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First Title value, for Searching Wyman, William Saunderson (1832 - 1902)

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First Title value, for Searching Yeo, Gerald ( - 1887)

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First Title value, for Searching Tegart, Edward (1772 - 1845)

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First Title value, for Searching Raven, Henry (1817 - 1903)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-31
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on April 13th at Litcham, Norfolk, where his grandfather (who died in 1807, aged 67), his father (who died in 1849), and his elder brother (died in February, 1854) practised in succession. He studied at St George's Hospital, and practised in London until the death of his elder brother, Peter Raven, MRCS, in 1854, when he took over the family practice at Litcham, and continued there until his retirement in 1893, at one time having as partner Joseph Hazard, MRCS. He acted as Surgeon to the Litcham District of the Mitford and Launditch Union, and to the Litcham Village Hospital. He died at Litcham on February 15th, 1903.
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First Title value, for Searching Stephens, Daniel Robert Porritt (1865 - 1902)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA after gaining a 3rd class in the first part of the Natural Science Tripos in 1885. He then entered St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon, Ophthalmic House Surgeon, and Assistant Anesthetist. Later he was House Surgeon at the South Devon and East Cornwall Hospital, Plymouth, and afterwards practised at Castle Hill, Lynton, North Devon, and was Medical Officer to the Cottage Hospital and a Certifying Factory Surgeon. He died at Lynton on April 30th, 1902.
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First Title value, for Searching Sillery, Robert ( - 1859)

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First Title value, for Searching Simpson, Frederick Hamilton (1815 - 1902)

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First Title value, for Searching Simpson, George (1805 - 1867)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-31
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Occupation Anatomist
Details At the time of his death Simpson was a Teacher of Vaccination by appointment of the Privy Council, and Surgeon of the Surrey Vaccination Establishment. He had previously been Surgeon to the Westminster General Dispensary. He was throughout life, first Lecturer on, and then Professor of, Anatomy to the Artists' Anatomical Society. In 1825 he published *The Anatomy of the Bones and Muscles*; exhibiting the parts as they appear on dissection and more particularly in the living figure, as applicable to the Fine Arts. Designed for the use of artists and members of the Artists' Anatomical Society (4to, London). This early art anatomy is dedicated to Sir Thomas Lawrence, President of the Royal Academy, and is rightly described by Simpson as illustrated with highly finished lithographic impressions. For the education of native surgeons in India he devised a series of papier-mâché and gutta-percha anatomical figures, which obtained a Prize Medal at the Great Exhibition of 1851. He died at his residence, 18 Gower Street, on October 19th, 1867.
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First Title value, for Searching Simpson, James Murray (1807 - 1877)

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First Title value, for Searching Sims, Francis Manley Boldero (1841 - 1902)

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First Title value, for Searching Yeo, Gerald Francis (1845 - 1909)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-06
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Occupation General surgeon Physiologist
Details Born in Dublin on January 19th, 1845, the second son of Henry Yeo, of Ceanchor, Howth, JP, clerk of the rules, Court of Exchequer, by his wife Jane, daughter of Captain Ferns. Educated at the Royal School, Dungannon, and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated Moderator in natural science 1866, proceeding MB and MCh in 1867. He gained the Gold Medal of the Dublin Pathological Society in 1868 with an essay on renal disease. He then studied for a year in Paris, a year in Vienna, and a year in Leipzig and Berlin, took the MD at the University of Dublin in 1871 and the LRCSI in the following year. He first acted as Demonstrator of Anatomy at Trinity College, Dublin, and then taught physiology in the Carmichael School of Medicine in Dublin from 1872-1874. In 1877 he was appointed Professor of Physiology at King's College, London, and Assistant Surgeon to the Hospital. Here he did excellent work in conjunction with Sir David Ferrier - then Professor of Neuropathology - on the cerebral localization in monkeys. The experiments were done using the antiseptic measures of Lister, and were in that respect an advance in cerebral surgery. They were later noted by Victor Horsley (qv). Yeo was elected in 1889 a FRS. He resigned his chair in 1890 and received the title of Emeritus Professor. At the Royal College of Surgeons Yeo was Arris and Gale Lecturer on Anatomy and Physiology, 1880-1882; a Member of the Examining Board of Anatomy and Physiology for the Fellowship, 1884-1885 and 1887-1892; and a Member of the Examining Board in England, 1884-1885. The subjects of his Arris and Gale Lectures were: (1) "Application of the Graphic Method to the Study of Muscle Contraction", and (2) "Relation of Experimental Physiology to Practical Medicine". He retired to Totnes, Devonshire, in 1889, and later to Fowey, where, having a competence, he devoted himself to yachting, fishing, and gardening. He married: (1) In 1878 Charlotte, only daughter of Isaac Kitchin, of Rock Ferry, Cheshire, who died in 1884 without issue; (2) In 1886 Augusta Frances, second daughter of Edward Hunt, of Thomastown, Co Kilkenny, and by her had one son. He died at Austin's Close, Harbertonford, Devonshire, on May 1st, 1909. Yeo was a fluent speaker with a rich brogue, good-natured, impetuous, generous, and full of common sense. Although he was appointed Assistant Surgeon to King's College Hospital, he never took the duties seriously, for his whole interests were centred in the physiological laboratory. He was an experimentalist and acknowledged Karl Ludwig as his master. In conjunction with Professor Krönecker, of Berne, he inaugurated the international physiological congresses which were held triennially, the first meeting being in Berne in 1891. He did good service to English physiologists by founding the Physiological Society in March, 1876. It was at first a dining club with a carefully chosen and limited membership, Yeo being the Secretary. He conducted the affairs with tact and energy until his resignation in 1889, when he was presented with a valuable souvenir of plate. A small woodcut, which is a good likeness, is inserted in the Supplement to the *Journal of Physiology* for December, 1927, p 32. Publication: *Manual of Physiology for the Use of Students of Medicine*, London, 8vo, 1884; 2nd ed, 1887. It was a useful and popular text-book.
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First Title value, for Searching Young, Alfred Harry (1852 - 1912)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-06
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born at Warrington. He studied at University College, Liverpool, and at Edinburgh, where after graduation he acted as Junior Demonstrator of Anatomy under Sir James Russell and as Senior Demonstrator under Sir William Turner. Young then went to Manchester in 1877 as Demonstrator of Anatomy and Assistant Lecturer at Owens College under Professor Morrison Watson. After two years he resigned to become Pathological Registrar at the Manchester Royal Infirmary After two further years he was made Medical and Surgical Registrar, and finally for one year Surgical Registrar only. He was next appointed Surgeon to the Manchester Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, and in 1883 he became Surgeon to the Salford Royal Hospital. He was apt to speak out his mind forcibly, yet he would often afterwards take up a conciliatory attitude, but in 1882 he failed to be elected Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, and showed some resentment. There was friction between Owens College and the Surgeons of the Infirmary which led the Surgeons to resign their teaching posts at the College. Young was appointed in 1885 Professor of Anatomy on the death of Professor Morrison Watson, and soon after became Dean of the Medical School. Young from the beginning had carried out much research in human and comparative anatomy, but he was less successful as a lecturer because he spoke too fast and lectured above the heads of elementary students. As an examiner in anatomy he sometimes seemed not to seek the student's knowledge, but rather how much the student had to learn. His post as examiner in anatomy included the Conjoint Fellowship Examination at the College, also at the Universities of Oxford, London, Birmingham, and Liverpool. For some years he represented the Victoria University on the General Medical Council, and for a time acted as Pro-Vice-Chancellor. He numbered among his Assistants Professor Paterson, of Liverpool; Professor Robinson, of Edinburgh; Professor P Thompson, of Birmingham; and Professor William Wright, of the London Hospital. In later years Young devoted much time to the anatomy and development of the blood-vessels. Ill health compelled him to resign his professorship in 1909, and after a long illness he died at his home at Didsbury on February 23rd, 1912. He was survived by Mrs Young and one daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Young, Donald Smith (1792 - 1852)

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First Title value, for Searching Young, Francis Ayerst (1813 - 1870)

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First Title value, for Searching Young, William Henry (1786 - 1879)

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First Title value, for Searching Robinson, John Marshall (1801 - 1861)

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First Title value, for Searching Robinson, Richard Radford (1806 - 1854)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-14
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The eldest son of Henry Robinson, of East Dulwich; practised in South London, was Surgeon to the London Dispensary, a Member of the Court of Examiners of the Apothecaries' Company, and President of the South London Medical Society. His essay on "Fractures of Ribs, Sternum and Pelvis" gained the Jacksonian Prize in 1831, and his dissertation on "Formation, Constituents and Extraction of Urinary Calculi" the honorarium in 1838, the Jacksonian Prize being awarded to John Green Crosse (qv). He died at his home, Camden Row, Camberwell, London, SE, on March 31st, 1854. Publications:- "Complications of Hernia." - *Lond Dispensary Rep*, xiv, xv. "Pregnancy Complicated by Fibromyoma." - *Assoc Med Jour*, 1853, 53. He was preparing further contributions when overtaken by his last illness.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003128
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Sidney Maynard (1875 - 1928)

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First Title value, for Searching Chatterjee, Manindra Nath (1910 - 1972)

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First Title value, for Searching Templeton, George (1869 - 1913)

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First Title value, for Searching Scott, Henry ( - 1883)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-05 2012-12-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Practised in Adelaide, South Australia, and then in Melbourne. He died in 1883.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003227
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First Title value, for Searching Thane, Sir George Dancer (1850 - 1930)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-05
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Born on May 27th, 1850, at Great Berkhamsted, the eldest son of George Dancer Thane, MD St Andrews, who practised in Hart Street, Bloomsbury. He entered University College, London, in 1867 and was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy to Professor G Viner Ellis (qv) in 1870, a year before he obtained the diploma of MRCS. He succeeded Viner Ellis as Professor of Anatomy at University College in 1877 and retained the chair until 1919, when he was elected Emeritus Professor. As Professor of Anatomy he trained some brilliant men who acted as his demonstrators, amongst them being Rickman J Godlee (qv), Quarry Silcock (qv), Bilton Pollard, S G Shattock (qv), and Charles Stonham (qv). For many years he was Inspector of Anatomy and Inspector under the Vivisection Acts. Both positions were delicate and full of difficulties, but he carried out the duties tactfully and without friction. On December 8th, 1881, he was elected a member of the Physiological Society, which was then a small body of working physiologists. Numerous honours came to him. He was created a Knight Bachelor in 1919; was President of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 1896; was a member of the French and German Anatomical Societies, of the Anthropological Society of Paris, and of the Royal Society of Upsala. The Royal College of Surgeons elected him FRCS; the University of Edinburgh conferred upon him the honorary degree of LLD, and the University of Dublin that of ScD. He was for many years Dean of the Medical Faculty at University College, and throughout his active career he was in constant request as an examiner in anatomy at numerous universities and examining boards throughout England and Wales. He married in 1884 Jenny, the eldest daughter of Aug Klingberg, of Stockholm, who survived him with two daughters. He died at his home, 19 St John's Road, Harrow, Middlesex, on January 15th, 1930, and was buried at Highgate Cemetery. Thane was a man of encyclopaedic anatomical knowledge, and was one of the British representatives at the Basle conference where a new anatomical nomenclature was evolved which did not meet with his approval. In 1850 G Viner Ellis (qv) succeeded Jones Quain, the first Professor of Anatomy at University College, and in 1877 Thane succeeded Ellis. Ellis's conception of teaching anatomy was an insistence upon the exact observation of fact and a clear and restrained expression of what he exposed by dissection, for he regarded an interest in the subject as outside the aims of a teacher. Without sacrificing any of the discipline of precise observation and lucid expression, Thane made the study of human anatomy a humane occupation and threw into his teaching the whole force of his personality. He became keenly interested in his pupils individually, and from 1874-1914 kept a detailed students' register, written in a careful hand, with red ink for failures and purple ink for successes. In regard to rules and regulations he was a martinet, and was intolerant of smoking, yet his class was orderly, not from fear but from a real desire on the part of his pupils to stand well in his sight. He edited Ellis's *Anatomy* and was for many years responsible for the purely anatomical portions of Quain's *Anatomy*. Here his powers of lucid description, combined with brevity and informed by his extensive knowledge, made the successive issues examples of what may be done by a competent editor. Publications: Edited Ellis's *Demonstrations of Anatomy*, 8vo, London, 1887 and 1890. Edited Jones Quain's *Elements of Anatomy*, 9th and 10th ed, 8vo, London. Appendix to Jones Quain's *Elements of Anatomy* - "Superficial and Surgical Anatomy" (with R J GODLEE), 10th ed, 8vo, 1896.
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First Title value, for Searching Thimbleby, John (1818 - 1898)

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First Title value, for Searching Thomas, Andrew Appleby (1848 - 1876)

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First Title value, for Searching Thomas, Benjamin (1815 - 1877)

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First Title value, for Searching Thomas, David John (1813 - 1871)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-05
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Llwynyberllan, Carmarthenshire, on September 12th, 1813, the eldest son of William Thomas, of that town. At the age of 16 he began his professional training at Swansea Infirmary, and subsequently studied at University College, then known as London University. As the medical degrees were not yet conferred by that body, he qualified LSA and MRCS and in 1838 sailed for Port Philip, a voyage which was then regarded as an unusual adventure. In 1839, instead of returning home as he had intended to do, he began to practise in Melbourne, having been persuaded thereto by the old colonists. The Melbourne Hospital was founded in 1840, and he was its first Surgeon. The hospital building, as now known, did not exist till 1848 - its site being 'bush' - and the work of this earliest of medical charities in Victoria was carried on in an unpretending building lent for the purpose by a Mr Fawkner. At first there were only twenty beds. Thomas continued on the staff of the hospital till 1853, when he came to England for a well-earned holiday. In 1840 he had entered into partnership with Dr Farquhar McCrae, after whose death he joined Dr Barker in 1850. In that year he had the leading practice in the Colony of Victoria, and as the roads there were mostly bush-tracks, his duty necessitated much physical exertion. In those days a ride of fifty miles up the country to see a patient was an ordinary occurrence, so that good horsemanship was an essential accomplishment in a medical man at that time. During the six years which he spent at home he visited all the principal hospitals and medical schools in England and on the Continent, diligently attending lectures, dissecting carefully, and also using the microscope. In 1853 he became MD St Andrews. Returning to Victoria in 1859, he found great changes in the Colony. The gold rush had occurred, and this, curiously enough, had much depreciated landed property. Thomas suffered with others and was compelled to sell land for £500 for which he had been offered £12,000 when on his travels. His old patients had left the ever-changing Colony, and an influx of medical practitioners had greatly intensified professional competition. He was obliged to begin life all over again, and did so courageously. He regained his position almost at once; was elected at the head of the poll when, in 1860, a second increase in the honorary staff of the Melbourne Hospital was decided upon; in 1862 became an Examiner in Anatomy and Physiology in Melbourne University; in 1865 was appointed by Government a Member of the Medical Board, and in 1868 Official Visitor to the Hospital for the Insane. He was also Hon Physician to the Deaf and Dumb Institution, to the St James's Training Institute, and in 1864 President of the Medical Society, where he delivered an interesting valedictory address in which he reviewed the early history of the profession in the Colony. From the Melbourne Hospital he sent, up to the last, admirable reports to the *Australian Medical Journal*. He was one of the earliest of those who associated together for scientific discussion in Australia, and in 1847 he read the first paper before the original Medical Society of Victoria (then known as the Port Philip Medical Society), his subject being the then new one of "The Inhalation of the Vapour of Ether, with Cases". He married the sister of his partner, Dr McCrae. This lady, with four daughters, survived him. His death from apoplexy occurred on June 1st, 1871.
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First Title value, for Searching Thomas, Henry (1809 - 1882)

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First Title value, for Searching Thomas, Jabez (1841 - 1919)

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First Title value, for Searching Thomas, John (1820 - 1861)

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First Title value, for Searching Thomas, John Davies (1844 - 1893)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-05 2016-11-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Swansea on October 11th, 1844, the eldest son of the Rev Thomas Thomas, a Congregational minister of that town. Two of his maternal great-uncles, John Davies - after whom he was named - and Thomas Davies, who lost his life at Trafalgar, were naval surgeons under Nelson. Thomas was educated at Swansea and at University College, London. Besides winning high honours in the London University examinations, he gained several certificates of honour at University College as well as the first silver medal in physiology and a Fellowes silver medal in clinical medicine. He was Resident Physician's Assistant to Sir William Jenner and Dr Russell Reynolds, and Resident Clinical Assistant at Brompton Hospital for Diseases of the Chest. From 1870-1872 he was Resident Medical Officer at University College Hospital, but in the latter year was compelled to retire owing to failing health. In search of change he obtained the appointment of Surgeon in the service of the P & O Steamship Company. He sailed to India and then to Australia, and after nearly two years in the service, settled in Victoria as Resident Surgeon at the Chines Hospital in 1875. Soon afterwards he was appointed Senior House Surgeon at the Adelaide Hospital, South Australia. He held that post for a year and then practised at Glenelg, and in 1878 joined Dr Whittell in partnership in Adelaide. Dr Whittell retiring, he practised alone, and in 1884 took Dr Lendon into partnership. In 1885 he came to Europe for study. Returning to Adelaide, he resumed practice and was soon appointed Joint Lecturer with Dr Verco on Medicine at the University. He was also for a long period of years Physician to the Adelaide Hospital, as well as a member of the Hospital Board of Management, and from 1877-1891 was a member of the University Council. He practised alone from 1887-1890, when paralysis compelled him to retire from active work. He took a short trip to New Zealand, and then settled in the hills - first at Waverley, then at Blackwood (1), where he died on January 30th, 1893. In 1878 he married Eleanor, fourth daughter of the Hon Walter Duffield, MLC, of Para Para. Publications: "On Ether and Chloroform." - *Australian Med Jour*, 1875, xx, 375. "Hydatid Disease of the Lungs." - *Ibid*, 1879, NS i, 510. "Statistics of Hydatid Disease in the Australian Colonies." - *Ibid*, 1881, NS iii, 250, etc. *Hydatid Disease, with Special Reference to its Prevalence in Australia*, 8vo, 5 plates, Adelaide, 1884. *Hydatid Disease*, vol. ii, being "A Collection of Papers on Hydatid Disease, edited and arranged by A A Lendon", with a Memoir of the Author, 8vo, Sydney, 1894. "Note upon the Frequent Occurrence of Tcenia Echinococcus in the Domestic Dog in Certain Parts of Australia," 8vo, London, 1885; reprinted from *Proc Roy Soc*, 1884-5, xxxviii, 457. [(1) Australia - email from Stephen C Due 22 October 2016]
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First Title value, for Searching Thomas, William ( - 1862)

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First Title value, for Searching Thomas, William (1840 - 1922)

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First Title value, for Searching Sherwin, William (1804 - 1874)

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First Title value, for Searching Shields, Charles James (1861 - 1897)

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First Title value, for Searching Shillitoe, Buxton (1826 - 1916)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-17
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Was educated at University College and Hospital, where he was House Surgeon. He practised for many years in the City of London, first at 34 Finsbury Circus, and then at 2 Frederick Place, Old Jewry. Comparatively early in his career he was Surgeon to the Great Northern Hospital, and in 1887 was appointed Surgeon to the London Lock Hospital, from the active staff of which he resigned in 1909, but kept his seat as Consulting Surgeon upon the Board of Management until his death. He devoted much attention to diseases of the genito-urinary tract, but did not contribute largely to medical literature. He devised a conical catheter which he described in the *Medical Times and Gazette* (1860, ii, 5). In 1864 Shillitoe first availed himself of the Zittmann treatment of the later forms of syphilis, which consisted in giving strong doses of decoction of sarsaparilla, followed by full doses of potassium iodide. The patient was usually kept in a room where a uniformly high temperature was maintained. He appears to have used this treatment with excellent results, and, as Mr Alban Doran (qv), who knew Shillitoe, pointed out, was thus employing the old sudorific procedures. Doran met Shillitoe at the meetings of the Linnean Society, the latter being fond of the study of botany. He was Consulting Surgeon for many years to the East London Children's Hospital, as well as Surgeon to the Atlas and other Insurance Companies. After retiring from practice he lived at Birch Mount, 29 Sydenham Hill, SE, from which he removed some years before his death to Bournemouth, where he died at 3 Richmond Gardens on December 23rd, 1916. Publications: "On a New Form of Catheter for Dilating Stricture of the Urethra."- *Med Times and Gaz*, 1860, ii, 5. "Tertiary Syphilis treated by the Zittmann Method."- *Ibid*, 1867, I, 491. "Position as an Aid to Reduction of Irreducible Hernia"- *Lancet*, 1882, ii, 1073.
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First Title value, for Searching Shillitoe, Richard Rickman (1821 - 1885)

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First Title value, for Searching Shillito, William (1816 - 1903)

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First Title value, for Searching Shipman, Robert (1817 - 1871)

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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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First Title value, for Searching Shute, Robert Grueber ( - 1879)

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First Title value, for Searching Shuter, James (1846 - 1883)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-17
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The only son of James Legasie Shuter, a well-known merchant in Covent Garden and Farringdon Road markets. He spent some of his early life in France, where he learnt to speak French faultlessly and fluently. He was sent to the Thanet Collegiate School at Margate in 1858, remained there for four years, and left after taking a first-class certificate at the College of Preceptors with honours in several subjects. He attended lectures at King's College, London, in 1862, gaining prizes in mathematics and French. Two years later in 1864 having matriculated at the University of London, he entered Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and took his BA degree with honours in the Mathematical Tripos in 1868. He also graduated LLB in the University of London in 1868. He attended Adden¬brooke's Hospital at Cambridge from 1868-1870, where he came under the influence of George M Humphry (qv), and on October 1st, 1870, he entered St Bar¬tholomew's Hospital, devoting himself at first to the study of chemistry, botany, and physics. He served as House Surgeon to Luther Holden from October, 1874, obtaining the House Surgeon's prize at the end of his year of office. He then became House Physician to Dr. Patrick Black until October, 1876, having graduated MA, MB at Cambridge in 1875. He spent a few months in Paris at the end of the year 1876 to take a course of operative surgery, and on his return to London began to practise as a consulting surgeon at 58 New Broad Street, EC. In 1878 he was appointed Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and in 1879 became Assistant Surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital. He applied for election as Assistant Surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital in March, 1882, when he came out bottom of the poll with 33 votes, Harrison Cripps (qv) receiving 53 and W J Walsham (qv) 56. He was more successful on March 28rd, 1882, when he obtained 127 votes, Jonathan F. Macready (qv) 48, and Charles Bell Keetley (qv) only a single vote. He died accidentally as a result of an overdose of morphia at Lawn House, Tufnell Park, on November 1st, 1883, and was buried at Kensal Green. He was unmarried. Shuter was a good teacher of anatomy, and as a 'coach' was successful in passing students at the examinations, for he was earnest, painstaking, and trustworthy. He was beginning to make a name for himself as a surgeon, and at the time of his death a discussion was in progress at the Clinical Society upon his method of stripping off the periosteum during amputation in order to obtain a better stump. He contributed frequently to the medical journals, and was one of the co-editors of the sixth (1882) edition of Luther Holden's *Osteology* and the editor of the third (1881) edition of the same author's *Landmarks Medical and Surgical*. Shuter had a large city connection, and was instrumental in inducing the late Charles Kettlewell to present £16,000 to St Bartholomew's Hospital for the erection of a Convalescent Home at Swanley in Kent. His sister Agnes married H Work Dodd (qv). In person Shuter was above the average height, a little inclined to embonpoint, of fair complexion, with a full blue eye, dark eyelashes, and a brown beard. In general conversation he was cheerful, ready, fluent, and well informed on the general topics of the day. Publications: *Progressive Muscular Atrophy*, 8vo, London, 1875. Thesis for Cambridge MB.
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First Title value, for Searching Sibley, Septimus William (1831 - 1893)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-17
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Born in Great Ormond Street, the seventh son of Robert Sibley, architect and surveyor to the County of Middlesex, and brother of George Sibley, the well-known civil engineer. He was educated at a private school and then at University College School, where he distinguished himself in mathematics, being second to Edward Routh, of Cambridge, who was afterwards Senior Wrangler. In applied mathematics in the 6th class of the school he won the first prize over the heads of Routh and Henry Cooke, who were bracketed in the second place. He also obtained the first prize in experimental philosophy. He then attended Professor de Morgan's lectures at University College, and worked chiefly at higher mathe¬matics and experimental philosophy with his friends, Sir William Flower (whose medical attendant he afterwards became), Dr Routh, and Sir Robert Fowler. He desired at this period of his life to devote himself to mathematics, but in 1848 he decided on the medical profession and entered as a student at the Middlesex and University College Hospitals, attending clinical instruction at the former and lectures at the latter school, where he won the Gold Medal in medicine, Joseph Lister (qv) at the same time winning the second Silver Medal. He also obtained the Silver Medal in surgery, the second Silver Medal being won by Lister. William Flower, Lister, and William Roberts were his chief contem¬poraries at the Hospital. At the Middlesex he was House Surgeon and then Medical Registrar from 1853-1860, and was later appointed Lecturer in Pathology, a post which he held for ten years. In 1856 he became partner with Thomas Farquhar Chilver. This practice, one of the leading ones of the day, had been founded by Sir Walter Farquhar (Physician to George IV) - who was succeeded by Samuel Chilver, father of Thomas Farquhar Chilver - and by Dr Martin Tupper, FRS, whose eldest son was Martin Farquhar Tupper, author of the once famous *Proverbial Philosophy*. Sibley practised at 12 New Burlington Street and then at 7 Harley Street; the firm was at first Chilver, Sibley & Plaskitt, and latterly Sibley Plaskitt. Up to within a year or two of his death Sibley was a member of the Middlesex Hospital Medical Committee. He was also for ten years Chairman of the Managing Committee of the Dental Hospital of London in succession to his friend Campbell de Morgan. A notable fact in his career is that he was the first general practitioner elected to the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, where he represented his colleagues from 1886-1891. His personal qualities of gentleness and conciliation were well calculated to gain affection as well as respect. He represented the best qualities of an accomplished general practitioner. He was singularly courteous in his demeanour, considerate to all, and was never too pressed for time to do a kind or charitable action. An active Member of the British Medical Association, he sat on the Council from 1881-1891, was Vice-President of the Parliamentary Bills Committee from 1886-1891, and Member of the Scientific Grants, Premises and Library, and Medical Charities Committees. In 1878 he was President of the Metropolitan Counties Branch and was for many years Treasurer. His fellow-councillors greatly respected him for his earnest industry and independent views, and he exerted a marked influence over them. He was Vice-President of the New Sydenham Society and of the Royal British Nurses' Association; for some years Treasurer of the Medical Sickness, Annuity, and Life Assurance Society; Fellow of the Royal Medico-¬Chirurgical Society; and Member of the Pathological and Clinical Societies. Sibley died at his country house, The Hermitage, White Hill, Bletchingley, Surrey, on March 15th, 1893, survived by Mrs Sibley, who was second daughter of Sir Robert Garden, Bart, MP, and by two sons, of whom one was Dr Walter Knowsley Sibley, a dermatologist, and five daughters. He occupied himself with scientific pursuits in his scanty leisure and was an authority on many nonprofessional subjects. Publications: *Report on the Cholera Patients admitted into the Middlesex Hospital during the Year 1854*, 8vo, London, 1855. "Contribution to the Statistics of Cancer. Collected from the Cancer Records of the Middlesex Hospital, communicated by James Moncrieff Arnott," 8vo, London, 1859; reprinted from *Med-Chir Trans* 1859, xlii. 111. "Cases Illustrating the Causes and Effects of Fibrinous Obstructions in the Arteries both of the Brain and of Other Organs," 8vo, London, 1861; reprinted from *Med-Chir Trans*, 1861, xliv, 255. "On the Structure and Nature of so-called Colloid Cancer." - *Med-Chir Trans*, 1856, xxxix, 259.
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First Title value, for Searching Rawbone, George (1799 - 1881)

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First Title value, for Searching Skinner, George Robert (1825 - 1856)

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First Title value, for Searching Sleeman, Philip Rowling ( - 1884)

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First Title value, for Searching Sleman, Richard (1810 - 1877)

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First Title value, for Searching Slinger, Robert Townley (1880 - 1929)

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First Title value, for Searching Sloggett, Sir Arthur Thomas (1857 - 1929)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-31
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Son of Inspector-General W H Sloggett, RN, of Tremabyn, Paignton, South Devon, was born at Stoke Damarel in that county on Nov 24th, 1857, his mother being Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Cornish-Crossing, JP, of Stoke Damarel. He was educated at King's College, London, and entered the Army as Surgeon in 1881. He served on the Indian Frontier in 1884 and was the Senior Medical Officer with British troops in the Dongola Expedition of 1896, when he was mentioned in dispatches, promoted to Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel, and received the Egyptian Medal with two Clasps and the Osmanieh Order. He was Senior Medical Officer of the First Brigade of the British Division of the Nile Expedition, and was dangerously wounded in the chest at Khartoum. For his services he was again mentioned, was promoted, and received the Medjidie Order. In the South African War he was in charge of the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital, and was afterwards PMO to a General Hospital and Commandant of Dreifontein district. He took part in the operations in the Orange Free State in April and May and in the Transvaal in June and July, 1900, and in the operations in the Transvaal, Orange River Colony, and Cape Colony, down to May, 1902. He was again mentioned in dispatches, received the Medal with five Clasps, and was decorated CMG. From 1903-1908 he was PMO of the Home and London districts, and in the latter year was appointed PMO of the Bombay Presidency (6th Division). He was made CB in 1910 and was nominated King's Honorary Surgeon in 1911. In December, 1911, he was promoted to be Director of Medical Services in India, and in June 1914, he succeeded Surgeon General Sir Launcelotte Gubbins as Director-General Army Medical Service, with the rank of Lieutenant-General. Two months after his appointment as Director-General the European War (1914-1918) began, and a month later Sloggett went to France in a triple capacity as Director-General of the Medical Services of the British Armies in the Field, as Chief Commissioner of the British Red Cross and of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. It was impossible for one individual to carry out the duties of these posts, and Sir Alfred Keogh, who had been Director-General from 1904-1910, was recalled to become acting Director-General in England whilst Sloggett served in France attached to General Headquarters. Here he remained until June 1st, 1918, when, his term of office being ended, he was replaced as Director-General by Sir John Goodwin, who was subsequently appointed Governor of Queensland. After his retirement Sir Arthur Sloggett was Colonel Commandant from 1921-1928. For his services during the War he was mentioned in dispatches seven times, in the *London Gazette* of February 17th, 1915, July 10th, 1915, January 4th, 1917, May 29th, 1917, December 24th, 1917, May 25th, 1918, and October 21st, 1918; and received the KCB in 1915, the Legion of Honour, Grand Officer (2nd class), in 1915, the Order of King Leopold of Belgium, Commander (3rd class), in 1916, the KCMG and KCVO in 1917. Besides these honours he had been appointed a Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in 1898, and he received the CB in 1910. During his later years Sir Arthur Sloggett was Chairman of the Mills Equip¬ment Co Ltd, a Director of Bovril Ltd, and served on the Boards of the English Insurance Company, of the General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Company, and of the Yorkshire Paper Mills Ltd. He married in 1881 Helen (Lady of Grace of St John of Jerusalem), daughter of J R Boyson, formerly Solicitor-General of Madras, and by her had a son and two daughters. This son was Lieut-Colonel A J H Sloggett, DSO, of the Rifle Brigade; his daughters married respectively Lieut-Colonel Llewellyn Evans, CMG, DSO, RE, and Major J T Duffin, MC, of the Royal Irish Rifles. Sloggett died suddenly whilst walking with his son near Regent's Park on November 27th, 1929, and was buried at St Peter's Church, Petersham, near Richmond, Surrey. The busiest and perhaps the best part of Sloggett's life was the period when he acted as the directing head of the medical department of the largest British Army which ever took the field. During these forty-five months the professional military surgeons and the civilian doctors were gradually merged into a single and coherent medical service, and for this Sloggett was chiefly responsible. From time to time he was severely criticized by those who would have adopted other means to attain a similar end, but nevertheless it stands to his credit that he evolved a most efficient medical service. He had a talent for selecting men to fill the posts for which they were best fitted, and having selected them he allowed them to work without interference. He was unique as a peacemaker, for his tact, his kindly bright manner, and his shrewd common sense quickly dissipated any dissension arising in the vast machine which he controlled. If a disagreeable thing had to be done he accomplished it in so kindly a manner that the victim was left with the feeling that he could not have been better treated. He worked harmoniously with the Red Cross Society, with the Order of St John of Jerusalem, and with the various consultants from civil practice who were eager to help though they had little or no knowledge of service methods or of service ways. His wide outlook enabled him to dispense with all but a minimum of red tape, and he was always ready to take advice from those he thought competent to give it. In his capacity as Director-General in France during the War he was largely responsible for the improvements in front-line treatment. The special arrangements made for head injuries, for abdominal wounds, for fractures, and for bums were rendered possible by the facilities which he provided. He was also in favour of establishing research units, though he would not have claimed for himself any deep knowledge of scientific medicine. In person Sloggett was tall and elegant, always well dressed, his tunic resplendent with the ribbons of the many decorations which had been earned in the course of long service. As long as it was possible to do so he lived comfortably in a well-appointed château because he hated squalor, but he was active in visiting the units under his command and did not neglect the front line. When he left the British Expeditionary Force he carried with him the affectionate regard of the many officers who had served under him, to whom he had always shown great consideration, whilst the rank and file knew that they had been better cared for, housed, and doctored than in any previous war. Sir Arthur Sloggett with Sir Anthony A Bowlby (qv), representing the AMS, and Dame Maude McCarthy, GBE, Matron-in-Chief QAIMNS British Armies in France 1914-1919, appear in the panel at the Royal Exchange, London.
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First Title value, for Searching Slyman, William (1807 - 1869)

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First Title value, for Searching Campbell, Wallace Neil (1911 - 1943)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 16 March 1911, the son of N Campbell, of Kauwhata, Palmerston North, New Zealand, he was educated at Newbury School and Palmerston North Boys High School, and at the Otago Medical School, Dunedin, where he qualified in 1936. After serving as house surgeon at Wellington Hospital he came to England for postgraduate study in 1938, travelling as ship's surgeon in the Empire Star. He held appointments at the Dreadnought Hospital, Greenwich, the British Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith, and the Weir Hospital, Balham. On the outbreak of war in 1939 he was posted under the emergency medical service to Lambeth Hospital and later to St James's Hospital, Balham, where he served during the air-raids of 1940-41. He took the Fellowship, though not previously a member of the College, in 1941. While in England he was commissioned in the New Zealand Medical Corps and posted to the Middle East. He died on active service in the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force base camp in Egypt on 2 March 1943.
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First Title value, for Searching Cant, William Edmund (1844 - 1936)

