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First Title value, for Searching - 2023

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2024-07-03
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010600-E010699
Occupation General surgeon
Details John Charles Douglas Plant was a consultant surgeon.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010643
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First Title value, for Searching A'Beckett, Arthur Martin (1812 - 1871)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-07-31
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372819372819
Occupation General surgeon
Details Son of William a’Beckett, attorney, by his wife Sarah Abbot, a strenuous supporter of municipal reform. He came of a Wiltshire family which claimed direct descent from the father of St Thomas à Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. His elder brothers were Sir William a’Beckett (1806-1869), Chief Justice of Victoria, and Gilbert a’Beckett (1811-1856), Metropolitan Police Magistrate, contributor to *Punch*, and author of the *Comic Histories* of England and Rome. His third brother was the Honorable Thomas a’Beckett of Melbourne, Victoria. Arthur a’Beckett was born in Golden Square, London, and after serving his apprenticeship became a student of the London University, now University College, in 1834. Here he gained prizes, and as soon as he had qualified he served as Staff Surgeon in the British Legion in Spain, from 1835-1837, and was placed on the staff of Sir de Lacy Evans. For his services he was decorated Knight of San Ferdinand, an Order for distinguished service on the field of battle, a cross and medal for the battle of San Sebastian and the skirmish at Irun. He went to Sydney in June, 1839, and was appointed one of the first members of the Legislative Council of New South Wales, acted as a surgeon to the Benevolent Asylum, an examiner in the medical faculty of the University of Sydney, a trustee of the Australian Museum, and a trustee of the Grammar School at Sydney. He lived for thirty years in Sydney, and made only two visits home – on the first occasion to improve his medical knowledge, when he spent some time in Paris; on the second occasion in the hope of retiring from practice. Heavy financial losses in colonial companies frustrated this desire, and in 1865 he returned to Australia, resumed his practice, and died on May 23rd, 1871. Speaking of his work in the Army, Sir Rutherford Alcock (q.v.) said of him: “I have shared the same quarters with you, slept in the same bivouac, watched and worked with you among the sick and wounded. In all these various situations your conduct as a gentleman, your skill and humanity as a surgeon, your ready compliance as a soldier with all instructions however hazardous or trying the execution, make me regret that a land so distant should render our meting again for many years improbable.” Similar testimony was made in 1871, when his obituary notice recorded that “skill and ability” were not the only qualifications. Sterling honest and outspoken truthfulness were his great characteristics. Honest and honourable himself, he was the fearless and unflinching opponent of every form of dishonest and dishonourable practice in others. To every species of imposture he was a sworn foe. His aim was to render the profession which he practised worthy of the respect and esteem of the world, and no line of conduct met with his approval which was not in accordance with this end. A roughly engraved portrait of him wearing his four decorations for Spanish service appears in the *New South Wales Medical Gazette*, vol. i.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000636
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First Title value, for Searching Abberton, Michael John ( - 2000)

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First Title value, for Searching Abbey, John ( - 1865)

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First Title value, for Searching Abbey, Paul (1920 - 2008)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-02-20
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372776372776
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Paul Abbey was a consultant ENT surgeon in the Windsor area. He was born on 6 January 1920 in Stoke Newington, London, the son of M Abbey, who had arrived in the UK in 1911 from Lodz in Poland. He was the youngest of four children – there were two older brothers and one older sister. The family lived in a two-bedroom flat until Paul was about 4½ years old, when they moved to Bethnal Green into rooms above a small factory in a converted pub. He attended primary school in Teesdale Street, where he was bullied, and in the evenings he went to Hebrew classes at the same school. At the age of 11, Paul started at the Central School, where his form teacher, Mr Jones, decided that he should try for a scholarship to Parmiter’s, the local grammar school, which was a successful move. Paul’s barmitzvah took place at Teesdale Street Synagogue when he was 13. He was an active member of the Jewish Boys Club and the Cambridge and Bethnal Green Club, taking part in swimming and gymnastics, as well as summer camps near Herne Bay. In the senior years at school Paul became a prefect, and became the school’s most successful sportsman, excelling at gymnastics, swimming and football. When Paul was 15, he bought himself a racing bicycle from James Goose in Holborn, which he paid off at 2/6 per week. He and his brother Manny would take off on camping holidays by bike, once as far as the Isle of Wight. In 1939, he passed his Senior County exams and was accepted as a student at Westminster Hospital. When war was declared, the Westminster was evacuated to Glasgow, but a friend told him about a vacancy at the London Hospital which was evacuating its medical college to Cambridge. He applied and started in October 1939. Paul qualified in 1944 and then became receiving room officer, house surgeon to A M A Moore and the gynaecological firm, and then house physician to A E Clarke-Kennedy. He joined the RAF medical service in February 1945 and was posted to India, where he spent two enjoyable years, rising to squadron leader. He made friends with the RAF transport pilots. He would wander out to the airfield and see whether a DC-3 was due to take off. “Hi doc”, the pilots would yell from the cockpit. “Just off to Jaipur. Want to come along for the ride? Hop on, old chap, we’ll list you as additional freight.” He eventually learnt to fly himself in Tiger Moth planes and kept his linen flying helmet and goggles as souvenirs. On demobilisation, he returned to the London Hospital for three years, at first as a supernumerary registrar to Clive Butler in the septic ward, where penicillin was effecting a radical change in the management of osteomyelitis. He then moved to the King George Hospital in Ilford, initially as a house surgeon for six months, followed by three years as a surgical registrar, during which time he passed the FRCS. In December 1954, Paul decided to specialise in ENT. He started work at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, where he became a senior registrar and then moved to a similar post at St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington. In May 1961, Paul obtained his first ENT consultant appointment at Southampton General Hospital. Two years later he applied successfully for a more advantageous ENT consultant post with the Windsor group of hospitals, where he spent the rest of his career. When he arrived in the area, Wexham Park Hospital was being built, and Paul had a large hand in the design of the ENT department. A firm believer in the original values and mission of the NHS, he disapproved of the many bureaucratic reorganisations that began in the 1970s. He published numerous articles, delivered lectures and belonged to many committees and councils, including the ENT section of the Royal Society of Medicine and the British Association of Otolaryngologists. He was particularly proud of designing a new surgical instrument which bears his name. In 1985 he retired from the NHS, but continued in private practice for several more years and became a surgical member of the Medical Appeals Tribunal for Industrial Injuries. Outside medicine, Paul’s great love was sailing. In the days before mobile phones, it was the ultimate escape from the stress of hospital life – out on the water he was completely unreachable. For many years he had an Enterprise dinghy and would tow this boat down to Cornwall every year for family holidays. Later, he teamed up with two friends to purchase the *St Brigid*, a 32-foot sailing cruiser which they moored down at Lymington on the south coast. Paul spent a lot of his spare time on *St Brigid*, including two weeks sailing in the English Channel every summer. He studied for his yachtmaster’s qualification, joined the Royal Lymington Yacht Club and even bought a house in Lymington. The whole family was involved in Paul’s sailing. Paul married Joan née Singer in March 1952. Jocelyn was born in April 1956 and Bryony came along four years later, in May 1960. Joan took navigation courses and their two children were co-opted as deck hands during school holidays. Paul was a great wine enthusiast, and he and Joan travelled extensively around Europe, and visited Australia, the USA and South Africa. Above all, Paul loved being with other people – he liked having an audience, he was great company and always entertaining. This world will be a duller place without him.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000593
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First Title value, for Searching Abbott, Francis Charles (1867 - 1938)

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First Title value, for Searching Abdel-Razik, Wa'El Ahmed (1962 - 2007)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-25 2015-02-16
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Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E001000-E001999/E001800-E001899
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374073374073
Occupation General surgeon
Details Wa'El Ahmed Abdel-Razik gained his FRCS in 1999. He qualified MB BS from the University of Khartoum in 1984. He died on 31 March 2007, aged just 45.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001890
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First Title value, for Searching Abdo, Fathy Awad Mohamed (1947 - 2021)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2022-07-28
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010100-E010199
Occupation General surgeon
Details Fathy Wad Mohamed Abdo was a professor of surgery in Cairo, Egypt. He was born on 2 October 1947. He gained his FRCS in 1989. Abdo died from covid in late 2021.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010140
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First Title value, for Searching Abel, Arthur Lawrence (1895 - 1978)

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First Title value, for Searching Abel, Beverley John (1943 - 2018)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2019-01-15 2022-02-09
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009500-E009599
Occupation Urologist
Details Beverley John Abel (Bev) was born in Nottinghamshire in 1943. His parents, Albert and Winifred, ran a butcher’s shop and the family, which included Bev and his younger sister Wendy, lived above it. When he was two years old he suffered from rickets and had to wear leg splints for a time. From early years he showed keen academic ability and easily passed his 11+ examination. He was educated at Carlton-le-Willows grammar school and read medicine at Liverpool University. When asked at his university interview if he came from a medical family he apparently replied *My father is a butcher*. Remaining in the city for his training, he became a surgical research fellow at the Liverpool Regional Urology Centre and published papers on the treatment of kidney and bladder problems (notably relating to injuries of the spine) which were highly influential. He moved to Glasgow as a senior registrar at the Victoria Infirmary and was later appointed consultant urological surgeon. A pioneer of percutaneous lithotripsy, by this procedure he dramatically improved the lives of hundreds of patients suffering from kidney stones. With his colleague Archie Hutchinson he ran an innovative urology clinic which became a UK model for future practice. He was also appointed an honorary senior lecturer in urology at the University of Glasgow. Outside medicine he threw himself enthusiastically into many differing interests, from still life painting to fishing, house renovation, golf and game shooting. Salmon fishing was a particularly favourite activity, especially on the river Spey. He was always happy to joke about his humble origins, on one occasion for example when a fellow fisherman thought he had been described as a *neurologist* he corrected him *No, I’m a plumber, a urologist.....neurologists are the brainy guys*. In 1966 he married a Welsh senior nurse, Dwynwen Thomas (Wendy) and they had three children, Julia, Clare and Simon. Wendy died of cancer in 2007 aged 64 after 41 years of marriage. Some years later, in 2011, he married a nursing sister he had met at the Victoria Infirmary, Sandra McGeachie. He died from neuroendocrine carcinoma of the lung on 23 August 2018 and was survived by Sandra, his children and grandchildren: Zoe, Freya, Niamh, Archie, Lachan, Angus, Darroch and Lucy.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009555
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First Title value, for Searching Abel, Keith Paterson (1926 - 1994)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-01
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379960379960
Occupation General surgeon
Details Keith Paterson Abel, son of the distinguished surgeon Lawrence Abel FRCS and Margaret Russell Paterson MD MRCP was born on 31 July 1926. He was educated at Rugby and Upper Canada College, Toronto, and then at Trinity College, Cambridge. After the Natural Science Tripos he went to St Mary's Hospital for his clinical training and qualified in 1950. He was house surgeon to R M Handfield-Jones and Lord Porritt. He was demonstrator in anatomy at St Mary's in the spring of 1951 before doing his National Service in the RNVR, during which he skied for the Royal Navy. Following release from the Navy he worked for his Fellowship, while doing posts in accident and emergency surgery at the Radcliffe Infirmary, where he worked with Walpole Lewin on head injuries. Later he worked at the Royal Marsden Hospital and Southend General Hospital, where he was resident surgical officer and worked for Rodney Maingot. Abel obtained his Fellowship in 1955 and became senior registrar to Arthur Dickson Wright at St Mary's. After gaining the MChir in Cambridge in 1958 he won the Peter Gorham Research Fellowship to Harvard Medical School in 1959, where he studied the isolation and perfusion of both limbs and organs, and the homotransplantation of whole organs. This work was continued when he returned to St Mary's as senior registrar to Felix Eastcott. After two years he went on to the West Middlesex Hospital until he was appointed consultant general surgeon to the Prince of Wales and St Ann's Hospitals, Tottenham, in 1964. When the Prince of Wales closed he moved to the North Middlesex Hospital, where he continued to work until his retirement. His surgical interests were varied, and included colon and breast surgery; he also ran a very successful clinic for the treatment of varicose veins. He was the author of numerous publications on a wide variety of topics, and he devised an operative choledochoscope. Outside medicine Abel had many interests, and was particularly devoted to field sports - he had his own game farm and raised English partridges. He was fond of skiing and sailing, and enjoyed wind-surfing, which he took up at the age of 55. Abel was married twice. In 1957 he married Sally Anne O'Callaghan, by whom he had three sons, James, Andrew and Keith, and a daughter, Kathryn Mary, who followed her father into medicine. In 1982 he married Susan Margaret Podmore. Whilst out shooting on 5 November he suffered a massive subdural haemorrhage from which he did not recover consciousness, and he died on 12 November 1994.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007777
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First Title value, for Searching Abel, Paul David (1952 - 2023)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-10-11
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Paul David Abel was a professor of urology at Imperial College, London. 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: E010470
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First Title value, for Searching Abell, Irvin (1876 - 1949)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-20 2020-08-05
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375890375890
Occupation General surgeon
Details Born 13 September 1876 at Lebanon, Kentucky, USA, the son of Irvin Abell and Sarah S Rogers his wife. He was educated at St Mary's College, Louisville, and the University of Louisville Medical School, where he graduated in 1897. He was assistant in surgery in the Louisville Medical School 1900-08, professor 1908-23, and clinical professor from 1923, and later a trustee of the school. At the same time he was surgeon to the City Hospital, the Children's Free Hospital and St Joseph's Infirmary. During the first world war he was lieutenant-colonel in charge of No 59 American Army Base Hospital in France 1917-18. Abell took a prominent part in many national societies: he was a member of the American Surgical and Urological Associations, and a vice-president of the American Gastro-enterological Association. He was president successively of the Kentucky State Medical Association, the Southern Surgical Association, the Southern Medical Association, and the American Medical Association. He was a foundation Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and became chairman of its Board of Regents. As holder of this position, and in honour of his surgical achievement, he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the English College in 1947. During the second world war Abell was a colonel in the US Medical Reserve Corps. He was a director of the Fidelity and Columbia Trust Company and of the Commonwealth Life Insurance Company. Abell married in 1907 Carrie C Harting, who survived him with three sons. He practised at 321 West Broadway, Louisville, and lived at 1433 Third Street. Here he died on 28 August 1949, aged 72.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003707
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First Title value, for Searching Abercrombie, George Forbes (1935 - 2017)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2018-02-26 2020-11-17
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381817381817
Occupation Urologist
Details George Forbes Abercrombie (known as Forbes) was a urologist in Portsmouth. Born on 28 March 1935 in Edinburgh, he was the son of George Abercrombie, a general practitioner, and his wife, Maria. His father was the first president of the section of general medicine at the Royal Society of Medicine in 1950 and founded the Royal College of General Practitioners, serving as its president from 1969 to 1972. He attended Charterhouse School before going up to Caius College, Cambridge and reading medicine at Saint Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School. Having been appointed a house surgeon at Bart’s in 1958, he worked closely with Alec Badenoch who fostered his interest in urology. Following his time there, he did house jobs at Great Ormond Street Hospital, the Royal Northern, Leicester Royal Infirmary and the Institute of Urology in London. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1965. On developing a major interest in reconstructive urology, particularly the repair of hypospadias, he moved to Philadelphia in the USA to work with John Duckett and study his techniques. In 1971 he became the first solely urological consultant at Saint Mary’s Hospital in Portsmouth. Together with his colleague John Vinnicombe, he forged an outstanding urology department which became the only one in the Wessex region recognised for senior registrar training. A technique for which he was renowned was the ‘rip and pluck’ method of nephroureterectomy. He retired from Saint Mary’s in 1995 and spent four months the following year as a locum consultant urologist at the North Western Regional Hospital in Burnie, Tasmania. While there he greatly enjoyed the climate, the people and the lack of bureaucracy. He had a reputation as a keen and enthusiastic teacher. A strong supporter of the section of urology of the RSM, he encouraged all his trainees to do research and present the results at its meetings. Honorary secretary for a time, in 1993 he was president and famed for hosting a memorable overseas meeting in Breckenridge, Colorado. He was also a member of council of the British Association of Urological Surgeons and a liveryman of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries. Outside medicine he enjoyed fishing, chess and golf. Captain of the Hayling Island golf club he used to remark that he was *the best golfer in the chess club and the best chess player in the golf club*. His enthusiastic fishing trips on the river Brora in Scotland were said to have produced many entertaining stories but few salmon. After suffering from Parkinson’s disease for several years he died on 27 December 2017 aged 82 and was survived by his wife Jennifer, sons Colin and John, and three grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009413
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First Title value, for Searching Aberdeen, Eoin (1924 - 1986)

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First Title value, for Searching Abernethy, Barclay Chivas (1928 - 1991)

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First Title value, for Searching Abouna, George Jirges Mansour (1933 - 2016)

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by Andrew Abouna
Publication Date 2016-05-12 2017-01-26
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381295381295
Occupation Transplant surgeon
Details George J M Abouna was a pioneering transplant surgeon who worked in the United States, Canada and the Middle East. He created many firsts in organ transplantation and, over the course of a career which spanned more than 50 years, saved thousands of lives across the world. Abouna was a true master of surgery, a scientist who created many innovations and advancements, a medical educator of the highest calibre, and a doctor who always put patient care first. In 2000, he was awarded the Albert Schweitzer gold medal for his humanitarian work, and twice had audiences with Pope John Paul II. Abouna was born on 5 April 1933 in Al Kosh, Mosul, Iraq, of Chaldean heritage. His father was Mansour Abouna and his mother was Rachel Safar. Abouna also had one sister, Warda. After receiving a scholarship from the government of Iraq, he moved to London at the age of 16 to study engineering. After receiving a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, he convinced the University of Durham to accept his application to medical school. Becoming a doctor was Abouna's lifelong dream. After one year of proving his exceptional ability and maintaining top grades in medical school, while also supporting himself through three part-time jobs, the university gave him a full scholarship to continue in the medical programme. After qualifying in 1961, Abouna soon began to concentrate on organ transplantation. In the late 1960s, he developed the world's first and only liver perfusion machine, helping extend the lives of patients with liver failure. In 1969 he was invited to relocate to the United States. He held academic and clinical appointments in Denver, Colorado, Richmond, Virginia and Augusta, Georgia. In 1973, Abouna returned to the UK, to Edinburgh, for advanced research and clinical work. Then in 1974 he accepted an academic and clinical position in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It was here that he performed the first liver transplant in western Canada. In 1978, he moved to Kuwait City, Kuwait, after accepting the position of professor and chairman of surgery at Kuwait University, and for the next 12 years he became the leader of organ transplantation in the Middle East. Patients from across the Arab world and from as far away as Canada would travel to Kuwait to receive life-saving care by Abouna and his team. He established the country's first transplant programme and led the initiative which created the living donor law, as well as serving as the second president of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation. During this time, Abouna tirelessly shared and advanced medical knowledge, both in Kuwait and as a visiting professor of surgery at the University of Minnesota and later as clinical professor of surgery, University of Iowa. After the invasion of Kuwait in 1990, Abouna became a professor of surgery in the division of transplantation at Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, until he was invited to become dean of medical sciences and professor and chairman in the department of surgery, Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain. In 2000, he was a clinical professor at Drexel University Medical College in Philadelphia. And in 2002 Abouna accepted the position of dean of medicine in Tripoli, Libya, where he established a transplant programme. He held this position for several years. Abouna was recognised throughout the world for his expertise in, among other areas, medical education, organ preservation and transplantation (kidney, liver and pancreas), transplantation immunology and immunosuppression, endocrine, hepatobiliary surgery and portal hypertension, fluid and electrolyte therapy and hyperalimentation, organ preservation, and ethical issues in organ donation and transplantation. During his career, he received numerous awards, including ten degrees and fellowships. He was a member of 33 professional societies and held 19 committee posts. Abouna edited three journals, sat on seven professional editorial boards, authored or edited four books, published 141 contributions to journals and wrote 33 chapters in books. He presented 181 papers and abstracts at national and international meetings. After he retired, he made his home in Radnor, Pennsylvania, but made many visits to Calgary, Alberta to visit some of his children and to visit Kananaskis and Banff, where he always said the mountains reminded him of his home in Mosul, Iraq. San Diego, California, where one of his sons lived, was another favourite destination; the hot weather and palm trees also reminded him of the Middle East. Abouna was a member of the Mainline YMCA in Wayne, Pennsylvania, where he liked to swim and exercise, and was a member of the choir at St Katharine of Siena in Wayne, where his memorial services were held. He was an avid reader and enjoyed listening to classical music. George Abouna died on 28 September 2016 at the age of 83 and was survived by his wife Cathy, his former wife, Jennifer, his children, Linda, Judy, Andrew, Ben, Sarah and Adam, and two step-children, Wade and Carla. He also had seven grandchildren (Angela, Gayle, Allison, Andrea, Nate, Lena and Alexander) and nine great-grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009112
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First Title value, for Searching Abraham, Alexander Johnston (1915 - 2002)

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First Title value, for Searching Abraham, James Johnston (1876 - 1963)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-20
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377005377005
Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Writer
Details Born on 16 August 1876, eldest son of William Abraham JP of Coleraine Co. Derry, he was educated at Coleraine Academy and at Trinity College Dublin, where he was senior moderator and won the gold medal for natural science. At the same time he showed his literary bent by winning prizes for literature and was in two minds whether to take up a career in medicine or in literature. After graduation he came to London in 1901, was appointed house surgeon at the West London Hospital and commenced working for the Primary FRCS. After passing, he was advised by a chest specialist to get away for six months and therefore signed on as ship's surgeon in the SS *Clytemnestra* bound from Liverpool to Yokohama. On his return he was appointed resident medical officer at the London Lock Hospital and in due course wrote a thesis on his experience with the Wassermann reaction which gained him his MD. Meanwhile he had contributed short articles to medical journals and wrote a novel dealing with hospital life. On the rejection of this by Fisher Unwin, he decided to write about his voyage to the Far East; *The Surgeon's Log* was published by Chapman and Hall in 1911 and immediately became a best seller. This led him to revise his original novel *The Night Nurse*, eventually published in 1913. In the same year he was appointed assistant surgeon to the Princess Beatrice Hospital. In the war of 1914-18, on being rejected by the RAMC on grounds of age, he joined the Red Cross in Serbia and worked in hospital at Skopje, having to grapple with, among other problems, a violent epidemic of typhus. On his return to England as a decorated Captain in the Serbian Army he was appointed Captain in the RAMC in 1916, serving first at Millbank Military Hospital and later at a base hospital in Egypt. From 1917 to 1919 he acted as ADMS in Allenby's force and served in Macedonia, Egypt, Syria and Palestine, being awarded the DSO and later the CBE, being mentioned in dispatches three times. He returned to work as surgeon to Princess Beatrice and the London Lock hospitals. Throughout his life he continued his interest in both medicine and literature, writing under the pseudonym of James Harpole. He was chairman of Heinemann's medical publications and of the library committee of the Athenaeum. He retired from active surgical practice in 1943 after a serious operation for duodenal haemorrhage. He was Vicary Lecturer at the College in 1943 and was appointed a Hunterian Trustee in 1954. On 21 April 1920 he married Lilian Angela, eldest daughter of Dr Alexander Francis, who survived him with a daughter. He died at Campden Hill Court, London on 9 August 1963 within a week of his eighty-seventh birthday. Mrs Abraham died on 4 January 1969. Principal publications: *A surgeon's log* London, 1911, subsequently translated into German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. *The night nurse* London, 1913, subsequently filmed in America. *Lettsom, his life and times* Heinemann, London, 1933. *A surgeon's journey, autobiography* London, 1957.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004822
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First Title value, for Searching Abrahams, Alfred Mark (1912 - 1988)

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by Sir Barry Jackson
Publication Date 2015-04-17 2018-05-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379253379253
Occupation General surgeon
Details Alfred Mark Abrahams was born on 30 December 1912 in Norwich, the third son of Herman Abrahams, minister of religion, and Zelda. He was educated at Holy Trinity School and King George V Grammar School Southport, from where he was the first boy to win a Southport Borough Scholarship and the Robert Gee Scholarship to read medicine at Liverpool University. He graduated in 1937, having been president of the Medical Students' Society. He became lecturer in physiology and anatomy and subsequently resident surgical officer at Liverpool Royal Infirmary. During the war he became a Squadron Leader in the Royal Air Force serving in the United Kingdom, Africa, Italy and Yugoslavia. After the war he was appointed consultant surgeon at Victoria Central Hospital, Liverpool; St Catherine's Hospital, Birkenhead; the Cottage Hospital, Hoylake; and Leasowe Children's Hospital. He retired in 1973. Noted as an excellent teacher, Alfred Abrahams held the post of postgraduate tutor and also served on the Hospital Management Committee, Wallasey. He was founder of the League of Friends, Wallasey Hospital, and became President of the Liverpool Jewish Medical Society. In 1983 he was made a life member of the Liverpool Medical Institution. Outside medicine he had a great interest in rose growing, ornithology, gardening and fell walking. In his time he was president of the Rotary Club in Wallasey. He always wore a rose in his buttonhole, became an international judge in rose growing competitions, and developed a new rose that he named 'Grandma Nancy' after his wife, Nancy Levy, MBE, JP, whom he married in 1942. He had one son, Peter, who became a doctor. Late in life he endowed the Abrahams Leukaemia Fellowship at Liverpool University so as to enable research into ways of improving the quality of life of patients with leukaemia, a disease of which he himself died on 26 March 1988, aged 75. He was survived by his wife and son.
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First Title value, for Searching Abrahams, Yusuf (1941 - 2023)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-10-11
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Yusuf Abrahams was a consultant gynaecologist at Ealing Hospital. 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
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First Title value, for Searching Abrams, Joseph David (1928 - 2022)

