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First Title value, for Searching Adams, Rosemary Helen MacNaughton (1926 - 2018)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2019-05-02
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009500-E009599
Occupation Accident and emergency specialist
Details Rosemary Helen MacNaughton Adams was a consultant in the accident and emergency department at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. She was born in Edinburgh on 26 April 1926, the second child and eldest daughter of Thomas MacNaughton Davie and Lilias Tweedie Davie née Henderson. She was brought up in Beverley, Yorkshire, where her father was medical superintendent at the East Riding County Asylum. She attended the High School in Beverley and then studied medicine at Edinburgh University, where she was an outstanding student, achieving four medals, including the most distinguished graduate of the year award; she qualified in 1948. She held house posts in Edinburgh and then initially specialised in ear, nose and throat medicine, as a registrar at Hull Royal Infirmary. In 1954 she married another doctor, John Campbell Strathie Adams. His specialist posts took them from Yorkshire to Birmingham and finally to Norwich, where he was appointed as a consultant geriatrician. She was an associate specialist in the casualty department at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and became a consultant in 1975. She helped found the Norfolk branch of what became the British Association of Immediate Care Schemes (BASICS). She taught, spoke at conferences on immediate care and wrote papers on the emergency treatment of poisoning. She retired in 1990. She was appointed as a magistrate in 1965 and served on the north Norfolk bench until 1994. She enjoyed music, and played the piano and viola. With her husband, she organised a concert series at the local church at Salle in north Norfolk, where she was a churchwarden. In 1994 she and John moved back to Beverley. Sadly, her husband died the following year. She had age-related macular degeneration for many years and died from Alzheimer’s disease on 16 October 2018 at the age of 92. She was survived by her two daughters, son and three grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009566
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format Obituary
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Publication Date 1948

First Title value, for Searching Bharucha, Pesi Beramsha (1920 - 2018)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2019-03-04
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009500-E009599
Occupation General surgeon
Details Pesi Bharucha was chief of surgery at the Tata Main Hospital, Jamshedpur, Bihar, India. He studied medicine at Grant Medical College, Bombay and qualified in 1944. He initially trained as an obstetrician and gynaecologist, but then went to the UK shortly after Indian Independence to train in general surgery. He worked at Walton General Hospital in Liverpool for eight years and gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1954. In 1955 he returned to India, where he became a consultant surgeon at the Tata Main Hospital. He was chief of surgery and superintendent before retiring in 1980. He initially carried out all the general surgery, orthopaedics and trauma, but gradually developed the hospital into a multispecialty facility. He also worked with the World Health Organization, particularly arranging trips into remote areas of Bihar to vaccinate people against smallpox. After retiring from the Tata Main Hospital, he became the medical director of Breach Candy Hospital and Research Centre in Mumbai (from 1982 to 1996). He died on 28 November 2018 and was survived by his wife Gool, two children and three grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009578
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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Publication Date 1954 1952

First Title value, for Searching Kolb, Thomas Axel Thor (1935 - 2022)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-06-27
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010200-E010299
Occupation Dental surgeon Community Dentist
Details Tom Kolb was a dentist in Cirencester with a particular interest in children’s dentistry. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010246
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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Publication Date 1959

First Title value, for Searching Lynch, James Brendan (1921 - 2018)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2019-03-04
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009500-E009599
Occupation Pathologist
Details James Brendan Lynch was a consultant pathologist at St James’ Hospital, Leeds and formerly professor of pathology at the University of Khartoum, Sudan. He was born on 9 May 1921 in Wallasey, Cheshire, the third child and second son of Thomas Patrick Lynch, a teacher and headmaster, and Margaret Lynch née Pierce. He attended local schools in Wallasey and St Francis Xavier Grammar School in Liverpool and then went to the University of Liverpool to study medicine, qualifying in 1944. He was a house surgeon and senior casualty officer at Liverpool Royal Infirmary, lectured in anatomy at the University of Leeds, and then served in the Army. He was a registrar in general surgery at the Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool and gained his FRCS in 1950. During his training he was influenced by Henry Clarence Wardleworth Nuttall and Richard Webster Doyle, both surgeons in Liverpool. He was subsequently a lecturer in pathology at the University of Leeds. Lynch then went to the University of Khartoum, where he founded the department of pathology. By the mid 1960s, he had returned to the UK: in March 1964 he gave a Hunterian Lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons of England on ‘Mycetoma in the Sudan’ (*Ann R Coll Surg Engl*. 1964 Dec;35[6]:319-40). He was appointed as a consultant pathologist in Leeds, where he was also dean for postgraduate medical education. He was the co-author of *Pathology of toxaemia in pregnancy* Edinburgh, Churchill Livingstone, 1973. Outside medicine he enjoyed golf, reading, DIY and silver craftmanship. In 1957 he married Jacqueline Fitzgerald. They had two sons. James Lynch died on 24 August 2018 at the age of 97.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009583
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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Publication Date 1969

First Title value, for Searching Iyer, Sennaporatti Sivashankar Viswa ( - 2020)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2020-11-02
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009800-E009899
Occupation Trauma surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Sennaporatti Sivashankar Viswanath Iyer was born in India. He studied medicine at Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute and qualified MB,BS in 1963. Initially he worked as a general surgeon and passed his MS in 1970. He was a lecturer in surgery at Mysore Medical College from 1971 to the end of 1972. In February 1973 he travelled to the UK and began his training in orthopaedics. He passed the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1975 and the college fellowship the following year. Following what he described as a *tortuous route*, he worked at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in Stanmore, the Hammersmith Hospital, the Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital and the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh doing various locum posts. In 1994 he was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon at King George Hospital in Ilford and finally he became consultant at St George’s Hospital in Tooting. Throughout his career he very much enjoyed teaching, especially his work on the inaugural *Training the trainers* course in Edinburgh. When young he was a keen sportsman and excelled in cricket, badminton and table tennis. He described himself as a very aggressive batsman and, when he came to the UK, played cricket for a local first division team from 1973 to 1981. In table tennis he also reached a reasonably high standard. He died on 23 July 2020.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009862
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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Publication Date 1975 1970

First Title value, for Searching Webb, Anthony John (1929 - 2024)

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by Jason Webb
Publication Date 2024-11-08
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Occupation General surgeon Endocrine surgeon Breast surgeon Cytologist
Details John Webb, a consultant general and endocrine surgeon for the Bristol United Hospitals, was a masterly technical surgeon and pioneer cytologist. In an era when a lump in the breast presaged uncertain frozen section biopsy and mastectomy, Webb mastered fine needle aspiration and accurate diagnosis, saving countless patients from avoidable surgery, achieved through single-handed endeavour and a microscope in his own home. His work forms the basis of the routine investigation of suspected breast cancer in modern practice. He was born in Clifton, Bristol on 29 December 1929, the son of Charles Reginald Webb, who worked in the corn trade, and Gwendoline (‘Queenie’) Webb née Moon. He was educated at Sefton Park Junior School and Cotham Grammar School, where he was head of the school from 1947 to 1948. He then entered the University of Bristol Medical School, graduating MB ChB in 1953, when he won the silver medal. He was a house officer at the Bristol Royal Infirmary between 1953 and 1955, and then carried out his National Service as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1955 until 1957. He was a surgical registrar at Frenchay Hospital, from 1957 to 1960 and then spent seven years in Birmingham and Coventry as a registrar and senior registrar. He returned to Bristol in 1967, when he was appointed as a consultant surgeon to Bristol Royal Infirmary, a post he held until he retired in December 1994. Following his retirement, he became a senior research fellow in the department of surgery at the University of Bristol. As a general surgeon, he retained broad general skills in all disciplines owing to his exhaustive training experience, but his research and clinical specialty interests focused on breast, endocrine and salivary gland disease. Central to this was his conviction that cytology, which formed the focus of his life’s research, could hold a key to investigating and thereby treating these diseases better. He undertook a higher degree, a ChM, awarded in 1974, with his thesis entitled ‘A cytological study of mammary disease’. This entailed studying with a leading cytologist, Paul Lopes Cardozo, in Leiden. He was a Hunterian professor at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1975. His fascination with cytology did not stop with gaining his ChM; he became expert in all aspects of it, and this led to him being awarded the fellowship of the International Association of Cytologists – extremely rare for a surgeon. In 1993, he was also awarded the Erica Wachtel medal of the British Association of Cytopathology for his long service to the subject. His research changed the modern surgical practice of the treatment of breast cancer, heralding the concept of the one-stop clinic where a breast lump was examined and its nature ascertained through fine needle aspiration cytology at the initial consultation. Owing to his own cytological expertise, he was able to diagnose varied conditions and was called upon by colleagues around the city when a diagnosis was elusive. One memorable case involved a request from the physicians to identify the primary in a patient with metastatic disease. Noticing a bony metastasis in the vertebral body of C3, he performed fine-needle aspiration via an open mouth technique through the oropharynx. This was performed on the ward with minimal fuss or disruption, the diagnosis of a colonic primary being provided the following morning. He was the surgeon of choice to fellow consultants in need of help and a studious trainer of junior surgeons, from whom he demanded as near to his own meticulous surgical technique as they could achieve. He was president of the British Association of Endocrine Surgeons from 1992 to 1994. In his youth, John Webb was a fine rugby player, appearing at fly half for Bristol. He sang in the choir at Clifton College and was an ardent student of history. A keen observer of human traits, he had a wry sense of humour, put to use in nicknames for colleagues whose aspirations may have exceeded their abilities. Predeceased by his wife Audrie (née Bowen), whom he married in 1955, he died from old age and frailty on 21 September 2024 at the age of 94. He was survived by their four children, Mark, Dominque, Charlotte and Jason, most of whom have followed their father into either surgery or professions allied to medicine, eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010681
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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Publication Date 1980 1974

First Title value, for Searching Arthur, Ian Hugh (1957 - 2018)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2019-02-05
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009500-E009599
Occupation General surgeon
Details Ian Hugh Arthur was a registrar in general surgery and orthopaedics at St. Albans City Hospital. He was born on 29 December 1957 and trained in medicine at London University and the Royal Free Hospital, graduating MB, BS in 1981. Initially a house physician and surgeon at the Royal Free, he joined the staff of the surgical rotation at the Basingstoke District Hospital. After passing the fellowship of the college in 1990, he began work at St. Albans City Hospital. He lived in Uxbridge and died on 18 December 2018 aged 60.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009567
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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Publication Date 1981

First Title value, for Searching Gilmour, Andrew Graham (1955 - 2016)

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by M Cassidy
Publication Date 2023-07-06
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399
Occupation Specialist in restorative dentistry
Details Dr Andrew Graham Gilmour died peacefully on 8 January 2016 after a short illness, at the untimely age of 60. Graham was born on Good Friday, 1955. He qualified at Glasgow Dental School in 1978, then joined the SHO/Registrar rotation in Glasgow and passed the FDSRCPS in 1982. He became a lecturer in prosthodontics shortly afterwards and in 1988 was appointed consultant in restorative dentistry at Mayday Hospital, Croydon. A member of the appointments committee later told me that Graham was the most outstanding applicant for the post among the candidates. Graham quickly developed the service in Croydon and established outreach clinics around the southeast of England, including Bournemouth, Portsmouth and Southampton, which soon attracted the attention of the dental teaching hospitals in London who wanted to get their higher trainees in restorative dentistry and orthodontics into attachments at Graham’s unit in Croydon. Most of these trainees were later appointed consultants and professors up and down the UK. Graham was particularly skilled as a diagnostic clinician, a first class teacher, an educator, who was invited to lecture locally, nationally and internationally, where his clinical skills and natural humour endeared him to every audience. He had a very sharp political touch. He understood how NHS committees worked and developed the philosophy that one should be either a committee member or chairman, but never the treasurer or secretary! He was appointed Associate Postgraduate Dental Dean for the KSS Region in 2003, and was asked to organise the training of clinical dental technicians which attracted applicants from all around the UK, every one of whom successfully completed the course and held Graham in the highest esteem. One of his most endearing attributes was his unique sense of humour and fun, for which his trainees will testify. He organised educational programmes with the Cunard shipping line, crossing the Atlantic to New York on the QE2 twice, and cruising with Cunard in the Caribbean in 1994 which proved to be very popular. He had a particularly mischievous sense of humour; in 1982 Pope John Paul II came to Glasgow to say mass. On the same day, in Glasgow Dental Hospital, the oral surgery registrar received a phone call from a Cardinal, who was the Pope’s personal secretary, reporting that the Holy Father had toothache and wanted to see the Professor of Oral Surgery, at 4 pm that day! It was of course, a joke, played by ‘Cardinal’ Graham Gilmour! Graham was hugely loved by his colleagues at Mayday Hospital in Croydon, and will be sadly missed by all of those who worked with him, his brother Rowland, but most of all by his wife Virginia, and his daughters Ginny and Ally.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010313
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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Publication Date 1982

First Title value, for Searching Fordyce, Gordon Lindsay (1925 - 2018)

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by Andrew Sadler
Publication Date 2023-07-05
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010200-E010299
Occupation Oral surgeon, Dental surgeon
Details Gordon Fordyce trained in dentistry at the University of St Andrews in Dundee from 1942 to 1946. After a few months of practice he was called up for national service where he treated army recruits and, after a year, was posted to Austria where he worked at the 31st British General Hospital as No 2 dentist and subsequently Senior Dental Officer. There he became responsible for trauma. After demobilisation he wanted to practise hospital oral surgery and back in Dundee he was advised by the Professor of Anatomy that a medical qualification would not be necessary if he passed the new Fellowship in Dental Surgery examination. Thus he worked as an anatomy demonstrator while studying for part one of the exam and was then appointed as Registrar at Hill End Hospital near St Albans, and a year later promoted to senior registrar. After his four years as a senior registrar Gordon was too young for a consultant post so he was appointed as a senior hospital dental officer. After the age of 32 he was appointed as a consultant at the Royal Free Hospital for two sessions a week and the North West Thames Health Authority agreed to upgrade him to consultant at Mount Vernon Hospital (to where the Hill End department had moved in March 1953). Gordon Fordyce published papers relating to oral pathology, facial trauma and orthognathic surgery. He became involved in local and national dental politics; he was a section chairman and a member of the representative board of the BDA, President of the Institute of Maxillofacial Technology and President of the British Association of Oral Surgeons. However, his major legacy to the dental profession was the introduction of vocational training for dentists. He became an elected member of the GDC and Dental Dean of the British Postgraduate Medical Federation. He found the GDC hostile and resistant to change. It took 15 years to persuade them, many of whom were deans of dental schools, that their undergraduate training was inadequate preparation for independent practice and to persuade the government to provide funding. The first vocational training pilot started in Guildford in 1977 and it became mandatory in 1988. Gordon Fordyce retired from clinical work at Mount Vernon in 1988 but remained Chairman of the Department of Health Vocational Training Committee until 1992. He was awarded the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977, OBE in 1988 and the John Tomes Medal by the BDA in 1990.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010289
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format Obituary
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Publication Date 1999 1988

First Title value, for Searching Rice, Noel Stephen Cracroft (1931 - 2017)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2017-12-13
Unknown
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381806381806
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Noel Rice was a consultant ophthalmologist and medical director at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London and a pioneer in the development of microscope-assisted eye surgery. He was born on 26 December 1931 in Norwich, the son of Raymond Arthur Cracroft Rice, an anaesthetist, and Doris Ivy Rice née Slater, a nurse. His brother, John Cracroft Rice, also became a surgeon. Rice was educated at Haileybury and then went up to Clare College, Cambridge and St Bartholomew’s Hospital for his clinical studies. At Barts he was a house physician to Sir Ronald Bodley Scott and a house surgeon to Alec Badenoch. In 1957 he began his career in ophthalmology under Hyla (Henry) Stallard and continued his training as a junior specialist in the RAF as a flight lieutenant. On his return to civilian life, he joined the staff of Moorfields, where he remained for the rest of his career, becoming a consultant in 1967. At the Institute of Ophthalmology he was a senior lecturer, clinical teacher and, from 1991, dean. He was made a fellow of the Institute of Ophthalmology in 1996. As ophthalmology became more specialised, he was one of the first corneal specialists in Europe and helped open the era of microsurgery for eye conditions. He also specialised in the care of children with congenital glaucoma. He helped establish the corneal service at Moorfields and also the congenital glaucoma service, which became one of the largest in the world. He pioneered the use of anti-scarring therapy in the form of a focal dose of beta radiation, a precursor of modern anti-scarring regimens. He retired in 1996, but continued in ophthalmology as a consultant at the St John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem until 2002. He was made a Knight of the Order of St John in recognition of his service to the hospital. In 1989 he became a member of the international organisation Academia Ophthalmologica Internationalis. For his contribution to ophthalmology in Iceland, he was awarded the Order of the Falcon by the Icelandic government. He was also a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore. He enjoyed fly fishing and music and sung in various choirs. He was married twice. In 1957 he married Karin Elsa Brita Linell (Brita). They had three children, Andrew, Karin and David, two of whom followed their father into medicine. After Brita’s death in 1992, he married Countess Ulla Mörner, in 1997. Rice died on 5 November 2017 from motor neurone disease. He was 85.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009402
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
Format Obituary
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Publication Date 1996

First Title value, for Searching Steele, Percy Kingsley (1881 - 1913)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-21
Unknown
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375930375930
Occupation General surgeon
Details The second son of Samuel H Steele, LRCPI, of Halifax. He went to the Halifax New School, and then studied at the Leeds Medical School and Hospital, where he was House Surgeon, House Physician, and Resident Assistant Surgeon, for a year in each case, and attended also the London Hospital for the FRCS examination course. In 1906 he joined his father in practice at 10 Lord Street, Halifax, and was appointed Surgeon to the Royal Halifax Infirmary, the duties of which he carried out methodically, and he was a neat and successful operator. For some years he was the Hon Secretary of the Halifax District Medical Society, and of the Halifax Branch of the British Medical Association at a time of much business at the Local Insurance and State Sickness Committees, up to December, 1912. He was further engaged as Lieutenant in the organization of the Halifax Company of the RAMC (T). He died on December 1st, 1913, after a painful illness from pneumococcal pneumonia followed by pneumococcal peritonitis.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003747
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First Title value, for Searching Steet, George Carrick (1818 - 1910)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375931375931
Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at St George's Hospital. He practised in North London at 119 St John Street Road, where he was Surgeon to the Royal Maternity Charity; at 11 Chadwell Street, where he was Surgeon to Queen Adelaide's Lying-in Hospital; in 1863 at 21 Myddelton Square, Pentonville, where he was, besides Surgeon to the 39th Finsbury Middlesex Rifle Volunteers, Medical Officer to the Home for Penitent Females, Medical Examiner to the Provident Society, Fetter Lane, Medical Adviser to the Albert Medical and Family Endowment Life Assurance Company, Medical Officer at the Central Telegraph Station of the East Central District, and later Medical Officer in Chief to the General Post Office in St Martin's-le-Grand. This post he held for twenty years, retiring in 1891 to 130 King Henry's Road, Hampstead. His daughter, Miss S A Steet, writing to the Standard in 1910, two months before her father's death, said that he was the senior Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, the oldest London medical practitioner, and that he was enjoying tolerably good health, with his memory quite unimpaired, and fond of telling anecdotes of pre-chloroform days. He died on November 17th, 1910. His photograph is in the Fellows' Album, dated 1867.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003748
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First Title value, for Searching Clark, Henry (1801 - 1861)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-06-02
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Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E001000-E001999/E001100-E001199
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373374373374
Occupation General surgeon
Details Clark's parentage is unknown, but he appears to have settled in Bristol as soon as he was qualified, perhaps as Surgeon-Apothecary at the Bristol Infirmary. The first notice of him is in 1826, when he put a notice in the local papers that his 'Theatre of Anatomy' would be opened immediately. It soon became popular, and its title was changed to that of the 'Bristol Medical and Surgical School'. His colleagues were William Herapath, the chemist, Adam Chadwick, John Braithwaite Taylor, and Nathaniel Smith. By 1830 the school was recognized by the Court of Examiners at the Royal College of Surgeons and at the Society of Apothecaries. The school remained in existence until 1840. Clark, writing about it in 1833, says: "At that time [the autumn of 1826] the anatomical department was at a very low ebb, indeed I think I had no more than seven or eight pupils who entered to my list, though I had my full proportion of the number of pupils then in attendance on Anatomical Lectures." In 1827 the lecture theatre was enlarged, the dissecting-room was improved, and eleven pupils were attracted. Clark entirely rebuilt his anatomical theatre in 1828, and the class rose to twenty-four. In the autumn of 1833 he amalgamated with a School of Anatomy and Medicine which had been established at Bristol in 1807 and thus originated the Bristol Medical School, teaching at first anatomy with forty-nine pupils, and chemistry with a class of thirty or forty. It was not, however, until 1876 that the Medical School was affiliated to the newly formed University College of Bristol. Henry Clark was elected Surgeon to the Infirmary on February 23rd, 1843, with a majority of 230 votes over Thomas Green, the other candidate, in succession to Richard Smith, junr, and he held the post until August 18th, 1857. He died at 31 Berkeley Square, Bristol, on May 10th, 1861, and his name is perpetuated by 'The Clark Prize', for he left £500 to the Infirmary, the interest of which was to be given annually to the best third-year student at the Medical School. He appears as the first sitting figure on the left of a group of the surgeons taken in 1857. Henry Clark was a noted lecturer and teacher who did much to establish the reputation of the Bristol School of Medicine. As a lecturer, especially on anatomy, he was clear and very impressive, readily imparting information to his pupils. He was also a good surgeon, though rather nervous as an operator. He acquired a large practice and was generally considered the most eminent surgeon in Bristol. It is said that he never took a holiday, and the amount of work he got through was so great that this seems highly probable. He was President of the local branch of the British Medical Association in 1853. Publication: "An Address delivered to the Members of the Bath and Bristol Branch of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association on June 30th, 1853," 8vo, London, 1853.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001191
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First Title value, for Searching Clarkson, William Nicholson ( - 1869)

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First Title value, for Searching Clark, Thomas (1796 - 1879)

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First Title value, for Searching Dudley, Benjamin (1808 - 1888)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-10-06 2013-08-08
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373635373635
Occupation General surgeon
Details Studied at Guy's Hospital, and practised at Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, where he was for some time in partnership with Joseph Brampton Wright, and died there after retirement on May 30th, 1888.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001452
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First Title value, for Searching Bishop, Edward Stanmore (1848 - 1912)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-03-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373074373074
Occupation General surgeon Gynaecologist
Details Educated at the Pine Street Royal School of Medicine in Manchester, which was also known as Mr Turner’s School, and gained the Turner Scholarship in three successive years – 1868-1869, 1869-1870, and 1870-1871. He settled in the Ardwick District of Manchester, where he was in general practice until his appointment as Surgeon to the Ancoats Hospital. He qualified himself for this appointment by coming to London and taking out courses of anatomy and physiology at the London Hospital and of surgery at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and thus passing the Fellowship examination. Returning to Manchester, he devoted himself to the surgery of the abdomen and to gynaecology. He was appointed Operating Surgeon to the Jewish Memorial Hospital. At the time of his death he was President of the Manchester Clinical Society and Vice-President of the Manchester Medical Society. He died at 3 St Peter’s Square, Manchester, on July 25th, 1912, and his remains were cremated. Bishop was a man of great energy, somewhat reserved in manner, and a lover of music. He had at heart the best interests of Ancoats Hospital, and did much to place it in the position which it now occupies both as a hospital and as a centre of medical teaching. His resources in the technique of abdominal operations were very considerable. Publications:- Bishop’s publications, which were well known both here and in America, include:- *Enterorraphy*, 8vo, Manchester, 1885, from *Med. Chron*. *Lectures to Nurses on Antiseptics in Surgery*, 12mo, 11 plates London, 1891. *The Etiology of Chronic Hernia, with Special Reference to the Operation for Radical Cure, with Additional Tables*, 12mo, 1894, from *Lancet*. “A New Operation for Vesico-vaginal Fistula.” – *Med. Soc. Trans*., 1897, xx, 123. *Sealing of Operative Wounds about the Abdomen versus Treatment by Dressing*, 8vo, Manchester, 1899, from *Med. Chron*. *Uterine Fibromyomata; their Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treatment*, 8vo, 49 illustrations, London, 1901. The book is full of information, though somewhat biased towards operative surgery. “Changes observed in Uteri the seat of Fibromyomata.” – *Brit. Gynaecol. Jour.*, 1901, xvii, 286. *The Essentials of Pelvic Diagnosis, with Illustrative Cases*, 1903. This is an attempt to clarify the mental processes necessary in deducing disease from the absence or presence of symptoms. “Evolution of Modern Operations for Hysterectomy.” – *Practitioner*, 1908, lxxxi, 776. *Lectures on Surgical Nursing*, 1909. “Points in Gastric Surgery.” – *Surg. Gynecol. and Obst*., 1909, viiii, 559. “Address on Surgical Gastric Disorders” delivered before the Blackburn Medical Society, 1911. – *Lancet*, 1911, ii, 743.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000891
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First Title value, for Searching Bishop, John (1797 - 1873)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-03-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born September 15th, 1797, fourth son of Samuel Bishop of Pimperne, Dorsetshire; educated at the Child-Okeford Grammar School in Dorsetshire. It was intended that he should be a lawyer, but at the age of 25 he was induced by his cousin, John Tucker, of Bridport, to become a doctor. He entered St George’s Hospital as a pupil of Sir Everard Home, and attended the lectures of Sir Charles Bell, George James Guthrie (qv), and George Pearson. He was also a regular attendant at the chemical courses given at the Royal Institution. He became Surgeon to the Islington Dispensary, to the Northern and St Pancras Dispensaries, and to the Drapers’ Benevolent Institution. In 1844 Bishop contributed a paper published in the *Philosophical Transactions* on the “Physiology of the Human Voice”, and was shortly afterwards elected FRS and a Corresponding Member of the Medical Societies of Berlin and Madrid. The Royal Academy of Science of Paris awarded him two prizes for memoirs “On the Human and Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Voice”. He was also the author of: “On Distortions of the Human Body”, “On Impediments of Speech”, and “On Hearing and Speaking Instruments”. These works were remarkable for the careful examinations which the author had made on the subjects under investigation and for the mathematical demonstration given of each theory advanced by him. He contributed several articles to Todd’s *Cyclopœdia* and many papers of more or less importance to the medical literature of the day. Bishop was a man of varied attainments; he was conversant with Continental as well as with English literature, and to within a few months of his death he was deeply interested in the progress of science. He died on September 29th, 1873, at Strangeways-Marshale, Dorsetshire, within a few miles of his birthplace.
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First Title value, for Searching Bissill, John Henry (1817 - 1895)

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First Title value, for Searching Black, Cornelius (1822 - 1886)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-03-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on August 2nd, 1822, at Radcliffe-on-Trent, Notts. Educated at the University of Edinburgh until 1844, apprenticed to John Cartledge Botham, of Catherine Street, Hartlepool, who was Surgeon to the Hartlepool Iron Works. He settled at Chesterfield, Derbyshire, where he practised at St Mary’s Gate, and died there on June 24th, 1886. He was Physician to the Chesterfield Dispensary; a Fellow of the Medical Society of London; a Member of the Pathological Society of London; a Corresponding Fellow of the Imperial Society of Physicians, Vienna, and of the Société Medicale, Lyons. Publications: “The Management of Health.” “The Pathology of the Broncho-Pulmonary Mucous Membrane,” 8vo, Edinburgh, 1853; reprinted from *Monthly Jour. Med. Soc. Lond. and Edin*. “The Clinical Examination of the Urine in Relation to Disease,” 8vo, London, 1840; reprinted from the *St Andrews Med. Grad. Assoc. Trans.,* London, 1869, iii. “Hydatids from the Left Lung, Subsequently to the Occurrence of Typhoid Fever, Complicated with Double Pneumonia,” 8vo, plate, London, 1853; reprinted from *Trans. Pathol. Soc.*, iv, 44-61. *The Pathology of Tuberculous Bone*, 8vo, Edinburgh, 1859. *The Insanity of George Victor Townley*, 8vo, London ; 2nd ed., 1865. “How to Prevent Pitting in Small-pox.” – *Lancet*, 1867, i, 792. “On Arsenic a Remedy for Cholera.” – *Assoc. Med. Jour.*, 1854, N.S. ii, 971. “On Conception.” – *Med. Gaz*. “On Caries of the Tarsal Bones and Amputation at the Ankle-joint.” – *Monthly Jour. Med. Sci. Edin.*, 1852, xv, 113. “Case of Ileus, in which a Portion of the Ileum was Discharged per Anum, followed by Recovery of the Patient.” – *Trans. Pathol. Soc.*, 1855-6, vii, 199. “On Perforating Ulcer of the Stomach.” – *Ibid.*, 191. “Melanic Cancer of the Horse.” – *Ibid.*, 1851, vii, 400. “On Ovariotomy.” – *Lancet*, 1857, i, 110, 138; 1863, 62. “On the Value of Arsenic in Cholera,” (serial). – *Ibid.*, 1857, ii, 388, 541, 573.
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First Title value, for Searching Halkyard, Henry ( - 1887)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-03-22
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Practised at Oldham, Lancashire, where he was Surgeon to the Blue Coat School, Certifying Factory Surgeon, and Surgeon to the Infirmary. After his retirement he died at Knutsford, Cheshire, on July 10th, 1887.
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First Title value, for Searching Butt, Mahmud ( - 2009)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2011-11-09 2014-04-09
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Mahmud Butt was a general surgeon who qualified MB, BS in the Punjab in 1955. He became a fellow of the College in 1977. Sadly little is known of his surgical career apart from the fact that he worked at the Royal Infirmary, Huddersfield in the 1980's. He was living in Leeds when he died on 16 March 2009, survived by his wife, Moira.
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First Title value, for Searching Cleave, Hugh Latimer (1910 - 2010)

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by RM Kirk
Publication Date 2011-11-09 2014-06-13
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Occupation Naval surgeon
Details Hugh Latimer Cleave was a surgeon captain in the Royal Navy. He was born on 11 February 1910 in Exeter, the younger of two sons of Richard Charles Cleave, an engineer captain in the Royal Navy, and Ethel Elizabeth Cleave née Latimer. His older brother, Thomas (Peter), also served in the Royal Navy Medical Service, as a surgeon captain. From 1920 to 1926, Hugh was educated at Clifton College. He qualified in medicine at Bristol University and subsequently trained for the FRCS at Middlesex, Guy's and London hospitals. The teacher who most impressed him was Wilfred Adams, to whom he was a house surgeon at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. A memorable appointment was at Putney Hospital in 1933, when he was the sole resident medical officer. It is believed that he joined the Royal Navy early in his career. Certainly, he served throughout the Second World War. In 1939 he was mentioned in despatches, continuing in the Navy until his retirement in 1967, with the final rank of captain. He was awarded the CBE for his services. Hugh married a Miss P E W Hill in 1933. They had a son and daughter. His later life was spent in Buckland Monachorum, Devon, and he enjoyed most sports, in particular fishing and shooting. He died on 18 November 2010, aged 100.
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First Title value, for Searching Dykes, Campbell (1873 - 1911)

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First Title value, for Searching Dyson, Malcolm Goodworth (1868 - 1913)

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First Title value, for Searching Earle, Edward Septimus ( - 1885)

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First Title value, for Searching Eastes, George (1841 - 1909)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-09
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on May 16th, 1841, in Old Folkestone close to the harbour. He was the eldest child of Sylvester Eastes, MRCS, JP, the Mayor of Folkestone, at that time a small place with fields covering the West Cliff up to the Parish Church. Eastes went to school at St Margare's Bay, then to Tonbridge Grammar School, where the boys got up at 5 am in the summer for preparation, lasting to 8 am. In 1854 he was transferred to Maidstone, where at the end of the Crimean War he won a prize for a school poem on 'Peace'. At the age of 15 he was apprenticed to his father, after which in 1860 he entered Guy's Hospital, where he proceeded to the London Degree and to the Fellowship of the College of Surgeons. He was House Surgeon, and then for two years Surgical Registrar and Tutor. After six months' study in Paris he settled in general practice at 5 Albion Place, W, in succession to Dr Egbert W Charlton. In 1863 he was one of the founders of the Guyite Club, composed of forty-three original members with a motto 'Dum licet nobis', and was its Secretary to the end of his life, when the little society had dwindled to fifteen. With the aid of the Guy's surgeons he was able to develop a special practice in the administration of anaesthetics; he was for fourteen years Anaesthetist to the Great Northern Hospital, and was one of the founders of the Society of Anaesthetists. He acted as Secretary to the first British Medical Association Committee of Inquiry, and devoted much time to a tabulation of the results of the inquiry into anaesthetic administrations. From about 1874 he acted with Alban Doran and Fancourt Barnes on the editorial staff of the *British Medical Journal*, under the Editor, Ernest Hart, and he continued throughout his life to contribute to it. At the Metropolitan Counties Branch he was Secretary (1886-1888), Treasurer (1892-1899 and 1901-1903), President (1900), and Secretary of the Investigation Committee (1885-1887). Up to 1908 he was the Branch Representative on the Council, and a member of the Finance and Journal Committee. At the Leeds Meeting in 1889 he was Secretary of the Section of Public Medicine, and at the Newcastle Meeting in 1893, Vice-President of the same section. He was President of the Harveian Society in 1895. Further, he was instrumental in erecting on the Leas at Folkestone the memorial statue to Harvey at his birthplace. He published a short account of Harvey in 1871. In later life he practised at 35 Gloucester Terrace. He was fond of riding, shooting, the sea, and travel. After a short illness, from which he seemed to be recovering, he died with an attack of thoracic pain on January 23rd, 1909, and was buried in Folkestone Cemetery. He had married in 1869 Miss Fanny Elizabeth Friend, of Hambledon, who survived him with two daughters and one son, Dr George Leslie Eastes, pathologist. His younger brother was Thomas Eastes (qv).
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First Title value, for Searching Owen, Edward Robert (1809 - 1880)

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First Title value, for Searching Owen, Harvey Kimpton (1816 - 1886)