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First Title value, for Searching Cardenal, Fernandez Salvador (1852 - 1927)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 1 September 1852 at Valencia, his father a Basque, his mother from Burgos. He was educated at Urgel (Seo de Urgel), Lerida, where his attention was turned to medicine by a severe attack of pleurisy. As a medical student he had a distinguished career, winning many prizes at the Valdemia College de Mataro. He was appointed demonstrator of anatomy in the faculty of medicine at Barcelona, a position he held for six years, giving private courses of anatomy and operative surgery, and devoting some attention to the subject of anaesthesia both general and local. In 1875 he visited Paris to study surgery and in the same year was appointed on the staff of the Girona. In 1879 he was made director of the Hospital del Segrado Corazón de Jesus, and paid a second visit to France. From 1878 onwards he advocated steadily the adoption of Listerian principles in the practice of surgery, and was successful in reducing materially the mortality in the hospital over which he presided. His services were recognized by the award of the gold medal of the Real Academia de Medicina y Cirugia, Madrid, and by the decoration with the Grand Cross de Beneficencia by King Alfonso XII. In 1890 he was president of the Academia y Laboratorio de Ciencias Médicas, Barcelona. He died at Barcelona on 23 April 1927. A bronze memorial was erected to his memory. Publications:- "De la anesthesia". *Independencia medica*, 1873, Nos. 3-12. "Un pas vers la solution du probleme de l'anesthesie locale" *Int med Congr IV,* Brussels, 1875. *Caracteres diferenciales entre el lupus, el epithelioma, y el cancer ulcerado*. Madrid, 1880. "Sobre el tratamiento quirtrgico del lupus." *Archivos de terapéutica médica y quirúrgica*, Barcelona, 1883, pp.1, 17, 33 and 65. *Guía práctica para la cura de las heridas y la aplicación del metodo antiseptico en cirugia*, 1880. *Manual práctico de cirugla antiséptica*. Barcelona, 1880; 2nd ed. 1887; 3rd ed. 1894. "Concepto quirúrgico de la inflammación". Barcelona, R Acad de Med 1885. "Heridas producidas por los proyectiles de los fusiles Remington y Mauser." Barcelona, Acad y labor de ciencias méd. 1893. "Cirurgía de las vias biliares: Ensenanzas de 2100 laparotomias; Curabilidad operatoria del cancer fundada en el conocimiento de su patogenia," papers in *Revista española de medicina y cirugía*. *Ponencia sobre las indicaciones de la intervención quirúgica en las afeciones del estómago*. Barcelona, 1903.
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First Title value, for Searching Carless, Albert (1863 - 1936)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Richmond, Surrey, 4 April 1863, the sixth child and fourth son of Thomas James Carless, contractor, and Jane Cullen Furze, his wife. He was educated at Carrington Lodge, Richmond, at King's College School, London, and at King's College, where he won the senior scholarship in 1885, and at King's College Hospital. Here and at the University of London he had a distinguished undergraduate career, qualifying for a gold medal in surgery at the BS examination in 1887 and at the MS examination in the following year. In the King's College medical faculty he won the gold medal and prize for botany, the junior scholarship, the second-year scholarship, the senior medical scholarship, the Warneford prize and the Leathes prize. He was appointed house surgeon to King's College Hospital in 1885 and three years later he became Sambrooke registrar. He was elected assistant surgeon to the hospital in 1889, having the good fortune to serve under Lister; became surgeon in 1898, and from 1902 to 1918 was professor of surgery at King's College in succession to William Watson Cheyne. He accepted a commission as major *á la suite* in the territorial service on 16 November 1912, and was gazetted colonel AMS on 22 September 1917, serving at first as surgeon to the 4th London General Hospital and later as consulting surgeon to the Eastern Command; for his services he was created CBE in 1919. He retired from surgical work on demobilization in 1919, resigned his hospital appointments, and devoted himself during the rest of his life to philanthropic work. From June 1919 until 1926 he acted as honorary medical director at Dr Barnardo's Homes, and subsequently lived at Crieff, Perthshire, where he did much good work both locally and generally. In 1898 he published, in collaboration with William Rose, FRCS, a *Manual of surgery* which immediately became a popular text-book. It was translated into Hungarian, Chinese, and Arabic, and had a large sale in the United States. He married Ada Bridger, younger daughter of Major-General G S Dobbie of the Madras army, by whom he had two sons, both killed in action. He died suddenly at Worthing on 27 April 1936. The guiding motive of Carless' life was his deep and abiding interest in evangelical religion. So long as he was in London he was associated with Dr Stuart Holden in his work at St Paul's Church, Portman Square. He was afterwards president of the inter-varsity fellowship of the Evangelical Union. Publication:- *A manual of surgery*, with W Rose. London, 1898; 14th ed. 1933.
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First Title value, for Searching Carlton, Charles Hope (1889 - 1951)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 21 November 1889, the seventh child and second son of William Carlton, muslin draper, of Grantham, and Mary Elizabeth Rollinson, his wife. He was educated at Doncaster Grammar School, and won an open exhibition in mathematics and natural science to St John's College, Oxford, where he began by reading law, but took second-class honours in physiology in 1912. He entered St Mary's Hospital, London, with a university scholarship, served as demonstrator of anatomy, and qualified in 1914. He was commissioned in the RAMC, and saw active service during the war in France and West Africa. He was wounded, and was awarded the Military Cross. He was at first a regimental medical officer with the London Regiment and the 2nd Life Guards, and later DADMS, 47th Division. On coming back to civil practice Carlton was house surgeon to the new professorial surgical unit at St Mary's, and made postgraduate study at Harvard, the Mayo Clinic, and Toronto. He took the Fellowship, though not previously a Member, and the Oxford mastership in 1923. He was surgical registrar at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, and Surgeon to the Seamen's Hospital, Royal Albert Dock. Then he was elected surgeon to the National Temperance Hospital, where he was also curator of the museum. He was also senior surgeon to the South-eastern Hospital for Children. He was an active member of the Chelsea Clinical Society. Carlton examined for the General Nursing Council, and served the University of London as warden of Connaught Hall and as a member of the military education committee. Between the wars he kept his keen interest in the territorial army, and commanded the medical unit of the University of London OTC. When war began in 1939 he was appointed ADMS, 1st Anti-Aircraft division. Later he was in command of the 7th and 3rd General Hospitals and the 34th West African General Hospital, with the rank of colonel, Army Medical Service. He was serving in Crete at the time of the German invasion in 1941. After the formation of the National Health Service in 1948 he became a consultant surgeon to the North-West (Paddington) and South-East (Bromley) metropolitan regional hospital groups, and served on the council of the Regional Hospitals Consultants and Specialists Association. Carlton married in 1938 Valmai Myfanwy, youngest daughter of Lewis Davies of Porth, Glamorgan, who survived him with two sons and a daughter. He practised at 86 Brook Street, W1, and lived at 19 Westbury Road, N12. He died suddenly in London on 3 October 1951, aged 61, and was buried at St Marylebone Cemetery, Finchley. Carlton collected engravings and bred bull-terriers. He was often unpunctual, but was noted for his charm of manner and transparent honesty. Publications:- "Blood transfusion in children's practice." *Lancet*, 1926, 2, 850. "Factors in foot reconstruction." *Lancet*, 1929, 2, 605. "Two cases of malignant tumours of the testicle," with J McClure and H H Sanguinetti. *Brit J Urol* 1932, 4, 217.
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First Title value, for Searching Carpenter, Edgar Godfrey Boyd (1866 - 1943)

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First Title value, for Searching Carr, John Walter (1862 - 1942)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-18
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Occupation Physician
Details Born in London, 5 June 1862, the only child of John Carr, JP, chemist, and M A Bowers, his wife. He was educated at University College School and Hospital, winning an exhibition and gold medal in materia medica and pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of London intermediate examination. He was medical scholar of the Society of Apothecaries in 1885, and took first-class honours in medicine, surgery, and midwifery at the London MB examination. After studying the nervous system under Charlton Bastian at University College Hospital and the respiratory system at the Brompton Hospital under Douglas Powell, he was appointed assistant physician to the Victoria Hospital for Children, Chelsea, in 1889, becoming physician in 1897 and consulting physician in 1920. In 1893 he was appointed assistant physician to the Royal Free Hospital, ultimately becoming consulting physician and emeritus lecturer in medicine at the London School of Medicine for Women. During the four years' war he was physician to the hospital for officers in the Royal Free Hospital, and was created CBE for his services. He was an examiner at the Royal College of Physicians 1919-23 and also examined for the Conjoint Board, for the Society of Apothecaries, for Birmingham University, and for the State Register of Nurses. At the Royal College of Physicians he served on the council 1919-21 and as a Censor in 1926-27. He was president of the clinical section of the Royal Society of Medicine 1928-29, and president of the Medical Society of London in 1928, when he delivered the presidential address on "Medical ambitions and ideals", *Lancet*, 1928, 2, 753. He had previously addressed the Medical Society on "Life and problems in a medical utopia", *Lancet*, 1923, 1, 993. Walter Carr took the highest professional qualifications and was interested in every branch of pure medicine, though in later years his chief interest was in tuberculosis and diseases of the lungs. His most original contribution was made in his paper on "Non-tuberculous posterior basic meningitis in infants", in which he was the first to point out its relationship to cerebrospinal fever, as was subsequently confirmed. This was published in abstract only in *Proceedings of the Royal Medico-chirurgical Society, London*, 1897, 9, 110. Carr was a Freeman of the City of London and served in 1914 on the court of the Haberdashers' Company and as Master in 1929. He took an active interest in the Drapers' and Haberdashers' schools and served on the council of Epsom College. He was a strong walker both at home and in Switzerland. At the age of forty he was attacked by writer's cramp, and towards the end of his life was crippled by severe multiple arthritis. Carr married in 1895 Jessie, daughter of Walter Griffith of Streatham Hill. Mrs Carr died in 1937. He practised at 10 Cambridge Terrace and later at 10 Ferncroft Avenue, Hampstead, NW3, where he died on 29 September 1942, aged 80, survived by a son and three daughters, two of whom were married to medical men. Publications:- *The practitioner's guide*, with T. Pickering Pick, Alban Doran, and A Duncan. London, 1902. *How to live long*. London, 1916. "Diseases of the pleura and mediastinum". *Dictionary of practical medicine*. London, 1921. "Tuberculosis", in Thursfield and Paterson. *Diseases of children*, 1929.
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First Title value, for Searching Carson, Herbert William (1870 - 1930)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 9 October 1870, the third child and third son of James Hamilton Carson, a civil engineer, and Caroline Sharpe, his wife. He was educated privately and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. In 1895 he was elected house surgeon at the Tottenham Hospital and remained attached to the institution for the rest of his life, becoming assistant surgeon in 1897 and surgeon in 1904. Carson intended at first to specialize in the surgery of the ear, nose, and throat, and was appointed to take charge of this department in 1899. He resigned it in 1912, and from that time onwards practised general surgery with a special interest in acute abdominal cases. During the whole of his professional life he was keenly interested in postgraduate teaching, and in 1900 he organized, in conjunction with Dr A J Whiting, the North-east London Clinical Society and twice served the office of president. From this society was formed 1902 the North-east London Postgraduate College, which soon became a flourishing centre of postgraduate education, not only for the north of London but for students from a very wide area. The foundation of the Fellowship of Medicine in 1919 gave a still further impetus to postgraduate teaching in London, and Carson at once took a leading part in its organization. He served on the executive committee from 1923 and acted as chairman from 1928, devoting himself more especially to the develop¬ment of the overseas side of the scheme, for which purpose he visited Canada and the United States on more than one occasion. Carson was president of the Hunterian Society for the year 1924-25; president of the Medical Society of London 1927-28 and its treasurer in 1928; and honorary librarian of the Royal Society of Medicine, a post to which he had been appointed only a few months before his death. During the war of 1914-18 he served as surgeon to King George V Hospital, in London, with the rank of captain, RAMC (T.). He married Mary Willis on 19 December 1912, but there were no children. He died at his house 111 Harley Street, W, on Sunday 31 August 1930, of pneumonia after an exploratory abdominal operation. Carson had great administrative ability and by his power of teaching and organization was instrumental in converting the Tottenham Hospital, a small charity on the outskirts of London, into the well-recognized Prince of Wales Hospital, where there were good lectures, good clinics, and excellent surgery. His literary ability was considerable and he was a good and fluent speaker. He was a first-class chess player, a keen wicket-keeper, and a great lover of the sea. Tall and athletic in build, he had a soft and pleasing voice and a very friendly manner. At the Hunterian Society he delivered the Hunterian oration on peritonitis, a subject he treated in greater detail in his Mutter lecture at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1929. He was a member of the Alliance Lodge of Freemasons, No 1827. Publications:- *Aids to surgical diagnosis*. London, 1906. *Asepsis and how to secure it*. London, 1914. Clinical aspects of tuberculous mesenteric glands. *Trans med Soc Lond*, 1918, 41, 220. Editor of *Modern operative surgery*, 2 volumes, London, 1924. Pye's *Surgical handicraft*, 10th ed. Bristol, 1931.
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First Title value, for Searching Carte, Geoffrey Williams (1884 - 1945)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-18 2023-01-13
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Occupation Otorhinolaryngolologist
Details Born 27 November 1884, the only child of Henry Williams Carte, of the firm of Rudall Carte, musical instrument makers, and his wife Edith Rosa Williams. His paternal uncle was the theatre impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte. He was educated at Rugby and at New College, Oxford where he took a second class in the honours school of physiology. He received his medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon, and as clinical assistant in the throat department. After serving as registrar in the aural department of the London Hospital. he was elected assistant surgeon in the throat and ear department there, and was also surgeon in the throat, nose, and ear departments at the Metropolitan Hospital and at St Andrew's Hospital, Dollis Hill. He was for a time personal assistant to Sir Milsom Rees, FRCS Ed (1866-1952). Carte had only been qualified for two years when war broke out; he served as a consultant laryngologist and aurist in the Royal Navy. In the second war he took an active part in London air raid precaution (civil defence) work, and he was mentioned in a Gazette. He was later a keen Home Guard. Carte was a man of social charm. He inherited musical gifts and frequented the company of musicians and actors, and was a constant listener to the opera. He was honorary laryngologist to the British Actors' Equity. He was a member of the Garrick Club and of the Sette of Odd Volumes. His other recreations were shooting, fishing, and gardening. Carte was married twice. In 1917 he married Georgina Foster. His second wife, Desiree Ellinger, whom he married in 1934, survived him, as did his son and daughter. He died at 20 Beaumont Street, W1, on 6 March 1945, aged 60, and a memorial service was held at St Martin-in-the Fields on 5 April. He had practised at 36 Weymouth Street, and at 16 Upper Wimpole Street. **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 Carter, Frederick Heales (1853 - 1942)

2025-06-29T19:18:38Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-18 2014-07-24
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 4 November 1853, fifth child and fourth son of Charles Henry Carter, MRCS 1839, and Jane Barnes, his wife, at Pewsey, Wiltshire, where his father practised. He was educated at Epsom College and went with a scholarship to St Bartholomew's Medical College, also winning, a Jeaffreson exhibition. After serving as house surgeon at the Great (now Royal) Northern Hospital, he practised for a short time at Kettering, Northamptonshire. He returned to London, to Upper Tooting, moving later to Putney, and practised there and in Wandsworth for many years in partnership with Horace Jeaffreson, MRCS 1860; and was appointed assistant surgeon to HM Prison, Wandsworth. He was a member of the Clinical Society. Carter married on 14 October 1886 Isabella Mary Cartwright, who died before him. He died at 117 Upper Richmond Road, Putney, SW15, on 25 November 1942, aged 89, survived by a son, Frederick Graham Carter, and a daughter, and was buried at Putney Vale. He was the second eldest Fellow of the College, as George Andrew, who took the Fellowship in 1879, outlived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Carwardine, Thomas (1865 - 1947)

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First Title value, for Searching Body, Harold Alfred (1904 - 1932)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-22 2017-05-05
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Was born on 4 February 1904 at Melbourne, third child and youngest son of Alfred Body, customs official under the Australian commonwealth government, and Louisa Bang, his wife. Educated at the Scotch College, Melbourne, and graduated MB BS Melbourne in September 1927, taking the MD degree at the university in August 1929. He obtained first-class honours in both medicine and obstetrics and second-class honours in surgery in the final MB BS examination. He served in the Melbourne Hospital for two and a half years, first as resident medical officer and afterwards as surgical registrar. He came to England and took courses in anatomy and physiology at the Middlesex Hospital, passing the primary FRCS at his first attempt in December 1930. He then proceeded to St Bartholomew's Hospital and obtained from there his admission as FRCS on 10 December 1931. Returning to Victoria, he died at Elsternwick on 29 December 1932, having married, 19 March 1930, Lorna Louise Backwell, who survived him with one daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Clark, Willington (1805 - 1896)

2025-06-29T19:18:38Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-22 2013-08-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals. He practised at Sutton in Surrey, and was in partnership with William Everard Creasy, and later with John Wilton. By 1875 he had retired to 9 Gatestone Road, Upper Norwood, SE, where he died on April 23rd, 1896.
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First Title value, for Searching Bonnin, James Atkinson (1871 - 1945)

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First Title value, for Searching Bott, Robert Henry (1882 - 1939)

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First Title value, for Searching Bowden, Ellis Campbell (1890 - 1951)

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First Title value, for Searching Bowring, Walter Andrew (1862 - 1951)

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First Title value, for Searching Box, Charles Richard (1866 - 1951)

2025-06-29T19:18:38Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-22
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Occupation Anatomist Physician
Details Born on 3 March 1866, the son of the Rev John Box and his wife Sarah Bray. He was educated at Dulwich College, and started work in business in the City. Finding this uncongenial he entered St Thomas's Hospital medical school, where his student career was brilliant. He took honours in physiology in 1889, and in medicine and obstetric medicine at the London University graduation in 1892, having qualified through the Conjoint Board the previous year. Although he took the Fellowship of the College in 1893, he decided to practise as a physician, and took the London MD in the same year. He was appointed medical registrar at St Thomas's Hospital in 1894 and held the post for three years. He became resident assistant physician in 1897, and took the Membership of the College of Physicians. He was appointed an assistant physician in 1900 and elected FRCP in 1906. He was in charge of the children's department, became physician in 1915 and consulting physician on retirement in 1926. Throughout almost his whole connexion with the hospital he acted as demonstrator of morbid anatomy (till 1919), and carried out most of the post-mortem examinations. He was also chairman of the medical and surgical officers committee. In the medical school he was successively lecturer in medicine and applied anatomy, medical tutor and sub-dean. During the war of 1914-18 he served at the 5th London General Hospital with the rank of major, RAMC. He was also physician, and ultimately consulting physician, to the Royal Masonic Hospital, the London Fever Hospital, and the Willesden General Hospital. He examined in medicine for the Universities of London and Birmingham, for the English Conjoint Board and the Society of Apothecaries. At the Apothecaries he was long a member of the Court and might have been Master, had he not been living in Devonshire, during the war of 1939-45. At the Royal College of Physicians he was a councillor, and a Censor in 1930-31; he delivered the Lumleian lectures in 1933 on "Complications of the specific fevers". Box was a skilled diagnostician, and a practical and watchful physician. His attitude to innovations was somewhat cynical, but he had an encyclopaedic and precise knowledge of medical literature, which was put to good use in his few masterly publications. His writings on fevers were authoritative. He was an honorary member of the British Paediatric Association. Box practised at 2 Devonshire Place, and lived latterly at 1 Harley House, Regent's Park. He married in 1905 Marian Jane, daughter of George Thyer of Bridgwater, Somerset, who survived him. He died in St Thomas's Hospital on 3 April 1951, aged 84, and was cremated at Streatham Vale. A memorial service was held in the chapel of St Thomas's Hospital on 11 April. He left £1,000 to the Society of Apothecaries, and his residuary estate to St Thomas's Hospital to form the Box fund for helping students. Box's interests lay entirely in his practice and his pathological work. He had few relaxations, but enjoyed an annual holiday in the Channel Isles. Publications:- Edited *St Thomas's Hospital Medical Reports*, 1893-6. *Clinical applied anatomy*, with W McAdam Eccles. London: Churchill, 1906. *Post-mortem manual, a handbook of morbid anatomy and post-mortem technique* [the same]. 1910, 2nd ed 1919. Fevers, in *A textbook of the practice of medicine*, edited by F Price. Oxford, 1926, and subsequent editions. Complications of specific fevers, Lumleian Lectures, RCP 1933. *Lancet*, 1933, 1, 1217, 1271, 1327.
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First Title value, for Searching Boyd, Thomas Hugh (1867 - 1935)

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First Title value, for Searching Boyle, Henry Edmund Gaskin (1875 - 1941)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-22
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Occupation Anaesthetist
Details Born on 2 April 1875 at Bannatyne, Barbados, only child of Henry Eudolphus Boyle, sugar-planter, and his wife, *née* Law. He was educated at Harrison College, Barbados, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital. As a student he was president of the Abernethian Society. After a short time as casualty officer at the Bristol Royal Infirmary he was appointed junior resident assistant anaesthetist, with W Foster Cross, at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1902. He continued to serve the hospital throughout his career, being eventually (1913) senior anaesthetist, and lecturer on anaesthetics in the medical college from 1905. He retired as consulting anaesthetist in 1939. He was also anaesthetist to the St Andrew's Hospital, Dollis Hill; Lady Carnarvon's Hospital; Queen Alexandra Hospital for Officers, Highgate, and Paddington Green Children's Hospital. During the four years' war he was commissioned captain, RAMC(T) on 5 September 1914, and served in various London hospitals, being created OBE in 1920 for his services. Boyle did much for the practical development of anaesthetic administration. About 1912 the gas - oxygen - ether method began to be popular, largely through his example. He brought the first Gwathmey apparatus from America, and Boyle's own nitrous-oxide/oxygen/ether apparatus became well known. During the war of 1914-18 it was usefully employed in casualty clearing stations in France, and he successfully impressed the authorities with the importance of this form of anaesthesia in shock cases. Later he introduced the Davis gag for dissection tonsillectomy from America, and was a pioneer in endotracheal anaesthesia, and also improved the anaesthesia of midwifery. He was on the editorial board of the *British Journal of Anaesthesia* from its foundation in 1923, and was president of the section of anaesthetics at the Royal Society of Medicine in 1924. He was an original member of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland and influenced the Royal Colleges in the establishment of the Diploma in Anaesthetics, to which he was himself admitted in the first group in 1935. The same year he was appointed the first examiner for this Diploma, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons as a Member of twenty years' standing. He was an excellent practical teacher. Boyle was a man of rotund figure and genial nature, popular with his colleagues and students as "Cocky" Boyle. He was a keen cricketer and a supporter of the Bart's rugby football club, and as a member of the senior staff had been president of the Students' Union. He married in 1910 Mildred Ethel, daughter of J W Widdy and widow of Leslie Greene, FRI, BA, who survived him but without children. Boyle died after a long illness at 4 Cliffe Road, Godalming, Surrey on 15 October 1941. Publications:- *Practical anaesthetics*. London, 1907; 2nd ed, 1911; 3rd ed, with C Langton Hewer, 1923. Nitrous-oxide: history and development. *Brit med J*. 1934, 1, 153.
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First Title value, for Searching Chitty, Hubert (1882 - 1966)

2025-06-29T19:18:38Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-25
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Hubert Chitty received his medical education at University College London graduating in 1904. During 1909-1911 he served as senior medical officer at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and then he joined the staff of that hospital as a general surgeon, but his chief interest was always in orthopaedic work. In the first world war he served in the Royal Navy with the rank of Lieutenant-Commander. After the war he was appointed surgeon to the Winford Orthopaedic Hospital, one of the first to be elected to the staff when the Hospital was opened in 1932. Chitty also worked as orthopaedic surgeon at Frenchay Park Hospital. He remained attached to those hospitals until his retirement in 1946, when he became closely associated with the Bristol Crippled Children's Society and the Bristol Council for the Disabled. He was also an Emeritus Fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association. In 1947-48 he was a Sheriff of Bristol, and in 1946 was President of the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society. Before the introduction of antibiotics he reported the successful treatment of actinomycosis of the liver and lung with large doses of iodised milk, combined with intratracheal injections of lipiodol in patients with lung infections. Chitty was a man of wide interests and he travelled widely, visiting many parts of the world. His wife died in 1964, and he was survived by a son and two daughters, his youngest son having predeceased him in 1958 at the age of 38. His eldest son went to Canada, and became Professor of Zoology at the University of British Columbia. When he retired Chitty first lived in Portishead, Somerset, then moved to Bath where he died on 13 December 1966 at the age of 85.
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First Title value, for Searching Saxton, William Waring ( - 1879)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at St George's Hospital. He practised first at Market Drayton, Shropshire, and then at 1 Berkeley Gardens, Kensington, where he died on January 6th, 1879. At the time of his death he was Surgeon to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
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First Title value, for Searching Scales, William Henry (1818 - 1858)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-20
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born on November 7th, 1818, and entered the Madras Army as Assistant Surgeon on January 25th, 1841. He was Surgeon to the 33rd Native Infantry, Madras, and saw active service in the Indian Mutiny (1857-1858). He died of dysentery at Dinapur on June 24th, 1858.
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First Title value, for Searching Scannermann, Robert William ( - 1889)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details First practised at Hounslow, and then for many years in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, SW (No 12, and later No 13). He was at one time in partnership with Thomas Bramah Diplock, at 1 Sidney Street, Chelsea. He was Surgeon to St Mark's College and to the Royal Humane Society. His death occurred in or before 1889.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Samuel Montgomery Charles Alfred Anderson (1826 - 1915)

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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Thomas (1809 - 1860)

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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Sir Thomas, Bart (1833 - 1909)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-02-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Blackheath on March 23rd, 1833, the sixth son of Benjamin Smith, a London goldsmith, by his wife Susannah, daughter of Apsley Pellatt, whose ancestor, Thomas Pellatt, was President of the Royal College of Physicians of London from 1735-1739. Two of Tom Smith's brothers became Canons of Canterbury, and a third, Stephen, was Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths' Company in 1885-1886. Tom Smith was educated at Tonbridge School, which he entered as a day boy in Lent Term 1844 and left in 1850, being then in the Sixth Form and Cricket XI. He was apprenticed to Sir James Paget (qv) in 1851 and was the last of the 'hospital apprentices' at St Bartholomew's Hospital. In August, 1854, he became House Surgeon at the Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street, and resigned on account of ill health on December 7th, when he received a special minute of commendation from the Committee of Management. He then took rooms in Bedford Row, lived by coaching pupils, and acted as assistant to Sir James Paget both at the hospital and in his private practice. From 1857 it was his practice for several years to visit Paris in the Easter vacation with a small class of pupils, where with the help of Brown-Sequard he taught them operative surgery. The outcome of this work was a *Manual of Operative Surgery on the Dead Body*, published in 1859, the second edition appearing in 1876. It is short, practical, and useful. He was appointed jointly with George W Callender (qv) Demonstrator of Anatomy and Teacher of Operative Surgery at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1859. He was elected Assistant Surgeon on February 24th, 1864, on the resignation of Frederic Carpenter Skey (qv), and was placed in charge of the Aural Department, lecturing on anatomy jointly with Callender from 1871. He was promoted full Surgeon in 1873 and resigned on March 10th, 1898, on attaining the age limit of 65. He was then elected Consulting Surgeon, a Governor of the Hospital, and a Member of the Visiting Committee. From 1858-1861 Smith was Assistant Surgeon at the Great Northern Hospital, then recently established in York Road, King's Cross. In September, 1861, he was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street; in June, 1868, he was appointed Surgeon, and in November, 1883, resigned and was made Consulting Surgeon. He was also Surgeon to the Alexandra Hospital for Hip Disease in Queen Square, Bloomsbury. At the Royal College of Surgeons Smith served on the Council from 1880-1900, was Vice-President in 1887-1888 and again for the years 1890-1891, but declined to be put in nomination either as an Examiner or for the office of President. He was chosen a Trustee of the Hunterian Collection in 1900. He was gazetted Surgeon Extraordinary to Queen Victoria in 1895 in succession to Sir William Savory (qv). He actively aided the Misses Keyser in founding their Home for Officers wounded in the South African War. For his services he was decorated KCVO in 1901, having already been created a baronet in 1897. Becoming an honorary Serjeant-Surgeon to Edward VII on his accession in 1901, he was in attendance when Sir Frederick Treves (qv) operated on the King on June 24th, 1902, the day which had been fixed for the coronation. Smith lived at 7 Montague Street, Russell Square, until 1868, when he removed to 5 Stratford Place, Oxford Street, where he died on October 1st, 1909. He was buried in the Finchley Cemetery. He married on August 27th, 1862, Ann Eliza, the second daughter of Frederick Parbury, an Australian by birth. She died on February 9th, 1879, shortly after the birth of her ninth child, and in 1880 he instituted in her memory the Samaritan Maternity Fund at St Bartholomew's Hospital. His eldest son, Rudolph, succeeded to the title; his eldest daughter, Laura, married Sir Archibald E Garrod, KCMG, FRS, who became Regius Professor of Physic at the University of Oxford. As a surgeon Smith was a dexterous operator, combining speed with safety; he excelled in plastic operations, more especially in the repair of cleft palate and hare-lip. He contributed to the *Medico-Chirurgical Transactions*(1868, li, 79) a paper "On the Cure of Cleft Palate by Operation in Children, with a Description of an Instrument for Facilitating the Operation". Smith's 'tubular cleft-palate needle' and Smith's 'mouth-gag' governed the technique of cleft-palate operations for many years. He was clever in diagnosis, and, though he was in no sense a scientific surgeon, he was sufficiently open-minded to study the advances made by Lister and Lawson Tait, and sent his house surgeons to watch and report upon their methods. He was amongst the first to use the lithotrite, although his lithotomies were so rapid that he was known to have extracted a stone from the bladder of a child in thirteen seconds. He wrote but little, though he drew attention to 'vaccino-syphilis' in 1871, and to the subperiosteal haemorrhages and separation of epiphyses which were the results of the faulty dietary of infants and led to 'scurvy rickets' or 'Barlow's disease'. He also took an active part in the Scientific Committee appointed to report upon the physiological and therapeutic effects of the hypodermic method of injection, the report of which appears in the *Medico-Chirurgical Transactions* (1867, 1, 561). Thomas Smith shone equally as a man. He was devoted to duty, was essentially humble-minded, and was always ready to excuse himself from doing what he thought others would do better. He was whimsical, with a gift for witty repartee which had no sting. With a strong domestic affection, the early loss of his wife left a lasting impression, and he devoted himself assiduously to the education of his large family. He was fond of outdoor games - cricket in his youth, fishing with his friend Sir Alfred Cooper (qv) and golf later. An excellent three-quarter length in oils by the Hon John Collier, RA, of which the family have a replica, hangs in the Great Hall at St Bartholomew's Hospital. It was painted by subscription on Smith's retirement from St Bartholomew's Hospital and was presented by his former house surgeons. The attitude is strikingly characteristic. He appears in Jamyn Brookes's portrait group of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, and there are several photographs of him in the College Council Club Album.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Thomas Heckstall (1806 - 1881)

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First Title value, for Searching Walsham, William Johnson (1847 - 1903)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-23
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in London on June 27th, 1847, the elder son of William Walker Walsham, who had a farm in Cambridgeshire, by his wife Louisa Johnson. Educated privately at Highbury, he early showed a mechanical bent and was apprenticed to the engineering firm of Messrs Maudslay. The early hours and physical strength required proved too much for his delicate body and he turned first to chemistry and then to medicine. He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in May, 1867, and obtained the chief school prizes in the first and second years of his studentship. In 1869 he won the Gold Medal at the Society of Apothecaries for proficiency in materia medica and pharmaceutical chemistry. He proceeded to Aberdeen - as was then a custom with London medical students - and graduated MB, CM with the highest honours in 1871. Returning to London he was nominated in May, 1871, to act for a year as House Physician to Dr Francis Harris, but exchanged nine months later with Charles Irving and became House Surgeon to Holmes Coote (qv). He then thought of entering private practice, but, an opportunity occurring in 1872, he was appointed Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy, a position which he was particularly well fitted to occupy, for he was a skilled anatomist and a beautiful dissector. He became full Demonstrator in 1873 and held office until 1880. From 1880-1889 he was Demonstrator of Practical and Operative Surgery; from 1889-1897 he lectured on anatomy; and from 1897 to the time of his death he lectured on surgery. From 1890 onwards he was Surgical Instructor in the Nursing School of the Hospital. Walsham was elected Assistant Surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital on March 10th, 1881, after a severe contest with William Harrison Cripps (qv) and James Shuter (qv), both of whom afterwards became his colleagues. He obtained 56 votes and his competitors 53 apiece. He was placed in charge of the Orthopaedic Department in 1884, where he soon made a reputation, as the subject allowed full scope for his mechanical skill, and it was his constant object to abolish the complicated apparatus of screws, springs, and levers used by the older school of orthopaedic surgeons. He published in 1895, with W Kent Hughes, *The Deformities of the Human Foot with their Treatment*. In 1897 he became full Surgeon. He was Surgeon to the Metropolitan Hospital from 1876-1896, and there had charge of the Department for Diseases of the Nose and Throat. He served as Surgeon to the Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest from 1876-1884. He was also a Consulting Surgeon to the Bromley Cottage Hospital and to the Hospital for Children with Hip and Spine Disease at Sevenoaks. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was an Examiner in Anatomy on the Conjoint Board from 1892-1897 and a Member of the Court of Examiners from 1897-1902, but he did not survive to be elected to the Council. He married in 1876 Edith, the elder daughter of Joseph Huntley Spencer, of Hastings, who outlived him. There were no children. He died of arteriosclerosis - for years indicated in the radial arteries - at 77 Harley Street on Oct 5th, 1903, and was buried at Highgate Cemetery. He had a country house at Forest Row, Sussex. Walsham spent the whole of his professional life in the pursuit of surgery, and attained eminence - but at a great cost, for he overworked a fragile body, and though he gained much money he never lived to enjoy it. As an anatomist and as a teacher he was *facile princeps*. The dissections which he made are still preserved in the anatomical rooms of the Hospital, and his pupils passed easily at the College examinations. He stood about five feet four inches in height and was beautifully proportioned, his hand so small that he could easily pass it through an incision where another could not introduce more than three fingers, nevertheless he undertook the larger operations of surgery like the removal of the upper jaw or amputation on a muscular patient. He was neat, rapid, dexterous, and extremely delicate in his manipulations, although his hands trembled before he began to operate. He knew exactly what he wanted to do, and hardly ever failed to carry out his design. In cases of grave emergency he rose to the occasion with promptitude. He kept himself in touch with the most recent developments of surgery, carried out the later Listerian methods, and was one of the first surgeons in the Hospital to use gloves - first of cotton, afterwards of rubber - whilst operating; he was also one of the first surgeons in the Hospital to practise general abdominal surgery. He contributed a paper entitled, "Some Remarks on the Surgery of the Gall-bladder and Bile-ducts" (*St Bart's Hosp Rep*, 1901, xxxvii, 321), which gave details of his first twenty cases. Walsham had keen hazel eyes, and spoke in short incisive sentences with a degree of energy and vivacity which sometimes seemed out of proportion to the subject, though it served to arrest the attention of his hearers. He held high rank in Freemasonry, and when the project of founding the Rahere Lodge No 2546 for the convenience of masons belonging to St Bartholomew's Hospital was mooted in 1895, Walsham at once interested himself, and it was chiefly by his endeavours, ably seconded by those of Sir Alfred Cooper (qv) and Dr Clement Godson, that the Lodge was so rapidly successful as to become a model for others on the same lines. Publications:- *A Manual of Operative Surgery on the Dead Body* (with Sir Thomas Smith), 8vo, 2nd ed, 1876. *Handbook of Surgical Pathology for the Use of Students in the St. Bartholomew's Hospital Museum*, 8vo, 1878; 2nd ed conjointly with D'Arcy Power, 8vo, 1890. This was more than a mere guide to the Museum, for it was practically a manual of surgical pathology to be read with selected specimens whose numbers were given. *Surgery: its Theory and Practice*, 12mo, 1887; 8th ed, 1903. It contained a concise statement of the whole existing knowledge of surgery and was for many years the text-book most used by students for the pass degrees. It is said that Walsham wrote the first edition four or five times before it was printed, and the whole of his leisure time was spent in bringing the succeeding editions up to date. Posthumous editions were edited by W G Spencer, FRCS.
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First Title value, for Searching Whitfield, Charles Tomlins (1790 - 1871)

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First Title value, for Searching Whitfield, Frederick ( - 1872)

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First Title value, for Searching Whitlocke, Richard Henry Anglin (1861 - 1927)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-02-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Jamaica, the fourth son of the Rt Hon W A Whitelocke, Member of the Executive Council of Jamaica, and of Bulstrode Park, Westmorland. He was educated at Owens College, Manchester, and then graduated at the University of Edinburgh, where he was Demonstrator of Anatomy in the School of Medicine and Clinical Ophthalmic Assistant at the Royal Infirmary. Next he was Medical Officer at the Fife and Kinross District Asylum, and was then House Surgeon at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary under Sir William Macewen (qv), whom he always regarded with enthusiasm. Subsequently he held a succession of posts: House Surgeon at the Maternity Hospital, Glasgow; Clinical Ophthalmic Assistant at Moorfields; and Clinical Assistant at the Throat Hospital, Golden Square, London, at the same time coaching in anatomy. In 1888 he settled in practice at Oxford, with the intention of practising ophthalmology, but found no opening. He therefore began general practice, acted as Demonstrator of Anatomy under Professor Arthur Thomson, and was admitted FRCS in 1893. He was elected Surgeon to the Radcliffe Infirmary in 1899. He soon gained a reputation among undergraduates for the treatment of sprains and injuries of joints in sports - especially at football - being for many years Surgeon to the University Rugby Football Club, to the Great Western and London & North-Western Railways, Medical Referee to the County Court Circuit No 26, and Consulting Surgeon to the Thame Cottage Hospital and Nursing Home. He gave four courses of Litchfield Lectures on surgery at the Radcliffe Infirmary, and examined in Surgery at the Universities of Aberdeen and Liverpool. He was an active member of the Oxford Medical Society, of the Oxford and Reading Branch of the British Medical Association, and an original member of the Oxford Medical Graduates' Club from 1891. At the Oxford Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1901 he was Vice-President of the Surgical Section and a bard-working member of the Executive Committee. He was Chairman in 1909, and President in 1918, of the Oxford Branch. In 1914, at the Spring Meeting of the Provincial Surgical Club at Oxford, Whitelocke carried out a series of operations and demonstrated cases, which were specially commended by Mr Grey Turner. Sir William Osler, the Regius Professor of Medicine, was his Mend, and after a talk by Osler at the Bodleian on the "History of Surgery", illustrated by books in that famous collection, there was a dinner in the Hall of Lincoln College, of which Whitelocke was an honorary member - the Rector, Dr Merry, presiding. During the War (1914-1918) Whitelocke was in charge of the Third Southern General Hospital, and afterwards acted as Surgical Specialist attached to the Ministry of Pensions. Whitelocke had a buoyant manner and was a good conversationalist who travelled much. He was a Freemason and Past Master of the Churchill Lodge No 478, was devoted to shooting and was a very good shot. When a weekly contribution scheme was started to help the Radcliffe Infirmary, he motored in the evening to many villages in all parts of the county to give addresses in favour of that object. He practised at 6 Banbury Road, and latterly had a consulting-room at 11 Upper Wimple Street, London. His health began to fail in the spring of 1927, and he died on November 19th, 1927. He married Barbara, the eldest daughter of G L Reid, MICE, of Brighton, who survived him with three daughters and two sons. His younger son, Hugh A B Whitelocke, was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Radcliffe Infirmary in 1919. Publications : *Sprains and Allied Injuries of Joints, 1900: after Ten Years of Experience of X-ray Examinations*, 8vo, London, 1909; 2nd ed, 1910. "Loose Bodies in the Knee-joint." - *Brit Jour Surg*, 1913-14, i, 650. "Dislocations of the Patella." - *Ibid*, 1914-15, ii, 6, 349. "Appendicectomy-848 Consecutive Removals by the Iliac Incision, Splitting the Muscles." - *Proc Roy Soc Med* (Surg Sect), 1919-20, xiii, 120.
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First Title value, for Searching Whittle, Edward George (1852 - 1909)

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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, William (1886 - 1949)

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First Title value, for Searching Wickham, Joseph (1818 - 1891)

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First Title value, for Searching Andrews, Archibald George (1858 - 1943)

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First Title value, for Searching Andrews, William Stratford (1852 - 1929)