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by Hester Abrams
Publication Date 2022-12-09
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Someone once stopped David Abrams at a cashpoint in Baker Street and asked if he would come into Madame Tussauds and have his hands modelled for a waxwork of the sculptor Henry Moore. The Leeds-born eye surgeon was chuffed to be asked to emulate a fellow Yorkshireman, especially a major artist. Perhaps the person looking at his hands had thought he too was a creative type. Sadly, though Abrams’s hands used tiny scissors and tweezers and played boogie-woogie piano and bridge, they were not large enough to be Henry Moore’s, so the model makers moved on. Abrams, known as David, was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon at London’s Royal Free Hospital for 30 years. He wrote volume five of *System of ophthalmology: ophthalmic optics and refraction* (London, Kimpton, 1970) jointly with Sir Stewart Duke-Elder, and revised several later editions of *Duke-Elder’s practice of refraction* (Edinburgh, Churchill Livingstone), long the standard textbook for trainee ophthalmologists. From his first studies in the 1940s, Abrams’ career tracked the evolution of the NHS and saw changes in the small field of ophthalmology that would make it barely recognisable by the time he retired. A generalist who would ply between theatres, clinics and domiciliary visits, and from state hospital to private consulting rooms, with thousands of patients on his lists, he became a rarity as ophthalmologists increasingly became specialists. As a houseman he even took sessions sight testing at opticians’ shops in Welwyn and High Barnet. David did it all: squints, cataracts, glaucoma, retinal detachments, injuries and eye disease in relation to general medicine. As implants and laser surgery replaced hazardous operations, one eye at a time, under general anaesthetic, preservation and restoration of sight became more predictable and recovery times shorter. Patients thanked him for the ability to read the paper or drive again. David Abrams was the son of Maurice Abrams and Tilly Abrams née Ellis, devout Jews whose families had settled in Leeds from Russia at the end of the 19th century. Maurice was a Royal Flying Corps rigger in the First World War and later a salesman. David had one sister, Marlene, 14 years younger. Consistently a year ahead of his peers despite going to three schools in one year when evacuated to Bournemouth in 1939, teenage David was also a promising classical pianist. The call of a musical career was conclusively resisted when, in 1944, he won three state and college awards to read medicine at University College, Oxford. His headmaster said he had never seen a scholarship awarded to a boy so young. He went up to Oxford aged 17. Two first cousins also became medics, brothers Leon Abrams, a cardiothoracic surgeon who developed and implanted the first variable rate pacemaker, and Michael Abrams, deputy chief medical officer of the Department of Health from 1985 to 1992. David was studying for a surgical fellowship in Edinburgh after qualifying at the Middlesex Hospital when he was introduced to Anita Berlyne, a Cambridge-trained psychologist from Manchester. They married in 1954, only for him to be promptly sent off for deferred National Service. Based at the British Military Hospital in Fayid, Egypt, the largest hospital in the Suez Canal zone, as a Royal Army Medical Corps captain, he was a rare eye specialist serving a large Army in Egypt and Libya and tested tens of thousands of eyes. He took his diploma in ophthalmology on his return to London in 1956. The following year, after a brief call back to Egypt for the Suez Crisis, and now a father of one, David was elected one of three residents at Moorfields. At the allied Institute of Ophthalmology he started to publish research and taught postgraduates on glaucoma. Duke-Elder, colossus of the eye world, was then its research director. Having gained his FRCS in 1959, David worked at the new eye unit at Neasden General, Willesden General and Central Middlesex hospitals. He joined the Royal Free Hospital as a consultant in 1964, the year he defended his doctorate in Oxford on ‘The normal and pathological pigment epithelium of the human iris’. He was appointed as an honorary senior lecturer at the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine in 1974. He combined NHS sessions with private practice at 99 Harley Street and at home in Winchmore Hill. Courtesy, modesty and a droll sense of humour marked his dealings with patients, colleagues and students, who enjoyed his unexpected, wicked puns. Despite heading a small specialty, in 1981 he was elected chairman of the Royal Free’s medical executive committee and chairman of the North Camden Health District’s district medical team. In 1982, when the Camden and Islington Health Authority was disbanded, his North Camden role gave him a place on the new Hampstead District Health Authority. The transfer of long stay services into the local community and the development of new services in London teaching hospitals were hot topics. David enjoyed explaining eye issues to a wider readership, flashing literary flair with papers like ‘Who does what in eye disease? A guide and glossary for the gullible’, and a book aimed at generalist colleagues, *Ophthalmology in medicine: an illustrated clinical guide* (London, Dunitz, 1990). In the 90s David saw patients at Harley Street, the St John and St Elizabeth Hospital and the Nuffield Hospital, Enfield, and appeared as an expert witness. Outraged when his pension provider Equitable Life cut guaranteed annuity rates, he joined a class action and went on TV and national newspapers to decry its mismanagement. Legal arguments and the mutual provider’s subsequent collapse affected thousands of independent professionals, including fellow doctors. In a long and fulfilling retirement David tended his beloved north Oxfordshire cottage garden, penned limericks, reprised piano lessons, played weekly bridge at the Savile Club and took pride in his growing family. Shortly before Britain locked down during the Covid 19 pandemic in 2020, David’s family moved him and Anita to residential care. He died from Alzheimer’s disease on 4 November 2022 aged 94 and was survived by Anita, his wife of 68 years, and daughters Susan, Janet, Hester, Wendy and Rachel, five grandchildren and a great-granddaughter. In the final months of his life, Janet, an artist, cast his hands in bronze.
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First Title value, for Searching Abrams, Leon David (1923 - 2012)

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by Raymond Hurt
Publication Date 2013-02-20 2013-09-06
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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon
Details Leon Abrams was a cardiothoracic surgeon who developed the first variable-rate heart pacemaker. He was born in Leeds, but his family soon moved to Birmingham, where he spent most of his life, apart from a short period of National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps. After medical school in Birmingham and surgical training, 'Abe', as he was universally known, was appointed to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the city, as a cardiothoracic surgeon. Here he set up one of the foremost centres for lung and heart surgery in the United Kingdom, and established open-heart surgery in the hospital. He also developed his talent for mechanical devices. He designed a pleural biopsy punch in the 1950s, which is still used for the diagnosis of intrathoracic lesions, and, in 1960, together with Ray Lightwood, an electronic engineer, he developed the variable-rate heart pacemaker, which solved two problems of earlier designs - infection from the wires through the skin and muscle pain from the electrical impulses. These were both solved by 'inductive coupling', so that the pacemaker was outside the body and the heart stimulation came from a small implanted coil. The device was marketed as the 'Lucas-Abrams pacemaker', a small box strapped to a belt outside the body. He also developed an artificial heart valve, although this did not prove to be entirely successful, despite being cheap to manufacture. At the Queen Elizabeth Hospital he specialised in treating newborn babies with congenital heart defects, and often stayed in the hospital through the night to supervise their postoperative care, so vital after this type of surgery. Abe's empathy for his patients made him a reassuring presence in the hospital. He was a founder member of 'Pete's Club', the brain-child of Peter Jones, its founder chairman. The only rule of the club was that no case should be presented which threw credit on the presenter; only errors of judgement were discussed. This meant that members learnt a great deal at these meetings, much more than at other national and international surgical events. Abe was elected chairman of the Medical Executive Committee, the teaching hospitals doctors' association in Birmingham, by his colleagues. He also served on numerous boards, and was an adviser to, among other institutions, the Royal Brompton Hospital in London. He had little time for outside interests, but he was for many years on the council of Singers Hill Synagogue in Birmingham, and also, like his father, chairman of the governors of King David School, a Jewish primary school. He also loved dinghy sailing and later cruising with his family across the channel to Normandy and Brittany. In retirement he had the misfortune to develop three types of cancer - non-Hodgkin lymphoma, bladder cancer and then colonic cancer, all three of which were successfully treated. He also developed polymyalgia and was treated with steroids, which led to a great increase in his weight. He had developed some degree of coronary atheroma, for which a stent had been inserted. He died in his sleep on 14 December 2012, at the age of 89. He was survived by Eva, his wife of 60 years, and three sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Absolon, Michael John (1933 - 2010)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-04 2015-02-16
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Michael John Absolon was an ophthalmic surgeon in Southampton and Winchester. He was born in Cheltenham in 1933 and studied natural sciences at St John's College, Cambridge, and then went on to complete his clinical studies at the London Hospital Medical School. While at Cambridge he represented the university at swimming. After qualifying he carried out his National Service. He then trained as an ophthalmic surgeon, with registrar posts in Sheffield and Bristol. He was subsequently appointed to his consultant post in Southampton and Winchester. He also took regular trips to Africa with the charity Sight by Wings. Once he had retired, he attended Wycliffe College, Oxford, and was ordained as a priest. He became a curate in Chipping Campden and his home village of Ebrington. Michael John Absolon died on 28 December 2010. Predeceased by his wife Mary, he was survived by his three children and six grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Abson, Edward Pennington (1918 - 2009)

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by Jonathan Marrow
Publication Date 2018-04-05 2018-04-27
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon Casualty surgeon
Details Edward Abson was a major player in the movement to improve casualty services by the creation of specialist consultant posts. He became one of the first 30 such specialist consultants, being appointed to Kent and Canterbury Hospital, and was later the third president of the Casualty Surgeons' Association (CSA). He was born in Merthyr Tydfil on 6 March 1918, one of four children of James Abson and Lily Abson (née Hulme). His family were from the Stockport area, but were living in Wales when Edward and his twin sister were born. His father was secretary of a gas company. The family moved back to Cheshire when Edward was a young child. His first school was in Romiley and he went on to the King's School in Macclesfield. He later studied medicine at the Victoria University of Manchester, qualifying MB ChB in 1941. Soon after obtaining full registration, he volunteered for the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He was commissioned with the rank of temporary surgeon lieutenant, and between 1942 and 1945 served on HMS *Penn*, a destroyer on convoy duties. Among numerous active engagements at sea, HMS *Penn* was involved in bringing a tanker, loaded with inflammable fuel and crippled by enemy action, into Valetta harbour, a turning point in the siege of Malta. At the end of hostilities, Edward was stationed at an air/sea rescue base for a year, where he gained further experience in the management of trauma. His interest in the sea continued after demobilisation: he was a keen sailor and took part in several long-distance transfers of sailing boats. After the war, he held hospital positions in Stockport and Blackburn, and also carried out some locum work in general practice. He secured the diploma of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and then spent six months as a postgraduate student in the anatomy department in Manchester before passing the primary FRCS in 1949. Surgical training posts followed, mostly in the Manchester region. He gained orthopaedic as well as general surgical experience. In 1956, he was successful in the final FRCS exam in London. By then he had moved to Dudley, in the Midlands. In Dudley, Edward worked first as a surgical registrar and then as a senior clinical medical officer (SCMO). He also had a chance to see the work of the pioneering Birmingham Accident Hospital. SCMO was one of the sub-consultant grades given to experienced doctors in charge of casualty departments, which was most likely Edward's role for the latter part of his time in Dudley. In 1963 he moved again, first to Southampton and then to the Isle of Wight, holding senior casualty officer posts at each. In 1962, a report by Sir Harry Platt, a distinguished orthopaedic surgeon, was commissioned by the Department of Health. It recommended that casualty departments be renamed 'accident and emergency' and that they should be supervised by orthopaedic surgeons. Many of the other recommendations were very welcome, but the senior casualty officers pointed out that the work of their departments had many challenges outside the field of orthopaedics. A senior casualty officers' subcommittee was set up within the British Medical Association in 1963, with Edward Abson as secretary. Between 1963 and 1980, Edward was prominent among those campaigning for the establishment of consultant posts in casualty departments. In 1965, he co-wrote an article in *The Lancet*, 'The casualty consultant' (*Lancet*. 1965 May 29;1[7396]:1158-9), the first of a series of publications about casualty departments and their patients. In October 1967, he was one of nine doctors in charge of casualty departments who met at BMA House in London and resolved to set up the CSA, the precursor to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. In 1972, 30 consultants in accident and emergency were appointed, as an experiment, to improve care in accident and emergency departments. Edward was one of them, being appointed to Kent and Canterbury Hospital. Edward was elected president of the CSA, serving from 1975 to 1978. He was the third to hold this office. The writer first attended a meeting of the CSA in 1977, during Edward's presidency. The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) was formed in 1968. Cordial relations were quickly established between the ACEP and the CSA. In 1981 Edward Abson, was made an honorary member of the ACEP, together with David Caro and John Collins, CSA presidents before and after Edward. There has been exchange of equivalent honours between presidents of British and US emergency medicine bodies since then. Edward retired from clinical work in about 1983. He saw himself as a surgeon in the casualty department and vigorously opposed changing the name of the CSA. Casualty or accident and emergency? Surgery, medicine or both? Debate about the name of the Association and of the specialty continued for many years, but in 1990 an AGM of the CSA voted by a large majority to change the name of the Association to the British Association for Accident and Emergency Medicine. Sadly, Edward was one of two senior members of the Association who felt so strongly that they resigned and walked out of the meeting to show their opposition to the change. Edward never married. He remained in Kent, living independently until 2007, when he moved to a care home in Folkestone. He died on 13 March 2009, seven days after his 91st birthday.
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First Title value, for Searching Acharya, Bindiganavale Srinivas Srinivas (1910 - 1996)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-11-21 2020-01-21
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Bindiganavale Srinivas Srinivas Acharaya was a consultant ENT surgeon at Ashford Hospital, Middlesex. Born on 12 April 1910 in Ahmadnagar, India, he was the son of Bindiganavale Garuda Srinivas, an ophthalmologist, and his wife Rajamma. Educated at the London Mission High School in Bangalore, he then proceeded to London and studied medicine at London University and St Bartholomew’s Hospital (Barts). He did house jobs in ENT at Barts and the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading (where he was mentored by Gordon Leonard Bohn) qualifying MB BS in 1938. During the second world war he served as a major in the RAMC from 1941 to 1946. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1947 and joined the staff of Ashford Hospital where he became a consultant in ENT. He married Muriel Gladys Steel in 1953 and was a keen tennis and badminton player. He died in June 1996 aged 86.
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First Title value, for Searching Achaya, Sita ( - 1993)

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First Title value, for Searching Acherley (or Ackerley), Richard Yates ( - 1862)

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First Title value, for Searching Acheson, Johnston Hamilton ( - 1864)

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First Title value, for Searching Acheson, Sir Ernest Donald (1926 - 2010)

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by John Blandy
Publication Date 2012-01-25 2012-08-29
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Occupation Chief Medical Officer Physician
Details Sir Donald Acheson was Chief Medical Officer for England from 1983 to 1991, a period that included the rise of HIV infection and the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) crisis. He was born in Belfast on 17 September 1926, the son of Malcolm King Acheson, a doctor specialising in public health, and Dorothy Josephine Acheson née Rennoldson, the daughter of a Tyneside shipbuilder. He was educated at Merchiston Castle School in Edinburgh and went on to Brasenose College, Oxford, and then Middlesex Hospital, where he completed his clinical training. His elder brother Roy was also at Brasenose and became professor of community medicine at Cambridge. After qualifying, Acheson joined the RAF medical branch, where he was an acting squadron leader from 1953 to 1955. He then returned to Oxford as a medical tutor at the Radcliffe Infirmary. There he organised the pioneering Oxford Record Linkage Study, and led the unit of clinical epidemiology, becoming May reader in 1965. When it was decided that there should be a new clinical school at Southampton, Acheson was initially approached for advice, and in 1968 he became professor of clinical epidemiology and foundation dean of the medical school. In the following years he was director of the Medical Research Council's (MRC) unit on environmental epidemiology (1979 to 1983), where his work on the health risks of asbestos led to the introduction of new safety standards and a ban on the importation of blue and brown asbestos. During this period he also sat on a number of committees and boards relating to public health. In 1983 he was appointed Chief Medical Officer. When the full threat of a possible AIDS epidemic became clear, he successfully lobbied the Conservative government for a public health campaign to attempt to change sexual behaviour. He also introduced tests to screen blood donors following early cases of haemophiliacs becoming HIV positive. After leaving office he held positions at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and University College London. In 1997 he was commissioned by the Labour government to chair an independent inquiry into inequalities in health, which became known as the *Acheson report* (*Independent inquiry into inequalities in health report*, London, Stationery Office, 1997). He became an honorary fellow of our College in 1988. He was a member of the General Medical Council from 1984 to 1991, was a past president of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and of the British Medical Association (from 1996 to 1997). He held numerous lectureships across the UK and worked abroad on projects for the World Health Organization, which in 1994 awarded him the Leon Bernard Foundation prize for his contributions to social medicine. He married twice. His first wife was Barbara Mary Castle, a nurse at Middlesex Hospital, by whom he had a son and five daughters (one of whom predeceased him). He divorced in 2002. His second wife was Angela Judith Roberts, with whom he had one daughter. In 2007 he published his autobiography *One doctor's odyssey: the social lesion/the memoirs of Sir Donald Acheson* (Bury St Edmunds, Arima Publishing). Acheson died on 10 January 2010.
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First Title value, for Searching Ackerley, Anthony George (1925 - 1997)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-10-27 2019-12-03
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Occupation Pathologist
Details Anthony George Ackerley was a consultant pathologist in Leicester. Born in Wolstanton, Staffordshire on 3 February 1925, he was the only child of George Ackerley, a schoolmaster and his wife Ethel née Edge. She was the daughter of Andrew Edge, a shoemaker who was to become Burgess of the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme. After attending Watlands Infant School and Ellison Street Junior School in Wolstanton he finished his education at Newcastle-under-Lyme High School for boys which he attended from 1935 to 1943. He went up to Emmanuel College Cambridge with a scholarship and graduated MB BChir in 1950. Having obtained a Burney Yeo scholarship he trained at King’s College Hospital where he was house surgeon in ENT from 1949 to 1950, house pathologist the following year and then demonstrator in anatomy at Cambridge. Among surgeons who particularly mentored him during these years were Sir Victor Negus, Terence Cawthorne, Henry Harris and W M Davidson. For his National Service he served in the RAMC from 1951 to 1953 as an ENT specialist at Millbank Military Hospital. On demobilisation he became a junior assistant pathologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital and passed the fellowship of the college in 1954. Moving to Sheffield in 1956 he worked as a senior registrar in pathology until 1961 when he became a consultant pathologist in Leicester. At the Leicester School of Speech Therapy he was also a visiting lecturer in anatomy and physiology. As a student at Cambridge he won his college colours for rugby and cricket and continued on to play for King’s when he lived in London. On 24 January 1953 he married Sylvia Woodbridge who was also a qualified doctor and they had four sons the eldest of whom took up medicine. He died in February 1997.
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First Title value, for Searching Ackers, Henry ( - 1988)

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First Title value, for Searching Ackland, Thomas Henry (1908 - 1994)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-07-06 2012-07-19
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Occupation General surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details Thomas Ackland was a general surgeon in Melbourne who introduced mammography into Australia. He was born in Melbourne on 8 September 1908, the son of William Ackland, an engineer, and Blanche Glana née Rye, the daughter of a veterinary surgeon. He was educated at Spring Road State School and then won an entrance scholarship to Melbourne Grammar School in 1921. He held prizes in English, French, Latin, Greek, Greek and Roman history, scripture and map drawing. He was dux of the school, and held university exhibitions in Greek, and in Greek and Roman history. He went on to Melbourne University, where he held exhibitions in anatomy, physiology, pathology, bacteriology, surgery, and in obstetrics and gynaecology, and gained first class honours. He proceeded to train at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He subsequently went to the UK, where he studied at St Bartholomew's Hospital, gained his FRCS, and was a resident surgical officer at St Mark's Hospital, with Milligan, Morgan, Gabriel and Lloyd Davies. During the second world war he served with the 4th, 116th and 121st Australian General Hospitals, in the Middle East, New Guinea and Australia. He rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. After the war, he was appointed to the honorary staff of the Royal Melbourne Hospital, which he served from 1948 to 1968. He also held the positions of consulting surgeon to the Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital (from 1946 to 1973) and to the Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute (1955 to 1968). He served on the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria from 1955 to 1981, and was the founder of its public education committee. In his early career he had an interest in surgery of the large bowel, and made major contributions to the understanding of the pathology and treatment of strangulated haemorrhoids. He later took an interest in breast disease. After his appointment as Robert Fowler travelling fellow in clinical cancer research in 1961 he introduced mammography into Australia, and pioneered adjuvant chemotherapy in the treatment of breast cancer. In 1940 he married Joan Rowell, a writer and literary critic and the daughter of John Rowell, an artist. They had one daughter, Judy, and two sons, Peter and Michael. He read voraciously, enjoyed music and played the violin in the Zelman Memorial Orchestra. He painted and also enjoyed boating and fishing. He died on 12 October 1994.
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First Title value, for Searching Ackroyd, Jenny Susan (1950 - 2004)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-07-06 2016-11-25
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Occupation General surgeon Vascular surgeon
Details Jenny Ackroyd was a consultant general and vascular surgeon at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Harlow. She was born in Leeds on 23 May 1950, the fourth child of Peter Ackroyd and Evelyn née Nutt. Her father, an academic theologian, was subsequently a professor at King's College, London, and was known as 'Old Testament Ackroyd'. She was educated at James Allen's Girls' School in Dulwich, and then went on to New Hall, Cambridge, where she read medicine and fine arts. She then went to Middlesex Hospital for her clinical studies. During her junior doctor training she became the first female surgical registrar and senior registrar at St Thomas's, a particularly male-dominated institution at the time. She was awarded the FRCS in 1979. She also achieved the degree of master of surgery at Cambridge in 1986, possibly the first woman ever to do so. She was appointed as consultant surgeon in general and vascular surgery at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow in 1987 and developed a particular interest in day surgery. There was no dedicated day unit there, so she and a band of enthusiastic helpers helped raise the necessary funds to build one. Her most recent interest was the building of a new surgical wing, opened by the Secretary of State for Health in November 2004, and named in her honour. Jenny was a founder member of Women in Surgical Training, a body formed at the Royal College of Surgeons for the encouragement of training of women in surgery and felt strongly that, at about two per cent, the current representation of female consultant surgeons was unacceptably low. She is remembered as a caring, encouraging, enthusiastic and patient teacher by her junior staff and was nominated by them for a trainer of the year award from the Association of Surgeons in Training. Twelve years ago she developed a melanoma of the eye and after treatment lost the sight of the eye, but continued her professional life and was often known locally as the 'partially sighted, female surgeon from Wareside', to the amusement of her patients. In this capacity she was invited to attend the Woman of the Year lunch in 1993, which was sponsored by the Royal National Institute of the Blind. During this busy professional life, working full-time throughout, Jenny had a fulfilling social and family life. She married Malcolm Lennox, also a consultant surgeon, in 1976, and had two children, Sophie and Sandy. She was a faithful member of St Mary's Church choir and also sang in Ware Choral Society and played the cello. Her manner was sympathetic, concerned and helpful, but most of all she was lively, fun to be with, colourfully dressed and noisy in a delightful way. She died peacefully at home on 5 September 2004.
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First Title value, for Searching Acland, Robert Dyke (1941 - 2016)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-02-19 2018-11-28
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Reconstructive surgeon Anatomist
Details Robert Acland was a pioneer of plastic and reconstructive microsurgery. He was born in Exeter on 20 June 1941, the younger son of Sir Richard Dyke Acland, 15th baronet of Colum John, a barrister and Labour politician, and Anne Stella Acland née Alford. Acland grew up in the dower house at Killerton, Devon – his father having donated the main manor house and estate to the National Trust in 1944. He attended the local village school and then Bryanston School in Dorset, where he later said he developed an interest in breaking rules. He went on to study medicine at the London Hospital Medical School. After qualifying in 1964, he worked at Bukumbi Hospital in Mwanza, Tanzania. On his return to the UK, he was a senior house officer in Northampton, Mansfield and then Oxford. In 1969, he was a senior registrar in general surgery in Swindon, where he became interested in microsurgery after watching John Cobbett perform a microvascular anastomosis. He then spent two years at the London Hospital studying microsurgical instruments, funded by the Medical Research Council. He improved the tiny needles and threads needed for the surgery, invented the Acland micro vessel clamp and investigated how to prevent microthrombosis. Acland then trained as a plastic surgeon, as a registrar at Canniesburn Hospital in Glasgow from 1972 to 1975. In 1975, he accepted an offer to set up a microsurgery teaching laboratory at the Kleinert Kutz Hand Center in Louisville, Kentucky. He later played a key role in the founding of the University of Louisville’s fresh tissue anatomy dissection laboratory, the first of its kind in the United States. In 1983, he was appointed director and under his leadership the laboratory expanded and improved. Acland’s major work was the *Video atlas of human anatomy*, which used new technologies to capture moving three-dimensional images of structures in the body, from bone to surface anatomy. He also wrote a *Practice manual for microvascular surgery* (CV Mosby Company, St Louis, Mo, 1989), known as the ‘Red book’, a manual of microsurgical techniques, an indispensable tool for trainees. He was a founding member of the International Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery. He was married three times. In 1963 he married Sarah Wood, a fellow student at the London Hospital Medical School. She later became a psychiatrist. They had two children – Beatrice and Daniel. They divorced in 1983 and he married Susan Bishop. They had a son, Benjamin, and a daughter, Emily. They divorced in 1990 and in 1992 he married Bette Levy, a textile artist. Robert Acland died on 6 January 2016 of cholangiocarcinoma. He was 74.
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First Title value, for Searching Acland, Sir Hugh Thomas Dyke (1874 - 1956)

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First Title value, for Searching Adam, John Law (1866 - 1961)

