest in oncology. He was born in Wolsingham, county Durham, on 16 May 1929, the son of Thomas Oates, a headmaster, and Dorothy Verne Oates née Jones, a schoolteacher. He subsequently received the academic and sporting education characteristic of northern grammar schools of those days, at Wolsingham Grammar School. His time there was crowned by a state scholarship. His high aspirations in both academic and sporting arenas developed further during his time as a student at Birmingham University. He had the good fortune to work with Sir Solly Zuckerman and Sir Peter Medawar, during studies for an intercalated BSc, for which he gained first class honours. In 1952 he was awarded the Queen's scholarship prize for highest all round marks in part one of the final MB exam. He qualified MB ChB in 1953. He remained in Birmingham, as a house physician, a house surgeon and a demonstrator in the anatomy department. During this time he had interactions with many of the doyens of post war British surgery in the Midlands, including Jack Leigh Collis, Pom d'Abreu and Bryan Brooke, who kindled his interest in colorectal surgery, and helped lay the foundations that ultimately led to him becoming a surgical leader both locally, nationally and internationally, especially in the fields of breast and colorectal surgery. In 1955 he commenced National Service in the RAMC, which continued until 1957. During this time he attained the rank of captain. Service took him to Korea and Japan, where he contracted tuberculosis. This was successfully treated with streptomycin, which led to a high frequency hearing loss, which he typically used to his advantage. On his return to civilian life, he continued with his surgical training in Birmingham, with posts at Birmingham General Hospital, Birmingham Children's Hospital, and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. An interest in surgical oncology was soon sparked by some of the notable surgeons with whom he trained. From 1962 to 1966 he was a senior registrar on the west Midlands training programme. This included a year in Chicago working with Warren H Cole, on a Fulbright scholarship and a clinical fellowship of the American Cancer Society. Here, through a combination of clinical and research training, his endeavours led to him being awarded an MSc in surgery from the University of Illinois. He was able to appreciate first hand the value of the multidisciplinary management of malignant disease, a concept not practised in Britain. This realisation of the inadequacies of many treatment regimens led him to be pivotal in bringing fellow surgeons, and others involved in cancer management, to work together not only in hospitals but also in their professional societies. With Geoff's encouragement the section of oncology of the Royal Society of Medicine, and the British Association of Surgical Oncology were founded, both reflecting his major interest in breast cancer. His other major interest, namely in the management of colorectal disease, led him, together with a band of close professional colleagues, to establish the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland. When the organisation came to fruition it was unanimously agreed that he should be the founding president. Geoff, who had been appointed as a consultant surgeon to the United Birmingham Hospitals in 1966, continued to practice surgery until his retirement, all the time trying his best to cope with the management re-arrangements of hospital services in Birmingham. These led, in 1993, to the closure to acute services at the much-loved Birmingham General Hospital, which had played so big a part in the development of surgical gastroenterology in the UK, and the transfer of services to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. During his years as a consultant at Birmingham he was a successful chairman of the division of surgery for two three-year periods. Geoff's proudest clinical achievement was his independently audited series of sequential cases of colorectal anastomosis. This stretched from the time he helped pioneer circular stapling in 1978, until ceasing operative surgery in 1999, at the age of 70 years. During this entire period there was not a single leak! Underlying his outstanding career was his meticulous approach to patient care, surgical research and record keeping. The latter is reflected in his detailed CV, now held in the College archives. This fully demonstrates the extent of his endeavours and achievements, and outlines the principal areas in which he contributed to his profession. This account of his life cannot finish without brief reference to Geoff's many sporting achievements, particularly in football. He was 'scouted' for a trial for Newcastle, then a First Division club, but his father, whom he never forgave, opposed this career change! In his student days he not only obtained a blue, but also captained the university football team. He subsequently travelled weekly to London to play in goal for Corinthian Casuals FC, a club of which he was a member between 1951 and 1994. His football career was cut short by a fractured scaphoid, whilst playing for the Army Amateur XI and, of no further use, he was promptly shipped abroad! Geoff's first wife Mollie Parfitt née Edwards, a geography graduate and subsequently a medical social worker, with whom he had two children, died in 1971. In 1973 he married Elizabeth Anne ('Liz'), a nursing sister. In March 2010 Geoff and Liz moved to Verbier in Switzerland, where they lived in the same building as his Swiss surgical colleague Jean-Claude Givel, a long-time friend and co-author of many publications. Geoff died suddenly and painlessly, aged 84, on 2 November 2013, walking downhill whilst enroute from his home in Verbier to England to attend a surgical meeting. He was survived by his wife Liz, his son John, a consultant ENT surgeon, daughter Sue, and two grandchildren, Polly and Henry.
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First Title value, for Searching Tonks, Henry (1862 - 1937)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-27
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Occupation Artist Medical Officer
Details Henry Tonks was born at Solihull, Warwickshire, on 9 April 1862, second son and fifth of the eleven children of Edmund Tonks, sometime barrister of Gray's Inn, of Packwood Grange, Knowle, Warwickshire, and Julia Anne Johnson, his wife. Edmund Tonks left the bar on his marriage and joined his father's brass-foundry at Birmingham. He invented the "Tonks library fitting" for adjustable book-shelves. Henry Tonks was educated at Clifton College, January 1877 to December 1879, and became a pupil at the Royal Sussex Hospital, Brighton in 1879, and whilst there had already begun to draw; he tried without success to sell his drawings at a shop in Brighton. He filled the post of house physician in 1887, and his skill as a draughtsman led to his taking the place temporarily as an assistant demonstrator of anatomy. He went to Germany in 1888, and whilst visiting the Dresden Gallery determined to devote himself to art. On his return to England, Sir Frederick Treves appointed him house surgeon at the London Hospital. At the end of his term of office he was elected senior medical officer at the Royal Free Hospital, whence he derived the bias in favour of the work and enthusiasm of women students which lasted throughout his life. During his tenure as senior medical officer he wrote to Frederick Brown, head of the Westminster School of Art, asking whether he might become a pupil. In 1892, when Brown was appointed Slade professor in succession to Alphonse Legros, he invited Tonks to become his assistant, his colleagues being P Wilson Steer (afterwards OM) and C Koe Child. Brown retired in 1917, and was succeeded by Tonks who held the post until 1930, when he resigned with the complimentary title of emeritus Slade professor and the honorary Fellowship of University College, and was succeeded by Randolph Schwabe. Tonks, though he was not the founder of the New English Art Club, was one of its earliest and strongest supporters. In October 1936 many of his works were on view in Rooms XIX and XX of the Tate Gallery, which at his death in 1937 contained seven of his paintings. During the war of 1914-18 Tonks worked with a French Red Cross Hospital and later with a British Ambulance Unit in Italy. On his return to England he was commissioned, 1 January 1916, as temporary lieutenant, RAMC, and did valuable work both at the Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot, and at the Queen's Hospital, Sidcup, Kent. The Army Medical collection at the Royal College of Surgeons Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields contains sixty-nine pastel drawings and three pen-and-ink sketches by him, which are striking portraits of men who were treated for facial injuries received during the war. In 1918 he visited France as an artist with John Sargent; he visited Ypres and spent a night under shell-fire at an advanced dressing station. In 1919 he accompanied the British expedition to Murmansk. His drawings of the Murmansk expedition and his picture of "An underground clearing station, Arras" are in the Imperial War Museum collection. Tonks died unmarried at his house, 1 The Vale, Chelsea, SW, on 8 January 1937. Tonks was a caricaturist by way of pastime and an artist by profession. As an artist and teacher he raised the Slade School to a high degree of perfection. His masterpiece "The Bird Cage" hangs in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. He was very tall, very thin, and very caustic, living the life of an ascetic epicure, but a few minutes' conversation discovered humour and sympathy, above all sympathy with youth. He nourished the most conscientious side of everyone he influenced, and to know him was to be influenced at once. The spell of trying to gain or keep his approbation never broke. His face did not easily register pleasure, but the brilliant eyes over his formidable nose glowed with sincerity and positive hunger to behold excellence. In February 1937 his friends subscribed to set up in the Slade School a portrait bust of Tonks in bronze by his pupil A H Gerrard, which was presented on 25 November 1937; they also founded an annual Henry Tonks prize for drawing at the Slade School. A memorial-exhibition of his works was held in June 1937 at Barbizon House, Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square; and an inscribed tablet was placed on his house in The Vale, Chelsea. His self-portrait, in the Tate Gallery, is reproduced as frontispiece to Hone's *Life*; a portrait-drawing by Powys Evans was published in *The London Mercury*, 1930, 22, 295. Publication: The vicissitudes of art, new words for old ideas. *The Times*, 2 March 1932, pp. 13 and 14.
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First Title value, for Searching Tonks, John Wilson (1888 - 1931)

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First Title value, for Searching Totsuka, Kankai (1863 - 1939)

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First Title value, for Searching Dalàl, Anandrai Keshavlal (1886 - 1929)

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First Title value, for Searching Niesche, Frederick Westwood (1899 - 1981)

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First Title value, for Searching Niles, Nathaniel Arnold Jyarajah ( - 1978)

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First Title value, for Searching Norrish, Reginald Eric (1900 - 1976)

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First Title value, for Searching Northfield, Douglas William Claridge (1902 - 1976)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-18
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Occupation Neurosurgeon
Details Douglas William Claridge Northfield was born in London in February 1902. He received his medical training at Guy's Hospital, where he also qualified in dentistry. After qualification he did general surgery at Guy's where he was demonstrator in anatomy. He obtained the MB BS (London) with the Gold Medal and proceeded MS in 1931; he had previously become FRCS in 1928. Northfield's life work may be said to have begun in 1934 when he joined Hugh Cairns as house surgeon at the London Hospital. In 1938 he was elected consultant neurosurgeon and he continued in this post until his retirement in 1967. During the second world war he operated at Chase Farm Hospital, returning to the London in 1946, where he remained until retirement in 1967. He rapidly gained an international reputation as a highly skilled neurosurgeon, and there were many overseas visitors to the London Hospital who came to watch him operate and to discuss neurological problems. He was however, essentially a surgical neurologist, the title he preferred, and his great strength lay in his immense clinical capacity. Careful and painstaking in examination and decisive in opinion, his aid was sought by patients from far and near. Although surrounded by devoted colleagues, Northfield headed no school, nor did he develop a large department. His contribution to his subject lay in his own professional skills and the carefully observed clinical studies which formed the basis of his many papers and communications. In his earlier days Northfield worked on headache, making observations on the contribution of pain-bearing structures within the head, also on the thalamus. He was a pioneer in the surgery of epilepsy and characteristically versed himself in electroencephalography, including electrocorticography and the use of deep electrodes. His results were good, owing to his great sense of what could or could not be done. Right up to his retirement he was in touch with surgical advance and was quick to employ new techniques and methods. At times severe in manner to those who could not see into the man, for the humorous twinkle in the eye was never far away, he expected dedication from his juniors. He could never understand why anyone might wish to play rugger or row on a Wednesday or Saturday when there was work to be done. He drove himself hard, working late at hospital and far into the night at home, and he expected others to follow his example. His book *The surgery of the nervous system* (1973), provides a lasting memorial to his professional achievement. He was past President of the Neurological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, the Electro-Encephalographic Society, the British Section of the International League against Epilepsy, past President and past secretary of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons and past secretary of the International Congress of Neurological Surgery. Douglas Northfield had an international reputation and received many honours, but his work remained centred at the London Hospital. The abiding memory of him at the London will be his regular attendance at the weekly neurological sciences meeting where, until four days before the stroke which ultimately proved fatal, his alert enquiring figure was the source of a stream of pertinent, well informed and sometimes devastating comment on the matter in hand. His work was his life and his outside interests were few, though he loved music. He had a delightful sense of humour and was a generous host and friend. His retirement was clouded by the prolonged, crippling illness which afflicted his wife. He nursed her devotedly, and after her death, in 1974, he gradually recovered from the loss and pursued life alone with the courage he had always displayed. They had a son, who is a physician, and a daughter. He died on 15 July 1976, aged 74 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Spicer, William Thomas Holmes (1860 - 1935)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-13
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born 15 August 1860 at Saffron Walden, Essex, the second child and only son of William Spicer and Anne Holmes, his wife. His father owned a considerable amount of land as well as the Rose and Crown Hotel in Saffron Walden; his mother came of a family of brewers in Yorkshire. Holmes Spicer was educated at Saffron Walden School and at Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet. He went to Cambridge, matriculated and, after living for some time as a non-collegiate student, entered Gonville and Caius College in March 1879. He graduated with third-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos 1880, and then went to St Bartholomew's Hospital. Here he won the Bentley prize and the Brackenbury surgical scholarship, and became president of the Abernethian Society. He served a year of office as house surgeon to Alfred Willett, and was for six months ophthalmic house surgeon to Henry Power and to Bowater J Vernon. For a short time he was in general practice, first in Pimlico and later in Bedford Square, but soon determined to devote himself to the study of diseases of the eye and became a clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields. In 1890 he was elected ophthalmic surgeon to the Victoria Hospital for Children in Tite Street, Chelsea, a post he held until 1899. During this period he did much good work in connexion with the disease then known as "scurvy rickets" or "Barlow's disease", which was common amongst the improperly fed children attending his clinic. In 1896 he was elected dean of the newly organized School at the Moorfields Ophthalmic Hospital. He carried out the duties admirably, and was made surgeon to the hospital in 1898 on the resignation of Edward Nettleship, holding office until 1920. At St Bartholomew's Hospital he became ophthalmic surgeon in 1901 upon the death of Bowater J Vernon, and held the post until 1925, when he retired on reaching the age of sixty-five. He was complimented by being made consulting ophthalmic surgeon and a governor of the Hospital, and was for several years a member of the house and visiting committees. He was an active member of the Ophthalmic Society of the United Kingdom and of the ophthalmological section of the Royal Society of Medicine, and of this latter he was president for the years 1918-20. In 1923 he was awarded the Gifford prize for his work on parenchymatous keratitis. He married twice: (1) Florence, daughter of the Rev Enoch Mellor; she died during a pleasure trip in Spain; (2) Helen, daughter of James H Dunham of New York, who survived him and died on 27 March 1937. There were no children by either marriage. He died on 8 August 1935 at Elmley House, Wimbledon Common, and his ashes were buried in the old Parish Church at Wimbledon. Spicer was a good organizer, an excellent teacher, and an admirable operator, for he had great delicacy of touch. Tall and heavy in build, he spoke quietly and with some apparent reluctance, so that he shone more in the teaching of small classes than in the lecture room. He had a pretty wit, which was never sarcastic but was given with a quiet smile peculiarly his own. He did not court popularity, not was he eager to cultivate practice. His real interest in life seemed to lie in water-colour sketching, in which he was really proficient and was especially happy in depicting the colouring and moods of the sea and rocks. Publications: Parenchymatous keratitis; interstitial keratitis; uveitis anterior. The Gifford Edmonds prize in ophthalmology. *Brit J Ophthal* 1924, Monograph supplement No 1. The essay is illustrated with Spicer's own drawings. Nettleship's *Diseases of the eye*, 6th edition, revised by W T H Spicer. London, 1897.
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First Title value, for Searching Daniels, Davis Woodcock (1885 - 1950)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-24
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 23 April 1885 at Leicester, the eleventh child and sixth son of Edward Daniels, assessor of water rates, and his wife Elizabeth Ann Woodcock. His elder brother Frederic William was also a Fellow of the College. D W Daniels was educated at Wyggeston School, Leicester, Mary's Hospital Medical School, London, which he entered with a scholarship in natural science in 1903. He won prizes in anatomy and operative surgery, and served as prosector and demonstrator of anatomy. He qualified in 1907 and won the Meadows prize and senior resident obstetric officer at St Mary's, and won the gold medal for midwifery at the London MD examination in 1910; he took the Fellowship the same year. After serving as senior house surgeon at the Cancer Hospital, he was surgical registrar at the Prince of Wales Hospital Tottenham. Daniels then settled in practice at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire where he became surgeon, and ultimately consulting surgeon to the General Hospital. During the war of 1914-18 he was officer in charge the surgical division at No 3 stationary hospital in France, with the rank of captain, RAMC, gazetted on 16 December 1916. Daniels took a leading part in the medical life of his county; he was president of the Nottinghamshire Collieries Medical Service Association and chairman of the Nottingham local Medical Committee. He was examiner for the General Nursing Council, an examining officer for Ministry of Health, a referee under the Workmen's Compensation Acts for the Ministries of Pensions and National Service, and he served on local medical boards under the Military Service and National Insurance Acts. Daniels married on 3 June 1913 Mary Horsley, but there were no children. He died in Nottingham Hospital on 24 May 1950, aged 65. He was reserved, sensitive, and conscientious. Publications:- A congenital tumour of the neck. *Brit J Surg*. 1927-28, 15, 523. Experience of the extended use of spinal anaesthesia. *Clin J*. 1937, 66, 74.
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First Title value, for Searching Fowler, Alan William (1920 - 2013)

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by J D M Blayney
Publication Date 2013-04-30 2013-10-04
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Alan Fowler was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Glamorgan, Wales, at the Bridgend General Hospital and subsequently at the Princess of Wales Hospital. He was born on 18 June 1920 in Chesterfield, the son of William Charles Fowler and Nora Fowler née Barker. His mother was a hospital social worker, while his father was a medical officer at Chesterfield TB Sanatorium; he subsequently became superintendent of Pinewood Sanatorium in Wokingham, where Alan Fowler spent his childhood. Alan then studied medicine at Reading University and University College Hospital. Owing to the war, the college was relocated to Cardiff, where met his wife to be, Margaret Watkins, then a student of classics. He was a conscientious objector during the Second World War. He held a house physician post at the General Hospital, Weston-super-Mare, in 1943 and was then a house surgeon at Chester Royal Infirmary. In 1945 he was a resident medical officer at Portway Hospital, Weymouth, and then a house surgeon in general and ENT surgery at Wrexham Memorial Hospital. Between 1946 and 1947 he was a resident surgical officer at the Royal Halifax Infirmary. He remained in Halifax for another year, as a senior orthopaedic registrar. His final training post was at Winford Orthopaedic Hospital, Bristol. In 1953 he was appointed as an assistant orthopaedic surgeon to Bridgend General Hospital, becoming a consultant in 1965. He moved to the new Princess of Wales Hospital in 1985. During his time at Bridgend he worked almost single-handedly until a second surgeon was appointed in 1975. His colleague until then was based in the adjacent Neath General Hospital. As was customary at that time, in addition to the orthopaedic surgery, he was consultant in charge of the then casualty department. These commitments gave rise to a demanding amount of work on-call. A district general hospital orthopaedic surgeon, in those days, was a generalist, dealing with most aspects of the specialty. There were specialist neurosurgical units in Cardiff and Swansea, but the primary care of head and spinal trauma was essentially based at Bridgend, half way between these centres. Before the days of specialist imaging, this added considerably to the trauma workload and responsibility. In spite of this, Alan was comprehensively well-read, keeping up with both specialist and general medical publications. Though committed to a workload incomprehensibly heavy to his successors, he developed his own interests in various aspects of orthopaedics, with significant published contributions to forefoot surgery. Fowler's procedure for forefoot reconstruction in rheumatoid disease was in current practice until a decade or so ago. It might be argued that his observations on ingrown toenails still bear considerable influence. He dealt with all aspects of orthopaedic and trauma surgery, frequently adding his own acute and insightful glosses to hallowed procedure. He carried out the first hip replacements in south Wales, certainly ahead of a teaching hospital 20 miles away. To the surprise of a colleague, it was often the case that a new procedure to be found in the current edition of the *Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery* would be encountered in Alan Fowler's next operating session. He remained staunchly faithful to conservative principles of fracture treatment, particularly those of Hicks and John Charnley. Latterly in his career, he conceded to the techniques of the AO (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Osteosynthesefragen) system of implants, though, typically, he was not prepared to accept all of their tenets uncritically. His life was driven by his adherence to the Christadelphian Church and he achieved a prodigious knowledge of Biblical studies. This was shared by his wife, Margaret, of 66 years, herself an accomplished teacher and linguist. A significant aspect of this marriage of two busy people was the adoption of no fewer than seven children, who were brought up within their religious principles. The denizens of Bridgend were regularly treated to the sight of all nine going about their many activities in a small minibus. After his retirement from NHS practice in 1986, he applied his energies to working as an orthopaedic surgeon in the Third World. In the mid-1990s he was appointed as visiting professor of surgery at the University Hospital in Lusaka. Both here and in previous missionary work in Guyana he brought his extensive knowledge and skills in the conservative treatment of trauma; often there was little available surgical metalware. He remained mentally and physically active after even this post retirement activity. He regularly attended postgraduate activities, usually making cogent contributions from the floor. He was particularly expert at asking unanswerable questions of the speaker. He was often to be found, surrounded by books and journals, in the hospital library. He wrote, during and after his hospital career, frequent letters to the medical and lay press. His own written output remained copious. This included material reflecting both of his consuming interests; he published small volumes relating to the interface between science and the Bible. The last of these was published in 2011 (*Essays in a search for truth* Hyderabad, Printland Publishers), at a time when his vision had become seriously impaired. Undeterred, he used modern technology to read text; an abiding memory is of him devouring words on a device producing magnified print, at a speed comparable to that of one with normal vision. Throughout his life he maintained a lively interest in the natural world, especially birdlife and tended quite a large garden, along with Margaret. He pressed the apples from his orchard and froze the juice to accompany winter meals. In his latter years he cared for his ailing wife; after her death he steadfastly lived alone with help from his family. He died, surrounded by many of his family, on 21 January 2013, at the age of 92.
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First Title value, for Searching Goodfellow, John William (1927 - 2011)

