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First Title value, for Searching Shearman, Edward James (1798 - 1878)

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First Title value, for Searching Sheild, Arthur Marmaduke (1858 - 1922)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-17
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Landawke, Laugharne, Carmarthen, the son of William Henry Sheild, of Gilfach, Pembrokeshire. He received a private education, and obtained his professional training at St. George's Hospital, where he highly distinguished himself, winning the Brackenbury Prize in Surgery, the William Brown (£40) Exhibition in 1878, and the William Brown (£100) Exhibition in 1879. He was House Surgeon at St George's Hospital, and in 1881 obtained the important appointment of House Surgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and thus came under the influence of Sir George Humphry (qv), whom he assisted in private and in many ways imitated. His three years at Cambridge left their impress on his shrewd character and gave him a university experience and degree, for he was contemporaneously, as was then possible, an undergraduate at Downing College. In 1883 he achieved the feat of passing the two parts of the FRCS in the same month. In 1884 he returned to St George's as Resident Obstetric Assistant. He was also Anaesthetist, and in 1886 Curator of the Museum. He was, however, attracted away in the same year to Westminster Hospital, where he was Assistant Surgeon, but migrated to Charing Cross Hospital, where from 1887-1893 he held the posts of Assistant Surgeon, Aural Surgeon, Demonstrator of Anatomy, and Lecturer on Practical Surgery in the Medical School. He was associated at this period with Dr Montague Murray as a private coach, and many men preparing for surgical examinations were his pupils. He was also busily engaged in other directions. Recalled to St George's as Assistant Surgeon in June, 1893, he became Surgeon to the Throat Department in 1895, and full Surgeon in 1900. He was also Surgeon to the Waterloo Road Hospital for Women and Children, and the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth. At the time of his death he was Consulting Surgeon to these three last-named institutions. He was also Secretary to the Medical Society of London, the old Dermatological Society, and the Surgical Section of the British Medical Association at its London Meeting, 1895; an additional Examiner in Surgery at the University of Cambridge, and an Examiner in Surgery at Apothecaries' Hall. In 1907 he had the terrrible experience of inoculating himself with syphilis during an operation, and his health was so gravely affected that he was obliged to give up work at the age of 49, and retire to Budleigh Salterton. After a long illness, necessitating many operations, his health improved, and during the War (1914-1918) he gave his services as consulting and operating surgeon to a military hospital at Exmouth, near Budleigh Salterton. During the last fifteen years of his life Sheild was able to enjoy country pursuits and the country itself, of which he was extremely fond. He was a golfer and devoted to fishing. While on a fishing excursion in the Island of Coll in the Hebrides, he died in the local hotel on August 5th, 1922, after a seizure on July 30th. He never married. He left net personalty to the value of over £91,000, and bequeathed the residue of his estate, after paying certain legacies and subject to the life interest of his sister, to the medical school of the University of Cambridge, to found a Marmaduke Sheild Scholarship in Human Anatomy, and the balance for general purposes. He was a Member of the University Club, St James's Street. Writing to the Lancet, Sir Humphry Rolleston, who joined the staff of St George's on the same day as Sheild, affirms, in an interesting notice not marred by undue eulogy, that "Sheild's was a complex personality and often, perhaps generally, a somewhat critical or even cynical attitude was assumed as a form of camouflage for his underlying kindly and rather sentimental nature. Thus it was that at different times his character seemed puzzling if not contradictory, at one time the hard-headed business man, at others verging on the hyperconscientious. Another side that might have remained unsuspected by those familiar only with his professional activities was his intense love of nature and of the country; it was thus that when attacked in comparatively early life with pulmonary tuberculosis he went up to a remote Scottish village with the determination that if his time was up he would at any rate get some country life and fishing first. It is perhaps fortunate that his end came when presumably he was enjoying his favourite occupation in the distant Hebrides. "Sheild was a most impressive teacher, and irresistibly recalled Sir George Humphry's methods and manner of driving the essentials of surgical practice into students. He seemed indeed to have imbibed much from that great master." Sheild was too, a clear and amusing speaker in the medical societies, and in private life a 'profoundly witty man', an admirable mimic, and a raconteur. His powers of mimicry are supposed not to have increased the appreciation of his seniors. At the time of his retirement his position as a consultant was such that he might have achieved a great position in the profession. Publications:- *Surgical Anatomy for Students*, 12mo, Edinburgh 1891; American Edition 1891. *Diseases of the Ear*, 12mo, 4 plates, London, 1895. "Diseases of the Nose", and "Injuries of the Joints and Dislocations", in Treves' *System of Surgery*, 1895. "Immunity and Latency after operations for Reputed Cancer of the Breast", 8vo, London 1898, reprinted from *Proc Roy Med-Chir Soc*, 1897-8, x, 34. "Diseases of the Breast", in Quain's *Dictionary of Medicine*. "Diseases of the Nails", and "Tumours of the Skin", in Allbutt's *System of Medicine*, 1st ed, 1896 *A Clinical Treatise on Disease of the Breast*, 8vo, 16 plates, London 1898. In this book the author ignored many pathological aspects, keeping the clinical standpoint steadily in view. The main part of the work is a study of all the cases of disease of the breast admitted into St George's Hospital from 1865-1895. The whole large work makes for simplicity and practical advice. *Lessons on Nasal Obstruction*, 8vo, Philadelphia, 1901 Eulogy on his friend and special companion C B Lockwood (qv) *Lancet*, 1914, ii, 1326.
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First Title value, for Searching Harris, Herbert Elwin (1898 - 1965)

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First Title value, for Searching Stack, Edward Hugh Edwards (1866 - 1922)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-18
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Langford, Co Tyrone, in 1866, the third son of the Rev Canon Stack, and was educated at Haileybury School, at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and then at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was Brackenbury Medical Scholar. He was known as a hard-working student, with a mechanical bent, and good at sports. He was then House Physician to Dr Samuel J Gee; next Ophthalmic House Surgeon to Henry Power (qv) and Bowater J Vernon (qv), and afterwards Midwifery Assistant under Sir Francis H Champneys and Dr W S A Griffith. In 1897 he was appointed House Physician to the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and in 1902 House Surgeon. In these posts he showed to his tutorial classes his all-round knowledge of clinical medicine: he was as remarkable a coach in midwifery as in internal medicine, whilst his mechanical skill in carpentry and wood-carving gave him an artistic trend as well as the hand of a craftsman. In his 'grinds' he had at hand a fund of apt anecdotes. Stack organized social gatherings of students and junior medical practitioners, and was instrumental in starting *The Stethoscope* (1898), the journal of the Bristol Medical School, by undertaking the department of clinical pathology. He launched the movement which amalgamated the Medical Athletic Clubs, was the organizer of the Annual Bristol Medical Dinner, and in the Medical Dramatic Club served in various capacities as actor, stage carpenter, and scene-painter. In 1906 he was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Bristol Royal Infirmary, gave clinical lectures, and was also Surgeon to the Bristol Eye Dispensary, the Bristol Orthopedic Hospital and Home for Cripple Children, and the Cossham Hospital. In 1914, on the resignation of Alexander Ogilvy, he succeeded him as Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and henceforth concentrated his energies upon ophthalmology In the war of 1914-1918 he served as Captain RAMC (T), doing excellent work as Ophthalmic Specialist at the 2nd Southern General Hospital in Bristol and at the 56th General Hospital in France. In 1920 he founded the South-Western Ophthalmological Society. He proved a neat operator, a gifted refractionist, and above all displayed a singular grasp of the medical aspects of eye diseases. Stack was a warm-hearted, impulsive Ulsterman, a staunch Irish Loyalist, and a Churchman - he was Churchwarden at St Paul's, Clifton, at the time of his death. For many months he suffered pain from a hypernephroma and was undergoing treatment in London, when he died on August 3rd, 1922. He had practised at Arvalee, Clifton Down Road, Bristol, and was survived by a widow and young children - three sons and a daughter. Stack was a brilliant clinician in any branch of medicine he touched. He had learnt from Dr Gee the mental habit of brushing aside non-essentials, and too, like Gee, he was quick to observe unusual features of disease in his patients and appraise their importance. Widely informed, Stack was not worried by the fact that individual cases did not conform to type. It was perhaps this characteristic in his teaching that students appreciated and carried away with them into their practices. In fact, he always aimed at teaching men to practise medicine rather than to pass examinations, and he did not allow them to forget that when they left hospital they would be treating sick people, not disease. He was very fond of children, and his ingenuity in devising 'test types' for children too young to read gave his consulting-room the quaintest appearance. It was full of toys and humorous pictures drawn to Snellen's scale. Publications:- "Notes on Hepatic Cirrhosis in Children." - *Practitioner*, 1892, xlviii, 185. "A Case of Diffuse Leontiasis Ossea." - *Bristol Med-Chir Jour*, 1900, xviii, 316. "Six Cases of Cerebrospinal Meningitis." - *Ibid*, 1901, xix, 44. "Gunshot Injuries to the Eyes." - *Ibid*, 1915, xxxiii, 198. "Poisoning by Mustard Gas: Ocular Effects" (with Carey Coombs and R Rolfe). - *Ibid*, 1920, xxxvii, 151.
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First Title value, for Searching Hartley, James Norman Jackson (1889 - 1966)

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First Title value, for Searching Depage, Antoine (1862 - 1925)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-01
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 28 November 1862, the son of a farmer at Watermael, Beitsfort, Brussels, and his wife Elizabeth Labarre. He was educated at the University of Brussels, where he took the degree of doctor of natural science in 1885. In 1887 he won the Seutin prize of the Royal Society of Medical and Natural Sciences of Brussels. On 21 June 1890 he graduated docteur agrege with a thesis *L'étude de la tuberculose osseuse*. In 1891 he was advanced to the post of professor of clinical surgery, becoming professor extraordinary in 1909, and professeur ordinaire de pathologie externe générale et spéciale in 1914; he held the two chairs concurrently. In December 1912, during the Balkan war, he acted as head of a field ambulance with the rank of colonel in the Belgian army. The ambulance did excellent work, and Depage was thus educated for the duties he was afterwards called upon to perform when Belgium was overwhelmed by the German invasion in 1914. During the whole of the world war he occupied the post of surgeon-in-chief at the Red Cross Ocean Ambulance at La Panne in Belgium, which received the majority of the very seriously wounded because it was the base hospital nearest to the front line. The work was of a serious and exhausting character, but Depage carried it through with characteristic energy and thoroughness, and in 20,000 cases had a mortality of only five per cent. He married on 8 August 1893 Marie, daughter of Desiré Emile Picard, a civil engineer. She bore him four children, two of whom survived him, one son being a member of the medical profession. Madame Depage, a very charming lady, by her social qualities more than made up for the severe and somewhat forbidding aspect of her husband. She was drowned in the *Lusitania* on her return from the United States, where she had been successfully appealing for funds for the relief of the Belgian wounded. She was buried temporarily in the south of Ireland, and her body was afterwards transferred to La Panne. Depage was a man of abounding energy. Before the war he established a private hospital in Brussels, and attached to it the first Belgian school for the instruction of nurses. He introduced Nurse Cavell from the London Hospital to teach English methods; her summary execution during the war brought lasting dishonour on the German authorities. Throughout his later life Depage was active in promoting the interests of the Belgian Red Cross, of which he was president. He was also secretary of the International League of Red Cross Associations. In 1893 he was a founder of the Belgian Society of Surgery, being secretary at first and afterwards president. In 1902 he was a leading spirit in establishing the Société internationale de Chirurgie, which at first met triennially in Brussels; he acted for many years as secretary-general and was president from 1919 to 1921. The International Society has subsequently met biennially in different countries. He died at the Hague from cancer of the large intestine on 10 June 1925.
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First Title value, for Searching Devereux, Arthur Cecil (1881 - 1942)

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First Title value, for Searching Dhondy, Nadirshah Jamshedji (1912 - 1940)

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First Title value, for Searching Dickinson, Harold Bertie (1869 - 1943)

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

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-17
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Occupation Obstetrician
Details Born on November 1st, 1812, at Gosport, where his father was a medical practitioner. He was privately educated at Watford, whither his family moved. He entered as a student at University College Hospital in 1829, and after qualifying was for five years (1837-1842) House Surgeon at the Chichester Infirmary. Here he gained considerable experience and performed most of the operations. When thirty years of age he bought the practice of Frederick Colton Finch at Bexley House, Greenwich, and later moved to Dr Watford's house at Croom's Hill. He practised in the Greenwich and Blackheath district for forty-eight years, and was greatly trusted, being regarded as a very able obstetrician and being called in consultation in most difficult midwifery cases. He was a man of fine physique, and had enjoyed perfect health till a year before his death. He died at Croom's Hill early on the morning of May 4th, 1891. At the time of his death he was Consulting Surgeon to the Miller Hospital, and was locally regarded as the Father of the Profession. He married twice: (1) to Miss Rixon, of Chichester, and left surviving two sons and two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Herbert, Frederick Ironsides (1915 - 1970)

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First Title value, for Searching Higgins, Thomas Twistington (1887 - 1966)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-11
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Thomas Twistington Higgins was born on 19 November 1887 in Bolton, Lancashire, his father having been Vicar of Congleton. He went to school at Pocklington in East Yorkshire, and then on an entrance scholarship to Manchester University where he graduated MB, ChB in 1909 with distinctions in medicine, forensic medicine, and midwifery. After house appointments in Manchester he came to London in 1911 to become house surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. He took the Fellowship in 1912, and during the first world war he served as a surgical specialist with the RAMC in France, was mentioned in despatches, and appointed OBE in 1919. On demobilization he returned to Great Ormond Street as surgeon, and though he later became attached to the Royal Northern and other hospitals on the outskirts of London, his professional interests were centred upon paediatric surgery. Paediatric medicine had long been established as a specialty, but it was largely due to Higgins that the surgery of children also became recognized as a special branch. Later he devoted particular attention to genito-urinary work, and his pioneer efforts in the development of special techniques and instruments led to the establishment of a new department of the hospital. He was also distinguished for his gentle, superb skill in tonsillectomy, and this inspired several young surgeons to emulate his example, and so laid the foundation of the ear, nose and throat department. During the second world war he moved with his family to Northwood, a district with which he had been familiar through his earlier attachment to the local hospital, and the general practitioners in the neighbourhood greatly appreciated having him more readily available for consultation over their surgical problems. His kindness and courtesy were extended to patients and doctors alike, and were a great asset to him as a member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons. It is understandable that a man of his temperament would not relish the wrangles of medical politics; and though he was deeply interested in the welfare of Great Ormond Street, and the creation of the Institute of Child Health was one of his dreams, the realization of the ideal was left to the organizing ability of his colleague Alan Moncrieff. He was an authority on the history of the hospital and wrote a delightful little book about it which was published in 1952, the hospital's centenary year. He married a Scottish nurse and they had two sons, both of whom became doctors, and four daughters, one of whom went in for a nursing career and another for medicine. Thomas Twistington or "Twist" as he was known to many of his colleagues, will long be remembered as an examplary practitioner of the art of surgery in general, and of paediatric surgery in particular. He retired to Great Mongeham, near Deal, and died, aged 78, on 3 July 1966.
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First Title value, for Searching Hilton, Mrs Elfrida Lilian Gwendolen (Gwen) (1898 - 1971)

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First Title value, for Searching Teevan, James ( - 1887)

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First Title value, for Searching Teevan, William Frederic (1834 - 1887)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-05
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Occupation General surgeon Genito-urinary surgeon Urologist
Details The son of William Teevan, who practised in Bryanston Square, and nephew of James Teevan (qv), who died a day or two before the subject of this memoir. Teevan was educated at University College Hospital, entering it in 1854 after completing his ordinary education at the College. He became House Surgeon, President of the University College Medical Society, and Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy, and on resigning the latter appointment was elected Lecturer on Anatomy to the Westminster Hospital. He served at Odessa as a Civil Surgeon during the Crimean War, and on his return joined the staff of the West London Hospital, where he did much admirable work. He was elected Surgeon to St Peter's Hospital for Urinary Diseases in December, 1866. Teevan had just previously been appointed full Surgeon of the institution, where till 1882 he worked with assiduity at the surgical treatment of diseases of the genitourinary tract. At this period, practising at 10 Portman Square, W, he became a Fellow of the Medical Society of London, and a member of the Pathological, Harveian, and Clinical Societies, being also appointed a Corresponding Fellow of the Medical Society of Odessa. In 1868 he was Orator, and in 1880 Lettsomian Lecturer, at the Medical Society, when he took as his subject "The Treatment of Stricture of the Urethra, Enlarged Prostate, and Stone in the Bladder with Special Reference to Recent Progress". Teevan was an excellent operator. His care and dexterity were never better displayed than when he operated for stone after Bigelow's method. His mechanical ingenuity was well known and notably displayed in his urethrotome for internal urethrotomy. In 1882 he was obliged by increasing illness to retire and saw his last patient at St Peter's Hospital in March. He went to the seaside, was attacked by syncope, and his sight began to fail. Sir John Tweedy (qv) discovered whiteness and atrophy of both optic discs: Teevan grew totally blind, and later his mind gave way. He was placed under the care of Dr Milsted Harmer, of Hawkhurst, where he died on October 22nd, 1887, leaving a widow and three children. Publications:- "On Lithotomy," 8vo, London, 1867; reprinted from *Brit and For Med and Chir Rev*, 1867, xxxix, 205. *On the Diagnosis and Treatment of Stricture of the Urethra in its Earliest Stage*, London, 1869. "On Tumours in Voluntary Muscles, with an Analysis of Sixty-two Cases and Remarks on the Treatment," 8vo, London, 1863; reprinted from *Brit For Med and Chir Rev*, 1863, xxxii, 504. "Experimental Inquiries into Certain Wounds of the Skull." - *Ibid*, 1864, xxxiv, 205. "An Enquiry into the Causation, Diagnosis and Treatment of Fracture of the Internal Table of the Skull." - *Ibid*, 1865, xxxvi, 189. *The Treatment of Stricture, Enlarged Prostate, and Stone*, Lettsomian Lectures, 1880. "Sterility after Lithotomy." - *Clin Soc Trans*, 1874, vii, 179.
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First Title value, for Searching Baldwin, Gerald Robert (1868 - 1942)

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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 at Dunedin, New Zealand in 1868, the son of Captain William Baldwin, Indian Army, retired. He was educated at Dunedin High School and in Germany. After working in a solicitor's office and a bank at Dunedin he entered the Otago Medical School at the age of twenty. To complete his training he entered St George's Hospital Medical School, London on 1 October 1889, qualified in 1893 and served as house physician and house surgeon at St George's. He held a resident appointment at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, and he took the Fellowship at the end of 1894. Baldwin settled at Melbourne, Australia in 1898, buying the practice of Stephen John Burke, MRCS 1856, in north Melbourne, whose second daughter, Ida M Burke, he married in 1899. He was for some years on the staff of St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne. Burke later practised in other parts of Victoria. In 1915 he gave up his practice at Warrnambool and volunteered for service as medical officer to a troop-ship sailing for the war in Europe, but was not accepted on account of his age. For some years he practised at Richmond and as a consultant in electrotherapy at Collins Street, Melbourne, but was adversely affected by the financial depression of the 1930's and went back to general practice at 183 Burke Road, Glen Iris, Melbourne, SE. During the second world war he served as area medical officer for south-east Melbourne in the Royal Australian Air Force. Burke died on 8 July 1942, aged 74, after a year's ill-health. He was survived by his wife, their son and three daughters. His son Godfrey Joseph Burke Baldwin, MB BS Melbourne 1932, served in the RAAF Medical Service in New Guinea during the second world war and then resumed his practice at Sale, Gippsland, Victoria.
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First Title value, for Searching Arthur, 1st Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850 - 1942)

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

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First Title value, for Searching Cant, William Edmund (1844 - 1936)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-18
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Colchester, Essex, 30 June 1844, the only child of William Cant, seedgrower, and Elizabeth Cross, his wife. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Colchester, and afterwards entered St George's Hospital, where he acted as house surgeon. For some years he took house surgeoncies at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, at the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, and at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. From 1878 to 1885 he was surgeon in charge of the government lock hospitals and was assistant surgeon at the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital. He was, too, tutor in the medical school at Bristol. In March 1888 he went to Jerusalem under the auspices of the Order of St John of Jerusalem to take charge of their ophthalmic hospital, which at that time was the only hospital in Palestine devoted to the treatment of eye disease. Here he soon made a name for himself. In the early days many patients - nervous, wild, and free - escaped from the hospital and only returned months later in a worse state than when they had first been admitted. The skill and patience of Dr Cant, ably assisted by his wife, caused the Arabs in time to bring their children as well as their elders. The growth of the work led to the appointment of an English assistant ophthalmic surgeon and later still of English nurses in addition to the devoted native assistants who had been properly trained. Dr Cant resigned his position and returned to England in December 1911. As a reward for his services he was made a Knight of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, and was later decorated MBE. He died on 17 August 1936 at the Mill House, Lexden, Colchester, survived by his widow, nee Mary Hill, but without children. He was at the time of his death the senior FRCS. Mrs Cant died on 5 December 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 Addison, Sir Christopher, Viscount Addison of Stallingborough (1869 - 1951)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-20
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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 Hobbs, John James Barclay ( - 1972)

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First Title value, for Searching Quigley, Thomas Haswell ( - 1861)

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First Title value, for Searching Radford, Caleb ( - 1888)

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First Title value, for Searching Mackie, Ian Alexander (1927 - 2012)

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First Title value, for Searching Soteriou, Helen Margaret (1920 - 2012)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-12-21 2015-02-16
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Occupation Oncologist Radiotherapist
Details Helen Soteriou neé Mellor was a clinical oncologist at St Luke's Hospital, Guildford, and Nicosia General Hospital, Cyprus. She was born in Liverpool on 11 April 1920, the daughter of Stanley Alfred Mellor, a Unitarian minister, who died when she was just four years old, and Anita Mellor née Thomson. She was educated at Rotherham Grammar School for Girls and went on to study medicine at the Royal Free Medical School. She gained her MRCS LRCP in 1943. Between 1944 and 1947 she served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, with the rank of captain. She gained her FRCS in 1952 and then trained in radiotherapy. She was a registrar at the Royal Marsden Hospital and a senior registrar in the radiotherapy department at Westminster Hospital. In 1955 she was appointed to her consultant post at St Luke's. She became head of the department there in 1959. In 1969 she married Andreas Soteriou, a Cypriot businessman, and emigrated to Cyprus, where she co-founded the radiotherapy and oncology department at Nicosia General Hospital. She later established the first private radiotherapy unit at the Evangelista Clinic. She retired in 1995 and was awarded an OBE in 1998. In addition to her clinical work, she was also actively politically, and joined in protests against the Turkish occupation of the northern half of the island. Helen Soteriou died on 19 November 2012, aged 92.
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First Title value, for Searching Murray, Joseph Edward (1919 - 2012)

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by Sir Roy Calne
Publication Date 2012-12-21 2013-12-19
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Occupation Plastic and reconstructive surgeon Transplant surgeon
Details Joseph Murray had an illustrious career as a plastic and reconstructive surgeon, but his unique achievement was to perform the first successful kidney transplant, on identical twins, in 1954, for which he was awarded a Nobel prize in physiology or medicine in 1990. He was born in Milford, Massachusetts, the son of William A Murray and Mary Murray née DePasquale. He was educated at Milford High School and the College of Holy Cross, earning a degree in the humanities in 1940. He then attended Harvard Medical School and, after graduating, began his internship at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. He then joined the Army and was sent to Valley Forge General Hospital in Pennsylvania, where he worked with James Barrett Brown, the chief of plastic surgery. Here he developed his interest in plastic surgery, in particular the possibilities of skin transplantation. Murray was finally discharged from the Army in November 1947, completed his general surgical training, and joined the surgical staff at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. He then went to New York to train in plastic surgery at New York and Memorial hospitals, returning to Brigham in 1951. At Boston there was a confluence of interest in the possibility of organ transplantation. The team were fortunate in having outstandingly qualified experts in the relevant disciplines. Francis D Moore's surgical clinical academic department was pre-eminent in experimental surgery and George Widmer Thorn's department of medicine was also of premier status, where the research was spearheaded by John Merrill. The surgical team had demonstrated their confidence in performing autologous kidney transplants in the dog and, when a patient in renal failure was referred to Merrill, the doctor's letter pointed out that the patient was one of identical twins. By this time Murray had taken over the kidney transplant research laboratory, which had previously flourished under David Hume, who had moved to a surgical chair in Richmond, Virginia. Murray's technical skills gave him and the whole team confidence to proceed with the clinical transplant, which was a spectacular success. It showed that surgeons could do the operation and the kidney could withstand the trauma of the procedure. Sadly, when transplants were performed between individuals who were not twins the results were disastrous and the attempts to prevent rejection using irradiation were toxic and ineffective. The introduction and development of chemical immunosuppression using 6-mercaptopurine and its derivative, azathioprine, enabled tolerable clinical results to be obtained between non-twin transplants. Improvements followed the addition of corticosteroids to the regimen, and the whole field changed dramatically with the introduction of cyclosporine, which altered the perception of organ grafting from a risky experiment to a much sought after therapy. Murray established a clinical programme of kidney transplantation at the Peter Bent Brigham and then returned to his first love, reconstructive surgery, but he continued to take an interest in organ transplantation for the rest of his life. Murray was a meticulous surgeon with his techniques honed in plastic surgery. He was devotedly religious and wrestled with the ethical dilemmas of transplantation in order to clarify the issues and proceed in the best interests of the patient. He was a kind and very generous man, whose philosophy centred on the paramount importance of the patient's needs. His traditional approach to medical care was a wonderful example to all who had the privilege to work with him. He was awarded the Nobel prize in 1990 for demonstrating that the surgery of organ transplantation was possible, which gave heart to everyone interested in the immunology of rejection. Organ transplantation has been an extraordinary success story, with more than a million recipients of organ grafts, some still functioning 40 years after transplantation. This success followed Murray's pioneering efforts, which led the field from an uncertain wish, to one of the most important new life-saving therapies. Murray married Virginia 'Bobby' Link in June 1945 and they had a large, happy family, with a huge circle of friends and admirers, especially the surgical fellows who had the privilege to learn from him. He died on 26 November 2012, in Boston, aged 93.
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First Title value, for Searching Compton, Alwyne Theodore (1874 - 1942)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 12 September 1874 at Feldafing, Starnberg, Bavaria, eldest child of Edward Theodore Compton, landscape painter, and his wife Auguste Pletz. He was educated at Uppingham and at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He was for a time prosector in the hospital's medical college and at the Royal College of Surgeons, and lecturer on anatomy at King's College in the Strand, and became a member of the Anatomical Society. After serving as assistant medical officer at St Mary's Infirmary, Highgate Hill, he joined the staff of the German Hospital, Dalston, E in 1908, to which he devoted the rest of his life, becoming consulting surgeon in 1939. Compton married first, in 1902, Lucy Lumb, who died in 1936, and secondly, in 1938, Violet Lowe, who survived him. There were no children of either marriage. In 1938 he retired to Westfield, Seaton, Devon, but returned to the German Hospital on the outbreak of war in September 1939. Unfortunately he was struck almost at once by a cerebral haemorrhage which left him with a left hemiplegia. He returned to Devon, where he had the misfortune to have his house bombed, and subsequently fractured his hip. He died in the German Hospital on 9 September 1942, aged 68. Compton inherited his father's taste for walking and alpine climbing. He was a man much beloved by his colleagues and patients. Publications:- *Essentials of surgery*. London, 1908. Intrinsic anatomy of large nerve trunks. *J Anat* 1917, 51, 103. Acute haemorrhagic pancreatitis.*Lancet*, 1921, 1, 130. Appendicitis with multiple abscesses in peritoneal cavity, and metastatic abscesses in left lung. *St Barts Hosp Rep* 1940, 40, 143.
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First Title value, for Searching Holland, Sir Eardley Lancelot (1880 - 1967)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-11
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Sir Eardley Lancelot Holland had been senior obstetrician and gynaecologist to the London Hospital for 20 years. In 1943 he was elected the fifth President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. His academic achievements were many and deservedly he was regarded as one of the most outstanding obstetricians of his time. He was born in 1880 the eldest son of the Reverend W L Holland, Rector of Puttenham and was educated at Merchison Castle. From here he gained the Warneford Entrance Scholarship into King's College Hospital attaining four other scholarships and the Warneford Medal as well. As might be expected he had a brilliant record as a student winning many prizes and then first class honours in the London MB BS final examination in 1905. Two years later he was awarded the London Unversity Gold Medal when taking the MD and already had the FRCS. In 1908 he passed the examination for the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians and was elected a Fellow in 1920. After completing his junior house appointments at King's he spent a valuable year in Berlin working with Professors Olhausen, Bumm, and Orth, and in later life often referred to this training as being the most instructive and formative in his whole education; it also gave him a lifelong friendship for the country and its people. On returning to England he became in turn resident medical officer at Queen Charlotte's Hospital and the Hospital for Women, Soho Square, and in 1907 was appointed obstetric registrar and tutor at King's College Hospital. In 1914 he was appointed to the honorary staff of King's College Hospital as assistant obstetric physician, but stayed only a short time, for after two years he applied for and was appointed to an identical post at the London Hospital where he felt there were greater opportunities for clinical research. He was no sooner appointed than he joined the RAMC and saw service in France as a surgical specialist, and really took up his appointment at the London in 1919. He now turned his considerable powers of application to the research work, begun at King's on the causation of stillbirth, which he had been invited to investigate by the Ministry of Health; his results were published as a report by the Ministry in 1922. Working in close collaboration with the late Hubert Turnbull FRS, he produced a treatise that must surely stand as a classic in original research and in providing information of enormous value to obstetrics and paediatrics. Even to-day it can be read with great advantage as a model of how precise and clear a report should be. His thirty years at the London saw great changes in obstetrics and gynaecology, and it was during his earlier years that the title obstetric physician was changed to obstetric surgeon. The reason for the change was no mere whim, for the obstetrician was now fast becoming a gynaecological surgeon and Eardley Holland was no exception. He was an extremely able surgeon in vaginal operations especially, which probably stemmed from his early training in Berlin. To see him operate in a case of neglected third degree tear of the perineum was to witness surgery at its precise best. He was never quite so much at home in the abdomen, and used jokingly to recount a story concerning his comparative inexperience in this field in his early days as a chief. Called to the London to a possible abdominal emergency, he would recall how the experienced ward sister would meet him and after the patient had been examined would invariably give him the clue whether or not operation was indicated, by saying "Will you have your coffee before you operate, Sir?", if it was to be done, but if not "Will you have your coffee before you go, Sir?" In 1920 he was elected FRCP, and he was a founder Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists which came into being in 1929 under the sponsorship of the Gynaecological Visiting Society, of which he was one of the original sixteen members. From 1937 to 1940 he was adviser in obstetrics to the Ministry of Health and had the responsible task of organising the evacuation from London to the country of pregnant women at the outbreak of war in 1939 and himself took charge of the obstetric emergency service of Hertfordshire and East Anglia, until he became President of the RCOG in 1943. It was under his guidance as President that the College published *A report on a national maternity service*, which was later to prove most valuable as a model for establishing that part of the National Health Service. His honorary consultant appointments at the London Hospital and the City of London Maternity Hospital, although time and strength consuming, had to allow opportunity for his very considerable private practice, and this constant war of attrition on health and happiness was the basis for his well remembered advice - "never allow yourself to be crushed between the upper millstone of hospital work and the nether one of private practice". He was very much in favour of a full time medical service that offered generous reward for work done. Yet he himself had a tremendous capacity for work, in which were evenly balanced great industry and most precise exactitude. It was typified in his research into the causes of stillbirth especially that in breech delivery, for he insisted on being called personally, either day or night, to every breech birth at the City of London Maternity Hospital where he was an honorary obstetrician at the time. Even at the end of the longest day's work, often after 10.00pm, he would meet his registrar for that day's quota of time allocated to the revision of a new edition of Eden's *Midwifery*. The burden was always somewhat mollified by refreshment in the form of beer, but as well the chief's secretary saw to it that his needs for tobacco were fully met by a row of pipes filled by herself and left ready. The work could then go on far into the night, unless interrupted, as it often was, by a call to a midwifery case to which both temporarily adjourned. His many public appointments included Membership of the Royal Commission on Population, of the Central Midwives Board, and of the Council of King Edward's Hospital Fund. He had been an examiner in most British universities, the National University of Ireland, the University of Cairo, and the Kitchener Medical School, Khartoum. In 1949 he was President of the 12th British Congress of Obstetrics and Gynaecology held in London. His publications were many and appeared in both British and American journals. He was co-author with Dr T W.Eden of *A manual of obstetrics*, and later its sole author. He was a former editor of the *Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology of the British Empire* and of *British obstetric and gynaecological practice*. He was a brilliant editor and a master of simple lucid English. None who worked with him will fail to remember his oft repeated correction - "My dear boy, an era commences but labour begins." In 1951 he published *Princess Charlotte of Wales - a triple obstetric tragedy*, which was based on much personal historical research work done on this subject and resulted too in his collection of many relics connected with this royal disaster, which he bequeathed to Brighton Corporation for display in the Royal Pavilion. He was accorded many academic honours: Hon LLD Birmingham and Leeds; Hon MD Dublin; Hon FRCS Edin; Hon MMSA; Hon Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, of the American Gynaecological Society, and of the Royal Medical Society, Budapest; Fellow of King's College, London. He enjoyed the eminence to which his outstanding professional ability carried him and the honours that came with it, but as well he dearly loved the simple things in life - his family, his home, and his lovely garden. He knew a good deal about astronomy, and greatly enjoyed demonstrating the points of interest in the night sky to his guests on starry evenings. He enjoyed too his association with his hospital students and they his. His matinée (as his Thursday afternoon 'public' maternity round was called) was an institution in the clinical teaching at the London. His strategy was to call for the labour-theatre case-book and pick out a few cases of interest that had been dealt with since the last matinée, and woe betide those who hadn't the case at their finger tips, be they clerk, resident accoucheur, or registrar. But the game he loved to play was to feign ignorance of the subject in hand, and then to proceed to lead the unwary clerk "up the garden path". The popularity of this special form of teaching was borne out by a very large weekly attendance. The esteem in which Eardley Holland was held both at home and abroad was shown by the constant flow of distinguished visitors to his wards and operating theatre. He was a man of extremely high ideals and in attempting to reach them kept raised the standards in the department of which he was so proud. For this the London and those of us who had the privilege of knowing and working with him will ever be grateful. There were three daughters of his first marriage with Dorothy Marion, eldest daughter of Dr Henry Colgate, who died on 14 October 1951. His second wife Olivia, who survived him, was the daughter of the late L L Constable JP. He retired to West Dean, Chichester in 1954 and died there on 21 July 1967 in his eighty-eighth year. He was a tall man of strikingly handsome appearance and great charm of manner. A memorial service was held in Chichester Cathedral. Publications: Recent work on the aetiology of eclampsia. *J Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp* 1909, 16, 255-273, 325-337, 384-400. The results of a collective investigation into Caesarian sections performed in Great Britain and Ireland from 1911 to 1920. *J Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp* 1921, 28, 358-446. Cranial stress in the foetus during labour. *J Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp* 1922, 29, 549¬571. On the causation of foetal death. *Ministry of Health: Reports on Public Health and Medical Subjects*, No 7 1922. Child life investigations. A clinical and pathological study, with Janet E Lane-Claypon. *Medical Research Council: Special Report Series*, No 109 1926. *Manual of obstetrics*, with T W Eden. 8th edition, 1937. Birth injury in relation to labour. *Amer J Obstet Gynec* 1937, 33, 1-18. Princess Charlotte of Wales - triple obstetric tragedy. *J Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp* 1951, 58, 905-919. Obstetrics, in Aleck Bourne and Eardley Holland *British obstetric and gynaecological practice* 1955; 2nd edition 1959.
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First Title value, for Searching Holmes, Edwin (1895 - 1967)

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

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First Title value, for Searching Thomas, William Thelwall (1865 - 1927)

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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 in Liverpool, the son of John and Elizabeth Thomas, and was educated at the Liverpool Institute. He became a medical student at Glasgow and received the triple diploma in 1886 after obtaining a part of his medical education at Liverpool. Sir Mitchell Banks (qv) made him Demonstrator of Anatomy, and he then served as Assistant to a general practitioner in Wales, returning after a short period to hold the offices of House Physician and House Surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Liverpool. He was elected Holt Tutorial Scholar in Anatomy and Derby Exhibitioner at University College, Liverpool, in 1887, where he was Assistant Lecturer and Demonstrator of Anatomy. Lecturing at first upon practical surgery in the University, he was elected Professor of Clinical Surgery in 1918, held office until 1922, and then became Emeritus Professor, the honorary degree of ChM having been conferred upon him in 1909. He settled in Hope Street, Liverpool, in 1890, determined to practise surgery apart from general practice, and maintained himself by 'coaching' students. In 1890 he was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, became full Surgeon in 1907, and retired in 1923. At the Royal College of Surgeons of England he was on the Council from 1921 until his death. At the British Medical Association he was Hon Secretary of the Section of Surgery at the Belfast Meeting in 1909, General Secretary at the Liverpool Meeting in 1912, and President of the Surgical Section at the Brighton Meeting in 1913. He was also President of the Liverpool Medical Institution for the year 1918-1919, and represented the University of Liverpool on the General Medical Council in succession to Dr Richard Caton from Jan 2nd, 1926. He was one of the founders of the Provincial Surgeons' Travelling Club which went from centre to centre at home and abroad to observe advances in the practice of surgery. He married in 1892 Anabel, daughter of Alexander Spence, of Huntly, Aberdeenshire. She died without children after a painful illness in July, 1927, and her death accelerated his own. Thelwall Thomas died suddenly whilst reading in his study at Allerton, Liverpool, on Sept 10th, 1927. He left estate valued at £109,759, and bequeathed £5000 to the University of Liverpool to endow a fellowship in surgical pathology; £5000 to the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and £5000 to the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund for pensions for medical men and their widows. A portrait painted by subscription in 1925 is in the possession of the University of Liverpool. He also appears in the portrait group of the Council painted by Moussa Ayoub in 1928. Thelwall Thomas was a fine surgeon, and is reported to have been the most dexterous operator in Liverpool since the days of Edward Bickersteth (qv); he was equally skilled in diagnosis. Brought up at Glasgow with those who had been taught by Lister, he was largely responsible for establishing a surgical technique of the highest order in the operating theatre of the Royal Infirmary, and with F T Paul he was a pioneer there of abdominal surgery. In surgery he introduced the detempered needle, the black silkworm gut, and the large-handled Spencer Wells forceps. He perfected the operation for haemorrhoids by suture over the face of a clamp, and in 1903 introduced the transverse incision in the operation for the cure of umbilical hernia. He was much interested in the surgery of the kidney, was responsible for the introduction of the double incision for calculi when they occur simultaneously in the kidney and distal end of the ureter, and made an important investigation into the chemical constitution of renal calculi. As a man he was friendly, generous, and hard-working.
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First Title value, for Searching Clegg, John Gray (1869 - 1941)

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First Title value, for Searching Cleminson, Frederick John (1878 - 1943)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-20
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Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Born at Peterhead, Scotland on 23 March 1878, eldest child of the Rev John Robinson Cleminson of Hull, and Alice Millican, his wife. He was educated at Kingswood School, Bath, at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, at University College Hospital, London, and at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. He was a scholar of Caius, won the Shuttleworth studentship, and graduated with first-class honours in both parts of the Natural Sciences Tripos, 1899 and 1901. From 1902 to 1905 he was demonstrator of anatomy and coached in physiology at Cambridge with T R Elliott, R Foster Moore, W M Mollinson, and Otto May, with whom in 1928 he gave a dinner to their tutors Gowland Hopkins, Walter Fletcher, C S Myers, and H K Anderson. He qualified from University College Hospital in 1909, served as house surgeon and casualty surgical officer, and under the inspiration of Herbert Tilley, FRCS determined to specialize in diseases of the ear, nose, and throat. He served as clinical assistant in the ear and throat department of the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. He was then elected to the staff of the Middlesex Hospital, becoming ultimately consulting surgeon to the aural department. During the first world war he was commissioned lieutenant, RAMC(T) on 7 September 1914, promoted temporary captain on 21 October 1916, and served in France and at Salonika; and was then classed as supernumerary for service with Officers' Training Corps. Although after the war he achieved a large and successful practice, Cleminson's real interest lay in research into the causes of ear diseases. He inspired his uncle the Right Hon Thomas Robinson Ferens, PC (1847-1930) of Hull, chairman of Reckitt and Sons Ltd., starch and blue manufacturers, to give £20,000 to the Middlesex Hospital for endowing an Institute of Otolaryngology. The Ferens Institute attached to the hospital's medical school was opened in February 1927, and on the opening day Sir Bernhard Baron endowed the salary of a whole-time research worker. Cleminson continued to practise at 32 Harley Street and to operate in the hospital while carrying out research in the institute till March 1938, when he retired from practice, became honorary director, of the Ferens Institute and determined to devote himself wholly to academic work. He always wished to know how to prevent deafness. Unfortunately the outbreak of war eighteen months later, in September 1939, led to the closing of the institute to release staff and minimize war risk. Equipment and library were removed to safety, but the building was badly damaged in an air-raid in September 1940. Outside the Middlesex Hospital, Cleminson was consulting laryngologist to the Heart Hospital, consulting aural surgeon to the Evelina Hospital for Children, and for a time surgeon to the Throat Hospital, Golden Square. At the Royal Society of Medicine he served as president of the section of otology. At the British Medical Association he was secretary of the section of otology in 1922 and vice-president of the section of oto-rhino-laryngology in 1929, and served on the hearing aids committee in 1937. With de Kleyn of Utrecht, then the Mecca of ear physiologists, he founded the "Collegium" at Groningen, an international club for otolaryngologists. Cleminson married in 1906 Sara, daughter of E M Smucker of Philadelphia, USA who survived him with a son and two daughters, one of whom became an MRCS in 1942; a third daughter had died before him. They lived at Spain End, Willingale, Ongar, Essex. He died of pneumonia on 21 August 1943, aged 65. Gentle and shy, Cleminson was a knowledgeable ornithologist, a skilled yachtsman, a good shot, and knew a great deal about motor-cars. He was known to a wide circle as "Clem". Publications:- Nasal sinusitis in children.* J Laryngol* 1921, 36, 505. Otosclerosis associated with blue sclerotics and osteogenesis imperfecta. *J Laryngol* 1927, 42, 168. Thoracotomy in treatment of malignant disease of oesophagus by radon.*J Laryngol* 1929, 44, 577. Hearing aids in general practice. *Brit med J* 1938, 1, 1114; reprinted in *Treatment in general practice*, published by the BMA.
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First Title value, for Searching Ransohoff, Joseph (1853 - 1921)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-17
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born on May 26th, 1853; studied at the College of Ohio, Cincinnati, USA, where he graduated MD in 1874. After becoming FRCS in 1877, he was Professor of Anatomy at Cincinnati from 1879-1881; then of Anatomy and Clinical Surgery from 1891-1902; of the Principles of Surgery from 1902-1905; and of Surgery and Clinical Surgery from 1905 to the time of his death in 1921. He practised at Livingstone Buildings, 7th Race Street, Cincinnati, Ohio, and was Surgeon to the Cincinnati Good Samaritan and Jewish Hospitals. He wrote voluminously on surgical subjects, and a long bibliography is contained in the Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, Series 1 and 2. He died of heart disease at his home in Cincinnati on March 10th, 1921.
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First Title value, for Searching Ransome, Joseph Atkinson (1805 - 1867)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-17
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The son of John Atkinson Ransome (qv); studied at the Manchester Medical School in 1824. Thence he went to Guy's Hospital and the Universities of Edinburgh and Paris. He practised at 1 St Peter's Square, Manchester. Serving as Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary from 1843-1866, he delivered the Introductory Address at the Royal Manchester School of Medicine and Surgery on October 1st, 1843 (*see Prov Med Jour*, 1842-8, v, 96), in which he described the origin of the school and referred to the work of his father and of Kinder Wood, the obstetrician, both recently dead. At one time he was Surgeon to the Ardwick and Ancoats Dispensary and Union Hospital, and acted as Vice-President of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, also of the Medical Society. He died at Flixton on August 6th, 1867. His son, Dr Arthur Ransome, FRS, lectured on pulmonary disease, hygiene and public health at Owens College until 1895.
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First Title value, for Searching Thom, William (1818 - 1904)

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First Title value, for Searching Turton, James (1856 - 1924)

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First Title value, for Searching Tuson, Edward William (1802 - 1865)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-09
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Born on March 25th, 1802, the son of John Tuson, a well-known general practitioner in London. He began the study of medicine under Carpue at the little school in Dean Street, Soho, and then entered the Middlesex Hospital. As House Surgeon there he, at the early age of 22, came prominently before the medical world by the publication of his great work, *Myology*, "A Series of Plates Superposed, showing the Different Layers of Muscles in Situ, with their Origins and Insertions". The importance of this work can scarcely be estimated by the student of the present generation, for subjects for dissection were only to be obtained at the private schools through the agency of the resurrection men. Such superposed anatomical plates were in constant use throughout Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, both by artists and medical students. After qualifying Tuson began to lecture on anatomy on his own account. His lectures were given in a room in the Gerrard Street Dispensary, Soho. It was a small beginning, and he was proud when he had, as he thought, perfected his first pupil in anatomy. An idea was then prevalent that the examinations at the College were capriciously, if not unfairly, conducted. Tuson's pupil went up and failed, and his teacher, possessed with the current prejudices, was at once of opinion that the young man had been plucked in order to ruin his (Tuson's) little nascent school. This was in 1826 before the reform of the College Examination system, and only a few years after Cruikshank had published his mordantly satiric drawing entitled "An Examination at the College", in which a deaf examiner asks a student to describe the organs of hearing through an ear-trumpet. Tuson complained to Sir Astley Cooper, who encouraged him and promised to support his school. He therefore soon removed from Gerrard Street, taking the School of Anatomy in Little Windmill Street, which Dermott had vacated. Here with an able staff he conducted a flourishing school. On February 28th, 1833, Tuson was elected Assistant Surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital, beating Benjamin Phillips and Alexander Shaw by a small majority. On June 2nd, 1836, he was elected to the office of Surgeon in succession to Sir Charles Bell, resigned. On the formation of the Medical School at the Middlesex Hospital, Tuson joined it and brought over to it his own pupils, thus materially contributing to its success. In 1847 things were not going well at the Hospital, the management of which was far from satisfactory. Quarrels arose among the surgical staff, and Tuson came into collision with his colleagues in the matter of some school fees. He acted indiscreetly, and in the end the whole surgical staff resigned in order to compel his retirement. From that day Tuson ceased to be a public man. His ardent ambition had been crushed, his position blighted, his hopes destroyed. For the last fifteen years or so of his life this once promising anatomist and teacher was little known beyond the circle of his private practice at 15 Harley Street. Tuson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on April 5th, 1838, and was also a Fellow of the Linnean Society, but made no contribution to either. He died on Nov 10th, 1865. His son was John Edward Tuson (qv). Publications:- *Myology: Illustrated by Plates; in Four Parts*, fol, London, 1825; 2nd ed, 1828. *A Supplement to Myology: containing the Arteries, Veins, Nerves, and Lymphatics of the Human Body, the Abdominal and Thoracic Viscera, the Ear and Eye, the Brain, and the Gravid Uterus, with the Foetal Circulation*, fol, London, 1828. Both these monumental works have superposed coloured plates of some depth. *The Anatomy and Surgery of Inguinal and Femoral Hernia*, illustrated by plates coloured from nature, and interspersed with practical remarks, fol, London, 1834. *The Dissector's Guide, or Student's Companion*. Illustrated by numerous woodcuts, clearly exhibiting and explaining the dissection of every part of the human body. Of this, the 2nd and 3rd American editions were published in 1887 and 1844 (8vo, Boston). *The Cause and Treatment of Curvature of the Spine and Diseases of the Vertebral Column*, 8vo, 25 plates, London, 1841. *The Structure and Functions of the Female Breast, as they relate to its Health, Derangement, and Disease*, 8vo, London, 1846. *To the Governors of the Middlesex Hospital* (relative to the Disputes which exist between the Medical Officers of the Hospital and himself), 8vo, London, 1847. *Spinal Debility: its Prevention, Pathology, and Cure, in relation to Curvatures, Paralysis, Epilepsy, and various Deformities*, 8vo, London, 1861. He also published a *Pocket Compendium of Anatomy*, and contributed to the *Lancet* and *Medical Times*.
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First Title value, for Searching Cooke, Sir James Douglas (1879 - 1949)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-06
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Occupation General surgeon Politician
Details Born at Melbourne in 1879, eldest child of John Cooke, pasturalist, who had formerly lived in New Zealand, and Edith Marshall, his wife. He was educated at Melbourne University, where he qualified in 1901, and served as house physician at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He took the BS in 1902 and then came to the London Hospital, where he served as house surgeon and resident anaesthetist. He took the English Conjoint qualification at the end of 1903, and the Fellowship in 1905. Cooke practised for many years with success at Stanmore, Middlesex. During the 1914-18 war he served in the RAMC, was promoted major in 1918, and was mentioned in despatches. He took a prominent part in local social life and politics, and in 1929 stood as a Conservative candidate for Parliament at Peckham. At the general election of 1931 he was returned as MP for South Hammersmith, which he represented until 1945. His principal interest was the promotion of trade between the countries of the Empire. He was knighted in 1945. Cooke married in 1907 Elsie Muriel, daughter of General James Burston of Melbourne, who survived him with a son and three daughters, one of whom married the eldest son and heir of Sir W E C Quilter, second baronet. Sir Douglas Cooke died on 13 July 1949 at 48 Kingston House, Princes Gate, SW7, a block of modern apartments looking over Kensington Gardens. He had previously lived at 35A Great Cumberland Place. His favourite recreations were tennis, golf, and shooting.
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First Title value, for Searching Colby, Francis Edward Albert (1865 - 1933)

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First Title value, for Searching Cole, Percival Pasley (1878 - 1948)