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First Title value, for Searching Owen, Sir Richard (1804 - 1892)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-12
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Occupation Anatomist Curator
Details Born on July 20th, 1804, the younger son of Richard Owen, a West India merchant, by his wife, Catherine, a daughter of Robert Parrin, organist of the Parish Church of Lancaster. He was educated at the Lancaster Grammar School, where he made a lasting friendship with William Whewell, who became Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was apprenticed in 1820 to Mr Dickson, surgeon and apothecary, at Lancaster; his master died in 1822 and he was turned over to Joseph Seed, and in 1823 to James Stockdale Harrison, as Seed had become a Naval Surgeon. Harrison was Surgeon to the County Gaol, and Owen became interested in anatomy through the post-mortem examinations on the prisoners. He matriculated at Edinburgh in 1824, and attended the extramural lectures of Dr John Barclay which dealt with comparative as well as human anatomy. He did not graduate in the University, but travelled to London in the spring of 1825 with a letter of introduction to John Abernethy, who at once appointed him prosector for his surgical lectures at St Bartholomew's Hospital. As soon as he had obtained the diploma of the College of Surgeons, Owen set up in private practice at 11 Cook's Court, Carey Street, Chancery Lane; but the results do not seem to have fulfilled his expectations, for in 1829 he became Lecturer on Comparative Anatomy at a nominal salary in the Medical School attached to St Bartholomew's Hospital, and in 1830 he made some efforts to obtain the office of House Surgeon at the Birmingham General Hospital, but did not persist in his candidature as he was already becoming engrossed in comparative anatomy. By the influence of Abernethy, in March, 1827, he had been appointed an Assistant in the Hunterian Museum at the College of Surgeons at a salary of £30 a quarter. The Conservator was William Clift, and from him Owen learnt the unbounded respect which he always showed for the works and memory of John Hunter. Clift's son, the Assistant Conservator, was killed in a cab accident and Owen was appointed to fill his place in 1832. In 1836 Owen appears as Conservator jointly with Clift, and in 1842 he came into residence at the College when Clift was allowed to live outside. Clift died in 1849, and Owen then continued as Conservator until 1856, J T Quekett being associated with him in the post from 1852. In 1830 he made the acquaintance of Cuvier, at whose invitation he paid a visit to Paris, attended the lectures of Cuvier and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, and worked in the dissecting-rooms and public galleries of the Jardin des Plantes. In 1832 he published his *Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus*, which placed him at once in the front rank of comparative anatomists and led to his election as FRS in 1834. He started the *Zoological Magazine* in January, 1833, but sold it and resigned the editorship in the following July. For seven years he had been engaged to Caroline Amelia Clift, the only daughter of William Clift, and he married her on July 20th, 1835. In April, 1836, he was appointed Hunterian Professor of Comparative Anatomy at the College of Surgeons, and annually until 1855 he delivered the twenty-four lectures illustrating the Hunterian Collection. These lectures were given under Clause 2 of the Terms and Conditions on which the Hunterian Collection was delivered to the Company of Surgeons, which provided "that one Course of Lectures, not less than twenty-four in number, on Comparative Anatomy and other subjects illustrated by the preparations, shall be given every year by some Member of the Company." The lectures were of a high character and formed the nucleus of the volumes on the *Anatomy and Physiology of the Vertebrates* which he published afterwards. By them and by his writings he became widely known, even to the public, as one of the leading scientific men of the day. In 1842 Sir Robert Peel obtained a Civil List Pension for him of £200 a year, but Owen shortly afterwards declined the offer of knighthood. In 1852 Queen Victoria gave him the cottage called Sheen Lodge in Richmond Park, and here he lived until his death, the grant being continued to his daughter-in-law. He had lived from 1842 in the uncomfortable rooms allotted to the Conservator which had direct access to the College premises. He revisited Paris in 1853 and 1855, and on the second occasion was decorated a Knight of the Legion of Honour by Napoleon III. Advancing years and perhaps a somewhat overpowering sense of his own importance made him difficult. Having failed to persuade the Council of the College of Surgeons to convert their Collection into a National Museum, he resigned the office of Conservator in 1856 and undertook to act as Keeper of the Natural History Collection at the British Museum. Here he was under the control of the principal Librarian, and the second period of his life began. Hitherto he had been in charge of a localized, well arranged, and, largely owing to his own exertions, well catalogued museum; he now became the head of a vast national collection under the care of Chiefs who considered themselves responsible to the Trustees alone, whilst the treasures were poorly housed, badly described, and insufficiently displayed. His first business was to overhaul the specimens, with the result that he published a series of masterly papers dealing more especially with osteology and paleontology. The outcome of his work appeared in the three great volumes on *The Anatomy and Physiology of the Vertebrates*, which were published between 1866 and 1868. As early as 1859 he urged on the Government the necessity for forming a National Museum of Natural History independent of the British Museum, but it was not until 1873 that the building of such a museum was actually begun at South Kensington, nor until 1881 that it was opened to the public. The provision of such a building was greatly helped by Mr W E Gladstone, who no doubt was influenced by his friend Sir Henry Acland, the protagonist in the fight for the New Museums at Oxford. Owen resigned his post two years later - in 1883 - having overcome some of the difficulties and having supervised the transfer of the specimens from Bloomsbury to South Kensington. He was gazetted KCB on January 5th, 1884, and his Civil List Pension was increased to £300 a year. He died peacefully of old age at Sheen Lodge, Richmond, on December 18th, 1892, and was buried in the churchyard at Ham Common, Surrey. His wife died on May 7th, 1873, and his only son in 1886, leaving a widow and seven children who lived with Owen at Sheen Lodge during his latter years. One of these children, the Rev Richard Owen, published a life of his grandfather. Richard Owen was *facile princeps* the chief British comparative anatomist of his age and is comparable with his great contemporary Baron Cuvier. By his careful dissections and unwearied labours in early life he did much to elucidate the work of John Hunter. In middle life he built up a system of transcendental anatomy based on the philosophy of Lorenz Oken (1779-1851) which was founded upon an unproved hypothesis of a vertebrate archetype. In later life he was unable to accept Darwin's generalizations, proved himself somewhat of an obstructionist, and drew upon himself the wrath of Huxley and the younger biologists. He was an indefatigable worker and his literary output was enormous. In spite of this, he found time for several hobbies. He was a great reader of poetry and romance, and in extreme old age could recite whole pages of his favourite authors. He was enthusiastic in his love of music, and it is said that he was present thirty nights in succession when Weber's "Oberon" was first produced in London. He was himself a vocalist and no mean performer on the flute and the violoncello; he was also an expert player of chess. In person he was tall and in figure ungainly, with a massive head, lofty forehead, curiously round, prominent, and expressive eyes, high cheek-bones, large mouth, and projecting chin, long, lank dark hair, a very florld complexion, and throughout the greater part of his life he was clean-shaven. The acrimony with which Owen pursued quarrels and a certain inaptitude for ordinary business matters prevented him from filling the many high official positions to which his scientific pre-eminence might otherwise have entitled him. Nevertheless he obtained innumerable rewards. He received the Royal and the Copley Medals of the Royal Society; the Prix Cuvier of the French Academy; the Prussian order 'Pour le Mérite'; the cross of the French Legion of Honour the Order of St Maurice and St Lazarus of Italy; the Order of Leopold of Belgium; and the Order of the Rose of Brazil. He was one of the eight foreign associates of the Institut de France, and was enrolled as an honorary member of nearly all the scientific societies in Europe. The Royal College of Physicians of London conferred upon him the Baly Medal for physiology, and the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1883 made him one of the few recipients of its honorary Gold Medal. HRH the Prince Consort became interested in his work; in April, 1860, he was called upon to lecture to the Royal children at Buckingham Palace, and in March and April, 1864, he lectured to them at Windsor in the presence of Queen Victoria and Leopold, King of the Belgians. The number of portraits, photographs, and engravings of Sir Richard Owen is very large. Chief amongst them is the bronze bust on a large scale by Alfred Gilbert, MVO, RA, which is of extraordinary excellence. It is unsigned and is in the Osteological Room (iv) in the Museum, and was executed to the order of the council in 1895 in recognition of his outstanding merit as well as of his services to the College. There is also a plaster cast of an unsigned bust, which appears to have been made from the marble bust by E H Bailey, RA. The marble bust is dated 1845 and is in the Hall of the College. It was left by Mrs Owen, the daughter-in-law, in 1920. The College possesses a large collection of other portraits of Owen, among which may be mentioned: (i) A proof engraving by W Walker after the portrait by Henry William Pickersgill. This engraving is dated London, Jan 1st, 1852 ; it is signed 'Richard Owen'. (ii) A miniature portrait in water-colour by W Etty, RA, which hangs in the Conservators' room, shows Owen at the age of 48. (iii) A fine portrait which appeared in *Nature*, engraved by Jeens from a photograph (the date is 1880). (iv) A portrait by J H Maguire, 1850, printed by Hanhart and engraved by D J Pund after a portrait by Watkins. There are also engravings (1) showing Owen bearded and apparently lecturing in extreme old age; (2) a small engraving in which Owen is holding an enormous femur. He wears the old gown of the Hunterian Professors. The gown, when falling into holes, was sent by the Rev Richard Owen to the College, with the wish that it might be preserved in a glass case. The Linnean Society, of which Owen was elected a Fellow in 1836, possesses a lithograph by J H Maguire (Ipswich Series); a photo-engraving from a photograph by Elliott and Fry, and an engraving from the painting by H I Thaddeus. Among caricatures of Owen may be cited 'Old Bones', possibly by 'Ape' or 'Spy', which appeared in *Vanity Fair*, March 1st, 1873, and one by H I Thaddeus showing Owen in extreme old age (bearded), signing proof engravings of his portrait. (Both of these are in the College Collections.) There are two remarkable photographs of Owen in the Council Album, and another by Miss Acland, daughter of Sir Henry Acland, after a drawing by Richmond. A caricature of Owen presiding over a dinner-party of wild animals and palaeontological monsters at the 1847 meeting of the Palaeontographical Society was presented by Sir John Bland-Sutton. It is an admirable drawing and portrait; the artist is unknown. A portrait painted by Holman Hunt was exhibited in the Grosvenor Gallery in 1881, and in the same year Hamo Thornycroft, RA, showed a bust at the Royal Academy. A posthumous full-length bronze statue by Charles Brock, RA, was executed for the hall of the Natural History Museum at South Kensington.
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First Title value, for Searching Oxley, Robert (1806 - 1891)

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First Title value, for Searching Pachoutine (Paschutin), Victor (1845 - 1901)

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First Title value, for Searching Page, Frederick (senior) ( - 1872)

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First Title value, for Searching Page, Frederick (junior) (1840 - 1919)

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First Title value, for Searching Page, Herbert William (1845 - 1926)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-12
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on December 22nd, 1845, the eldest son of William Bousfield Page (qv), of Carlisle. He entered the University of Edinburgh in 1864; then went to Christ's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in Arts, and later received his medical education at the London Hospital, under the guidance of Hughlings Jackson, Gawen Sutton, and Jonathan Hutchinson. The influence which these inspiring teachers had upon Page is illustrated by the fact that, whilst he decided early to follow the career of a consulting surgeon, in all his institutional and public and private work he displayed general familiarity with the problems of medicine. He served as House Surgeon to Jonathan Hutchinson, and on the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War obtained a commission in the German Army and acted as an Assistant Surgeon all through the campaign, being attached to the Hessian Division and located at the Princess Alice Hospital at Darmstadt. After the war he joined his father in practice at Carlisle in 1872, but soon made up his mind to practise surgery in London. He was later Consulting Surgeon to the Cumberland Infirmary. He was appointed Surgical Registrar at the London Hospital in 1875, and in 1876 became Assistant Surgeon to St Mary's Hospital, on the staff of which he served as Surgeon and teacher for thirty years, until he was elected Consulting Surgeon. As a surgeon Page was earnestly conscientious and very cautious. He was the first surgeon at St Mary's to rely on instruments and dressings sterilized by heat rather than by antiseptics, and while he was essentially conservative, he was not reactionary; indeed, in 1887 he performed for the first time at his hospital the operation of gastro-enterostomy. The patient was a man of 48 who had suffered from malignant obstruction of the pylorus for several months; the operation gave much relief and the patient lived for seventy-two days. In a paper read at the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society Page reviewed the results of thirty-eight cases in which the operation had been done. It was, he said, an operation distinctly justifiable and to be recommended, for it was capable of bringing relief to the distressing symptoms caused by pyloric obstruction and was thereby in all probability the means of prolonging life. Such arguments were greatly in advance of the time at which they were put forward. As a teacher Page was seen at his best in his informal clinical lectures. His formal lectures, scholarly, profound, and stated in polished phrase, did not arrest the attention of students as did these models of clear thinking and of lucid exposition, which remained in the memory and were acted upon in after-practice. He possessed great power of speech. A wonderful choice of words, a clear diction, and a melodious voice gave to his speeches a distinction which was still further enhanced by his clarity of thought and by a touch of whimsical humour. A speech from Page decorated any occasion, however prosaic. Possessed of these qualities, Page made his mark as a railway witness at a time when the railway companies considered it necessary to contest excessive claims against them for damages as the result of accidents. Lord Chief Justice Coleridge, summing up in the case of Milsom v the London and North-Western Railway Company in 1879, remarked:- "This I will say, that whereas it is most difficult very often to follow the reasons and to apply the ordinary rules of common sense to the evidence given by Dr R and Mr G, I do not think any man of the most ordinary common sense would have the least difficulty in following the evidence of Mr Page and in ascertaining exactly and definitely what Mr Page meant to say. Whether you believe Mr. Page is another matter, but he is such a comprehensible and intelligible witness as I very seldom have heard in the witness box. A child might understand him, and he gave his evidence with lucidity and firmness; a more cool and intelligent man, a person who seemed to estimate the value of the words he is using, it has seldom been my good fortune to see before a judge and jury." Suave but accurate, Page, in fact, was soon busy maintaining a new position in regard to the so-called injuries due to railway accidents. In his work on *Injuries of the Spine* (1883) he was able to account for many of the symptoms following such accidents, which had been previously regarded as of a particularly malign character, inasmuch as they were thought to illustrate degeneration of the spinal cord following traumatism to bones or muscles. Having no such sinister expectations, Page consequently came into conflict with Erichsen's followers, who had evolved a complete pathology for the condition named 'concussion of the spine'. Page's position regarding 'railway' spine was that it was a mental condition caused partly by the pain due to a definite injury to ligamentous and muscular structures of the spinal column, and partly by the apprehension of the unknown consequences which might flow from this. He held that the condition was maintained and augmented by auto-suggestion and by the fear that all this suffering would not be sufficiently compensated. He was careful not to use the word 'malingering'. His conception displaced the view that the symptoms of which the sufferers complained were due to a 'concussion of the spinal cord' analogous to the condition known as 'concussion of the brain'. Page set forth these views in his Boylston Prize Essay and showed high courage in doing so, for he ran counter to the authority of his seniors. His connection with the Royal College of Surgeons was a close one. He was a Member of the Council from 1899-1907, and a Member of the Court of Examiners from 1894-1902. He was also an Examiner in Surgery at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Birmingham. After the first publication of his chief work in 1883 he served as President of the Neurological Society, an office which had rarely been held by a surgeon. At the Carlisle Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1896 he was Vice-President of the Section of Surgery, having been Hon. Secretary to this Section at the Ryde Meeting in 1881. His main activity as a railway case expert occurred whilst he was Surgeon to the London and North-Western and Great Western Railways. Retiring as long before his death as 1906, and living for twenty years at his country seat, Sedgecombe House, The Bourne, Farnham, he had become an unfamiliar figure at the Royal College of Surgeons, when, a very few years before his death, he called there, bringing with him a medallion portrait of himself executed by Lady Harris, in 1920; it is not a striking likeness. He died, after a long illness, at Sedgecombe House, on September 9th, 1926, being survived by his widow (m 1905), daughter of Canon Houghton, and by two daughters by his first marriage to a daughter of the Rev Christopher Parker, of Skirwith Abbey, Cumberland. One of his brothers was the Recorder of Carlisle, and another became the Dean of Peterborough. After his death Mr V Warren Low, as executor, gave two silver cups to the College early in 1927. The cups had been presented to Page when he left St Mary's Hospital, and were bequeathed "in happy remembrance of my one-time connection with the College as a Member of Council and also of the Court of Examiners, to be used as loving-cups at College banquets, the same to be suitably engraved." Publications:- *Injuries of the Spine and Spinal Cord without Apparent Mechanical Lesions and Nervous Shock, in their Medico-legal Aspects*, 8vo, London, 1883; 2nd ed., Philadelphia, 1885. *Railway Injuries: with Special Reference to those of the Back and Nervous System, in their Medico-legal and Clinical Aspects*, with bibliography, 8vo, London, 1891. "Abdominal Section for Intussusception" (with C HANDFIELD JONES). - *Med-Chir Trans*, 1878, lxi, 301. "Subperiosteal Haemorrhage." - *Ibid*, 1883, lxvi, 221. "Case of Tabetic Arthropathy." - *Clin Soc Trans*, 1882-3, xvi, 158. "On the Abuse of Bromide of Potassium in the Treatment of Traumatic Neurasthenia". - A Clinical Lecture, 12mo, London, 1885; reprinted from *Med Times*, 1885, i, 437. *Clinical Papers on Surgical Subjects*, 12mo, London, 1897. Contributions to *Lancet*, *Brit Med Jour*, *Brain*, etc. In 1881 the Boylston Prize was awarded to Page by Harvard University for his Essay on "Injuries to the Back, without apparent Mechanical Lesion, in their Surgical and Medico-legal Aspects". This was embodied by him in his other important works on spinal and railway injuries.
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First Title value, for Searching Paget, Stephen (1855 - 1926)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-19
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The fourth and youngest son of Sir James Paget, Bart (qv), by his wife Lydia, the youngest daughter of the Rev Henry North, two of whose sons had been curates at Yarmouth. He was educated at St Marylebone and All Souls' Grammar School, 1 Cornwall Terrace, Regent's Park. The school had been founded by his maternal grandfather and affiliated to King's College. It was then under the headmastership of Mr A H Barford, BA, FLS, a good teacher of English who insisted more especially on accurate spelling. Paget passed from London to Shrewsbury. He entered in 1870 and left in 1874, acting as prepostor in 1873, and gaining a sound knowledge of Latin and Greek. From Shrewsbury he went to Oxford, matriculating from Christ Church on October 16th, 1874, and graduating BA in 1878. He gained a second class in Classical Moderations and in 'Greats' - the final school in literae humaniores - and held a Fell Exhibition of £40 a year at his college from 1876-1880. He took the MA degree in 1886, but was never a candidate for the MB. He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital on October 1st, 1878, and in due course became House Surgeon to Sir Thomas Smith (qv), the friend and former pupil of his father. He then acted for a time as Secretary to Sir James Paget and as private Assistant to Sir Thomas Smith until he was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Metropolitan Hospital, where he became full Surgeon. He was also Surgeon to the West London Hospital until 1897; he then abandoned general surgery and was appointed Aural Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital in succession to Leopold Hudson (qv). This post he held until his retirement, when he received the honorary rank of Consulting Surgeon. During the European War he first lectured at the various camps throughout the country, taking as his subjects hygiene and typhoid inoculation, and then went to Petrograd in charge of the Anglo-Russian Hospital during the years 1916-1917. His health broke down and he retired to Limpsfield, Surrey, where he died at Furzedown on May 8th, 1926, of cerebral haemorrhage, having been partly paralysed for some months. He married in 1885 Eleanor Mary, the second daughter of Edward Burd, MD, of Shrewsbury, a former pupil of Sir James Paget; by her he had two daughters and with her he lived in unalloyed happiness. Stephen Paget was in many ways unfitted for the life of an operating surgeon in London. Extremely sensitive and highly cultivated, the wear and tear of practice soon broke down his health. His reputation finds its surest foothold as an essayist. He possessed many of the qualities required of a discerning critic. His style was natural, and was founded on a well-stored mind in which the classical literature of Greece and Rome, as well as that of the English in which he wrote, held the largest place. All his books, therefore, are a pleasure to read. He was an excellent and fluent speaker and a first-rate organizer. The best and most useful part of his life was that which followed on his enforced retirement from professional work. He was instrumental in founding "The Research Defence Society", of which the inaugural meeting was held at his house - 70 Harley Street, W - on Jan 27th, 1908. It was a revival of the Association for the Advancement of Medicine by Research in which his father had been greatly interested twenty-five years before, and was the direct outcome of a committee formed by E H Starling, FRS, Professor of Physiology at University College, to enlighten the public as to the real value of experiments on living animals. Stephen Paget was the mainstay of the Society. He organized meetings in different parts of the country, gave many excellent addresses, wrote innumerable pamphlets and fly-leaves, and took the war into the camp of the Anti-vivisectionists with telling effect. He exposed their fallacies and corrected their false statements, but carefully avoided the personalities in which it was their custom to indulge. For several years he edited *The Fight against Disease*, the journal of the Society. Publications:- "Tumours of the Palate," 8vo, London, 1886; reprinted from *St Bart's Hosp Rep*, 1886, xxii, 315. *Parotitis after Injury or Disease of the Abdomen or Pelvis*, 8vo, London, 1897. *The Surgery of the Chest*, 8vo, illustrated, Bristol, 1896. A useful manual when thoracic surgery was in its infancy. *John Hunter - Man of Science and Surgeon*. This appeared as a volume of "The Masters of Medicine" series in 1897 and is written charmingly. In the same year he published *Ambroise Paré and his Times* for a New York firm; it is skilfully compiled, but rather overweighted by the illustrations. *Essays for Students*, 8vo, London, 1899. *The Memoirs and Letters of Sir James Paget*, with portraits, was published in London in 1901. It is undoubtedly the best of Stephen Paget's books. It was a labour of love, and must remain a classic both for the style and the material. It proves an exception to the rule that a biography should not be written by a near relation. *The Young People. By One of the Old People*, 8vo, 1906. *Confessio Medici*, published in 1908, is more polished in style, but is written in a strain of sadness, as though the author were telling of his own experiences and was approaching ill health. *Experiments on Animals, with an Introduction by Lord Lister*, 8vo, 3 plates, 1899; American ed, 1900; 3rd ed, 1906; *The Case against Anti-vivisection*, l2mo, London, 1904; *Another Device: The Faith and Works of Christian Science*, 1909; *For and Against Experiments on Animals, with an Introduction by Lord Cromer*, 8vo, London, 1912; *Pasteur and After Pasteur*, 1914; *I have Reason to Believe*, London, 1921 - all are concerned with the anti-vivisection campaign. He published in 1919 a very skilful study of the *Life and Work of Sir Victor Horsley* (qv), for he presents a life-like portrait of one with whose views he was not in agreement. *History of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society*, 1805-1905 (with Sir NORMAN MOORE). It was published at Aberdeen in 1905. With the Rev J M C CRUM he wrote a life of his eldest brother, Francis Paget, Bishop of Oxford, 1902. Lastly, in 1912 there was *The Life of Canon Scott Holland* - a family friend.
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First Title value, for Searching Painter, Richard Budd (1826 - 1880)

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First Title value, for Searching Paley, William Edmund (1851 - 1895)

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First Title value, for Searching Palmer, Charles Quartley (1786 - 1854)

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First Title value, for Searching Palmer, Edward ( - 1860)

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First Title value, for Searching Palmer, Frederick (1813 - 1892)

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First Title value, for Searching Palmer, William John (1826 - 1896)

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First Title value, for Searching Partridge, Alderman ( - 1868)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, he was elected one of the Surgeons of the Essex and Colchester Hospital at its foundation, and retired in 1861 after being for many years Senior Surgeon. His tenure of office lasted forty-two years. He was a bold and successful operator, especially in lithotomy, and enjoyed a very large practice - probably the largest as a consultant in Essex. His health failed some two years before his death, and he died after a lingering illness on October 24th, 1868. He was highly respected locally, and his death recalled the famous trial of forty years before in which Bransby Blake Cooper (qv) sued Thomas Wakley for damages for an alleged libel printed in the *Lancet*, where Cooper was accused of malpraxis in a lithotomy performed by him at Guy's Hospital on the person of Samuel Pollard, a navvy. Partridge at the trial was shown not to be a confederate of Wakley, who met him for the first time in court at the commencement of the proceedings and found that Partridge had been present at the operation. Had it not been for Partridge's evidence, Wakley's punishment would doubtless have been much more severe. The damages were laid at £2000; as it was the damages were assessed at £100. The trial lasted two days and began on December 12th, 1828. "The defendant (Wakley) then called and examined Mr Holdiman [sic] Partridge, who said: "I reside at Colchester, and am a member of the College of Surgeons. I have been in practice rather more than fourteen years; I have witnessed many operations in lithotomy, and have performed them myself sixteen or eighteen times. I witnessed the operation performed by Mr Bransby Cooper at Guy's Hospital in March last. I have read the report of that operation in the *Lancet*: it struck me at the time to be correct, and I have had no particular reason to alter my opinion since, though I did not examine it very minutely. The patient appeared to be a very healthy man; I remarked it at the time. I think Mr Cooper himself introduced the staff; but the second incision was made without the staff. After the first external incision all instruments were withdrawn. "*The defendant here produced a figure representing the situation of the patient, which the witness deposed to as being correct.* "The hands of the patient were tied to the feet, and his knees to his neck, as represented by the model now produced. The patient remained in that position nearly an hour; during that period a sound was repeatedly introduced; several cuts were attempted to be made into the bladder with a knife. The instrument (a cutting gorget) was introduced into the wound; a blunt gorget was also introduced, and the scoop and several pairs of forceps. During the operation the patient called out several times to the operator to desist. The operator stated several times that he could not explain the difficulty; he appeared to be perplexed and hurried in consequence of the long delay; he did not appear to act with any regular scientific design. He introduced his finger with some force, but it did not strike me as being very violent. He used the instruments in the ordinary way, and varied them according to the different purposes, but failed in lighting upon the stone. I don't consider that the forceps entered the bladder the first time; the impression on my mind was, that the opening in the bladder was not sufficiently large to get the forceps in; but I think there was an opening, because I saw a discharge of water and blood. "The operator said that he felt the stone when he passed his staff through the urethra, and could also feel it when he passed the sound through the incision in the perineum; he also said that he could not feel it with the forceps. The reason of this was, that the forceps, if straight or slightly curved, would pass under the stone, which was high up in the bladder. Mr Cooper made many attempts to feel the stone with his finger; he left his seat and measured fingers with those of other gentlemen, to see if any of them had a longer finger. I cannot say that I think Mr Cooper performed the operation in a scientific manner; I do not think that it was performed in such a manner as the public have a right to expect from a surgeon of Guy's Hospital. The average time for performing operations of this description is four or five minutes; the operation in question occupied, I think, nearly an hour. After the staff had been introduced and the first incision made, Mr Cooper used a straight staff with a knife; when he found he could not introduce the forceps on the first attempt, he withdrew them, and made another cut with the knife without the staff being introduced. This is not the customary mode; the scoop, as I have always understood, is introduced to extract those fragments of the stone that may have crumbled off. There were no fragments in this case that I saw. "Twenty-five or thirty minutes is the longest time that I have known an operation of this kind to last; the average time is about five minutes. In the cases I have mentioned lasting twenty-five or thirty minutes, there were evident causes why the operation should last so long; those were where the stone was large, and where it would be dangerous to enlarge the wound for fear of injuring the rectum, and there the time was lost in drawing out the stone gradually. In the operation in question, the stone was a small one, being not larger than a common Windsor bean, flat and round; it might have weighed about two drachms or less, but certainly not more. Stones weighing several ounces have been successfully removed. Unless the incision was large enough to admit the forceps, that instrument could not lay hold of the stone without also catching the integuments of the bladder. The stone lay above the pubes, for the sound always touched it on being withdrawn, and it was extracted by pressure above the pubes, and with a curved forceps. If the operator had been aware of the situation of the stone, he should have taken these measures at first: he should have ascertained this in the first instance. "*Cross-examined by* Sir J Scarlett. - I never saw the defendant before this day, nor his attorney in the cause before last night. Mr Callaway was the assistant surgeon on the occasion, and I believe him to be a man of skill. I have had several cases where the stone lay above the pubes, and always extracted it in the manner which was at last successfully adopted by Mr B Cooper. The cut is made in the perineum, and the object is to get the knife into the groove of the staff, by which time it has penetrated a portion of the urethra; then the staff is brought forward into a parallel position with the knife, and on a line with the bladder, in order to make a larger incision: the staff is then allowed to remain, and the finger is introduced, in order to ascertain the wound you have made. "Sir J Scarlett - You then introduce the finger and feel for the stone, after finding which, you introduce the forceps along the finger and lay hold of the stone? "Witness - No: in order to do that you must make too large an incision, or else have a most extraordinarily small pair of forceps. At the time of the operation I was sitting in a chair immediately behind Mr Cooper. I never saw Mr Cooper before that day. I have no doubt but that the first incision penetrated the bladder. I have read the report in the *Lancet*, but I never corresponded with that publication. I take it in and read it weekly. "Sir J Scarlett here read from the libel the following sentence: 'The first incision through the integuments appeared to be freely and fairly made; and, after a *little* dissection, the point of the knife was fixed (apparently) in the groove of the staff, which was now taken hold of, and the knife carried onwards - *somewhere*. "The learned Counsel asked the witness whether the word 'somewhere' did not mean to convey an idea that the knife did not go into the bladder? "Witness. - I think it means to convey an idea that it might or might not have entered the bladder. I do not know whether the operator would be the best judge of whether the forceps entered the bladder or not - it would depend upon what sort of an operator he was. (A laugh.) I am not prepared to swear that the forceps were a second time used with considerable force; I will neither swear to, nor contradict it. I mentioned my opinion of this operation to several persons, but I cannot now say to whom. "Sir J Scarlett then read the following sentence, and asked the witness whether the statement it contained was correct: 'The forceps were again used, but as unsuccessfully as before; they were pushed onwards to a considerable distance, and with no small degree of force.' "Witness. - I am not prepared to swear to the truth of this - I cannot comprehend it. "*Re-examined by the Defendant* (Wakley). - The staff was introduced a second time; it would not have been necessary if the first incision had been large enough. I have never seen the defendant before this day, that I am aware of." Alderman was his baptismal name: the Alderman family, of whom several were medical men, were of Balstead, Suffolk.
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First Title value, for Searching Partridge, Samuel Bowen (1828 - 1898)

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First Title value, for Searching Paterson, Andrew Melville (1862 - 1919)

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First Title value, for Searching Paterson, William Bromfield (1861 - 1924)

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First Title value, for Searching Middlemore, Richard (1804 - 1891)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-15
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on October 12th, 1804. He was descended from the family which had been Lords of the Manor and owners of estates at Edgbaston and other parts of Worcestershire and Warwickshire from the time of Henry II. He was apprenticed in 1820 to Chawner, a well-known surgeon at Lichfield, and in 1823 entered St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was dresser to Abernethy and to Vincent, gaining their favourable regard. Among other Birmingham fellow-students were Edwin Bartleet, Frederick Ryland, and Richard Owen, who became his life-long friend. Abernethy recommended him warmly to Joseph Hodgson (qv), Surgeon to the Birmingham General Hospital. Middlemore was for three years Hodgson's dresser at the hospital, and for ten years Hodgson's assistant. But it was to Sir William Lawrence that Middlemore owed the direction which determined his life. In 1831 he gained the Jacksonian Prize for his dissertation "On Diseases of the Eye and its Appendages, and the Treatment of them", which in 1835 he extended to *A Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye and its Appendages* (2 vols., 8vo, London, 1835). The Birmingham Eye Hospital had been founded in 1823. Middlemore was appointed Assistant Surgeon, then Surgeon from 1828. In 1836 he issued a prospectus of a journal of ophthalmology which failed for lack of support; but he frequently published lectures, reports, and papers on ophthalmology which made him the chief authority at the time in this country, and he was quoted abroad. It was no unusual thing for him to be engaged upon magazine and review work for a great part of the night, and then begin to see free patients, after an early and meagre breakfast, until ten o'clock. He would afterwards attend to his private patients till three in the afternoon, and would drive to Lichfield, Leamington, or some other town for a consultation, taking a hasty meal on the way. In 1877 he founded a Triennial Prize in Ophthalmology to be awarded by the British Medical Association, a body he warmly supported from its earliest days. In 1888 he made a donation of £1000 to endow a course of post-graduate lectures in ophthalmology at the Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital, and in 1890 gave £2000 to the Birmingham Asylum for the Blind, which he had been instrumental in establishing in 1838. He continued in practice until 1889, and maintained his active interest in ophthalmology until his death at The Limes, Bristol Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, on March 1st, 1891.
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First Title value, for Searching Middleton, Alfred Hancock ( - 1890)

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First Title value, for Searching Peacock, Henry (1813 - 1900)

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First Title value, for Searching Pearce, George (1839 - 1886)

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First Title value, for Searching Millar, John ( - 1872)

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First Title value, for Searching Miller, George Sefton (1891 - 1916)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-15
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Was the son of Leonard Miller, Vice-Chairman of the Miller General Hospital, London, SE. At Colfe Grammar School, Lewisham, he became head boy and won the leaving scholarship. He entered Guy's Hospital in 1907, and in 1910 gained the Junior Proficiency Prize and the Sands-Cox Scholarship in Physiology. He was Dresser to Messrs F J Stewart and L A Dunn (qv), Clinical Clerk to Sir William Hale-White and Dr Newton Pitt, House Surgeon to Sir William Arbuthnot Lane and to Mr Rowlands. He had thus won for himself the best opportunities at Guy's. For the next fifteen months he was Resident Medical Officer at Lambeth Infirmary, meanwhile attending Guy's as Chief Clinical Assistant in the Throat Department, and in December, 1914, he passed the FRCS examination, although, being but 23, he could not get the Diploma until 1916. Meanwhile he found time to become the leading spirit in the Physiological and Debating Societies, and was on the Guy's Hospital Gazette Committee. In April, 1915, he was commissioned Lieutenant RAMC, and was promoted Captain a few months before his death. After joining he was first attached to the Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot, and was then temporarily a Regimental MO; he was detailed to No 1 Field Ambulance. He thus experienced the two extremes of military medical life. He wrote of his military duties in a certain place as consisting of waiting in a room all the morning in case orders might arrive, and then being let off to amuse himself in a town where there was nothing to do. This caused him to apply for a transfer to a post in the most exposed of positions. Just before his death he had ridden ten miles to see if he could do anything for a fellow-officer. The following is the account by a fellow-officer under his command during the Battle of the Somme:- "A local attack was taking place which attracted very fierce retaliation on the part of the enemy artillery. Long before the enemy's artillery had abated, Miller started out with eight stretcher-bearers about 9 pm on September 8th, 1916, from the little ambulance post about a quarter of a mile behind the fire trenches. The regimental aid-post was situated practically in the front line trench and was subsequently blown in by enemy shell fire. While on his way back Miller was helping a stretcher-bearer to lift a wounded man out of a trench into the open, near High Wood, when a shell came which killed him, the patient, and the stretcher-bearer. His body was brought in with a smile on his face as if death had been instantaneous ; he was buried near the village of Mametz." His name is included in the College Roll of Honour.
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First Title value, for Searching Miller, Richard Shalders ( - 1903)

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First Title value, for Searching Milles, Walter Jennings (1854 - 1914)

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First Title value, for Searching Pearse, George Edmund Legge (1843 - 1904)

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First Title value, for Searching Pearse, Thomas Frederick (1856 - 1914)

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First Title value, for Searching Pearson, Henry ( - 1867)

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First Title value, for Searching Pearson, John Armitage ( - 1863)

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First Title value, for Searching Pegge, John (1812 - 1862)

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First Title value, for Searching Mitchell, John ( - 1857)

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First Title value, for Searching Mitchell, Joseph Thomas (1799 - 1876)

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First Title value, for Searching Pemberton, Oliver (1825 - 1897)

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First Title value, for Searching Mole, Harold Frederic (1867 - 1917)

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First Title value, for Searching Monckton, David Henry (1829 - 1896)

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First Title value, for Searching Montefiore, Nathaniel (1820 - 1883)

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First Title value, for Searching Montgomery, William Percy (1867 - 1911)

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First Title value, for Searching Moon, Robert Henry (1830 - 1908)

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First Title value, for Searching Moore, Charles Hewitt (1821 - 1870)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-22
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Plymouth on June 12th, 1821, of a well-known family of shipbuilders and naval architects, the second son of William Moore, who had married a Miss Foster, also of Plymouth. He was educated at Plymouth New Grammar School, and at the age of 16, by the advice of his uncle, Dr Joseph Moore, was placed as house pupil under Frederic Carpenter Skey (qv), Assistant Surgeon to St Bartholomew's Hospital; later Moore, after qualifying, assisted Skey in his courses of anatomy at the Aldersgate School of Medicine. He also acted as Clinical Clerk to Sir George Burrows, and in October, 1844, became House Surgeon to John Painter Vincent (qv). Moore attributed to Skey and Burrows the development in him of qualities of precision of thought and accuracy of observation. Burrows said of Moore that he was one of his best clinical clerks, thoughtful, painstaking, and conscientious. Moore formed lifelong friendships with Thomas Warburton Benfield and with James D Rendle. Moore then studied for three years in Vienna and Berlin. Following on this he was appointed in 1847 Demonstrator, and in 1848 Lecturer, on Anatomy at Middlesex Hospital, a post he held for twenty years, until 1867. De Morgan (qv) having been promoted Surgeon, Moore was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital in 1848, and the same year, Moncrieff Arnott having become Professor of Surgery at University College, Moore became Junior Surgeon at Middlesex Hospital at the age of 26. It was not, however, until 1869 that he was joined with De Morgan as Lecturer on Systematic Surgery. He had just finished his first three months' course of lectures when he was attacked by apoplexy, and after a prolonged illness died on June 6th, 1870. The existence of a cerebral haemorrhage was confirmed at a post-mortem examination. He had been a widower for some years and left two children. Moore appeared to his contemporaries a combination of extreme caution with, on occasion, enterprising rashness. He was for many years in charge of the Special Cancer Wards at the Middlesex Hospital. Moore's *Observations on Cancer* stand in the history of the pathology of cancer among the chief clinical descriptions immediately preceding the use of the microscope in that study. In particular he described more clearly the local cancer of the skin, especially of the face, which came to be distinguished in this country as rodent ulcer, also the antecedents of cancer and the influence of inadequate operations. The special instance of Moore's ingenuity combined with boldness was the case undertaken with Charles Murchison in which, oblivious of germs, iron wire was inserted into an aneurysm of the ascending aorta. The Moore-Corradi method of wiring aneurysms perpetuates his name. Publications: "On a New Method of Procuring the Consolidation of Fibrin in Certain Incurable Aneurisms." - *Trans Med-Chir Soc*, 1864, xlvii, 129. *The Antecedents of Cancer*, 12mo, London, 1865. *Rodent Ulcer*, 12mo, London, 1867.
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First Title value, for Searching Moore, David ( - 1849)

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First Title value, for Searching Moore, Edward (1804 - 1873)

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First Title value, for Searching Moore, George ( - 1888)

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First Title value, for Searching Schofield, Robert Harold Ainsworth (1851 - 1883)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-20
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Occupation Missionary surgeon Missionary doctor
Details The third son of Robert Schofield, of Heybrook, Rochdale, by his second wife, Mary Ainsworth Taylor. His eldest brother was Alfred T Schofield, MD, MRCS Edin, well known as a general practitioner and writer. Robert was educated at the Old Trafford School, near Manchester, and at Owens College, where he obtained the Victoria Scholarship in Classics. He took the degrees of BA and BSc London, and was then elected an Associate of Owens College. He obtained an Exhibition at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he entered in October, 1870, matriculating on the 18th of the month as a Member of the University. His college career was brilliant. He took a 1st Class in Natural Science in 1873, and the same year won the Junior Greek Testament Prize. He was elected Burdett-Coutts Scholar in 1874 and obtained the Radcliffe Travelling Fellowship in 1876. After graduating BA in 1878, he acted as Demonstrator in the Museum of Comparative Anatomy under Professor George Rolleston. The same year, 1873, he gained the Open Scholarship in Natural Science at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and so vigorously prosecuted his medical studies that he won successively the Foster Scholarship in Anatomy, the Junior and Senior Scholarships in their respective years, the Brackenbury Medical Scholarship, and the Lawrence Scholarship and Gold Medal. As Radcliffe Travelling Fellow he proceeded to Vienna and Prague in 1877, to follow his studies. During the war between Servia and Turkey he volunteered to serve as a surgeon in the Red Cross Society (National Aid Society), and was put in charge of the Hospital at Belgrade while the campaign lasted, and the year after he served in a like capacity on the Turkish side during the Russo-Turkish War. Returning to St Bartholomew's on the expiration of his Fellow¬ship, he was successively House Surgeon and House Physician. He now announced his intention of entering the medical mission field, and to that resolve, in spite of all opposition, he steadfastly adhered. After his marriage he embarked for China in the spring of 1880. He was associated as a medical missionary with the China Inland Mission under J Hudson Taylor, MRCS. He first took up his residence at Chefoo, and later was sent to Tai-Yuen-Fu, in Shansi, far to the north-west of China. There, labouring in his vocation at the mission station, now the Schofield Memorial Hospital, he died of typhus on August 1st, 1883, and his brother states that 'his astral body' appeared on the same night to his sisters at the foot of their bed, though they were a thousand miles away and had no knowledge of his death until some months afterwards. Schofield was respected by all who knew him. The charm of his personal character was very great; transparent simplicity of thought and speech, a gentleness and amiability almost feminine, and a power of sympathy that was practically unbounded, were united to abilities of the highest order, a clear judgement, and a determination of unswerving firmness. He was a Fellow of the Obstetrical Society, London, and his London address was 28 Cambridge Gardens, W.
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First Title value, for Searching Schroeder, Henry Sacheverel Edward (1827 - 1867)

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First Title value, for Searching Scott, Edward John (1812 - 1857)