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First Title value, for Searching Adami, John George (1862 - 1926)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-07-31 2016-01-15
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Manchester, the fifth son of John George Adami by his wife Sarah Ann Ellis, daughter of Thomas Leech, of Urmston, Lancashire. His uncle, David John Leech (1840-1900), was Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Victoria University, and Physician to the Manchester Royal Infirmary. The family of Adami was of Italian origin, and many members of it had followed the profession of medicine. They had settled latterly in Manchester and Ashton-upon-Mersey. George Adami was educated at the Manchester Grammar School and Owens College, whence he went to Cambridge in 1880, matriculating from Christ's College at the same time as his life-long friend Arthur Everett Shipley. He obtained a scholarship at the College, was Darwinian Prizeman in 1885, and was elected an honorary fellow in 1920. He was an active member of the Cambridge University Natural Science Club, where he read papers on "Rudiments in Man", "The Thymus", and "Medical Degrees" before he graduated. He obtained a first class in Parts I and II of the Natural Science Tripos (1882 and 1884) in a list which included A E Shipley and Henry Head. He then went to Breslau, and in Heidenhain's Laboratory worked at the blood-supply in the frog's kidney. Returning to Manchester, he followed the ordinary course of medical training, was admitted MRCS, and served as house physician for six months at the Royal Infirmary under Drs Morgan, Dreschfeld, and Ross. By this time he had made his reputation as a physiologist, and was elected a member of the Physiological Society on Nov 12th, 1887. He returned to Cambridge in April, 1888, as Demonstrator of Pathology to Professor Charles Smart Roy in succession to (Sir) Almroth Wright. In this position he carried out an extensive research on the cardiovascular system, and continued his work on the glomeruli of the kidney and on albuminuria. In 1889, when investigating rabies among the deer in Tekworth Pak, he was wounded whilst making a post-mortem examination of one of them. He underwent the Pasteur treatment in Paris, after which he suffered from symptoms of abortive hydrophobia, which he himself said were due to auto-suggestion. In 1889 he proceeded MB in the University of Cambridge, having taken his MA degree in the previous year, and in 1892 graduated MD. He was appointed John Lucas Walker Student in Pathology in 1890, continuing his experimental work, and illustrating it in a number of papers which appeared in the *Medical Chronicle*. He returned to Paris for a short time to work at the Pasteur Institute, and in 1891 was elected Fellow of Jesus College and again resided in the University. In the autumn of 1892 he went to Montreal as the first Strathcona Professor of Pathology in McGill University, and there carried on the work which Sir William Osler had "begun by holding morbid anatomy classes in a cloakroom". As Professor of Pathology he was very successful in training his pupils and in encouraging such people as Professor O Klotz, C W Duval, W W Ford, G A Charleton and Maude E Wood to undertake original research. This work in Canada was appreciated by his colleagues, and he acted as President of the Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis from 1909-1912, President of the Royal Society of Canada in 1912, and President of the American Association of Physicians in the same year. He was elected MA, MD (ad eundem) McGill, in 1899 and LLD Toronto in 1912. In the meantime he was not forgotten at home, for he was made FRS in 1905, FRCP London in 1913, and was awarded the Fothergillian Gold Medal by the Medical Society of London in 1914. In 1917 he delivered the Croonian Lecture at the Royal College of Physicians, taking as his subject "Adaptation and Disease". On the outbreak of war (1914-1918) Adami at once volunteered for service overseas, and received a temporary commission as colonel in the Canadian Army Medical Corps, acting as Assistant Director of Medical Services in charge of Records with headquarters in London. In 1917 he was Chairman of a Special Committee to report on the standardization of routine pathological methods, and for those services he was decorated CBE in 1919. His report to the University of London on medical education was highly controversial. On April 10th, 1919, he was elected FRCS as a member of twenty years' standing. In June, 1919, he was chosen unanimously Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool, and the rest of his life was spent in administrative work and in the collection of funds for the maintenance and endowment of the University. In 1920 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. He died on Aug 29th, 1926, and is buried in Allerton Cemetery, Liverpool. He married: (1) Mary, daughter of J A Cantlie of Montreal, and (2) Marie, daughter of the Rev Thomas Wilkinson, Vicar of Litherland. He left two children by his first wife. [1] Adami was a leading pathologist, a genial companion, a man of great culture outside his profession, and of tireless energy. *The Principles of Pathology*, the first volume of which was published in 1909, shows him to have been a master of his subject, and its appearance marked an epoch in the science. Four years later he wrote with his friend Dr John McCrae, of McGill University, a successful text-book on pathology. [Amendment from the annotated edition of * Plarr's Lives* at the Royal College of Surgeons: [1] *The Times* 23 Oct 1945 "BAIN - On Oct 18, 1945, in London, Isabel, wife of SIR FREDERICK BAIN, of 29, Palace Court, W.2., and the daughter of the late Dr J. G Adami, FRS, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool, and of the late Mrs. Adami, of Montreal. Funeral private. Memorial service at St. Matthew's Church, St. Petersburgh Place, Bayswater, to-day (Tuesday), at 2.30 p.m. No letters, please."]
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First Title value, for Searching Adams, Arthur Wilfred (1892 - 1973)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-31
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Occupation General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Arthur Wilfred Adams was born in Bristol on 30 September 1892 and educated at Clifton College, the Bristol Medical School and the London Hospital. He qualified in 1916 and then served in the RAMC. He took the FRCS in 1919, less than one year after demobilization, and proceeded to the MS in 1921. The following year he was appointed assistant surgeon to Southmead Hospital. He was in turn a specialist in many surgical fields. He was interested in paediatric surgery and pioneered spinal anaesthesia. He was one of the first Bristol surgeons who regularly undertook gastrectomy for peptic ulcer. After his appointment to Southmead Hospital he began a notable career in urology. In 1947 he retired as senior general surgeon to the Royal Infirmary to become surgeon in charge of the newly founded department of urology, the first of its kind in an undergraduate teaching hospital outside London. He was Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1950. He was President of the Urological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1943 and a past President of the Moynihan Chirurgical Club. He was a staunch advocate of fresh air and exercise, much of which he took on his bicycle. He was a keen gardener and enjoyed tennis. The study of Latin, bird watching and star gazing were favourite pastimes. In November 1918, he married Hilda Kate Ewins who had been in the same year at the university and qualified in medicine. She died in July 1972. There were three children, a boy who died in 1956 and two girls. The death of his son was a severe blow but he regained his outward gaiety and soldiered on. He died on 9 December 1973 and is survived by his two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Adams, David James (1925 - 1993)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-01
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Occupation General surgeon
Details David James Adams was born in Liverpool on 1 March 1925, the son of William Adams, director of a building firm, and Alice Maud Stringfellow, part of a large extended family of practising Christians in Independent Methodism. An appendicectomy at the age of seven inspired him to become a surgeon, intending to become a medical missionary according to his father's wishes. He was educated at the Liverpool Institute where he was an outstanding athlete, captaining his school cricket and soccer Xls and gaining the Margaret Bryce Scholarship to the University of Liverpool Medical School. He qualified in 1949 and, after house jobs in Liverpool and a post as lecturer in anatomy, where he worked with R G Harrison on the circulatory system in rats, he joined the RNVR for his National Service. He served on HMS *Vanguard* from 1953 to 1954, and incidentally found time to study the thermal protection offered to naval life rafts by means of a coat of aluminium paint. He resumed surgical training at Broadgreen Hospital and took his FRCS in 1960. He was appointed consultant surgeon to the Wharfedale Hospitals in 1964, and was the founder member and Chairman of Wharfedale Medical Association. Outside medicine, his interests were in gardening and sport: he ran the London Marathon three time, raising over £6000 for local hospices. Always a committed Christian, he became a chairman and lay preacher to the Independent Methodist circuit and just before he died had completed a foundation course for the ministry in the Church of England. In 1960 he married Barbara, née Jasper, and they had six children. His son, William, followed his father into medicine and is a neuroradiologist. Adams died suddenly on 28 October 1993, survived by his wife and children, William, Richard, David, Matthew, Thomas and Mary.
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First Title value, for Searching Adams, Edmund Weaver (1869 - 1931)

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First Title value, for Searching Adams, Evelyn George Beadon (1870 - 1946)

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First Title value, for Searching Adams, George Frank (1937 - 2012)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-03-21 2016-05-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details George Frank Adams was a surgeon in South Africa and Zambia. He was born in Kimberley, South Africa, the son of Wilfrid Adams, a schoolmaster, and Henrietta Louisa Adams née Africa. He was educated at Perseverance Primary School and William Pescod High School, both in Kimberley, and then went on to study medicine at the University of Cape Town. He qualified MB ChB in 1959. He was a house officer at Somerset Hospital, Cape Town, in 1960 and then a senior house officer and registrar at Edendale Hospital, Pietermaritzburg. From 1963 to 1964 he was an anatomy assistant at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. From 1967 he was director of Mission Medic Air, a voluntary, charitable organisation operating a flying doctor service to mission hospitals in Zambia. In 1977 he gained his FRCS from both the Edinburgh and English Royal Colleges of Surgeons. Outside medicine, he enjoyed flying, sailing, radio and electronics. In 1964 he married a Miss Roodt. They had two daughters and a son. George Frank Adams' death was notified to the RCS in 2012.
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First Title value, for Searching Adams, Idris William (1940 - 1990)

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

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First Title value, for Searching Adams, James Arnold (1925 - 1983)

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First Title value, for Searching Adams, James Edward (1844 - 1890)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-07-31
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in New Broad Street on Sept 23rd, 1844, the second son of John Adams,FRCS Eng (q.v.) and his wife Mary Ann. Educated at Merchant Taylors’ School, then in Suffolk Lane, which he entered in December, 1854, and at the London Hospital, where his father was a member of the surgical staff. There he made a reputation as an athlete, and in 1865 gained the Gold Medal for Medicine. In the same year he was appointed Medical Registrar to the Hospital, becoming House Surgeon and Demonstrator of Anatomy in 1867, and Assistant Surgeon in 1868. He then devoted himself to the practice of ophthalmic surgery, filling in succession the offices of Clinical Assistant, Assistant Surgeon, and Surgeon at the Moorfields Hospital; Ophthalmic Surgeon and Lecturer on Ophthalmic Surgery at the London Hospital. He may be regarded as one of the founders of the Ophthalmological Society of Great Britain, for a small group of active ophthalmic surgeons used to meet him for discussion in the evening at Moorfields. In 1879 he was appointed full Surgeon to the London Hospital, and at this period was Honorary Consulting Surgeon to the Eastern Dispensary and to the Merchant Seamen’s Orphan Asylum at Wanstead, and was practising at 17 Finsbury Circus. In 1881 he succeeded John Couper (q.v.) as Lecturer on Surgery at the London Hospital. In the autumn of 1883 he rapidly became blind, owing to atrophy of the optic nerve, one eye failing first, and the other becoming affected within a few months. He resigned his appointments, and spent the rest of his life either at Grateley near Andover, Hants, or at a little cottage at St Margaret’s, Dover. He bore his affliction bravely, learnt Braille, walked, drove, and maintained his interest in the medical world and in his hospitals. His general health failed for about a year, and he died on Jan 26th, 1890, after an attack of coma. He married in 1880 Ellen Holgate Binns, who had been Sister in charge of the Ophthalmic Ward at the London Hospital. He left no children. Adams was essentially a sound clinical surgeon, and as an operator equally good in capital operations and in the minute delicacy of an iridectomy or cataract. His well-developed figure, his military bearing, his scrupulous neatness, and his genial kindly face made him a favourite alike with students and his colleagues. It is related of him that in 1876 he amputated the thigh at the hip-joint of a lad emaciated by disease and suffering with lardaceous disease. The amputation was performed easily and dexterously, but the boy showed signs of collapse whilst the vessels were being tied. Adams decided to transfuse his own blood into the veins of the patient. Advantage was taken of the presence of Dr Roussel and his apparatus. Adams exposed his left arm, the apparatus was adjusted, and in a few minutes blood flowed from the arm of the surgeon into a vein in the stump of the patient. Adams then had his arm bound up and finished the operation. The patient died.
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First Title value, for Searching Adams, James Wilmot (1884 - 1946)

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First Title value, for Searching Adams, John (1805 - 1877)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-08-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Plaistow, in Essex, Oct 16th, 1805, the son of James Adams, who owned and farmed many acres at Beamerside, Plaistow. Educated at Reading Grammar School, Dr Richard Valpy, the well-known classic, being then headmaster. Entered the London Hospital as a student and was articled to John Goldwyer Andrews (qv), Surgeon to the Hospital, and President of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1835 and again in 1843. In 1828 he was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy, being subsequently Lecturer on Anatomy and later Lecturer on Surgery. He was Assistant Surgeon for the long period of nineteen years, before he became full Surgeon, a post he resigned in 1868, when he was appointed Consulting Surgeon. He also acted as Consulting Surgeon to the Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, to the Tower Hamlets Dispensary, and to the South-Eastern Railway. He was a member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1862-1869, and of the Court of Examiners from 1868-1872. For many years he was Secretary of the London Hospital Medical Club and acted as President of the Hunterian Society. In 1830 he lived in Mount Street, close to the Hospital; in 1831 he moved to Mark Lane, and in 1835 to New Broad Street. In 1850 he took the house in St Helen's Place which had been built by Sir William Blizard and occupied by his old master, John Goldwyer Andrews. In 1865 he went to live at 10 Finsbury Circus, and two years later returned to Blackheath, where he died on Jan 18th, 1877, being buried in the cemetery at Charlton. The list of his removals is interesting because it marks the gradual movement of the staff of the London Hospital from east to west until they settled in Finsbury Square, where they remained for many years. John Adams married, at Poplar Parish Church, Mary Ann Frost, daughter of Robert Frost, who was in the service of the Honourable East India Company, and by her had two sons and two daughters. Francis Mantell, BA, of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, a barrister and member of the Inner Temple, died young; the second son was James Edward (qv). Mr William Adams Frost, FRCS, is a nephew. Portraits of John Adams remain in the possession of the family. He is said to have been very popular both with the staff and with the students, and his colleagues presented him with a handsome clock when he retired from office in the London Hospital Club. He was firm but genial with the students, and when, as was usual, a disturbance arose in his class, he used suddenly to bring down his fist like a sledge-hammer upon the table and shout, “If you don't stop this bloody row I will close the lecture.” Publications:- *The Anatomy and Diseases of the Prostate Gland*, London, 1851; 2nd ed., 1858. An article in Cooper's *Surgical Dictionary* on “Injuries of the Head,” and another on the Urethra in the *Cyclopedia of Anatomy and Physiology*.
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First Title value, for Searching Adams, John (1851 - 1938)

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First Title value, for Searching Adams, John Crawford (1913 - 2010)

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by Frank Horan
Publication Date 2012-01-25 2014-01-10
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details John Crawford Adams was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at St Mary's Hospital, London, and the author of several acclaimed textbooks on orthopaedic surgery. He was born in Derbyshire, the son of a general practitioner, and was educated at Oakham School. He entered St Mary's Hospital Medical School in September 1931 and had a successful undergraduate career, winning three major prizes. In September 1939 he volunteered for the medical branch of the Royal Air Force. He served on a number of RAF stations and hospitals and became part of the orthopaedic service, where he came under the influence of Sir Reginald Watson-Jones and Sir Henry Osmond-Clarke. After the war he went to the London Hospital, where Sir Henry had joined Sir Reginald, and became a registrar in their department. He had a natural aptitude for the specialty and progressed rapidly. He was appointed as an assistant orthopaedic surgeon at St Mary's in April 1948, to the Paddington Green Children's Hospital in July 1948, and as an orthopaedic surgeon to St Mary's in July 1949. He was a meticulous and inventive surgeon. His early interest was in the further improvement of the 'V', ischiofemoral, arthrodesis of the hip, which had been developed by Brittain and Howard at Norwich. He published the results of his work in a monograph entitled *Ischio-femoral arthrodesis* (Livingstone) in 1966, which was based on the essay for which he was awarded the Robert Jones gold medal and association prize of the British Orthopaedic Association in 1961 and his thesis for his MS degree in surgery. A further interest was in the correction of the gross kyphotic deformities, which may develop in patients with ankylosing spondylitis. He devised and constructed a frame with a hinge, which could be placed on the operating table at the level of the deformity. After the spine had been suitably mobilised at the appropriate level, a worm and screw device was employed to open the hinge. A loud crack would be heard as the kyphus was corrected for the desired amount. Many excellent results were obtained using this procedure, with immense benefit to the patients. He had a firm belief in the value of the use of the Küntscher nail in the management of fractures of long bones, and constructed a number of devices to help place and retain the limb in a suitable position for operation. He had a very sharp mind and was an excellent teacher, able to express himself with clarity. He wrote with ease and consequently produced the two most popular books for undergraduate students - *Outline of orthopaedics* (Edinburgh/London, E & S Livingstone), published in 1955, followed by *Outline of fractures including joint injuries* (Edinburgh/London, E & S Livingstone) in 1957. These volumes have remained core reading for students and continue to be published, the former now in its 14th edition and the latter in the 12th. After his retirement he recruited David Hamblen as co-editor and, in the more recent editions, Hamish Simpson. Apart from these standard texts, he produced the definitive guide on operative orthopaedics for young surgeons. Entitled *Standard orthopaedic operations* (Edinburgh, Churchill Livingstone), it again ran to a number of editions. In his later years he continued his literary interests, exploring Shakespeare to write *Shakespeare's physic* (London, Royal Society of Medicine Press, 2000) and then, drawing on his own experience, to write *Harley Street: a brief history with notes on nearby Regent's Park* (London, Royal Society of Medicine Press, c2008). He was a major contributor to the success of the British volume of the *Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery*, which was first published in 1948 with Sir Reginald Watson-Jones as editor. He began to work for the journal in 1949 as a sub-editor, involved particularly in the layout and production before going to print, and was appointed assistant editor in 1950. It was soon realised that there was too much work for this to be undertaken satisfactorily as a spare time job, and so in 1951 he was asked to work for two days per week on a paid basis, giving up hospital sessions to do so. He continued in this role for many years, becoming deputy editor in 1961, but did not wish to take up the post of editor when this became vacant following the death of Sir Reginald in 1972. He continued as production editor until 1977, when he decided to retire after many years of unassuming and meticulous service. He was then invited to join the council of management of the journal and remained on this body until 1985. His principal hobby was working with silver. This was particularly suited to his surgical vision and manual expertise. He had his own hallmark and produced numerous pieces of considerable merit. He made the silver porringer which was presented to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, by the British Orthopaedic Association at the Combined Meeting of the Orthopaedic Associations of the English-speaking World, held in London in 1976. At a dinner held in my house for his 80th birthday, which was attended by a number of his former trainees, he gave my wife a silver candle snuffer with a rosewood handle. This remains an oft used and treasured possession. He was a civilian consultant to the Royal Air Force for a number of years and travelled widely to the various orthopaedic centres in the service. He found much pleasure in these activities and took a great personal interest in the surgeons who worked there, stimulated, perhaps, by his own wartime memories. He was an astute clinician and a skilled surgeon, precise in his operating and inventive in his approach to difficult problems. He was a vocal advocate of the school of 'get it right first time' and drilled his trainees accordingly. Although a quiet and self contained man, he was good company among those he looked upon as friends, and very supportive of his registrars. This trait resulted in the intense loyalty of those who had worked for him, which continued throughout their professional lives.
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First Title value, for Searching Adams, Joseph Ebenezer (1878 - 1926)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-08-07 2016-01-15
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born Feb 7th, 1878, the fifth son of William Adams, a merchant in the City of London. Educated at the City of London School and at St Thomas's Hospital, where he gained the entrance scholarship; served as House Surgeon and gained the Beaney scholarship in surgery and surgical pathology in 1904. He acted successively as Surgical Registrar and Resident Assistant Surgeon during the years 1905-1909, and was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Hospital for Children at Shadwell, where he was Senior Surgeon at the time of his death. In 1913 he was elected Assistant Surgeon at St Thomas's Hospital, becoming full Surgeon in 1923. At the Royal College of Surgeons he lectured as Hunterian Professor in 1913, taking as his subject "Abdominal Adhesions", and in a second Hunterian Lecture in 1926 he dealt with the "Surgery of the Jejunum". During the war he acted with the rank of captain on the à la suite staff of the Fifth London General Hospital (the St Thomas's unit), and at King George's Hospital. He was hampered throughout his life by an ill-defined abdominal condition which a post-mortem examination showed to have been due to a congenital diaphragmatic hernia. He died on Dec 21st, 1926. He married Muriel, youngest daughter of Henry Webb, of Chislehurst, Kent, and lived at 19 Harley Street, W, having a cottage at Penshurst. [1] He left no children. Adams was brought up so strictly that when he entered St Thomas's Hospital he had never been inside a theatre and had never travelled by train on a Sunday, yet his high-mindedness, his thoroughness, and his ability more than compensated for this restriction, and rendered him acceptable both to his colleagues and to the students. Publications:- *Acute Abdominal Diseases, including Abdominal Injuries and the Complications of External Hernia*. Conjointly with Maurice Alan Cassidy. 8vo, London, 1913; 2nd ed, 1923. [Amendment from the annotated edition of *Plarr's Lives* at the Royal College of Surgeons: [1] *The Times* 17 August 1957 ADAMS - On 16th August 1957, after a short illness and much suffering, MURIEL EMMA ADAMS, wife of the late J. E. Adams M.S., F.R.C.S. No flowers. Cremation at Golders Green Crematorium, 12.15pm Wednesday, 21st August. Letters to Mrs Webb (sister-in-law), 36, Kidbrooke Gardens, Blackheath, S.E.3.]
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First Title value, for Searching Adams, Josiah Oake (1842 - 1925)

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First Title value, for Searching Adams, Matthew Algernon (1836 - 1913)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-08-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in 1836 and received his professional training at Guy's Hospital. He practised at Leeds, where he was for a time Senior Resident Surgeon at the Public Dispensary; he was also Assistant Surgeon to the 9th Herefordshire Rifle Volunteers. Before 1871 he had removed to Ashford Road, Maidstone, where he was Surgeon to the Kent County Ophthalmic Hospital. Later he was appointed Public Analyst for the County of Kent and for Maidstone, and was a Member of Council and then President of the Society of Public Analysts, as well as a Member of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. He was also for a time Medical Officer of Health and Gas Analyst for the Borough of Maidstone. In 1870 he had been appointed a Certificated Teacher in the Science and Art Department. He resided and practised for many years at Trinity House, Maidstone, and then moved to The Kulm, Bearsted, Kent, where he died during April, 1913. At the time of his death he was still Public Analyst for Kent and Maidstone, and was Vice-President of the Society of Public Analysts and a Fellow of the Society of Medical Officers of Health, as well as Consulting Surgeon to the Kent County Ophthalmic Hospital. He was the inventor and author of “The Hormagraph, an Instrument for Investigating the Field of Vision”. Publications: *Pocket Memoranda relating to Infectious Zymotic Diseases*, 24mo, London, 1885. “Contribution to the Etiology of Diphtheria.” *Public Health*, 1890. “The Relationship between the Occurrence of Diphtheria and the Movement of the Sub-soil Water.” * 7th and 8th internat. Congr. of Hygiene and Demography*, 1891 and 1894. “On the Estimation of Dissolved Oxygen in Water.” *Trans. Chem. Soc.*, 1892. *Annual Reports of the Medical Officer of Health for the Borough of Maidstone, to the Local Board, for the years* 1879-81, 8vo, Maidstone, 1880-82. *Report to the Local Board on the Outbreaks of Small-pox in Maidstone*, 8vo, 2 diagrams, Maidstone, 1881.
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First Title value, for Searching Adams, Philip Edward Homer (1879 - 1948)

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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
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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.
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Publication Date 1948

First Title value, for Searching Adams, William ( - 1892)