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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 at Weymouth on 4 March 1878, eldest of the three sons of Walter Benjamin Cole, chemist, and his wife Mary Parmiter, of Dorchester. He was educated at Weymouth College, and as a dental student at Guy's Hospital. After qualifying as a dentist in 1899 he decided to become a surgeon. He took the Conjoint examination in 1904, served as house surgeon at Guy's, and then went to Birmingham as demonstrator of anatomy in the medical school. He took the Fellowship in 1906, served as sub-warden of Queen's College, Birmingham, took the additional qualification of MB ChB Birmingham in 1909, and came back to London to teach anatomy at the Middlesex Hospital in 1910. He was appointed surgical registrar at the Cancer Hospital and assistant surgeon at Queen Mary's Hospital for the East End in 1911, and assistant surgeon at the Seamen's (Dreadnought) Hospital at Greenwich in 1912. With these three hospitals he maintained his connexion to the end of his life, becoming assistant surgeon to the Cancer Hospital 1920, surgeon 1922, and con¬sulting surgeon 1946; surgeon to the Dreadnought 1919, consulting surgeon 1947, and a vice-president of the hospital's corporation July 1948; senior surgeon to Queen Mary's 1932 and consulting surgeon 1938. He was also consulting surgeon to Bethnal Green Hospital from 1926, and surgeon to Tilbury Hospital from 1930. During the war of 1914-18 he was surgeon to King George Hospital, Waterloo Road, and to the Brook War Hospital. Here his dental training was brought to good use in the reparative surgery of war injuries of the face and jaws. During the second world war he again turned his hand to similar work as a surgeon under the Ministry of Health's emergency medical service. He was a leading member of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons. At the Cancer Hospital Cole was the youngest member and the last to survive of a brilliant band of general surgeons, each of whom also had a particular special interest, Cole's being for reparative work - Charles Ryall, Ernest Miles, Jocelyn Swan, Cecil Rowntree, and Cecil Joll; all were Fellows of the College. Cole's heart was perhaps most deeply given to his work at the Seamen's Hospital, where he was also director of the venereal disease department. He went to sea to study the conditions of work of a ship's surgeon, and in 1919 succeeded C C Choyce, FRCS as dean of the London School of Clinical Medicine established at Greenwich in 1910 for the postgraduate training of ships' surgeons. He was remembered with gratitude both as surgeon and teacher by ships' surgeons and merchant seamen all over the world. Towards the end of his life he revised the Board of Trade's *Ship-captain's medical guide*, originally issued in 1868. He was created OBE in the New Year honours 1947, and later in the year was elected an honorary life member of the National Union of Seamen, a tribute which he valued very highly. Cole was a Hunterian professor at the College in 1918, and he served for many years on the executive council of the Institute of Hygiene, before and after its incorporation with the Royal Institute of Public Health. He perfected the filigree operation for inguinal hernia, devised by his predecessor at the Seamen's Hospital, Lawrie McGavin, FRCS. Cole married twice: (1) in 1909 Amy Gladys, younger daughter of T J Templeman, JP of Weymouth; (2) Marjorie Pearl Christine Greene, a MRCS, who survived him with the son and daughter of his first marriage. He had practised at 61 Wimpole Street, and died at 41 Lancaster Grove, NW3 on 19 October 1948, aged 70. A memorial service was held at the Royal Cancer Hospital on 30 October. Cole was an athletic man and a games-player, particularly good at lawn tennis. Forthright and unwavering in his opinions, his turbulent spirit was mitigated by just and tolerant judgement. Publications:- Intramural extension of carcinoma of the colon. *Brit med J* 1913, 1, 431. Un-united fractures of the mandible, their incidence, causation and treatment (Hunterian lectures RCS). *Brit J Surg* 1918-19, 6, 57. War injuries of the jaws and face, in Fletcher and Raven's *War wounds and injuries*. Arnold, 1940. Experience in reparative surgery of the upper limb. *Brit J Surg* 1940-41, 28, 585. The filigree operation for inguinal hernia. *Brit J Surg* 1941-42, 29, 168.
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First Title value, for Searching Ferguson, Alexander Fergus (1925 - 2012)

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by The Ferguson family
Publication Date 2013-03-20 2014-03-14
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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 Ransom, Thomas William (1823 - 1868)

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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 Cooley, Geoffrey Glover (1914 - 1943)

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First Title value, for Searching Akiyama, Hiroshi (1931 - 2012)

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by R M Kirk
Publication Date 2012-10-17 2012-12-05
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Occupation Gastro-oesophageal surgeon General surgeon
Details Hiroshi Akiyama was professor of surgery at Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, and an internationally renowned gastro-oesophageal surgeon. He was born on 2 July 1931 in Chiba, Japan, the son of Dr Mizuki Akiyama. He studied medicine at the University of Tokyo, qualifying in 1955. He then spent a year on a rotating internship at the United States Army Hospital, Camp Zama. From 1956 to 1957 he was a surgical intern at Buffalo General Hospital, New York, on a Fulbright scholarship. He then returned to Japan, as a surgical resident in Tokyo. His postdoctoral research extended from 1975 to 1986. He investigated tumour types in oesophageal cancer, appropriate dissection of gastrointestinal cancer and techniques of gastrointestinal anastomosis. He also studied problems in bile duct reconstruction. Further research followed into improving the results of surgery for gastrointestinal malignancy in terms of survival. Some of this work was concentrated on oesophageal cancer, but gastric cancer was also incorporated. Within these studies, he looked at techniques of filming the deep surgical field, adjuvant immunochemotherapy and reconstruction techniques. Akiyami held a number of hospital appointments during his training and as a consultant surgeon. He was a clinical instructor and member of the surgical staff of Tokyo University Hospital from 1963 to 1972, consultant to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Hospital, lecturer at the University of Tokyo and University of Tsukuba schools of medicine, and visiting professor at the Tokyo Medical College from 1986 to 2003. He was a member of 10 Japanese medical societies devoted to various gastroenterological and other cancers, and also on the editorial boards of 10 journals. Hiroshi Akiyama was an honorary member or fellow of 22 institutions in the USA, South America, Asia and Europe. He was an honorary visiting professor at 14 centres outside Japan. His writings were in Japanese and English, based on results obtained at the Toranonom Hospital in Tokyo. As far back as 1980 Richard Earlam at the London Hospital had reviewed reports of 83,783 patients with squamous oesophageal cancer and concluded that of 100 patients presenting, 58 were explored. Of these, 39 had resections performed and 26 of them left hospital. After a year, 18 had survived, but only four survived for five years. The very next year, Akiyama reported his personal series of 354 similar patients, of whom 210 had had resections. Operative mortality was 1.4% and 34.6% survived for five years! His pathological examination of the meticulously resected, plotted and studied specimens demonstrated the wide spread of cancer to glands, irrespective of the primary location. Hiroshi's attitudes ran very parallel with those of Norman Tanner, the doyen of British gastric surgeons - obsessive clearance of cancer and glands, followed by perfect apposition during reconstruction. Two young surgeons were sent from the Royal Free Hospital in London to observe him. They returned full of admiration: one was allowed to participate in the procedures. He particularly appreciated the commitment to the highest standards of performance. The second was invited to remain and help with the editing of the famous book, *Surgery for cancer of the esophagus* (Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins, c.1990). He reported that Hiroshi was as determined to achieve full and accurate reporting as he was to achieve exemplary performance of the operations. During the extended visit he found Akiyama and his wife to be wonderfully hospitable hosts. In particular, Hiroshi was quiet, unassuming, conducting himself with humility and willing to listen and to teach juniors. Those of us who had the privilege of knowing Akiyama acknowledge him as a master clinician and operator, and a major contributor, committed to excellence. He dedicated himself to his patients, to surgery and to science. Those of us who became aware of his achievements late in our careers recognised that we had been dinosaurs. Outside medicine, his hobbies were the violin and tennis. He married Kazuko Morimoto in 1958 and they had three children: daughters Mariko and Yoko, and son Futoshi, who is a plastic surgeon. Akiyama died on 21 September 2012.
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First Title value, for Searching Ashford Hodges, William Anthony (1922 - 2011)

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by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2012-10-17 2013-09-02
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Anthony Ashford Hodges was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Great Yarmouth, Gorleston-on-Sea and Lowestoft. Very general in his approach to orthopaedic conditions, he particularly enjoyed performing joint replacements. He was a unique character, and had an unusual upbringing and an eventful life. He was born in Vienna on 24 July 1922, the only child of William Ashford Hodges, an architect, and Anna (Nitza) Bonna. William had trained in the UK, but was sent to Alexandria, Egypt, to advise on the rebuilding of Victoria College and then stayed on as chief architect to the Egyptian government. Anthony's mother was born in Turkey, the daughter of an Austrian diplomat. She was a gifted pianist and studied music at the Vienna Conservatoire, before moving with her family to Alexandria after the death of her father. There she met and married William, shortly before the outbreak of the First World War. Anthony's father died of pneumonia in 1925, and Nitza decided to move to Switzerland with her son. Anthony went to the English school at Chateau d'Oex, where the headmaster introduced him to lepidoptery, which remained a lifelong passion. He collected butterflies and moths from various parts of the world, particularly Tanzania. Hundreds of specimens are preserved in cabinets, still in the possession of the family. From Switzerland he went to Downside School, where his academic record was good. Although he contemplated a career as an entomologist, he went into medicine, first as an undergraduate at Downing College, Cambridge, and then for his clinical studies to the London Hospital, which bore the brunt of the German bombing of the East End. Some of his clinical training took place at Billericay Hospital, followed by stints at Brentwood and Chase Farm hospitals. He took the MRCS and LRCP examinations when he was still only 21. In 1943, while still a student, Anthony met his future wife, Joan Halliday, when they both were working at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield. She was a student nurse from the London Hospital. They married in 1944 when both were back working at the London. After house appointments at Chase Farm and Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, Anthony then moved to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital in May 1945 as a house surgeon to Herbert Alfred 'Tommy' Brittain and Ken McKee, later expressing his gratitude to both of these pioneering surgeons. He saw Brittain's work in treating the fractured neck of the femur with a trifin pin, and was able to witness his new methods of arthrodesis of the hip joint in tuberculosis as he perfected the ischiofemoral variety of fixation. McKee, on the other hand, designed a pin and plate for fixation of pertrochanteric fractures of the femur, as well as a lag screw used in arthrodesis of the hip joint. Based on his enthusiasm for taking motor-cycles and car engines to pieces and then rebuilding them, Ken McKee conceived the notion that worn out human joints could also benefit from 'spare parts', hence his original concept of metal to metal artificial hip joints that heralded a new era in the surgical treatment of disabling osteoarthritis. National Service then called, and Anthony served on a hospital ship from 1945 to 1948 as a captain in the RAMC. When demobilised he returned to the London Hospital as an orthopaedic registrar under Sir Henry Osmond-Clarke. He also did periods at Queen Mary's Hospital, Carshalton, and St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey. He passed the FRCS in 1950 and decided to specialise in general trauma and orthopaedics. In 1952 Anthony took a job with the Colonial Service in Tanganyika. He was called a special grade medical officer and was expected to do everything from general medicine to general surgery. He became involved with two leprosy hospitals and published a paper on 'The treatment of deformities of the foot in leprosy' (*East Afr Med J* 1956 Aug;33[8]:301-3). After various postings to provincial towns around the country, he ended up in 1963 as surgical specialist in the country's then capital, Dar es Salaam. Here he was instrumental in creating and running the Muhimbili Rehabilitation Centre. In 1964 Anthony and Joan decided that they must come home for the sake of their children (Hugh, Anne, Nicholas and Gabrielle), who were all at school in England. Being out of touch with the NHS after so many years abroad, Anthony wrote to his former chief at the London Hospital, Sir Henry Osmond-Clarke, and also to Sir Herbert Seddon of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, seeking their advice. They told him to wait another year, by which time he would be in a position to apply for consultant posts and they would give their support. In February 1965, Anthony and Joan returned to the UK. Eschewing the more conventional sea voyage, they decided to travel by car, a distance of around 5,000 miles. They were accompanied by a Czech nursing sister, Jari Kolar, and travelled in two cars. For much of the time Anthony drove a small Peugeot without an operative clutch. Along the way they also had 42 punctures. The journey initially took them through Kenya, Uganda and into the Sudan, where they discovered a civil war was raging. Their visa for Sudan was torn up at the border, but they managed to persuade the authorities to let them through and drove 250 miles to Juba. On route they encountered villages with charred houses, and no sign of human or animal habitation. But they did link up with some rebels, who were very friendly, even going so far as to construct a makeshift ferry for them to make a river crossing. From the Sudan they travelled through the Central African Republic, Chad, Cameroon, northern Nigeria and Niger, and then across the Sahara to Algeria. They had various adventures on the way, including being stuck in sand for two days, being rescued and then helping to rescue a trans-Sahara expedition. The trio also spent some time with the French Foreign Legion in the Arak gorges. In 1966 Anthony Ashford Hodges' began his NHS consultant orthopaedic post at Great Yarmouth, Gorleston-on-Sea and Lowestoft, and continued until he retired in 1983. For much of his time working for the Great Yarmouth and Waveney Health Authority, orthopaedics was carried out at Gorleston Hospital, which was half way between Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft. Gorleston Hospital had originally been built at the end of the 19th century, but in 1965 a new operating suite was installed and the following year the hospital became the orthopaedic unit for the district with 23 beds. Orthopaedic emergences were treated at the main hospitals in Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft. Prior to Anthony's appointment to Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft, orthopaedics was overseen by consultants from Norwich. David Burgess joined him in 1972 and together they started to build a department of orthopaedics. Anthony was always full of enthusiasm, cheerful and keen to listen and learn. He was good at DIY and on one occasion when an instrument was not available for an operation, he left the theatre, drove home and obtained the necessary part from his workshop! He had monocular vision for much of his later adult life, having had surgery for a melanoma in 1972 at Moorfields Hospital, somewhat delayed in its diagnosis. This did not impair his handling of bones and joints, nor his energetic outside pursuits of sailing in the North Sea and further afield, and gardening. Presumably short of excitement in the NHS, in 1974 Anthony took a two-year sabbatical to work as surgeon superintendent at the Vila Base Hospital in the New Hebrides, a small Melanesian country in the South Pacific, now called Vanuatu. Joan and Anthony bought a 46 ft ferro-concrete ketch, in which they had many enjoyable and hair-raising trips around the islands, until the end of Anthony's tour, when they decided to sail the boat back to the UK. They got as far as Papua New Guinea and were in the process of negotiating the Torres Strait, a well-known hazard, when they holed the vessel on the edge of a reef and had to paddle ashore to a nearby island, where they were rescued. After the loss of his boat in the Torres Strait, Anthony immediately bought a 45 ft ketch (with a steel hull this time) and worked on it in his garden in Norfolk until he retired from the NHS in 1983. He and Joan then set sail for the Bahamas and spent a year living on the boat in the Caribbean. The return journey was extremely hazardous: they ran into a hurricane and only narrowly escaped. For several years following his retirement, he did a number of locums around the country, as well as some medico-legal work, but it did not dim his adventurous spirit. In 1986, now aged 64, he and Joan embarked on their final sailing adventure. They planned to sail back to East Africa via the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. Clutch trouble occasioned an enforced stop in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where they were held at gunpoint by the Saudi authorities, as they had no visa. Fortuitously their son-in-law was just coming to the end of a diplomatic posting in Saudi Arabia and he managed to get them released. Within a day of setting sail though, they had grounded the yacht on an uncharted reef and were stuck for 10 days. After jettisoning almost everything on board, they got the boat afloat and limped into Port Sudan. The boat was shipped back the UK and repaired! Thereafter, they decided to confine their sailing adventures to the Mediterranean, leaving their boat in Bodrum in the south western region of Turkey: they spent four months each year sailing around the southern Med. When the boat was sold, they decided to settle for a quieter lifestyle, first in Norfolk and then Thaxted in Essex, but this did not stop them travelling to their beloved Tanzania in 2005 and to Australia in 2007, when Anthony went snorkelling on the Barrier Reef. Anthony Ashford Hodges died on 2 September 2011, aged 89. Perhaps his death notice, published in the national newspapers, best sums up his life: 'Orthopaedic surgeon, sailor, adventurer and friend of Africa and passionate gardener, adored husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather of a family running to keep up.'
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First Title value, for Searching Bhatia, Dipak (1909 - 1992)

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by Ranjit Bhatia
Publication Date 2012-10-17 2012-11-22
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Dipak Bhatia was head of India's national family planning programme in the 1960s. He was born in Punjab on 27 November 1909 and educated in Lahore, leaving high school at the age of 14. After receiving an MB BS degree from Lahore Medical College, he went to England and stayed in London for a few years, becoming a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. He returned to India and joined the Indian Army as a commissioned officer in the mid-1930s. During the Second World War he was posted to North Africa and later Italy with the Indian troops of the Eighth Army. He was awarded an OBE for his wartime services. Colonel Bhatia, as he then was, quit the army at the time of independence and the partition of India in 1947 and joined the government of Indian Punjab. He served for nearly 20 years as civil surgeon, chief medical officer, deputy director of research and medical education (in which capacity he was closely involved with the establishment of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh) and director of health services. In the mid-1960s, Bhatia was deputed to the central government of India as commissioner of family planning, to head the national family planning programme. In 1969 he retired from government service. After his retirement, the Ford Foundation, which was then funding family planning programmes in India, asked him to join them as an adviser. In 1973 the United Nations Development Programme posted him to Cairo as an adviser on family planning in Egypt. Bhatia retired from this assignment after five years in 1978. Bhatia remained associated with family planning issues, as a member of the governing body of the Family Planning Foundation (India) until his demise. In 1945, after his return from the war, Dipak Bhatia married his long-time fiancée, Pushpa Bery. They had two sons. Bhatia was in indifferent health during his last years, due to respiratory problems and Parkinson's disease. He died on 1 December 1992.
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First Title value, for Searching Foxen, Eric Harry Miles (1919 - 2012)

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by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2012-10-17 2013-08-28
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Miles Foxen was a highly respected ear, nose and throat surgeon at the Westminster Hospital, London, known to every student, general practitioner and young aspirant to the speciality through his *Lecture notes on diseases of the ear, nose and throat* (Oxford, Blackwell Scientific Publications), first published in 1961, which under his authorship ran to four editions. Subsequent editions are still being published. 'Haven't you read your Miles Foxen?' was even a line in a children's television drama in the 1980s! He was born on 24 February 1919 in Ilford. His father Harry (Harry Thomas Foxen), an ex-RAF captain, was a surveyor and estate agent, and his mother (Eleanor Bessie née Mapley) was an elocution and drama teacher who worked with her actress sister Jane. Miles was predeceased by an older sibling and remained an only child, which he claimed explained his lifelong passion for pursuing hobbies. Educated at Watford Grammar School, Miles was determined to become a doctor but at that time his school did not teach the full range of science subjects necessary for entry to medicine. His physics master, who remained a friend all his life, obtained the syllabus and taught Miles biology, always just one step ahead of his pupil. Miles took his second MB at King's College London and started his clinical studies at Westminster Hospital Medical School, just five months before the outbreak of the Second World War. He was on a rota for fire-duty, stationed on the roof of the newly built seven storey-high Westminster Hospital. He qualified with the conjoint in January 1942, having done pre-qualification house jobs at Salisbury General Infirmary. From February to July 1942 he was a house surgeon to the ear, nose and throat, ophthalmic, irradiation and dental departments at Westminster Hospital. In September 1942 he joined the RAMC and initially became regimental medical officer in the glider pilot regiment, before training in otology in Edinburgh. This resulted in his grading as an otologist in March 1944. It was in Edinburgh that he met his first wife, Florence Elizabeth Macdonald. Theirs was a whirlwind six-week romance and they married in August 1944. Miles was posted immediately to India until he was demobilised in February 1947. He returned to Westminster Hospital, firstly as a registrar in ENT (from 1947 to 1949) and then as a consultant ENT surgeon. Miles was known for his dry wit, delivered with a rather doleful voice. He was a meticulous surgeon, an enthusiastic teacher and a sympathetic clinician. Not everyone at the hospital would have known of his love of the ridiculous and slapstick. He could be reduced to uncontrollable laughter by *Dad's Army*, Tony Hancock and *Beyond our Ken*. One person who did know this and who shared much of his life was Cyril Scurr, his anaesthetist at Westminster; ironically they both died within a day of each other. Miles was simultaneously consultant aurist and laryngologist at Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital and the Chelsea Hospital for Women, and for a while was on the staff of the Enfield War Memorial Hospital and the French Hospital, London. Associated with this latter appointment was his corresponding membership of the Société Française d'Oto-Rhino-Laryngologie. He was a member of the Court of Examiners of our College, one of the earliest members of the British Association of Otolaryngologists, and a vice president of the section of laryngology of the Royal Society of Medicine. Divorced in the early 1970s, Miles married Wendy Hylda Kaye in August 1975. On his retirement in 1979 they moved to Wiltshire and thus began a very industrious and happy period of his life. He became a very competent painter in oils and watercolour, an astronomer, linguist, mathematician, fisherman and avid reader. He was also a determined and passionate instrumentalist, whether on the piano, cello, saxophone or bongos. His ever decreasing hearing did not seem to affect this passion. Miles had three children by his first wife - Gillian, who became a geriatrician, Jocelyn, a radiologist, and Richard, who is a horticulturalist. He was also blessed with five grandchildren and two great grand-daughters. His second wife Wendy died in 2004, but Miles retained his independent living until his sudden death, on 5 July 2012, at the age of 93, attributed to an arrhythmia as a consequence of cardiac failure following a myocardial infarction in 2008. He donated his body for medical research.
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First Title value, for Searching Grime, Roland Thompson (1916 - 2012)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-10-17 2014-10-17
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Roland Thompson Grime was a consultant general surgeon in Stockport. He was born in Cheadle Hume, Cheshire, on 18 July 1916, the son of Horace Grime, who was in the cotton trade, and Lily Grime née Thompson. He was educated at Ellesmere College, Shropshire, and then studied medicine at Manchester University, graduating MB ChB in 1939. After a house surgeon post, he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1940 and served throughout the Second World War in Ireland, India, Egypt and Italy. He became a major and a specialist in blood transfusion and resuscitation, and was mentioned in despatches. Following his demobilisation in 1946 he trained as a general surgeon in Manchester. From 1950 to 1971 he was a consultant surgeon at Ashton-under-Lyne, and then, from 1971 to 1981, he was a consultant at Stepping Hill Hospital, Stockport. A fellow of Manchester Medical Society, he was president of the section of surgery from 1977 to 1978. He was chairman of the surgical training committee in the Manchester region from 1975 to 1980, and a member of the Medical Appeals Tribunal in Manchester from 1977 to 1984. Once he retired he moved to Nefyn, north Wales. He married Mary Diana Eastburn in 1942. She predeceased him in 1993. They had two sons, Stephen and John. Roland Thompson Grime died on 18 August 2012, aged 96.
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First Title value, for Searching Hendry, William Forbes (1938 - 2012)

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by Justin Vale
Publication Date 2012-10-17 2013-05-17
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Occupation Urologist
Details William Forbes 'Bill' Hendry was an internationally known urologist who spent his consultant career enhancing the reputations of St Bartholomew's Hospital, the Royal Marsden and the Institute of Urology in London. He also had a few sessions at the Chelsea Hospital for Women, and in addition served as a civilian consultant to the Royal Navy. He has been described as 'one of the UK's most influential urologists in the 1980s and 1990s'. Bill was born in Birmingham by caesarean section performed on 15 June 1938 by Dame Hilda Lloyd, later president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He was the son of Duncan William Hendry and Edna Beatrice Hendry née Woodley. He had a younger sister, Joy, who was born after the Second World War - she became a professor of anthropology. His younger brother, Ian, became a Foreign Office lawyer. Bill's father was in general practice before the Second World War and, after war service, became a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Nuneaton. His mother was a nurse who trained and worked at the Royal Glasgow Infirmary. Bill was educated at Uppingham School, where he showed considerable academic promise and proceeded to Glasgow University for his medical studies, thus following in his father's footsteps. When he was at university Bill met Chirsty Macdonald, a nurse. They married at St Columba's Church, Glasgow, in November 1961. They had three children, Duncan Forbes, a gardener, Catherine Louise, a consultant haematologist at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, and Alexander Donald, a journalist in Hong Kong. Bill and Chirsty were superb parents, and placed great emphasis on a normal family life. After house appointments in Glasgow, Bill obtained a Fulbright scholarship to travel to the USA for two years, at a time when Duncan was just a year old. Bill spent his time working in Boston, Massachusetts, at the Boston City Hospital, being trained quite broadly in pathology. He always maintained that this was an excellent grounding for anyone thinking of taking up surgery. Bill's salary was supplemented by Chirsty, who worked as a nurse in Boston: American hospitals were always delighted to have UK-trained nurses working on their staff. Returning to the UK, Bill continued his surgical training in Glasgow. When he decided to specialise in urology, he was advised to move south. He became a senior registrar on a rotation between Portsmouth and the Institute of Urology in London. He gained good urological experience on the south coast under the supervision of John Vinnicombe and Forbes Abercrombie. Here he was able to see and be trained in the diverse disease patterns seen in a provincial hospital. He proved a rapid learner and much enjoyed this experience. Later he went to the Institute of Urology in London, where he was able to see and assist the many specialist urologists in their various fields. In 1973 he was appointed as a consultant at Bart's. A year later he joined the Royal Marsden. Working as a consultant urologist at Bart's, the Royal Marsden and the Chelsea Hospital for Women gave him ample opportunity to exercise his fertile mind. He was quick to spot the important connection between oncology and infertility, and the link between testicular cancer, retroperitoneal surgery and andrology. One of his trainees at Bart's said: 'He was always top of his game - whatever he set out to do it was always going to be as good experience for the patient and for the outcome as it could possibly be. He treated each new patient as a challenge requiring continuous refinement.' Towards this end he sought the collaboration of colleagues in clinical problems. He adopted this approach from the outset of his consultant career. One example of this was to challenge radiotherapy as the treatment of choice for bladder cancer. He began to perform total cystectomies, both as primary procedures and also after radiotherapy. Cystectomy was only performed by a few urologists in the UK at the time because of its difficulty and the high incidence of complications. He published the results of his studies in the *British Journal of Urology*, showing that the three- and five-year survivals were 10% better in those patients who had preoperative radiotherapy and cystectomy, compared with those undergoing radical radiotherapy ('Treatment of T3 bladder cancer: controlled trial of pre-operative radiotherapy and radical cystectomy versus radical radiotherapy' *Br J Urol*. 1982 Apr;54[2]:136-51). This article was only one of some 304 of his publications on urological oncology and male subfertility. The key to his considerable success in publishing was his care in collecting data and his honesty in publishing his results. From the start of his consultant career he took home nearly all the theatre patient call-cards and stored them in a Kardex system in his study. This made it easier to trace his patients for careful follow-up. Such a degree of introspection and self-critical analysis is most unusual in a surgeon. He was one of the first to show that, in cases where testicular cancer had spread to retroperitoneal lymph nodes, the removal of the nodes improved survival rate and guided further treatment. In this area, as well as pelvic surgery, he honed his techniques to limit damage to nerves connected with ejaculation. This was aided by studies he did in the post-mortem room. Another interest was in the area of male fertility and reversal of vasectomy performed for contraceptive purposes. He was interested in the role that anti-sperm antibodies played in poor results after vasectomy reversal. He recognised the part played by the use of steroids, while at the same time his publications conceded the complications of a high dose steroid regime. Bill was a patient and inspirational teacher, who became a role model for many of those passing through his department, be it in testicular cancer, bladder cancer or infertility. He was never late and was always at his desk in outpatients before the start time, and stressed the importance of this on those fortunate enough to work with him. They in their turn remember his many aphorisms. He used such phrases as 'most ureteric stones pass spontaneously if you ignore them', 'be nice to anaesthetists, we cannot do without them', 'don't rely on luck in surgery', and many others. He was president of the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) from 1996 to 1998 and St Peter's medallist in 1999, and president of the section of urology of the Royal Society of Medicine in from 1993 to 1994. He was joint editor of the *British Journal of Urology* with Hugh Whitfield from 1992 to 1996, stepping down when he became president of BAUS. He was Hunterian Professor in 1989 and again in 1998, and Sir Arthur Sims Commonwealth Travelling Professor from 1989 to 1990, when his main visits were to Australia and New Zealand, and also to Zimbabwe. Bill Hendry gave his final address 'A humble shop floor worker' at a valedictory meeting held in his honour on 26 June 2000 at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He believed that a surgeon's skills had a limited lifespan and, as a clean break from a busy life in medicine, Bill and Chirsty moved to the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides in 2000. They took up a croft next door to the Macdonald's, his wife's parents. Together they set up a herd of highland cattle, the second in Brue. In addition to helping to improve and renovate a community centre in Barvas, he organised the Westside Agricultural Show. Raising rare breed cattle became a passion. Bill and Chirsty remained a devoted couple throughout their married life. Chirsty developed Alzheimer's disease, and he cared for her over this difficult period, nursing her until she predeceased him by six months after a long decline. Typically, he was planning to write about his experience, and this would have been a unique and insightful lesson in caring for a life-long partner. Sadly he died on 3 October 2012, at the age of 75, after a heart attack, before he could carry out this task.
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First Title value, for Searching Mukherji, Santanu ( - 2010)

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by Dee Mukherji
Publication Date 2012-10-17 2014-05-02
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Santanu Mukherji was a general practitioner in Yorkshire, with a special interest in cardiology. He was born in Calcutta. His father, Captain Maniklal Mukherji, was a founder member of the Indian Radiological Association, and physician to and friend of the poet Rabindranath Tagore, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Santanu was educated at St Xavier's College, Calcutta, and the Nilratan Sircar Medical College (formally the Campbell Medical School). He went to Britain for postgraduate studies, and gained his FRCS and FRCS Edinburgh in the same year, 1968. He was appreciated by his fellow doctors. Derek J Rowlands, a consultant cardiologist at Manchester Royal Infirmary, records how he was 'a delightful, stimulating and inspirational colleague'. He was survived by his wife Dee, his son and two daughters, and one granddaughter. One of his daughters entered the medical profession.
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First Title value, for Searching Rowland, Frederick Henry (1943 - 2012)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-10-17 2014-10-17
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon
Details Frederick Henry Rowland ('Fred') was a surgeon commander in the Royal Navy. He was born in Merton on 28 May 1943, the eldest son of Frederick Rowland, a plumber, and Cissie Florence Minnie Rowland née Shelley. He was educated at All Saints School, south Wimbledon, and Rutlish School, Merton, where he gained a scholarship. He went on to study medicine at Manchester University, graduating MB ChB in 1966. He was a house physician and house surgeon at Cirencester and then a demonstrator in anatomy at the University of Manchester. He subsequently joined the Royal Navy. While at the Royal Naval Hospital Devonport he carried out research on varicose vein surgery. He left the Navy and then worked in Saudi Arabia, Australia and Fiji. He eventually settled in Australia, where he was a visiting surgeon at Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital and Esperance District Hospital, and took Australian citizenship. He was married five times. He died from urosepsis on 3 May 2012, aged 68.
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First Title value, for Searching Barrington, Fourness (1863 - 1946)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-10 2014-03-14
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Fourness Henry Simmons was born in Watchet, Somerset. He changed his name in 1891. He was educated in Britain and at Edinburgh University, where he was Dunlop scholar 1883 and Buchanan scholar 1884 and took honours at his qualification. He served as junior assistant to the professor of midwifery and house physician in the gynaecological wards of the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh. After a short visit to his home at Sydney, he came to London in 1885 on appointment as resident physician of the Chelsea Hospital for Women. He was a member of the British Gynaecological Society and of the obstetrical societies of Edinburgh and London. After postgraduate study at St Bartholomew's Hospital and at Berlin, Munich, and Dresden, he took the English Fellowship in 1894, though not previously a Member of the College. The following year he went back to Australia where he practised at 213 Macquarie Street, Sydney, living at Bayswater Road, Darlinghurst. He was at first gynaecologist to Lewisham Hospital, and was appointed assistant gynaecological surgeon to Edward Thring at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, in 1906, became gynaecological surgeon in 1920, and was elected a consultant when he retired in 1924. He was also consulting obstetrician to the South Sydney Women's Hospital, and to St Vincent's Hospital. He was an original Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. From 1913 to 1921 he was lecturer in obstetrics at Sydney University, and thereafter lecturer in gynaecology till his retirement under age limit. He was an excellent teacher. Barrington married twice: (1) Christina Scott, who was survived by their daughter; their son, Lieutenant Noel Scott Barrington, was killed in France in the war of 1914-18. (2) In 1917 Elizabeth Blaxland Hays, who survived him without children. Barrington died at 2 Wyuna Road, Point Piper, Sydney, on 1 September 1946, aged 82. He had been a prominent member of the Australian Club and the Royal Sydney Golf Club, and was a keen fisherman. Publications:- Rare forms of malignant disease of the female sexual organs. *Edin obstet Soc Trans*. 1885. Impressions of a year's gynaecology in Germany. *Austral med Gaz*. 1897, 16, 317.
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First Title value, for Searching Barris, John Davis (1879 - 1946)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-10
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born 9 June 1879 at Bronteville, Southsea, Hants, the eldest son of Arthur Barris, cork merchant, and Caroline Bridget Davis, his wife. He was educated privately and at Caius College, Cambridge, which he entered in 1898 and graduated 1901 with second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos Part I. He distinguished himself at boxing and other sports. At St Bartholomew's he was a prominent football player, and in later life was president of the hospital rugby football club for 12 years and of the students' union; his house surgeons were usually the best football men. He was elected Shuter scholar 1903, qualified 1905, and was awarded the Luther Holden pathological research studentship 1908. He served as house surgeon to William Bruce Clarke, and midwifery assistant to Sir Francis Champneys, FRCP (1848-1930) and W S A Griffith, FRCS, who, though twenty-five years older, outlived him by three days. At the City of London lying-in hospital he was pathologist, registrar, resident medical officer, and assistant physician. He was demonstrator of midwifery at St Bartholomew's and tutor in the midwifery department 1909-13, when he was elected to the honorary staff. He was also consulting gynaecologist to the Royal Waterloo Hospital for Women. In 1913 he made a tour of inspection of hospitals at Berlin, Dresden, Freiburg, Munich, and Vienna. During the war of 1914-18 he served in France with the rank of captain, RAMC, gazetted 2 October 1916, and then came back to St Bartholomew's. He had taken the FRCS in 1909, and was elected FRCP in 1925 and FRCOG on the foundation of the third College in 1929. He was promoted senior physician accoucheur at St Bartholomew's and head of his department 1925, and on his retirement in 1939 was elected consulting physician accoucheur and a governor of the hospital. As war broke out again in the autumn of that year, he returned to duty and worked for six years at the hospital's branch at Hill End Hospital, St Albans, and at the St Albans and Mid-Herts Hospital, thus missing the leisure he had earned. Barris was a born teacher, a worthy successor at St Bartholomew's to Herbert Williamson, FRCP (1872-1924). He contributed to the two famous textbooks by "Ten Teachers", and examined in obstetrics and gynaecology at Cambridge, the Conjoint board, and London University. He was nominated for presidency of the section of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Royal Society of Medicine in 1938, but declined the honour on account of his health. Barris married in 1909 Margaret Morris, who survived him with three daughters. They lived at 36 Fairacres, Roehampton Lane, SW15, and he practised at 50 Welbeck Street, W1 and 10 Cornwall Terrace, NW1. Barris died after a short, acute illness in St Bartholomew's Hospital on 23 February 1946, aged 66. The funeral service was held at St Bartholomew the Less on 28 February, followed by private cremation. Barris was slow and dignified in manner; he laid much stress in his teaching on the personal aspect of clinical practice, and on the great traditions of the hospital. He was devoted to animals, especially dogs; and was a keen golf player. He was a man of firm loyalties, and put his heart into whatever he undertook. Publications:- *Contributor to Midwifery* by Ten teachers, 1st to 6th editions, 1917-38; and to *Diseases of women* by Ten teachers, 1st to 6th editions, 1919-38. Tumours of the ovary, with Herbert Williamson, in T W Eden and C Lockyer *System of gynaecology*, 1917, 2, 769.
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First Title value, for Searching Bristow, Walter Rowley (1882 - 1947)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-22
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Born 12 December 1882, son of Henry Joseph Bristow of Bexley, Kent, underwriter, and Fanny Clara Sheppard, his wife. He was educated at Brighton Grammar School, and at St Thomas's Hospital, where he served as demonstrator of anatomy, and house surgeon to Sir George Makins. He was early interested in electro-therapy and was appointed surgeon in charge of the hospital's electric treatment department; later he became chairman of the War Office committee on electro-therapy. On the outbreak of war in 1914 he became regimental medical officer to the Middlesex Yeomanry and saw active service at Gallipoli, being twice mentioned in despatches. From 1916 he was surgeon to the military orthopaedic hospital at Shepherd's Bush, with the rank of major, RAMC, and continued to hold the post, when the hospital passed under the charge of the Ministry of Pensions, from 1919 to 1923. He was also assistant inspector of military orthopaedics 1916-18, working under Sir Robert Jones, from whose work he received lasting inspiration. Jones was appointed in 1919 director of the newly formed orthopaedic department at St Thomas's with Bristow as his deputy; but the organisation and direction of the department were really in Bristow's hands, and he carried out Jones's ideals and his own with brilliant ability. He was at the same time surgical director of St Nicholas and St Martin Orthopaedic Hospital, Pyrford, and contrived that it should be in effect a country annexe to his department at St Thomas's, with great advantage to both institutions. This hospital was founded by the Church of England Children's Society, formerly the Committee for Waifs and Strays, who renamed it the Rowley Bristow Orthopaedic Hospital after his death (*Brit Med J*. 1948, 1, 82). During the war of 1939-45 he served as consultant in orthopaedics to the Army with the rank of brigadier (1941-45). He spared no energy to make the orthopaedic service of the Army as good as possible. He flew frequently to the Mediterranean and Middle East seats of war and also flew the Atlantic on official duty. Some of his best work was done in this capacity. He was awarded the French decorations of Croix de Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, and Croix de Guerre with palm, with a *citation à l'ordre de l'Armée* in 1946. He was consulting orthopaedic surgeon to King Edward VII convalescent home for officers at Osborne. Bristow retired from the active staff at St Thomas's in 1947 and was elected consulting orthopaedic surgeon. He served as a Hunterian professor at the College in 1935, lecturing on internal derangement of the knee joint, and gave the Robert Jones lecture on 12 December 1946, his sixty-fourth birthday. He was vice-president of the section of orthopaedics at the British Medical Association in 1931 and 1932, president of the orthopaedic section of the Royal Society of Medicine, and president of the British Orthopaedic Association in 1937. He was an honorary member of the American, French, and Belgian orthopaedic societies. Bristow married in 1910 Florence, only daughter of James White, LLD, who survived him with a son and two daughters. He died in a London nursing-home on 10 November 1947, aged 64, and was cremated. A memorial service was conducted by the Bishop of Rochester in St Thomas's Hospital chapel on 21 November. He had practised at 149 Harley Street, after his beautiful Adam house, 102 Harley Street, was destroyed in an air raid. Bristow was a man of abounding vitality; as a student he had excelled at association football, lawn-tennis and water polo; in later life he found his recreation in shooting, fishing, and golf, and was a keen player of bridge. He was a good teacher with much humour and humanity, and a hospitable man with many friends and a love of good living. He did much to lead the developing specialty of orthopaedics along the best lines. Publications:- *The treatment of joint and muscle injuries*. London, 1917. Diagnosis of injuries of the peripheral nerves, with T. G. Stewart, in Sir Robert Jones's *Orthopaedic surgery of injuries*, Oxford, 1921,2,51-136; also, Postoperative treatment of peripheral nerve injuries, pp 227-239; Electrical department, pp 489-501. *The treatment of fractures in general practice*, with C Max Page. London, 1923; 2nd ed 1925; 3rd ed 1929. The results of operations on peripheral nerves. *Brit J Surg*. 1923-4, 11, 535-567. Internal derangement of the knee-joint (Hunterian lecture RCS 1935). *J Bone and Joint Surgery* 1936, 17, 605-626. The treatment of fractures, some principles re-affirmed (Hugh Owen Thomas memorial lecture 1937). *Liverpool med chir J*. 1937, 45, 96. Orthopaedic surgery, retrospect and forecast (presidential address, British Orthopaedic Association 1937). *Lancet*, 1937, 2, 1061-1064. Injuries of peripheral nerves in two world wars (Robert Jones lecture RCS 12 December 1946). *Brit J Surg*. 1947, 34, 333.
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First Title value, for Searching Brock, James Harry Ernest (1862 - 1945)

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First Title value, for Searching Brodie, Charles Gordon (1860 - 1948)

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First Title value, for Searching Bromley, Lancelot (1885 - 1949)

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First Title value, for Searching Dunn, Spencer Graeme (1879 - 1934)

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First Title value, for Searching Dun, Robert Craig (1870 - 1941)

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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 on 15 June 1870 at Long Compton, Warwickshire, fifth child and second son of Finlay Dun of Edinburgh, land agent, and his wife, *née* Craig. Dun was educated at Loretto School and Edinburgh University, where he graduated with second-class honours in the medical school in 1893 and was Gunning Victoria jubilee scholar in pathology in 1894. He later studied at Berlin and Bern, and served as house surgeon and house physician in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Dun was appointed assistant lecturer and senior demonstrator of anatomy at Liverpool University College, and was later elected assistant surgeon to the Stanley Hospital. His interests turning to the surgery of children, he was appointed in 1900 to the staff of the Children's Infirmary, which became the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, and retired as consulting surgeon in 1932. He was also consulting surgeon to the Liverpool Hospital for Children at Leasowe and to the West Kirby Convalescent Home for Children. He was particularly interested in the cranial surgery of children. He was for several years chairman of the Liverpool Hospitals' Staffs Association and was president of the Liverpool Medical Institution in 1925. Dun saw active service in the South African war, and received a commission as captain in the RAMC(T) on 7 January 1912. He was promoted brevet-major on 1 January 1918 and subsequently lieutenant-colonel. He was a man of broad, thick-set figure, who used his large hands with exquisite neatness and gentleness, and veiled his strength under a quiet and courteous manner. Dun married on 2 July 1907 H Louise Bowring, who survived him with three daughters. He died on 31 January 1941 at Fitz Manor near Shrewsbury.
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First Title value, for Searching Durante, Francesco (1844 - 1934)

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

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-21
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Occupation Medical Researcher
Details Born 25 March 1866, third child and second son of Arthur Edward Durham, consulting surgeon to Guy's Hospital, and his wife Mary, daughter of William Ellis (see *DNB*), economist and founder of the Birkbeck secondary technical schools. He was thus born into a remarkable family. The only brother who, with him, survived their father, Colonel Frank Rogers Durham, after a distinguished career as a civil and military engineer, became (1926) secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society. Of his sisters, Mary Edith Durham, FRAI (1863-1944), made her name first as an artist, and later as Balkan traveller and anthropologist, and champion of Albania; another sister became Mrs Hickson and her daughter Joan Durham Hickson was the wife of W H Trethowan, FRCS; the third sister, Caroline Beatrice (who died 13 April 1941), married William Bateson, FRS, the famous geneticist, and wrote the classic life of her husband. H E Durham was educated at University College School, London, and King's College, Cambridge, of which he was Vintner exhibitioner 1885; he took first-class honours in part 1 of the Natural Sciences Tripos 1886 and a second-class in part 2, 1887. He then worked for two years as John Lucas Walker student in the University laboratories of zoology and physiology. His medical training was at Guy's, where his father was the leading surgeon, and he qualified from Cambridge in 1887. He took the Fellowship, though not previously a Member, in 1894, but did not practise surgery. He served as resident obstetric officer and assistant in the throat department at Guy's, and was Gull research student there 1894. He was also medical officer to the North Eastern Fever Hospital at Tottenham. In 1894 he went to work under Max Gruber (1853-1927) in the Hygienisches Institut at Vienna. With his master he recognized the practical potentialities for diagnosing infectious diseases available from the effect, already observed by others, of agglutination of pathogenic organisms by the serum of animals immunized against those particular organisms. Durham reported this suggestion to the Royal Society of London on 3 January 1896. But it was first applied clinically in enteric fever by Fernand Widal (1862-1929), of Paris, in June and July of the same year (*Bulletin, Société médicale des Hôpitaux de Paris*, 1896, 13, 561) and by A S F Grünbaum (afterwards Leyton) (1869-1921), of Liverpool, during September-December (*Lancet*, 1896, 2, 806 and 1747). Gruber's communication is in *Münchener medizinische Wochenschrift*, 1896, 43, 285. The reaction is variously known by the names Widal, Gruber, and Durham. In 1896 Durham served on the Royal Society's tsetse-fly commission in Africa, and the following year was appointed Grocer's Company Research Fellow at Cambridge. He reported his observation of a common group agglutinating reaction between closely allied bacteria, and also introduced the "Durham tube", the small inverted test-tube placed in bacterial media to collect gas produced by fermentative organisms (*Brit med J*. 1898, 1, 1387), which was very generally adopted. In 1900 he took to Brazil the yellow-fever expedition, sponsored by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. He and his colleague, Walter Myers (1872-20 January 1901), both contracted yellow-fever, and Myers died of it at Para. The expedition's results were published as the School's *Memoir* No 7, 1902. From 1901 to 1903 Durham headed the London School of Tropical Medicine's beriberi expedition in Malaya and Christmas Island, where he lost the sight of one eye. Durham was the first to bring back to England from Malay the poisonous plant *Derris elliptica*, which came into wide use as a horticultural insecticide. He described it in J D Gimlette's *Malay poisons*, 3rd edition, 1939. He was also associated with Sir Ronald Ross in his researches on malaria. Durham was hindered by his partial loss of sight from returning to bacteriological research, and therefore readily accepted the invitation of a friend, Fred Bulmer, director of H P Bulmer and Co, cider manufacturers, at Hereford, to superintend their chemical department. The Bulmer family had long been connected with Durham's old college, King's. Durham spent thirty useful years, 1905-35, at Hereford, working on fermentation, and also did much for the improvement of fruit trees and was active in the acclimitization of new plants. He served as president of the Herefordshire Association of Fruitgrowers and Horticulturists, and was also president of the Woolhope Naturalists Club. He lived at Dunelm, Hampton Park, Hereford. In 1935 he retired to Cambridge, where he continued his active horticultural work particularly in raising rare culinary plants, of which he contributed accounts to the *Dictionary of Gastronomy*. He was, too, a draughtsman of talent and a skilled woodworker, who designed ingenious modifications of his lathe. He was a medallist of the Royal Photographic Society in 1927. He was a retiring, modest man, though of adventurous originality and much charm. Durham married on 25 September 1907 Maud Lowry, daughter of Captain Harmer, 81st Regiment. Mrs Durham survived him, but without children. He died at 14 Sedley Taylor Road, Cambridge, on 25 October 1945, aged 79, having been well and happy the previous day. He left, subject to his widow's life-interest, bequests to the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund, King's College, Cambridge, and the Schools of Tropical Medicine in London and Liverpool. His outstanding publications are mentioned above.
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First Title value, for Searching Duval, Pierre (1874 - 1941)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Paris on 24 June 1874. His father, a lawyer, died when Pierre was seven years old, leaving a widow and six children. He was educated at the Lycée Monge and the Lycée Condorcet, at Heidelberg, and at the University of Paris, where he passed every examination with honours. In 1898 he began his internship, serving under Edouard Quénu, Reclus, Lannelongue, and Guyon. At the Faculty of Medicine he served as demonstrator to Faraboeuf, assistant in anatomy 1899, and prosector 1901. In 1902 he graduated MD with a thesis on the semiology of cancer of the pelvic colon, and won the gold medal. He proceeded agrégé in surgery 1904, and chirurgien des hôpitaux 1905. From 1901 to 1912 he acted as assistant to Edouard Quénu, with whom he did considerable research, including a study of anastomosis of the ureters into the large intestine. He always remained interested in genitourinary surgery. Quénu turned his interest primarily to the surgical pathology of the large intestine. In his thesis Duval described for the first time the mobilization of fixed segments of the large intestine by colo-parietal décollement, a revolutionary technique which was universally adopted. In 1913 he made a remarkable report on surgery of the pelvic colon to the Congrès de Chirurgie. Through this period Duval had worked on a wide variety of surgical problems. With Quénu he published the first French account of splenectomy in Banti's disease; and he contributed sections on genito-urinary surgery and on diseases of the intestine, rectum, and peritoneum to well-known textbooks. In 1912 Duval became head of the surgical clinic at Bicêtre, but before he could make his mark he was called to the army as aide-major in the ambulance service of the 10th Army. He served in the withdrawal from Belgium, autumn 1914, and the first battle of the Marne. Then he was posted to Fougères at the base, and soon given surgical direction of the 10th Region with control of 14,000 beds. He proved himself a brilliant administrator. In 1916 he returned to active service as médecin-major 1st class, in charge of Ambulance Corps 21 at Bray-sur-Somme and at Noyon. In 1917 he assumed the surgical control of the Army of Flanders with headquarters at Zuydcoote, halfway between the casualty clearing stations and the base hospitals of Amiens and Abbeville. Later he went to Malmaison, was consulting surgeon with the Army of Alsace, then to Flanders again, to Montdidier, and finally was officer in charge of 4,000 beds at Pontoise. His war work gave rise to numerous special studies and four major researches. First, thoracic surgery where he advocated direct intervention for chest wounds. His results and theories were published in his *Plaies de guerre du poumon* 1918. Secondly, he was a fervent and successful advocate of serotherapy for the prevention of gas gangrene. Thirdly, he introduced the practice of delayed primitive suture in the armies under his charge; that is to say, excision of wounds was to be effected in the field and primitive suture completed some days later at the base. Finally, he studied traumatic shock, proving its toxic origin in the chemical breakdown of the injured tissues. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre with a bar, and created Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur 1915, promoted Officier in 1918, and became Commandeur in 1934. He was sent on special missions to the Belgian and British armies, to Italy, and to America. He was elected to the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain, to the American College of Surgeons, and on 2 February 1920 an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Returning to civil practice, Duval became surgeon to the Lariboisière Hospital and was elected professor of operative surgery in the Paris Faculty 1919. Two years later he was made head of the new University Hospital at Vaugirard, and professor of clinical surgery. Here he established a surgical clinic after his own heart, supported by a battery of specialist subsidiaries, medical, biochemical, radiological, etc. Duval took a particular interest in the radiological study of his surgical cases. Duval was now the centre and head of an elaborate team, whom he inspired to fulfil his conception of physiological surgery, a conception similar to Moynihan's "pathology of the living". A vast output of surgical research came from Duval and his team in the twenty years remaining to him. He worked again on various aspects of surgery of the large intestine, thoracic surgery, duodenal ulcer. In particular he stressed the importance of pre-operative treatment of bacterial infection in cases of ulceration. He advocated urgent gastrectomy for perforated ulcer. His *Etudes médico-radio-chirurgicales sur le duodenum*, with J-Ch Roux and H Béclère, was an outstanding contribution to the subject, and differentiated three distinct affections previously confused (1924). Duval explored and improved the surgery of the pancreas, gall bladder, liver, and spleen. In 1931 he opened a crusade on behalf of immediate intervention, in the first 24 hours, in all cases of appendicitis. But his most important work was his study of post-operative toxicity, and of general infection after burns. Both arose from his earlier work on shock and were inspired by his ideal of physiological surgery and his realization of the importance to the surgeon of biochemical investigation. Duval was throughout his career an inspiring teacher, of dynamic intellect, to whom his pupils and assistants became devoted friends. Duval served as president of the Society (now Academy) of Surgery in 1932, and had become president of the Academy of Medicine in January 1941, just before his sudden death. He had travelled widely in Europe and North and South America, and was a corresponding member of the surgical academies of numerous capitals. When war began again in September 1939, Duval took an active part in the background of medico-military work. He was a prompt supporter of the introduction of sulfonamide treatment. When Paris fell in June 1940, he remained at his post at Vaugirard, and carried on his surgical work, both clinical and research, with unabated energy. He married Carmen Laffitte, whose death between the wars was a great shock to him. Their sons distinguished themselves: Charles-Claude, a lawyer, married a daughter of M Deschamel, at one time President of the Republic, and Paul-Marie became professor of geology at the Sorbonne. Duval died after a very short illness on 7 February 1941, survived by his sons, the younger of whom was a prisoner-of-war in Germany at the time of Pierre Duval's death. He had lived at 119 Rue de Lille, Paris. Duval was a man of great beauty of character, and wide interests, warm-hearted though a little formal, and absolutely upright.
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First Title value, for Searching Wallis, Frederic ( - 1892)