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by Michael Benson
Publication Date 2013-04-30 2013-06-12
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details John William Goodfellow, or 'JWG' as he was widely known, was a consultant surgeon at Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford. With his death British orthopaedics lost one of its most distinguished practitioners. He was born in London on 31 October 1927, the son of Percy, an actuary, and Violet. His mother died when John was in his early teens, and his father later remarried. John was educated at Edward VI Grammar School in Stratford-on-Avon, and later at Wellington School in Somerset, where he was an enthusiastic rugby player and runner. His medical training was at Guy's, where he was much influenced by his early mentor Sir John Conybeare. It is an indication of the bond which developed between the two doctors, both with a great interest in art and architecture, that Sir John left JWG a painting by Lucien Pissaro, the son of the more famous father, in his will. John's interest in art and buildings was to prove life-long. A city walk with him was always informative and accompanied by his regular exhortation to look upwards to see the buildings above. John spent his National Service years as a captain in the RAMC, serving with the 14th/20th King's Hussars, a regiment he found amusingly straitlaced and which seemed always to participate in battles when they were almost done. When John moved to Oxford for his training, he met his second mentor, the charismatic Josep Trueta. Again a close friendship developed with the Catalonian surgeon and his family, and he was his first assistant from 1962 to 1965. Appointed consultant at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in 1965, JWG developed an increasing interest in the mechanics of joints. Abetted by his friend and colleague, the pathologist Peter Bullough, he sought the expertise of a young Irish lecturer, John O'Connor, to help solve the conundrum of hip joint loading: how to explain a cone-shaped acetabulum and a spherical femoral head? Since no one had ready answers, the basis was laid for a project funded by the Arthritis Research Campaign. This was the start of 45 years of collaboration and friendship. The research group identified how the shape asymmetry facilitated cartilage lubrication, nourishment and gave protection from arthritis. A better understanding of load-bearing at the hip and the weight-bearing characteristics of the menisci in the knee led the group to consider the possibility of replacing torn menisci. John, aware of the problems with current knee replacements, suggested it might be better to use a gliding polyethylene meniscal component in knee replacement. By 1974 a provisional replacement had been inserted experimentally. John was very conscious of the ethical risks inherent in a surgeon liaising with a manufacturer and his careful, progressive studies serve as a model for others. The design was not released for general use its efficacy and longevity had been demonstrated. Ten thousand surgeons around the world have now attended training courses. The concept of meniscal insertion into a joint replacement has been extended to other joints. Right up until his death John remained heavily involved in the research projects which continued to flow from his initial inspiration. When appointed to the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, John shared a firm with Edgar Somerville and together they were responsible for the bulk of children's orthopaedics in the region. Following Edgar's retirement, Michael Benson replaced him on the firm. It was the happiest of liaisons: while Benson gained most, it was refreshing that the senior man was always willing to listen to other opinion and indeed to modify his own view occasionally when argument (upon which he flourished) proved persuasive. Thirty years ago John was asked to visit Malta to help with the care of children with orthopaedic problems. He went twice yearly initially, but came to alternate with Benson. As time passed, John's interest in joint replacement increased and he became less involved in children's care. In 1966 John was an ABC (American-British-Canadian) fellow of the American Orthopaedic Association. He was secretary of the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) from 1974 to 1975 and president in 1989. He oversaw the inspirational appointment of David Adams as chief executive. Together with David, he was also the instigator of *British Orthopaedic News*, noting in the first edition edited by Chris Ackroyd that: 'Every school has its magazine, most commercial organisations have a house journal and now the BOA has *British Orthopaedic News*'. Just as John proved a wise man at the helm of the BOA, he was to prove an outstanding editor of the British volume of the *Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery* from 1990 to 1995. He succeeded Alan Apley and served with David Evans and Sir Rodney Sweetnam as his successive chairmen. With them he was responsible for many changes in format, number of issues and overseas links. He was an excellent wordsmith and could see effortlessly through one research paper's weaknesses, but also recognise another's strengths. John had a copious research output, much in liaison with his close friend, John O'Connor. In 1980 he co-edited *Scientific foundations of orthopaedics and traumatology* (London, Heinemann), bringing together the many strands of science, including histopathology and biomechanics, which should underpin a surgeon's skills. In 2006 he co-authored *Unicompartmental arthroplasty with the Oxford knee* (Oxford, Oxford University Press). It is a great delight to report that this has been reprinted by his son Tim (under the imprimatur of his own publishing company) - a fine tribute from son to father. Of course, and primarily, John was a practising surgeon. Anyone who worked with JWG, heard him lecture, discussed the indications for an operation or helped him operate knows he was a very complete doctor, caring and meticulous, and willing to dedicate as much time as needed to examine, explain or guide. The greatest compliment he paid to any colleague was to note that he/she was a 'good opinion'. His patients were as devoted to him as he was to their care. His sense of humour was a delight. Travelling through snow to work one winter, he stopped to push an elderly man's car from a ditch. The grateful chap noted that he would be late for an appointment with a Mr Goodfellow. John reassured him that the surgeon would probably be late as well. Outside medicine, sailing became an essential escape from the rigours of surgical life. John sailed his favourite boat *Larie* for over 15 years, initially from the Isle of Wight (where he regularly competed in the Round the Island Race) and later from its berth in La Rochelle in western France. It is not surprising that the qualities he brought to work applied equally at home. Before his first wife Anne died in 1985, John and his children, Tim and Allison, nursed her devotedly, all taking time from work to make this possible. Tragically, John's younger colleague Greg Houghton was killed in a cycling accident. From this tragedy arose one happy consolation: Greg's widow Hélène and John later married, and each proved devoted to the other. He died on 4 August 2011, after a long battle with leukaemia. He was 83. John was an innovator, teacher, scientist, splendid colleague and friend. It is sad to report that his honorary fellowship of the BOA arrived on his doorstep the day after he died.
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First Title value, for Searching Square, James Elliot (1858 - 1948)

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First Title value, for Searching Stabb, Ewen Carthew (1863 - 1941)

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First Title value, for Searching Stanley, John Brentnall (1876 - 1939)

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First Title value, for Searching Stawell, Rodolph de Sails (1871 - 1947)

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First Title value, for Searching Turner, Sir George Robertson (1855 - 1941)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Chigwell, Essex on 22 October 1855, younger son of George Turner, MRCS 1845, and Hannah Buchanan, his wife. His father, who was the second of three sons of Edward Turner of Sherborne to qualify as a Member of the College from St George's Hospital, practised at 37 Sussex Gardens, Hyde Park and died in 1882; the elder son, Edward (MRCS 1842) practised at Sherborne and died in 1886, and the younger, Henry (MRCS 1847), who served in the Crimea as assistant surgeon with the Scots Fusilier Guards, was born in 1825 and died in Ireland in 1870. A fourth son, Frederick, became Attorney-General of South Australia. G R Turner's own elder brother, Edward Beadon Turner, FRCS (1854-1931) was also a St George's man, and his elder son, George Frederick, entered St George's Medical School on 2 May 1904, but did not qualify. His sister married James Cossar Ewart, FRS (see the life of G A Ewart, FRCS). G R Turner followed his brother to Uppingham under Edward Thring in 1867, and played in the School Rugby XV. Entering St George's on 1 May 1873, he distinguished himself both at work and play. He won prizes in 1875-76-77 and the William Brown exhibition in 1878. He played Rugby football for the Hospital in 1875 and 1876, for the United Hospitals XV in 1874-75-76, for the South v. North in 1875, and for England in 1876; he also won the Inter-Hospitals hurdles in 1874-75-76, and was second in the quarter-mile in 1876. Turner qualified in 1877, was house surgeon at St George's in 1878, and surgical registrar and anaesthetist 1880-82. In 1881 he was appointed surgeon to the Seamen's Hospital at Greenwich (the Dreadnought), a post which he held till his election as surgeon to St George's in 1898, having been assistant surgeon since 1887. He retired as consulting surgeon in 1918. In the St George's Medical School he was demonstrator of anatomy 1876-77 and 1879-87, and also lectured on anatomy and surgery. In 1908 he received a commission as major *à la suite*, in the new RAMC Territorial Force, but on the outbreak of war in 1914 he was appointed a temporary surgeon rear-admiral and served at Chatham and Plymouth and as a consultant at the Admiralty. After the Gallipoli evacuation he went to Malta to bring back a large number of wounded. He was created CB in 1917 and KBE in 1919. Turner was a vice-president and honorary secretary of the Medical Society of London. He contributed to Heath's *Dictionary of Surgery* and to Latham and English's *System of Treatment*, and published lectures on appendicitis, inguinal hernia, and gastric ulcer. After retirement in 1920 he lived at Hove, wrote an autobiography recording his interest in sport and racing, and published a study of Mary, Queen of Scots. He died at 37 Adelaide Crescent, Hove on 7 April 1941, aged 85, and was buried at Sherborne Abbey, Dorset. Turner married on 31 August 1882, Isabel Beatrice, daughter of Frederick A DuCroz of East Grinstead. Lady Turner died in 1926. One of their two sons was killed in the first world war. The eldest of their three daughters married the Hon Sydney Spencer Sawrey-Cookson, Judge of the Supreme Court of The Gambia, and another married her first cousin, George Arthur Ewart, FRCS. Turner was warm-hearted, breezy, and determined. Sir Henry Burdett said of "him: "He knows what he wants and usually gets it." He was a strong conservative and individualist, and said: "Democracy makes little appeal to me; I have dared to live without over-regard for what people think and say of me." In 1938 the proprietors of the newspaper *Cavalcade* apologized to Turner in the High Court, for publishing over his name a controversial letter which in fact he had not written. Publications: *Clinical lectures on appendicitis, radical cure of inguinal hernia, and perforating gastric ulcer*. London, 1905 (partly from *Clinical Journal*). *Unorthodox reminiscences*. London, Murray, 1931, with portraits. *Mary Stuart: forgotten forgeries*. 1933.
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First Title value, for Searching Turner, William (1870 - 1944)

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First Title value, for Searching Durham, Herbert Edward (1866 - 1945)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-21
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Occupation Medical Researcher
Details Born 25 March 1866, third child and second son of Arthur Edward Durham, consulting surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and his wife Mary, daughter of William Ellis (see *DNB*), economist and founder of the Birkbeck secondary technical schools. He was thus born into a remarkable family. The only brother who, with him, survived their father, Colonel Frank Rogers Durham, after a distinguished career as a civil and military engineer, became (1926) secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society. Of his sisters, Mary Edith Durham, FRAI (1863-1944), made her name first as an artist, and later as Balkan traveller and anthropologist, and champion of Albania; another sister became Mrs Hickson and her daughter Joan Durham Hickson was the wife of W H Trethowan, FRCS; the third sister, Caroline Beatrice (who died 13 April 1941), married William Bateson, FRS, the famous geneticist, and wrote the classic life of her husband. H E Durham was educated at University College School, London, and King's College, Cambridge, of which he was Vintner exhibitioner 1885; he took first-class honours in part 1 of the Natural Sciences Tripos 1886 and a second-class in part 2, 1887. He then worked for two years as John Lucas Walker student in the University laboratories of zoology and physiology. His medical training was at Guy's, where his father was the leading surgeon, and he qualified from Cambridge in 1887. He took the Fellowship, though not previously a Member, in 1894, but did not practise surgery. He served as resident obstetric officer and assistant in the throat department at Guy's, and was Gull research student there 1894. He was also medical officer to the North Eastern Fever Hospital at Tottenham. In 1894 he went to work under Max Gruber (1853-1927) in the Hygienisches Institut at Vienna. With his master he recognized the practical potentialities for diagnosing infectious diseases available from the effect, already observed by others, of agglutination of pathogenic organisms by the serum of animals immunized against those particular organisms. Durham reported this suggestion to the Royal Society of London on 3 January 1896. But it was first applied clinically in enteric fever by Fernand Widal (1862-1929), of Paris, in June and July of the same year (*Bulletin, Société médicale des Hôpitaux de Paris*, 1896, 13, 561) and by A S F Grünbaum (afterwards Leyton) (1869-1921), of Liverpool, during September-December (*Lancet*, 1896, 2, 806 and 1747). Gruber's communication is in *Münchener medizinische Wochenschrift*, 1896, 43, 285. The reaction is variously known by the names Widal, Gruber, and Durham. In 1896 Durham served on the Royal Society's tsetse-fly commission in Africa, and the following year was appointed Grocer's Company Research Fellow at Cambridge. He reported his observation of a common group agglutinating reaction between closely allied bacteria, and also introduced the "Durham tube", the small inverted test-tube placed in bacterial media to collect gas produced by fermentative organisms (*Brit med J*. 1898, 1, 1387), which was very generally adopted. In 1900 he took to Brazil the yellow-fever expedition, sponsored by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He and his colleague, Walter Myers (1872-20 January 1901), both contracted yellow-fever, and Myers died of it at Para. The expedition's results were published as the School's *Memoir* No 7, 1902. From 1901 to 1903 Durham headed the London School of Tropical Medicine's beriberi expedition in Malaya and Christmas Island, where he lost the sight of one eye. Durham was the first to bring back to England from Malay the poisonous plant *Derris elliptica*, which came into wide use as a horticultural insecticide. He described it in J D Gimlette's *Malay poisons*, 3rd edition, 1939. He was also associated with Sir Ronald Ross in his researches on malaria. Durham was hindered by his partial loss of sight from returning to bacteriological research, and therefore readily accepted the invitation of a friend, Fred Bulmer, director of H P Bulmer and Co, cider manufacturers, at Hereford, to superintend their chemical department. The Bulmer family had long been connected with Durham's old college, King's. Durham spent thirty useful years, 1905-35, at Hereford, working on fermentation, and also did much for the improvement of fruit trees and was active in the acclimitization of new plants. He served as president of the Herefordshire Association of Fruitgrowers and Horticulturists, and was also president of the Woolhope Naturalists Club. He lived at Dunelm, Hampton Park, Hereford. In 1935 he retired to Cambridge, where he continued his active horticultural work particularly in raising rare culinary plants, of which he contributed accounts to the *Dictionary of Gastronomy*. He was, too, a draughtsman of talent and a skilled woodworker, who designed ingenious modifications of his lathe. He was a medallist of the Royal Photographic Society in 1927. He was a retiring, modest man, though of adventurous originality and much charm. Durham married on 25 September 1907 Maud Lowry, daughter of Captain Harmer, 81st Regiment. Mrs Durham survived him, but without children. He died at 14 Sedley Taylor Road, Cambridge, on 25 October 1945, aged 79, having been well and happy the previous day. He left, subject to his widow's life-interest, bequests to the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund, King's College, Cambridge, and the Schools of Tropical Medicine in London and Liverpool. His outstanding publications are mentioned above.
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First Title value, for Searching Ward, Edward (1855 - 1921)

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First Title value, for Searching Ward, Gilbert (1805 - 1894)

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First Title value, for Searching Ward, John (1821 - 1894)

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First Title value, for Searching Ward, Martindale (1820 - 1872)

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First Title value, for Searching Littler, Robert Meredith (1866 - 1941)

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First Title value, for Searching Lloyd, Bertram Arthur (1884 - 1948)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-08-28
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Occupation Forensic surgeon General surgeon
Details Born at Birmingham on 15 September 1884, second son of Walter John Lloyd, manufacturer, and his wife, née Bolton. He was educated there at King Edward's School and at the University, of which he was an exhibitioner. He took his clinical training at the London Hospital, and graduated in medicine and surgery at London University in 1909, with honours in anatomy and pharmacology; he had taken the Conjoint qualification the previous year, and took the Fellowship in 1911. After serving as house surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street and resident medical officer at Charing Cross Hospital, he went back to Birmingham as senior resident medical officer at Queen's Hospital. He was elected surgeon to the United Hospitals and the Birmingham and Midlands Hospital for Sick Children, in 1913, and was appointed consulting surgeon to each when he retired. He was also consulting surgeon to the Smallwood Hospital, Redditch. During the first world war he served from 1915 to 1919 at the 1st Southern General Hospital with the rank of captain, RAMC. Lloyd was appointed professor of forensic medicine at Birmingham University in 1932, a post which he held for ten years, resigning in 1942 after an illness the previous year, and was elected emeritus professor. He was a member of the Midlands Medical Society and the Medico-legal Society, and was president of the Birmingham University Graduates' Club in 1935 and the Birmingham University Medical Society in 1936. He was admitted to the degree of ChM by Birmingham University in 1933. Lloyd married in 1930 Hilda Nora Shufflebotham, FRCS, afterwards professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Birmingham, senior surgeon to the Birmingham Hospital for Women, president of the RCOG, and a DBE; she survived him, but without children. He died suddenly on 22 January 1948 at 40 Harborne Road, Edgbaston. He had also had a country house at Spadesbourne, Mearse Lane, Barnt Green, Worcester. He left the remainder of his fortune, after termination of his wife's life interest, half to the Royal College of Surgeons and half to the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. Lloyd was a man of wide intellectual curiosity. He was fond of travel and mountaineering, and had a knowledge of many European countries and their languages; he also studied oriental scripts. He was a sound mathematician and a fine pianist. In character he was simple and modest, with a distaste for public appearance whether in person or in print.
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First Title value, for Searching Lloyd, Perceval Allen (1863 - 1941)

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First Title value, for Searching Lockett, George Vernon (1868 - 1946)

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First Title value, for Searching Lodge, Samuel Durham (1893 - 1933)

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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Ebenezer Pye (1807 - 1885)