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First Title value, for Searching Adams, William ( [1] - 1900)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-08-21 2016-01-15
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Occupation General surgeon
Details [2] Studied anatomy and physiology at the Webb Street School, which was then under the management of Richard Grainger (1798-1861), the younger brother of the talented but ill-used founder. In 1838 he entered as a medical student at St Thomas's Hospital, where he came under the influence of Joseph Henry Green (qv) (1791-1863), the philosophical surgeon whose memory he always held in the highest esteem. [3] In August, 1842, he was appointed Curator of the Museum and Demonstrator of Morbid Anatomy in the Medical School of St Thomas's Hospital, then situated in the Borough. These posts were held until 1854, when he joined the Grosvenor Place or Lane's Medical School in Kinnerton Street [4] near St George's Hospital. Here he lectured on Surgery and Hospital Practice, having Thomas Spencer Wells (qv) as a colleague. About this time Adams began to devote his attention more particularly to orthopaedic surgery, of which he became one of the leading exponents and most successful practitioners in this country. He was appointed Surgeon to the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Surgeon to the Great Northern Hospital, and Surgeon to the National Hospital for the Paralysed and Epileptic before it had specialized in brain surgery. At the Great Northern (now the Royal Northern) Hospital he devised the operation which became known by his name - osteotomy of the neck of the femur within the capsule of the hip-joint. For this purpose he invented a saw with a short cutting surface and a long blunt shank - "my little thaw," as he always called it - by which the bone could be divided through a minute incision in the skin. He also brought into prominence the treatment of Dupuytren's contraction by subcutaneous division of the fibrous bands. In 1864 he was awarded the Jacksonian Prize for "Club-foot, its Causes, Pathology and Treatment". The essay is a classic, for it is an epitome of the knowledge of the time. In 1872 he severed his connection with the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in consequence of a quarrel between the staff and the management, in which it was thought by his contemporaries that the staff was in the right. In 1876 he was President of the Medical Society of London, and in that capacity visited the United States and Canada as a delegate to the International Medical Congress held in September at Philadelphia. He was accompanied by Dr Lauder Brunton and Richard Davy (qv). With Lister (qv) he watched Professor Sayre excise the hip-joint in a boy. He lived and practised until 1896 at 5 Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square, where is now the College of Nursing. He retired to 7 Loudon Road, St John's Wood, and died there on Feb 3rd, 1900, the morning of his ninetieth birthday. [5] He never married. [6] Adams was a careful but slow operator who maintained his interest in general surgery and pathology to the end of his life. He had been one of the promoters and first members of the Pathological Society of London as early as 1846. He was a good but prolix talker, with a soft voice and well-marked lisp. Sir James Paget used to complain of him that he never finished his sentences, and when one of us (D'A P) was curator of the Museum at St Bartholomew's Hospital, he would often come in later days and waste two or three hours of valuable time, having himself nothing to do. His talk, however, was interesting, for he would tell of his reminiscences of 'resurrection days' and the snatching of bodies for the purposes of anatomy. He took with him from Grainger's School Tom Parker as his dead-house assistant at St Thomas's Hospital. Tom Parker was a notorious resurrectionist, and there is good reason to suppose that he was the executioner who cut off the heads of the four men sentenced for high treason after the Cato Street Conspiracy in 1820. Publications:- "Observations on Transverse Fracture of the Patella." *Trans. Pathol. Soc.*, ii, 254. "The Enlargement of the Articular Extremities of Bone in Chronic Rheumatic Arthritis." - *Ibid*., iii, 156. (He refuted in this paper the teaching of Rokitansky.) Lectures on Orthopaedic Surgery, 1855-8. "Presidential Address on Subcutaneous Surgery." - *Proc. Med. Soc. Lond.*, 1857. *On the Reparative Process in Human Tendons after Subcutaneous Division for the Cure of Deformities, with a Series of Experiments on Rabbits and a Résumé of the Literature of the Subject,* 8vo, plates, London, 1860. (A piece of good pathological work illustrating the method of repair of divided tendons.) *Lectures on the Pathology and Treatment of Lateral and other Forms of Curvature of the Spine*, 8vo, 5 plates, London 1865; 2nd ed., 1882. *Club-Foot, its Causes, Pathology and Treatment* (Jacksonian Prize Essay), 8vo, illustrated, London, 1866; 2nd ed, 8vo, 6 plates, London, 1873. (The original manuscript is in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons.) "Congenital Dislocation of Hip-Joint." - *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1885, ii, 859; 1887, i, 866; 1889, i, 243; and *Trans. Amer. Orthop. Cong.*, 1895. "Congenital Wry-Neck" - *Trans. Amer. Orthop. Assoc.*, 1896. "Rotation of the Spine in the so-called Lateral Curvature." - *Ibid.*, 1899, etc. The following are in the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons:- *A New Operation for Bony Anchylosis of the Hip Joint by Subcutaneous Division of the Neck of the Thigh Bone*, 8vo, 4 plates, London 1871. "On the Successful Treatment of Hammer-Toe by the Subcutaneous Division of the Lateral Ligaments", 8vo, plate, London, 1868, from *Proc. Med. Soc. Lond*., ii; 2nd ed., 1892. "On the Successful Treatment of Cases of Congenital Displacement of the Hip-Joint", 8vo, 2 illustrations, London, 1890, from *Brit. Med. Jour*. "Subcutaneous Surgery: its Principles, and its Recent Extension in Practice" (Sixth Toner Lecture), 1876, in *Smithsonian Miscell. Collections*, xv, 8vo, Washington, 1877. *Observations on Contractions of the Fingers (Dupuytren's Contraction), and its Successful Treatment by Subcutaneous Divisions of the Palmar Fascia and Immediate Extension; also on the Obliteration of Depressed Cicatrices after Glandular Abscesses or Exfoliation of Bone by a Subcutanous Operation*, 8vo, 4 Plates, Washington, 1879. The 2nd edition appeared with the title, *On Contractions of the Fingers (Dupuytren's and Congenital Contractions) and on 'Hammer-toe'*, etc., 8vo, 8 plates, Washington, 1892. "The International Medical Congress in Philadelphia" (Presidential Address before the Medical Society of London). - *Proc. Med. Soc. Lond.*, 1875-7, iii, 97; printed as an 8vo volume, London 1876. *Royal Orthopaedic Hospital. Letters and Documents in reference to the recent Arbitration by a Committee appointed by the Council of the Metropolitan Branch of the British Medical Association to investigate Certain Charges made by Mr W Adams against Mr Brodhurst, in connection with the Events which have lately occurred at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital*, 8vo, London, 1872. *Principles of Treatment applicable to Contractions and Deformities*, 1893. Special section contributed to the 2nd edition of William Spencer Watson's *Diseases of the Nose and the Accessory Cavities*, 8vo, London, 1890. Adams delivered the Lettsomian Lectures before the Medical Society of London in 1869, his subject being the "Rheumatic and Strumous Diseases of the Joints and the Treatment for the Restoration of Motion in Partial Ankylosis." In the same year he cut through the neck of the thigh bone, but Mr Brodhurst had already performed this operation several times. [Amendments from the annotated edition of *Plarr's Lives* at the Royal College of Surgeons: [1] 1820 (1st February); [2] Son of James Adams L.S.A. of 39 Finsbury Square, a Governor of S. Thomas's Hospital.; [3] His eldest brother, James, was also a pupil of J.H. Green, became an ophthalmic surgeon & died aged 31.; [4] 'Kinnerton Street' is deleted and 'Grosvenor Place' added; [5] 'the morning of' is deleted and '2 days after' is added, and 'ninetieth' is deleted and '80th' added; [6] 'He never married.' is deleted, and the following added 'He married 21 August 1847, Mary Anne MILLS, who died in 1897, and had 2 sons & 1 daughter - all now (1931) dead without descendants (information from P.E. Adams MRCS, nephew). the last surviving son died in 1920. He is also reported to have had "two harems(?)"'; Portrait (No.1) in Small Photographic Album (Moira & Haigh).]
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First Title value, for Searching Adams, William Stirk (1896 - 1978)

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First Title value, for Searching Addison, John Raymond (1916 - 1979)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-31
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details John Raymond Addison was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1916 and educated at Christ's College, Christchurch, New Zealand. He studied medicine at Dunedin and graduated from Otago University in 1940. He joined the medical service of the New Zealand Navy in 1941 and saw active service in the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans. He was serving in HMS *Leander* when the cruiser was badly damaged in a torpedo attack in the Pacific Ocean. In 1945 he returned to his old medical school where he developed an interest in orthopaedics and in 1947 he came to England to widen his experience in his chosen speciality. Within a few months of arrival here he passed the final examination for the FRCS. He held the post of resident surgical officer at the Royal Hospital in Wolverhampton and later joined the junior staff of the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. This was followed by appointment as senior registrar in the orthopaedic department of Guy's Hospital where he was influenced greatly by JS Batchelor with whom he developed a lasting friendship. In 1952 he was appointed consultant in traumatic and orthopaedic surgery to the Worthing and Chichester group of hospitals, which was a newly created post. Here with enormous energy and drive he organised an extremely efficient service throughout this wide area. At Guy's Hospital he developed an interest in problems concerning the hip joint, which continued throughout his career. He was one of the earliest surgeons to perform immediate prosthetic replacement for fracture of the neck of the femur in the elderly and presented his experience in a paper delivered to the Royal Society of Medicine in 1959. His experience of total hip replacement was extensive and he developed a non-dislocatable prosthesis for use in the very elderly. He was a superb technician who demanded high surgical discipline from himself and his colleagues who worked with him. He enjoyed teaching his junior colleagues so that many young surgeons profited greatly from his practical outlook and wide experience. Unfortunately he wrote very little. He was a Fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association, served on the council of the Orthopaedic Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, later becoming its honorary secretary and he was a founder member of the Arbuthnot Lane Orthopaedic Society. John Addison, somewhat shy, with an acute sense of humour, had a lasting loyalty to the country of his adoption. He was a great rugby enthusiast, taking up golf later, he read widely and travelled extensively. He was devoted to his wife Geraldine and three children, one of whom entered orthopaedics.
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First Title value, for Searching Addison, Norman Victor (1925 - 2003)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-09-22
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Norman Addison was a consultant surgeon at Bradford Royal Infirmary. He was born in Leeds on 26 April 1925, the son of Herbert Victor Addison and Alice née Chappell. He was educated at Leeds Grammar School, where he won an exhibition and sixth form prizes in biology and chemistry. He went on to study medicine at Leeds University, where he also played rugby. After completing house posts, one of which was with P J Moir at Leeds General Infirmary, he did his National Service in the RAF as a Flight Leiutenant. He returned to demonstrate anatomy with A Durward while preparing for the Primary FRCS. Between 1955 and 1957 he trained at Leeds General Infirmary and was one of the first to be enrolled into a senior surgical registrar rotation. He was appointed consultant surgeon at Bradford Royal Infirmary and St Luke’s Hospital in 1963, becoming the first postgraduate tutor, converting a former mill-owner’s mansion into a Postgraduate Medical Centre. After serving on the council of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland he became treasurer and then president in 1987, holding the annual general meeting at Harrogate. Norman was granted a Hunterian Professorship in 1982 and was a member of the Court of Examiners. In 1949 he married Joan King, the daughter of the professor of chemistry textiles at the University of Leeds. They had two sons, neither of whom followed a medical career. Norman Addison was a forceful personality who tended to push forward to take the lead, and many found him overwhelming, but he was an excellent and energetic organiser and his close friends found him an amiable companion with a sense of humour. He died on 8 July 2003.
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First Title value, for Searching Addison, Oswald Lacy (1874 - 1942)

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

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-20
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Occupation Anatomist Politician
Details Born 19 June 1869 at Hogsthorpe, Lincolnshire, son of Robert Addison, a farmer, and Susan Fanthorpe his wife. He was educated at Trinity College, Harrogate, and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was later demonstrator and lecturer in anatomy. He qualified in 1891 and took the Fellowship in 1895. He was professor of anatomy at University College, Sheffield, 1895-1901, and edited the *Quarterly Medical Journal for Yorkshire and adjoining counties*. He came back to London in 1901 on his appointment as lecturer in anatomy at Charing Cross Hospital and served also as dean of the medical school. He edited G V Ellis's *Demonstrations of Anatomy*, 12th edition, in 1905. In 1907 he went back to his old hospital, St Bartholomew's, as lecturer in anatomy, and held the post till 1913 although he had entered active political life in 1910. He was an examiner in anatomy for the Fellowship from 1903 to 1908, with (Sir) Arthur Keith, FRCS as his colleague. It was about the turn of the century that the medical schools of London began to provide specialized teaching in anatomy, in place of the instruction formerly given by the hospital surgeons. Addison was among the able men first chosen for these whole-time posts; Keith in the same period was making his mark at the London Hospital. Each had taken the Fellowship, not with the intention of practising surgery, but as an indication of proficiency to teach surgical students. Addison's main contribution to anatomy is recorded in an exhaustive paper, running through three volumes of the *Journal of Anatomy*, 1899-1901, "On the topographical anatomy of the abdominal viscera in man". The substance of this research was given as Hunterian lectures at the College in 1901, and Addison made further contributions to the subject in subsequent years (see the bibliography below). Keith has pointed out, in an authoritative survey of Addison's anatomical work in the *British Journal of Surgery*, 1952, that this three-dimensional mapping of the abdomen was based on some 10,000 measurements made on forty bodies, and that it provided for the first time a precise guide to the range of size and position of the contents of the abdomen. Addison himself pointed out that this had its immediate clinical value for the surgeon, at that time when operative intervention in the abdomen was being rapidly developed. The work is remembered today through "Addison's transpyloric plane", the imagined plane of section to which he related his measurements. Addison had entered St Bartholomew's Hospital as a student in 1886 and was taught anatomy by C B Lockwood, FRCS with James Berry, FRCS as demonstrator. The other teachers of anatomy at Bart's during his student years (1886-89) were John Langton, F Howard Marsh, W Bruce Clarke, W H H Jessop, E W Roughton, Edgar W Willett, all Fellows of the College, and W P Herringham, FRCP. Lockwood had recently founded the Anatomical Society, which Addison joined in 1895; be became its honorary secretary in 1904-06, and was elected an honorary member in 1926. Addison had long been interested in the political aspect of social and economic questions, and entered active political life at the time of the Liberal party's triumph. He was elected MP for the Hoxton division of Shoreditch in 1910, and his able support of Lloyd George, when the national insurance scheme was being passed through Parliament in 1911, marked him for office. He was parliamentary secretary to the Board of Education when war broke out in 1914. Lloyd George, on becoming Minister of Munitions, brought Addison to his side as under-secretary. His skilful administration, especially in matters of costing, won high praise, and when Lloyd George became Premier he succeeded to the Ministry of Munitions (1917) and was made a Privy Councillor. Later, as Minister for Reconstruction and as the first Minister of Health from 1918 to 1921, he promoted an ambitious programme of state-assisted housing. Addison by now was more radical than his leader and when he failed to win Lloyd George's support for his scheme, he resigned from the government, and soon made known his whole-hearted conversion to the Labour party. At the general election of 1929 he was elected Labour member for Swindon, and in Ramsay MacDonald's government he became Minister of Agriculture (1930-31) and sponsored the first Agricultural Marketing Acts. Agriculture was, next to medicine, his chief personal interest. He was the son of a farmer, and in later life successfully farmed his own land in Buckinghamshire. He lost his seat at the general election of 1931, and was an outspoken critic of the "National" coalition government. He was re-elected for Swindon in 1934, but lost the seat at the next general election in 1935. At the coronation of King George VI (1937) he was raised to the peerage as Baron Addison of Stallingborough, County Lincoln, and he became Dominions Secretary when the Labour party came again to office in 1945. He made his greatest mark however as leader of the House of Lords, when he had to press the government's nationalization schemes in face of a very strong opposition, and did so with urbane ability. He was advanced to the rank of a Viscount in 1945, and was awarded on 3 December 1946 the rare distinction of a Knighthood of the Garter. As leader of his party in the House of Lords he won "the respect and abiding affection of all with whom he had to do, whatever their political views". Formal tributes were paid to his memory in the House on 30 January 1952, and a memorial service was held the same day in Westminster Abbey. Addison was of solid build and middle height. His thick hair was raven- black in youth and snow-white in age. His colleagues celebrated his seventy-seventh birthday in 1946 by a complimentary luncheon at the House of Lords, and his eightieth birthday was also marked (*British Medical Journal*, 1946, 1, 993 and 1949, 1, 1132). Addison married twice: (1) in 1902 Isobel, daughter of Archibald Gray; Mrs Addison died on 22 August 1934, at Peterley Farm, Great Missenden, leaving two sons and two daughters; (2) in 1937 Dorothy, daughter of J P Low, who survived him. He died at Radnage, near High Wycombe, on 11 December 1951, aged 82, and was succeeded in the peerage by his elder son. There was a private funeral at Radnage Church, and a memorial service in Westminster Abbey. Publications: On the topographical anatomy of the abdominal viscera in man, especially the gastro-intestinal canal (Hunterian lectures, Royal College of Surgeons). *Journal of Anatomy*, 1899, 33, 565; 1900, 34, 427; 1901, 35, 166 and 277. Also *Lancet*, 1901, 1, 759, 911, and 1059; and, as a book: Edinburgh, Neill and Co. 1901, 116 pp. Discussion on same subject. *Journal of Anatomy*, 1904, 38, Proceedings pages xxx-xlv. A discussion on the topographical anatomy of the thoracic and abdominal viscera from a systematic and clinical standpoint (British Medical Association, annual scientific meeting, Cheltenham, 1901). *Brit med J.* 1901, 2, 1065. Cervical ribs. *Journal of Anatomy*, 1902, 36, Proceedings pages lxxiv-lxxvi. *Demonstrations of anatomy* by G V Ellis, 12th edition by C Addison. London, 1905. On the future of the medical services (speech at dinner of Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, 2 October 1937). *Brit med J*. 1937, 2, 766. *The betrayal of the slums*. London: Jenkins, 1922. *Politics from within, 1911-18*. Preface by Lord Carson. Jenkins, 1924. 2 vols. *Practical socialism*. Labour Publishing Co. 1926. 2 vols. *The nation and its food*. Benn, 1929. *Religion and politics*. Epworth Press, 1931. *Problems of a socialist government*. Preface by Stafford Cripps. Gollancz, 1933. *Four and a half years* (a personal diary from June 1914 to January 1919). Hutchinson, 1934. 2 vols.
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First Title value, for Searching Adeline, Albert Emile Louis (1914 - 2018)

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by Peter Adeline
Publication Date 2023-07-05
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Occupation Dental surgeon
Details My father Albert Adeline, passed away recently, just a few weeks short of his 104th birthday. His longevity was a bewilderment to him, but a delight to his family, with great-grandchildren more than 100 years his junior. Born to become the eldest of three sons, and academically gifted, his medical studies were dramatically truncated after two years when his father died from peritonitis while undergoing surgery. Suddenly there was no money, but a bursary and a benefactor funded a change to the shorter dental course. An unexpected enthusiasm developed, which was in time matched by an enthusiasm for the NHS when it was launched in 1948. He rejected the lure of private practice in favour of providing improved healthcare to those whom it might otherwise have been denied. As World War II developed he enlisted, barely qualified, and served mostly with the 8th Army in a desert field hospital. Routine dental work was augmented by an intermittent stream of battle casualties, often with major facial trauma. In quieter times he would repair broken spectacle frames in the dental workshop, an invaluable service. With the Allied advancement post-Normandy landings he found himself billeted in provincial Belgium. The daughter of the house became his wife, Josette. He was, I believe, in the first cohort of students to gain a formal surgical qualification in dentistry. At 41, he developed meningitis. I remember waving at him through the window of his isolation ward. I learned later that he thought this was the last time he would see me as he was not expected to survive. Survival, though, came with total deafness in one ear and frequent bouts of severe vertigo. In those days dental chairs had a high vertical back, and he would steady himself against it until the nauseous wave passed, while his patient waited in blissful ignorance. He would have been exposed to much larger doses of gamma radiation than is the norm today. Mercury was another hazard – an early practice of mixing amalgam in the palm of his hand, to bring it up to body temperature before applying it, manifested in the tarnishing of spectacle legs as the mercury was excreted through his hair. Ever sensitive to his patients’ anxieties and well-being, a reputation developed as 'the magic dentist whose patients felt no pain', and people sought him out. In later years he served as Dental Officer at Harefield Hospital, attending to the needs of patients preparing for thoracic surgery. He retired to the south coast and re-kindled an interest in sailing, but his greatest joy in later life was pottering in his workshop. He is survived by myself and my family.
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First Title value, for Searching Adeney, George Cuthbert (1879 - 1958)

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First Title value, for Searching Adeney, Noel Frederick (1897 - 1999)

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First Title value, for Searching Adesola, Akinpelu Oludele ( - 2010)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-25 2014-01-24
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Akinpelu Oludele Adesola was vice chancellor and formerly head of the department of surgery at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He was educated at Queen's University, Belfast, qualifying in 1956. He went on to hold several posts at the Royal Victoria Hospital, including house surgeon, house officer, senior house officer and surgical registrar. In 1961 he gained a masters degree in surgery. In 1962 he returned to Nigeria, where he had a successful academic career in surgery at the University of Lagos, becoming a senior lecturer, professor, head of the department of surgery and finally deputy vice chancellor. He then moved to the University of Ilorin, where he served as vice chancellor for three years, before returning to the University of Lagos as vice chancellor, a position he held until his retirement in 1988. He was much in demand as a visiting professor in the UK, USA and Canada, and was an external examiner in Nigeria, Ghana and England. His work for education in Nigeria and across the Commonwealth was recognised with many honours, including the Symons award for outstanding service, presented by the Association of Commonwealth Universities. He received an honorary doctorate from Queen's University in 1989. Akinpelu Oludele Adesola died on 29 May 2010, aged 82.
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First Title value, for Searching Adhia, Girdharlal Dayalji ( - 1982)

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First Title value, for Searching Adhikary, Haripada (1941 - 2019)

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by Sunila Jain
Publication Date 2020-02-19 2021-06-22
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Haripada Adhikary was an ophthalmologist at the Royal Preston Hospital. He was born in 1941 in pre-partition India in the small village of Rampal in the district of Khulna, the son of Upendra Nath Adhikary and Kalidasi Adhikary. He initially worked as a mathematics teacher, but later studied medicine in Calcutta at the Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College, qualifying in 1967. He trained as an ophthalmologist in India and gained his diploma in ophthalmic medicine and surgery. He then went to the UK, where from 1971 to 1976 he was a senior house officer and then registrar at the Royal Preston Hospital. He was subsequently a registrar and then senior registrar at St Paul’s Eye Hospital in Liverpool and an honorary lecturer at Liverpool University. In July 1981 he was appointed as a consultant ophthalmologist in Preston. At Preston, he worked tirelessly to develop a modern ophthalmic department. He was an early adapter of excimer laser surgery from its beginning in the early 1990s and published several papers on the subject. He also trained juniors and was an honorary senior lecturer and visiting fellow at the University of Central Lancashire. Many benefited greatly from his teaching, enthusiasm and strong work ethic. Outside work he had numerous interests, including gardening, travelling, singing and writing poetry and songs in Bengali; he was a lyricist of songs for Kolkata and All India Radio. He also studied Hinduism and wrote extensively on the subject. Family and the wider community were extremely important to him. In 2004, he was awarded an MBE for his outstanding social, cultural and charity work in Bengal and the UK. Haripada Adhikary died on 4 December 2019 after a short illness. He was survived by his wife, Manju Adhikary, a daughter, Rina Adhikary, a son, Ratul Adhikary (all of whom are doctors) and their spouses, and will be missed by colleagues and the wider community.
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First Title value, for Searching Adie, Ross McMillan (1938 - 2015)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-02-19
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Ross McMillan Adie was a general surgeon in Victoria, Australia. He was born on 14 February 1938, the son of Godfrey David Adie, an accountant, and Beatrice Mavis Adie née Burgess. His uncle, William John Adie, was a neurologist in London. Adie was educated at Essendon High School and went on to study medicine at Melbourne University, qualifying in 1962 with honours in medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology. He spent the next five years training at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and then in 1968 became a lecturer in surgery at the University of Singapore. A year later, he went to the UK, as a registrar at Hammersmith Hospital in London. He also gained his FRCS in 1969. In 1970, he was a research fellow at Cleveland Metropolitan Hospital, Cleveland, USA. He subsequently returned to Victoria, Australia. Outside medicine, he enjoyed golf and fly fishing. He married Janet Margaret McColl in 1961. They had a son and two daughters. Adie died in 2015.
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First Title value, for Searching Adiseshiah, Mohankumar (1941 - 2020)

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by Irving Taylor
Publication Date 2021-02-10 2021-03-30
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Occupation Vascular surgeon General surgeon
Details Mohankumar Adiseshiah, known by all as ‘Mo’, was a consultant vascular surgeon at the University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He was born in Madras, India on 20 May 1941. His father, Malcolm Adiseshiah, was an internationally-renowned UNESCO educationalist. His mother, Helen née Paranjoti, was the daughter of a prominent clergyman. He attended La Martiniere College in Lucknow prior to moving to the UK, where he attended Wandsworth School in south London. From there he was successful in obtaining an entrance state scholarship to King’s and Westminster Medical School. Mo graduated in 1965 and was awarded the Arthur Evans memorial prize in surgery. He subsequently became a fellow of both the Royal College of Surgeons of England (in 1969) and of the Royal College of Physicians (in 1998). Following house officer posts at the Westminster and St George’s, he commenced his surgical training at University College Hospital London and in Cambridge. He later spent time as a research fellow in Toronto and as a lecturer in Hong Kong. He was particularly influenced in his training by Harold Ellis, Charles Drew, David Bailey, G B Ong in Hong Kong and Ronald Baird in Toronto. He was awarded an MA (Cambridge) in 1977 and an MS (London) in 1978. On his return to the UK, he was appointed as a consultant surgeon in Huntingdon and a lecturer in Cambridge. Typical of Mo, he threw himself energetically into upgrading Huntingdon Hospital to a full district general hospital with the help of the then local MP John Major. Mo returned to the Middlesex Hospital and UCH in 1982, serving with enviable distinction in many capacities in the hospital and university, until his retirement. As clinical director for surgery, he redefined vascular surgery as an emerging subspecialty of general surgery and oversaw the transition of the service to the current excellent UCLH main campus. He maintained a commitment to surgical research throughout his career and published widely, however, his most enduring legacy is undoubtedly his pioneering role in the early development of minimally invasive endoluminal stent graft repair, as an alternative to open surgery. He was a very early convert, cobbling together homemade early prototypes, and patenting the University College London technique in 1995. He stuck with this new technique through its at times underwhelming ‘endo-gloominal’ infancy whilst training, publishing and participating in defining trials for what is now the global default aortic operative approach. To Mo and his small band of pioneering colleagues, the vascular community owe a wealth of gratitude. Mo loved to travel. A visionary surgeon from the start, he understood that we can only see as far as our horizons. His professional travels took him to every continent. As a regular invited faculty member at international meetings, he contributed tirelessly. He served on the council of the Vascular Society and published over 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including book chapters and national newspaper articles. He chaired the medical committee and was a trustee of St Luke’s Hospital for the Clergy. Mo adored cricket, rugby (Saracens) and the theatre, being responsible for a number of raucous productions whilst at medical school. He played squash and the violin. He was also passionately concerned about the plight of the Palestinians in Gaza. Surviving a major stroke in November 2018, the cruellest blow to a surgeon who had saved countless others from the same fate, he regained some quality of his life only to be taken by Covid-19 on 20 April 2020 at the age of 78. Mo was a wise, compassionate and generous man and was survived by his wife Maria (née Kilkelly), six children and two granddaughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Adlard, Roger Edward (1972 - 2021)