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First Title value, for Searching Wallis, Sir Frederick Charles (1859 - 1912)

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First Title value, for Searching Walne, Daniel Henry (1796 - 1866)

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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 Paterson, Herbert John (1867 - 1940)

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First Title value, for Searching Paton, Leslie Johnson (1872 - 1943)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-02
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Occupation Neurologist Ophthalmologist
Details Born at Edinburgh on 22 August 1872 the second son of James Paton, a Fellow of the Linnean Society and from 1876 curator of the Glasgow Art Galleries and Museum, and of Mary Kesson, his wife. He was educated at the Glasgow High School and University and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was a scholar. He took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part 1, 1893, and taught botany and physiology at Cambridge before beginning his clinical training at St Mary's Hospital, London in 1897, where he was Shuttleworth scholar. He served as house surgeon to Edmund Owen at St Mary's, 1901, and as demonstrator of anatomy in the Hospital's medical school. He also taught physiology under Sir Thomas M Taylor at Wren's coaching school in Powis Square, Bayswater. He had been particularly interested in botany and worked for a time in Sachs' laboratory at Bonn; but he decided to make his career as an ophthalmologist, and after serving as clinical assistant to Marcus Gunn at Moorfields he was appointed assistant ophthalmic surgeon to St Mary's in 1902, the year in which he took the Fellowship, H E Juler being his senior. In 1907 he became ophthalmologist to the National Hospital in Queen Square, where he gained his special experience in neurological ophthalmology in the last years of Hughlings Jackson's work there. From this double specialization he achieved at the same time, 1929-30, the presidency of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom and the presidency of the section of neurology at the Royal Society of Medicine, before which he made his presidential address on the classification of optic atrophies. He was also chairman of the Council of British Ophthalmologists. He was secretary in 1909 and president in 1934 of the section of ophthalmology at the British Medical Association's annual meetings. In his earlier years he made several important researches, working with Gordon Holmes on papilloedema and intracranial tumours; and he discovered the syndrome of optic atrophy in one eye with papilloedema in the other, afterwards known as the Foster-Kennedy syndrome (see *Archives of Ophthalmology*, 1942, 28, 704, for admission of Paton's priority). He had also discovered the causative organism of angular conjunctivitis, the Bacillus duplex or Haemophilus diplococcus, but hesitating with Scotch caution to publish prematurely he was anticipated by Victor Morax and Theodor Axenfeld, after whom the organism is usually called the Morax-Axenfeld bacillus. The statement that Paton anticipated Morax and Axenfeld is based on the obituary notices, but as Morax and Axenfeld published their discovery in *Annales d'Oculistique*, 1892, 108, 393, eight years before Paton qualified, his priority is doubtful. Paton exerted a wide influence through the *British Journal of Ophthalmology* of which he was chairman for many years, and also helped in the interbellum decades to resuscitate the International Congress of Ophthalmology, whose successful meetings at Amsterdam 1929, Madrid 1933, and Cairo 1937 owed much to his energy. Although of world-wide reputation he was ever ready to help young workers and took an active interest in current research. He was an excellent and popular teacher, with a soupçon of dogmatism. He retired from St Mary's in 1929 and was elected consulting ophthalmic surgeon and a vice-president of the Hospital. He was elected consulting ophthalmic surgeon to the National Hospital in 1937, in which year he gave the Mackenzie memorial lecture at Glasgow on optic neuritis. He was also ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Caledonian Asylum, to the Royal Scottish Hospital, and to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He was an honorary member of the French, Japanese, Hungarian, and Spanish-American ophthalmological societies, the Scottish Ophthalmic Club, and the Royal Medical Society of Budapest, and an honorary Fellow of the American Medical Association, the Association for Research in Ophthalmology, and the International Ophthalmic Council. He had a very large private practice, which he carried on at 29 Harley Street till near the end of his life. In later years he suffered from deafness. Paton married in 1906 Mary, daughter of R R Kirkwood of Glasgow, who survived him with two daughters. He died in London after a long illness on 15 May 1943, aged 71. Leslie Paton was a patriotic Scotsman, with a Scottish accent and many of the best racial characteristics. He was a kind-hearted man with a keen sense of humour, cheerful, encouraging, wise, friendly, and of great knowledge. He was a firm believer in the recuperative value of holidays and regularly took six weeks away from all work each summer. He was a keen fisherman and very fond of golf, which he played chiefly at Elie in Fife and at Virginia Water. There he built himself a house, Scotch Corner, on the Wentworth estate, where he annually entertained the competitors for the Paton cup, which he had presented to St Mary's Hospital Medical School. He was tall and of imposing presence. Publications: Intravitreous haemorrhages, with W E Paramore. *Lancet*, 1905, 2, 1248. Optic neuritis in cerebral tumours. *Trans Ophth Soc UK* 1905, 25, 129-162, and 1908, 28, 112-144. Some abnormalities of ocular movements, with J H Jackson. *Lancet*, 1909, 1, 900. A clinical study of optic neuritis in its relationship to intracranial tumours. *Brain*, 1909, 32, 65-91. The localising value of unequal papilloedema. *Brit med J* 1910, 1, 664. The pathology of papilloedema, with G Holmes. *Brain*, 1911, 33, 389-432. Classification of the optic atrophies. President's address, section of neurology, RSM, 9 October 1930. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1930-31, 24, 25-33. Optic neuritis, retrobulbar and papillary. Mackenzie memorial lecture, 29 October 1937. *Glasg med J* 1937, 128, 245-260.
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First Title value, for Searching Jobson, James Stanley (1884 - 1938)

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First Title value, for Searching Johnson, Frederick (1866 - 1946)

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First Title value, for Searching Wilson, John Bateman (1818 - 1870)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Studied at Guy's Hospital and was a member of the Physical Society of the Hospital. He practised at 14 Scotch Street, Whitehaven, where he was Surgeon to the Whitehaven and West Cumberland Infirmary, to the Howgill Division of the Whitehaven Collieries, and to the County Constabulary. He died at Whitehaven, October 26th, 1870. Publication:- "Case of Opacity of the Cornea." - *Guy's Hosp Rep*, 1849, vi (ser ii), 53.
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First Title value, for Searching Buckmaster, George Alfred (1859 - 1937)

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Publication Date 2013-04-24
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Occupation Physiologist
Details Born at Wandsworth, London, on 7 February 1859, the second son and second child of John Charles Buckmaster, JP and Emily Ann Goodliffe, his wife. His father, who was in the Science and Art department at South Kensington, was one of the pioneers as a departmental lecturer. The family achieved a distinguished record. The eldest son was an assistant master at Magdalen College School, Oxford; the third son, Sidney, became Lord High Chancellor of England, and was created Viscount Buckmaster of Cheddington; the fourth son, C A Buckmaster, was chief inspector under the Board of Education; the fifth, Martin A Buckmaster, principal examiner under the Board of Education, was well known as an authority on architecture and as an artist. George Buckmaster was educated under his eldest brother at Magdalen College School and matriculated at the University of Oxford on 16 October 1877 as a Demy of Magdalen College. He graduated BA with first-class honours in the school of natural science in 1881, gained the Burdett Coutts university scholarship in geology in 1882, and was awarded the Radcliffe travelling Fellowship in 1883. As Radcliffe travelling Fellow he did research work in physiology in the laboratories at Leipzig, Kiel, Gottingen, and Berlin. He received his medical education at St George's Hospital where he continued his research work until 1900, when he went to India as a member of the commission appointed to investigate leprosy. In 1904 he succeeded Henry Power, FRCS as professor of physiology at the Royal Veterinary College and became assistant professor of physiology at University College, London. In 1919 he was elected professor of physiology in Bristol University in succession to Stanley Kent, and held office until 1929. He was for many years an examiner in physiology at the Royal College of Surgeons and in that capacity had visited India, New Zealand, and Australia, with William Wright, FRCS as his colleague. The secretary of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons recorded "the sorrow felt in Australia and New Zealand at his death", in a letter to the *Brit med J*. 1938, 1, 650. He married Amy Elizabeth Brooks, daughter of Charles Brooks of Milton Green, Cheshire on 14 August 1889 at Worsley Parish Church, Lancs. She survived him with a son and a daughter. He died after an attack which left him aphasic on 21 December 1937 at 6 Victoria Square, Clifton, Bristol. Buckmaster had much of the family talent and good looks. He was an excellent conversationalist, a first-rate teller of stories, and a great friend. His memory was prodigious and he had an extensive acquaintance with the general literature of his day. Scientifically he was especially interested in the morphology of the blood, more particularly in connexion with the vexed question of the origin and nature of blood platelets, and in the blood gases in anaesthesia.
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First Title value, for Searching Phemister, Dallas Burton (1882 - 1951)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Carbondale, Illinois, on 15 July 1882, son of John T Phemister and his wife Elizabeth Fox. He was educated at Rush Medical College, Chicago, where he graduated in 1904, and made postgraduate studies in Europe, including a period in Professor Starling's physiological laboratory at University College, London. He was appointed lecturer in surgery and associate clinical professor at Rush Medical College in 1906 and continued to serve it throughout his career, after its incorporation into the University of Chicago Medical Center. He took a leading part in the work of the American College of Surgeons, of which he was a foundation Fellow in 1913, and in many other local, state, national, and international bodies. He distinguished himself as surgeon, scientist, teacher, and counsellor. In later years he advocated what he called "the best American system" of medical practice, through which in a single establishment the specialist should provide free service to the needy and privately paid service to the well-to-do and at the same time receive a proper salary in his capacity as a teacher and research-worker. He exemplified in his own person how superbly this triple activity could be carried by a man as able, modest, and single-minded as himself. He worked hard through the American College of Surgeons to improve postgraduate teaching, and wrote much to this purpose; see particularly his editorial "Graduate training in surgery" in *Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics*, 1942, 74, 643. He was one of those outstanding men who go on educating themselves to the end of their lives. During the first world war Phemister served in France as a major in the US Medical Corps. He became chief of the department of surgery at the University of Chicago in 1925, with his clinical service at the Albert Merritt Billings Memorial Hospital. He was Thomas D Jones professor of surgery 1940-47, and was elected emeritus professor on his retirement. His pupils and associates compiled and dedicated to him the December 1945 issue of *Annals of Surgery* (volume 122, No 6), but unfortunately the chance was missed of including a biographical note, a portrait, or a survey of his work in this Festschrift. He was throughout his career a prolific writer for the professional journals; much of his best work, which was widely influential, appeared in *Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics*. He was always interested to discover the physiological background of surgical disease, in the Hunterian tradition, and to apply his discoveries in devising new operations and new methods of general treatment. He was particularly concerned with the effects of interference with the blood-supply on the skeletal system and in the causation of shock. He made important contributions to the knowledge of appendicitis, calcification of gall-stones, tubercular arthritis, and cancer, especially of bone. He studied the arrest of bone growth, bone cysts, necrosis of bone and osteomyelitis, and was himself a great pioneer in orthopaedic surgery. He served the office of president of the Chicago Pathological Society, the Institute of Medicine of Chicago 1948-49, the American Surgical Association 1938, the Society for Clinical Surgery, and the American College of Surgeons 1948-49. He was elected an honorary Fellow of The Royal College of Surgeons when the 12th Congress of the International Society of Surgery met in London in 1947. He was a vice-president the 14th Congress in Paris in 1951, and was then decorated with the Legion of Honour of the French Republic. He visited London on his way home from Paris, and expressed keen interest in the College memorials of John Belchier, who first studied the growth of bone by madder-feeding, in the eighteenth century. Phemister married in 1914 Katherine Gannon; he died unexpectedly, of appendicitis, in the Billings Hospital, Chicago, on 28 December 1951, aged 69. He was a tall man of fine appearance, modest and dignified in bearing. Select publications: Fate of transplanted bone. *Surg Gynec Obstet* 1914, 19, 303. Subperiosteal resection in osteomyelitis. *J Amer med Ass* 1915, 65, 1994. Surgery of the thorax. *Surg Gynec Obstet* 1924, 38, 471. Silent foci of localized osteomyelitis. *J Amer med Ass* 1924, 82, 1311. Haemorrhage and shock in traumatized limbs. *Surg Gynec Obstet* 1930, 51, 196. Experimental shock: effect of bleeding after reduction of blood pressure by various, methods. *Ibid* 1933, 56, 161. Aseptic necrosis of bone. *Ibid* 1939, 68, 129 and 631. Transthoracic resection for cancer of cardiac end of stomach. *Arch Surg (Chicago)*, 1943, 46, 915. Role of nervous system in shock. *Ann Surg* 1943, 118, 256. Circulatory disturbances in the head of the femur. *Amer Acad orthop Surg Lectures*, 1943, 1, 129. Bone infarcts. *Amer J Path* 1946, 22, 947. Treatment of ununited fractures by onlay bone grafts. *J Bone Jt Surg* 1947, 29, 946. Lesions of bones and joints arising from interruption of circulation. *J Mt Sinai Hosp* 1948, 15, 55. Contributions of animal experimentation to the treatment of surgical shock. *Surg Gynec Obstet* 1948, 86, 487. Evaluation of full-time and group practice for the clinical faculty of a medical school. *Bull Amer Coll Surg* 1950, 35, 17.
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First Title value, for Searching Phillips, Walter (1878 - 1945)

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First Title value, for Searching Hurley, Michael Vincent (1893 - 1964)

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First Title value, for Searching Bull, Peter Nicolay (1869 - 1951)

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

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

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First Title value, for Searching Johnstone, Sir Robert James (1872 - 1938)

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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist Politician
Details Born at Greenisland, Co Antrim, where his family had lived for many generations, on 4 January 1872, the only son and eldest child of Charles Johnstone, land owner, and Mary McCreavy, his wife. He was educated at the Belfast Academical Institution, and at Queen's College, Belfast, where he was a scholar in 1891, 1892, and 1894, Dunville student in 1895, and Coulter exhibitioner and first medallist at the BA examination. He served as house surgeon at the Royal Victoria Hospital as soon as he was qualified, was demonstrator of anatomy at Queen's College, and was appointed to a studentship in pathology under Professor Lorraine Smith in 1896. He then took postgraduate courses in London and Vienna, and on his return, having determined to devote himself to the diseases of women, acted as assistant to Sir John Byers from 1900. He was soon appointed surgeon to the Belfast Maternity Hospital, and in 1902 was elected assistant gynaecologist at the Royal Victoria Hospital, becoming surgeon in 1908 and professor of gynaecology at the University in succession to Sir John Byers in 1921. When the Parliament of Northern Ireland was established in 1921 Johnstone was chosen to represent Queen's University in the Ulster House of Commons. He did much good work in this position, and took an active part as a member of the Royal Commission which issued a report upon which the Education Act in Northern Ireland was afterwards based. His parliamentary record also included the chairmanship of the commission on local government services in Northern Ireland; this commission in 1927 issued a survey of the existing system, which revealed its limitations and outlined a comprehensive scheme of reform. He did equally good work at the British Medical Association which he joined in 1897. For seven years he was secretary of the Ulster branch, of which he was president in 1921, and in 1937 he was elected president of the Association when the annual meeting was held in Belfast. During his year of office he received the honour of knighthood. From 1927 until his death he represented Queen's University on the General Medical Council, and from 1934 he was a member of the Dental Board. He took a prominent part in the inception of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, was a foundation Fellow, and was elected to the Council. In freemasonry he was always interested, was one of the founders and was the first master of the Queen's University Lodge. On 8 August 1906 he married Florence, daughter of the Rev G Magill, Presbyterian minister of Cliftonville. She survived him, but without children. He died at Newcastle, Co Down on 25 October 1938. Sir Robert Johnstone held a high position in the medical profession. He was loved and trusted by all his contemporaries, both for his social and professional attainments. Fostered by his friend and former master, Edward Russell, he had a sound knowledge of the classics and could read Greek and Latin poetry with pleasure. He was for two successive years captain of the Royal County Down. Golf Club. He early enlisted in the University Volunteer Force, and during the first world war he was engaged daily in its duties, without a commission and as a voluntary worker. Publications: Obstetrics and gynaecology, in Whitla's *Dictionary of treatment*, 6th edition, London, 1920. Caesarean section, with a record of 28 cases. *Trans Ulster med Soc* 1914-15, pp 99-114. Renal decapsulation in puerperal eclampsia. *Practitioner*, 1908, 80, 797.
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First Title value, for Searching Johnston, Henry Mulrea (1877 - 1951)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 3 July 1877 at Holywood, Co Down, Ireland, eldest of the three children and only son of David Johnston, MD, who was in general practice there, and of his wife Clara Agnes Dalton. He was educated at Upper Sullivan School, Holywood, and at Queen's College, Belfast, then a constituent of the Royal University of Ireland where he won scholarships. After qualifying in 1903 he was appointed demonstrator of physiology at Trinity College, Dublin, under Professor W H Thompson, whose daughter he married many years later (see below). From 1904 till 1910 he was chief demonstrator of anatomy to Professor A F Dixon, and some of his beautiful plaster models of the carpal bones were retained permanently at Trinity. Johnston decided to practice surgery although a brilliant career as an academic anatomist was open to him. He consequently moved to London in 1910, worked at the London Hospital, and served as clinical assistant at St Bartholomew's and at Great Ormond Street. He took the Fellowship in 1911 and served as resident medical officer at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. He now developed his interest in radiology, and combining this with his excellent craftsmanship equipped himself very thoroughly for orthopaedic work. He always fashioned his own absorbable ox-bone screws, plates, and bolts for bone-surgery, and was an early advocate of plaster jackets. He was also much interested in the surgery of the jaws, and especially in reparative surgery of the face. He settled at Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1912 on appointment as resident medical officer at the Royal Victoria Hospital, and did very good work there in the early years of the war with a half-trained staff of students, when the more senior men were called to active service. He was commissioned in the RAMC, in 1917 and served at the Queen's Hospital, Sidcup, where he became adept in plastic surgery of the face. He went back to Newcastle in 1920, was appointed assistant surgeon at the Infirmary under Sir Joseph William Leech, FRCSEd, and became surgeon in 1927 and consulting surgeon in 1937. He was also surgeon to the Children's Sanatorium at Stannington, Morpeth. Johnston was a lucid and stimulating teacher, with a ready Irish wit and a fund of bonhomie. He was beloved as "Pa J" by generations of students, who delighted in his originality and carelessness for convention. After retirement he took much interest in compensation for injury and other medico-legal problems. Johnston married in 1928 Muriel, elder daughter of Sir Henry Thompson, his former chief at TCD. She survived him with their two sons. They lived at 36 Jesmond Road, Newcastle, where he was a keen gardener. He died on 22 June 1951, aged 74. Publications: Epilunar and hypolunar ossicles, division of the scaphoid and other abnormalities in the carpal region. *J Anat* 1907, 41, 59. Varying positions of carpal bones in the different movements of the wrist-joint. *J Anat* 1907, 41, 109 and 280. Anatomy of the mandible in relation to injury and disease. *Brit dent J* 1922, 43, 889. Non-malignant tumours of the jaw, diagnosis and treatment. *Brit dent J* 1924, 45, 1437.
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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 Edmunds, Walter (1850 - 1930)

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

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First Title value, for Searching Balgarnie, Wilfred (1865 - 1955)

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

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First Title value, for Searching Pollard, Bilton (1855 - 1931)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Rastrick near Halifax on 11 November 1855, the youngest son of Tempest Pollard, MRCS (d 1866) and Sarah Pollard, his wife. His elder brother, Arthur Tempest Pollard, was the first headmaster of the City of Oxford School 1881-87, and was headmaster of the City of London School 1890-1905. Bilton Pollard was educated on the foundation at Epsom College and entered University College, London with a scholarship in 1870. He graduated at the University of London with first-class honours in the intermediate MB examination in 1877, when he obtained the number of marks qualifying for the medal in materia medica and pharmaceutical chemistry, and with honours in forensic medicine and midwifery at the final MB examination in 1880. At University College Hospital he was successively house officer, assistant demonstrator of anatomy, and assistant to the professor of clinical surgery. In 1882 he became resident surgeon at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, returning to University College Hospital as surgical registrar in 1884. Two years later he was elected surgeon to the North Eastern Hospital for Children, which was renamed the Queen's Hospital in 1908, and held office until 1897 when he was appointed consulting surgeon. At University College Hospital he was elected assistant surgeon in 1887, surgeon in 1904, and consulting surgeon in 1915. During his period as assistant surgeon he had charge of the ear and throat department. He was professor of clinical surgery 1896-1914, when he was given the title of emeritus professor on his retirement. He was an expert colour photographer. Whilst in active work he had brass casts made of his hands the better to secure proper fitting gloves which were then coming into general use. At the Royal College of Surgeons he examined in elementary anatomy in 1891, and was a member of the Court of Examiners 1905-15, and a member of the Council 1910-18. Owing to anxiety about his health he retired in 1914, first to Sidmouth and afterwards to Bournemouth. He acted during the war as the representative of the Royal College of Surgeons of England on the first pensions tribunal, a position which involved much travelling throughout England and Ireland. He never married. He died on 5 November 1931 and was buried in Bournemouth cemetery. He bequeathed £10,000 to University College Hospital for fellowships to be awarded to men students of the Hospital who had already served as house surgeons or house physicians, together with valuable bequests to Epsom College. His copy of Vesalius' *Fabrica* 1555 in a contemporary stamped binding was presented in 1932 to the RCS Library in his memory by his elder brother A T Pollard (see above), who died on 14 January 1934. Wilfred Trotter paid a tribute to Bilton Pollard in the following terms: "Bilton Pollard was the last survivor of four men who, in the early years of this century, gave a special quality to the surgery school of University College Hospital. The others were Arthur Barker, Rickman Godlee and Victor Horsley. Barker was perhaps the most elegant surgical technician of his time. Godlee was an anatomist, an artist, a scholar, and a surgeon of great ability in the best academic tradition. Horsley was an acknowledged genius, in whose company even the most obtuse could not miss the thrill of contact with great powers. In this very distinguished group Pollard easily held his own as an influence and a force. He was no virtuoso of the operating theatre, he was no profound scholar, he had opened up no new province of surgery, but he was a complete practical surgeon, armed in every branch of the art, and the confident master of his equipment. If the light he shone with was relatively mild, it was also supremely constant and without those intermittences which seem to be unavoidable by great brilliance. "To the superficial his practice might have seemed wanting in animation and vigour, for he came to a decision slowly, and he was one of the most deliberate operators of his generation. He has been known, at the end of an operation, when all his assistants were sinking with fatigue, to take down an elaborately completed line of suture because, after long and placid contemplation, it was found not to reach his standard of the exact and. safe. His methods, however, as a whole must have been in fundamental harmony with the needs of the living body, for his patients commonly behaved in a way not always shown by those of more dashing operators, in prosaically getting well. The degree and consistency of his practical success found their most solid testimonial in the fact that he early became the students' surgeon. It was to him that they went in their surgical necessities, and it was to him that they brought their mothers and their aunts, knowing that they would find him as sane and realistic in diagnosis as he would be competent and determined in treatment. "Pollard's whole career was an exemplary demonstration of the familiar truth that for effectiveness in even so technical an art as surgery character can contribute as much as, if not more than, aptitude. He was a Yorkshireman, and to the attentive ear his native county lingered faintly and pleasantly in his speech. His figure was sturdy and comfortable, his. expression was mild and benevolent, but with a straight look that showed he could be resolute and formidably direct. When reproof was necessary he had the admirable art of giving it weight without anger, so that it did its work and left no by-product of bitterness and discouragement. His mind was shrewd and realistic rather than actively intellectual, and he had an implacable good sense that no ingenuity could delude. His strongest personal characteristic was his rock-like placidity. This was no mere inertia but an inward calm in which the perplexities of diagnosis were surprisingly often resolved and which made him as an operator extraordinarily independent of his audience and unruffled by complications. His serene temperament was undoubtedly the very substance of his being and in the last analysis the quality that put him among the very small band of the soundest, the most uniformly successful and, above all, the most trusted surgeons of his time." Publications: Edited Heath's *Minor surgery*, 12th edition, 1901; 13th, 1906; 14th, 1909.
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First Title value, for Searching Pollard, Charles (1864 - 1938)

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First Title value, for Searching Pooley, George Henry (1867 - 1937)

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

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-07-24 2015-08-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Mohamed Fatin was born on 3 September 1906. He gained his FRCS in 1939. His last known address was in Cairo, Egypt.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004272
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First Title value, for Searching George, Puthukudiyil Mathai (1940 - 2013)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-07-24 2015-08-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Puthukudiyil Mathai George was born on 20 May 1940. He studied medicine in Poona, qualifying MB BS in 1968, and gained his FRCS in 1978. He died on 19 January 2013 in Kochi, Kerala, India. He was 72.
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First Title value, for Searching Powell, William Wyndham (1857 - 1944)

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

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-30
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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 Cramsie, Jack Halling (1900 - 1946)

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

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First Title value, for Searching Price, Ivor Isaac (1903 - 1950)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-04 2014-08-07
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Occupation Gastrointestinal surgeon General surgeon
Details Born in London on 30 August 1903, the eldest child of Nathan Price, a hardware merchant, and his wife Yetta Nyfield. He was educated at Daventry Foundation School and King's College Hospital, where he won numerous scholarships and prizes and served the usual residential posts. He also served as house surgeon and resident medical officer at Queen Mary's Hospital for the East End, surgical registrar at the National Orthopaedic Hospital, and medical superintendent of the Seamen's Hospital, Tilbury. Price entered the medical service of the London County Council in 1929 and was posted to Bethnal Green Hospital and St Andrew's Hospital, Bow. From 1938 to 1948 he was deputy medical superintendent and senior surgeon at St Mary Islington Hospital, Highgate, and in 1947 was promoted to be a surgical specialist in the Archway group of hospitals. His interest lay in gastroscopy and gastroenterology, and he achieved his ambition when he was appointed in 1948 consulting surgeon and director of the gastroenterological unit at the newly formed Whittington Hospital, of which St Mary Islington became a component. Price was busily at work to within a few hours of his death from coronary thrombosis on 24 July 1950, at the age of 46. He married in 1942 Phyllis Aarons, who survived him with a son. Publications: Myositis fibrosa progressiva. *Brit med J* 1930, 1, 1131. Carcinoid tumour of Meckel's diverticulum. *Brit J Surg* 1935, 23, 30. Pre- and post-operative treatment of peptic ulcer. *Med Press* 1947, 217, 526.
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First Title value, for Searching Primrose, Alexander (1861 - 1944)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 5 April 1861 at Pictou, Nova Scotia, the third child and eldest son of Howard Primrose, of the Bank of Nova Scotia, and Oliva Campbell, his wife. He was educated at Pictou Academy, at Edinburgh University, where he qualified, and at the Middlesex Hospital. After taking the English Conjoint degree, he went back to Canada, began to practise at Toronto in 1889, and was appointed to the staff of the General Hospital, where he ultimately became consulting surgeon. He was also consulting surgeon to the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. He was a member of the examining board of the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1885-1902. In 1896 he became professor of anatomy at Toronto University, a chair he held till 1907, having previously served as demonstrator. During the first world war, in which his only son was killed in action, Primrose served as surgeon to No 4 Canadian General Hospital in France. In 1915-16 he was posted to Salonika, and then appointed consultant with the Canadian Army in England. He was mentioned in despatches for his coolness and devotion to duty, and created CB (military division) in 1918. He held the rank of colonel, CAMC Reserve. On his return to Toronto he became professor of clinical surgery, and held the chair from 1918 to 1931. He was also dean of the Faculty of Medicine from 1920 to 1932. Primrose took an active part in professional societies: he served as president of the Toronto Pathological Society 1898, Toronto Medical Society 1900, Toronto Academy of Medicine 1918, American Surgical Association 1931, and Canadian Medical Association 1932. He was a member of the Medical Council of Canada 1930-32; an honorary Fellow of the American Medical Association and the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh, and a vice-president of the British Medical Association. He was a member of the Société internationale de Chirurgie, and a regent of the American College of Surgeons 1919-24. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons as a member of twenty years' standing in 1925. In 1941 he represented the College at the centenary celebrations of Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. Primrose married (1) in 1889 Clara Christine, daughter of George Ewart of Toronto; they had three daughters and a son. He married (2) in 1920 Elizabeth, daughter of Mr Justice Britton and widow of Major Charles A Moss of Toronto; Mrs Primrose survived him only two months, dying on 11 April 1944. Primrose died on 8 February 1944 in the Toronto General Hospital, aged 83. He was survived by two daughters: Mrs N S Macdonnell and Mrs John Coulter. His only son Howard was killed in action in 1916, and the third daughter, Mrs Grahame Joy, also died before her father. Publications: Tuberculous diseases of the bones and joints. *American practice of surgery*, 1907. War wounds, with E S Ryerson. *Brit med J* 1916, 2, 384. This paper, based on his own experience at Salonika, had a wide influence on British practice. Pancreatic cysts and pseudocysts. *Surg Gynec Obstet* 1923, 36, 575. Tumours of the breast. *Ann Surg* 1923, 77, 668. *The interrelationship of anatomy and surgery and its historical background*, Balfour Lecture. Toronto, 1933.
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First Title value, for Searching Primrose, Archibald Philip, 5th Earl of Rosebery (1847 - 1929)

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First Title value, for Searching Pringle, James Hogarth (1863 - 1941)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 26 January 1863 at Parramatta, Sydney, NSW, the eldest child and only son of George Hogarth Pringle, MD, FRCS Ed, and Annie Oakes Byrnes, his wife. For an account of G H Pringle (1833-72) see A Logan Turner's *Joseph, Baron Lister, centenary volume*, Edinburgh, 1927, pages 176-177, and photograph of the residents at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in 1854, including Lister and Pringle. J H Pringle was educated at Sedbergh School and at Edinburgh University, where he graduated in 1885. After studying at Hamburg, Berlin, and Vienna, where he formed lifelong friendships with Anton von Eiselsberg and Carl Lauenstein, he served as house surgeon and clinical assistant in the gynaecological ward at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and house surgeon at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Here in 1888, the year in which he took the Membership, he assisted Sir William Macewen in his pathological work, and subsequently became assistant surgeon under him. He took the Fellowship in 1892, and was elected surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow in 1896. In 1899 he was elected a Fellow of the Glasgow Faculty, and its Visitor in 1923, in which year he became consulting surgeon to the Infirmary on his retirement. During the war of 1914-18 Pringle served at No 4 Scottish General Hospital at Stobhill, with a commission as major, RAMC(T), dated 3 July 1908. He was for many years lecturer in surgery and demonstrator of anatomy at Queen Margaret College for women students in Glasgow University. He married on 30 April 1917 Ethelmay Christie, who survived him, but they had no children. He died at Whiteflat, Killearn, Stirlingshire on 24 April 1941, aged 78. Pringle was a reserved man, with a somewhat hard and downright manner hiding his essential humanity. While a clinical surgeon of the first rank, he was at heart a scientist and experimenter. He was a thorough operator, with a delicate touch and mechanical skill, and had deep knowledge of anatomy and pathology. Though he had no ambition for the limelight, his worth was appreciated by his colleagues. He was an original member of the Association of Surgeons and of the Moynihan Chirurgical Club. His writings cover a wide range of topics and record much original observation. He devised new operations for umbilical and inguinal hernia. His work on vein-grafting for the maintenance of direct arterial circulation attracted attention, as did his demonstration with Professor J H Teacher before the Glasgow Royal Medico-chirurgical Society of post-mortem digestion of the oesophagus. In 1908 he was engaged on pioneer work in the treatment of melanotic sarcoma, and early in the twentieth century he successfully transplanted animal urethra to replace excised strictures. To the Association of Surgeons he demonstrated a new operation to save sight, in cases of haemorrhage into the optic nerve due to injury in the temporo-frontal region. At the time of his death he was working over his early studies of the mechanism of dislocation of the hip. Pringle was a regular reader in the library of the College, though latterly his visits to London were infrequent. Subject to his wife's life-rent, he left the residue of his property to found a Hogarth Pringle scholarship or scholarships at Edinburgh University, for post-graduate research in surgery at any school approved by the Edinburgh professor of clinical surgery, in memory of his father and mother. He left his portraits of his father and of Sir William Macewen to the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh with possession to his wife for her life. (*Weekly Scotsman*, 11 October 1941, communicated by Prof Grey Turner.) Publications: Repair of the uretha by transplantation of the urethra of animals. *Ann Surg* 1904, 40,387-397. Remarks on the treatment of empyema. *Brit med J* 1905, 1, 809. Notes on the arrest of hepatic haemorrhage due to trauma. *Ann Surg* 1908, 48, 541-549. A method of operation in cases of melanotic tumours of the skin. *Edin med J* 1908, 23, 496. *Fractures and their treatment*. London, 1910. A method of treating umbilical hernia. *Edin med J* 1913, 10, 493. Two cases of vein-grafting for the maintenance of a direct arterial circulation. *Lancet*, 1913, 1, 1795. Digestion of the oesophagus as a cause of post-operative haematemesis, with J H Teacher. *Brit J Surg* 1918-19, 6, 523-536. Cutaneous melanoma: two cases alive 30 and 38 years after operation. *Lancet*, 1937, 1, 508.
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First Title value, for Searching Pryce, Harold Vaughan (1873 - 1946)

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First Title value, for Searching Pugh, William Thomas Gordon (1872 - 1945)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-04 2015-06-22
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Occupation Bacteriologist General surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Born 9 April 1872 at Hadley, Kerry district, Montgomeryshire, the second child and eldest son of William H Pugh, a civil servant, and Annie Grant, his wife. He was educated at Ardwyn School and the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth. He entered the Middlesex Hospital as a scholar in 1889, won the Governor's scholarship in 1893, was senior Broderip scholar in 1894, the year in which he took the Conjoint qualification, and in 1895 at the London MB, BS examination he took honours in medicine and obstetrics and first-class honours in surgery. He served as house physician and house surgeon at the Middlesex and as resident medical officer at the Hackney Road Children's Hospital. In 1897 Pugh entered the fever service of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, and in 1907 was superintendent of Gore Farm, later the Southern Hospital, at Dartford, Kent. In 1909 Pugh was appointed the first superintendent of the Children's Hospital at Carshalton, Surrey, which as Queen Mary's Hospital for Children he made a most important centre for the treatment of surgical non-pulmonary tuberculosis, with 1,300 beds. In 1930, when the functions, of the MAB were transferred to the London County Council, Pugh became chief medical superintendent of the LCC children's and surgical tuberculosis services. He was elected a Fellow of the College as a member of twenty years' standing in 1935, and retired in 1937. Pugh was consulting surgeon to the King Edward VII Welsh National Memorial for the treatment of tuberculosis. He served as president of the section of orthopaedics at the Royal Society of Medicine in 1926. He was also an active member of the British Orthopaedic Association. He had served on the LCC departmental committee on hospital standards. Pugh made some mark as a bacteriologist, but the life-work which won him a wide reputation as "Pugh of Carshalton" was in the progressive organization of a large-scale service for the treatment and after-care of non-pulmonary tubercular children. His career ran parallel to that of Sir Henry Gauvain. As early as 1909, the year of his appointment to Carshalton, he showed the need for open-air treatment, and later made use of open-air heliotherapy and actinotherapy. In 1912 he organized the education of the children in his charge, at the Carshalton Hospital School. He designed and perfected, through a series of modifications based on practical experience, the "Pugh" frames and carriage for patients with tuberculosis of spine and hip, which allow facility in nursing with a minimum of intervention. They also allow the patient free exercise of limbs and lungs, and make sun and ray treatment easy. He organized a series of special units at Carshalton: for children suffering from marasmus, for non-tuberculous orthopaedic conditions such as poliomyelitis, cerebral palsy, and osteomyelitis, and for congenital malformations. The unit for juvenile rheumatism, which he established in collaboration with his deputy Sir Norman Gray Hill in 1926, had 390 beds when he retired in 1937. Pugh had width of vision and knowledge. Though a strict disciplinarian he was genial and affable, and took infinite pains in teaching and helping his assistants and nurses, and followed their careers with care. His book on *Practical nursing*, written with H E Cuff and his sister Alice M Pugh, went through fourteen editions, the later issues being the product of his leisure in retirement. His recreation was travel. Pugh married in 1909 Elaine, only daughter of David Edmond Hobson of Shaftesbury, Fort Beaufort, and St Laurence, Adelaide, South Africa. Mrs Pugh survived him with a son, Surgeon-Lieutenant Patterson David Gordon Pugh, RNVR, and a daughter, the wife of a doctor. He died at Greyholme, 6 Browning Avenue, Boscombe, Bournemouth, on 22 July 1945, aged 73. Publications: Method of staining B diphtheriae. *Lancet*, 1905, 2, 1901. Spinal caries in children; a method of fixation. *Lancet*, 1921, 1, 1071. Method of treating hip disease; traction by suspension. *M A B Reports*, 1926. *Practical nursing, including hygiene and dietetics*, with H E Cuff and A M Pugh. 14th edition, Edinburgh, 1944.
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First Title value, for Searching Purkis, Kenneth Noel (1892 - 1932)

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First Title value, for Searching Quine, Albert Edward (1884 - 1947)

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First Title value, for Searching Raison, Cyril Alban (1891 - 1948)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-16
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 19 December 1891, the second son of Frederick Herbert Raison, a schoolmaster, and Maud Chaplin, his wife. He was educated at King Edward's Grammar School, Nuneaton, and at Birmingham Medical School, and served as house surgeon in the Queen's Hospital to C A Leedham-Green, professor of surgery at Birmingham. As soon as he had qualified in 1914 he joined the RAMC in the first world war, and served at Salonika as major in charge of a surgical division. After the war he settled in practice at Birmingham and was appointed assistant surgeon to the General Hospital in 1928, becoming surgeon to the United Hospital on its formation. He was also surgeon to the Children's Hospital, and consulting surgeon to Nuneaton General and Infectious Diseases Hospital. He was for some years lecturer on operative surgery at Birmingham University. Raison volunteered for active service again in the RAMC on the outbreak of the second war in 1939, but was not accepted on account of his ill-health. He worked strenuously among the air-raid casualties at Birmingham during 1940-41 and operated regularly in the great under-ground emergency hospital. Raison married in 1923 Ceres Johnson, who survived him with a son and a daughter. Raison's health was broken by his wartime exertions and he died, after a long illness, in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, on 8 May 1948, aged 56. He was buried at Llwyngwrill. He left £2,000 to endow a prize at Birmingham University in the surgical diseases of children. Raison had a staunch spirit in a slight frame, and was an excellent all-round surgeon, craftsman and teacher. He had a large practice at 58 Harborne Road.
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First Title value, for Searching Rake, Alfred Theodore (1869 - 1946)

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First Title value, for Searching Ralston, Robert Gow (1875 - 1935)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-16
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at the University of Edinburgh, he served as casualty house surgeon at the Temperance Hospital, London, and as resident medical officer at Booth Hall Infirmary for Children, Manchester. Then returning to London he was medical superintendent at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in 1900. He studied at St Bartholomew's and the London Hospitals for his primary and final Fellowship examinations. He went to South Africa as a civil surgeon during the South African war, remained there practising in Johannesburg from 1902 to 1920, moved to Durban, came back to Johannesburg in 1923, and died there of influenza on 25 June 1935, leaving "nearly half a million sterling".
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First Title value, for Searching Randall, Martin (1868 - 1939)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-16
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Guernsey on 6 May 1868, the second son of the Rev N B Randall, congregational minister, and Mary Domaille of La Villette, Guernsey, his wife. He was educated at Mount Radford School, Exeter, and then after some private teaching went to University College, London. He had a brilliant career at the London University, where he obtained first-class honours in medicine at the MB examination and qualified for the gold medal at the MD; at University College and Hospital he was the Atkinson-Morley surgical scholar, house surgeon, resident obstetric assistant, house physician, assistant in the throat and ear department, and assistant demonstrator of anatomy. He also served as house physician at the General Lying-in Hospital in York Road, Lambeth, and in 1898 was house surgeon and obstetric house surgeon at the General Hospital, Bristol. He settled in general practice at Wimbledon on 1 January 1899 and retired on 31 December 1930, having quickly made a name for himself as a skilful surgeon. He was largely instrumental in starting the Nelson Hospital at Merton, SW20, and was surgeon to it from its foundation to 1930, when it maintained twenty beds. He married Edith Cooke, daughter of the Rev G F Cooke, rector of Litton, Bath. She survived him with two sons and a daughter. On his retirement, being much interested in the museum founded by Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, FRCS, he settled at Haslemere, Surrey, where he died on 7 December 1939 at Villette, Beech Road. Randall had many interests outside his profession. He was fond of shooting and was devoted to bird life which often led him to study birds and their habits in the Scilly Isles, was well read in general literature and delighted in reading aloud.
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First Title value, for Searching Yacoub, Ahmed Abdel Aziz (1931 - 2013)

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by T A Elhadd
Publication Date 2013-07-24 2013-11-06
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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon
Details Ahmed Abdel Aziz Yacoub, widely known as Ahmed Abdel Aziz, was a pioneering Sudanese cardiothoracic surgeon. A charismatic leader and gifted teacher, he was a staunch advocate of training in surgery in the Sudan. He was born in Gubbat Salim, Abri, in northern Sudan on 12 January 1931. His father was a civil servant who was employed in the customs department. Ahmed was the second eldest son from a family of three brothers and one sister. He received his primary education at Port Sudan, Sudan's second city, and in 1946 he was part of the first cohort of pupils to be enrolled at Wadi Saynda Secondary School, one of the first schools established by the British in the 1940s based on the Eton and Harrow model. In 1950, Ahmed was accepted into the Kitchener School of Medicine (it became the University College Khartoum in December 1953), obtaining the college prize in his first year. He had a very distinguished undergraduate career, obtaining several prizes, including Jackson's prize in pathology, the Waterfield prize in public health, and the Archibald prize in community medicine. He graduated with a distinction and a prize in surgery in April 1956 (by then the University College Khartoum was renamed the faculty of medicine, Khartoum University). As a student and surgical trainee, Ahmed Abdel Aziz was mentored by B Hickey, the first professor of surgery at Khartoum and, following his graduation, he was trained at Khartoum by William MacGowan, senior lecturer to the faculty of medicine and senior surgeon to the health services. Later on, the two became close friends. William MacGowan was the first to perform a cardiac catheterisation at Khartoum Hospital in 1957, and the first to have performed cardiothoracic surgery there. It was probably MacGowan who encouraged Ahmed's love of cardiothoracic surgery, which was by then an evolving specialty. Julian Taylor, who succeeded Hickey at Khartoum, was very passionate about the training of young Sudanese surgeons, an enterprise Ahmed would eventually successfully take on. Through the guidance and encouragement of his mentor Julian Taylor, Ahmed was posted to the UK, where his surgical career blossomed. In January 1960 he was appointed as a surgical registrar and lecturer in the department of surgery at University College Hospital, London. He obtained his FRCS from the Edinburgh College in January 1961, and from the English College in May of the same year. His early success in obtaining these fellowships paved the way for many other young Sudanese doctors to follow suit. Ahmed returned to Khartoum in January 1962 and spent one year at Khartoum Hospital. He then returned to the UK, where he trained in cardiothoracic surgery in Birmingham with the most distinguished professor of cardiothoracic surgery of that era, Alphonso Liguori d'Abreu. Ahmed then spent the following year with Andrew Logan at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. During this later spell he decided to sit the membership examination (cardiology) of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, the first Sudanese doctor to combine surgical and medical postgraduate qualifications in this way. On returning to Khartoum in 1965, Ahmed was appointed chief surgeon at the cardiothoracic section at Khartoum, and he retained this post until 1983. Ahmed's quest for excellence in cardiothoracic surgery took him to yet another guru: in 1965 he crossed the Atlantic to visit Michael DeBakey (and also Denton Cooley) at Houston, Texas. In 1974 Ahmed obtained an MSc in surgery from his old university at Khartoum, and in 1972 he was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. In 1976 he was awarded the fellowship of the American College of Surgeons. In that same year, Ahmed Abdel Aziz began to set the platform for open heart surgery in Khartoum. He first performed around 40 operations on animals jointly with Christopher Lincoln (of the Royal Brompton Hospital) and Salal Umbabi (of the faculty of veterinary medicine at Khartoum University). From 1979 through to 1981, open heart surgery operations were carried out on human patients with input from Sir Magdi Yacoub and Donald Ross. Over 20 operations were performed without a single mortality. From the 1970s, Ahmed Abdel Aziz encouraged and supported the training of scores of young Sudanese surgeons in Europe and beyond, an enterprise he executed with zeal and perfection. He used his extensive network of previous colleagues, mentors and friends to obtain paid training posts, in UK and Ireland in particular. His earlier links with Bill MacGowan proved to be the backbone of this enterprise. And it was not just doctors who were trained: nurses and technicians were also needed in various surgical subspecialties. Many of these doctors and other medical staff are now scattered in every area of Sudan, and also in the Middle East region and beyond. Ahmed's indefatigable energy and passion was not confined to medicine. He was an excellent administrator. He took responsibility for running the hospital where he trained and he excelled. Khartoum Teaching Hospital in the 1970s became an expanding empire, with almost every specialty represented and, from 1976 to 1983, he was its director. His tenure witnessed one of the best periods for service and education in the country. From 1989 to 1995 he was president of the Sudan Medical Council. He also served his country as minister of sport and, in 1984, he was summoned by Colonel Numeri to help rejuvenate the Army medical corps. Ahmed took up the challenge and his efforts transformed the service. He was also interested in the law. At the peak of his surgical career he joined the two faculties of law in Khartoum. First, he enrolled at the University of Cairo, Khartoum campus, where he obtained a licentiate in law in 1986. In 1995 he went on to enrol at the faculty of law, Khartoum University, and obtain a diploma in Sharia law. In the following year he gained an MSc in law from the same faculty. He then registered at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where he was awarded a doctorate in July 2000 for a thesis on 'Responses in Islamic jurisprudence to developments in medical sciences'. The thesis was soon published as a book, *The fiqh of medicine* (London, Ta-Ha, 2001), and was later translated into Arabic. Ahmed kept up his work in education and training past retirement age. He joined the newly established faculty of medicine at the Islamic University, Omdurman, where he founded the academic department of surgery. He was awarded a personal chair there. He maintained this post until shortly before his death. Ahmed Abdel Aziz' last years were hampered by the frustrations of Parkinson's disease. Despite the progressive nature of this terrible and disabling condition, he retained his spirit and his mental strength. He died on 26 April 2013 during a visit to London, following a short illness with many complications. He was 82. He was survived by his wife Sayida Al-Dardiry Mohamed Ahmed Nugud, an eminent obstetrician, whom he married in 1960, two daughters and a son. His eldest daughter, Sarah, trained as an ophthalmologist. His son, Khalid, is a surgeon and is on the staff of the faculty of medicine at Khartoum University. His youngest daughter, Azza, has a PhD in socio-medical anthropology at London University. Ahmed Abdel Aziz will leave a long-lasting legacy.
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First Title value, for Searching Greaves, Francis Ley Augustus (1874 - 1930)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-25
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born at Derby on 4 July 1874 the son of Charles Augustus Greaves, MB, LLB London, who was afterwards physician to the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary. He was educated at St Thomas's Hospital, where he acted as house surgeon in 1898, after which he was appointed assistant house surgeon, house surgeon in 1899 and honorary surgeon in 1902 to the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary. Here he inaugurated the ear, throat and nose department in 1905, and was consulting aural surgeon to the Derbyshire Hospital for Sick Children as well as surgeon to the Whitworth Hospital, Darley Dale, and to the Ripley Cottage Hospital. He was employed during the war as lieutenant-colonel in charge of the surgical division of the 26th and 74th General Hospitals in France and for his services was decorated Officer of the military division of most excellent Order of the British Empire. Greaves was a warm supporter of the Derby Medical Society and of the British Medical Association; he was vice-president of the section of surgery at the Nottingham meeting in 1926. He married in 1906 Constance May Rice who survived him with one son. He died suddenly on 16 April 1930. Publications:- On the treatment of perforated gastric ulcers. *Brit med J* 1906, 1, 373. Case of pyonephrosis containing typhoid bacilli in pure culture. *Ibid* 1907, 2, 75. Treatment of acute intussusception. *Ibid* 1907, 2, 115. Remarks on the natural treatment of parenchymatous goitre. *Ibid* 1909, 1, 384. Fibro-chondroma of the cauda equina; operation; recovery, with F G Lescher. *Ibid* 1925, 1, 592.
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First Title value, for Searching Green, Charles David (1862 - 1937)