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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Eustace (1835 - 1914)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-02-07
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Occupation Physician
Details Born in London on October 24th, 1835, the third son of the Rev John Henry Smith, Vicar of Milverton, Warwickshire. One of his brothers was G Theyre Smith, the dramatist. He was educated at Leamington College, and received his professional training at University College, London, where he was a brilliant student. He also studied for a time in Paris. In 1870 he joined the staff of the East London Hospital for Children, Shadwell, and as early as 1874 became Senior Physician. During his earlier professional career he travelled for some time in the East as Physician to Leopold II, King of the Belgians, then Duke of Brabant. Eustace Smith's name was long and intimately associated with the East London Hospital for Children, where he retained to the very last a vigorous open-mindedness which the youngest might envy, and which accorded well with his singularly youthful appearance. He was delighted when, as often happened, patients who had consulted him some twenty or thirty years earlier sought him out, and when confronted with him insisted that he must be his own son. "When I was a child", such a patient would say, "I was taken to see your father", and sometimes he did not trouble to disabuse them. He was the permanent President at an Annual Dinner of past and present members of the staff of the hospital, and had not missed one of these gatherings in nineteen years. " Awaiting the arrival of guests at one of these functions," says Dr Graham Little, who was the Organizing Secretary, "I was standing with Sir Bryan Donkin at the head of the stairs leading to the reception room. We saw a tall and agile figure bounding up from the foot of the long ascent, taking three steps at a time. 'That is certainly Smith', said Donkin; 'no one else is as young as that', and he was right." If Heckford originated the East London Hospital for Children, Eustace Smith made and established its great reputation. He loved it like a father. Joining the staff only two years after its foundation, for forty-three years he gave unstintingly of his time and thought and care. He managed committees with consummate skill, was an admirable colleague, ever ready to promote the interests of his juniors or to help them in their work by placing his vast experience at their disposal. His spirit permeated the entire institution. Apropos of his experience with King Leopold, and to illustrate his gift of happy repartee, this story is told: "During one of his visits to England His Majesty complained of insomnia, which Eustace Smith treated perfectly successfully with a nightly dose of 15 grains of bicarbonate of soda. 'Do you know, Dr Eustace Smith,' said the King some time afterwards, 'that I showed the prescription you gave me for sleeplessness to my Court Physician, and he tells me that you ordered me common bicarbonate of soda? 'But, if I remember right, Your Majesty benefited by my treatment.' 'Oh, yes, it cured my insomnia, but bicarbonate of soda is such a very commonplace drug. My physician was quite surprised at your ordering it for me.' 'Ah, Your Majesty, you will forgive me for reminding you that Naaman the Syrian also objected to the Jordan as too commonplace a stream for his use - until immer-sion in it cured his leprosy.' " At the Seventeenth International Congress of Medicine in 1913 he presided over the Children's Section. The presidency disturbed his very regular habits, entailing as it did much hospitality, and doubtless fatigued him considering his great age; otherwise he was active in his consulting practice to the age of 79. In addition to being Physician to the East London Hospital for Children, he was, at the time of his death, Consulting Physician to the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest. He was a Member of Council of the Royal College of Physicians (1896-1898). Writing of his alertness, youthfulness, and importance to the East London Hospital, his colleague, Dr Alfred M. Gossage, adds:- "He showed the keenest appreciation of all recent medical advance, and readily availed himself of the assistance afforded to diagnosis by laboratory research, though he deplored the tendency displayed by the younger generation to rely too much on the laboratory to the detriment of the training of their eyes, ears, and hands. It was in physical examination that he excelled, and it was remarkable how his senses never failed him, for during all the time I have known him his hearing remained as acute and his fingers as deft as they can ever have been. He was always ready to discuss diagnosis and treatment, and most of his younger colleagues can recall many a pleasant dispute over cases in the wards, or fertile hints on treatment, illustrated by apposite tales from consultant practice, with which the journey back from the hospital was wont to be beguiled." In private life he was much of an artist, spending his annual holidays in water-colour sketching of a high order. In literature, French and English, especially in the Elizabethan dramatists, he was conspicuously well read. His own literary style was at once easy and lucid. He died after a short illness on Saturday, November 14th, 1914, and was cremated. He had practised at 19 Queen Anne Street, W. He married in 1875 Katharine Isabella Peace, by whom he had a son and a daughter. Publications:- *The Wasting Diseases of Infants and Children*, 8vo, London, 1868; 6th ed, 1899. *Clinical Studies of Disease in Children. Diseases of the Lungs: Acute Tuberculosis,* 8vo, London, 1876 ; 2nd ed., 1887. *A Practical Treatise on Disease in Children*, 8vo, London, 1884 ; 3rd ed, 1909. (Many editions of these standard works appeared in America.) *Some Common Remedies and their Use in Practice*, 1910. "Diseases of Children" in Quain's *Dictionary of Medicine*. "Diet and Therapeutics of Children", "Mumps", "Whooping-cough", "Diarrhoeas of Children", in Allbutt's *System of Medicine*. "Colic", "Constipation in Children", "Infantile Diarrhoea", "Infant Feeding", "Vomiting in Childhood", in *Index of Treatment*, 1907. "General Hygiene and Care of Infants and Young Children" in Latham and English's *System of Treatment*.
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First Title value, for Searching Harris, William James (1872 - 1932)

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First Title value, for Searching Harsant, William Henry (1850 - 1933)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-03
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Occupation Anatomist ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Born at Epsom on 20 March 1850, the second child and eldest son of William Harsant, chemist, and Sarah Wilkinson, his wife. He was educated at the City of London School. At Guy's Hospital he was gold medallist in surgery, and served as house surgeon in 1874 and resident obstetric officer. He then acted as house surgeon at the Bristol General Hospital. He was soon appointed assistant surgeon to the Bristol Royal Infirmary, where he was placed in charge of the newly-established aural department. He became surgeon in 1885 and resigned the office in 1902, having been disabled by the loss of his right index finger which was amputated for a poisoned wound contracted during an operation. He was then elected consulting surgeon to the Royal Infirmary and for the rest of his life undertook private practice at Clifton. From 1887 to 1893 he lectured on anatomy in the Bristol Medical School. In 1899 he was president of the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society and for many years he was a member of the editorial staff of the *Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Journal*. He married Margaret Evans in June 1881, who died before him. He died at Tower House, Clifton Down Road, Bristol on 10 February 1933, and was buried at Canford Cemetery, Clifton.
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First Title value, for Searching Pattison, Alfred Richard Denis (1906 - 1940)

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First Title value, for Searching Paul, Frank Thomas (1851 - 1941)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 3 December 1851 at Ashwood Lodge, Pentney, Norfolk, son of Thomas Paul. He was educated at Yarmouth Grammar School, and went into a business office in London before entering the medical school of Guy's Hospital in 1869, where he won exhibitions in 1870 and 1872, and became house surgeon in the hospital in 1874. He went to Liverpool in 1875 as resident medical officer and superintendent of the Royal Infirmary. From 1878 to 1883 he was on the staff of the Stanley Hospital, and in 1883 he succeeded Thomas Ransford as surgeon to the Royal Southern Hospital. In 1891 he was elected surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, and became consulting surgeon on his retirement in 1912. Paul took an active part in the work of the medical school, both before and after its incorporation as the medical faculty of Liverpool University. He was successively demonstrator of physiology (1878), pathologist, lecturer in dental anatomy and in clinical surgery, dean of the faculty for seven years, and professor of medical jurisprudence, being honoured with the title of emeritus on his retirement. He practised at 38 Rodney Street. He was a pioneer and propagandist of the study of pathological histology. He was commissioned major *à la suite* on the formation of the RAMC Territorial force on 7 July 1908, and served through the war of 1914-18 at the 2nd Western General Hospital at Fazackerly. Paul was a consummate surgical craftsman and won the admiration of Moynihan himself. He was president of the Liverpool Medical Institution in 1906-07, and was elected an honorary member at the centenary meeting in 1937. In 1926 Frank Jeans gave the institution a cast of Paul's hand. Paul was a pioneer in the surgery of the large bowel. He introduced "Paul's tube", describing it in his paper on colotomy in 1891, and anticipated Mikulicz by ten years in his perfected method of colectomy (1895). In 1892 he improved Senn's method of gastro-enterostomy. By 1897 he had done partial thyroidectomy in six cases of exophthalmic goitre without a death. He published many papers, and the wide range of his surgical and pathological work can be judged from the volume of his collected papers presented to him, by his colleagues at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary, on his seventy-fifth birthday and the fiftieth anniversary of his association with the infirmary, in 1925. Paul retired to Grayshott, near Hindhead, where he grew orchids and took colour-photographs and enjoyed camping and caravaning. In earlier years he had been a keen yachtsman and motorist. He was a man of fine presence, with a full beard. He was modest and self-effacing and entirely without affectation. He married in 1888 Geraldine, daughter of Eustace Greg, who survived him with three daughters. He died at Grayshott on 17 January 1941, aged 89. Publications: A new method of performing inguinal colotomy, with cases. *Brit med J* 1891, 2, 118. Introducing "Paul's tubes" of glass and rubber. Colectomy. *Ibid* 1895, 1, 1136. Describing his method of extra-abdominal resection of the colon, sometimes called the Mikulicz or Paul-Mikulicz operation. Personal experiences in the surgery of the large bowel. Address in surgery, BMA meeting, Liverpool. *Brit med J* 1912, 2, 172-181. *Selected papers, surgical and pathological*. London, 1925.
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First Title value, for Searching Paul, Samuel Cheliah (1872 - 1942)

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First Title value, for Searching Pearson, Charles Yelverton (1857 - 1947)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 27 August 1857 at Kilworth, Co Cork, fourth son of William W Pearson, MRCS 1843, MD St Andrews 1845, who later practised at Carrigaline, Co Cork, and his wife Anne Smith, of Castletownroche, Co Cork. He was educated at the Model School and at Perrott's School, Cork, and in 1874 entered Queen's College, then a constituent of the Royal University of Ireland, which in 1908 became University College and a constituent of the National University of Ireland. He qualified with a gold medal in 1878, and was appointed senior demonstrator of anatomy in the college, on whose staff he continued to serve for fifty years. In 1883 he was elected assistant surgeon to the Cork North Charitable Infirmary, becoming in due course surgeon, a post in which he was followed by his second son. He was also surgeon to the County and City of Cork Victoria Hospital for Women and Children, and obstetric surgeon to the Cork Lying-in Hospital. He was appointed professor of materia medica and lecturer in medical jurisprudence in 1884, and as medico-legal adviser to the Crown in criminal cases gave evidence at Cork Assizes in 1887, which played a prominent part in securing the conviction of Dr Philip Cross for the murder of his wife. Surgeon-Major Philip Henry Eustace Cross, LRCSI, had practised at Shandyhall, Dripsey for a dozen years since his retirement from the Army Medical Service, and was also a respected country gentleman in the district, of which he was a native. His wife died in June 1887 and he immediately married his young mistress. Pearson gave evidence that Mrs Cross had died of arsenic poisoning, and although there was no direct evidence that Cross had administered the poison, he was convicted by Judge Murphy, whose emotional charge to the jury was strongly criticized in the *British Medical Journal*. In spite of an appeal by petition to the Lord Lieutenant, Cross was hanged in January 1888. Pearson had taken the Fellowship in 1886, though not previously a Member, and in 1897 he was elected professor of surgery at Cork, and held the chair till 1928 when he was granted the title of emeritus on retiring. In 1903 he was elected a surgical Fellow of the Royal University, and on its change into the National University in 1908 was appointed a senator. He became honorary surgeon to the King in Ireland in 1916, in succession to Sir Charles Ball, Hon FRCS. Pearson examined in surgery for the Indian Medical Service from 1912. He was elected an honorary life member of the Austin Flint Medical Association of Iowa in 1900. Pearson married twice: (1) in 1881 Christiana Dorothea, daughter of A J Tuckey, MD, MRCS, of Bantry, Co Cork. There were two sons and a daughter of this marriage; the elder son, William Pearson, FRCSI, became professor of surgery in Dublin University (Trinity College) and a distinguished consultant in Dublin; the younger son, Charles Broderick Pearson, MD MCh, succeeded to his father's private and hospital practice at Cork, his son Charles also entered the medical profession, as MB 1943; (2) in 1924 May Clemence, daughter of Lawson L Ferguson of Glenview, Co Wicklow; Mrs Pearson was herself a doctor, MB NUI 1921, DPH RCPS Eng 1924; she survived her husband with two daughters, one of whom was a medical student at the time of Professor Pearson's death. Pearson had practised at 1 Sydney Place, Cork, where his son succeeded him. Latterly he lived at 8 Knockrea Park, Cork, where he died on 13 May 1947, aged 89. He was a popular and respected man, fond of all outdoor sports, especially yachting, fishing, and shooting. Publication: *Modern surgical technique in its relation to operations and wound treatment*. London, Bale, 1906. 392 pages.
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First Title value, for Searching Hart-Smith, Franke Chamberlain (1861 - 1934)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-03
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at St Minver Vicarage, Cornwall, on 21 January 1861, the fifth child and third surviving son of the Rev William Hart-Smith, afterwards Rector of St Peter's, Bedford, and Charlotte Pierce Lawrence his wife. He was educated at a preparatory school in Maidenhead under the Rev E H Pierce, at Bedford Grammar School, and at University College Hospital. He served as house surgeon and obstetric assistant at the Hospital and as assistant demonstrator of anatomy at University College Hospital Medical School. At the University of London he obtained first-class honours at the MB BS examination. In 1889 he bought a practice at Leominster, Herefordshire, where he remained until 1911 when he sold it. During this period he took an active part in founding the Leominster Cottage Hospital. Soon after the outbreak of the first world war he offered his services, which were accepted, and he was sent to Osborne to act as second in command under Colonel Douglas Wardrop with the rank of major, gazetted on 17 January 1917. At the end of the war he took up work under the Cornwall County Council as medical inspector of schools, with headquarters at Truro, and this post he held until 1926 when he retired on attaining the age limit. He married on 27 April 1889 Margaret Elizabeth Parry. She died in 1917 without children. He died on 18 March 1934 at Dunbrody, Port Hill Road, Shrewsbury, and was buried in the general cemetery of that city.
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First Title value, for Searching Dyball, Brennan (1872 - 1934)

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First Title value, for Searching Eason, Sir Herbert Lightfoot (1874 - 1949)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-21 2014-01-28
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born in London 15 July 1874, the third son of Edward Henry Physick Eason, auctioneer and surveyor, of Bishopsgate, and his wife Mary Ann Moore. He nearly died of double pneumonia at the age of eleven, and was educated at a private school in Dulwich, at University College, London, and at Guy's Hospital, and retained a close connexion with the hospital and with London University to the end of his busy life. He qualified in 1898 and proceeded both to the MD and the MS. He was house physician at Guy's to Sir James Goodhart, MD, FRCP, but was more markedly influenced by Sir Cooper Perry, MD, FRCP towards pursuing his bent for administration. By Perry's advice he specialized in ophthalmology, to leave himself time for administrative work, which a less restricted medical field would not. He was appointed assistant ophthalmic surgeon at Guy's in 1905, and ultimately became senior ophthalmic surgeon. During the war of 1914-18 Eason was a consulting ophthalmic surgeon to the British Army in Egypt and the Near East, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, RAMC. He was created CMG in 1917 and CB in 1919 for his services. He formed a personal friendship with General (afterwards Field-Marshal Lord) Allenby, who struck him as the greatest man he met in his long life of many distinguished contacts. While practising his specialty with distinction, Eason's great contribution to medicine lay in the full deployment of his rare administrative talent. In honour of this work he was elected a Fellow of the College in 1936, as a member of twenty years' standing. At Guy's he was Warden of the College (1902) and Dean of the medical and dental school 1903-12, and in 1920 he succeeded Perry, who had held the post for 28 years, as Superintendent of the Hospital. Eason thoroughly enjoyed the appointment, which he sustained with dignified ability for nearly 20 years. In the University of London he was an active member of the Faculty of Medicine, represented the Faculty on the Senate from 1911, and the Senate on the Court 1931-37. He was elected Vice-Chancellor in 1935, and after the tragic death of Edwin Deller, who was accidentally killed while inspecting the building of the new university house in 1937, Eason assumed the office of Principal, making with skill the difficult step from the chief administrative to the chief executive office of the university. As a leading member of the Board of Education's Departmental Committee on the University of London 1924-26, he had done much to shape the policy which he administered. Eason represented the University on the General Medical Council from 1924 and, after serving as a trustee of the English branch of the Council and joint treasurer with Sir George Newman, he was elected president from 1 December 1939, in succession to Sir Norman Walker, president 1931-39. Sir Robert Bolam had been chairman of business since 1932, but died some months before Walker's retirement, leaving the succession open to the highly eligible Eason. Eason was a proved committee man and an experienced administrator with a sound knowledge of the law. He had been elected as Honorary Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple in 1938. He had also personal acquaintance with clinical practice. After assuming the presidential office Eason gave up all part in the work of the British Medical Association, to avoid any colour of professional partiality. He had served on the Association's ophthalmic committee, which helped to sponsor the National Eye Service. Eason was intensely proud of the dignity and weight of his position, and valued the contacts which it brought him on the intellectual rather than the social or administrative level with the leaders of medicine throughout the British Isles. In his judicial capacity his bearing towards offenders was stern, but he avoided all moral exhortation. At the preliminary private deliberations of the Council his voice was given for leniency. Eason's contribution to the Council's educational work was nearer his heart than his disciplinary duties. He held that the Council must privately establish, and only then publish, standards for medical training, which the various teaching and qualifying bodies would be expected to attain, while they ought to be allowed complete freedom in their methods, so long as they reached the Council's required standard. To this end he was largely responsible for the Council's *Rules for Diplomas in Public Health* 1945. He toured the medical schools of North America in 1946 with a party of his fellow councillors, under grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, after which the Council issued their *Recommendations as to the medical curriculum* 1947. He next oversaw the drafting of a Medical Bill, intended to reform the constitution and finance of the Council itself. Eason was a member of the Ministry of Health's Postgraduate medical education committee 1925-30, which led to the establishment of the (British) Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith Hospital, and he became a governor of the school. He was co-opted a member of the Hospitals and Medical services committee of the London County Council, was a trustee of the Beit Memorial Fellowships for medical research, and represented the Ministry of Health on the General Nursing Council. He was a member of the general council of King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, and served *ex officio* on the Central Health Services Council of the National Health Service 1948-49. He was knighted in 1943. In earlier years Eason had been an active member of the Ophthalmological Society, and contributed to its *Transactions* and to *Guy's Hospital Reports*. He wrote the ophthalmic articles for French's *Index of differential diagnosis*. Eason was tall, thin, and aquiline, with long sensitive fingers. His manner in private was cool and his wit mordant, but under this outward austerity lay a sympathetic spirit. If he had a fault it was impatient forthrightness rather than legal tortuosity. He was punctual and concise in all his affairs. His intellectual devotion to justice was tempered, but never deflected, by compassion for human frailty. His mind was fertile to initiate and decisive in execution. He was a forward-looking reformer, in spite of his historical sense of man's inability to progress. Eason married twice: (1) in 1908 the Honourable Ierne Bingham, eldest daughter of the fifth Lord Clanmorris, who died in 1917, leaving one daughter; (2) in 1920 Margaret, daughter of R G Wallace of Quidenham, Attleborough, Norfolk, who survived him with two daughters. Sir Herbert Eason died on 2 November 1949, aged 75, at Nuffield House, Guy's Hospital. A memorial service was held in the hospital chapel on 11 November. After the destruction by enemy action in 1941 of the superintendent's beautiful eighteenth-century house at Guy's Hospital, Eason lived at Newbridge Mill, Coleman's Hatch, Sussex. Publications:- Military ophthalmia in Egypt: a comparison between the incidence of ophthalmia among Napoleon's troops in Egypt, 1798-1801, and in the Egypt Expeditionary Force, 1915-18. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK.* 1918, 38, 30-45. Ophthalmic practice in the Mediterranean and Egyptian Expeditionary Forces, 1915-18. *Guy's Hosp Rep*. 1922, 70, 63-114.
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First Title value, for Searching Batten, Herbert Ernest (1877 - 1950)