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First Title value, for Searching Scott, John (1799 - 1846)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details The only son and second child of James Scott (1770-1849) by his wife Mary; born at Bromley in Kent, according to the inscription on his funeral tablet, on February 20th, 1799. His father, a general practitioner of Clay Hill, Beckenham, Kent, was in good social standing and of high professional repute, being especially famed for his skill in treating chronic ulcers and diseased joints. John Scott was educated privately at Sevenoaks until he entered Charterhouse School in 1813. Leaving in 1814, he was apprenticed to Sir William Blizard, then Senior Surgeon to the London Hospital. He went into practice with his father as soon as he had qualified, but having married Susannah Louisa, the third daughter of the Rev John Seymour Fleming St John, Canon of Worcester, he became connected with Sir Henry Halford. This probably caused him to settle in London as a consulting surgeon specializing more particularly in ophthalmic work, and living in New Broad Street in 1824. He was elected Surgeon to the Eye Hospital in Moorfields on November 24th, 1826, taking the place of Sir William Lawrence (qv), and serving until 1846. He unsuccessfully contested the vacancy for an Assistant Surgeon at the London Hospital when William Blizard Harkness (1799-1827) was elected on July 25th, 1821, but was appointed on July 18th, 1827, in the vacancy caused by the death of Harkness. Scott was appointed full Surgeon to the Hospital on March 8th, 1831, and resigned his office on December 20th, 1845, by which time he had bought No 17 Park Lane. He died at Brighton after a prolonged illness on April 11th, 1846, survived by his wife, but childless, and was buried in Bromley Church, where there is a very handsome tablet to his memory. Scott revolutionized one department of surgery by introducing the passive treatment of diseased joints. His method, however, was distasteful to his contemporaries owing to the complications with which he surrounded it; but, stripped of these, the principle was established as a factor in surgery. He treated chronic ulcers as his father had taught him by strapping the leg with diachylon plaster from the toes upwards, and he was thus opposed to Baynton's method, which consisted in applying the strapping for only a short distance above the ulcer. 'Scott's dressing' and 'Scott's ointment' were once household words in every hospital out-patient department, but they are now rarely used. His ointment had a camphorated mercurial base, and constant practice is said to have rendered Scott the most skilful bandager in London at a time when bandaging in the London hospitals was almost a fine art. Scott was distinguished as a surgeon by the rapidity and by the general accuracy of his diagnosis. He displayed great decision and energy in the treatment of his patients, though, like many of his contemporaries, he handled them roughly and cared little for their feelings. He was a bold but not a particularly brilliant operator, and is said to have been one of the first surgeons in England to remove the upper jaw, though John Lizars, of Edinburgh, had performed a successful operation of this kind on January 10th, 1830. In person Scott was tall and thin, with clean-cut features and clear grey eyes. He was acute in thought and action, but was of an uncertain and irritable temper which disease sometimes rendered overbearing. A man of deep religious feeling, he left considerable sums of money to various religious charities, "in order", as he stated, "that others may enjoy that free salvation purchased by a Saviour's blood which has been so precious unto my own soul". The bust by Sir Francis Chantrey, RA (1781-1841), presented to the college by Sir L A Selby-Bigge in May, 1918, is that of James Scott, father of John Scott. A portrait by J H Howard, RA, hangs in 'The Deanery' of the London Hospital. It was engraved by J W Reynolds. Publications: *Surgical Observations on Chronic Inflammations and Diseases of Joints*, 8vo, London, 1828; a new edition by W K Smith, 1857. This is a valuable work, as it lays down very clearly the necessity of putting diseased joints at rest. It preceded the teaching of Benjamin Brodie, John Hilton, and Howard Marsh. *Cases of Tic Douloureux and other Forms of Neuralgia*, 8vo, London, 1834. *Cataract and its Treatment*, 8vo, London, 1843. The object of this work was to introduce a sickle-shaped knife, but the instrument never came into common use.
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First Title value, for Searching Scott, William (1818 - 1893)

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First Title value, for Searching Scratchley, James (1784 - 1849)

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First Title value, for Searching Scriven, Samuel Swain ( - 1883)

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First Title value, for Searching Thompson, John ( - 1880)

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First Title value, for Searching Thompson, John (1820 - 1890)

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First Title value, for Searching Thompson, James Edwin ( - 1927)

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First Title value, for Searching Thompson, Moses Davenport (1814 - 1869)

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First Title value, for Searching Thompson, Walter (1866 - 1924)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details The son of a farmer in Wharfedale, Yorkshire. He was educated at the Leeds Medical School, and in Berlin, where he occupied the same lodgings as his lifelong friend, Sir Berkeley Moynihan (later Lord Moynihan). On beginning to practise in Leeds he devoted himself to surgery, and eventually became a leading operating surgeon in Yorkshire. At the time of his death he was Consulting Surgeon to the Leeds General Infirmary, Hon Consulting Surgeon to the Coronation Hospital, Ilkley, and to the Malton Cottage Hospital. He had also been Lecturer in the Practice of Surgery to the University of Leeds, and Hon Surgeon to the Leeds Public Dispensary and the Leeds Hospital for Women and Children. During the European War he served for about a year in Salonica, and then as Lieutenant-Colonel RAMC (T) took charge of the Beckett Street Military Hospital to the end of the campaign. He did excellent work in both positions, although not in the best of health when he volunteered for active service. Lord Moynihan, in an eloquent eulogy of his friend (*British Medical Journal*, 1924, i, 937), speaks of his genius for friendship, his gravity of utterance, and sanity of outlook: "I met him for the first time on the day I joined the Leeds School of Medicine….Our whole curriculum was passed together….I never knew an honester man….As a surgeon he was a fine example of the Leeds School. He was quite undemonstrative, cautious, exact, and safe. There was no display in anything he did. Every movement fulfilled its exact purpose. He showed the competence and the invaluable precision of the man who, sure of himself, is a master in the medium in which he works. I never saw him hasty or negligent or bewildered by any event, however unforeseen, in any operation, however difficult." Dr C M Smeeton, of Malton, gives an interesting picture of Thompson in the lonely country, whither he was called to operate:- "It has fallen to my lot to practise in a widely scattered country district, and from my first coming it was my good fortune to be able to call him to my help, and to share close friendship with him for forty years. No hospital was near, and he did many abdominal sections in cottages, in farm and country houses….He became widely known, and any operation would be faced cheerfully if it was known that Walter Thompson would operate." The same writer speaks of his great inspiriting laugh, and of how he came to be trusted and loved in lonely cottages and isolated farmhouses. In November, 1923, he underwent an operation for an internal malady at the hands of Lord Moynihan. He died at his residence in Headingley, Leeds, on May 12th, 1924, being survived by his widow and a small family. He had practised at 30 Park Square, Leeds.
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First Title value, for Searching Weir, Arthur Nesham (1869 - 1902)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on June 12th, 1869, at the house of his grandfather, William Nesham, Surgeon to the Newcastle Lying-in Hospital and Out-Charity. He was taken out as a baby to Singapore, where his father, James Weir, was a merchant. After two years his family returned to Scotland and he was sent to Kelvinside Academy, next to a private school. He entered Merchant Taylors' School in January, 1883, where he was on the classical side; at the age of 16 he was the youngest boy in the Sixth Form and was in the School XV playing forward, and rowing bow in the School VIII. He left in 1886, and entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1887, gaining the Entrance Scholarship; in 1888 the Junior Scholarship, and in 1892 the Brackenbury Surgical Scholarship. As a keen athlete he would begin the day in summer by a swim in the Serpentine. He was Captain of the Hospital Rugby Football Team in 1890-1891, playing also for the United Hospitals and for Middlesex. He acted as House Surgeon to Sir Thomas Smith, and was extern Midwifery Assistant. For three years he was Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy. In 1899, after a holiday in Italy, he was for eight months Medical Inspector, Burials Act Department at the Home Office. He then went out to South Africa as Civil Surgeon to Princess Christian's Hospital, arriving just when the hospital was moved from Cecil Rhodes' garden at Cape Town to Princetown, ten miles from Durban. Here he worked in harmony with Colonel Matthias, RAMC, and his friend, Dr G V Worthington. On one occasion Weir set out to bring in the wounded after an engagement twenty-four miles away at 4 pm, and got back at 8 am the next morning, forty-eight miles in sixteen hours with horsed ambulance. In January, 1901, he returned to England in charge of transport, and after a fortnight's stay returned to No 19 Stationary Hospital, Harrismith, where, with Colonel Matthias, he with two others had charge of 300 beds - mostly typhoid cases. With all his hard work he found time to lay down three dust tennis-courts, which were well patronized. He again came back to England in charge of the convalescent transport *City of Vienna* with about 750 patients under three surgeons, in July, 1901. After holidays in Wales and Switzerland he was appointed in October, 1901, Medical Officer of Health for Tottenham, and had already devised a scheme for an Isolation Hospital, when on Jan 24th, 1902, whilst travelling in a train between Brockley and New Cross, a woman saw him fall out of the train on the wrong side. The train was stopped and Weir was taken at once to Guy's Hospital. He was conscious on arrival and told the House Surgeon that his right humerus was fractured. He became unconscious, was trephined, but died on January 25th, 1902, when it was found that the base of the skull had been extensively fractured. A verdict of 'Accidental Death' was returned at the inquest, and he was buried at Kensal Green. The funeral was attended by many medical representatives, including representatives of athletic clubs. The President of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society, Dr F W Pavy, referred to Weir as "a man of great natural refinement, with an unusually keen sense of honour. These two factors combined to make a most lovable character. He was a man of considerable ability, of sterling qualities, and a highly promising member of our profession."
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Henry (1823 - 1894)

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Publication Date 2013-02-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Parkhill, Croydon, the son of William Smith, a London solicitor, a native of the County of Hereford. He was educated at Croydon and then at Harrow, where he entered in January, 1834, and left in 1837. He acquired a good knowledge of Latin and Greek, which in after-life enabled him to make apt classical quotations in his lectures. Among his school-fellows were Sir Robert Peel, Sir Thomas Moncrieffe, and Sir Percy Shelley, son of the poet. Smith, who was an ardent fisherman and loved birdnesting and natural history, has left on record, in a short autobiography, a number of amusing anecdotes connected with these early pursuits. He maintained through life his love for all objects of natural history such as birds, ferns, and flowers, and was ever an ardent and enthusiastic fly-fisher, spending the greater part of the short holidays from professional work which he allowed himself in the spring and summer in this amusement, in which he attained great proficiency. So infatuated was he with this sport that in after-years his lectures and clinical demonstrations were constantly interspersed with illustrations connected with the rod and line. He had no special leanings towards the medical profession when in 1840 his father apprenticed him to a general practitioner in the West End. Here he went through the drudgery of work in an open surgery, and even delivered bottles at patients' houses. In the bottle-shed he smoked, though forbidden to do so by his master, and disguised the effects of his misdoing by washing his mouth with peppermint water. In his then modest walk in life he was brought into contact with such celebrities as William Lawrence, Marshall Hall, Dr Addison, Anthony White, and others, and has left on record a most picturesque account of many of them. He became a matriculated student at King's College, London, in 1843, and qualified in the short space of two and a half years. In the summer of 1846 he was elected House Surgeon to William Fergusson and Richard Partridge, and afterwards held a resident appointment at the Bloomsbury Dispensary, intending to become a local general practitioner, to which end he took rooms in Bloomsbury. Here he lived from hand to mouth and was very poor. In 1847, however, Fergusson made him his private assistant, and from the year 1848 left him in charge of his private practice during his annual two months' visit to Scotland. Henry Smith thus came into touch with a distinguished clientele, and this association was the starting-point of his career. Appointed Surgeon to the Westminster General Dispensary in 1851, he became Assistant Surgeon to King's College Hospital in 1861. In 1877, on the death of Sir William Fergusson and the promotion of John Wood (qv) to the chair of Clinical Surgery conjointly with Sir Joseph Lister, Smith was elected Professor of Systematic Surgery at King's College. He occupied this position for ten years, when on retiring he was made Emeritus Professor and Consulting Surgeon in the College and Hospital respectively. In 1866 he moved from Caroline Street, Bedford Square, to Wimpole Street, and his private practice grew rapidly. His class of pupils in the Out-patient Department of King's College Hospital was a large one. His lectures, delivered without notes, were full of anecdote, and contained much valuable and practical matter, so as to hold the attention of his class. The greater part of his life was devoted to the treatment of diseases of the rectum, bladder, and urethra, but he was also a good general surgeon, operating in the rapid and brilliant style learnt under his master, Fergusson, in the pre-anesthetic epoch, when speed was imperative. He seconded Fergusson's efforts as a conservative surgeon, recommending excision of bones and joints in place of the amputations then in vogue. He introduced the treatment of haemorrhoids by the clamp and cautery method, his results both in hospital and in private being most satisfactory. He became a member of the Medical Society of London in 1849, and delivered the Annual Oration in 1854. In 1867 he was elected President at a time when many members had seceded from the Society, and its improvement at that time is mainly attributable to him. Under a bluff and breezy exterior he hid a very kind heart, and was a man of much activity and influence. As a Fellow of the College he was always greatly interested in Council elections, but himself failed to be elected. In spite of arduous public and private duties he still took short fishing excursions, his peculiar angler's costume being a familiar object on the Wandle, Avon, and the Lynns. Daily before breakfast he visited the Botanical Gardens, Regent's Park, observing nature in every detail when there, and in time becoming a member of the Council. He was devoted to the country life, and spent the greater part of his time after his retirement in 1888 at Swanley, Weybridge, and Horsell. On the occasion of his retirement at King's College he was presented with a handsome service of plate by his pupils past and present. He remained in consulting practice almost to the last. His death occurred at his residence, Summerhill, Horsell, Surrey, on Easter Sunday, March 25th, 1894, and he was buried in Horsell Churchyard. He was married thrice, and of his three sons two became medical men. A photograph of Henry Smith is in the Fellows' and the Council Albums. Smith's sense of humour endued him with a power of epigram which at times gave offence, as when he said that "haemorrhoids are a magnificent source of income". Publications:- *The Improvements in Modern Surgery: Oration before the Medical Society*, 8vo, London, 1854. *On Stricture of the Urethra*, 8vo, London, 1857. *Hemorrhoids and Prolapsus of the Rectum: their Treatment by the Application of Nitric Acid* 8vo, London, 1859; 2nd ed, 1860. *The Surgery of the Rectum*, Lettsomian Lectures, 1865, 32mo, London, 1865; 5th ed, 8vo, 1882. *Woman: her Duties, Relations, and Position. A Medical and Social Work* (5th thousand), 12mo, London, 1875. *Sir William Fergusson, Bart, a Biographical Sketch*, 8vo, London, 1877. "Diseases of the Rectum" in Holmes's *Surgery*, 1st and 2nd ed, iv, and 3rd ed, ii, 1883. In 1845 he translated from the German, Theodor L W Bischoff's work, *The Periodical Maturation and Extrusion of Ova*, etc. "Essay on Excision of the Head of the Femur."- *Lancet*, 1848, I, 361. "Essay on Excision of the Knee-joint." - *Med Times and Gaz*, 1855, I, 519. "Successful Case of Ligature of External Iliac and Superficial Femoral Arteries in the Same Subject." - *Ibid*, 1852, I, 465.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, James ( - 1926)

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First Title value, for Searching Smith, John Gregory ( - 1886)

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

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First Title value, for Searching Smith, John Simm ( - 1877)

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First Title value, for Searching Smith, John William (1864 - 1926)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Lancaster on August 13th, 1864, the eldest son of Thomas Davidson Smith, whose family had been settled in the district for centuries. He received his early education at the Friends' School and at the ancient Royal Grammar School, Lancaster, where he had a good grounding in the classics, for which he retained a love throughout life. He preferred to become a student of medicine instead of following the paternal business, and in 1880 entered the University of Edinburgh. Many of his fellow-townsmen, including Sir William Turner (qv), who was also educated at the Grammar School, were Edinburgh medical graduates. Naturally enough Smith attracted the attention of Turner, who appointed him one of his Junior Demonstrators of Anatomy. After graduation in 1886 he became Resident House Surgeon to John Duncan in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. This fortunate appointment profoundly influenced his future career. Duncan was a remarkable man, and an illustration of the dictum of the late Sir William Dalby, given in his shrewd and witty *Dr Chesterfield's Letters to his Son*, that the largest practices and widest influences are not necessarily in the hands of those men who are most in the public eye. During his distinguished Edinburgh career Smith was elected President of the Royal Medical Society. He studied for a few months in Vienna and in Berne, and in 1889 became Junior Demonstrator of Anatomy at the Victoria University, Manchester, under Professor A H Young (qv), himself an old pupil of Sir William Turner. This post he held for two years, during which he published several papers on human and comparative anatomy. In 1891 he was elected Resident Surgical Officer to the Manchester Royal Infirmary, thus following the old-time tradition of the training for the practice of surgery - that a surgeon should first, and above all things, be an anatomist. In 1894 Smith began private surgical practice, and held some junior non resident appointments on the staff of the Infirmary, such as that of Junior Anaesthetist. He became interested about this time in the medical services of the Army, the Volunteer Army Medical Service Corps or Bearer Company being then the sole outlet for the energies of a civilian. He became an enthusiastic volunteer officer in this corps, and in the dark period of the South African War went out early in 1900 in command of the first detachment of 72 men who had volunteered for ambulance service. On arrival he was separated from his men and was detailed for service at Bloemfontein, where he was put in charge of the Surgical Division of No 9 General Hospital, South African Field Force, and was in that post for six months. He had left papers behind him in charge of a friend, which the latter was to present in case a vacancy occurred on the honorary staff of the Manchester Infirmary. A vacancy duly occurred, but the friend forgot to hand in Smith's application. Another man was elected, but luckily there was a fresh vacancy within a year, when in 1901 Smith was elected Assistant Surgeon, and became full Surgeon in 1910. After the war his interest continued in the Volunteer Bearer Company, and in 1908, on the formation of the Territorial Force, he was given a commission as Major in the new RAMC (TF). He commanded a Field Ambulance Company and rarely missed a camp. He succeeded G A Wright (qv) in command of the 2nd Western General Military Hospital, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel RAMC (T). It thus fell to his lot, in conjunction with F A Westmacott, to mobilize the hospital early in August, 1914. The hospital was originally equipped and designed to comprise 500 beds under one roof, and there was the nucleus of a trained military staff of officers and orderlies. Except that all contracts for equipment had long been made out and placed and a building earmarked for the hospital, everything else had to be done de novo. A large school in the centre of the town near the Southern Railway centre, with a smaller one a few hundred yards distant, were taken over and rapidly transformed into hospitals. At a very early date patients were being admitted, first from training centres in the district, then direct from the front. The accommodation was rapidly extended again and again. The extension went on almost continuously until about 1917, by which time the original base hospital of 500 beds in two buildings, with a few odd auxiliary hospitals, had increased to a base hospital with 5000 to 6000 beds, and some 120 auxiliary hospitals, making a total all told of upwards of 20,000 beds. Smith remained in command till late in 1915, when he began to devote himself wholly to work as head of the Surgical Department of the Hospital. He was made Brevet Colonel in 1917 - an honour granted to many men engaged in similar military medical work at that time - and later was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of the County of Lancaster in recognition of his services. He continued in practice till 1922, when he retired owing to failing health. He had been Professor of Systematic Surgery in the Victoria University since 1911, and was Emeritus Professor at the time of his death. He was a skilful surgeon, his judgement and knowledge of human nature being appreciated by all. He possessed shrewd common sense, and expressed his views clearly in matters of policy connected with the Medical School. Much interested in medico-legal cases, he was often a witness on behalf of the Corporation Tramways Committee, to which he was Consulting Surgeon, and was for some years Medical Referee in the County Court. He lived at Richmond Road House, Ingleton, Carnforth, Yorks, after his retirement in 1922, died there on April 13th, 1926, and was buried at Tatham Church, Wennington, on April 16th. He married in 1910 the daughter of Henry James Mason, who survived him, with two children, a son and a daughter. Publications: "Anatomy of *Spheniscus Demersus*."- *Studies in Anatomy from the Anatomical Department, Owens College*, 1891. "Muscular Anomalies in Human Anatomy."-*Ibid*. "Six Months with a Military Hospital (South African Field Force)."- *Manch Med Chron*, 1901. "Enteroptosis." - *Ibid*, 1913. "Operative Treatment of Carcinoma Recti." - *Ibid* 1911. "Atony and Prolapse of Large Intestine." - *Ibid*, 1920. "Surgical Anatomy of the Rectum." - *Jour Anat and Physiol*, 1913, xlvii, 350. "Excision of the Rectum for Carcinoma; a Record of 34 Cases, 1904-10." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1911, I, 366.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Nathaniel (1782 - 1869)

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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Richard Thomas ( - 1890)

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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Robert William ( - 1870)

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First Title value, for Searching Williams, Caleb (1798 - 1871)

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Publication Date 2013-02-13
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Occupation Physician
Details Received his early professional education under William Travis, of Scarborough, remaining with him till he came of age. He afterwards attended the Medical Schools of Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, and spent a short period in those of Paris. He began to practise in York at the age of 25, and was soon chosen Visiting Medical Officer to the Friends' Retreat. Here he was assisted by James Hack Tuke (1819-1896), and was one of the earliest advocates of a more enlightened treatment of the insane, which should involve relaxation of the prevalent cruel system of restraint. He filled this appointment uninterruptedly for nearly fifty years, and resigned it on the ground of failing health in April, 1871. He was Physician, and then Consulting Physician (1864), to the York County Asylum, and with a number of his colleagues in the City remained faithfully at his post during the terrible cholera epidemic which visited York in 1832. From 1838-1858 he occupied the Chair of Materia Medica in the York School of Medicine, an institution which was afterwards closed. At the time of his death he was also visiting Medical Officer to two private asylums in York - namely, The Retreat and Lawrence House; to Terrace House Asylum, Osbaldwick; and to the York Penitentiary. Besides these he held other posts and was a member of the British Medical Association, the York Medical Society, and the Medico-Psychological Association. His large experience in the treatment of the insane gave him a widespread reputation, and his aid was sought from far and near. In 1851 Williams appeared as the advocate for a wider range of the plea of insanity in criminal cases than judges, jurors, or public opinion were then prepared to admit. In 1851 he made known his opinions, the results of long and careful observation, in a work *On the Criminal Responsibility of the Insane*. His course as a practitioner was one of constantly increasing reputation. Caleb Williams was a philanthropist, taking especial interest in the York Penitentiary, County Hospital, and Dispensary. He was for forty years a Preacher in the Society of Friends. His daughter, also of that Society, is the mother of Dr Caleb Williams Saleeby. He practised at 73 Micklegate, where he died after a few days' illness, and was interred in the Friends' Burial Ground in Heslington Road. The large company was addressed by Mr Isaac Brown, of Kendal, an intimate friend of the deceased. Publications: *Observations on the Criminal Responsibility of the Insane*, founded on the Trials of James Hill and of William Dove; to which are appended full Reports of the same, 8vo, London, 1851. "Case of an Epileptic Maniac Charged with Murder, and Acquitted on the Ground of Insanity." - *Lond Med Gaz*, 1840, xxvii, 18. "On the Present Type and Character of Disease." - *Trans Prov Med Assoc*, 1851, xviii (NS vi), 341.
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First Title value, for Searching Williams, Campbell (1859 - 1921)

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First Title value, for Searching Blaxland, Walter (1850 - 1939)

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First Title value, for Searching Blight, William Lyne (1861 - 1940)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-10
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 20 July 1861 at Blewick Antony in the parish of Torpoint in Cornwall, the seventh child and second son of the eleven children born to William Lyne Blight, farmer, and Caroline Treliving, his wife. He was educated at the Independent College, Taunton, now called Taunton College, at Guy's Hospital, where he was assistant demonstrator of practical physiology, and at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne School of Medicine. He practised first at Walthamstow, next at Diss in Norfolk, and from 1894 in Cardiff. He was president of the Cardiff Medical Society during the years 1914-15 and delivered the opening address, on arterio-sclerosis, an abstract of which was published in *The Lancet*, 1915, 1, 1167. After the war of 1914-18 he served as a member of the neurological and special appeal boards. He married Clara, daughter of Henry Wigfield of Sheffield, on 6 September 1916. She survived him but without children. He retired from practice in 1925 and lived at Bournemouth until his sudden death on 29 May 1940. Blight is described as a quiet and solitary practitioner who was never in robust health and kept himself to himself. He had a general and panel practice and was greatly respected by his professional colleagues and patients, but he never showed any aptitude for or interest in surgery. He was a staunch freemason and a devout churchman, holding strong evangelical views. His hobbies were gardening and continental travel.
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First Title value, for Searching Bloch, Oscar Thorvald (1847 - 1926)

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First Title value, for Searching Blusger, Isak Nahum ( - 1942)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-10
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Occupation General surgeon
Details After graduating BA at Capetown University with distinction in physiology in 1930, Blusger came to England and took the Conjoint qualification in 1933 from St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he served as senior house surgeon. He also served as house surgeon at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, and became resident surgical officer and subsequently clinical surgical assistant at the Connaught Hospital, Walthamstow. He took the Edinburgh and the English Fellowships in 1938. After the outbreak of war in 1939 he became resident surgeon in the emergency medical service hospital at Black Notley, near Braintree, Essex. In November 1942 he sailed for South Africa, intending to join the South African Army Medical Corps, but the ship was lost with all passengers. Blusger played centre three-quarter in the St Bartholomew's Hospital rugby football XV, and was also a keen lawn-tennis player and fond of riding. Publications:- Fractures: some hints on diagnosis and treatment. *The Livingstonian*, 1939. Circumcision, a new technique. *Brit Med J*. 1940, 2, 190. Osteomyelitis of the spine, with E C B Butler. *Lancet*, 1941, 1, 480. Local anaesthesia in cystoscopy, with J H Dixon. *Lancet*, 1943, 1, 111 [posthumously].
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First Title value, for Searching Stone, Thomas Arthur (1797 - 1864)

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First Title value, for Searching Deanesly, Edward (1866 - 1948)

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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 23 January 1866 at Wincanton, Somerset, the second son of Samuel Deanesly, wine merchant, and his wife, *née* Dowding. He was educated at King's School, Bruton, Somerset, and at University College Hospital, where he was vice-president of the medical society and served as house surgeon, house physician and obstetric assistant. He took first-class honours in forensic medicine at the London MB in 1887. Deanesly was appointed in 1893 house surgeon to the Wolverhampton and Staffordshire General Hospital, and from there till his retirement in 1931 identified himself with the medical and civic life of the town. He went into private practice in 1895, accepting at the same time the new post of honorary casualty officer at the hospital. He was appointed assistant surgeon in 1901, and in due course became surgeon, and later consulting surgeon, and was elected vice-president on his retirement. He first organized a thorough casualty service and was insistent on the proper treatment of wounds, especially of wounds of the hands, which are so frequent in the industrial population of the district. He evolved and taught an excellent technique, dissecting out after proper cleansing the whole surface of the wound however deep, closing it without stitches by a firm absorbent dressing and leaving it undisturbed for at least a week. He persuaded the governors to re-organize the staff of the hospital, offering suitable inducements to first-class specialists, instead of relying on the voluntary services of local practitioners; he also brought into being a pathological department, which was opened by Sir Clifford Allbutt, FRCP in 1914, and secured the appointment of William Boyd, afterwards professor at Toronto, as the first pathologist. The hospital, for which a Royal Charter was granted, became the monument of Deanesly's life and work. He was an excellent general surgeon with a special interest in the surgery of the renal tract: he was the first to describe the difference in ruptures of the urethra when caused by violence or by fracture of the pelvis. There were few branches of surgery, except that of the eye, in which he was not skilled. He wrote on hernia, prostatectomy, cerebellar abscess, abdominal pain, and the treatment of gastric ulcer. He was an original member of Moynihan's Provincial Surgical Club. Deanesly was a town councillor of Wolverhampton from 1901 till 1917. He married in 1898 Ida, daughter of Alderman John Marston of Wolverhampton, who survived him with two sons and four daughters. He retired in 1931 to Cheltenham, moving in 1940 to Llanbedr, Merioneth, North Wales, where he died on 31 March 1948, aged 82, and was buried at Llanbedr. He was a man of forthright personality with a mordant, ironic tongue. His professional and administrative ability was backed by wide cultivation, and he was well-read in history, philosophy, and the classics.
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First Title value, for Searching Stone, William Henry (1830 - 1891)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Occupation Physician
Details Born in Spitalfields on July 5th, 1830, the only son of the Rev William Stone, Rector of Christchurch, Spitalfields, and later Canon of Canterbury. Canon Stone was a man of commanding presence, great learning, and wide culture, and earnestly desired that his son should become a scholar and an ornament of the Church. The boy was brought up in refined surroundings and in a deeply religious atmosphere. He took to classics with avidity, and at seven years old showed what later proved a life-long tendency - that of branching off at a tangent from one pursuit to another. He was found attending alone the lectures at the Royal Institution, and was questioned one evening as to whether he understood them. His answers were so satisfactory that the managers put him on the free list for a term of years. He became a brilliant student at Charterhouse School, where he was educated from 1843-1849 and won the Gold Medal. He matriculated from Balliol College, Oxford, on November 30th, 1848, having gained a scholarship there which he held until 1855. He graduated BA in Michaelmas Term after gaining a 1st class in Literae Humaniores ('Greats') and a 2nd class in mathematics, though it is not recorded in the *Oxford Historical Register*. Stone became a student at St Thomas's Hospital, his love for physical science having been fostered by John Jackson, of Church Street, Spitalfields, who was a skilful microscopist. In him physic and physics were seen working together so naturally, says Dr William Ord, that his young friend was led to choose a profession in which both could take part. He was as brilliant at St Thomas's as at school and college. He took without difficulty the entrance scholarship in Classics and Mathematics, and ended by obtaining the Treasurer's Medal at St Thomas's, which is awarded for general proficiency. His studies were completed in Paris, where he was a pupil of Richet. He was appointed Medical Registrar at St Thomas's Hospital, but soon accepted the post of Inspector to the Board of Health and Superintendent of Vaccination in Trinidad, where he gained great experience of tropical fevers and leprosy. Returning to London in 1861, he was appointed Physician to the Surrey Dispensary and Assistant Physician to the Brompton Hospital for Consumption, devoting much of his leisure to the study of physics and the collection of apparatus in his little Vigo Street house, which became a perfect museum. He was appointed Lecturer on Forensic Medicine at St Thomas's, and in 1868 became Physician to the Clergy Mutual Assurance office, with which he was connected to the end of his life, and where both as Medical Examiner and Director he showed persistent energy and proved himself a man of business in whom the Board reposed trust. In 1870 he was appointed Assistant Physician at St Thomas's Hospital, and Lecturer in Materia Medica and Physics in the School. In a year or two he became full Physician and held this post till his retirement under the rule as to age in 1890. His record at the Royal College of Physicians was a high one. He was Censor (1884), Lumleian Lecturer (1886), Harveian Orator (1887), and Croonian Lecturer (1879). His Lumleian Lectures were, says his biographer, Dr Ord, as connected with medicine, the culmination of his physical studies; they treated of the electrical conditions of the human body, and, while carefully recording the results obtained by previous observers, were full of original thought and observations far in advance of what was already known. In his pursuit of medicine he was at all times attracted by subjects related to physics - hence many of his papers, such as his early prize essay on "Aegophony". He did much electrical research, writing extensively on his results, and in conjunction with Mr. Wyatt, the actuary, published his important reports on "The Mortality Experience of the Clergy Mutual Assurance Society". He showed in these that there was no evidence of increased prevalence of cancer and that phthisis is not as frequently hereditary as is supposed. His style was literary, lucid, full of flashes of wit and illustration. As a lecturer he was all this, and was almost more amusing than seriously instructive. He fascinated his pupils, but was often again tempted to wander beyond their depth. His classical scholarship had always stood him in good stead; he was well versed in the Latin and Greek medical authors, and his trained memory enabled him to quote readily. He might have become a brilliant orator. He attended closely to his duties as a physician, and perhaps the most important part of his teaching in the wards was therapeutical. He did not practise, and at his home in Vigo Street, and afterwards in Dean's Yard, devoted himself to physics, to the Clergy Mutual Office, and lastly to music, of which he was a master. He was a member of the well-known amateur musical society the "Wandering Minstrels", played in many concerts, and performed admir¬ably on the clarionet. He improved the double bassoon, and invented and played one with lower notes than had hitherto been heard in orchestras, to which he introduced his instrument. He lectured on acoustics at the Royal Institution, etc, and published valuable works on sound. His papers on music bear witness to the fact that he might have taken a very high position as an authority on that art had he so chosen. He also read many papers on his electrical researches before the British Association and Society of Telegraphic Engineers. He was a Vice-President of the Physical Society of London. His musical accomplishments and brilliant conversational powers should have led him into society, but he lived the life of a recluse. At 14 Dean's Yard "he lived a life mostly to himself, with his kindly old housekeeper, his owls, and his multitudinous apparatus". He was attacked with severe mental illness in 1882, and has referred to his case in one of his papers. His vigour was much impaired; he took to drugs, removed to Wandsworth, and came back to London, making spasmodic public appearances. Indeed, he acted for some years as Hon Secretary of the Fellows' Club of the Royal College of Physicians, and in this capacity showed much of his old brilliancy. In 1890 he resigned his position as Physician to St Thomas's Hospital, and died at Geraldine Road, Wandsworth, on his sixty-first birthday, July 5th, 1891, after months of suffering. Dr S W Wheaton, his faithful and careful friend, was with him to the last, and supplied Dr Ord with much of his information. A portrait accompanies Dr Ord's biography (*St Thomas's Hosp Rep*, 1890, xx, pxxvii.) Publications:- *Novus Theaetos or Sense and Science; being the Introductory Address delivered at St Thomas's Hospital, Oct 1st*, 1869, 8vo, London, 1869. "A Short History of Old St Thomas's Hospital," 8vo, London, 1870; reprinted from *St Thomas's Hosp Rep,* 1870, I, 1. "On Aegophony," 8vo, London, 1871; reprinted from *St Thomas's Hosp Rep*, 1871, ii, 187. "Clinical Lecture on Pleural Tension. Delivered at St Thomas's Hospital," fol, 1878; reprinted from *Med Examiner*, 1878, iii, 68 - a very interesting essay. *Some Further Remarks on Pleural Tension*, 8vo, np, 1878. "Adjustments of the Sphygmograph."- *St Thomas's Hosp Rep*, 1875, vi, 105. "On Hysteria and Hystero-epilepsy," 8vo, London, 1880; reprinted from *St Thomas's Hosp Rep*, 1880, x, 85. "On the Effect of the Voltaic Current on the Elimination of Sugar," 8vo, London, 1881; reprinted from *Rep Brit Assoc*, 1881, 724. "On the Electrical Resistance of the Human Body," 8vo, London, 1883; reprinted from *St Thomas's Hosp Rep*, 1883, xii, 203. *The Harveian Oration, delivered at the Royal College of Physicians, Oct 18th,* 1887, 8vo, London, 1887. In Frank B Wyatt's *Report on the Mortality Experience of the Clergy Mutual Assur-ance Society*, etc, 8vo, London, 1891, Stone wrote the "Report on the Medical History of the Society" (1829-1887); and he also wrote on the same subject with STEWART HELDER in *St Thomas's Hosp Rep*, 1872, iii, [141, and *Ibid*, 1876, vii, 273. *International Health Exhibition, London*, 1884. *The Physiological Bearing of Elec¬tricity on Health*., 8vo, London, 1884. "Use of the Continuous Current in Diabetes" (with W J KILNER) - *St Thomas's Hosp Rep*, 1882, xi, 61. "Measurements in the Medical Application of Electricity" (with W J KILNER) - *Ibid*, 147. "The Physical Basis of Auscultation."- *Ibid*, 1873, iv, 233. Stone's paper "On the Electrical Resistance of the Human Body" led up to the Lumleian Lectures. Among his medical papers mention should be made of "Some Effects of Brain Disturbance on the Handwriting", *St Thomas's Hosp Rep*, 1883, xii, 67, in which he gave an account of his own illness; and of the "Tricoelian Heart", *Ibid*, 1882, xi, 57. He edited the *St Thomas's Hosp Rep*, 1870-3, i-iv. He also published lectures on the "Scientific Basis of Music" and "Elementary Lessons on Sound", *Sound and Music*, 8vo, London, 1876, which had a large sale.
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First Title value, for Searching Julius, Frederic Gilder (1811 - 1886)