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First Title value, for Searching Archibald, Edward William (1872 - 1945)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Montreal on 5 August 1872, a son of John Sprott Archibald, a Canadian judge, and Ellen Hutchison his wife. The family was of Scotch-Irish descent and had emigrated to Montreal through New Hampshire and Nova Scotia during the eighteenth century. Archibald and his brothers and sisters were brought up to speak both English and French with equal facility, and he became a fluent and graceful orator in both tongues. He was educated at Montreal High School and matriculated at McGill University 1888, graduating in arts 1892 and in medicine 1896. He interrupted his course in his third year to spend a year at the University of Montpellier; one of his brothers worked in the faculty of law at Montpellier at the same time. After serving as an interne at the Royal Victoria Hospital he went in 1899 to Europe where he worked at various clinics and at the University of Freiburg. Archibald was impressed by the French system in which the medical student is treated as a member of the clinical team at the hospital and is introduced early to pathological problems. He paid numerous later visits to Europe, and worked at the National Hospital, Queen Square, London in 1906. He was elected an Hon MD of Paris in 1937 (*Canadian med Ass. J*. 1939, 40, 289: commendatory verses by W B Howell). Archibald was at first interested in the surgical pathology of neoplastic processes, and though he made notable contributions to various other special branches of surgical science, cancer problems continued to interest him throughout life. In all his surgical work he sought to fathom the underlying physiologic causes of abnormality or repair, in the true Hunterian tradition. When developing the surgery of the pancreas, he went deeply into the chemistry of enzymes; when pioneering lung surgery he studied the latest experimental work on control of respiration; when occupied with war fractures and gunshot wounds, he mastered the theory of ballistics. Archibald was appointed demonstrator of clinical surgery in the department of surgery at McGill in 1902, lecturer 1908, assistant professor 1918, professor of surgery and director of the department 1923, a post he held till 1937, when he was elected emeritus professor. He became assistant surgeon to the Children's Memorial Hospital, Montreal 1904 and chief surgeon 1930. At the Royal Victoria Hospital, the centre of the group of teaching hospitals connected with McGill Medical School, he was surgical interne 1896-99, chef de clinque 1899, surgeon in charge of dispensary and surgical pathologist 1908, surgeon 1918, chief surgeon 1928, and consulting surgeon 1932. On the outbreak of the first world war in 1914 he joined the Canadian Army Medical Corps and served in France from May 1915 with the rank of major, gazetted 6 May 1915, with No 3 Canadian General Hospital, first at Dannes-Carriers and later near Boulogne till 1917, having spent four months at No 1 Canadian casualty clearing station at Bailleul. He was one of the first surgeons to perform a blood transfusion in the allied armies; his first donor was Dr W B Howell, a life-long friend, and for many years his anaesthetist. As professor and chief surgeon he rejuvenated the somewhat traditional methods to which he succeeded, and founded a school of surgery which influenced the whole of North America. His teaching emphasized the necessity to combine scientific research with clinical practice. In 1932 he founded a cancer research section in the department of surgery at McGill, and worked there after retiring from the directorate of the department in 1937. He early realized the need for an adequate department of neurosurgery, and realized too that in spite of his own experience and skill in brain surgery he was not the man to undertake it. His influence secured the development of the outstandingly successful Montreal Neurological Institute in the university under Professor Wilder Penfield, Hon FRCS. Archibald took an active part in medical societies. Early in the century he was a leading promoter of the Society of Clinical Surgery, although considerably younger than most of the members. He was a founder of the American Interurban Surgical Society, a group of some thirty-five forward-looking surgeons of the eastern states and Canada. He was especially prominent in the American Surgical Association, and his activity in it did much to increase the cordial friendship of the profession across the American-Canadian border. His presidential address to the association in 1935 on "Higher degrees in the profession of surgery" led to the establishment in 1937 of the American Board of Surgery, one of the unofficial national specialty boards which assumed with success the standardizing of educational levels. His address also led to the formulation of a programme for graduate training in surgery by the American College of Surgeons, of which he had been a Fellow since the year of its foundation 1913. Among Archibald's more important researches was his study of interstitial pancreatitis, or as he called it "oedema of the pancreas". He also demonstrated experimentally the current hypothesis that acute pancreatic necrosis is chiefly due to the presence of bile in the pancreas. He was a pioneer of thoracic surgery, his interest having been aroused by the tentative surgery of chest wounds in France in 1916. He was one of the first surgeons in North America to operate for pulmonary tuberculosis, and became a charter member of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, which he later served as president. He was elected an Hon FRCS in 1927, an Hon Fellow of the Australasian College in 1935, and an Hon Doctor of the University of Paris in 1937; he was a corresponding member of numerous European and American societies. He was awarded the Trudeau medal by the US National Tuberculosis Association in 1936, and the H J Bigelow medal by the Boston Surgical Society in 1937. He was a Fellow of the surgical division of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada from its foundation in 1930. "Eddie" Archibald was much beloved by patients and colleagues throughout North America and in Europe, and by a large circle of friends, in Montreal. He was inspiring, unselfish, and generous of time and trouble, though distressingly absent-minded and oblivious of punctuality. He was frail of physique, but never allowed ill-health or increasing deafness to interfere with his work. He was a very well-read man. Archibald married in 1904 Agnes Maud Black Barron, who survived him with four daughters. They lived at 3106 Westmount Boulevard, and he had practised at 900 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, with consulting rooms also at 292 Somerset Street West, Ottawa. He died at Montreal on 17 December 1945, aged 73, after long illness. Publications (a short selection):- Surgical affections and wounds of the head. *American practice of surgery*, ed J D Bryant and A H Buck. New York, 1908, 5, 3. Pancreatitis. *International clinics*, 1918, series 28, 2, 1; *Canad J med and sci*. 1913, 33, 263; *Canad med Ass J*. 1913, 3, 87; *Surg Gynec Obstet* 1919, 28, 529; *J Amer med Ass*. 1918, 71, 798. The surgical treatment of unilateral pulmonary tuberculosis. *Amer J Surg*. 1924, 38, 17. The surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. *Canad med Ass J*. 1928, 18, 3. The dangers involved in the operation of thoracoplasty for pulmonary tuberculosis. *Surg Gynec Obstet*. 1930, 50, 146. A consideration of the dangers of lobectomy. *J thoracic Surg*. 1935, 4, 335.
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First Title value, for Searching Wildbore, Frederick (1822 - 1901)

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First Title value, for Searching Wilkes, James (1811 - 1894)

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First Title value, for Searching Wilkinson, Charles Nelson (1818 - 1890)

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First Title value, for Searching Wilkinson, Henry (1812 - )

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First Title value, for Searching Wilkinson, John Sebastian (1836 - 1916)

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First Title value, for Searching Brook, William Frederick (1861 - 1941)

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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 at Wye, Kent on 22 August 1861, the second child and eldest son of William Frederick Brook, MRCS 1856, and Jane Darvill, his wife. He was educated at King Edward VI School, Berkhamsted and at St Thomas's Hospital. He served as house surgeon at St Thomas's, at the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street, and at the West London Hospital. He then settled at Swansea and became one of the leading surgical consultants in South Wales. He was surgeon to the Swansea General Hospital, the Carmarthen Hospital, the Glamorgan County Hospital, and the Port Talbot General Hospital. During the war of 1914-18 he served at the 3rd Western General Hospital at Cardiff, with a commission as major, RAMC(T), dated 30 December 1908, when the RAMC territorial force had been formed. He founded the British Legion medical advisory committees which act between disabled "legionaries" and the Ministry of Pensions. Brook was local secretary at the British Medical Association annual meeting at Swansea in 1903, and a vice-president of the section of surgery at the Oxford meeting in 1904, and he served for two periods on the central council of the Association. He died at Shirecombe, Pennard, near Swansea on 26 May 1941 and was cremated at Pontypridd. He had practised at 9 Sketty Road, Swansea. Brook married on 16 June 1898, Agnes Beatrice Hine, who survived him with a son, Group-Captain Arthur Brook, RAF, and a daughter. Publication:- Forced extension as a cause of fracture-dislocation of the spine. *Brit med J*. 1936, 1, 470.
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First Title value, for Searching Willems, Charles ( - 1930)

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First Title value, for Searching Willett, Alfred (1837 - 1913)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-02-06
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Occupation General surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Born on January 3rd, 1837, the second son of William Catt, of West House, Portland Place, Brighton, who was well known in business circles in Brighton, his mother being Elizabeth, the fourth daughter of William Verrall, of Southover, Lewes; both came of old Sussex families. William Catt, by royal licence and under the terms of his sister's will, took the name of Willett in 1863, and Alfred Catt became from that time Alfred Willett. Alfred Catt, or Willett, was educated at Tonbridge School under the headmastership of the Rev Edward Welldon, father of Bishop Welldon, entering Judde's House at Christmas Term, 1847, and leaving in 1848. Thomas Smith (qv) was a schoolfellow. He studied for a time at King's College, London, and was offered an appointment in a bank with the promise of a lucrative commercial career. Preferring the medical profession, he was articled to George Lowden, who practised in Brighton, and became a pupil at the Sussex County Hospital, where he remained for three years and often took charge in the absence of the House Surgeon. He showed himself at this period a good athlete and was especially proficient at single-stick, swimming, and fives. He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in October, 1857, was House Surgeon to Eusebius Arthur Lloyd (qv) in 1860; was appointed Surgical Registrar in 1863; Warden of the College, where he succeeded Dr James Andrew, in 1865-1867; Assistant Surgeon, September 12th, 1865; Assistant Surgeon in charge of the Orthopaedic Department, 1867-1880; Surgeon, November 26th, 1879; Lecturer on Surgery jointly with Howard Marsh (qv), 1889-1895; and Consulting Surgeon in 1901. At the Royal College of Surgeons Willett served as a Member of the Council from 1887-1903; was Bradshaw Lecturer in 1897, when he took as his subject "The Correction of Certain Deformities by Operative Measures upon Bones"; and Vice-President in 1894 and 1897. He steadfastly declined to be put in nomination for the Presidency, partly because he was no orator, and partly because he was not in complete harmony with the majority of the Council on the question of the right of the Members to the franchise. He held many important appointments where his honesty of purpose and business capacity were of the greatest value. He was President of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society in 1902; Surgeon to St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics; to Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital; to the Evelina Hospital for Children; to the Sea-Bathing Hospital at Margate; and to the Metropolitan Convalescent Institution. He was also a Member of Council and of the Distribution Committee of King Edward's Hospital Fund and of the Hospital Sunday Fund. He married in 1867 Rose E Burrows, only daughter of Sir George Burrows, MD, FRS, and a granddaughter, through her mother, of John Abernethy, by whom he had five sons and two daughters. One son, John Abernethy Willett, MD Oxon, was Surgeon to the Samaritan Free Hospital. He died on June 20th, 1918, at Wyndham Croft, Turner's Hill, Sussex, where he had lived for some years in retirement. A bust was executed by Hope Pinker for his forty-four house surgeons when he retired from the active staff of the Hospital in 1901. A photograph of it appears as a full-page illustration in the *St Bartholomew's Hospital Journal* (1913, xx, facing page 181). A silver medal was prepared from the bust by Mr Boucher; it is known as 'The Willett Medal' and is given annually to him who gains the highest marks in operative surgery at the Brackenbury Surgical Examination at St Bartholomew's Hospital. Both are fair but not striking likenesses. Willett had a sound, practical business mind, and the medical school of St Bartholomew's owes much to the services he rendered it whilst acting as its Treasurer from 1897-1901. He found the finances of the school in a state of great confusion, but within a year he was able to produce such a balance sheet as would have done credit to any business. He was perfectly upright and totally free from any feeling of envy or hatred. For this reason he was usually chosen by his colleagues to settle any difference between them or to communicate any particularly distasteful piece of information. He was chiefly instrumental in securing the appointment of a fifth Physician and a fifth Surgeon at the Hospital, and his business acumen was shown by the satisfactory terms on which he secured, in conjunction with William Bruce Clarke (qv) and Sir Anthony Bowlby (qv), the land at Winchmore Hill for the purposes of a Students' Club and Recreation Ground. As a man Willett was conspicuous for his good looks. He stood over six feet in height, held himself well, was straight-limbed and strongly built, dark and with an attractive manner, quite self-reliant, but always kindly and considerate. He was for the most part silent, for he had difficulty in expressing himself in words. As a surgeon he was a fine example of the transitional period through which he lived. Trained in the most advanced surgical methods of the old school, he studied Lister's methods with an open mind and endeavoured to follow them, in spite of the depreciation of these methods by his colleagues, so far as could be done without personal observation. In the early eighties the only systematic abdominal operations done in the Hospital Willett carried out in co-operation with Dr Matthews Duncan. In operating he was slow but very thorough. His long experience as Surgeon to the Orthopaedic Department led him to be especially interested in the treatment of deformities, and in this he exercised infinite patience and obtained correspondingly good results. His cousin was Edgar William Willett (qv). Publications: Except for a few scattered papers Willett wrote nothing.
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First Title value, for Searching Willett, Edgar William (1856 - 1928)

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First Title value, for Searching Willey, Henry (1839 - 1923)

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First Title value, for Searching Williams, Benjamin (1792 - 1850)

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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 Daw, Samuel Wilfrid (1875 - 1944)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Born on 19 August 1875, the eldest of the three children of Samuel Daw and his wife, *née* Davy; he was educated privately. Daw qualified at the age of thirty from the medical school of Guy's Hospital, where he then served as resident surgical officer. After serving as resident surgical officer and surgical registrar at the General Infirmary, Leeds, he settled in practice there, living latterly at 24 Park Square, and specialized as an orthopaedic surgeon. He ultimately became consulting orthopaedic surgeon to the General Infirmary, to the Leeds Education Committee and Public Health Department, to Batley Hospital and Clayton Hospital, and to the Wakefield and Dewsbury Infirmary. Daw served for a time as surgical tutor at the University of Leeds. He was also consulting surgeon to the Kirbymoorside Orthopaedic Hospital and the Herzl-Moser Hospital, both at Leeds. During the first world war he was commissioned captain, RAMC(T) on 29 August 1914 on the staff of the 2nd Northern General Hospital. Daw was a Fellow of the Association of Surgeons, and a member of the British Orthopaedic Association and the Leeds and West Riding Medical Society. He was vice-president of the section of orthopaedics at the British Medical Association's annual meeting at Nottingham in 1926. Daw married in 1914 Joan Humphreys, who survived him with two sons and a daughter. One son, Nigel Selden Daw, MB, ChB Leeds 1940, was serving as surgeon-lieutenant, RNVR at the time of his father's death. After retiring Daw lived at The Briars, Polegate, Sussex, where he died on 19 June 1944, aged 68. He had long suffered from rheumatoid arthritis. Publications:- *Orthopaedic effects of gunshot wounds and their treatment*, with foreword by Sir R Jones and appendix on functional disabilities by W C Morton. London: Frowde, 1919. Treatment of disabilities of joints of the upper extremity, with N Dunn, in *Orthopaedic surgery of injuries by various authors* edited by Sir Robert Jones, London, 1921, 1, 209.
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First Title value, for Searching Rogers, Henry Philip (1836 - 1884)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-14
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon during 1859 and 1860. In 1861 he was House Surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. He then went out to the Mauritius, where he practised at Rose Hill, Plaines Wilhelms, was Government Medical Officer, and Medical Referee to the Civil Service Commission and English Insurance Companies. He died at Boursalt Curepipe, Mauritius, on April 16th, 1884. Publications:- "Notes on the Epidemic Malarial Fever of the Mauritius." - *Trans Epidemiological Soc*, 1866-73, iii, 200.
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First Title value, for Searching Reid, Hugh (1893 - 1971)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-02
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Occupation General surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details Hugh Reid was born, one of twins, in Bebington, Cheshire, on 19 January 1893, the son of a forwarding agent. The family soon moved to Lancashire and Hugh went to Merchant Taylor's School, Crosby. His studies at the Liverpool Medical School were interrupted by the first world war and he served as a Surgeon Probationer in a destroyer. During the latter part of his time in the Navy, when stationed in Liverpool, he gave lecture demonstrations in anatomy in the Medical School. It is said that he rode up Brownlow Hill on horseback, in naval uniform and cloak, and tied his horse to the railings of the Medical School. After resuming his studies he qualified in the London Conjoint examination in 1919 and the Liverpool MB ChB, in 1920. He obtained the FRCS in 1921. He was appointed as honorary assistant surgeon to the David Lewis Northern Hospital in 1923, and two years later moved to the Royal Infirmary. At one time he had considered a career in gynaecology but his new appointment committed him to general surgery. His many anecdotes about Frank Jeans and Robert Kelly, with whom he worked, were colourful and entertaining. He had a great admiration for the German school of surgery, and visited Sauerbruch several times. Together with Moriston Davies and others, he was a founder member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, subsequently becoming President of the Society. He was one of the first surgeons, if not the first, to perform a pneumonectomy in the North of England. In 1928 he was appointed honorary thoracic surgeon to the North Wales Sanatorium. He was also interested in the surgery of malignant disease, and in 1940 was appointed honorary surgeon to the Liverpool Radium Institute. Other appointments included honorary surgeon to the Liverpool Homoeopathic Hospital and to the Chest Unit at Broadgreen Hospital. He became interested in the surgery of the thymus in myasthenia gravis and in 1945 was awarded the degree of Doctor of Medicine at Liverpool for his work in this field. He was a member of the Court of Examiners from 1958 to 1964. His ward rounds, for which he always wore an elegantly waisted double breasted white coat and a monocle, were occasions that many of his students and associates will always remember. During the second world war a close friendship developed between Hugh Reid and Dean Dwelly at Liverpool Cathedral. Hugh became a firewatcher and took up residence in the Cathedral. He was deeply steeped in the scriptures and loved the liturgy of the Established Church. As recreation he enjoyed shooting, skiing and climbing in the Alps. In 1943 he married Sheila Carmichael, herself a doctor. They lived at the Old Rectory, Ruthin, where they had three daughters one of whom became a dental surgeon. After his retirement he frequently preached at Llanbedr Parish Church where he was a lay reader. Hugh Reid died aged 78 on 9 March, 1971.
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First Title value, for Searching Ward, Martindale (1820 - 1872)

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First Title value, for Searching Ward, Nathaniel (1820 - 1866)

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First Title value, for Searching Wardrop, James (1782 - 1869)

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Publication Date 2013-01-23
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details The youngest child of James Wardrop (1738-1830) by his wife Marjory, daughter of Andrew Marjoribanks of Marjoribanks. He was born on August 14th, 1782, at Torbane Hall, a small property owned by his forefathers for many generations. It adjoined the parish celebrated as the birthplace of the Hunters and Baillies, and was close to Bathgate, where Sir James Y Simpson was afterwards born. Wardrop was sent to the Edinburgh High School a few weeks after his seventh birthday, and in 1797 was apprenticed to his uncle, Andrew Wardrop, a surgeon of some eminence in Edinburgh. He assisted John Barclay (1758-1826) the anatomist, and was appointed House Surgeon to the Edinburgh Infirmary at the age of 19. He came to London in 1801, attended the lectures of Abernethy, Cline, and Cooper, and followed the practice of the United Borough Hospitals and at St George's. He proceeded to Paris, and on May 6th, 1803, evaded the police when English residents in France were treated as prisoners-of-war and escaped to Vienna, where Beer's teaching first interested him in ophthalmic surgery. He returned to Edinburgh in 1804 and began to practise surgery, devoting himself more especially to the pathology and diseases of the eye; but, finding there was no immediate opening, he set out for London on April 18th, 1808, first taking rooms in York Street and shortly afterwards renting No 9 Charles Street, St James's Square, where he lived till his death. He was admitted a Member of the College of Surgeons of England on March 8th, 1814, with only a formal examination, the Master, Sir Everard Home, saying that his published works were quite sufficient to entitle him to the diploma. In September, 1818, Wardrop was appointed Surgeon Extraordinary to the Prince Regent, and in 1823, when His Majesty visited Scotland as King George IV, Wardrop attended him on the journey. He was made Surgeon in Ordinary to the King in 1828 on the elevation of Sir Astley Cooper to the post of Serjeant Surgeon, and declined a baronetcy shortly afterwards. Wardrop, siding with William Lawrence (qv) on the question of medical reform in 1826-1827 and being an active supporter of the liberal policy advocated by Thomas Wakley in the *Lancet*, incurred the displeasure of the leading members of the profession, and during the fatal illness of George IV he was not summoned to attend him. Wardrop took the matter to heart, and revenged himself in the *Lancet* by publishing a series of "Intercepted Letters". They purported to contain confidential details of passing events communicated by Sir Henry Halford, Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, and William MacMichael, Librarian of the Royal College of Physicians. They were scurrilous, well written, and amusing. The secret of authorship was well kept, but when it leaked out Wardrop lost most of his practice and became an Ishmaelite. He had also quarrelled with Robert Liston (qv). Earlier in life Wardrop had practised for many years among the poor by giving advice chiefly at his own house; in 1826, in conjunction with William Willocks Sleigh, the father of Serjeant Sleigh, he founded a hospital in Nutford Place, Edgware Road, called the West London Hospital of Surgery. It was not only a charitable institution, but members of the medical profession might attend the practice without payment. A concours was held one day a week, at which important operations were done and discussion took place as to the particular method adopted in each case. The hospital was carried on at a considerable cost, which was mainly defrayed by Wardrop, who reluctantly closed it at the end of ten years. In 1826, in conjunction with William Lawrence, he lectured on surgery at the Aldersgate School of Medicine, and when Lawrence transferred himself to St Bartholomew's Hospital, Wardrop for a few sessions gave the lectures alone. He joined the Hunterian or Great Windmill Street School of Medicine as a Lecturer on Surgery about 1835. He married in 1813 Margaret, daughter of Colonel George Dalrymple, a lineal descendant of the Earl of Stair, by whom he had four sons and a daughter. He died at his house in Charles Street, St James's Square, on February 13th, 1869. A half-length portrait in oils by Geddes was in the possession of his daughter, Mrs Shirley. It was engraved by J Thomson, and a copy of the engraving is prefixed to Pettigrew's account of Wardrop in the Medical Portrait Gallery. There is also a lithograph in the Young collection at the College. The likeness is said to be 'poor'. A three-quarter-length in oils by Robert Frain, painted much later in life than the previous one, was in the possession of his son, Hew D H Wardrop. James Wardrop possessed great abilities and was an original thinker and actor. He was the first surgeon in England to remove a tumour of the lower jaw by excising a portion, and this places him high in the list of contemporary operating surgeons at a particularly brilliant period of English operative surgery. His modification of Brasdor's operation by his original distal ligature for the case of aneurysm long made his name familiar to surgeons. As a lecturer he was somewhat tame and discursive, and like Robert Liston he was not a good teacher. He was accurate in diagnosis, and though he did not love to operate, he knew when an operation should be performed. In person he was tall and thin; he walked quickly and dressed in an old-fashioned way, wearing a spencer when the weather was cold with "a little bit of an apology" for a cape over it. In repose his features had a half-melancholy, half-grotesque expression, but they were deficient in intellectual power, and one of his eyes, which were large, was a 'wall eye'. He had considerable social gifts, was an assiduous collector of gossip, and told stories and anecdotes well, but in language so coarse that he often shocked his hearers even in Regency times. He is described as being original, suggestive, and rapid in thought, but crotchety, obstinate, and slow to acknowledge an error. Publications: *On Aneurism and its Cure by a New Operation*, 8vo, London, 1828; new ed, 1835 translated into German, Weimar, 1829. This is the work upon which the reputation of Wardrop as a surgeon mainly rests. It brought into practical use a modification of Brasdor's operation for the cure of aneurysm by distal ligature of the affected vessel - that is to say, by tying it on the side of the swelling farthest from the heart. *Observations on Fungus Haematodes*, 8vo, Edinburgh, 1809; translated into German, Leipzig, 1817; into Dutch, Amsterdam, 1819. *Essays on the Morbid Anatomy of the Human Eye*, 2 vols., 8vo, Edinburgh, 1808-18; 2nd ed, London, 1810-20; another edition, also called the second, was issued in 2 vols, London, 1834. *An Essay on Diseases of the Eye of the Horse and on their Treatment*, 8vo, London, 1819. *On Blood-letting*, 12mo, London, 1835; issued in Philadelphia, 1857, 8vo; translated into German, Leipzig, 1840; into Italian, Pisa, 1839. This was originally part of his controversy with Robert Liston. *On the Nature and Treatment of Diseases of the Heart*, London, 1837. Part I only appeared at this time. The whole work was published in 1851, 8vo, London, and a new edition at Edinburgh in 1859. The most interesting amongst his minor contributions are:- *History of James Mitchell, a Boy Born Deaf and Blind, with an Account of the Operation Performed for the Recovery of his Sight*, London, 1814. *Case of a Lady Born Blind who Received Sight at an Advanced Age*, London, 1826. Wardrop also edited the works of Matthew Baillie and prefixed a biographical sketch, 2 vols, 8vo, London, 1825.
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First Title value, for Searching Ward, Thomas William (1816 - 1904)

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First Title value, for Searching Ward, William (1800 - 1873)

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First Title value, for Searching Smee, Alfred (1818 - 1877)

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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 Smith, Charles Case ( - 1873)

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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Charles Manners (1822 - 1883)

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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Douglas Wilberforce ( - 1915)

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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Edward (1818 - 1874)

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First Title value, for Searching Bull, William Charles (1858 - 1933)

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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born at Bromborough, Cheshire, on 1 August 1858, the fifth child and second son of James Goodman Bull, merchant of Liverpool, and Mary Chilton, his wife. He was educated at the Hereford Cathedral School where he learnt to play cricket well. He was admitted to Caius College, Cambridge on 1 October 1877, and graduated BA in 1881 after gaining second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos. He then went to St George's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon and surgical registrar until threatening tuberculosis caused him to live for a time in Switzerland. On his return to England he acted as assistant to Sir William Dalby, FRCS and was surgeon to the Belgrave Hospital for Children. In 1892 he was appointed aural surgeon and lecturer on aural surgery at St George's Hospital in succession to Sir William Dalby, posts which he resigned under the twenty years' rule in 1912, when he was elected consulting aural surgeon. He married on 7 December 1895 Amy, daughter of J F Flemmick, of Roehampton, who survived him with one daughter, the wife of Captain Ian Wilson. He died after a very short illness on 24 February 1933. Bull lived the life of a courteous, hospitable English gentleman. With no incentive to exert himself to gain practice, he did his hospital work well, proved himself a competent teacher, a good operator, and an excellent diagnostician. Much of his later life was spent at the Oxford and Cambridge Club, where he was a useful member of the committee. Publications:- Some affections of the mastoid cells. *Clin J*. 1894, 4, 114. Necrosis of the semicircular canals. *Trans Otol Soc UK*. 1901, 2, 136. Cerebellar abscess in acute middle ear disease. *Ibid*. 1905, 6, 53.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Eustace (1835 - 1914)

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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 Smith, Frederick John (1857 - 1919)

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Occupation Physician
Details Born on August 17th, 1857, at Castle Donington, Leicestershire, the youngest son of John Smith, a surgeon of considerable repute during forty years at Castle Donington. He received his early education at Christ's Hospital, where he was distinguished both as a scholar and as an athlete. He won an open mathematical scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford, where he matriculated on October 18th, 1876. He was also a Christ's Hospital Exhibitioner. At Oxford he took a 1st Class in Mathematical Moderations (1877) and a 3rd Class in the Final School of Natural Science (1880). He then acted for a short time as a schoolmaster, and entered the London Hospital Medical School on October 1st, 1881. At the London Hospital he was awarded in due course the Entrance Science Scholarship, the Letheby Prize, the Out-patients' Dressers' Prize, and Certificates of Merit in chemistry, medicine, and surgery. In 1885 he was House Physician, and gained the Radcliffe Travelling Fellowship at Oxford. From 1887-1891 he was Medical Registrar at his hospital. He was elected Assistant Physician in September, 1891, became Physician in July, 1902, and Consulting Physician in July, 1918, after thirty-seven years of work in connection with the institution. He was at one time Lecturer on Medicine in the School, but later became Lecturer on Forensic Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence, subjects to which he had devoted much attention. He was also Senior Pathologist and an active member of the Medical College Board. He was a Referee under the Workmen's Compensation Act; Examiner in Forensic Medicine at the Universities of Oxford, Leeds, and Birmingham; Assistant Physician to the Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, City Road; and at the time of his death Consulting Physician to the City of London Dispensary and the National Orthopedic Hospital. He was also Examiner at the Royal College of Physicians, London, and Examiner in Medicine at the Apothecaries' Society. He was much interested in the Hunterian Society, serving as Hon Secretary, delivering the Oration in 1900 "On the Influence of Modern Surgery on Medical Practice", and being elected President in 1904. He frequently took part in the discussions of the Medico-Legal Society, of which he had been President during the difficult period of the European War. For many years he was an active member of the British Medical Association, especially of the Metropolitan Counties Branch. He was one of its Secretaries from 1904-1907, and President in 1914-1915, when his address was "On Modern Vascular Problems", in which he criticized some recent developments and asked some crucial questions about blood-pressure. He was Secretary of the Section of Medicine at the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1901, Vice-President in 1912, and was for some years a Member of the Central Council, and from 1912-1917 Chairman of the Science Committee. F J Smith was a sound, practical physician, careful in diagnosis, and possessed of a knowledge of men and the world which disposed him to treat the patient and not be misled by some terminological label. The constitution of his mind was critical, and in therapeutics he was ever ready to challenge accepted views, as was well illustrated by his persistent teaching with regard to diet in typhoid fever. As early as 1901 he spoke and wrote in favour of free feeding up to satisfaction of the appetite, but starvation when the appetite was in abeyance, free supplies of plain water, and free evacuation by saline aperients, especially sodium sulphate. He had an offhand manner and a very colloquial way of expressing himself, which sometimes misled those who did not know him well; but to his friends 'F J', as they always called him, was known as a man of wide knowledge and shrewd judgement, always disposed to take a charitable view, always ready to give of his best in any difficulty. His manner was probably of the kind then traditional at Christ's Hospital and at Balliol, which, perhaps alone among Oxford colleges, despised suavity in Smith's day. An Oxford man, a student at the London Hospital under Smith, noted that he spoke German fluently, and used his accomplishment to rate, if not to abuse, the poor, meek, and shabby foreigners from the East End slums who crowded the out-patient rooms. To his colleagues, however, Smith appeared in an increasingly amiable light. He retired from the London Hospital and from practice in July, 1918, feeling, as he expressed it, like a schoolboy going off for a long holiday. Within a year, however, he died at his country house at Colyton, Devon, on April 30th, 1919, after an illness of several months, and was buried at Colyton. He married in 1889 Janet Nicholls Macnamara, but had no children. Publications: *Problems in Cardiac Pathology*, 8vo, Cambridge, 1891. *Introduction to the Outlines of the Principles of Differential Diagnosis, with Clinical Memoranda*, 8vo, London, 1899. *Then and Now* (Hunterian Society Oration), 1900. *Lectures on Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology, as delivered at the London Hospital*l, 12mo, London, 1900; 2nd ed, 1908. This contains his clear and authoritative teaching at the London Hospital. *Law for Medical Men: A Book for Practitioners containing Extracts from Acts of Parliament*, 8vo, London, 1913. He edited Alfred Swaine Taylor's *Principles and Practice of Medical Jurisprudence,* 2 vols, 5th and 6th eds, 1905 and 1910. The standard work of the time. Articles in Knocker's *Workmen's Compensation Act* and French's *Index of Differential Diagnosis*. "Treatment of Typhoid Fever."- *Med Soc Trans*, 1901, xxiv, 84. "Treatment of Typhoid." - *Amer Practitioner*, 1913, xlvii, 227.
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First Title value, for Searching Startin, James (1806 - 1872)

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Publication Date 2013-03-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Moseley, the eldest son of James Startin, merchant and banker, of Birmingham. He went to the Free Grammar School at Moseley and was then apprenticed to Messrs Whitby and Chawner, of Atherstone, the latter of whom fitted up a dissecting-room and laboratory for his pupils, and in this laboratory Startin is said to have found out a new and cheap commercial process for stiffening felt hats. He was next dresser to Joseph Hodgson (qv) at the Birmingham Hospital, and then entered St Bartholomew's Hospital with a special introduction to Abernethy. For a time, in succession to Richard Partridge, he dissected preparations for Abernethy's lectures, and formed a lasting friendship with Richard Owen, Andrew Melville McWhinnie, and other fellow-students. After two sessions he went as unqualified assistant to Adams, of Walsall, in charge of a large colliery practice. Calculus was very prevalent, and Startin gained experience in lithotomy. After a year he returned to St Bartholomew's Hospital as a pupil under J Painter Vincent (qv), and attended Clutterbuck's classes in medicine, Sir Charles Bell's in surgery, and Quain's in medicine. Having qualified, he became assistant to Davis, of Coleshill, Warwickshire, and then Resident Surgeon to the Birmingham General Hospital, his friend Richard Owen being one of the unsuccessful competitors. After two years he started private practice at Warwick, married a lady with shares in a local bank, and also invested money of his own. The bank ceased payment, and the Startins were involved in unlimited liabilities. Hence for two to three years he lived in France, meanwhile studying skin diseases at the Hôpital Saint-Louis and at Montpellier. He also served as Medical Officer in the French Army occupying Algeria. At the end of 1841 he had returned to London and had interested Gurney, the Quaker banker, in a project for an infirmary for skin diseases, and under the patronage of the Dukes of Sussex and of Cambridge the infirmary was opened at London Wall. It was later transferred to Blackfriars. Startin became a noted skin specialist, directing his attention mainly to success without reference to dermatological science, to which he added nothing. His outpatient room at Blackfriars was crowded, and similarly his consulting-room at 3 Savile Row was filled with private cases, to whom he gave long and complex prescriptions so that neither he nor anyone else knew which ingredient was effective. In general manner he was simple and affable, in social life genial and kindhearted. He entertained largely at his country house at Woodford, and was a keen sportsman. About 1867 he began to suffer from stone in the bladder, for which Sir Henry Thompson at first used a lithotrite with success, but after the formation of abscesses in the scrotum and prostate, performed lithotomy. In 1872 an abscess in the loin formed, which was laid open and another calculus removed from the pelvis of the kidney. He died on December 22nd 1872, and was buried in Brompton Cemetery. Publications:- Startin published a *Pharmacopoeia of the Skin Hospital* with an Address, which went through three editions. "A Course of Twenty-six Lectures on Chronic Diseases of the Skin."- *London Med Times*, 1845-6, xiii, xiv. He was largely instrumental in introducing the use of glycerin - see "Application and Discovery of the Therapeutic Uses of Glycerine", *Lond Med Times*, 1850, I, 27, as also the use of an elastic spiral bandage for varicose veins - "On the Advantages of an Elastic Convoluted Spiral Bandage in Varicose Veins and Ulcers of the Legs", *Ibid*, 1851, I, 285.
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First Title value, for Searching Abbott, Francis Charles (1867 - 1938)

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First Title value, for Searching Abell, Irvin (1876 - 1949)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 13 September 1876 at Lebanon, Kentucky, USA, the son of Irvin Abell and Sarah S Rogers his wife. He was educated at St Mary's College, Louisville, and the University of Louisville Medical School, where he graduated in 1897. He was assistant in surgery in the Louisville Medical School 1900-08, professor 1908-23, and clinical professor from 1923, and later a trustee of the school. At the same time he was surgeon to the City Hospital, the Children's Free Hospital and St Joseph's Infirmary. During the first world war he was lieutenant-colonel in charge of No 59 American Army Base Hospital in France 1917-18. Abell took a prominent part in many national societies: he was a member of the American Surgical and Urological Associations, and a vice-president of the American Gastro-enterological Association. He was president successively of the Kentucky State Medical Association, the Southern Surgical Association, the Southern Medical Association, and the American Medical Association. He was a foundation Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and became chairman of its Board of Regents. As holder of this position, and in honour of his surgical achievement, he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the English College in 1947. During the second world war Abell was a colonel in the US Medical Reserve Corps. He was a director of the Fidelity and Columbia Trust Company and of the Commonwealth Life Insurance Company. Abell married in 1907 Carrie C Harting, who survived him with three sons. He practised at 321 West Broadway, Louisville, and lived at 1433 Third Street. Here he died on 28 August 1949, aged 72.
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First Title value, for Searching Adams, Evelyn George Beadon (1870 - 1946)

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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 Adams, James Wilmot (1884 - 1946)

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First Title value, for Searching Addison, Sir Christopher, Viscount Addison of Stallingborough (1869 - 1951)