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First Title value, for Searching Eccles, William McAdam (1867 - 1946)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 3 August 1867 in Bombay, India, eldest son of William Soltau Eccles (1843-1919), MRCS, LSA, who later practised at Norwood, and his wife Annie Selina Campbell McAdam, a descendant of John Loudon McAdam, the road builder. The Eccles family had a long medical tradition and a close connexion with St Bartholomew's Hospital. One member, Alfred Eccles, FRCS, practised in New Zealand during the sixties and did much to promote the development of medical education and practice there. McAdam Eccles was educated at University College School and University College, London. He entered St Bartholomew's as a student in 1885 and was connected with it for the rest of his long life. He took honours in medicine, obstetrics, and surgery at the London MB and BS examination, and won the University gold medal at the MS examination in 1894. He served as house surgeon to John Langton in 1891, and resident obstetric assistant to Sir Francis Champneys, Bt, MD, FRCP, in 1892. He was appointed demonstrator of anatomy in 1894, and demonstrator of surgery in 1897; and was elected an assistant surgeon, with charge of the orthopaedic department, in 1903. Previous holders of this office were Bruce Clark, W J Walsham, and Howard Marsh; Eccles held it until the appointment of R C Elmslie as the first orthopaedic surgeon. He was appointed surgeon in 1912, and elected a consulting surgeon and a governor on his retirement in 1927; in 1942 he became senior consulting surgeon. Eccles took an active part in all hospital activities, for he was an excellent and popular teacher and a most conscientious man of business. He lectured in the Hospital's medical college on anatomy, surgery, and orthopaedics. He was a member of many special committees and honorary secretary to the Medical Council of the Hospital 1905 to 1910, edited the *Reports*, and was president of the Paget Club. Eccles served as house surgeon at the West London Hospital in 1890 and became assistant surgeon in 1892, resigning in 1903. Here he was a colleague of Stephen Paget and C B Keetley. He took a part in founding the West London Postgraduate School in 1896, and maintained a lifelong interest in the West London Medico-chirurgical Society, of which he was president in 1911-12, as his uncle, Arthur Symons Eccles (1855-1900), had been in 1895-96. He was also surgeon to the Marylebone General Dispensary, the Mildmay Mission Hospital, the City of London Truss Society, and for a time to the National Temperance Hospital. He was chairman and a trustee of St Columba's Hospital, Hampstead. At the Royal College of Surgeons Eccles won the Jacksonian prize of 1900 with his essay on *Imperfect descent of the testicle*, and was a Hunterian Professor 1902-03, lecturing on the same subject. He was a member of Council from 1924 to 1932, and Arris and Gale lecturer 1930. He examined in anatomy for the Fellowship in 1904, and was later an examiner in surgery at Cambridge and Glasgow universities and for the Society of Apothecaries. Eccles took an active part in many medical societies. He promoted the foundation of the University of London Medical Graduates Society in 1928 (see also the life of Sir StClair Thomson), and was its president in 1935. At the British Medical Association he was annually elected a member of the Council by the Representative Meeting 1919-43, and was appointed a vice-president in 1944. He was president of the Metropolitan Counties branch, and vice-president of the section of surgery at the Centenary meeting in London 1932, and went to Australia for the Melbourne meeting 1935. He represented the British Medical Association on the International Hospitals Association from 1937, and became chairman of its British section. He was largely responsible for drafting the report of the British Medical Association's committee on fractures 1933-35. Eccles held a commission as lieutenant-colonel in the RAMC(T) and served throughout the war of 1914-18 as surgeon to the 1st London (City of London) General Hospital. In the second world war he organized and was medical officer in charge of the Borough of Marylebone's No 2 Aid Post at the National Heart Hospital, Westmoreland Street, and did much to promote public interest in the running and use of such aid-posts before the beginning of the severe air-raids of 1940-41. Eccles shared in the work of King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, the Hospital Saving Association, and the British Provident Association. He was chief medical officer for many years to the Eagle Star and the Employers' Liability Assurance Companies, and was surgical consultant to the London Passenger Transport Board. He took a close interest in social and temperance work, for he was himself an ardent teetotaller. He was president of the Society for the Study of Inebriety and of the Medical Abstainers Association, and an active member of the British Social Hygiene Council. Eccles was a devout christian, a pillar of the Presbyterian Church in London, with a special interest in medical missions. He worshipped at the Marylebone Presbyterian Church, of which he became an Elder. He was president of the London Medical Mission for several years, and as president of the Medical Prayer Union organized missionary breakfasts for medical students in London and for practitioners at the annual meetings of the British Medical Association. He was president of the Society for the Visitation of the Sick in Hospitals. He was much interested in the application of photography to medical work, and at the end of his life promoted the production of medical-teaching moving-picture films. He was chairman of the medical section of the Scientific Film Association. Eccles was a voluminous writer in the professional journals, and wrote a useful manual on hernia; he was an excellent talker, ready to speak his mind and give the benefit of his wide knowledge on any occasion; and was in request as an expert witness. He married Coralie, second daughter of E B Anstie, JP, of Devizes; Mrs Eccles died in 1930. Their daughter and two of their four sons died before them; one son being killed in the first world war and another dying as the result of it. McAdam Eccles died in St Bartholomew's Hospital on 30 May 1946, aged 79. The funeral service was at Marylebone Presbyterian Church, George Street, W1 on 4 June. He had lived latterly at 104 Bryanston Court, W1, but had decided to retire to the country and live with his sister at Glebelands, Bidborough, Tunbridge Wells, a change which his last illness prevented. He was survived by two sons, Philip Campbell Eccles and David McAdam Eccles. Mr David Eccles married in 1928 Sybil Frances, eldest daughter of Bertrand, Lord Dawson of Penn, MD; he was elected conservative MP for the Chippenham division of Wiltshire at the bye-election caused by the death in an air accident of Captain Victor Cazalet during the war of 1939-45, and held the seat at the conservative "land-slide" in the general election of 1945. He subsequently became a Cabinet Minister. McAdam Eccles bequeathed his instruments to the Regions Beyond Missionary Union and his books to the West London Medico-chirurgical Society. He was a characteristic Londoner of the best type, efficient, approachable, conservative and, in spite of his puritanical convictions, sociable and popular. Fairly tall and of solid build, his stern features relaxed with a whimsical smile as he talked. He bore the tragedies of his middle-age stoically and worked hard through the last two decades of his life, when he had retired from active surgery. Select bibliography:- An analysis of twenty-eight cases of intussusception. *St Bart's Hosp Rep*. 1892, 28, 97. On some important facts concerning head injuries. *Practitioner*, 1894, 52, 417. The diagnosis of strangulated hernia. *St Bart's Hosp J*. 1895-6, 3, 116, 133, 151. *Elementary anatomy and surgery for nurses*. Lectures at West London Hospital, London, 1896. On hernia of the vermiform appendix. *St Bart's Hosp Rep*. 1896, 32, 93. The treatment of scrotal hydroceles. *Treatment*, 1900, 3, 697. The treatment of enlarged glands in the neck. *Ibid*. 1900, 4, 385. *Hernia: etiology, symptoms and treatment*. London, 1900; 2nd edition, 1902; 3rd edition, 1908. On the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the imperfectly descended testis. (Hunterian lectures, RCS) *Lancet*, 1902, 1, 569 and 722; *Brit med J*. 1902, 1, 503 and 570. *The imperfectly descended testis; its anatomy, physiology and pathology*. (Jacksonian prize, RCS, 1900.) London, 1903. Alcohol as a factor in the causation of deterioration in the individual and the race. *Brit J Inebriety*, 1904-05, 2, 146. *Clinical applied anatomy*, with C R Box. London, 1906. A case of primary carcinoma of the vermiform appendix. *Amer J med Sci*. 1906, 131, 966. The relationship of the National Insurance Act to the voluntary hospitals, especially those with attached medical schools. *St Bart's Hosp J*. 1912, 19, 144. The operative treatment of fractures of long bones. *Clin J*. 1912, 40, 241. A clinical lecture on aneurysms of war wounds. *St Bart's Hosp J*. 1915-6, 23, 41; *J roy Army med Cps*. 1916, 26, 405; *Amer J Surg*. 1916, 30, 33. War and alcohol. (7th Norman Kerr Memorial lecture.) *Brit J Inebriety*, 1917-18, 15, 89. Scheme to finance the voluntary hospitals of London. *Lancet*, 1921, 1, 1057. Anatomy, orthodox and heterodox, in relation to surgery. Arris and Gale lecture, RCS, 19 February 1930. *Brit med J*. 1930, 1, 373. Surgery of the blood vessels; Injuries and diseases of the mammary gland; Imperfect migration of the testicle; in Gask and Wilson: *Surgery*, 1920.
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First Title value, for Searching Eden, Kenneth Christie (1910 - 1943)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-21
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Occupation Neurosurgeon
Details Born 18 December 1910, son of Edwin Albert Eden, MA, BSc, Head Master of Devizes Secondary School, who died at Letchworth in 1938, and of Monti Alston Christie, his wife. He was educated at his father's school and at University College, London, before entering University College Hospital Medical School, where he was Bucknill scholar and Cluff memorial prizeman in 1932. He won the Lister gold medal in surgery in 1933 and the Leslie Pearce Gould scholarship. With a travelling scholarship he worked in the surgical clinics of Berlin, Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, and Paris. On his return to University College Hospital he was appointed Harker Smith cancer and radium registrar, assistant to Wilfred Trotter in the surgical unit, and John Marshall Fellow in surgi pathology. Eden edited the *UCH Magazine*, played association football for the hospital and took a full share in many undergraduate social activities. In 1939 he was appointed to the Emergency Medical Service neurological unit of University College Hospital at Hayward's Heath, Sussex and in 1941 he was appointed surgical registrar of the hospital. He collaborated with his master's son, W R Trotter, MRCP, in the hospital's thyroid clinic, and they made several important joint publications. In 1940 he was a Hunterian professor at the Royal College of Surgeons, lecturing on dumb-bell tumours of the spine. In spite of his great abilities, or perhaps because of an air of charming indolence, Eden, during this period, was looked upon as a capable rather than a brilliant surgeon. In April 1942 he was commissioned in the RAMC and served for four months at St Hugh's Military Hospital at Oxford. Eden found his métier when appointed leader of a neurosurgical unit in the Eighth Army, with the rank of major. He served all through the victorious North African campaign from Alamein to Tunis (winter 1942 to spring 1943). In the fast-moving tank battles of Tripolitania he found that head injuries were coming back to his station at the advance base too late for satisfactory intervention. He therefore split his unit into a base and a forward team, and himself went right forward to the battlefield. He converted a captured Italian motor-coach into a mobile operating theatre and worked in closest touch with the most forward casualty clearing station. He excised or closed the majority of head wounds within twenty-four hours of injury and achieved ninety per cent primary healing where the incidence of abscess had previously been very high. In the more favourable conditions of battle between Mareth and Tunis he made the most of his opportunities for forward area segregation of wounded. He had an exceptional capacity for operating continuously without sleep through long hours, and proved himself as fine a commander as a surgeon. His account of these war experiences with his surgical results was published posthumously in The Lancet. He went forward with the Eighth Army through the invasion of Sicily (summer 1943) into Italy, where he died of poliomyelitis at Naples on 21 October 1943. Eden married in 1936 Margaret Avis Jones, who survived him with a son and a daughter; his mother also outlived him. His widow married secondly James Carson, MD. He was a well-informed and cultivated man, with a good singing voice and a talent for drawing. Publications:- Case of lead encephalopathy. *Lancet*, 1935, 1, 490. Pseudotuberculoma silicoticum, with J Herbert-Burns. *Brit J Surg*. 1936-37, 24, 346. Dissemination of glioma of spinal cord in leptomeninges. *Brain*, 1938, 61, 398. Vascular complications of cervical ribs and first thoracic rib abnormalities. *Brit J Surg*. 1939-40, 27, 111. Benign fibro-osseous tumours of skull and facial bones. *Ibid* p 323. Dumb-bell tumours of the spine (Hunterian lectures). *Brit J Surg*. 1940-41, 28, 549. Xanthomatosis of skeleton in adult (bipoidosis of Schuller-Christian type), with E L G Hilton. *Lancet*, 1941, 1, 782. Plump type of Graves' disease, with W R Trotter. *Lancet*, 1941, 2, 335. Total thyroidectomy for heart failure, unusual case, with W R Trotter. *Brit Heart J*. 1941, 3, 200. Loss of consciousness in different types of head injury, with J W A Turner. *Proc Roy Soc Med*. 1940-41, 34, 685. Traumatic cerebrospinal rhinorrhoea: repair of fistula by transfrontal intradural operation. *Brit J Surg*. 1941-42, 29, 299. Case of lymphadenoid goitre associated with full clinical picture of Graves' disease, with W R Trotter. *Brit J Surg*. 1941-42, 29, 320. Lid retraction in toxic diffuse goitre, with W R Trotter. *Lancet*, 1942, 2, 385. Localized pretibial myxoedema in association with toxic goitre, with W R Trotter. *Quart J Med*. 1942, 11, 229. Mobile neurosurgery in warfare; experiences in the Eighth Army's campaign in Cyrenaica, Tripolitania and Tunisia. *Lancet*, 1943, 2, 689 and *Brit J Surg*. 1944, 31, 324.
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First Title value, for Searching Hasslacher, Francis Joseph Maria (1874 - 1936)

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First Title value, for Searching Hatch, William Keith (1854 - 1935)

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First Title value, for Searching Hayden, Arthur Falconer (1877 - 1940)

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Publication Date 2013-07-03 2022-11-03
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Occupation Anaesthetist General surgeon Pathologist Military surgeon Bacteriologist
Details Born 24 August 1877 at Frogmoor House, High Wycombe, Bucks, in the house where his grandfather, William Hayden, LSA 1837, MRCS 1856, and his father, William Gallimore Hayden, MRCS 1863, had successively practised medicine. His mother was Elizabeth Matilda, daughter of William Falconer, who founded the Union Castle line to South Africa, and he was the fourth child of the marriage. Educated at the Grammar School, High Wycombe, when George Peachell was headmaster, he entered St Mary's Hospital, London, with the entrance scholarship and acted as a prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons. He served as house surgeon and assistant anaesthetist at St Mary's Hospital and as pathologist at the County Asylum, Winwick, Lancashire. He was gazetted lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service on 1 September 1905, and during his course in the Army Medical School won the Montefiore medal for military surgery and the Martin gold medal. Proceeding to India he was promoted captain on 1 September 1908, but was placed on temporary half pay on 23 January 1910 after an attack of poliomyelitis, which obliged him ever afterwards to use a mechanical chair for locomotion. He retired on 23 January 1912. Returning to England he undertook work at St Mary's Hospital as pathologist to the venereal disease department and as an assistant in the inoculation department. He married Ruth Lacey on 14 April 1912; she survived him with two sons and a daughter. He died on 8 March 1940 at 4 Graham Road, Hendon, NW4. Publications:- An inquiry into the influence of the constituents of a bacterial emulsion on the opsonic index. *Proc Roy Soc Lond*. 1911, B, 84, 320. Relative value of human and guinea pig complement in the Wassermann reaction. *Brit J exper Path*. 1922, 3, 151. **See below for an expanded version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 2 of Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk** Arthur Falconer Hayden was a surgeon in the Indian Medical Service who, after contracting polio, later joined the inoculation department at St Mary’s Hospital, London, where he worked under the influential immunologist Sir Almroth Wright. Hayden was born on 24 August 1877 at Frogmoor House in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Both his father, William Gallimore Hayden, and paternal grandfather, William Henry Hayden, were doctors. William Gallimore Hayden trained at Charing Cross Hospital, qualified in 1863, and became the medical officer at the Little Marlow District and Workhouse Wycombe Union. William Henry Hayden was a medical officer for the 12th District Wycombe Union. Hayden’s mother was Elizabeth Matilda Hayden née Falconer. Hayden was educated locally in High Wycombe and then studied medicine at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School with an entrance scholarship. He was a prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He qualified with the conjoint examination in 1900, and subsequently gained a MB degree with honours in materia medica and forensic medicine, and a BS in 1904. He was an assistant demonstrator of anatomy, chemistry and pathology and a prosector in anatomy at St Mary’s, and went on to become a house surgeon at Newport and Monmouthshire Hospital and an assistant medical officer and pathologist at the County Asylum, Winwick. He was subsequently an assistant anaesthetist and house surgeon back at St Mary’s. He joined the Indian Medical Service on 1 September 1905 as a lieutenant. During his studies at the Army Medical School he won the Montefiore medal and prize for military surgery and the Martin gold medal for tropical medicine. He gained his FRCS in 1906 and became a specialist in advanced operative surgery. On 1 September 1908 he was promoted to captain. His military career came to end when he caught poliomyelitis. He was placed on half pay on 23 January 1910 and retired from the Indian Medical Service two years later. He returned to St Mary’s, where he was recommended for a job in the inoculation department by his friend Alexander Fleming. In 1917 Hayden became a pathologist in the newly opened venereal diseases department at St Mary’s, taking over from Fleming who had returned to military service. Hayden wrote ‘An inquiry into the influence of the constituents of a bacterial emulsion on the opsonic index’ *Proc Roy Soc Lond* 1911 B 84 320 and ‘Relative value of human and guinea pig complement in the Wassermann reaction’ *Brit J Exper Path* 1922 3 151. In 1939 he wrote ‘Acute conjunctivitis caused by a gram-negative diplococcus resembling the gonococcus’ *Brit J Vener Dis* 1939 Jan; 15(1):45-54 with his son. Hayden died on 8 March 1940 in Hendon, Middlesex. He was 62. He was survived by his widow Ruth Campbell Hayden née Lacey, originally from New Jersey, whom he had married in 1912, and their sons Arthur Falconer and Roger Keith, who both qualified as doctors. Hayden and his wife also had a son, William John, who died in 1916 aged just one month. Sarah Gillam
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First Title value, for Searching Lund, Herbert (1858 - 1938)

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First Title value, for Searching Lunn, John Reuben (1854 - 1942)

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First Title value, for Searching Lurie, David (1899 - 1942)

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First Title value, for Searching Nairn, Robert (1862 - 1932)

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First Title value, for Searching Nall, John Frederick (1863 - 1935)

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First Title value, for Searching Napier, Francis Horatio (1861 - 1949)

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Publication Date 2013-08-28
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born 7 February 1861, the eldest son of the Hon William Napier of MacMac, Lydenburg, South Africa, and his wife Louisa Mary, youngest daughter of John Horatio Lloyd, QC. His grandfather was William, 9th Lord Napier and Ettrick. He was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, where he served as house surgeon and ophthalmic house surgeon, and was clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields. He went back to South Africa for a time as ophthalmic surgeon to the New Somerset Hospital. In 1893 he settled in Glasgow on appointment as ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Infirmary and professor of ophthalmology at St Mungo's College; he was also surgeon to the Ophthalmic Institution. He returned to South Africa as a civil surgeon with the British Army during the Boer War, and won the Queen's and the King's medals. He is mentioned by name in Sir Winston Churchill's memoirs of the siege of Ladysmith, in connexion with the armoured train disaster at Chieveley. In the first world war he served as a major with the South African Medical Corps, was mentioned in despatches and created a military OBE. Napier practised as an ophthalmologist at Johannesburg for fifty years, and was consulting surgeon at the General Hospital, where the Napier Eye Department was named after him. He was president of the Medical Association of South Africa in 1931. The British Medical Association later presented him with a presidential medal, through the hands of Sir Hugh Lett, FRCS. Napier took an active share in public affairs, serving in the Johannesburg City Council and the Transvaal Legislative Assembly. He was made an honorary Doctor of Law by the University of the Witwatersrand. He married twice: (1) in 1893 Margaret, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel William Hope, VC, from whom he obtained a divorce; two of their three sons survived him; (2) in 1923 Isoline Richards Shotter, who survived him. Napier died in Johannesburg on 8 October 1949, and his ashes were sent home to Scotland. They were buried in Ettrick churchyard by Lord Napier and Ettrick on 18 January 1950.
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First Title value, for Searching Marshall, Charles Frederic (1864 - 1940)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-30 2022-09-28
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Occupation Dermatologist
Details Born at Birmingham, 13 February 1864, the fifth son and youngest child of William Prime Marshall, a civil engineer, and Laura Stark, his wife, who was a niece of James Stark, the artist. His father was for many years secretary of the Institute of Civil Engineers and was an enthusiastic naturalist. His elder brother Arthur Milnes Marshall (1852-93), who was killed accidentally whilst climbing in the Lake district, was a brilliant pupil of Francis Balfour at Cambridge. He did much to advance the study of embryology, more especially in connection with the development of the nervous system in the chick. There is a notice of his life and work in the *Dictionary of National Biography* Supplement, vol 3, 1901. Charles Frederic Marshall was educated at Owens College and at the Victoria University, Manchester, where he was Dauntes medical scholar, Platt physiological scholar, Dalton natural history prizeman, and senior physiological exhibitioner. He came to London and acted as house surgeon at the North Eastern Hospital for Children, and in 1893 was surgical registrar to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. He then practised for a time at Edgbaston, Birmingham, but soon returned to London as resident medical officer at the London Lock Hospital and afterwards surgeon to the British Skin Hospital in the Euston Road, which closed in 1905. During 1908-14 he was surgeon to the Blackfriars Hospital for Diseases of the Skin. In the war of 1914-18 he acted as a civilian medical officer attached as dermatologist to the RAMC, a position he continued to hold for two years after the armistice. For some years before his death he was interested in John Beard's theory that cancer was of embryonic origin and was not a local disease. He published an account of his views in two parts in 1932. The first dealt with a method of diagnosing cancer through the blood, using polarized light in precancerous conditions and in cases with a strong family history of the disease. Part 2 dealt with the danger of radium in its present form and with a method of sterilization in order to produce helium, which he considered to be an essential factor in the cure of cancer by eradication and neutralization of the blood. Five years later he was using thorium sulphate in place of radium, with injections of ferric chloride. His views met with considerable criticism, but he was not deterred from continuing his work. He married in 1908 Blanche, elder daughter of W H Emmet; she survived him with one son. He died on 22 May 1940 at 69 The Drive, Golders Green, NW11. Marshall began life brilliantly but never shone like his more brilliant brother. He was better fitted for the life of a scientific than that of a medical man. He was perhaps dominated by the artistic inheritance which came through his mother. Publications: Some investigations on the physiology of the nervous system of the lobster. *Stud Biol Lab Owens Col Manchester*, 1886, 1, 313. Observations on the structure and distribution of striped and unstriped muscle in the animal kingdom, and a theory of muscular contraction. *Quart J microsc Sci* 1888, 28, 75; 1890, 31, 65. The thyro-glossal duct or "canal of His". *J Anat Physiol* 1892, 26, 94. Variations in the form of the thyroid gland in man.*Ibid* 1895, 29, 234. An analysis of thirty-seven cases of excision of the hip, with Bilton Pollard. *Lancet*, 1892, 2, 186; 254; 302. *Syphilis and gonorrhoea*. London, 1904. *Syphilology and venereal disease*, with E G ffrench. London, 1906; 4th edition: *Syphilis and venereal diseases*, 1921. *A new theory of cancer and its treatment* Bristol, part 1, March 1932; part 2, September 1932. New treatment of cancer. *Med World*, 1939, 50, 292. **This is an amended version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 2 of Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk**
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First Title value, for Searching Nash, Walter Gifford (1862 - 1935)