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by Farida Ali
Publication Date 2022-02-03
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Hand surgeon
Details Roger Edward Adlard was a much-loved consultant plastic surgeon, sub-specialising in hand surgery, at St George’s Hospital, London. He was born on 11 April 1972 at Queen Mary’s Maternity Home, Hampstead, London, to Mavis Adlard née Ritchie and Maxwell Wright Adlard. He grew up in Hertfordshire along with his younger brother Graham, attending first Broxbourne School before moving to the independent school Haileybury to complete his education. Whilst at school, Roger developed a wide range of extracurricular interests including Young Scientists, computing, coding and all things IT, magic competitions, music and stamp collecting. In addition to these more intellectual pastimes, he was an accomplished swimmer, successfully competing for his county, and skier. At Haileybury, Roger became an active member of the debating society, a skill he maintained throughout his life. He loved a good argument and always had something interesting to say about everything. A levels, he went on to read medicine at Queen Mary’s school of medicine and dentistry, qualifying in 1996. During his first year as a junior doctor at Barts and the London, he met his future wife, Julie, in 1997. After finishing his basic surgical training, he went on to complete an MSc in surgical science at University College London in 2004, before commencing his specialist training in plastic surgery. He was competitively appointed to the prestigious pan-Thames training scheme in plastic surgery in 2007. It was in this year, a decade after they met, that Roger proposed to Julie in Dubrovnik. She said yes and they were married a year later. Roger was fascinated by people, languages and cultures, a passion that started early in life – the Adlard family enjoyed spending summer holidays travelling in Europe or staying in Bahrain, where his Aunt Maggie lived. He was adept at languages, speaking both German and French fluently. After his parents bought a property in Spain, Roger became a confirmed Hispanophile. It was no surprise then that, when the time came, he chose to undertake his plastic surgery fellowship in Melbourne, Australia between 2012 and 2014. The Antipodean lifestyle suited Roger and Julie well. In fact, they considered making this a more permanent move; unfortunately, family circumstances prevented that from happening at the time. Roger’s mother, Mavis, began showing signs of dementia, so they decided to move back to the UK to be closer to her. After returning from Australia, Roger embarked on his consultant career, working first as a locum in Salisbury and Wexham Park before his substantive appointment at St George’s. Here his colleagues, many of whom had worked with him as a fellow trainee or consultant colleague before, were delighted to welcome Roger to the team. He was a fantastic hand surgeon. Working in a busy major trauma centre, Roger was often responsible for the care of patients with complex and life-changing hand and upper limbs injuries. He would regularly perform complex surgical procedures to reconstruct the upper limb after such major injuries, including nerve repair, grafting and transfers, as well as soft tissue reconstruction and walked this journey alongside his patients every step of the way, including during their rehabilitation once the acute care had been completed. He was especially known for his kindness, the twinkle in his eye (usually immediately before laughing at one of his own corny jokes), his humility, bossa nova music (guaranteed to be playing in the operating theatre), his vast cinematic knowledge and not to forget his statement socks or annual Christmas gifts of homemade chili sauce! If Roger was in the room, it was a guarantee that there would be laughter. Often, he would be laughing at himself, and many will recognise his favourite self-deprecating line ‘OK, I’ll get my coat’ when one of his terrible jokes would fail to hit the mark. Roger was never afraid to try his hand at something new. As an undergraduate, he even managed to squeeze in six months experience as a computer consultant and bond trader in the City after failing his first year exams. Being a computer geek, he very nearly didn’t go back to medicine, but both his patients and colleagues alike would be very happy he did. He was definitely the go-to person whenever there was an IT issue. Roger was passionate about teaching, something which developed early on during his time as a tutor of anatomy and biochemistry at the British School of Osteopathy, where his father was a science lecturer. This passion continued throughout his life. Knowledgeable, generous and patient are just some of the words used to describe his teaching style. As the educational supervisor of physician associates – a relatively new addition to the plastic surgery team – he was extremely supportive, both clinically and pastorally. His genuine desire for their wellbeing was evident to all. Roger understood that every experience, good or bad, happy or sad, was an opportunity for learning. Each of these experiences taught Roger something about himself and people in general: he could connect with anyone, no matter from which walk of life they came. He excelled at enjoying the finer things in life – most importantly for Roger, the memories he created and shared with Julie, his family and his friends. Speaking at his father’s funeral in 2006, Roger explained that his legacy had been to teach him and his brother that accomplishment is not the material things that you own or the wages you earn, but the deeds that you do, the people you help and the knowledge that you gain. And absolutely Roger lived by that: he is remembered truly for his deeds, his laugh, his kindness. He cared deeply about people, be they patients, colleagues, friends or, above all, family. Roger died suddenly on 5 October 2021 aged just 49. He was survived by his wife, Julie, his mother, Mavis and brother, Graham. His too short but eventful life has left an indelible mark on all those who knew him.
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First Title value, for Searching Adlington, Peter (1932 - 2011)

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by Alan Bracewell
Publication Date 2012-01-12 2012-12-20
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Peter Adlington was an ear, nose and throat surgeon to the West and East Dorset Health Authorities between 1969 and 1997. He was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, on 8 April 1932. His father Basil was an ear, nose and throat surgeon and a general practitioner, and also a fellow of the College. His mother was Katherine Adlington née Williams. Peter went to school at Worcester Royal Grammar School and then attended Epsom College from 1945 to 1950, where he was captain of rugby. His family had a strong connection with King's College Hospital. His father had trained there, his aunt was a nurse at King's, as was Peter's future wife, Margaret. Peter went to King's College Hospital Medical School in 1950 and qualified in 1956. After pre-registration house officer posts he joined the Parachute Regiment to carry out his National Service and later transferred to the SAS and saw active service in Malaya and Oman. On returning to civilian life, he was Leverhulme research lecturer in the department of anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons and, between 1976 and 1982, was examiner in part one of the diploma in otolaryngology. He held various training posts in London, before becoming a senior registrar in the ENT department at King's College Hospital. There he worked for Sir Terence Cawthorne, William Daggett and Roland Lewis. He was appointed to his consultant post in Dorset in 1968. Until his arrival the consultant at West Dorset was single-handed and Peter's time was split between Weymouth and Poole General Hospital. After about 10 years another full-time consultant was appointed in West Dorset and Peter then spent all his time centred on Poole Hospital. He took part in all aspects of the ENT department's work at Poole, taking a particular interest in education and the training of the junior staff. He specialised in reconstructive nasal surgery, and his colleagues referred this work to him. He undertook research projects throughout his career, publishing 12 papers. In 1967 he investigated the ultrastructure of the saccus endolymphaticus at a time when surgical decompression of the saccus was thought to be helpful in the management of Ménière's disease (*J Laryngol Otol* 1967 Jul;81[7]:759-76). He carried out a controlled study of adenotonsillectomy in children, which was published in 1967 (*J Laryngol Otol* 1967 Jul;81[7]:777-90) and subsequently, with consultant colleagues and senior registrars, investigated the bacteriology and virology of secretory otitis media (*J Laryngol Otol* 1969 Feb;83[2]:161-73, (*J Laryngol Otol* 1980 Feb;94[2]:191-6). As part of his interest in reconstructive nasal surgery he investigated the effect of the preparation of cartilage grafts on their long-term survival by implanting differently prepared grafts in laboratory animals. When he first moved to Dorset he lived in the village of Horton, which was conveniently situated for the road journey to Weymouth and Poole. In Horton he had a large garden, which he continued to develop during his time there. He was always keen on sport, played rugby at school and for the United Hospitals team when he was a student. He was a good tennis player and went on playing almost to his retirement. He took up cycling in retirement, undertaking several of the long distance national routes and made cycling tours in Thailand, Italy and regular trips to France He retired in 1997 and moved to Wootton St Lawrence to be closer to one of his daughters. He developed a rare, slowly degenerative neurological illness and died on 29 September 2011. He was survived by his wife Margaret née Jefferies, whom he married in 1968, and their two daughters, one of whom is a consultant in genitourinary medicine.
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First Title value, for Searching Adlington, Sydney Roy (1913 - 1982)

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First Title value, for Searching Agar, Herbert (1907 - 1995)

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First Title value, for Searching Ager, David Alexander (1925 - 2002)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2023-08-10
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Occupation Maxillofacial surgeon
Details David Alexander Ager was a consultant maxillofacial surgeon for the Royal Army Dental Corps. He was born on 30 June 1925 in Sudbury, Essex. His mother’s maiden name was Sillens. He studied medicine at Guy’s Hospital Medical School and qualified as a doctor with the conjoint examination in 1948. After house appointments, he carried out his National Service in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve at Harwich. He was briefly a general practitioner, and then became a dental student, qualifying in 1957. In 1962 he joined the Royal Army Dental Corps, eventually becoming a colonel. His postings included Cyprus, Hong Kong, Germany and Northern Ireland. He gained his FDSRCS in 1969 and became a consultant in 1977. Outside his work, he was interested in music. In 1951 he married Hazel Margaret Amess. They had three children and three grandchildren. Ager died on 5 April 2002 from a raptured aortic aneurysm. He was 76.
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First Title value, for Searching Aghadiuno, Uche Charles (1952 - 1986)

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First Title value, for Searching Agjee, Ismail Ahmed ( - 2003)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-04 2013-08-13
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Ismail Ahmed Agjee was a general surgeon who is thought to have died in Hyderabad, India on 30 May 2003.
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First Title value, for Searching Agnis, John Crown (1828 - 1866)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-08-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Langford, Malden, Essex, on Nov 11th, 1828, and dying unmarried was the last representative of an ancient Cambridgeshire family. He was a very promising lad, and at the age of 16 entered University College, London, and soon carried off the Senior Greek Prize, “being a mere boy in comparison with his competitors” (*Lancet*). He received his medical education at University College Hospital, became House Surgeon, and was gazetted to the 3rd Light Dragoons on Aug 11th, 1854. He afterwards became Assistant Surgeon to the Horse Guards Blue in 1860 (Sept 18th), holding this post to the end of his life. As an operator he was “bold and skilful”, “notably endowed”, as his *Lancet* biographer remarks, “with that special surgical acumen which is logic in action”. His talents were such that his friends urged him to bring himself into greater evidence. Accordingly he began to study deformities and “energetically followed out a series of special researches into their general surgical pathology.” In 1864 the Examiners for the Jacksonian Essay Prize awarded an Honorarium to Agnis for his essay on “Club-foot, its Causes, Pathology and Treatment”. The many illustrations to the Essay were drawn by the author, but the paper has not been published. Agnis was a skilful artist, “an enthusiastic entomologist, and versed in almost every branch of natural science”. He died in London on June 28th, 1866, after a brief illness. He had previously suffered from the effects of a severe hunting accident.
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First Title value, for Searching Agrawal, Yogendra Nath ( - 1988)

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First Title value, for Searching Ahern, Albert John William (1901 - 1961)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-20 2014-02-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 15 June 1901, he was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne and the University of Melbourne. He was acting surgeon to out-patients at Melbourne Hospital 1935-40 and at the Alfred Hospital 1939-40; honorary surgeon to Prince Henry's Hospital, Melbourne 1946-62, and Dean of the Clinical School there 1953-55. During the War of 1940-45 he served in the Royal Australian Air Force Medical Service, at Darwin, Australia and in New Guinea, with the rank of Wing Commander (Surgeon Specialist) and was promoted Group Captain on retirement. He died on 26 August 1961. He lived at St Kilda and practised at 12 Collins Street, Melbourne.
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First Title value, for Searching Ahern, Edward Denis (1888 - 1983)

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First Title value, for Searching Ahmad, Munawar (1938 - 1971)

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First Title value, for Searching Ahmad, Said (1905 - 1995)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-01 2022-01-21
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Occupation General surgeon Plastic surgeon
Details Educated at Lahore and the London Hospital Said Ahmad spent much of his professional life in the Indian Medical Service. In 1936 with the rank of captain he served in Waziristan at the combined Indian Military Hospital at Razmak. In 1943 he was civil surgeon at Agra and later he rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. While taking his Fellowship he worked as a house surgeon at the Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton, and in later years he worked at the Jinnah Central Hospital and the Dow Medical College, Karachi and continued to practise until shortly before his death in 1995 at the age of 90. He was survived by his son Faruq Ahmad who was living in San Francisco at the time of his father's death. **See below for an additional expanded obituary uploaded 21 January 2022:** Said Ahmad had a long and successful career that spanned over 60 years of active practice as a surgeon in Pakistan, with a focus on plastic and reconstructive surgery. He authored numerous papers, developed novel procedures and was instrumental in public medical institution-building in Pakistan after its independence in 1947. He was born into a family with a tradition of healing and knowledge; the family estate in Wazirabad in the Punjab was named ‘Haveli Hakiman’ or house of hakims (traditional healers). His father, Khan Bahadur Nazir Ahmad, chose to settle in Kashmir to avoid colonial rule, and was progressing rapidly as a judge when Said was born in 1905. He retired as chief judge and home minister in Kashmir in 1929. Said Ahmad attended SR High School in Jammu and then studied medicine at King Edward College in Lahore, qualifying in 1928. He then went to the UK for his advanced qualifications, obtaining his FRCS in 1931 in just 18 months. He was reportedly the first Muslim from the Indian subcontinent to gain the FRCS. While studying for his fellowship he worked as a house surgeon at the Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton. After returning home, he practised briefly in Lahore with his sister, Kaniz Fatimah, and then joined the Indian Medical Service in the British Indian Army, and was stationed at various times in Iraq, Turkey and elsewhere in the region. In 1936, with the rank of captain, he served in Waziristan at the combined Indian Military Hospital at Razmak. In 1943 he was a civil surgeon at Agra and later rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Following partition, he moved with his young family to Karachi, then the capital and commercial centre of the new nation of Pakistan, where there was little medical infrastructure in place. He served from 1949 to 1953 as superintendent at Jinnah Central Hospital, the major public hospital in Karachi. He also established the surgery department at Dow Medical College, which was attached to Civil Hospital, Karachi’s other major hospital. During this period he took the lead in specifying basic requirements for hospitals, including the local manufacturing of surgical instruments, hygiene standards for food procurement and safety, and essential sterilisation techniques. During his career he invented numerous new techniques and wrote extensively. His papers were published in international journals, and a collection was published in book form as *Practical surgery*, which contains information on new procedures, instructions on how to sterilise and prevent infection, medical ethics and even operating theatre design. He also volunteered his time at the Navy Hospital at Shifa. He was a ‘surgeons’ surgeon’ and relished hard cases. In one instance, he was called by a panicked colleague to save a patient whose bile duct had been ruptured through surgical error and rushed out in the middle of the night in his dressing gown and pyjamas to handle the situation. At the mandatory retirement at the age of 60 he was ‘going strong’ professionally and had five children between the ages of 11 and 18 to feed, so he took the risky step of mortgaging his house and built a hospital so he could continue to practice. With his wife Azra as chief administrator, Said Clinic became a preeminent private hospital in Karachi, located in the central commercial corridor of McLeod Road and reached 100-bed capacity with surgery, radiology, psychology and other specialties, and a medical store and cafeteria on site. When he hung up his scalpel, he had been a practising surgeon for over 60 years. He was the recipient of several awards during wartime with the British Indian Army, and in Pakistan during peacetime for his service to the country. Outside medicine, he enjoyed sculpting in clay. He had spent his early years in lush Srinagar and enjoyed gardens, flowers and trees, which he replicated through irrigation at the family home in Karachi, with a rose garden, grape vines, lawns, trees and greenery that covered an acre. He loved the ocean, and a typical family Sunday getaway was to one of two beach huts. Said Ahmad married and later divorced Phyllis Cohen, and they had a daughter, Naomi. He then married Azra Nazim, the daughter of Mohammad Nazim, an historian, in 1946, and they had five children, Nighat, Nishat, Faruq, Farhat and Yousuf, three of whom took up medicine. He was also a mentor to and inspiration for his grandson Tariq Ahmad, who became the medical director of heart transplantation at Yale University’s school of medicine. Said Ahmad died on 28 April 1995 at the age of 90, surrounded by family and appreciated by the community he served. Faruq Ahmad
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First Title value, for Searching Ahmadi, Mahmood (1936 - 2019)

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by Arthur Pomerantz
Publication Date 2019-12-18 2020-02-19
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Occupation Thoracic surgeon General surgeon Vascular surgeon
Details Mahmood Ahmadi was a surgeon at the Veterans’ Affairs (VA) Hospital in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA. He was born into a privileged family in the small agricultural village of Vastan in Iran not far from Tehran. As an infant, he survived an earthquake to which many of his siblings succumbed. Growing up he enjoyed a multicultural upbringing and was exposed to many different customs and beliefs, from Kurdish bareback riding to the Judaic roots of Purim in Persia. Like his older brother, Abdol Ghana Ahmadi, a noted lawyer and jurist in Iran, Mahmood possessed a superior intellect. He combined this with a familial motivation to master his scholarly pursuits in all disciplines, not just science and medicine. Mahmood developed his addiction to surgery at the Tehran University of Medical Sciences and received his MD in 1960. He pursued two years of missionary work in rural Iran, followed by a rotating internship and residency in Canton, Ohio, USA at the Aultman Hospital and then a general surgery residency in Cleveland, Ohio at Fairview Park Hospital and Mount Sinai Hospital under the Case Western University system. His chief of surgery there, Charles Marks, recommended that he seek further training at the Royal College of Surgeons in England. After completing a paper with Marks in 1969 (‘Agnogenic myeloid metaplasia: role of splenectomy’ *Postgrad Med J*. 1969 Apr;45[522]:261-5), Ahmadi crossed the pond to London to immerse himself in his studies with a clinical appointment at King Edward Memorial Hospital, riding around town in a red Triumph convertible. His rewards for his efforts were the fellowship on 7 July 1971, when he passed his exams, and, more importantly, Marsha Savage of Centreville, New Brunswick, Canada, whom he married on 22 August 1970. After gaining his FRCS, Ahmadi went back to his native country in 1972, to work as a general surgeon in Qom. His thirst for mastery of advanced surgical techniques took him and his family back to Cleveland, Ohio from 1974 to 1976, where he received cardiothoracic residency training at St Vincent Charity Medical Center. He again returned to his homeland to practise his newly-honed skills in Tabriz and then Tehran. He subsequently rose steadily in clinical reputation to university faculty representative to the Shah in his specialty. Throughout his rise to professional eminence in his home country he always expressed a desire ‘to do my best to help the people’. He did this financially, spiritually and medically. Unfortunately, he had to survive another earthquake in the form of the Iranian Revolution at the end of 1978. Marsha and their daughters took the last Pan Am flight out of Tehran on the day after Christmas. Mahmood made it out on Easter weekend of 1979 after tending to casualties of both sides of the hostilities. They were united at the Savage family homestead in New Brunswick, Canada. Mahmood had the equivalent of $47 in his pocket. Always looking forward, he took a fellowship at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston under Denton Cooley from July 1979, and then worked as a general, thoracic and vascular surgeon at the Aroostook Medical Center (AMC) in Presque Isle, Maine, the town across the border from Centreville. After nine years as a mostly-solo practitioner with a splendid reputation for excellence in surgical care, Mahmood joined the four-man group of surgeons assembled by David Sensenig. For six more years, this surgical programme was fully funded under the auspices of US Senator George Mitchell of Maine, at the VA Hospital at Togus, Maine, where I first met him. We had a challenging and interesting practice covering the full scope of surgery except open heart surgery. After Senator Mitchell retired, the Togus inpatient programme was cut back and Mahmood and I were reassigned as part of the start-up crew for the newest VA Hospital in West Palm Beach, Florida in 1995. For five more clinical years at the VA, Mahmood became the go-to guy when patients presented for complex surgical intervention. He also returned to Iran on short sabbaticals to practise open heart surgery at a university hospital in Tehran and was appointed to the Iranian Board of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Ahmadi retired from the VA and clinical practice in 1999 mostly because of concerns about the hospital’s inefficient IT revolution. We remained close friends for another 20 years. I remember driving him to Hollywood, Florida, where I worked as a surgical oncologist so that he could observe his true passion, cardiac surgery, after a good breakfast in the physicians’ cafeteria. He eventually befriended every member of that department headed then by Michael Rosenbloom. He called them his cousins. Throughout his life, he maintained an interest in comparative religious philosophy, liturgy and history. He was a self-proclaimed Deist, Sufi and follower of the poet Rumi for most of his life, but accepted the sacraments of the Catholic faith just before his death. He befriended many clergy of nearly all denominations as his cousins as long as they shared his inherent honesty and concern for individuals. Many of us counted on his fatherly support as well as biblical knowledge to help us through difficult times. He honoured me, a colleague and friend for his last 30 years, by presiding during the funeral of my eldest son. As a young man, Ahmadi was an active and accomplished intercollegiate athlete, competing throughout the Middle East and Europe, as a champion weightlifter. He developed immensely appealing social skills, which, with his handsome countenance, muscular appearance and vitality, earned him a thick address book, of which he was proud. He was certainly not shy with the opposite sex. He was a polyglot by inclination and personal experience. Ahmadi passed away on 19 November 2019 at his home in Jupiter, Florida from a brief illness arising from acute myeloid leukaemia. He was 82. He was survived by his widow Marsha, three daughters, six grandchildren and dozens of devoted friends and colleagues. Ahmadi was truly a citizen of and surgeon to the world: all of his cousins like me really miss him.
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First Title value, for Searching Ahmed, Mohammed Kabiruddin (1934 - 1998)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-02-19 2016-04-15
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Mohammed Kabiruddin Ahmed was professor and head of the department of surgery at the Medical College and Hospital, Sylhet, Bangladesh. He was born on 31 March 1934 in Sylhet, the son of Mohammed Asghar, a mathematics graduate and a magistrate in the Assam Civil Service, and Umirunnessa née Choudhury, the daughter of a senior police officer in Assam. Ahmed was educated at the Government Boys' School in Sylhet, and went on to study pre-medical science at the MC College, Sylhet, and then medicine at Dacca Medical College. He qualified MB BS in 1956. After a rotating internship in Dacca Medical College Hospital, he was a junior and then a senior house surgeon in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology in the same hospital. He was subsequently a lecturer of anatomy at Dacca Medical College, and later a registrar and resident surgeon in general and casualty surgery at Dacca Medical College Hospital. He then went to the UK to continue his professional training at the Royal College of Surgeons and Guy's Hospital Medical School. He held posts in Warrington, Burnley and Birmingham hospitals and gained his FRCS in 1967. He returned to the subcontinent, as assistant professor of surgery at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital and then as an associate professor of surgery at Sylhet Medical College. From 1977 he was professor and head of the department of surgery at Sylhet Medical College. He served as the principal of Dhaka Medical College and head of the department of surgery for the Dhaka Medical College Hospital from 1990 to 1991. He was the founder of the burns and plastic surgery units at Dhaka Medical College Hospital. After his retirement, he worked as the director of the Holy Family Red Crescent Hospital, Dhaka, as a consulting surgeon at Jahurul Islam Medical College at Bajitpur and as a visiting professor at the Women's Medical College at Uttara, Dhaka. In 1993, he was professor of surgery and anatomy at the Institute of Health Sciences, Gonoshasthaya Kendra, Savar. He was an editorial consultant for the *Pakistan Journal of Surgery* and wrote a number of papers. He was an honorary fellow of the Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons, the American College of Surgeons and the International College of Surgeons. Ahmed was the founder president of the Bangladesh chapter of the International College of Surgeons and president of the Society of Surgeons of Bangladesh. He was the founder president of Health Link International, a forum for continuing medical education. He was also founder and president of Begum Rokeya Women and Child Health Organization, a non-profit organisation promoting the health of disadvantaged women and children in Bangladesh. Outside medicine, his main hobby was travel; he travelled in Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Ireland, UK, Switzerland and Lebanon. While a student he actively participated in the 'language movement' of 1952, advocating the recognition of the Bengali language as an official language in what was then East Pakistan. In 1960 he married Taslima Khatun, a social worker and Montessori teacher. They had two daughters and a son - Nipa, Lopa and Rana. Mohammed Kabiruddin Ahmed died on 9 April 1998. He was 64.
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First Title value, for Searching Ahuja, Anand Mohan (1923 - 2015)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2018-11-20
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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon General surgeon
Details Lieutenant General Anand Mohan Ahuja was a pioneering cardiothoracic surgeon in the Indian Armed Forces Medical Services. He was born at Lyallpur in the Punjab region of India on 1 November 1923, the second of five brothers. His father was Jivan Das Ahuja, a physician, who encouraged all his sons to become doctors. Ahuja studied medicine at Lahore Medical College and qualified in 1946. He subsequently travelled to the UK for surgical training and gained his FRCS in 1957. He also trained in cardiac surgery in Yugoslavia and went to Washington DC for training in open-heart surgery. He became a professor of surgery at the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune. In addition to his work in lung and open-heart surgery, he also introduced protocols for use in intensive care units and operating theatres across the Armed Forces. He was awarded the Ati Vishisht Seva medal by the president of India. He retired with the rank of lieutenant general and chief consultant. After his retirement he worked as a consultant general surgeon in the police hospital in Oman. In his final years he attended a charitable clinic and played golf. Ahuja died on 19 February 2015 in Bengaluru. He was 91.
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First Title value, for Searching Aickin, Casement Gordon (1881 - 1936)

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First Title value, for Searching Aidoo, Michael (1935 - 1975)

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First Title value, for Searching Aiken, David ( - 1987)

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First Title value, for Searching Aikin, Charles Arthur (1821 - 1908)

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First Title value, for Searching Ainger, Major (1820 - 1861)

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

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

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by Enid Taylor
Publication Date 2008-10-24
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Roger Gwynne Ainley was an ophthalmic surgeon in the Merseyside area. He was born in Fringford, Oxfordshire, on 8 September 1932. His father, Joe Ainley, was a headmaster and his mother, Dora (née Carter), was a music teacher, both in schools and freelance. The family are related to the Shakespearian actor Henry Ainley. Roger Ainley attended Lord Williams’ Grammar School, Thame, and then the Old Grammar School, Bicester, from 1943 to 1950. His studies were then interrupted by National Service in the Royal Air Force for two years. In 1952 he went to Keble College, Oxford, to read zoology, but a year later changed to medicine. His clinical training was also in Oxford. His medical and surgical house jobs were at the Radcliffe Infirmary and then he began his formal ophthalmological training as senior house officer and registrar at Oxford Eye Hospital from 1961 to 1963. From 1965 to 1969 he was a lecturer and then senior lecturer at the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital. During this period, in 1968, he was awarded the George Herbert Hunt travelling scholarship and visited ophthalmic departments in New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Ohio State University. In 1969 he was appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon to Merseyside Regional Health Authority and was postgraduate medical tutor to the Wirral Group from 1974 to 1976. He was a member of the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress, a charter member of the International Association of Ocular Surgeons and a member of Wallasey Medical Society, becoming president in 1989. He wrote quite widely on ocular subjects, but was particularly interested in vitamin B12 levels in ocular fluids and tobacco amblyopia. His other interests were diverse – music, playing the clarinet, sailing, squash and particularly a lifelong interest in butterflies and moths. Initially he collected specimens and his collection covered all European countries, USA, Thailand, Morocco, Costa Rica, Kenya, the Gambia and Mediera. Later he became more interested in conservation and was a member of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society, Butterfly Conservation and Cheshire Wildlife Trust. Between 1963 and 1991 he had six papers on butterflies and moths published in *The Entomologist* and *The Entomologist’s Record*. In December 1959 he married Jean Burrows, a nurse at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. They had two children, Elizabeth Anne, born in 1965, who is a chartered accountant, and Timothy Charles, born in 1967, a linguist. Roger Ainley died in 2006.
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First Title value, for Searching Ainsley, Alan Colpitts (1890 - 1960)