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Occupation Anatomist Politician
Details Born 19 June 1869 at Hogsthorpe, Lincolnshire, son of Robert Addison, a farmer, and Susan Fanthorpe his wife. He was educated at Trinity College, Harrogate, and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was later demonstrator and lecturer in anatomy. He qualified in 1891 and took the Fellowship in 1895. He was professor of anatomy at University College, Sheffield, 1895-1901, and edited the *Quarterly Medical Journal for Yorkshire and adjoining counties*. He came back to London in 1901 on his appointment as lecturer in anatomy at Charing Cross Hospital and served also as dean of the medical school. He edited G V Ellis's *Demonstrations of Anatomy*, 12th edition, in 1905. In 1907 he went back to his old hospital, St Bartholomew's, as lecturer in anatomy, and held the post till 1913 although he had entered active political life in 1910. He was an examiner in anatomy for the Fellowship from 1903 to 1908, with (Sir) Arthur Keith, FRCS as his colleague. It was about the turn of the century that the medical schools of London began to provide specialized teaching in anatomy, in place of the instruction formerly given by the hospital surgeons. Addison was among the able men first chosen for these whole-time posts; Keith in the same period was making his mark at the London Hospital. Each had taken the Fellowship, not with the intention of practising surgery, but as an indication of proficiency to teach surgical students. Addison's main contribution to anatomy is recorded in an exhaustive paper, running through three volumes of the *Journal of Anatomy*, 1899-1901, "On the topographical anatomy of the abdominal viscera in man". The substance of this research was given as Hunterian lectures at the College in 1901, and Addison made further contributions to the subject in subsequent years (see the bibliography below). Keith has pointed out, in an authoritative survey of Addison's anatomical work in the *British Journal of Surgery*, 1952, that this three-dimensional mapping of the abdomen was based on some 10,000 measurements made on forty bodies, and that it provided for the first time a precise guide to the range of size and position of the contents of the abdomen. Addison himself pointed out that this had its immediate clinical value for the surgeon, at that time when operative intervention in the abdomen was being rapidly developed. The work is remembered today through "Addison's transpyloric plane", the imagined plane of section to which he related his measurements. Addison had entered St Bartholomew's Hospital as a student in 1886 and was taught anatomy by C B Lockwood, FRCS with James Berry, FRCS as demonstrator. The other teachers of anatomy at Bart's during his student years (1886-89) were John Langton, F Howard Marsh, W Bruce Clarke, W H H Jessop, E W Roughton, Edgar W Willett, all Fellows of the College, and W P Herringham, FRCP. Lockwood had recently founded the Anatomical Society, which Addison joined in 1895; be became its honorary secretary in 1904-06, and was elected an honorary member in 1926. Addison had long been interested in the political aspect of social and economic questions, and entered active political life at the time of the Liberal party's triumph. He was elected MP for the Hoxton division of Shoreditch in 1910, and his able support of Lloyd George, when the national insurance scheme was being passed through Parliament in 1911, marked him for office. He was parliamentary secretary to the Board of Education when war broke out in 1914. Lloyd George, on becoming Minister of Munitions, brought Addison to his side as under-secretary. His skilful administration, especially in matters of costing, won high praise, and when Lloyd George became Premier he succeeded to the Ministry of Munitions (1917) and was made a Privy Councillor. Later, as Minister for Reconstruction and as the first Minister of Health from 1918 to 1921, he promoted an ambitious programme of state-assisted housing. Addison by now was more radical than his leader and when he failed to win Lloyd George's support for his scheme, he resigned from the government, and soon made known his whole-hearted conversion to the Labour party. At the general election of 1929 he was elected Labour member for Swindon, and in Ramsay MacDonald's government he became Minister of Agriculture (1930-31) and sponsored the first Agricultural Marketing Acts. Agriculture was, next to medicine, his chief personal interest. He was the son of a farmer, and in later life successfully farmed his own land in Buckinghamshire. He lost his seat at the general election of 1931, and was an outspoken critic of the "National" coalition government. He was re-elected for Swindon in 1934, but lost the seat at the next general election in 1935. At the coronation of King George VI (1937) he was raised to the peerage as Baron Addison of Stallingborough, County Lincoln, and he became Dominions Secretary when the Labour party came again to office in 1945. He made his greatest mark however as leader of the House of Lords, when he had to press the government's nationalization schemes in face of a very strong opposition, and did so with urbane ability. He was advanced to the rank of a Viscount in 1945, and was awarded on 3 December 1946 the rare distinction of a Knighthood of the Garter. As leader of his party in the House of Lords he won "the respect and abiding affection of all with whom he had to do, whatever their political views". Formal tributes were paid to his memory in the House on 30 January 1952, and a memorial service was held the same day in Westminster Abbey. Addison was of solid build and middle height. His thick hair was raven- black in youth and snow-white in age. His colleagues celebrated his seventy-seventh birthday in 1946 by a complimentary luncheon at the House of Lords, and his eightieth birthday was also marked (*British Medical Journal*, 1946, 1, 993 and 1949, 1, 1132). Addison married twice: (1) in 1902 Isobel, daughter of Archibald Gray; Mrs Addison died on 22 August 1934, at Peterley Farm, Great Missenden, leaving two sons and two daughters; (2) in 1937 Dorothy, daughter of J P Low, who survived him. He died at Radnage, near High Wycombe, on 11 December 1951, aged 82, and was succeeded in the peerage by his elder son. There was a private funeral at Radnage Church, and a memorial service in Westminster Abbey. Publications: On the topographical anatomy of the abdominal viscera in man, especially the gastro-intestinal canal (Hunterian lectures, Royal College of Surgeons). *Journal of Anatomy*, 1899, 33, 565; 1900, 34, 427; 1901, 35, 166 and 277. Also *Lancet*, 1901, 1, 759, 911, and 1059; and, as a book: Edinburgh, Neill and Co. 1901, 116 pp. Discussion on same subject. *Journal of Anatomy*, 1904, 38, Proceedings pages xxx-xlv. A discussion on the topographical anatomy of the thoracic and abdominal viscera from a systematic and clinical standpoint (British Medical Association, annual scientific meeting, Cheltenham, 1901). *Brit med J.* 1901, 2, 1065. Cervical ribs. *Journal of Anatomy*, 1902, 36, Proceedings pages lxxiv-lxxvi. *Demonstrations of anatomy* by G V Ellis, 12th edition by C Addison. London, 1905. On the future of the medical services (speech at dinner of Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, 2 October 1937). *Brit med J*. 1937, 2, 766. *The betrayal of the slums*. London: Jenkins, 1922. *Politics from within, 1911-18*. Preface by Lord Carson. Jenkins, 1924. 2 vols. *Practical socialism*. Labour Publishing Co. 1926. 2 vols. *The nation and its food*. Benn, 1929. *Religion and politics*. Epworth Press, 1931. *Problems of a socialist government*. Preface by Stafford Cripps. Gollancz, 1933. *Four and a half years* (a personal diary from June 1914 to January 1919). Hutchinson, 1934. 2 vols.
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First Title value, for Searching Adams, Philip Edward Homer (1879 - 1948)

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First Title value, for Searching Addison, Oswald Lacy (1874 - 1942)

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First Title value, for Searching Aickin, Casement Gordon (1881 - 1936)

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First Title value, for Searching Ainger, William Bradshaw (1878 - 1931)

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First Title value, for Searching Warwick, Richard (1806 - 1886)

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First Title value, for Searching Washbourn, John Wickenford (1863 - 1902)

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Occupation Pathologist Physician Physiologist
Details Born at Gloucester in 1863, son of William Washbourn, a descendant of Sir Roger Washbourn, of Knight's Washbourn (*temp* 1370), went to King's College, Gloucester, then studied at Guy's Hospital, winning the Entrance Scholarship in 1881 and greatly distinguishing himself as well by taking prizes at the Hospital as by the scholarships and medals he won at the University. After his resident appointment he worked under von Baumgarten at Königsberg and Grüber in Vienna on bacteriology and bacteriotherapy. On his return in 1889 he was appointed Assistant Physician at Guy's Hospital, where he initiated the Department of Bacteriology. In 1891 he became Joint Lecturer on Physiology, and Lecturer on Bacteriology in 1892, Physician to the London Fever Hospital in 1897, and Physician to Guy's Hospital. Commenced in Germany, Washbourn carried on up to the time of his death researches on the pneumnococcus in relation to pneumonia, the varieties and life history of the Diplococcus pneumoniae, with an estimation of the virulence of the various strains. He sought to obtain from horses an antipneumonic serum, potent enough to influence cases of acute pneumonia, and he recorded his results in the *British Medical Journal* (1897, i, 510; ii, 1849). He studied the clinical applications of antidiphtheritic serum and published his observations in conjunction with Drs E W Goodall and J H Card. In 1897 he investigated the Maidstone typhoid epidemic and found the source of contamination in the water from the Tutsham-in-Field spring. With G Bellingham Smith he investigated the infective sarcomata of dogs in 1898. In February, 1900, Washbourn went out as Consulting Physician to the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital in South Africa, and served for sixteen months, first at Deelfontein, then in Pretoria. He organized the medical work of the Hospital with great success, was gazetted Consulting Physician to the Forces and made a CMG. Soon after his return, when President of the Section of Pathology and Bacteriology at the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association, he took as the subject of his opening address "Some Pathological Notes from South Africa" and related "Observations on Infective Diseases Prevalent in the South African Army" (*Brit Med Jour*, 1901, ii, 699). He had acted as Examiner in Physiology for the Royal College of Physicians, and he was appointed Croonian Lecturer for 1902. He devoted the winter of 1901-1902 to the preparation of the subject of his lectures, "The Natural History and Pathology of Pneumonia". The lectures were delivered from his notes by Sir William Hale-White after Washbourn's death, and included a survey of the subject, the varieties and virulence of the coccus, the modes of its growth, and the preparation of an antipneumonic serum. He had carried out with Dr M S Pembrey a series of experiments on the channels taken by dust inhaled into the lungs. Washbourn had an infinite capacity for taking pains, a keenly critical appreciation of the relative value of his results, tempered with a scepticism which refused to accept the apparently obvious until after an accumulation of confirmatory evidence. As a teacher he was luminous, and at Guy's Hospital made his mark in the physiological and bacteriological departments and generally by his powers of organization. He was popular alike with his colleagues and with students, interested in sports and amusements, himself a good tennis player and skater. He combined a fair controversialist in a staunch friend and a strong partisan. At the time of his death he was Hon Secretary of the Epidemiological Society and of the Metropolitan Counties Branch of the British Medical Association. He had suffered in South Africa from dysentery complicated by thrombosis. After the winter's work, including the preparation of his Croonian Lectures, he had an attack of influenza. After partial recovery he again fell into ill health, and was removed for a change of air to Tunbridge Wells. There miliary fever was diagnosed, and he died on June 20th, 1902. He married in April, 1893, Nellie Florence, daughter of William Freeland Card, of Greenwich Hospital School; she died after giving birth to a daughter, who survived her father. Good portraits accompany his obituary in the *British Medical Journal* (1902, i, 1627; 85). A portrait is also included in Wale's *List of Books by Guy's Men* (1913, 65). Eulogies were pronounced by many, including one by Alfred Willett, President of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society (*Trans Med-Chir Soc*, 1903, lxxxvi, p. cxvii), and by Dr E W Goodall (*Trans Epidemiol Soc*, 1901-2, xxi, 151). Publication: *A Manual of Infectious Diseases* (with E W Gooneys), 8vo, London, 1896; 2nd ed, 1908.
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First Title value, for Searching Waterworth, Henry (1808 - 1886)

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First Title value, for Searching Watkins, John (1806 - 1874)

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First Title value, for Searching Watkins, Robert Webb (1823 - 1901)

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First Title value, for Searching Watson, Henry (1800 - 1884)

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First Title value, for Searching Watson, Henry William (1821 - 1886)

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First Title value, for Searching Watson, James (1836 - 1894)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Loughborough, Leicestershire, on March 10th, 1836; entered the Army as Staff Assistant Surgeon on February 1st, 1859, and was gazetted Surgeon, Army Medical Department, promoted to Surgeon Major on April 1st, 1874, and retired with the rank of Brigade Surgeon on half pay on December 8th, 1880. His active service included the China Campaign, 1860; New Zealand Campaign, 1863-1866; and the Ashanti War, 1873-1874. He died on February 9th, 1894.
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First Title value, for Searching Watson, William (1788 - 1849)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on March 7th, 1788, entered at St George's Hospital as a twelve-months pupil of Sir Everard Home on August 13th, 1810. He joined the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon on Aug 11th, 1813, was promoted to Surgeon on April 17th, 1825, and to Superintending Surgeon stationed at Benares on February 16th, 1844. He was one of the twenty-nine officers of the IMS to be elected FRCS on August 26th, 1844. He died at Benares on August 10th, 1849.
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First Title value, for Searching Watson, William Spencer (1836 - 1906)

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First Title value, for Searching Watt, William Couborough (1) ( - 1849)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-30 2016-11-03
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Stationed at the Royal Naval Hospital, Malta; died before June 19th, 1849. [(1) Changed from 'Gouldborough' . Information from Stephen Due 22 October 2016 by email.]
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First Title value, for Searching Waylen, William (1800 - 1878)

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First Title value, for Searching Reid, Ronald William (1906 - 1968)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 4 January 1906 at Salisbury of Scottish parents, he entered St Thomas's Medical School in 1923 from Brighton College, and distinguished himself consistently throughout his student career, being awarded the Beaney Scholarship and Sutton Sams Prize in 1927. He had an exceptional climax in the years 1928 to 1929: qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma and the degrees of London University and winning the Bristowe Medal in 1928, and passing the examinations for the Final Fellowship and for the MS degree at the age of 23 in 1929; he was also proxime accessit for the coveted Cheselden Medal in surgery, as runner-up to H Hamilton Stewart. All this he achieved without any obvious effort, while he lived an extremely extrovert life among the student community. After qualification he obtained resident appointments at St Thomas's, first as a casualty officer for six months and then for six months as house surgeon to Sir Charles Max Page and to "Joey" (R H O B) Robinson. On consulting the latter as to his future he was advised to get out of the rut of London and to carve out a name and a career in an area crying out for first-class original skill. As a result Colchester was to benefit and to become a recognised surgical centre. When he first went to Colchester in 1930 he had to start as a general-practitioner-surgeon but within two years he became solely a consultant, the first in what had always been a general-practitioner hospital; and before long he was coping with the surgery of a wide are of East Anglia. He spear-headed the development of the Essex County Hospital and was responsible for the creation of further consultant posts. His early years in general practice he always regarded as a valuable experience which enabled him to appreciate better the needs of the practitioners who called him in consultation. In addition to the Essex County Hospital, he did a great deal of valuable work on the surgery of tuberculosis at Black Notley Hospital, near Braintree, in association with M C Wilkinson. From the introduction of the National Health Service in 1948 he became a valuable member of the North East Metropolitan Regional Board on which he served until 1963, and he was a member of the Hospital Management Committee from 1948 to 1954. When the Research Committee of the Regional Board was inaugurated in 1956 Reid became its chairman, continuing until his premature death. He founded a surgical association for the region. He was a member of the editorial board of the *British journal of surgery* and introduced monthly Saturday clinical meetings of the Colchester Surgical Club, which attracted surgeons from all over the world, and he also found time to travel extensively, making surgical contacts in Europe and the United States of America. A stocky, fair-haired, robust Scot usually with a twinkle in his eye, he was able to accomplish a vast amount of work. As a surgeon he was supremely competent, ingenious and in the van of progress, as instance his early mastery of the problems of fluid balance and of transurethral prostatectomy. As a man he was a true friend, without jealousy or malice, possessed of great powers of persuasion and administration, and ever ready to help his younger colleagues. In his leisure he was a golfer and enjoyed fishing in his ancestral Scotland. He was also a talented artist, and enjoyed the good things of a cultivated life to the full. Latterly his health began to fail as he was emphysematous and liable to attacks of pulmonary infection. His passing left a gap difficult to fill. He married twice. By his first marriage, which was dissolved in 1960, he had four daughters and a son; one of his daughters, Alison Mary Deirdre, married Lord Primrose, heir of the Earl of Rosebery, in 1955. In 1961 he married Mrs Olive Gates of Boxford, who survived him. He died on 14 June 1968 in the Essex County Hospital, aged 62. He had lived for some years at Stoke-by-Nayland, but latterly at Dedham.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, William (1817 - 1875)

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First Title value, for Searching Rogers, John Henry ( - 1879)

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First Title value, for Searching Ferguson, Alexander Fergus (1925 - 2012)

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by The Ferguson family
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Occupation Urologist
Details Fergus Ferguson was a consultant urologist in Wellington, New Zealand. He was born in Auckland to David Ferguson, a solicitor, and his wife, Hazel (née Buckland), the family moving to Wellington when he was four. He had three sisters - Barbara, Janet and Susan. He attended Wadestown Primary School and Wellington College, where his good academic achievements allowed him to pursue a career in medicine. Fergus studied at Otago University, becoming a demonstrator in anatomy in 1950. In addition to his medical studies he represented the university in hockey from 1945 to 1947. Fergus worked as a house surgeon at Wellington Hospital from 1951 to 1952 and in 1953 travelled to England, working initially as a house surgeon at Great Ormond St Hospital for Sick Children (working with Denis Browne) and St Thomas' Hospital in London. He then obtained a registrar position at St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey. From 1957 to 1958 Fergus worked at Newcastle General Hospital, as a senior urological registrar to John Swinney and Keith Yeates, completing his time there as a research registrar in 1960. In Newcastle Fergus met and fell in love with Shirley Warriner in a whirlwind romance - they were engaged and married three weeks later. Fergus returned to New Zealand in 1960, with Shirley and their first child, Catherine, who was just a few weeks old. A son, Bruce, was born in Wellington and the family further increased when, following the death of Fergus' sister, Janet, in 1975, her son, Stephen, joined the family. The family settled in Khandallah, Wellington, where they lived for over 50 years, renovating a house and establishing a beautiful garden. Shirley became a GP. On his return to Wellington, Fergus initially became a senior admitting and casualty medical officer at Wellington Hospital. He obtained his fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1961 and was appointed as a visiting assistant surgeon (urology) and later a visiting urologist, a position he held until 1992. Fergus served as head of the department of urology from 1981 to 1992. In his role as urologist Fergus was the medical officer for the VD clinic from 1960 to 1971, and was an important contributor to the establishing of a spina bifida service in Wellington. Fergus developed a special interest in paediatric urology and renal stone disease. At an early stage he recognised the potential advantage of minimally invasive approaches to stone disease and learnt the technique of percutaneous access and stone removal. He arranged for European experts to visit the department to spend a few days demonstrating the surgery to local urologists - becoming an expert himself with the technique over time. With a keen interest in urology training, Fergus was highly regarded as a 'trainer' by his registrars - many urologists in current practice in Australasia learnt much of their craft from him. He was seen by his trainees as firm but fair. His philosophy in the operating theatre was that, wherever possible, the trainee should be the primary surgeon, with the consultant assisting: this 'hands on' approach was greatly appreciated. Fergus saw research as an important part of surgical training and he strongly encouraged his trainees to present their research projects at Australasian meetings. He was particularly proud of the Wellington trainees who contested (and won) the prestigious Keith Kirkland prize, awarded annually at the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand for the best urology registrar research presentation. Before computers became fashionable, he purchased an early Apple computer for the department to assist Wellington trainees in the generation of their projects. Fergus was a urology examiner for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons from 1968 to 1976. Fergus encouraged a team approach in the urology department at Wellington Hospital. Multidisciplinary meetings were fostered and he was always keen to listen to the opinions of pathologists, radiologists, nephrologists and paediatricians, seeing the regular contact with allied specialists as a way of improving communication in the hospital and ultimately patient care. He was a man of generosity and a great host of dinners held regularly at his Khandallah home, believing in the 'complete' education of the young surgeon. His strawberry bowl punch at the annual Christmas party was legendary (and 'lethal'). A number of us who went on to do some training in the UK benefited from Fergus's membership of the Glyndebourne Opera; he was very generous with these hard to get tickets. Thursday was traditionally Fergus's golf day. To remove any doubt, he usually attended ward rounds first thing in the morning sporting his tartan golf pants. On this day it was best to delay any complex clinical issues for another time; Fergus worked hard for the urology department at Wellington Hospital and all members of the urology team were pleased that he was able to get some time for recreation. Fergus gave his time selflessly and whatever he became involved with, he would end up on the committee, as he always wanted to help. In the 1970s he was part of a group of doctors who were instrumental in re-energising the New Zealand Medical Assurance Society, which remains successful to this day. He was very active in the local Neighbourhood Watch for many years and was recognised for his efforts by a North Wellington Voluntary Service award in 2002. Fergus was strongly committed to and supportive of his family. He adored Shirley and was happiest when they did things together. They shared a great love of music, opera, gardening, travel and each other. The family enjoyed overseas holidays, travelling to fascinating places and engaging in exciting activities, and, in addition, spent many an idyllic holiday in Northland at Coopers Beach, boating and swimming. Fergus strongly encouraged both Catherine and Bruce in all their activities. In his later years he visited his mother every day for her last ten years in her home in Wadestown, and then in her convalescent room at Bowen Hospital. He was a wonderful grandfather of Nicola and Courtney, and is greatly missed. He died on 5 October 2012, aged 87.
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First Title value, for Searching Campbell, Allan Gordon (1916 - 2011)

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by Elizabeth Thompson
Publication Date 2013-06-12 2015-06-05
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Allan Gordon Campbell, known as 'AG', was born on May 4, 1916, in Adelaide, the first child of Iris (née Fisher) and Gordon Campbell. His sister, Judith, was born in 1920. Schooled at St Peter's College, Allan entered the University of Adelaide Medical School at 16. At university, he excelled at sprinting, as had his father. By remarkable coincidence both held the junior and senior State Sprint Championships and Inter-University 100 yards championship 30 years apart. After graduating in 1938, Allan became Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH). His registrar, Dr Ina Fox, three years his senior, later became his wife. In 1940, he became an RMO at the Adelaide Children's Hospital. His grandfather, Dr Allan Campbell, who was married to Florence Ann (sister of Sir Samuel Way, Lieutenant-Governor and Chief Justice), founded the hospital in 1876. Allan joined the Royal Australian Naval Reserve as Surgeon Lieutenant in 1939. During World War II, he served on the destroyer HMAS *Vendetta*. In 1941 following evacuation from Greece, Allan, then 25, was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for service and bravery. While on leave, he married Dr Ina Fox in 1942 at St Peter's College Chapel. After discharge, in 1945, Allan returned to Adelaide to join a general practice at Hindmarsh. He then began surgical training at the RAH. He gained Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1949 and Master of Surgery in 1950. At that time, to practice in Australian public hospitals, Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, England, was required. Allan attended Hammersmith Hospital, London, then Warrington General Hospital, Lancashire. He was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1951. On return to Adelaide in 1953 Allan was appointed Honorary Assistant Surgeon at the RAH, becoming Honorary Surgeon in 1963. His vision - broader than usual at the time - included the surgery of trauma and lead to the mentorship of a succession of younger sub-specialty surgeons. Upon abolition of the honorary system in 1970, he became a Senior Visiting Surgeon in 1971. Throughout this time he held teaching appointments in Surgery and Surgical Anatomy at the University of Adelaide Medical School, was a member of the Curriculum Committee of the Faculty of Medicine, the Foreign Practitioners Assessment Committee, the Advisory Committees to the University of Adelaide, RAH and Queen Elizabeth Hospital, and was Visiting Specialist in General Surgery to the Department of Repatriation. In 1976 following establishment of Flinders Medical Centre, Professor Jim Watts offered Allan, then 60, the position of Senior Visiting Surgeon which he accepted. In those days, it was unusual for a Senior Surgeon to move from an established position to new territory, but Allan's sense of adventure, wisdom, practicality and humility ensured the move was successful. He retired from FMC in 1981, aged 65. For years, Allan conducted his private practice from the Botanic Chambers opposite the RAH. He also visited Angaston and Mount Gambier Hospitals. Allan was a mentor and role model to several generations of surgeons and offered wise counsel in difficult clinical and management scenarios. He was a life member of the AMA. Although a keen golfer, Allan chose rose-growing as his hobby, so he could be on call and near the family. It also provided opportunities to meet people outside of medicine. He was an adept horticulturalist. At its peak, his home garden boasted around 800 rose bushes, as well as camellias, orchids, hydrangeas and fruit trees. Allan was involved with the Rose Society for 50 years. He was president in South Australia from 1974 to 1976, and nationally in 1975 and 1981. He was a judge at Rose Society Shows and a delegate to meetings of the World Federation of Rose Societies. For service to the Rose in Australia, he received the T A Stewart Memorial Award in 1976 and the Australian Rose Award in 1981. Allan established rose gardens at various hospitals, including the RAH in 1976. A commemorative plaque was later placed its North Terrace end. Allan was a national representative on the Board of the National Rose Trial Garden at the Botanic Gardens. He established a rose garden at Pineview Retirement Village and his monthly notes on Rose Care were published in a book "Pineview Roses - A Rose Lover's Handy Guide", proceeds of which go to the Women's and Children's Hospital. Allan and Ina were active members of their local church, St Chad's, Fullarton, for 50 years. Allan served on the Parish Council and was the Synod Representative for years. He was a generous financial supporter of the Parish. Allan and Ina held many open days of their garden in Fisher Street to raise funds for the Parish. Allan and Ina celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 1992. Allan was devastated when Ina died suddenly in 1998. Allan died on June 29, 2011, aged 95. He is survived by his two daughters, Anne and Elizabeth and two grandchildren, Alexandra and Andrew. He is remembered as a hard-working, conscientious, talented, generous and humble gentleman who maintained dignity and humour until the very end.
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First Title value, for Searching Elmes, Christopher Robert ( - 2011)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-06-12 2015-06-05
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Christopher Robert Elmes was a surgeon who worked in Australia. He gained his FRCS in 1972 and was also a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He died on 26 July 2011.
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First Title value, for Searching Hollender, Louis Francois (1922 - 2011)

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by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2013-06-12 2014-09-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376266376266
Occupation General surgeon
Details Professor Louis-Francois Hollender was a well-known European general surgeon with interests in gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary and pancreatic disorders. He was head of the department of general surgery at the Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, from 1970 until 1991, when he was awarded emeritus status. Over the years he trained lots of young surgeons from many countries in Europe and was a natural linguist, speaking easily in German, English and his native French, and being able to switch with ease from one to another in conversation. He was born in Strasbourg on 15 February 1922. His father, Emile Hollender, was a pharmacist who married Clotilde Fritsch. He had one sister, Monique, who followed in her father's footsteps and became a pharmacist. After schooling at St Étienne private Catholic school in Strasbourg, he decided to study medicine; however, the Second World War intervened. Strasbourg and all of the Alsace region was annexed by the Third Reich, aided by the Vichy government. Robert Wagner, the head of the civil administration, acting directly under Hitler's orders, terrorised the local population. Some 50,000 people were expelled and many deported. All symbols of France were suppressed and the University of Strasbourg relocated to Clermont-Ferrand in central France in order to retain its French identity. Many young men from Strasbourg were forced to enter the German Army, but Louis Hollender had other ideas. To avoid recruitment into the Wehrmacht, he went into hiding for several weeks. Having relocated to Clermont-Ferrand with the University of Strasbourg, he became active in various areas of the resistance movement and in August 1944 participated in the fighting for the liberation of Paris. For his actions he received several commendations, including a certificate for his sterling work in the defence of l'hotel de ville in Paris. The liberation of the city of Strasbourg itself, as the Allies advanced into Germany, was highly symbolic. General Charles de Gaulle insisted that only French forces should retake the city, and General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque and his troops swore an oath to fight until their flag flew 'over the Cathedral of Strasbourg'. This was only achieved on 23 November 1944. It was some time before the university returned from central France and to normal activities, but Hollender was able to resume his studies and to pass his qualifying examinations in stages. In his MD examination, he obtained the highest praise from the judges for his dissertation. From 1946 to 1950 Hollender served internships in Strasbourg's hospitals. His overall surgical training was undertaken under the guidance of A G Weiss and he rose through the surgical ranks from assistant in surgery to full surgeon in 1959. By 1969 he had become surgeon-in-chief to the department of general surgery and gastrointestinal services at Strasbourg, thereby replacing Weiss, his surgical mentor. In 1947, during his earlier training years and in order to gain thoracic surgical experience, Hollender worked in London with Sir Clement Price Thomas, and later went to Stockholm for cardiovascular experience with Clarence Crafoord. At the Karolinska Institute, heparin prophylaxis had been in use since the 1930s, and Crafoord pioneered mechanical positive-pressure ventilation for thoracic operations, as well as performing the first successful repair of coarctation of the aorta in 1944. In this new but expanding field, Crafoord had a close rival, Robert E Gross of the Boston Children's Hospital, who had performed the first ligation of a patent ductus. Hollender was a committed European, working in collaboration with departments in Strasbourg, Freiburg and Basle. With the aid of a grant from the French government and as a Fulbright fellow, he travelled to the USA to gain endocrine and more gastrointestinal training. In the States, he worked mainly at centres in St Louis with Evarts A Graham at the Barnes Hospital and in New York, where his mentor at the Memorial Hospital was Alexander Brunschwig. Moving to Boston, his definitive post was at the Massachusetts General Hospital, where he was attached to Edward D Churchill and Richard H Sweet. His final move was to Chicago: at the Billings Hospital he was tutored by Lester Reynold Dragstedt and then by Warren H Cole at the Illinois Research Hospital. Following the original work of Dragstedt, Hollender took an early interest in vagotomy in the management of peptic ulcers. Originally an advocate of truncal vagotomy, in 1967 he reported the results of 300 cases, with an analysis of the side effects. Under his influence, Strasbourg became a leading centre for highly selective vagotomy. Later Hollender organised an international conference to sum up the position on surgical treatment. With the advent of drug therapy, the 40-year reign of vagotomy was brought to an end. Hollender also took an interest in the surgical treatment of hiatus hernia and acute and chronic pancreatitis, and in particular the surgical approach to acute pancreatitis by excising necrotic areas in addition to other supportive measures. The advent of imaging helped decision-making in surgical intervention in the management of acute pancreatitis. Once established in Strasbourg, it was inevitable that Louis Hollender would be invited to become a visiting professor to centres in Europe and further afield. These included Rome (1972), Buenos Aires (1973), Lausanne (1975), Athens (1976), Berne (1978), Bahia Bianca, Argentina (1978), London (1979), Valencia (1982), Cordoba (1982), Sofia (1982), East Berlin (1983), Budapest (1984), Santa Fe (1985), Campinas, Brazil (1985), Lima, Peru (1986), Santiago (1987) and Indianapolis (1991). He wrote hundreds of papers and contributed to many books dealing with the surgery of peptic ulcer and pancreatic problems. He was a member of the editorial committees of several surgical journals, including *World Journal of Surgery*, *Digestive Surgery* and *Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery*. In 1969 Hollender, together with Giuseppi Grassi and G Benedetti-Valentini of Rome, held discussions on organising gatherings of gastrointestinal surgeons of world-renown. The trio founded the Collegium Internationale Chirurgiae Digestivae, later known as the International Society for Digestive Surgery. Hollender was a member of some 20 French medical societies and a founder member of four, becoming elected president of several of them. He was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member or fellow of 18 other foreign surgical societies. In April 1980 he was made an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was further honoured by the Academy of Medicine of Buenos Aires, as well as the Deutsch Gesellschaft für Chirurgie. He received numerous honorary degrees, including from the universities of Rome, Cordoba and Athens. The decorations he received from the French republic not only recognised his professional qualities, but also his political and social commitments as well. He was honoured with the chevalier de la légion d'honneur, the commander des palmes académiques (a decoration for services to education in France) and the silver medal of the French Red Cross. Outside his busy clinical commitments, he was interested in the history of medicine. He was widely read in both poetry and philosophy, enjoying the works of Goethe and Friedrich Schiller. He was also a lover of classical music, the works of J S Bach being high on his list of favourites. In March 1957, Hollender married Nicole Ziegler. They had two daughters, Laure and Emmanuelle, and four grandchildren. The Hollender tradition of medicine has continued: Emmanuelle and her daughter Margaux are both doctors. Predeceased by his wife on 22 November 1994, Louis-Francois Hollender died on 13 May 2011, from lung cancer, although he had never smoked and was virtually a teetotaller. He was 89. When he was admitted as an honorary fellow of the RCS, Hollender was described as '…a surgeon, savant, teacher and Anglophile…' His family describe him as having qualities so essential in a surgeon, including 'respect, availability and attention to others'. Neat in his appearance and professional in his approach, he had 'above all…a very big heart'.
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First Title value, for Searching Jardine, James Lewis (1929 - 2012)

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by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2013-06-12 2013-06-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Jim Jardine was a gifted general surgeon, a kind and compassionate doctor who practised in Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand. He loved the people and had an extraordinary gift for remembering patients' names. Moreover, he had a special rapport with his Maori patients and their families. One of his colleagues, a pathologist, said of him: 'He instinctively knew when to operate and when to wait, his judgement was always sound.' Jim was born in Wairoa, on the North Island, on 13 August 1929, the son of a hard-working and very popular general practitioner, Edmund Basil Jardine, and his wife Nancy née Stock. Jim was the oldest of the family and had two sisters, Beverley and Anne. Jim went to the local primary school and then to Wanganui Collegiate School, a private boys' school with boarding and day pupils. Founded in 1852, it has strong links with the Anglican Church. Here he had a good academic reputation, and was also known for his sporting prowess. He was particularly grateful to Gordon McBeath, his piano teacher, who instilled in him a lifelong love of and interest in music. From secondary school he entered Otago University in 1947. He graduated in 1953, with an award for his final year thesis on 'The Maori mother and her child'. His wiry physique allowed him to play rugby to a good level at scrum-half for the university team. Shortly after qualifying, he married a stunning blonde, Janet Waterworth ('Jan'), a neonatal nurse and the only daughter of a Hawkes Bay farmer, Mason Waterworth and his wife Margaret née Alexander. Jim and Jan were a perfectly matched couple and ideal parents for their family of five. Jim did a series of preliminary posts in New Zealand, before sailing to the United Kingdom to gain more surgical experience. He was fortunate to obtain an excellent two-year post at the Central Middlesex Hospital, London, where he was supervised by Peter Gummer, a general surgeon who worked closely with Sir Francis Avery-Jones, the well-known gastroenterologist. J D Fergusson, a pioneer urologist, and a founder member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons, also tutored him in urology. Perhaps through Peter Gummer's influence, Jim then went to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and the Jenny Lind Hospital for Children as a surgical registrar. He gained a wealth of experience in general surgery, urology, vascular and paediatric conditions and emergency neurosurgery. After passing the FRCS in 1958, he, Jan and their first three children returned to New Zealand in 1960. For a year he took a temporary post as a surgeon at the Cook Hospital, Gisborne, but in 1961 he left for Auckland, to assess a post as a surgeon with the Auckland Hospital Board. Fortunately, he called in to see one of his former class mates, Murray McDonald, who casually mentioned that there was a surgical position available at the Rotorua Hospital. He called in to see the then superintendent, Eric Bridgeman. Jim was immediately appointed as surgeon to the Rotorua Hospital, where he soon became director of surgery. In 1962 a small private hospital closed, so Jim, with other medical consultants and general practitioners and in conjunction with the local business community, set up a private hospital 'St Andrews', which opened in 1965. He was appointed as medical director and continued to serve the community well in both hospitals until he retired in 1996. During this busy practical life he wrote just one joint publication: 'Acute appendicitis in a premature infant: a case report' (*Aust N Z J Surg*.1971 May; 40[4]: 362-4). Active in the local community, Jim became president of the Bay of Plenty Camellia Society, chairman of Rotorua Primary School Board Trust in the 1960s and a committee member for the Outward Bound Trust in the 1970s. In 1974 he became chairman of the Rotorua Taupo division of the New Zealand Medical Association. At a national level, he served on the education subcommittee of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. In spite of developing rheumatoid arthritis in his twenties, for which excision of both radial heads proved necessary to aid mobility, Jim kept up a very busy surgical practice and oversaw the introduction of joint replacement, laparoscopic surgery and the developing field of imaging in radiology. He guided his five children in their respective careers and encouraged them to become independent, stressing to the girls that they should follow their interests before embarking on marriage. Phillipa, the first born, became a lawyer. David is a physician in New Zealand. Catherine became a nurse. Hamish is a winemaker, and the youngest, Sara, became a dentist. Jan and Jim were both very keen workers in their large garden, and developed a special interest in camellias, which they grafted and propagated. Jan had access to a family estate, Crab Farm in Napier, so-called because it was raised above sea level in the 1931 Napier earthquake. Jim started to grow grapes there in 1989, and after two years he was joined by Hamish. Together they developed Crab Farm winery into an excellent award-winning enterprise, exporting wine overseas. Jim was a committed family man and enjoyed camping and trout fishing. Each year he and Jan took the family to the beach for three weeks' holiday in the summer and, in the winter, for a week-long holiday in a mountain hut for skiing. He played the piano of an evening to relax after a busy day's work, particularly the works of Chopin, Schumann and Debussy. Playing music well by ear, he was ready to accompany anyone wishing to sing at a party. He enjoyed going to the opera, musicals and plays. Interested in Darwin's theories on evolution, he read widely, particularly on New Zealand and world history. A regular reader of the *Guardian Weekly*, he also kept abreast of European and world economic affairs. He continued all his extracurricular activities into retirement, overcoming his rheumatoid arthritis until his health failed. He died on 25 August 2012, 12 days after his 83rd birthday, having celebrated his diamond wedding anniversary with Jan, and leaving his five children and their families.
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First Title value, for Searching Webb, Allan (1808 - 1863)

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First Title value, for Searching Webber, Charles Samuel (1809 - 1889)

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First Title value, for Searching Cathcart, Charles Walker (1853 - 1932)

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First Title value, for Searching Chamings, Alfred John Wilson (1903 - 1937)

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First Title value, for Searching Chapple, Harold (1881 - 1945)

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First Title value, for Searching Cheatle, Sir George Lenthal (1865 - 1951)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 13 June 1865, the elder son of George Cheatle, a solicitor, and Mary Ann Crafter Allen, his wife. His younger brother, Arthur Cheatle, also distinguished himself as a surgeon. He was educated at Merchant Taylors School and at King's College Hospital, with which he was connected for the rest of his long life. Here he came under the influence of Lister, from whom he derived his superlative surgical standards. He cherished a profound regard for the great master, and was reputed to have acquired certain personal mannerisms from him, no doubt unconsciously, for instance a slight sigh before answering any question. He was also influenced by Lister's assistant, Sir William Watson Cheyne. From both Lister and Cheyne he learnt to combine clinical and research work, and throughout his life made it a habit to carry through his own pathological examination of tumour-tissue removed at operation. Cheatle, who would in any case have been distinguished as a brilliant surgeon, in fact made himself doubly famous by the valuable knowledge of cancer, which his pathological researches brought forward. He advocated the cutting of microscopic sections of the whole of an affected organ; and he devised and employed a special giant microtome, with which his name has been associated. His research work was done partly at the hospital and partly in his house, 149 Harley Street. He was always ready to help a friend by investigating pathological material submitted for his opinion. He was also extremely kind and generous to students and younger colleagues. Cheatle was modest and reserved, and kept himself aloof from matters outside his immediate interests; he affected the manners and dress of a fashionable consultant of late Victorian times, which obscured from those who did not know him well his sterling character and great scientific attainments. He was not a ready speaker nor a voluminous writer, but none the less his views exerted a considerable influence on current investigations of cancer. Though often unorthodox, he was uncom¬promising in his opinions. He was particularly concerned with mammary cancer, and his results were summed up and expressed in his classic book *Tumours of the breast*, written in collaboration with Max Cutler (1931). He was awarded the Walker prize in 1931 by the Royal College of Surgeons for his work on cancer, and was elected an honorary Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1932. During 1936 he was invited to lecture at the Hines Hospital, Chicago, and to act as consulting surgeon there, a position restricted to American citizens; the United States government generously made it possible for him to accept this honour by granting him American citizenship for one week, a privilege probably unique. Cheatle qualified in 1887; and after serving as house surgeon and house physician was appointed Sambrooke surgical registrar at King's College Hospital in 1890, and became assistant surgeon and demonstrator of surgery in 1893. He was subsequently lecturer in surgical pathology, having been for some time director of the hospital's museum. In due course he became surgeon and lecturer in surgery, and senior surgeon in 1923. He retired in 1930, when he was elected consulting surgeon and emeritus lecturer on clinical surgery. He had also been surgeon to the Nightingale Hospital for Gentlewomen, the Hospital for Paralysis and Epilepsy, Regent's Park, the Italian Hospital, the King Edward VII Hospital, the Surrey Dispensary, and the Sevenoaks Hospital. He was elected a Fellow of King's College, London in 1919. During the South African war Cheatle was a consulting surgeon to the forces, was mentioned in despatches, won the medal with four clasps, and was created CB in 1901. He was promoted KCB in 1918 for his services in the first world war, when he held the rank of surgeon rear-admiral, Royal Naval Medical Service; was in a hospital ship during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915, and later served at Haslar Royal Naval Hospital. He was subsequently a member of the consultative board and of the Naval Medical Service committee at the Admiralty. Cheatle served as a vice-president of King's. College Medical Society in 1889, and in 1920 when it became the "Listerian Society" he addressed the members on his recollections of Lister; he had assisted Lister in the last operation that he performed. At the Royal Society of Medicine he served as president of the surgical section 1925-26. Cheatle was a skilled games-player. He was in the medical school cricket XI 1889-93; was for many years president of the lawn-tennis club, to which he presented the "Cheatle cup" for the students' singles champion; and helped to found the hospital golfing society in 1913. Many well-earned honours came to Cheatle. He was created CVO in 1912, an Officer Cavalier of the Italian Grand Cross in 1910, and Chevalier of the French Legion of Honour in 1935. He was also an Associate of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. Cheatle married in 1902 Clara Denman Jopp, daughter of Colonel Keith Jopp, Royal Engineers, and a cousin of Robert Louis Stevenson, the writer. Lady Cheatle was president of the Ladies Guild of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund from 1930 to 1940. Her histrionic gifts were well known in Britain and America, and she expended herself on behalf of medical and other charities. She died on 24 December 1942, after forty years of devoted married life, at Green Gates, Gordon Avenue, Stanmore, Middlesex, survived by their two sons and one daughter. Sir Lenthal Cheatle subsequently lived with his daughter, Mrs McKenzie, at Lismore Cottage, Sparrows Herne, Bushey Heath, where he died, aged 85, on 2 January 1951. A memorial service was held in King's College Hospital chapel, Denmark Hill, on 25 January 1951. Publications:- Inflammation, and Diseases of the breast, in A J Walton, *Surgical diagnosis*. London: Arnold, 1928, 1, 1 and 2, 652. Suppuration, in C C Choyce *System of surgery*, 3rd ed London: Cassell, 1932, 1, 141. Observations on the incidence and spread of cancer. *Brit med J* 1908, 1, 437. Tetanus antitoxin in treatment of wounds in road or garden or field accidents. *Brit med J* 1910, 1, 1203. Recollections of Lister. *King's College Hosp Gaz* 1920. *Tumours of the breast*, with Max Cutler. London: Arnold, 1931. 596 pages, folio. Orthopaedics of sentry-go. *Brit med J 1943*, 2, 213. A letter criticizing "the fantastic and rather ridiculous performance" of the sentries' march outside Buckingham Palace.
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First Title value, for Searching Cholmeley, William Frederick (1866 - 1949)