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First Title value, for Searching Needham, Sir Richard Arthur (1877 - 1949)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-09-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 31 July 1877, fourth son of John Needham of Eccles, Lancashire. He was educated at Owens College, Manchester, where he graduated in science and served as demonstrator of anatomy. He took his medical training at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, where he served as house physician. He was commissioned in the Indian Medical Service in January 1903 and served in North China from 1905 to 1908, being promoted captain in 1906. He became interested in public health problems and took the DPH at Manchester in 1910. He was posted on special duty in 1912 for the repatriation of Chinese troops from Tibet. When war broke out in August 1914 he had just been promoted major, and was sent to France as Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services for hygiene at Marseilles, the port of landing for the Indian troops; he was awarded the DSO in 1916. He was recalled to India in 1916 to superintend the medical supplies for Mesopotamia, after the breakdown there. He was made Deputy Director General of the Indian Medical Service in 1918, was promoted lieutenant-colonel in 1922 and brevet colonel in 1924 when he retired, having been created CIE in 1919. Needham's six years' tenure of the Deputy Directorship gave him opportunity of getting to know nearly every officer of the Indian Medical Service, and his robust and likeable character won him universal respect and popularity. Dick Needham was a stimulating and hospitable friend to all with whom he came in contact, while his shrewd and diplomatic advice was of great value to his Service. He represented India at the conferences of the Office internationale d'Hygiène publique in Paris in 1923 and 1927, and in the intermediate years 1925-26 he carried through the reorganization of the medical services of the Indian State Railways. From 1923 to 1930 he acted as the General Medical Council's visitor of Indian medical colleges, a task which he performed with his accustomed genial ability. He did similar service from 1932 to 1939 in Burma, Ceylon, and Hong Kong, and the Colonial Office sent him on a like mission to Nigeria and Uganda in 1939-40. He had been knighted in 1932. Needham served on the Council of the British Medical Association from 1932 to 1938, and was particularly active in the naval and military committee, where he made himself the effective advocate of his brother Indian Medical Service officers, and secured the support of the Association for their claims, at the time of reorganization and imminent disbandment. During the war of 1939-45 Needham represented the British Red Cross and St John War Organization as their commissioner in the Middle East and later in Italy, and was also for a time the commissioner of the Indian Red Cross in Egypt. He was created a Knight of the Order of St John for his services. Needham married in 1925 Harriet Ellen, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel R Dewar, RA, who survived him. He died in his flat at Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London on 24 October 1949, aged 72. He left £1,000 to the University of Manchester for a library at Needham Hall, and three-quarters of the residue of his large fortune to the university, one-quarter being for a John Stopford fellowship in applied anatomy, and two-quarters for scholarships for students of Needham Hall.
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First Title value, for Searching Flemming, Percy (1863 - 1941)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-19
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born 30 January 1863 in London, the eighth of the nine children of Horatio Henry Flemming, owner and manager of a saddlery and harness business, and Julia Steggal, his wife. He was educated at University College School, London, passing at sixteen to University College Medical School, where he was university scholar in medicine in 1887 and took honours in midwifery, surgery, materia medica, and anatomy at the MB examination in the same year, and won the gold medal at the MD examination in 1888. He was demonstrator of anatomy in 1886, and later house physician at University College Hospital and demonstrator of anatomy to Professor Sir George D Thane, at University College. As a young man he coached students privately, and being interested in the medical education of women he earned a reprimand for taking women students into the anatomical museum at University College. After taking the Fellowship in 1889 Flemming decided to specialize in ophthalmology. He served as clinical assistant to Sir John Tweedy at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, having as a colleague Sir John H Parsons, and from 1900 to 1919 was an additional assistant surgeon there, elected on the expansion of the staff. He failed at his first candidature for the assistant surgeoncy under Sir John Tweedy at University College Hospital, but was elected a year later on the resignation of Marcus Gunn in 1897. He was elected surgeon in 1904, and resigned as consulting surgeon in 1923, when a eulogy with a good portrait was published in the *UCH Magazine*. He continued his private practice at 70 Harley Street for five years, but believing that the lack of day-to-day hospital experience unfitted him for treating his own patients adequately he retired to St John's Wood in 1928. In 1939 he moved to The Firs, Upper Basildon, near Pangbourne, Reading. While living there he was elected a member of the Reading Pathological Society in 1939. Flemming married on 29 December 1892 Emily Elizabeth Haden, MD, a former student of the Royal Free Hospital and subsequently consulting physician to the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, formerly the New Hospital for Women, on whose staff Flemming himself served as ophthalmic surgeon. Mrs Flemming died at Upper Basildon on 12 August 1940 and a memorial service for her was held at Trinity Church, Marylebone Road, on 21 August (*Lancet*, 1940, 2, 218). Flemming was a first-rate teacher and was the last professor of ophthalmic medicine and surgery at University College before the chair was absorbed by the University of London; he received the title of emeritus on retirement. He served on several official and other committees including the Committee for the Prevention of Blindness and the Departmental Committee on the Partially Blind. With Marcus Gunn, Flemming helped to found the training school for ophthalmic nurses at Moorfields. He published a number of papers in the *Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society*, and was particularly interested in the ocular signs of general disease, such as thrombosis of the cavernous sinus. He was always an explorer and student of old London, and published a history of Harley Street. After retirement he worked seriously at London archaeology, was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1931, and made a study of monastic infirmaries, particularly that of Westminster, for the London Museum at Lancaster House. Flemming died at Upper Basildon on 19 December 1941, aged 78. He was survived by three sons and one daughter. One of his sons, Cecil Wood Flemming, is an FRCS. Publication: *Harley Street from early times to the present day*. London, 1939.
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First Title value, for Searching Footner, George Rammell (1879 - 1943)

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First Title value, for Searching Footner, John Bulkley (1852 - 1934)

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First Title value, for Searching Bickerton, Thomas Herbert (1857 - 1933)

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First Title value, for Searching Bier, August Karl Gustav (1861 - 1949)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-10
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Helsen, Waldeck, Germany on 24 November 1861, son of Theodor Bier and Christine Becker. He was educated at Corbach gymnasium and at the Universities of Berlin, Leipzig, and Kiel, where he graduated in 1888 with a thesis, "Ueber circuläre Darmnaht", and qualified as a surgeon the following year, 1889. From 1886 he had acted as assistant to Professor Friedrich von Esmarch at Kiel, and with G A Neuber had been responsible for the change from antiseptic to aseptic methods in their clinic. He became a Privatdozent at Kiel in 1889, was promoted to be a professor extraordinarius (ausserordentlich) in 1894 and moved to Greifswald on his appointment as professor ordinarius and director of the surgical clinic on 1 April 1899. He took up the corresponding posts at Bonn on 1 April 1903, and in 1907 succeeded Ernst von Bergmann at Berlin, where he remained for the rest of his life. His strongly Prussian patriotism precluded him from accepting the flattering invitation to a professorial chair at Vienna on the death in 1903 of Billroth's successor, Carl Gussenbauer. Bier was always an innovator. The three new methods which he most prided himself on having introduced to surgery were spinal anaesthesia, artificial hyperaemia (Bier's stasis), and the treatment of amputation stumps (see list of publications). He was also a pioneer in the use of blood-transfusion, in regenerative surgery, the treatment of enlarged prostate by arterial ligation, and blood-vessel surgery. His early experiments on spinal anaesthesia were made upon himself, inducing a severe illness, through which he was nursed by Frau von Esmarch, his professor's wife. In later life he became interested in organotherapy and homoeopathy, and also made some serious historical research upon Hippocrates and Heracleitus, for he was a good classical scholar. He was much interested in sport and its value for health, and enjoyed shooting, with its development of the observant eye so valuable to diagnostician and scientist. He founded at Berlin an institute for the study of life and health, the Hochschule für Leibesübungen, which he directed from 1919 to 1932. Here he developed his philosophical teaching of the bases of health. His outlook was teleological, not mechanical, and he propounded a doctrine of "roots" (Reizen) to explain various vital and pathologic functions such as nutrition, metabolism, callous formation, etc. In this his thought reverted to eighteenth-century vitalist ideas, which were very general in Germany and also had influenced John Hunter's view of life. Bier's more strictly scientific research was chiefly concerned, in early life, with the physiology and pathology of the collateral circulation. He was a founder of the Hohenlychen institute in the Alps for high-altitude treatment of tuberculosis. Bier received many honours. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the College at the time of the last general International Medical Congress in London in 1913. He had been awarded the Cameron prize at Edinburgh in 1905 and was elected an honorary Fellow of the Edinburgh College of Surgeons and an honorary Doctor of Laws of the university. He won the Kussmaul prize at Heidelberg in 1906. He was an honorary member of the Vienna and Berlin Medical Societies and the Munich Surgical Association, and was elected an honorary member of the German Society for Surgery in 1927, having been president of its annual conferences in 1910 and 1920. He was a Medical Privy Councillor of the German Empire. Bier married on 29 August 1905 Anna, daughter of Dr Esan of Bielefeld; there were two sons and three daughters of the marriage. His house was at Lessingstrasse No 1, Berlin, NW23. He survived the second world war, and died at Sauen in the Russian zone on 12 March 1949, aged 87. There is a photograph of Bier in the Honorary Fellows' album in the College library, and he appears in the group of Honorary Fellows taken on the College portico in 1913. He was a square-faced Prussian, with a heavy moustache. Publications:- *Hyperämie als Heilmittel*. Leipzig: Vogel, 1903, 220 pp; 6th ed 1907; American translation: *Hyperaemia as a therapeutic agent*. Chicago, 1905. Absetzungen an die Gliedern. *Deutsche Klinik*, 1905, 8. Editor with H Rochs of E v Bergmann and H Roch's *Einleitende Vorlesungen für den Operationskursus an der Leiche*. 5th ed 1908. Contributed to H Braun and H Kümmell's *Chirurgische Operationslehre*. Leipzig, 1912; 4th and 5th ed 1923. Wie sollen wir uns zu der Homöopathie stellen? *Münchener medizinische Wochenschrift*, 1925, 72, 713, 773. *B Heines Versuche über Knochenregeneration*. Berlin, 1926. *Organhormone and Organtherapie*. Munich, 1929. *Hormonisches System der Heilkunde*. Munich, 1929. Tributes to Bier: On his 60th birthday: *Archiv für klinische Chirurgie*, 1921, vol 118, with a portrait. On his 70th birthday: *Deutsche Zeitschrift für Chirurgie*, 1931, vol 234, with a new portrait and a dedicatory letter (pp 1-5) by Anton von Eiselsberg; for surveys of special aspects of Bier's work see in this volume: pp 19-30, Fritz König. Etwas von Lieb und Seele des Chirurgen; pp 76-82, Eugen Kisch. Biers Einfluss auf die moderne Tuberkulosebehandlung. On his 70th birthday: *Zentralblatt für Chirurgie*, 1931, 58, 2931, by V Schmieden, with a portrait. On the 50th anniversary of his qualification, 30 January 1888: *British Medical Journal*, 19 February 1938, 1, 431. On his 80th birthday: *Klinische Wochenschrift*, 22 November 1941.
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First Title value, for Searching Pooley, George Henry (1867 - 1937)

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Publication Date 2013-10-04
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Stonham Aspall, of the Rev John George Pooley, vicar of Stonham Aspall. He was educated at Tonbridge during the year 1882-3 and at Lancing for three years. He was admitted to Caius College Cambridge on 1 October 1886 but left without graduating after a residence of three years. He entered St George's Hospital and subsequently filled the post of house surgeon at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital and chief clinical assistant at Moorfields. During the South African war he served as a civil surgeon, and in 1906 was appointed ophthalmic registrar at St George's Hospital. On 2 October 1911 he received a commission as major in the RAMC (T) and was attached to the 3rd Northern General Hospital. He settled at Sheffield in 1909, where he became ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Infirmary in succession to Simeon Snell and lecturer in ophthalmology at the Sheffield University. He gradually fell into bad health and died on 29 May 1937 while on holiday at Westgate-on-Sea and was buried there. Pooley was a man of considerable talent who carried on Snell's work on miners' nystagmus and invented an operation for the relief of glaucoma. He practised at 199 Greaves Street, Sheffield. Publications: Hydatid cyst of the orbit. *Ophthal Rev* 1912, 31, 257. Sclerostomy, an operation for glaucoma. *Ibid* 1913, 32, 202. Some technical points which increase efficiency of the operation for excision of the lacrimal sac. *Ibid* p 325. Case of cyst of the iris. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1912-13, 6, Ophth p 140. On miners' nystagmus. *Ibid* 1913-14, 7, Neurol Ophth and Otol p 32. An improvement in local anaesthesia in operations upon the eye. *Ophthalmoscope*, 1914, 12, 464.
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First Title value, for Searching Fenwick, Edwin Hurry (1856 - 1944)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-05
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Occupation Urologist
Details Born at North Shields, 14 September 1856, in the family of five sons and three daughters of Samuel Fenwick, MD (1821-1902), then in practice at Newcastle, afterwards physician to the London Hospital, and FRCP, and of Amy Sophia, his wife, daughter of Captain Bedford Pim, RN. All five sons entered the medical profession, among them Bedford Fenwick (1855-1939), MD, MRCP, gynaecologist, and William Soltau Fenwicke, MD, MRCP, internist, who died in February 1944, three months before Hurry Fenwick. Hurry Fenwick was educated at the London Hospital, where he served as house surgeon, house physician, and surgical registrar, and took postgraduate courses at Leipzig and Berlin. In 1883 he was elected assistant surgeon to the London Hospital, becoming in due course surgeon and lecturer in clinical surgery, and ultimately consulting surgeon. He was also consulting surgeon to the West Herts Hospital at Hemel Hempstead. He examined in physiology for the Conjoint Board 1885-88. While practising as a general surgeon, Fenwick paid special attention to urological surgery, and was elected to the staff of St Peter's Hospital for Stone and Urinary Diseases, where he was succeeded as surgeon by J S Joly, who died a few months before him. In 1887 he won the Jacksonian Prize for his essay on "Tumours of the bladder", afterwards published with additions. Fenwick ultimately became professor of urology in the University of London, and an internationally recognized authority in this specialty. He was one of the first in England to use and advocate the electrically-lit cystoscope, invented by Max Nitze (1848-1906) of Dresden at the end of the eighties, and ten years later was a pioneer in adapting the Roentgen rays for the use of the urinary surgeon. In 1905 he devised the first ureteric bougie opaque to X-rays. He was a dexterous surgeon, specially skilled in operating for urinary calculus and vesical tumour. In 1913 Fenwick served as president of the section of urology at the 17th and last International Medical Congress, and in his presidential address praised Nitze and Roentgen for enabling the surgeon no longer to "grope in the dark" when dealing with urinary and vesical disease. Fenwick himself had, in fact, played no small part in advancing the visual examination of the bladder. During the war of 1914-18 he served as officer commanding the Bethnal Green Military Hospital and the military section of the London Hospital, with the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel dated 14 April 1915, and was promoted brevet major on 3 June 1917; he had been commissioned captain d la suite on the formation of the RAMC(T) on 23 December 1908. He was mentioned in despatches and created a CBE for his war-time services. In 1919 Fenwick became the first president of the Société internationale d'Urologie, a chair he held till 1925. He was a vice-president of the International Association of Urologists, a member of the Société internationale de Chirurgie, and a corresponding member of American, Belgian, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish urologic associations. Fenwick married on 16 December 1886 Annie, daughter of Captain John Fenwick, an Elder Brother of Trinity House. Mrs Fenwick died on 12 October 1937, as the result of an accident. Hurry Fenwick died on 5 May 1944 in his house at 53 Bedford Gardens, London, W8, aged 88, survived by a son and a daughter. In earlier life he had practised at 14 Savile Row, London, W. Publications:- The venous system of the bladder and its surroundings. *J Anat Physiol*. 1885, 19, 320. *The electric illumination of the bladder and urethra, as a means of diagnosis of obscure vesico-urethral diseases*. London, 1888; 2nd edition, 1889. *Atlas of electric cystoscopy*, with Emil Burckhardt. London, 1893. *A handbook of clinical electric-light cystoscopy*. London, 1904. *The cardinal symptoms of urinary disease, their diagnostic significance and treatment*. London, 1893. *Urinary surgery*. London, 1894. Diseases of the urine, in *Twentieth century practice*. New York, 1895, 1, 525-659. *Obscure diseases of the urethra*, with J W Thomson Walker. London, 1902. *Tumours of the bladder, their pathology, diagnosis, and treatment*. Jacksonian prize essay of 1887, rewritten with 200 additional cases. London, 1897. *Operative and inoperative tumours of the bladder*. London, 1901. *The value of ureteric meatoscopy in obscure diseases of the kidney*. London, 1903. The value of the use of a shadowgraph ureteric bougie in the precise surgery of renal calculus. *Brit med J*. 1905, 1, 1325. *The value of radiography in the diagnosis and treatment of urinary stone; a study in and operative surgery*. London, 1908. Expectation of life after nephrectomy for urinary tuberculosis. *Brit med J*. 1944, 1, 621.
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First Title value, for Searching Ferguson, Robert James (1864 - 1931)

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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Hugh (1864 - 1930)

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Publication Date 2013-11-07
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Occupation Dermatologist Physician
Details Born in London, 29 July 1864, the third son of Hugh Smith of Darvel, Ayrshire, and younger brother of Sir George Smith, KCMG, Governor of Nyasaland, 1913-23. Hugh Smith was educated at the City of London School and at University College, London. He entered the London Hospital after gaining the entrance scholarship, and won the scholarship for the first and second years' men. He took first-class honours at the MB examination. He served as house physician to Dr Hughlings Jackson, acted as house surgeon, and was resident midwifery assistant. From 1891 to 1900 he practised at Englefield House, Highgate, N, and was assistant medical officer to the General Post Office. He then went into partnership with Sir Alfred Edward Thomson at Cape Town, and a few years later determined to specialize as a consulting physician, being amongst the first to do so in South Africa. He obtained a large consulting practice, which extended throughout the province, and from 1902 to 1919 was honorary physician and consulting dermatologist to the Somerset Hospital. During the war of 1914-18 he acted as consulting physician to the Hospitals at Wynberg and Maitland. For many years he was lecturer on dermatology in the Medical Faculty of the University of Cape Town. He was an active member of the British Medical Association, and was president of the Cape of Good Hope branch in 1914. He was also president of the Medical Congress which met in Cape Town in 1921. He married in London on 3 June 1920 Francisca Helena Hampson, widow of Captain H T Whybrow, who survived him with two daughters. He died suddenly at his house in Hof Street, Cape Town, on 2 July 1930, and was buried in Maitland cemetery. Mrs Smith married in 1932 G A Daniel-Tyssen (d 1941), a distinguished London solicitor. Hugh Smith was the best type of physician, and did much good in South Africa by his strict observance of ethical rules. Kindly but firm, he dealt successfully with such difficult patients as the old Boer farmers; and General Botha once said of him: "That Dr Smith is different from you doctors; he's not the sort of fellow you can quarrel with." Publications: Cerebral tumour, operation, recovery. *Lancet*, 1906, 1, 1688. Intracranial tumour. *Ibid* 1912, 2, 994.
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First Title value, for Searching Holland, Charles Thurstan (1863 - 1941)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-10 2014-02-07
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Occupation Radiologist
Details Born at Bridgwater, Somerset, on 7 March 1863, second son of William Thomas Holland, pottery manufacturer and alderman, and Florence DuVal his wife. He was educated privately at the Rev W Hargreaves's school at Clifton before entering University College Hospital Medical School. Taking the Conjoint qualification in 1888, he settled in general practice at Liverpool, where he became associated with Sir Robert Jones. In 1895 Jones heard privately of Röntgen's discovery of the rays named after him; realizing its possibilities for his orthopaedic work, he persuaded Holland, who was an expert photographer and had become interested in physics through the influence of Oliver Lodge, then professor at Liverpool University, to collaborate with him. Together they produced the first X-ray photograph taken in England, of a bullet embedded in a boy's wrist. In 1896 Holland was appointed radiologist to the Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool, setting up his apparatus in a half-underground room below stairs, probably the first such appointment; in 1904 he transferred to the Royal Infirmary, where he remained till 1923. He was also radiologist to the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital from 1907 to 1932, and was consulting radiologist to the King Edward VII Welsh National Memorial Association. He practised at 43 Rodney Street. Holland received a commission *à la suite* on the formation of the RAMC Territorial Force on 7 July 1908, and was gazetted major on 1 May 1918. During the four years' war he was consulting radiologist to the Western Command, and organized a radiological service from Pembroke to Carlisle. He sat on the War Office Committee on Radiology in 1918. During these years of busy administrative work he perfected a new technique for localizing bullets, devising a depth finder on the principle of the gunner's height finder. In 1920 Holland was appointed lecturer in radiology at Liverpool University, a post which he held till 1931, and in 1922 he received the degree of ChM for his organization of the radiological diploma. He was elected a Fellow of the College as a member of twenty years' standing in 1928, and in 1935 received the honorary LLD of Liverpool. Holland did more than any man to establish radiology as a substantive specialty, but he sacrificed the opportunity for research to administrative business and the promotion of his cause. He was president of the Röntgen Society of London in 1904 and 1916 and of its successor the British Institute of Radiology in 1929-30. He was president of the electrotherapeutic section at the Liverpool meeting of the British Medical Association in 1912, and of the electro-therapeutic section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1913. He was a vice-president of the section of radiology at the International Medical Congress in London in 1913, president of the radiology division of the International Congress of Radiology and Physiotherapy in London in 1922, and president of the first International Congress of Radiology in London in 1925. He was an honorary member of the Liverpool Medical Institution and of radiological societies in America, Austria, Germany, Italy, Norway, and Switzerland. He contributed the survey of radiological literature to the Medical Annual for many years until 1931. Holland was a keen mountaineer and a fine alpine photographer. He was president of the Liverpool Amateur Photographers' Association in 1905 and 1916 and of the Lancashire and Cheshire Photographers' Union in 1906-07, and won three medals from the Royal Photographic Society. He was president of the Liverpool Medico-literary Society in 1895 and of the Liverpool Wayfarers' Club in 1910-12. Holland married on 16 April 1890 Lilian Fergusson, of Liverpool, who died in 1924. He died on 16 January 1941 aged 78, survived by one son. Holland was a big man with a heavy moustache. He was blunt and downright but kindly, with a zest for life and a grim sense of humour.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Hugh Bernard Willoughby (1879 - 1948)