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First Title value, for Searching Ainslie, Derek (1919 - 2006)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-11-08 2009-02-26
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Derek Ainslie was an ophthalmologist and a pioneer in the development of vision corrective surgery. He was born in Hereford on 19 September 1919, the third child and second son of Janet (née Rogers) and William Ainslie, a surgeon and a fellow of the Edinburgh College. Derek Ainslie was educated at Hereford Cathedral Preparatory School, Sherborne and Clare College, Cambridge, going on to complete his clinical training at the Middlesex Hospital. He subsequently joined the RAMC and was en route to the Far East when the war ended. He remained in the Army, working in Africa until 1948 and reaching the rank of major. He underwent training in ophthalmology at Birmingham Eye Hospital, the Middlesex Hospital, and as senior resident officer at Moorfields Eye Hospital. Soon after completing his training he was appointed consultant ophthalmologist to the Middlesex and Moorfields Eye hospitals, in 1962. His work in ophthalmology was remarkable: he was a pioneer in corneal refractive surgery, using a microkeratome and surgical cryolathe. He worked closely in parallel with José Barraquer, a Spanish surgeon, in what was then a contentious field of work, but which has developed into the laser refractive surgery of today. Derek wrote extensively on the use of antibiotics in ophthalmology, corneal grafting and refractive keratoplasty. Sadly his work was interrupted in 1975 with the onset of a severe illness compounded by deteriorating vision from glaucoma. He retired prematurely at the age of 55. He examined for the diploma in ophthalmology and was a member of the Court of Examiners for the FRCS in ophthalmology. He was an adviser to the Merchant Navy from 1953 to 1963, and ophthalmic surgeon to Chorleywood College for Girls, a school for the partially sighted and blind. He married Robina Susan Lock in 1960, a medical practitioner. They had one son and two daughters. He had a wide interest in music, was a keen salmon and trout fisherman, and an ardent supporter of Arsenal Football Club. He died on 1 August 2006, and is survived by his third wife, Diana, children and grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Ainslie, James Percival (1899 - 1973)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-14
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Occupation General surgeon
Details James Percival Ainslie will long be remembered for the prominent part he played in the establishment of the clinical school in the University of Western Australia, and in the foundation of the Advisory Medical Council for Australia. Ainslie was born in Perth, Western Australia, on 14 August 1899 and went to the Hale School where he distinguished himself as an all-rounder at games as well as work. In 1918 he entered the science faculty of the University of Western Australia, then in the sixth year of its existence, and as the first year's work there was acceptable for entry to the medical course in the University of Melbourne he continued his studies there, a resident in Trinity College, and graduated MB BS in 1923. He was already showing unusual ability, for in addition to being an honours course student he played cricket for his College, and was secretary of the Medical Students' Society. He took the MD in 1924 and became Superintendent of the Melbourne Hospital in 1925. Having held that post for a year, he came over to England and obtained the FRCS in 1927. It was anticipated that he would then return to his hospital in Melbourne, but after much anxious deliberation he decided to go back to his home town where he set up in practice and was appointed surgeon to out patients at the Royal Perth Hospital in 1928, being promoted in-patient surgeon in 1935. By the rules of the hospital the in-patient appointment was limited to 15 years and so he had to retire in 1951. Ainslie had always shown a special interest in neurosurgery and in 1948 he spent some time at Oxford with Hugh Cairns, as well as visiting other specialist centres in the United Kingdom. On his return to Perth a department of neurological surgery was instituted under his leadership and he was able to remain in charge of it till his final retirement in 1959. He was an outstanding teacher, but in addition to his clinical and teaching duties he devoted an astonishing amount of time and energy to administration concerned with the Hospital, the University Senate, and the establishment of professional standards throughout Australia. He was prominent among the small group of clinicians who strove for many years to establish the clinical school in the University of Western Australia, which was finally achieved in 1955. He was a keen supporter of the Western Australia Branch of the BMA and was its President in 1941, Chairman of the State Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and for years was President of the Medical Board of Western Australia. For his many services to medicine he received the honour of the CMG in 1962. James Ainslie was a friendly person who found time for recreation in the local golf club and he also played tennis and bowls. He loved his home and enjoyed welcoming visitors from near and far. In 1930 he married Jean Clemons and they had one son and two daughters. When he died in 1973 his wife and family survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Ainsworth, Hugh (1871 - 1952)

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First Title value, for Searching Ainsworth, James (1783 - 1853)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-05-01
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Manchester, March 5th, 1783, the son of Jeremiah Ainsworth, an accomplished scholar and well-known mathematician, who may be regarded as founder of a Lancashire school of mathematicians, and to whom many references will be found in *Notes and Queries*, 1853, viii, 541. The family of Ainsworth, an ancient one in Lancashire, was originally seated in the township of that name. Their arms are still visible over an archway in Plessington Hall, and by their alliances they acquired feudal estates in the county. Several interesting Ainsworths are mentioned in the *Dictionary of National Biography*. Henry Ainsworth, traveller and hebraist, was born at Plessington in 1560. Another learned ancestor was Robert Ainsworth, FAS, author of the standard Latin Dictionary, first published in 1736. Young James Ainsworth, who is one of the earliest born of the Fellows, carried his weight of hereditary linguistic faculty to the Free Grammar School, Manchester, and studied under Mr Lawson, head master, whose colleagues were Messrs Durbey, Pedley, and Holt. On leaving school he became a private pupil of the eccentric but able Rev Joshua Brookes, who was the son of a crippled shoemaker and of whom many delightful stories were told. In 1798, when only 15 years old, Ainsworth became an apprenticed pupil at the Manchester Infirmary, it being stipulated in his indentures that he should be allowed part of each day to go and take his lessons. Thus he studied the Latin classics and acquired a life-long taste for reading. After serving his apprenticeship he was for a short time Clerk at the Infirmary and acted as House Apothecary for nearly a year, during which an epidemic of fever raged and he almost died of the complaint. Some eminent surgeons were then at the Infirmary, such as Charles White and Benjamin Gibson, the oculist, to whose only child Ainsworth was afterwards guardian. From Manchester he went to Edinburgh, and at the University was the intimate friend of Henry Peter Brougham, afterwards Lord Brougham. When he had finished his training he was already a man of recognized ability, and was invited to enter into partnership with Thomas Henry, maker of calcined magnesia and other valuable chemical preparations. In 1806, at the early age of 23, he was elected Surgeon to the Manchester Infirmary, and held office until 1847, when he became Consulting Surgeon. He was also at one time Consulting Surgeon to the Workhouse. There appears to be some doubt as to who first started the medical schools of Manchester. Ainsworth is stated to have been the first to commence anatomical lectures in Manchester, which he began in conjunction with John Atkinson Ransome (q.v.), and he may therefore be regarded as the originator of what has since become the Royal School of Medicine and Surgery, Pine Street. It is worthy of notice, as one of the ‘small beginnings’, that Ainsworth converted the hay-loft over his stable into a lecture theatre. He was most indefatigable and enthusiastic in the pursuit of professional knowledge, and an exceedingly skilful manipulator. Some of his preparations, we are assured, are not to be surpassed, even at the present time. As an instance, we may mention an injected preparation of a large mastiff dog in which all the principal arteries of the body (with the sole exception of the aorta) had been successfully secured by ligature, without destroying the animal’s life. Ainsworth was, indeed, regarded as one of the ablest operators of his day in Manchester. He was among the founders of the Manchester Natural History Society, and of the Botanical and Horticultural Society, and always took a great interest in their progress and in the museum and gardens. In January, 1805, he became a member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, and at the time of his death nearly half a century later was one of its two oldest surviving members. “In conjunction with the late Mr Thomas Fleming and others, he was one of the revivers of an old Manchester club, which in its days was famous, under the appellation of ‘John Shaw’s’, from the name of the landlord, who is said to have enforced early hours upon his guests by the cracking of a large horsewhip at a fixed time. This club, which still exists, may be regarded as the only link between the social and convivial institutions of ‘Old Manchester’ and those of the present day.” Ainsworth was most hospitable and his large charity was scrupulously unostentatious, and “indeed carefully kept from the knowledge of the world”. He died at his residence, Cliff Point, Lower Broughton, Manchester, on Friday, Oct 28th, 1853, leaving a widow and one son, Dr Ralph Ainsworth. There is a portrait at the Royal Infirmary painted by George Withington. PUBLICATION:- *Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on Anatomy and Physiology*. Conjointly with J A RANSOME. Manchester, 1812.
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First Title value, for Searching Ainsworth-Davis, John Creyghton (1895 - 1976)

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First Title value, for Searching Aird, Ian (1905 - 1962)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on 4 July 1905 son of William Aird and Jean Elizabeth Binnie, he was educated at George Watson's College and the University of Edinburgh where he obtained the Thomson Scholarship, Wightman Prize and Annandale Gold Medal. Postgraduate studies followed in Paris, Vienna and St Louis, Missouri. In 1935 he was appointed surgeon to the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh and assistant surgeon to the Royal Infirmary. During the period between these appointments and the beginning of the war in 1939 he acquired a great reputation as a teacher of surgery in Edinburgh and as a coach for higher surgical examinations. On the outbreak of war he joined the RAMC rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and being twice mentioned in dispatches. Most of his service was in the North African campaign as one of the pioneers of a mobile surgical unit. For a brief period he became a prisoner of war in the ebb and flow of the campaign and received praise from both Germans and Italians for his treatment of their wounded. When he returned to Scotland in 1944 he was appointed assistant surgeon to the professorial unit in Edinburgh and deputy director of the Wilkie Surgical Laboratories. In 1946 he was appointed Professor of Surgery in the Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith in succession to Professor Grey Turner. A man of outstanding academic achievement and phenomenal industry he was an ideal director of a research unit and an inspiration to men working with him. In 1953 he achieved notoriety for an operation to separate Siamese Twins from Kano, Nigeria. This publicity tended to obscure his much more solid and important surgical achievements, such as the development of the heart-lung machine and of organ transplantation. He served on the Court of Examiners and the Council of the College and examined in London, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Singapore, Colombo, Kampala, Khartoum and Cairo. He travelled extensively as an invited guest to surgical centres: in 1949 in the US at New York, Philadelphia and New Orleans; in 1952 in Malaya; in 1953 in the Union of South Africa; in 1955 in the US again, at Minneapolis, Houston and Rochester; in 1956 in Canada and Poland; in 1957 at Chicago and Minneapolis; in 1958 at Stockholm; in 1959 at Chicago, Indianapolis, Philadelphia and Los Angeles; in 1960 at Athens, Beirut, Pakistan, East Africa and Oslo; and in 1961 at Khartoum, Ceylon, British Guiana, Montreal, Windsor, Toronto, Cleveland, Toledo, New York, Prague, Lyons, and Brussels. This involved the most strenuous professional duties and no less strenuous social obligations. As a writer his outstanding achievement was his *Companion to Surgical Studies*, a large book deriving from his notes as a postgraduate teacher, a tour-de-force coming from a single pen, published in 1949. All this intense activity in an individual with an innately sensitive temperament, although apparently supremely extroverted, inevitably took its toll, and on 17 September 1962 he was found dead in bed at Hammersmith Hospital, from barbiturate poisoning taken while suffering from depression. He married in 1936 Margaret, daughter of William Goodman Cowes of Buenos Aires, who survived him with a son and a daughter. A memorial service attended by the President and Council of the College was held in St Columba's Church, Pont Street on 11 October 1962. Publications *A companion to surgical studies* Livingstone 1949. *The making of a surgeon* Butterworth 1961. Military surgery in geographical perspective. *Edinb med J* 1944, 51, 166-183. Surgery of peripheral nerve injury. *Postgrad med J* 1946, 22, 225-254. Surgery of biliary system. *Ann Roy Coll Surg Engl* 1948, 2, 194-209. Genesis of peptic ulceration. *Edinb med J* 1949, 56, 89-98. Surgical aspects of interhepatic biliary obstruction. *Ann Surg* 1952, 136, 27-38. Conjoined Twins of Kano. *Brit med J* 1954, 1, 831-837. Blood groups in reaction to peptic ulceration and carcinoma (et al). *Brit med J* 1954, 2, 315-321. Primary aldosteronism. *Quart J Med* 1957, 26, 317-333.
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First Title value, for Searching Aitken, Andrew Blair (1882 - 1935)

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First Title value, for Searching Aitken, David McCrae (1876 - 1954)

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First Title value, for Searching Aitken, Leicester Hammond (1911 - 1992)

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First Title value, for Searching Aitken, Robert Young (1872 - 1950)

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First Title value, for Searching Aitken, Sydney Graham ( - 1975)

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

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by R M Kirk
Publication Date 2012-10-17 2012-12-05
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Occupation Gastro-oesophageal surgeon General surgeon
Details Hiroshi Akiyama was professor of surgery at Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, and an internationally renowned gastro-oesophageal surgeon. He was born on 2 July 1931 in Chiba, Japan, the son of Dr Mizuki Akiyama. He studied medicine at the University of Tokyo, qualifying in 1955. He then spent a year on a rotating internship at the United States Army Hospital, Camp Zama. From 1956 to 1957 he was a surgical intern at Buffalo General Hospital, New York, on a Fulbright scholarship. He then returned to Japan, as a surgical resident in Tokyo. His postdoctoral research extended from 1975 to 1986. He investigated tumour types in oesophageal cancer, appropriate dissection of gastrointestinal cancer and techniques of gastrointestinal anastomosis. He also studied problems in bile duct reconstruction. Further research followed into improving the results of surgery for gastrointestinal malignancy in terms of survival. Some of this work was concentrated on oesophageal cancer, but gastric cancer was also incorporated. Within these studies, he looked at techniques of filming the deep surgical field, adjuvant immunochemotherapy and reconstruction techniques. Akiyami held a number of hospital appointments during his training and as a consultant surgeon. He was a clinical instructor and member of the surgical staff of Tokyo University Hospital from 1963 to 1972, consultant to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Hospital, lecturer at the University of Tokyo and University of Tsukuba schools of medicine, and visiting professor at the Tokyo Medical College from 1986 to 2003. He was a member of 10 Japanese medical societies devoted to various gastroenterological and other cancers, and also on the editorial boards of 10 journals. Hiroshi Akiyama was an honorary member or fellow of 22 institutions in the USA, South America, Asia and Europe. He was an honorary visiting professor at 14 centres outside Japan. His writings were in Japanese and English, based on results obtained at the Toranonom Hospital in Tokyo. As far back as 1980 Richard Earlam at the London Hospital had reviewed reports of 83,783 patients with squamous oesophageal cancer and concluded that of 100 patients presenting, 58 were explored. Of these, 39 had resections performed and 26 of them left hospital. After a year, 18 had survived, but only four survived for five years. The very next year, Akiyama reported his personal series of 354 similar patients, of whom 210 had had resections. Operative mortality was 1.4% and 34.6% survived for five years! His pathological examination of the meticulously resected, plotted and studied specimens demonstrated the wide spread of cancer to glands, irrespective of the primary location. Hiroshi's attitudes ran very parallel with those of Norman Tanner, the doyen of British gastric surgeons - obsessive clearance of cancer and glands, followed by perfect apposition during reconstruction. Two young surgeons were sent from the Royal Free Hospital in London to observe him. They returned full of admiration: one was allowed to participate in the procedures. He particularly appreciated the commitment to the highest standards of performance. The second was invited to remain and help with the editing of the famous book, *Surgery for cancer of the esophagus* (Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins, c.1990). He reported that Hiroshi was as determined to achieve full and accurate reporting as he was to achieve exemplary performance of the operations. During the extended visit he found Akiyama and his wife to be wonderfully hospitable hosts. In particular, Hiroshi was quiet, unassuming, conducting himself with humility and willing to listen and to teach juniors. Those of us who had the privilege of knowing Akiyama acknowledge him as a master clinician and operator, and a major contributor, committed to excellence. He dedicated himself to his patients, to surgery and to science. Those of us who became aware of his achievements late in our careers recognised that we had been dinosaurs. Outside medicine, his hobbies were the violin and tennis. He married Kazuko Morimoto in 1958 and they had three children: daughters Mariko and Yoko, and son Futoshi, who is a plastic surgeon. Akiyama died on 21 September 2012.
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First Title value, for Searching Akpan-Essien, Akpaneyen (1946 - 2011)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-27 2015-02-16
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General surgeon
Details Akpaneyen Akpan-Essien was a consultant surgeon in the Cross River State, Nigeria. He was born on 21 March 1946 in Ubium, Ibibio Land, Nigeria, the son of David Akpan-Essien and Grace Akpan-Essien née Udoekpo, both peasant farmers. His great grandfather was a landowner, general and physician to the clan chief, while his uncle, John Udoekpo, was one of the first doctors to be trained by the British. Akpan-Essien was educated at the local Ubium district council primary school, then a mission school at Etinan, and went on to take science A levels at the Federal Emergency Science School in Lagos on a scholarship. From 1970 to 1975 he attended the University of Nigeria Medical School, where he was particularly supported by his mentor Fabian Udekwu. In 1978 he attended the primary course at the Royal College of Surgeons and went on to pass his final examination in 1983. He became a consultant surgeon to the government of the Cross River State in Nigeria, but political and religious crises in the area meant he was forced back to the UK, where he carried out a number of locum appointments as a consultant in accident and emergency units. He was a founding member of the African Academy in Ubium, which aims to promote education and skills training, and was an academic counsellor to the council of elders of Ubium-Ibibio. Outside medicine, he enjoyed table tennis, classical music, reading, writing and jogging. He was interested in issues of social justice. In 1997 he had to retire early due to cancer of the prostate. He died on 10 February 2011, aged 64. He had a daughter, Ekaefe Grace, and a son, Marc Emmanuel Aroud.
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First Title value, for Searching Al-Bahrani, Zuhair Raouf (1932 - 2019)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2020-04-14
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Zuhair Raouf Al-Bahrani was a distinguished professor of surgery in Baghdad. He was born in 1932 and qualified MB, ChB in 1955 in Iraq before travelling to the UK to study for his FRCS. After passing the LMSSA and the fellowship of the college in 1963, he spent some time as a surgical registrar at the Highlands General Hospital in Winchmore Hill, London. On his return to Iraq, he initially became a lecturer in the department of surgery at the College of Medicine which was attached to the University of Baghdad and was appointed professor in 1977. Firmly dedicated to medical education, he enjoyed expanding surgical training in his country. He published widely in the international medical literature from 1964 to 2014, largely relating to cancer and lymphoma in Iraq and the Middle East generally. A significant study, published in 2003, covered the increase in colorectal cancer in Iraq. As part of his commitment to the college, he donated pathological specimens of primary intestinal lymphoma to the Hunterian Museum and also to the Wellcome Trust. He died from a stroke on 8 September 2019 and was survived by two sons, a daughter and seven grandchildren. In 2021 his biography was published in Arabic titled *The genius of surgery in Iraq: biography of Professor Zuahir AlBahrani * (Aqam Academic Books, 2021).
Resource Identifier RCS: E009732
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First Title value, for Searching Al-Ghatta, Ayman Kashif (1947 - 1993)

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First Title value, for Searching Al-Hayo, Tharwat Idrees Sulaiman (1955 - 2021)

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by The Al-Hayo family
Publication Date 2021-10-20 2022-05-03
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Occupation General surgeon Oncologist
Details Tharwat Al-Hayo was a professor of surgery, surgical oncologist and general surgeon in Baghdad, Iraq. He was born on 30 November 1955 in Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq, the son of Idrees Sulaiman Al-Hayo, a school teacher, and Khayriyah Al-Hayo née Sallo, a housewife. As a young teenager he moved with his family to Baghdad, where he lived and worked until the day he died. Despite being one of the first high school graduates who qualified for a government paid overseas scholarship in engineering, he decided to pursue his dream and passion for medicine instead. He qualified from Baghdad Medical College in 1979. He finished his internship and residency in the state-of-the-art hospital complex, the Medical City, Baghdad, Iraq and then joined the Iraqi Army as a medical officer/surgeon. He served during the First and Second Gulf Wars in the field, and in secondary and tertiary hospitals throughout the country. He received multiple medals for his dedication and establishing excellence in surgical care. Despite the intensity of his military experiences, he managed to train and obtain certification from the Arab Board of General Surgery in 1989. His aspirations surpassed those around him, and he followed his dream of obtaining the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, which he acquired in 2002. Since his early days, he aspired to perfection and inspired everyone to do the same. After retiring from the Army as a brigadier general in 1999, he decided to dedicate himself to education. He started his teaching career immediately at the Baghdad College of Medicine, the most prestigious medical school in the country. He became a professor in 2007. He was appointed as a supervisor of the Arabian and the Iraqi Surgical Board examination in 2003. He became a member of the court of examiners at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2015. He was a keen researcher. He had a staggering publication record of 24 articles and two books funded by the World Health Organization. He attended and presented at numerous national and international conferences. His dream was to re-establish the Baghdad School of Medicine amongst its international peers in terms of education and research. As such, he became editor-in-chief of the *Journal of the Faculty of Medicine Baghdad* in 2004 and remained in post for 17 years. He helped establish the journal’s online platform and included the journal in the Open Access Directory. He also helped establish the first oncology unit in the country and led the first Iraqi surgical oncology multidisciplinary meeting. He was appointed as the head of the surgical department at Baghdad Teaching Hospital in 2021. Tharwat had an avid affection for flowers and for his garden. He loved art and procured many paintings and artwork throughout his life. He supported many local artists as he aimed to reignite Iraqi art. He indulged in the ancient and modern history of Iraq and Europe. He was a happy traveller; his favourite country was always Iraq, but he loved visiting Paris, London and Vienna in particular. Despite his numerous health conditions, he continued to challenge life even more than it challenged him – living a full life to the best of his abilities. Through good and hard times, he motivated and inspired hundreds of medical students and junior doctors who chose to follow his footsteps into surgery, charmed by his enthusiasm, work ethic, humility, attitude to surgery and, more importantly, to life. His uncompromising nature, optimism, approachability, sense of humour, passion for teaching and kind heart, made him a beacon of shining light to his students, colleagues and to his own family. Despite all his achievements, work never distracted him from his immediate and extended family, and to them he was a mighty pillar of strength, kindness and generosity. Tharwat Al-Hayo passed away on 4 June 2021 at the age of 65 in Baghdad after a short but difficult fight with COVID-19, the pandemic that changed the world. He was survived by his wife, Etihad Salih (née Amash), also a doctor, and two sons and one daughter – all doctors. We cherish Tharwat, the father, the friend, the teacher, the mentor and the excellent surgeon he was. We are thankful for every minute we have spent with him, and we will continue to live up to his beautiful standards.
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First Title value, for Searching Al-Mamar, Ahmed Edan Mohammed (1966 - 2012)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-07-12 2014-07-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374821374821
Occupation General surgeon
Details Ahmed Edan Mohammed Al-Mamar was a surgeon from the United Arab Emirates. He gained his FRCS (ad eundem) in 2010 and died on 21 May 2012.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002638
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First Title value, for Searching Al-Naib, Falah Showkat (1942 - 2019)

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by Rajaa H D Al-Khuzai
Publication Date 2019-09-16 2020-01-06
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009600-E009699
Occupation General surgeon
Details Falah Shawkat Al-Naib was a senior consultant surgeon and head of the department of surgery at Al Diwaniya General Hospital, Iraq. He was born in Baghdad, Iraq on 1 July 1942 and was educated in the city. He studied medicine at the University of Baghdad medical school and qualified in 1966. He then carried out a compulsory period of service in the Iraqi Army as a second lieutenant medical doctor. He subsequently worked and trained at Medical City in Baghdad as a house officer, senior house officer and registrar in the orthopaedic department. He was then he was a registrar in the surgical department there for two years. In April 1971, he married Rajaa Al-Khuzai, who was also a doctor and became a fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. In October of the same year, Falah and his wife fled to the UK. He worked at many hospitals in London, including at Kingston Hospital. He gained his FRCS in 1974, and worked and trained as a registrar and senior registrar in neurosurgery at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon. In 1976, he went back to Iraq, where he worked as a consultant surgeon and head of department at Al Diwaniya General Hospital. During this time, he worked hard and did his best to reform the department. Falah operated on the most complicated cases, without referring his patients on to Baghdad unless absolutely necessary. He operated on hundreds of cases of war injuries during the eight years of the war with Iran. In 1986, he was granted the title of senior consultant surgeon. He retired in 2005. Falah published many papers in the Iraqi Medical Journal, including on breast surgery and hiatus hernia. He died peacefully on 19 April 2019 in Glasgow.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009637
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First Title value, for Searching Al-Sheikhli, Abdul Raazak Jasim (1936 - 2007)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-07-25 2008-11-28
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372561372561
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Abdul Razaak Jasim Al-Sheikhli was an ENT consultant at the Mayday Hospital, Croydon. He was born on 20 November 1936 in Baghdad, the son of Jasim Al-Sheikhli, an Imam, and his wife, Sabria. He was educated at the Al-Risafa Intermediate School and Adhamiya Secondary School, in Baghdad, before going on to Baghdad Medical College. During his residency period at the Republic Teaching Hospital of Baghdad he witnessed and treated the victims of revolutions, and saw the body of the recently murdered president, General Kasim, and his body guards, lying in the mortuary. After doing his National Service as a lieutenant in the Iraqi Air Force, where he served in Basra, he went to England with a scholarship from the Iraqi Ministry of Health, to train in surgery. He was a senior house officer at Ipswich and Clare Hall, and was subsequently a registrar at Southampton Chest Hospital. In 1970 he returned to Iraq, as a general and thoracic surgeon in the Hilla district and Mirjan, Al-Shaab, Al-Tuwithw and Labourers hospitals. He returned to England in 1973 to specialise in ENT, becoming a senior house officer at Farnborough Hospital and registrar at Ipswich and the Royal Ear Hospital, where he was greatly helped by Bill Gibson. He was then a senior registrar at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary for nearly two and a half years. In 1981 he was appointed ENT consultant at the Mayday Hospital. He published on talc granuloma of the vocal cords following intubation, pain in the ear, and the microbiology of the adenoids. He married Sheila née Page, a nurse, in 1968. They had two sons, Peter, an artist, and Stephen, a musician. He died on 4 February 2007 of acute myeloid leukaemia.
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First Title value, for Searching Alabaster, Edward Beric (1893 - 1971)