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Publication Date 2012-05-31 2014-03-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Bristol; his father soon afterwards removed to Richmond and joined Sir David Dundas in practice, Sir David being then Serjeant Surgeon to George III. Here he was afterwards joined by his two sons, George C Julius and Frederic Gilder Julius. The latter received his professional training at St George's Hospital, and his Lambeth degree was granted by the Archbishop of Canterbury. "My degree is not the London degree," he said, "it is the Archbishop of Canterbury's; he has the power of granting it; I did not take it out as a matter of form, it is a very uncommon thing. In order to obtain it, I had not merely to pay the fees, I had to go to two Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians, who stated that they had known me a certain length of time, and that I was a person upon whom a doctor's degree might be conferred; upon that you are enabled to call yourself Doctor, that is all; that was my object." Julius was for many years a leading practitioner in Richmond, Surrey, and in 1859 was the principal medical witness in the trial known as "The Queen against Thomas Smethhurst", which began on August 15th of that year and lasted several days. Dr Smethhurst was accused of the murder by poison of a Miss Isabella Bankes, whom he had bigamously married - he having as wife an older lady, alive at the time. Miss Bankes, when suffering from severe illness, involving constant diarrhoea and vomiting, had made a will in Smethhurst's favour on May 1st. Julius, who was called in and was in constant attendance upon her, suspected that some drug of an irritant nature was being administered to her in addition to those prescribed by him. She died on May 4th. His suspicions having been aroused, Julius had applied to a magistrate some time before her death, but Smethhurst was not arrested till the death occurred. Many important medical witnesses were called both for the prosecution and for the defence, and eventually Smethhurst was found guilty of murder, but was reprieved owing to insufficiency of evidence, and in the end, after litigation, succeeded to Miss Bankes's fortune. Julius, however, had acted with entire propriety in the whole matter, as had his partner, Samuel Dougan Bird, MRCS. He retired in 1871 and travelled much in countries bordering on the Mediterranean. His death occurred at Richmond on January 4th, 1886.
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First Title value, for Searching Pitt, John Ballard ( - 1900)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-10
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Studied at University College, London, and practised at Norwich, where he was Surgeon to the Henstead Union, and filled other posts, residing in St Stephen's Street. Among his posts were: Surgeon to the City Dispensary; Medical Referee to the Norwich Union Life Assurance Society; Hon Secretary to the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, later the British Medical Association; Member of the Pathological Society of Norwich; Surgeon to the Oddfellows; Surgeon to the Norwich Union; Member of the Norwich Medico-Chirurgical Society. Before 1881 he had moved to Grove House, Scarning, East Dereham, as Medical Officer of Health for the Henstead Rural District, and Surgeon to the Boys' Home, Norwich. He had retired for thirteen years before his death at Scarning in 1900.
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First Title value, for Searching Stonham, Charles (1858 - 1916)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-11
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Maidstone on March 27th, 1858, the third son of T G Stonham, pharmacist. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and then studied at University College and Hospital. He had a distinguished career as a student, being Atchison Scholar in 1881. Stonham was a man of great natural ability, who profited to the full from the teaching given by the distinguished staff of University College Hospital. Marcus Beck was his great exemplar, upon whom he modelled himself both as an operator and as a surgical pathologist. Berkeley Hill gave him an inclination for his particular line of practice, and he wrote genito-urinary articles in Quain's *Dictionary of Medicine* (2nd edition, 1894). As Obstetric Assistant under Sir John Williams he obtained a good introduction to abdominal surgery. He held in addition the resident posts of House Surgeon and House Physician, and was later a Demon¬strator of Anatomy and Curator of the Pathological Museum, in which latter capacity he worked zealously at the compilation of the catalogue of the surgical, obstetrical, and gynaecological preparations (see Descriptive Catalogue of the specimens illustrating medical pathology in the Museum of University College, 1887-1890-1891). For a time he was on the surgical staff of the North-West London (afterwards the Hampstead General) Hospital, the Cancer Hospital, and the Poplar Hospital for Accidents, posts he resigned after his appointment as Assistant Surgeon to Westminster Hospital. At the Westminster Hospital he at once made his mark as a teacher of surgical pathology. His wide knowledge and previous experience enabled him to restore the Museum, collect further specimens, and write a catalogue. Of this accurate and multifarious information he made good use in his *Manual of Surgery* (3 vols, 12mo, London and New York, 1899). In succession he was a Teacher of Operative Surgery, Lecturer on Systematic Surgery, and then on Clinical Surgery. He became Surgeon to the Hospital in 1897. Stonham's commanding, spare figure, striking face, and the force be threw into speech and movement, impressed not only students but colleagues and patients, whilst he possessed the skill which accorded with his appearance. He was perfectly ambidextrous; his long thin hands were used most skilfully and with rapidity at the beginning and towards the end of an operation, whilst in between he proceeded with all due care learnt by long practice in dissecting. Of his skill as a surgeon one instance will suffice: he succeeded for the first time in ligaturing the first part of the left subclavian artery for an aneurysm of the second part which was rapidly increasing. At the first operation Stonham ligatured the arterial branches distal to the sac; at the second operation he divided the clavicle and ligatured the first part of the artery. In 1921, five years after Stonham's death, the patient spontaneously returned to Westminster Hospital for another trouble. The aneurysm had remained cured, and the patient was exhibited at the Clinical Section of the Royal Society of Medicine (see *Proc Roy Soc Med*, 1920-1, xiv (Clin Sect), 58 by W G Spencer. He was Examiner in Elementary Anatomy to the Conjoint Board, Examiner in Surgery to the Society of Apothecaries and to the Royal University of Ireland. A brusque manner was accompanied by a natural kindness under the surface. His personal acts of kindness to students and nurses at the Hospital were long remembered. He was not a reader of medical literature, but he was an ornithologist with a wide knowledge of bird lore. He filled his house with a beautiful and rare collection of birds and their eggs, and he published in 4to, *Birds of the British Islands*, 1906-11, notable for the guidance which he gave to L M Midland in making the black-and-white drawings, as well as for the value of the text. In early life he was an enthusiastic climber as a member of the Alpine Club, and he made some noteworthy ascents. This, and some of his ventures after birds' eggs, may have overstrained him, for he had some attacks of pulmonary inflammation which were ominous of a persistent emphysema. Stonham had a distinguished career in military service as a volunteer. He joined the Yeomanry and took part in organizing its ambulance service. Upon the outbreak of the South African War he was appointed Surgeon-in-Chief of the Yeomanry Field Hospital, which he took out to South Africa. As the hospital advanced up country, the Field Ambulance arrived soon after the capture of the Derby Militia by De Wet. It devolved upon Stonham, as Major RAMC, Officer in Command and the senior officer present, to arrange matters temporarily with the Boer General, and to transmit the first knowledge of the capture to the British authorities. For his South African services he received the Medal with four Clasps, was mentioned in dispatches and decorated a CMG. He edited the Record of the Yeomanry Field Hospital. After his return he devoted an immense amount of time to the training of recruits and the providing of equipment and horses for a Mounted Ambulance. Despite lack of funds, the London Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance, with Lieut-Colonel Stonham, RAMC (T), had been well practised in field manoeuvres, and on the outbreak of the War in August, 1914, was ready, and Stonham could have taken out the completely furnished Mounted Ambulance with the First Expeditionary Force. Unfortunately he had to undergo the severest trial to his patience: his trained men and horses were transferred to fill up deficiencies elsewhere. He had to spend a bad winter in East Anglia, replacing what had been taken from him, whilst watching for a threatened invasion. In 1915 his Ambulance, being then reorganized, was ordered to Egypt, where Stonham served further as Inspector of Hospitals and Consulting Surgeon. But the previous winter had caused additional pulmonary trouble; he was weakened by dengue and dysentery. Phthisis advanced rapidly; he was forced to go to Cannes on sick-leave. Becoming worse, he arrived home in January, wasted and breathless, and died at his house, 4 Harley Street, on February 1st, 1916. His funeral, with military honours, took place at Golder's Green, and his name is inscribed on the College Roll of Honour. His Ornithological Collection was dispersed by sale. His estate amounted to over £24,000. He was survived by his widow and a daughter, Kathleen, who married Kenneth McLean Marshall, CBE, a Metropolitan Police Magistrate. His portrait hangs in the Board Room of Westminster Hospital. A clever cartoon in the students' magazine, *The Broadway (Westminster Hosp Gaz)*, is entitled the "Mounted Don Quixote", in reference to his Mounted Ambulance and his attempts to get improvements adopted.
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First Title value, for Searching Story, William (1813 - 1885)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-11 2022-11-22
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Began to practise in the Mile End Road, E, and later in Old Bow Lane. After becoming FRCS he went out to Australia and practised first at Hobart Town, and then at Sandhurst, Victoria. After 1860 he returned to England and practised successively at Grove Street, South Hackney, NE, and 84 Holland Road, W, until 1875; then at Chorley, Lancashire, and finally at Mentmore Villa, Linslade, Buckinghamshire. He died, after being sentenced to five years penal servitude for arson, in 1885. His photograph is in the Fellows' Album. Publications:- *Cholera: its Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment*, 1865. **See below for an expanded version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 1 of Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk** William Story was a doctor in Linsdale, in what was then Buckinghamshire, who was convicted of arson and subsequently struck off the Medical Register and lost his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He was born in Stepney in around 1813. He studied medicine at the London Hospital and, in 1832, witnessed a cholera epidemic in the Whitechapel and Mile End area. His brother, John Story, was then a medical officer for the Mile End Union. Story’s early career is uncertain, but in his *Medical Directory* entry for 1870 he states he served in the Army in Spain under Lieutenant-General Sir de Lacy Evans, probably in the First Carlist War (1833 to 1839). He also stated he worked in the Government Emigration Service. He gained his MRCS in 1837 and from 1838 to 1840 was in Jessore in the then East Indies, where he again dealt with a cholera epidemic. He returned to England, where he settled in the East End of London. At some point in the 1850s he went out to Australia, where he practised at Williamstown, Melbourne, Victoria, and then in Tasmania, at Circular Head and later at New Town, near Hobart. He subsequently went back to Victoria, where he practised at Sandhurst (later known as Bendigo); he was working here when he gained his FRCS in 1858. On 13 March 1861 he advertised in the *Bendigo Advertiser*: ‘Dr Story, fellow of the RCS, member of the Calcutta, Tasmania, & Victoria Medical Boards, &c, having resided in the East and West Indies, is well acquainted with the diseases of hot climates. Between eight and nine years’ experience in Victoria convinces him that the diseases of women and children are peculiar, and require a modified treatment to that adopted in England. Rowan Street, Sandhurst.’ On 17 December 1862 he and his wife left Melbourne on board the *Norfolk* and returned to England. He gained his licentiate of the King’s and Queen’s College of Physicians of Ireland in 1863. Two years later, he published a book detailing his experiences of treating patients with cholera, *Cholera: its pathology, diagnosis and treatment *(London, E & F N Spon, 1865). He was a member of the New Sydenham Society and a fellow of the Anthropological Society of London. By 1867 he was living in Hackney in East London. In 1875 he listed two addresses in his *Medical Directory* entry – Holland Road in West Kensington and Battlecrease Hall in Halliford, Middlesex. Five years later, he gave his address as Mentmore Villa, Linsdale, Buckinghamshire. On 12 August 1881 he was arrested and charged with ‘Feloniously and maliciously setting fire to a certain dwelling house, the property of James Hadley, also feloniously and maliciously setting fire to certain goods and chattels in the said house with intent to defraud the West of England Fire Insurance Company, on 10th August, 1881, at Linsdale.’ The trial took place on 27 October 1881 in Bedford and the jury found him guilty, despite evidence being presented to the court that the prisoner was ‘not of sound mind’. He was sentenced to five years in prison. He had no previous convictions. On 22 July 1882 the *Lancet* reported: ‘A very painful case came before the council – that of William Story, of Linsdale, convicted of feloniously setting fire to a certain house in his possession with intent to injure and defraud. His name was ordered to be erased from the Register. It had previously been removed from the list of Fellows and Members of the College of Surgeons.’ Story was released from prison following a petition to the Queen and the Home Secretary two years into his sentence. On 26 January 1885 he died suddenly at home. He was 72. The local newspaper the *Northampton Mercury* reported: ‘He had suffered from spasms of the heart and this was thought the cause of death.’ He was survived by his wife Harriet. Sarah Gillam
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First Title value, for Searching Keate, Henry ( - 1874)

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Occupation General surgeon
Details Resided at Shrewsbury, and died there in 1874.
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First Title value, for Searching Colledge, Lionel (1883 - 1948)

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First Title value, for Searching Collier, Horace Stansfield (1864 - 1930)

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First Title value, for Searching Collier, Mark Purcell Mayo (1857 - 1931)

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First Title value, for Searching Collins, Edward Treacher (1862 - 1932)

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First Title value, for Searching Collins, Sir William Henry (1873 - 1947)

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First Title value, for Searching Collins, Sir William Job (1859 - 1946)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Occupation Ophthalmologist Welfare reformer
Details William Job Collins was a man of powerful intellect and character, who showed early promise of great achievement as a surgeon and ophthalmologist, but turned aside from his medical career to promote liberal reforms in the life and welfare of his fellow citizens, through a long life of service to the university, city, and county of London, and to the country at large, both in Parliament and through a large number of public and private commissions and societies. His fluent voice and pen were always ready to serve the causes which he had at heart. He was born in London on 9 May 1859, the eldest son of William Collins, MD of 1 Albert Terrace, Regent's Park, and Mary, eldest daughter of Edward Treacher; for fuller particulars see the foregoing account of his younger brother, Edward Treacher Collins, FRCS, who achieved distinction as an ophthalmologist. He was educated at University College School, then still in Gower Street, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, which he entered in 1876 after winning the Jeafferson exhibition for classics and general knowledge. He served the hospital as ophthalmic house surgeon and extern midwifery assistant, and in 1884 was assistant demonstrator of anatomy in the medical college. Collins however came to disbelieve in the value of vaccination and vivisection, and as he always had the courage to speak and write vehemently in support of his beliefs, he spoilt his chances of promotion in his own hospital, where he had been educated in strictest traditions of Harvey and Jenner. He had been a scholar and gold medallist of London University and graduated in science in 1889, the year in which he qualified as MRCS, and took the MB BS in 1881. He made postgraduate studies in ophthalmology at Utrecht and proceeded to the London MD in 1882, the FRCS in 1884, and the MS in 1885. With this equipment Collins seemed destined to rise high and quickly in the profession. He was elected to the staff of the Royal Eye Hospital and the Western Ophthalmic Hospital, and was for many years ophthalmic surgeon to the Temperance Hospital and to the Hampstead and Northwestern Hospital. In 1897 he published a useful treatise on *Cataract*, which reached a second edition in 1906. Already in his early thirties, Collins began to show his interest and aptitude for public affairs. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Vaccination 1889-96, and from 1893 till 1927 he served on the senate of London University, being vice-chancellor 1907-09 and again 1911-12. He was elected a member of the London County Council for St Pancras in 1892, became vice-chairman in 1896, and as chairman in 1897 presented the Council's address to Queen Victoria at her diamond jubilee. He stood unsuccessfully for Parliament as a Liberal candidate for London University in 1895 and again in 1900, when Sir Michael Foster, FRS, was elected; he was returned by a large majority for West St Pancras in 1906. He was temporary chairman of committees in 1910, but went out at the general election that year. He was re-elected for Derby in 1916 and held the seat till the general election of 1918. He had advocated providing a central ambulance service for London while serving in the LCC in 1901. A bill for this end promoted by the Council was thrown out by the Lords in 1906, and a departmental committee of the Home Office was appointed with Collins as one of the three members. This committee reported in 1909 in favour of the service, but while his two colleagues recommended that the Metropolitan Asylums Board should be the ambulance authority, Collins recorded a dissentient view in favour of the LCC. Collins now introduced his Metropolitan Ambulances bill in Parliament, and it became law in 1909; the LCC was however reluctant to operate the Act and the Ambulance Service only came into being in 1914. Collins wrote an account of the service, its beginnings and its great development, in *The Times*, 21 March 1939. Collins served on many other commissions of enquiry: Royal Commission on vivisection 1906-12; select committee on the hop industry 1908; independent chairman of the Cumberland joint district board under the Coal-miners' Minimum Wage Act 1912; the committee on accidents to railway servants 1914-19; chairman of the Sussex agricultural wages committee 1920-39; Treasury committee on university colleges; chairman, civil servants conciliation and arbitration board 1917-18. He was British plenipotentiary to the international opium conferences at The Hague in. 1911, 1913, and 1914 and wrote for the *British Medical Journal* on opium problems. His book on the *Ethics and law of drug and alcohol addiction* was a piece of wise and humane reasoning. He was for thirty years chairman of the Central Council for district nursing for London, and on his retirement in 1944 was elected its first president. He was honorary secretary of the League of Mercy 1899-1928, a trustee of the City parochial charities and a member of the City Churches commission 1919-20. Collins was elected an honorary liveryman of the Turners Company in 1909. He was a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy-Lieutenant for the County of London and was appointed Vice-Lieutenant in 1925. He had been knighted in 1902 and was created KCVO in 1914. During the first world war Collins served in France as a Red Cross commissioner with particular charge of ophthalmic matters. In 1918 he was Doyne memorial lecturer, speaking on "Ophthalmology in the war" at Oxford, and received the Doyne medal. He had published a manual on *Gunshot wounds of the eye* in 1917. His political study, *The aetiology of the European conflagration*, 1915, aroused some interest. He was a member of council of King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, and in 1919 signed a minority report in favour of more generous pensions for hospital officers, having previously, as a private member of parliament, secured similar improvement for asylum officers. He was president of the Medico-legal Society 1901-05, and on three occasions led deputations to different Lord Chancellors advocating the reform of death certification. He was president of the Sanitary Inspectors Association; he had himself taken the certificate of London University in sanitary science in 1887 with a gold medal; and was chairman of the Chadwick trust and the Northwestern Polytechnic. Collins was not content only to carry on the work of earlier liberals, but wrote biographies of his heroes Sir Samuel Romilly (1908) and Sir Edwin Chadwick (1924). He also made serious excursions into philosophy, publishing a study of Spinoza, and in 1905 an essay on physic and metaphysic; he was a protestant with unitarian affiliations. Collins was an active member of the Huguenot Society of London, and as its president 1926-29 gave an address on Ambroise Paré, the great Huguenot surgeon of the sixteenth century. He was one of the three founders of the Anglo-Batavian Society in 1921, and a vice-chairman of it when reconstituted as the Anglo-Netherlands Society. He married in 1898 Jean Stevenson Wilson, elder daughter of John Wilson, MP for Govan, for many years a sister at the Temperance Hospital. Lady Collins threw herself heartily into her husband's interests in the public and charitable affairs of London, and became a leading vice-president of the League of Mercy. Her house at Beachy Head near Eastbourne was a centre of sympathy for every liberal cause. Lady Collins was long a victim of arthritis; she died at 1 Albert Terrace, Regent's Park, on 29 January 1936, and was buried at Hampstead Old Churchyard. There were no children of the marriage. Collins survived for eleven years, dying at Albert Terrace on 12 December 1946, aged 87. A memorial service was held in Crown Court Scottish presbyterian church, Covent Garden, on 30 December 1946. Collins was of medium height, broad-shouldered, with a fine head. His somewhat Olympian manner and rhetorical style of speech hid a warm-hearted friendliness. He represented the best type of independent citizen from the professional class of the later nineteenth century. Principal publications:- *Specificity and evolution*. London, 1884; 2nd edition 1890; 3rd edition 1920; the first edition was dedicated to Herbert Spencer. *Cataract*. London, 1897; 2nd edition 1906. *The man versus the microbe*. Redhill, 1903; 2nd edition 1929. *Physic and metaphysic*. London, 1905. *Sir Samuel Romilly's life and work*. London, 1908. *The ethics and law of drug and alcohol addiction*. London, 1916. *Gunshot wounds of the eye*. Oxford, 1917. Ophthalmology and the war (Doyne memorial lecture). *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1918, 38, 292. Sir William Lawrence 1783-1867. *Brit J Ophthal*. 1918, 2, 497. *The life and doctrine of Sir Edwin Chadwick*. London, 1924. Ambroise Paré (Presidential address), *Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of London*, 1929, 13, 549.
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First Title value, for Searching Baker, Joel Wilson (1905 - 1999)

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by Sir Miles Irving
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Joel Wilson Baker was chair of the department of surgery at Virginia Mason Hospital and Medical Center, Seattle, USA. He was born in Shenandoah, Virginia, in 1905 and studied medicine at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, qualifying MD in 1928. He moved to Seattle in 1930 to join a group of fellow Virginians at the Mason Clinic, which had been founded James Tate Mason (the clinic was subsequently named the Virginia Mason Hospital and Medical Center). There he served an internship, and subsequently a preceptorship, with Mason, during which time he travelled to observe great surgeons such as William Mayo and Frank Lahey. He was subsequently appointed to the staff at Virginia Mason. In 1945 the University of Washington began developing a medical school, despite not having a designated teaching hospital. Baker strongly supported this development and invited physicians from the university to treat their patients at the Virginia Mason Hospital. He stayed at the hospital for 42 years, holding the position as chief of surgery for 34 years and serving as chair of the clinic between 1945 and 1964, finally retiring at the age of 65. He was generally acknowledged to be a fine clinician, an excellent surgical technician and a wise and effective administrator. During his time at Virginia Mason he made a number of surgical innovations, including a novel technique for non-surgical drainage of obstructed intestine. He published 136 papers, several chapters in textbooks, and made a number of instructional films under the sponsorship of the American College of Surgeons. He was particularly interested in the postgraduate training of surgeons and developed a general surgical residency programme at the Virginia Mason in the early 1940s. The programme is now the oldest such training programme in the northwest. In 1951 he founded, and was president of, the Washington chapter of the American College of Surgeons. He went on to serve the American College of Surgeons at a national level: from 1955 to 1965 he was on the board of regents and served as president from 1969 to 1970. From 1955 to 1960 he was elected as a director of the American Board of Surgery, and from 1971 to 1972 he was president of the Pacific Coast Surgical Association. He was awarded an honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1971 and of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1974. Joel Wilson Baker died on 4 July 1999, aged 94.
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First Title value, for Searching Shaw, James (1809 - 1889)

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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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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 Sheppard, Charles Edward (1856 - 1891)

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Occupation Anaesthetist
Details In 1873 gained the Exhibition in Zoology at the University of London Preliminary Scientific Examination, and then entered St Thomas's Hospital, where his student career was most brilliant. He carried off prize after prize, and at the end of his fourth year was awarded the Treasurer's Gold Medal, and next year the Solly Medal and Prize. He filled all the house appointments and was appointed Resident Assistant Physician and Medical Registrar. The two appointments, now separated, involved too great a strain on a man as conscientious as Charles Sheppard. He kept his register with meticulous neatness, did his duties to the full, overtaxed himself, and had to retire from professional work. The death of his mother told very severely on his sensitive spirit, and he remained outside the medical world for several years, during which he employed himself in literary pursuits. Returning to work, he spent a year or two in active clinical duties at St Thomas's, the Children's Hospital in Great Ormond Street, where he was Clinical Assistant, and the Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, Blackfriars. He then turned his whole attention to anaesthetics, in which he had always taken an interest. He soon obtained several hospital appointments, and, when he died in early life, was Anaesthetist at Guy's Hospital Dental School, the Middlesex Hospital (second chloroformist), the National Orthopaedic Hospital, the Victoria Hospital for Children, and the St. Thomas's Hospital Dental Department. He became greatly in request during the two years of his practice as an anaesthetist, and was building up a leading position when he died suddenly on June 30th, 1891. His address was 13 Welbeck Street, Cavendish Square. He was constantly busy in devising improvements in methods of administering anaesthetics and in apparatus, but he published little on the subject save a few papers in the medical journals, of which one, on "The Administration of Ether in Operations requiring the Lateral or the Prone Position", appeared with illustrations in the *British Medical Journal* (1891, ii, 68) soon after his death. His only other paper of importance was the Solly Medal Prize Essay, published in the *St Thomas's Hospital Reports* (1878, viii, 411). "He was an accomplished draughtsman, as the two plates published with his essay testify. But brilliant as Charles Sheppard was in his profession, he had the most surprising all-round knowledge. He seemed to know everything. It was no ordinary superficial knowledge, but one extending to the most abstruse and technical details. It would have occasioned no surprise to be told that he could read Chinese, or decipher the Egyptian hieroglyphics. His mind was a complete encyclopedia. His knowledge of literature was wide. He was a great book collector, and probably knew as much about rare books as many professed bibliophiles. During the time when he had given up professional work he made a complete glossary to Burns, and for this purpose he studied very thoroughly the early Scottish poetry. His wonderful versatility was, however, nowhere more apparent than in music. Few professional pianists could excel him in brilliancy of execution, in lightness of touch, or in depth of feeling. Of late he frequently played at private concerts, but he was always at his best when he had only a friend or two to listen to him. His impromptus were then sometimes marvellous. His fantasias on popular airs will always live in the memory of those who heard them. How many instruments (including the bagpipes) he could play probably no one but himself knew. "He was not satisfied with being able to play on instruments, but he learnt the principles of their construction. He built an organ at one time entirely with his own hands. No evening passed for him without music, and generally an hour after dinner was devoted to it. Chopin was probably his favourite composer, and his interpretation of his works was wonderfully sympathetic and original. He had a most thorough knowledge of harmony, counterpoint and composition, and it was surprising how quick he was to detect the smallest error in printed scores. He often used to say that his musical talent was not to him an unmixed good. It made the discords of the world more jarring and more obtrusive, and increased his natural sensibility."
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First Title value, for Searching Forward, Francis Edward (1866 - 1934)

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First Title value, for Searching Low, Vincent Warren (1867 - 1942)

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First Title value, for Searching Luard, Hugh Bixby (1862 - 1944)

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First Title value, for Searching Lucas, Albert (1865 - 1944)

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First Title value, for Searching Lucy, Reginald Horace (1863 - 1931)

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First Title value, for Searching Lund, Herbert (1858 - 1938)

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First Title value, for Searching Foulerton, Alexander Grant Russell (1863 - 1931)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-19
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Occupation Pathologist
Details Born at Exeter, 22 April 1863, the eldest son of Captain Alexander Foulerton of HM Indian Navy. He was educated at Kensington School and studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. In 1884 he served as assistant house surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital, Chatham, when A W Nankivell was house surgeon. He became clinical assistant at the Royal Westminster and the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospitals, but soon determined to devote himself to the rapidly expanding science of pathology. In 1899 he was appointed pathologist to the Chelsea Hospital for Women and in 1897-98 was assistant bacteriologist and demonstrator of biological chemistry at the Jenner (now the Lister) Institute of Preventive Medicine. He was elected in 1899 lecturer on public health and bacteriologist at the Middlesex Hospital, where during 1900-04 he was in charge of the Cancer Research Laboratories. In 1902 he was assistant, and later chief, medical officer to the East Sussex County Council, and lecturer on public health at University College, London, and at the London School of Medicine for Women. From 1902 until April 1928 he was actively engaged in public health work in East Sussex, and on his retirement he was complimented by being appointed honorary consulting medical officer of health. He joined the RAMC(T) during the war of 1914-18 with the rank of captain, and took over the charge of the Chemical and Hygiene Laboratory at Boulogne, which carried out all food and other analyses in connection with the British Army in France. He served in this position from 1915 to 1917, when he was sent home to take charge of the hygiene department of the Royal Army Medical College, then housed in University College Hospital. Foulerton served as an examiner in public health to the University of London and to the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons, and when Milroy lecturer at the Royal College of Physicians in 1910 he took as his subject "The streptotrichoses and their relationship to tuberculosis". At the annual meeting of the British Medical Association at Ipswich in 1900 he was honorary secretary of the section of pathology, and at the Sheffield meeting in 1908 he was a vice-president of the section. He was greatly interested in the work of the London and Counties Medical Protection Society, of which he was one of the first members, and served for ten years (1895-1905) as the honorary financial secretary. He married on 22 October 1891 Jessie Blanche Wakeley, who survived him with one son and two daughters. His son, Alexander Barclay Foulerton, was lieutenant-commander in HMS *Beaufort*, the survey ship, at the time of his father's death. Foulerton died on 2 February 1931, two days after a cerebral haemorrhage. Foulerton had great administrative capacity and a sound judgement, in addition to his scientific attainments. He was also possessed of wide literary, historical, and naval knowledge. Tall and good-looking, he spoke in a hesitating manner and in a quiet pleasant voice. Publications:- Joint editor *Review of Bacteriology*, 1911-17. Joint editor *Archives of the Middlesex Hospital*, 1903-14, and editor of the *Reports of the Cancer Research Laboratory*, 1902-04 which were issued as part of the *Archives*. *The streptotrichoses and tuberculosis*. Milroy lectures. London, 1910. *On protozoal parasites of the rat and spirochaetal infection*. Report of Public Health Department, Corporation of London. London, 1919. Pathology of streptothrix infections. Allbutt and Rolleston's *System of Medicine*, 1906, 2, 302. Poisoning by arsenobenzol compounds. *Brit med J*. 1920, 1, 864.
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First Title value, for Searching Mannington, Frank (1873 - 1949)

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

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-30
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Guernsey on 24 October 1851, the second child and second son of James Mansell Moullin, MRCS, who was then surgeon to St Mary de Castro Hospital in the Island, and his wife Matilda Emily Grigg of Newbury, Berks. His father moved afterwards to 80 Porchester Terrace, London, W2, and practised there for many years, becoming district accoucheur at St Mary's Hospital. Charles was educated at a private school and matriculated from Pembroke College, Oxford, after obtaining a scholarship on 26 October 1868. He gained a second class in classical moderations in 1870 and a first class in the final school of Natural Science in 1872. In 1877 he was elected to the medical Fellowship at Pembroke College and held it until 1886. He won the Radcliffe Travelling Fellowship in 1875 and took postgraduate courses in Vienna, Paris, and Strassburg, and was an examiner in the final school of Natural Science in 1883. Receiving his medical education at St Bartholomew's Hospital, he filled the offices of house surgeon, house physician, and assistant chloroformist. Finding that there was a likelihood of a surgical vacancy on the staff of the London Hospital, he applied for and was elected surgical registrar there in 1880, became assistant surgeon in 1882, then surgeon, and finally consulting surgeon on his retirement in 1909. In the Medical School attached to the Hospital he lectured on comparative anatomy, was senior demonstrator of anatomy, lecturer on physiology and subsequently on surgery. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was an examiner in physiology 1884-92, was a member of the Council 1902-15, and vice-president. He was a Hunterian professor of surgery and pathology in 1892 and 1914. He delivered the Bradshaw lecture in 1912 "On the biology of tumours". During the war he served with the rank of brevet colonel, RAMC(T), at the second London General Hospital and was decorated CBE as a reward for his services. He married Edith Ruth Thomas in 1885. She survived him with one son, who entered the RAF; Mrs Mansell-Moullin died on 5 March 1941. He died on 10 November 1940 at 2 Cottesmore Court, W8, aged 89. Mansell-Moullin was one of the most brilliant graduates of University of Oxford trained under the old regulations when biology, taught as a whole, was based on a sound training in Latin and Greek. Quiet and unassuming, his career at the London Hospital was somewhat overshadowed by that of his colleague and contemporary, Sir Frederick Treves. He worked untiringly with his wife for more than twenty-five years to secure for women the right to be trained as doctors, and was a prominent supporter of the Suffragette movement. His surgical work fell into three periods. At the beginning he was interested in genito-urinary surgery, and his Hunterian lectures in 1892 dealt with the operative treatment of enlarged prostate. He then turned to the stomach and appendix, and even in 1900 could show excellent results from gastro-enterostomy. He often operated for gastric haemorrhage. From 1910 onwards he became absorbed in seeking the origin of carcinoma. He was a rapid operator, and it was told of him that once when removing a testicle his reply to the statement by the anaesthetist that "The patient is ready now, Sir", was "Thank you, I have just finished and am putting in the last suture". He was a sound practical teacher, who inspired loyalty and affection in his house surgeons and dressers. His textbook of surgery, though very good, never achieved popularity. Publications: *On the pathology of shock* (MD thesis). London, 1880. *Sprains, their consequences and treatment*. London, 1887: 2nd edition, 1894. *Surgery*. London, 1891; 3rd edition, 1895. *The operative treatment of enlargement of the prostate* (Hunterian lectures). London, 1892. *Enlargement of the prostate, its treatment and radical cure*. London, 1894; 4th edition, 1911. *Inflammation of the bladder and urinary fever*. London, 1898. *The surgical treatment of ulcer of the stomach*. 1902. *When to operate in inflammation of the appendix*. 1908. *The biology of tumours* (Bradshaw lecture). 1912.
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First Title value, for Searching Newman, Sir George (1870 - 1948)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-09-04
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Occupation Public health officer
Details Born 23 October 1870, the fourth child and second son of Henry Stanley Newman of Leominster, Herefordshire, and his wife Mary Anna Pumphrey. H S Newman edited the Quaker journal *The Friend* for many years. He was educated at Sidcot School, Winscombe, and Bootham School, York, at Edinburgh University, and at King's College, London. He won the Gunning scholarship in public health at Edinburgh in 1895 and took the Cambridge diploma in public health the same year. He was senior demonstrator of bacteriology and lecturer on infective diseases at King's College 1896-1900, and then concurrently medical officer of health to Finsbury and to Bedford county council. He was appointed the first chief medical officer to the Board of Education in 1907, under the Education Act passed by the new Liberal government. When the Ministry of Health was formed in 1919 under Dr Christopher Addison, MP, FRCS, out of the previous Local Government Board, Newman succeeded Sir Arthur Nowsholme as chief medical officer to the new Ministry also. He held both posts till his retirement in 1935. Newman did much by his administrative ability and his fluency and skill as a writer to develop and unify the new health service on wise lines. His official annual reports were inspiring and constructive documents. He also wrote a number of textbooks on bacteriology and hygiene, and in later life on the history of social medicine. From 1919 to 1939 he was a Crown nominee on the General Medical Council. He served on many special bodies, such as the Health of Munition Workers Committee (chairman 1914-18) which developed into the Industrial Health Research Board, and the Central Control Board of the Liquor Traffic; he was medical assessor to the University Grants Committee. Newman was honoured by many universities for his public work, and by the Royal College of Physicians, the Society of Apothecaries, King's College (Fellow), the Medical Society of London, and the New York Academy of Medicine. Though never having practised surgery, he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the College in 1928 during the presidency of Lord Moynihan, of whom he was a close personal friend. Besides his medical and official work Newman played a leading part in the affairs of the Society of Friends. He was literary advisor and a trustee of his father's old paper *The Friend* for many years, and anonymous editor for forty years of *The Friends' Quarterly Examiner*, his regular contributions to which journal were very widely read. He took an active interest in the Westminster Adult School, and in the men's and women's clubs connected with the Westminster Meeting House in St Martin's Lane. He helped to form the Friends' Ambulance Units in the first and second world wars. Newman married in 1898 Adelaide Constance, daughter of Samuel Thorp of Alderley Edge. There were no children, and Lady Newman died in 1946. He died at Grims Wood, Harrow Weald, Middlesex on 26 May 1948, aged 77, after long illness. He was a man of forceful personality, devoted to his public duty and to the religious society of which he was a leading member.
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First Title value, for Searching Warner, Francis (1847 - 1926)

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First Title value, for Searching Warren, John Collins (1842 - 1927)

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

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

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First Title value, for Searching Goodfellow, John William (1927 - 2011)

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by Michael Benson
Publication Date 2013-04-30 2013-06-12
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details John William Goodfellow, or 'JWG' as he was widely known, was a consultant surgeon at Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, Oxford. With his death British orthopaedics lost one of its most distinguished practitioners. He was born in London on 31 October 1927, the son of Percy, an actuary, and Violet. His mother died when John was in his early teens, and his father later remarried. John was educated at Edward VI Grammar School in Stratford-on-Avon, and later at Wellington School in Somerset, where he was an enthusiastic rugby player and runner. His medical training was at Guy's, where he was much influenced by his early mentor Sir John Conybeare. It is an indication of the bond which developed between the two doctors, both with a great interest in art and architecture, that Sir John left JWG a painting by Lucien Pissaro, the son of the more famous father, in his will. John's interest in art and buildings was to prove life-long. A city walk with him was always informative and accompanied by his regular exhortation to look upwards to see the buildings above. John spent his National Service years as a captain in the RAMC, serving with the 14th/20th King's Hussars, a regiment he found amusingly straitlaced and which seemed always to participate in battles when they were almost done. When John moved to Oxford for his training, he met his second mentor, the charismatic Josep Trueta. Again a close friendship developed with the Catalonian surgeon and his family, and he was his first assistant from 1962 to 1965. Appointed consultant at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in 1965, JWG developed an increasing interest in the mechanics of joints. Abetted by his friend and colleague, the pathologist Peter Bullough, he sought the expertise of a young Irish lecturer, John O'Connor, to help solve the conundrum of hip joint loading: how to explain a cone-shaped acetabulum and a spherical femoral head? Since no one had ready answers, the basis was laid for a project funded by the Arthritis Research Campaign. This was the start of 45 years of collaboration and friendship. The research group identified how the shape asymmetry facilitated cartilage lubrication, nourishment and gave protection from arthritis. A better understanding of load-bearing at the hip and the weight-bearing characteristics of the menisci in the knee led the group to consider the possibility of replacing torn menisci. John, aware of the problems with current knee replacements, suggested it might be better to use a gliding polyethylene meniscal component in knee replacement. By 1974 a provisional replacement had been inserted experimentally. John was very conscious of the ethical risks inherent in a surgeon liaising with a manufacturer and his careful, progressive studies serve as a model for others. The design was not released for general use its efficacy and longevity had been demonstrated. Ten thousand surgeons around the world have now attended training courses. The concept of meniscal insertion into a joint replacement has been extended to other joints. Right up until his death John remained heavily involved in the research projects which continued to flow from his initial inspiration. When appointed to the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, John shared a firm with Edgar Somerville and together they were responsible for the bulk of children's orthopaedics in the region. Following Edgar's retirement, Michael Benson replaced him on the firm. It was the happiest of liaisons: while Benson gained most, it was refreshing that the senior man was always willing to listen to other opinion and indeed to modify his own view occasionally when argument (upon which he flourished) proved persuasive. Thirty years ago John was asked to visit Malta to help with the care of children with orthopaedic problems. He went twice yearly initially, but came to alternate with Benson. As time passed, John's interest in joint replacement increased and he became less involved in children's care. In 1966 John was an ABC (American-British-Canadian) fellow of the American Orthopaedic Association. He was secretary of the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA) from 1974 to 1975 and president in 1989. He oversaw the inspirational appointment of David Adams as chief executive. Together with David, he was also the instigator of *British Orthopaedic News*, noting in the first edition edited by Chris Ackroyd that: 'Every school has its magazine, most commercial organisations have a house journal and now the BOA has *British Orthopaedic News*'. Just as John proved a wise man at the helm of the BOA, he was to prove an outstanding editor of the British volume of the *Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery* from 1990 to 1995. He succeeded Alan Apley and served with David Evans and Sir Rodney Sweetnam as his successive chairmen. With them he was responsible for many changes in format, number of issues and overseas links. He was an excellent wordsmith and could see effortlessly through one research paper's weaknesses, but also recognise another's strengths. John had a copious research output, much in liaison with his close friend, John O'Connor. In 1980 he co-edited *Scientific foundations of orthopaedics and traumatology* (London, Heinemann), bringing together the many strands of science, including histopathology and biomechanics, which should underpin a surgeon's skills. In 2006 he co-authored *Unicompartmental arthroplasty with the Oxford knee* (Oxford, Oxford University Press). It is a great delight to report that this has been reprinted by his son Tim (under the imprimatur of his own publishing company) - a fine tribute from son to father. Of course, and primarily, John was a practising surgeon. Anyone who worked with JWG, heard him lecture, discussed the indications for an operation or helped him operate knows he was a very complete doctor, caring and meticulous, and willing to dedicate as much time as needed to examine, explain or guide. The greatest compliment he paid to any colleague was to note that he/she was a 'good opinion'. His patients were as devoted to him as he was to their care. His sense of humour was a delight. Travelling through snow to work one winter, he stopped to push an elderly man's car from a ditch. The grateful chap noted that he would be late for an appointment with a Mr Goodfellow. John reassured him that the surgeon would probably be late as well. Outside medicine, sailing became an essential escape from the rigours of surgical life. John sailed his favourite boat *Larie* for over 15 years, initially from the Isle of Wight (where he regularly competed in the Round the Island Race) and later from its berth in La Rochelle in western France. It is not surprising that the qualities he brought to work applied equally at home. Before his first wife Anne died in 1985, John and his children, Tim and Allison, nursed her devotedly, all taking time from work to make this possible. Tragically, John's younger colleague Greg Houghton was killed in a cycling accident. From this tragedy arose one happy consolation: Greg's widow Hélène and John later married, and each proved devoted to the other. He died on 4 August 2011, after a long battle with leukaemia. He was 83. John was an innovator, teacher, scientist, splendid colleague and friend. It is sad to report that his honorary fellowship of the BOA arrived on his doorstep the day after he died.
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First Title value, for Searching Hayward, John Langford (1923 - 2013)