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Publication Date 2013-11-07
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Born 19 February 1879, the eldest son of Edward John Smith, banker, of Bridlington, Yorkshire, and Mary Hewgill, daughter of Dr Hewgill of Repton. He was educated at Pocklington, at the Yorkshire College, Leeds, and at the London Hospital, where he served as house surgeon, after winning scholarships in anatomy and biology and the minor-surgery prize. As house surgeon at the Poplar Hospital he worked in the ear, nose, and throat department. Smith went to South Africa, where he was for three years medical officer at Pretoria Hospital. He then returned home, took the Fellowship in 1909, and settled in practice at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, in partnership with J E S Passmore, MRCS, and E T Lanyon, FRCS. He became in due course senior partner, with Drs G W Johnson, C P Moxon, and C W Pearson. He served as medical officer to Gainsborough Rural District Council, and surgeon to the Gainsborough Dispensary, which became in 1913, largely through his influence, the John Coupland Hospital. During the war of 1914-18 he served as captain, RAMC(T), at the 4th Northern General Hospital at Lincoln and in France. He was president of the Midland branch of the British Medical Association in 1921, chairman of the Lincoln division 1931-32, president of the Lincoln branch 1933-34, and served on the Representative Body 1928-39. Willoughby Smith married in 1904 Cassandra Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Hudson. He died suddenly in his surgery on 9 July 1948, aged 69, survived by his widow and their only daughter. He had lived at The Cedars and practised at St Clements, 9 Carson Road, Gainsborough. His recreations were botany and gardening. Publications: Actinomycosis, with report of a case. *Transv med J* 1907-08, 3, 23. Malaria, with R G Abercrombie. *Ibid* 1906-07, 2, 251. Case of linseed poisoning. *Brit med J* 1910, 2, 1260.
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First Title value, for Searching Hallidie, Andrew Hallidie Smith (1862 - 1947)

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Publication Date 2013-06-26
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Andrew Hallidie Smith, who between 1885 and 1890 took the surname of Hallidie, was born at Richmond, Surrey on 23 June 1862, the third child and second son of Archibald Smith, engineer, and his wife *née* Reece. He was educated at King's College School, London, and at King's College, Cambridge. Hallidie Smith was 21st Wrangler in 1885, the year in which Arthur Berry, elder brother of Sir James Berry, FRCS, was Senior Wrangler, and was placed in the third division of Part 3 of the Mathematical Tripos the next year. He took his medical training at the London Hospital, where he served as house surgeon, surgical registrar and receiving room officer. He had changed his surname before qualifying in 1890. Hallidie settled in practice at St Leonard's, specializing as an ophthalmologist, after having served as chief clinical assistant at Moorfields. He was for many years on the staff of the Royal East Sussex Hospital, St Leonard's, becoming ultimately consulting ophthalmic surgeon. He also had consulting rooms at Eastbourne. After retiring he settled at Linton, Cambridgeshire, living first at Linton House, and later at the Guildhall, where he died on 19 October 1947, aged 85. He was cremated at Cambridge after a funeral service at Linton parish church. Smith Hallidie married in 1897 Alice Maud Mary Deakin, who survived him with a son and a daughter. Mrs Hallidie died on 1 February 1951, aged 91.
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First Title value, for Searching Hall, John Moore (1864 - 1932)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Hilltown, Co Down in November 1864, the son of James Hall, farmer, of Ballynanny, Hilltown. Being a member of the Irish Protestant Church he was educated at the Church School, Hilltown. He entered the Royal University, studying at Queen's College, Belfast. Here he won the third year medical scholarship in 1886-87, the fourth year medical scholarship in anatomy and physiology in 1887-88, and the Dunville studentship which was the highest scientific distinction given by the College, in 1887. He then acted as house surgeon at the Huddersfield Infirmary, assistant superintendent at the Grove Hall Asylum, Bow, E, and assistant medical officer at the Hackney Infirmary, London. He settled in practice Bournemouth about 1894, moving on his retirement to Hastings, where he died on 22 December 1932. Hall was a fine anatomist and acted as demonstrator of anatomy at Queen's College, Belfast. He was better fitted to teach and fill an academic position than for private practice.
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First Title value, for Searching Muir, John Bertram Gilchrist (1899 - 1975)

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First Title value, for Searching Carswell, William Elliott (1882 - 1958)

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First Title value, for Searching Carter, Felix Bolton (1873 - 1955)

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First Title value, for Searching Carter, Robert Markham (1875 - 1961)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-03
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Occupation Curator General surgeon Pathologist
Details Born on 18 October 1875, son of Captain Arthur William Markham Carter of the 25th Native Infantry and Rosalie Edmunds Bradley, Robert Markham Carter was educated at Epsom where he played in the fifteen. He then studied medicine at St George's and St Bartholomew's Hospitals and in Paris. He took the MRCS and LRCP in 1901 and entered the Indian Medical Service on 29 January 1902 as medical officer to the 1st Bombay Lancers. From 1903 to 1904 he was attached to the Anglo-Turkish Boundary Commission in the Aden interior. During leave in Britain in 1904 he carried out research work in several laboratories. On his return to India, then a Captain, he was posted to the North-West Frontier, where in the Zakka Khel expedition of 1908 he was severely wounded. He was awarded the medal with clasp. After this Carter was transferred to the civil side of the Service and his first posting was at the Pasteur Institute, Kasauli where his previous research experience was useful, but he wished to devote his life to clinical work so in 1911 he went to St George's Hospital, Bombay as resident surgeon. He obtained the FRCS in 1912 and was appointed Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy at the Grant Medical College in that year. In 1913 Carter became Second Presidency Surgeon, and 2nd Physician at the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy Hospital, Bombay, and the following year he was appointed Third Presidency Surgeon, Professor of Pathology and Morbid Anatomy, and Curator of the Museum of the Grant Medical College, Bombay. With the outbreak of the first world war Carter was recalled to military duty and placed in medical charge of the Varela. This hospital ship was sent to Basra to evacuate casualties from the defeat at Ctesiphon. The many sick and wounded were transported in barges along the tortuous river Tigris; Carter was profoundly shocked by their condition on arrival and said so. This criticism led to a succession of stormy interviews in which Carter was accused of being meddlesome and interfering, but he was not intimidated by threats of arrest and loss of his career. He insisted on a personal interview with the Commander-in-Chief, General Sir John Nixon. The result is recorded in the report of the Mesopotamian Commission, which contains these words: "Carter by his persistence brought to the notice of his superiors the terrible condition of the wounded when they arrived at Basra after Ctesiphon, and in other ways he revealed shortcomings which might have been ignored and left unremedied. His sense of duty seems to be most commendable, and he was fertile and resourceful in suggesting remedies." In April 1916 Carter was sent to the India Office in Whitehall to organise medical equipment for the Mesopotamian expedition; when the War Office took over the operations Carter was transferred there and was made responsible for the complete fitting out of the hospital ships. He organised a river hospital fleet, a water-post system and purification plant, an ice-making fleet and refrigerator barges. He was thrice mentioned in dispatches, and given the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel on 26 April 1916. In 1918 Carter was appointed CB and placed on special duty under the Controller-General of Merchant Shipping. He did valuable work for the Admiralty as medical supervisor of labour and housing. After the war he returned to his civil career in Bombay, as first Physician at the JJ Hospital and Professor at the Grant Medical College. In 1925 he was appointed First Presidency Surgeon, and consulting physician to the European General Hospital, Bombay. He retired in 1927 with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He married Kate Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Michie Saunderson; they had one son and three daughters. He died on 13 March 1961 at his home, Paddock Cottage, Ascot, Berkshire at the age of 85. Mrs Carter died there on 30 April 1965 aged 86.
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First Title value, for Searching Chamberlain, Digby (1896 - 1962)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-03
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 31 July 1896 son of Digby Chamberlain, he began his medical career at the University of Leeds in 1913. On the outbreak of war in 1914 he interrupted his medical studies to join the Royal Artillery in which he rose to the rank of Major, but in 1917 medical students serving as combatants were recalled to complete their medical studies, owing to the grave shortage of doctors for the services. He qualified in Leeds in 1921, having gained first-class honours in the MB examination and the William Hey gold medal. This was followed by a series of house appointments, including that of house surgeon to Lord Moynihan. He was appointed to the honorary surgical staff in 1927, and for a time also acted as Moynihan's private assistant. In 1937 he was elected full surgeon, and was also consulting surgeon to St James's Hospital, Leeds, Ilkley Coronation Hospital, and Otley General Hospital. He became part-time Professor of Surgery in 1946 and was Emeritus Professor of Clinical Surgery from 1956 to 1962. Chamberlain was a member of Council of the College from 1949 until his death, being Vice-President from 1960, a member of the Court of Examiners from 1949 to 1955, Hunterian Professor in 1940 and Bradshaw lecturer in 1961. His duties as an examiner for the Primary had taken him to Egypt, the Sudan, Pakistan, India, and Ceylon. He was admitted FACS on 14 May 1954 at Leeds while President of the Association of Surgeons, and at the Diploma conferment in the Royal College of Surgeons on 13 June 1962 he proposed the admission of Pietro Valdoni as Hon FRCS. He was President of the Moynihan Club in 1959, its Jubilee year, President of the surgical section of the RSM 1949-50, and an examiner in surgery at the University of Edinburgh 1949-51. Digby Chamberlain had a commanding presence and great natural dignity, without the slightest trace of pomposity. He was a dexterous and unruffled surgeon with superb technique as befitted the last of the Leeds school to have been trained personally by Moynihan. He was a keen shot and gardener, who enjoyed the pleasures of his beautiful home at Huby in which he had collected some fine examples of jade. He married in 1935 Sarah daughter of Edgar Gaunt, of Hawkesley Hall, Guiseley, by whom he had a son and two daughters. Chamberlain died suddenly at his home at Huby in the night of 14/15 June 1962 following his return from a meeting of Council in London during the day. Publications: Duodenal diverticula. *Brit J Surg* 1949, 37, 83. Some Leeds surgeons of the past. *Ann Roy Coll Surg Engl* 1950, 6, 369. The spleen and its removal. *Ann Roy Coll Surg Engl* 1965, 30, 1.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Joseph Stanley Kellett (1870 - 1942)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 21 March 1870 at Liverpool, second child and eldest son of Joseph Kellett Smith, MRCS 1860, surgeon to the Stanley Hospital, Kirkdale, and his wife, *née* Dansen. He was educated privately and at University College, Liverpool, then a constituent of the Victoria University, where he served as demonstrator of anatomy for two years. In 1895-96 he was surgeon to the Rhodesia expedition to Central Africa and published accounts of his observations in the *Liverpool Medico-chirurgical Journal* after his return home. For a time he practised in partnership with his father at 23 Russell Street, Liverpool. In 1911 he was practising at Eastbourne, Sussex, as an electrotherapeutist. During the war he served with the rank of captain, RAMC, his commission being dated 9 July 1917. During 1920-23 he was superintendent of the West of England Convalescent Centre, under the Ministry of Pensions, at Saltash, Cornwall. He then qualified as a radiologist and settled in practice at 1 Lypiatt Terrace, Cheltenham, becoming consulting radiologist to the Tewkesbury and Bourton-on-the-Water Hospitals. He had a large and successful practice, and was at work till within a few days of his death. Kellett Smith's first wife died about 1902, leaving two infant daughters who survived their father. In 1915 he married a Belgian lady, Marie-Jacqueline Hubin, who survived him with one son, Dr Stanley Kellett-Smith, MRCS, who was serving in the RAMC at the time of his father's death, and had been educated at St Thomas's Hospital. Kellett Smith died in a nursing home, after a very short illness, on 23 September 1942, aged 72. He was of a vigorous and genial nature. Publications: Malaria in Central Africa. *Lpool med-chir J* 1897, 17, 422. Diseases among natives of the Nyasaland plateau. *Ibid* 1901, 21, 46. Black-water fever. *Lancet*, 1898, 1, 780. Symmetrical partial detachment of the finger nails from their matrices. *Brit med J* 1898, 1, 552. *Lateral curvature of the spine and flat-foot, and their treatment by exercises*. Bristol, Wright, 1911. Painful sacralisation of fifth lumbar vertebra. *Clin J* 1926, 55, 445. Note on proto-duodenitis, with Arthur Tom, MRCS. *Brit med J* 1933, 1, 862.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Thomas Frederic Hugh (1855 - 1930)

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First Title value, for Searching Chapman, Clement Lorne (1891 - 1958)

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First Title value, for Searching Chenhall, Frederick Nicholas (1903 - 1962)

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First Title value, for Searching Chin, Ernest Favenc (1913 - 1959)

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First Title value, for Searching Vickery, William Henry (1863 - 1944)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-09
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Born on 1 August 1863 in Alderney, Channel Islands, second son of William Vickery, engineer, and his wife, *née* Tucker. He was educated at Plymouth and at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, where he was senior Broderip scholar in 1887, the year of his qualification. He became an ardent admirer of the Middlesex surgeons Henry Morris, Alfred Pearce Gould, and above all John Bland-Sutton. He settled at Newcastle-on-Tyne in a general practice, intending to specialize as a surgeon, and served for about two years as registrar at the Royal Infirmary. He was then appointed surgeon to the Newcastle Children's Hospital and to the Northern Counties Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, to both of which he eventually became consulting surgeon. He never really became recognized as a surgeon outside the hospitals, as his general practice absorbed the whole of his time and energy. Vickery successfully removed from the thigh of an infant, aged nine months, a lipoma growing from the sheath of the great sciatic nerve and weighing 121 ounces. His publication of this interesting case was later used by Bland-Sutton in his book on *Tumours*. Vickery married in 1892 Ada M Cook who survived him with two daughters. After retiring he had settled at Shirley, Broad Oak Road, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, where he died on 9 January 1944, aged 80, in the Queen Alexandra Memorial Hospital after a short illness. Publication: Large lipoma in an infant; operation; recovery. *Middx Hosp J* 1900, 4, 106; also in Bland-Sutton *Tumours*, 7th edition, 1922, figure 11, and previous editions.
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First Title value, for Searching Solly, Ernest (1863 - 1950)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-07
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Occupation Dermatologist General surgeon Physician
Details Born 12 April 1863, the third son of Arthur Isaac Solly, country gentleman and company director, and Georgina Reade, his wife. He was educated at Rugby School and St Thomas's Hospital, where he won many prizes, including the Solly gold medal for surgery, founded by his family. After qualifying in 1886 and taking honours at the London MB the next year, he served as resident accoucheur and surgical registrar at St Thomas's, and senior resident medical officer at the Royal Free Hospital. He took the Fellowship in 1888 at the earliest permitted age. In 1893 he settled at Harrogate, taking over the general practice of A G Russell, MD. At first he was a general physician and took particular interest in the development of the Spa at Harrogate, but later specialized in surgery. He was appointed surgeon to the Harrogate Infirmary in 1905, and was elected consulting surgeon on retirement in 1932; he was also consulting surgeon to the Yorkshire Home for Incurable and Chronic Diseases at Harrogate. Solly was a vice-president of the section of dermatology at the Toronto meeting of the British Medical Association in 1906, and afterwards president of the British Balneological and Climatological Society. He represented his branch in the Representative Meeting of the BMA on many occasions between 1905 and 1939, and served on the central ethical committee from 1932 to 1939. He, served as surgeon-captain in the Territorial Force and was awarded the Territorial Decoration. On the outbreak of war he was commissioned in the RAMC on 20 November 1914, promoted major 23 February 1915, and saw active service in France. He had served as mayor of Harrogate as early as 1898 and founded the Harrogate Rotary Club. He was a promoter of the Boy Scout movement. Solly married in 1893 Mary A Norbury, who died in 1932. They lived at Strathlea, Cold Bath Road, Harrogate, Yorkshire. He died on 26 July 1950 at a Harrogate nursing home, aged 87, survived by his son and three daughters; his other children had died before him. He was cremated, after a funeral service at St Peter's Church, Harrogate. Solly had many and varied interests, besides those of a public nature already mentioned; he was fond of cricket and carpentry, and collected stamps.
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First Title value, for Searching Mortimer, William Graddon (1871 - 1946)

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First Title value, for Searching White, Edwin Francis (1858 - 1945)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-11
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Hordle, Hants on 24 October 1858, the only child of Edwin Driver White, who was of independent means, and Francis Elizabeth Hughes, his wife. He was educated at Charterhouse, which had just moved from the City to Godalming in 1872, and at St Thomas's Hospital, where he served as anaesthetic house surgeon and as house physician. After a term as out-patient assistant at the East London Hospital for Children, White began to practise privately at 280 Upper Richmond Road, Putney, moving later to No 388. In 1884-85 he saw active service as surgeon to the Red Cross Hospital during the Egypt and Nile expedition, and was awarded the medal with clasp and the Khedivial star. Thirty years later, during the first world war, White served as surgeon to Gifford House Hospital and to Templeton Hospital, and was twice mentioned in despatches. White filled the office of president of the South-West London Medical Society, and sat in the council of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was a member of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. White married in July 1898 Mabel Wyman, who died on 22 December 1940 at Warren Gate, Beacon Road, Crowborough, Sussex. White died at the same house on 16 April 1945, aged 86, survived by his son and daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching White, Frank Faulder (1861 - 1939)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-11 2018-03-26
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Born in London, 9 March 1861, the thirteenth child and sixth son of Robert Faulder White, advertising agent, and Elizabeth Mitton Shearburn, his wife. He was educated at King William's College, Isle of Man, and at St Mary's Hospital, London, where he was resident medical officer. He practised for a time in Cornwall and was medical officer of health for Helston, and moved afterwards to Coventry and was appointed surgeon to the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital, becoming consulting surgeon. During the war he acted as surgeon to the Lewisham Military Hospital, and on its conclusion practised at Saffron Walden. He married Eva Dalgairns Travers on 22 March 1888. There were six children of the marriage, three girls and three boys; the daughters and one son outlived him. He died on 15 December 1939, aged 78, at The White House, Amersham, Bucks. Publications: *The rational treatment of running ears*. London, Iliffe, 1905. Three cases of otorrhoea cured by otectomy and irrigation. *Lancet*, 1905, 1, 1646. *Infected ears*. London, 1908.
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First Title value, for Searching Gayen, Sudhanshu Sekkar (1930 - 2014)