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First Title value, for Searching Green, Charles Robert Mortimer (1863 - 1950)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-25
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born 21 May 1863, the third son and fourth of the ten children of the Rev Edward Peter Green and his wife Anne Griffiths. He was educated at Mercers' School and the London Hospital, and played in the Hospital rugby XV. He qualified LSA in 1884, and took the Conjoint diplomas the next year. On 30 September 1886 he was commissioned as surgeon in the Indian Medical Service. He saw active service on the North West Frontier at the Black Mountain and Hazara, winning the medal with clasp in 1888, and at Tirak in 1897-98 and again won the medal with clasp. He had taken the Fellowship and the Cambridge DPH in 1895. He was promoted major in September 1898, and lieutenant-colonel in 1906 when he took the Durham MD, and was placed in the special list for promotion on 1 April 1912. During the war of 1914-18 he served in the hospital ships *Ellora* and *Sicilia*, in the Mahsud operation 1917, and in Mesopotamia and again on the North West frontier. He was promoted colonel on 11 November 1916. After the war he was appointed Inspector General of Civil Hospitals in the Central Provinces. During his years of civil service he was attached the Eden Hospital, Calcutta, and was professor of midwifery in Calcutta University; he was also civil surgeon at Simla. He was appointed an Honorary Surgeon to the King on 15 June 1920, and retired on 28 March 1921. After his return to England Colonel Green settled at Guildford and took an active part in local affairs. He was attached to the honorary staff of the Royal Surrey County Hospital. He was a man of great physical strength, quiet, imperturbable, and fairminded. He retained his zest and big-hearted generosity to the end of his long life. Green married in 1899 Alice Whitworth Yates; there were two sons and a daughter of the marriage. He died at Guildford on 10 April 1950, aged 86. Publication:- E A Birch. *Management of children in India*, 5th edition by C R M Green and V B Green-Armytage, 1913.
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First Title value, for Searching Greenfield, Dudley George (1878 - 1950)

2026-04-25T16:25:49Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-25
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at South Woodford, Essex, on 26 February 1878, the elder son of James Greenfield, sugar broker, and Rachel Weston, his wife. He was educated at Ash House School, Banbury, and at Guy's Hospital. At Guy's he served as house physician, house surgeon, and clinical assistant, and edited the Gazette. Before qualifying he served in the South African War and was attached to the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital at Deelfontein. He went into partnership with F D Crew, MRCS at Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire, but later set up on his own in the town of Rushden in the same county. During the war of 1914-18 he served with the RAMC in France. Greenfield was a man of great energy, who not only had the leading practice at Rushden but was a very prominent citizen. He served on the Council of the British Medical Association 1926-27 on its Insurance Acts Committee and Medical Planning Commission. Locally he was chairman of the Northampton division of the BMA 1931-32, and president of the Northants branch 1932-33. His most successful achievement was the organization of regular collections throughout the county for the Northants Medical Charity. He was churchwarden and choir-master for many years at Rush Parish Church, and served on the Urban District Council. He painted in water-colours, and was a collector of furniture; he built his own house, and was a skilled gardener. His hospitality was wide, his tennis parties being particularly popular. He retired in 1946. Greenfield married twice: (1) in 1907 May Ormonde, who died in 1947; their son had died of cancer in 1938 while a student at Guy's; (2) in December 1948 Isabel Agnes (Meldrum), widow of the Rev John Beck, who survived him. Dudley Greenfield died on 11 January 1950 at 2 Griffith Street, Rushden aged 71, after six months' illness.
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First Title value, for Searching Ollerenshaw, Robert (1882 - 1948)

2026-04-25T16:25:49Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-09-11 2017-02-02
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Born at Blackburn, Lancashire, on 4 September 1882, the eldest of the two sons and three daughters of George Ollerenshaw, JP, merchant, of Cherry Tree near Blackburn, and his wife Hannah Higginbottom. His father later lived at Glossop, Derbyshire. Ollerenshaw was educated at Manchester Grammar School and University (Owens College) graduating in medicine in 1905. He served as senior house surgeon at the Liverpool Children's Hospital, and surgical registrar at Manchester Royal Infirmary. He then worked at the London Hospital and in Berlin, and took the Conjoint diploma and the Manchester doctorate, with special commendation, in 1908; the next year he took the Fellowship. He was at first interested in abdominal surgery, but by 1912 he had begun to be more attracted by orthopaedic problems. During the first world war he served in France with the rank of major, RAMC(T), as surgeon specialist at No 57 General Hospital, after a period at the 2nd Western General Hospital, Manchester. Before qualification he had served in the Cheshire Regiment, and was gazetted captain when the territorial RAMC was formed in 1908. When he came back to civilian practice he was appointed to the staff of the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital and of the Salford Royal Hospital, at each of which he created an orthopaedic department and became orthopaedic surgeon. He was a superb teacher, clear in thought and exposition, though not a ready writer, preferring in later years to seek his son's help in shaping his rough notes into readable prose. He had served as clinical lecturer in orthopaedic surgery at Manchester University. He retired in 1947, and was elected to the board of management of the Salford Royal Hospital. He was visiting orthopaedic surgeon to the Booth Hall Children's Hospital. Ollerenshaw was consulting surgeon to the Manchester Crippled Children's Society, president of the Manchester Surgical Society, a Fellow of the International Society of Orthopaedic Surgery, and an honorary Fellow of the French Orthopaedic Association. He was a vice-president of the British Orthopaedic Association, vice-president of the section of orthopaedics at the Manchester meeting of the British Medical Association, and president of the section of orthopaedics of the Royal Society of Medicine. Ollerenshaw was a frequent contributor to the professional journals, his most important work being the series of papers in the *British Journal of Surgery* on cysts of the semilunar cartilage. He always made a scrupulous review of previous, including foreign, work on the subject in hand. Though he organized an excellent fracture clinic at Salford, he was more concerned with children's problems. He was a pioneer in using the cinema-camera for clinical and operation records. His elder son, Dr Robert G W Ollerenshaw, diagnostic radiologist at Manchester Royal Infirmary, was a camera artist of great talent. "Bob" Ollerenshaw was described as "a genial tyrant". He excelled as surgeon, administrator, and teacher. As a young man he was prominent in association football and lawn tennis. His chief recreation was in music, and besides taking part in small concerts at his own house, his hospitality was readily extended to musicians visiting Manchester. He played well the piano, 'cello, and oboe. During the nineteen-thirties he bought a lake-side villa near Salzburg, and regularly attended the musical festivals there. He was honorary medical officer to the Hallé Orchestra and a member of its managing committee. Ollerenshaw married in 1911 Florence Eleanor, second daughter of Senator the Hon Robert Watson of Portage-la-Prairie, Canada. Mrs Ollerenshaw died on 8 January 1933 at Broome House, Didsbury, Manchester. Ollerenshaw suffered from angina in later life, and collapsed and died in the Clarendon Club, Manchester, after luncheon on 19 May 1948, aged 65. He was survived by two sons, both medical men. Ollerenshaw practised at 21 St John Street, Manchester. Publications: Causation and treatment of coxa vara. *Med Chron* 1912, 55, 156. Sacro-coccygeal tumours. *Ann Surg* 1913, 58, 384. Habitual dislocation of the shoulder joint. *J Orthop Surg* 1920, 2, 255. Rotation dislocation of astragalus. *Brit med J* 1921, 1, 155. The development of cysts in connexion with the external semilunar cartilage of the knee joint. *Brit J Surg* 1921, 8, 409; 1929, 16, 555; 1935, 23, 277. Hospital treatment of fractures. *Brit med J* 1921, 1, 559. Tendon transplantation. *Brit med J* 1922, 2, 77. Giant-celled tumours of tendons associated with xanthelasma. *Brit J Surg* 1923, 10, 466. Observations on the Osgood-Schlatter disease (lesion of the tibial tubercle in adolescents). *Brit med J* 1925, 2, 944. Surgical treatment of dangle foot. *Brit med J* 1926, 1, 525. Treatment of fractures involving the ankle joint. *Brit med J* 1929, 1, 585. Present attitude towards bone-setting and manipulation. *Brit med J* 1930, 1, 1056. Fractures of articular surfaces of knee joint. *Brit med J* 1930, 2, 466. The femoral neck in childhood. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1939, 32, 113. Wounds of knee joint, in H. Bailey *Surgery of modern warfare*. London, 1942.
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First Title value, for Searching O'Malley, John Francis (1868 - 1949)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-09-11
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born 8 August 1868, the eldest child of Peter O'Malley, farmer, of Kilmilkin, Maam, Co Galway, and his wife Mary O'Malley, born in the same clan as her husband. Three other sons of Peter O'Malley also achieved distinction in medicine. He was educated at Galway Grammar School, at Queen's College (now University College), Galway, and at the school of surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, where he was first scholar in 1893-94 and in 1894-95; he also took first place with honours in midwifery at the qualifying examination in 1895. He made postgraduate studies in London and Vienna and then set up in general practice in London. In 1910 he took the English conjoint qualification, proceeding to the Fellowship in December of that year. He now specialized as an aural surgeon, and had a large and successful practice at 6 Upper Wimpole Street among the Irish community in London, of which he was a popular member. He took a leading part in the Irish medical golfing society, and was a member of the Sports Club. He was a genial, tolerant, kind-hearted man. During the war of 1914-18 he served as a major in the RAMC, and was mentioned in despatches. He was surgeon to the department of the ear, nose, and throat at the Royal Herbert Military Hospital, Woolwich. He was also aural surgeon to the Evelina Hospital and to the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth, and consulting surgeon to the Royal Ear Hospital (University College Hospital). O'Malley made several contributions to the literature of his specialty. He served as vice-president of the section of otology, rhinology, and laryngology at the annual meetings of the British Medical Association at Nottingham in 1926 and in Dublin in 1933, when he was awarded the honorary MCh of the National University of Ireland. He was president of the section of otology of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1932-33. O'Malley married twice: (1) in 1906 Mary Hoban, and (2) in 1930 Julia Hoban. There were no children of either marriage. He died on 22 June 1949, aged 80, at Wharfedale, Cantelupe Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, survived by his wife. The funeral was at St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church, Mortlake. Publications: Suggestive points of analogy between oto-sclerosis and arthritis deformans. *Ann Otol* 1913, 22, 1007-19. Aural discharges, their significance and treatment. *Brit med J* 1934, 1, 741-6. Ventilation of the nose and accessory sinuses, oscillographic method of investigation. *J Laryng* 1933, 48, 309-325.
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First Title value, for Searching Raye, Daniel O'Connell (1842 - 1925)

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First Title value, for Searching Ray, John Howson (1870 - 1946)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-16
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Manchester, 10 May 1870, eighth child and fifth son of William Ray, law stationer, and Sarah Ann Howson, his wife. He was educated at Owens College, where he was Dauntesey medical scholar at entrance 1890, and won the Turner and Agnew scholarships 1894, when he graduated in the Victoria University. He practised throughout his life at Manchester, and was on the staff of the Royal Infirmary and the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital at Pendlebury, becoming consulting surgeon to both. He was also consulting surgeon to the Dental Hospital and the Bethesda Home for Cripples. He was at one time reader in surgical pathology at Manchester University, and served the offices of president of the Manchester Medical Society and the Manchester Surgical Society. He was a keen officer in the Territorial Force of the RAMC, and served abroad during the 1914-18 war with the 57th General Hospital. He was commissioned major on 22 January 1913, and retired with the rank of brevet-colonel, gazetted 16 April 1917. Ray practised at 11 St John Street, Manchester, and lived at 20 Palatine Road, Withington, where he died of heart failure on 30 April 1946, survived by his two daughters and his son William Frederick Howson Ray, MRCP, of Hale, Altrincham, Cheshire. He had married in 1900 Edith Taubmann, who died in January 1945. He was a skilled craftsman and made many surgical instruments. He took a personal interest in all his assistants, pupils, and patients, and was affectionately known as "Pa Ray". His humour and wisdom were concealed under a precise and formal manner. Publications: Case of acute intussusception of sigmoid colon due to subserous polypoid lipoma. *Med Chron* 1905, 41, 370. Surgical affections of the hip joint in infancy and childhood. *Ibid* 1911,54, 249-271. Varicose veins. *Clin J* 1924, 53, 601 and 620.
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First Title value, for Searching Rayner, David Charles (1865 - 1945)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-16
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born at Fairfield Road, Bristol, on 1 October 1865, the eldest child of David Rayner, wholesale textile merchant, and his wife, Edith Fryer. He was educated at Observatory House School, Bristol, under Dr Cooper, and at the Bristol Medical School. After working in the physiological laboratories, he decided to specialize in obstetrics and served on the staff of the Bristol Maternity Hospital. He took the Fellowship in 1896, and next year was appointed assistant physician accoucheur at the Bristol General Hospital, becoming physician accoucheur in 1923, when the title was changed to obstetric physician and gynaecologist. He became, director of clinical obstetrics at Bristol University in 1925, and the next year was elected professor of obstetrics, and was made emeritus professor on retiring in 1932. In 1930 he had received the ChM degree. Rayner examined in obstetrics for the University of Wales and the Central Midwives Board. During the 1914-18 war he served at the Beaufort War Hospital, Fishponds, Bristol. He was president of the Bristol Medico-chirurgical Society in 1930-31, and vice-president of the section of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Bath meeting of the British Medical Association in 1925. In 1929 he was elected a foundation Fellow of the British (now Royal) College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He was a member of the Gynaecological Visiting Society, and secretary 1913 and 1928 of the Bristol Medical Reading Society. "Charlie" Rayner had a large consulting practice till the end of his long life as he unselfishly helped absent colleagues during the war of 1939-45. He lived very simply at 9 Lansdown Place, Clifton, with his sister, and never married. In 1935 he suffered an attack of obliterative endarteritis and his right leg was amputated. Rayner was wholly devoted to his work, but had a cultivated love of music and literature. He walked, when possible, to all appointments, always carrying an umbrella. He was quite unmercenary, and hid his kindness and charm under a shy manner. He died in a Clifton nursing-home on 21 October 1945, three weeks after his eightieth birthday. Publications: Puerperal sepsis. *Birm med Rev* 1928, 3, 224. On the relation of gynaecology to the glands of internal secretion. *Bristol med chir J* 1931, 48, 1.
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First Title value, for Searching Reckless, Philip Alfred (1882 - 1948)

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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Thomas Heckstall (1806 - 1881)

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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 in Nottingham on October 4th, 1806, of a good family, but was without means. He went to Lincoln Grammar School, and, through the kindness of a relative, was apprenticed to White, of Nottingham. He then studied at St Thomas's Hospital, whilst supporting himself almost entirely by writing for the *London Medical Gazette*. Nevertheless he won prizes and was Dresser to Joseph Henry Green (qv), from whose scholarly and philosophic mind he learnt much. A favourite leader among the students, he was earnest, energetic, and wasted no time in idle pursuits. He was Physician's Assistant (House Physician) at Westminster Hospital, next Assistant to Septimus Wray, of Salisbury Court, Fleet Street. In 1829, on the recommendation of the St Thomas's Hospital staff, he was introduced at St Mary Cray, Kent, where he built up a large and remunerative practice and gained the esteem of friends and patients by the freshness and originality of his remarks. He was a zealous member of the British Medical Association from early days; in 1862 and 1863 he was President of the South-Eastern Branch; in 1870-1871, of the Metropolitan Counties Branch, and was for many years a Member of Council of the Association. His chivalrous defence of the honour of the profession on the occasion of the action of Bonney v Smith in 1869 was recognized by a testimonial presented to him by the South-Eastern Branch. With Propert and others he took an active part in establishing the Royal Medical Benevolent College at Epsom. In his own district he held the usual appointments and for years was Surgeon in the West Kent Yeomanry. He was an ardent Churchman, and was successful in founding an Ecclesiastical and Vicarage District at Crocker Hill, and, with others, the endowment of a local Church. In politics he described himself as an 'old Pitt Tory'. He retired in 1873, and in June, 1876, experienced an attack of apoplexy from which he rallied, and died from bronchitis, after a few days' illness, on May 3rd, 1881. There is no portrait of him in the College Collection, but his Obituary Notice refers to the fine head and handsome, genial face of this grand old man.
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First Title value, for Searching Redmayne, Thomas (1864 - 1931)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-16
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Born 20 June 1864 at 21 Wentworth Place, Newcastle-on-Tyne, the second son of Robert Robey Redmayne, a chemical manufacturer, and Mary Gooch, his wife. He was educated at Repton School from September 1877 until July 1881, when the Rev Dr Huckin was headmaster. From school he proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was admitted a pensioner on 13 June 1881 and gained an exhibition in 1883. He graduated BA in 1884, after he had been placed in the second class of the first part of the Natural Sciences Tripos. He then entered the London Hospital, where he acted as receiving officer, house physician, and house surgeon. At the end of his hospital career he became a partner with Claude Baker Gabb at St Leonards-on-Sea and was appointed junior surgeon to the Royal East Sussex Hospital, where he took charge of the ear, throat, and nose department. On the administrative side of the hospital he served as a member of the house committee and as chairman of the medical committee. He was ultimately senior surgeon to the hospital and retired at the end of 1930 after 34 years' service, unbroken except for the time he served at the Netley Military Hospital during the war of 1914-18. He married Gwendolen Balfour on 3 July 1902, who survived him with two daughters. He died on 1 April 1931 at St Leonards and was buried at Hollington Church-in-the-Wood in that town. C B Gabb writing of him says: "He was born and brought up in the North of England and, at first, folk at Hastings did not readily understand him or his manner, nor he theirs. He was not over keen on the day of small things, nor was he of especial use in building up a general practice in a seaside town with its many visitors, very often of the small-fry kind. Later, if at first slowly, he dug himself deep into the respect, regard, and affections of a great number of people and in the end commanded and very successfully managed a considerable high-class general practice with strong surgical leanings. His work for many years at the Royal East Sussex Hospital, first in the out-patients department and later in the surgical wards, as well as his great general interest in the well-being of the hospital was distinguished and was fully appreciated and warmly acknowledged. The funeral was, I am told, a wonderful testimony to the great regret so deeply felt by his many friends at the heavy loss to the town and to themselves and of affectionate remembrance. Socially, Redmayne was always a welcome guest. A man with plenty of culture, he had it fully in his power to make himself a great success in company both as host and guest. He had an excellent baritone voice, which he used charmingly; he was always ready to help with it at local concerts and entertainments for the young men of the town, in whose sports he ever showed a ready and willing interest." Publications: Bronchiectasis successfully treated by incision and drainage, presenting some unusual features. *Practitioner*, 1906, 76, 832.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, William Henry (1811 - 1865)

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First Title value, for Searching Smith, William Johnson (1840 - 1912)

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First Title value, for Searching Smyth, John Edward (1818 - 1885)

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

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First Title value, for Searching Cumarasamy, Murugesem Muthu (1879 - 1941)

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First Title value, for Searching Cumberlidge, William Isaac (1880 - 1939)

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First Title value, for Searching Wood, John Forrester (1867 - 1929)

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First Title value, for Searching Wood, Miles Astman, junior (1842 - 1922)

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First Title value, for Searching Woodman, John (1837 - 1903)

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First Title value, for Searching Woodman, Samuel (1841 - 1886)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-02-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The son of William Woodman, who practised at 16 Bedford Circus, Exeter. He was educated at the Grammar School, and received his professional training at St Mary's Hospital, which he entered in 1861, and was House Surgeon for a year. He entered into partnership with G Silvanus Snowden (qv), of Ramsgate, about the year 1866, and for many years carried on a large general practice in that town, his bent being towards surgery. He began to work for, and finally obtained, the College Fellowship whilst in full general practice. He was a skilled operator, especially in cases of lithotrity. As an advocate of municipal reform he worked hard, in conjunction with his friend, the Rev E G Banks, to introduce much-needed changes in his town. Opposition was great, but was met by him with characteristic energy and fearlessness. He was extremely active and energetic and of a warm, impetuous temperament. He believed that language was given to express, not to conceal, one's thoughts; and thus as an opponent he was free and hard-hitting - as a friend chivalrous and endeared. His local colleagues regarded him as a leader. He did notable work as Chairman of the High School for Girls, was Presiding Councillor of the Primrose League, and a Justice of the Peace. He believed that no obituary notice was complete if it lacked some account of a man's religious opinions. It should, therefore, be stated that he was brought up a Nonconformist, but eventually joined the Church of England and became a Churchwarden. Sir Moses Montefiore, whom he attended in several illnesses, was his close friend, and spurred him on to the attainment of his medical degree at Durham. At the time of his death he was Consulting Surgeon to the Ramsgate and St Lawrence Royal Dispensary, Surgeon to the Board of Trade (Ramsgate Harbour) to the Trinity Corporation, and Surgeon to the 5th (East Kent) Rifle Volunteers. He died of typhoid fever (probably contracted at Nuremberg, where he had been on a visit), at his residence, 5 Prospect Terrace, Ramsgate, on September 15th, 1886. He left a widow and four children, of whom the eldest was a boy at Winchester College. Samuel Woodman was 5 feet 9 or 10 inches, strongly built, with a high forehead, cleanly cut features, and a prominent nose. No one could converse with him without observing that he was a man of unusual mental capacity, whilst his bright and cheerful manner gave assurance of excellent social parts.
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First Title value, for Searching Wood, Robert (1811 - 1871)

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First Title value, for Searching Wood, Robert Hinton (1883 - 1862)

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First Title value, for Searching Jowers, Reginald Francis (1861 - 1937)

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First Title value, for Searching Joyce, James Leonard (1882 - 1938)

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First Title value, for Searching Judah, Nathanael Joseph ( - 1948)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-31 2014-03-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details He was educated at Edinburgh University, and at St Bartholomew's and St George's Hospitals, London. He practised at 43 Chowringhee, Calcutta, India, where he died in October 1948.
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First Title value, for Searching Just, Theodore Hartman (1886 - 1937)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-31
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born at Bristol, 23 April 1886, the only son of Sir Hartman Just, KCMG, CB, legal adviser to the Colonial Office, and Katherine Frances Rootham, his wife. He was educated at St Paul's School, when F W Walker was high master, from 1898 until 1904, where he was successively capitation scholar and foundationer, Smee prizeman for original work in science, and John Watson prizeman for drawing and painting. He obtained third-class honours in zoology at London University whilst he was still at school. He matriculated at Cambridge from Trinity College as an exhibitioner in 1904, and in 1908 graduated after being placed in the first class in the Natural Sciences Tripos. He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in October 1908 and in due course was appointed house surgeon to Sir Anthony Bowlby for the year 1911-12. He was appointed house surgeon to the throat and ear department of the Hospital in the autumn of 1912, when it was in the charge of W D Harmer, and was at the same time a demonstrator in the pathological department, where he devoted himself more especially to the bacteriology of diseases of the ear and throat. He acted as chief assistant in the throat and ear department until 16 August 1915, when he received a commission as temporary captain, RAMC, and was attached to No 12 General Hospital at Rouen, where he was ordered to organize an ear, throat, and nose department. At Christmas 1917 he was sent to St Pol as a member of No 33 casualty clearing station with the rank of major, RAMC, and remained with the British Force until he was demobilized in March 1919 after four and a half years' continuous service. He was mentioned in despatches for conspicuous devotion to duty. In 1921 he was elected assistant aural surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital, to fill the vacancy caused by the unexpected resignation of C E West. Five years later the title was changed to that of aural surgeon in charge of out-patients, and this post he held until his death. Amongst other positions he was surgeon to the Golden Square Throat, Nose, and Ear Hospital until 1933, and assistant aural surgeon to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in Queen Square until 1936. Just had a remarkable athletic record. At school he played in the second rugby XV for three years and was captain in 1904. He rowed in the school first Four for three years, and won the Shepherd cup for the best all-round athlete in 1904 and again in 1905. In the inter-university sports he won for Cambridge the half-mile in 1907, was first string for the half-mile and second string for the mile in 1908, and first string for the half-mile in 1909; his best time for the half-mile being in 1908 when he won in 1 min 55 4/5 secs. He was amateur champion half-mile for the United Kingdom in 1908, and was president of the Cambridge University Athletic Club in 1908-09. At the fourth Olympiad, held in London in 1908, he took part in the 800 metres flat race, won the sixth heat by 50 yards, and was fifth in the final when the time was 1 min 53 1/4 secs; he lost the third heat in the relay race. During his Cambridge career he succeeded in sprinting round the Great Court at Trinity in 55 seconds, whilst the clock struck midnight. He was for some years an Alpine climber, and in later life played golf. He married Alice Marie, daughter of H B MacTaggart of Kintyre, Argyllshire, on 19 April 1922. She survived him but without children. He died on 13 February 1937 of pancreatitis, after an illness of some months' duration, and was buried at Highgate cemetery. Just was a good aural surgeon, a very fine athlete, and a great gentleman. From his school days to the end of his life he was always spoken of as "father", and his friends were innumerable. He was initiated in the Rahere lodge of freemasons in 1919 and was its worshipful master in 1930. Publications: A survey of the results obtained during six months of enteric bacteriology at a general hospital. *J Roy Army med Cps* 1916, 26, 50-63. Ligature of the external or common carotid vessels in serious tonsillar haemorrhage. *Brit med J* 1921, 2, 441. Treatment of collapse following serious loss of blood in operations on the tonsil. *Ibid* p 442. Cystic serous meningitis of the posterior fossa of otitic origin. *St Bart's Hosp Rep* 1928, 61, 89-94. Notes on the diagnosis of acoustic tumours. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1929-30, 23, 722-726. Operations on the oesophagus, with direct laryngoscopy, pharyngoscopy, bronchoscopy, in Grey Turner's *Modern Operative Surgery*, 2nd edition, 1934, 2, 341-355.
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First Title value, for Searching Keen, William Williams (1837 - 1932)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-31
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 19 January 1837 in Philadelphia, the son of William Williams Keen and Susannah Budd, his wife. His father was a leather merchant and he was the eighth in linear descent from Johan Keyn, a Swede who came to America in the train of the Swedish governor Johan Printz in February 1643. His mother was descended from the Budds of Montacute, Somersetshire, where her ancestor was vicar of St Catherine's. William Keen was educated at Newton Grammar School, Philadelphia, and at the Central High School which he left in 1853. He graduated from Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island in 1859 and received the degree of doctor of medicine from Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 1862. He then determined to specialize in surgery, and during 1866-75 lectured on pathological anatomy in Jefferson Medical College, where he was subsequently professor, and on artistic anatomy at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and was a teacher at the Women's Medical College from 1884 until 1889. In 1861 he served as an assistant surgeon in the United States Army. In 1864, in association with Dr Weir Mitchell and from experience gained during the Civil War, he laid down those principles of the treatment of gunshot wounds of nerves which formed the starting point of the methods amplified during the war of 1914-18. In July 1893 Keen operated upon President Cleveland. The operation was undertaken during a serious financial crisis in the United States when every action of the President was subjected to the closest scrutiny. Yet in spite of this Dr Bryant and Dr Keen succeeded in eluding the vigilance of the reporters and removing nearly the whole of the left upper jaw for cancer. The operation was performed on board the yacht *Oneida* steaming at half speed up the East river at New York and even his colleagues in the government were ignorant that anything had been done to their President. The anaesthetic was given by a dentist. Within a month the President attended a meeting of the Senate and spoke. He survived for fifteen years and the fact of the operation having been done was not disclosed for twenty-four years. Keen married in 1867 Emma Corinna Borden, of Fall River, Massachusetts. She died in 1886 leaving four daughters who married in their turn, and at the time of Dr Keen's death there were thirteen grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren living. He died at his home, 1520 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, after a short illness, on 7 June 1932, aged 95, and his body was cremated after a funeral service at the First Baptist Church. Keen exercised a powerful influence for good upon American surgery and took an active part in municipal affairs during his long life. Short of stature with twinkling blue eyes, he retained almost to the end his vivid interest in life and in science. A man of deep religious feeling he was throughout his life an abstainer and a non-smoker. He was active in promoting the cause of vaccination, and it was mainly due to his advocacy that experiments upon living animals are less hedged round by restrictions in the United States than they are in this country. He was a frequent visitor to England and in later life was accustomed to bring with him many members of his family. Both in the United States and in Europe he was honoured and respected as a representative surgeon. Honours came to him from many nations. At home he was president of the American Medical Association, of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and of the American Surgical Association. Abroad he was an honorary Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England, of Edinburgh, and of Ireland, a member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Chirurgie, of the Società italiana di Chirurgia, and of the Académie de Médecine of France. The Boston Medical Society awarded him the Bigelow medal. He was also the holder of the Colver-Rosenberger medal, and on his ninety-second birthday he received the gold medal of the Pennsylvania Society of New York for meritorious and distinctive services. He was president of the Société internationale de Chirurgie in 1920. He was decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Honour and with the Belgian Order of the Crown. There is a photograph of him in uniform in the Honorary Fellows' album, which is a good likeness. Publications: *Surgical complications of typhoid fever*. Philadelphia, 1898. *Animal experimentation and medical progress*. Boston, 1914. *Medical research and human welfare*. Boston, 1917. *Treatment of war wounds*. Philadelphia, 1917; 2nd edition, 1918. *Addresses and other papers*. Philadelphia, 1905. *The surgical operations on President Cleveland in* 1893. Philadelphia, 1907. Selected papers and addresses. Philadelphia, 1923. Editor of *American text-book of surgery*. Philadelphia, 1892; 2nd edition, 1895; 3rd edition, 1899; 4th edition, 1904. The book attained a world-wide reputation. *Surgery, its principles and practice*, 8 vols. Philadelphia, and London, 1906-21; translated into Spanish, vols 1-6, Barcelona, 1910-16. See also the *Index Catalogue* of the Surgeon General's Library 1886, 7, 362; 1903, 2nd ser, 8, 599-601; 1928, 3rd ser, 7, 138. The College Library contains a large collection of his papers.
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First Title value, for Searching Kelly, Sir Robert Ernest (1879 - 1944)

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First Title value, for Searching Kelson, William Henry (1862 - 1940)

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First Title value, for Searching Kennedy, Charles Matheson (1884 - 1948)

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First Title value, for Searching MacDonald, Sydney Gray (1879 - 1946)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-09-30
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Occupation Genito-urinary surgeon Urologist
Details Born 17 September 1879 at Sydney, New South Wales, the eldest son of Eben MacDonald, banker, and his wife Elizabeth Gray. He was educated privately and at St John's College, Cambridge, taking second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part 1, 1902. He then entered St Thomas's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon, and was senior house surgeon at St Peter's Hospital for Stone and Urinary Diseases. He was appointed surgical registrar at the West London Hospital in 1912, and assistant surgeon in the genito-urinary department in 1915. He thus came under the inspiration of Sir John Thomson-Walker and of John G Pardoe. During the first world war MacDonald served in France in 1915, and as surgeon to King George V Hospital, Ilford, Essex 1915-17, being promoted captain, RAMC, on 1 September 1917. He became genito-urinary surgeon at the West London Hospital in 1920, and was elected consulting surgeon on retirement in 1939. He was also genito-urinary surgeon to the Chelsea Hospital for Women and to the Royal Masonic Hospital, for he was a keen freemason. MacDonald served as president of the section of urology at the Royal Society of Medicine 1930-31, and was a member of the International Association of Urology. He was a treasurer of the Society for the Study of Venereal Diseases. He married in 1919 Mary (May) Martineau, third daughter of Major-General F H B Marsh, Bengal Infantry, who survived him with a daughter. They lived at Edghill, Wadhurst, Sussex, and he practised at 1 Welbeck House, WI. MacDonald died in the private wing of University College Hospital on 20 February 1946, aged 65, and his funeral was held at Stonegate Church, Sussex. His recreations were shooting and, golf; he was a member of the Royal Wimbledon Golf Club and of the Royal and Ancient at St Andrews. In early middle life he was stabbed in the back by an unknown assailant in a dark London street, but the penetrating wound healed without complications. Publications:- Diseases of the bladder, in A Latham and T C English *A system of treatment*, London, 1912. Affections of the urinary tract, in J S Fairbairn *The practitioner's encyclopaedia of midwifery and the diseases of women* London, 1921, pp 708-719. Diseases of kidney; bladder; ureter; prostate and vesicles. Chapters 47-50, in Sir A J Walton *A textbook of surgical diagnosis* London, 1928, 2, 947-1028.
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First Title value, for Searching Mackenzie, Colin (1883 - 1934)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-09-30
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Westcombe Park, Blackheath on 9 June 1883, the only son of A G Mackenzie, FIA, and Beatrice E Dell, his wife. He was educated at Eastbourne College, at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he graduated after obtaining a third class in the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part I, and at the Middlesex Hospital. At the Middlesex Hospital he gained the junior Broderip scholarship in 1908, and served as house physician and house surgeon. He went to the Royal Infirmary, Bradford, as resident surgical officer in 1913, and was appointed assistant surgeon in 1919 and surgeon in 1923; he was also surgeon to St Luke's Hospital. During the war he received a commission as captain, RAMC, on 10 August 1915, and was sent to No 2 CCS at Bailleuil, first as surgical specialist and afterwards in command. Later he was placed in charge of the 14th General Hospital, BEF, with the temporary rank of major. He was repeatedly mentioned in despatches and was gazetted OBE in 1918. After the armistice he was surgeon in charge of the Bradford Orthopaedic Clinic, Ministry of Pensions. He then resumed his practice and lived at 11 Mornington Villas, Manningham Lane, Bradford. He married Edith A Rice, who survived him with four sons. His third son, Kenneth Bruce Mackenzie, died of wounds in Italy in December 1943, while serving as a lieutenant in the Scots Guards. He died at sea in the SS Duchess of Richmond, 10 February 1934, whilst on a cruise to the West Indies, and was buried in Highgate Cemetery. He left £250 each to Eastbourne College, Middlesex Hospital, and Emmanuel College, Cambridge for an annual prize. Publications:- Differential diagnosis between acute abdominal and certain acute intrathoracic diseases. *Lancet*, 1915, 1, 796. Splint for a fractured humerus. *Ibid* 1916, 1, 674. Observations of fifty laparotomies for gunshot wounds of the abdomen, with G A Stevenson and J J M Shaw. *Ibid* 1916, 2, 173.
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First Title value, for Searching Mackenzie, Kenneth (1885 - 1942)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-09-30
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Occupation General surgeon Gynaecologist
Details Born 1 May 1885 in London, son of Sir Thomas Mackenzie, High Commissioner for New Zealand and a former Prime Minister of the Dominion, and Ida Nantes, his wife. He was educated at the City of London School and in New Zealand at Balclutha, Robin Hood Bay and Otago Boys' High School, and after a year at Otago University went to Edin-burgh where he graduated in 1908, proceeding MD 1911 with a gold medal, and winning the Gunning Victoria jubilee prize for this thesis on pituitary gland function. He took the English Fellowship in 1912 and the Edinburgh MCh in 1913. Returning to New Zealand he settled in practice at Auckland, and was appointed surgeon to the Auckland Hospital in 1914. During the war he served with the New Zealand Medical Corps. After the war he inaugurated clinical teaching in the hospital and continued to lecture till his death. He had been examiner in physiology at Otago University from 1914 to 1916, and was examiner in gynaecology 1926-28. He was a member of council of Auckland University College 1921-35 and president 1933-35, and for several years a senator of the University of New Zealand. He was an excellent teacher, and did much to improve medical education in New Zealand. In 1923 he founded the Auckland Clinical Society, of which he was president in 1924. He was at one time president of the British Empire Cancer Campaign in New Zealand, and was president of the Auckland branch of the British Medical Association in 1929 and a member of the editorial committee of the *New Zealand Medical Journal* (BMA). He was a charter member of the Auckland Rotary Club and its president 1924-5; and an honorary serving brother of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. Mackenzie was an accomplished general surgeon, with a special interest in gynaecological surgery. He kept elaborate and carefully analysed notes, and was a frequent contributor to professional congresses and journals. He married on 28 April 1913 Flora Honor Macdonald, who survived him with a son and three daughters. His younger brother, Hector Bruce Mackenzie, MB, practised as a radiologist at Auckland, and died there in 1950. He practised at 27 Princes Street, Auckland, and had a country place in the forest, high in the Waitakere mountains. He died at Auckland on 15 January 1942 after three weeks' illness, aged 57. Publications:- An experimental investigation of the mechanism of milk secretion. *Quart J exper Physiol* 1911, 4, 305. The repair of large abdominal herniae by muscle transplantation. *Brit J Surg* 1924, 12, 28. Hyperadrenalism. *Aust NZ J Surg* 1937, 7, 175. Hyperparathyroidism. *Ibid* p 256.
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First Title value, for Searching Roberts, James Ernest Heleme (1881 - 1948)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-23
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Occupation Thoracic surgeon
Details Born 23 August 1881 at West Bromwich, Staffordshire, son of James Roberts, engineer and ironfounder, and Mary Jane Helme, his wife. His father was managing director of J and S Roberts, ironfounders of Swan Village. He was educated at King Edward VI School, Birmingham, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He took the Conjoint qualification in 1906, won honours in surgery at the London MB BS examination 1908, and took the Fellowship in 1909. He was house surgeon at St Luke's Hospital and at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, and to C B Lockwood at St Bartholomew's. He was then appointed demonstrator of surgical pathology and at the same time chief assistant surgeon to out-patients, and later demonstrator of operative surgery, at St Bartholomew's. He became in due course surgical registrar and chief assistant in the orthopaedic department. He was appointed in 1913 assistant surgeon to the East London Hospital for Children. Roberts served as a major, RAMC, in the war of 1914-18, at No 41 casualty clearing station in France and as surgical specialist at No 5 General Hospital; he was mentioned three times in despatches. His experience attracted him from orthopaedic to thoracic surgery. On his return to civil work he joined the staff of Brompton Hospital in 1919 and devoted most of his energy to this work, developing particularly the treatment of empyema. He was the first to use active negative pressure suction, and his operation for the closure of old chronic empyema cavities was the most efficient method devised up to the time of his death. With H P Nelson he introduced one-stage lobectomy. He was also in 1919 appointed assistant surgeon at St Bartholomew's, and became surgeon in 1933. On his retirement in 1946 he was elected consulting surgeon, and emeritus surgeon at Brompton. He was also surgeon to Queen Mary's Hospital at Roehampton, and consultant thoracic surgeon to the London County Council's Sanatoria. Roberts was president in turn of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the Tuberculosis Association, and the Medical Society of London, where he gave the Lettsomian lectures in 1935 on the surgery of pleural and pulmonary infection. He was a member of the International Society of Surgery and joint honorary treasurer of its twelfth Congress held at the College in September 1947; a member of the Belgian and Polish Surgical Societies, and of the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons. He also served on the Ministry of Health's standing advisory committee on tuberculosis from its creation till his death, and for ten years on the Joint Tuberculosis Council. Roberts was an excellent teacher who created a school of thoracic surgeons to carry on his work. He spent his holidays in the Alps, and became an authority on alpine plants and on dragon-flies. He married on 30 December 1916 Coral, daughter of Captain J A Elmslie and sister of R C Elmslie, orthopaedic surgeon to St Bartholomew's. She survived him but without children. He died at The Croft, Ottershaw, Surrey, on 25 August 1948, aged 67, after a long illness. He had practised at 89 Harley Street. A memorial service was held at St Bartholomew-the-Less on 21 September 1948. Roberts based his surgical innovations on a sound knowledge of mechanical and physiological principles, combined with clinical and observational acumen. He was of a brusque fighting spirit, often absentminded and absorbed in his own work, but essentially kindly, loyal, and encouraging to younger men. He was one of the great pioneers of chest surgery, full of ideas and courage, with a deep concern for the general welfare of his patients especially children, and a wide knowledge of the practical aspects of many branches of medicine. Publications: Pulmonary lobectomy, with H P Nelson. *Brit J Surg* 1933, 21, 277. The surgery of pleural and pulmonary infection, Lettsomian lectures. *Trans Med Soc Lond* 1935, 58, 183. Extrapleural pneumothorax. *Brit J Tuberc* 1938, 32, 68. Primary carcinoma of the lung. *Med Press*, 1940, 203, 88. Thoracic surgery, in Grey Turner's *Modern operative surgery*, 3rd edition, 1943, 1, 305.
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First Title value, for Searching Cutler, Elliott Carr (1888 - 1947)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-20
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Occupation Cardiac surgeon
Details Born 30 July 1888, the second of the five sons of George Chalmers Cutler, lumber manufacturer and merchant, and Mary Carr Wilson, his wife. He was educated at Volkmann Preparatory School, at Brookline Public School, Massachusetts, and at Harvard, where he graduated in arts 1909, and in medicine 1913. He served as house surgeon and resident surgeon at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital 1913-15 and then joined the Harvard unit at the American ambulance hospital in Paris, before the official entry of the United States into the war. He worked at the Massachusetts General Hospital 1915-16 and at the Rockefeller Institute in New York 1916-17. He was resident surgeon at the Brigham again 1919-21. In 1921 he was appointed associate in surgery at Harvard, and in the following year chairman of the department of surgery and director of the laboratory of surgical research, but in 1924 he resigned these appointments on becoming professor of surgery at the Western Reserve University at Cleveland, Ohio, and chief surgeon at the Lakeside Hospital. At Harvard he had begun his pioneer work in the operative treatment of valvular disease of the heart, performing his first successful operation in 1923. He followed up this work while at Cleveland, publishing a series of epoch-making papers on the surgery of the heart. When Harvey Cushing retired Cutler was the natural successor to be recalled to Boston, and he was duly elected Moseley professor of surgery at Harvard and surgeon-in-chief of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Here he continued his work in thoracic surgery, undertaking among other successful innovations total thyroidectomy for angina pectoris (1934). His only book, *Atlas of Surgical Operations* 1939 in collaboration with Robert Zollinger, is a folio volume, fully illustrated, intended as a young surgeon's guide for the acquisition of a safe technique. Cutler took a leading part in the work of surgical societies. He was a member of the Society of Clinical Surgery, the New England Surgical Society, the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, and the American Board of Surgery, the semi-official educational and disciplinary council. The Boston Surgical Society awarded him its most coveted prize, the Henry Jacob Bigelow gold medal. At the very end of his life he was elected president of the American Surgical Association. When America joined in the second world war, Cutler immediately took up the post of chief consultant in surgery to the United States army in Europe with the rank of brigadier, and from 1942 to 1945 had his head¬quarters in London. He was already a personal friend of the leading London surgeons, and his active presence here did much to promote the most friendly co-operation between British and American surgeons. He promoted the regular inter-allied conferences on war medicine 1942-45 (*Report* published 1947) held under the auspices of the Royal Society of Medicine, and in 1943 led with Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor the Anglo-American surgical mission to Russia. He had been elected an honorary Fellow of the College on 8 April 1943. During the last year of the war he served with the American armies on the Continent, and was twice cited for the United States Distinguished Service Medal for his war service. He proved himself one of the best ambassadors whom America could have sent to England, and endeared himself to all with whom he came in contact. But he overtaxed his strength and, although he threw himself again with his accustomed zest into the full stream of his busy life at home, he was already stricken with illness and died at Boston on 16 August 1947, aged 59. Cutler married on 24 May 1919 Caroline Pollard Parker, who survived him with four sons; their only daughter had died before him. He practised at 721 Huntington Avenue, Boston, and lived at 61 Heath Street, Brookline. He was a tall man with striking aquiline features, a modern representative of the distinguished "colonial" American type, with a most genial and attractive manner. Besides his original contributions to thoracic surgery, Cutler was notable for the tradition of the finest surgical technique which he established among a whole generation of pupils. Publications:- The surgical treatment of mitral stenosis, experimental and clinical studies, with S A Levine and C S Beck. *Arch Surg*. 1924, 9 ,689-821. The surgical aspect of mitral stenosis. *Arch Surg* 1926, 12, 212. Sympathectomy in angina pectoris, with J Fine. *J Amer Med Ass* 1926, 86, 1972. Summary of experiences up to date in the surgical treatment of angina pectoris. *Amer J Med Sci* 1927, 173, 613. The technique of cardiorrhaphy, with C S Beck.*Surg Gynec Obstet* 1927, 45, 74. The surgery of the heart and pericardium, with C S Beck. *Nelson loose-leaf living surgery* 1927, 4, 233. The present status of the treatment of angina pectoris by cervical sympathectomy.* Ann Clin Med* 1927, 5, 1004. The present status of the surgical procedures in chronic valvular disease of the heart, final report of all surgical cases, with C S Beck. *Arch Surg* 1929, 18, 403. The present status of cardiac surgery. *Surg Gynec Obstet* 1932, 54, 274. Total thyroidectomy for angina pectoris, with M T Schnitker. *Ann Surg* 1934 100, 578. Surgical methods for relief of pain in angina pectoris. French version, *Presse méd*, Paris, 1934, 42, 937. *Atlas of surgical operations*, with Robert Zollinger, illustrated by Mildred B Codding. New York: Macmillan, 1939; 2nd edition, 1949. The near-shore: plans for the reception, care and disposition of casualties. *Inter- Allied Conferences on war medicine* (October 1944), 1947, pp. 424-426. Surgery, the US forces. Ibid. (July 1945), 1947, pp. 498-502. The education of the surgeon.*New Engl J Med* 1947, 237, 466 (address on receiving Bigelow medal, with introductory remarks by Dr Joe V.Meigs).
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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 Scotson, Frederick Charles (1869 - 1939)

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First Title value, for Searching Lambrinudi, Constantine (1889 - 1943)

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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Born in London on 19 November 1889, the fourth child and third son of Leonidas Lambrinudi, originally of Smyrna, a stockbroker, and his wife, *née* Sechiari. He was educated privately and at Christ's College, Cambridge, and entered Guy's Hospital Medical School in 1910. He interrupted his medical studies to serve in a Red Cross unit, as an unqualified doctor, during the Greco-Bulgar war of 1912-13; returned to England and qualified in 1914, but in 1915 joined the Venizelist army; later he became a medical officer in the British Royal Air Force. Returning to Guy's he served successively as assistant house surgeon to C H Fagge, out-patient officer, and house surgeon to Alfred Fripp. He was also demonstrator of physiology in the Medical School. He then served as surgical registrar at the Royal Free Hospital. His interest had now definitely turned to orthopaedics and in 1923 he became chief clinical assistant and orthopaedic registrar at Guy's, was appointed assistant orthopaedic surgeon in 1928, and in 1934 succeeded W H Trethowan as orthopaedic surgeon. He was also consulting orthopaedic surgeon to Queen Mary's Hospital at Carshalton. Lambrinudi took an active part in professional societies; served as president of the section of orthopaedics at the Royal Society of Medicine 1941, was a Fellow of the Hunterian Society, and for many years a councillor of the British Orthopaedic Association. He married twice: (1) in 1922 Elizabeth van Maasdyk, by whom he had a daughter, and (2) in 1929, Aletta Reinders, who survived him with a son. He was never a strong man and had a severe illness in his early forties, but continued actively at work for ten years, though suffering from intermittent claudication and angina. He died in his sleep without premonition on 21 April 1943, aged 53, at The Oast Cottage, Mayfield, Sussex, and was buried at Tidebrook on Good Friday, 23 April 1943. A memorial service was held at Guy's Hospital Chapel on 28 April. He had practised at 78 Portland Place and latterly at 55 Wimpole Street. Lambrinudi was a physiologist at heart and interested in the correction of errors of function. He was also much concerned with post-operative treatment and the welfare of his patients; he attached much importance to this aspect of the work of hospital almoners and instituted the employment of visiting masseuses in connexion with hospital practice. He studied foot-strain in the army, and the "hygiene of the tramp to work". His political views and sympathies were, as he said, "fully on the left". He devised a new drop-foot operation; and an operation for elevated first metatarsal in combination with hallux rigidus, and treated claw-toes by arthrodesis. He also was the first to point out the connexion between short hamstrings and adolescent kyphosis. Lambrinudi was a man of great intellectual alertness, cultivation, and strength of character. He read good literature for his recreation, and was endowed with insight, humour, and kindliness. His ideas were too fluid to allow him to teach students well, but he was a first-rate trainer of orthopaedic surgeons. He went through a full operating list and held a large clinic on the last day of his life. Publications: New operation for drop-foot [arthrodesis of the subastragaloid]. *Brit J Surg* 1927-28, 15, 193. An operation for claw-toes. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1927-28, 21, 239. Use and abuse of toes. *Postgrad med J* 1932, 8, 459. Method of correcting equinus and calcaneus deformities at the subastragaloid joint. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1933, 26, 788. Adolescent and senile kyphosis, Opening discussion at the section of orthopaedica at the British Medical Association's annual meeting at Bournemouth. *Brit med J* 1934, 2, 270 and 800. Fractures near the angle joint. *Clin J* 1934, 63, 439. Deformities of the toes. *Clin J* 1935, 64, 57. Fractures of the spine. *Clin J* 1936, 65, 265-277. Plastic operation for congenital absence of thumb. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1938, 31, 181. Injuries to both semilunar cartilages of the knee-joint. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1939, 32, 635. Intramedullary Kirschner wires in treatment of fractures. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1940, 33, 153. The role of orthopaedics in medical education, presidential address to the section of orthopaedics, RSM 1941. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1942, 35, 211. Painful feet. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1942, 36, 47. The foot problem. *Chiropodist*, March 1943. Report of work in the orthopaedic department of Guy's Hospital, with T T Stamm. *Guy's Hosp Rep* 1939, 89, 184. J H Mayer, Colles's fracture. *Brit J Surg* 1940, 27, 629, publishes Lambrinudi's views on the treatment of this condition. The mechanism of the spine in pregnancy, read before the British Orthopaedic Association, October 1934, posthumously published. *Guy's Hosp Rep* 1943, 92, 50. W W Gilford, R H Bolton, and C Lambrinudi. The mechanism of the wrist joint with special reference to fractures of the scaphoid. *Guy's Hosp Rep* 1943, 92, 52-59. "Although this paper was written after Lambrinudi's death, his name has been included as a co-author, in recognition of the fact that the outline of this problem and its solution was first suggested by him."
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First Title value, for Searching Scrase, Frank Edward (1867 - 1946)