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First Title value, for Searching Choyce, Charles Coley (1875 - 1937)

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First Title value, for Searching Christianson, Ralph Alfred (1913 - 1947)

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First Title value, for Searching Clarke, Colin (1881 - 1935)

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First Title value, for Searching Clarke, Ernest (1857 - 1932)

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First Title value, for Searching Clarke, James Jackson (1880 - 1940)

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First Title value, for Searching Clegg, John Gray (1869 - 1941)

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First Title value, for Searching Toms, Philip (1800 - 1879)

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First Title value, for Searching Johnson, Sir Walter Burford (1885 - 1951)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-24
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Occupation Tropical medicine specialist
Details Born 20 December 1885, the youngest son of James Nowell Johnson, inspector of insurances, and his wife Elizabeth Burford. He was educated at the City of London School and St Thomas's Hospital, qualifying in 1908 and taking the Fellowship in 1911. In 1912 he entered the West African Medical Staff, intending to practise as a surgeon. On arrival in Africa, however, he became more interested in public health problems and was seconded in 1913 for research work with the Yellow Fever Commission. During 1914-15 he served as a temporary captain, RAMC, in the Cameroons. He began tsetse fly investigations in northern Nigeria in 1921, work which led to the establishment of the Trypanosomiasis Research Institute at Kaduma. Johnson was appointed Director of Medical and Sanitary Services for Nigeria in 1929, a post which he held with great distinction till 1936. He was created CMG in January 1933 and a Knight bachelor in June 1935. He was instrumental in establishing the Nigerian Medical School. After retiring he became Superintendent of the Botsabelo Leper Institute at Maseru in Basutoland, and was subsequently medical adviser to the High Commissioner for Basutoland, Bechuanaland, and Swaziland. Johnson was unmarried. His life and work were shared by his sister Miss Mary Johnson, MBE. They lived at The Thatch, Penhill Estate, Eersteriver, Cape Province, where he died on 5 July 1951, aged 65. Johnson was essentially a field worker, though also an able administrator. He was a man of abounding energy and goodwill, loved and admired by countless Europeans and Africans, and was known to his friends as Buff. He thought little of driving his Ford truck from Nigeria north to England or south to the Cape, accompanied by his sister. He was a big-game hunter and a fisherman, fond also of travel and of golf. He was a strong swimmer and nearly lost his life in a gallant attempt to rescue a friend off Lagos beach. Johnson was the author of many valuable official reports on yellow fever and trypanosomiasis. At the centenary meeting of the British Medical Association in London in 1932 he presided at some of the meetings of the section for tropical medicine.
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First Title value, for Searching Toulmin, Francis (1803 - 1884)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at Guy's Hospital. He practised with his elder brother, Frederick Justus Toulmin (qv), and Edward Dennis Hacon (qv) at Maitland Place, Clapton, and Mare Street, Hackney, and was Consulting Surgeon to the Infant Orphan Asylum at Wanstead. Later he was Surgeon to the Invalid Asylum, Stoke Newington, and practised on his own account. He was Consulting Surgeon to the Invalid Asylum at the time of his death. He died on March 13th, 1884.
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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, Edward (1857 - 1946)

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First Title value, for Searching Harris, William James (1872 - 1932)

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First Title value, for Searching John, Vedamanickam Samuel (1906 - 1945)

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First Title value, for Searching Stedman, James Remington (1817 - 1891)

2025-06-29T19:18:38Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Guildford, where his father was in extensive medical practice. He went to Guildford Grammar School, and then studied at King's College Hospital. Later he was in partnership with his father, and succeeded to the practice. In 1867 he was elected Coroner for the Borough of Guildford, and held that post until 1879, when he was appointed Justice of the Peace. He was Surgeon to the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Trustee of Stoke Hospital, and for a time Brigade Surgeon to the Rifle Volunteers. He lived latterly in retirement, and died at Somerset House, Guildford, on December 5th, 1891, a much respected, genial, hospitable man.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003742
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First Title value, for Searching Stedman, Silas Stilwell (1820 - 1865)

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

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First Title value, for Searching Scott, Sydney Richard (1875 - 1966)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-06
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Sydney Scott was born in Shrewsbury on 1 June, 1875. He studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and immediately after qualifying with the Conjoint Board Diploma in 1899 joined up as a civil surgeon in the South African Field Force, and was awarded the Queen's Medal with three clasps. When the Boer War ended in 1902 he returned to Bart's to be house-surgeon to Sir Henry Butlin, and in 1902 he passed the London MB BS with honours and was awarded the gold medal. In the same year he passed the Fellowship, and in 1904 graduated MS London. The next step in his surgical training was a period as demonstrator of anatomy at St Bartholomew's and it was at that time that he came under the influence of Charles Ernest West, the first surgical otologist to the Hospital. In 1908 Scott was appointed assistant surgeon to the ear department, West being the senior surgeon. Their collaboration was significant in that they developed the technique of trans-labyrinthine drainage for meningitis secondary to labyrinthitis and they published a text book on the operations of aural surgery in 1909. In 1914 Scott served in the RAMC and was in France early enough to qualify for the Mons Star. He worked for a time at the Duchess of Westminster's Hospital at Le Touquet, but later, though still in the Army, he was attached to the Royal Flying Corps as a member of the Aeronautic Medical Investigation Committee established by the MRC to examine the problem of vertigo in relation to flying. His important researches formed a report to the Medical Research Committee and were also incorporated in the official medical history of the war. In 1921 he succeeded West as senior surgeon to the ear department at St Bartholomew's and he also held appointments at the National Hospital, Queen Square; St Andrew's Hospital, Dollis Hill; the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children, and the Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith Hospital. His appointments and distinctions were not limited to clinical work, for he was secretary to the Section of Otology at the International Congress of Medicine in 1913, and a delegate to the International Congress of Otoloryngology in Berlin in 1936. He became President of the Section of Otology of the Royal Society of Medicine. He retired from Bart's in 1940, and went to live near Andover. Still keen to be of service, especially during the war, he became a medical officer in the Hampshire Home Guard. As a younger man he was an enthusiastic motorist and golfer; but unfortunately as age advanced he suffered from deafness which could not be relieved even with modern hearing-aids, and he had to be satisfied with tending the ducks, geese and hens in his own paddocks, which certainly gave him much enjoyment. His natural reserve and shyness interefered with didactic teaching, but his gentle skill, and sound surgical management of the complications of ear disease provided magnificent training for a succession of house surgeons and assistants, with whom he delighted to keep in contact. Shortly after the end of the Boer War, in 1901, he married Ethel Baker, and they had three sons and one daughter. One of the sons, Philip Geoffrey Scott, became ENT Surgeon to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. His wife died in 1958 and Sydney Scott himself died at his country home on 4 February 1966 at the age of ninety. The year before he died he made a handsome gift of money to the Royal College of Surgeons, and it was characteristic of his diffidence that he stipulated that it should remain an anonymous donation until after his death.
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First Title value, for Searching Bridge, Keith Buchanan (1903 - 1997)

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by Wyn Beasley
Publication Date 2013-07-24 2013-10-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Keith Buchanan Bridge was a consultant surgeon in Wellington, New Zealand. He was born on 4 July 1903 at Gisborne, on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand, the second son of a farmer, Charles Harry Bridge, and his wife Christina née Macdonald. He was a boarder at Waitaki Boys' High School from 1916 to 1920, before moving further south, to what was then the only medical school in the country, Otago in Dunedin. During his time as a medical student he was a member of Knox College. He graduated MB ChB in 1925. From 1926 to 1928 he was a house surgeon at Wellington Hospital; then, as was the essential pattern for young men planning to specialise, he made the sea voyage to the UK. His first post was at the West London Hospital in 1930, where he worked for Tyrrell Gray. In 1931 he gained his FRCS and then became a resident surgical officer at Ancoats Hospital in Manchester, where his mentor was Peter McEvedy. In 1934 he worked at St Mark's Hospital, where W B Gabriel secured his commitment to colo-rectal surgery, and in 1935 he was at St Peter's. On his return to New Zealand, he resumed his association with Wellington Hospital. He became visiting assistant surgeon to the Children's Hospital in 1937, holding this position until he enlisted in 1940. The outbreak of the Second World War brought profound changes to the New Zealand medical scene. The country contributed a division, and this went overseas in three echelons, two to Egypt, the other to help the defence of Britain against the threat of invasion in mid-1940. By early 1941 the division was assembled in the Middle East in time to take part in the campaign in Greece. Meanwhile, by the end of 1940, it had been accepted that New Zealand needed a hospital ship of its own, and an elderly Union Company liner, the *Maunganui*, was taken over for conversion. The casualties from the Greek campaign emphasised the need, and the task of conversion was hurried along so that *Maunganui* was handed over on 21 April 1941. With her went Keith Bridge, to begin a year of service afloat before he joined the division itself. In North Africa he was attached to a mobile surgical unit in the pursuit after Alamein, bringing a surgical team well forward in accordance with the doctrine that evolved out of the lessons learnt during the previous war; and when 2 NZ Division formed to attack Mareth, Bridge's surgical team out of 1 General Hospital served to augment 4 Field Ambulance. Then, in the Italian campaign, now commanding the surgical division of 1 General Hospital, he was involved in the establishment of the hospital at Senegallia on the Adriatic coast, where on 3 September 1944 one of their first patients was General Bernard Freyberg, who had suffered a wound in an aircraft accident. Bridge finished the war as a lieutenant colonel, commanding 6 General Hospital at the end of 1945, and his services were recognised with the award of an OBE. In 1946 he rejoined the visiting surgical staff of Wellington Hospital, at first in a 'relief' position; but by 1951 he was a senior surgeon and head of one of four general surgical firms. He was recognised as a surgeon's surgeon, and to him would be referred colleagues, relatives, problem cases and potential disasters. He possessed the valuable surgical triad: diagnostic skill, good surgical judgment and meticulous surgical technique. Being a modest, even a shy man, he carried responsibility well, and, even though his role involved him in long procedures, he was well esteemed by his anaesthetic colleagues. Just before he sailed in *Maunganui* in April 1941 Keith Bridge had acquired the fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, which had been founded in 1927, blending elements from two existing colleges: the English Royal College, established more than a century earlier, and the American College, then 14 years young. He devoted himself to the new institution, serving on the Court of Examiners and as secretary, as an elected member and ultimately as chairman (from 1959 to 1961) of its New Zealand committee. In 1947 he married Kathleen Cook; they had a daughter and one son. On his CV he recorded no outside interests, and indeed work and his family were his life. But two of his abiding interests deserve mention: he was an avid follower of rugby football, his season ticket shrewdly placed at the centre of the main stand, and his normal reticence was easily overcome by a comment on last weekend's game. Then there was his devotion to fly-fishing at Taupo, where he and his colleague Ted Gibbs would often fish together. He did find room for involvement in the governance of the insurance co-operative known as the Medical Assurance Society, of which he had lately become chairman of directors when, in 1972, a group of members who had become justifiably dissatisfied with the administration of the society staged a revolt and succeeded in installing a new board. When Keith Bridge came up for re-election the following year, he withdrew from his involvement with the society; he had been deeply wounded by events, but had preserved his dignity throughout. He had retired from his appointment as senior visiting surgeon in 1966, having by then contributed 40 years to the institution (apart from his overseas training and war service), but at a time when there was much discussion of the problem that hospitals tended to allot their most junior staff to the 'front door', and the discipline of emergency medicine was yet to emerge, there was a frisson of excitement when Keith Bridge reappeared as senior casualty and admitting officer in 1967. His level of expertise in the handling of emergency cases presenting at Wellington Hospital became legendary. In 1973 'K B' retired again, but almost immediately he was back, this time in charge of the blood transfusion service - on a part-time basis, for a couple of years only, but long enough to make it a model of quiet efficiency. He then withdrew gently from his involvement in the Wellington medical scene. He lived for another two decades, and died - again, gently - on 23 October 1997, aged 94. His colleague Ted Watson remembers him as 'all in all a man much admired by those who had the privilege to work with him'.
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First Title value, for Searching Dickinson, Peter Henry (1922 - 2013)

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First Title value, for Searching Dobson, Raymond (1919 - 2013)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-07-24 2015-07-20
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Occupation Thoracic surgeon
Details Raymond Dobson was a consultant thoracic surgeon who worked in the Newcastle upon Tyne region. He was born in Darlington on 24 October 1919, the son of Albert Dobson, an accountant in a bank, and Dorothy Dobson née Robson. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School in Newcastle and was then awarded an exhibition to St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He gained first class honours in his BA in natural sciences and then went on to clinical studies at Newcastle. He qualified MB BChir in 1942. He held house posts at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, and then, in 1943, joined the RAMC. He was twice mentioned in despatches and left the Army in 1946 with the rank of major. Following his demobilisation, he returned to Newcastle, as a house surgeon and then a registrar. From 1950 to 1951 he was a registrar in the department of regional thoracic surgery, Newcastle. He was then a senior registrar in thoracic surgery for a year, working for the South East Metropolitan Region. In 1953 he was appointed to his consultant post at Newcastle. He was also a clinical lecturer at Newcastle University and a senior administrator in the cardiothoracic surgical department at Freeman Hospital (from 1978 to 1980). He retired in 1980. Outside medicine, he was interested in sport. As a young man he had played rugby for Cambridge University and Northumberland. He was chairman of the Two Castles Housing Association from 1975 to 1989. In February 1949 he married Mary (née Meikle). They had three children, Susan (who predeceased him), Simon (who became a paediatrician) and Andrew. Raymond Dobson died on 7 June 2013. He was 93.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004270
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First Title value, for Searching Edmondson, John Leonard (1921 - 2013)

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First Title value, for Searching Fatin, Mohamed (1906 - )

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First Title value, for Searching George, Puthukudiyil Mathai (1940 - 2013)

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First Title value, for Searching Howarth Anthony Edward (1916 - 2012)

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by Mark Howarth
Publication Date 2013-07-24 2014-09-24
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Anthony Edward Howarth ('Tony') was a consultant ENT surgeon at St Nicholas' Hospital, Plumstead, the Erith Hospital, Brook General Hospital, Bromley Hospital, Beckenham Hospital and Sydenham Children's Hospital, which he always regarded as his base. He was also an audiologist to the London County Council and worked for the Royal National Institute for the Deaf. Tony Howarth was born in London on 18 November 1916, the first child of the renowned St Thomas' ENT surgeon Walter ('Wally') Goldie Howarth and his wife, Esther Mary Howarth née Ricardo. He was educated at Shrewsbury School, King's College, Cambridge, and St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London. His interest in ENT surgery came from his father, and his postgraduate appointments were as a house officer and registrar at St Thomas'. During the Second World War he served in the RAF in Burma and Bengal. He was later appointed as an ENT senior registrar at the Middlesex Hospital. Tony Howarth married Rosemary (née Clay), an art historian and daughter of Sir Charles Clay, librarian to the House of Lords, in June 1950 in London. They had three children - Mark (who became a general practitioner), Simon (a water engineer) and Catherine (a molecular geneticist), and five grandchildren. Living 30 years after retirement, Tony Howarth immersed himself in his large extended family and transferred his surgical skills to craftsmanship, becoming an expert cabinet maker as well as a DIY enthusiast. He was very interested in the arts and architecture, and loved the galleries and museums of London. He was remarkably fit well into his nineties, having fought off carcinoma of the gall bladder against all odds and then of the colon. Sadly, his beloved Rosemary developed Alzheimer's and he became her devoted carer. A year before his death he realised that he could no longer cope alone in London and moved down to his parents' old house in Sussex, now occupied by one of his sons; a house that he had done much to restore. It was very much a coming home and he died there on 27 April 2012, surrounded by his family. He was 95.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004274
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First Title value, for Searching Laird, Robert Clarence (1902 - 1990)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-07-24 2015-08-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Robert Laird was surgeon-in-chief and professor of surgery at Toronto Western Hospital, Canada. He was born in Brockville, Ontario, on 5 October 1902, the second child and only son of Robert Laird, a clergyman, and Henrietta Laird née Odell. He was educated at North Toronto High School and Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, where he gained his BA in 1923. As an undergraduate he enjoyed rowing. He then went on to the University of Toronto medical school, qualifying MD in 1928. From 1928 to 1935 he was based at Toronto General Hospital. He then joined Toronto Western Hospital. Between 1943 and 1946, during the Second World War, he served in the Royal Canadian Air Force as a wing commander. He returned to Toronto Western Hospital in 1946, as chief surgeon and professor of surgery. After 20 years' service to Toronto Western Hospital, he continued his work as chief-of-staff at York Finch Hospital until his retirement 1972. He then devoted the rest of his life to developing medical care in Nigeria, where he established a medical school. In 1979 one of the libraries in the University Health Network in Toronto was named the RC Laird Library in his honour. He was president of the Canadian Association of Clinical Surgeons and president of the Academy of Medicine, Toronto. In 1933 he married Kathleen Bryant. They had five daughters, two of whom became nurses and one a physiotherapist. Robert Clarence Laird died in December 1990. He was 88.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004275
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First Title value, for Searching Osterberg, Paul Harald (1926 - 2013)

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by James Nixon
Publication Date 2013-07-24 2013-11-06
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Paul Harald Osterberg was an orthopaedic surgeon in Belfast. He was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, on 28 October 1926, but spent his early years in New York, before his father's civil engineering career took the family to Ireland. His father Harald Østerberg also served as consul general for Denmark in Ireland. His mother Ethel Østerberg née Davenport was born in New Zealand. Paul was educated at St Columba's College, Dublin. At the age of 17 he started studying civil engineering at Trinity College, Dublin, but, in 1944, three days after his 18th birthday, he volunteered for the British Army, stating he was determined to help in the fight to restore freedom to Denmark. He was commissioned as a lieutenant in the Buffs (the East Kent regiment) and, attached to the Royal Artillery, served in Palestine from 1944 to 1947. Following his demobilisation, he decided to study medicine and qualified from Trinity in 1953. His early postgraduate training was at Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital, Dublin, and later at the Royal Victoria and Musgrave Park hospitals, Belfast. Here he was influenced by Sir Ian Fraser and R J ('Jimmy') Withers. His specialist orthopaedic training took place at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital London, where he came under the influence of Sir Herbert Seddon. In 1965 he was appointed as a consultant to the Royal Victoria and Musgrave Park hospitals. He was also part of the Northern Ireland Orthopaedic Service, through which he and specialist after-care nurses provided a visiting orthopaedic service to the people of Fermanagh in the west of the province. Paul continued to provide this service up to his retirement. Throughout his consultant career he enjoyed being a generalist, and was less comfortable with increasing sub-specialisation. He was one of a small group of orthopaedic surgeons in post in Belfast at the outbreak of the civil disturbances in 1969, and he and his colleagues provided care, and developed surgical techniques to treat all patients, irrespective of their allegiances. He enjoyed the multi-professional and personal side of medicine, so evident in Ulster. He was a visiting professor at Pahlavi University, Iran, in l976, and he and his wife drove overland to take up the post. He was the founding president of the Irish Orthopaedic Association, helping to transform the Irish Orthopaedic Club into this active association that drew its membership from the whole island of Ireland. He also served on the council of the British Orthopaedic Association. A sociable and approachable man, he continued his medico-legal practice well after retirement, and his opinion was well-respected in legal circles. In 1952 he married Valerie Goodbody and they had two daughters, Lydia and Vanessa. Happily settled in Ulster, he and Valerie created a celebrated garden at the Old Manse in Hillsborough, which they continued to develop throughout their lives. He inherited his father's love of sailing and the sea, an interest that stretched back several generations (his grandfather had been in command of the Danish lighthouse service). Paul owned a series of elegant sailing boats, and continued sailing with friends in Scandinavian, Scottish and French waters to the end. Throughout their married life, and into retirement in 1989, he and Valerie loved to travel, usually by car. However, he was well-known as an erratic driver, with a tendency when talking to ignore traffic lanes and signals. He died on 25 June 2013, aged 86. Pre-deceased by Valerie, he was survived by his two daughters and four grandsons.
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First Title value, for Searching Mannington, Frank (1873 - 1949)

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First Title value, for Searching Mansell-Moullin, Charles William (1851 - 1940)

2025-06-29T19:18:38Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-30
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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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004548
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First Title value, for Searching Maples, Ernest Edgar ( - 1948)

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First Title value, for Searching Mapother, Edward (1881 - 1940)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-30
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Occupation Psychiatrist
Details Born at 6 Merrion Square, Dublin, on 12 July 1881, the only son of the seven children of Edward Dillon Mapother and his wife, Ellen, daughter of John Tobin, MP, of Halifax, Nova Scotia. His father, surgeon to St Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, professor of anatomy and physiology, and president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland 1879-80, was for many years one of the most successful teachers in Dublin. The family moved to London about 1888 and his father practised at 32 Cavendish Square. Edward, the son, was educated at University College School and at University College Hospital, where he gained the medals in anatomy and physiology and graduated at London University with medals in medicine and pathology at the MB examination. He then acted as house physician to Dr Risien Russell at the National Hospital in Queen Square, Bloomsbury. During 1908-14 he was a medical officer at the Long Grove Mental Hospital, Epsom. He was gazetted a temporary lieutenant, RAMC, on 14 April 1915, and served in Mesopotamia and France until he was recalled to the neurological division of the Second Western General Hospital, which had its headquarters at Manchester. As the neurologist he organized and opened two hospitals at Stockport, acting as officer in command until they were closed in March 1919. From September 1919 to November 1920 he was medical superintendent of the Maudsley Hospital during its tenure by the Ministry of Pensions. In 1923 the Maudsley Hospital was opened by the London County Council to fulfil the purposes for which its founder, Henry Maudsley, had endowed it. Mapother was placed in charge and held office until he resigned on account of ill health in 1939. The hospital became an undisputed success as a centre of teaching, treatment, and research, owing largely to Mapother's initiative and foresight. For some years he was physician in psychological medicine at King's College Hospital, London, and he was elected professor of clinical psychiatry in the University of London, when the chair was established in 1937 and was made tenable at the Maudsley Hospital. At the Royal College of Physicians he served on the Council in 1937 and 1938, and delivered the Bradshaw lecture in 1936. He also gave the Norman Kerr lecture at the Society for the Study of Inebriety in 1938. He was president of the section of psychiatry, Royal Society of Medicine, in 1933, and vice-president of the section of neurology and psychiatry of the British Medical Association in 1934. He married in 1915 Barbara Mary, daughter of Charles H Reynolds; she survived him, but without children. Mrs Mapother died on 21 August 1945. He died on 20 March 1940, after a long illness due to asthma and pulmonary fibrosis, at Mill Hill Emergency Hospital, which was then a branch of St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. Mapother did much to develop and stabilize psychological medicine in this country. He used scientific methods and adhered to the principles of sound clinical medicine. He was entirely out of sympathy with extreme psycho-analysis and with the tendency to divorce psychotherapy from medicine. He was however in no sense a reactionary, for he was at once receptive and original, quick to see and patient to bring about the development of psychological medicine in hitherto neglected fields. He was insistent too that psychiatrists should have a sound training in general medicine. Publications: Manic-depressive psychosis. *Brit med J* 1926, 2, 872. Assessment of alcoholic morbidity. *Mott memorial volume*. London, 1929. Tough or tender, a plea for nominalism in psychiatry. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1933-4, 27, 1687. Mental symptoms associated with head injury. *Brit med J* 1937, 2, 1055. The physical basis of alcoholic mental disorders. (17th Norman Kerr memorial lecture, 1938). *Brit J Inebr* 1938-9, 36, 103. The integration of neurology and psychiatry (Bradshaw lecture, Royal College of Physicians, 1936). Not published.
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First Title value, for Searching Seagram, Thomas ( - 1905)

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First Title value, for Searching Seagram, William Frowd (1776 - 1864)

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First Title value, for Searching Searle, Henry Smith ( - 1854)

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First Title value, for Searching Coley, William Bradley (1862 - 1936)

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First Title value, for Searching Colgate, Henry (1850 - 1940)

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First Title value, for Searching Marlow, Frederick William (1877 - 1936)

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First Title value, for Searching Davies-Colley, Eleanor (1874 - 1934)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in London 21 August 1874, the second daughter of J N C Davies-Colley, surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and Sophia Margaret Turner, his wife. Her maternal grandfather, Thomas Turner, was Treasurer of Guy's Hospital. She was educated at the Church of England High School for Girls in Baker Street, London, and at Queen's College, Harley Street, W1. She worked for some time after leaving school at the East End branch of the Invalid Children's Aid Association and acted as a School Board Manager, living in a workman's flat in Wapping. She received her medical education at the London School of Medicine for Women, where she acted as demonstrator of anatomy and at the Royal Free Hospital in Gray's Inn Road, where she filled the post of surgical registrar. In 1907 she was appointed house surgeon to the New Hospital for Women in Euston Road. She subsequently joined the staff of the South London Hospital and at the time of her death was senior surgeon, whilst at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital she was the senior obstetrician. She was also surgeon to the Marie Curie Hospital. She died, unmarried, at 16 Harley Street, W on 10 December 1934. Miss Davies-Colley was skilful and conscientious in her profession, shy and reserved socially. She had the distinction of being the first woman admitted after examination a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. **See below for an expanded version of the published obituary uploaded 2 July 2020:** Eleanor Davies-Colley, senior surgeon at the South London Hospital for Women, was the first woman to become a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, gaining her FRCS by examination in 1911. She was born at Hilliers, Petworth, Sussex, on 21 August 1874, the second daughter of John Neville Colley Colley-Davies and Sophia Margaret Colley-Davies née Turner. There was a long tradition of medicine in the family. Her father was a distinguished surgeon at Guy’s Hospital, London and her paternal grandfather, Thomas Davies, was a physician to Chester General Infirmary (he later took the name Davies-Colley). Her mother’s father was Thomas Turner, treasurer of Guy’s, and her uncle, Francis Charlewood Turner, was a physician at the London Hospital. Two of Davies-Colley’s younger brothers, Robert and Hugh, became surgeons and fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons. Other family members were also accomplished: her older sister Frances Baker was successful painter who trained at the Slade; her cousin, Harriet Weaver, was a political activist and feminist publisher, who become a patron of James Joyce. Davies-Colley spent her childhood divided between Harley Street in London and Sussex, and attended the Church of England High School for Girls in Baker Street and then Queen’s College, Harley Street. On leaving school, she chose to live among the poor in London’s East End, working for the Invalid Children’s Aid Association and then as a London School Board manager, living in a ‘people’s dwelling’ in Wapping on a very small income. In her mid-twenties, she decided to become a doctor and studied at Regent Street Polytechnic for matriculation and preliminary science examinations for London University. In 1902, she enrolled at the London School of Medicine for Women, where she was an outstanding student, qualifying with the MB BS in 1907. She became a house surgeon at the New Hospital for Women in Euston Road (later renamed the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital after its founder). She then became a demonstrator in anatomy at the London School of Medicine for Women and a surgical registrar at the Royal Free Hospital. In 1910, she was awarded an MD by the University of London and in 1911 she obtained the FRCS by examination, becoming the first woman to gain the fellowship. In the same year, with others, including the surgeon Maud Chadburn and her cousin, Harriet Weaver, Davies-Colley began raising funds for a hospital for women and children in South London, staffed only by women. An outpatients’ department was opened in 1912 and in 1916 the first inpatient beds were opened in a new building at Clapham Common. Davies-Colley remained on the staff of the hospital as senior surgeon until her death. She was also a surgeon at the Marie Curie Cancer Hospital and senior obstetrician at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital. In 1917, she was a founder member of the Medical Women’s Federation. Davies-Colley lived with her colleague Maud Chadburn for 25 years, who described her in an obituary in the *Medical Women’s Federation Quarterly Review*. As a surgeon, she was skilful and experienced, very observant, with a clear, logical mind. As a person, she was shy, ‘humble-minded’ and reserved, preferring to miss meetings and social functions, although ‘…to meet friends in real friendship was a great joy to her.’ She travelled widely and ‘knew beautiful places in Italy, Egypt, Palestine and Turkey as well as England, Wales and Ireland’. She was exceptionally sensitive to and appreciative of beauty: ‘All her life sunshine, beautiful country, beautiful surroundings, appealed to her at once and strengthened her.’ She loved to garden at her country cottage in Essex, and also enjoyed reading and art. Above all, she had a ‘nobility of character…integrity of purpose…and a high sense of honour’. Chadburn summed her up as ‘…a rare spirit, a delightful human being, an honest level-headed worker, an able surgeon and a great and good friend’. Davies-Colley died unexpectedly of thyroid toxaemia at her home 16 Harley Street on 10 December 1934. She was 60. In 2004 one of the lecture theatres at the Royal College of Surgeons in Lincolns Inn Fields was dedicated to her memory. Sarah Gillam
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First Title value, for Searching Marshall, Charles Frederic (1864 - 1940)

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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 Marsh, Frank (1855 - 1943)

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First Title value, for Searching Davis, George Bertram (1910 - 1942)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 11 February 1910 at The Oaks, Great Malvern, Worcestershire, second son of William John Davis, fish and fruit merchant, and Florence Kate Rachel Evans, his wife. Davis was educated at Aymestry Court School, Crown East, Worcester and at Bishop's Stortford College, where he won an entrance scholarship in 1923, became captain of the cricket XI and head of his house, and won the classics prize. He entered King's College Hospital with the Sambrooke scholarship in 1928 and in 1931 won the Raymond Gooch scholarship. He was awarded the surgical prize in 1934 and later held various appointments at the hospital. He devised a method of retaining an indwelling catheter in the urethra with four pipe-cleaners. In February 1937 he was appointed Government Medical Officer in the Public Health Service at Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. The following December he had a serious riding accident, but after several months' leave in England returned to his post in November 1938. In 1940 he was appointed medical superintendent of the Leper Settlement at Mtoko, Southern Rhodesia; he had also a wide surgical practice among Africans and Europeans. He was much interested in the study of obscure tropical diseases. Davis married in January 1940 Heather Derry of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, who survived him but without children. He died at Salisbury after a short attack of malaria on 29 January 1942, aged 31. He had contracted malaria earlier and his spleen was removed a year before his death, but the disease lingered and he died suddenly in a malarial coma. He was a keen sportsman, and a man of courage and spirit. He had shown himself to be a gifted amateur actor and musician. Publication:- A method of tying-in a catheter. *Lancet*, 1936, 1, 255. Davis's method is described and illustrated by Pye's *Surgical handicraft*, 11th edition by Hamilton Bailey, 1939, p 128.
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First Title value, for Searching Watkins, Kenneth Harold (1903 - 1938)

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Occupation Genito-urinary surgeon Urologist
Details Born on 16 September 1903 at Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, the elder of the twin sons of Harold Ernest Watkins, MRCS, LRCP, medical officer of health for Newton-in-Makerfield, Lancs, and his wife, *née* Smith. He was educated at Oundle School, Northants, at the Manchester University, and at St Thomas's Hospital. Whilst still a student he was awarded the Bradley memorial scholarship in clinical surgery in 1926, and the prize in clinical medicine in the following year. At Manchester he graduated with second-class honours at the MB ChB examination, and at the London University he was placed in the honours list with distinction in medicine and surgery. He then acted as house surgeon at the Manchester Royal Infirmary and, having decided to practice as a genito-urinary surgeon, became house surgeon to the genitourinary department of the Salford Royal Infirmary. In 1932 he was attached as a Rockefeller Fellow to the Brady Urological Institute at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, and when the Fellowship expired he spent some time in Europe visiting the various urological clinics. At Freiburg he met the lady who afterwards became his wife. Returning to England he acted as resident surgical officer at the Manchester Royal Infirmary and as resident medical officer at the Christie Hospital, whilst at the Northern Hospital and at Crumpsall he organized urological units. He acted, too, as medical officer and registrar at the Radium Institute, where he was able to study the effects of irradiation on growths in the urinary tract. In 1933 he was appointed surgeon for genito-urinary diseases at the Manchester Northern Hospital and urological assistant at the Royal Infirmary, Manchester. In 1934 as Hunterian professor at the Royal College of Surgeons he took "The bladder function in low spinal injury" as the subject of his lecture. He married Irmgard Herrmann on 21 April 1935, who survived him with a son and a daughter. He was killed on 15 September 1938 whilst being driven in a motor car, which skidded on a slippery road between Neubrandenburg and Neustrelitz, Germany; he was buried at Newton-le-Willows, Lancs. Watkins was a great loss to genito-urinary surgery. He was skilful as an operator, and his contributions to the specialty show him to have been full of ideas, which would have led him far had he lived. He was universally admired, respected, and beloved. He spoke ill of none and none spoke ill of him. Publications: A preliminary note on temperature variations during general anaesthesia, with S R Wilson. *Brit J Anaesth* 1927, 4, 201. The clinical value of bladder pressure estimations. *Brit J Urol* 1934, 6, 104-118. Paralysis of the bladder and associated neurological sequelae of spinal anaesthesia (clauda equina syndrome), with Fergus R Ferguson. *Brit J Surg* 1938, 25, 735. An experimental investigation into the cause of paralysis following spinal anaesthesia, with A D Macdonald. *Ibid* 1938, 25, 879.
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First Title value, for Searching Watkinson, Wilfred (1877 - 1944)

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First Title value, for Searching Watson, Archibald (1849 - 1940)