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by Ian Fentiman
Publication Date 2013-04-30 2013-10-04
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Occupation Breast Surgeon
Details John Hayward was a pioneer, specialising in breast surgery before this was a recognised discipline. He was as much a scientist as a surgeon, bringing rigour to the investigation of the causes and treatment of breast cancer. The son of an architect, he was born on 26 April 1923 in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, and was educated at Haileybury School. At his father's suggestion he gave up the idea of a stage career, spending most of his life in a different theatre. He trained in medicine at Guy's Hospital during the Second World War and went to Belsen concentration camp after it had been liberated. This experience clearly had a profound impact upon him, possibly shaping the way in which he established a highly effective method of caring for anxious patients. After graduating in 1947, his National Service was spent in the Royal Air Force. In 1953 he was appointed as an assistant surgeon at Guy's, working with Sir Hedley Atkins. At that time the major research interest was endocrine manipulation for the control of advanced breast cancer and his early research focused on adrenalectomy and hypophysectomy, both procedures being associated with substantial morbidity. The turning point came in 1957 when he met Richard (Mick) Bulbrook, an endocrine biochemist working at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF). Hayward and Bulbrook formed a working partnership, with the former taking blood and urine samples from patients, which were analysed by the latter. Between them they developed a discriminant function test to determine which patients would benefit from endocrine surgery. Furthermore, low levels of certain urinary steroids indicated a poor prognosis, which raised the question of whether this abnormality could have a causative role in the evolution of the disease. This prompted the Guernsey study, with the aim of collecting specimens from a large stable population with good medical care and accurate follow-up information. The project started in 1961. Other much larger epidemiological projects occurred later, but this was the first of its kind in the world. Long-term analysis indicated that different endocrine profiles predicted risk in pre- and post-menopausal women. Specimens from the Guernsey study continue to yield important data concerning risk factors for breast cancer. In order to combine laboratory research and clinical investigation, the ICRF supported the building of a 37-bedded breast unit at New Cross Hospital in the 1960s and John Hayward was appointed director in 1967. He set about gathering around him a dedicated team of individuals specialising in breast cancer research and he established the multidisciplinary team as the underpinning of this work. He wanted to test surgical techniques for avoiding mastectomy, and he and Sir Hedley Atkins set up the Guy's wide excision trials. These trials compared radical mastectomy and radiotherapy with wide excision and radiotherapy, without any axillary surgery. The first trial included clinically node positive cases, whereas in the second only those with clinically negative axillae were randomised. Unfortunately, because of the low radiation dose to the axilla, these trials showed that breast conserving treatment was inferior to mastectomy in terms of local control and overall survival. This strongly influenced his views on the need for adequate axillary treatment. A subsequent trial comparing modified radical mastectomy with wide excision, axillary clearance and breast irradiation showed similar survival in both groups and was, with other trials, influential in changing surgical treatment for selected patients with breast cancer. He was recognised as an international authority on breast cancer, and was in great demand at medical conferences, where he was a lively and stimulating lecturer and chairman. He was a founder member of the British Breast Group and, in combination with Mick Bulbrook, could be guaranteed to bring wisdom and wit to the meetings. Such was the respect in which he was held that the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) invited him to chair the multidisciplinary project on breast cancer in the 1980s, and he was able to gather together the world experts on the disease. The aim was to determine strategies for the prevention, detection and management of breast cancer and to define directions for future research. He was much admired by his patients because he had the ability to make them feel that they were the sole individual who mattered. As a colleague he was a delight because his concerns were to get the treatment right and foster an atmosphere in which high quality basic and clinical research could flourish. That was his legacy. He died on 24 February 2013 aged 89. He was survived by his wife Jill and two sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Watson, Henry (1800 - 1884)

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

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

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First Title value, for Searching Seal, Philip Victor (1940 - 2013)

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by David Williams
Publication Date 2013-04-30 2013-06-12
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Philip Victor Seal, known as 'Vic' to family, friends and colleagues, was a popular and highly respected orthopaedic surgeon in Hereford. He was born in Brighton, Sussex, from humble stock. His father, Eric Joseph Seal, was a carpenter, killed in action in 1945. His mother, Emily Nellie Seal née Ellyatt, came from a family of bakers. Vic was educated at grammar schools in Brighton and Harrogate. He was an outstanding scholar: having won the school chemistry prize, he went up to Manchester College of Science and Technology to study chemical engineering, but was drawn to a career in medicine. He moved to Manchester University Medical School, where he graduated in 1964. He won the Public Welfare Foundation prize in his final year. He held junior posts in Bristol and Bournemouth before he joined the orthopaedic registrar training programme at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry. His interests within orthopaedics were developed under the guidance of D Lloyd-Griffiths, Gerald Slee, Brian Thomas and Brian O'Connor. In addition, his trauma skills were advanced during time spent with P S London at the Birmingham Accident Hospital. At the latter end of his specialist training he spent a year working with A R Hodgson at the paediatric spinal surgery unit in Hong Kong and was particularly interested in the early diagnosis and treatment of idiopathic scoliosis. On Brian Thomas' retirement in 1975, Vic was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Hereford and Oswestry. In Hereford his orthopaedic interests were diverse and general. He ran clinics for children's orthopaedics and for spinal disorders, and was later instrumental in the development of knee arthroscopy and anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. In this he was a pioneer in the use of Gore-Tex synthetic ligaments, performing over 100 procedures with outstanding results. In Oswestry he joined the spinal disorders team, but in 1990 he resigned his position at Oswestry to continue full-time in Hereford. Vic was keenly involved in medical management at Hereford and was chairman of the district management board for a number of years. He was outspoken in his opinions about developments in the Health Service, both locally and nationally, and was unstinting in his efforts to maintain the highest standards of care for Hereford patients, often against a background of inadequate resources. Away from work, Vic's interests were many and varied. As well as being a great family man, he enjoyed tennis, squash, skiing, golf and gardening. He was an accomplished pianist and post-retirement his musical talents extended enthusiastically into learning to play the church organ, eventually helping out at services in some Herefordshire churches. Unfortunately, just prior to his retirement in 2002, Vic developed prostate carcinoma which, after successful initial treatment, left his great energies undiminished until the condition became more widespread. He died on 12 January 2013 at the age of 72. He was survived by his wife Lee, his children Philipa and Kate, and two grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Vlasto, Philip (1919 - 2013)

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by John D Wrighton
Publication Date 2013-04-30 2013-07-31
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Philip Vlasto was an assistant orthopaedic surgeon to the West Dorset Health Authority. He was born on 25 November 1919, just after the end of the First World War, to Augustus Vlasto, a businessman, and his wife, Milly. Philip was educated at Lockers Park School and then Charterhouse, where his fascination with things botanical and biological was nurtured by two teachers, Percy Chapman and Oleg Polunin, a well-known botanist. He went up to Trinity College, Oxford, to read medicine, and then went on to the London Hospital during the Blitz, where he dealt with many casualties. Philip qualified in 1944, and then joined the RAF, serving as a medical officer at Pembroke Dock with the rank of flight lieutenant. After the Second World War, he bought into a private general practice in Weymouth, Dorset, conducting surgeries from his family home, Greyfriars. He was a highly popular and respected GP. Peter Hywell Davies, the first orthopaedic surgeon in west Dorset, wanted some assistance and asked Philip if he would be interested in providing some help. He continued his association with the department until his retirement. Being an expert in carpentry, his skills in trauma and orthopaedic surgery shone through in theatre, and he performed joint replacement, then new to the area, with first class precision. Due to his devotion and manifest skills, he was awarded a fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons by election in 1979. He was an orthopaedic adviser to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) and was a member of its medical and survival committee for 10 years. Surgeon rear admiral Frank Golden, a past chairman of the committee, wrote: 'I remember him best for his wise opinions and pragmatic counsel at the meeting. Although an orthopod, his opinions on all aspects of medicine were both well informed and balanced. However, it was really his pragmatism coupled with his humanity that gave him the ability to integrate those skills with the social aspects of the case under consideration that was brilliant and so considerate.' In 1944 Philip married Sheila née Tait. Their daughter, Rosie, was born a year later, but Sheila died shortly afterwards from pneumonia. He met his second wife, Pat, whilst in the forces at Pembroke Dock, Pat being the only Wren on the base. They married in 1947. They had two sons, Anthony and Kenneth. On his retirement in 1980, Philip continued with his carpentry, and his love of gardening developed. He moved to Child Okeford, Dorset, where he and Pat created a most beautiful garden, admired by all. Philip Vlasto died on 19 March 2013, aged 93.
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First Title value, for Searching Daniels, Frederic William (1872 - 1930)

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First Title value, for Searching D'Antona, Antonino (1842 - 1913)

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First Title value, for Searching Sneath, Wilfrid Archer (1888 - 1917)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-02-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details The son of H A Sneath, of Thurlby Bourne, Lincolnshire; went to Thurlby Elementary School and Grantham Technical Institute, and entered the University of Manchester in 1905, being the holder of two scholarships. He won most of the distinctions open to medical students, including the Turner Medical Scholarship, the Bradley Surgical and the Agnew Scholarship for Diseases of Children. For a year he was Demonstrator of Anatomy at the University; he was then House Surgeon at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, next Resident Medical Officer at the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, and later began general practice at Ashton-under-Lyne. At the outbreak of the War in 1914 he at once applied, and was temporarily commissioned Lieutenant RAMC (T) on September 11th, 1914. He accompanied a Field Ambulance to France and was stationed at Calais with the Belgian Army until March, 1915. He was attached to the Durham and Welsh Light Infantry, was promoted Captain after one year of service, was mentioned in dispatches in May, 1916, awarded the Military Cross on September 22nd, 1916, and received a permanent commission in the RAMC on January 11th, 1917. He was transferred to a casualty clearing station, went on short leave to England, and was mortally wounded on the very day of his return to duty. He died of his wounds, as reported in the Casualty List of July 26th, 1917. His name is on the Roll of Honour and a portrait accompanies the Obituary Notice in the Lancet. His Colonel said, "We all admired him for his bravery and devotion to duty, but loved him for himself." Others testified to his simplicity and singleness of purpose associated with his conspicuous brilliancy as a student and surgeon. This record of a Fellow who made his way up from an elementary school is noteworthy.
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First Title value, for Searching Maples, Ernest Edgar ( - 1948)

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

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-30
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Occupation Psychiatrist
Details Born at 6 Merrion Square, Dublin, on 12 July 1881, the only son of the seven children of Edward Dillon Mapother and his wife, Ellen, daughter of John Tobin, MP, of Halifax, Nova Scotia. His father, surgeon to St Vincent's Hospital, Dublin, professor of anatomy and physiology, and president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland 1879-80, was for many years one of the most successful teachers in Dublin. The family moved to London about 1888 and his father practised at 32 Cavendish Square. Edward, the son, was educated at University College School and at University College Hospital, where he gained the medals in anatomy and physiology and graduated at London University with medals in medicine and pathology at the MB examination. He then acted as house physician to Dr Risien Russell at the National Hospital in Queen Square, Bloomsbury. During 1908-14 he was a medical officer at the Long Grove Mental Hospital, Epsom. He was gazetted a temporary lieutenant, RAMC, on 14 April 1915, and served in Mesopotamia and France until he was recalled to the neurological division of the Second Western General Hospital, which had its headquarters at Manchester. As the neurologist he organized and opened two hospitals at Stockport, acting as officer in command until they were closed in March 1919. From September 1919 to November 1920 he was medical superintendent of the Maudsley Hospital during its tenure by the Ministry of Pensions. In 1923 the Maudsley Hospital was opened by the London County Council to fulfil the purposes for which its founder, Henry Maudsley, had endowed it. Mapother was placed in charge and held office until he resigned on account of ill health in 1939. The hospital became an undisputed success as a centre of teaching, treatment, and research, owing largely to Mapother's initiative and foresight. For some years he was physician in psychological medicine at King's College Hospital, London, and he was elected professor of clinical psychiatry in the University of London, when the chair was established in 1937 and was made tenable at the Maudsley Hospital. At the Royal College of Physicians he served on the Council in 1937 and 1938, and delivered the Bradshaw lecture in 1936. He also gave the Norman Kerr lecture at the Society for the Study of Inebriety in 1938. He was president of the section of psychiatry, Royal Society of Medicine, in 1933, and vice-president of the section of neurology and psychiatry of the British Medical Association in 1934. He married in 1915 Barbara Mary, daughter of Charles H Reynolds; she survived him, but without children. Mrs Mapother died on 21 August 1945. He died on 20 March 1940, after a long illness due to asthma and pulmonary fibrosis, at Mill Hill Emergency Hospital, which was then a branch of St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. Mapother did much to develop and stabilize psychological medicine in this country. He used scientific methods and adhered to the principles of sound clinical medicine. He was entirely out of sympathy with extreme psycho-analysis and with the tendency to divorce psychotherapy from medicine. He was however in no sense a reactionary, for he was at once receptive and original, quick to see and patient to bring about the development of psychological medicine in hitherto neglected fields. He was insistent too that psychiatrists should have a sound training in general medicine. Publications: Manic-depressive psychosis. *Brit med J* 1926, 2, 872. Assessment of alcoholic morbidity. *Mott memorial volume*. London, 1929. Tough or tender, a plea for nominalism in psychiatry. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1933-4, 27, 1687. Mental symptoms associated with head injury. *Brit med J* 1937, 2, 1055. The physical basis of alcoholic mental disorders. (17th Norman Kerr memorial lecture, 1938). *Brit J Inebr* 1938-9, 36, 103. The integration of neurology and psychiatry (Bradshaw lecture, Royal College of Physicians, 1936). Not published.
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First Title value, for Searching Marlow, Frederick William (1877 - 1936)

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First Title value, for Searching Marriage, Herbert James (1872 - 1946)

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First Title value, for Searching Marriott, Cecil Edward (1870 - 1939)

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First Title value, for Searching Griffith, Walter Spencer Anderson (1854 - 1946)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-25
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Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born 1 December 1854 the elder son of the Rev John Griffith, LLD, head master of Brighton College, and his wife Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Foster of Brooklands, Cambridge. His younger brother Francis Llewellyn Griffith, DLitt, became professor of Egyptology at Oxford and died in 1934. He was educated at Brighton College and began to study medicine at the Royal East Sussex Hospital, later entering St Bartholomew's Hospital and qualifying MRCS 1878. He determined to take a university degree, and while beginning to practise in London kept the statutory terms at Cambridge by staying for weekends at Downing College; he graduated MB 1885 and proceeded MD 1889. He had taken the FRCS in 1881, and having decided to devote himself to obstetric medicine he took the MRCP in 1883, and was elected FRCP in 1893. Griffith was appointed physician accoucheur to the Great Northern Hospital; physician to out-patients at the Samaritan Hospital; and physician to Queen Charlotte's Hospital, where he worked in close collaboration with Chapman Grigg, MD. At St Bartholomew's Griffith came under the inspiration of James Matthews Duncan, MD, FRCP, and succeeded him as tutor in midwifery. When Duncan died unexpectedly in 1890, Francis Champneys, FRCP was recalled from St George's to the post of physician accoucheur. Griffith was appointed to assist him, with charge of out-patients. Hitherto the department's surgical operations had been referred to the hospital surgeons, latterly to Harrison Cripps, but Griffith was fully competent and ready to perform the necessary surgery, for he was an operator of natural ability. In due course he succeeded Champneys, and when he in turn resigned 1919 on reaching the age-limit, he was appointed consulting physician accoucheur, and a governor and member of the house-committee of the Hospital. During the war of 1914-19 he was consultant at the Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, Millbank, and was awarded the CBE for his services. Griffith represented the Royal College of Surgeons on the Central Midwives Board, and at one time lectured on midwifery at Cambridge. He was president of the section of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Royal Society of Medicine, and president of the Medical Defence Union 1932. At the Royal College of Physicians he was an examiner 1893-97 and a councillor 1914-16. In the British Medical Association he served as secretary of the section of obstetric medicine at the London meeting 1895, and president of the section of Obstetrics and gynaecology at Ipswich 1900. He wrote no book, though he contributed several papers to the professional press. Griffith married twice: (1) in 1885 Mary Anne, youngest daughter of T Kinder, JP of Sandridge Bury, St Albans, and had a son; (2) Ella F Kennedy, daughter of William Jackson Kennedy, MD of Lisaghmore, Kirkcaldy, Fife, who survived him. He lived at 19 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea and, after retirement, at Brae Cottage, Grayswood, Haslemere, Surrey. He died on 26 February 1946 aged 91; a memorial service was held in St Bartholomew's-the-Less on 5 March. His pupil O D Barris, FRCS, who was physician-accoucheur at St Bartholomew's 1925-39, died three days before him. Griffith bequeathed one-third of the residue of his fortune to St Bartholomew's Hospital, for the development of the obstetrical and gynaecological department and to perpetuate the name of Matthews Duncan, and another third to the Hospital's medical college. Walter Griffith was a tall, strong man of serious outlook, conscientious, painstaking, and determined in his own views. He was a lucid and practical teacher, and when instructing his class used to perch on a high stool and usually wore a black velvet skull-cap. Like his chief Sir Francis Champneys he was a skilled musician; Champneys played the organ and Griffith the cello.
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First Title value, for Searching Grimsdale, Harold Barr (1866 - 1942)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-25
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born 12 November 1866 the fourth son of Thomas Frederick Grimsdale (1823-1902), MRCS 1845, of 29 Rodney Street, Liverpool, a leading gynaecologist (see *Brit med J* 1902, 2, 919; *Lancet*, 1902, 2, 712) and Jane Bury, his wife, who lived till her hundredth year. An elder son Thomas Babington Grimsdale (1856-1936), MRCS 1881, like HB Grimsdale a St George's man, succeeded to their father's Liverpool practice (*Lancet* 1936, 1, 688). H B Grimsdale was educated at Winchester 1880-85 where he won an entrance exhibition; he also won the Kirby foils, and was in the Wimbledon shooting VIII in 1884 and its captain in 1885. He went up to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, as an exhibitioner in 1885 and graduated with second-class honours in Part 1 of the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1888. He received his medical training at St George's Hospital Medical School, where he won an entrance scholarship and was demonstrator of anatomy 1893-1900. In 1891 he joined the St George's Rowing Club, having stroked the Caius boat while at Cambridge; he was one of the founders and first editors of the Hospital's Gazette. He served as house physician at the Hospital in 1893. His interest being turned to ophthalmology by R Brudenell Carter, he served as chief clinical assistant at Moorfields Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital under William Lang, became assistant to the ophthalmic surgeon, W A Frost, at St George's in 1894 on the retirement of Carter, and was elected ophthalmic surgeon in 1906, becoming consulting surgeon on retirement. He was surgeon to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital 1899-1923, and then consulting surgeon. He was also consulting surgeon to Bushey Cottage Hospital, to the Royal Normal School for the Blind, Norwood, to the Governesses Benevolent Institution, and to the Artists Annuity Fund. From 1914 to 1917 he served on the Local Government Board's Departmental Committee on the Welfare of the Blind, and served as consulting ophthalmic surgeon to military hospitals in London during the four years' war. He was a vice-president of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom. Grimsdale married on 28 February 1903 Mabel, daughter of S E Todd of Beverley, who survived him but without children. He practised at 3 Harley Place, W and afterwards at 2 Cambridge Terrace, Regent's Park, which was wrecked in an air-raid in 1941. He died at Hindhead on 5 May 1942. He left £500 each to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund, and the Royal Normal School for the Blind. Grimsdale was a good linguist with a wide knowledge of foreign work in his specialty, and translated Italian papers for the British Journal of Ophthalmology. He was a good amateur water¬colour painter and a facile writer of light verse. In later life he was interested in music and the stage, and also played golf with some success. There is a good portrait of him in *St Geo Hosp Gaz* 1909, 17, 1. He was a sound diagnostician and operator. Mr Rutson James wrote of him: "As a surgeon he tended towards conservatism, but if he thought a new method worth trying he gave it a good trial. In early years he was inclined towards the French school. His surgical technique was of a very high standard. He was best at cataract extraction; his extractions were models of neatness, and the results excellent; his results were also good in glaucoma cases. He was a keen supporter of Lagrange's work on sclerecto-iridectomy, and it was some time before he took to trephining. Another subject in which he was much interested was retinal detachment, most of these cases were submitted for igneous puncture. Unfortunately before Gonin's work we did not know the importance of sealing the hole, he had only occasionally a successful result. Plastic surgery of the eyelids was another field in which he was pre-eminent." Publications:- Changes in refraction in diabetics. *Trans Opthal Soc UK* 1899, 19, 267. *Textbook of ophthalmic operations*, with Elmore W Brewerton London, 1907; 2nd edition, 1920; 3rd edition, 1937.
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First Title value, for Searching Marsh, Frank (1855 - 1943)

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First Title value, for Searching Marsh, Frank Douglas (1888 - 1944)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-30
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Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Born 26 November 1888, the elder son of Frank Marsh, FRCS, and Constance Hooper, his wife, who outlived her son. He was educated at Shrewsbury and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1910. He then entered St Bartholomew's, won the Shuter scholarship in 1911 and qualified in February 1914. On the outbreak of war he was commissioned a captain in the RAMC(T) on 25 August 1914, and served in France from 1915 to 1919, winning the Military Cross in 1917 and being promoted major and acting as a DADMS. After the war he served as house surgeon at St Bartholomew's and, deciding to specialize as an otologist, as clinical assistant in the department of throat and ear diseases at Bart's and at the Central London Throat, Nose, and Ear Hospital, and also spent six months in Vienna. He then settled in Birmingham, where his father was a prominent surgeon and citizen, becoming assistant surgeon at the Birmingham and Midland Ear and Throat Hospital and aural surgeon and laryngologist at the Children's Hospital, and from 1927 was surgeon to the ear and throat department at the Queen's Hospital. His combination of surgical and administrative ability was reflected in the rapid and successful development of his department at the Children's Hospital. He was also consulting ear and throat surgeon to the Guest Hospital, Dudley, and the Halesowen Cottage Hospital. Marsh was lecturer in diseases of the ear and throat at Birmingham University. During the second world war he was appointed commandant of the Queen's Hospital and then served as otologist (1940-42) at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley, the principal regular military hospital, with the rank of major, RAMC(T). In 1942 he returned to civilian duties at Birmingham on account of arthritis, and was deputy regional adviser in otology under the Ministry of Health's emergency medical service. Marsh married in 1926 Edythe Milne Bankier, MB, ChB, who survived him with one son. Marsh died at 63 Sir Harry's Road, Edgbaston on 17 September 1944, aged 55, a year and five days after his father. He had been ill for eight weeks with acute infective jaundice. He had formerly practised at 10, and later 20, Church Road, Edgbaston. Marsh was an active member of professional societies in London and Birmingham, and a frequent contributor to the literature of his specialty. He was interest in the craftsmanship of furniture, and was an active bird-watcher, member of the "Men of the Birds". Tall and erect, grave and courteous, of reserved but kindly manner, he was a warm and loyal friend, and of great personal and professional integrity. Publications: Some observations on functional aphonia. *Lancet*, 1932, 2, 289. Abscess of the nasal septum. *J Laryng*. 1935, 50, 909. Acute otitis media. *Med Press*, 1936, 192, 52.
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First Title value, for Searching Guevara-Rojas, Felipe (1885 - 1932)

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First Title value, for Searching Gullan, Archibald Gordon (1871 - 1944)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-25
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 15 October 1871 at Swansea, second son of Archibald Black Gullan and Ellen Freeman, his wife. He was educated at Birkenhead School and at University College, Liverpool, where he won the Holt scholarship. After taking the Conjoint qualification in 1894 and the London MB BS in 1896, he proceeded to the Fellowship in 1897 but soon evincing a preference for medicine he took the London MD in 1899 and the MRCP in 1901. He had acted as demonstrator of anatomy and physiology at Liverpool University, where he was afterwards lecturer in clinical medicine. He also served as medical tutor and registrar at the Royal Infirmary, Liverpool and was then appointed assistant physician at the Infirmary for Children He ultimately became consulting physician to the Stanley and the Waterloo Hospitals. On the outbreak of war Gullan was commissioned lieutenant-colonel RAMC (T) on 8 August 1914, and served in France as officer in command of the West Lancashire field ambulance, and was later in charge of the military hospital at Gibraltar. He was an active member of the Liverpool division of the British Medical Association, representing it at the Oxford, Leicester, and Exeter meetings, and being its chairman in 1928-29; he was also Secretary of the medical section at the Liverpool meeting in 1912. He served a period as a member of the Liverpool City Council. He practised at 37 Rodney Street. After retirement he lived at Blundellsands and later at Loughrigg, Carrs Crescent, Formby where he died on 9 September 1944. He was buried at Sefton, after a funeral service at Blundellsands Presbyterian church. Gullan had married in 1913 Louise Bowman, who died in 1936; there were no children. Publications:- Clinical notes on epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis. Brit med J 1915, 1, 716. Encephalitis lethargica, a clinical study. Brit med J 1925, 1, 1120.
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First Title value, for Searching Gunn, Donald Stilwell (1862 - 1939)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born about 1862 he was educated at University College, London where he served as assistant demonstrator of anatomy. He was house physician at the Great Northern Hospital and, becoming interested in diseases of the eye, was house surgeon at the Moorfields Eye Hospital 1889-91, and became surgeon to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital, the Sick Children's Hospital in Great Ormond Street, and the Seamen's Hospital at Greenwich in 1895. He also served as demonstrator of anatomy and curator of the museum at Westminster Hospital. He retired from practice in 1902 and, his health failing, he went to South Africa, where he acted as locum tenens for Dr D J Wood of Cape Town during the winter of 1905-06. During the war of 1914-18 he was a temporary surgeon in the Royal Navy, and the rest of his life appears to have been spent in travelling. He died unmarried at the Royal Aero Club in Piccadilly on 14 March 1939. He left bequests of money to the Natural History Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal Society of Arts, and the National Rifle Association. Gunn is described as a quiet and rather taciturn man, who would have made a name for himself in ophthalmic surgery but for failure of health. Like his friend Charles Stoneham, FRCS he was much interested in ornithology. Publication:- Injuries and disease of the eye, in *Catalogue of the Westminster Hospital Museum* 1899.
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, David Llewellyn (1857 - 1938)

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First Title value, for Searching Steedman, John Francis (1854 - 1925)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Arcall, Shropshire, one of the large family of John Francis Steedman, of Wellingborough. He entered Shrewsbury School at Easter term, 1869, and left in 1871, intending to become a land agent. After a short time in this occupation he entered St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was captain of the Rowing Club and soon showed himself to be good and keen at cricket and football, whilst as House Surgeon to John Langton (qv) he proved himself one of the best and most practical of Resident Officers. Returning to Shrewsbury he became House Surgeon to the Infirmary, and started to practise at High Arcall (or Ercall), Shropshire. After some years he joined the partnership of Frodsham and Barnes, practising first at 110 High Road, Streatham, SW, and latterly at Arcall, Prentis Road, Streatham, in the firm of Steedman and Plews. He was for many years Surgeon to the Magdalen Hospital. Steedman was a successful practitioner, with abundant common sense and a knowledge of his work. By frequently attending the weekly surgical consultations at St Bartholomew's Hospital he kept himself in touch with advances in practice. He kept up his interest in the Hospital sports, often playing for 'Past' at Winchmore Hill, and was also a keen golfer. He had had transient periods of heart weakness, but was never incapacitated, yet he died suddenly whilst sitting in a stand at Twickenham, watching the England v Ireland Rugby Football match on February 14th, 1925. He was survived by his widow, a Streatham lady, two sons and three daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Lawrence (1877 - 1949)

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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Sir Robert (1858 - 1933)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-31
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Occupation General surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Robert Jones was born at Rhyl on 28 June 1858, the son of Robert Jones and Mary Hughes, his wife. He was educated at a small private school, at Sydenham College, and at the Liverpool School of Medicine. Even before he qualified he acted as assistant to his maternal uncle, Owen Thomas, the inventor of the Thomas splint. This uncle was the descendant of a line of Welshmen who combined farming with bone-setting, H O Thomas being the first to regularize the position by taking the MRCS in 1857; he was a man of a most humane and generous disposition, who had a large general practice in the poorest parts of Liverpool and utilized, without parading, his hereditary of knowledge orthopaedic surgery. From him Jones learnt much, more especially at the free Sunday clinic which was a feature of the practice in Nelson Street. This clinic Jones continued after the death of his uncle, and at it many surgeons learned the principles of bone and joint surgery, for it was open to all practitioners. He served for a time as surgeon to the Stanley Hospital, until having obtained the FRCSEd in 1889 he was appointed surgeon to the Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool. Here he performed the duties of the office without specializing upon the orthopaedic side until 1905, when he abandoned general surgery. Liverpool was at that time practically the only point of debarkation from the United States and it thus became the practice for American surgeons visiting England to inspect the hospitals in the city. Jones welcomed them courteously and with characteristic bonhomie. They watched his operations, partook of his hospitality and his name soon became much better known abroad than at home. Sir Harry Platt, in his Robert Jones lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons on 4 November 1942 (*Brit J Surg* 1943, 30, 291, with portraits), describes Robert Jones's important work in the early eighteen-nineties, when he organized and administered the casualty service for the ten thousand workmen engaged in excavating Manchester Ship Canal. He was a pioneer in the treatment of diseases of bones and joints by open air and sunlight, first at the Shropshire Orthopaedic Hospital at Baschurch, which was founded by Dame Agnes Hunt, and later at the Liverpool Children's Hospital at Heswell in Cheshire. His reputation increased slowly but steadily, until in 1913 he was nominated president of the section of orthopaedics at the International Medical Congress held in London, having occupied a similar position at the British Medical Association's meeting in the previous year. In 1908 he accepted a commission as captain à la suite, RAMC, in the newly formed Territorial Force, and was called up at the beginning of the war in 1914. He served for a short time as a medical officer in France, but it soon became apparent to him that the treatment of gunshot wounds and other skeletal injuries left much to be desired both at the front and in many war hospitals at home. In 1916 he published a useful little book upon *Injuries to Joints*, indicating the correct methods which should be employed, and after some hesitation the War Office appointed him director of a military orthopaedic hospital at Liverpool with the rank of lieutenant-colonel and charge of 500 beds. From this time onward his value was appreciated and his advance was rapid. He was appointed Director-General of Military Orthopaedics with the rank of major-general, AMS, and a member of the War Office Advisory Board, becoming finally consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Ministry of Pensions. In reward for his services he was decorated CB (mil) on 1 January 1917, a Knight Bachelor 13 June 1917, a Knight Commander (mil) of the most excellent Order of the British Empire on 3 June 1919, and a Baronet on 28 January 1926. Jones married on 21 March 1887 Susie (d 1918), daughter of William Evans of Liverpool, by whom he had two children: Arthur Probyn Jones, LLB, of King's College, Cambridge, barrister, who died in 1951, and Hilda, who married Frederick Watson. In 1918 John Rankin founded the Lady Jones lectureship in orthopaedic surgery at the University of Liverpool, the lectureship was formally established in 1924 and a research scholarship added. Jones died after a short illness on 14 January 1933. His remains were cremated and the ashes interred in Liverpool Cathedral, where they were the first burial. Robert Jones did for orthopaedic surgery what had already been done for opthalmology and laryngology: he developed it as a specialty, where before it had been for the most part an appanage of general surgery. An easy writer, a fluent speaker, and a genial companion, he was full of life and was a great driving force. Slightly above middle height, he had a fine open countenance and a bluff manner of address, which quickly put people at their ease and made them friends. Himself open and straightforward in all his dealings, he thought no evil of anyone and was always ready to see the good side of each man's character. In his early days he was a good boxer and had a grip of iron, which stood him in good stead for osteoclasia and the bending of the metal splints, which he used extensively in his practice. On the occasion of his seventieth birthday *The Robert Jones Birthday Volume, a collection of surgical essays*, Oxford, 1928, edited by H A T Fairbank, W R Bristow, and H Platt, with a preface by Sir Berkeley Moynihan, was published in his honour. A Robert Jones National Memorial Fund was formed by appeal launched at a Mansion House meeting on 18 July 1934. In April 1935 the College Council accepted the proposals of the memorial fund committee to found a Robert Jones professorship at the Royal College of Surgeons for an annual lecture or lectures on some subject connected with orthopaedic surgery, for which £1000 was allocated and to found a travelling research fellowship, for which £2,000 was allocated, to be awarded alternately by the University of Liverpool with the Liverpool Medical Institution and by the Royal College of Surgeons (*Lancet*, 1935, 1, 1075). The Liverpool Medical Institution as a special memorial formed a Hugh Owen Thomas and Robert Jones library of orthopaedic surgery (*Brit med J* 1935, 1, 377). Publications: On infantile paralysis (acute anterior poliomyelitis), its early treatment and the surgical means for the alleviation of deformities, the Fothergillian oration. *Trans Med Soc* Lond. 1914, 37, 315. *Injuries to Joints,* Oxford war primers. London, 1915; 2nd edition, 1918. *Orthopaedic Surgery*, with R V Lovett of Boston, USA New York, 1923; 2nd edition, 1929. Manipulative surgery, the Cavendish lecture, *W Lond med J* 1924, 29, 97. Portraits: A bronze plaque in the Anna Clinic at Leiden, unveiled 31 May 1931. A three-quarter-length in oils (in military uniform) by E R Morrison, 1920, was presented to the RCS by his son Sir Arthur Probyn Jones, and daughter Mrs Frederick Watson on 8 June 1933. A cast of his hand is in the Owen Thomas and Robert Jones room at the Liverpool Medical Institution.
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Sydney Harold (1862 - 1940)

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First Title value, for Searching Jordan, Leslie Roland (1909 - 1944)

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

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 8 August 1868 at Partney, Lincolnshire the eighth child and fourth son of the Rev Robert Giles and his wife, *née* Laurent. He was educated at Christ's Hospital (the Bluecoat School), entering the junior school at Hertford and being afterwards moved to the senior school in London, when the Rev R Lee, MA was head master. He matriculated from Peterhouse, Cambridge on 1 October 1887 and was elected to the open scholarship for mathematics on 9 November in that year, scholarship being renewed for a further period of two years on 9 November 1889. He graduated BA as a senior optime in 1890 and MB in 1897. He received his medical education at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he gained the Brackenbury surgical scholarship in 1895, was house surgeon, and acted as senior assistant in the throat department. He then went to Sheffield, was assistant demonstrator of anatomy in School of Medicine and assistant surgeon at the Children's Hospital. He remained there until in 1909 he was elected surgeon to the Scarborough Hospital, and quickly made himself a name there as an excellent operating surgeon. During the war he joined the British Red Cross Society early in October 1914 and worked at the Duchess of Westminster Hospital from November 1914 until April 1915. He took a commission as temporary captain in the RAMC 12 December 1915 and was attached to the Warrington War Hospital until the autumn of 1916. He then served in various hospital ships and from the spring of 1918 until July 1919 he was again in France. After the end of the war he worked under the Ministry of Pensions at Southampton, first as surgeon and afterwards as consulting surgeon. He retired from active practice during the latter years of his life and lived at Brockenhurst, Hants. He married Janet E.Whitwell on 9 June 1898, who survived him with a son and a daughter. He died in July 1933 whilst travelling in Spain and was buried in the Protestant Cemetery at Santander. Publication:- A case of spina bifida cured by excision. *Quart Med J Yorks*, 1899-1900, 8, 72.
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First Title value, for Searching Gilford, Hastings (1861 - 1941)

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Publication Date 2013-06-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Melton Mowbray on 2 July 1861, son of William Gilford an estate developer, and his wife, *née* Lott. He was educated privately and at Guy's Hospital. After serving as clinical assistant at the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children, he settled at Reading in 1887, becoming surgeon and eventually consulting surgeon to the Reading Dispensary. During the war of 1914-18 he was surgeon-in-charge of the Sutherland War Hospital and Hospital for Pensioners. He lived at Norwood House King's Road and later at 47 Cressingham Road, Reading. He was elected a vice-president of the Reading Pathological Society on 2 July 1908 and was a keen member of the British Medical Association; between 1901 and 1904 he contributed six papers to the surgical section at Association's annual meetings. Gilford took a deep interest in the aetiology of cancer. Refusing to consider any experimental research, he relied on clinical and post-mortem observations in his study of the origin of tumours and published his conclusions in a series of monographs. He assumed that in modern civilization man's sentimental psychology induces biological degeneration, and that the consequent degradation of cell-structure leads to a preca-ncerous state, from which cells either die out or under certain stimuli begin the abnormal proliferation of cancer. He published popular accounts of his views under the name of "John Cope". Gilford married in 1889 Lilian Adele Hope, and was survived by two sons and two daughters. He died on 6 September 1941. Publications:- On a condition of mixed premature and immature development. *Med Chir Trans* 1897, 80, 17. Ateleiosis, a disease characterized by conspicuous delay of growth and develop¬ment. *Ibid* 1902, 85, 305. Ateleiosis and progeria, continuous youth and premature old age. *Brit med J* 1904, 2, 914. Progeria, a form of senilism. *Practitioner*, 1904, 73, 188. *The disorders of post-natal growth and development*. London, Adlard, 1911. Infantilism, Hunterian lectures, RCS *Lancet*, 1914, 1, 587; 664; 861. *Tumours and cancers: a biological study* London, Selwyn and Blount, 1925. *Cancer, civilization, degeneration*. London, Lewis, 1932. *The cancer problem and its solution*. London, Lewis, 1934.
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First Title value, for Searching Gillam, George Joshua (1886 - 1941)