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Occupation Medical Officer
Details Born 15 September 1867 at Woolloomooloo, Sydney, Australia, third child and second son of Samuel Scrase, a railroad engineer, and Martha Sheat, his wife. His parents came back to England while he was still an infant. He was educated at Bristol, and indentured to Mr Chandler, his future father-in-law, a chemist. But, deciding to study medicine, he entered the Bristol Medical School and continued his training at St Bartholomew's. On qualifying he set up in private practice at Hampstead, living latterly at 31 Cheyne Walk, NW4. He took an active interest in public health problems and served on the first borough council of Hampstead 1900-03, but did not seek re-election. In 1905 on the death of Herbert Littlejohn, MD, he acted temporarily as medical officer of health for the borough and in 1908 became honorary deputy MOH. He was appointed medical officer of health for Hampstead in 1912, and retired in 1932. Scrase was first interested in the anti-tuberculosis campaign. He was instrumental in setting up the Hampstead municipal tuberculosis dispensary at Kilburn, and was active in securing a pure milk supply. Maternal and child welfare became his chief concern, and as a member of the medical sub-committee of the borough council he brought about the establishment of antenatal clinics and a system of child-health visitors. Scrase made personal investigation of the concomitant circumstances in all cases of illness and death at parturition or in early infancy. He was successful in achieving a very low infant mortality rate in his borough. Housing improvement also attracted his attention. Scrase was chairman of the metropolitan branch of the Society of Medical Officers of Health, and chairman of the Hampstead division of the British Medical Association in 1928-29. Scrase married in 1899 Lucy Ann Chandler, daughter of the chemist to whom he had been apprenticed as a boy. There were two sons and one daughter of their marriage. After retirement he settled at 7 Forde Park, Newton Abbot, South Devon, where he died after a long illness on 4 February 1946, aged 78. He had served as chairman of the local medical war committee during the 1939-45 war. R L Knaggs, FRCS, had died at 20 Forde Park ten months earlier.
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First Title value, for Searching Seah, Eng Khway (1899 - 1949)

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First Title value, for Searching Selby, Edmond Wallace (1871 - 1943)

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First Title value, for Searching Lane, Sir William Arbuthnot (1856 - 1943)

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Occupation General surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Born on 4 July 1856 at Fort St George, Scotland, eldest of the three sons and four daughters of Benjamin Lane, assistant surgeon 80th Regiment of Foot, and his wife Caroline Arbuthnot Ewing, daughter of Joseph Ewing (1790-1868), surgeon 80th and 95th Foot. Benjamin Lane was born at Limavady, Co Derry, Ireland, where his father William Lane, MD, was in practice, on 5 June 1827, rose to the rank of brigade surgeon, and died at Cheltenham on 12 June 1907, when his son was at the height of his fame; his wife also came of Ulster stock. (Johnston's *Roll of the Army Medical Service*, Nos 3029: Ewing, and 5105: Lane.) He was educated at Stanley House, Bridge of Allan, and entered Guy's Hospital in May 1873. He qualified MRCS 1877 at the age of twenty-one and won the gold medals in anatomy and medicine at the London MB 1881. He served as house surgeon at the Victoria Hospital for Children, Chelsea, and went back to Guy's as demonstrator of anatomy. He proceeded to the Fellowship 1882 and the MS London 1883, and was appointed assistant surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, where he eventually became consulting surgeon. In 1884 he married (see below) and settled in St Thomas's Street to be near his work at Guy's, where he was elected assistant surgeon 1888, becoming surgeon in 1903, and consulting surgeon in 1920. He was also consulting surgeon to the French Hospital, Shaftesbury Avenue. At the Royal College of Surgeons he served as an examiner in elementary anatomy for the Conjoint Board 1887-90 and on the Council from 1908 to 1916. He joined the RAMC, Territorial Force, on its formation, being commissioned captain *à la suite* on 23 December 1908, and during the war of 1914-18 he served in the Aldershot command and was gazetted colonel, AMS, on 29 September 1917. He organized the Queen's Hospital at Sidcup for the treatment of facial injuries. Here with Sir Harold Gillies and Henry Tonks, FRCS, professor of Fine Art at the Slade School, London University, he laid the foundations of modem plastic surgery. Erich Lexer was carrying out parallel work in Germany at the same time. Lane was a brilliant surgeon whose manual dexterity was, perhaps, eclipsed only by Moynihan's. As a student he was deeply influenced by Arthur Durham; he was dresser to Thomas Bryant, and was much encouraged in his work by Clement Lucas. He was rigorous in the most scrupulous aseptic methods, which he introduced to Guy's when he attained to the hospital staff. The advances which he made, in a time of great surgical advance, were due not merely to his technical facility but to a profound scientific knowledge of anatomy and to a philosophic conception of the mechanics of the animal organism as a whole. Lane touched many branches of surgery and improved whatever he touched. He made his name by three operational innovations: the removal of a piece of rib when treating empyema in a child (1883); an ingenious operation for cleft palate early in life (1897); and screwing fractured long bones to obtain perfect apposition (1893). This he did on a sudden inspiration in a difficult case, sending for ordinary steel screws from the carpenter's shop. He was early interested in the treatment of fractures and all skeletal deformities. In 1883 he published his first two papers: on Fracture of the sternum, *Trans Path Soc* 1882-83, 34, 223; and on Cases of empyema in children treated by removal of the rib, *Guy's Hosp Rep* 1883, 26, 45; and the following year he published nineteen papers based on his work in the dissecting-room with Sir William Hale-White, MD. His *Manual of Operative Surgery* appeared in 1886, and in 1887-88 his studies in the theory of skeletal change evoked considerable interest, particularly his papers Pressure changes in the skeleton, *J Anat Physiol* 1886-87, 21, 385-406; Causation of deformities during young life, *Guy's Hosp Rep* 1887, 29, 241-333; The anatomy of the charwoman, *Guy's Hosp Rep* 1887, 29, 359-367; and The anatomy of the shoemaker, *J Anat Physiol* 1887-88, 22, 593-628. In 1892 he made an important contribution to aural surgery with his Antrectomy as a treatment for chronic purulent otitis media, *Archives of Otology*, New York, 1892, 21, 118-124; and the following year gave the first indication, of his growing interest in abdominal surgery (Acute inflammation of the gall-bladder simulating closely acute intestinal obstruction, *Lancet*, 1893, 1, 411) and the surgery of cancer (A more effectual method of removing a cancerous breast, *Trans Clin Soc* 1892-93, 26, 85), as well as introducing the screwing of fractures (*Lancet*, 1893, 1, 1500). In 1897 his book on Cleft palate and adenoids was published, and he also reported (*Trans Clin Soc* 1896-97, 30, 154) the successful removal of a tumour of the brain. Writing in *The Lancet*, 1900, 1, 1489, Lane insisted that the surgeon should do as neat a job "when repairing broken bones as a cabinet maker mending the legs of broken chairs". Lane invented the perforated steel plates known by his name, which were screwed to the bones and left embedded. Though this simple procedure met with criticism, after a first welcome, and seemed destined to oblivion, it has survived and been adapted beyond Lane's most sanguine expectations. The neutral metal vitalium introduced to surgery by Venable of San Antonio, USA has been a marked improvement on steel as used by Lane, and Smith-Peterson, also in America, has successfully applied Lane's principles to the age-old problem of fractured neck of the femur. Lane was also a pioneer in jugular ligations to prevent pulmonary metastases from ear infections, and in 1909 he devised an epoch-making operation for excision of a carcinoma of the cervical oesophagus, where the gap was repaired with flaps of skin from the neck (*Brit med J* 1911, 1, 16). He wrote on 'Massage of the heart' in 1902, and next year came the first of many contributions on chronic obstruction of the bowel (*Lancet* 1903, 1, 153). Lane introduced the short-circuiting of the large intestine, which came to be known as "Lane's operation", and he began to be obsessed with the danger to general health of chronic constipation. He derived from the teaching of Elie Mechnikov (1845-1916) his belief that "we suffer and die through the defects that arise in our sewerage drainage system", and, like Victor Pauchet of Paris, he came to believe that many of the ills of civilized life are due to toxaemia by absorption from the colon. In *The Lancet* he wrote (1910, 1, 1193) of "the obstruction of the ileum which develops in chronic intestinal stasis" and (1911, 2, 1540) of "the first and last kink in chronic intestinal stasis". This anchoring of the iliac colon by the formation of thin bands of peritoneum from excessive strain due to accumulation of faecal matter in the pelvic colon was called "Lane's disease", but "Lane's kink" was attributed by his opponents to his own reasoning rather than his patients' bowels. Lane however throve on opposition, declaring that it stimulated him. He resigned from the British Medical Association in later life and took the lead in founding the New Health Society in 1925, exploiting his fame to popularize medical principles and hygienic practice. He started the journal *New Health* in 1926 and wrote a book *New Health for Everyman* in 1932 to further the Society's aims. Lane worked hard to promote friendship between the medical men of France and England, advocating an Inter-Allied Fellowship in 1918 (*Brit med J* 1918, 2, 722). He was also well known in America, where he delivered the Murphy oration (*Internat J Surg* 1925, 38, 436) and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1925. Lane was created a baronet, of Cavendish Square, in 1913 and was made CB in 1917; he was a chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur. He married, first, on 25 October 1884 Charlotte, daughter of John Briscoe of Tinvane, Co Kilkenny. Lady Lane died on 28 April 1935, six months after their golden wedding. She left three daughters and a son, who succeeded as second baronet. One of Lane's daughters married Harold Chapple, FRCS, and another married Nathan Mutch, MD, FRCP. Lane married secondly, on 26 September 1935, Jane, daughter of Nathan Mutch of Rochdale, his son-in-law's sister; she survived him. He died on 16 January 1943 at 46 Westbourne Terrace, W2, aged 86. A memorial service was held at Guy's on 21 January, when E G Slesinger, FRCS, gave the funeral oration. "Willie" Lane was big of frame and stature, with a soft and musical voice. Though enjoying controversy he was a kindly and genial man, much beloved by his friends. His old house surgeons presented his portrait, by Edward Newling, to Guy's Hospital. He was a great inspirer of able pupils, but not an orthodox teacher and never interested in examining, and a frequenter of societies who went to preach rather than exchange opinions. He was "Chyrurgeon" to the artistic and literary club Ye Sette of Odd Volumes, and contributed an essay "The influence which our surroundings exert upon us" to its publications (No 74) in 1920. He was a keen fisherman and in 1933 bought from the heirs of H H the Jam Sahib ("Ranji") a great part of the famous Ballinahinch salmon waters in Connemara. This property was originally the centre of the vast estates of Richard Martin, MP (see *DNB*) and adjoins the Kylemore estate once belonging to Mitchell Henry, FRCS. Publications: *Bibliography of the published writings* 1883-1938, Bermondsey, privately printed, 1938, contains a portrait-photograph and lists nearly 400 writings. It is a revised edition by G A R Winston of the bibliography by William Wale, librarian to Guy's Hospital, in *Guy's Hosp Gaz* 1919, 33, 84. The more important writings have been mentioned above in the course of the memoir. His books included: *Manual of operative surgery*, 1886. *Cleft palate and adenoids (including reprints of papers on other subjects)*, 1897; 2nd edition, 1900. *Operative treatment of chronic constipation*, 1904; 2nd edition, 1909; 3rd edition: *Operative treatment of chronic intestinal stasis*, 1915. *Cleft palate and hare-lip*, 1905; 2nd edition, 1908; 3rd edition, 1917. *The operative treatment of fractures*, 1905. *New health for everyman*, 1932; 2nd edition, 1935. Accounts of Lane's clinic at Guy's were published in *Brit J Surg* 1913-14, 1, 314 and 1920-21, 8, 219.
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First Title value, for Searching Shirley, Herbert John (1868 - 1943)

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Publication Date 2013-11-06
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Occupation Anaesthetist
Details Herbert Johann Scharlieb, he changed his name by deed poll in 1914, was born at Madras on 22 July 1868, the younger son and second of the three children of William Mason Scharlieb (died 1891), barrister of the Middle Temple, and Mary Ann Dacomb Bird, his wife, afterwards Dame Mary Scharlieb (1845-1930) DBE, MD, MS London, gynaecologist to the Royal Free Hospital, for whom see the *Dictionary of National Biography*. He was educated at Lancing College and at University College, London. He qualified from University College Hospital in 1894, and took honours at the London BS examination in 1896. He served as house surgeon, house physician, and gynaecological assistant at University College Hospital, and as clinical assistant at the Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. He then volunteered for the South African War, serving as physician and adjutant to Langman's Hospital with the South African Field Force. He was mentioned in despatches, and created CMG on his return to England. His interest now turning to anaesthesia he carried out some valuable research on the physiological action of chloroform in collaboration with Edward Sharpey-Schafer (1850-1935) FRS. They concluded that vagal stimulation by too high a concentration of chloroform vapour caused inhibition of the heart, and that atropine given before the administration afforded protection; these conclusions were generally accepted; but later investigators suggested that ventricular fibrillation is the more probable cause of such sudden catastrophes. He then set up in practice in London as an anaesthetist, and was appointed to the staff of University College Hospital, becoming consulting anaesthetist when he retired in 1932. He took a keen interest in the Territorial Army, serving in the 1st Artists Rifles, of which he was for a time colour-sergeant and later commanding officer. In fact his heart was more in soldiering than in medicine. In 1914, having changed his name from Scharlieb to Shirley, he served as a combatant in the British Expeditionary Force in France, was lieutenant-colonel in command 2/5 Lancashire Fusiliers, and was mentioned in despatches. He was invalided in 1916 and transferred to the RAMC, receiving the rank of lieutenant-colonel, RAMC on 21 July 1917. He was in command of the Military Hospital of Manoel at Malta, and was consulting anaesthetist to Malta Hospitals; later he became senior medical officer to a transport division of the Royal Army Service Corps. He retained at the same time his combatant rank of brevet colonel commanding the Artists Rifles. He had been awarded the Volunteer and Territorial Decorations, and was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for the County of London. After the war he resumed his practice as an anaesthetist, living at 19 York Terrace, Regent's Park, and later in a flat at 13 New Cavendish Street, W. His mother, who was still practising in her eighty-fifth year, died at his house in 1930. He was an active member of the British Medical Association, and served as secretary of the section of anaesthetics in 1910 and vice-president of the section of pharmacy and therapeutics with anaesthetics in 1936. Shirley married on 14 September 1899 Edith Mabel, daughter of Charles Tweedy of Redruth. He was survived by his only son, John, a commander in the Royal Navy. He died suddenly at 13 New Cavendish Street on 14 May 1943. Publications: Action of chloroform on the heart and blood vessels, with E Sharpey-Schafer. *J Physiol* 1903, 28, xvii. Chloroform. *Practitioner's Encyclopaedia of Medicine and Surgery*, edited by J K Murphy. London, 1912, p 556.
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First Title value, for Searching Balfour, Donald Church (1882 - 1963)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-15
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Toronto on 22 August 1882, son of Walter Balfour, who came from Scotland and was afterwards President of Balfour Tools, and his wife Alice Church, a Canadian by birth, he was educated at Hamilton (Ontario) Collegiate Institute and Hamilton General Hospital under Dr Ingersoll Olmsted. He was house surgeon at the Hamilton City Hospital, and in 1907 went to the United States as assistant in pathology at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, where he remained for the rest of his life. He was appointed clinical assistant, Mayo Clinic 1908, junior surgeon 1909, and head of a section in the Division of Surgery 1912; Professor of Surgery, Mayo Foundation (University of Minnesota) 1923; Associate Director, Mayo Foundation 1935, and Director 1937. He retired in 1947 as Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Director. He equipped Balfour Hall at the Mayo Foundation House, endowed the Balfour Educational Fund, the Donald Church Balfour visiting professorship in the Mayo Foundation, and the Donald Church Balfour lectureship at the University of Toronto. Balfour was principally interested in the surgery of the stomach and duodenum; he published, with G B Eusterman, *The stomach and duodenum*, 1935. He was President of the American College of Surgeons 1935, and an Honorary Fellow of the Edinburgh, Australasian, and Canadian Colleges of Surgeons, and of the Royal Society of Medicine, the Association of Surgeons, the Académie de Médecine, Paris, and the American Gastroenterological Association. He was awarded honorary degrees by many universities. Donald Balfour married in 1910 Caroline, daughter of Dr Will Mayo, Hon FRCS; her sister married Dr Waltman Walters, senior surgeon to the Mayo Clinic; Dr Charles Mayo, Jnr, Hon FRCS, son of Dr Charles Mayo, Hon FRCS, was Mrs Balfour's first cousin; she died in 1960 leaving a daughter and three sons, two of whom are medical men. They lived at 200 First Street, South West, Rochester. Outside his profession Balfour was a keen musician, and a skilled performer on the organ and piano; he also studied the archaeology of the American Indians, particularly those of the South-West United States. He remained keenly interested in Canadian affairs and in Britain and her relations with both Canada and the USA. He died at Rochester on 25 July 1963, aged 80 years and 11 months.
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First Title value, for Searching Godson, Alfred Henry (1867 - 1938)

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First Title value, for Searching Going, Robert Marshal (1867 - 1938)

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First Title value, for Searching Goldie, Walter Leigh Mackinnon (1879 - 1937)

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First Title value, for Searching Morris, Edwin David (1928 - 2013)

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by Michael Pugh
Publication Date 2013-09-30 2013-10-04
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details David Morris was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in London. David and his younger brother Gareth were the sons of the headmaster of a school in Briton Ferry, a small mining town in south Wales. David won a scholarship to Neath Grammar School but, with a family move during the Second World War, finished his schooling in Bridgend. He gained a county award, with which he entered the Welsh National School of Medicine, where he had a distinguished career, winning many prizes and also gold medals in anatomy and obstetrics. He qualified in 1950 with distinctions in anatomy and obstetrics and gynaecology. After his resident appointments, during which time he gained his diploma in obstetrics, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps for his National Service. He was posted to the Far East and worked in hospitals providing care to service and civilian patients. Later in life he was appointed as a consultant adviser to the Army. Following his National Service, he completed his training for a career in obstetrics and gynaecology. He gained the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1958, and became a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologist in 1960. After registrar appointments at Guy's, he became the resident obstetrician at Queen Charlotte's (from 1962 to 1966). It was during this time that, in association with Richard Beard and Eric Saling, he helped change the management of labour with the development of foetal blood sampling to accurately assess the degree of foetal anoxia by taking a sample of blood from the scalp of the undelivered baby and, when appropriate, accelerating the delivery. This important research formed the basis of his MD thesis. In 1966 he was appointed as a consultant at Swansea and, one year later, he was invited to apply for the joint consultant past in obstetrics and gynaecology between Guy's, the Chelsea Hospital for Women and Queen Charlotte's. He developed a special interest in gynaecological cancer, and at Guy's he founded the colposcopy clinic. He undertook complex surgical procedures and encouraged a multidisciplinary approach to the care of gynaecological cancer. As an obstetrician he was an excellent teacher of practical obstetrics and a master of Kiellands forceps, an instrument with a reputation for being difficult to use but, when skilfully used by David, produced magical results! He served as president of the section of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Royal Society of medicine. From 1975 until 1992 he was regional obstetric adviser on the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths. This is published every three years and seeks to establish the cause of these tragic events. From this experience he gained a reputation as a valuable opinion in medical negligence cases and the respect of the lawyers involved. He was elected to the fellowship of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1972 and later served as fellows' representative on the council. He was also invited to become a member of the distinguished Gynaecological Visiting Society. David was also in private practice. He retired in 1992. He was a sympathetic colleague, and cared about all those who worked with him, particularly those who sought his help when they were in difficulties. Before choosing his profession, and at the time his family moved to Bridgend, he developed his interest in steam engines, possibly because Bridgend was on the main Great Western Railway (GWR) line and the trains were hauled by the impressive King class locomotives. Music played a major role in his life. When he enrolled as a medical student he also joined a part-time music course. He had a fine voice, which, if fully developed, may have led to a career as a solo baritone. He enjoyed choral singing, jazz and Gilbert and Sullivan operas, David was married to Barbara Evans. They had two children, Anne and Peter, who in their turn and with great joy presented them with grandchildren. Barbara was a general practitioner and also a skilled glass engraver. Sadly she died in 1999. In later life David's health was poor. He died on 10 June 2013 aged 84.
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First Title value, for Searching Balme, Harold (1878 - 1953)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-15
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Occupation General surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details Born in London, 28 May 1878, third child and second son of Paul Balme, surveyor, and his wife née Kirkness, he was educated at Cooper's Grammar School and King's College, London, where he was Worsley scholar 1898, and won the Warneford, Leathes, and Todd prizes in medicine and the Berry Prize in divinity and later became an Associate. He took his clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, but interrupted it to serve with the Imperial Yeomanry field hospital in the South African war (1900-01), and won the medal and clasps. After qualifying in 1903 he served as house surgeon to Alfred Carless at King's College Hospital, and as clinical assistant at the Royal Eye Hospital, Southwark, and took the Fellowship at the end of 1905. He had been resident medical officer to the London Medical Mission, and now entered the medical missionary field in China. He worked at first at the Memorial Mission Hospital at Tai Yuan Fu in Shansi, and soon proved himself a good surgeon, a competent ophthalmologist and an excellent teacher equally fluent in English and Chinese. He realised that the teaching given to Chinese medical students must be of the highest standard. He was appointed professor of surgery at Cheeloo Shantung Christian University and superintendent of the University Hospital at Tsi Nan Fu, the capital of Shantung province, in 1913. He was subsequently Dean of the Medical Faculty, and became President of the University in 1921. He organised the first Council on Medical Education in China and acted for a time as its chairman, and was elected President of the Council on Higher Education. He recorded his work in his interesting book China and modern medicine, 1921. The Cheeloo University's degrees were recognised by McGill University, Montreal. Balme organised a translating department to produce Chinese versions of new scientific texts. His enterprise was firmly supported by Drs Samuel Cochrane and Roger Green of the China Medical Board. He retired in 1927 and went into general practice at Dormansland, Surrey, taking the Durham MD in 1928 after 20 years as a teacher and administrator in the east. On the outbreak of war in 1939 he was appointed medical superintendent of Haymeads Hospital, Bishops Stortford, and out of an old and ill-equipped infirmary created an efficient hospital of 800 beds. He was created OBE in 1942, and gave similar useful service as medical superintendent of the Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield. He became, through this war-work, keenly interested in the wider aspects of rehabilitation. Before the war, while a member of council of the Royal College of Nursing, he had published a book criticising nursing education and proposing reform. His book on *Relief of pain*, 1936, reached a second edition in 1939. The British Council commissioned a pamphlet on rehabilitation in 1944, and he was appointed medical officer in charge of rehabilitation under the Ministry of Health till 1951. He also served as director of welfare services to the British Red Cross Society, which elected him an honorary life member. His last years were devoted to international welfare work as a consultant on rehabilitation to the United Nations from 1950 and to the World Health Organisation, the World Veterans Federation, and the UN International Children's Emergency Fund. He was a member of the UN working-party on Rehabilitation, which co-ordinated the activities of the special agencies. This work entailed constant travelling in Europe, North Africa, and the United States. He carried it out with his customary energy but it took toll of his health, for he had suffered a long illness before the war, which left some disability. During 1952 he was at work in Austria in the spring and in Sweden, Finland, and Denmark in the autumn, among other arduous commitments. He was responsible for drafting a *Report on a co-ordinated international programme for the rehabilitation of the handicapped* presented to the UN Social Commission in 1952. Balme's cheerful, confident nature was inspired by humanitarian goodwill based on profound Christian faith. He was an invigorating teacher and colleague. His zeal, impatient of bureaucratic restrictions, was modified by personal charm and tact. He married in 1910 Hilda Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas William Carr of Carlisle, who survived him with two sons and two married daughters. One son, David Mowbray Balme, DSO, DFC was principal of the University College of the Gold Coast. Balme died after a major operation at 64 Copers Cope Road, Beckenham, Kent, on 13 February 1953, aged 74. Publications: *China and modern medicine, a study in medical missionary development*. London, United Council for Missionary Education, 1921. 224 pages. *The relief of pain, a handbook of modern analgesia*. London, Churchill 1936, 408 pages; 2nd edition 1939, 399 pages. *A criticism of nursing education, with suggestions for constructive reform*. Oxford University Press, 1937. 73 pages. *The unfit made fit*. British Council, "British advances" series. London, 1944. Disability and disablement, the medical aspect. *Lancet* 1946, 1, 620 and 717. A model rehabilitation and training centre, at Tobelbad, near Graz, Austria. *Brit med J* 1952, 2, 1092.
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First Title value, for Searching Sinclair, Thomas (1857 - 1940)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Belfast on 17 December 1857, the third child and second son of Samuel Sinclair, flax-merchant, and Isabella McMorran, his wife. Thomas Sinclair was educated privately and intended to go into business. In 1877 he entered Queen's College, then a constituent college of the Royal University of Ireland, in which he graduated with first-class honours in 1881, winning the Malcolm exhibition in 1880 and a gold medal in 1881. He then worked at the London Hospital, in Vienna, and in Berlin, acted for a time as demonstrator of anatomy at Queen's College, Belfast, and took the Membership in 1882 and the Fellowship in 1886. His first hospital appointment in Belfast was on the surgical staff of the Ulster Hospital for Children and Women, where he was ultimately consulting surgeon; in 1885 he was elected assistant surgeon to the Royal (afterwards Royal Victoria) Hospital, becoming surgeon in 1898 and consulting surgeon in 1923. He was also consulting surgeon to the Forster Green Hospital, the Co Antrim Infirmary, and the Lisburn and Coleraine Cottage Hospitals. In 1886, at the age of 29; he succeeded Alexander Gordon as professor of surgery at Queen's College. The election of the youngest candidate for the vacancy was generally attributed to the influence of Peter Redfern, FRCS, professor of anatomy and physiology, and Sinclair fully justified the choice. In the class-room and the operating theatre he quickly established himself as a court of ultimate appeal in all difficulties. He held the chair for thirty-seven years, retiring at the age limit in 1923, and is said to have taught more than 2,000 students. When he was senior surgeon at the Royal Victoria Hospital, every member of the staff but one had been taught by him. He was a born teacher, and as an operator and clinician a master. He combined great dexterity with sound knowledge and a logical mind. He was meticulous in inculcating thoroughness both in clinical examination and in post-operative care. Though never robust, between 1886 and 1914 he was a busy and regular lecturer and examiner in addition to his large practice. Only for writing did he find little time. For recreation he hunted each Saturday in the season, and also fished and played golf. Skating, at which he was expert, could alone lure him from giving his morning lecture. During the war he was consulting surgeon to the 4th Army, under Rawlinson in France and later under Allenby in Egypt, with the rank of colonel, AMS, having been commissioned on 15 November 1915. He received the CB in 1917. While in France he examined the body of Richtofen, the German air "ace", who was brought down behind the British lines and was thought by some to have been shot from the ground as he fell. Sinclair established that he had been shot in combat in the air by Captain A R Brown, an Australian pilot. After the war Sinclair returned to Belfast and occupied himself particularly with the affairs of the Queen's University, as Queen's College had become in 1908. He was registrar from 1919 to 1931, an ex officio member of the University Senate from 1919 as registrar and from 1931 as one of the pro-chancellors, his colleague in this office being the Rt Hon James Andrews, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland. He was a generous contributor to the University, as well as to the hospitals with which he was connected, and in 1926 founded the Sinclair medal, to be competed for each year by the members of the surgical class in the University. He represented the University on the General Medical Council from 1919 till 1927, when he became a Crown nominee upon it, and was also a member of the Dental Board. He was for many years a senator of the Parliament of Northern Ireland, and in 1923 he was elected unopposed as MP for the University in the Imperial Parliament, in succession to Sir William Whitla, MD. He held the seat for seventeen years, retiring only two months before his death, and was returned unopposed at four general elections. He died at Belfast after several months' illness on 25 November 1940. Sinclair never married but lived with a younger sister, who survived him, at 22 University Square, Belfast. Having grown up in a large family, he took a keen interest in the careers of his nephews, three of whom were prominent in Belfast public life at the time of his death: Major Maynard Sinclair, a member of the provincial Parliament, Alan Sinclair, professor of Greek in the University, and S R Sinclair, DOMS, RCPS, on the staff of the Ophthalmic Hospital. Sinclair was slightly above middle height, speaking in a soft voice with a slight North Irish accent, and was a Presbyterian. He was always well-dressed, dignified and a little stiff in manner, but with a very friendly disposition; and he took an active part in all medical gatherings. He was secretary of the section of physiology and pathology at the Belfast meeting of the BMA in 1884, and president of the section of surgery at the Belfast meeting in 1909. He was president of the Ulster Medical Society in 1895-96, and at one time of the Queen's University Club in London. He rarely came to London until the meeting of the International Medical Congress in 1913, when he acted as a secretary of the section of surgery, his colleagues being Raymond Johnson, surgeon to University College Hospital, and D'Arcy Power of St Bartholomew's. He then made many staunch friends and visited the metropolis frequently. A great teacher and a wise administrator, he held a unique place in the professional and academic life of Belfast for more than a quarter of a century. A portrait, presented in his honour in 1931, hangs in the Great Hall of the University.
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First Title value, for Searching Gooddy, Edward Samuel (1863 - 1937)

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First Title value, for Searching Mathias, Henry Hugh (1887 - 1963)

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First Title value, for Searching Maxwell, John Preston (1871 - 1961)

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First Title value, for Searching Gosset, Antonin (1872 - 1944)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Fécamp on 2 January 1872, the son of a doctor, he entered the Paris Faculty of Medicine in 1889 under Théodore Tuffier. He studied in the clinics of Benjamin Anger at the Cochin Hospital and of Hanot at the St Antoine. In 1891-92 he served as externe to J C F Guyon (1831-1920) and Étienne Lancereaux (1829-1910), and in 1894-98 as interne to Paul Jules Tillaux (1834-1904), Paul Reclus (1847-1914), Guyon, and Louis-Félix Terrier (1837-1908). In 1896 he became assistant in anatomy at the Faculty and in 1897 prosector. He won the gold medal in 1899, graduated MD 1900, and was appointed chef de clinique. In 1901 he was admitted agrégé en chirurgie, and in 1903 was promoted chirurgien des hôpitaux de Paris, becoming chirurgien chef de service in 1912. Gosset made his name, while still an interne, by his successful operation in 1898 with Bernard Cuneo on Olivier, editor of *La Lanterne*, who had been shot by a woman during the Dreyfus affair. He performed a coeliotomy and successfully stopped nine perforations of the intestine. Gosset's lifework was on the staff of the Salpêtrière, where he organized a very large surgical service. It was estimated that in his thirty years there he trained 100 assistants and treated 100,000 patients. During the first world war he did good work in the treatment of abdominal and cranial wounds. In 1919 be was appointed professor of surgical pathology at Paris, and promoted clinical professor the following year. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the College on 12 February 1920. In 1935 he was admitted Membre de l'Institut de France in the Académie des Sciences. He was also a member of the Académie de Chirurgie. During second war Gosset remained in Paris, where he died shortly after the liberation on 25 October 1944, aged 72. Gosset's principal contributions were on surgery of the biliary tract, radium therapy of cancer, blood transfusion, peptic ulcer, cranioplasty cartilaginous transplant, and on nerve-grafting. With Binet and Petit-Dutaillis he introduced the use of chloride of sodium in hypertonic solution in cases of intestinal occlusion both pathologic and operative. With Ivan Bertrand he studied carcinoma of the stomach. Gosset was a close and life-long friend of Robert Proust, the well-known Paris surgeon and brother of the great novelist, and also of Roussy, Laubry, and Guillain of his own student-year, who all attained distinction in the profession. Publications:- Two volumes of *Travaux* were published from Gosset's surgical clinic at the Hospice de la Salpétrière, 1926-27. He edited, with seventeen of his assistants, *Techniques chirurgicales*, Paris, Masson, 1936, 433 pages, to which he contributed the introductory chapter describing the organization of his surgical service at the Salpétrière.
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First Title value, for Searching Gough, William (1876 - 1947)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
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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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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 23 January 1886 at 10 Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square W1, the second son of Sir Alfred Pearce Gould, KCVO, surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, and his second wife, a daughter of Mr Justice Lush and grand-daughter of Lord Justice Sir Robert Lush (1807-81), of whom there is an account in the Dictionary of National Biography. He was educated at Charterhouse School and won a science scholarship at Christ Church, Oxford, graduated in arts with a first class in school of natural science, gained the Radcliffe Travelling Fellowship in 1913 and visited Berlin, Canada, and the United States. In 1914-17 he served as a temporary surgeon in the Royal Navy, was appointed a consulting surgeon, and in 1939 received a commission as temporary Surgeon Rear-Admiral, RN, when he served at the Roy Naval Hospital, Plymouth. At the Middlesex Hospital he filled the posts of house surgeon, house physician, surgical registrar, and casualty surgical officer. In 1920 he was elected assistant surgeon, became surgeon and lecturer on surgery, and during 1925-29 was dean of the Medical School. During his term of office as dean the Hospital was rebuilt, the Institute of Biochemistry was equipped, and the restaurant for students established. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was on the Court of Examiners from 1936 and a member of the Council from 1932, holding both positions at the time of his death. His legal inheritance, derived from his mother's side, enabled him to make an admirable chairman of the Medical Defence Union from 1933, a position requiring tact and ability to deal with the numerous difficult cases which came under review. He married in 1916 Audrey Mitchell, daughter of Mr Justice Lawrence Jackson, KC, of the Federated Malay States; she outlived him, but there were no children. He died on 1 August 1940 at the Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth from the sequelae of a perforated duodenal ulcer. Eric Pearce Gould had many of the traits characteristic of his father, modified by a better education and wide travel, and softened perhaps by his lifelong martyrdom to asthma. A total abstainer from alcohol and deeply religious, he did much good social service and was more especially interested in prisoners and their after-care. Like his father he was a fluent and gifted speaker; the prepared discourse was delivered in flawless style, but he was also quick in debate and clever at repartee. The after dinner speech was always erudite, often brilliant, and always free from any story verging on the indelicate. These gifts made him a first-rate lecturer and attracted students to his classes and lectures at Hospital. His characteristic pose is well represented by W R Barrington in the sketch reproduced in the *Middlesex Hospital Journal*, 3, 38, 114. His literary output was marked by merit rather than abundance. As a surgeon he was especially interested in the cure of hernia by transplantation of the fascial aponeurosis, and in the operative treatment of congenital hypertrophic stenosis of the pylorus. Publications:- *Surgical pathology*, Students' synopsis series. London, 1922. Three mesenteric tumours. *Brit J Surg* 1915, 3, 42. Bone changes in von Recklinghausen's disease. *Quart J Med* 1918, 11, 221. A case of B. Welchii cholecystitis, with L E H Whitby. *Brit J Surg* 1927, 14, 646. Recurrence of carcinoma of the stomach eighteen years after partial gastrectomy. *Ibid* 1927, 15, 325. Primary thrombosis of the axillary vein; a study of eight cases, with D H Patey. *Ibid* 1928, 16, 208. Primary subtotal thyroidectomy for Graves' disease in a child four years of age, with J D Robertson. *Ibid* 1938, 25, 700. Editor of Sir A. Pearce Gould's *Elements of surgical diagnosis*, 4th to 7th editions, 1914-28. Honorary editor of the *Transactions of the Medical Society of London*, 53-62, 1930-39.
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First Title value, for Searching Barber, Alexander Howard (1901 - 1962)

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First Title value, for Searching Barclay, Dorothy Margaret Somerville (1914 - 1964)

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First Title value, for Searching Barling, Seymour Gilbert (1880 - 1960)

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Publication Date 2014-01-15
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in 1880 the son of Frank Barling FRCVS and nephew of Professor Sir Gilbert Barling FRCS, who served on the College Council 1904-12, he was educated at Birmingham University, qualified through the Conjoint Board, graduated in the University of London, and was a house surgeon at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. The whole of his subsequent career, apart from war service, was spent at Birmingham where he rose to be Professor of Surgery and Consulting Surgeon to Queen Elizabeth Hospital, having joined the staff of the General Hospital in 1910 as assistant to his uncle. He was a prime mover in plan-ning the Queen Elizabeth Hospital to amalgamate the General and Queen's Hospitals in the 1930s. During the first world war he served in the RAMC in France, rose to the rank of Colonel AMS, was mentioned in dispatches and created CMG. After the war he became a leading figure in medical activities of many kinds in Birmingham, prominent in practice, teaching, and professional affairs. He was consulting surgeon to the Children's Hospital, and to the Guest Hospital, Dudley. During the second world war, as a consultant to the Emergency Medical Service, his duties covered a large area of the south and west Midlands during the period of heavy German air-raids. After retiring in 1945 with the title of Emeritus Professor he became the first chairman of the South Worcestershire Hospitals Management Committee, and energetically but tactfully promoted the integration of fifteen hospitals scattered over a wide, mainly rural district. He served on the Radium Commission, and was President of the Association of Surgeons in 1934. At the College Barling was a member of Council 1935-43, and became Chairman of the Court of Examiners on which he served through the war years 1939-45, when his friendly relations with colleagues in various cities eased the difficulties of arranging the examinations at different centres. Barling married Gladys Rose Mills, sister of Percival Mills FRCS; they lived at Edgbaston with a country house at Alfrick Court near Worcester. In 1940-45 Barling and his wife took charge of a great part of the College library and other possessions, such as the Hunterian paintings, in the house and barns at Alfrick. They had a fine garden and orchards there but later moved to a smaller house in the same village, where Barling cultivated a tract of woodland, for he and his wife were both skilled in country pursuits. Barling died suddenly at South Bank, Worcester on 4 July 1960 aged 79, and Mrs Barling on 24 December 1961 at Alfrick. They were survived by their daughter Elizabeth, an Oxford graduate distinguished in personnel management, and two sons Michael (DOMS, ophthalmic surgeon to Peterborough Hospital) and Anthony (DObst) in general practice in Northamptonshire; both sons had been on active service in the second world war, Anthony being a survivor of the Arnhem parachute attack. The memorial service for Professor Barling at Alfrick Church was attended by 200 people. He was a man of firm character, simple, direct and generous. Publication: *The Diseases of Infancy and Childhood*, with C G Parsons, 2 vols, 1933; 2nd edition, 1954.
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First Title value, for Searching Barnes, Frank (1869 - 1960)

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First Title value, for Searching Pfeiffer, Gordon Harold (1896 - 1960)

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First Title value, for Searching Medlock, Charles Harold (1888 - 1952)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-21
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born on 12 September 1888 the third son of William Medlock, produce merchant, and Emma Fulford his wife, he was educated at University College School and Guy's Hospital. He distinguished himself at all field sports: played cricket for the Public Schools against the MCC at Lord's, won the long jump in 1912, 1913, and 1914 at the National Territorial Sports, and captained the Middlesex County Rugby XV. He entered Guy's as a medical and dental student in 1908 and took the LDS in 1912. When war broke out in 1914 he saw active service as a dispatch rider in the Artists Rifles. He -was then given "leave on duty", qualified in 1915, and served as house surgeon, resident obstetrician, and resident surgical officer at Guy's. Joining the RAMC he served with the rank of Captain as medical officer to the 4th battalion, Royal Tank Corps 1917-19, and was mentioned in dispatches. Back once more at Guy's he was demonstrator of anatomy 1919, gynaecological assistant and registrar 1919-21, surgical registrar 1921-24, and assistant demonstrator of operative surgery 1922. He settled in practice at Hertford in 1924, in partnership with Ernest Ravensworth Hart MRCS, was elected assistant surgeon to the Hertfordshire County Hospital in 1924, became surgeon in 1927, and was senior surgeon 1929-48. He was also consulting surgeon to Ware Park Sanatorium 1929-48, and to the East Herts Infectious Diseases Hospital 1935-48. He was chairman of the East Herts division of the British Medical Association 1934-35. From 1935 he gave up general practice for consultant work. During the war of 1939-45 he acted as honorary medical superintendent of the County Hospital and was also obstetric surgeon in charge of the maternity hospitals at Brocket Hall, Hatfield and Pear Tree, Welwyn. For the war period and up to 1948 he was deputy obstetric consultant to the Hertfordshire County Council. In 1948 he gave up all other work to act as consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology to the Hertford group of hospitals, and became chairman of the medical advisory committee of the group. Medlock's surgery was conservative, but achieved excellent results. He had a flair for explaining technical questions to laymen and for lecturing to nurses. He was a man of absolute integrity, much respected, and affectionately known to a wide circle by the nicknames of "Pop" and "Potty". He enjoyed a month's sailing each year in Cornwall, and was a keen gardener. Medlock married in 1926 the younger daughter of Sir Francis Agar, Sheriff of the City of London; Mrs Medlock survived him, but there were no children. He attended the Christmas Day celebrations in his maternity ward in good health, but died suddenly on 27 December 1952, aged 64, at his home North Road House, Hertford.
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First Title value, for Searching Mikhail, Ishaq Khalil ( - 1964)

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First Title value, for Searching Miller, George Gavin (1893 - 1964)

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First Title value, for Searching Barron, Solomon Leonard (1926 - 2013)

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by Michael Pugh
Publication Date 2014-04-09 2014-09-19
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Leonard Barron was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Newcastle. He was born in Whitechapel, London. His father, Lazar ('Louis') Barronovitch, was a tailor specialising in women's clothes and worked in the East End. He adopted the name of 'Barron', later formalising this by Deed Poll. Leonard's mother, Fanny, had a similar background: both sets of grandparents had emigrated from Polish Russia. In 1939, at the outbreak of the Second World War, Leonard was evacuated with his brother to Somerset. He returned to London in 1943 and went to the South East Essex Technical College, which provided the necessary syllabus for entry into medicine. At the same time he also served as an air raid warden. In 1944 he won a scholarship to St Thomas's Hospital Medical School; he sat this examination at Charterhouse School, the medical school having been evacuated to a nearby manor house. As a student he enjoyed acting almost as much as medicine and intensive rehearsing for the Christmas concert delayed his qualifying by six months until 1949! After house posts, he chose to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology, his choice being much influenced by A J 'Joe' Wrigley. A general surgical training was a first, necessary step. He trained in Leicester and Portsmouth and became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1955. He then prepared for the membership examination of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) with resident appointments at Queen Charlotte's and the Chelsea Hospital for Women. He was awarded the MRCOG in 1959 and in 1970 was elected a fellow. He next became a registrar at the Weir (Maternity) Hospital and St James' Hospital, Balham. There he met Eleanor Evans, who was also a registrar. Eleanor found Leonard a little arrogant at first, but their relationship softened and they married. Leonard later became a senior registrar at St Thomas'. His first consultant posts were at the Prince of Wales Hospital, the Bearsted Maternity Hospital and the German Hospital, London - an unusual mix. He was not interested in personal gain and private practice did not attract him. In 1967 he moved to Newcastle. Here he was involved in important national studies, and undertook advisory work for the World Health Organization and the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics. He was internationally recognised for his expertise in rhesus disease and his research into the social issues of the specialty. He had a good rapport with students, junior staff and colleagues, and was always willing to stop and discuss problems. He was an outstanding administrator and it is said that he solved many situations on the hospital corridor. Not only were his skills as a committee man recognised, but his ability as businessman was also much valued. When he retired from clinical practice in 1991 these attributes were even more appreciated. He had been chairman of the Newcastle Area Health Authority and had served on many committees of the RCOG; after retirement he was invited to chair the Freeman Group of Hospitals NHS Trust. His work laid the foundation for the merger of the Newcastle hospitals into one trust. His interests were scholarly and wide. He was very happy to have become a 'Novocastrian' and embraced life in the north east. He became a member of the Pen and Palette Club, a club founded in 1900 for men with an interest in the arts, writing, music and the law, and of the Newcastle Choral Society. He enjoyed opera, the theatre and reading. He had a little less enthusiasm for gardening! Leonard and Eleanor enjoyed a very happy family. They had two children, Elizabeth and David, who is a fellow of the RCS and a paediatric cardiac surgeon in Birmingham. Leonard Barron died from carcinoma of the prostate on 17 December 2013, aged 87.
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First Title value, for Searching Boreham, Peter Francis (1922 - 2014)

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by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2014-04-09 2014-08-11
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Peter Boreham was a much-loved and highly respected general surgeon in Cheltenham with a major urological interest. He was born on 26 May 1922 in Szechuan, China, into a missionary family. He was the second son of the Reverend Frederick Boreham and his wife Mildred née Slater: an older brother, Douglas, died in infancy just six weeks after Peter was born. Peter's early years were not without hazard: he was shipwrecked at the age of two on the Yangtze River. He had two younger siblings, Cicely, who became a headmistress, and John, who was knighted, and was director of the Central Statistical Office. Frederick and Mildred Boreham returned to England from 1924 to 1929 to serve in various livings, including Norwich, where Frederick was priest at New Catton. It was here that Peter started his education in the kindergarten of Norwich High School for Girls. Later, in 1931, when both parents were back in China, he was sent as a boarder to Feltonfleet Preparatory School, where he was later joined by his sister and brother. Peter's departure from Feltonfleet was quite spectacular: he had an accident with a glass door and was taken away by ambulance with a tourniquet around one limb, never to return to his prep school! His secondary education was at Marlborough College, Wiltshire. Peter proved a good but not exceptional scholar, and excelled at swimming and athletics. Having decided on medicine as a career, in 1940 he went to Cambridge to study natural sciences and was resident in Jesus College. In Cambridge he became a member of Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union and made many friends through this organisation: this was an acknowledgment of his own Christian faith and his parental influence. He left Cambridge having obtained a BA degree, and went to Middlesex Hospital in 1942 for his clinical training until 1945. During these war years much of his training took place out of London at Aylesbury and Northwood, Middlesex and Harlesden. Having qualified MB BChir from Cambridge, in 1945 he worked as a house surgeon to Arthur S Blundell Bankart, a well-known orthopaedic surgeon on the staff of Middlesex Hospital who had paediatric and neurosurgical leanings. He was better known for his work on shoulder joint dislocation and his description of the 'Bankart lesion'. Peter observed a charming physiotherapist who was watching this famous surgeon operate and was also on his ward round. Peter went to a 'nurses hop' (informal dance), where he was happy to find Kathleen Edith Born, the physiotherapist who had caught his eye earlier. Some six weeks after they first met, Peter proposed and was accepted. On 18 January 1946 Peter and Kathleen (shortened to 'Ka' and pronounced 'Car') were married by Peter's father in West Alvington Church, Kingsbridge, Devon. Clearly during his training life was hard for the newly-weds. Peter was still doing house appointments in 1946 at Middlesex Hospital, working with two well-known surgeons, David Patey and Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor. Patey was a general surgeon with wide interests and was a superb clinical teacher, perhaps better known for his work on breast diseases: he was also founder of the Surgical Research Society. Gordon-Taylor built up a reputation as a fearless surgeon in the First World War and his knowledge of anatomy allowed him to attempt formidable operations. Peter then became a casualty officer at Middlesex Hospital, as accident and emergency experience was at the time a requirement for any doctor wishing to sit the FRCS examination. In mid-1946 it was time for him to do National Service, and he joined the RAMC. After preliminary training, he was posted to the British Army of the Rhine. Having already decided on surgery as a career, he used this period to engage in postal courses to progress his studies for the FRCS. In August 1947 Michael, their first child, was born in Torquay, and Peter was allowed two weeks 'compassionate leave' when Michael was ill. Following two years of National Service, Peter was discharged, later to join the Territorial Army with the rank of major when working as a senior registrar. Back in the recently-formed NHS in 1949, he took up a post as a resident medical officer at a mental hospital in Camberwell, Peter, Ka and young Michael living in a flat in Maida Vale. In May 1949, having passed the FRCS, he obtained a post as a registrar back at Middlesex Hospital, working with Sir Eric Riches and Cecil Murray. This was a popular firm with students and trainees alike: both were superb technicians and good teachers, Sir Eric in urology and Murray in general surgery, particularly in the days when partial gastrectomy was the preferred treatment for chronic peptic ulcer. He continued in this post until 1952, being elevated to senior registrar for the last two years. Their second child, Jenny, was born in December 1949, and this necessitated moving to larger living accommodation in Hampstead Garden Suburb early in 1950. On 1 March 1953, their third child, a second daughter, Judy, was born. After working for three years with Riches and Murray, Peter obtained a research post at Middlesex Hospital to work on 'implantation metastases in surgery'. This provided him with sufficient material for two papers. Already attending meetings of the section of urology of the Royal Society of Medicine, he gave a short paper on 'The surgical spread of cancer in urology' (28 April 1955), which was then published in the *British Journal of Urology* (*Br J Urol*. 1956 Jun;28[2]:163-75). In this he described six cases of carcinoma of bladder recurring in the urethra. A second article on 'Implantation metastases from cancer of the large bowel' was published in the *British Journal of Surgery* (*Br J Surg*. 1958 Sep;46[196]:103-8. Short papers on rare cases increased the number of publications on his CV. He started applying for consultant posts, only to find that there were 60 or more applicants for each post in this post-war period: but was encouraged when short-listed for the odd one. It proved necessary to embellish his CV with a masters degree in surgery. The MChir Cambridge involved writing three papers each of four hours: one had four questions with no choice, another had two questions without a choice and one had one question, again without a choice! Senate House in Cambridge, where he sat to write papers, was not warm in the winter months and 'regular' candidates learned to bring rugs and hot coffee to help. Three vivas of half an hour each completed the examination. Peter obtained this highly prized degree at the second attempt. He next gained a year's appointment as a resident surgical officer at St Mark's Hospital, London. Although the post entailed becoming a 'house-surgeon' again, it was the best job at this stage of his career, enabling him to get concentrated experience in coloproctology. Working with W B Gabriel, O V Lloyd-Davies and Sir Clifford Naunton Morgan was a superb way of adding another 'specialty' to his already broad experience. Gabriel, often known as the 'Archangel Gabriel', was a man with an imposing presence and great physical and moral strength: he had a reputation for total patient care and long operating lists. Oswald Lloyd-Davies was a superb technician with an inventive mind who, with Naunton Morgan, perfected the technique of synchronous combined excision of the rectum for carcinoma. The lithotomy-Trendelenburg position, for which he developed special leg supports, is generally known as the Lloyd-Davies position. Naunton Morgan, also on the staff of St Bartholomew's Hospital, was a man of boundless energy and an enthusiastic teacher. Peter's next appointment was again at senior registrar level, although he effectively worked as a second consultant. It was at the Whittington Hospital, north London, where he worked with Neville Stidolph, a South African-born general surgeon with a major interest in urology, who also had an extensive private practice. Peter consolidated his knowledge and experience whilst applying for more consultant posts. Shortlisted for several, in 1958 he was at last successful in Cheltenham for a post advertised as a consultant surgeon with an interest in urology. This post he held until he retired in 1987. Peter and Ka were able to put down roots at last in Cheltenham. At their large Georgian home, the Borehams enjoyed tennis and eventually had a swimming pool built by Peter and his son, Michael. There were plenty of activities centred round their home and they were able to form many friendships in the neighbourhood. The family became active members of Christ Church, Cheltenham, and from 1960 to 1965 Peter was a churchwarden. Two further children were born in Cheltenham - Sarah in 1960 and Caroline in 1961. The enlarged family were able to enjoy holidays in the UK and abroad, camping in Spain and France. Peter was passionate about sailing his Wayfarer dinghy, using his children as ballast. On occasions they were tipped into the freezing Easter waters of Falmouth. As one of three general surgeons, in addition to looking after the majority of urological patients, Peter dealt with a third of the general surgical emergencies. He paid visits to Tewkesbury Hospital and developed a reputation amongst his juniors and colleagues as caring and compassionate to patients, but expecting others to adopt his high standards. As a surgeon he was calm, precise and workmanlike. Perhaps appearing a little stern to those who worked with him, they loved his intelligence, his wry smile and sense of humour which was never far away. He was a great supporter of postgraduate activities, and played a full part in hospital committees, including chairmanship of the consultant staff, whose business he handled with characteristic brevity and effectiveness. He was a consultant member of the former hospital management committee, disbanded during one of the first of the many NHS re-organisations. He served as a member of Gloucester Health Authority and of the South West Regional Higher Awards committee. An active member of the Gloucester branch of the British Medical Association, he became its president in 1975. He was a member and president of South West Surgeons Club and the South West Urologists group. In 1973 he was president of Cheltenham Rotary Club and during his presidency raised money to provide a Land Rover ambulance for a hospital in Kambia, Sierra Leone. In 1961 he was elected to the 1921 Surgical Travelling Club and was an active member for 25 years, serving first as secretary and later as president. Peter and Ka went on the twice yearly visits to most major surgical centres in Europe and a few in the USA. In retirement he wrote *Surgical journeys* (Merlin, 1990) - a history of this club. This was Peter's final publication and was a masterpiece of research. Retiring from the NHS in 1987, a large number of his junior staff came to a farewell dinner in his honour: they made a presentation of a silver salver, with their signatures engraved on it. Naturally, his family and many friends were delighted that all his work, both medical and voluntary, was recognised nationally by the award of an OBE in 1987. Peter and Ka went on a world tour visiting cousins in Canada and Australia, and former trainees with whom he had kept in touch. Peter was made chairman of the Kambia, Sierra Leone, appeal, and they both went to visit and work alongside doctors in the local hospital. Later they were able to welcome many Kambian staff who came to Cheltenham for professional training. Ill-health dogged the later years of his retirement. In 1994 he lost the sight in one eye due to polymyalgia rheumatica. Six years later, he needed major by-pass heart surgery in Bristol. After these health scares Peter and Ka moved out of their large Georgian house into a smaller, more manageable home. In 2002 he needed further surgery, this time for spinal stenosis and, some five years later, he underwent prostatic surgery. Developing very severe pneumonia in 2010, Peter was treated in Cheltenham General and Tewkesbury, the hospitals he had worked in for so many years. Eventually nursing care proved necessary, and he moved into St Faith's Nursing Home. Here, with failing eyesight and general vascular degeneration, he was visited twice a day by his dear wife Ka, who held his hand as they listened to the classical music he had enjoyed throughout his life. Although ailing, he never lost his faculties, and retained much of his excellent memory to near the end. Peter Francis Boreham died with all the family present on 8 March 2014, aged 91. He was survived by his five children, Michael, Jennifer, Judith, Sarah and Caroline, 13 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. Several of the family have followed Peter into medicine.
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First Title value, for Searching Cohen, Bertram (1918 - 2014)