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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born in 1849 at Riverina, New South Wales, son of Sydney Grandison Watson, RN, pastoralist on the Upper Murray. He was educated at the Scotch College, Melbourne, where he won the scripture prizes and was noted as an athlete. He was destined for the Church, but after a visit to the Pacific islands, where he lived at the court of Thackabu, King of Fiji, he decided to study medicine, and went to Europe for the purpose in his middle twenties. He studied at Bonn and Göttingen, qualifying MD *cum laude* from the latter in 1878, with a thesis *Ueber das Fibro-Adenom der Mamma*, and in Paris where he received the MD in 1880 for his thesis *Étude sur le traitement des hernies étranglées inguinales et crurales vulgaires*. Here he made friends with Pierre Marie (1853-1940), the neurologist and describer of acromegaly, whose career he followed with admiration. Coming to London, he took the LSA in 1880, the Membership of the College in 1882 and the Fellowship in 1884. He was for a time demonstrator of anatomy at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, and taught at the London School of Anatomy kept by Thomas Cooke at Handel Street, Brunswick Square. He also took a course at Moorfields. In 1883 he went to Egypt to study cholera. In London he had made the acquaintance of Edward Stirling (1848-1919), like himself a native of Australia, who returned to Adelaide in 1881 as lecturer in physiology, afterwards becoming professor and FRS and a knight. When Sir Thomas Elder endowed a chair of anatomy in 1884 at Adelaide University, Watson was appointed on Stirling's advice as the first professor. Watson held the chair from 1885 to 1919, when he retired with the title of emeritus professor; he had also taught pathology, surgical anatomy, and operative surgery. A dispute at the Adelaide Hospital and the consequent retirement of many of the staff led to his appointment as surgeon there, and he subsequently became consulting surgeon. He eagerly applied his anatomical knowledge to surgical problems, and his surgical teaching was influential throughout Australia, while he criticized surgery "throughout the world". He had a passion for the preservation of the tissues, and would denounce the unnecessary destruction of even the smallest subcutaneous vein. Watson had an unusual appreciation of the anatomical planes of the body and the possibilities they gave of a bloodless approach or mobilization of a viscus. He drew attention to, if he did not discover, the value of the division of the lateral blade of the mesentery of the colon as a means of mobilizing it. His anatomical knowledge of the blood supply of the uterus, and his teaching that the vessels could be exposed by division of the peritoneum, made hysterectomy a precise and safe operation. He was also associated with Professor Stirling in the pioneer work on hydatid disease. During the South African war, Watson served as consulting surgeon to the Natal Field Force in 1900, and in the first world war was pathologist to the Australian Imperial Forces in Egypt, 1914-16. Watson was an imaginative talker and a dramatic lecturer. He was a man of many interests, a student of electricity, a good linguist, and an experienced sailor with a knowledge of the migrations of fish. In 1935 his past pupils presented him with his portrait painted by W B Mclnnes, and founded the Archibald Watson annual prize of six guineas in applied surgical anatomy, for an undergraduate of the Adelaide University Medical School. The portrait shows him as a bearded man of fine presence. Watson travelled widely in the outlying parts of Australia and Australasia. His exploits and adventures became legendary even in his life-time. He died at Thursday Island off Cape York, the northern-most point of Queensland, on 30 July 1940. He left a legacy of £1,000 to the pupils who had subscribed for his portrait; they used it to endow a scholarship in the University.
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First Title value, for Searching Watson, John Harry (1874 - 1944)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 8 October 1874 at Atherton, Lancashire, eldest child of Thomas Watson, engineer, and his wife Sarah Bradley. He was educated at Rivington Grammar School, University College, Liverpool, where he won the Holt Fellowship in physiology 1899, King's College, London, and the London Hospital, where he served as demonstrator of anatomy. He was for some time lecturer on anatomy at Birmingham University, and delivered the Arris and Gale lectures at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1906. The same year he joined the practice of T G Crump, MRCS and Sir James Mackenzie at Burnley, Lancashire, and was elected surgeon to the Victoria Hospital in 1907, becoming in due course senior surgeon. During his connexion with the Victoria Hospital the number of its beds was doubled; Watson was the organizer and first director of its radium clinic. He was consulting surgeon to Burnley Municipal Hospital and for thirty years police surgeon to the borough. He was also consulting surgeon to the Reedyford Hospital at Nelson, where he lived at Green Gables, and to the Hartley Hospital at Colne. During the war of 1914-18, Watson served as a surgeon specialist at Salonika, attached to the Royal Serbian Army, and was awarded the Serbian Order of St Sava. After coming back to Burnley he gave up general practice and became a surgical consultant in 1922, practising first at 68 and later at 66 Bank Parade. He was an active member of many professional societies, and served as president of the Manchester Surgical Society 1932-33. He was founder-president of Burnley Rotary Club. He was an English sub-editor of the *American Journal of Surgery*, and translated from the French Jeanneney's book on cancer, besides writing a sound textbook of surgery. Watson married on 21 November 1907 Margaret Winifred, daughter of John Humphreys, FSA of Birmingham, who survived him but without children. He died in the Victoria Hospital, Burnley, on 27 November 1944, aged 70. Watson was tall and slim, with clear-cut features and silvery hair. He was a member of the Pendle Forest Golf Club and also a keen player of lawn-tennis and a gardener. He possessed a good surgical library and collected autographs. He bought from Mrs T M Stone, a widow of the former library-assistant and clerk of the College, a collection of papers connected with the history of the College in the first half of the nineteenth century. These with two chairs, which once belonged to John Hunter, from the same source, were presented to the College by Mrs Watson after his death. Publications: *Fundamentals of the art of surgery*. London, Heinemann, 1926. *Cancer, a practical résumé*, translated from the French of G Jeanneney [1926], with John Gibson. London, Lewis, 1929.
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First Title value, for Searching Waugh, George Ernest (1876 - 1940)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 26 October 1876 at King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, where his father was in general practice, he was the second child and first son of George Waugh, MB, CM 1869, and Annie, his wife, daughter of Thomas Minks of York. He was educated at Epsom College, to which he was later a generous benefactor, a wise member of council, and the honorary surgeon. From Epsom he went to Downing College, Cambridge, where he was a foundation scholar and prizeman. He graduated BA with first-class honours in part 1 of the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1897, and then entered the Medical Faculty of University College, London. He took his medical degrees at the University of London with honours in medicine and physiology. At University College Hospital he acted as house surgeon to Arthur E J Barker, and in the Medical Faculty he was senior demonstrator of anatomy and teacher of surgical anatomy when George Dancer Thane was the professor. The house surgeoncy ended, he was appointed resident medical superintendent at the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street on 18 December 1902, and was successively casualty officer, 8 December 1904, assistant surgeon, 20 December 1905, aural surgeon, 12 February 1906, surgeon, 1 December 1911, and consulting surgeon, 1 December 1926. At the Hampstead General and North West London Hospital, Haverstock Hill, he was elected surgeon to out-patients in 1908, was promoted surgeon in 1920, and became consulting surgeon in 1932. From November 1923 until October 1926 he was chairman of the medical committee of the Hospital, his predecessor in the office being Sir William Job Collins. During the war he received a commission as major, RAMC, dated 27 July 1918. Endowed with a lovable personality, a friend to little children, and an excellent surgeon, Waugh should have attained to the highest rank in his profession. He was hampered throughout his life by a deafness, which gradually increased until it became almost total. But in spite of this great drawback he retained his good spirits and his kindly humour. As resident medical superintendent at the Great Ormond Street Hospital he re-organized the entire surgical technique, introducing sterilized dressings packed in drums and a sterilizer for the instruments used in the operating theatre. His improvements were so greatly appreciated by his colleagues that the post of casualty officer was made for him, and he was instructed to re-organize the out-patient department on similar lines. During the early days he devised an operation for the complete enucleation of the tonsils, which was a great advance on the method of slicing them off with a guillotine, which was then the usual practice. It found favour and became the standard operation in English-speaking countries. He married Ada Helene Farrington of New York on 28 March 1918. She survived him, but without children. He retired to his native village of King's Sutton, and died there at The Court House on 3 April 1940. He left his large fortune to Epsom College, subject to his wife's life interest. Publications: Cleft palate, in *Index of Treatment*, edited by R Hutchison. Bristol, Wright, 1907. Operations on the tonsils. Burghard's *System of Operative Surgery*, 1913. Congenital malformations of the mesentery: a clinical entity. *Brit J Surg* 1927-28, 15, 438-449.
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First Title value, for Searching Green, Charles David (1862 - 1937)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-25
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Kent, 16 March 1862, the eldest son of David Green, chartered accountant, and Ellen Eliza Cater his wife. He was educated at the Royal Masonic School and at St Thomas's Hospital. After acting as house surgeon at the North Eastern Hospital for Children and as resident accoucheur at St Thomas's Hospital he settled in private practice at Edmonton, where he was medical officer of health. In 1899 he moved to Romford and was surgeon to the Victoria Hospital from 1914 to 1929. He obtained a large practice and soon won a special place in the affections of Romford people by his self-sacrificing devotion to duty. A large number of his former patients gave practical expression of their gratitude and admiration when he retired from active practice in January 1936. He was then presented with an illuminated address and a cheque which he at once gave away in charity. He married Gertrude Cowan on 1 October 1912, who survived him with two daughters. He died in St Thomas's Hospital, 12 April 1937, and was buried in the family grave at Nunhead. Publication:- Assisted Sir Charles Ballance in the preparation of *Essays on the surgery of the temporal bone*, 2 vols. London, 1919.
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First Title value, for Searching Webb, Charles Henry Shorney (1886 - 1937)

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Publication Date 2013-12-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 22 January 1886 at Balham, the eldest son of Thomas Henry Webb, bank manager, and Alice Mills, his wife. He entered Merchant Taylors' School, then situated in Charterhouse Square, in 1895 and left in 1902. He received his medical education at Middlesex Hospital where he had a brilliant career; exhibitioner in 1905, Broderip scholar and Lyell gold medallist in 1908, house surgeon in 1909, casualty officer 1910-12, surgical registrar 1912-14, assistant surgeon 1917-1930. He was also for a time surgeon to St Saviour's Hospital in Osnaburgh Street, NW1. During the Balkan war of 1912-13 he served with a Red Cross unit, and on the outbreak of the first world war he received a commission as lieutenant, RAMC on 10 August 1914 (captain, 10 August 1915, acting major, January 1918), and proceeded at once to France with the British Expeditionary Force. He was posted to the 4th casualty clearing station and remained with it until 1918, when he was placed in charge of a surgical division of the 24th General Hospital at Staples. During his service in France and *in absentia*, he was elected in 1917 assistant surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, but did not take up the duties until he was demobilized in 1919. He resigned in 1930 and was subsequently appointed consulting surgeon to the Middlesex County Council. During the latter years of his life he was attached to the West Middlesex County Hospital at Isleworth, where he died of infective endocarditis on 1 June 1937. He married Norah Pearson on 14 September 1935. She survived him but without children. Webb's gifts were many. He was a fine linguist, a great lover of music, and a good organist and pianist. He was captain of the University of London Chess Club in 1910-11 and gained his half-blue for chess. His operative experience was very great, he was an excellent teacher and a friend to his students. Publications: Gas gangrene, in *Index of prognosis* edited by A. Rendle Short, 2nd edition, 1918, pp 275-280. Note on the Phloridzin test in the estimation of renal efficiency. *Arch Middx Hosp* 1913, 31, 20. After-history of patients on whom the operation of gastro-enterostomy has been performed for non-malignant disease. *Ibid* 1914, 32, 10. Notes on thirty-two cases of penetrating wounds of the abdomen treated at a casualty clearing station in France, with E T C Milligan. *Brit J Surg* 1916-17, 4, 338-367. The paper was important, for the authors were amongst the first to advocate the operative treatment of gunshot wounds of the abdomen.
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First Title value, for Searching Webber, Alexander Moxon (1879 - 1947)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 4 August 1879 at Glen Lynden, Bedford, Cape Colony, South Africa, the seventh child and fourth son of Benjamin Webber, a landowner, and his wife Millicent Anne Nash. He was educated at St Andrew's College, Grahamstown, and came home to take his medical training at Guy's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon and obstetric registrar. He was also clinical assistant at the Great Ormond Street Hospital. After taking the Fellowship in 1906 he settled at Nottingham, in partnership with R C Chicken. He became in due course surgeon to the Children's Hospital and to the General Infirmary, and consulting surgeon to the Hospital for Women. During the war of 1914-18 he served as surgeon specialist at the 27th General Hospital from early 1915 till December 1916, first at Mudros for the evacuation of the Dardanelles and later at Abbasiah, Cairo. From 1917 he was surgeon to the 52nd Lowland casualty clearing station, East Africa, with the rank of major, RAMC. He was twice mentioned in despatches. Webber was an active member of the British Medical Association. He was the representative of the Nottingham division at the annual representative meeting for eleven consecutive years, 1919-30; in 1922-25 he was secretary of the division and its chairman in 1931- 32. He also served on the BMA Council, and was general secretary when the Association met at Nottingham in 1926. He was president of the Nottingham Medico-chirurgical Society 1934-35. He retired in December 1945 to Sandown, Isle of Wight, where he died on 26 October 1947. He had married in 1909 Elizabeth Fullerton, who survived him with four daughters. For many years he suffered from Paget's disease of his leg. Webber was of great kindness and understanding, and though of a retiring nature was a born administrator.
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First Title value, for Searching Swan, Russell Henry Jocelyn (1876 - 1943)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-20
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Occupation General surgeon Genito-urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born 20 July 1876 at Gosberton, Lincs, the second son of Richard Jocelyn Swan (1849-1925), MRCS 1870 (see *Lancet*, 1925, 2, 1257), and his wife Ana Elizabeth, elder daughter of Robert Russell Harper, MRCS 1875, of Holbeach, Lincs. R J Swan was the second son of John W Swan, MRCS 1835, of Ballyragget, Co Kilkenny; he practised till 1879 at Northleach, Glos, then for six years at Gosberton, and at Camberwell from 1885 till his death in 1925; his brother, Robert Lafayette Swan, was president of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 1899. Both the Swans and the Harpers had many medical forbears. R H J Swan was educated at Wilson's School and Guy's Hospital Medical School, where he was demonstrator of anatomy and of biology. He took first-class honours in medicine at the London MB examination when only twenty-two, and served as house surgeon and obstetric registrar at Guy's. He played Rugby football for the Hospital, and was an elusive half-back. He then served as house surgeon at St Peter's Hospital for Stone, where he acquired the interest in genito-urinary surgery which coloured his whole career. In 1902 he took the London MS and the Fellowship, though not previously a Member of the College. He was elected to the staff of the Royal Cancer Hospital, Fulham Road, where he served successively as surgical registrar, assistant surgeon, surgeon, and finally surgeon emeritus. He became also consulting surgeon to St Paul's Hospital for Genito-urinary Diseases, to the Walton Cottage Hospital, and to the Watford Peace Memorial Hospital, and he served on the grand council of the British Empire Cancer Campaign. During the first world war Swan was commissioned a temporary major, RAMC on 1 February 1917, and served as district consulting surgeon in the Eastern Command. He was surgeon to the Royal Herbert Hospital at Woolwich and to the American Red Cross Hospital for Officers, and later surgeon to the RAF hospitals. He was mentioned in despatches and created OBE for his services. At the outbreak of the second war in 1939 he gave up his large private practice and became divisional surgeon in the emergency medical service at Park Prewett, Basingstoke, where he carried on his duty even when his health began finally to fail. Swan was an excellent all-round surgeon, whose main interests were in cancer and genito-urinary diseases. He was also specially interested in the surgery of peripheral nerve injuries. His operations on the breast were models of technique, for he was a fine operator, careful and thorough, of sound judgement and calm decision. He served on the editorial board of the *British Journal of Urology*, and was president of the section of urology at the Royal Society of Medicine. He was also a member of the Société internationale d'Urologie. In 1917 he operated successfully upon the King's aunt, HRH the Duchess of Albany. Swan married twice: (1) in 1908 Una Gladys, daughter of A Waterlow; she died in 1924 of an obscure malignant disease, leaving a son and three daughters; (2) in 1927 Joyce Hazel, younger daughter of H M Thornton of Purley. Mrs Swan was taken severely ill on their honeymoon and was paralysed for some months; she recovered and survived him, but without children. Swan died in London on 2 March 1943, aged 66. He had practised at 75 Wimpole Street. A memorial service was held at the Royal Cancer Hospital on 9 March. He was a man of great charm, gentle, and considerate. He was a good player of golf and lawn-tennis. Swan had travelled much and took cinematograph films of the places he visited. He was a good raconteur, and also made a valuable collection of postage stamps. Publications: Genito-urinary diseases, in French's *Index of differential diagnosis*, Bristol, 1911. Primary unilateral renal tuberculosis. *Guy's Hosp Rep* 1910, 64, 39. Some reflections upon villous-covered tumours of the urinary bladder. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1925-26, 19, urol p 1. New growths of the kidney. *Brit med J* 1933, 1, 606.
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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 Sandes, Gladys Maud (Mrs Maxwell Alston) (1897 - 1968)

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First Title value, for Searching Saint, Charles Frederick Morris (1886 - 1973)

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First Title value, for Searching Rycroft, Peter Vere (1928 - 1968)

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First Title value, for Searching Rycroft, Sir Benjamin William (1902 - 1967)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-06
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Occupation General practitioner Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Benjamin William Rycroft was born in a small village in Yorkshire in 1902. In his youth he learned to play the organ well enough to do so in his parish church and thus was mildly attracted to the ministry as a profession. Instead, he studied medicine in St Andrew's University (1919-1924) and after qualifying, he started general practice in Bradford, Yorkshire. His interest turned to ophthalmology and at great expenditure of time and energy he took the Diploma in Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery in 1929, three years after his marriage to Mary Rhodes, who survived him. He continued his practice in Bradford, travelling up to London on week-ends to study for his Fellowship in the Royal College of Surgeons which he attained in 1931. He then moved to Taplow and London where he worked as a clinical assistant at St George's Hospital and later at Moorfields Eye Hospital. About this time he became intrigued with the problem of transplantation of the cornea, which became the main interest of his professional life and in which he excelled. His skill, dedication and industry, combined in an aggressively honest, yet kindly character, earned him at this early age increasing recognition and support of his colleagues. He became a Hunterian Professor and Leverhulme Scholar at the Royal College of Surgeons, a Lang Research Scholar at Moorfields and Middlemore Prizeman of the British Medical Association. He was associated with the medical staff of the Maidenhead Hospital, King George's Hospital, Ilford, the East Ham Memorial Hosptial and the Royal Eye Hospital in London. These were happy and fruitful years of almost ferocious professional activity, during which his private practice increased prodigiously and brought him, in addition to the admiration of his colleagues, the devotion of his patients. Behind him stood Mary and his two sons, and the security of a happy home. His remarkable aptitude for clinical research began about this time and soon became manifest. His first paper on keratoplasty was published in 1935. When war broke out in 1939 he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving first in Northern Ireland, then in North Africa and Italy where he acted as chief consultant in ophthalmology to the British Army with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. On the way to his post in North Africa the hospital ship, *Windsor Castle* in which he was being transported, was sunk by an aerial torpedo off Oran. His son Peter (see next entry), wrote in a short biography of his father "Fortunately, he was rescued in his pyjamas by the destroyer, *Eggesford* (Hunt Class), but he never forgot the drama of the hours in the sea awaiting rescue, and the panic that preceded it. He visited the village of Eggesford in Devon in later years, and attended a meet of hounds at the local pub and gave thanks." Towards the end of the war he wrote his first book *A manual for Field Officers*, which was widely used by the Army. At the end of the war he was awarded the OBE and resumed his civilian practice in London. Although, like most of his colleagues, he disliked socialized medicine for many cogent reasons, he adapted himself to the times and was appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon to Park Prewitt Emergency Medical Service Hospital, near Basingstoke, to Moorfields, and to the Canadian War Memorial Hospital at Taplow. His old patients had impatiently awaited his return from military service and began by the hundreds to rejoin his practice, which had over 15,000 patients on the register at the time of his death. In 1945, he was asked by Sir Archibald Mclndoe, famous for his successful plastic surgery on mutilated and burned pilots at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, to establish an eye department within the unit. With the birth of the Corneo-Plastic Unit at East Grinstead, Rycroft really gathered momentum in his work. "Corneal grafts, lacrimal surgery, lid surgery particularly ptosis, surgery of the socket and orbit claimed his full attention," said his son Peter, "and his publications proved that such a specialized centre had much to contribute to general ophthalmic surgery. His students came from many lands and appreciated the personal training with a small but dedicated team, in a way that is impossible to achieve in a large centre." In 1952 he was mainly responsible for initiating a national campaign, using modern methods of communications, for a corneal grafting act. The campaign was supported by Sir Cecil Wakeley, then President of the Royal College of Surgeons; by the South East Regional Hospital Board; his medical colleagues, the press and the public. The Act was passed in 1952 and with it the first United Kingdom Eye Bank was established in East Grinstead. It became an immediate success. The Act later (1961) was broadened to include other human tissue and is now known as The Human Tissue Act. Thus it can be claimed with justice, that Benjamin Rycroft paved the way for legal methods of obtaining, preserving and utilizing, all parts of the human body for purposes of transplantation in the British Isles. In 1955 a book appeared under his editorship, *Corneal grafts*. Four of the sixteen chapters were written by Rycroft, the others by different international authorities on the subject. It was well received by ophthalmic surgeons everywhere, and was the first book of its kind to be published in the English language. It also revealed Rycroft as a lucid, even exciting, writer and a sound editor. By this time he had published, either alone or in collaboration, eleven noteworthy contributions on the subject of corneal grafts. In the spring of 1959 at East Grinstead he launched the First Corneo-Plastic Conference. It was financed by funds given by grateful patients and businessmen who admired his enthusiasm and work. The Conference was successful, and attracted a good audience of British and many foreign ophthalmologists, who departed impressed and stimulated by the work they had seen and shared. It is certain that the good reception that Rycroft had with this first conference determined him to plan for a second one in 1967, which he did not live to enjoy. The following year, 1960, he was knighted, an honour that pleased hundreds of friends, colleagues and patients. He was rightly proud of this great honour that he so richly deserved. The Fourth International Course of Ophthalmology of the Barraquer Institute was held in Barcelona, Spain, April 28-May 6, 1965. Sir Benjamin Rycroft, an old friend of the Barraquer family, served as the honorary president. On his return to England he became ill and was unable to go to Chicago as a guest speaker of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society. However he recovered sufficiently to give the 1965 Doyne Memorial Lecture before the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress in July. His subject was "The Corneal Graft - Past, Present and Future." His lecture is a brilliant review, almost a monograph on the subject. It is noteworthy for the first part in which he covered the history of corneal grafting, a subject that had deeply interested him very early in his work. He took particular delight in his discovery, with the help of Lord Brock, of the fact that Astley Cooper on April 9, 1817 performed the first recorded free skin graft in England, and in the presence of Franz Reisinger, of Germany. Reisinger is generally considered to be the first surgeon to transplant successfully, a human cornea (1818). Following his visit to Guy's Hospital, he said that "This case (Cooper's) gave me excellent encouragement to attempt similar experiments with the cornea..." The first quarter of 1966 was spent in travel and lecturing for the most part in the United States. The rest of the year he devoted to his work as the clinical director of the Pocklington Eye Transplantation Research Unit at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, which he was instrumental in founding in 1964, as well as working with the Corneo-Plastic Unit in East Grinstead and in his large private practice. Meanwhile he was busy planning for the Second International Comeo-Plastic Conference to be held in July, 1967 and the First South African International Ophthalmological Symposium in 1968. He did not live to complete his leadership in these two important international events for he died suddenly of coronary occlusion on March 29, 1967. Benjamin Rycroft was a person who loved life with gusto and frankly rejoiced in his success. In addition to his scientific work, he relished country living on his small farm, Bishop's Lodge, near Windsor. Here he raised fine cattle, hunted, took a leading part in horse shows, played the organ for his pleasure in St George's Chapel, Windsor, and his piano at home. He was a lay officer of the Chapel, and took delight in showing its many treasures, of which he was very knowledgeable, to overseas visitors, who often were not aware of his distinction as an ophthalmic surgeon. He trained a good number of the young farmers of the area in animal husbandry and encouraged the local farm and garden shows and study groups. He was an enthusiastic fisherman. He cultivated fine roses and was proud that he was given new varieties by growers to try out before they were put on the market. His cup of life was full to the top and few drops of it were wasted.
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First Title value, for Searching Dobson, Joseph Faulkner (1874 - 1934)

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First Title value, for Searching Pidcock, Bertram Henzell (1892 - 1950)

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First Title value, for Searching Pigeon, Henry Walter (1859 - 1935)

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First Title value, for Searching Dobson, Nelson Congreve (1845 - 1919)

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First Title value, for Searching Ryan, Ellery Arthur Mulvihill (1917 - 1970)

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First Title value, for Searching Ballance, Sir Hamilton Ashley (1867 - 1936)

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First Title value, for Searching Heath, Arthur (1873 - 1934)

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First Title value, for Searching Heath, Charles Joseph (1856 - 1934)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-03
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born at Totnes, South Devon on 25 December 1856, the second son of John Heath and his wife Rachel Pulling. His father was the proprietor of the "Seven Stars" hotel, an old-established house, situated at the bottom of the town near the Dart. He is described as being a well-known character in Totnes, especially interested in horses and politics. The elder son was William Lenton Heath, FRCS. Charles Heath was educated at the King Edward VI Grammar School, Totnes. He was destined to enter the veterinary profession, but after attending a short course at the Royal Veterinary College in Camden Town it was decided that he should become a doctor. He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in October 1880 and in the following year gained the Treasurer's prize for the best dissection and knowledge of descriptive anatomy. Having gained these prizes he was selected to act as prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons, where it was his duty to provide the recent dissections on which candidates for the Membership and Fellowship were examined. He served a term of office, as soon as he was qualified, as house surgeon at Preston Royal Infirmary, and entered general practice in 1887 for a second time at Montpelier Row, Blackheath. He soon determined to devote himself to the practice of aural surgery and was attached successively to the Central Throat, Nose, and Hospital and to the Throat Hospital in Golden Square, where at the time of his death he was vice-president. Aural surgery attracted him more than laryngology, and he was for some years the consulting aural surgeon to the Down Hospital for Children then under the control of the Metropolitan Asylums Board. As an aural surgeon he correlated the best points of many operations upon the mastoid, tested them by experiment, and produced a method which his friends always spoke of as "Heath's operation". He was somewhat vain of the method and talked of it in season and out of season. He also designed or modified a large number of instruments for use in aural surgery. As an inventor in other fields he designed and improved a gas helmet, which was largely used during the first world war, he defined the principles essential in the design of army boots for the Army Hygienic Advisory Committee, and he introduced a chamberless wild-fowling gun. A keen sportsman, he spent his holidays in salmon fishing in Galway and in wildfowl shooting in Essex. At the time of his death he had been president of the Wildfowlers Association since 1929, and he had served on the Home Office Wild Fowls Committee. He was, too, a companion of the Marine Engineers Institute. He married Agnes Frideswide (d 1930), daughter of Colonel J J Wilson. Heath died on 13 July 1934, and was buried at the Greenwich Cemetery, Shooter's Hill. To Heath is due the honour of having shown that mastoid disease may be cured without destruction of the hearing apparatus. His invention would have been better received, if he had not suffered from an inferiority complex, which showed itself in egotistic magnification of his work. One of his friends wrote of him "Charles was a remarkable man, but Charles Heath had to be recognized in all his work and in the instruments he used. I have shot with him for many years past, but Charles Heath had to have a gun made after his own pattern, which was in many ways different from the ordinary, and he shot well with it, which he would also have done with an ordinary gun. I have seen him operate many times and he showed considerable skill, but it was *his* operation and *his* were the special instruments he used. Charles was a clever man at his own work and a clever mechanic who, but for these amiable and easily forgivable weaknesses, would have been one of the foremost aural surgeons in London". When he went to the first International Congress of Oto-rhino-laryngology at Copenhagen in 1928 he took with him a manuscript setting out his ideas, but he was so obsessed by the fear that the paper might lack an appreciative audience that he came straight back to London without having spoken. On the other hand he received a remarkable ovation at the Otological Congress which met at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1912. Publications:- Cure of chronic suppuration of the ear, without removal of drum or ossicles, or loss of hearing. *Lancet*, 1906, 2, 353, and 1907, 1, 1146. *The nature and causes of catarrhal throat or hereditary deafness, an explanation of paracusis Willisii, with a new method of treatment*. London, 1912. Paracusis Willisii. *Trans Kent Med-chir Soc*. 1910, 54, 50-72. Prevention of deafness and mortality, which result from aural suppuration. *Int otol Congr* 9, Boston 1912, p 413, and *Midl med J* 1916, 15, 33.
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First Title value, for Searching May, Bennett (1864 - 1937)

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First Title value, for Searching Russell, Robert Hamilton (1860 - 1933)

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First Title value, for Searching Tawse, Herbert Bell (1878 - 1940)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-20
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born 14 July 1878 at Aberdeen, the fifth son of Samuel Tawse, merchant, and Amelia Hackney, his wife. He was educated at Gordon's College, Aberdeen, at Aberdeen University, where he graduated with honours, at King's College, London, and at the London Hospital. After being house surgeon at the Throat Hospital, Golden Square, and clinical assistant at the Central London Throat Hospital and in the ear and throat department at the London Hospital, he settled in practice at Nottingham. Here he was appointed assistant surgeon to the Children's Hospital, later becoming aural surgeon, and aural surgeon to the General Hospital. He was also consulting laryngologist to the Ransom Sanatorium and to the Nottingham City and County education committees. He served on the Board of Education's committee on the causes and prevention of enlarged tonsils and adenoids. Tawse was for many years secretary of the Nottingham Medico-Chirurgical Society and its president in 1925, and did much for its development. He was a vice-president of the section of laryngology and otology at the British Medical Association's Nottingham meeting in 1926, and president of the section of oto-rhino-laryngology at the Aberdeen meeting in 1939. He married on 21 April 1914 Gertrude Mary Goodall, who died in February 1939, leaving a son and a daughter. The son held a resident surgical appointment at the Royal Masonic Hospital, London, at the time of Tawse's death. Tawse was a man of sound judgment and unflagging resolution, with kindly humour and ready speech. He enjoyed fishing and shooting on his two properties, Colquoich House on the river Don in Aberdeenshire, and Wymeswold Hall, Leicestershire, where he died on 12 November 1940. Publications: Acute senile tubercular disease of the left middle-ear and mastoid. *J Laryng* 1929, 44, 255. Streptococcal otitic meningitis. *Ibid* 1931, 46, 481. Acute streptococcal ulceration of the epiglottis. *Ibid* 1932, 47, 762.
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First Title value, for Searching Taylor, Frank Edward (1872 - 1930)

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First Title value, for Searching Heatherley, Francis (1862 - 1932)

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First Title value, for Searching Henderson, Edward Erskine (1870 - 1929)

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

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First Title value, for Searching Ball, Sir William Girling (1881 - 1945)

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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 New Barnet on 9 October 1881, he was the son of William Henry Girling Ball who was in business as a carpet warehouseman in Gresham Street, EC. Educated at Merchant Taylors' School, then in Charterhouse Square, from 1894 to 1899, he entered St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he quickly made a name for himself, acting as house surgeon to Sir Anthony Bowlby, winning the Luther Holden research scholarship for surgical pathology, and becoming a demonstrator of pathology in 1907. He was elected assistant surgeon to the hospital in 1912, and in due course was promoted to surgeon. He was warden of the residential college for students from 1913 to 1920, and from 1925 was dean of the medical school. When he took office as warden in 1913 the St Bartholomew's medical school was conducted practically on the lines laid down when it was founded by David Pitcairn and John Abernethy about the year 1796. It was independent, though it had a loose connexion with the hospital; in fact, a proprietary school carried on for the benefit and at the sole risk of the teachers. When Sir Girling Ball went to take up war work in 1939 he left a school entirely reorganized and conducted on modern lines. A charter of incorporation had been obtained to make the school a medical college and to provide for the representation of the governors of the hospital upon its council; the school had become affiliated to the medical faculty of London University, and had acquired the site in Charterhouse Square formerly occupied by Merchant Taylors' School. Sir Girling Ball was mainly, but not wholly, instrumental in bringing about these changes. He was very popular with the students, and was reputed to have said publicly: "I would do anything for my boys, and my boys would do anything for me." At the Royal College of Surgeons he gained the Jacksonian prize in 1909 with an essay on the treatment of surgical affections by vaccines and antitoxins; he was a Hunterian professor of surgery and pathology in 1912, and a member of the council from 1934. He was vice-president 1943-45 and Bradshaw lecturer in 1944. He was also honorary secretary of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1920 and was elected president in 1938. He was dean of the medical faculty of the senate of London University. In 1908 he joined the newly formed territorial force as captain, RAMC, *à la suite*, was called up in August 1914, served for a short time in France, and was then placed in command of the military wing at St Bartholomew's Hospital which was a part of No 1 London general hospital. He held an appointment as consulting surgeon to the RAF. During the 1939-45 war he was group officer for Sector 3 of the London region under the emergency medical service (Ministry of Health). He was created a Knight Bachelor in 1938. He married Violet Isobel, daughter of William Cavander, in 1912. Lady Ball survived him, but without children. Girling Ball died at Hill End Hospital, St Albans, on 16 July 1945, aged 65. A memorial service was held at St Bartholomew-the-Great on 25 July. He had practised before the war at 77 Wimpole Street. Girling Ball was a man of great physique and character. Under a brusque, commanding manner and an air of philistinism he hid administrative and intellectual abilities of uncommon quality. He made himself an invaluable member of all the committees on which he served through a mastery of the details of their business. One of his greatest contributions to British medicine was the part he played in organizing the emergency medical service in the war of 1939-45. Sir Francis Fraser, its director-general, wrote of him: "When war threatened Sir Girling Ball was an energetic member of the committees on whose advice the emergency hospital scheme and medical services were planned. He was largely responsible for shaping the London sectors, and the important part taken by medical schools and teaching hospitals of London in staffing and equipping the upgraded and expanded hospitals in the sectors was to an extent due to his guidance and help. Throughout the war, as chairman of the sector hospital officers, he was a source of strength to the headquarters staff of the emergency medical services in Whitehall, and by his example, leadership, and efficiency he was responsible to a great extent for the magnificent service rendered by their hospitals to the people of London in the years of air raid attacks. Ball helped in many ways the moulding of the medical profession and its institutions into a service for the nation." Ball was an excellent general surgeon, with special interest in urology. Publications:- *Diseases of the kidney*, with Geoffrey Evans, FRCP London, 1932, 424 pp. General surgical pathology and bacteriology, General surgery, Injuries and diseases of tendons and tendon sheaths, fasciae, bursae and muscles, Gonorrhoea. Sections 1, 2, 4, and 28, of *Surgery, a textbook by various authors,* edited by G E Gask and H W Wilson. London, 1920, pp. 1-175,283-299, 1179-1186. Some cystoscopic appearances in tuberculosis of the urinary tract. *Brit J Surg*. 1923-24, 10, 326. The treatment of simple papilloma of the bladder by fulguration. *Ibid*. 1924-25, 11, 760. Leiomyoma of the stomach. *Ibid*. 1938-39, 26, 942.
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First Title value, for Searching Dolamore, William Henry (1864 - 1938)

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

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First Title value, for Searching Platt, Walter Brewster (1853 - 1922)

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First Title value, for Searching Plowman, Sidney (1854 - 1932)

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First Title value, for Searching Poland, John (1855 - 1937)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Vanburgh Fields, Blackheath, 17 September 1855, the third son and fifth child of Richard Henry Poland, fur merchant, and Harriet Allen, his wife. He was a nephew of Alfred Poland, surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and grandson of Sir W H Poland, sheriff of London, who was knighted on the occasion of the opening of London Bridge by William IV in 1831. He was educated at Guy's Hospital, where he was surgical registrar for two and a half years and demonstrator of anatomy for five years, having won the prize essay at the Guy's Hospital Pupils Society in 1877 with an essay on secondary haemorrhage and the torsion of arteries. In 1881 he was registrar, chloroformist, and acting surgeon at the North Eastern Hospital for Children, and was surgeon to the St Pancras and Northern Dispensary. In 1885 he was elected one of the first surgeons to the newly constituted Miller General Hospital at Greenwich, retained office for twenty-one years, and was complimented with the post of consulting surgeon when he retired in 1906. In 1893 he published the *Records of the Miller Hospital*, and with characteristic modesty made very slight mention of his own valuable services in connexion with the institution. At the City Orthopaedic Hospital he was appointed assistant surgeon in 1892 and surgeon in 1894. In 1907, when the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital amalgamated with the City Orthopaedic Hospital, he became a surgeon to the combined hospitals, and retired in the following year. His book, *Traumatic separation of the epiphyses* was described by W H A Jacobson as "a fund of useful knowledge". He married on 31 January 1887 Mary Roberts (d 2 April 1932), daughter of James Glover Denham, consulting engineer, by whom he had two sons. He died at The Homestead, Seal, Kent on 22 May 1937. John Poland was a man of great industry and of varied interests. For six years he was the indefatigable secretary of the Hunterian Society, where he was orator in 1901 and president in 1906. In 1890 he was president of the West Kent Medical and Chirurgical Society and in 1902-03 he was master of the Skinners Company, one of the twelve great livery companies of the City of London. From 1909 he was commandant of the VAD Hospital at Seal, Kent. Publications: *Some points in recent treatment of the deformities of children*. Edinburgh, 1891. *Records of the Miller Hospital and Royal Kent Dispensary*. Greenwich, 1893. *Traumatic separation of the epiphyses*. London, 1898. 926 pages. *Skiagraphic atlas of the wrist and hand*. London, 1898. *A retrospect of surgery during the past century*, Hunterian oration of the Hunterian Society. London, 1901. Editor of E J Chance *On the nature, causes, variety, and treatment of bodily deformities*. 2nd edition, London 1905-19, 2 vols.
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First Title value, for Searching Franklin, Philip Julius (1880 - 1951)

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First Title value, for Searching Toynbee, Joseph (1815 - 1866)

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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon Philanthropist
Details The second son of George Toynbee, a large tenant farmer and landowner in Lincolnshire, was born at Heckington in that county on December 30th, 1815. He was educated at King's Lynn Grammar School, and was apprenticed at the age of 17 to William Wade, of the Westminster General Dispensary in Gerrard Street, Soho. He studied anatomy at the Little Windmill Street School under George Derby Dermott and became an expert dissector. He attended the practice of St George's and University College Hospitals, and showed his interest in diseases of the ear as early as 1836, when he wrote letters to the *Lancet* under the initials 'J T'. In 1838 he assisted Richard Owen (qv), who was then Conservator of the Hunterian Museum, and was soon afterwards elected one of the Surgeons to the St James's and St George's Dispensary, where he established a useful Samaritan Fund. He also promoted the building of a model lodging-house near Broad Street, Golden Square. He was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1842 for his researches demonstrating that articular cartilage, the cornea, the crystalline lens, the vitreous humour, and the epidermal appendages contained no blood-vessels. Toynbee lived in Argyll Place, Regent Street, so long as he was Surgeon to the Dispensary, and there began to specialize in aural surgery, but soon becoming successful moved to 18 Savile Row. When St Mary's Hospital was established in 1852 he was nominated the first Aural Surgeon and Lecturer on Diseases of the Ear, holding the appointments until 1864. He married in August, 1846, Harriet, daughter of Nathaniel Holmes, and by her had nine children, of whom the second son, Arnold (1852-1883), was the well-known social philosopher and economist, a founder of the first University Settlement - Toynbee Hall. Joseph Toynbee died from an overdose of chloroform on July 7th, 1866, and was buried in the churchyard of St Mary's, Wimbledon. At the time of his death he was Aural Surgeon to the Earlswood Asylum for Idiots, Consulting Aural Surgeon to the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, President of the Quekett Microscopical Society, and Treasurer of the Medical Benevolent Fund, an office he had filled since 1867. Toynbee raised aural surgery from a neglected condition and made it a legitimate branch of medicine. The Toynbee Collection illustrating various diseases of the ear is exhibited in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in Lincoln's Inn Fields. It is the result of minute dissections extending over twenty years, during which time he is said to have made preparations from more than two thousand human ears. Many of the specimens came from the patients in the Deaf and Dumb Asylum whose ears he had examined during life. One of his most valuable contributions to the treatment of deafness was his invention of an artificial tympanic membrane. He first demonstrated the existence of many bony and other tumours of the ear, of the ossicles, and of the tympanum, and demonstrated that the Eustachian tube is always closed except during the act of swallowing. As a philanthropist the English public owes much to Toynbee. He advocated the improvement of workmen's dwellings and surroundings at a time when the duties of a Government in regard to public health were hardly beginning to be appreciated. His benevolent efforts centred in Wimbledon, where he occupied a country house from 1854. Here he was indefatigable in forming and maintaining a village club and a local museum. He published in 1863 *Hints on the Formation of Local Museums*, and his enthusiastic advocacy was of great value in furthering the establishment of similar clubs and museums in other parts of the kingdom. He also took a deep interest in the condition of the deaf and dumb, and devised plans by which they were taught to speak. The Otological Society subscribed a sum of money to name the Committee Room at the Royal Society of Medicine which is called the 'Joseph Toynbee Room'. Publications: *The Diseases of the Ear; their Nature, Diagnosis and Treatment*, 8vo, London, 1860. A new edition with a supplement by JAMES HINTON, 1868. Translated into German, Würzburg, 1863. This was Toynbee's chief work, and placed aural surgery on a firm basis. It is still interesting on account of the details of cases and methods of treatment. *On the Use of Artificial Membrane Tympani in Cases of Deafness*, 8vo, London, 1853; 6th ed, 1857. *A Descriptive Catalogue of Preparations illustrative of the Diseases of the Ear in the Museum of Joseph Toynbee*, 8vo, London, 1857.
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First Title value, for Searching Pollock, Sir Edward James (1841 - 1930)