2025-06-14T13:56:04Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-14 2014-07-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377793377793
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Edward Alabaster was born on 14 April 1893 at Parkhill, Moseley, Birmingham the fifth son of Arthur Alabaster, a manufacturing jeweller, and Catherine Birch. He was educated at King Edward VI School and Birmingham University. When the first world war broke out in 1914 Alabaster was only two-thirds through his medical training; he immediately joined Lady Sybil Paget's Red Cross Unit serving as a dresser in Serbia and Salonika, but in 1915 he returned to England and qualified in 1916. He then joined the RAMC and was posted to Mesopotamia where he remained until the end of the war, with the rank of Captain. He received in recognition of his services the Serbian White Eagle Cross and the 1914-18 war medals. After the war he decided to specialise in ophthalmic work, and took the DO in 1921 at Oxford. Soon afterwards he was appointed surgeon to the Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital, which he served for over 30 years. He was elected a Fellow of the College in 1948. Alabaster became an authority on the treatment of squint, and he took this as his subject for the Montgomery Lecture in Dublin in 1973. He was also a Richard Middlemore lecturer in 1936 and 1954. Alabaster was the first in Birmingham to perform cataract extraction by the intracapsular method. Among other appointments he was consulting surgeon to the Children's Hospital, Birmingham, and ophthalmic surgeon to the Worcestershire County Council Education Department. In later years he developed an interest in diet and nutrition and lectured on the nutritional background of certain ophthalmic problems. He became President of the Midland Ophthalmological Society. In 1924 he married Margaret Verrinder Sydenham, daughter of Colonel Edward Verrinder Sydenham, DSO, who was a descendant of the famous seventeenth-century Dr Thomas Sydenham. After retirement Alabaster served in National Health clinics, but unfortunately developed diabetes and in 1967 underwent an amputation of a leg. In younger days Alabaster was a keen player of tennis and golf, but his chief interest was always his work. Three months before his death he had to enter hospital for the amputation of his other leg, and he died from diabetes on 13 July 1971 at the age of 78, survived by his wife, son and daughter (Dr A C Alabaster MB ChB).
Resource Identifier RCS: E005610
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First Title value, for Searching Albers, Alfred Gustave August ( - 1951)

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First Title value, for Searching Albert, Eduard (1841 - 1900)

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First Title value, for Searching Albert, George Frederick (1771 - 1853)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-10-18 2016-01-15
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372596372596
Occupation General surgeon
Details Born Dec 18th 1771, and became an army surgeon. He was gazetted Staff Surgeon on Aug 30th, 1799, was placed on half pay in 1802, and restored to full pay on March 17th, 1803, when he exchanged to the cavalry depot at Maidstone. He was promoted Deputy Inspector of Hospitals on Nov 4th, 1813, and was put on half pay on Nov 25th, 1815. Practised at Cheltenham and at various times at St George's Terrace, Hyde Park, and in the Isle of Wight. He died on April 5th, 1853. Albert's thesis for the Edinburgh MD may have been [1] *Quœdam de Morbis Ætatum* (8vo, Edinburgh, 1823), but he is not given credit for it as a thesis in the Index Catalogue, USA Army. [Amendment from the annotated edition of *Plarr's Lives* at the Royal College of Surgeons: [1] 'may have been' deleted and 'was' added]
Resource Identifier RCS: E000412
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First Title value, for Searching Albert, Moss (1914 - 2007)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2020-08-12
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009700-E009799
Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Moss Albert was an orthopaedic surgeon in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He was born on 18 April 1914 in the East End of London, the son of Barnett Albert and Lilian Albert née Rabinowitz, and studied medicine at University College London. He qualified in 1937. He was a house physician at University College Hospital, a senior house officer and resident surgical officer at Loughborough General Hospital and a surgeon for the Ministry of Pensions Hospitals in Leeds and Liverpool. In 1939, when the England and Wales Register was being recorded, he was a medical practitioner in Bath. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was a lieutenant in 1944 and served in India and Burma. In 1950 he immigrated to Canada, to Lethbridge in Alberta, where he was associated with the Campbell Clinic. While in Lethbridge he helped establish the city’s first rehabilitation facility. In 1963 he moved to Edmonton, where he was a surgeon at the Misericordia Hospital until 1971. He then spent five years at the Workers’ Compensation Rehabilitation Clinic. He retired in 1976. In 1949 he married Doreen Davis. Albert died on 31 January 2007 at the age of 92. He was survived by his wife, three sons, Adrian, Russell and Colin, and two grandsons, Jeffrey and Bryan.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009756
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First Title value, for Searching Albuquerque, Victor Mansfield (1902 - 1973)

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First Title value, for Searching Alcock, Sir Rutherford (1809 - 1897)

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First Title value, for Searching Alder, Alexander Bruck (1926 - )

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First Title value, for Searching Aldersey, William Hugh ( - 1885)

2025-06-14T13:56:04Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-08-21 2013-08-06
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372839372839
Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at Guy's Hospital and, in addition to the other qualifications, he passed the First MB Examination at the University of London in 1856. Served as Medical Officer on the Indiana during the Crimean War, and afterwards practised at Buntingford, Herts, for the South-Eastern District of which he was Medical Officer. Later he moved to Hayling and Havant in Hampshire, acting as Medical Officer of Health for the Urban and Rural Districts. He retired to Surbiton, living at 7 St James' Road, where he died on Sept 7th, 1885. He was a Fellow of the Obstetrical Society.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000656
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First Title value, for Searching Aldersmith, Herbert (1848 - 1918)

2025-06-14T13:56:04Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-08-21 2016-01-22
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372840372840
Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he gained the senior scholarship, and during his career as a student won the Gold Medal at the Society of Apothecaries and the Scholarship and Gold Medal at the MB Examination of the University of London. He filled the offices of House Surgeon and House Physician at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and, settling in Giltspur Street, was appointed in 1872 Medical Officer of Christ's Hospital (the Bluecoat School), then in Newgate Street. This post he held until 1913, moving with the school to Horsham. He continued to live at Horsham after his connection with the school ended, died suddenly at Carlton Lodge, Horsham, on March 24th, 1918, and was buried at Itchingfield. [1] Aldersmith lived entirely for the Bluecoat School, and greatly to its advantage. His kindness of heart and his friendly interest endeared him to all the boys brought into contact with him. The declaration made by the Orator at the Speech Day on the occasion of his retirement, that "there is no healthier school in England than Christ's Hospital", was a tribute to his skill and care. He was an influential and respected honorary member of the Medical Officers of Schools Association, who became an authority on ringworm before the recent advances in diagnosis and treatment. He began life as H A Smith, became H Alder-Smith when he began to practice, and finally H Aldersmith, by which name he was generally known in later life. Publications:- Ringworm and Alopecia Areata: their Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment, 8vo, illustrated, 4th ed., London, 1897. [Amendments from the annotated edition of *Plarr's Lives* at the Royal College of Surgeons: [1] His daughter Dorothy Constance, wife of Charles Ernest Robinson of Hillcote, Storrington died 20 Sept, 1940 (*The Times* 23 Sept 1940)]
Resource Identifier RCS: E000657
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First Title value, for Searching Alderson, Gerald Graham (1884 - 1961)

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First Title value, for Searching Alderson, John Septimus ( - 1858)

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First Title value, for Searching Alderson, Richard Robinson ( - 1888)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-08-21 2013-08-06
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372842372842
Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at the London Hospital; practised at York, where he was Surgeon to the York Union, Assistant Surgeon to the 2nd West York Militia (Light Infantry), and Honorary Surgeon to the 11th Derbyshire Volunteer Rifles. During the Crimean War he was a First-class Staff Surgeon to the Osmanli Horse Artillery - Turkish Contingent - and on his return to England he practised in Aberdeen Walk, Scarborough, where he seems to have remained until 1863. He moved about this time to Filey, and appears to have died there at some time before 1888. He passed the examination for the Fellowship, but is not registered in the College books as Fellow, nor did he receive the diploma, probably because he never paid the additional fees.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000659
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First Title value, for Searching Alderton, Roland Maitland (1902 - 1991)

2025-06-14T13:56:04Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-01 2022-11-22
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379967379967
Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Minister Physician Missionary
Details Roland Maitland Alderton was born on 20 June 1902 in Hadleigh, Suffolk, son of David Simpson, a miller and corn merchant, and Margaret McLachlan, daughter of a clergyman. He was educated at Tonbridge School and the London Hospital, qualifying MRCS LRCP in 1930 and MB BS in 1931. After working as house surgeon and emergency officer at the London he gained the FRCS in 1932 and went to Hong Kong as medical officer at the Nethersole Hospital. Here he served from 1932-1958, but he was interned by the Japanese between 1942 and 1945 in Stanley, Hong Kong. In 1960 he was ordained minister in the Congregational Church in England and Wales. He was married twice, to Kathleen, née Blackman, who died in 1947 and to Bessie, née Partridge, in 1948. He had a son, Daniel Arthur, who became a physician, and a daughter. He died on 30 December 1991. **See below for an expanded version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 7 of Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk** Roland Maitland Alderton was a medical missionary in Hong Kong. He was born on 20 June 1902 in Hadleigh, Suffolk, the son of Daniel Simpson Alderton, a miller and corn merchant, and Margaret Watson Alderton née McLachlan, from Edinburgh, the daughter of a clergyman. He was educated at Tonbridge School and the London Hospital, where he qualified with the conjoint examination in 1930. He gained his MB BS in 1931. After working as a house surgeon and emergency officer at the London Hospital, he became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1932, the same year he went to Hong Kong as a medical missionary with the London Missionary Society. He worked as a medical officer at Nethersole Hospital until 1942, when he was interned by the Japanese in Stanley Camp. Following the liberation of Hong Kong in 1945, he stayed on in Hong Kong for another six months to help restore and reorganise Nethersole Hospital, and returned to the UK in early 1946. He had married Kathleen Blackman in Battle, Sussex in 1935. She died in January 1947 of ovarian cancer. In October 1948 he married for a second time, to Bessie Partridge in Sudbury, Sussex. He returned to Hong Kong with his new wife in January 1949 and resumed his work at Nethersole Hospital, specialising in obstetrics. He finally returned to the UK in 1958 and studied at Westminster College, Cambridge for two years to become a minister in the Congregational Church. He then took charge of the Congregational Church in Ingatestone, Essex and then at White Roding, also in Essex. He retired in around 1970. He had a son, Daniel Arthur, who became a physician, and a daughter, Margaret. Roland Maitland Alderton died on 30 December 1991 in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. He was 89. Sarah Gillam
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First Title value, for Searching Aldis, Arnold Steadman (1910 - 1999)

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First Title value, for Searching Aldred, George Edward (1816 - 1868)

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First Title value, for Searching Aldridge, John Petty (1813 - 1884)

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First Title value, for Searching Aldridge, Richard Thomas (1930 - 1999)

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First Title value, for Searching Alessandri, Roberto (1867 - 1948)

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First Title value, for Searching Alexander, Charles Linton (1820 - 1887)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-08-21 2013-08-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Apprenticed to Francis Bennett at the Dispensary, Gateshead, Durham, and entered as a matriculated student at King's College, becoming a student at the hospital as soon as it was opened. He was one of the Surgeons of the Royal South London Dispensary until "the dignity of the profession" required that the staff, Messrs Osborn, Johnson, Berrell, Wood, and Alexander, should resign in a body. He was also Surgeon to the Board of Guardians of St Mary's, Newington, whose sick poor he attended, on the death of the regularly appointed surgeon, during an epidemic of typhus fever from which he himself suffered severely. He practised first at 12 Brunswick Street, Dover Road, SE, and afterwards at 45 Trinity Square, Borough, SE, where he died Jan 27th, 1887.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000662
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First Title value, for Searching Alexander, George Lionel (1902 - 1970)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-14
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Occupation Neurosurgeon
Details Alexander was born on 18 January 1902 in a family long associated with the stage, but from an early age was determined to follow a medical career. He was educated at George Watson's Academy and the University of Edinburgh, and qualified in 1925. He then held resident posts at Edinburgh, London and Leicester, before taking the Edinburgh Fellowship in 1931. Before that he obtained a scholarship to the United States and came under the influence of Harvey Cushing whose teaching dominated all young neurosurgeons at that time. In 1933 he joined the department of neurosurgery at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, becoming one of the honorary staff three years later. In 1940 he was appointed neurological surgeon to Bangour Hospital, and during the war years worked with Professor Norman Dott in the Unit which at that time served civilians and service men throughout Scotland. After seventeen years in Scotland he was appointed director of the neurosurgical unit at Bristol, a post he held until his retirement. During this period he gave the Patterson Smythe Lecture at Montreal in 1956 and the Honeyman Gillespie Lecture at Edinburgh in 1957. He was president of the Society of British Neurological Surgeons 1964-66. Alexander travelled widely and was a member of the Portuguese, Spanish and French Neurosurgical Societies, and also belonged to the Surgical Travellers Club. At Bristol Alexander was responsible for a unit which entailed a considerable amount of organisation; his work was rewarded by the opening in 1953 of a first-class twin-theatre block with air-conditioning and ancillary services including a special neuro-X-ray department. Alexander was so absorbed in his work that he had little time for outside pursuits but his chief relaxation was to be found in his garden and in entertaining his many friends at his home in Painswick. Alexander met his wife on the way back from the States and they were married shortly after the commencement of the second world war; she and their four children all survived him. He died at his home in Painswick, Gloucestershire on 8 October 1970 at the age of 68. Publications: Clinical assessment in the acute stage after head injury. *Lancet*, 1962, 1, 171-3.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005613
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First Title value, for Searching Alexander, Harold George (1888 - 1958)

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First Title value, for Searching Alexander, Henry ( - 1859)

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First Title value, for Searching Alexander, Ivan Allan (1915 - 1994)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-01
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Alexander was born in Taradale, Hawkes Bay, and educated at Napier Boys High School and the Otago Medical School, graduating MB ChB in 1939. He was house surgeon at Wellington Hospital in 1940-1941. He served with the New Zealand Army Medical Corps 1942-1945 and was RMO to 8th Brigade in the Pacific and in the CCS. Later he was with a CCS in Italy with the rank of major. After the war he went to London as surgical registrar at the Royal Masonic Hospital, London, and became FRCS in 1946. He returned to New Zealand as surgeon superintendent of Thames Hospital but soon tired of this position. He returned to Napier in 1949 and started as a general practitioner surgeon. Soon he joined the staff of Napier Hospital as a visiting surgeon. He became FRACS in 1949. At that time Napier Hospital was a cottage hospital staffed by general practitioners. Alexander was one of a small group of younger doctors who persuaded the rest of the staff and the hospital board to develop the hospital to a general hospital with fully qualified specialists. He had a very wide range of ability; at the hospital as well as being general surgeon he was for 5 years an orthopaedist and continued to practise gynaecology, obstetrics and genitourinary surgery until he retired. When fibre optics came in he was the first to do gastroscopies in Hawkes Bay. In private he included general practice, surgery and obstetrics. On retiring from hospital at 65 he continued in general practice until he was 78, although he slowed down from advancing cancer of the prostate. Alexander was a quiet, even-tempered man who was quick to make up his mind and get on with the job. He was straightforward in expressing an opinion and a friendly and helpful colleague to work with. Although he never seemed in a hurry, his operating lists were renowned for being very long. As well as his heavy professional work, he found time to run two sheep and cattle stations and an orchard. He played a very significant part in the development of surgery in Hawkes Bay. He married June McCallum in 1941 and he is survived by five children. He died at his home in Napier on 13 March 1994, aged 79.
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First Title value, for Searching Alexander, James ( - 1895)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-09-18 2012-08-30
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Practised at Edenbridge, Kent, from 1843-1847; then at 12 North Audley Street, W, and at Scarborough from 1853-1856. His last address is given at 30 Walbrook, EC. He died either in 1894 or 1895.
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First Title value, for Searching Alexander, William ( - 1919)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-09-18
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Holestone, Co Antrim; educated at Queen’s College, Belfast, where he had a brilliant career and took the University Gold Medal and Exhibition at his MD examination. Coming to Liverpool as soon as he had graduated, he was appointed Resident Medical Officer at the Workhouse Hospital, and in 1875 became Visiting Surgeon to that institution, his address being 102 Bedford Street South. He was awarded the Jacksonian Prize in 1881 for his essay on “The Pathology and Surgical Treatment of Diseases of the Hip-joint”, and in 1883 he won the Sir Astley Cooper Prize at Guy’s Hospital with an essay on “The Pathology and Pathological Relation of Chronic Rheumatic Arthritis”. He held the office of Surgeon to the Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool, from 1889-1910, and on his retirement was elected to the honorary post of Consulting Surgeon. For forty years he acted as Visiting Surgeon to the Brownlow Hill Infirmary. At the time of his death he was Lecturer on Clinical Surgery at the University of Liverpool, Ex-President of the British Gynæcological Society, and a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Territorial Force doing duty with the First Western General Hospital. He died after a few days’ illness on March 9th, 1919, at Heswall, near Liverpool, and is buried there. He had been a widower for many years, and his only son, Dr Moore Alexander, the pathologist, died in 1915. Alexander was a good operator, but his claim to remembrance is his work on epilepsy and his determined attempt to relieve those who suffered from the condition, as was shown by his becoming the founder of a Home for Epileptics at Maghull, of which he was the Visiting Surgeon, and where he obtained good results by ligature of the vertebral arteries and division of the sympathetic nerves. He may justly be regarded as the pioneer of surgery of the sympathetic system, which was developed later by Jaboulay and Leriche (qv) in 1882. He also introduced a new method in the treatment of inveterate uterine displacements by shortening the round ligaments. Publications: *The Cure of Epilepsy and of Inveterate Uterine Displacements*, 8vo, London, 1882, reprinted from articles contributed to the *Med. Times and Gaz.*, 1881, ii, 598; 1882, i, 250, 327. “The Treatment of Epilepsy.” – *Brain*, 1883, v, 170. “Effect of Ligature of Vertebral Arteries in Certain Spinal Diseases.” – *Liverpool Med.-Chir. Jour.*, 1882, 124. *The Treatment of Backward Displacements of the Uterus and of Prolapsus Uteri by the New Method of Shortening the Round Ligaments*, 8vo, London, 1884.
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First Title value, for Searching Alexander-Williams, John (1927 - 2015)

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by Sir Barry Jackson
Publication Date 2015-10-22 2017-03-23
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Occupation Gastroenterological surgeon
Details John Alexander-Williams was one of the country's best known gastroenterological surgeons noted not only for his surgical skill, teaching and many research contributions, but also for his *bonhomie* and *joie de vivre*, making him the life and soul of any meeting. John, often affectionately known by his initials as 'JAWS', was born in 1927 to Herbert Williams, a draftsman and newspaper distributor, and Gertrude Dora (née Alexander). He attended Dudley Grammar School and Sebright School in Wolverley, where he was made head boy in 1944 despite having sold stink bombs to the younger boys and organised a still in the rafters for the benefit of those a little older! In 1945 he proceeded to Birmingham University Medical School, where he won a prize for surgery in 1948. While a student he showed early dramatic promise being an enthusiastic member of the drama society and in 1950, the year he qualified, auditioned for a part in the new BBC radio series *The Archers*. Had he been successful in this audition perhaps he would have gone on to be a distinguished actor rather than a surgeon! National Service (from 1952 to 1954) was spent largely in Austria as a captain in the RAMC, but he was recalled at the time of the Suez Crisis and in 1956 was awarded the Suez Campaign medal. He became an FRCS in 1955. In 1959/60, while a senior registrar in Birmingham, he spent a year overseas as a research fellow to Owen Wangensteen in the Mayo Foundation, Minnesota, returning to become lecturer in surgery at the University of Birmingham in 1961 in the department headed by F A R Stammers. He was subsequently appointed consultant surgeon to Birmingham General Hospital in 1964, where he practiced for the rest of his career, being appointed professor of surgery in 1989. A lifelong socialist, he shunned private practice in favour of clinical surgery and research. Throughout his stellar career John was known for his work in the whole gamut of gastroenterology. A superb technical surgeon and an outstanding teacher, his research was initially in the field of peptic ulceration, notably in the development of selective, then highly selective, vagotomy as the preferred surgical option at a time when partial gastrectomy was the standard surgical treatment. But within a few years of his consultant appointment the need for any form of surgery for peptic ulceration virtually disappeared with the development of effective acid suppressants. He then made major contributions in the management of inflammatory bowel disease, especially Crohn's disease, in which he showed that conservative surgery was often to be preferred over major resection of the affected intestine. Nor did he neglect the anus! Haemorrhoids, fistulas, fissures and pruritis were all grist to his mill and a stream of publications on these often neglected subjects flowed from his pen. He was a prolific writer; as well as numerous original papers, chapters in textbooks and editorials, his books/monographs included *Partial gastrectomy. Complications and metabolic consequences* (London, Butterworths, 1963), *Vagotomy on trial* (London, William Heinemann Medical Books, 1973), *Intestinal fistulas* (Bristol, John Wright, 1982), *Vagotomy in modern surgical practice* (London, Butterworths, 1982) and *Inflammatory bowel diseases* (New York, Edinburgh, Churchill Livingstone, 1997). He was twice a Hunterian professor at the College, in 1963 and 1973, the first presentation titled 'The effects of upper gastrointestinal surgery on blood formation and bone metabolism' and the second titled 'Gastric reconstructive surgery'. Needless to say, he was in great demand as a lecturer both at home and overseas, and became noted for his skills of oratory and his dramatic flair. Before the days of the digital revolution, the author remembers him giving a stunning presentation using two projectors directed to a single screen each working alternately and without pause showing some 200 linked slides in 10 minutes or so. To the audience it was like watching a moving film with John providing the voiceover - the applause was deafening. The time spent in preparation must have been enormous. In 1983 he was elected to the council of the College, where he served diligently for 12 years, becoming vice president in 1994. In 1991 he delivered both the Zachery Cope lecture and the Bradshaw lecture. He was often the after dinner speaker at College dinners given his wit and lucidity. He gave the prestigious Hunterian Oration in 1995, his last year on Council, with the intriguing title of 'Accentuate the positive - eliminate the negative'. It was no surprise to gastroenterologists everywhere when he was elected president of the British Society of Gastroenterology for their 50th anniversary year in 1986. He was president of the section of coloproctology at the Royal Society of Medicine in 1988. Outside of surgery, John was a keen skier and gardener (his garden was open to charity each year) and he was notably talented in painting, drawing and sculpture, the latter giving him special pleasure in his years of retirement. In his early years he was also a mountaineer. He led a well-known colourful social life, but was devoted to his wife Betty (née Brain), a fellow medical student, whom he married in 1951. Betty predeceased him in 2014. There were five children. Sadly, his later years were marred by troublesome heart disease, which he bore stoically. He died on 14 October 2015 aged 88.
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First Title value, for Searching Alford, Henry (1806 - 1898)

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

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

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-09-18 2013-08-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at University College, London, and acted as House Surgeon to the North Staffordshire Infirmary. He moved to London, becoming Surgeon to the North St Pancras Provident Dispensary, Surgeon to the Keepers and Helpers at the Zoological Gardens, Hon Surgeon to the Asylum for Infirm Journeymen Tailors, Medical Officer to the Orphan Workhouse School at Haverstock Hill, and Surgeon-in-Ordinary to the North St Pancras Provident Dispensary. He lived at 7 Park Place, Haverstock Hill, and died on July 5th, 1881, as the result of a railway accident. Alford was an active supporter of the British Medical Association, and throughout his life was interested in the treatment of dipsomania. At the time of his death he was Hon Secretary to the Society for the Promotion of Legislation for the Control and Cure of Habitual Drunkards. Under the auspices of a Committee of the British Medical Association he had organized a home for that purpose near his house, 61 Haverstock Hill, which he had hoped to supervise. Publications: *A Few Words on the Drink Craving, showing the Necessity for Legislative Power as regards Protection and Treatment*. *Dipsomania, its Prevalence, Causes and Treatment.* *The Habitual Drunkards Act, with an Account of a Visit to the American Inebriate Homes.*
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First Title value, for Searching Alhadeff, Robert (1923 - 1973)

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First Title value, for Searching Alimchandani, Kamla Rupchand (1927 - 2015)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2025-03-11
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Occupation Obstetrician Gynaecologist
Details Kamla Rupchand Alimchandani was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Mumbai, India. She was born on 12 October 1927 in Dharwar, India. Her father, Rupchand Alimchandani, was a professor of chemistry. Her mother’s maiden name was Haribhai. Alimchandani studied medicine at the University of Bombay and qualified with an MB BS in 1951 and an MD in 1953. She went to the UK for further training and became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1958. She was also a fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists She returned to Bombay, where she was a consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology and an assistant professor at the Grant Medical College. She worked at the Cama and Albless Hospital, the Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre and the National Hospital. She lived with her sister, brother-in-law and their children. Alimchandani died on 2 August 2015 at the age of 87.
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First Title value, for Searching Allamand, Pablo Juan Bautista (1909 - 2009)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-09-09
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Pablo Juan Bautista Allamand was the doyen of surgery in Chile. Born on 5 August 1909, he was made an honorary fellow of our College in 1972 during the presidency of Sir Edward Muir. He died on 27 July 2009.
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First Title value, for Searching Allan, Arthur (1948 - 2023)