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by David Barnard
Publication Date 2014-04-09 2014-06-13
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Occupation Dental scientist Oral pathologist
Details Bert was the first Nuffield research professor of dental science at the Royal College of Surgeons. He was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the third of four children of Pauline (née Soloveychik) and Morris Cohen, Jewish immigrants from Lithuania. His grandfather, Shmuel, had opened a wholesale grocery in downtown Johannesburg. Bert was educated at King Edward VII School, Johannesburg, and at the University of Witwatersrand, where he was president of the Student Dental Society and the All Sports' Committee of the University. He played first team cricket and squash, and conducted original research on oral disease in the Bantu as an undergraduate. He qualified in dentistry in 1942 and was awarded the Henry St John Randall medal as the most distinguished student of his year. This was judged not only on academic excellence, but also on the record of student activities and athletics, conduct and personality. Bert joined the South African Medical Corps and became a dental officer. He kept a remarkable war diary, tracing his progress to Egypt and then, in the bitter Italian Campaign, from Taranto to Bellagio, where his war ended beside Lake Como. He was appointed to the whole time staff of the Oral and Dental Hospital at Witwatersrand in 1946. Within six months he won the Montgomery Ward fellowship to Northwestern University, Chicago, where he was awarded a masters degree by thesis. During this period, he also obtained the higher dental diploma from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, (the forerunner to the fellowship in dental surgery). He returned to Witwatersrand as a senior lecturer and quickly showed himself to be a talented teacher and innovative research scientist, securing important research grants. He was appointed chairman of the scientific programme committee of the International Conference of the Dental Association of South Africa. In 1954, he was the first dentist to be awarded a Cecil John Adams memorial travelling fellowship and spent a year in the section of morbid anatomy and the radiopathology research unit of the Medical Research Council, attached to the Hammersmith Hospital in London. He conducted research into salivary gland function and bone pathology. Once again he returned to South Africa, and then came the event which was to shape the rest of his life, and the lives of many others. He applied for the Leverhulme research fellowship in the department of dental science at the Royal College of Surgeons. In his original application he stated: 'It would be my sincere desire to serve the College to the limits of my capacities by seeking to advance the standards and the status of dental science.' One of his referees spoke of Bert's early recognition 'that fundamental research in dental pathology must be based upon the principles of general human pathology'. This important principle became the lodestar of his approach to the science of dentistry. He took up the fellowship at the Royal College of Surgeons in January 1957. In 1960 he was appointed as the first Nuffield research professor of dental science and director of the department. He occupied this position with great distinction for 23 years. He was a prolific researcher and an inspiration and father figure to generations of younger colleagues. He had broad interests in the pathology of oral and dental disease, and his world-leading research into dental caries, and his work to develop a vaccine to prevent it, formed a central part of his endeavours over 20 years. Much of the research was undertaken at the research station at Downe. A successful vaccine was not achieved, but his department contributed to the understanding of this common disease in a way that has influenced research and patient care ever since. He also demonstrated innovative thinking on the susceptibility to the other common dental problem, periodontal disease. In 1980 he delivered a Charles Tomes lecture on 'Problems peculiar to oral pathology'. The same year he gave a memorable Vicary lecture - 'A tale of two paintings', in which he presented elegant research to prove the provenance of the two Holbein paintings belonging to the Company of Barbers and the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1982 he presented a Hunterian lecture entitled 'An inquiry into the decay of teeth'. It wove a magical path from John Hunter through to contemporary academic research. He was highly respected as a diagnostic oral pathologist in the field of head and neck cancer and had published important papers on the typing of tumours for the World Health Organization as far back as 1970. In 1976 he co-edited a seminal compendium *Scientific foundations of dentistry* (London, Heinemann Medical). This included 60 contributions from the most prominent scientists of the day from all around the world. He served as president of the British Society for Oral Pathology in 1979 and president of the section of odontology of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1981. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in dental science by the University of Newcastle in 1981, a rare honour. He gained fellowships of the dental faculties of the English, Edinburgh and Irish Royal Colleges. He was awarded an honorary FRCS by the English College and was a fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists. In 1982 he was appointed CBE. He was a member of the far-reaching Nuffield Inquiry into Dental Education in the UK in 1980, and had a major influence upon the direction of the subsequent review. This considered personnel auxiliary to dentistry, and changed the way the dental team would deliver care. When he retired from the Royal College of Surgeons in 1983, he joined the tumour panel of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, and continued in this role for another decade. He recalled this period as particularly fulfilling and enjoyable. In 1984, he was elected to the board of trustees of the Hunterian Collection and was an outstanding chairman from 1996 to 1999. He was the first dentist to hold this position. To become one of the guardians of the great scientific collection of John Hunter, the father of scientific surgery, was a particular joy to him and he continued on the board until 2010. After 26 years, he was one of the longest serving trustees in the board's 200-year history. Bert was a kind man with a big presence and captivating warmth. He was a charismatic and often demanding leader within the Royal College of Surgeons for over half a century. He was a scientist of great energy, an articulate speaker, a fluent writer and always an upholder of the highest traditional standards and courtesy. His interest in all people, the arts and literature, made him one of those rare individuals who can properly be called a polymath. He was proud to be a member of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St Andrews, and maintained a passion for golf throughout his very long life. Bert Cohen died on 19 March 2014, aged 95. He was survived by his beloved Hazel, whom he married in 1950. They had no children, but were surrounded by a devoted family, all of whom adored their Uncle Bert.
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First Title value, for Searching Everett, Michael Thornton ( - 2014)

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First Title value, for Searching O'Driscoll, Thomas Gerrard (1924 - 2014)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-04-09 2016-07-08
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Thomas Gerrard O'Driscoll was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at the regional eye unit, Oldchurch Hospital, Romford. He was born in Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland, on 5 December 1924, the second son of Patrick O'Driscoll, a civil servant in the Customs and Excise, and Mary O'Driscoll née O'Carroll. He was educated at St John's School, Kinsale, and Roscrea College, and went on to study medicine at University College, Cork, where he gained scholarships in the first and second years of his course. He qualified in 1948. He was a house officer at Leicester General Hospital and Chester Royal Infirmary, a senior registrar at Wolverhampton Eye Infirmary and a resident medical officer at Moorfields Eye Hospital. He was subsequently appointed to his post in Romford. He gained his diploma in ophthalmology in 1951 and his FRCS in 1956. He listed John Kelly of St Finbarr's Hospital, Cork, and Seymour Philps and Frederick Ridley, both at Moorfields, as the surgeons who had most influenced him during his training. Outside medicine, he was interested in squash, swimming and the piano. In 1963 he married Mairead Keaney. They had one daughter and two sons. Thomas Gerrard O'Driscoll died on 16 March 2014. He was 89.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005261
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First Title value, for Searching Rawlinson, James Keith McClure (1923 - 2014)

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by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2014-04-09 2014-12-12
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Keith Rawlinson was a general surgeon with an interest in urology at Walton Hospital, Liverpool. He was born on 1 August 1923, the second son of James Herbert Rawlinson (always known as 'Rawli'), a pre-NHS surgeon who practised at the Liverpool Northern Hospital, and Mabel Rawlinson née McClure, a nurse. His mother died in 1930 when Keith was just seven, and he and his older brother were cared for by an aunt until Rawli remarried in 1938. His stepmother, the widow of a family friend, Henry Roberts, became known as 'Granny' George in the family. Keith's brother, J Geoffrey Rawlinson, worked in the chemical industry after serving in the Army during the Second World War, and then spent 25 years as a management consultant. The two brothers were close and in their younger days went on holidays together, fell walking and exploring the Lake District. Keith developed Perthes' disease of the hip in his early years: this was treated with bed rest and he was put in a frame. Although the osteochondritis settled down, he was left with a permanent and characteristic limp, and in adult life tended to use a stick. After preparatory school at Braeside, Hoylake, he went to Oundle School for his secondary education. Here he had a good academic record, winning several form prizes and an award for shooting. Other competitive sports and subsequent Armed forces enrolment were clearly out of the question in view of his previous hip disease. He entered Liverpool University for his medical training and served in the Home Guard whilst studying. He saw plenty of action during the wartime raids on Liverpool when incendiary devices were dropped on West Kirby and other areas. Medical students also cared for the returning wounded soldiers as part of their routine clinical experience. He qualified in 1947 and house appointments followed in the Liverpool area. His first house surgeon post was with Philip Reginald Hawe at the David Lewis Northern Hospital, who had a reputation as a good general and paediatric surgeon, and was a fine teacher. A house physician post to Leslie Cunningham followed, again at the Northern Hospital. Keith may have contemplated a career in orthopaedics, as he proceeded to an orthopaedic house surgeon post with E N Wardle for a year, and was upgraded to junior registrar. However, general surgery beckoned, and he returned to work with Hawe for two years as his registrar. By then his chief had developed a specialist interest in head and neck surgery, and thyroid diseases in particular. Keith was given three months' study leave to attend fellowship courses in London, including one at St Bartholomew's Hospital. During this time he passed the FRCS. He was now in a position to gain more general experience, this time with A Rose at the Royal Southern Hospital in Liverpool from October 1952 to September 1953, and then for two years up to March 1957 with J B Oldham, another excellent clinical teacher. His new chief was a perfectionist who ran an excellent unit, but could be outspoken at times. Keith's higher surgical training at senior registrar level was supervised by Charles Wells. Trainee and trainer were both born in Liverpool, and educated there as undergraduates. Wells was appointed to the Royal Southern Hospital as a general surgeon with interests in urology, inflammatory bowel disease and gastric surgery. He built up a large practice in the NHS and in private work and had an enormous capacity for hard work. Expecting his trainees to develop the same ethos, by the time Keith joined him Wells had already assumed full-time academic professorial status, and was attracting many able young trainee surgeons from all over the United Kingdom and from overseas. A hard taskmaster, he encouraged Keith in his research work for his masters degree, which he wrote up as 'Intestinal motility in the post-operative period'. Pending gaining a permanent consultant post, Wells encouraged Keith to undertake locum consultant positions. One of these was in 1958 on the Isle of Man: here he gained notoriety for saving the life of a motorcyclist who had been involved in a serious accident during the TT race and needed emergency neurosurgery. The following year, he worked in a more sedate post at Musgove Park Hospital, Taunton, for six months. In 1960 he was appointed as a general surgeon with an interest in urology to Walton Hospital, Liverpool: after 12 years he switched to practise pure urology and, initially with Norman Gibbon, ran the urology services at Walton for 17 years. He was very interested in urodynamic studies and explored the place of self-hypnosis in the management of urge incontinence. He engaged in private practice from Rodney Street, Liverpool, and operated from Park House with his friend and anaesthetist, Tom Forrest. Keith was a member of the Liverpool Medical Institution, being its secretary for a few years and becoming a life member in 1993. He and his wife enjoyed membership of the Grey Turner Travelling Surgical Club from 1963 to 2000, and he was the 'chronicler' of its travels at home and abroad for almost 20 years. He played an active part in the Innominate Club of Liverpool, founded in the 1930s as a dining/debating club for medical practitioners. Usually meeting each month in the winter, members gave talks to each other on non-medical subjects: some of Keith's subjects were on 'time', 'watch this space', 'Iona' and 17th century Swedish warships and astronomy. All these topics indicate that Keith was widely read: he felt it was important to find time during the day to pause and reflect on something outside oneself. He was a committed Christian, but questioning of matters relating to his personal faith. Family life was important to him. He met Griselda Carlisle, his future wife, at her 21st birthday party in August 1951. She was the youngest daughter of Henry Carlisle, a general practitioner, and was a talented pianist. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music, taught in London and performed. They were married on 23 May 1954 at St Peter's Church, Heswall. Griselda gave occasional recitals and accompanied soloists in their early married life, but her professional life really took off again in the mid-1970s, once the family was established at school and university. She accompanied choral groups, and taught in schools and at Liverpool University. Keith and Griselda had three children, Nigel, Iain and Fiona. Nigel trained in surgery and was later ordained as a minister. Iain qualified as a lawyer and has worked in banking and as a company and charity director. Fiona trained as a GP and then became a consultant in palliative medicine. In spite of his hip disability, Keith became a member of the Caldy Golf Club, having been a member of the Royal Liverpool Golf Club as a boy, when he played with his father. He was an active member of Clwyd Anglers, and fished there most Wednesdays on his afternoon off work. He enjoyed trout fishing, and tied his own flies. In Scotland, Keith and Griselda fished on the Dee, but their main fishing was on the Polly River. Since the end of the First World War, Griselda's father had taken a month's holiday every year at Inverpolly Lodge and the extended family carried on this tradition up until 2013. A caravan also allowed the Rawlinson family weekend breaks away from the pressures of medical life. Keith enjoyed creating things, including the setting up a hydroponic system in his greenhouse to water lettuces and tomatoes. He made radio-controlled cars, boats and, rather ambitiously, an aeroplane. He built a dinghy in the glass house at home for the family to enjoy. Fond of classical music, Keith was a regular attender at Royal Philharmonic concerts. He played the organ at home: it had two manuals with a full pedal board. As the children learned to play recorders, not to be outdone, he joined them. When he started a new instrument he would take lessons and practise seriously. He was fond of his MGB sports cars, but rarely exceeded the speed limit. The evening meal was often delayed as Keith was frequently late back from work. Meals taken together were always dynamic times as conversation flowed back and forth. Griselda was always the rock underpinning and building 'Glenburn' in Heswall, Merseyside, their permanent home. This was the house to which the family returned, came for sanctuary, brought friends and partners, and in which life decisions were made. Keith retired in 1989, but was invited back to help with 'waiting list initiatives'. He continued to read the *BMJ*, quizzing his medical children on articles before they had time to read them! Keith and Griselda found more time to travel together. They toured New Zealand in 1992 and Canada and the Rockies in 1994 in a campervan, and they were able to visit their son Iain when he was living in South Africa. Keith continued exercising daily in the hope of staying as mobile as possible, and took up golf again, but he needed artificial joint replacements to both hips and both knees. He continued to be mentally agile and stimulation came from playing bridge. In later years, he tackled the intricacies of technology, learning to use Skype and latterly an iPad. As his general health began to deteriorate, adaptations were made within the house: inevitably with the 'Keith Rawlinson' touch of creativity. Keith Rawlinson died peacefully with his family present at his home on 12 March, 2014 aged 90. He was survived by his wife of 59 years, Griselda, his children Nigel, Iain and Fiona and his grandchildren Claire, Anna-Fleur, Sam, Adam, Tom and Kitty. Keith's passion for learning, his interest in life and his ability to extract the very most out of each day will be remembered by all who knew him.
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First Title value, for Searching Levy, Simon Isaac (1899 - 1959)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-28
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Liverpool on 9 November 1899 he was brought up at Merthyr, South Wales, and educated at Cardiff and the Westminster Hospital, qualifying in 1922. After a short time in general practice he gained surgical experience at the Westminster and Guy's Hospitals and the Prince of Wales Hospital, Tottenham, and took the Fellowship at the end of 1926. He soon obtained appointments to the London Jewish Hospital and the Bearsted Memorial Hospital, and became consulting surgeon to the East Ham Memorial Hospital 1930-48, and to All Saints Hospital for Genito-Urinary Diseases now the Urological Centre of the Westminster Hospitals group. During the war of 1939-45 he was a surgeon under the Ministry of Health's emergency medical service at Goodmayes, Essex. He also had a large private practice, particularly among political, legal and theatrical personalities, first at 62 Wimpole Street and later at 2 Harley Street. He lived at 43 Bryanston Court. Levy was a tall, dignified man of kindly, generous temperament, with a keen intellect and lively interest in people and in charitable causes. He was a strict orthodox Jew, served on the Board of Deputies of the Anglo-Jewish community and worked hard for the Friends of the Hebrew University at Jerusalem. He died suddenly on 12 January 1959 aged 59, survived by his wife and their two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Thompson, Warren Leishman ( - 1980)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-24
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Warren Leishman Thompson was educated at Christ's College, New Zealand, from 1933 to 1937 where he, like his brother, Bruce, was a distinguished athlete representing the school at both cricket and rugby for some years and being a champion fives player and school prefect. On leaving school he entered Otago University and Selwyn College where he was a resident from 1939 to 1942, represented the University at both cricket and rugby, being awarded a blue in the latter. He graduated MB ChB in 1945 and was for a period house surgeon at Christchurch Hospital, subsequently travelling to England and taking the FRCS in 1950 and the DLO later that year. He was first assistant in the aural department at the London Hospital for some time and then returned to Christchurch where he entered private ENT practice and was appointed visiting ENT surgeon to the Christchurch Hospital in early 1955. He relinquished this appointment in mid-1956 though continuing in private consultation practice as at this stage he suffered the first of the health problems which were to dog the rest of his life. Because of these he took up an appointment at Templeton Hospital in 1963 and held this until his eventual retirement in March 1980. He was a quiet unassuming man who bore his ill health with courage and good humour. He died suddenly on 2 July 1980 at his home in Fendalton, survived by his wife Pauline and six children, Prue, Peter, Sue, Michael, David and Juliette.
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First Title value, for Searching Fenwick, William Stephen (1881 - 1961)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-03 2018-06-26
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Occupation Farmer General surgeon
Details Born on 6 July 1881 he developed an ankylosed tuberculous left hip which seriously interfered with his education. This illness necessitated a long rest in the open air and thus engendered a love of the country from which he profited in later years. Fenwick studied first for the BSc and graduated with honours in botany. In 1902 he became a medical student at Charing Cross Hospital and took nearly all the prizes. He qualified in 1906, graduated MB BS with a gold medal and honours in surgery, medicine, and pathology in 1908, took the FRCS the same year, and gained the MS with a gold medal in 1909. After serving as house surgeon to Sir Herbert Waterhouse, Fenwick became surgical registrar, and on the death of Sir Frederic Wallis he was appointed to the full surgical staff of the Hospital. Among other surgical appointments, he was at various times on the staff of the Hampstead General Hospital, the Gordon Hospital, the Queen's Hospital for Children and the Hendon Cottage Hospital. During the first world war he was unable to serve in the forces owing to his disability, but was increasingly active at home. Unfortunately his car collided with a tram during a black-out, and his injuries made it increasingly difficult for him to operate. He retired in 1922 to Earldoms Lodge, Whiteparish, near Salisbury, where he became a successful farmer and veterinary surgeon. (1) He was elected chairman of the South Wiltshire brank of the National Farmer's Union in 1937, and during the second world war was chairman of the National Service Medical Board at Salisbury. Fenwick was a quiet, unobtrusive man with a genius for excellence. He died on 17 January 1961 at the age of 79, survived by his widow and his son, Thomas Fenwick FRCS, consultant surgeon to the Portsmouth group of hospitals. Publications: Sterilisation of skin by alcoholic solution of iodine, with H Waterhouse. *Brit med J*. 1910, 2, 61. Transplantation of a segment of small intestine to repair the resected sigmoid flexure. *Brit med J*. 1911, 2, 781. [(1) It has been questioned as to whether he held a formal veterinary degree. It is likely that he practiced as a vet without being on the register or the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons - June 2018.]
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First Title value, for Searching De Silva, Sir Arthur Marcellus (1957 - 1957)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-10
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Ceylon 5 November 1879 son of Mudaliyar William Marcellus De Silva, he was educated at Royal College, Colombo, and at the London Hospital Medical College from which he took the Fellowship, being the first Ceylonese postgraduate student to do so. He returned to Colombo where he made a distinguished career in practice, teaching, and administration. He was surgeon to the General Hospital 1907-30 and senior surgeon 1930-40; ear nose and throat surgeon, Victoria Memorial Hospital, 1908-30; and subsequently consulting surgeon to both hospitals. He lectured in surgery and clinical surgery at Ceylon Medical College 1907-40. He was also a Public Service Commissioner. De Silva was a keen naturalist and a successful cultivator of orchids. For his public services he was created CBE, KBE, and finally KCMG. He married in 1909 Laura Elizabeth Dias, who survived him with their daughter. He died at his home, 14 Ward Place, Colombo, on 22 September 1957, aged 77.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004998
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First Title value, for Searching Hurley, Thomas Ernest (1888 - 1958)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-03
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Melbourne in 1888, he was educated at Wesley College and Melbourne University. After qualification he became resident medical officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1910 and medical superintendent 1912-14. In 1914 he was appointed surgeon to out-patients and in 1927 surgeon to in-patients, retiring in 1947, in which year he became president of the hospital. During the war of 1914-18 he volunteered immediately and served in Egypt, the Dardanelles and France, culminating with an administrative appointment in London in 1918 as ADMS of the AIF. During the war of 1939-45 he was chairman of the Australian Red Cross in 1939-40, but was then selected for the new appointment of Medical Director-General of the RAAF, serving in this capacity from 1940 to 1945. He was a member of the board of examiners of Melbourne University 1936-46 and president in 1950. His other achievements included President of the Australasian College of Surgeons in 1952-53, President of the Federal Council of the BMA. 1949-51, President of the British Commonwealth Medical Conference in 1950, President of the Surgical Section of the Australasian Medical Congress in Perth in 1948, and honorary fellowship of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. He was chairman of the Walter and Eliza Hall Research Institute in Melbourne and was an honorary surgeon to the King from 1942 to 1950. As a surgeon he was highly competent, and he had a real flair for administration. He was very good-looking, retaining his youthful appearance to the end, immensely likeable, and one of the outstanding personalities of his generation in Australian surgery. A good athlete in his young days, he found time to be a very competent golfer later. Hurley married in 1919 and had four sons and two daughters, several of whom entered the medical profession. He died on 19 July 1958 in Melbourne.
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First Title value, for Searching Le Brun, Henry Ieuan (1918 - 2013)

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by Charles Gallannaugh
Publication Date 2013-12-16 2014-01-24
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Henry Le Brun was a general surgeon at Lewisham Hospital. He was born on 28 January 1918 in Pontypridd, Glamorgan, in the heart of the mining country, where his father was a mining engineer. His second name 'Ieuan' (Welsh for 'John') and the fact that his mother's maiden name was Thomas reveals his Welsh ancestry. His maternal grandfather was a GP in Hirwaun, a village near Aberdare in the Rhondda valley. His paternal grandfather was vicar of Alderney, the name Le Brun being not uncommon in the Channel Islands. In due course the family moved to Yorkshire, where no doubt his father's experience in mining had led them. Henry went to school at Barnard Castle, but his schooling was interrupted by a severe ear infection, which led to a number of operations to drain the infection in the mastoid bone at a time before antibiotics were discovered. He was left with a profound facial nerve paralysis on one side of his face, together with hearing loss, a burden he bore with great fortitude throughout his life. Despite this severe disability, he clearly rose above it and in due course went up to Sheffield University to study medicine, qualifying MB ChB in 1942. He remained a benefactor of his former university until the end of his life. Clearly he would have been unfit for military service; he continued his studies during the Second World War and after, becoming a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1948. Following registrar appointments at Lincoln and Ashford in Middlesex, and after obtaining his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1952, he went as a senior registrar to St Mary's Hospital. Here he worked with two leading surgeons of that era - Arthur Dickson Wright and Sir Arthur Porritt. He published in the *British Journal of Surgery*, although he did not write widely, preferring to teach by example. In 1959 he was appointed as a consultant surgeon to Lewisham and Greenwich hospitals, and in later years his work moved entirely to Lewisham. At Lewisham Hospital Henry quickly established a rewarding relationship with J S Staffurth, who was in charge of endocrinology there. These two clinicians had a common interest in the management of thyroid disease and more often than not on a Saturday morning Henry would carry out a partial thyroidectomy. He and Staffurth were part of a small group of clinicians who helped transform the hospital from a former London County Council institution towards the modern era. Over the years Henry, as chairman of the hospital management committee, became a leading figure in developing the link with Guy's Hospital, which led to the introduction of undergraduate teaching at Lewisham. He was assisted in this by a close personal connection with Guy Blackburn at Guy's, and in 1974 was appointed RCS surgical tutor at Lewisham. To assist Henry at a thyroid operation, or indeed any other procedure, was an experience that filled his registrars with admiration. It would not be inappropriate to compare his work to that of a great artist of the past addressing a canvas. Few surgeons reveal the delicacy of touch, the sense of spatial awareness and the knowledge of surgical anatomy which he displayed as he went about his work. He was truly a master craftsman. Henry loved music and opera, and his Bechstein grand piano was a source of great joy to him. He studied Italian to further his enjoyment of opera and later developed an interest in French literature. When he retired and he and his wife moved to Seaford in Sussex he took up cooking with the help of the Cordon Bleu Cookery School, becoming an accomplished chef. Many memorable dinner parties followed at their home. Henry, in the words of his former colleague J S Staffurth in a letter to his widow, was 'a modest and shy man'. Those of us who had the privilege of working with him at a stage of our careers when our early skills were being refined owe him an immense debt of gratitude. Henry did not suffer fools gladly and, like many, could be exasperating at times, but those of us who developed long and lasting friendships with him over the years will remember him as a kind and generous man, who overcame adversity against great odds to become a master surgeon of a type too rarely seen today. Henry Le Brun died peacefully on 6 October 2013 in Eastbourne District Hospital, where he had been admitted from his home after a fall. He was 95. He was survived by his wife, Jennifer.
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First Title value, for Searching James, Peter Ashman (1921 - 2013)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-11-08 2015-11-20
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Occupation Radiologist Thoracic surgeon
Details Peter James was a consultant thoracic surgeon in Uganda and latterly a consultant radiologist at Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester. He was born on 19 September 1921 in Nailsea, north Somerset, the son of Walter Ashman, a chartered surveyor, and Hilda Ashman née Kitley, a nurse who had served at sea with the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service during the First World War. He was educated at St Goar's School, Bristol, and at Bristol Grammar School, where he was a Peloquin scholar. He then studied medicine at Bristol University, gaining his MB ChB in 1943. He was a house surgeon to Arthur Rendle Short in Bristol and then, between 1944 and 1947, he was a captain in the RAMC, mainly with the 7th Indian Parachute Field Ambulance. After the war, he trained in Bristol, Gloucester and Newport as a general surgeon, and then at Morriston, Brompton and Great Ormond Street hospitals as a thoracic surgeon. From 1960 to 1967 he was a consultant thoracic surgeon in Uganda and an honorary lecturer at the University of East Africa. He was a member of the council of the Association of Surgeons of East Africa and president from 1965 to 1966. He was also a member of the Advisory Committee on Medical Education in East Africa in 1966. He was awarded an MBE in May 1963. In 1967 he left Uganda, re-trained in Canada and Bristol as a diagnostic radiologist, and was appointed as a consultant in radiology for the Manchester teaching area at Wythenshawe Chest Hospital and Manchester Chest Clinic. He wrote various papers on tuberculosis and medical education and contributed a chapter on thoracic surgery to *Companion to surgery in Africa, etc* (Edinburgh/London, E & S Livingstone, 1968). Outside medicine, he enjoyed sailing, bridge, driving, flying and competitive bowls. He died on 23 May 2013 in Southbourne, aged 91. He was survived by his widow Jean James (née Tregear), a former dermatologist, whom he had married in 1947.
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First Title value, for Searching Parsons, Thomas Arthur (1939 - 2013)

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by Peter Bore
Publication Date 2014-01-22 2014-07-04
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Tom Parsons was an orthopaedic surgeon in Brisbane, Australia. He was born in Liverpool, one of three sons of Thomas, a printer, and Doris, a tailor. His grandfather was a Newfoundland sailor who had settled in the port city. Tom was educated at Holt High School, Liverpool, and, like many of his era, decided on a medical career almost by accident. He had no family background in medicine and a minimal knowledge of what a medical life would entail, but he had the ability and the enlightened changes in the health and education systems made by the British government following the end of the Second World War, made a medical career socially and financially possible. He entered University College Hospital (UCH) in 1959. It was here that he met Bronwen Beecham, who would become a psychiatrist and Tom's lifelong companion. After graduating in 1964, Tom held pre-registration appointments at UCH and West Middlesex Hospital, before moving to the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, and then Liverpool for his general surgical training. Later in life Tom claimed that his choice of orthopaedics was determined by his reading an article stating that orthopaedics was the least popular discipline amongst surgical trainees and therefore the easiest to enter. However, the enthusiasm for his work, which he exhibited throughout his career, suggests that he was perhaps being somewhat modest. His orthopaedic training was at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry with Denis Wainwright, followed by a period at the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary. He was appointed to a consultant post at Stoke-on-Trent with an interest in paediatrics, but had already arranged a one year fellowship in paediatric orthopaedics at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, and he took leave of absence to undertake that fellowship. However, shortly after returning to England in 1974, his Newfoundland heritage drew him back to Canada, where he spent seven years in private practice based at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Barrie, Ontario. Tom was one of the first to recognise and promote the potential of endoscopic techniques in orthopaedics. His desire to be involved in this, coupled with a commitment to teaching, led him, in 1982, to leave Barrie and private practice to take up an appointment in a public hospital (the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Hospital) in Brisbane. He went on to become director of orthopaedics at the Royal Brisbane Hospital. By now he had a particular interest in the shoulder and devised new arthroscopic techniques for operations on it. In collaboration with instrument manufacturers, he devised an arthroscopic procedure to re-attach the labrum to the glenoid in order to treat recurrent dislocation of the shoulder. Tom never had much enthusiasm for the tedious task of shepherding his work through the formalities of the scientific press, and his contributions are mostly remembered by his colleagues, those who attended conference presentations and generations of surgical trainees. Eventually one would carry out bilateral arthroscopic shoulder repairs on Tom. Tom was a life-long migraine sufferer, and in 1997 their frequency and severity was such that he had to relinquish operating. He spent the last few years in practice in an advisory and non-operative role. Nevertheless, this had some significant advantages. There are a number of orthopaedic surgeons in the Brisbane region who were recipients of guidance and advice from Tom, which became possible became of his more relaxed time constraints. An enlightened health system might benefit if more surgeons could spend their last few years with a smaller direct clinical commitment and with more time to teach and advise. After retiring in 2003, Tom and Bron spent time travelling in Australia, Europe (to keep in contact with former colleagues) and the USA and New Zealand, where their two sons live. They also pursued their interest in theatre and opera with enthusiasm. Tom was reserved, thoughtful, gently spoken and well-dressed - more like the caricature of an English gentleman than an Australian orthopaedic surgeon! He insisted that his junior colleagues treated patients and other staff with the same courtesy as he always did. However, in defence of surgical standards or his patients' welfare he could, to put it euphemistically, be uncompromising with hospital administrators. In 2006 Tom developed the first signs of the degenerative neurological condition which would eventually prove fatal. In retrospect, the diagnosis was olivopontocerebellar degeneration but, sadly, for most of his illness, Tom was denied the limited solace that an accurate diagnosis and its associated prognosis might have provided. He bore his increasing disabilities with great fortitude, and Bron worked tirelessly and with determination to make the best of his final years. Tom died at home, surrounded by family, a few hours before the dawn of 2014. He was 74. He was survived by his wife Bronwen and sons Jeremy and Stuart.
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First Title value, for Searching Iles, Arthur Ernest (1881 - 1962)

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First Title value, for Searching Townrow, Vincent (1885 - 1979)

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First Title value, for Searching Jackson, Charles Eric Sweeting (1888 - 1954)

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First Title value, for Searching Hind, Alfred Ernest (1860 - 1933)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-10
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Stockton-on-Tees, 28 August 1860, the fourth son and ninth child of John Hind, engineer, and Mary Haigh his wife. He was educated at Durham School and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he served the office of house surgeon. He then acted as resident clinical assistant at the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, and practised for a short time at Tewkesbury, where he was elected assistant surgeon to the Hospital. He settled at St Helier's, Jersey, in 1890 and spent the rest of his life in the island. On the outbreak of war in 1914 he volunteered for active service and was sent to Roumania and Russia, where he spent the years 1917 and 1918, and received the Order of St Anne, third class, for his services. At the end of the war he returned to Portland House, Jersey, and resumed his professional work. He married on 8 November 1890 Beatrice Anne, daughter of Charles Godfray, of Beausejour, who survived him with two sons and a daughter; two other sons died before him. He died in London on 10 January 1933; Mrs Hind died in Jersey in July 1943, during the German occupation of the Isle (*The Times*, 4 November 1943). By the straightforwardness of his character and his absolute honesty Hind was an influence for good throughout the Isle of Jersey, where in his later years he was associated in partnership with J R Hanna, MB Dublin. Publication:- Myeloid sarcoma of the upper jaw; removal of superior maxilla; recovery. *Lancet*, 1887, 2, 214.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004214
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First Title value, for Searching Ligat, David (1873 - 1954)

2026-04-25T16:25:49Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-28
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Glasgow on 18 September 1873 he was educated at the University there. After qualification he became a ship's surgeon, and later, having obtained the DPH, entered the public health service in Manchester. He moved to Commercial Road, East London in 1900, but after obtaining his Fellowship he went to Hastings with consulting rooms in London and a surgical assistantship at the Evelina Hospital. He was a pupil at first of Sir Arthur Keith who mentioned him in his *Autobiography*. During the war of 1914-18 he served as acting assistant surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital where he continued till 1919, during which year he was a Hunterian Professor lecturing on the significance and surgical value of certain abdominal reflexes and describing Ligat's test in the diagnosis of appendicitis. During this period he also worked as consulting surgeon at St Leonard's and Hastings. In 1922 he was appointed consulting surgeon to the Buchanan Hospital, St Leonard's, and to Bexhill Hospital. When war again broke out in 1939 he took on active duties at the Royal East Sussex Hospital, Hastings at the age of 66. In 1944 he lost his right arm in an air raid, when returning from a case at midnight. He showed high courage and determination, and, being denied surgery, golf and the cello as a result of his injury, he took up bowls and typewriting. His characteristics were gaiety, enthusiasm and youthful zest. He was chairman of the Hastings branch of the BMA 1922-23 and president of the Sussex branch 1924-25. He died on 14 January 1954 aged 80 survived by his widow and daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Trueta, Josep (1897 - 1977)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-24
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Occupation General surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Josep Trueta was born in Barcelona on 28 October 1897, the son of Dr Raphael Trueta and the great grandson of Antony Trueta, surgeon to General Lancaster's Army in the Franco-Prussian war of 1795. He became Licentiate in Medicine, University of Barcelona, in 1921, proceeding MD in 1922. He worked on the junior surgical staff until 1928 when he was appointed assistant surgeon. In 1929, he became chief surgeon to the Caja de Provision y Socorro an organisation which treated 40,000 accidents a year. He was appointed, in 1933, Assistant Professor of Surgical Pathology in the University of Barcelona and in 1935, chief surgeon to the Hospital de la Santa Cruz y Sant Pau and Professor of Surgery. When civil war broke out in Spain in 1936, Barcelona was subjected to continuous air raids and Trueta led the management of air raid and battlefield casualties, developing a special interest in severe soft tissue and bone injuries. Trueta practised wide and thorough wound excision and immobilisation of the limb in plaster of Paris with the wound left open, obviating the need for frequent dressings. This greatly reduced the risk of tetanus and gas gangrene, because the wound edges and floor had a good blood supply and devitalised tissue had been removed. His skill and care saved many limbs that would otherwise have been amputated and undoubtedly, many lives were saved. His technique was not original. He made this quite clear in the preface to his book, *The principles and practice of war surgery* published in 1943 in which he acknowledged his 'great debt' to P L Friedrich and Winnett Orr and pointed out that his 'main contribution had been to combine several established principles'. A man of liberal convictions, he realised that as the Nationalist armies approached Barcelona in the winter of 1938, it would be impossible for him to work with them and he decided to move himself and his family to England early in 1939. After a period in London, where he lectured on military traumatology and practical air raid precautions, he was invited to the Wingfield-Morris Hospital in Oxford where he was made adviser to the Ministry of Health. It was at G R Girdlestone's suggestion that he stayed in Oxford caring for battle casualties and training Allied surgeons in his methods. He was appointed surgeon in charge of the accident service at the Radcliffe Infirmary in 1942 and Nuffield Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in 1949. He developed the Orthopaedic Centre at Headington with the financial help of Lord Nuffield. He pursued his scientific and academic studies which by 1961 had resulted in more than 130 papers, monographs and books, including many on the growth and nutrition of bone. His experience in the management of severe injuries and of the crush syndrome led him to investigate the renal circulation, in collaboration with A E Barclay, a well known diagnostic radiologist then at the Nuffield Institute of Medical Research in Oxford. Their *Studies of the renal circulation* published in 1947 described original observations on previously unknown vascular shunts and had far-reaching clinical importance. His studies on the pathogenesis of osteomyelitis and on osteogenesis attracted visitors to Oxford from many parts of the world, and he was honoured by societies and universities in North and South America and Europe. He also published papers on medical history and, in 1946, a history of his native land, *The spirit of Catalonia*. A tall, handsome, athletic man with a vivacious, friendly spirit and a ready wit, he and his wife, Amelia, and their three daughters made a welcome contribution to Oxford society. On reaching the professorial age limit in 1966, he retired and returned to Barcelona to continue working in the University there. Eighteen months before his death he presided in Barcelona at a meeting of the Girdlestone Society where many of his ex-pupils were present. A day of scientific papers was followed by a visit to the monastery at Mont Serrat and then a reception and dinner at which he rose to address the members of the Society at lam. The pupils were exhausted but the chief was in scintillating form. Josep Trueta was a gentleman, warmly regarded by his colleagues for his cultural and intellectual gifts and for his courtesy and integrity. His wife, Amelia, died in 1975 and Trueta died after a short illness on 19 January, 1977, survived by his daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Tuckett, Cedric Ivor (1901 - 1975)

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First Title value, for Searching Jaikaran, Philip Sukaran ( - 1958)

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First Title value, for Searching James, Robert Rutson (1881 - 1959)

2026-04-25T16:25:49Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-03
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on 6 October 1881 the eleventh child of the Rev Alfred James, Rector of Burwarton, Salop, and his wife Lucy Woodward and grandson of William James who was MP for Carlisle for nearly thirty years and served as High Sheriff for Cumberland, James was educated at Winchester College and St George's Hospital. He took the Conjoint qualification in February 1906 and the FRCS in May, but had to wait for his twenty-fifth birthday in October to be admitted a Fellow. He held resident posts at St George's and at Moorfields, where he became chief clinical assistant to William Lang, and at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital; he was deeply influenced by Sir John Parsons. He became ophthalmic registrar at St George's in 1909 and assistant ophthalmic surgeon after a few months, a post he held for seventeen years, becoming ophthalmic surgeon only in 1926 and retiring in 1931. He was ophthalmic surgeon to the West Ham, now Queen Mary's, Hospital 1911-18. At St George's Hospital Medical School he was Dean 1918-22 and Treasurer 1925-27. He retired from private practice in 1935 and settled at Woodbridge, Suffolk in 1939, having previously lived at Ealing with consulting rooms first in Lower Berkeley Street and later at 46 Wimpole Street. Rutson James was secretary of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom 1918-21, later served on its Council, and received the uncommon distinction of honorary membership in 1936; he edited the Society's *Transactions* 1939-45; he was sub-editor of the *British Journal of Ophthalmology* 1924-29 and then editor for twenty years. James was by temperament a scholar and antiquary. He transcribed and annotated the registers of admissions to St George's Hospital Medical School 1759-1918 and the registers of the Barber-Surgeons Company 1540-1745. These and other scholarly transcripts he deposited in the College Library with a gift of £1000, and presented his outstanding collection of book-plates of medical men. He made many contributions to his own and other journals, on clinical and historical subjects, and published three historical books: *The School of Anatomy adjoining St George's Hospital 1830-1863* (1928), *Studies in the History of Ophthalmology in England prior to 1800* (1933), and *Medical Practitioners in the Diocese of London 1529-1735* (1935). James married in 1910 Margaret Julia Newson, who died on 4 March 1959; he died at Woodbridge on 28 September 1959 a week before his 78th birthday, and was survived by his only daughter. James was extremely modest and reserved, but did much good work and many kindly acts almost in secret; he was beloved by his friends.
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First Title value, for Searching McFarland, John Bryan (1930 - 2013)

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by Sir John Temple
Publication Date 2013-12-16 2014-03-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details John McFarland was a consultant surgeon in Liverpool. He was born on 17 September 1930 in Rodney Street, Liverpool, into a well-established medical family. His father, Bryan McFarland, was professor of orthopaedics at the city's university; his mother, Ethel McFarland née Ashton, was also a doctor. John spent his early childhood in Liverpool, but was probably as often in Trearddur Bay, Anglesey, where his father built a holiday home 'Bryn Ion', which overlooked the ninth tee of the Holyhead golf course. John's early schooling was at Trearddur House School, where no doubt he began his long affection and interest in the sea and sailing. Senior school followed at Shrewsbury, from where he entered Liverpool Medical School in 1948. He qualified in 1954 and, after house posts, began his National Service, as was the norm at that time. He spent the next two years serving in the RAMC, mainly in Kenya at the height of the Mau Mau troubles. While in Kenya he often acted as an anaesthetist, which might explain why he was always kinder to and more tolerant of his anaesthetic colleagues than many others with a surgical leaning. He never talked about his time in the Army: like many ex-service men, he may have felt that those who didn't have similar experiences would never be able to understand, particularly the actions, deprivations and necessities entailed in military service, in what was effectively a war zone. Returning to civilian life, he became a demonstrator in anatomy. During this time he met a childhood acquaintance, Meryl McKie Reid, the daughter of Andrew McKie Reid, an ophthalmic surgeon. It turned into a love match and they duly married in 1962. Surgical training in Liverpool followed at Sefton General, Alder Hey, the Royal Infirmary and, of course, the Royal Southern Hospital. The opportunity to spend two years in America arose, then considered essential for an academic or teaching hospital career in many disciplines. He went to work in Owen H Wangensteen's department at the University of Minnesota. His research was centred on gastric freezing as a method for reducing gastric bleeding associated with peptic ulcers. This was a major area of upper gastrointestinal research at that time inspired, particularly in Liverpool, by the work of the Rod Gregory and his discovery of the hormone gastrin. In the early autumn of 1963, John and Meryl travelled from Minnesota down to New Mexico by Greyhound bus, a journey that took the best part of three days. By chance, a fellow traveller was Lee Harvey Oswald, the reputed assassin of President Kennedy in November 1963. John never said much about this episode, but both he and Meryl were questioned by the FBI and figure in the Warren Report. Whenever any new investigation occurred into that tragic event, the American agents from the Liverpool consulate would appear to re-question John and Meryl. John wrote up his research and unusually did this as two separate theses, for his MD and ChM. He furthered his academic leanings by being appointed as a senior lecturer in surgery with an honorary consultant contract, based at the Liverpool Royal infirmary in Frank Stock's department. It might have been thought that this indicated a serious intent to follow an academic career, leading to a professorial position like his father, but John finished his training and settled upon an NHS teaching hospital career. In 1968 John moved across to consultant status. He was first, for a year, at the Northern and Walton hospitals, and then went to the Royal Southern Hospital, where he remained until it closed in 1978. Thereafter he transferred to the new Royal Liverpool University Hospital. He was a popular teacher of both undergraduates and trainees, renowned for his diagnostic prowess, surgical dexterity, kindness, hospitality and subtle, quiet sense of humour. He never sought power or influence in medical politics either locally or nationally, but preferred to devote his extra medical energies to teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. This brought college involvement as a regional tutor, and as a member of the Court of Examiners (from 1973 to 1979). Other, even more prestigious, peer recognition of his qualities and achievements as a surgeon did come along. He was elected to the Liverpool XX Club, and was one of two Liverpool members of the Moynihan Chirurgical Club. He became a James IV traveller in 1976. This opportunity afforded him the chance to travel to Asia, including in Afghanistan, India and Iran, and other countries on the north west frontier to teach, lecture and operate. Subsequently he became a full member of the James IV Association of Surgeons. His hospitality was always convivial and relaxed. Visitors to his lovely family home in Fulwood Park might be invited to take a sauna, which John had built in the cellar. Unfortunately, the pine wood, bought from a local timber merchant in Liverpool, had not been properly seasoned. Guests were advised to try to avoid the hot resins and oils that continually seeped and dropped from the ceiling. John decided to retire at the relatively early age of 61 in 1991, a conscious decision having seen his own father die whilst still in harness at a similar age. Immediately following his retirement party at the Royal he went down to Liverpool Marina and sailed off with his son Jonathan into retirement on the next full tide in his Vancouver 32 *Nuada*. The next four years were spent sailing around the Mediterranean, sometimes with Jonathan, but often alone, before settling in Soller, Majorca, where he bought an apartment in the port. Here he had built his last *Nuada*, a Menorcan Llaut. Sadly he didn't get many opportunities to enjoy this vessel as his health problems began to limit his mobility. In early retirement, John devoted much time to teaching and operating in a small hospital in Kerala, India. There are many anecdotes involving such a colourful character, but John will be best remembered for his generosity of spirit, both ethereal and actual, his knowledge, skill and humanity as a general surgeon, his gifts as a teacher, his genuine pride and pleasure in the success of those he helped to train, and his unfailing courtesy and friendship to the many he encountered during a long life. John McFarland died on 5 October 2013, aged 83. Predeceased by his ex-wife Meryl, who died in 2000, he was survived by his son Jonathan.
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First Title value, for Searching Hope, Charles William Menelaus (1880 - 1949)