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Occupation General surgeon Lawyer
Details Born 1 April 1841, one of the twenty-four children of Lord Chief Baron Pollock. In this large family he was the ninth son of his father and the second son of the second wife Sarah, daughter of Captain Richard Langslow, of Hatton Cross near Bedfont, Middlesex. He was thus closely related to the legal and medical members of the Pollock family. He was half brother of Baron Charles Edward Pollock (1823-97); uncle of Ernest Murray Pollock, Baron Hanworth, Master of the Rolls (1861-1936), of Sir Frederick Pollock, KC (1845-1937), Judge of the Admiralty Court of the Cinque Ports 1914-36, of the Right Rev Bertram Pollock, Bishop of Norwich, and of Sir Adrian Donald Wilde Pollock, Chamberlain of the City of London; and a first cousin to George Pollock assistant surgeon St George's Hospital, and to Arthur Julius Pollock (1835-90), physician to Charing Cross Hospital. Edward James Pollock was educated at a small preparatory school kept by the Rev Samuel Moses Marcus in Caroline Street, Bloomsbury, and amongst his schoolfellows were Richard Garnett, afterwards Principal Librarian of the British Museum, Linley Sambourne the *Punch* artist, Millais the painter, and Brodribb the classical scholar. The Pollocks lived at this time in the house at the north end of Queen Square looking into Guilford Street, and their garden was used as a playground for the boys attending Marcus' school. Pollock proceeded from this school to King's College, London, entered King's College Hospital and served as house surgeon during the year 1863-64. He was then elected surgeon to the Farringdon General Dispensary and Lying-in Hospital at Bartlett's Buildings, Holborn, having as his surgical colleagues Robert William Dunn and Charles Matthews, both of whom had been students at King's College Hospital. Pollock at this time was living at 6 Old Cavendish Street, and was acting as private assistant to George Critchett in his ophthalmic practice. He visited the United States about 1869, remained there a few months and on his return determined to devote himself to the study of the law. He was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1872 and soon obtained a fair Common Law practice, which he had to relinquish twenty-five years later on account of an operation upon his larynx which reduced his voice to a hoarse whisper and prevented him from acting as an advocate. Lord Halsbury appointed him in 1897 one of the three official referees of the Supreme Court of Judicature in the place of Sir Edward Ridley, who had been promoted to the High Court Bench. Pollock soon showed that he was quick in seizing the essential facts and figures of a case whilst his geniality made it a pleasure to appear before him. He resigned his office in 1927, having received the honour of Knighthood five years previously. He married in 1871, Alice Georgina (d 1929), daughter of Warren de la Rue, FRS, and was the recipient of a presentation from the Bar when he celebrated with her the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding. He died on 14 April 1930, at 20 York Terrace, Regent's Park, survived by two sons and three daughters. He is known as a great lawyer and a great gentleman, who was remembered with respect and affection.
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First Title value, for Searching Pomroy, Harry Roy (1895 - 1943)

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First Title value, for Searching Fremantle, Sir Francis Edward (1872 - 1943)

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Publication Date 2013-06-19
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Occupation General surgeon Politician Public health officer
Details Born in London on 29 May 1872, fourth son of the Very Rev the Hon William Henry Fremantle, Dean of Ripon, and Isabella, his wife, daughter of Sir Culling Eardley, 3rd Baronet, the religious philanthropist (for whom see *DNB*). The Dean was the second son of Thomas Francis Fremantle, 1st Lord Cottesloe (see *DNB*), who had been Secretary of War in 1844, and grandson of Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle, GCB (see *DNB*), who commanded HMS *Neptune* at Trafalgar. Francis Fremantle was educated in College at Eton (King's Scholar 1886 election) and at Balliol College, Oxford, 1891-94, where he distinguished himself as an athlete and took second-class honours in physiology. He entered Guy's Hospital Medical School in 1895, qualified in 1897, and served as house physician under George Newton Pitt, MD, FRCP. In 1942 he was elected a Governor of the Hospital. During the Boer war he volunteered for active service in South Africa as a civil surgeon with the field force. He sent home to *Guy's Hospital Gazette*, which he had edited, trenchant letters on the medical administration of the army. On his return to England he published *Impressions of a doctor in khaki*, 1901, and was appointed assistant secretary to the Departmental Committee on the reorganization of the Army Medical Service. In 1902 he became Medical Officer of Health for Hertfordshire, where he had landed interests and subsequently inherited his mother's property of Bedwell Park, Hatfield; and in 1908 he became also Chief School Medical Officer for the county. In 1903, however, after taking the FRCS and the MCh, he went to India as Plague Medical Officer in the Punjab, and in 1904 was special correspondent of *The Lancet* at the Russo-Japanese war. He held a commission dated 1902 as surgeon-captain in the Herts Yeomanry and took a prominent part in the public life of the county. In 1906 he was adopted as prospective unionist candidate for the parliamentary constituency of Rotherhithe, but at the general election of 1910 was disqualified, as a public servant; this disability was later removed from Medical Officers of Health. He resigned the post of Medical Officer of Health in 1916 and was appointed Consulting Medical Officer of Health for Hertfordshire. In 1919 he was elected Conservative MP for St Albans, and was re-elected at subsequent general elections, for the last time in 1935 with a two to one majority of 17,510 votes. Meanwhile he again saw active service in the first world war, as DADMS (Sanitary) in Gallipoli, Egypt, and Mesopotamia, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and was mentioned in despatches; he was created OBE in the birthday honours ("peace list") in 1919. He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Hertfordshire in 1926, and was created a Knight Bachelor in 1932. He was a Justice of the Peace and held the Territorial Decoration. Fremantle took a full share of public and professional duties, inside and outside Parliament. He was elected FRCP in 1910 and served on the Council 1930-32. In 1920 he was president of the Incorporated Society of Medical Officers of Health, and in 1928 of the section of epidemiology and state medicine at the Royal Society of Medicine, and he was a vice-president of the Royal Sanitary Institute 1933-43. He was also a strong supporter of the Institute of District Nurses. He delivered the Jenner Lecture at Guy's Hospital, and examined for some years in public health for the final Oxford MB. He also took an active part in the work of the British Empire Cancer Campaign, the National Institute for the Deaf, the British Empire Leprosy Relief Association, the British Social Hygiene Council, and the Central Association for Mental Welfare. He served on the Central Medical War Committee and as chairman of its aliens' sub-committee did much for the benefit of refugee medical men during the Hitlerite terror in Europe. He was a promoter of the London School of Hygiene, and a member of its first Court of Governors. In the British Medical Association he was vice-president of the section of public health at the Glasgow meeting in 1922, and vice-president of the section of medical sociology at the Belfast meeting in 1937. He served on various special committees, on the Parliamentary sub-committee, and on the Central Emergency Committee at the time of the second world war; gave evidence on behalf of the Association before the Royal Commission on the Insurance Acts in 1924-25, and in 1938 was one of four medical MPs specially invited to address the annual Representative Meeting. From 1919 to 1921 he was a member of the London County Council and served as chairman of its housing committee. He was also chairman of the council of the Garden Cities and Town Planning Association, and a director of Welwyn Garden City. Though personally a Conservative and elected on the party platform, he took an independent and idealistic view of the "doctor's mandate in Parliament" as he called it in his Chadwick lecture of 1936; and held himself to represent the special experience of the medical profession in its knowledge of the nation's health and way of life, with the widest reference to general policy and administration. He liked to think of himself as in the direct tradition of John Somerset, MD, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer and personal adviser to King Henry VI, the founder of Eton, forgetting perhaps that Somerset's advice was chiefly astrological. Fremantle spoke and wrote much on public health questions. In 1927 he published two books, constructively critical of current public health policy: *The Housing of the Nation* and *The Health of the Nation*, both with prefaces by Neville Chamberlain, then Minister of Health. He had previously published *A Traveller's study of Health and Empire*, but he was best known by his speeches and his frequent letters to *The Times*. For eighteen years (1925-43) he was chairman of the Unionist Health and Housing Committee, later called the Conservative Social Services Committee, of the House of Commons, and from 1923 he had been chairman of the Parliamentary Medical Committee, whose business lay very near his heart. He was a most assiduous and industrious Member, and one of the few for whom a special table was reserved in the library of the House of Commons. He was a member of Lord Trevethin's Committee on Venereal Diseases in 1923, served on the Industrial Health Research Board 1930-34, on the Departmental Committees on the Rent Restriction Acts in 1923, 1931, and 1937, and on that on the Midwives Act of 1908. He was a member of the Central Housing Committee of the Ministry of Health and of the Interdepartmental Committee on the Nursing Service. He also served on the Select Committee on Publications and House of Commons Debate Reports. He endeared himself to the House by occasional "spoonerisms", as when in a debate on birth control he mentioned "the sale of conservatives". In one of his last speeches, on 16 July 1943, he spoke earnestly of the causes and effects of a declining birth-rate. Fremantle was an active Churchman, a member of the St Albans diocesan conference and of the Church Assembly. He addressed the Modern Churchman's Conference at Oxford in the summer of 1943 not long before his death, on "The layman's rights and duties". Fremantle married in 1905 Dorothy Marion Travers, only daughter of Henry Joseph Chinnery, of Frigford Manor, Bicester. Lady Fremantle survived him with one son, Lieutenant-Colonel David Fremantle. He died suddenly at Bedwell Park, Hatfield, on 26 August 1943, aged 71, and was buried at Essendon, Hertfordshire. A memorial service was held in St Albans Abbey. His principal writings are mentioned above.
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First Title value, for Searching French, George William Henry (1861 - 1947)

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First Title value, for Searching French, John Gay (1872 - 1951)

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First Title value, for Searching Cowen, George Hebb (1872 - 1943)

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First Title value, for Searching Cramsie, Jack Halling (1900 - 1946)

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First Title value, for Searching Cresswell, Frank Pearson Skeffington (1867 - 1936)

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First Title value, for Searching Crile, George Washington (1864 - 1943)

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Occupation Physiologist
Details Born 11 November 1864 at Chili, Coshocton County, Ohio, US son of Michael Crile and Margaret Dietz, his wife. He was educated at Ohio Northern University at Ada, Ohio, and Wooster (now the Western Reserve) University, Cleveland, Ohio, where he took his M.D. in 1887 and served as an intern at the Lakeside Hospital. After his travels to the clinics of Vienna, Paris, and London he became demonstrator and lecturer in histology at Western Reserve and then successively professor of physiology 1890, of surgical propaedeutic 1893, of clinical surgery 1900 and of surgery 1911, when he was appointed visiting surgeon to Lakeside Hospital. During the Spanish-American war of 1898 he served in Puerto Rico and Cuba, becoming brigade surgeon. In 1917-18 he served in France as director of the Lakeside unit at base hospital No 4 with the rank of colonel, United States Army Medical Corps, and was decorated by the allies. From 1924 when he retired from his professorial chair he devoted himself as director of research to the service of Cleveland clinic, of which he was one of the founders in 1921, and made one of the best in the world. Crile was elected an honorary Fellow of the College at the last International Medical Congress in London in 1913. He appears in the group of honorary Fellows photographed on the steps of the College, which also includes Harvey Cushing and William Mayo He was president of the American College of Surgeons in 1916. Crile married in 1900 Grace McBride, who survived him with two sons and two daughters. With his wife he was a hospitable host at Cleveland and at the country house, where his chief recreation was riding. He was particular friendly to British surgeons, and his friendships were coloured by the enthusiasm which activated him in all his work. He was a man of dynamic vitality and marked intellectual originality. With Mrs Crile he undertook late in life a game-hunting expedition to Africa to collect a variety of species for comparative study of their endocrine organs. Mrs Crile described the adventure in her book *Skyways to a jungle laboratory*, New York, 1936. He died at the Cleveland clinic on 6 January 1943, aged 78. Crile was one of the outstanding surgeons who, at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, put the latest advances of physiological discovery to successful clinical use. He was himself both surgeon and physiologist, and turned his researches in the mechanism of shock and the functions of the endocrines to practical surgical ends. He ranked as a scientific surgeon with Moynihan, who revolutionized the surgery and physiology of digestive dysfunction, and with Cushing, who was outstanding both as surgeon and as neurologist. Crile's prize essay on surgical shock (1897) stated his realization of the patient's unconscious reflex responses to pain stimuli when under anaesthetic. He devised a method of shockless operation, fully developed in the two editions (1914 and 1920) of his famous book *Anoci-association*, allaying the patient's apprehension by preliminary sedative (scopolamine and morphine), securing general anaesthesia with nitrous oxide and oxygen, and cutting off the afferent impulses from the area of operation by local anaesthetics. The field of operation was blocked by infiltration with novocaine, and every division of sensitive tissue was preceded by injection of novocaine. Postoperative discomfort was minimized by injection of quinine and urea hydrochloride solution at distance from the wound. He was a pioneer in the surgery of the thyroid and with a similar purpose elaborated his method of "stealing" the thyroid: placing each patient in a private room, going through the early stages of general anaesthesia ritual on several successive days till on the selected day, unknown to the patient, anaesthesia was completed and the operation performed in the patient's room. On that day Crile would do many such operations consecutively, hurrying from room to room. His work on anoci-association, the blunting of harmful association-impulses, was made in collaboration with W S Lower, and was based on W H Gaskell's researches on the sympathetic nervous system. Crile took a leading part in the revival of blood-transfusion, and devised the practical method of making direct connexion between the arteries of the donor and the veins of the recipient. His book on the subject appeared in 1909. During his service with the American army in France in the first world war he became interested in the study of the suprarenals. Adrenalin had been isolated by Takamine in 1901, and Langley had shown that this secretion of the medullary part of the suprarenal gland had the same effect on the organism as artificial stimulation of the sympathetic. Crile applied Langley's discovery to the direct stimulation of the accelerator nerves of the heart in cases of collapse under anaesthesia. He was essentially a scientist and in American phrase "a savant", closely following the work of the "pure" physiologists and himself experimenting in its application; for instance, he tried to control the peripheral circulation by wearing a rubber suit, and he wrote on the physiology of emotion. At the same time he was a surgeon of ambidextrous facility and the deviser of brilliant and simple operations. He taught the most convenient way of fulfilling Butlin's doctrine that the corresponding lymph-nodes must be removed in operating for malignant disease of the tongue, and Crile's method was universally adopted. In later years he became much interested in the surgical physiology of hypertension, and was the first to advocate sympathectomy for its treatment. His conception of the integration of the endocrines and of their relation as a system to the phenomena of shock was his most original and germinal contribution to medical science. From his studies in nervous and endocrine physiology Crile was led to examine the phenomena of living processes, and elaborated his radioelectric interpretation in several books. He suggested that the acid nucleus of the cell is the positive component of oxidation, the cytoplasm the negative agent, with the cell-membrane as condensor, and the brain and liver as positive and negative poles. Publications:- *An experimental research into surgical shock*, Cartwright prize essay 1897. Philadelphia, 1899. *Experimental research into the surgery of the respiratory system*, Senn prize essay, American Medical Association 1898. Philadelphia, 1899. *An experimental and clinical research into certain problems relating to surgical operations*, Alvarenga prize essay, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 1901. *Blood pressure in surgery*. Philadelphia, 1903. *Haemorrhage and transfusion*. New York,1909. *Phylogenetic association in relation to certain medical problems*. Boston, 1910. *Anoci-association*, with W. S. Lower. Philadelphia, 1914; 2nd edition: *Surgical shock and the shockless operation through anoci-association* 1920, *Anemia and resuscitation*. New York, 1914. *The origin and nature of the emotions*. Philadelphia, 1915. *A mechanistic view of war and peace*. New York, 1915. *Man an adaptive mechanism*, New York, 1916, *The kinetic drive, its phenomena and control* (Carpenter lecture, New York Academy of Medicine 1915). Philadelphia, 1916. *A physical interpretation of shock, exhaustion, and restoration, an extensional kinetic theory*. London, 1921. *The thyroid gland*. Philadelphia, 1927; two editions in the year, published from the Cleveland clinic, anonymously, *Bipolar theory of living processes*. New York, 1926. *Problems in surgery* (University of Washington graduate medical lectures 1926), Philadelphia, 1926. *Diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the thyroid gland*. Philadelphia, 1932 (portrait). *Diseases peculiar to civilized man; clinical management and surgical treatment* New York, 1934. *The phenomenon of life; a radio-electric interpretation*. New York, 1936. *The surgical treatment of hypertension*. Philadelphia, 1938. *Intelligence, power, and personality*. New York, 1941.
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First Title value, for Searching Cropley, Henry (1859 - 1931)

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First Title value, for Searching Barnett, Geoffrey Michael Fulton (1893 - 1950)

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First Title value, for Searching Cross, Francis Richardson (1848 - 1931)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-20
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Son of the Rev Joseph Cross, MA, who matriculated from Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 11 November 1812, was vicar of Merriott south Somersetshire, married Caroline Richardson and was afterwards precentor of Bristol cathedral. Francis Richardson Cross was born 26 November 1848 and was educated at Crewkerne Grammar School until he entered as a medical student at King's College Hospital. Here he acted as house surgeon in charge of the eye wards, was sub-dean, medical tutor, and evening lecturer on physiology. He also served as assistant demonstrator of anatomy. In 1896 he was elected a Fellow of King's College. He was for a short time resident medical officer at the St Pancras Infirmary, after which he attended clinics in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, and Utrecht, where he came under the influence of Professor Snellen the ophthalmologist. His interest in the subject being thus aroused, he became clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital on his return to England. In 1878 he joined the medical school at Bristol as lecturer on anatomy, was elected assistant surgeon to the Bristol Royal Infirmary in September 1878 and surgeon in January 1879. He held this post until 1885 when, deciding to specialize in ophthalmic surgery, he was elected ophthalmic surgeon to the infirmary and held office until July 1900. He then resigned, was elected a governor, and retained his interest in the institution until 1925, having been elected a vice-president in 1919. During his tenure of office as surgeon to the infirmary, he was dean in 1880 of the medical faculty of University College, Bristol, which had not then been raised to the status of a university. In 1882 he was appointed surgeon to the Bristol Eye Hospital and raised the institution to a high state of efficiency. His first house surgeon was Herman Snellen, the son of his old teacher at Utrecht. He remained upon the active staff until November 1925 when he resigned and received the complimentary title of consulting surgeon, remaining a member of the committee until his death. In 1891 he was president of the Bristol Medico-chirurgical Society, and in the same year he was president of the ophthalmological section at the Bristol meeting of the British Medical Association. From 1898 till 1914 he was a member of the council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and delivered the Bradshaw lecture in 1909, "On the brain structures concerned in vision and the visual field" (printed Bristol 1910). From 1912 to 1915 he was president of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom. In 1901 he delivered the annual oration at Medical Society of London on "Some landmarks in the progress of medical science". He married in 1880 Eva Beatrice, who died 1920, daughter of Captain Hawkes, RN, and by her had three daughters. He died on Sunday, 12 July 1931, at Worcester House, Clifton, Bristol and was buried at Alveston, Gloucestershire, after a largely attended funeral service in Bristol cathedral. Cross was one of the last ophthalmic surgeons who began life as a general surgeon and afterwards specialized in his subject. He had many interests outside his profession. As a young man he was well known in the athletic world, winning the 100 yards in the inter-hospital sports in record time. Settled at Bristol, he took an active part in the social and municipal life of the city. He served as sheriff in 1897 and was presented with a silver cradle to mark the birth of a daughter during his year of office. He was made a Justice of the Peace in 1902 and took an influential part in securing the foundation of the university in 1909, where he became lecturer and later reader in ophthalmology. He was president of the Grateful Society in 1889, of the Dolphin Society in 1911, and of the university Colston Society in 1916. During his tenure of these offices he was successful in collecting large sums for charitable purposes. He was throughout a keen sportsman, hunting with the Duke of Beaufort's hounds. He also took a great interest in the breeding of stock. He acted as chairman of the Bristol centre of the St John Ambulance Brigade, and for very many years was chairman of the Bristol School for the Blind. The welfare of the blind was always very near his heart and he was instrumental in obtaining new and better premises for the Royal School for the Blind. As a man he stood well over six feet in height with great breadth of shoulder, fine upright carriage, and a profusion of hair which became white early in life. He was a fine speaker and was everywhere an influence for good. He left £50 each to the Bristol Eye Hospital, the Bristol Royal Infirmary, King's College Hospital, London, the University of Bristol, and the School of Industry for the Blind; and a number of medical books from his library were presented by his daughter to the Royal College of Surgeons. A portrait painted in 1920 by Miss B Bright hangs in the senate room of the Bristol University, and there is a replica in the Bristol Eye Hospital. It is an excellent likeness.
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First Title value, for Searching Thomas, Sir John Lynn (1861 - 1939)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-20
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Occupation General surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Born 10 September 1861 at Pensarn, Llandyssul, Cardigan, the eldest child of Evan Thomas, farmer, and Mary Lewis, his wife. He was educated at a small private school at Llandyssul under the headmastership of Gwilym Marlais, and afterwards entered the London Hospital Medical School. He won the Hutchinson prize essay in 1890 for a dissertation on fractures of the skull, and later in life presented the manuscript to the library of the Welsh National School of Medicine. At the London Hospital he served as house surgeon, and returning to Cardiff he acted as house surgeon at the Cardiff Royal Infirmary 1888-92, and then was appointed assistant surgeon to the Dinorwic Quarries Hospital. In 1895 he was elected assistant surgeon to the Cardiff Royal Infirmary, becoming surgeon in 1901, and consulting surgeon on his resignation of the post in 1921. During the South African war he served with the Welsh Hospital in 1900, and after the death of his seniors took charge of it, was decorated CB, and was awarded the medal with three clasps. He then returned to Cardiff, interesting himself more especially in the treatment of fractures and dislocations, although he undertook general operative surgery. Being already a major in the RAMC Territorial Force, he was gazetted temporary lieutenant-colonel on 29 April 1916, and was promoted colonel, AMS on 29 September 1917, Western Command. As deputy inspector of orthopaedics he helped Robert Jones to organize that side of the Army Medical Service during the years 1914-18. He was instrumental in founding the Prince of Wales Hospital, Cardiff, for limbless sailors and soldiers. The hospital afterwards became the orthopaedic centre for Wales. He also acted as consulting surgeon to King Edward VII Welsh National Memorial Hospital, to the Hamadryad Hospital, Cardiff, to the Cardiff Provident Dispensary, to Porth Hospital, and to the Bridgend Cottage Hospital. He was also interested after the war in the Rookwood Hospital at Llandaff and the War Memorial Hospital, Cardigan. A man of great ability as an organizer, he took an active part in establishing the Welsh National School of Medicine and in the affairs of the National University of Wales, of which he was the junior deputy chancellor. He was also a member of council of the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, and a councillor of University College, Aberystwyth. He retired from private practice in July 1914, but continued his public work and was a member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons 1918-33, and president of the orthopaedic section at the Cardiff meeting of the British Medical Association in 1928. He lived latterly at Llwyndyrys, Llechryd, Cardiganshire, and there interested himself in the archaeology of the district. He was a magistrate for Glamorgan and Cardigan, and a deputy lieutenant and high sheriff (1907-08) for the latter. Sir John Lynn Thomas is described as being childlike in disposition, friendly by nature, and transparently interested in his own affairs. Somewhat combative, he involved himself in various litigations relating to his professional services, and always fought to the end. The Southern v Lynn Thomas and Skyrme case went against him in 1906, and a public subscription from the medical profession defrayed the costs (*Lancet*, 1908, 1, 879). Above middle height and massively built, he was distinguished by his large head upon which the hair grew in untamed profusion. Welsh was clearly his native language, for he always spoke English in a soft voice and with a distinctive accent. He married in 1892 Mary Rosina, only daughter of Edward Jenkins of Cardiff. She helped him greatly in establishing Welsh Hospitals during the Boer war in 1900 and the war of 1914-18. She was found drowned near her home in the River Teist on 12 February 1938. Sir John Lynn Thomas died on 21 September 1939, leaving two daughters. His remains were cremated at Pontypridd. He left the greater part of his estate upon trust to purchase the house Llwyndyrys and adjoining lands, and when acquired to maintain it and the stones and discoveries thereon, with a view to handing it over to the Welsh nation or to such other body as would be prepared to take it; otherwise he left his property to the Prince of Wales Hospital, Cardiff.
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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 Hepworth, Frank Arthur (1879 - 1944)

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First Title value, for Searching Cudmore, Sir Arthur Murray (1870 - 1951)

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First Title value, for Searching Cuff, Archibald William (1869 - 1938)

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First Title value, for Searching Barnie-Adshead, William Ewart (1901 - 1951)

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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 10 April 1901, fifth child and fourth son of Alderman Thomas Willets Adshead, manufacturer, who was twice mayor of Dudley, and his wife Adeline Hand. He assumed the extra surname Barnie by deed poll. He was educated at Dudley Grammar School and Birmingham University, where he graduated in science in 1920, and took the Conjoint qualification in 1923; At the university he excelled at all ball games, and took the lead in reviving social and athletic activities which had lapsed during the first world war. He was president of the University Medical Students' Society, and captain of cricket, association football, and lawn tennis. Subsequently he played cricket for Worcestershire and football for Aston Villa, the Corinthians, and England. With increasing age and business he took up golf and became an excellent player. After holding resident posts at the Queen's, the General, and the Women's Hospitals at Birmingham, he made postgraduate studies at the London Hospital, and took both the Edinburgh and English surgical Fellowships in 1926. Barnie-Adshead intended to specialize as a gynaecological surgeon, and in 1926 was appointed assistant at the Queen's Hospital and in 1929 at the Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Women, becoming surgeon to the latter in 1934 in succession to S Lewis Graham, FRCS. He was a foundation member of the British (now Royal) College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1929, a Fellow in 1938 and served on the council from 1950 till his death early in 1951. At the Queen's Hospital he was obstetric surgeon, and became gynaecological surgeon when the Queen's and General Hospitals were united in 1938 as the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. At Birmingham University he was assistant to the professor of obstetrics and gynaecology, Dr Hilda Lloyd, PRCOG, and he examined for the Central Midwives Board. He was president of the Midland Obstetrical Society in 1938-39, and revived it after the war of 1939-45. He was joint honorary secretary of the British Medical Association's Birmingham branch in 1930-31, and served for some years on the medical students and newly qualified practitioners sub-committee of the Association's organization committee. Barnie-Adshead married in 1926 Eileen Cathrine Trimble, MB ChB Birmingham, who survived him with two sons. He practised at 89 Cornwall Street, Birmingham, and lived at 20 Church Road, Edgbaston. He died in the General Hospital, Birmingham, on 26 January 1951, aged 49. Barnie-Adshead was a very popular and charming man, of debonair manners with a slight lisp. His comparatively early death cut short a career of much achievement and promise of even more.
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First Title value, for Searching White, Frank Faulder (1861 - 1939)

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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 Barrow, Albert Boyce (1847 - 1939)

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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 Newmarket on 20 September 1847, where his father, William Barrow, and brother practised as veterinary surgeons. He was the second son; his mother's maiden name was Boyce. He was educated at Aldridges, Bury St Edmunds and at King's College, London. He received his medical education at King's College Hospital, where he was house surgeon to Sir William Fergusson and to John Wood for the year 1873-74. He succeeded William Rose as Sambrooke surgical registrar in 1875 and became pathological registrar on the resignation of Urban Pritchard in 1876. He then acted as private assistant to Henry Smith. He would probably have been appointed assistant surgeon to King's College Hospital in 1880, but the post was filled by Watson Cheyne, who came from Edinburgh, where he had been house surgeon to Lister. In 1880 he was surgeon to the Westminster Dispensary and in 1882 he acted as assistant surgeon at the West London Hospital. He was appointed assistant surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital in 1883, becoming full surgeon in 1888. He resigned in 1904, and was made consulting surgeon in the following year. On 5 December 1882 he was elected assistant surgeon to the Westminster Hospital, but resigned on 24 August 1886, when he returned to King's College Hospital as assistant surgeon on the death of Hutchinson Royes Bell. Here he became full surgeon in 1893, and consulting surgeon in 1912. During the war of 1914-18 he returned to the hospital to take charge of the civil surgical cases. Always interested in horses, Boyce Barrow, on his retirement from active practice in London, began to breed race-horses on a small farm at Blackmore, in Essex and later moved to a larger property at Writtle, where at times he had as many as fifty horses in his stud. He owned and trained Beguiled, which finished second to Liwood at Northolt Park on the day of his death, and in his stables died Common, the winner of the Guineas, the Derby, and the St Leger in 1891, the owner being Sir Blundell Maple. Boyce Barrow was killed on 30 May 1939, aged 91, whilst asleep in a car driven by a friend, which crashed into a trolley-bus standard in Forest Road, Walthamstow, Essex. He never married. It was said of him that he was more interested in his patients and in his horses than in administration or teaching. He never held a lectureship, rarely came to a medical school committee, and was most erratic in his attendance at the hospital. He made no contribution to the literature of surgery and was never seen at a meeting of any of the societies of which he was a member. He was hospitable and very popular with his colleagues and the students.
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First Title value, for Searching Traer, James Reeves (1833 - 1867)

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First Title value, for Searching Rowe, Robert Morison (1875 - 1969)

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First Title value, for Searching Douglas, Archibald Robert John (1872 - 1950)

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First Title value, for Searching Travis, William (1772 - 1851)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Was in general practice in Scarborough for nearly thirty years, from 1819, when he joined partnership with John Dunn (qv), to within a few years of his death. He was a member of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society, and had other interests besides those of his profession, for he was also a member of the Camden Society and of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain. He died at the residence of his son in York on January 17th, 1851.
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First Title value, for Searching Batchelor, Ferdinand Stanley (1873 - 1942)

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First Title value, for Searching Bates, Mark (1881 - 1947)

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First Title value, for Searching Bates, Tom (1878 - 1943)

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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 Worcester on 12 October 1878, the third child and eldest son of Tom Bates, MRCS 1868, and Alice Mary Davis, his wife. Tom Bates senior died on 3 April 1916 (*Brit med J*. 1916, 1, 574; *Lancet*, 1916, 1, 837); his younger son Mark was also a Fellow. Tom Bates the younger was educated at Worcester Cathedral King's School and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon to C B Lockwood and as clinical assistant in the orthopaedic department. He then returned to practice at Worcester, where his father was surgeon to the General (later Royal) Infirmary from 1879 to 1909, when he succeeded to the post. In 1921 he became senior surgeon and chairman of the medical staff committee. His brother Mark was also on the infirmary staff, and when they both volunteered for service during the 1914 war, their father returned from retirement to active surgical duties in Worcester. The elder Tom Bates died early in 1916 and Tom Bates, FRCS, was then recalled from the RAMC to the infirmary. Bates' career was bound up with the Worcester Infirmary, to whose interests he was devoted. He had looked forward to celebrating its bicentenary in 1946, and was proud to claim that the British Medical Association had originated there in 1832. He was at work to within a week of his death. During the second world war he was Chairman of the Worcester medical war committee and was a group adviser under the Ministry of Health's emergency medical service for parts of Worcestershire and Herefordshire. He had served on several committees of the Voluntary Hospital Association and had been president of the Worcester and Hereford branch of the BMA. Bates married in 1908 Gertrude Maitland Sherwin, who survived him with two sons and a daughter. One son, Michael, qualified MRCS LRCP 1941 and was surgical registrar at St Bartholomew's in the emergency medical service chest unit at the time of his father's death. Bates practised, as his father did before him, at 44 Foregate Street, Worcester, where he died, after a short illness, on 21 November 1943, aged 65. A memorial service was held in Worcester cathedral on 25 November. He was a man of direct speech and ready wit, and though outspoken, a good committee man. He was a keen bridge player and a member of the Hadley bowling club. He was high master in 1927-28 of the Worshipful Company of Clothiers in the City of Worcester, a guild dating from 1590, in which he served as a weaver.
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First Title value, for Searching Sargent, Sir Percy William George (1873 - 1933)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-30
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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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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-30 2023-03-31
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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 Mayo, Thomas Alfred (1875 - 1950)

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First Title value, for Searching Mayou, Marmaduke Stephen (1876 - 1934)

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First Title value, for Searching Melsome, William Stanley (1865 - 1944)

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First Title value, for Searching Middlebro, Thomas Holmes (1864 - 1935)

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First Title value, for Searching Middleton, Donald Stewart (1899 - 1942)

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First Title value, for Searching Miles, William Ernest (1869 - 1947)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-21
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Occupation Colorectal surgeon
Details Born 15 January 1869 in Trinidad and educated at Queen's Royal College, Port of Spain, of which his father William Miles, BA Oxford JP, was head master; his mother, Amelia Sarah Bailey, was of Irish descent. He was their only son. He took his clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he served as demonstrator of anatomy, and then house surgeon at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, and at the Metropolitan Hospital, London, and St Mark's Hospital for Diseases of Rectum under David Goodsall. Miles was appointed assistant surgeon to the Royal Cancer Hospital in 1899, and became surgeon in 1903 and eventually consulting surgeon; with his colleague Sir Charles Ryall he did much to raise the prestige of the hospital and establish a tradition of first-class surgery there. He was particularly interested in the surgical treatment of carcinoma of the large intestine and rectum, and after prolonged anatomical and pathological research into the mode of spread of cancer of these organs he introduced in 1907 the abdomino-perineal operation known by his name, which revolutionized this branch of surgery and established his reputation as a supreme scientific and operative surgeon in his chosen field. He clarified the pathological anatomy of haemorrhoids, by emphasizing the distribution of the terminal branches of the superior haemorrhoidal vessels; while his complex classification of fistulae revivified the work of Peter Thompson (*J Anat* vols 33-35), and inspired that of E T C Milligan, FRCS, and C Naunton Morgan, FRCS (see *Lancet*, 1937, 2, 1119). Miles paid much attention to the training of his assistants, many of whom rose to distinction, and he perfected the team work and technique in his theatre so that without any appearance of hurry everything went forward with the utmost speed and smoothness. Three of his distinguished pupils died shortly before him: Cecil Joll, Jocelyn Swan, and Cecil Rowntree. Miles also devoted much time and work to the Gordon Hospital for Diseases of the Rectum, both as surgeon and in promoting its development from a small collection of converted houses to an up-to-date special hospital. He was also consulting surgeon to the Royal Hospital, Richmond, and to the West Hertfordshire Hospital. He was a keen territorial soldier and won the Territorial Decoration. On the outbreak of war in 1914 he went to France with the British Expeditionary Force, and at first commanded No 7 Red Cross Hospital for Officers. He was appointed in 1916 Deputy Assistant Director of Medical Services in the 58th Division, and in 1918 was in command of the 56th General Hospital; he was consulting surgeon for the Etaples area in 1919, retiring as lieutenant-colonel, RAMC (T). He was consulting proctologist to Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital, Millbank. Miles contributed to the professional societies several important records of his work, particularly to the annual meeting of the British Medical Association in 1910 and to the Medical Society of London in 1923, where his Lettsomian lectures surveyed the whole problem of rectal cancer. He served as president of the sub-section of proctology in the Royal Society of Medicine. He was an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and of the American Proctological Society, and a foreign associate of the French Academy of Surgery. He served on the National Radium Commission and the executive committee of the British Empire Cancer Campaign. He was the defendant in a legal action brought against him in 1930 for negligence in an operation; although he could have claimed the technical protection that the action was brought more than seven years after the alleged negligent act, he preferred to defend his reputation by contesting the action, and was successful. He had a very large private practice. Miles was a keen player of games, excelling at tennis in younger days and later at golf. Horse racing was his chief amusement, and he liked to entertain colleagues and old patients in his box at Ascot; he had many friends in all sections of the racing community, owners, trainers, and riders. A man of real originality of mind, he was also possessed of uncompromising drive and perseverance, and was somewhat irascible, but a staunch friend. Miles was twice married; his second wife, whom he married on 16 August 1944 was Janet Mary, daughter of Ernest Robert Loxton; she survived him. There were no children of either marriage. He died at 106 Hallam Street, W1 on 24 September 1947 after a period of failing health, aged 78. The funeral was at Golders Green crematorium, and a memorial service was held at Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone, on 8 October, at which Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor gave a valedictory oration. He had formerly practised at 82 Harley Street, at 14 Park Crescent, and at Fitzroy House, 16 Fitzroy Square. Publications: *Diseases of the anus and rectum*, with D H Goodsall. London, Longman, 1900-05. Part 1, 311 pages; part 2, 271 pages. A method of performing abdomino-perineal excision for carcinoma of the rectum and of the terminal portion of the pelvic colon. *Lancet*, 1908, 2, 1812. The radical abdomino-perineal operation for cancer of the rectum and of the pelvic colon. *Brit med J* 1910, 2, 941. Cancer of the rectum, Lettsomian lectures. *Trans Med Soc London* 1923, 46, 127-198. Diseases of the rectum, in R Maingot's *Postgraduate surgery*, 1936, 1, 1261-1480. *Rectal surgery*, London, Cassell, 1939; 2nd edition, 1944. Dedicated to the memory of his old master, David Goodsall, FRCS. The problem of the surgical treatment of cancer of the rectum. *Amer J Surg* 1939, 46, 26-39. Miles was a member of the editorial committee of the *British Journal of Surgery*
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Occupation Gastrointestinal surgeon General surgeon Gynaecologist
Details Born at Newcastle-on-Tyne on 16 March 1881, the eldest child of Henry Septimus Miller, a timber merchant, and Annie Elizabeth Potts, his wife. His childhood was spent in Canada, but his parents came back in 1893 and he was educated in London at William Ellis's school and Guy's Hospital, where he won the Durham and Hilton scholarships. He qualified in 1906, took honours at the London MB in 1907, and first-class honours with the gold medal in gynaecology at the MD in 1911, the same year that he took the Fellowship. He was house surgeon at Guy's, and clinical assistant at the Soho Hospital for Women, and then assistant medical registrar and surgical registrar at the Samaritan Hospital. After a period in general practice at Enfield he went into partnership with A C Hartle MD, at Bedford, and ultimately became senior partner in this large practice. Soon however he went on active service during the war of 1914-18, as a surgical specialist in the RAMC. After his return to Bedford he took an increasing part in the profession life of the district. He was appointed assistant surgeon at the Bedford General Hospital in 1924, became senior surgeon in 1932 in succession to W G Nash, and was elected consulting surgeon on his retirement in 1948. He continued to work at the Hospital till March 1951, when he finally retired on his seventieth birthday. He had at first been chiefly a gynaecologist, but in the second half of his career preferred to practise gastric surgery. He was a good teacher of surgery. During the second war, 1939-45, he was chairman of the local medical war committee, and he was a medical referee for the Ministries of Pensions and Labour, surgeon and agent for the Admiralty, and referee for the National Fire Service and the Royal National Hospital at Ventnor. He was a member of the Association of Medical Officers of Schools. He was medical adviser to the Bedfordshire Hospital Services Association, and a member of the Bedford Group Hospital Management Committee. Miller married in 1904 H M Zimmerman, who survived him with a son and daughter. Their elder son had been killed in 1940. He died suddenly in his surgery at 4 De Parys Avenue, Bedford, on 31 December 1951, aged 70. Miller was a man of strong and decisive character. His charm and friendliness made him a tower of strength to the many people who turned to him successfully for sound advice and practical help.
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First Title value, for Searching Battersby, James (1870 - 1951)