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by Indu Gayen
Publication Date 2015-02-16 2015-08-14
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Sudhanshu Sekhar Gayen was a surgeon at Joyce Green Hospital, Dartford, Kent, and then a general practitioner. He was born on 1 August 1930 in the Midnapore district of West Bengal, India, the son of Jogendra Nath Gayen, a schoolteacher, and Bimala Bala Betz Gayen, a housewife. His family were landowners and were very well known in the local community. Sudhanshu lost both of his parents when he was very young. He loved school and from an early age wanted to become a doctor. He passed his school matriculation examinations in the first division and thereafter passed all his exams with honours. He was offered a scholarship to study medicine at Calcutta University Medical College. While the scholarship covered his tuition fees, he had to work to cover his living expenses and in his spare time he tutored school students. He passed his MB BS in 1956. Following house posts in Calcutta, Sudhanshu worked as a senior intern in surgery at Ottawa General Hospital, Canada. After a year he decided to move to the UK, where he held a series of senior house officer posts. He worked in the North Middlesex Hospital in north London, in the thoracic surgical unit, where he performed various major and minor operations and procedures, including intercostal intubation, pleural aspiration and bronchoscopy. He then moved to the North Herts and Lister Hitchin hospitals and performed major operations with the hospital consultant. As part of a team of colleagues he was in charge of 45 general and urological beds. At North Staffordshire Infirmary as a senior house officer he performed operations in the neurosurgical unit, including inserting burr holes and Spitz-Holter valves. In 1966 he was offered a post as a registrar in general surgery, orthopaedics and fractures at St Andrew's Hospital, London, during which time he passed his final fellowship examinations of the Edinburgh and English Royal Colleges. In 1969 Sudhanshu accepted a post as a registrar in urology and general surgery at Joyce Green Hospital, Dartford, Kent, where his pre- and post-operative care was acknowledged as outstanding by his consultant. He published several unusual cases in journals. He used to say that: 'To be a good surgeon it is not only necessary to perform successful surgery, but it is of paramount importance to provide post-operative care and support to meet individual needs.' In 1974, due to ill health and also exhaustion, he decided, with great personal sadness, to leave his surgical career. In 1978 he entered general practice, where he looked after nearly 4,000 patients. On 27 August 2014 he died after a long illness. He was 84. He was survived by his wife Indu, to whom he had been married for nearly 40 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, Max Henry Montague (1922 - 2015)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-02-16 2017-06-09
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Max Harrison was a consultant surgeon at the General and Royal Orthopaedic hospitals, Birmingham, and the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry. He was born on 16 March 1922 in Leeds. His father, Barnard Harrison, was an insurance broker; his mother, Rebecca Harrison née Greenberg, was the daughter of a tailor. He attended Cowper Street Council School and Leeds Grammar School, and then went on to medical school at Leeds University. He gained undergraduate prizes in medicine and a scholarship for the clinical part of the course. He qualified in 1944. He held house posts at Leeds General Infirmary. He subsequently trained as an orthopaedic surgeon. He was a second professional assistant at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford, where he worked with Herbert Seddon and Joseph Trueta. He was then chief assistant in the orthopaedic department, Westminster Hospital, and a senior registrar at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, London. In 1958, he was appointed as a consultant surgeon in Birmingham. His ChM thesis on the blood supply of the femoral head stimulated his interest in the treatment of Perthes' disease and led to numerous publications on conditions related to hip development in childhood and a Hunterian professorship in 1976. He was a founding member of the British Orthopaedic Research Society, a member of the editorial board of *The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery* and of the executive of the British Orthopaedic Association (from 1965 to 1966), and a past president of the Naughton Dunn Club (the West Midlands' orthopaedic association). He was a founder member of the board of trustees of the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital. After his retirement, he continued with medico-legal work. Outside medicine, he was interested in golf and chess. In 1950, he married Valerie Abrahams. They had two daughters, Ruth and Judith, a son, Barney, eight grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Max Harrison died on 22 January 2015. He was 92.
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First Title value, for Searching Hopewell, John Prince (1920 - 2015)

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by Robert Morgan
Publication Date 2015-02-16 2015-05-29
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Occupation General surgeon Transplant surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details John Prince Hopewell, a consultant urological surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital, London, was a pioneer in the introduction of dialysis into the UK and the development of kidney transplantation. He was born on 1 December 1920, the fourth child and only son of Samuel Hopewell and Wilhelmina ('Daisy') Hopewell née Edwards. His father was a south London general practitioner who had come to London in order to study medicine from the island of St Helena. In later life John Hopewell was able to trace the history of the family by reference to his family Bible, a second edition (1540) of the *Great Bible* published for the first time in English under the direction of Henry VIII. Until the early 18th century the family had been textile workers in Nottinghamshire, but with the Industrial Revolution overseas trade opened up new possibilities and in 1813 a family member, Richard Prince, was dispatched to St Helena, ostensibly to collect an outstanding debt. Realising the trading potential of the island in the days of sail, he stayed and established a chandlery business which flourished for three generations. Thereafter all male offspring of the family continued to incorporate the name Prince. The coming of steam ships and the opening of the Suez Canal caused a diminution in trade, something that may have encouraged the family to support his father in seeking a medical education at the London Hospital, eventually settling in family practice in Brixton, where John was born. He had a happy childhood and from a prep school in Dulwich won an exhibition to Bradfield College, where he continued to succeed academically. Although lightly built and not, by his own reckoning, good at ball games, he succeeded in representing his school in fencing and cross country running. During those years he developed a puckish sense of humour (he was cast as Puck in the school play) and this amiable quality stayed with him throughout his long life. In 1938 he won a place to study medicine at King's College Hospital, the preclinical school of which was evacuated to Glasgow in the early years of the war. He qualified in 1943 and was appointed to surgical house jobs at King's and Horton, where he dealt with Londoners injured in bombing raids and then, in large numbers, the casualties from the Normandy landings. He was called up in 1945, serving in the RAMC in India, latterly as a captain who was sometimes the sole surgeon in isolated hospitals in Cochin and Deolali in the south of the country. He returned to King's in 1948 as a surgical registrar, working again for the orthopaedic surgeon H L C Wood, whose house surgeon he had been and who became a role model for his future professional career. During this time he also worked for J G Yates Bell, who stimulated his interest in urological surgery and took an interest in his future training. He qualified FRCS in 1950 and after a period of research at the Buxton Browne Farm at Downe, which resulted in him giving a Hunterian Lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons, he was appointed as a senior registrar in 1955 on a rotation between King's and Brighton. During the winter of 1955 to 1956 Yates Bell arranged for him a secondment to a leading urological department in San Francisco. It was there, at Stanford, that he first saw haemodialysis in action, where patients with polycystic renal disease were being dialysed with beneficial success, something which helped to influence the course of his future career. In 1957 he was appointed as a consultant surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital with the intention of setting up a department of urology, his vision being also to establish a programme for the treatment of end stage renal failure by maintenance dialysis and renal transplantation. At that time dialysis was being used only for acute renal failure and renal transplantation was also in its infancy. He persuaded the hospital to purchase one of the first dialysis machines from America in 1958 and, with the help of newly appointed medical colleagues, the first maintenance dialysis service in the UK was started in 1961. Shortly after he was appointed at the Royal Free, Roy Calne joined as a registrar and expressed an interest in researching methods of controlling the rejection response. John Hopewell encouraged him to do so and arranged animal research facilities for him at Downe. Calne's success with 6-mercaptopurine was thought sufficiently convincing for the team to feel justified in embarking on a trial of human renal transplantation. Three transplants were performed between 1959 and 1960. The first two grafts from cadaveric donors failed to function, but the third, taken from a live donor (the recipient's father) functioned for seven weeks before the patient's death from miliary tuberculosis, thought to have emanated from the donor kidney. It was, nevertheless, the first British live donor, non-sibling kidney transplant using an immunosuppressant that had been shown to be effective in animal trials. At first the success of maintenance dialysis persuaded Hopewell to take the decision to delay the further use of renal transplantation until 1968, by which time Calne, working in America, had modified and improved the immunosuppression regime with the introduction of azathioprine. Meanwhile at home the team had been expanded by an accumulation of clinical and laboratory experts and the appointment of A N Fernando as an assisting consultant transplant surgeon. The subsequent success of the transplant programme at the Royal Free was helped by Hopewell's meticulous surgical technique and acute surgical judgement, attributes that led to him having an extensive surgical practice, attracting referrals from colleagues throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. In the wider world of medicine he banded together the centres in London interested in developing renal transplantation to form the London Transplant Group and was instrumental in joining them with the British Society for Immunology to form the British Transplantation Society in 1972, when he was elected as its first treasurer. He was president of the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine, of the section of urology of the Royal Society of Medicine and of the Chelsea Clinical Society. Quietly formidable in committee, he was elected as chairman of the Hampstead District Health Authority, of the medical committee of the Royal Free, of the Camden District medical committee and the medical committee of the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth. He was a member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1969 to 1975 and was elected as an honorary member of the New York section of the American Urological Association. In 1959 John Hopewell had married Natalie Bogdan, a Russian émigré who had won a scholarship to come to Britain to study medicine at the Royal Free. They met when she was appointed as a houseman on the surgical firm that he shared with George Qvist. During a very happy marriage they subsequently had a daughter, Valentina Ellen, and a son, Richard Alexei Prince, the latter being tragically killed in a car crash in 2008. In 1974 the Royal Free had just moved from the Gray's Inn Road to its present site in Hampstead, when his life took a sad and dramatic turn as Natalie was diagnosed as having metastatic cancer. She died in the following year at the age of 41. He eventually retired from the Royal Free in 1986. Two years before that he had married again, his second wife being Rosemary Radley-Smith, the daughter of the consultant surgeon Eric Radley-Smith who John had worked for as a young house surgeon. Rosemary had also trained at the Royal Free and had become a distinguished paediatric cardiologist, working closely with Magdi Yacoub at Harefield Hospital. On retirement he and Rosemary sailed to St Helena to research the history of the Hopewell family. He returned again in 1992 when the Foreign Office sent him to work there for a few months as the island's first urological surgeon. He was also can active member of the *Lives* committee at the Royal College of Surgeons for more than ten years. In 1995 the Hopewells moved to a Victorian vicarage in Langrish, near Petersfield in Hampshire, where they immersed themselves in the life of the community, taking on the editorship of the local paper, *The Langrish Squeaker*. He became a member of the Society of Ornamental Turners and procured a 19th century turning lathe, which he installed in his home workshop. Thereafter organisations of which he approved often found themselves the recipient of a Hopewell gavel of his own manufacture. He continued to write and in his 90th year produced a history of the treatment of renal failure in the UK by dialysis and transplantation. A convivial man, he always enjoyed a party and in his retirement was responsible for founding a retired consultants luncheon club at the Royal Free, an equally convivial summer reunion of urological consultants of the past (meeting under the soubriquet of the 'Urohasbeens') and also a popular annual past presidents dinner of the section of urology of the Royal Society of Medicine. John Hopewell died at home on 14 January 2015 at the age of 94. At a memorial service in the nearby village of East Meon some 250 friends and colleagues assembled to celebrate a man who had not only made a great contribution to the development of renal transplantation, but also had enriched the lives of those who had known him.
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First Title value, for Searching Browne, Sir Denis John Wolko (1892 - 1967)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-15 2014-07-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Denis John Wolko Browne was born in Australia on 28 April 1892, and was educated at the King's School, Paramatta, and the University of Sydney, graduating MB in 1914. He came to England with the Anzacs and served throughout the first world war, including Gallipoli. After a period in Liverpool he moved to London to obtain his Fellowship. For his clinical studies he went to the Middlesex and London Hospitals, and took the FRCS in 1922. Then he became resident medical superintendent at the Hospital for Sick Children. He was next appointed consultant in congenital abnormalities to the London County Council, working at Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, Carshalton. In 1928 he joined the honorary staff of the Hospital for Sick Children, which he continued to serve as consultant surgeon until 1957, when he was elected emeritus surgeon. In 1961 he was appointed KCVO, and later in the same year the French Government made him a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur in recognition of his contribution to the progress of medicine and surgery. Denis Browne's original mind was soon in evidence, and in 1934 in his Arris and Gale lecture he presented his ideas on the development and treatment of talipes. His contributions ranged widely over the surgery of childhood both in practical methods of treatment and in hypotheses of the development of congenital abnormalities; for example, his operation for hypospadias; his simple, sound technique for repair of cleft palate and hare-lip; his advocacy of "controlled movement" in the treatment of talipes and congenital dislocation of the hip; and his clarification of the principles of diagnosis and management of undescended testis and of imperforate anus. Not so well known, perhaps, are his many contributions to the management of less dramatic conditions such as his techniques of meatotomy, his observations on labial adhesions in young girls, and his development of techniques for Ramstedt's operation and for inguinal herniotomy which enabled his registrars reliably to achieve excellent results. His fascination with the details of operative techniques and of suitable instruments for their performance may have drawn attention from more important aspects of his greatness. He was a pioneer of neonatal surgery and in advocating the need for special skills in managing and nursing children as well as in their surgery. The need to look on the child as a whole and to consider treatment in relation to growth and development derived from this. Denis Browne needed to think out each problem for himself from the beginning, and this sometimes made him seem intolerant of the views of others. He persevered in accordance with his convictions even when these cut across the current fashions in specialization. His apparently aloof personality and lack of "small talk" belied his innately kind personality. The development of paediatric surgery in this country owes more to him than to any other individual, as was recognized in the award of the Dawson Williams Prize in 1957 and of the William E Ladd Memorial Medal by the Academy of Pediatrics in the United States. At the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1952 he was Vice-President of the Section of Child Health. He was President of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons from 1954 to 1957, having been instrumental in its foundation; honorary fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and of the International College of Surgeons, and of the International College of Surgeons, of which he was elected co-president of the British section in 1962; and honorary member of the Société Française d'Urologie. He held Hunterian Professorships in 1947-49, 50, 51. Sir Denis lived enthusiastically and had many interests outside his work. He read widely, and gave a paper at the Royal Society of Medicine on Byron's disability based on a careful study of the appliance the poet wore. He loved the country, and shot regularly. In earlier days his tennis took him to Wimbledon - inevitably with his own grip on the racket. In 1927 he married Helen Simpson, the novelist. When the second world war broke out and the hospital became a casualty clearing station they lived in a flat there, and their hospitality will be remembered by many old residents, but in 1940 his wife died. In 1945 he married Lady Moyra Ponsonby. Sir Denis died at his home in Wilton Street on 9 January 1967 after a short illness; he was 74, and was survived by his second wife, and by the son and two daughters of his first marriage. Publications: Hare lip. *Ann Roy Coll Surg Eng* 1949, 5, 169. Symposium on rectal continence. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1959, 52, 85.
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First Title value, for Searching Baliga, Anappa Vithal (1905 - 1964)

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First Title value, for Searching Balme, Harold (1878 - 1953)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-15
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details Born in London, 28 May 1878, third child and second son of Paul Balme, surveyor, and his wife née Kirkness, he was educated at Cooper's Grammar School and King's College, London, where he was Worsley scholar 1898, and won the Warneford, Leathes, and Todd prizes in medicine and the Berry Prize in divinity and later became an Associate. He took his clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, but interrupted it to serve with the Imperial Yeomanry field hospital in the South African war (1900-01), and won the medal and clasps. After qualifying in 1903 he served as house surgeon to Alfred Carless at King's College Hospital, and as clinical assistant at the Royal Eye Hospital, Southwark, and took the Fellowship at the end of 1905. He had been resident medical officer to the London Medical Mission, and now entered the medical missionary field in China. He worked at first at the Memorial Mission Hospital at Tai Yuan Fu in Shansi, and soon proved himself a good surgeon, a competent ophthalmologist and an excellent teacher equally fluent in English and Chinese. He realised that the teaching given to Chinese medical students must be of the highest standard. He was appointed professor of surgery at Cheeloo Shantung Christian University and superintendent of the University Hospital at Tsi Nan Fu, the capital of Shantung province, in 1913. He was subsequently Dean of the Medical Faculty, and became President of the University in 1921. He organised the first Council on Medical Education in China and acted for a time as its chairman, and was elected President of the Council on Higher Education. He recorded his work in his interesting book China and modern medicine, 1921. The Cheeloo University's degrees were recognised by McGill University, Montreal. Balme organised a translating department to produce Chinese versions of new scientific texts. His enterprise was firmly supported by Drs Samuel Cochrane and Roger Green of the China Medical Board. He retired in 1927 and went into general practice at Dormansland, Surrey, taking the Durham MD in 1928 after 20 years as a teacher and administrator in the east. On the outbreak of war in 1939 he was appointed medical superintendent of Haymeads Hospital, Bishops Stortford, and out of an old and ill-equipped infirmary created an efficient hospital of 800 beds. He was created OBE in 1942, and gave similar useful service as medical superintendent of the Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield. He became, through this war-work, keenly interested in the wider aspects of rehabilitation. Before the war, while a member of council of the Royal College of Nursing, he had published a book criticising nursing education and proposing reform. His book on *Relief of pain*, 1936, reached a second edition in 1939. The British Council commissioned a pamphlet on rehabilitation in 1944, and he was appointed medical officer in charge of rehabilitation under the Ministry of Health till 1951. He also served as director of welfare services to the British Red Cross Society, which elected him an honorary life member. His last years were devoted to international welfare work as a consultant on rehabilitation to the United Nations from 1950 and to the World Health Organisation, the World Veterans Federation, and the UN International Children's Emergency Fund. He was a member of the UN working-party on Rehabilitation, which co-ordinated the activities of the special agencies. This work entailed constant travelling in Europe, North Africa, and the United States. He carried it out with his customary energy but it took toll of his health, for he had suffered a long illness before the war, which left some disability. During 1952 he was at work in Austria in the spring and in Sweden, Finland, and Denmark in the autumn, among other arduous commitments. He was responsible for drafting a *Report on a co-ordinated international programme for the rehabilitation of the handicapped* presented to the UN Social Commission in 1952. Balme's cheerful, confident nature was inspired by humanitarian goodwill based on profound Christian faith. He was an invigorating teacher and colleague. His zeal, impatient of bureaucratic restrictions, was modified by personal charm and tact. He married in 1910 Hilda Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas William Carr of Carlisle, who survived him with two sons and two married daughters. One son, David Mowbray Balme, DSO, DFC was principal of the University College of the Gold Coast. Balme died after a major operation at 64 Copers Cope Road, Beckenham, Kent, on 13 February 1953, aged 74. Publications: *China and modern medicine, a study in medical missionary development*. London, United Council for Missionary Education, 1921. 224 pages. *The relief of pain, a handbook of modern analgesia*. London, Churchill 1936, 408 pages; 2nd edition 1939, 399 pages. *A criticism of nursing education, with suggestions for constructive reform*. Oxford University Press, 1937. 73 pages. *The unfit made fit*. British Council, "British advances" series. London, 1944. Disability and disablement, the medical aspect. *Lancet* 1946, 1, 620 and 717. A model rehabilitation and training centre, at Tobelbad, near Graz, Austria. *Brit med J* 1952, 2, 1092.
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First Title value, for Searching Richardson, Arthur Haden (1902 - 1935)

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First Title value, for Searching Richards, Owen William (1873 - 1949)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-16
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 30 September 1873 at Isleworth Vicarage, the younger son of the Rev H W P Richards, prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral, and his wife Jessie Margaret, daughter of the Rt Hon Peter Erie, QC, PC. He was a King's Scholar at Eton 1887-92, from whence he went up to New College, Oxford; he took first-class honours at Classical Moderations 1894, and a second-class in physiology 1896. He was a Wykeham Prize Fellow of his College 1898-1905. Richards received his clinical training at Guy's Hospital, qualifying in 1902. He took the Fellowship in 1905, and proceeded MD the same year and MCh the next. Richards served as a dresser during the South African war, winning the Queen's medal with three clasps. In 1905 he was appointed professor of clinical surgery in the Egyptian Government School of Medicine at Cairo. During nine years in Egypt he gained valuable experience and did much sound work, especially in the Egyptian military hospital. On the outbreak of war in 1914 he went to France, serving under Sir Cuthbert Wallace with the First Army. He was one of the first to undertake, contrary to general orders, extensive abdominal surgery near the front line, where his successful results won approval. For two years he did invaluable service in No 6 casualty clearing station at Barlin, in association with A Tudor Edwards. He was promoted colonel, Army Medical Service, on appointment as a consultant, was three times mentioned in despatches, won the DSO in 1915, and was created CMG in 1918. He went again to Cairo in 1919, where he was director of the Royal School of Medicine till his retirement in 1924, when he was awarded the Order of the Nile (second class). Richards married on 27 April 1912 Catherine Cressall, who survived him with one daughter. He died on 18 April 1949, aged 75, at Downes, Monkleigh, Bideford, North Devon, where he had been living since 1927. He was a member of the Royal Cruising Club, and became an expert in forestry on his small estate. He left £5,000 and a provisional further £5,000 failing continuance of his family, to New College, Oxford.
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First Title value, for Searching Wildman, William Stanley (1886 - 1934)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-11
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Blackpool on 12 March 1886, the fifth child and third son of William Wildman, auctioneer and estate agent, and Susan Ward, his wife. He was educated at the Lancaster Grammar School and at the London Hospital. He served as clinical assistant in the surgical out-patient department at the London Hospital, and was senior house surgeon at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading. He settled at Rotherham in 1913, as a partner with Dr Percy Drabble and afterwards with J J Hargan, MB. He remained there in general practice until 1933, when he moved to Tewkesbury on account of ill-health. He was surgeon to the Rotherham Hospital from 3 July 1920 until his resignation on 30 September 1933. During the war he was surgical specialist, but without a commission, in the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force in 1917. He took an active and enthusiastic part in the affairs of the local branch of the British Medical Association, was vice-chairman of the Rotherham panel committee, and medical referee to the Ministry of Pensions. He was a well-known and popular member of the Thrybergh Golf Club, where he won the Fullerton trophy in 1932. He married Margaret Elizabeth Mary Brown on 20 February 1913, who survived him with three daughters. He died on 12 June 1934.
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First Title value, for Searching Nicholson, Oliver Ross (1922 - 2013)