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First Title value, for Searching Billimoria, Bomy Rustomjee (1916 - 1962)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-22
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Occupation Thoracic surgeon
Details Born at Poona in 1916, the son of a doctor who founded the Bel Air Sanatorium, Panchgane, Poona, he received his medical education at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying in 1937. After house appointments he worked at Harefield Hospital, Middlesex as assistant to Sir Thomas Dunhill, and eventually became chief assistant to Sir Thomas Holmes Sellors. At the end of the war he returned to India and was appointed thoracic surgeon to St George's Hospital, Bombay, and Bel-Air Hospital, Poona. His competence as a thoracic surgeon became recognised throughout India. He was married with a young family, and died at the age of 46 on 8 October 1962.
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First Title value, for Searching Watt, James Kennedy (1921 - 1979)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-13
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Occupation General surgeon
Details James Kennedy Watt, the son of a general practitioner, was born close to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary on 30 August 1921. After education at the High School of Glasgow he went to Glasgow University where he had a distinguished undergraduate career, gaining the James Hunter Medal in pathology and graduating MB ChB with honours in 1944 when he was awarded the Brunton Memorial Prize as the most distinguished student of his year. After resident appointments at Glasgow Royal Infirmary and two years in the RAMC at home and in Austria, he returned to Glasgow to continue his training at the Royal Infirmary and at Laws Hospital while taking higher surgical qualifications, and before his appointment as consultant to Glasgow Eastern District Hospital in 1957. James Watt was appointed consultant surgeon to Glasgow Royal Infirmary in 1960. He had a wide range of skills and a keen interest in general surgery, contributing to the gastrointestinal literature and developing an early interest in vascular surgery. He continued with general surgery at the Royal Infirmary and in private practice, but gave a substantial part of his time to a productive partnership with William Reid which led on to the setting up of a peripheral vascular surgical unit at the Royal Infirmary and Belvedere Hospital. He succeeded to the administrative charge of that unit in 1975. He was possessed of a mind of outstanding clarity and was a disciplined worker and thinker who applied himself to teaching with the same thoroughness which characterised all his work. He had a great influence in the teaching of junior staff and his trainees freely acknowledged their indebtedness to him for the tuition he gave. His senior colleagues likewise had the highest regard for his surgical skill, advice and judgement. He wrote extensively on general and vascular surgical subjects and, with W H Bain, was joint author of *The essentials of cardiovascular surgery*. He was also a popular leader writer and referee for a number of journals. Outside his professional work he was a keen golfer and was captain of the Glasgow Royal Infirmary Golf Club in the last year of his life. He also achieved high quality and technical excellence in his painting which he took up in later years. He was widely liked and respected as a loyal and cheerful friend, and as a talented and most industrious worker. He still had much to contribute when he died suddenly at his home on 2 January 1979, survived by his three daughters, Hazel, Shirley and Pamela.
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First Title value, for Searching Johnson, Bernard Richard Miller (1905 - 1959)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-07
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Occupation Anaesthetist
Details Born on 25 April 1905 he was educated at Brighton College and the Middlesex Hospital, qualifying with the Conjoint diploma in 1927. He was appointed anaesthetist at the Middlesex Hospital, and in 1938 took the diploma in anaesthetics. In the second world war he served in the RAMC in the Central Mediterranean Force, and in 1944 was mentioned in dispatches. In 1948 he became an original fellow of the newly formed Faculty of Anaesthetists and became the second Dean of the Faculty. He was largely instrumental in interesting the pharmaceutical industry in the work and potential of the Faculty and obtained large benefactions as a result, in particular the Professorship of Anaesthesia, supported by the British Oxygen Company. He married Barbara Grace Scriven in 1933 by whom he had a daughter. Johnson died suddenly on Whit Monday 18 May 1959 at his country home in Sussex. He was very interested in sport, particularly cricket, and in wild life and was an accomplished gardener and smallholder.
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First Title value, for Searching Johnston, Benjamin George (1898 - 1952)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 17 August 1898 second child and only son of John Bathgate Johnston, merchant, and Lilian May his wife, he was educated at Adelaide High School and University, qualifying in 1924. He came to the London Hospital and, after two years postgraduate study in England, returned to South Australia, where he was medical officer to Port Pirie Hospital from 1928 to 1946, living at Lauriston, Balmoral Road, Port Pirie. He was clinical assistant in the surgical section of the Royal Adelaide Hospital 1946-52, and practised at Liberal Club Buildings, North Terrace, Adelaide. He married in 1935 Lilian Davies, who survived him with two sons, and died on 12 March 1952 at 105 Prospect Road, Prospect, SA.
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First Title value, for Searching Johnstone, James (1862 - 1953)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-07
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Occupation General surgeon Pathologist
Details Born at Sydney, Australia on 27 September 1862, the eldest of four children and only son of the Rev William Johnstone and Margaret King, his wife, who lived to be 100, he grew up in New Zealand where his father was Presbyterian minister at Port Chalmers, and was educated at Otago Boys High School, Dunedin, graduated in arts at the University and began his medical studies at the Otago Medical School. Coming home to Scotland, he qualified with honours in medicine, surgery and public health, and won the George Thomson travelling fellowship at Aberdeen University. This enabled him to make postgraduate studies at Berlin, Munich, Vienna, and Paris. After serving as house surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, he was clinical assistant and pathologist there under Sir William Macewen. He then came to London, took the Fellowship in 1891, and settled in general practice at Richmond, Surrey, where his career was spent, first at 26 Sheen Road and later at Tudor House, King's Road. He was for a time pathologist to the London Homeopathic Hospital and served on the Council of the British Homeopathic Society. Besides building up a large and successful practice during forty-five years, Johnstone took a leading part in local affairs. He served on the education committee of the borough council, was chairman of the juvenile employment committee, and was a founder of the local Council of Social Service. He lectured in medicine at the Wesleyan College, Richmond. He was an active freemason, a member of the Richmond lodge, and past assistant grand director of ceremonies in the Grand Lodge of England, and past standard bearer of supreme grand chapter; he was a member of the old Richmond Lodge of Harmony, and compiled its history; he was also a member of the Quatuor Coronati Lodge, and was at work on the history of freemasonry in his last years. He was a founder-member of the Richmond Rotary Club, and its second president. He was a keen amateur of botany, geology, and archaeology, was active in preserving local historical monuments, and took a prominent share in the cultural activities of the Richmond Athenaeum. He became a magistrate in 1932. He married in 1892 Ethel Rose Hudson, who was created MBE for her work at home and in France in the war of 1914-18. Mrs Johnstone died in April 1952 two days before their diamond wedding; she had been a borough councillor at Richmond. He died in the West London Hospital on 14 February 1953, aged 90, survived by four sons and a daughter. Publication: Transfusion subcutaneous and intravenous in gynaecological practice, with George Burford. *J Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp* 1905, 7, 445.
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Cecil Meredyth (1890 - 1955)

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First Title value, for Searching Hulke, Sydney Backhouse (1871 - 1939)

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First Title value, for Searching Hunter, John Bowman (1890 - 1951)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-17
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 16 July 1890, the third child and only son of James Hunter, a shipbroker, and Mary Hood, his wife; his parents both died while he was a child. He was brought up by his aunts at Ayr, and sent to Bedford School, where he proved a good Rugby player, and to St John's College, Cambridge, where he took first class honours in natural sciences in 1912. From University College Hospital, where he was clerk to Sidney Martin, he qualified in 1914, and won the Fellowes gold medal. On the outbreak of war in 1914 he joined Queen Victoria's Rifles as a combatant, but was transferred to the RAMC in 1915, promoted captain 1916, and served as a medical officer in France and Russia till 1919. He was mentioned in despatches, and was awarded the Military Cross in 1917. Returning to University College Hospital he served as house physician to Sir John Rose Bradford, FRCP, and house surgeon to Wilfred Trotter. He was appointed assistant to the surgical unit, but in the keen competition among Trotter's able pupils did not secure a place on the honorary staff. He had taken the Fellowship and Cambridge Mastership in 1921. Hunter now migrated to King's College Hospital, where he built up a solid reputation as an excellent diagnostician, operator, and teacher. With his colleague Cecil Wakeley he revised five editions of the successful *Textbook of Surgery*, originally written by William Rose and Albert Carless. While always a general surgeon Hunter was early in the field of thoracic surgery, and served the Royal Chest Hospital and Papworth Tuberculosis Settlement. He was appointed dean of King's College Hospital Medical School in 1938, and held this busy and useful post throughout the second war till 1946. In 1939 he assumed in addition the duty of group officer for sector No 9 of the Emergency Medical Service, whose surgical work centred on the large mental hospital at Epsom. He performed these two responsible tasks with devotion and efficiency, and was created CBE in 1946. His administrative ability was widely recognized and used. He was elected chairman of the conference of deans, and appointed dean of the Faculty of Medicine in the University of London in 1943 and chairman of the Faculty's curriculum committee in 1944. He went with Dr B A McSwiney to Jamaica in 1946 to advise on the creation of a Faculty of Medicine in the new University of the West Indies, and served on the Colonial Office's advisory committee on higher education in the colonies. He was Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of London 1950-51, and was elected a governor of King's College Hospital. At the British Medical Association he served on the Medical Planning Commission, was a member of numerous committees, and was secretary of the section of surgery at the annual conference 1931 and the centenary conference 1932. Under the National Health Service he became a member of the Southeast Metropolitan Region's Hospital Board. Hunter's later years were troubled by cardiac asthma and by a vexatious lawsuit, which called in question his professional competence. Although he was completely vindicated, the worry affected his health and contributed to cause his early death. On 29 July 1948 in the Court of King's Bench Mr Justice Birkett awarded £6300 damages to a former American patient of Hunter's. Hunter had advised this patient that he was suffering from a malignant condition. The patient therefore abandoned his English business, but on further investigation in New York his disease was proved to be not malignant and he was cured. The point of argument was whether or not Hunter should have removed a specimen of tissue for microscopical examination before making his diagnosis. On 21 March 1949 Lord Justice Asquith in the Court of Appeal allowed Hunter's appeal, and on 16 November 1950 the House of Lords decided finally in his favour. (Summaries of the trials and judgements are given in *British Medical Journal*, 1948, 2, 537-9; 1949, 1, 595-6; 1951, 1, 44.) Hunter married in 1922 Hilda Margaret, daughter of Dr Arthur Whitfield, dermatologist at King's College Hospital. Mrs Hunter was herself a Member of the College. He died on 16 September 1951, aged 61, at 12 Downside, Epsom, survived by his wife, son, and daughter. He was privately cremated, and a memorial service was held at St Marylebone Church on 28 September. He had practised at 70 Harley Street, and latterly at 39 Devonshire Place. Hunter was considerate, careful, and thorough in his work, both surgical and administrative. He was in all things unselfish, kindly, competent, and sensible.
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First Title value, for Searching Jordan, John Furneaux (1865 - 1956)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-07
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details He was born at Birmingham in 1865 one of 3 sons of Thomas Furneaux Jordan FRCS. His grandfather had been a surgeon, his brother Bertram became a physician at Birmingham, and an uncle and his son were physicians there. He was educated at King Edward's School and at Queen's and Mason Colleges, where he served as demonstrator of anatomy and physiology. After qualifying through the Royal University of Ireland, he served as house surgeon at Queen's Hospital and was elected assistant surgeon to the General Hospital in 1893. Under the influence of Lawson Tait he turned his attention to gynaecological surgery, and in the twenty years before the outbreak of the 1914 war he was a pioneer in this field, writing much on his specialty and attaining a leading practice in the Midlands. He was surgeon to several hospitals and in particular promoted the work of the Birmingham and Midlands Hospital for Women, whose new buildings he was instrumental in building in Showell Green Lane. He also took a leading share in the work of the new Maternity Hospital when it opened in Loveday Street in 1906. He took an active part in professional affairs, serving as honorary treasurer of the Birmingham branch of the British Medical Association and president of the Queen's College Medical Society, but he was not interested in teaching. He was appointed Ingleby lecturer in 1911. Jordan followed Sir Victor Horsley FRCS in advocating total abstinence from alcohol. As a young man he was a keen player of association football and was vice-president of the Old Edwardians Association. He also played lawn tennis and was a skilled gardener. He practised at 9 Newhall Street, Birmingham, and lived at 5 Carpenter Road, Edgbaston. Jordan retired in 1928 to Bromsgrove, but later moved to London. He married in 1898 Mildred, daughter of John Player of Edgbaston, who survived him with their son, an architect. He died at 178 Coleherne Court, London on 1 May 1956, aged 90. He was of spare build, erect and distinguished in appearance, of quiet manner and firm character. Publications: Clinical notes on one hundred consecutive cases of abdominal section. *Brit Gynaecol J* 1897, 13, 206. On tubal abortion with clinical notes of eight cases of ectopic gestation. *Brit med J* 1898, 2, 803. The after-effects of removal of the appendages and of removal of the uterus. *Brit Gynaecol J* 1899, 15, 369. The advantages and disadvantages of vaginal coeliotomy. *Birm med Rev* 1899, 45, 269. Treatment of myoma of the uterus. *Brit med J* 1906, 1, 621. Puerperal infection, with special reference to vaccine treatment. *Brit med J* 1912, 2, 1.
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First Title value, for Searching Worthington, Sidney (1859 - 1935)

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First Title value, for Searching Worton, Albert Samuel (1874 - 1940)

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First Title value, for Searching Wright, Dudley d'Auvergne (1867 - 1948)

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First Title value, for Searching Wright, Garnett (1878 - 1945)

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First Title value, for Searching Wright, William (1874 - 1937)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-18
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Occupation Anatomist
Details Born at Wigan, 24 February 1874, the second child and first son of Joseph Wright, clothier, and Agnes Rae, his wife, both parents being of Scottish extraction. He was educated at Wigan Grammar School and at Owen's College, Manchester. He practised for a short time as a general practitioner, in partnership with Louis Birch at Ince in Makerfield, Wigan. Private practice proving uncongenial, he soon returned to Manchester as demonstrator of anatomy at Owens College. Here he quickly made his name as a good and inspiring teacher, and was appointed lecturer on anatomy in the University of Birmingham, then under the control of Sir Bertram Windle who kindled his archaeological spirit. In 1905 he was appointed lecturer on anatomy at the Middlesex Hospital, acted as sub- dean, and lived in the residential quarters with the students. Sir Arthur Keith was elected Conservator of the Royal College of Surgeons Museum in 1908, and Wright was immediately invited to fill his place as professor of anatomy in the Medical School attached to the London Hospital. He accepted the post, and in 1910 was made dean of the Medical School on the death of Munro Scott. He filled both these posts with great advantage to the School and Hospital until his death. His last annual report was published posthumously in the *London Hospital Gazette*, 1937, 41, 42-50. He married on 17 July 1937 Gwladys Jones, widow of his close friend and life-long companion Gwynne Jones (d 1933) and mother of Howell Gwynne-Jones, MRCS, CVO, and Surgeon-Commander W T Gwynne-Jones, RN. Mrs Wright died on 27 December 1943. Wright died after a prolonged illness on 21 October 1937, at his house Villa Candens, Gerrards Cross, Bucks, and was buried after a funeral service in the Gerrards Cross Parish Church. William Wright was an excellent teacher of anatomy and a good organizer. He was president of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1931-33, and president of the anatomical section of the British Medical Association in 1910. He was in constant request as an examiner at the various licensing bodies, and was sent to Canada as senior examiner when the Primary FRCS was first held in the Dominion, and in 1935 he flew to India on a similar errand with Professor G A Buckmaster as his colleague, with whom he had also examined in Melbourne in 1931. The Secretary of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons expressed "the sorrow felt in Australia and New Zealand" at the deaths of Buckmaster and Wright, in a letter to the *Brit med J* 1938, 1, 650. During the war he was gazetted lieutenant, RAMC (T) on 7 March 1917, and was subsequently promoted captain. Interested in archaeology, he did some good field work at Driffield in East Yorkshire on the skulls found in the round barrows, and lectured on the prehistoric and early historic inhabitants of England, giving the results of his digging in Gloucestershire. In 1935, in collaboration with L E Tanner, MVO, he published an important paper on investigations regarding the fate of the Princes in the Tower. He showed in this paper that, as the odontoid process was not yet united to the body of the axis, the children whose bones were disclosed were under the age of 13. From this and other anatomical points in connexion with the spine and the teeth he was able to say with some degree of certainty that the bones belonged to children, Edward V and Richard Duke of York, who had been killed by suffocation. Wright was essentially a "clubbable" man, who was at home in the Athenaeum and the Savage Club. He loved music and surrounded himself with artistic possessions. Leonardo da Vinci appealed to him both as an artist and as an anatomist. He was created a Knight of Grace of the Norwegian order of St Olaf for his help in publishing the Windsor Castle Leonardo drawings; and he left to the College Library his copy of this publication, *Quaderni d'Anatomia*, 6 vols., Christiania 1911-16, inscribed to him by the editors. He filled many offices at the Royal College of Surgeons: he was Hunterian professor 1904-7, 1908-9, 1912-13, Arris and Gale lecturer 1918, Thomas Vicary lecturer 1925 and 1934, examiner for the Primary Fellowship 1914-19, 1923-28, 1929-34. Publications: Skulls from the round barrows of East Yorkshire. *J Anat* 1904, 18, 119; 1905, 19, 417. Prehistoric and early historic inhabitants of England, Hunterian lecture. *Middx Hosp J* 1907, 11, 90; 1908, 12, 39. Morphology and variation of the skull, Hunterian lecture. *Lancet*, 1909, 1, 669. *Practical Anatomy*, with F G Parsons. London, 1912. The book was designed especially for candidates intending to present themselves for the Primary FRCS. It was remodelled and the substance of it appeared later in the Six Teachers' *Anatomy*, London, 1932, and the Six Teachers' *Anatomy for Dental Students*, London, 1934. Recent investigations regarding the fate of the Princes in the Tower, with Lawrence E Tanner, MVO. *Archaeologia*, 1935, 84, 1-26.
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First Title value, for Searching Wrigley, Philip Roscoe (1876 - 1947)

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First Title value, for Searching Roche, Alexander Ernest (1869 - 1963)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-05-06
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Occupation Urologist
Details Born in London in 1896 the son of Raphael Roche and Grace Simon he was educated at St Paul's School, Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he obtained a classical scholarship, and St Bartholomew's Hospital. After qualifying he held a series of house appointments at St Bartholomew's, culminating in that of chief assistant to the Surgical Unit which he held for five years, after which he became resident surgical officer at St Peter's Hospital for Stone. When proceeding to the degree of MD in 1927 he was *proxime accessit* for the Raymond Horton Smith prize. With this very wide training behind him, he decided to specialise in urology and in 1931 he was appointed to the staff of the West London Hospital as assistant surgeon to Sidney MacDonald, whom in due course he succeeded. He was, in addition, in charge of the Genito-urinary Department at the Royal Northern Hospital and visiting urologist to Hounslow Hospital and to the Teddington, Hampton Wick and District Memorial Hospital and consulting surgeon to LCC Hospitals. He was President of the Section of Urology of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1951, giving an address on "Reflections on Nephrectomy", President of the Hunterian Society, giving the Hunterian Oration in 1963, and President of the West London Medico-Chirurgical Society. An original member of the Urological Club, an exclusive body limited to fifteen members drawn from throughout the British Isles, he was also an original member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons, and much in evidence at their annual meetings. A gifted and fluent writer, he contributed many papers and works on his special subject notably *Pyelography, its History, Technique, Uses and Dangers* 1927, *Urology in General Practice* 1935, and *Practical Urology* 1956. Alex Roche was a remarkable personality, as surgeons who had the privilege of his friendship can testify. Of wide culture and education, a writer of essays and poetry, a fluent French scholar, he was above all else a man of outstanding wit, usually subtle and sometimes above the heads of those at whom it was directed. No slave to convention, his style of dress was highly individual. In the winter he wore under his short black coat and waistcoat a grey wool pullover the sleeves of which protruded round his wrists. Possessor of a prodigious memory for facts and faces, he showed in his lay writings, such as *An Anthology of Wit* 1935, a style reminiscent of Laurence Sterne. A brilliant raconteur he was in great demand as an after dinner speaker. A charming, delightful, conscientious and highly competent surgeon he was without an enemy and, in spite of indifferent health, always radiated good humour. As might be expected a member of the Savage Club, he listed his pastimes as literature, music and walking. He married in 1932 Cicely Mary only daughter of F W Briggs and they had three sons and a daughter. He died on 25 July 1963 at his home in Wimbledon, of a heart attack, aged 67. A memorial service was held in the Chapel of the West London Hospital on 7 August 1963.
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First Title value, for Searching Lee, William Edward (1870 - 1952)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 16 December 1870, the second child and only son of the Rev William Lee, a Congregational minister and missionary, and his wife née Sargent, he was educated at Bedford School and Bishop's Stortford grammar school, taking his medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, which he entered with a preliminary science exhibition in 1889. He qualified first in the first class at the London MB examination in 1894, winning the gold medal and a university scholarship in obstetrics; he took the MD in 1896, and the Fellowship in 1897. Lee served as house-physician at St Bartholomew's, clinical assistant at Golden Square throat hospital, and assistant casualty surgeon at St Paul's Hospital for urinary diseases. He settled at Muswell Hill in north London, where he had a successful practice for many years. He also had consulting rooms in the City, at 35 Finsbury Pavement, and after the first world war at Clifford's Inn and finally in Pump Court, Middle Temple. Here he had a wide connection as medical adviser or examiner to William Deacon's Bank and to many large insurance companies; he was also medical examiner in London to the Shanghai municipal council. In early days he had been active in the volunteer movement. He married Miss Burton in 1906, and was survived by the two sons of this marriage, one of whom, Harold B Lee, became an FRCS. Lee died at 17 Princes Avenue, Muswell Hill, N10 on 9 August 1952, aged 81. Publications: Some points of interest in the Maidstone epidemic. *St Bart's Hosp Repts* 1897, 33, 93. Experiences of an Army doctor in England. *St Bart's Hosp J* 1900, 7, 134. A fatal case of dope poisoning [ie from the industrial doping of fabrics] *Lancet* 1916, 1, 24.
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First Title value, for Searching Brumwell, John (1893 - 1962)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-03
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Gosforth, Newcastle-on-Tyne on 2 January 1893, a descendant of a long line of ancestors in Weardale, he was educated at a private school in Gosforth. He won a scholarship at the University of Durham Medical College, Newcastle, in 1911. On the outbreak of the 1914-18 war he volunteered as a Surgeon-Probationer RNVR, being temporarily demobilised in December 1915 to complete his medical studies, which he did by qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in October 1916. He was again mobilised as Surgeon-Lieutenant and spent the rest of the war with the Grand Fleet until demobilised in August 1919. After this he held house appointments in the Royal Victoria Infirmary and in December 1920 was appointed surgical registrar. In July 1931 he became an assistant surgeon at the Royal Victoria Infirmary. He also obtained appointments as honorary surgeon to the War Memorial Hospital, Hexham, to the Fleming Memorial Hospital for Children, Newcastle, and to the Infirmary VD Clinic. In addition he worked as private assistant to Professor Rutherford Morison and, subsequently, to Professor R J Willan. In 1947 he was promoted full surgeon to the Infirmary and continued in this office until his retirement in March 1958. In his later years he was surgeon to the Ministry of Pensions Hospital, Dunston Hill, to Tyne-dale Victoria Jubilee Infirmary, and to the Preston Hospital, North Shields. By nature modest and retiring, he got through a prodigious amount of work in a calm and unruffled way. He was a popular teacher of general surgery with a particular interest in genito-urinary surgery. Throughout his life he maintained his interest in the sea, sailing his own yachts, both large and small, and after retirement made a voyage to South Africa as a ship's surgeon. He married in 1930 Nora Coltman, the doctor daughter of a well-known Newcastle dentist, by whom he had a son and two daughters. He died at his home in Ponteland, Northumberland, on 23 November 1962.
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First Title value, for Searching Brunow, Harry Louis (1918 - 1954)

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First Title value, for Searching Bryan, Charles Walter Gordon (1884 - 1954)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-03
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Occupation General surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Born in 1884, son of Francis Charles Bryan MRCS of Littlehampton, Sussex. He was educated at Westminster School and St Mary's Hospital, and held house appointments there and at Great Ormond Street. He spent several years in research, was demonstrator of bacteriology at Oxford, worked in Almroth Wright's inoculation department at St Mary's, and in 1911 won the Middlemore prize of the British Medical Association for his essay on "Serum and vaccine therapy in connection with diseases of the eyes" *Brit med J* 1912, 1, 589-592, 662-665, 722-724. During the war of 1914-18 he was a consulting surgeon with the third Army in France and Belgium, was mentioned in dispatches, and won the Military Cross. He came back to St Mary's in 1919 as demonstrator of anatomy, and was surgeon to out-patients at Hampstead General Hospital. He was elected an assistant surgeon to St Mary's in 1920, with special charge of orthopaedic outpatients; he became full surgeon in 1943. He was also surgeon to King Edward Memorial Hospital, Ealing, and the Children's Hospital, Paddington Green, the London Fever Hospital, St Luke's Hospital, and the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls. He was recalled to the RAMC in the second war, was officer in charge of the surgical division of a military hospital, and consulting surgeon to the Southern Command. He was a Hunterian Professor at the College in 1921, lecturing on Injuries of the Diaphragm (*Brit J Surg* 1921. 9, 117-147). He was a Vice-President of the Harveian Society, and successively honorary secretary and honorary treasurer of the Royal Society of Medicine. He retired in 1946 to Croughton, Brackley, Northamptonshire, but suffered a serious heart attack soon afterwards. He had been a robust man, and had recovered from a fracture of the sternum sustained when he was young. He was careful, conscientious, kindly, and skilled with children. He had a quiet, critical mind, and held strongly to his opinions even when they were unconventional. Gordon Bryan was married twice: first in 1917 to Helen Pirie; they had two daughters. He married secondly Molly Sinclair in 1941. He died at Croughton on 28 November 1954 aged 70. Further Publications: Separation of epiphysis of the internal condyle of the humerus, with displacement into the elbow joint. *Brit J Surg* 1914, 1, 534-535. Diagnosis of acute abdominal illness in childhood. *Lancet* 1924, 2, 737-740. Treatment of diverticulitis of the colon. *Lancet* 1928, 1, 512-513.
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First Title value, for Searching O'Flynn, James Dermot (1920 - 2014)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-02-24 2016-04-15
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Occupation Urologist
Details Dermot O'Flynn was a consultant surgeon in the urology department at the Meath Hospital and County Dublin Infirmary, Dublin. He was born on 21 January 1920 and studied medicine at Cork, qualifying in 1942. After house jobs in Mansfield and Lincoln, he joined the RAMC, which took him to West Africa as a graded surgeon. He rose to the rank of captain and for a short time commanded No 52 Hospital in Kumasi. In Accra his commanding officer was the orthopaedic surgeon Herbert Edward 'Ding' Harding, and at the end of the war he joined Harding at St Stephen's Hospital, Fulham, as a casualty officer while studying for the fellowship. He gained the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1948 and in the same year became a registrar to David Band and Selby Tulloch in Edinburgh, two of the founding fathers of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. In 1952 he took the MCh in Edinburgh and in the same year was appointed as an assistant surgeon to the Meath Hospital in Dublin. In those days the Meath was renowned for transurethral prostatectomy thanks to the efforts of Tom Lane, who had gone over to the Mayo Clinic to learn the cold punch technique. When O'Flynn won the Ainsworth scholarship, Lane sent him to the Mayo Clinic to study the latest advances in the cold punch method. It was some time after his return to the Meath, and some 500 cold punch operations later, that a visitor came from Albany, New York, to give a demonstration of the hot wire resectoscope method. It was an instant conversion. In collaboration with his colleague, Victor Lane, O'Flynn made the Meath the centre of hot wire resection. Soon they showed that this new method could reduce mortality by a factor of ten. This was the first in a long list of innovations from the Meath, all based on the punch-card record system which O'Flynn had introduced. Thanks to this punch-card database, the Meath team produced one major contribution after another, covering subjects as diverse as testicular tumours, tuberculosis calculi, neuropathic bladder and bladder cancer. He was a visiting professor in the US, Australia and the Gulf. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland *ad eundem* in 1968, and went on to serve as president from 1992 to 1994. In 1993 he was made an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was also a long-standing member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. In his spare time O'Flynn played golf and was a competitive sailor. He was at one time captain of the Dublin Bay Dragon Fleet, which follows a 900-year tradition of sailing dragon ships off the coast of Ireland. He was also a skilful and sensitive water-colour painter. O'Flynn died on 16 January 2014 at the age of 93. Predeceased by his wife Monica (née Kelleher), he was survived by his children, Desmond, Kieran, Dermot, Denise and Brian, and 16 grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Tregaskis, Trevor Geoffrey (1910 - 1963)

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First Title value, for Searching Treissman, Herman (1901 - 1963)

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First Title value, for Searching Trotter, Edward (1877 - 1953)

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First Title value, for Searching Trumble, Hugh Compson (1894 - 1962)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-09
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Occupation General surgeon Neurosurgeon
Details Born at Nhill in the west of Victoria in 1894, he moved to Melbourne with his parents at an early age. He was educated at Brighton Grammar School and the University of Melbourne, qualifying in 1916. He joined the Australian Imperial Force immediately, without serving any resident hospital appointment, and was posted to the 1st Australian General Hospital in Rouen, but after a short time became regimental medical officer of the 14th Battalion. He was gassed and awarded the Military Cross which he could never be bothered to collect so that in the end it had to be sent to him. After the war he worked in England to obtain his Fellowship, in company with his friend Hugh Cairns. Returning to Australia in 1921 he was appointed to the staff of the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, where in 1930 he established the first neurosurgical unit in Australia and in 1939 was able to get a special block constructed for it in the hospital. His surgical interests were wide, however, covering orthopaedics and thoracic surgery, so that for a long time he remained a general surgeon; but from 1939 to 1946 he was a consultant neurosurgeon to the Army with the rank of Major. As befitted the son and nephew of two famous international Australian cricketers, he was himself a good ball-game player, particularly of cricket and golf. He was a skilled mechanic and designed numerous tools and instruments. He did not care for parties, although anyone was welcome to come and talk to him while he was working at his bench in his workshop. In 1930 he married Uira Law by whom he had a son and a daughter. He died on 16 October 1962.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005422
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First Title value, for Searching Ross, Leslie Norman (1903 - 1951)

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First Title value, for Searching Doolin, William (1887 - 1962)

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First Title value, for Searching Dorrell, Edmund Arthur (1872 - 1959)

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First Title value, for Searching Doyne, Philip Geoffrey (1886 - 1959)

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First Title value, for Searching Dreosti, Attilio Emilio ( - 1958)

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First Title value, for Searching Drew, Arthur John (1863 - 1956)

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First Title value, for Searching Driberg, James Douglas ( - 1956)

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First Title value, for Searching Dundon, John (1870 - 1952)

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First Title value, for Searching Dunhill, Sir Thomas Peel (1876 - 1957)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-05-16
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Tragowel, Victoria, Australia on 3 December 1876, son of John Webster Dunhill, he was educated at Melbourne University, where he won an exhibition, graduated in pharmacy and then took first-class honours in anatomy, physiology, medicine, and gynaecology, and was Beaney surgical scholar. He was lecturer in materia medica at the University, 1911. He practised as a consultant at 105 Collins Street, Melbourne, and was appointed surgeon to St Vincent's Hospital. During the war of 1914-18 he served with the Australian Army Medical Corps, rising to the rank of Colonel, and was appointed a consulting surgeon to the British Army in France. He was three times mentioned in dispatches, and was created CVO and CMG in 1919. He then returned to Melbourne. Dunhill's outstanding work was already well-known in England and had naturally attracted the notice of George Gask, who was eager to promote development in the surgery of the chest. When in 1920 Gask had the opportunity at St Bartholomew's Hospital of forming the first professorial surgical unit in the University of London, he took the bold step of inviting Dunhill from Australia to be his first assistant. Dunhill filled the post with distinction, was appointed an assistant surgeon to the Hospital, and became in due course surgeon and then consulting surgeon. He was also consulting surgeon to the Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, Millbank, and to the London County Council. As early as 1907 Dunhill was reporting successful results in surgical treatment of thyroid disease, and when he was in England in 1912 he addressed the Surgical Section of the Royal Society of Medicine on this subject. It was in these years before the first world war that he established his reputation as the leading thyroid surgeon. He published an outstanding paper in the *British Journal of Surgery* in 1919 on the operation for exophthalmic goitre, and in 1922 he made known his operation for the removal of intrathoracic tumours by the trans-sternal route, which marked a great step forward in the methods of thoracic intervention. Next to Sir James Berry, Dunhill was the pioneer of thyroid surgery in Great Britain, and the younger surgeons, who greatly developed this field between the wars, looked to him for guidance. He surveyed his work in the Lettsomian lectures before the Medical Society of London in 1937; and the Society awarded him its Fothergillian gold medal in 1941. At the Royal College of Surgeons he gave the Arris and Gale lectures on carcinoma of the thyroid in 1931, and on diaphragmatic hernia in 1934, and in 1939 he received the distinction, unique for a surgeon practising in London, of election to Honorary Fellowship, a rank usually reserved for the most distinguished foreign surgeons. The College awarded him the Cecil Joll prize in 1950, and in the following year he delivered the Joll memorial lecture, speaking on thyrotoxicosis. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1930, and served for some years on the Council of the British Medical Association. King George V appointed him surgeon to the household in 1928 and an honorary surgeon to His Majesty in 1930, and created him KCVO in 1933. He was promoted to GCVO after his attendance on King George VI in the spring of 1949; the King had appointed him surgeon to HM on his accession in 1936 and Serjeant Surgeon on the resignation of Wilfred Trotter in 1939. Dunhill resigned this appointment on the King's death in 1952, and Queen Elizabeth II appointed him an extra surgeon to Her•Majesty. During the war of 1939-45 he served as consulting surgeon to the Australian Imperial Force, with the rank: of Brigadier. Dunhill married in 1914 Mrs Edith Florence McKellar, née Affleck, but there were no children. Lady Dunhill died suddenly on 31 July 1942, survived by the son and daughter of her first marriage. Dunhill practised at 54 Harley Street and lived at Tragowel, North End Avenue, Hampstead, where he died on 22 December 1957 aged 81. He had a country house at Southington Mill, Overton, Hants, where he enjoyed fly-fishing and was a keen observer of country ways and wild life. He was a small man, and though of strong constitution had to contend with illness throughout his career; his manner was friendly and earnest, and he sought the highest standards both technically and ethically. He was an inspiring, though exacting, teacher. He did not speak or write with ease, but he published many important articles. He did not take much part in the administrative or "political" work of the profession, though his prudence in affairs was held in high esteem. He left £3000 for the surgical professorial unit at Bart's, and £500 each to the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England and of Australasia, as well as bequests to other charities. He left his decorations to the Royal Australasian College, with a silver porringer given to him by Queen Mary. The inscribed silver cigarette box (*Artistic Possessions* catalogue, Silver no. 130) given to him by the Princess Royal was presented to this College by his executors, and his records of patients were divided between St Bartholomew's Hospital and this College. Principal Publications: On surgery of the thyroid Dunhill made many important contributions from 1907 to 1950, including papers in the *British Journal of Surgery* 1919, 7, 195; 1922, 10, 4; 1930, 17, 424; 1931, 19, 83 (Arris and Gale lectures); 1950, 37, 404 (Joll memorial lecture), and his Lettsomian lectures *Med Soc Trans* 1937, 60, 234. Some surgical experiences at the front. *Med J Aust* 1916, 1, 360. Parathyroid glands in relation to surgery. *Brit med J* 1924, 1, 5. On generalised osteitis fibrosa with hyperparathyroidism, with R C Elmslie. *Brit J Surg* 1932, 20, 479. Carcinoma of the third part of the duodenum, with especial reference to methods of restoring continuity after resection. *Brit J Surg* 1952, 40, 13.
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First Title value, for Searching Alderson, Gerald Graham (1884 - 1961)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-20
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Occupation General surgeon Gynaecologist and obstetrician
Details Born at Newcastle on Tyne in 1884, he was a scholar of Caius, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1906. At University College Hospital he was Atkinson Morley scholar, won the Liston gold medal, and was obstetric registrar. He also worked at St Thomas's and in Berlin and Vienna. During the war of 1914¬1918 he served in France with the rank of Major RAMC. He settled at Leamington in 1920, becoming surgeon to the Warneford Hospital, and for some years was also on the staff of the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital. He built up a leading practice in South Warwickshire, with an excellent private nursing home at Priors House, Leamington. During the war of 1939-45 he was group officer in the Ministry of Health's Emergency Medical Service for the Coventry, Warwick, and Leamington area. He was the first chairman of the medical advisory committee for South Warwickshire, and from 1947 to 1951 gynaecological and obstetric surgeon to the South Warwickshire hospitals group. Alderson took a prominent part in the life of his district. In Freemasonry he became a Deputy Provincial Grand Master, and he was for many years honorary secretary of the North Warwickshire Hunt. He lived in the village of Offchurch, where he usually read the lessons in the parish church. Alderson married in 1917 Marguerite, daughter of William Pasteur MD, FRCP, who survived him with their son Jeffrey. He died in the hunting-field on 28 October 1961 aged 77. A memorial service was held in Birmingham Cathedral on 22 November.
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First Title value, for Searching Allen, Arthur William (1887 - 1958)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 30 November 1887 at McKinney, Kentucky, he graduated from Georgetown College, Kentucky in 1909 and took the MD from Johns Hopkins in 1913, where he learned surgery from Halsted and Cushing. He was appointed to the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, retiring as surgeon-in-chief of the Eastern Service in 1948; he was subsequently made a trustee of the Hospital. He was chiefly interested in abdominal surgery, was one of the first to develop surgical treatment for ulcer haemorrhage, and also studied neurovascular surgery. During the first world war he was on active service in France. Allen was President of the American College of Surgeons 1947-48, and chairman of its Board of Regents 1948-51. He came to London in 1947 for the 12th International Congress of Surgery and delivered a Moynihan Lecture at the College on "Duodenal ulcer", comparing the results of sub-total gastric section with those of vagus nerve interruption. The following year he presented a microtome to the Anatomy department. He came again to the College in 1950 and delivered a Hunterian lecture on "Modern trends in colonic surgery". Allen was also a foreign member of the Academie de Chirurgie and an Honorary Fellow of the Edinburgh College, and had been awarded the coveted Bigelow medal of the Boston Surgical Society. He was a popular, friendly man and a keen fisherman. He died at Boston on 18 March 1958 aged 70, survived by his wife.
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First Title value, for Searching Hartmann, Henri (1860 - 1952)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-26
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born in Paris on 16 June 1860 of a family which came from Mulhouse in Alsace, he was an interne at the Hôtel-Dieu in 1881-82 under Terrier, Lailler, Lannelongue, Guyon, and Duplay, and worked at the École pratique under Faraboeuf. He was demonstrator of anatomy 1884 and prosector 1886, and he received the MD degree in 1887 winning the Prix d'Argenteuil for his thesis *Des cystites douleureuses*. He was appointed chirurgien des hôpitaux in 1892, graduated as agregé en chirurgie in 1895, became deputy director of operative surgery at the Hôtel-Dieu in 1898, and in 1909 was elected professor of clinical surgery in the University of Paris. He retired in 1930 but continued to direct the cancer service at the Hôtel-Dieu with his former pupil B Cunéo. He was one of the founders of the Ligue française contre le cancer. Hartmann distinguished himself as surgeon, teacher, scientist, and administrator. He was a handsome man of simple and direct character, unspoiled by success; he was also fortunate in a singularly happy marriage. Like many of his contemporary surgeons, such as Mayo-Robson, Murphy, and Matas, he wore a beard. There is a signed photograph of him in the Honorary Fellows album in the College library. Hartmann was particularly interested in abdominal and urinary surgery, and based his practice on profound anatomical knowledge and research. His fame will be kept alive by the long series of his advanced textbooks. His name is also recorded in the eponym of "Hartmann's pouch". Though perhaps not the first to observe it, he described the pouch of the gallbladder in his article "Quelques points de l'anatomie et de la chirurgie des voies biliaires" in the *Bulletin de la Société anatomique de Paris* 1891, 5th series, 5, 480. The description of this pouch is wrongly attributed in some books of reference to the earlier German anatomist Robert Hartmann. From Terrier he learned the strictest Listerian methods, and in his own clinic he practised perfect asepsis and the most precise and silent routine. He made careful experiments towards the simplification of ligatures, took infinite pains in personal discussion with the patient to achieve successful diagnosis, and made a ruthless examination with his assistants of all failures in his operating theatres. He kept most careful records, paying great attention to following up the long-term results of his operations. He was a supreme teacher and through his voluminous writings influenced a very wide circle. His life's work was surveyed in the seven volumes of his *Travaux de chirurgie anatomo-clinique* published between 1903 and 1928. With Edouard Quénu he improved the surgery of the rectum (1895), while from his master L F Terrier he derived his interest in the surgery of the stomach (1899), in which he made pioneering advances, partly based on the studies of the morbid anatomy of cancer of the stomach and the anatomy of the stomachic blood vessels undertaken for him by his pupils Fredet and Cunéo. In the surgery of the bile-ducts he had the help of another pupil, Rio Branco. With Petit-Dutaillis he studied the late results of cholecystectomies, and he extended the surgery of the spleen, pancreas, and mesocolon. Turning to gynaecological surgery he worked at the treatment of cancer of the uterus, and with Toupet made a valuable study of the pathology of placental retention. He was a joint editor of the journal *Gynécologie et Obstétrique* from 1903, and editor 1920-25. His work on the solid tumours of the ovary, which follow cancer of the stomach, was outstanding. Hartmann devoted five years at Lariboisière to a study of urinary surgical pathology, which led to valuable papers on painful cystitis (MD thesis 1887), lithiasis, tumours of the kidney, and myomas of the bladder. He was one of the first in Paris to employ the suprapubic approach for treatment of prostate hypertrophy. With his favourite pupil Paul Lecène he studied the tumours of the adipose capsule of the kidney, differentiating them from other retro-peritoneal tumours. His experience of the war surgery of 1914-18 was summarised in an excellent handbook *Les plaies de guerre et leurs complications immédiates* 1918. Hartmann took a full share in the work of professional societies, where his wisdom and integrity were highly valued. He was president of the Société nationale (now the Academie) de Chirurgie in 1919 and of the Congrès français de Chirurgie and of the Académie de Médecine, of which he had been elected a member in 1919. He was admitted to the Institut de France on 19 March 1945, and was a member of at least 26 foreign medical corporations. He was elected an Honorary FRCS Ireland 1906 and an Honorary FRCS England at the last International Medical Congress in London 1913. He was president of the International Society of Surgery at its 8th Congress at Warsaw in 1929, and was on the platform in his 92nd year at the 14th Congress in Paris in September 1951. He retained his health and intellectual ability to the end of his long life, which was saddened by the deaths of his pupils Lecène and Cunéo and of his wife, a lady of high intelligence and artistic taste. Hartmann practised at 4 Place Malesherbes, Paris, where he died on 1 January 1952 aged 91.
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First Title value, for Searching Hayman, Frank Keith (1893 - 1953)

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First Title value, for Searching Heath, Philip Maynard (1876 - 1959)

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First Title value, for Searching Hedley, John Prescott (1876 - 1957)

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First Title value, for Searching Ussher, George Herbert (1885 - 1964)

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First Title value, for Searching Vere Hodge, Nicholas (1916 - 1954)

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First Title value, for Searching Waddle, Norman (1902 - 1963)

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First Title value, for Searching Wade, Sir Henry (1877 - 1955)

2026-04-25T16:25:49Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-09
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Born in 1877 son of the Rev George Wade of Falkirk, he was educated at the Royal High School and University of Edinburgh, qualifying with honours in 1898. Two years later he volunteered for active service in South Africa as civil surgeon with the Royal Scots Fusiliers, being awarded the Queen's medal with four clasps. On his return to Edinburgh he was appointed assistant to Sir William Turner in the Anatomy Department, and on obtaining his Fellowship of the Edinburgh College he was appointed curator of the College Museum. For the next fifty years he served the Edinburgh College in a number of capacities as lecturer, as examiner, as President in 1935-36, as a member of council from 1943 to 1953, and as its representative on the General Medical Council. A member of the consulting staff of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, he was a lecturer in surgery in the school of medicine of the Edinburgh Royal College and was consulting surgeon to the Leith Hospital, retiring in 1939. In the 1914-18 war he served first as a Captain with the Scottish Horse Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance and then as consulting surgeon to Allenby's Egyptian Expeditionary Force, being twice mentioned in dispatches and awarded the Distinguished Service Order. In the war of 1939-45 he acted as consulting surgeon to Bangour EMS Hospital, West Lothian. A member of the BMA for over fifty years, he was vice-president of the Section of Surgery at the annual general meeting in Edinburgh in 1927. A general surgeon, he was particularly interested in urology and between 1919 and 1939 he published thirty-five papers on urological subjects and contributed original observations from his unrivalled experience as a surgical pathologist, particularly with reference to prostatic surgery, genito-urinary tuberculosis and vesical neoplasms. In 1932 he delivered the Ramon Guiteras Lecture to the American Urological Association, and in 1949 the Vicary Lecture on the Barber Surgeons of Edinburgh. He was a lovable, extroverted personality whose hobbies included the growing of rare primulas in the garden of his seventeenth-century mansion-house in Pilmuir, Haddington. He loved travel and was a keen student of literature and verse. In 1924 he married Marjorie only daughter of James William Fraser-Tytler of Woodhouselee, Midlothian, who died in 1929. He died in Edinburgh on 21 February 1955 aged 78.
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First Title value, for Searching Officer, Robert (1906 - 1959)