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First Title value, for Searching Gillespie, Edward (1878 - 1950)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 10 June 1878 the youngest of the four children of James Gillespie and his wife, *née* Alexander. He was educated at Irvine Royal Academy and Glasgow University. He graduated in 1900 and served as house surgeon at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow. Coming to London he was house surgeon and later surgical registrar at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Tottenham, and also clinical assistant at St Peter's Hospital for Stone. He took the Fellowship in 1907, though not previously a Member of the College, after postgraduate studies at Middlesex Hospital. During the war of 1914-18 he served as surgeon to Chelsea VAD Hospital and Tooting Military Orthopaedic Hospital. He was in due course elected surgeon to the Prince of Wales Hospital, and had his consulting rooms at 24 Weymouth Street, W. He was also surgeon to Enfield Cottage Hospital, and to Haymeads Hospital, Bishop's Stortford. Latterly he devoted himself to this last appointment, and in Bishop's Stortford, first at 53 Warwick Road, and finally at 29 Hockerill Street. Gillespie married in 1913 Miss Wallace, who survived him with a son and daughter. He died on 22 August 1950. Publications:- Observations on treatment of tuberculous bone and joint lesions by tuberculins, Perlsucht-tuberculin-original and tuberculin residuum. *J Vaccine Therapy*, 1913, 2, 91. Acute intestinal obstruction caused by the appendix vermiformis, the obstruction obscuring an acute appendicitis. *Lancet*, 1912, 1, 792. Treatment of gangrenous hernia by combined anastomosis and fistula operation. *Practitioner*, 1913, 90, 455. Scoliosis. *Clin J* 1913, 30, 276.
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First Title value, for Searching Cross, Francis Richardson (1848 - 1931)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-20
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Son of the Rev Joseph Cross, MA, who matriculated from Magdalen Hall, Oxford, 11 November 1812, was vicar of Merriott south Somersetshire, married Caroline Richardson and was afterwards precentor of Bristol cathedral. Francis Richardson Cross was born 26 November 1848 and was educated at Crewkerne Grammar School until he entered as a medical student at King's College Hospital. Here he acted as house surgeon in charge of the eye wards, was sub-dean, medical tutor, and evening lecturer on physiology. He also served as assistant demonstrator of anatomy. In 1896 he was elected a Fellow of King's College. He was for a short time resident medical officer at the St Pancras Infirmary, after which he attended clinics in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, and Utrecht, where he came under the influence of Professor Snellen the ophthalmologist. His interest in the subject being thus aroused, he became clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital on his return to England. In 1878 he joined the medical school at Bristol as lecturer on anatomy, was elected assistant surgeon to the Bristol Royal Infirmary in September 1878 and surgeon in January 1879. He held this post until 1885 when, deciding to specialize in ophthalmic surgery, he was elected ophthalmic surgeon to the infirmary and held office until July 1900. He then resigned, was elected a governor, and retained his interest in the institution until 1925, having been elected a vice-president in 1919. During his tenure of office as surgeon to the infirmary, he was dean in 1880 of the medical faculty of University College, Bristol, which had not then been raised to the status of a university. In 1882 he was appointed surgeon to the Bristol Eye Hospital and raised the institution to a high state of efficiency. His first house surgeon was Herman Snellen, the son of his old teacher at Utrecht. He remained upon the active staff until November 1925 when he resigned and received the complimentary title of consulting surgeon, remaining a member of the committee until his death. In 1891 he was president of the Bristol Medico-chirurgical Society, and in the same year he was president of the ophthalmological section at the Bristol meeting of the British Medical Association. From 1898 till 1914 he was a member of the council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and delivered the Bradshaw lecture in 1909, "On the brain structures concerned in vision and the visual field" (printed Bristol 1910). From 1912 to 1915 he was president of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom. In 1901 he delivered the annual oration at Medical Society of London on "Some landmarks in the progress of medical science". He married in 1880 Eva Beatrice, who died 1920, daughter of Captain Hawkes, RN, and by her had three daughters. He died on Sunday, 12 July 1931, at Worcester House, Clifton, Bristol and was buried at Alveston, Gloucestershire, after a largely attended funeral service in Bristol cathedral. Cross was one of the last ophthalmic surgeons who began life as a general surgeon and afterwards specialized in his subject. He had many interests outside his profession. As a young man he was well known in the athletic world, winning the 100 yards in the inter-hospital sports in record time. Settled at Bristol, he took an active part in the social and municipal life of the city. He served as sheriff in 1897 and was presented with a silver cradle to mark the birth of a daughter during his year of office. He was made a Justice of the Peace in 1902 and took an influential part in securing the foundation of the university in 1909, where he became lecturer and later reader in ophthalmology. He was president of the Grateful Society in 1889, of the Dolphin Society in 1911, and of the university Colston Society in 1916. During his tenure of these offices he was successful in collecting large sums for charitable purposes. He was throughout a keen sportsman, hunting with the Duke of Beaufort's hounds. He also took a great interest in the breeding of stock. He acted as chairman of the Bristol centre of the St John Ambulance Brigade, and for very many years was chairman of the Bristol School for the Blind. The welfare of the blind was always very near his heart and he was instrumental in obtaining new and better premises for the Royal School for the Blind. As a man he stood well over six feet in height with great breadth of shoulder, fine upright carriage, and a profusion of hair which became white early in life. He was a fine speaker and was everywhere an influence for good. He left £50 each to the Bristol Eye Hospital, the Bristol Royal Infirmary, King's College Hospital, London, the University of Bristol, and the School of Industry for the Blind; and a number of medical books from his library were presented by his daughter to the Royal College of Surgeons. A portrait painted in 1920 by Miss B Bright hangs in the senate room of the Bristol University, and there is a replica in the Bristol Eye Hospital. It is an excellent likeness.
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First Title value, for Searching Crowle, Thomas Henry Rickard (1863 - 1939)

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First Title value, for Searching Cruise, Sir Richard Robert (1877 - 1946)

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First Title value, for Searching Cubitt, Alan Wellesley (1903 - 1938)

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First Title value, for Searching Stobie, Harry (1882 - 1948)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-13
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Occupation Dental surgeon
Details Born at Liverpool on 23 October 1882, the eldest child of George Stobie, electrical engineer, and Nellie Williams, his wife. His early life was spent in South Africa. He studied at St Thomas's Hospital, qualifying in 1911, having qualified as a dentist the previous year. He was appointed in 1915 assistant surgeon at the Royal Dental Hospital, where he had studied dentistry. During the war of 1914-18 he served as a surgeon specialist under Sir Frank Colyer at the Croydon War Hospital for Injuries of the Jaws. He became dean and lecturer at the Royal Dental Hospital College in 1920, was elected surgeon in 1930, and from 1932 to 1936 was postgraduate instructor in oral surgery. He was appointed the first University of London professor of dental surgery and pathology, with a chair at the Royal Dental Hospital, in 1939. He examined in dentistry for the Universities of Birmingham, Bristol, Durham, Leeds, and London. During the second world war he was consulting dental surgeon to the Army with the rank of brigadier. Stobie was a vice-president of the Medical Protection Society, and served as president of the Metropolitan branch of the British Dental Association and of the section of odontology at the Royal Society of Medicine. He was elected FRCS, as a member of 20 years' standing, in 1945, and was among the foundation Fellows of the new Faculty of Dental Surgery at the College in 1947. Stobie married in 1912 Emmeline Mary, daughter of F M Guanziroli. Mrs Stobie survived him with two sons, one of whom qualified LDS in 1940. He died at 11 Mulgrave Road, Sutton, Surrey, on 27 April 1948, aged 65. He was buried at Sutton cemetery, and a memorial service was held at St Martin's-in-the-Fields on 6 May 1948.
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First Title value, for Searching Stone, William Gream (1866 - 1947)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-13
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Liverpool, 31 October 1866, second child and eldest son of William Stone, solicitor, and Catherine Fleetwood Nelson, his wife. He was educated at Eton and at Balliol College, Oxford, where he took second-class honours in moderations and literae humaniores (classical "Greats"). He received his medical education at St Thomas's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon and clinical assistant in the electrical and ear departments. Stone settled in practice in South London, became medical officer to Camberwell Provident Dispensary and to St Gabriel's College, and was surgeon to the Brixton Orphanage. He was also a surgeon to the Metropolitan Police. During the war of 1914-18 he was surgeon to Southwark Military Hospital. He married in 1897 Lilian Emily Doughan, but there were no children. Stone died on 9 December 1947, aged 81, at The Stone House, 21 Rose Hill, Dorking, Surrey, and was buried in Dorking cemetery. He left the residue of his estate, after a few small personal legacies, to the Sisters of the Transfiguration at the Mount Tabor Institution for Mentally Defective Persons, at Basingstoke. Publications: Recurrent attacks of catalepsy, alternating with violent mental excitement. *Lancet*, 1901, 1, 1132. Hereditary aphasia: a family disease of the nervous system, due possibly to syphilis, with J J Douglas. *Brain*, 1902, 25, 293-317. Case of prolapsus uteri treated by injection of paraffin, with J J Douglas. *Brit med J* 1903, 2, 79. A case of enlargement of the bones of the cranium, jaw, and thorax (? syphilitic). *Clin Soc Trans* 1904, 37, 239. A note on a case of hereditary aphasia. *Lancet*, 1905, 1, 423.
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First Title value, for Searching Strange, Arthur (1868 - 1940)

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

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

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

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 27 August 1857 at Kilworth, Co Cork, fourth son of William W Pearson, MRCS 1843, MD St Andrews 1845, who later practised at Carrigaline, Co Cork, and his wife Anne Smith, of Castletownroche, Co Cork. He was educated at the Model School and at Perrott's School, Cork, and in 1874 entered Queen's College, then a constituent of the Royal University of Ireland, which in 1908 became University College and a constituent of the National University of Ireland. He qualified with a gold medal in 1878, and was appointed senior demonstrator of anatomy in the college, on whose staff he continued to serve for fifty years. In 1883 he was elected assistant surgeon to the Cork North Charitable Infirmary, becoming in due course surgeon, a post in which he was followed by his second son. He was also surgeon to the County and City of Cork Victoria Hospital for Women and Children, and obstetric surgeon to the Cork Lying-in Hospital. He was appointed professor of materia medica and lecturer in medical jurisprudence in 1884, and as medico-legal adviser to the Crown in criminal cases gave evidence at Cork Assizes in 1887, which played a prominent part in securing the conviction of Dr Philip Cross for the murder of his wife. Surgeon-Major Philip Henry Eustace Cross, LRCSI, had practised at Shandyhall, Dripsey for a dozen years since his retirement from the Army Medical Service, and was also a respected country gentleman in the district, of which he was a native. His wife died in June 1887 and he immediately married his young mistress. Pearson gave evidence that Mrs Cross had died of arsenic poisoning, and although there was no direct evidence that Cross had administered the poison, he was convicted by Judge Murphy, whose emotional charge to the jury was strongly criticized in the *British Medical Journal*. In spite of an appeal by petition to the Lord Lieutenant, Cross was hanged in January 1888. Pearson had taken the Fellowship in 1886, though not previously a Member, and in 1897 he was elected professor of surgery at Cork, and held the chair till 1928 when he was granted the title of emeritus on retiring. In 1903 he was elected a surgical Fellow of the Royal University, and on its change into the National University in 1908 was appointed a senator. He became honorary surgeon to the King in Ireland in 1916, in succession to Sir Charles Ball, Hon FRCS. Pearson examined in surgery for the Indian Medical Service from 1912. He was elected an honorary life member of the Austin Flint Medical Association of Iowa in 1900. Pearson married twice: (1) in 1881 Christiana Dorothea, daughter of A J Tuckey, MD, MRCS, of Bantry, Co Cork. There were two sons and a daughter of this marriage; the elder son, William Pearson, FRCSI, became professor of surgery in Dublin University (Trinity College) and a distinguished consultant in Dublin; the younger son, Charles Broderick Pearson, MD MCh, succeeded to his father's private and hospital practice at Cork, his son Charles also entered the medical profession, as MB 1943; (2) in 1924 May Clemence, daughter of Lawson L Ferguson of Glenview, Co Wicklow; Mrs Pearson was herself a doctor, MB NUI 1921, DPH RCPS Eng 1924; she survived her husband with two daughters, one of whom was a medical student at the time of Professor Pearson's death. Pearson had practised at 1 Sydney Place, Cork, where his son succeeded him. Latterly he lived at 8 Knockrea Park, Cork, where he died on 13 May 1947, aged 89. He was a popular and respected man, fond of all outdoor sports, especially yachting, fishing, and shooting. Publication: *Modern surgical technique in its relation to operations and wound treatment*. London, Bale, 1906. 392 pages.
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First Title value, for Searching Pendred, Vaughan (1869 - 1946)

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First Title value, for Searching Pennell, George Herbert (1860 - 1944)

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

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

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at 50 Camberwell Road, SE, on 25 April 1882, the eldest son of J Walter Perrin, a City merchant, and Harriet S Savage, his wife. He was educated at Wilson School under Mr McDowell, at Richmond Hill School under Mr Whitbread, and at the City of London School under Mr A T Pollard. On 1 October 1901 he was admitted with a Tancred scholarship to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He graduated BA in 1904, after gaining a first class in Part 1 of the Natural Sciences Tripos and a first class in zoology in Part 2. He had by this time come under the influence of Adam Sedgwick of Trinity College, who was starting a school of protozoology at Cambridge. Perrin was given the Shuttleworth research scholarship and the Thruston prize by Caius College and was sent to Austria, where he went to the zoological station at Rovigno, Istria, and worked in the laboratory of Prowazek during the autumn of 1904 and the first half of the year 1905. On his return to England he was awarded the Walsingham medal and £20 given by the University of Cambridge for papers published as a result of his work on protozoology with Prowazek, and was given the post of University demonstrator of zoology under Sedgwick. He remained in Cambridge trying unsuccessfully for a Fellowship at Caius College and maintaining himself by coaching until 1907, when he realized that zoology would not maintain him and turned to medicine. He entered the London Hospital as a student, gained an entrance scholarship and two years later the Jonathan Hutchinson prize for an essay on intussusception, was awarded the medical and surgical scholarships, and was admitted MRCS and LRCP in 1912. He took the Mastership of Surgery at Cambridge in 1914, but never graduated MB. At the London Hospital he filled the posts of house surgeon, house physician, and surgical registrar, was elected assistant surgeon in 1921, and became surgeon in 1928. He also acted in the medical school of the hospital as demonstrator of anatomy when William Wright was head of the department. During the war Perrin acted first as officer in charge of the Belgian Field Hospital at Fumes; he was gazetted temporary lieutenant, RAMC on 12 March 1918 and temporary captain a year later, on appointment as a surgical specialist at various casualty clearing stations in France. On demobilization he returned to his ordinary civil duties. He married Dorothy Edith Rafferty on 9 December 1916; she survived him with two sons and a daughter. He died after a short illness on 8 December 1935 at 16 Upper Wimpole Street, aged 53. Perrin, had his means allowed of it or had he gained a properly remunerated teaching post, would have been as good a protozoologist as he afterwards became a surgeon. He was excellent at research and a trained teacher of students. As a surgeon he devoted himself more especially to the diseases of the rectum, and was president of the subsection of proctology at the Royal Society of Medicine in 1932-33. His last appointment was as surgeon to the Royal Masonic Hospital. Publications: A preliminary communication of the life history of Trypanosoma balbianii. *Proc Roy Soc* 1905, B 75, 368. Researches upon the life history of Trypanosoma balbianii. *Arch Protistenk* 1906, 7, 131. Preliminary communication on the life history of Pleistophora periplanetae. *Proc Camb Phil Soc* 1906, 13, 204. Observations on the structure and life history of Pleistophora periplanetae. *Quart J micr Sci* 1905-06, 49, 615. Note on the possible transmission of sarcocystis by the blowfly. *Spolia Zeylan* 1907, 4, 58. Intussusception, a monograph based on 400 cases, with E C Lindsay. *Brit J Surg* 1921-22,9, 46-71. The ambulatory treatment of piles. *Lancet*, 1929, 1, 569.
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First Title value, for Searching Perry, Francis Frederic (1854 - 1940)

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First Title value, for Searching Peters, Edwin Arthur (1868 - 1945)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born 16 April 1868 at Merstham, Surrey, second child and second son of Edwin Peters and Damaris Kingsnorth, his wife. He was educated at Charterhouse and at Caius College, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in Part 1 of the Natural Sciences Tripos, 1889, and second-class honours in Part 2, 1891. He then entered Guy's Hospital, won the gold medal for diagnosis, and served as house physician. Peters specialized as an oto-laryngologist, and after postgraduate study at Heidelberg he became clinical assistant at the Throat Hospital, Golden Square. After serving as senior clinical assistant at the Royal Ear Hospital (the nose, throat, and ear department of University College Hospital) he was elected to its staff and ultimately became consulting surgeon. He was consulting aural surgeon to the Bolingbroke Hospital and to Paddington Green Children's Hospital. During the first world war he served as captain, RAMC, commissioned 21 December 1914, and was subsequently for many years otologist and laryngologist to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley. Peters carried on his large private practice to the end of his life, long after he had given up his hospital appointments. He was honorary secretary of the laryngological section at the Royal Society of Medicine, and president of the otological section in 1934. Peters married twice: (1) on 7 March 1895 Alice Mary Serjeant, whose two daughters survived him, one an artist and the other, Dr Alice D K Peters, BM, BCh Oxford, an industrial dermatologist and medical officer to a Royal ordnance factory; (2) on 27 April 1933 Margaret R A Mains, who survived him with a son and daughter. He died on 29 January 1945, aged 76, and was buried at Netley Abbey. He had practised at 41 Wimpole Street and lived at Queensborough Terrace and at Ingleside, Netley Abbey, Hants. In addition to valuable clinical studies in his own specialty, Peters carried through some useful anatomical and physiological researches. He early improved the current surgical technique in mastoid operation. He also devoted much care to the study of climatic effects on public health. He was a man of great loyalty, courtesy, and kindness. His favourite recreations were golf and partridge-shooting, at both of which he excelled, and he enjoyed carpentry, yachting, and country pursuits. Publications: *Handbook of diseases of the ear*, by Richard Lake, 5th edition by E. A. Peters. London, 1927. Nose and throat, in T N Kelynack *Tuberculosis in infancy and childhood*, London, 1908. Treatment of hysterical deafness by pseudo-operation, with Sir Arthur Hurst. *Lancet*, 1917, 2, 517. Infection of Eustachian tube, presidential address to otological section. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1934, 28, 221. Tonsils and naso-pharyngeal sepsis. *Lancet*, 1935, 2, 1354; and as a pamphlet, London, Baillière, 1935.
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First Title value, for Searching Phemister, Dallas Burton (1882 - 1951)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-02 2020-08-05
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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 Pickering, Charles Frederick (1854 - 1939)

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

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

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First Title value, for Searching Pilcher, Edgar Montagu (1865 - 1947)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-02
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born in Meerut, India, on 25 April 1865, son of Surgeon Jesse Griggs Pilcher, IMS, afterwards Deputy Surgeon-General and FRCS. He was educated at Clifton College and at Clare College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1887. He took his clinical training at Guy's Hospital and qualified in 1890. Pilcher was commissioned a surgeon-lieutenant in the newly organized Army Medical Staff on 30 January 1892, being the first officer so gazetted under the Royal Warrant in 1891, and the first to hold this new rank. The reorganization was intended to prepare for the formation of the Royal Army Medical Corps, which duly took effect in 1898. He was promoted surgeon-captain 30 January 1895, becoming captain, RAMC, in 1898. He had been posted to India immediately he received his commission and served at Lucknow during the cholera epidemic of 1896. He was in camp with the East Lancashire Regiment, and his attention to the sick of the battalion was such that he was elected an honorary life member of the officers' mess of the regiment. He saw active service on the North-West Frontier in the Tirah campaign of 1897-98, and won the medal with two clasps. He was then sent to South Africa, where he served throughout the war, 1899-1902, and was present at the relief of Ladysmith; he was mentioned in despatches, won the Queen's medal with five clasps and the King's medal with two clasps, and was awarded the DSO. He was promoted major on 30 January 1904, and in 1905 took the Fellowship though not previously a Member of the College. After five years' service as a surgical specialist he was appointed on 1 August 1910 professor of surgery in the newly formed Royal Army Medical College at Millbank, a post which he held till 1919; but from 1917 he was serving in France as consulting surgeon with the British Expeditionary Force, and was mentioned in despatches. He had been promoted brevet lieutenant-colonel on 26 November 1913, lieutenant-colonel on 1 January 1914, brevet colonel on 12 September 1916, and colonel in July 1917, and subsequently major-general, Army Medical Service. He was appointed consulting surgeon to the Army in 1919, and retired in 1924. He had been appointed an honorary surgeon to the King in 1917, and was created CB 1918 and CBE 1919. Pilcher married twice: (1) in 1899 Lilias Mary, eldest daughter of Captain Henri Campbell, ISC; Mrs Pilcher died suddenly at Gloucester on 8 September 1940; (2) in 1940 Brenda Georgiana, younger daughter of Augustus Frederick Warr, MP for Liverpool 1895-1902, who survived him. There were no children. After his retirement Pilcher lived for a time at Stroud, Gloucestershire; then at St Mary Abbots' Court, Kensington; and finally at Thirty Trees, Ashtead, Surrey, where he died on 26 December 1947, aged 82; the funeral was at Ashtead parish church. Pilcher was an amateur of music and literature.
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First Title value, for Searching Pinch, Albert Edwin Hayward (1868 - 1948)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-02
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Occupation General surgeon Radiologist
Details Born 28 February 1868, the eldest son of Felix Pinch, civil servant on the Irish establishment, and his wife, *née* Hayward. He was educated at King Edward's School, Bath and at Bristol University College Medical School. After clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital he was admitted MRCS in 1894, and was elected to the Fellowship two years later. From 1894 to 1896 he was medical tutor and assistant lecturer in physiology at University College, Bristol. He was commissioned as surgeon-lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service on 29 July 1896, becoming captain in 1899. Pinch did brilliantly both at Bristol and the Army Medical School, Netley. He gained the first entrance scholarship, the Suple scholarship, and the Clarke scholarship in medicine, surgery, and obstetrics at the Bristol Medical School: the Fayrer prize in pathology the De Chaumont prize in hygiene, the Montefiore prize in surgery, and the Herbert scholarship at Netley. He served in the Bengal Presidency as one of the last officers commissioned on the special Bengal list, but contracted plague, and was invalided home with no hope of recovery. In fact he lived for nearly fifty years. He recovered sufficiently to become resident medical superintendent of the Medical Graduates' College and Policlinic at 22 Chenies Street, London, holding the post from 1899 to 1909 during which time he was also pathologist to the Alexandra Hospital for Children with Disease of the Hip, Queen Square, Bloomsbury. In 1908, after the King had been successfully treated by radium in Paris, Lord Iveagh and Sir Ernest Cassel presented a stock of radium for medical use in London. Sir Frederick Treves was appointed president of the Radium Institute in Riding House Street, Portland Place, established to administer this gift, and Pinch was chosen by him as resident medical superintendent and general director in March 1909. Pinch was sent on a tour of French, German, and Austrian radium institutes and clinics before taking up the post which he held till 1930. The Radium Institute was established for the treatment of patients by radium and to carry researches into the therapeutic and physical properties of radium and compounds. For this position Captain Pinch was admirably suited; urbane, tactful, and absolutely honest, he put the institute on a sound basis, which was satisfactory alike to the medical profession and to science. No patient was received until after arrangements had been made with the institute by the patient's medical attendant, while the results obtained were published annually. In these *Reports* Pinch included the cases where no benefit had been received as well as those which had been treated successfully, and pointed out the forms of disease which were most likely to be helped. The work of the Radium Institute was taken over by National Radium Commission in 1930, and Pinch was retired with the honorary status of consultant. Pinch gave up his work on radium, in which he had been deeply interested and retired to Westward Ho, North Devon, where he was able to enjoy his favourite recreation of golf. He usually spent a month every year salmon-fishing in Scotland. Through the long years of retirement he was frequently in ill-health as a result of his earlier illness and the effects his work with radium. He had a severe cerebral stroke in 1946, and died of cerebral haemorrhage in Bideford Hospital on 14 October 1948, aged 80. Hayward Pinch married in August 1896 Helen Nora Poole, who survived him, but without children. He left the remainder of his fortune, after his wife's life interest, to help necessitous students at St Bartholomew's Hospital and Bristol University Medical Faculty. Mrs Hayward Pinch died on 6 January 1953. Publications: *The Radium Institute, London; a clinical index of radium therapy*. London, 1925. *Manual of technique in radium therapy*. London, 1926. 40 plates. *Superficial radium therapy*. London, 1927. 50 plates. Radium therapy, in R Hutchison and H S Collier's *Index of treatment*, 1911, etc. Die Radiumtherapie der bösartigen Hautkrankheiten, in *Handbuch der gesamte Strahlenheilkunde*, 2nd edition, Munich, vol 2, part 2.
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First Title value, for Searching Platt, Walter Brewster (1853 - 1922)

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

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

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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 Pollock, Sir Edward James (1841 - 1930)

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First Title value, for Searching Pomroy, Harry Roy (1895 - 1943)

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

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

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

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First Title value, for Searching Joseph, Henry Stanley (1913 - 1947)

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First Title value, for Searching Joubert de la Ferté, Charles Henry (1846 - 1935)

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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 in London 2 March 1846, the second son of Jean Joubert, a French artist naturalized in 1855, and Amelia Frances Bennet, his wife. She was English by descent and belonged to a collateral branch of the Tankerville Bennets. He was educated partly at Versailles and partly at King's College, London, and qualified from St Mary's Hospital. He held several hospital appointments before he passed into the Indian Medical Service with the rank of assistant surgeon on 30 March 1872 and landed in India in November of that year. He was promoted surgeon 1 July 1873, surgeon major 30 March 1884, surgeon lieutenant-colonel 30 March 1892, brigade surgeon lieutenant-colonel 9 September 1896, colonel 31 March 1900, and retired 29 March 1905. From 1869 to 20 April 1906 he called himself Joubert only, as he found his full name too cumbersome for ordinary use. He resumed the de la Ferté after his retirement from the service. He spent some months at the Calcutta Medical College after his arrival in India and then did the usual amount of military service with the 17th Regiment in Northern India and with the 9th Bengal Cavalry in the Punjab. He returned to Calcutta to the Presidency General Hospital in 1874. His first district charge was that of civil surgeon of Burdwan, where he spent two years, 1875 to 1877, at the time of the Burdwan fever. At the time there were nearly one hundred epidemic dispensaries in the Burdwan district with a large staff of medical subordinates. The duties were very important and arduous for so junior an officer, but the performance of them gained for him the approval of the Bengal government, and resulted in Surgeon-Captain Joubert being again brought down to Calcutta in 1877. From that date to March 1900 he practically never left Calcutta, except for a tour of two years' duty at Darjeeling as civil surgeon from 1882 to 1884. While in Calcutta Colonel Joubert held various appointments: protector of emigrants and superintendent of emigration, health officer of the Port of Calcutta, resident surgeon at the Presidency General Hospital, officiating sanitary commissioner of Bengal, civil surgeon and superintendent of the Presidency jail, second surgeon and professor of anatomy at Calcutta Medical College, and finally after officiating as obstetric surgeon at the Eden Hospital, professor of obstetrics at the Medical College. This latter appointment Colonel Joubert held from 1888 to 1900, when he finally left Calcutta on promotion to the administrative grade as principal medical officer of the Lahore district. During his term of office at the Eden Hospital, Joubert acquired a great reputation as a successful operator in abdominal surgery, and under him this modern line of surgery made great advances. He also gained repute as a specialist in diseases of women and children. He became president of the Faculty of Medicine of Calcutta University and on the reconstitution of the Senate was made a Life Fellow of the University. Promotion to the administrative grade came to Joubert in 1899, but he was asked by the Government of India to remain another year at the Medical College, allowing a junior officer to take the step in his place. After a year's service as PMO, Lahore district, Joubert was appointed to officiate for eight months as PMO at the Punjab command, with the rank of surgeon-general. While on leave in England in 1902 Joubert was offered and accepted a reversion to civil employment as Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, Punjab, but on his return to duty he was offered and accepted the more important post of Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals, United Provinces, which appointment he took up in March 1902. Joubert's long and varied experience, particularly in hospital work and administration and in connexion with medical education, was of very great value to these provinces. The hospitals throughout the provinces were brought up-to-date and into line with the modem advances in surgery; the Agra Medical School was re-organized with a view to making it the best training school in the country for hospital assistants. After his retirement he served during the years 1906-07 and 1910-11 on the council of the British Medical Association as a representative of the Indian Medical Service. Joubert married in 1875 Eliza Jane, the eldest daughter of Philip Sandys Melvill, CSI, of the Indian Civil Service, Agent to the Governor-General, Baroda, who survived himwith two sons and two daughters. He died on 24 January 1935 at Uxbridge, Middlesex, where his second son was stationed. His body was cremated and the ashes were taken to the south of France and interred at Mentone. Mrs Joubert de la Ferté died on 14 August 1942, aged 89.
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First Title value, for Searching Spencer, Lawrence Catlow (1811 - 1872)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Burnley in October, 1811, and was apprenticed at the age of 13 to John Gilbertson of that town. He was educated at Guy's Hospital, and settled in practice at Preston, where he soon acquired popularity. He was Surgeon to the Preston Dispensary. In 1857 and again in 1870 he was President of the Lancashire and Cheshire Branch of the British Medical Association, and was President of the Preston Institute for the Diffusion of Knowledge. He took an active interest in local affairs, and it was largely at his instance that Preston got an improved water-supply. He was elected Alderman in 1857, and was Mayor in 1857-1858, and again in 1870-1871. He was a friend of the poor, kind-hearted, genial, and inspired confidence in the sick patient that everything possible was being done for him. He was attacked by erysipelas of the face, and died at his residence, 9 Winckley Square, Preston, on May 1st, 1872, the attack having been attributed to poor health and overwork. He was a widower; of his four sons, the eldest was a surgeon in practice in Preston, the third was the first Miller Exhibitioner at the University of Cambridge, and the fourth was a medical student in London.
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First Title value, for Searching Spencer, Richard (1778 - 1868)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-18
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born on April 26th, 1778. On April 9th, 1800, he became Surgeon's Mate on the Hospital Staff, unattached. On June 5th of the same year he was gazetted Assistant Surgeon to the 4th Foot, promoted to Surgeon on July 9th, 1803; transferred to the 66th Foot on May 23rd, 1805, back to the 4th Foot, and to the 21st Light Dragoons on May 22nd, 1806. He served with this regiment at the Cape of Good Hope and in India for a number of years. On December 14th, 1820, he was gazetted to the 62nd Foot. He retired on February 25th, 1821, on half pay, and died at Fonthill Gifford, Wiltshire, on August 6th, 1868. Richard Spencer, John Painter Vincent (qv), and John Smith Soden (qv) were amongst the thirty-nine candidates at the last examination held for the diploma of the Company of Surgeons - many of whom were 'referred'.
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First Title value, for Searching Spicer, Richard William (1802 - 1874)

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First Title value, for Searching Brierley, Wilfred Edward (1881 - 1942)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-22
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 17 January 1881 at Womersley vicarage near Pontefract, the seventh child and fifth son of the Rev Prebendary Joseph Henry Brierley and his wife Ellen, daughter of T P Teale (1801-67) FRCS 1843, the well-known Leeds surgeon, and sister of T Pridgin Teale (1831-1923) FRCS 1857, the hygienist, and of J W Teale (1838-97), FRCS 1865. He was educated at Cheltenham College, where he was in Southwood House, and at the Leeds Medical School, graduating from the Victoria University in 1904, the year before the establishment of the Leeds University. He took the Leeds degrees and the Conjoint qualification in 1905. After further work at the London and King's College Hospitals he took the Fellowship in 1907. He was commissioned a lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service on 1 February 1908, having passed-in first of fifty-seven candidates. He was promoted captain in 1911, major in 1920, and lieutenant-colonel in 1928, with which rank he retired in 1932. He then settled on his estate in Kenya, East Africa, where he was a pioneer in the planting of coffee, tea, and kapok. He married on 2 September 1936 Mrs Norah Lindsay, *née* Ball, who survived him but there were no children of the marriage. Mrs Brierley's eldest son by her first marriage was killed in action as a Spitfire pilot over Malta on 23 October 1942. Brierley died on his coffee estate, Kitamaiyu, Ruiru, Kenya on 11 September 1942, aged 61.
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First Title value, for Searching Pritchard, Thomas (1806 - 1870)

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First Title value, for Searching Pritchard, Urban (1845 - 1925)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-10
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details The fifth son of Andrew Pritchard, FRS, Edinburgh; studied at King's College Hospital, London, where he was House Surgeon, then at Edinburgh, winning the Ettles Scholarship and Gold Medal, his Thesis being "On the Structure of the Lamina Spiralis Membranacea". He returned to King's College Hospital, and was Physician's Assistant to Sir George Johnson, Dr Lionel Beale, and Sir Alfred Garrod, later Surgical Registrar and Curator of the Museum, and was afterwards Demonstrator of Physiology and Lecturer on Physiology to evening classes. From researches on the labyrinth he passed to the study of diseases of the ear, and in 1874 was appointed Surgeon to the Royal Ear Hospital, then the sole institution of its kind in London, and he held office until 1900, when he became Consulting Surgeon. In 1876 he was appointed the first Aural Surgeon to King's College Hospital, and in 1886 he became the first Professor of Aural Surgery in Great Britain. He retired from both posts in 1910, being made Consulting Surgeon and Emeritus Professor. He published four papers, detailing original research on the internal ear, the first of which was read to the Royal Society by T H Huxley. He traced the cochlea of man through mammals and the ornithorhynchus to birds, and described the lagena which terminates the cochlea in birds and reptiles, thus connecting mammals and man with both. After that he devoted himself to clinical work at the Hospital and to a large private practice. From 1884 he was the chief British Representative of Otology, and was President of the International Congress of Otology at the meeting in London in 1899. As a result the Otological Society of the United Kingdom was formed, which later became the Otological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. Pritchard was the second President of the Society. His handbook of *Diseases of the Ear* ran through three editions (8vo, London and Philadelphia, 1886; 3rd ed, 1896). He was an active member of the Paris International Congress of Otology in 1922. He was co-editor for the United Kingdom of the *International Archives of Otology* from 1890-1908. Pritchard practised at 55 Wimpole Street until ill health caused his retirement. He died, after long and painful suffering, in October, 1925. He married in 1872 Miss Blade Pallister; they celebrated their golden wedding in 1922. Mrs Pritchard survived him with one daughter and two sons, one son, Mr Norman Pallister Pritchard, MO, MA, MCh Cantab, MRCS, then practising at Chertsey.
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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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First Title value, for Searching Duval, Pierre (1874 - 1941)

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

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First Title value, for Searching Dyball, Brennan (1872 - 1934)

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

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-21 2014-01-28
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born in London 15 July 1874, the third son of Edward Henry Physick Eason, auctioneer and surveyor, of Bishopsgate, and his wife Mary Ann Moore. He nearly died of double pneumonia at the age of eleven, and was educated at a private school in Dulwich, at University College, London, and at Guy's Hospital, and retained a close connexion with the hospital and with London University to the end of his busy life. He qualified in 1898 and proceeded both to the MD and the MS. He was house physician at Guy's to Sir James Goodhart, MD, FRCP, but was more markedly influenced by Sir Cooper Perry, MD, FRCP towards pursuing his bent for administration. By Perry's advice he specialized in ophthalmology, to leave himself time for administrative work, which a less restricted medical field would not. He was appointed assistant ophthalmic surgeon at Guy's in 1905, and ultimately became senior ophthalmic surgeon. During the war of 1914-18 Eason was a consulting ophthalmic surgeon to the British Army in Egypt and the Near East, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, RAMC. He was created CMG in 1917 and CB in 1919 for his services. He formed a personal friendship with General (afterwards Field-Marshal Lord) Allenby, who struck him as the greatest man he met in his long life of many distinguished contacts. While practising his specialty with distinction, Eason's great contribution to medicine lay in the full deployment of his rare administrative talent. In honour of this work he was elected a Fellow of the College in 1936, as a member of twenty years' standing. At Guy's he was Warden of the College (1902) and Dean of the medical and dental school 1903-12, and in 1920 he succeeded Perry, who had held the post for 28 years, as Superintendent of the Hospital. Eason thoroughly enjoyed the appointment, which he sustained with dignified ability for nearly 20 years. In the University of London he was an active member of the Faculty of Medicine, represented the Faculty on the Senate from 1911, and the Senate on the Court 1931-37. He was elected Vice-Chancellor in 1935, and after the tragic death of Edwin Deller, who was accidentally killed while inspecting the building of the new university house in 1937, Eason assumed the office of Principal, making with skill the difficult step from the chief administrative to the chief executive office of the university. As a leading member of the Board of Education's Departmental Committee on the University of London 1924-26, he had done much to shape the policy which he administered. Eason represented the University on the General Medical Council from 1924 and, after serving as a trustee of the English branch of the Council and joint treasurer with Sir George Newman, he was elected president from 1 December 1939, in succession to Sir Norman Walker, president 1931-39. Sir Robert Bolam had been chairman of business since 1932, but died some months before Walker's retirement, leaving the succession open to the highly eligible Eason. Eason was a proved committee man and an experienced administrator with a sound knowledge of the law. He had been elected as Honorary Master of the Bench of the Inner Temple in 1938. He had also personal acquaintance with clinical practice. After assuming the presidential office Eason gave up all part in the work of the British Medical Association, to avoid any colour of professional partiality. He had served on the Association's ophthalmic committee, which helped to sponsor the National Eye Service. Eason was intensely proud of the dignity and weight of his position, and valued the contacts which it brought him on the intellectual rather than the social or administrative level with the leaders of medicine throughout the British Isles. In his judicial capacity his bearing towards offenders was stern, but he avoided all moral exhortation. At the preliminary private deliberations of the Council his voice was given for leniency. Eason's contribution to the Council's educational work was nearer his heart than his disciplinary duties. He held that the Council must privately establish, and only then publish, standards for medical training, which the various teaching and qualifying bodies would be expected to attain, while they ought to be allowed complete freedom in their methods, so long as they reached the Council's required standard. To this end he was largely responsible for the Council's *Rules for Diplomas in Public Health* 1945. He toured the medical schools of North America in 1946 with a party of his fellow councillors, under grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, after which the Council issued their *Recommendations as to the medical curriculum* 1947. He next oversaw the drafting of a Medical Bill, intended to reform the constitution and finance of the Council itself. Eason was a member of the Ministry of Health's Postgraduate medical education committee 1925-30, which led to the establishment of the (British) Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith Hospital, and he became a governor of the school. He was co-opted a member of the Hospitals and Medical services committee of the London County Council, was a trustee of the Beit Memorial Fellowships for medical research, and represented the Ministry of Health on the General Nursing Council. He was a member of the general council of King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, and served *ex officio* on the Central Health Services Council of the National Health Service 1948-49. He was knighted in 1943. In earlier years Eason had been an active member of the Ophthalmological Society, and contributed to its *Transactions* and to *Guy's Hospital Reports*. He wrote the ophthalmic articles for French's *Index of differential diagnosis*. Eason was tall, thin, and aquiline, with long sensitive fingers. His manner in private was cool and his wit mordant, but under this outward austerity lay a sympathetic spirit. If he had a fault it was impatient forthrightness rather than legal tortuosity. He was punctual and concise in all his affairs. His intellectual devotion to justice was tempered, but never deflected, by compassion for human frailty. His mind was fertile to initiate and decisive in execution. He was a forward-looking reformer, in spite of his historical sense of man's inability to progress. Eason married twice: (1) in 1908 the Honourable Ierne Bingham, eldest daughter of the fifth Lord Clanmorris, who died in 1917, leaving one daughter; (2) in 1920 Margaret, daughter of R G Wallace of Quidenham, Attleborough, Norfolk, who survived him with two daughters. Sir Herbert Eason died on 2 November 1949, aged 75, at Nuffield House, Guy's Hospital. A memorial service was held in the hospital chapel on 11 November. After the destruction by enemy action in 1941 of the superintendent's beautiful eighteenth-century house at Guy's Hospital, Eason lived at Newbridge Mill, Coleman's Hatch, Sussex. Publications:- Military ophthalmia in Egypt: a comparison between the incidence of ophthalmia among Napoleon's troops in Egypt, 1798-1801, and in the Egypt Expeditionary Force, 1915-18. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK.* 1918, 38, 30-45. Ophthalmic practice in the Mediterranean and Egyptian Expeditionary Forces, 1915-18. *Guy's Hosp Rep*. 1922, 70, 63-114.
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First Title value, for Searching Ebden, John Alfred Wylde (1891 - 1939)