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Details Born 25 August 1870, the eldest child of James Battersby, a house factor, and his wife Margaret Sutherland. He was educated at Oatlands School and St Mungo's College, Glasgow, and took the Scottish triple qualification in 1896. After further study at King's College Hospital, London, he became a Member of the College in 1898 and took the Fellowship in 1899. He had served as demonstrator of pathology, house physician and senior house surgeon at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, and later became senior assistant surgeon there. He combined consultant practice in central Glasgow with a large general practice in the East End, which he carried on till 1934 at 1448 Gallowgate. He was surgeon to the Central Dispensary and also for many years professor of anatomy at St Mungo's College. He was an excellent teacher and examined in anatomy for the Royal Faculty. Battersby took an active part in the work of various societies. He served as secretary of the section of anatomy at the annual meeting of the British Medical Association in 1922, and was president of the Glasgow and west of Scotland branch 1945-49. In the Incorporation of Barbers in the Trades House of Glasgow, a guild long frequented by members of the medical profession, he was collector and deacon. Battersby married on 16 August 1899 Elizabeth Dicken Muir, who survived him with their three sons. He died on 20 May 1951, aged 80, at 15 Havelock Street, Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire, where he had been living since his retirement. "Wee Jimmie" Battersby, as he was affectionately known, was a kindly and humorous character, whose abilities triumphed over a frail physique. Publications:- Traumatic separation of the costal epiphyses. *Brit med J*. 1899, 1, 150. Simultaneous fracture of both clavicles. *Brit med J*. 1900, 1, 73.
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Born 26 October 1882 at Ocker Hill, Tipton, Staffordshire, nine miles out of Birmingham, elder son of Michael J. Whitehouse, ironmaster, and his wife, nee Beckwith. He was educated at Malvern College and at St Thomas's Hospital, where he entered with the first science scholarship and in 1902 won the William Tite scholarship. At the London MB BS examination in 1906 he won the Sutton Sams memorial prize for obstetric medicine and diseases of women, and took the gold medal in surgery at the MS in 1908. He settled in practice as a gynaecologist at Birmingham and was elected assistant gynaecological surgeon to the General Hospital in 1908. On the outbreak of war in August 1914 he at once volunteered for active service, was gazetted temporary lieutenant, RAMC on 15 August, and was very soon in France. He served as officer in charge of the surgical division and surgical specialist to No 8 General Hospital at Rouen and to No 56 General Hospital at Etaples. He was promoted captain on 24 September 1915, on the strength of the 1st Southern (Birmingham) General Hospital. When he returned to Birmingham he at once began to take a leading part in the professional life of the city and the Midlands. He succeeded Thomas Wilson, FRCS, in 1921 as senior gynaecological surgeon at the General Hospital and in 1924 as professor of midwifery and diseases of women in the University of Birmingham, becoming the third holder of this combined chair, the gynaecological component of which had been first held by Robert Lawson Tait. He was also gynaecological surgeon to the Queen Elizabeth and the Maternity Hospitals at Birmingham and consultant to the General Hospitals at Nuneaton and Walsall; the Smallwood Hospital, Redditch; the Guest Hospital, Dudley; Sutton Coldfield Cottage Hospital; Hammerwich Cottage Hospital near Lichfield; and Malvern Hospital; and was particularly interested in the Lucy Baldwin Maternity Hospital at Stourport. He was also consultant to Worcester County Council. In spite of his fully filled days he was always ready to answer a night call from any of his many hospitals, and also had an extensive private practice. His great abilities were matched by the necessary energy, but he was also a man of wide cultivation, seriously interested in entomology, botany, gardening, and music. He was also a keen shot and a man of generous hospitality. Whitehouse was an excellent teacher, beloved by every generation of his pupils who forgathered regularly at the meetings of the "XV Club", named from his old ward at the General Hospital. He was a foundation member of the Gynaecological Visiting Society, and became president of the Midland Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society. He served as secretary of the section of obstetrics at the Birmingham meeting of the British Medical Association in 1911, vice-president of the section in 1928, and its president in 1936. In 1934 he was president of the Birmingham branch of the Association, and in 1940 was nominated president of the Association for the Birmingham meeting, which however was not held on account of the war. In 1942 he was, all the same, elected president, and had just been re-elected president for 1943-44 at the time of his death. Till he occupied this presidential chair he had not had much opportunity to make his abilities known directly in London, though he had served on the Radium Commission, was a Fellow of the Medical Society of London and had been a vice-president of the section of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Royal Society of Medicine. He was a foundation Fellow of the British (now Royal) College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and served on its council from the start (1929) till 1937. In 1930 he was president of the Congress of British Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Birmingham. He examined for the Royal College of Surgeons (Conjoint Board, midwifery 1924), for the Central Midwives Board, and for the Universities of Bristol, Wales, Sheffield, and Leeds. He was long interested in the British Red Cross Society, became president of the Birmingham branch in 1937 and also, during the war, acting county director and controller in 1940. In 1913-14, when only thirty, Whitehouse was a Hunterian professor at the Royal College of Surgeons, lecturing on uterine haemorrhage, and in 1920 he gave the Ingleby lecture at Birmingham on the same subject. He was an excellent clinician, and among other inventions devised a caecal retractor for appendectomy. All his clinical work was based on an active knowledge of physiology, and he was particularly interested in the study of the innervation of the uterus. From 1910 he was a frequent contributor to the professional journals, especially to the *Midland Medical Journal*, the *Birmingham Medical Review*, the *Journal of Obstetrics*, and the *Proceedings* of the Royal Society of Medicine, as well as to the *British Medical Journal* and *The Lancet*. His principal literary work, however, was the revision of Eden and Lockyer's *Gynaecology* for its 4th edition in 1935. He was in America in 1933, was elected an honorary Fellow of the American College of Surgeons at Chicago, and an honorary member of the Canadian Medical Association, before whom he gave an address on the menopause. In the Coronation honours list of 1937 he was created a Knight Bachelor. During his presidency of the British Medical Association the profession was much exercised about the desirability or otherwise of a State Medical Service. Whitehouse, whose views were the outcome of deep consideration, spoke forcibly in favour of the continuance of individual practice. In his wide knowledge of Midland conditions he had formed a high opinion of the worth and service of general practice in its current form. He was however appreciative and tolerant of other views. Whitehouse married in 1909 Madge Rae, daughter of Walter Griffith, of The Friary, Handsworth Wood. Lady Whitehouse survived him with two sons and a daughter, Mrs Siviter Smith. The elder son, Peter, was serving in North Africa at the time of his father's death, and the younger, Barry (MA MB BCh), was house surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. Whitehouse lived first at 62 Hagley Road and later at Grey Friars, Pritchatts Road, Edgbaston, and also had a house in the country, at one time in Shropshire but latterly in Monmouth. Here he formed a remarkable collection of British lepidoptera. Whitehouse attended a meeting of the British Medical Association at Tavistock House, London, on the afternoon of 28 July 1943, at which he heard himself nominated president for a second year's tenure. He collapsed in the street on his way back to Euston station, and died within an hour in University College Hospital; he was sixty. He was buried at Lodge Hill on 3 August, after a service at Edgbaston Old Church. Publications: Whitehouse made numerous contributions to periodicals, as stated above; the following are of particular interest: The pathology and treatment of uterine haemorrhage, Hunterian lectures, RCS *Practitioner*, 1913, 90, 952-960. Eden and Lockyer *Gynaecology*, 4th edition by Beckwith Whitehouse, 1935. Some aspects of the menopause. *Canad med Ass J* 1933, 29, 585-592. Mastopathia and chronic mastitis. *Surg Gynec Obstet* 1934, 58, 278-286.
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Came of an old Dorset yeoman stock, the family records being traceable back for several centuries, nearly all his ancestors having married Dorsetshire women. He was born in Dorchester on February 15th, 1853, where his father, William Treves, was in business as an upholsterer. His mother was Jane, daughter of John Knight, of Honiton. At the age of 7 he went to the school in South Street kept by the Rev William Barnes, the Dorset poet, whose writings preserve the Dorset dialect. Treves has handed down an account of his schooling in his *Highways and Byeways of Dorset*. A man of varied accomplishments, Barnes was an engraver, artist, musician, naturalist, and he composed a philological grammar from sixty-seven languages. Unsuccessful in keeping a school, he ended his days happily as Rector of Winterborne Came, and his statue stands in front of Dorchester Church. Treves entered Merchant Taylors' School, then in Suffolk Lane, City of London, in May, 1864, was in the School XV, left in 1871, and subsequently attended University College, London. He entered the London Hospital in 1871 and was appointed House Surgeon for three months from May 25th, 1876, his colleague being Mr S A Fisher, after which he was Resident Medical Officer at the Royal National Hospital for Scrofula at Margate, where his elder brother, William Knight Treves (qv), was one of the Hon Surgeons. He married in 1877 and bought a share in the practice of William Milligan of Wirksworth, Derbyshire. In 1879, having obtained the FRCS in the previous year, he applied for and was elected Surgical Registrar at the London Hospital, where he had Dr Francis Warner as his medical colleague. On September 23rd, 1879, he became Assistant Surgeon, being promoted to Surgeon on September 30th, 1884, and Consulting Surgeon on December 7th, 1898. In the medical school attached to the London Hospital he was Demonstrator of Practical Anatomy, 1881-1884; Lecturer on Anatomy, 1884-1893; Teacher of Operative Surgery, 1893-1894; and Lecturer on Surgery, 1893-1897. Treves founded his surgery on anatomy, and was fortunate in practising at a time when Lister's teaching allowed of a great extension of abdominal surgery. To this he added a remarkable energy, rising early to write, with facility as well in illustrating as in intercalating anecdote. He was an expert dissector, and operated neatly, quickly and cautiously. He was myopic and generally wore spectacles, but in operating, especially in the days of the spray, he laid aside his spectacles and held his head close to his work. He taught without elaboration. He would remove a uterine fibromyoma as one would amputate a limb, turn down flaps, clamp and tie blood-vessels, suture the flaps over the stump. He rapidly became known beyond the London Hospital owing to his genius as a writer. In 1881 he was appointed Erasmus Wilson Professor at the College of Surgeons and lectured "On the Pathology of Scrofulous Affections of Lymphatic Glands". In 1882 he published his first book, *Scrofula and its Gland Disease* (12mo, London, 1882) - the experience gained at the Margate Hospital forming the foundation. His knowledge of German allowed him to add a good résumé of previous knowledge and of advances made in the pathological histology of the disease. Four histological plates are included in the book, for he was preparing at the same time an article on 'Scrofula' for Holmes and Hulke's *System of Surgery* (3rd ed, 1883), of which there were also two American editions, a New York one of 1882, and a Philadelphian edition of 1883. Unfortunately the publication just preceded Koch's revolutionary communication of the tubercle bacillus. Treves brought the vague scrofula pathology nearest to tuberculosis when he quoted statistics to show that 'phthisis' in the father (not so much in the mother) predisposed to scrofula in the child; but there was still confusion with congenital syphilis. In 1884, in his paper "The Direct Treatment of Psoas Abscess with Caries of the Spine" (*Med-Chir Trans*, 1884, lxvii, 113), he was following Lister's lead. Treves published his most widely known book in 1883, *Surgical Applied Anatomy* (12mo, London and New York, 1883), and continued to lecture on anatomy until 1893. The fifth and later editions were revised by Sir Arthur Keith; the eighth edition by Professor C C Choyce was published in October, 1926. In 1883 he was awarded the Jacksonian Prize for his dissertation on "The Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Obstruction of the Intestines in its Various Forms in the Abdominal Cavity". This was published in 1884 (12mo, London and New York); a new and revised edition appeared with the title, *Intestinal Obstruction: its Varieties, with their Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment*, in 1899, and again still further amended in 1902. He followed up the subject as Hunterian Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology at the College of Surgeons in 1885 and 1886, founding his descriptions on numerous dissections, including dissections of animals at the Zoological Gardens. His observations were illustrated by pen-and-ink drawings, and by others in watercolours. They described mechanical disarrangements of the intestines, congenital and acquired, which induce phases of intestinal obstruction. The lectures were published as *The Anatomy of the Intestinal Canal and Peritoneum* in 1885 (4to, London). The fatal condition of intestinal obstruction had in olden days got the name of 'the Miserere Mei' from the psalm said over the patient; it had been treated by repeated clysters, and occasionally, as in animals, by paracentesis. Abdominal exploration was just becoming a practicable measure, and his description was that of a fresh investigator of the anatomy of the abdomen from the standpoint of active intervention. In 1885 (12mo, London) appeared his *Influence of Clothing upon Health*, which included much anticipatory of the changes which women have come to make. Subsequently he wrote the article on "Physical Education" in *A Treatise on Hygiene and Public Health*, edited by T Stevenson and Shirley F Murphy (1892, 537-613). In 1886 he edited *A Manual of Surgery* - treatises by various authors, in three volumes - with preface, February, 1886. In 1891 he published *A Manual of Operative Surgery* (8vo, London and Philadelphia) in two volumes, and in 1892 *The Student's Handbook of Surgical Operations*, abridged from the author's *Manual of Operative Surgery* (12mo, London and Philadelphia). In 1895-1896 he edited *A System of Surgery* (8vo, London), in two volumes. Of the foregoing it may be said that they represented the highest level of the surgery of his day, and subsequently he was assisted in revised editions by Mr Jonathan Hutchinson, junr. But as distinguished from his *Surgical Anatomy* they have aroused only a temporary interest. Meanwhile 'appendicitis' surgery gave Treves an enormous development of private practice. He became the most successful of London surgeons, receiving more often than others the 100-guinea fee, then the upper limit. Private patients were so plentiful that in 1898, at the age of 45, he resigned the post of Surgeon to the London Hospital. Hospital practice changes and advances from year to year. On his visit the surgeon has around him the keen and critical minds of his students urging him on. Private practice lags behind hospital practice; without hospital practice a surgeon becomes stereotyped. Treves as Surgeon to the London Hospital was recognized as the leader of English Surgery. After his resignation he gradually ceased to lead. He had been for several years an Examiner in Anatomy and in Surgery at the Universities of Cambridge, Aberdeen, and Durham. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was a Member of the Court of Examiners from 1892-1894, and a Member of Council from 1895-1903. *Appendicitis* - From various causes the importance of disease in the appendix vermiformis of the caecum was ignored until after the middle of the nineteenth century. All evidence supports the conclusion that appendicular disease has always been common, for the appendix is a remnant of the distal portion of the mecum of lower animals, and as such is prone to disease. Galen's physiology of the caecum as a second stomach, wherein the liquid contents tend to dry up, was the basis of the clinical pathology described under the terms 'iliac passion', 'typhlitis (caecitis)', 'perityphlitis', 'paratyphlitis'. As an anatomical structure, the appendix was first described and figured by Vesalius. In the early part of the nineteenth century post-mortem observations were made, in particular at Guy's Hospital by Hodgkin, Bright, and Addison; at Westminster Hospital by Burne; but the bearing of these observations were unnoticed in general practice - the clinical pathology held sway. Active treatment by surgery developed first in the United States. It is sufficient here to note the writings of Fitz in 1886, and his introduction of the term 'appendicitis' which concentrated attention upon the vital pathology of the disease. When Treves called 'appendicitis' an uncouth term he missed the mark. In the development of this branch of surgery, concurrent developments must be borne in mind. Lister's method permitted the active treatment of pistol-bullet wounds of the intestines in the United States, and of the immediate surgical interference for perforated gastric ulcer which arose in Germany. British surgery had overlooked the subject. In Holmes and Hulke's *System of Surgery* (3rd ed, 1883), in Erichsen and Beck's *Surgery* (8th ed, 1884), in Heath's *Dictionary of Surgery* (1886) - indeed, in Treves' own *Manual of Surgery*, issued in 1886 - there is less about perityphlitic abscess than older surgical books gave to the iliac passion and abscess. Samuel Fenwick, Physician to the London Hospital, in the *Lancet* (1884, ii, 987, 1039) gave a full description of perforations of the appendix. He added (p 1041) that theoretically it would seem much better to cut down directly upon the appendix as soon as the diagnosis is tolerably certain, and tie off the appendix above the seat of the perforation, removing any concretion and decomposing material. Treves did not refer to his colleague's observations: in his Hunterian Lectures in 1885 he described merely the anatomical variations he had met with in the examination of 100 bodies. In July, 1883, (Sir) Charters Symonds instigated by his colleague, Dr F A Mahomed, had removed a concretion from the appendix, closing the opening by Lembert's sutures. The patient, a man in Guy's Hospital, aged 25, had suffered two attacks of pain and had developed a swelling. There had been no return of pain eighteen months later, although the appendix had not been removed (*Lancet*, 1885, i, 895). In his paper "Relapsing Typhlitis treated by Operation" (*Med-Chir Trans*, 1888, lxxx, 165) and "Discussion" (*Proc Roy Med-Chir Soc*, 1886-8, ii, 333), Treves described how he had operated for the first time for such a condition upon a patient under Stephen Mackenzie, Physician to the London Hospital. He had cut down upon an appendix kinked by omental adhesions; after dividing the adhesions he had straightened out an appendix, two and a half inches in length, distended towards its tip, but not containing a concretion. The patient had recovered and had remained free from symptoms. Timothy Holmes had operated similarly, but symptoms had recurred. Howard Marsh and W J Walsham, operating late on cases of septic peritonitis at St Bartholomew's Hospital, had removed a diseased appendix, but neither patient had survived. Treves developed his pathology of typhlitis, perityphlitis and paratyphlitis, and the operation on chronic and recurring cases in the interval between the attacks. In acute cases his general prescription was delay until the fifth day, when peritoneal suppuration would have become circumscribed. He continued the same advocacy in his paper on "A Series of Cases of Relapsing Typhlitis treated by Operation: a Series of 14 Cases" (*Brit Med Jour*, 1893, i, 835), and again "Relapsing Typhlitis" (*Ibid*, 1895, i, 420, 517) - a further series of 18 cases; he had removed the appendix during the quiescent period in 16, with recovery except in one ease which died on the fourth day, apparently from peritonitis. In two the removal was abandoned owing to adhesions; 14 were private cases, and 4 were in the London Hospital. Meanwhile, in spite of Treves, attention was given to the fatalities ensuing from perforation: the tragic deaths, especially in children and young people, and to the life-saving immediate operation. Treves underwent the bitter experience of losing his younger daughter, who was so attacked that she could only have been saved by an immediate operation. Yet he never seems to have fully accepted for himself the lead given by the American surgeons. Treves contributed an article on "Perityphlitis and its Varieties" to Allbutt's *System of Medicine* (1897, iii, 879). He also published separately *The Surgical Treatment of Perityphlitis* (2nd ed, revised and enlarged, 1895), also *Perityphlitis and its Varieties: their Pathology, Clinical Manifestations and Treatment* (8vo, London and New York, 1897). The advances made in London may be gathered from a discussion opened by Treves on "The Subsequent Course and Later History after Operation of Cases of Appendicitis" (*Med-Chir Trans*, 1905, lxxxvii, 431). Reports from various hospitals are included, that from the London Hospital relating 1,000 cases. *King Edward's Coronation* [*Dict Nat Biog*, Supplement 2, i, 591 (Treves is not mentioned by name in this brief notice of the King's illness)]. - King Edward VII at the age of 30 had suffered gravely from typhoid fever, which had been followed by varicose veins and phlebitis, limiting his exercise. He was stout, and bronchitic. His Coronation had been appointed for June 26th, 1902. At Windsor, on June 13th, he had an abdominal attack which Sir Thomas Barlow and Sir Francis Laking attributed to appendix trouble. Treves was called in on June 18th. The local swelling having subsided somewhat and the temperature having fallen, the King journeyed to London on June 21st. That evening the lump increased and the temperature rose. Early on the 24th, Lord Lister (qv) and Sir Thomas Smith (qv), the senior Serjeant Surgeons, joined the physicians in consultation, and came to the conclusion that an operation was imperative and should be performed immediately. The King's thought was to keep faith with his people and go to the Abbey, and he did not give way until after a scene of prolonged and painful pleading. Treves said bluntly to him, "Then, Sir, you will go as a corpse." The operation followed at 11 o'clock am. Treves laid open an abscess containing decomposing pus and inserted two large drainage tubes. Convalescence ensued, and the Coronation took place on Aug 9th. Nothing was reported concerning the appendix, nor is there any report of further abdominal trouble. The King died of bronchopneumonia on May 6th, 1910, and no account of any post-mortem examination was issued. Treves was made a Baronet, with honourable augmentation of a lion of England in his coat armour. Honours followed, including that of LLD Aberdeen, and his election as Lord Rector of the University. Before his Address he gave notice in the local press that if there was the slightest noise he would immediately leave the room and deliver no Address. The students gave him a most enthusiastic welcome and the most attentive hearing. He was elected first President of the Club of "Dorset Men" and was succeeded in this position by Thomas Hardy. His myopia doubtless was against sport, but in his early days he would bicycle fifty miles, was a first-rate swimmer, was a certificated master mariner: with his brother and McHardy, the ophthalmologist, he yachted from Margate, and fished off the West Country coast. He joined in the protests against the pigeon-shooting at Monte Carlo, although he would catch or even shoot dogfish. *War Services and Public Work* - Towards the end of 1899, following on the outbreak of the war in South Africa, Treves along with others was appointed a civilian Consulting Surgeon. On arrival he was placed in charge of a Field Hospital, which starting from Frere accompanied the Ladysmith Relief Column. Treves was present at the Battle of Colenso and at the entry into Ladysmith. His *Tale of a Field Hospital* (4to, London, 1900) described his experiences. The bullets mostly used - unless in some way they had become deformed - penetrated the soft tissues with extraordinarily little damage. Tetanus was absent, because the fighting was over uncultivated ground. Enteric, as yet uncontrolled by vaccine, was the great enemy as in former wars. Civilian influence overcame the military objections to trained nurses, and when a few ladies seeking notoriety tried to make a sort of picnic and interfere with the nursing, Treves exclaimed against "the plague of women which had descended upon South Africa", in which he was supported by Lord Milner. Treves received the CB and KCVO for his services. He continued private practice until 1908, after which he devoted himself to public work, travel, and writing books; was one of the founders of the British Red Cross Society, and became Chairman of the Executive Committee. He had much to do with the organization of the Radium Institute, and was Chairman of the Committee of Management. He served as a member of the Territorial Forces Advisory Committee of the Territorial Force Association, and also of the Army Sanitary Commission. During the European War, 1914-1918, he was President of the Headquarters Medical Board and the primary adviser on the higher personnel of the Force. He ranked as Honorary Colonel RAMC (T), Wessex Division. *Literary Genius* - Treves, in addition to being a great surgeon, possessed the seeing eye, the inquiring mind, and a great love of natural beauty. He was an admirable conversationalist and a stimulating companion. He had a facile pen and an abundant fund of anecdote. He got through much by rising early: with a love of travel was joined that of writing at every spare moment. Of his surgical writings, his *Surgical Applied Anatomy* was the first book to give full play to his literary talent and is the one which may claim to reach the standard of a medical classic. Of his general writing, the highest level of his literary work may be considered to be *The Tale of a Field Hospital* (1900), although its subject has been thrown into the shade by the greater happenings in the European War of 1914-1918. He was not blind to a drawback that a tale of typhoid fever and gunshot wounds might be deemed by the general reader to be sombre or even gruesome, as he mentioned in his preface. Certainly the term 'sombre and gruesome' may be given to *The Country of the Ring and the Book* (1913). It is a work which must have involved much research and elaborate preparation of 106 photographs, plans, and maps, but is concerned with the most revolting of mediaeval stories, and the 'Browning furore' which inspired it has cooled. Sombre and even gruesome may also be applied to his *Elephant Man and other Reminiscences* (8vo, London, 1923). An unfortunate patient in the London Hospital was afflicted with congenital diffuse neurofibromatosis, which not only disabled him but gradually killed him by changing to cancer. Other reminiscences of the London Hospital in its unregenerate days were included in this book. His other books, full of attraction and charm, will continue to be read by those following his travels. His *Highways and Byeways of Dorset* (1906, reprinted 1906 and 1911) not only forms one of a series descriptive of English counties, but allies itself with the Hardy and Barnes literature. He travelled widely from 1903, and wrote *The Other Side of the Lantern: An Account of a Commonplace Tour round the World* (8vo, London) in 1905. The second part of the title indicates a tour in 1903-1904 by way of the Mediterranean, Red Sea, India, Burma, Ceylon, China, Japan, and America. The quaint first part of the title is explained in a Preface:- "A paper lantern, round and red, hangs under a cloud of cherry blossoms in a Japanese village. There is a very familiar flower symbol painted upon one side of it. Some children have crossed the Green to see what is on the other side of the lantern. A like curiosity has led to the writing of the travel book." Other books by Treves are: *A German-English Dictionary of Medical Terms* (with Hugo Lang) (8vo, London, 1890); *The Cradle of the Deep* (1908), which includes descriptions of the West Indies; *Uganda for a Holiday* (1910), which noted a visit to the Great Rift Valley, the Lake Victoria Nyanza, and the sources of the Nile; *The Land that is Desolate* (8vo, London, 1913), a tour of Palestine, before the War and the subsequent Mandate to England: starting from Jaffa, to Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jericho and the Dead Sea, Haifa, Acre, Nazareth, Lake of Galilee, Damascus, ending with a railway accident on the return to Haifa; *The Riviera and the Corniche Road* (1921); *The Lake of Geneva* (1922). Treves practised at 6 Wimpole Street. After his retirement from practice King Edward lent him the Thatched House Cottage in Richmond Park. His heart began to give trouble, and he went in 1920 to live in the South of France, on the Lake of Geneva at Evian, and lastly on the opposite or Swiss side at Vevey. In 1922 he passed through a severe attack of pneumonia from which he appeared to recover. But on December 3rd, 1928, he was seized in his flat at Vevey with acute infective cholecystitis and peritonitis; he was removed to a Nursing Home in Lausanne; when Sir Hugh Rigby arrived he was moribund, and he died on December 7th. He was cremated, and his ashes were brought back and buried in Dorchester Cemetery. Among those who attended the funeral was Thomas Hardy. Treves had married in 1877 Anne Elizabeth, youngest daughter of A S Mason, of Dorchester, who survived him, as also his elder daughter, Enid Margery, married to Brigadier-General Sir Charles Delme-Radcliff. There are several portraits of Sir Frederick Treves. The best is that in early middle age, at the height of his career as a surgeon. This portrait by Sir Luke Fildes in oils was left in reversion to the College of Surgeons in case of nonacceptance by the National Portrait Gallery. The *Vanity Fair* one represents him in khaki. He left an estate of over £102,000.
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First Title value, for Searching Robinson, Ronald Henry Ottywell Betham (1897 - 1973)

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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details R H O B Robinson was born in 1897 in London. He was known to his friends as Joey. His childhood was spent in Upper Wimpole Street where his father practised as a consulting surgeon; and he lived all his days in a world of surgery that was changing. His career spanned the years that marked the evolution of surgery from Edwardian to contemporary methods. His father was called "The General" at St Thomas's Hospital and he brought Joey up in the strict regime and social manners of the times. These were the days before telephones or motor cars; days when the night staff at the hospital could only communicate with the consulting surgeon by sending a porter to Wimpole Street in a hansom cab. As a boy Joey met all the distinguished surgeons of the late Victorian era and he was taught to revere the art of a profession that many considered to be at its acme. Science had not yet taken over. He was educated at Malvern College and Kings College, Cambridge, where he won a senior scholarship - an award of which he was very proud. He arrived at St Thomas's as a medical student at the beginning of the first world war; but soon afterwards, he enlisted in the Royal Navy as a Surgeon Probationer. By 1921 he had the FRCS Diploma and soon afterwards he was elected to the consulting staff of St Thomas's Hospital as a general surgeon. There were very few special departments in those days and general surgery was the calling of those who aimed high. Strange as it may now seem he wrote the chapter on orthopaedic surgery in the first edition of the book by Mitchiner and Romanis. He was Arris and Gale Lecturer in 1930. When Joey first became a surgeon to out-patients at St Thomas's the majority of his colleagues prided themselves on their ability to operate with great speed, and to be able to work in almost any improvised surroundings - the kitchen of a private house for instance - and with the uninformed assistance of general practitioner anaesthetists. Joey never operated except in a properly equipped operating theatre, and he strove to perfect for himself techniques that later became commonplace: pre-and post-operative care, an accurate incision, good exposure, haemostasis and gentleness. Although he began his career as a general surgeon he soon specialised in urology. He became the senior surgeon at St Thomas's and he filled his important post with care and dignity. He was devoted to the Royal College of Surgeons of England and he served as chairman of the Court of Examiners, member of Council, and chairman of the library committee. At the age of 65, at the time of his retirement from St Thomas's Hospital, he also retired from the Council of the College as a matter of principle. He was also President of the Urological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, Vice-President of the British Association of Urologists, and Master of the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers. In spite of these important offices, held in the service of surgery, he did not seek and he did not get any special honours. Indeed his sterling merits were only known to his intimate friends: to others they were hidden under a cloak of humility. Throughout his life he had great strength of purpose; an attribute that was revealed when he was a junior doctor and courting Miss Audrey Walker. This young lady was, at first, doubtful of his merits and she went to India to reflect. Joey gave up his work, went to India, brought her back to England and married her: and they lived happily ever after. In his home he was fond of gardening and of flowers: he took a professional interest in motor cars and was a devotee of vintage Bentleys. His patients often found him shy but they saw so much of him that they soon were able to discuss their fears and anxieties with him, and from him many drew their resolve. The medical students, on his firms, were likewise rather inhibited at first but, with time, they came to appreciate his great clinical scholarship. And it is noticeable that many of them kept up their association with him long after they had left St Thomas's. His conversation was somewhat formal but the shafts of dry wit that crept into the things he said were the more effective because they were unexpected. He was well-read, learned about general affairs, and somewhat philosophical; and in all his dealings with his fellow men he was scrupulously fair. Above all else he was a sensitive, tolerant, gentleman. He died on 6 February 1973, and was survived by his wife.
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First Title value, for Searching Anthony, Rene Francis (1934 - 2013)

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by Sarah Gillam
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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 French, Stanley Gay (1908 - 1948)

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First Title value, for Searching Fripp, Sir Alfred Downing (1865 - 1930)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details The eldest son of Alfred Downing Fripp by his second wife, E B Roe, he was born on 12 September 1865. Fripp came of an artistic family, for his father exhibited during more than 50 years, chiefly at the Old Water Colour Society, of which his great-grandfather Nicholas Pocock was a founder. His uncle, George Arthur Fripp, RWS, also had a long career as a painter of repute. Alfred Downing Fripp was born at Blandford, where his parents lived until 1870, when they moved to Hampstead. He was educated first at a school in Blandford kept by the Rev James Penny, then at Cook's preparatory school at Brighton, and finally at Merchant Taylors School in Charterhouse Square, London, which he entered in 1879 when the Rev William Baker, BD was head master. Here he played in the cricket XI in 1881, 1882, and 1883. On 1 October 1884 he entered Guy's Hospital as a medical student, acted as dresser to J N Davies-Colley, and filled the posts of house physician and resident obstetric officer, but never that of house surgeon. Throughout his student days he played a prominent part in hospital athletics, and was active for several years both in football and cricket. He went as locum tenens to William Hamerton Jalland, FRCS, who was in practice at York, and whilst serving in this capacity was called upon to treat HRH the Duke of Clarence, who had dislocated his ankle at the barracks, when serving in the 10th Hussars. Fripp made so favourable an impression that he was afterwards presented to Queen Victoria, the Prince of Wales, and the future King George V then Duke of York; they remained his friends ever afterwards. In 1897 he was appointed surgeon in ordinary to the Prince of Wales (King Edward VII), and in the following year was called upon to attend him on the occasion of a fractured patella. In 1890 Fripp was elected demonstrator of anatomy at Guy's Hospital, and in this post proved himself a good and practical teacher. He was elected assistant surgeon to the Hospital in 1897, becoming surgeon and lecturer on surgery in 1908, and consulting surgeon in 1925. During the Boer War Fripp had much to do with the organization of the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital in this country, and went with it to South Africa as chief civilian surgeon attached to the Deelfontein Hospital. Throughout the year 1900 he contributed a series of articles to the *British Medical Journal* describing the state of the Hospital (*Brit med J* 1900, 1, 777, 1196, 1371, 1432; 2, 573). On his return home at the end of the war he served on a committee appointed by Mr Broderick (afterwards Lord Midleton), Secretary of State for War, to examine as to the best way to improve the Royal Army Medical Corps. The chief recommendation was that an Advisory Board, consisting in part of civilians, should be established and that the RAMC should be under its direction. The Army Medical School was removed from Netley to a college built on the Thames Embankment near Vauxhall Bridge, provided with suitable laboratories and a mess room. Periods of study leave were also provided for, and the Army Nursing Staff was reorganized. During the war of 1914-18 Fripp was appointed a consulting surgeon to the Royal Navy. In 1925 Fripp had Mr Bert Temple (who died 18 February 1931) as a patient in a nursing home and, as the result of a casual conversation about the best means of raising more money for the Invalid Children's Aid Association in which Fripp had long been interested, Temple formed an organization which was known as "Ye Ancient Order of Frothblowers", a catching title though it was not necessarily connected with the drinking of beer. The Order was divided into local branches, each being called "a vat", whose business it was to collect money for charities devoted to help children. The scheme proved most successful and upwards of £100,000 was collected before the Order was voluntarily wound up in May 1931. Fripp, in conjunction with Sir Cosmo Bonsor, Treasurer of the Hospital, was also instrumental in collecting large sums of money for Guy's. Fripp received many honours: created a CB in 1901 for his services in the Boer War, he was made CVO in the same year, was gazetted Knight Bachelor in 1903, and was appointed KCVO in 1906; he was elected a Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in 1901. He was surgeon in ordinary to the Prince of Wales, who retained his services in the same capacity on ascending the throne as King Edward VII; he was also surgeon in ordinary to the next Prince of Wales, afterwards King George V. He married in 1898 Margaret Scott, daughter of Thomas B Haywood of Reigate, who was awarded the RRC for her services in the South African War. She survived him with two sons and three daughters. His elder son, Alfred Thomas Fripp, FRCS, was orthopaedic surgeon at Guy's Hospital at the time of his father's death. Fripp died at West Lulworth, Dorset, on 25 February 1930, and was buried in the churchyard of that town. A memorial was raised by his friends to develop and extend the children's department at Guy's Hospital. As a surgeon Fripp was a good operator, but without deep interest on the scientific side. The individuality of his patients, especially of the children, appealed to him, and he was for many years an active member of the Invalid Children's Aid Association, of which he was in turn vice-president of the council, chairman of the finance committee, founder and chairman of the Hackney branch. As a man he had great social gifts with a handsome presence. He had too a peculiar skill in raising money for charity. A memorial fellowship in child psychology at Guy's Hospital, was founded in his memory; C H Rogerson, MRCS, being the first Fellow in 1932. At Durham University Fripp endowed an annual lecture "Happiness and success", the first lecturer being Stanley Baldwin, MP, in 1931. Publications: *Human Anatomy for Art Students*, with Ralph Thompson, F.R.C.S. London. 1911 Acute haemorrhagic pancreatitis, with J H Bryant, FRCS. *Trans Clin Soc Lond*. 1899, 32, 64. Laminectomy for dermoid tumour in the spinal cord, with W Hale White, MD *Ibid*. 1900, 33, 140.
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First Title value, for Searching Frost, William Adams (1853 - 1935)

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First Title value, for Searching Fuad, King of Egypt (1868 - 1936)

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First Title value, for Searching Gough, William (1876 - 1947)

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Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born at Leeds, 7 June 1876, the third son of James William Gough, decorator, and Emma Armitage, his wife. He was educated at Leeds City School and Medical School, where he won the William Hey medal in surgery and a gold medal in physiology and histology. At the General Infirmary he served as senior house-surgeon to Mayo-Robson, and was for a time private assistant to Moynihan. After some years in general practice at Leeds, when he also served as director of the Yorkshire Pathological Laboratory, a private institute, Gough specialized as a gynaecological surgeon. He became assistant surgeon to the Women and Children's Hospital, Leeds, in 1909, surgeon 1919, and consulting surgeon in 1936. He was obstetric surgeon to the Leeds Maternity Hospital 1908-36, and gynaecological surgeon to the General Infirmary 1930-32. At the University of Leeds he was demonstrator of gynaecology 1911-23, lecturer 1926-31, and professor from 1931 to 1936. Gough took an active part in promoting the British (now Royal) College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, of which he was a founding Fellow. He served on its Council from 1937, was vice-president 1942-45 and chairman of the examinations committee in 44. He was president of the North of England Obstetrical and Gynaelogical Society in 1926, and a member of the Gynaecological Visiting society. Gough married in 1905 Agnes Innes Crane Fraser, who survived him with a son and four daughters. Their elder son, a boy of great promise, died before him, Gough died at his house, Dunearn, Wood Lane, Leeds on 29 June 1947, aged 71. His consulting rooms were at 31 Park Square Leeds, and he had a large private practice. Gough was an astute clinician and a simple and swift operator. He was ambidextrous and preferred to use his left hand. He was a good lecturer, but did not care for bedside teaching, nor did he like obstetrics.
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First Title value, for Searching Gould, Eric Lush Pearce (1886 - 1940)

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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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