2026-04-25T16:25:49Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Perth, Western Australia on 12 August 1906 son of Edward Officer (MB Melbourne 1897) of Beechworth, Victoria, he was educated at Hale School, Perth and Ormond College, Melbourne University, winning a triple "blue" for football, rowing, and athletics. He qualified in 1931 and served as resident medical officer (1932) and medical and surgical registrar (1933) at the Alfred Hospital. He came to Guy's Hospital for postgraduate study, and was appointed resident surgical officer at St Mark's Hospital for diseases of the rectum (1936-37) and at the Guest Hospital, Dudley (1938). He went back to Melbourne in 1939. Officer made a distinguished place for himself at St Mark's Hospital, inventing a toothed dissecting forceps named after him, and devising a two-way transfusion drip bulb which was kept in use thereafter and proved invaluable in reducing mortality in the operation for abdomino-perineal resection of the rectum. He also introduced a modification, which promptly became the current practice at St Mark's and elsewhere, of Salmon's ligature operation for haemorrhoidectomy. At the Alfred Hospital he was associate to the surgeon to in-patients, Fay McClure whose pupil he had been. McClure influenced him profoundly, they became close friends, and he succeeded McClure as surgeon to the Hospital in 1946. Meanwhile he had been actively concerned in the war effort. He was commissioned in the AAMC in 1939 and served in the first Western Desert campaign in North Africa and was present at the victory of Bardia as a Captain at the 2/1 Australian Casualty Clearing Station. He subsequently served in Syria and devised an excellent system for blood storage in the field. He was promoted Major in 1942, serving with No 117 Australian General Hospital. In the dark year 1943 he was recalled to Australia to supervise the use and supply of penicillin in the war services, and in 1944-45 was Lieutenant-Colonel at 2/9 General Hospital. After the war he was appointed (1948) consultant surgeon to the Australian Army with the rank of Colonel. When he returned to civil practice in 1945 he soon assumed a leading place in the surgical profession of Australia. He rapidly acquired a very large private practice and was active in professional affairs. He was elected to the Victoria State Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1946, and to the Council in 1955. He was sub-dean of the Clinical School at the Alfred Hospital 1948-57. He was appointed an honorary surgeon to the Governor-General of Australia in 1950 and to the Queen in 1953, just before Her Majesty's Commonwealth tour. Officer married in 1943 Olive Adele Catford who survived him with two daughters. He died on 22 September 1959 aged 52 at Canterbury, Victoria. Bob Officer was a swarthy man of powerful build, who inspired confidence. Principal publications: Surgical anatomy of the anal canal and the operative treatment of haemorrhoids, with E T C Milligan, C Naunton Morgan and L E Jones. *Lancet* 1937, 2, 1119. Blood storage on active service. *AustNZJSurg* 1942, 12, 111. Penicillin: an investigation and clinical trial, with J Loewenthal and J Perry. *Med J Aust* 1944, 2, 473. Reflections on rectal carcinoma. *Alfred Hosp clin Rep* 1953, 3, 5-15.
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First Title value, for Searching McMullen, William Halliburton (1876 - 1958)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-19
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born in London on 19 July 1876 a son of William McMullen of Camberwell, he was educated at the City of London School, King's College, London and King's College Hospital. After qualification he served as house surgeon, curator and pathologist at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital. His first consultant appointment was as assistant ophthalmic surgeon to the Miller General Hospital, and in 1912 he was appointed ophthalmic surgeon to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, a post from which he retired in 1920. During the war of 1914-18 he acted as ophthalmic specialist at the Central London Recruiting Depot and was awarded the OBE for his services. In 1919 he became ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Northern Hospital, relinquishing this appointment in 1923. At the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic, now part of the Charing Cross Group and at one time part of Charing Cross Hospital itself, he was at first assistant surgeon and later full surgeon until his retirement in 1936, and in 1928 was responsible for planning the new hospital in High Holborn with one hundred in place of forty beds. He was at one time President of the Ophthalmological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine and Vice-President of the Ophthalmological Society of Great Britain. A man of calm, unruffled exterior and distinguished appearance, he was a good teacher and very thorough in his approach to any clinical problem. His hobbies included water-colour sketching and golf. In 1906 he married Kate Constance, daughter of G Randall Higgins, who died seven months after her husband, and by whom he had three sons. He died suddenly on 15 April 1958 at Richmond aged 81. A memorial service was held at St John's Wood Chapel on 7 May 1958.
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First Title value, for Searching McNair, Arthur James (1887 - 1964)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-19
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born in London on 27 April 1887, second son of John McNair of Paisley, an underwriter at Lloyds, he was educated at Aldenham School, Emmanuel College, Cambridge where he took second-class honours in Natural Sciences, and at Guy's Hospital. During the first world war he served with the Royal Navy and then as a surgical specialist with the RAMC in the Indian Expeditionary Force D in 1916 and later in the Afghan fighting. He returned to Guy's after the war, and served the hospital and its medical school for thirty years, specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology. When he retired in 1952 the hospital conferred on him the title of emeritus, and later that year St Thomas's Hospital appointed him their honorary consulting gynaecologist. Before he retired he had also held appointments at the City of London Maternity Hospital, North Herts and South Bedfordshire Hospital, Purley Memorial Hospital, and at Caterham and District Hospital. McNair was a foundation member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and was elected a Fellow in 1931. He then served on the council and on many College committees and was elected vice-president. When he retired from his active hospital practice in 1952 he was elected honorary librarian where a great deal of his time was spent in arranging a large collection of old books and manuscripts in the library. He was President of the section of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Royal Society of Medicine in 1947, and an active member of the Gynaecological Club. Though he shunned publicity, his influence was wide and he helped to shape the course of modem obstetric care. He had a dry sense of humour, was well read with an excellent memory, and used these gifts to enliven his teaching. In younger days he was a keen sportsman, rowing, cycling, boxing, running, fishing and playing Rugger. McNair lived at 9 Devonshire Mews West, and died on 30 May 1964 aged 77; he had married Grace Mary Buist in 1930, and was survived by her and their three daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Leicester, John Cyril Holdich (1872 - 1949)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-08-21
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Born 29 March 1872 at Scarborough, third child and eldest son of the Rev John Augustus Leicester, a priest of the Church of England who held no regular living, and his wife Charlotte Eliza Holdich. He was educated at Dulwich College and University College, London, where he took honours in physiology at the BSc examination in 1893. He qualified in 1896 from University College Hospital, and held house appointments there and at the Samaritan Hospital for Women. He took the Fellowship in 1898. Leicester was commissioned a lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service on 28 January 1899, and saw active service in China during the Boxer rising of 1900, for which he received the medal. He was promoted captain in 1902 and major in 1910. During the war of 1914-18 he was on active service in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Palestine, and was twice mentioned in despatches. In 1919 he served on the Afghan frontier. He had been promoted lieutenant-colonel in 1918. For the greater part of his career Leicester practised as a gynaecologist at Calcutta. He was for two and a half years resident surgeon under C R M Green and afterwards surgeon at the Eden Hospital for Women, Calcutta, and professor of midwifery and gynaecology in the Medical College. He took the MRCP in 1905 and was elected FRCP in 1923. In January 1924 he was placed on the select list for promotion in the IMS, served for a period as acting Surgeon-General of Bengal and was appointed an Honorary Surgeon to the Viceroy; he was created CIE in June and retired on 27 September 1927. He continued to practise privately at 6 Harington Street, Calcutta, but soon returned to London where he settled at 128 Chatsworth Road, NW2. He married on 3 December 1907 in St Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta, Queenie, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Edwin Dobson, MB, IMS, who survived him but without children. He died at his country home, Clare Cottage, Cold Ash, Newbury on 19 May 1949 aged 77. He left his entire fortune to be divided among numerous charities after his wife's life interest. Leicester was an excellent administrator, with a taste for detailed statistical investigations. He made numerous contributions to the Obstetrical Society and to the *Journal of Obstetrics*. He was an active churchman, gave valued service to the Oxford mission at Calcutta, and was a vestryman of Calcutta Cathedral. He was also a keen promoter of the Boy Scout movement in India and at home. Publications: Mechanical dilation of the cervix uteri in pregnancy. *J Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp* 1907, 11, 224. A short note on the duration of pregnancy and the relation between the weight of the child and the length of gestation of Europeans (in India), East Indians and natives. *Ibid* p 465. On the relation of the frequency of the foetal heart beat to the sex and weight of the child. *Ibid*, 1907, 12, 39. Menstruation in Europeans, Eurasians, and East Indians in India. *Ibid* 1910, 17, 414. A short note on the delivery of the foetal head after decapitation. *Surg Gynec Obstet* 1908, 7, 478.
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First Title value, for Searching Leipoldt, Christian Fred Louis (1880 - 1947)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-08-21
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Occupation General surgeon Poet
Details Leipoldt was a man of great ability and versatility, who worked actively as a doctor and a journalist throughout his career. A South African of Dutch republican sympathies, in later life he promoted good professional relations between the Medical Associations of South Africa and Great Britain. Fully bilingual in Afrikaans and English, he made his mark as a poet in both languages. Born in 1880 at Clanwilliam, Cape Province, the son and grandson of missionaries, he was educated by his father. He won a prize for an essay in the *Boy's Own Paper*, and contributed while still a boy to the *Cape Times*. Before he was twenty he had joined the staff of the *South African News* and was correspondent of various European papers which favoured the Boer cause. He came to Europe in 1902 and paid for his roving travels by free-lance journalism. Coming to London and feeling the need of a less precarious profession he entered Guy's Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1907, winning gold medals in surgery and medicine, and then studied children's diseases at Berlin and Graz. Coming back to London he was appointed anaesthetist to the German Hospital in 1909, took the Fellowship that summer, and edited *The Hospital*. He went to America for further postgraduate study, and after an illness recuperated by a journey through the East Indies in 1911. Back in London by 1912 he gained valuable experience as Medical Inspector of Schools at Hampstead under James Kerr, MD. Early in 1914 he obtained a post as the first Medical Inspector of Schools in the Transvaal, and found that the proper scope of the work had not been considered by the appointers. As he has recorded in his book *Bushveld Doctor*, they had intended him merely to visit schools from time to time for superficial inspection of their general condition; no provision had been even thought of for positive care of the children's health. Leipoldt was successful in promoting the necessary improvements. During the war he served as a surgeon on General Botha's staff, and in 1919 was appointed Medical Inspector of Schools in Cape Province. He joined the editorial staff of the Pretoria newspaper *Die Volkstem* in 1923, but soon afterwards resumed practice as a consultant on children's diseases at Cape Town. He was appointed organising secretary of the Medical Association of South Africa, and with W Darley-Hartley produced the first number of its *Journal* in January 1927. This journal, which subsequently (1917) became the bilingual *South African Medical Journal*, was a combination of the *Medical Journal of South Africa* and the *South African Medical Record*; and the new Medical Association was a combi¬nation of the old independent Association with the Federal Council of the various local branches of the British Medical Association in the South African Union. Leipoldt successfully carried out this work of reconciliation and co-ordination under the influence of Dr Alfred Cox, Secretary of the BMA; in 1928 he represented South Africa at the Association's Cardiff meeting. When he retired in 1944 Leopoldt left the arrangements ready for the final separation of the direct links between London and the individual branches, and the affiliation of the South African Association to the BMA as a single body. Besides his medical work, both clinical and professional, and his writing as a journalist and a poet, Leipoldt made his mark as a botanist and an ornithologist. His early Afrikaans poetry was rebellious and passionately tragic and made a deep appeal in South Africa; his later English poems were more mellow and profound. He also wrote a life of *Jan van Riebeeck*, commander of the first white settlement at the Cape of Good Hope, published in 1936. He cultivated his naturally refined taste for food and wine, and was a notably good cook. He proclaimed that wine was far more beneficial than milk, which he looked on as a dangerous vehicle for disease. Leipoldt died at the Cape on 14 April 1947, aged 67.
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First Title value, for Searching Edridge-Green, Frederick William (1863 - 1953)

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First Title value, for Searching Gerstman, Samuel Rudolf (1905 - 1954)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-10 2017-05-05
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Parkville, Melbourne, 3 November 1905, he was educated at Prince's Hill State School, at Scotch College, Melbourne, where he was a scholar and second to the school *dux*, and at Ormond College where he won the first-year exhibition in natural philosophy. He held resident posts at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, the Children's and Women's hospitals, and the Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital. He was in England during 1935-37 working at Ancoats Hospital, Manchester, and St Bartholomew's and the Royal Eye Hospital in London, and then returned to practise in Melbourne. During the war of 1939-45 he served as an ophthalmic specialist with the Australian Imperial force, in Western Australia, in the Northern Territory and at Bougainville in the Pacific. He was appointed assistant surgeon to the Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital in 1946 and surgeon in 1949. He was honorary secretary of the Victoria division of the Ophthalmological Society of Australia and chairman of its visual hygiene committee. He practised at 32 Collins Street, Melbourne. He achieved high rank in Freemasonry and was an active member of the Fitzroy Football Club and the Melbourne Cricket Club. He Married Dulcie Allen in 1944. Gerstman died of poliomyelitis at 20 Bruce Street, Toorak on 22 June 1954 aged 49, survived by his wife and their two young sons. Publications: Retrobulbar neuritis in returning prisoners of war, *Trans Ophthal Soc Australia* 1946, 6, 85.
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First Title value, for Searching Gibb, Harold Pace (1878 - 1955)

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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Edward Archibald (1875 - 1958)

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First Title value, for Searching Gibson, William Robert (1872 - 1959)

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First Title value, for Searching Skirving, Robert Scot (1859 - 1956)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-25
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Occupation General surgeon Physician
Details Born on 18 December 1859 at Campton, near Haddington, East Lothian, he was brought up under a strictly religious discipline with his brothers and sisters by his grandmother until her death. He was educated by a typical Scots dominie at the school in Haddington from which he proceeded to Edinburgh Academy and then, aged 16 and hoping to join the Navy, to Eastman's Royal Naval Academy at Portsmouth. He passed all the necessary examinations only to discover that he was just three weeks too old to join the Royal Navy. Nothing daunted, he entered the Merchant Service and made two voyages to Iceland in a vessel of seven hundred tons, after which he entered as a cadet in the training ship *Conway*, where he was as he described it "never so happy." He was then apprenticed in the *Tantallon Castle* of eleven hundred tons, making the journey to Port Adelaide, Australia and returning via Cape Horn. On the way home he developed beri-beri and was landed at Queenstown with the knowledge that he would have to seek some other career than that of the sea, although he had achieved his master's ticket. He therefore returned to Edinburgh to study medicine, graduating with honours in 1881 and, being barely twenty-one years old, had to do a year's postgraduate study in Dublin and Vienna before obtaining an appointment as house surgeon to Professor Spence, Professor of Surgery at the Royal Infirmary. After other appointments pressure was put upon him to remain in Edinburgh and Argyle Robertson offered him a partnership. However, having seen Australia, he had an urge to return and signed on as ship's surgeon in the emigrant ship *Ellora*. On arrival he spent some time as a locum tenens in Queensland, but in November 1883 he obtained the appointment of medical superintendent of the Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, being at the same time appointed an honorary assistant physician. He ceased being medical superintendent in June 1884 and set up in private practice at College Street, Sydney. In 1889 he became honorary physician, which appointment he held up to 1911 when he became honorary consultant physician. In 1889 he was appointed honorary surgeon to St Vincent Hospital, Sydney and this appointment he held until 1923, so that he was in fact senior physician and senior surgeon to two large Sydney hospitals at the same time. In the South African war he served with his great friend Sir Alexander MacCormick, and in the war of 1914-18 he came to England and was surgeon in charge of the census division at Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital, Millbank, returning to his practice in Sydney in 1919. His third son was killed at Suvla Bay in the Dardanelles campaign and this probably affected his wife's health and saddened his later years. During the war of 1939-45 he returned to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital to assist with the teaching at which he was an acknowledged master. He was President of the NSW Board of the BMA in 1891-92 and chief medical referee of the Australian Mutual Provident Society for many years. He maintained an active interest in surgery up to the time of his death, was a widely read and avid reader, a witty raconteur and always retained his youthful approach to life. In 1885 he married Lucy Susan Hester, a nurse at the Prince Alfred Hospital, and they had three sons only one of whom, Robert, survived him. His wife died in 1950 at the age of 85. His brother Archie, who died in 1930, was a well known Edinburgh surgeon. He died on 15 July 1956 aged 96, and by his own request his coffin at the funeral, which was held in St Stephens Presbyterian Church, Sydney on 17 July, was draped with the red ensign.
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First Title value, for Searching Gilliatt, Sir William (1884 - 1956)

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First Title value, for Searching Gillies, Sir Harold Delf (1882 - 1960)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-10
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Born at Dunedin, New Zealand, on 17 June 1882, he came of a distinguished family. His father Robert Gillies was a land agent and a member of the New Zealand House of Representatives, and his mother was Emily Street from Birtley, near Guildford. Edward Lear, the artist and nonsense-verse write, was his great-uncle, and Sir Archibald McIndoe, who succeeded him as a leader in plastic surgery, was his cousin. Educated at Wanganui College, where he was captain of cricket, he went up to Caius College, Cambridge. There he distinguished himself as a sportsman, rowing in the Boat Race of 1904 and playing golf for the University for three years. He continued his medical training at St Bartholomew's, was awarded the Luther Holden Scholarship, qualified in 1908 and obtained the FRCS in 1910. After holding house appointments at Bart's he developed an interest in otolaryngology. For some years he worked as assistant to Sir Milsom Rees and became surgeon to the Ear Nose and Throat Department at the Prince of Wales's General Hospital, Tottenham and pathologist at the Throat Hospital, Golden Square. Then came the 1914-18 war which caused the mutilation and disfigurement of so many men and showed Gillies clearly where his genius lay. Early in the war he joined the RAMC and whilst on leave in Paris he met Hippolyte Morestin, a pioneer in maxilla-facial surgery. Gillies immediately realised the need to start special treatment of facial wounds and through the force of his conviction and personality he managed to persuade the War Office to allow him to set up a unit at Aldershot. At this time he knew little of the specialty, but his own surgical skill, artistic temperament, endless patience and tremendous confidence carried him through. He pressed for a hospital of his own and with the help of Sir William Arbuthnot Lane the Red Cross was persuaded to build a hutted hospital at Sidcup. This soon became the largest centre of its kind in the world. During this time Gillies discovered independently the potentialities and varied applications of the skin tubed pedicle. Being a painter himself, plastic surgery as practised by Gillies became an art and he often called upon the talents of artists to help him. F Derwent Wood RA, a sculptor, collaborated with Gillies in cases when the manipulation of living tissues needed to be supplemented with modelling in some artificial substance such as wax. When Gillies was in need of a good draughtsman in 1915 he was delighted to meet Henry Tonks FRCS, who had given up surgery to become a professional artist and was later Director of the Slade School. On the outbreak of war Tonks volunteered to serve in any useful capacity and Gillies found him at Aldershot waiting for a suitable job. He painted portraits of men with facial injuries and helped to design their repair. These paintings were deposited in the War Collection at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. After the war Gillies saw that this new specialty was still necessary in peace-time and by 1920 he had established it in Britain. He set up in private practice, was elected to the staff of St Bartholomew's and was appointed consultant in plastic surgery to the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force, the Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, St Andrew's Hospital, Dollis Hill, St James's Hospital, Balham, the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary, the London County Council, and the ministries of Health and of Pensions. At the same time his international reputation grew and he became an honoured guest in many countries. He was appointed OBE in 1919 and CBE in1920, and was knighted in 1930. Gillies was a splendid lecturer and was much in demand at home and abroad. He was a superb teacher and his pre-operative planning clinics were conducted with infinite patience. In these the use of exact patterns of flap and pedicle and the marking of the skin of the exact site and length of incision all made a deep impact. The outbreak of war in 1939 made even greater demands on Gillies. He organised plastic surgical units in different parts of the country and personally supervised the largest unit at Park Prewett Hospital, Basingstoke. By spending hundreds of hours in the theatre repairing shattered faces he restored the morale of thousands. Shortly after the war Gillies formed the British Association of Plastic Surgeons of which he was the first president. He was also president of the International Society of Plastic Surgeons. He continued to train men from all over the world and to travel widely himself teaching, operating and advising. His impressions were recorded in his paintings which were seen at the Royal Society of Medicine and later at two one-man exhibitions in London. In 1920 Gillies's book *Plastic Surgery of the Face* was published, which remained the leading textbook in its field until the appearance in 1957 of the *The Principles and Art of Plastic Surgery*, written with Dr Ralph Millard. This book reflects Gillies' personality, for it is a brilliant exposition of the subject and at the same time an entertaining, vivid account of his work, superbly illustrated in colour. In spite of the claims of his professional life Gillies for many years managed to maintain his position in the world of golf. He played for England against Scotland in 1908, 1925 and 1926 and won the St George's Grand Challenge Cup in 1913. He was also a highly skilled fly-fisherman. Gillies married Kathleen Margaret Jackson in 1911 and they had two sons and two daughters. During the second world war their elder son, Flying Officer John Arthur Gillies, RAAF, was a prisoner in Germany. Lady Gillies died on 14 May 1957. His second wife was Marjorie E Clayton, who had been for many years his personal assistant. He died on 10 September 1960 at the age of 78. The British Association of Plastic Surgeons created a fund in his memory to promote education and research in plastic surgery. Publications: *Plastic surgery of the face,* 1920 *The principles and art of plastic surgery*, with Ralph Millard. 2 vols 1957
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First Title value, for Searching Gimblett, Charles Leonard (1890 - 1957)

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First Title value, for Searching Glendining, Vincent (1888 - 1964)

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First Title value, for Searching Goldschmidt, Lionel Bernard (1892 - 1955)

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First Title value, for Searching Goodwin, Aubrey (1889 - 1964)

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

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

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

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First Title value, for Searching Stebbing, George French (1884 - 1947)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-13
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Occupation General surgeon Radiologist
Details Born on 2 October 1884 at Hazlemere, Woodside Park, Finchley, the fifth child and third son of Alfred Charles Stebbing, merchant, and Elizabeth Elstob, his wife. He was educated at Emanuel School, Wandsworth Common and at Guy's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon and out-patients officer, after taking honours and distinction in surgery at the MB, BS examination. Stebbing felt no inclination for private practice, and failing to see an institutional opening of the kind that he wished, he took the advice of Sir Charters Symonds to make one for himself, and in 1908 joined the staff of Lambeth Infirmary, then under the medical superintendence of A L Baly, MRCS, who gave him every encouragement in establishing a surgical clinic there. Stebbing served as a naval surgeon during the war of 1914-1918, and on return to Lambeth became interested in the treatment of malignant disease by radium. He quickly realized that radium treatment ought not to be merely an item in the surgeon's armamentarium, but that for its full exploitation a new specialty of radio-therapy must develop in which surgeon and physicist should co-operate. The rest of his life was given up to a single-minded promotion of this project, while he continued his surgical work. He brought about an arrangement between the Ministry of Health and the Lambeth Board of Guardians for the supply of radium and establishment of deep X-ray plant at the Lambeth Hospital in 1929, and from then onwards till the end of his life was both surgical specialist and radio-therapist to the hospital. The same year, 1929, he was appointed to the newly formed National Radium Commission and served as its honorary medical secretary till 1947. He was responsible for the framing of its policy, which took shape in three stages: first, the formation of radiotherapy units with adequate equipment, technical as well as medical staff, space and beds enough for fully efficient working; second, the addition of facilities for all forms of cancer treatment; and finally, the centralizing of these units in the provincial university regions. Stebbing was a member of the Ministry of Health cancer subcommittee, and later of the Medical Research Council nuclear physics committee. He was chairman of council of the London and Counties Medical Protection Society; was a founder of the Society of Radio-therapists and became its president, and a founder of the London County Council clinical research committee, and the first chairman of the LCC Medical Society which developed from it. But for his last illness he would have been president of the section of radiology of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was an original Fellow of the Faculty of Radiology (1939) and its honorary treasurer. He also served as clinician to the Radium Beam Therapy Research, 1934-38. Stebbing was an examiner for part 2 of the Diploma in Medical Radiotherapy of the Conjoint Board, and became a co-opted member of Council of the College under the 1947 Charter. His name appeared in the New Year's Honours List 1948, for award of the Companionship of the Order of the British Empire, ten days after his death. Stebbing married on 30 April 1919 Margaret Warburton McCroddall, who survived him with two sons, both medical students, and a married daughter. He died on 22 December 1947, aged 63, at Brigown, 38 Telford Avenue, Streatham, SW2. A memorial service was held at St Philip's, Kennington, on 12 January 1948. At the beginning of the war of 1939-45 he and his wife moved into residence at Lambeth Hospital, to give greater attention to the permanent inmates there. Stebbing was a man of integrity and moral courage, with a clear head and tireless energy. Though he was somewhat ruthless and uncompromising in the pursuit of his ideals, his charm and sincerity, combined with a cheerful sense of fun, won him innumerable friends. Publications: A case of ateleiosis, with F Parkes Weber, *Brit J Child Dis* 1916, 13, 200. The intravenous injection of oxygen gas as a therapeutic measure, with F W Tunnicliffe. *Lancet*, 1916, 2, 321. Fractures of metatarsal bones by indirect violence, with A G R Foulerton. *Lancet*, 1927, 2, 1225. Fractures of the upper end of the femur. *Brit J Surg* 1927, 15, 201. Chordotomy; section of the anterolateral tracts for the relief of pain, with notes of seventeen cases. *Lancet*, 1929, 1, 654. Sir Charters Symonds, an appreciation, with a portrait. *Guy's Hosp Rep* 1933, 83, 259. Wavelength as a factor in radiotherapy. *Brit J Radiol* 1938, 11, 177. Modern methods in the treatment of cancer. *J Roy Sanit Inst* 1939-40, 60, 284. Radiotherapeutic education of the future. *Brit J Radial* 1942, 15, 294. Radiotherapy in carcinoma of kidney and bladder. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1945, 38, 250. Diagnosis of cancer in a National Medical Service. The Skinner lecture, Faculty of Radiologists. *Lancet*, 1945, 2, 65. Total war on cancer. *Brit med J* 1946, 2, 77.
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First Title value, for Searching Brandis, George Hayes (1896 - 1969)

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First Title value, for Searching Jones, William Hedley (1930 - 1968)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details William Hedley Jones was born on 18 December 1930 at Morriston, near Swansea, the son of W J Jones, a sales representative. He was educated at Cardiff High School and at Swansea Grammar School. He received his medical education at University College, London and University College Hospital and qualified MB BS in 1955. After various house appointments at numerous hospitals in London he became FRCS in 1962. Hedley Jones was a splendid all-rounder at work and sport. He had a fund of original ideas and in his all too short career he carried out several successful research projects. As an undergraduate he spent a year under J Z Young at University College where he made a special study of the hippocampus and was awarded a BSc in anatomy. He was especially interested in intrathoracic problems and conducted research in lung transplantation under Professor D Slome at the Buckston Browne Research Farm. He was awarded the Legg Prize in 1966 for an essay on the application of bronchostomy to the experimental study of transplanted pulmonary tissue. He spent a year as a fellow in cardiovascular surgery under Dr Michael DeBakey at Texas Medical Center, Houston. Hedley Jones was a keen athlete and enjoyed squash and swimming. He was a quiet, modest man of gentle character, but extremely tenacious, energetic and a perfectionist in all he did. He died on the 31 December 1968.
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First Title value, for Searching Brayshaw, Harold Currie (1896 - 1972)

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First Title value, for Searching Bremner, John Cameron (1930 - 1973)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-14
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Occupation Maxillofacial surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Bremner was born in Queensland, Australia on 8 November 1930 and educated at Melbourne University, Victoria; later he moved to Perth, Western Australia, where he was making a distinguished career in plastic surgery when he fell ill and died at the age of forty-two. At the University he won the Syme Prize in Anatomy with an Exhibition in 1950, the Ryan Prize in Surgery in 1953, and qualified that year; in 1956 he passed Part 1 of the MS examination. After holding resident posts at the Royal Melbourne Hospital he was appointed in 1956 associate-assistant surgeon to E E Dunlop and became associate-assistant to B K Rank, plastic and facio-maxillary surgeon to the Hospital; he was also part-time surgeon to the Casualty Clinic and assistant to A R Wakefield, reparative surgeon to the Peter MacCallum Clinic, Melbourne Cancer Institute. In the same period he was a demonstrator, first of pathology and then of surgery, in the University and from 1957 clinical supervisor of students at the Hospital. He won a Fulbright Fellowship for advanced study at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1959. On his way to America he visited London, took the Fellowship, and attended the Second International Congress of Plastic Surgery. At Pittsburgh he held the post of teaching fellow and preceptor in plastic surgery, and undertook research on tendon healing. He also attended the meetings of the Canadian and American Societies of Plastic Surgeons, and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the latter; he became a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1961. He returned to Australia in 1960 on appointment to the staff of the plastic and maxillo-facial unit at the Royal Perth Hospital, and was promoted to be surgeon to the unit in 1964. He was also plastic surgeon to the Fremantle Hospital, and consultant plastic surgeon to the Royal Australian Navy, in which he had held the rank of Surgeon-Lieutenant, RAN Reserve, since 1955. He was lecturer in surgery at the University of Western Australia, and a member of the West Australia State Medical Planning Committee; he built up a prosperous private practice, and was active in the West Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons. Bremner was a cultivated and generous man; he gave a munificent donation in 1973 to buy works of art for the adornment of the Medical School at the University of Western Australia in the hope that future students would enjoy looking at the pictures and broaden their interests. His recreations were tennis, golf and sailing; he was interested in farming and a partner in two grazing and beef-cattle properties outside Perth. He was also a keen Freemason, and was Master-elect of the St George Lodge, Perth at the time of his death. Bremner was seriously ill in 1972, received leave from his duties, and died at Portsea, Victoria on 8 June 1973 aged forty-two; he was unmarried. Publications: Correlation of tongue changes and nutrition. *Roy Melb Hosp Clin Rep* 1952, 22, 46. Splenic vein thrombosis in patient with myeloproliferative syndrome. *Roy Melb Hosp Clin Rep* 1954, 24, 117.
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First Title value, for Searching Bremner, Walton Howarth (1902 - 1965)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-14
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Walton Howarth Bremner was born on 28 March 1902, the son of J R Bremner of Dunedin. After attending the Otago Boys' High School and Otago Medical School, Dunedin, he graduated MB ChB in 1923, coming to Christchurch as a house surgeon the following year. In 1926 he went overseas and later married Dr Gladys Macalister of Invercargill. They visited Britain and Europe, and Bremner obtained his FRCS in 1927 at the age of 25. He returned to join the surgical staff of the Christchurch Hospital in 1931, becoming a member of its senior staff five years later. He was Director of Surgery in June 1960, till his retirement in June 1962. Bremner was Chairman of the Medical Staff and of the Medical Advisory Committee in 1959 and 1960, giving much time to the welfare of the staff and to advising the Board on the internal running of the hospital. As a surgeon of the Christchurch Hospital he contributed more towards the maintenance and improvement of the standard of surgery there than any other member of its staff. He pioneered practically all advances in surgical techniques and methods for more than thirty years. At the same time he shared his experiences with others on the staff and enabled them to benefit from his knowledge and ability. This was his method of teaching his junior colleagues and it was an experience much appreciated by all who availed themselves of the opportunity. He was also an excellent teacher at the undergraduate level, from his wide knowledge and orderly mind. As a counsellor he was at his best. There can be few of his juniors who did not seek his advice at one time or another. His opinion was always given, after due consideration of the problem, in a forthright manner which left no doubt of what he really thought, but with complete sincerity. After his retirement from the hospital he maintained a keen interest in its welfare, while he continued his active professional work in private. He was a friend, adviser and most stimulating colleague to all who knew him and worked with him. His outside interests were in gardening and history, but these were very secondary to his intense interest in his work. He died suddenly at 27 Mansfield Avenue, Christchurch on 29 May 1965 aged 63.
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First Title value, for Searching Dalton, Henry Gibbs (1818 - 1874)

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First Title value, for Searching Hey, Richard ( - 1860)

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First Title value, for Searching Hey, Samuel (1815 - 1888)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-13
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on August 22nd, 1815, the son of the Rev Samuel Hey, Vicar of Ashbrook, Derbyshire, and grandson of William Hey I, of Leeds, who was active in founding the Leeds Infirmary in 1767 and was Senior Surgeon from 1773-1812. His mother was Margaret, daughter of William Gray, of York. At the age of 16 he became a pupil of his uncle, William Hey II, second son of William Hey I. He studied later at University College and St George's Hospitals, and had as teachers Sharpey, Samuel Cooper, and Benjamin Brodie. He spent three further years in Paris and German hospitals, and could afterwards speak French and German fairly well. About 1840 he returned to Leeds and joined his cousin, William Hey III (qv), son of William Hey II, in his practice. The foundation of a Medical School at Leeds was first mooted by William Hey II, and Samuel Hey attended the first lecture formally delivered in the School, where he became Teacher of Surgery as well as Lecturer on Physiology and Treasurer. He was appointed Surgeon to the Leeds Infirmary in 1851, being distinguished by the kindness and gentleness with which he carried out his duties. He was a man of much personal charm, an admirable host and after-dinner speaker. He became Consulting Surgeon to the Infirmary, and died at 1 North Hill Road, Headingley, Leeds, on January 21st, 1888. He was twice married and left four children, a son and three daughters. His portrait is in the Fellows' Album. Publications: "Removal of a Large Prostatic Calculus." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1863, ii, 59. "Beneficial Results of Undesigned Haemorrhage in Certain Cases." -*Ibid*, 1869, ii, 249.
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First Title value, for Searching Hey, William III (1796 - 1875)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Occupation General surgeon
Details William Hey III, son of William Hey II (qv), was born on December 23rd, 1796, the eldest of four brothers. He was appointed Surgeon to the Leeds Infirmary in 1830, and succeeded to the practice of his father on the latter's death in 1844; he held the position of Surgeon until 1851, when he became Consulting Surgeon. In association with Samuel Smith, William Price, Thackeray Teale, and Williamson, he was instrumental in founding the Leeds School of Medicine, where he lectured on surgery. He practised at 1 Albion Place, and about 1840 was joined for a time by his cousin, Samuel Hey (qv). In 1843 he read a Retrospective Address in Surgery at the 11th Anniversary of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association held in Leeds. He was President of the Surgical Section at the 37th Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association at Leeds. William Hey III early promoted the cultivation of music in Leeds, and was an active member of the Philosophical and Literary Society, over which his grandfather had presided at its foundation in 1818, three months before his death. He took great interest in the *Transactions* of the Society, promoted the formation of the museum, and was a member of the Town Council as a moderate Conservative and staunch Churchman. He died of heart disease at Gledhow Wood, Leeds, on May 10th, 1875; only one of his brothers, the Rev S Hey, Rector of Sawley, Derbyshire, survived him. He married in 1821 a daughter of Thomas Roberts; she died without family in 1867. A photograph of him is in the College Collection.
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First Title value, for Searching Davey, Henry W. Robert ( - 1870)

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

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

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

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First Title value, for Searching Davies, Francis Joseph ( - 1926)

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First Title value, for Searching Davies, John (1817 - 1868)

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First Title value, for Searching Davies, Morgan ( - 1920)

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First Title value, for Searching Davies, Richard Edward ( - 1863)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-14 2013-07-16
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at the London Hospital. He practised at 29 Harewood Square, and in the late fifties at 4 South Crescent, Park Town, Oxford. He then moved to Charles Street, W, and in 1860 to 28 Great Western Terrace, Westbourne Park Road. He died in 1862 or 1863.
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First Title value, for Searching Davies, William Joseph (1817 - 1883)

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First Title value, for Searching Davies-Colley, John Neville Colley (1842 - 1900)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-14
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Chester on September 9th, 1842, one of the four sons of Dr Thomas Davies (d.1892), Physician to the Chester General Infirmary, who afterwards took the name of Colley. Educated at King's College School, London, when Dr Major was Head Master. He was admitted a pensioner at Trinity College, Cambridge, as John Neville Colley Davies in 1860 and became a Scholar of the College in 1863. He graduated BA in 1864, being bracketed Forty-first Wrangler and appearing top of the second class in the Classical Tripos. He subsequently became a Fellow of Trinity College and was later a Fellow of St Catharine's College. During his undergraduate career he proved himself so good an oarsman as to have been the reserve man in the University crew. Davies-Colley entered Guy's Hospital in 1884, where he attracted favourable notice, both as a student and athlete, and was appointed Surgical Registrar and Tutor in June, 1868. He then became Lecturer on Experimental Philosophy and Demonstrator of Anatomy at Guy's Hospital, and in 1872 was appointed Assistant Surgeon, at which date Thomas Bryant (qv), Senior Assistant Surgeon, succeeded Edward Cock (qv) as Surgeon. In 1880, upon the resignation of Cooper Forster (qv), Davies-Colley became full Surgeon. He lectured upon anatomy during several sessions, and then for many years gave half the course on surgery. He was also Visiting Surgeon, and at the time of his death Consulting Surgeon, to the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, and was Examiner in Anatomy on the Conjoint Board of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons (1888-1892); Examiner in Anatomy for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (1887-1888); Examiner in Anatomy to the University of Cambridge; and a Member of the Court of Examiners (1892-1900). He also examined in surgery at the University of Cambridge. His career as a hospital surgeon and teacher was one of great success, and as an examiner he was conspicuously popular with those students who knew their subjects, for he was quiet, clear, and scrupulously courteous. As a teacher he was extremely lucid and painstaking, his somewhat deliberate methods of imparting instruction being particularly appreciated by his pupils. His slow and cadenced method of speaking was adopted as a remedy for a defect of speech: he had an obstinate proclivity to stammer, but by taking thought over his manner of elocution he overcame the infirmity early in his career. He held in turn the appointments in the Medical School of Guy's Hospital of Demonstrator of Anatomy, Demonstrator of Practical Surgery, Lecturer on Anatomy, and Lecturer on Surgery. As a surgeon he held a very high place in the opinion of all his confreres. He was bold in scheme and careful in procedure, while his great industry and fine memory allowed him to carry about with him the results of his experience to be produced in a moment exactly when and where it was wanted. He trod in the footsteps of Henry Howse (qv), who introduced Listerism into the surgical routine at Guy's Hospital. He subsequently followed the latest trend of aseptic surgery, and, well informed in all that was then known, undertook the biggest operations up to the last. His work at the Royal College of Surgeons was notable. He was elected to the Council in July, 1896, and both there and at the examination table was conspicuous by his abilities. One of his last acts at the College was the unveiling in the theatre of the Lister portrait by W W Ouless. In November, 1899, Davies-Colley first became aware that he was suffering from cancer of the liver, but to others he gave no sign of his knowledge. He continued imperturbably at his work, and with failing strength completed the first half of the winter session at Guy's Hospital. He married the daughter of Thomas Turner, for many years Treasurer of Guy's Hospital, and sister of Dr F Charlewood Turner, Physician to the London Hospital. Two of his sons became Fellows of the College, Robert Davies-Colley, CMG, becoming Surgeon to Guy's Hospital, whilst his daughter, Miss Eleanor Davies-Colley, had the unique distinction of becoming the first Woman Fellow of the College. He practised at 36 Harley Street. He died at his country house, Borough, Pulborough, Sussex, on May 6th, 1900, and was buried in the churchyard, Pulborough. He was survived by his widow and children. His portrait (of early date) is in the Council Album, and a good one accompanies his biography in the *British Medical Journal*. In *Guy's Hospital Gazette* (1900, June 9) there is a fine portrait, which some do not, however, regard as a good likeness. A Davies-Colley Memorial, for which subscriptions were invited at a meeting of the staff of the Medical School of Guy's Hospital, took the form of a collection of books now in a special case in the Guy's Hospital Library. Some £380 were subscribed towards this object. Publications: Davies-Colley put his name to no separate work, but up to the time of his death was still employed upon an important book on surgery, which from its practical nature might have become a classic if published. "Carbuncle," "Gonorrhoeal Rheumatism," "Injuries and Diseases of the Neck, Throat, and Oesophagus," and "Malignant Pustule" in Heath's *Dictionary of Surgery*. Articles on "Muscles" in Morris's *Treatise of Anatomy*. "A Case of Resection of the Tarsal Bones for Congenital Talipes Equino-varus." - *Med.- Chir. Trans.*, 1877, lx, 11. In this article he recommends the procedure for cases where ordinary methods had been unsuccessfully employed or were likely to fail in a severe case. "On Malignant Pustule." In this article he advocated the excision of the whole of the inflamed area, or, at any rate, of the indurated skin, with the subsequent use of iodoform, perchloride of mercury, or a strong solution of nitric acid. The full title of this article is "Notes of Two Cases of Malignant Pustule, together with a Table of Seventeen Cases treated at Guy's Hospital: with a Report on the Microscopical Examination of Sections of Skin affected with Malignant Pustule, removed during life by F Charlewood Turner," 8vo, 3 coloured plates, London, 1882; reprinted from *Med.-Chir. Trans.*, 1882, lxv, 237. "A New Operation for the Cure of Cleft of the Hard and Soft Palate, with an Account of Six Cases so treated." - *Ibid.*, 1894, lxxvii, 237. All these papers are highly practical and good examples of the sound common-sense principles of surgery which he always taught. He sent numerous reports of cases to the *Guy's Hosp. Reps.*, of which journal he edited many volumes in conjunction first with Dr Frederick Taylor and then with Dr Hale White. His reports of cases and articles are in most of the volumes from 1870 onwards and cover a wide range of subjects. He contributed also a number of reports of cases to the *Trans. Clin. Soc.*, *Trans. Pathol. Soc.*, the *Lancet*, and other medical journals.
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First Title value, for Searching Davy, Richard (1838 - 1920)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-14
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Chulmleigh in Devon, where his father, J C Davy, had long practised. He became a student at Edinburgh and at Guy's Hospital, and worked under John Hilton and Thomas Bryant. He returned to Edinburgh and followed the clinics of Spence, Syme, and Lister. He was a Clinical Clerk under Dr J Hughes Bennett and Dr Thomas Laycock, and was greatly attracted by William Turner's teaching of anatomy. He graduated in 1862 with 2nd class honours, his thesis being on "Clinical Reports upon certain forms of Cerebral Disease". His interest was distinctly surgical, and he spent the winter of 1863 in Paris, working at anatomy and practical surgery. Some of his Edinburgh friends bore him company, including John Duncan, afterwards a leading surgeon in the Edinburgh school. In 1864 he settled in London, and was appointed Surgeon to the St Marylebone General Dispensary, and in 1871 on the staff of Westminster Hospital, where he held the offices of Assistant Surgeon, Surgeon, and Surgeon in charge of the Orthopaedic Department. He was also Lecturer on Practical and Operative Surgery in the Medical School. Davy has been described by his contemporaries as an unconventional and independently-minded man, more interested in the mechanical side of surgery, in which he exulted, than its scientific aspect. Trained by Spence in the Edinburgh school, he was antagonistic to Listerism and did not believe in the modem theories of sepsis. To him infections following surgical operations were the result of 'diatheses', and if the patient were possessed by the septic diathesis, so much the worse for the patient. Davy was a highly original orthopaedic surgeon; he was an exponent of the removal of the bones of the tarsus for flat-foot and club-foot, and of the excision of the knee- and hip-joints for tuberculous disease. His name has survived in instrument catalogues under the title of 'Davy's rod' or 'lever'. This rod he passed up the rectum in an attempt to compress the iliac arteries during amputation at the hip-joint, but it caused injury of the rectum and soon fell into disuse. In 1893 Davy resigned all his appointments, retired to Devonshire, and became a country gentleman. He died at Burstone Manor, Bow, North Devon, on September 25th, 1920, and was buried at Chulmleigh. He married the daughter of George Cutliffe, of Witheridge, Devon, by whom he had two daughters, one of whom became a nurse at St Thomas's Hospital. Publications: *New Inventions in Surgical Mechanisms*, 8vo, illustrated, London, 1875. *Surgical Lectures delivered in the Theatre of Westminster Hospital*, 8vo, illustrated, London, 1880. *General Remarks on Sanitation*, 8vo, London, 1888. *Westminster Hospital Medical School: The Introductory Address*, 8vo, London, 1875. "Excision of an Osseous Wedge at the Transverse Tarsal Joint in confirmed Club Foot." - *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1876, 1877, 1883. "New Method of Controlling Hemorrhage during Amputation at Hip-joint." - *Ibid.*, 1878, i, 704. "Tibio-femoral Impaction for Excision of Knee-joint." - *Ibid.*, 1883, ii, 758. "Observations on some Local Anaesthetics" (with Dyce Duckworth), 8vo, Edinburgh, 1862; reprinted from *Edin. Med. Jour.*, 1862.
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First Title value, for Searching Davis, George Millett ( - 1901)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Practised in Liverpool and was for a time Surgeon to the Liverpool Fever and Workhouse Hospitals. He resided first in Great George Street, but in the middle fifties practised at 78 Rodney Street, and was then Surgeon to the Liverpool Northern Hospital. Later he removed to 1 Cavendish Crescent and then to 14 Lansdowne Crescent, Bath, and lived there for more than twenty years. He died on April 30th, 1901, or, according to *The Times*, on May 2nd of that year.
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First Title value, for Searching Davis, William Farquhar (1832 - 1877)

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First Title value, for Searching Davis, Theodore (1834 - 1909)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Was the son of Theodore Davis, MRCS, of Clevedon, Somerset. He was educated at Queen's College, Birmingham, and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He practised from 1861 onwards at Clevedon, where he won for himself a leading position and was much sought after in consultation. He was at one time a member of the honorary staff of the Clevedon Cottage Hospital and of the Dispensary, and was Consulting Surgeon to the latter at the time of his death. Failing health compelled him to retire some years before his death, which occurred at his residence in Walton-in-Gordano, Clevedon, on August 11th, 1909. He left a widow and family, and was buried in Clevedon churchyard.
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First Title value, for Searching Lawson, Sir Arnold (1867 - 1947)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-15 2013-08-21
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born 4 December 1867, fourth of seven sons of George Lawson, FRCS, and Mary, his wife, daughter of William Thomson, MD, surgeon in the Indian Medical Service (Crawford's *Roll of the IMS*, Bengal list, No 965). George Lawson had been invalided home from the Crimea, and later became surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital. He practised at 12 Harley Street, belonged to the first generation of general surgeons who specialized in ophthalmology, and became oculist to Queen Victoria. Arnold Lawson, who was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, then in Charterhouse Square, followed in his father's footsteps. He entered Middlesex Hospital Medical School with the senior entrance scholarship in 1886, won the Hetley clinical prize in 1889, and was senior Broderip scholar in 1890. He qualified in 1891 and took the Brussels doctorate the same year. He served as clinical assistant to Sir John Tweedy at Moorfields and joined his father in consultant practice, continuing at the same house after George Lawso's death in 1903. He was ophthalmic surgeon to the Children's Hospital, Paddington Green from 1896 to 1910, and also to the Hospital for St John and St Elizabeth. He was appointed to the staff at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields in 1900, becoming surgeon in 1907 and consulting surgeon when he resigned in 1914. He had been elected assistant ophthalmic surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital in 1910, and was ophthalmic surgeon from 1914 to 1932, when he retired and was elected consulting ophthalmic surgeon. He was also consulting ophthalmologist to Epsom College and to the Royal Hospital and Home for Incurables at Putney Heath. During the first world war Lawson served as a civil surgeon at King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers from 1914 to 1919. In 1915 on the formation of St Dunstan's Hospital for Blinded Soldiers and Sailors Lawson was appointed ophthalmic surgeon. He threw himself eagerly into this work, and was largely responsible for developing the training of the war-blinded in skilled trades and crafts, and for encouraging them to seek their own livings and regain their self-respect and self-reliance by partaking in the competitive effort to overcome their disabilities living in a community of fellow blind men away from over-sympathetic and protective relations. He was created KBE for his services in 1920. He resigned his staff post at St Dunstan's in 1920, but continued to take an active interest in its work and was for many years chairman of the ophthalmic advisory board. In 1918 and again in 1921 he was laid aside for some months with an obscure breakdown of tuberculous origin. Lawson took a leading part in the affairs of the Ophthalmological Society. His father had been an original member of it, and Lawson was one of those who supported Edward Treacher Collins and successfully retained the identity of the Society at the time of the merging of medical societies in 1907. The Society's fine library was however merged with that of the Royal Medico-chirurgical Society and others in the great new library of the Royal Society of Medicine. Lawson was a frequent contributor at the meetings of the Ophthalmological Society, and his first paper, dealing with a case of his father's, was published in its Transactions in 1897. He gave the Society a life-time of invaluable service as honorary treasurer. In the Royal Society of Medicine he served as president of the ophthalmological section. He was also several times an officer of the ophthalmological section at annual meetings of the British Medical Association, in 1899, in 1906, and at Edinburgh in 1927 when he read a very useful paper on Antiseptics in modern ophthalmic surgery. He gave much time and work to the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund, and when Sir Thomas Barlow, FRCP, died in his hundredth year in 1945 Lawson succeeded him as its president. During the war of 1939-45 he served as a civil ophthalmic consultant to the Royal Navy. Lawson married in 1904 Helen Hargreaves Clark, elder daughter of Andrew Clark, surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital and honorary surgeon to King George V. Lady Lawson died on 9 March 1944. Sir Arnold Lawson died on 19 January 1947 at 12 Harley Street, aged 79, survived by two sons and a daughter. He had been seeing patients only a month before. The funeral service was at All Saints' Church, Margaret Street, and a memorial service was held in the chapel of the Middlesex Hospital on 29 January. Lawson was a man of great personal charm. He took no part in professional politics, but as the distinguished son and son-in-law of distinguished surgeons was a prominent and popular figure in his specialty. Gold was his chief recreation and he was a member of the club at Littlestone on the Kentish coast. His eye-surgery, while old-fashioned in technique, was based on a profound knowledge of medicine. He had studied intensively the bacteriology of the normal conjunctival sac, and was always open to adopt the aid of new scientific advances. Publications: *Diseases and injuries of the eye*, by George Lawson, 6th edition by Arnold Lawson, London, 1903. The treatment of eye disease by radium, with Sir James Mackenzie Davidson. *Brit med J* 1910, 2, 1491. Diseases of the iris and ciliary body; sympathetic ophthalmitis; cataract, in Latham and English, *System of treatment*, 1912. *War blindness at St Dunstan's*. London, 1922. 148 pages. Antiseptics in modem ophthalmic surgery. *Brit med J* 1927, 2, 1128.
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First Title value, for Searching Kays, Martin Thomas (1789 - 1867)

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First Title value, for Searching Keate, Henry ( - 1874)

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First Title value, for Searching Manifold, Michael Fenton (1822 - 1897)

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Publication Date 2012-07-31
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Arklow, Ireland, on March 27th, 1822, was gazetted Assistant Surgeon to the 77th Foot on May 22nd, 1846, joined the Staff on August 18th, 1848, and the 67th Foot on March 18th, 1853. He was promoted Staff Surgeon (2nd Class) on December 8th, 1854, joined the 34th Foot on December 31st, 1858, rose to Surgeon Major on May 22nd, 1866, and was transferred to the Staff on April 7th, 1870. He was gazetted Deputy Surgeon General on February 28th, 1876, and Surgeon General on May 21st, 1881. He retired on May 27th, 1882. Manifold was one of the first to advocate women nurses for the Army, and obtained permission for their employment during a severe epidemic of small-pox among the garrison in Ireland in 1847, the great famine year. During the Crimean War he was in charge of the Officers' Hospital at Scutari, and Miss Florence Nightingale found in him a warm supporter of her nursing reforms. His unvarying kindness and unwearying attention made all the sick and wounded his friends. He served through the Indian Mutiny with the 34th Regiment, and was present at the defeat of the rebels near Bootwal on the Nepal Frontier on March 28th, 1859, for which he received the Medal. He died in retirement at Putney on January 6th, 1897. His son became Major-General Sir C C Manifold, KCB, IMS, the Chinese traveller.
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First Title value, for Searching Keddell, John Staples ( - 1870)

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First Title value, for Searching Keegan, Denis Francis (1840 - 1920)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-05-31
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Ireland, and received his professional training at Trinity College, Dublin. He joined the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon on March 31st, 1866, and retired with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He did most of his service in Central India, where his fine personality was a political influence of the first magnitude. He was for fifteen years Residency Surgeon at Indore, and here, in the Charitable Hospital, he won a great reputation in the performance of rhinoplastic operations. "During my service in India", he says in the preface to his work on *Rhinoplastic Operations* (3vo, London, 1900), "I often had occasion to perform operations for the repair of mutilated noses, and as my experience increased, I found that certain modifications of the ordinary procedure added to the efficiency of the results." 'Traumatic mutilation of the nose' is vastly more common in India than in Western Europe. "A large proportion of the noseless patients in India are women, almost invariably of the lower castes, who, when they are in need of medical or surgical aid, have no hesitation in attending the dispensaries and hospitals superintended by civil surgeons throughout India." Litholapaxy - the crushing of a calculus in the bladder, followed at once by the washing out of the fragments - he extended to children. He was a Member of the East India United Service Club, whence he dates the book above quoted, and, after living long in retirement, died at Killiney on New Year's Day, 1920, being survived by a son and two daughters. Lieut-Colonel Henry Smith, IMS, of Amritsar, wrote as follows to the medical journals: "The death of Colonel Keegan removes one of the grandest figures in the history of the Indian Medical Service. The work he did will live for generations and he will be more honoured in his urn than he was when alive. This is the fate of all great pioneers. Death removes them from the field of jealousy. He, with Peter Freyer, fought the controversy on litholapaxy. We are all familiar with the great work Keegan did in rhinoplasty, and how he established the Indian operation as *the* operation for all time. He was a powerful, clear, and incisive though courteous controversialist. Keegan was a man with a fine imagination, a powerful and versatile intellect and a strong character. It is only a very able man in any public service who can go his own way and live as an official. Keegan did this. As a man he was one of the most kind-hearted, the most generous and the most genial. He was firm in his friendships. He had too much pride for servility and too little prudence for selfishness. He was the finest type of Irishman." Yet he received no decoration from Government. Publications: "Litholapaxy in Male Children and Male Adults," 8vo, London, 1887; reprinted from *Lancet*, 1886, ii, 1068, etc. *See also Ind Med Gaz*, 1885, xx, 178, 267; 1886, xxi, 161. "Notes on Stone in the Bladder," 8vo, London, 1897; reprinted from *Lancet*, 1897, i, 91, etc. *Rhinoplastic Operations with a Description of Recent Improvements in the Indian Method*, 8vo, with 21 phototype portraits (of Hindoo women, etc.) and 11 engravings, London, 1900. "Topical Application of Cocaine in Hydrophobia." - *Ind Med Gaz*, 1885, xx, 65.
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First Title value, for Searching Image, William Edmund (1807 - 1903)

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