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

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

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First Title value, for Searching Edge, Frederick (1863 - 1937)

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

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

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First Title value, for Searching Edmunds, Arthur (1874 - 1945)

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

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First Title value, for Searching Edwards, Arthur Tudor (1890 - 1946)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-21
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Occupation Thoracic surgeon
Details Born 7 March 1890, the elder son of William Edwards of Langlands, Glamorgan, Chairman of Edwards Limited, and his wife Mary Griffith Thomas. He was educated at Mill Hill School and St John's College, Cambridge. He took his clinical training at the Middlesex Hospital, when Sir John Bland-Sutton was senior surgeon, and served as dresser and house surgeon to Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor; he was awarded a University scholarship in the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. After serving as surgical registrar at the hospital he was commissioned in the RAMC on the outbreak of the war in 1914. He worked in France, at No 6 casualty clearing station at Barlin under Sir Cuthbert Wallace, and at Wimereux under Meurice Sinclair; he attained the rank of major. On returning to London practice he became assistant surgeon to Westminster Hospital, and to the Brompton Hospital. At Brompton he played a pioneer part in applying to civilian illnesses the surgical intervention into the thorax which Pierre Delbet, G E Gask and others had successfully demonstrated in the treatment of war injuries. He explored successively the surgery of pulmonary tuberculosis, bronchiectasis, tumours of the mediastinum, tumours of the lung both malignant and simple. In all this work he was ably supported by his physician-colleague: R A Young and his anaesthetist Ivan Magill. In ten years he established thoracic surgery as a necessary specialty and himself as its recognized leader. In 1936 he gave up his general surgical work at the Westminster Hospital on appointment as first Director of the Department of Thoracic Surgery at the London Hospital. He was a consulting surgeon to King Edward VII's Sanatorium at Midhurst and to Queen Alexandra's Hospital, Millbank. As surgeon under the Ministry of Pensions to Queen Mary's Hospital at Roehampton he did valuable work in the repair of the aftermath of war-time gastric operations. He also supervised the London County Council's Thoracic Clinic at St Mary Abbott's Hospital, Kensington. During the war of 1939-45 Tudor Edwards, who had already undergone two severe illnesses in 1938 and 1939, was a civilian consultant with the Royal Air Force, adviser for thoracic casualties to the Ministry of Health, and civilian adviser to the War Office. He organized the reception centres for thoracic casualties under the Emergency Medical Service. He was an excellent teacher and did much to establish a school of thoracic surgeons in Great Britain. During the years of war he provided intensive courses of instruction for service thoracic units, and was assiduous in visiting these units all over the country. He was elected to the Council of the College in 1943, but died before he had completed three years as a councillor. Tudor Edwards was an operator of supreme skill and beautiful technique. He achieved an international reputation while still in his early forties. He was an Honorary Fellow of the American Society of Thoracic Surgeons, and president of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons at home. In the last years of his life he was elected first president of the new Association for the Study of Diseases of the Chest, and contributed a survey of one thousand operations for bronchial carcinoma to the first number of its journal *Thorax*. Edwards married on 13 April 1920 Evelyn Imelda Chichester Hoskin, daughter of Theophilus Hoskin, MRCS, of London and Cornwall. He practised at 139 Harley Street, but died suddenly while taking his holiday at St Enodoc, Cornwall, on 25 August 1946, aged 56. He was buried at St Enodoc Church. At a memorial service in London Lord Horder delivered an obituary oration. Mrs Tudor Edwards survived him, but without children; she died on 13 May 1951, and left £5,000 to the College for the promotion of surgical science. Tudor Edwards was of medium height, handsome and youthful in appearance with thick dark hair. Publications:- The following bibliography was prepared by Dr W R Bett for the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, and is printed by their generous permission. A case of carcinoma of transverse colon and intussusception. *Lancet*, 1919, 2, 1028. *Surgery*, with Ivor Back. London, Churchill (Students' synopsis series), 1920; 2nd edition, 1921. Thoracoscopy in surgery of chest. *Brit J Surg*. 1924, 12, 49. Intrathoracic new growths; account of seven operable cases. *Brit J Surg*. 1927, 14, 607. Present position of surgery in treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. *Brit J Tuberc*. 1927, 21, 145. Surgery of new growths of chest. *Tubercle*, 1927, 8, 267. Surgical treatment of phthisis and bronchiectasis. *Brit med J*. 1927, 1, 9. Discussion on treatment of chronic non-tuberculous infection of lungs, with G E Martin and L S T Burrell. *Proc Roy Soc Med*. 1927, 20, 35. After-effects of surgical procedures in cases of pulmonary tuberculosis; surgeon's point of view. *Brit med J*. 1928, 2, 602. The diagnosis and treatment of empyema. *Clin J*. 1928, 57, 613. Surgical technique of pulmonary abscess. *Brit J Surg*. 1929, 17, 102. Present state of surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. *J State Med*. 1930, 38, 603. Discussion of intrathoracic tumours. *Proc Roy Soc Med*. 1930, 23, 25. Malignant disease of lung. *Brit med J*. 1931, 1, 129. Empyema thoracis; method of maintaining negative pressure drainage. *Lancet*, 1931, 2, 1126. Tuberculosis, pulmonary; surgical treatment. *Med Annu*. 1931, p 481, and revised contribution in subsequent annual issues. Surgical treatment of intrathoracic new growths. *Brit med J*. 1932, 1, 827. Bronchiectasis; surgical treatment. *Med Annu*. 1933, p 85, and revised contribution in subsequent annual issues. One-stage lobectomy for bronchiectasis; account of forty-eight cases, with C P Thomas. *Brit J Surg*. 1934, 22, 310. Malignant disease of lung. *J thorac Surg*. 1934, 4, 107. Bronchiectasis. *Postgrad med J*. 1935, 11, 44. Place of surgery in chest disease. *Practitioner*, 1935, 134, 14. Two cases of total pneumonectomy for bronchiectasis. *Proc Roy Soc Med*. 1936, 29, 221. Extirpation of oesophagus for carcinoma, with E S Lee. *J Laryng*. 1936, 51, 281. Diagnosis of malignant disease of the lung and mediastinum, in M Donaldson and others, *The early diagnosis of malignant disease*. Oxford, 1936. Heart and pericardium, surgery. *Med Annu*. 1937, p 198, and revised contribution in subsequent annual issues. Device for nasal administration of oxygen. *Lancet*, 1938, 2, 680. Treatment of injuries of chest. *Brit med J*. 1938, 2, 1096. Tumours of lung. *Brit J Surg*. 1938, 26, 166. Vascular endothelioma of lung, with A B Taylor. *Brit J Surg*. 1938, 25, 487. Cancer of lungs and pleurae. *Practitioner*, 1939, 143, 29. Modem principles of treatment in bronchiectasis based upon 199 cases treated by Iobectomy or total pneumonectomy. (Harveian lecture.) *Brit med J*. 1939, 1, 809. Traumatic haemothorax. *Lancet*, 1943, 1, 97. War wounds and injuries of chest. *Brit J Surg*. 1943, 31, 74. Early treatment of wounds and injuries to the chest, in British Medical Students Association *War surgery, lectures by various authors*, 1944. Penicillin in chest surgery. *Med Annu*. 1946, p 254.
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First Title value, for Searching Thomas, William ( - 1862)

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

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-05
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon
Details Educated at Queen's College, Birmingham, where he was afterwards Hon Pathologist, Demonstrator of Anatomy, and Professor of Anatomy. He was at one time Resident Medical Officer of the Bradford Infirmary and Dispensary, but from about the year 1866 he practised in Bristol Road, and latterly at 56 Newhall Street, Birmingham. He was formerly Senior Surgeon to the Children's Hospital, Birmingham, and Surgeon to the Birmingham and Midland Royal Orthopaedic and Spinal Hospital. He delivered the Ingleby Lecture in 1888, and was at one time President of the Midland Medical Society. Before his retirement, some time after 1919, he was Consulting Surgeon to the Birmingham and Midland Counties Free Hospital for Sick Children and to the Birmingham and Midland Royal Orthopaedic and Spinal Hospital, and Emeritus Professor of Anatomy at Queen's College. He died at 200 Bristol Road on August 7th, 1922. Publications: "Some Points in the Operative Treatment of Severe Hare-lip," 8vo, Birmingham, 1893; reprinted from *Birmingham Med Rev*, 1893, xxxiv, 142. "On the Treatment of Empyema by Resection of One or More Ribs," 8vo, Birmingham, 1880. "Some Urinary Troubles in Boys." - *Lancet*, 1886, ii, 339.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Sidney Maynard (1875 - 1928)

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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 on September 20th, 1875, the son of a civil engineer holding an Admiralty appointment at Chatham. He was educated at Epsom College, where he gained the entrance scholarship in Science to St Mary's Hospital in 1893, and served as House Surgeon to Edmund Owen (qv) in 1898. He served in the South African War as Civil Surgeon with the 3rd Battalion Welsh Regiment, gaining the Queen's Medal with two Clasps, and on his return to London he was elected House Surgeon to the Victoria Hospital for Children in Tite Street, Chelsea, in 1901, was Assistant Surgeon in 1907-1914, but was never full Surgeon. At St Mary's Hospital he was appointed Surgical Registrar in 1904, Demonstrator of Anatomy in 1905, Surgeon to Out-patients with charge of the Orthopedic Department in 1906, and full Surgeon on the resignation of J Ernest Lane (qv) in 1922. Maynard Smith was also Surgeon to the London Fever Hospital, to Epsom College, to King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, Ealing, and to the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institute for Girls, and was for many years Hon Secretary to the Old Epsomian Society. During the European War he was appointed Surgeon-in-Chief to the St John Ambulance Brigade in 1914, and proceeded to France early in 1915 with the Hon rank of Major. He quickly made a reputation both as an administrator and as a surgeon, was appointed Consulting Surgeon to the Fifth Army in 1916, and was chiefly responsible for the treatment of the wounded during the great battles for Passchendaele in 1917. He was subsequently appointed Consulting Surgeon to the Second Army. For his services to the French Army during the fighting round Kemmel he was awarded the Croix de Guerre. For his war services he was three times mentioned in dispatches, was decorated CB, and was created a Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. Returning to London at the end of the War, he continued to practise privately and carry out his hospital duties until his death on March 18th, 1928. Maynard Smith was distinguished by his shrewd judgement and the thoroughness of all his work. Neat and precise in every detail, he was an excellent surgeon and a good teacher. As a man he was modest and unassuming, courteous in manner, a good after-dinner speaker, and a most pleasant companion. Throughout life he was tuberculous, and severe attacks from time to time interrupted his work, but did nothing to spoil his character. He held office in the United Grand Lodge of Freemasons as a Past Grand Deacon. He married in 1917 Isabel Mary, daughter of F I Pitman, and by her had a daughter Isabel Valentine Maynard and a son John Maynard.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Samuel Montgomery Charles Alfred Anderson (1826 - 1915)

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

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First Title value, for Searching Cookson, Frederick Nesfield (1871 - 1941)

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First Title value, for Searching Cooley, Geoffrey Glover (1914 - 1943)

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First Title value, for Searching Radford, Thomas ( - 1884)

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First Title value, for Searching Railton, Thomas Carleton (1844 - 1922)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-17
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Studied at the Royal School, Manchester, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He first practised at 1 Birch Street, Hulme, and was Surgeon to the Hulme Dispensary, Medical Officer of Health to the Chorlton District, and then to the Withington District. He next moved and practised at 340 Oxford Road and at 32 St Ann Street, Manchester, and whilst continuing the post of Medical Officer of Health, was Physician to the Clinical, later the Northern, Hospital for Women and Children. He also acted as Secretary of the Manchester Clinical Society and of the Medical Society. Later he became Medical Officer of Health to West Didsbury, with his office at the Town Hall. He retired to Coppice Hollow, Buxton, where he died on October 4th, 1922. Publications: Railton published Annual Reports as Medical Officer of Health, also a number of papers on diseases of children. "Rickets." - *Manchester Health Jour*, 1883-4, i. "Wasting in Infants." - *Ibid*, 1884-5, ii. *Conditions Required for a Healthy House*, 12mo, London, 1886. *Early Symptoms of Infectious Fevers*, 12mo, London, nd.
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First Title value, for Searching Coorlawala, Nawob Rustom Yar Jung Nusserwan Bahadur (1880 - 1936)

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First Title value, for Searching Corner, Edred Moss (1873 - 1950)

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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 on 22 October 1873 at the Manor House, Poplar, the fifth son and ninth of the ten children of Francis Mead Corner, MRCS, JP, a general practitioner, who had married his cousin Anne Corner. The family derived from Lythe, near Whitby, Yorkshire. He was educated at Epsom College, where he was head prefect, captain of the XV and a member of the cricket XI, and throughout life took a keen interest in his old school. He was honorary secretary of the Old Epsomian Club 1907-20 and subsequently its president, and was a generous subscriber to the centenary fund which he inaugurated. He was a scholar and prizeman of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and took first-class honours in the natural sciences tripos part 1 in 1894. In the same year he took the London BSc. At St Thomas's Hospital, where he received his clinical training, he won further scholarships. At the Cambridge MB BS examination 1898 he was placed first in every subject, a distinction probably unique. He took the Conjoint qualification this year, and proceeded to the Fellowship at the end of 1899; the Cambridge master of surgery degree, then considered the blue riband of achievement, he took in 1906. Corner's intellectual ability was matched by his exceedingly tall, robust, and commanding personality. He served as house surgeon at St Thomas's and at Leeds General Infirmary, and was elected assistant surgeon to St Thomas's in 1900. He was extremely popular as a demonstrator and lecturer. Corner built up a large private practice at 37 Harley Street, and served on the honorary staff of the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, and at the Purley and Wood Green Hospitals. He was also surgeon to Epsom College. During the war of 1914-18 he was commissioned in the RAMC and promoted major. He was consulting surgeon to Queen Mary's auxiliary hospital at Roehampton, and organized an amputation clinic at St Thomas's. Corner was interested in nearly every aspect of surgery, but more particularly in orthopaedics and abdominal surgery. At the College he delivered the Erasmus Wilson lectures in 1904 on "Acute infective gangrenous processes (necroses) in the alimentary tract", and the Arris and Gale lectures in 1919 on "The nature of scar tissue and painful operation stumps". He was a vice-president of the Medical Society of London and of the Harveian Society, to which he delivered a Harveian lecture. In the British Medical Association he was secretary of the section for the diseases of children at the 1907 annual meeting, and vice-president of the section of orthopaedics in 1912. He sat on the board of advanced studies in London University, and was a visitor for King Edward's Hospital Fund. In his younger days Corner was an experienced mountaineer; he was also a learned mycologist, and an appreciative student of architecture. He married in 1903 Henrietta, daughter of James Henderson of the Gows, Ivergowrie, Dundee. Corner was reaching the peak of a most distinguished surgical career in the years immediately following the first world war, when he was struck down in his late forties by a familial degenerative nervous disease, whose progressive severity he bore with stoical resignation for nearly thirty years, dying at the age of seventy-six after long endurance of total blindness and severe lameness. On abandoning his consulting practice in London in 1921 he was for a time superintendent of a convalescent home at Great Missenden. He died at his own home Stratton End, Beaconsfield on 2 May 1950, survived by his wife, their son, who was a lecturer in botany at Cambridge, and their two daughters. Publications:- *Clinical and pathological observations on acute abdominal diseases*. London, 1904. *The surgery of the diseases of the appendix*, with W H Battle. London, 1904. *The operations of general practice*, with I H Pinches. London, 1907; 2nd edition 1908; 3rd edition 1910. *Diseases of the male generative organs*. London, 1907. *Male diseases in general practice*. London, 1910.
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First Title value, for Searching Corsi, Henry (1893 - 1950)

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First Title value, for Searching Counsell, Herbert Edward (1863 - 1946)

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First Title value, for Searching Cowell, Sibert Forrest Antrobus (1863 - 1949)

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First Title value, for Searching Bell, Leighton Craig (1923 - 2013)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-06-12 2015-06-05
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Occupation General surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details Leighton Craig Bell was a consultant general surgeon at Pontefract, Castleford and Goole hospitals. He was born in Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland, on 17 February 1923 and studied medicine at Queen's University Belfast, qualifying MB BCh BAO in 1945. He gained his FRCS in 1952. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a senior surgeon to the government of Bahrain, a senior registrar in thoracic surgery to Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, and a research fellow in thoracic surgery at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. Leighton Craig Bell died on 5 May 2013 in Ramsey, Cambridge. He was 90.
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First Title value, for Searching Blacklay, James Brydon (1921 - 2013)

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by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2013-06-12 2014-06-06
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details James Bryden Blacklay was a consultant ENT surgeon to the South East Kent Health District from 1957 until his retirement in 1981. He worked at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Folkestone, with sessions at the Buckland Hospital, Dover, the William Harvey Hospital at Willesborough, Ashford, and the Victoria Deal Walmer and District War Memorial Hospital. He described his work as 'run of the mill for a provincial ENT surgeon', but found in it great satisfaction and prided himself on keeping his waiting lists short. Over time the pattern of work in his area changed, such that he was never without a challenge. He was born on 16 February 1921 in Accrington, Lancashire, to Oliver Henry Blacklay, a general practitioner who had an Edinburgh FRCS and MD, and Emily Mabel Blacklay (née Forsyth), a teacher who had gained an Edinburgh MA. Educated at Crewe County Secondary School and Leys School, Cambridge, James Blacklay attended the London Hospital Medical College from 1938 to 1943. Immediately after qualification, he joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a surgeon lieutenant and for a time was shore-based in Ceylon. Later he served in V-class destroyers in the Far East Fleet. He was demobilised in 1947 and returned to postgraduate training at the Hammersmith Hospital as a house surgeon to George Grey Turner and Ian Aird, both of whom he greatly respected. He moved on to the Royal Cancer Hospital (later renamed the Royal Marsden Hospital) as a house surgeon to Lawrence Abel and Ronald Raven. Blacklay had hoped to become a general surgeon, but after the Second World War competition was particularly heavy. Having gained the FRCS in December 1948, he eventually decided to switch to ENT and passed the diploma in laryngology and otology in 1953 whilst a registrar at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital. He completed his training as senior ENT registrar at King's College Hospital, from 1954 to 1957, and was appointed consultant ENT surgeon to the South East Kent Health District in 1957. As a member of the British Medical Association, Blacklay served his local branch as honorary treasurer and honorary secretary. He was also a founder member of the Semon Club (an academic group of ENT surgeons named after the laryngologist, Sir Felix Semon). In 1962 Blacklay bought Washington Farm, 10 acres of pasture, where for 30 years he single-handedly reared a flock of 35 breeding ewes. To add to this work, in 1977, he planted a small vineyard which produced 100-150 bottles of white wine per year, and kept bees. James Blacklay married Margaret Elizabeth Calbourne (née Johnson) in 1948. They had two daughters: Sarah, born in 1950, who became a teacher, and Harriet, born in 1951, who qualified in medicine in 1975 and became a general practitioner. Her daughter, Eleanor, has become the fourth generation of her family to qualify in medicine. James Blacklay died on 5 March 2013 at the age of 92. Predeceased by his wife, he was survived by his daughters, six grandchildren and one great grandchild.
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First Title value, for Searching Bookallil, Anthony Joseph (1940 - 2013)

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by John Christie
Publication Date 2013-06-12 2013-08-14
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Occupation Neurosurgeon
Details Anthony Joseph 'Tony' Bookallil was a neurosurgeon at Newcastle, New South Wales. He studied medicine at Sydney University, after completing a pharmacy degree, graduating with honours in 1967. He then completed two years residency at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, before heading to England, where he gained his FRCS and, in 1973, commenced on his neurosurgery training at Oxford. At about the same time, it was decided that there was a need for a neurosurgery service in Newcastle. Advice as to a suitable candidate was sought, and Richard Gye suggested Tony. Tony was duly recruited and arrived in Newcastle in 1975, fresh from his training, where he was faced with the task of setting up a new specialty with no trained ward or theatre staff, no infrastructure, and the prospect of being almost constantly on call for an indefinite period of time (this lasted for 13 years, until a second neurosurgeon arrived in 1988). Luckily for the population of Newcastle, they had been blessed with a man with an enormously strong constitution, who could be up all night dealing with a head injury, and then come home, wake his children and take them to their swimming lessons. At that time the concept of safe working hours was still many years off. Over 25 years he performed an estimated 6,000 operations, including back operations, disc removals, spina bifida corrections, brain tumour resections and head injury repairs. Not content with a clinical workload far greater than any of his colleagues, Tony also became very involved in hospital life, serving in many positions on the medical staff council and division of surgery, including stints as chair of both. He was also involved with the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia, being on the organising committee for an extremely successful World Congress of Neurosurgery in Sydney in 2001. Tony had an unswerving commitment to public medicine that continued well beyond his attempted retirement in 2002. After the best-attended retirement dinner that Newcastle had seen, he still came back whenever he was asked, to fill gaps in both the clinical roster and in administration. Outside medicine, Tony's great loves were his family and his music. He was involved with choral singing in Newcastle and was president of the Newcastle Musica Viva committee. In his retirement he studied music at the University of Newcastle. Tony died on 21 February 2013, aged 72, after a short illness. He was survived by his wife, Gay, children Marianne, Tom and Anthony, and his four grandchildren. His funeral was at Newcastle's Sacred Heart Cathedral, where he had been a member of the choir. As well as family, friends and colleagues, the service was notable for the large number of his patients who came to pay their respects. He left behind a very grateful city.
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First Title value, for Searching Bromley, Lance Lee (1920 - 2013)

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by P E A Savage
Publication Date 2013-06-12 2014-04-30
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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon
Details Lance Bromley was a consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at St Mary's Hospital, London. He was born on 16 February 1920 to Lancelot Bromley, a surgeon at Guy's Hospital, and Dora Ridgway Bromley née Lee of Dewsbury, Yorkshire. Educated at St Paul's School, Lance Bromley obtained his 1st MB examination there and went up to Caius College, Cambridge, in 1938 to read medicine. On obtaining his 2nd MB, he was offered a place for his clinical training at St Mary's by the dean, Charles Wilson (Later Lord Moran). The Blitz on London in the early 1940s forced the medical school to evacuate its students to Harefield Hospital near Uxbridge in northwest London, an Emergency Medical Services hospital in the grounds of a sanatorium for patients with tuberculosis. The students were taught medicine by George Pickering and surgery by David Levi. Lance, like many medical students, was much more interested in meeting real patients, although he admitted to being rather nervous and hesitant to begin with. It was an excellent beginning to clinical training and he was to see a variety of medical and surgical conditions, many of which were in a very advanced stage. With the cessation of enemy bombing the medical school returned to Paddington. During this time he left the wards for three months - going back to anatomy and physiology and taking the primary examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Sport was not neglected and he was selected to play rugby for the Barbarians from 1940 to 1943. Around this time Lance was a demonstrator of anatomy and student clinical assistant in the neurology department, working with Wilfred Harris, who was an expert in treating trigeminal neuralgia by needling through the front of the face into the ganglion. Qualifying in December 1943, Lance was appointed as a house surgeon to the senior surgeon at St Mary's R M Handfield-Jones, who was to become his 'father figure' and mentor. As the war with Germany continued, Bromley joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in December that year and was sent by troopship to India. While house surgeon to Thomas Field at the 40th West African General Hospital he was responsible for the care of West African troops fighting the Japanese with General Slim's 14th Army in Burma. There were many medical conditions, but filariasis and yaws were common conditions and a number of soldiers were suffering from schistosomiasis requiring cystocopy for diagnosis and follow up. Back in London with the rank of captain, Lance passed the final FRCS examination and obtained an ex-service registrar post in general surgery at St Mary's soon, moving up to senior registrar. The first year was spent with R M Handfield-Jones, A E Porritt and John Simpson, an ENT surgeon; and the second with Arthur Dickson Wright. Lance recalled these being the two happiest and most interesting years of his life. The work was varied, with many acute conditions. Dickson Wright was a master technician who would tackle any surgical problem. Unfortunately he had no idea of time: arriving an hour or so late for his afternoon session only to mumble something and disappear, returning at 10.30pm with never a word to the waiting team. In the summer of 1949 Lance's surgical appointment ended and he spent three months as a supernumerary registrar on the medical unit. Donald Brooks, a physician at St Mary's and the Brompton, urged him to apply for the resident surgical officer post at that hospital. Appointed in 1949, he worked with Clement Price Thomas, Bill Cleland and Norman Barrett. Pulmonary tuberculosis was still a common condition, with streptomycin just beginning to be introduced. Thoracic surgeons performed thoracoplasties and segmental lung resections. Adhesion section done via a thoracoscope was a common technique to induce a complete pneumothorax. Lung cancer was especially common, and resection was the only hope of cure at that time. Cigarette smoke was just being recognised as a cause, but little was done to discourage it. Price Thomas, having chain-smoked throughout his life, including during outpatient sessions, was to develop lung cancer himself. On completion of the Brompton attachment, Lance was appointed extra senior registrar at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School at the Hammersmith Hospital working with Bill Cleland, Hugh Bentall and Denis Melrose, who was developing a heart lung machine. While still at the Hammersmith Lance became a senior lecturer to the surgical unit at St Mary's under Charles Rob. In 1952 he met a physiotherapist, Rosemary Anne Holbrook, at a party and they soon married. Shortly before taking up his consultant appointment Lance and Anne, with baby Christina, spent 10 months in the United States on an American Association for Thoracic Surgery travelling scholarship. Based at Harvard in the laboratories of Francis D Moore, whose vision of surgical teaching included physics, physiology, biochemistry, nutrition and metabolism, Lance saw at first hand the developments in cardiothoracic surgery which were to influence his subsequent approach to the specialty. While at Harvard Anne and Lance befriended H A F Dudley, who had a research post there, but who had left his wife and children behind in Edinburgh. Later Lance was to play a large part in encouraging Hugh Dudley, who by then had been 'transported' to Australia, to accept the offer of the chair in surgery at St Mary's. In 1953 Lance was appointed as a consultant thoracic surgeon to St Mary's Hospital. These were exciting years, with the rapid development of cardiac surgery and he still had a part-time appointment at the Hammersmith, where cardiopulmonary bypass was being developed. The same year he was also appointed as a consultant general surgeon at Teddington Hospital for one half day a week, alternating an outpatients' clinic with an operating session. This rewarding appointment, away from the stresses of cardiothoracic surgery, continued until his retirement. In the early 1950s the traditional work of the thoracic surgeon, pulmonary, pleural and oesophageal, was steadily expanding into the fields of cardiac surgery. Closed procedures such as valvotomy were soon augmented by more complex operations with the introduction of cardiopulmonary bypass. Cardiac and thoracic surgery was not an easy undertaking in those early days; patients were often very high risk and even 'too late' for salvage. Procedures now considered routine were pioneering operations. Each operation required different surgical skills and an understanding of varying physiological changes. One needed to be both a master of surgical technique and an expert in peri- and post-operative management. Initially Lance performed his own cardiac catheterisations until Edwin Besterman joined him as a consultant cardiologist, when they were able to form a joint cardiology surgical ward, with a happy and efficient nursing team and their own mini ITU. Before each operating session there would be a full team meeting at which every clinical detail and investigation result was considered with great care. At the end of each operation he would dictate a full description of the findings and procedure, often illustrated with a sketch, which was typed up immediately by his secretary. Lance was a very sound surgeon and a very calm one - never known to raise his voice. He appreciated his staff and always thanked the nurses and perfusionists after an operating session. St Mary's was fortunate at that time to have two pioneering peripheral vascular surgeons on the staff, H H G Eastcott and Ian Kenyon, and together they performed a number of ground-breaking procedures. At the suggestion of Dickson Wright, Lance developed a link with medical services in Gibraltar and, with Edwin Besterman's connections in Malta, they made regular trips to these countries to see outpatients, perform bronchoscopies and arrange for complicated surgical cases to go to St Mary's for operations under health agreements between the UK and Gibraltar and Malta. With rheumatic fever common in those countries, there was no shortage of patients with mitral stenosis. Although Lance never showed any outward signs of the pressure of his work, the inevitable failures affected him. He cared deeply for his patients and if one did not survive surgery he would often take the next day off for reflection; and in later years he would dream of his 'failures'. He was soon invited to join the London Society of Thoracic Surgeons, where the 'second generation' of thoracic surgeons (the first generation included Clement Price Thomas, Russell Brock and Thomas Holmes Sellors), who had had their training in London, would meet once a year 'to report to each other their two most dreadful mistakes in the previous year'. Meetings started with a topic review or presentation of surgical outcomes followed, after lunch, by the presentation of individual surgeon's 'Charlies'. The meeting was always followed by a good dinner. The Charlies Club met from 1952 to 1992 and the final minute recorded: 'When the Charlies were first set up it was thought by some of us that we might, as years went by, become pompous and thus unable to think of any mistakes we may have made. Happily this did not happen and from the first to the last clinical meeting the essential spirit of the Club prevailed and there was no lack of ghastly errors to report' (Royal College of Surgeons of England Archives. MS0148. London Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Minutes of Meetings of The Charlies Club. 1952-1992). With an increasingly busy professional life, Lance and Anne moved from Roehampton to Hyde Park Crescent, a short walk from the hospital. Now with three daughters and a larger house, there was always extra room for visitors, and lonely trainees from the Antipodes were often to be found lodging in the attic. Lance was a family man and loved the evening meal with all the family in their basement kitchen. Family and friends joined together in a meal that would last for hours - with Lance fast asleep at the end of the table by the conclusion of the evening! For most of Lance's consultant career he was supported only by senior registrars rotating through general or vascular surgery. In the 1970s surgery for coronary artery disease was developing rapidly as coronary angiography became readily available under the direction of consultant radiologist David Sutton. Now in his 50s, Lance was not happy with undertaking the fine suturing of artery and vein grafts, and delegated this task to a number of able general senior registrars who worked as his first assistant. In 1976 Stuart Lennox, on the staff of the Brompton Hospital, became a part-time consultant at Mary's. Having been 'solo' for so many years, Lance was able to slow down at last. Lance enjoyed teaching and for several years was an examiner for the London final MB BS examination. Although he published a number of papers, he admitted to never being an academic and usually had to get up early to complete a paper to meet a deadline. Lance found his year as chairman of the medical committee interesting and challenging. Working with the house governor, Alan Powditch, and the matron, Miss Douglas, he dealt with the personalities and idiosyncrasies of his colleagues with charm and efficiency. Lance loved sailing and often said he would have liked to have been a yacht builder. Initially crewing for friends, he was able eventually to afford his own yacht and became a member of the Royal Ocean Yacht Club. Anne would usually accompany him (although she was easily seasick) and many of his friends and trainees were invited to join them on their Nicholson 32 *Murmur* sailing out of Newhaven or Gosport. On his retirement in 1980 at the age of 60, Lance became director of Medical and Health Services in Gibraltar for three years - where he could keep his last Nicholson boat *Sunmaid of Sussex*. In retirement he had time to take up golf again with renewed vigour and enthusiasm, and enjoyed gardening at their cottage at Barcombe. An early pioneering cardiothoracic surgeon who developed the speciality single-handed in his hospital, Lance Bromley is remembered with affection by his colleagues as a man of great integrity, by his many surgical trainees as a teacher, mentor and friend who showed his concern and interest in their careers, and by his patients for his kindness, gentleness and surgical skill. He was devoted to his wife Anne and their three daughters Tina, Louise and Rachel. He died on 25 April 2013, aged 93.
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First Title value, for Searching Campbell, Allan Gordon (1916 - 2011)

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

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First Title value, for Searching Hollender, Louis Francois (1922 - 2011)

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

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by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2013-06-12 2013-06-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Jim Jardine was a gifted general surgeon, a kind and compassionate doctor who practised in Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand. He loved the people and had an extraordinary gift for remembering patients' names. Moreover, he had a special rapport with his Maori patients and their families. One of his colleagues, a pathologist, said of him: 'He instinctively knew when to operate and when to wait, his judgement was always sound.' Jim was born in Wairoa, on the North Island, on 13 August 1929, the son of a hard-working and very popular general practitioner, Edmund Basil Jardine, and his wife Nancy née Stock. Jim was the oldest of the family and had two sisters, Beverley and Anne. Jim went to the local primary school and then to Wanganui Collegiate School, a private boys' school with boarding and day pupils. Founded in 1852, it has strong links with the Anglican Church. Here he had a good academic reputation, and was also known for his sporting prowess. He was particularly grateful to Gordon McBeath, his piano teacher, who instilled in him a lifelong love of and interest in music. From secondary school he entered Otago University in 1947. He graduated in 1953, with an award for his final year thesis on 'The Maori mother and her child'. His wiry physique allowed him to play rugby to a good level at scrum-half for the university team. Shortly after qualifying, he married a stunning blonde, Janet Waterworth ('Jan'), a neonatal nurse and the only daughter of a Hawkes Bay farmer, Mason Waterworth and his wife Margaret née Alexander. Jim and Jan were a perfectly matched couple and ideal parents for their family of five. Jim did a series of preliminary posts in New Zealand, before sailing to the United Kingdom to gain more surgical experience. He was fortunate to obtain an excellent two-year post at the Central Middlesex Hospital, London, where he was supervised by Peter Gummer, a general surgeon who worked closely with Sir Francis Avery-Jones, the well-known gastroenterologist. J D Fergusson, a pioneer urologist, and a founder member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons, also tutored him in urology. Perhaps through Peter Gummer's influence, Jim then went to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and the Jenny Lind Hospital for Children as a surgical registrar. He gained a wealth of experience in general surgery, urology, vascular and paediatric conditions and emergency neurosurgery. After passing the FRCS in 1958, he, Jan and their first three children returned to New Zealand in 1960. For a year he took a temporary post as a surgeon at the Cook Hospital, Gisborne, but in 1961 he left for Auckland, to assess a post as a surgeon with the Auckland Hospital Board. Fortunately, he called in to see one of his former class mates, Murray McDonald, who casually mentioned that there was a surgical position available at the Rotorua Hospital. He called in to see the then superintendent, Eric Bridgeman. Jim was immediately appointed as surgeon to the Rotorua Hospital, where he soon became director of surgery. In 1962 a small private hospital closed, so Jim, with other medical consultants and general practitioners and in conjunction with the local business community, set up a private hospital 'St Andrews', which opened in 1965. He was appointed as medical director and continued to serve the community well in both hospitals until he retired in 1996. During this busy practical life he wrote just one joint publication: 'Acute appendicitis in a premature infant: a case report' (*Aust N Z J Surg*.1971 May; 40[4]: 362-4). Active in the local community, Jim became president of the Bay of Plenty Camellia Society, chairman of Rotorua Primary School Board Trust in the 1960s and a committee member for the Outward Bound Trust in the 1970s. In 1974 he became chairman of the Rotorua Taupo division of the New Zealand Medical Association. At a national level, he served on the education subcommittee of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. In spite of developing rheumatoid arthritis in his twenties, for which excision of both radial heads proved necessary to aid mobility, Jim kept up a very busy surgical practice and oversaw the introduction of joint replacement, laparoscopic surgery and the developing field of imaging in radiology. He guided his five children in their respective careers and encouraged them to become independent, stressing to the girls that they should follow their interests before embarking on marriage. Phillipa, the first born, became a lawyer. David is a physician in New Zealand. Catherine became a nurse. Hamish is a winemaker, and the youngest, Sara, became a dentist. Jan and Jim were both very keen workers in their large garden, and developed a special interest in camellias, which they grafted and propagated. Jan had access to a family estate, Crab Farm in Napier, so-called because it was raised above sea level in the 1931 Napier earthquake. Jim started to grow grapes there in 1989, and after two years he was joined by Hamish. Together they developed Crab Farm winery into an excellent award-winning enterprise, exporting wine overseas. Jim was a committed family man and enjoyed camping and trout fishing. Each year he and Jan took the family to the beach for three weeks' holiday in the summer and, in the winter, for a week-long holiday in a mountain hut for skiing. He played the piano of an evening to relax after a busy day's work, particularly the works of Chopin, Schumann and Debussy. Playing music well by ear, he was ready to accompany anyone wishing to sing at a party. He enjoyed going to the opera, musicals and plays. Interested in Darwin's theories on evolution, he read widely, particularly on New Zealand and world history. A regular reader of the *Guardian Weekly*, he also kept abreast of European and world economic affairs. He continued all his extracurricular activities into retirement, overcoming his rheumatoid arthritis until his health failed. He died on 25 August 2012, 12 days after his 83rd birthday, having celebrated his diamond wedding anniversary with Jan, and leaving his five children and their families.
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Eric Reginald Lloyd (1939 - 2013)

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by Richard Collins
Publication Date 2013-06-12 2013-09-06
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Reg Jones, 'Jones the Bones' to his friends and colleagues, was a consultant orthopaedic and accident surgeon in the south east Kent, Canterbury and Thanet area. He was born in Southport on 5 October 1939, the son of Eric Lloyd, a transport manager, and Royal Audrey Joan Lloyd née Johnstone-Brown, a housewife. He attended Waterloo Grammar School, left to go to King's College Medical School a year early at the age of 17, and graduated in 1962. He held house posts at Freedom Fields Hospital, Plymouth, King's, and at Luton and Dunstable, Devonport and Frenchay hospitals. In 1968 he began his training in orthopaedic and accident surgery at King's. In 1971 he was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic and accident and emergency surgeon for south east Kent, which covered Ashford Hospital, Royal Victoria Hospital (Folkestone), Kent and Canterbury Hospital and the Royal Sea Bathing Hospital (Margate). He had a particular interest in children's orthopaedics and started the first children's orthopaedic clinic at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital. He wrote several papers, including 'Displaced factures of the neck of the radius in children' (*J Bone Joint Surg Br*. 1971 Aug;53[3]:429-39) and 'Sacral extradural cysts. A rare cause of low backache and sciatica' (*J Bone Joint Surg Br*. 1973 Feb;55[1]:20-31). He also helped develop a machine which used pulsed electromagnetic stimulation to promote cellular healing in bone fractures, which could be used in outpatient clinics as opposed to invasive surgery. He was also interested in sports orthopaedics. He attended boxers when they had fights at Leas Pavillion in Folkestone, was medical adviser to Kent County Cricket Club for 18 years, and accompanied West Bromwich Albion football team on their visit to China in 1977. In 1994 he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, forcing him into early retirement as he was unable to operate. Outside medicine, he was a lifelong supporter of Liverpool football club. He was a keen bird and wildlife photographer, and travelled the world to follow his passion, including trips to Antarctica, South America, Indonesia, Vietnam and Costa Rica. He met his wife Candy (Shelagh Ann Hayward), a nurse, in 1963 whilst they were both working on the orthopaedic ward at King's. They married in March 1964 and had four children, Sarah, Peter, Debbie and Alex. Jones died on 6 May 2013 at the age of 73. He was survived by Candy and their children.
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First Title value, for Searching Leeson, Peter Charles (1920 - 2013)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-06-12 2015-06-05
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Peter Charles Leeson was a consultant ENT surgeon at Tunbridge Wells Hospital, Kent. He was born on 1 October 1920 and studied medicine at Guy's Hospital Medical School, qualifying MB BS in 1945. He gained his FRCS in 1956 and his diploma in laryngology and otology (DLO) in 1958. He trained at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London, and became a consultant in ENT surgery at Salford and West Manchester Hospital Group before he moved to Tunbridge Wells Hospital. He was a member of the British Association of Head and Neck Oncologists. Peter Charles Leeson died on 22 March 2013, aged 92. He was survived by his widow Stella Winifred Leeson and son Noel James Leeson.
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First Title value, for Searching Lobo, Victor John Eudes Dominic ( - 2008)