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by Peter Robertson
Publication Date 2013-11-08 2014-06-06
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Ross Nicholson was the formative figure in New Zealand orthopaedic surgery through the second half of the 20th century. Born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 12 October 1922, Ross was educated at Auckland Grammar School, received his medical degree from the University of Otago, and trained in orthopaedic surgery in Auckland (from 1950 to 1951) and in Britain, primarily at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, London (from 1955 to 1956) under the guidance of Sir Herbert Seddon. Upon his return to New Zealand, Ross took up a consultant position at Middlemore Hospital in 1957, where he remained in public practice until 1987. In parallel, he operated a very busy and successful private practice based at Mercy Hospital in central Auckland. Ross led the explosion in specialised surgical techniques that charaterised his era. He was at the forefront of Charnley hip replacement surgery in New Zealand, opening this option for reconstruction and disability relief to a whole generation of grateful patients. The national scoliosis service was both established and lead by Ross, and he was at the forefront of the management of spine trauma. Despite these special interests, Ross was a generalist, and no area of orthopaedic care was outside his sphere of expertise. In 1956 Ross was appointed as an ABC (American-British-Canadian) travelling fellow, the first New Zealander to receive this honour. He travelled extensively and interacted with the international orthopaedic community, and without doubt he was the face of New Zealand orthopaedics, being recognised and admired globally. He became president of the New Zealand Orthopaedic Association in 1982, having held every position of significance within the association before that point! This extended his international profile, and he became associated with many orthopaedic societies around the world, travelling and lecturing through the 70s, 80s and 90s. Ross was committed to academic orthopaedics, lecturing within the University of Auckland, developing the orthopaedic academic unit within the department of surgery at the university, and then establishing the chair in orthopaedic surgery. Without doubt the major contribution Ross gave New Zealand orthopaedics was his rigorous commitment to clinical excellence. He established the New Zealand orthopaedic training program and was lead examiner for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. His clinical method focused on excellence in the practice of history, examination and patient evaluation. Ross demanded very high standards, demands that some of his juniors feared, yet later were immensely grateful for during clinical practice. This commitment to clinical excellence continued throughout his career, and Ross remained a willing invitee to the final fellowship exam preparation courses through into his 80s. Outside clinical medicine, Ross was involved in almost every aspect of medical life conceivable. His participation was too great to itemise, yet ranged from hospital management to committees for government advice, from teaching appointments for medical and related students, to board memberships of multiple patient support societies and foundations, and from journal editorial board memberships through to multiple trustee and expert advisory positions. As a result of this influence upon the community, Ross received the OBE in 1976. Despite this extensive commitment to the profession, Ross was very active in the outside world. He was a passionate about New Zealand rugby, as a player in his youth and then surgeon to the Auckland Rugby Union. He was a keen participant in squash and sailing, and a devotee of the Auckland Racing Club, where he became a life member. To mark Ross' 90th birthday he was the guest at a large gathering of colleagues and friends. His own humorous and detailed review of aspects of his life was matched by many contributions that were laced with reflections of excellence, commitment, humour and candor! All of his colleagues present were able to reflect on an outstanding career focused upon the betterment of patient care and the relentless pursuit of excellence in clinical standards. Ross Nicholson died on 13 July 2013, aged 90, after a brief illness. His wife Pauline passed away in 2011; his daughter Caroline Thorburn and his two grandsons survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Ince, Arthur Godfrey (1871 - 1942)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-17
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 15 August 1871 at 136 Burdett Road, Mile End Old Town, Middlesex, the second child and second son of Ebenezer Ince, a merchant's clerk, and Sarah Hastings Farrow, his wife. He was educated at Northgate School, Winchester, and took his medical training at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, where he was demonstrator of materia medica, assistant demonstrator of anatomy, and medallist in surgery. At the Hospital itself he served as house surgeon, assistant anaesthetist, and clinical assistant in the ear department. After a period as resident medical officer to the Kensington Dispensary, he settled in practice at Sturry near Canterbury in 1899, and became medical officer and public vaccinator for the Sturry district of Blean Union. Ince married on 28 December 1899 Fanny Hodgson, who survived him with two sons and two daughters. He died at Sturry on 7 November 1942, aged 71. Mrs Ince died at Cambridge on 31 October 1943.
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First Title value, for Searching Ingall, Frank Ernest (1869 - 1951)

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First Title value, for Searching Ionides, Theodore Henry (1866 - 1936)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-17
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born in London, 8 January 1866, the fourth child and third son of Constantine A Ionides, of the Stock Exchange, and Agatha Fenerly, his wife. He thus belonged to the family of Greek merchants whose art bequests are preserved at the Victoria and Albert Museum. He was educated at Winchester, and at University College Hospital where he acted as house surgeon. Settling at Brighton he was elected assistant surgeon to the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children, and on 18 September 1901 became assistant surgeon to the Royal Sussex County Hospital, becoming surgeon on 3 December 1919 and consulting surgeon upon his retirement on 15 July 1925. During this time he practised surgery, gynaecology, and obstetrics. When the Territorial Force was established he received a commission as major, RAMC (T), on 27 April 1908 and was attached à la suite to the 2nd Eastern General Hospital, Brighton. Called up in 1914 he served in France at various casualty clearing stations. He returned to practice on demobilization and was president of the Brighton and Sussex Medico-chirurgical Society in 1919. In 1896 he married Kitty, daughter of John Cavafy (1838-1901), MD, FRCP, physician to St George's Hospital. She survived him, with a son and a daughter. He died at Hove on 2 December 1936.
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First Title value, for Searching Barns, Hubert Henry Fouracre (1910 - 1959)

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First Title value, for Searching Vesey, Sean Gerard (1954 - 2015)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-02-16 2017-07-12
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Occupation Urologist
Details Sean Vesey was a consultant urologist on Merseyside. He was born on 2 July 1954 and studied medicine at University College Cork, qualifying in 1979. After completing his basic surgical training, he went to London in 1984 to the Institute of Urology and then continued his specialist training in Taunton and Bristol. In 1988, he became a senior registrar on Merseyside and in 1991 was appointed as a consultant urologist for Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust. At Southport and Ormskirk he established the urology service and worked singlehandedly for five years. He carried out his first laparoscopic nephrectomy in 1994 and in 2001 became the lead laparoscopic surgeon for the Merseyside region, teaching juniors and colleagues from all over the UK and Ireland. In 2007, he moved to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital where he developed the laparoscopic service. For three consecutive years (from 2001 to 2003) he visited the Gambia on behalf of Urolink, working and teaching at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Banjul, He was an examiner for the Intercollegiate Board for the FRCS (urology) from 2002 to 2011 and for the Royal College of Surgeons, and was regional adviser for Merseyside from 2001 to 2008. He was also an active member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons, which awarded him an honorary membership in 2013, and the Irish Society of Urology. Outside medicine he enjoyed golf (he was a member of the Royal Birkdale Golf Club from 1994 and served on the council from 2008 to 2011), spending time with his friends and family, cooking, fishing and skiing. He was a supporter of Liverpool Football Club and regularly attended matches at Anfield. After retiring he took up game shooting. Sadly, in January 2011 Vesey was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer, a disease he had spent his working life treating. Sean Vesey died on 18 January 2015 aged 60. He was survived by his wife Rosemary and their children, Jennifer and James.
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First Title value, for Searching Barrington-Ward, Sir Lancelot Edward (1884 - 1953)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-15
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Occupation General surgeon
Details He was born at Worcester on 4 July 1884, son of Mark James Barrington-Ward, an Inspector of Schools, and Caroline Pearson his wife. His father was ordained late in life (1907) and became Rector of Duloe, Cornwall, and a Canon of Truro. The five sons all distinguished themselves, one (Robert) becoming Editor of *The Times* 1941-48. Lance began his education in College at Westminster, but owing to ill-health he was transferred to Bromsgrove, where also he won a classical scholarship, and then entered Worcester College, Oxford with a classical exhibition. He took his medical training at Edinburgh University, qualifying with honours in 1908. In the same year he was captain of the University Rugby XV, having played in it for six seasons; in 1910 he represented England in four Internationals. He took the Edinburgh Fellowship in 1910, and the English Fellowship in 1912 after working at the Middlesex Hospital. At Edinburgh in 1913 he took the ChM with honours and was awarded the Chiene medal in surgery. He was appointed house surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street in 1910, working under G E Waugh and H A T (Sir Thomas) Fairbank. He proved an ideal children's surgeon, was appointed assistant surgeon in 1914, resumed his connection with the Hospital after the war, and was ultimately senior surgeon. During the war he served as surgeon-in-chief of Lady Wimborne's hospital at Uskub in Serbia, and was awarded the Order of St Sava. After the war, in addition to his large practice among children, he was appointed as an abdominal surgeon to the staff of the Royal Northern Hospital, where he became senior surgeon. In 1918 he operated for appendicitis upon H R H Prince Albert, afterwards Duke of York and then King. He was appointed surgeon in ordinary to the Duke's household in 1936, a post in which he was continued when the Duke acceded to the throne as King George VI in December 1936. He had been created KCVO in King George V's jubilee honours list in June 1935. He attended King George V's sister, the Queen of Norway, received the Grand Cross of St Olav, and subsequently operated for appendicitis on several younger members of the Royal family. Queen Elizabeth II appointed him an extra surgeon to Her Majesty on her accession in 1952. He was consulting surgeon to Wood Green and Southgate Hospital and to Sutton Hospital and was active in promoting their success. He examined for the Universities of St Andrews and of Edinburgh, served as President of the Section of Diseases of Children in the Royal Society of Medicine, and was a Hunterian Professor at the College (14 February 1952) lecturing on "Swellings of the neck in childhood". Barrington-Ward married twice: (1) in 1917 Dorothy Anne, second daughter of T W Miles of Caragh, Co Kerry, at one time an official in the Indian Public Works department. Lady Barrington-Ward undertook much charitable work in connection with her husband's hospitals and for the Peter Pan League. She died on 26 August 1935, leaving three daughters (*The Times* 27 August 1935, p 13 F and 29th, p. 12 B). He married (2) on 22 May 1941 Catherine Wilhelmina, only daughter of E G Reuter of Harrogate, who survived him with a son. He died after a long illness at his country home, Hawkedon House, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk on 17 November 1953, aged 69. He had formerly practised at 85 Harley Street, and at Harcourt House, Cavendish Square. A memorial service was held at St Peter's, Vere Street on 2 December 1953, at which the Queen, who was then at sea crossing the Pacific Ocean, was represented by Her Majesty's Serjeant Surgeon, Sir Arthur Porritt, and a memorial oration was given by Sir Thomas Fairbank. Barrington-Ward was a small, good-looking man of great charm, and a perfectionist in his work. Publications: Congenital enlargement of the colon and rectum. *Lancet* 1914, 1, 345-360. *Abdominal surgery for children*. Oxford 1928. *Royal Northern Operative Surgery*, edited. London, H K Lewis, 1939; 2nd edition, 1951. Acute abdominal emergencies. *Ann Roy Coll Surg Engl* 1948, 3, 77. Swellings of the neck in childhood. *Ann Roy Coll Surg Engl* 1952, 10, 211.
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First Title value, for Searching Barry, David Thomas (1870 - 1955)

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First Title value, for Searching Mulhearn, Norman St Clair (1898 - 1981)

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First Title value, for Searching Murphy, Michael Kevin (1934 - 1978)

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First Title value, for Searching Murray, Gordon Donald Walter (1894 - 1976)

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First Title value, for Searching Bastianelli, Raffaele (1863 - 1961)

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First Title value, for Searching Bazy, Louis Pierre Jean (1883 - 1960)

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First Title value, for Searching MacFarlane, David Aloysius (1921 - 2013)

2026-05-06T15:50:28Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2014-01-22 2014-01-24
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Occupation General surgeon
Details David Macfarlane was a consultant general surgeon at Sutton and Cheam Hospital and at St Stephen's and Princess Beatrice hospitals in the Westminster group, and also an author and outstanding teacher. He was born in Glasgow on 21 June 1921, the only son of George Souttar Macfarlane, a consulting engineer and marine surveyor, and Rosalie Macfarlane née Crumlish, a teacher. His early education from 1928 to 1930 was at St Aloysius College in Glasgow and, when his parents moved to Wales, he continued at St Illtyd's College, Cardiff. David was a natural sportsman, becoming top of sports at his school on two occasions. He was also head of his house. After three years of basic science education at the University College, Cardiff, he gained a BSc before entering the Welsh National School of Medicine in 1941. His teachers in these clinical years included Alexander Kennedy, the professor of medicine, who stressed the value of taking a good history and the importance of eliciting physical signs, and Gilbert Strachan, an excellent teacher in midwifery and in surgery. David secured his first house appointment at Cardiff Royal Infirmary during the Second World War, some six months before he qualified in 1944. This was a great tribute to his early promise in medicine. After further house appointments in Cardiff, including a spell on the professorial unit in obstetrics and gynaecology, he carried out his National Service, joining the RNVR as a surgeon lieutenant. Deciding on a career in surgery, and in preparation for the primary FRCS, he demonstrated anatomy at the University of Wales. He then completed registrar appointments in Bridgend and later at St James' Hospital, Balham, London, where Norman Tanner had gained an international reputation in gastric surgery. David was to confirm that Tanner taught his trainees the 'principles of good surgery by example'. During this period he also worked as a clinical assistant at St Mark's Hospital. To further his surgical education he travelled to the USA for a year on a Fulbright scholarship and a US Public Health fellowship. He was privileged to work as a research assistant at Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, with Francis D Moore, the well-known surgeon-in-chief to the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. He was also attached to J Hartwell Harrison, the urological surgeon. Returning to the United Kingdom, he gained a valuable senior registrar appointment at the Royal Marsden Hospital. He was surgical tutor to St Bartholomew's Hospital in London from 1955 to 1960, combining this with duties as casualty surgeon at St Bartholomew's from 1958 to 1960. In 1958 he was appointed to Sutton and Cheam Hospital, and went on to serve it loyally for 28 years. From 1960 to 1986 he was also on the consultant staff of St Stephen's and Princess Beatrice hospitals in the Westminster group. In connection with the latter, he was an honorary senior lecturer to Westminster and then Westminster and Charing Cross medical schools. He held honorary consultant posts to the Newspaper Press Fund, and was on two occasions in the 1980s visiting consultant surgeon to the Maadi Armed Forces Hospital, Cairo. His teaching experience was put to good use when he became the senior editor, with Lewis P Thomas, of the very successful student textbook *Textbook of surgery* (Edinburgh, London, E & S Livingstone, 1964). Contributors to the chapters were all young consultants, and the first edition in 1964 was followed by five further editions. At the Royal College of Surgeons David Macfarlane was awarded a Hunterian professorship in 1958 and lectured on the cancer of the adrenal cortex. This was published in the *Annals* and incorporated some clinical research from his valuable year spent in the USA ('Cancer of the adrenal cortex; the natural history, prognosis and treatment in a study of fifty-five cases'. *Ann R Coll Surg Engl*. 1958 Sep;23[3]:155-86). He also served on the Court of Examiners from 1977 to 1989, becoming chairman. He was an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and for the Glasgow College, and gained honorary fellowships from both. His expertise as an examiner was valued at the universities of Glasgow, Liverpool and London, and overseas in Singapore. A member of many societies, he became vice president of the section of surgery of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was a member of the Athenaeum Club and the Royal Navy Medical Club, and, reflecting another interest outside medicine, a member of the Walton Heath Golf Club. He joined the City of London circle of the Catenian Association, a Catholic organisation, in 1964, and later became president and provincial councillor. In 1986, he was invested in the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, and for seven years was president of the Southwark section. In 2003 he was promoted to the rank of knight grand cross. David Macfarlane was very happily married to Moira (née O'Sullivan), a nurse whom he met when serving in the Navy. Her uncle, D P Fitzgerald, was professor of anatomy at the University of Cork, Ireland. David and Moira had five children - Rosalie, Jane, Peter, Ian and Kate - and six grandchildren. Following his retirement from the NHS in June 1986, David enjoyed travel and played golf regularly into his 90th year. Sadly for many years he was without his wife, Moira, who died in 2002. He was very interested in the hospice movement. After 35 years on the staff of St Anthony's Hospital, Cheam, he was asked to be chairman of St Raphael's Hospice and remained in post for 10 years. For these services he was awarded a papal knighthood in March 1991, being later promoted to knight commander of the Order of St Gregory the Great. David Macfarlane died peacefully at his home in Cheam, Surrey, at the age of 92 on 13 December 2013, following a short illness. A requiem mass was well attended by his family and many friends, and was a fitting tribute to a surgeon who had contributed so much to medical education and surgery.
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First Title value, for Searching Panchalingam, Selvam (1919 - 2013)

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by Sarah Gilliam
Publication Date 2014-01-22 2016-01-15
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Selvam Panchalingam was a Sri Lankan surgeon. She was born in 1919 and qualified FRCS in 1951. She lived in Colombo, Sri Lanka. A relative notified the Royal College of Surgeons of her death.
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First Title value, for Searching Parsons, Thomas Arthur (1939 - 2013)

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by Peter Bore
Publication Date 2014-01-22 2014-07-04
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Tom Parsons was an orthopaedic surgeon in Brisbane, Australia. He was born in Liverpool, one of three sons of Thomas, a printer, and Doris, a tailor. His grandfather was a Newfoundland sailor who had settled in the port city. Tom was educated at Holt High School, Liverpool, and, like many of his era, decided on a medical career almost by accident. He had no family background in medicine and a minimal knowledge of what a medical life would entail, but he had the ability and the enlightened changes in the health and education systems made by the British government following the end of the Second World War, made a medical career socially and financially possible. He entered University College Hospital (UCH) in 1959. It was here that he met Bronwen Beecham, who would become a psychiatrist and Tom's lifelong companion. After graduating in 1964, Tom held pre-registration appointments at UCH and West Middlesex Hospital, before moving to the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, and then Liverpool for his general surgical training. Later in life Tom claimed that his choice of orthopaedics was determined by his reading an article stating that orthopaedics was the least popular discipline amongst surgical trainees and therefore the easiest to enter. However, the enthusiasm for his work, which he exhibited throughout his career, suggests that he was perhaps being somewhat modest. His orthopaedic training was at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry with Denis Wainwright, followed by a period at the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary. He was appointed to a consultant post at Stoke-on-Trent with an interest in paediatrics, but had already arranged a one year fellowship in paediatric orthopaedics at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, and he took leave of absence to undertake that fellowship. However, shortly after returning to England in 1974, his Newfoundland heritage drew him back to Canada, where he spent seven years in private practice based at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Barrie, Ontario. Tom was one of the first to recognise and promote the potential of endoscopic techniques in orthopaedics. His desire to be involved in this, coupled with a commitment to teaching, led him, in 1982, to leave Barrie and private practice to take up an appointment in a public hospital (the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital) in Brisbane. He went on to become director of orthopaedics at the Royal Brisbane Hospital. By now he had a particular interest in the shoulder and devised new arthroscopic techniques for operations on it. In collaboration with instrument manufacturers, he devised an arthroscopic procedure to re-attach the labrum to the glenoid in order to treat recurrent dislocation of the shoulder. Tom never had much enthusiasm for the tedious task of shepherding his work through the formalities of the scientific press, and his contributions are mostly remembered by his colleagues, those who attended conference presentations and generations of surgical trainees. Eventually one would carry out bilateral arthroscopic shoulder repairs on Tom. Tom was a life-long migraine sufferer, and in 1997 their frequency and severity was such that he had to relinquish operating. He spent the last few years in practice in an advisory and non-operative role. Nevertheless, this had some significant advantages. There are a number of orthopaedic surgeons in the Brisbane region who were recipients of guidance and advice from Tom, which became possible became of his more relaxed time constraints. An enlightened health system might benefit if more surgeons could spend their last few years with a smaller direct clinical commitment and with more time to teach and advise. After retiring in 2003, Tom and Bron spent time travelling in Australia, Europe (to keep in contact with former colleagues) and the USA and New Zealand, where their two sons live. They also pursued their interest in theatre and opera with enthusiasm. Tom was reserved, thoughtful, gently spoken and well-dressed - more like the caricature of an English gentleman than an Australian orthopaedic surgeon! He insisted that his junior colleagues treated patients and other staff with the same courtesy as he always did. However, in defence of surgical standards or his patients' welfare he could, to put it euphemistically, be uncompromising with hospital administrators. In 2006 Tom developed the first signs of the degenerative neurological condition which would eventually prove fatal. In retrospect, the diagnosis was olivopontocerebellar degeneration but, sadly, for most of his illness, Tom was denied the limited solace that an accurate diagnosis and its associated prognosis might have provided. He bore his increasing disabilities with great fortitude, and Bron worked tirelessly and with determination to make the best of his final years. Tom died at home, surrounded by family, a few hours before the dawn of 2014. He was 74. He was survived by his wife Bronwen and sons Jeremy and Stuart.
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