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First Title value, for Searching Johnson, Raymond (1863 - 1944)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-24
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in London 15 September 1863, the eldest child of Raymond Johnson and his wife Barbara Wells. He was educated at Argyll College, Holland Park and at University College, London, where he won an entrance exhibition in 1881. He took his clinical training at University College Hospital and during the five years of his course he won fourteen scholarships, exhibitions and medals. At the MB examination he took honours in medicine, won the gold medal in obstetric medicine, and was awarded the University scholarship in forensic medicine, after being bracketed equal with J W Washbourne of Guy's; in 1886 he was Atkinson Morley surgical scholar. He served as house physician to Sydney Ringer, obstetric assistant to Graily Hewitt, and house surgeon to Marcus Beck, and then became private assistant to Sir Rickman Godlee. In 1888 he became assistant demonstrator of anatomy to Professor G D Thane at University College. After serving as surgical registrar, Johnson was elected assistant surgeon to the Hospital in 1893, surgeon in 1900, and consulting surgeon on his retirement in 1923. He was not committed to retiring under age limit, but felt morally bound to make room for younger colleagues on reaching his sixtieth birthday, as they were bound by the age-limit under a new rule. In 1899 he succeeded Bilton Pollard in the direction of the ear, nose, and throat department, before the appointment of H Tilley as a specialist to this post. From 1890 to 1901 Johnson was surgeon to outpatients at the Victoria Hospital for Children, and subsequently to in-patients. He was consulting surgeon to the Cheyne Hospital, Chelsea. During the South African war Johnson volunteered for service at the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital of the South African Field Force, where among his colleagues were Alfred Fripp, Cuthbert Wallace, and Herbert Shirley (Scharlieb). Johnson was awarded the Queen's medal. In the first world war he was commissioned a temporary surgeon rear-admiral in 1914 and posted to Plymouth, but volunteered for active service in the Gallipoli campaign 1915. Disappointed of this, he resigned his naval commission and served as a captain in the RAMC at the 3rd London General Hospital. He was created OBE for his services. Johnson made a reputation for himself as a skilful surgeon, a lucid teacher, and a scrupulously fair examiner. He set the highest standard for himself, but was always ready to take the blame for any error or omission by his assistants. He examined in surgery for the universities of London, Cambridge, Birmingham, and Leeds, and served on the Court of Examiners of the Royal College from 1917 to 1926. He was already a Councillor of the College, serving 1916-24; and was a surgical examiner for the LDS 1920. In 1893-94 he had been a Hunterian professor, and in 1924 gave the Bradshaw lecture on "Simple and malignant tumours of the breast". Johnson was not a prolific writer, but his study of Tumours contributed jointly with T W P Lawrence to Choyce's *System of surgery*, 1911, became a standard authority. He contributed an excellent account of his master Sir Rickman Godlee to the *University College Hospital Magazine*, 1923, 8, 108, which incidentally contains a good photograph of himself. Johnson devoted himself wholly to his profession, and had served as president of the Association of Surgeons, but on retirement he settled completely in the country, first at Burdenshot Gate, near Chobham, and later at Long Ridge, Worplesdon, near Guildford, both in Surrey. He had had a large and successful private practice at 11 Wimpole Street, W1. Johnson married in 1893 Mary Helen King, who survived him with two daughters. He died in a nursing home on 26 October 1944, aged 81, and was buried at Worplesdon. Johnson was an old-fashioned gentleman, bearded and bespectacled, of the utmost integrity and simplicity. Though a first-class surgeon, he would never allow himself to accept credit or rewards which he thought disproportionate to his achievement. But "Johnnie" was the last to condemn the shortcomings of his friends, by whom he was deeply loved. Publications: Some clinical aspects of carcinoma of the breast, Bradshaw lecture, RCS 1924. *Brit J Surg* 1925, 12, 630-662. Tumours, in *System of surgery*, edited by C C Choyce. London, 1911. Erichsen's *Science and art of surgery*, 10th edition, by Raymond Johnson, in succession to Marcus Beck.
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First Title value, for Searching Milstein, Benjamin Bethel (1918 - 2013)

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by Raymond Hurt
Publication Date 2013-06-12 2013-10-04
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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon
Details Ben Milstein was a consultant thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge. He was one of the unsung heroes of cardiothoracic surgery. He was born in Dublin on 30 September 1918, the first son of orthodox Jewish immigrant parents, Hershel and Rebecca Milstein. The family later moved to Hampstead, where Hershel worked as a tailor. Ben attended St Marylebone Grammar School and won an open scholarship to University College Hospital (UCH), London, where he qualified in 1942, and abandoned all his Jewish beliefs. After resident appointments at UCH, he joined the Army and served from 1942 to 1946. He was a medical officer to various artillery units and was mentioned in despatches in 1945. Following his demobilisation, he returned to UCH, gaining early experience of thoracic surgery under R S Pilcher. He also trained with Oswald Tubbs at the Brompton Hospital, and was a senior registrar to Sir (later Lord) Russell Brock at Guy's Hospital. He was appointed as a consultant surgeon at the Brook Hospital and Preston Hall Sanatorium, before his appointment as a cardiothoracic surgeon at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, in 1957, where tuberculosis surgery was performed, with virtually no cardiac surgery. Ben built this unit up into one of the most prestigious cardiothoracic units in England. In 1958 he performed the first open-heart surgery at Papworth, the repair of an atrial septal defect under hypothermia, and the following year carried out an operation using an artificial heart-lung machine. In 1969 Ben, in association with Roy Calne, investigated the possibility of cardiac transplantation in animals, but the work was abandoned due to lack of funding. Three years later Terence English was appointed as a locum, and Milstein wanted their working relationship to be one of cooperation rather than the competition, which occurred in many other cardiothoracic units. With Milstein's support and in face of strong opposition English campaigned to develop a heart transplant service at Papworth, and in 1979 the first successful human transplantation in England was carried out at Papworth. Milstein later ruefully said that English ended up with a knighthood while he remained Mr Milstein! In 1956 Ben gave a Hunterian lecture on cardiac arrest and resuscitation; a year later he was given a Jacksonian prize for his work on the pathology and treatment of aneurysms. In 1963 his book *Cardiac arrest and resuscitation* (London, Lloyd-Luke Medical Books) was published. He was editor of *Thorax* from 1978 to 1983, and president of the Thoracic Society in 1980. He was a founder member of Pete's Club, where cardiothoracic surgeons discussed their work. The only rule was that no case should throw credit on the presenter: only errors of judgement were discussed. As a consequence, the members learnt a tremendous amount at these meetings. Ben presented many times, though his subsequent treatment of these cases always demonstrated his surgical skill! His surgical career spanned the entire development of cardiac surgery, from early closed operations on the mitral and aortic valves, to open-heart surgery for the repair of damaged valves and closure of congenital septal defects. In addition, he maintained an active interest in lung surgery. At Papworth he was known for his wise counsel and forthright attitude, as well as his devotion to his work. He was thought by some to be difficult, but this was due to his emphasis on a high standard of work. A Cambridge general practitioner who developed a lifelong friendship with Ben described him as a free thinker and an iconoclast all his life. He was a brilliant conversationalist and knowledgeable on a very large range of subjects. After retirement he devoted much time to the restoration of antique furniture, the manufacture of violins, his garden, painting and his passion for music, often irritating his family by playing Radio Three very loudly in his house and car. He married Margaret Hargreaves in 1941, whom he had met at medical school over a shared cadaver. She later became a chest physician. They had three daughters, Susan, Diana and Anne. After Margaret died in 1994 he was ably supported by his partner Judith Chivers. He died on 22 April 2013, aged 94.
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First Title value, for Searching Hanly, Gerard Joseph (1900 - 1942)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 21 July 1900 at Elphin, Co Roscommon, Ireland, the eleventh child of John Hanly, farmer, and Winifred Breslin his wife. He was educated at Summerhill College, Sligo and at University College, Galway, a constituent college of the National University of Ireland, where he qualified in 1923. The following year, 1924, he was commissioned in the Medical Service of the Royal Air Force. He was promoted flight-lieutenant in 1926, squadron-leader in 1934 and wing-commander in 1938. During this period he served in India, Iraq, Aden and Egypt. In 1931 he took the Edinburgh surgical Fellowship and in 1940 the English Fellowship, though not previously a Member of the College. Hanly married on 24 July 1937 Miriam Duff, who survived him with two daughters. He died on active service in the Middle East during the second world war in August 1942, having been promoted group-captain earlier in the year.
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First Title value, for Searching Walters, James Smith ( - 1880)

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First Title value, for Searching Walton, Henry Haynes (1816 - 1889)

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First Title value, for Searching Ward, Edward (1855 - 1921)

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

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

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

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

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First Title value, for Searching Lister, Sir William Tindall (1868 - 1944)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-08-28
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born 4 November 1868, the sixth child and third son of Arthur Lister (1830-1908), FRS, merchant and botanist, and his wife, née Tindall. Arthur Lister was a younger brother of Joseph Lister, and William grew up in the centre of a most gifted medico-scientific family, comparable only to the Darwins. Originally Quakers, they joined the Anglican communion but retained the Quaker virtues. William's grandfather, Joseph Jackson Lister (1786-1869), FRS, was a wine-merchant and a microscopist of note; his uncle Joseph, Lord Lister (1827-1912), PRS, achieved the epoch-making introduction of antiseptic methods through his remarkable combination of outstanding gifts as surgeon and biologist; his father, Arthur, was an authority on the mycetozoa; Sir Rickman Godlee, PRCS, and Marcus Beck, FRCS were his first cousins, their mothers being his father's sisters; his elder brother Joseph Jackson Lister the younger (died 1927) became a notable zoologist, Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and FRS 1900; his younger brother Arthur Hugh Lister CMG (died 1916) made his mark as a physician at Aberdeen; and Gulielma Lister, one of his four sisters, a botanist like their father, was in the first group of women elected into Fellowship of the Linnean Society. Of his own sons two became eminent in the medical profession: Arthur Reginald Lister, FRCS, as a surgeon at York, and William Alexander Lister, FRCP, as a physician at Plymouth; and a nephew Arthur Lister, FRCS, followed him as ophthalmic surgeon to the London Hospital. In this galaxy of talent Sir William Lister, who devoted his abilities to ophthalmology, was second in distinction only to his immortal uncle. William Lister was educated at Oliver's Mount, Scarborough, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, taking second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part 1, 1889 and graduating in medicine 1892. He received his clinical training at University College Hospital, where he was house surgeon to Sir John Tweedy, the ophthalmic surgeon, and took the Conjoint qualification in May 1895 and the Fellowship one month after. He was for some time pathologist and curator of the museum at Moorfields (Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital), and assistant surgeon to the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital. Lister was elected ophthalmic surgeon to the London Hospital in 1903, and in 1904 assistant surgeon to Moorfields, but resigned the latter position a year later as his strength was not enough for the double work. At the end of the war, which he had spent on active service, he resigned the London Hospital surgeoncy in 1918 and was elected consulting ophthalmic surgeon. He was elected in 1919 surgeon to Moorfields, to which he devoted the rest of his working life, becoming consulting surgeon 1929. He was also consulting ophthalmic surgeon to King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor, and ophthalmic surgeon to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. Lister was commissioned colonel, AMS, on 10 December 1914 and went to France as consulting ophthalmic surgeon to the British Expeditionary Force. There during four years of war he planned the ophthalmic services of the Army, and his ability and determination carried his plans to success. He devised the allocation of "roving ophthalmic consultants" among the army hospitals, and was also responsible for the distribution of equipment. With the help of J H Sutcliffe, MRCS, at Clifford's Inn he organized the supply and replacement of spectacles for the troops from "spectacle centres" in France. But his most successful achievement was the segregation and treatment of the large corps of Chinese labourers, affected with trachoma, which he carried through with the help of John Francis Cunningham. For his war service Lister was created CMG 1916 and promoted to KCMG 1919. In that year he was appointed surgeon oculist to the Royal Household, a position he held till 1936, and was rewarded with a KCVO in 1934. He was also consulting ophthalmic surgeon to Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital, Millbank, through the war and till 1929. He gave an account in 1918 of his "War experience of gunshot and mustard-gas injuries of the eyes" in a Hunterian lecture at the College, and contributed the account of "Mustard-gas burns of the eye" to the Official Medical History of the War. He had been responsible for coping successfully with this new form of war injury, when it first befell the British Army. At Moorfields from 1919 to 1929 Lister elaborated the postgraduate teaching, emphasizing equally the pathological and clinical aspects of ophthalmology. His minutely careful operative technique and his knowledge and wisdom were also fully employed for the benefit of his patients and students. He was a slow worker, very self-critical, diffident at first and easily tired, but his will and integrity and mastery of his art gave him confidence and imperturbability when actively engaged in clinical or surgical work. He had learnt from John Tweedy, Edward Nettleship, and R. M. Gunn, and his own meticulous and enthusiastic search for knowledge enabled him to pass on with increased value the great tradition of the Hospital's teaching. He was an excellent teacher, but never took much part in professional societies, though a frequent contributor to scientific journals. He was a member of the editorial board of the *British Journal of Ophthalmology* from its beginning in 1917 and took part regularly in its work. Modesty led him to refuse twice the presidency of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, a position for which his wealth, charm, and prestige admirably fitted him. He was a most generous and hospitable man. At Moorfields he installed four Gullstrand lamps and equipped a small clinical theatre at his own expense. He retired from his hospital work in 1929, when he and his wife were both elected to the committee of management at Moorfields. He maintained his private practice till 1934. Lister worked strenuously and continuously to improve his beautiful technique and was much interested in developing instruments and devices. He invented the Lister frill operation for the removal of infected ruptured eyes; devised an electric model of Morton's ophthalmoscope and improved Basil Lang's perimeter in such a way that his model eclipsed all others and was generally adopted for constant use. Even after retirement he was ready to study the latest operative advances at first-hand. In 1923 he visited America and lectured on detachment of the retina and holes in the vitreous. In Switzerland in December 1929 he visited the clinics of Gavin, Alfred Vogt and Koly, and the next month, January 1930, he performed the first operation in England for detachment of the retina by their new method of ignipuncture, with a view to sealing the hole in the detachment. He went to Utrecht as late as March 1939 to see H J M Weve's work on retinal detachment. His opinion was highly valued by his colleagues, and he had a large private practice at 24 Devonshire Place, W. Lister married in 1894 Grace, daughter of William Cleverly Alexander, of Heathfield Park, Sussex. Lady Lister survived him with four sons, two of whom are mentioned at the beginning of this memoir. He died at his home, The Old House, Bledlow Ridge, High Wycombe, on the Chiltern hills above Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, on 7 July 1944, aged 75, and was cremated at Oxford. He left £1,000 to the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund and £500 to the Ophthalmological Society. Lady Lister endowed a travelling scholarship, "The Sir William Lister award in ophthalmology", at the Royal College of Surgeons in January 1948. Lister made time for many recreations. He was a skilful embroiderer and a keen musician, at one time a member of the London Bach Choir, and a good draughtsman. Photography was his favourite amusment, and he was in the first class as a photographer with the microscope and of architecture and mountains; he had been an active climber and a member of the Alpine Club. He rowed in his College boat (1st Trinity) at Cambridge, and was an accomplished skater. Publications: Case of macular coloboma associated with old choroiditis. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1900, 20, 188. Angioid streaks of the retina. *Ophthal Rev* 1903, 22, 151. Epithelial plaques of the conjunctiva, with W I Hancock. *Ophthal Hosp Rep* 1905, 15, 346. Disturbances of vision from cerebral lesions, with special reference to the cortical representation of the macula, with Gordon Holmes. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1915-16, 9, ophthalmology section, p 57. Evulsion of the optic nerve, with M L Hine. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1919, 39, 196. Punctate deposits on the retina. *Ibid* 1921, 41, 275. Detachment of the vitreous. *Trans Internat Congr Ophthal*, Philadelphia, 1922, 1, 50. Holes in the retina and their clinical significance. *Brit J Ophthal* 1924, 8, 1. Some concussion changes met with in military practice. *Ibid*, p 305.
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First Title value, for Searching Little, Ernest Muirhead (1854 - 1935)

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

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

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First Title value, for Searching Lloyd, Perceval Allen (1863 - 1941)

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

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

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First Title value, for Searching Loughnane, Farquhar McGillivray (1885 - 1948)

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First Title value, for Searching Lowe, Walter George (1848 - 1934)

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First Title value, for Searching Duffy, Brian Thomas (1922 - 1978)

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First Title value, for Searching Duff, Keith Mitchell Keitley (1893 - 1980)

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First Title value, for Searching Drinkwater, Stanley Wilson (1899 - 1981)

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First Title value, for Searching Dransfield, Charles Murray ( - 1981)

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First Title value, for Searching Dragstedt, Lester Reynold (1893 - 1975)

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First Title value, for Searching Dowling, John Laidley ( - 1981)

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First Title value, for Searching Douglas, Alan William (1910 - 1982)

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First Title value, for Searching Dos Santos, João Alfonso Cid (1907 - 1975)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details João Dos Santos, surgeon to the Santa Maria Hospital, Lisbon, and Professor of Surgery there, was born in Lisbon on August 5, 1907. His father, Reynaldo Dos Santos was also a Lisbon surgeon of international standing and he too was an Honorary FRCS as well as Honorary KBE. After early education in Lisbon, Joao proceeded to medical school and qualified in 1932. In his early surgical training he was profoundly influenced by his father and by Rene Leriche of Strasbourg to whom he was attached for a short time. He also worked with Sir David Wilkie in Edinburgh. Joao was an essentially general surgeon who early developed a lifelong interest in vascular diseases, fired by his father's work on arteriography and his spell with Leriche. As a student he published, with his father, the first anatomical interpretation of aortography and arteriography. His MD thesis included a number of original observations on direct arterial surgery, the use of heparin and on lumbar ganglionectomy. He envisaged resection of the aortic bifurcation for vascular obstruction therein, but was anticipated in the performance of this procedure by his old chief Leriche who did the first such operation just two weeks before him. The development of venography and arteriography by Dos Santos was characterised by great technical skill and expertise, he produced many fine sequential pictures of the peripheral vessels well before the introduction of automatic cassette changes and other developments. João pioneered arterial disobliteration or endarterectomy and he was regularly with the advance guard in research. Notwithstanding his dominant vascular interests he had, like his father, a great interest in urology and was one of the first in Europe to undertake transurethral prostatectomy and the use of the ileal graft in treatment of the contracted bladder. His published work included many papers on venous and arterial thrombosis and embolism; vascular spasm; techniques of venography and arteriography; management of the ischaemic lower limb; the use of vascular patch grafts and endoaneurysmorrhaphy, as well as urological subjects, medical education and hospital administration. He gave many lectures abroad and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and of the Edinburgh College; Hunterian Orator and Honorary Fellow of the Hunterian Society of London; Honorary Fellow of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland as well as honorary fellow of a number of surgical and vascular societies. He was also a corresponding member of societies in many countries and received honorary degrees in Dublin, Marseilles and Brazil. He was President of the International Society of Surgery and of the International Cardiovascular Society. Outside the strictly surgical field he served as an independent member of the Portuguese Parliament from 1953 to 1957 with responsibility for medical education and hospital organisation. He was outspoken in his criticism of bureaucracy, as a result of which the Government suspended him from his hospital duties for several months after he committed the 'offence' of writing a critical report on the state of Portuguese hospitals in 1966. This was an event which he always thereafter recorded with his 'prizes' in his curriculum vitae! João Dos Santos had a truly international outlook and a gift for friendship with people of all nations. He was fluent in French and English, and also spoke Spanish and Italian. Apart from his work he had a profound interest in music and was a most accomplished pianist. He had a fine library and was a keen bibliophile, collecting mainly early Portuguese history. He possessed a large collection of pocket watches, of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and he was a member of the Antiquarian Horological Society of London, though he was never a particularly punctual man. His beautiful house in Lisbon was the scene of many gatherings of overseas surgeons and their families. In 1929 he married Maria de Nazare Anjos de Vilhena whose family had notable political and medical connections and is survived by his wife and son, who is a Professor at the Slade School of Art, and three daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Doous, Trevor Watson (1932 - 1975)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-26
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Born on 15 October 1932 in Auckland, Doous attended the Mount Albert Grammar School, Auckland University College and the University of Otago where he graduated MB ChB in 1956, and where in his final year he was awarded the Sir Carrick Robertson Surgical Prize. He was junior and senior house surgeon with the Auckland Hospital Board and a foundation member of the House Surgeons' Association. In 1959 he went as a general practitioner to the Chatham Islands and then returned to Auckland for two years as surgical registrar. In 1962 he went to the United Kingdom and while in England became a Fellow of both the English and Edinburgh Colleges of Surgeons within the same year, 1963. He was chief assistant to the department of surgery at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1966 and from 1968 to 1970 was senior registrar and surgical tutor at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School. Throughout his eight years in the United Kingdom he made a name for himself in surgical research and in 1967 he was awarded a research fellowship by the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. While holding this fellowship he made a study in vivo of steroidogenesis by the human adrenal gland and ovary. In order to carry out this work he mastered the intricacies of steroid biochemistry so that he was able to discuss and plan experiments as an equal with the best steroid biochemists in London - no mean feat for a surgeon. He presented this work as a thesis to the University of Otago and was awarded the degree of ChM in 1969. He returned to Auckland in 1970 as senior lecturer in the new department of surgery and in 1973 was promoted to Associate Professor in recognition of his clinical, teaching and research contributions to the department of surgery. Trevor Doous was an excellent example of that rare breed of person known as an academic surgeon. He was a skilled and imaginative clinical surgeon with a real flair for research. His special interest was in surgery of cancer of the breast, and his opinion and advice on the handling of patients with disseminated breast cancer was much sought after, and these cases were put under his care. That the quality of his research was fully recognized can be seen from the number of his papers in international journals in the field and from his being invited to participate in conferences in Singapore, Malaysia and India. He was an excellent and enthusiastic teacher, a good bedside instructor and most insistent on the correct interpretation of clinical signs in surgery. He was a clear and imaginative lecturer, using modern audio-visual methods, and with a flair for the theatrical to stimulate his student audience. He had a genuine interest in the students he taught and in their activities, both curricular and extra-curricular. One of his favourite recreations was fishing in both sea and lakes, and he learnt to fly after his return to New Zealand. He died on 21 June 1975 and was survived by his wife Dr Jennifer Wilson and two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Donovan, Thomas Smith (1900 - 1980)

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First Title value, for Searching Donald, Charles Douglas ( - 1979)

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First Title value, for Searching Dolton, Eric Granville (1914 - 1976)

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First Title value, for Searching Dollar, Jean Margeurite (1901 - 1982)

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First Title value, for Searching Dodds, Gladys Helen (1898 - 1982)

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First Title value, for Searching Dingley, Allen Roy (1892 - 1979)

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First Title value, for Searching Diggle, James Leslie ( - 1982)

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First Title value, for Searching Fairbairn, John Shields (1865 - 1944)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-05
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born 21 December 1865 at Bathgate, West Lothian, eldest of the two sons and two daughters of Andrew Martin Fairbairn (1838-1912, for whom see *DNB*), then minister of the Bathgate Evangelical Union Congregational Church, and Jane, his wife, daughter of John Shields, of Byres, Bathgate. He was educated at Bradford, where his father was principal of Airedale Theological College from 1877 to 1886, and at Oxford, where his father was the first principal of Mansfield College from 1886. He won an open science demyship at Magdalen, and was placed in the first class in the final school of natural science 1891. He studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital, and took the Conjoint qualification in 1895 and the Oxford BM in 1897. At the Hospital he served as house physician and as obstetric house physician under Charles James Cullingworth (1841-1908), was obstetric tutor and registrar 1898, and in 1902 was elected assistant obstetric physician, becoming in due course obstetric physician and ultimately consulting obstetric physician; he was also lecturer in midwifery and diseases of women at the hospital's medical school. He had taken the FRCS in 1900, but was elected FRCP in 1909 and thereafter was closely connected with the College of Physicians, serving as an examiner 1910-14 and a Councillor 1926-28, and gave their Bradshaw lecture in 1934 on the medical and psychological aspects of gynaecology. He also examined for Oxford, Cambridge, Leeds, and Glasgow universities and for the Society of Apothecaries. It was at his instigation that the Society founded its Mastership of Midwifery, the first higher diploma in the subject to be granted in Great Britain; Fairbairn was himself elected to this degree *honoris causa* in 1929. He was also physician to the General Lying-in Hospital, York Road, Camberwell, and here he established the first post-certificate school for midwives. On the Central Midwives Board he preceded Sir Comyns Berkeley, FRCS, as chairman, and from 1930 was Inspector of Midwifery under the General Medical Council. In earlier years Fairbairn was pathologist at the Chelsea Hospital for Women, where he had among his colleagues Sir Ewen Maclean, FRCP, T W Eden, FRCP, Sir Comyns Berkeley, and Victor Bonney, FRCS, all of whom left their mark on the advance of midwifery and gynaecology in London, and were among his collaborators in the "Ten Teachers" textbooks which achieved a merited popularity. During the war of 1914-18 Fairbairn was commissioned captain, RAMC(T), on 16 August 1915 on the staff of the 5th London General Hospital; he was also attached to the clinical teaching staff of the RAM College. Fairbairn took an active part in professional societies, being a well-read man and a keen debater. He was an Honorary Fellow of the Obstetrical Society of Edinburgh. In the British Medical Association he was secretary of the section of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Oxford meeting 1904, and president of the section at the Bradford meeting 1924 and the Melbourne meeting 1935, when he was admitted an Honorary MD of the University. Fairbairn played an influential part in the foundation of the British (now Royal) College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, was a foundation Fellow 1929, and succeeded the first president, Sir William Blair Bell, in the chair. During his presidency the original bye-laws were revised, and his combination of common sense and vision put the young College on a sound constitutional base. The first diplomate examination was held under his presidency, and he secured for the College a silver mace and the library of rare gynaecological books collected by Roy Dobbin, FRCP, formerly professor of midwifery at Cairo. For many years he edited the *Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire*. Fairbairn made a great name in his days of active hospital work and private practice at 45 Queen Anne Street, W, and later as an administrator, but his chief influence was educational. He was not only a first-class teacher but he took a philosophic view of the ends of education and, as has been stated above, was instrumental in starting several new schools and qualifications. He was one of the first within the profession to appreciate the great part which medicine must play in realizing the aspirations of sociologists and economists; social medicine in its maternity and child-welfare aspects grew from Fairbairn's teaching. He humorously suggested that the baby is not to be looked on as a mere by-product of pregnancy and labour, but that obstetricians and paediatricians must work as a team; he was an original member of the Preposterous Club, which sought to bring them together. The antenatal and postnatal clinics at St Thomas's, which he established, were the first in London, second only to those started by J J Buchan at Edinburgh, and were most successful. He arranged for every student at St Thomas's to serve six months as a clerk in the obstetric department. Fairbairn married in 1913 Elma, second daughter of J P Stuart, of Elgin, who survived him; there were no children. In 1927 he first experienced duodenal disturbance, and retired in 1936 to his parents' old house, Blucairn, Lossiemouth, where he busied himself with growing alpine plants, but kept in touch with his professional colleagues London, who had given him a farewell dinner in March 1936 at which Sir Ewen Maclean made the chief speech. He died at Lossiemouth on 22 January 1944, aged 78. Mrs Fairbairn died there on 28 January 1949 after a long illness. A portrait of Fairbairn by Souter was presented to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists by Lord Riddell. Publications:- The pathology of fibroma of the ovary. *J Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp*. 1902, 2, 128. Necrobiosis in fibromyomata of the uterus. *Ibid*. 1903, 4, 119. Full-term ectopic pregnancy. *Ibid*. 1906, 10, 599. A case of tubal abortion. *Ibid*. 1906, 10, 609. Primary chorionepithelioma of the ovary. *Ibid*. 1909, 16, 1. Pelvic cysts due to spinal meningocele. *Ibid*. 1911, 20, 1. *A textbook for midwives*. London, 1914; 5th edition, 1930. *The practitioner's encyclopaedia of midwifery and the diseases of women*. London, 1921. *Obstetrics*. London, 1926. *Gynaecology with obstetrics*. London, 1928. *The medical and psychological aspects of gynaecology*. (Bradshaw lecture, RCP) London, 1934. Changes in thought in half a century of obstetrics. *Trans Edinb Obstet Soc*. 1935, p 63. Joint editor of the *Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire*, and of the "Ten teachers" textbooks: *Midwifery*, 1917, and *Diseases of women*, 1921.
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First Title value, for Searching De Wytt, William Henry Hyde Joseph de Wolffe (1910 - 1977)

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First Title value, for Searching De Saram, Rodney Brian ( - 1976)

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First Title value, for Searching Faulder, Thomas Jefferson (1871 - 1935)

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First Title value, for Searching Faulkner, Ebenezer Ross (1876 - 1939)

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

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

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

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First Title value, for Searching Fenwick, Edwin Hurry (1856 - 1944)

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Occupation Urologist
Details Born at North Shields, 14 September 1856, in the family of five sons and three daughters of Samuel Fenwick, MD (1821-1902), then in practice at Newcastle, afterwards physician to the London Hospital, and FRCP, and of Amy Sophia, his wife, daughter of Captain Bedford Pim, RN. All five sons entered the medical profession, among them Bedford Fenwick (1855-1939), MD, MRCP, gynaecologist, and William Soltau Fenwicke, MD, MRCP, internist, who died in February 1944, three months before Hurry Fenwick. Hurry Fenwick was educated at the London Hospital, where he served as house surgeon, house physician, and surgical registrar, and took postgraduate courses at Leipzig and Berlin. In 1883 he was elected assistant surgeon to the London Hospital, becoming in due course surgeon and lecturer in clinical surgery, and ultimately consulting surgeon. He was also consulting surgeon to the West Herts Hospital at Hemel Hempstead. He examined in physiology for the Conjoint Board 1885-88. While practising as a general surgeon, Fenwick paid special attention to urological surgery, and was elected to the staff of St Peter's Hospital for Stone and Urinary Diseases, where he was succeeded as surgeon by J S Joly, who died a few months before him. In 1887 he won the Jacksonian Prize for his essay on "Tumours of the bladder", afterwards published with additions. Fenwick ultimately became professor of urology in the University of London, and an internationally recognized authority in this specialty. He was one of the first in England to use and advocate the electrically-lit cystoscope, invented by Max Nitze (1848-1906) of Dresden at the end of the eighties, and ten years later was a pioneer in adapting the Roentgen rays for the use of the urinary surgeon. In 1905 he devised the first ureteric bougie opaque to X-rays. He was a dexterous surgeon, specially skilled in operating for urinary calculus and vesical tumour. In 1913 Fenwick served as president of the section of urology at the 17th and last International Medical Congress, and in his presidential address praised Nitze and Roentgen for enabling the surgeon no longer to "grope in the dark" when dealing with urinary and vesical disease. Fenwick himself had, in fact, played no small part in advancing the visual examination of the bladder. During the war of 1914-18 he served as officer commanding the Bethnal Green Military Hospital and the military section of the London Hospital, with the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel dated 14 April 1915, and was promoted brevet major on 3 June 1917; he had been commissioned captain d la suite on the formation of the RAMC(T) on 23 December 1908. He was mentioned in despatches and created a CBE for his war-time services. In 1919 Fenwick became the first president of the Société internationale d'Urologie, a chair he held till 1925. He was a vice-president of the International Association of Urologists, a member of the Société internationale de Chirurgie, and a corresponding member of American, Belgian, French, German, Italian, Russian, and Spanish urologic associations. Fenwick married on 16 December 1886 Annie, daughter of Captain John Fenwick, an Elder Brother of Trinity House. Mrs Fenwick died on 12 October 1937, as the result of an accident. Hurry Fenwick died on 5 May 1944 in his house at 53 Bedford Gardens, London, W8, aged 88, survived by a son and a daughter. In earlier life he had practised at 14 Savile Row, London, W. Publications:- The venous system of the bladder and its surroundings. *J Anat Physiol*. 1885, 19, 320. *The electric illumination of the bladder and urethra, as a means of diagnosis of obscure vesico-urethral diseases*. London, 1888; 2nd edition, 1889. *Atlas of electric cystoscopy*, with Emil Burckhardt. London, 1893. *A handbook of clinical electric-light cystoscopy*. London, 1904. *The cardinal symptoms of urinary disease, their diagnostic significance and treatment*. London, 1893. *Urinary surgery*. London, 1894. Diseases of the urine, in *Twentieth century practice*. New York, 1895, 1, 525-659. *Obscure diseases of the urethra*, with J W Thomson Walker. London, 1902. *Tumours of the bladder, their pathology, diagnosis, and treatment*. Jacksonian prize essay of 1887, rewritten with 200 additional cases. London, 1897. *Operative and inoperative tumours of the bladder*. London, 1901. *The value of ureteric meatoscopy in obscure diseases of the kidney*. London, 1903. The value of the use of a shadowgraph ureteric bougie in the precise surgery of renal calculus. *Brit med J*. 1905, 1, 1325. *The value of radiography in the diagnosis and treatment of urinary stone; a study in and operative surgery*. London, 1908. Expectation of life after nephrectomy for urinary tuberculosis. *Brit med J*. 1944, 1, 621.
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First Title value, for Searching Butler, Thomas Harrison (1871 - 1945)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-24
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born 19 March 1871, at Stanhope, Durham, eldest child of the Rev G W Butler, of Broadmayne with West Knighton, Dorset, and his wife Elizabeth Oldfield, adopted daughter of the Rev George Harrison. He was educated at Dorchester Grammar School, at St Paul's School, where he was an exhibitioner, and at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, of which he was a scholar in 1889. He rowed in his College eight and took first-class honours in the final school of natural science in 1893. He received his clinical training at St Bartholomew's, where he served as house surgeon, and was also house physician at the Royal Free Hospital. In 1896 he was awarded a Radcliffe travelling Fellowship, and undertook postgraduate study at Kiel, Berlin, Dresden, Vienna, Zurich, and Paris. He then went to South Africa and served as harbour medical officer at Port Elizabeth, and as plague officer at Durban and at the Cape of Good Hope. He was awarded the Oxford doctorate for his thesis on plague in 1902. From 1902 to 1906 he was assistant surgeon at the British Ophthalmic Hospital at Jerusalem, and turned decisively to the specialty, which he notably adorned for the rest of his life. Butler then settled in Warwickshire, living at Duclair, Marsh Lane, Hampton-in-Arden, with consulting rooms at 61 Newhall Street, Birmingham, at 27 Warwick Place, Leamington, and at 7 Park Road, Coventry. He became in due course ophthalmic surgeon to the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital 1909, the Warneford Hospital, Leamington 1910, and the Hospital of St Cross, Rugby 1918, and surgeon to the Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital 1913, and was ultimately on the consulting staff of each of these hospitals, retiring in 1932. He was also ophthalmic surgeon to the West Bromwich Hospital. During the war years 1939-44 he replaced his son, R D W Butler, MRCS, who was on active service, as surgeon at the Birmingham Eye Hospital. Butler took an active part in the work of the Oxford ophthalmological conference, serving on its council from 1917, and of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, of which he became president. He gave the Middlemore lectures in 1915, 1922, and 1939, and was Montgomery lecturer in Dublin in 1926. In 1924 he was Doyne memorial medallist and lecturer. Butler served as president of the ophthalmology section at the Royal Society of Medicine; in the British Medical Association he was vice-president of the section of ophthalmology at the Nottingham meeting 1926 and afterwards its president, and a member of the ophthalmic group committee 1923-45; he also served as president of the Birmingham branch. He was secretary of the Midland Ophthalmological Society for twenty-eight years and its president 1919-21. Butler was elected to the Fellowship of the College, as a member of twenty years' standing, in 1941. Butler's interests in ophthalmology were wide and he made many contributions to its literature. His Illustrated guide to the slit-lamp, 1927, was the first English book on the subject and did much to popularize its use; with characteristic modesty he always called it "the child's guide to knowledge". Butler was a good artist and illustrated his own books. Butler married in March 1900 Ellen, daughter of Walter Hugo Reed, MD, of Westbury, Wilts, who survived him with two sons and three daughters; both sons were serving as medical men with the forces in the world war of 1939-45. He died suddenly at Hampton-in-Arden on 29 January 1945, aged 73, and was privately cremated. Butler was a man of wide attainments and experience, of happy disposition and rare humanity. He did much to unite the members of his specialty in the Midlands. Heavily built, his appearance of rough strength belied his intellectual and artistic distinction. His benignity and bonhomie made him a centre of affection and gaiety to a wide circle of friends. At professional meetings he showed remarkable insight in choosing subjects for discussion, which provoked the widest interest. Butler was always ready to acknowledge and even exaggerate his own failures and shortcomings in the hope of awakening constructive improvements in methods or technique. His chief recreation was yachting and he was well known as a designer of yachts and a writer in the yachting journals. He was a member of the Royal Cruising Club, the Corinthian Yacht Club and the Little Ship Club, and an Associate Member of the Institution of Naval Architects. Publications:- Refraction. *Brit med J*. 1923, 1, 843. Ophthalmology in Palestine. *Birm med Review*, 1916, 79, 29 and 59. Tuberculous disease of the uvea. *Ibid*. 1912, 71, 216. Treatment of trichiasis. *Arch Ophthal*. 1908, 37, 388. *Illustrated guide to the slit-lamp*. Oxford, 1927. Lenticonus posterior. *Arch Ophthal*. 1930, 3, 425. Iridencleisis and trapdoor iridectomy in treatment of glaucoma. *Brit J Ophthal*. 1932, 16, 741.
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First Title value, for Searching Wardrop, James (1782 - 1869)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
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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