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by Pru Allison
Publication Date 2023-11-28
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Occupation General surgeon Colorectal surgeon
Details Arthur Allan was a consultant general and colorectal surgeon at Good Hope Hospital and an honorary senior clinical lecturer at the University of Birmingham. He was a dedicated, skilled and meticulous surgeon, a compassionate man and a committed Christian. For Arthur, the patient always came first: a human being who should be considered as a whole person and treated as we would care for a member of our own family. Born on 24 July 1948, he came from humble beginnings, an only child, brought up in High Wycombe in a small flat above the cinema run by his parents. His father, also Arthur Allan, was proud of his Scottish ancestors from Aberdeen. He had a distinguished war career as an RAF pilot, before taking over the High Wycombe Theatre Company. His mother, Winifred Rose Allan née Fairman, was of Huguenot descent, a heritage which fascinated Arthur when he later came to research his ancestry. After an unfortunate start to his education – deemed ‘ineducable’ aged six, due to mild undiagnosed dyslexia – Arthur attended Ardingly College from the age of eight. His busy parents wanted him to grow up among other children, and he settled happily in the junior house. He continued to flourish throughout his school life, enjoying success academically as well as on the sports field. He fenced at county level and played hockey and rugby for school teams. He went on to study at St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College, where he was a diligent and successful student, qualifying in 1971. During his student years he played hockey and rugby for Barts, as well as playing for Amersham Hockey Club and later at Wimborne Minster Rugby Club. Arthur was a house surgeon at Barts, working for Edward Tuckwell and Martin Birnstingl, and a house physician at Poole General Hospital. After deciding upon a surgical career, he enjoyed a year demonstrating anatomy and lecturing in embryology at King’s College London, which ignited his love of teaching. His surgical journey continued via Birmingham Accident Hospital and the Medical Research Council’s burns unit at Brompton Hospital (where he was briefly tempted by respiratory medicine) and Wycombe General Hospital. By this time, he was developing a specialist interest in colorectal surgery, and as a surgical registrar at the Middlesex Hospital he undertook weekly sessions at St Mark’s Hospital. This led him to embark upon his MD ‘The role of luminal bacterial antigens in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease’, supervised by Derek Jewell, consultant gastrointestinal physician in Oxford, and completed in 1982. This successful surgical/physician collaboration subsequently influenced Arthur’s balanced and thoughtful approach to every patient in his care. Arthur moved to Bristol as a registrar in general surgery, undertaking paediatric surgery sessions at Bristol Children’s Hospital. In 1983 he was appointed as a senior registrar on the West Midlands training scheme, where he was fortunate to work closely with Robin C N Williamson, John Alexander-Williams and Michael R B Keighley. He spent an elective year in Birmingham and North America, pursuing clinical and research interests in inflammatory bowel disease. In 1988 Arthur was appointed as a consultant general and colorectal surgeon at Good Hope Hospital, a busy district general hospital in north Birmingham. Initially the only colorectal consultant in a small department, he gradually assembled today’s busy specialist coloproctology unit. Arthur relentlessly sought the best available diagnostic and therapeutic support for his patients. Keeping abreast of evidence-based best practice, his vision turned the unit into a comprehensive centre of excellence. He set up the first TEM (Transanal endoscopic microsurgery) service in the West Midlands, and the first anorectal physiology laboratory and endoanal ultrasound service in north Birmingham and south-east Staffordshire. Today, the department employs five consultant surgeons and four specialist nurses, and is widely recognised for first-class patient management, care and outcomes. He nurtured productive collaboration with a range of colleagues, and the surgical team worked closely with five consultant gastroenterologists. Arthur established joint clinics and x-ray meetings, based on a shared interest in inflammatory bowel disease. He initiated weekly multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings and joint clinics to bring together oncological experts. The spirit of co-operation he fostered is perpetuated today in formal MDT meetings, such as complex polyp MDT, IBD MDT and grand rounds. Arthur’s mission was to provide first-class care for all patients with colorectal disease or cancer, with reciprocal interaction between different consultants to continually improve patient management. Arthur took a great interest in young surgeons, and he spent five years as West Midlands specialty adviser in general surgery. He took this position very seriously, conscious of supporting and maintaining the standards of the next generation. He was a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England’s court of examiners from 2007 to 2013, a role he found rewarding. He enjoyed meeting surgical colleagues from elsewhere, sharing ideas and practice. Although time-consuming, he tried to manage these various responsibilities with an efficient and even hand, in a spirit of quiet diplomacy. He was also a council member and West Midlands chapter organiser for the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Ireland. He sat on the clinical services and the education and training committees, and his tenure shaped the West Midlands training scheme for juniors. Arthur was elected president of the West Midlands Surgical Society (2008 to 2009); he initiated and developed the annual Association of Coloproctology teaching day at Good Hope Hospital. During his career Arthur was awarded numerous prestigious prizes, grants and travelling fellowships, which he used to widen his experience and extend his surgical expertise. Research and evidence-based innovation fascinated him, and he always had some ongoing research throughout his career. Despite a busy clinical load, his research output was commendable, with more than 50 published peer-reviewed full papers. He continued to enjoy teaching, later becoming an honorary senior clinical lecturer at Birmingham University. He supervised postgraduate theses, examined for the final MB BS at Good Hope, and the MD at Birmingham University. Juniors and medical students alike benefitted from his clear and patient explanations, and he always made time to encourage youngsters considering a medical career. In retirement, Arthur was characteristically single-minded in his enthusiasm for new interests. Never a linguist at school, he enthusiastically took up French: progressing from ‘no French’, via ‘A’ level, to achieve an Open University diploma in the language. He continued weekly meetings with his advanced French group, where he is fondly remembered as ‘le petit hérisson’ (the little hedgehog), with a strangely pedantic interest in the subjunctive! He travelled to Nîmes in France each year to immerse himself in the language and culture, making lasting friendships there. Arthur began learning the saxophone from scratch, becoming a competent musician, with particular attention to the challenges of music theory. He wrote sonnets and read widely, loved skiing, walking and gardening. In his ‘spare time’ he served as a volunteer at Dogs Trust and brought home several rescue dogs to join the family. He usually had a needy dog by his side, spending fruitful hours patiently rehabilitating them as happy canine companions. Always a faithful churchgoer, Arthur had time in retirement to take on more discipleship roles. He made close friends at Holy Trinity Church, Shrewsbury, where he was an assistant church warden. Two of them started the Say1:4Me parish prayer initiative, visiting local homes to offer prayer for people on their doorsteps. Arthur’s life was defined by his Christian faith. A humble man of wisdom and integrity, warmth and love, humour and patience, he had a compelling quality of focusing on one person at a time, was an empathetic listener and encourager, a practical problem solver and a reflective thinker. He is remembered at Good Hope with affection, respect and admiration for his selfless contribution to the wellbeing of colleagues and the care of generations of patients. He would have been humbled, but touched, to know that the handover room at Good Hope will henceforth be called the Arthur Allan seminar room. Genuine compassion was the cornerstone of Arthur’s life, work and faith. His students and juniors were reminded that ‘although we cannot always cure our patients, we can always be kind to them’. Although self-effacing, Arthur was gratified when several of his juniors confessed that they decided to become surgeons because of the way he approached his practice and cared for his patients. He spotted talents in others and encouraged them to pursue their strengths, nurturing colorectal cancer leads and other leadership roles. He devoted time and care to his patients, carried the burdens of colleagues and mentored many at the start of their careers. His enduring qualities of compassion and care were costly at times, leaving him little to spare for himself. Arthur died on 17 October 2023 at the age of 75. He was survived by his wife Trish (Patricia Mary née Munson), a public health doctor, and their four children Barnaby, Prudence, Eloise and Joseph.
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First Title value, for Searching Allan, Francis Glen (1900 - 1975)

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First Title value, for Searching Allan, Walter Ramsay (1927 - 2003)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-11-15 2006-07-17
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Walter Ramsay Allan, known as ‘Peter’, was a consultant surgeon at Bolton Royal Infirmary. Born on 26 October 1927, he was the second of four sons of Walter Ramsay Allan, a general practitioner based in Edinburgh who had fought in the first world war before completing his medical studies at Glasgow University. His mother was Elizabeth Brownlee née Moffat, a classical scholar who studied at Oxford. Peter went to Lincoln College, Oxford, to read medicine, along with his two younger brothers, all of whom represented the university at sport. Peter also won a Scottish cap for cricket in 1950. He went on to Edinburgh for his clinical studies, qualifying in 1951. After house physician and house surgeon posts at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and Stornaway, he spent two years in the RAMC from 1952 to 1954. He returned to continue his surgical training at Bangor Hospital and Manchester, becoming a senior registrar at Preston and Manchester Royal Infirmaries and finally being appointed consultant surgeon at Bolton. Following his retirement he developed an interest in the Scottish writers of the 18th century and enjoyed walking in the Borders and Pennines. He also enjoyed music and made annual trips to Glyndebourne. He married Anne Evans, a senior house officer in anaesthetics, while he was a surgical registrar. They had two daughters (Ann Ellen Elizabeth and Victoria Jane Moffat) and two sons (Walter Janus Thomas and James Dillwyn Douglas). James became a consultant urologist. Peter died on 12 May 2003.
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First Title value, for Searching Allard, William (1818 - 1894)

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First Title value, for Searching Allcock, Edward Ambrose ( - 2005)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2018-11-20 2021-05-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Edward Ambrose Allcock was born in Leicestershire in either 1918 or 1919. He first visited Australia while serving as a surgeon lieutenant in the Royal Navy during the second world war. After passing the fellowship of the college in 1955, he returned and settled in Melbourne becoming a general surgeon at the University of Melbourne’s department of surgery. In 1977 he moved to the Lower Clarence area in New South Wales and established a GP practice, also working at the Maclean Hospital. Known to his patients as *Dr Ted*, he was regarded with great respect and known as a humane and compassionate man. For his service to the community and his work in medical education he was awarded the order of Australia medal. He retired at the age of 65 and was then able to spend more time exercising his talents as a gifted cook. On 1 November 2005 he died at the age of 86, having suffered for a year from pancreatic cancer. His wife Rosemary survived him together with his daughters Alison Allcock, Catherine McNabb, sons Stephen and Johnathon and stepson, Alec Waugh.
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First Title value, for Searching Alldred, Alan Joseph (1920 - 2000)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-13
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Alan Alldred was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon and a former President of the New Zealand Orthopaedic Association. He was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 10 June 1920, the son of Joseph Alldred, the assistant head of Brown's Commercial College and Kate, neé Brown, the founder and head of the college, and the daughter of a gold-miner from Kyeburn Diggings, Otago. Alldred was educated at Normal Street Junior School, where he was *dux*, and Otago Boys' High School. He qualified at Otago, where he won five blues for playing hockey. He was house surgeon to Renfrew White, doyen of orthopaedic surgery in New Zealand. After a year as orthopaedic registrar at Auckland, he spent a year in the New Zealand Army Medical Corps, and returned to be demonstrator in anatomy at Otago. In 1948 he worked his passage to England as medical officer on the *SS Coptic*, passed the primary and final FRCS in 1949, and become registrar at Great Ormond Street. He then specialised in orthopaedics, serving at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital Oswestry. He returned to Dunedin as assistant visiting orthopaedic surgeon and lecturer at the University of Otago. In 1956 he was appointed consultant to the South Canterbury Hospital Board and, in 1958, to the Waitaki Hospital Board. In 1961 he undertook a major tour of overseas orthopaedic centres and studied in England for a paper on congenital pseudarthrosis of the clavicle, which remains a classic on this topic. In 1962 he was appointed director of orthopaedic services. He was closely involved with the development of the New Zealand Orthopaedic Association, becoming its President in 1968. Hitherto most aspiring orthopaedic surgeons had gone overseas to get specialist training: Alan organised a New Zealand training programme, which became a model for Australasia. In 1972 he was appointed Foundation Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Otago, a chair that became autonomous in 1978. He was a member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He was twice awarded the Orthopaedic Association's Gillies medal for his original scientific contributions and was made an Honorary Fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association in 1970. He was appointed a CBE on his retirement in 1982 for services to orthopaedic medicine. He then began a new career as medical superintendent of the Kew Hospital. A national Alan Alldred Travelling Fellowship in orthopaedics was established in his memory, the first fellow being appointed in 2001. In 1945, he married Pat, who was a nurse at the Dunedin Hospital. They had one daughter, Susan, who became a psychotherapist, and two sons, John and Christopher, who became a doctor. He died on 13 December 2000, after a long afternoon in the garden.
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First Title value, for Searching Allen (or Allan), James (1821 - 1892)

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First Title value, for Searching Allen, Arthur William (1887 - 1958)

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First Title value, for Searching Allen, Geoffrey Louis (1927 - 2019)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2020-11-24
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Occupation Cardiothoracic surgeon
Details Geoffrey (Geoff) Louis Allen was born on 11 April 1927 in Peshawar, Pakistan which, at that time was part of British India. He was the oldest child of Alexander James Grant Allen, a doctor, and his wife Eileen Trixie née Fitzgerald. He attended Lamartiniere School in Lucknow, India where he was in their auxiliary force during the last two years of the second world war and underwent training to resist the Japanese who were occupying Burma. Later he commented that the school had a history of *battle honours* and that a contingent of their pupils defended the Residency during the Indian Mutiny in 1857. He studied medicine at the Christian Medical College Hospital in Vellore, South India as one of the first batch of male students and later continued to attend alumni reunions for many years. On graduating MB, BS from the University of Madras in 1952, he did house jobs in the Vellore Hospital before travelling to the UK. After working as a registrar at the Sheffield Royal Infirmary, he became a senior registrar at the Harefield Hospital in London. While in England he was influenced by the work of Sir Thomas Holmes Sellors. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1964. Travelling to New Zealand he worked as a cardiothoracic surgeon at the Green Lane Hospital in Auckland where he was influenced by the work of the New Zealand cardiothoracic surgeons, Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes and David Cole. He also practiced as a thoracic and vascular surgeon at the Waikato Hospital in Hamilton. Outside medicine he enjoyed skiing and playing golf and tennis. An interest in military history led him to make a study of the decisive battles of the world. Colleagues remembered a convivial and entertaining man who prided himself on perfecting the New Zealand war cry complete with dance. He married Shirley Connors in 1968 and they had two sons and a daughter. He died at home on 14 October 2019. Shirley predeceased him and he was survived by their children David, Janet and Chris, and grandchildren, Kate, Nicole, Logan, Daniel and Charlotte.
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First Title value, for Searching Allen, Harold Sandeman (1895 - 1960)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-20
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Occupation General surgeon Gynaecologist
Details Born in 1895 one of the four sons of Sir John Sandeman Allen (1865-1935), general manager and afterwards vice-chairman of the Union Marine Insurance Company and MP for the West Derby division of Liverpool; his mother was Amy Spencer, he was educated at Gresham's School and King's College, Cambridge, where he had one term in 1914. He was then commissioned in the Liverpool Scottish, saw active service in France and was several times wounded. He was at King's again 1919-20 and played Rugby football for the College. He took his clinical training at St Thomas's where he later held resident posts, after a house surgeoncy at the Royal Northern Hospital. Sandeman Allen went into practice at Cheltenham in 1930 and joined the staff of the General Hospital in 1933. He was also on the staff of the hospitals at Cirencester, Bourton-on-the-Water, Moreton-in-Marsh, and Evesham. When war broke out again in 1939 he went on active service in France and afterwards was attached to the Eighth Army in the Western Desert, as a Lieutenant-Colonel RAMC in command of a casualty clearing station. He was created OBE for his war service. After his return to Cheltenham he took up his large gynaecological practice and was appointed consultant gynaecologist to the North-East Gloucester area under the South-Western Regional Hospitals Board. Sandeman Allen married in 1930 Margaret Sylvia Harries, who survived him with their two daughters. He died a week before he was due to retire from his official appointments on 30 June 1960 aged 64. He was an energetic sports-loving man of open-hearted, honest and punctilious character, with highly skilled hands. He was a cabinet-maker and conjurer, and out of doors enjoyed shooting, swimming and golf. In younger days he had been a fine Rugby player. He held high rank in Freemasonry, was an honorary Lieutenant-Colonel in the Territorial Reserve, and was senior medical officer to Cheltenham race-course. Publications: Variation in the female pelvis, with C Nicholson. *Lancet* 1946, 2, 192. Haematometra caused by disappearance of the cervical canal after labour. *J Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp* 1947, 54, 377.
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First Title value, for Searching Allen, John Chatteris Bell (1903 - 1964)

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First Title value, for Searching Allen, Leonard Norman (1929 - 2014)

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by Robert J Ryall
Publication Date 2014-06-13 2014-11-28
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Leonard Norman Allen ('Len') was a urological surgeon at Edgware General Hospital, Middlesex. He was born in the village of Brede, Sussex, on 30 April 1929, the youngest son of Norman Williams Allen and Mildred Kathleen Allen née Hoad. His father, a much-respected member of the local community, was a grocer and the village sub-postmaster for half a century. Len's mother, very protective of her last born, postponed her son's entry to the local primary school until his sixth year due to the severe visual impairment from which he had suffered since birth. His condition, severe myopia, was not finally diagnosed until he was nine years old. It is said that, on receiving his first pair of spectacles, he 'whooped with joy' on being able to see the world around him properly for the first time. Despite his delayed start, he won an entrance scholarship to Rye Grammar School, but his progress was again encumbered; with the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, he was, like many other children, evacuated, in his case to a kind, welcoming family on a farm near the comparative safety of Bedford. It was four years before he was able to return to Rye Grammar School, from which he again achieved scholastic success, and was awarded a state scholarship in his final term. This enabled him to enrol - after conscription for two years of National Service in the RAF - at University College Hospital Medical School. He qualified MB BS and MRCS LRCP in 1954. Len Allen's pre-registration posts were at Leicester General and Leicester Royal hospitals, where he first met a young newly-qualified Scottish doctor, Elizabeth Taylor. They married in 1957. Len chose to embark on a surgical career. He obtained his FRCS in 1959 and was shortly afterwards appointed as a junior registrar at his alma mater, University College Hospital, and then as a senior surgical registrar to Robin Sturtevant Pilcher and Doreen Nightingale, and, after that, upon the death of the former, to Charles Clarke. He was appointed as a consultant surgeon to Edgware General Hospital, where he spent the rest of his professional life. He brought with him a particular vision, influenced by the values of Beveridge and the optimism of the immediate post-war years, which saw the development of the welfare state and the NHS. He believed in the importance of working together, in a cross-fertilisation of all talents, that one person's amassing of awards, prizes or accumulation of research papers, pursued as a measure of merit, could be bettered by joint endeavour and shared recognition. Len, as a consequence, was elected chairman of the consultant surgical group by his peers. In his professional life, Len was an able, trustworthy and judicious surgeon to his patients; for his colleagues, he was a faithful friend, dependable in counsel and constant in support. In his personal life, Len was a stalwart, strong, good-humoured and ever-loving husband, a thoughtful and caring father, and the fondest of grandfathers. One of his children became a doctor, two became veterinary surgeons and another is a qualified nutritionist, while three of his eight grandchildren are studying medicine: there can be no greater compliment paid to a doctor from his family. In his final illness, which was sudden and unanticipated, he showed staunch courage, boundless fortitude and tenacious good cheer, borne up throughout by his steady faith, the love of his wife and family, and the constancy of his friends and colleagues. Leonard Norman Allen died on 6 February 2014, aged 84. He was survived by his wife, Elizabeth Allen, two sons, Peter and Michael, two daughters, Jennifer and Penelope, and eight grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Allen, Michael George (1915 - 1989)

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First Title value, for Searching Allen, Patrick John ( - 1993)

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First Title value, for Searching Allen, Robert Marshall (1818 - 1893)

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First Title value, for Searching Allen, Sydney Chalmers (1879 - 1960)

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First Title value, for Searching Allen, William Edward (1834 - 1885)

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First Title value, for Searching Alles, Emmanuel Caetan (1884 - 1935)

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First Title value, for Searching Alles, Roshini Marcelle (1953 - 2016)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-10-27
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Roshini Marcelle Alles was consultant in audiovestibular medicine at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital (RNTNEH) in London. She was born in Ceylon in 1953 and qualified from the University of Sri Lanka in Colombo in 1978. After completing postgraduate training in ear, nose and throat medicine she travelled to the UK to further her training at St Thomas’ Hospital and the RNTNEH. She passed the fellowship of the college in 1985. The following year, in 1986, she was appointed consultant ENT surgeon to the Lady Ridgeway Hospital for children in Colombo and also became honorary consultant ENT surgeon to the Sri Jayawardenpura Postgraduate Teaching Hospital where her caseload consisted of injured members of the armed forces. Throughout the late 1980’s she became more and more interested in audiovestibular techniques and embarked on the development of a screening programme for the hard of hearing in her country. She came to London and, after successfully completing an MSc in audiovestibular medicine at University College (UCL) she returned to the RNTNEH and was appointed consultant in 1993. At RNTNEH, she was in charge of training and examined for the UCL MSc. Her main areas of expertise were with disorders of the central auditory nervous system, young adults with hearing loss and particularly complex cases. A member of the national steering committee on auditory disorders, she also helped develop the Department of Health’s 18 week pathways on hearing problems and writing its good practice guides. She continued her support for the treatment of children with hearing problems in Sri Lanka and was particularly involved with the Ratmalana School for the Deaf in Sri Lanka. Married to Pasqual, she had two daughters, Santoshi and Anouki. Her family survived her, as did her parents, when she died on 28 August 2016 aged 63.
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First Title value, for Searching Allfrey, Charles Henry (1839 - 1912)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-09-18 2013-08-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated as an Associate Scholar at King's College, London, and professionally at King's College Hospital, where he served as House Physician. After qualifying in London in 1861 he spent some time in Edinburgh, where he acted as Dresser and Clinical Clerk in the Edinburgh Infirmary, and then proceeded to Paris. He practised in partnership with Dr J Heckstall Smith at St Mary Cray, and took an active part in founding the Chislehurst and Cray Valley Hospital. He was Medical Officer and Public Vaccinator of the 3rd District of the Bromley (Kent) Union, Surgeon to the Governesses' Benevolent Institution, Chislehurst, and District Surgeon to the Metropolitan Police. He left Chislehurst in 1890 for St Leonards-on-Sea, where he practised as a physician. He was elected Assistant Physician to the East Sussex Hospital in 1892, and was Consulting Physician at the time of his death. He served on the Town Council for many years, and was active as Chairman of the Sanitary Committee at the time of the establishment of the Isolation Hospital. He was also a JP and Chairman of the South-Eastern Branch of the British Medical Association. In politics he was a Conservative. He died on April 16th, 1912, suddenly, whilst walking on the parade at St Leonards. Publication: *Sanitary Reports on Chislehurst and Cray Valley*, 1875.
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First Title value, for Searching Allgöwer, Martin (1917 - 2007)

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by John Blandy
Publication Date 2009-10-21
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Martin Allgöwer was chair and professor of surgery at the University of Basle, Switzerland. He was born in St Gallen, Switzerland, on 5 May 1917. He received his education at St Gallen and studied medicine at Geneva, Zürich and Basle. After qualifying, he was resident in the department of surgery at Basle under Carl Henschen and Otto Schürch, a distinguished orthopaedic surgeon who encouraged Allgöwer to set up a research institute of experimental surgery in Davos, where his first studies were on sulphonamide antagonists in tissue fluid, work carried out before penicillin was introduced. There he continued to work on tissue biology and wound healing, work which he continued as a visiting fellow in Galveston, Texas, under Pomerat and Blocker. He published the result of his research as *The cellular basis of wound repair* (Springfield, Illinois, Thomas) in 1956. In the same year he was appointed surgeon in chief in the Rätische Kantonsspital at Chur, Switzerland, later moving to be professor of surgery in Basle. He was the recipient of numerous honours, among which was the honorary fellowship of our College. He died on 27 October 2007 in Chur.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000711
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First Title value, for Searching Allin, Eardley Samuel (1907 - 1986)

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First Title value, for Searching Allingham, Herbert William (1862 - 1904)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-09-18 2016-01-22
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on April 17th, 1862, the eldest son of William Allingham, (qv); was educated at Chatham House, Ramsgate, and University College School in London. He entered St George's Hospital in 1879, where Timothy Holmes (qv) and Pickering Pick (qv) were surgeons. Here he rapidly developed a marked talent for teaching and for surgery; at school he had been undistinguished. Served as House Surgeon in 1883-1884, and at the end of his term of office was appointed Surgical Registrar and Demonstrator of Anatomy. Elected Assistant Surgeon to St Mark's Hospital in 1885, resigning in 1890, and in 1887 he became Surgeon to the Great (now the Royal) Northern Hospital, a post he held until 1896. Elected Assistant Surgeon to St George's Hospital in 1894. [1] He was appointed Surgeon in Ordinary to the Prince of Wales, now His Majesty King George V, having been previously Surgeon to the Household of King Edward VII. He also filled the offices of Surgeon to the Surgical Aid Society and to the Osborne Home for Officers. He practised at 25 Grosvenor Street, W. He married in 1889 Fraülein Alexandrina Von der Osten, who died in January, 1904, when her husband had become inoculated with syphilis whilst operating in 1903. After her death he became mentally depressed, started for a holiday to Egypt, and died at Marseilles on Nov 4th, 1904, from an overdose of morphia. Allingham was a fine surgeon who did not confine himself to his father's specialty. As an operator he was rapid, neat, and accurate; as a man he was handsome, courteous, and helpful to his juniors. His affectionate nature was shown by the utter prostration into which he was thrown by the death of his lively and charming wife. Publications: Colotomy, Inguinal, Lumbar and Transverse, for Cancer or Stricture with Ulceration of Large Intestine, 8vo, London, 1892. The Treatment of Internal Derangements of the Knee-joint by Operation, 8vo, illustrated, London, 1889. Jointly with his father, Allingham on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Rectum, 5th ed., London, 1888. Operative Surgery, 8vo, London, 1903. [Amendments from the annotated edition of *Plarr's Lives* at the Royal College of Surgeons: [1] '1894' is deleted and '1895' put in its place, together with '[information from Sir Humphry Rolleston]'; Portrait in College Collection.]
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First Title value, for Searching Allingham, William (1829 - 1908)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-09-25 2016-01-22
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated for the profession of architecture at University College, where he gained prizes. He even practised as an architect, exhibited studies at the exhibitions of the Royal Academy, and obtained honourable mention for a design of a building to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. In this year, however, he decided to abandon architecture for medicine. Entering as a student at St Thomas's Hospital, he carried off prize after prize - the Descriptive Anatomy Prize, the Anatomy Prize (1854), the Medicine Prize, the Clinical Medicine President's Prize, and the Clinical Medicine Treasurer's Prize (1855). After qualifying in 1855 he volunteered as Surgeon in the Crimean War. He was in time to be present at the siege of Sebastopol and to see a vast amount of practical surgery in the most arduous circumstances at the hospitals at Scutari. During a large part of his war services he was attached to the French Army, which was extremely badly provided with surgical aid, and there is no doubt that under the strenuous nature of the duties which devolved upon him, Allingham gained the courage and sense of responsibility which marked him out as a successful operating surgeon from the beginning of his career. After his return home he was Surgical Tutor, Demonstrator of Anatomy, and then Surgical Registrar at St Thomas's Hospital. He set up in practice in 1863 as a consultant at 36 Finsbury Square, EC, but removed to Grosvenor Street, where he soon became a well-known authority on diseases of the rectum and enjoyed a large practice. In 1871 he published his classical book on Diseases of the Rectum. It was accepted at once as an authoritative and inclusive work, though some surgeons differed from the author on points of technique. William Allingham was not attached to the staff of any of the great London Hospitals possessing a medical school, but was for many years Surgeon to the Great Northern Central Hospital and to St Mark's Hospital for Fistula and Diseases of the Rectum. He was also Consulting Surgeon to the Farringdon General Dispensary and to the Surgical Aid Society, of which, together with some of his relatives and others, he was one of the founders in 1862. He was a Member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1884-1886, and retired from practice in 1894. Allingham was one of the first surgeons in England to specialize in the treatment of diseases of the rectum, out of which he made a considerable fortune. He was kindly, generous, and hospitable. After his retirement he lived for some time at St Leonards, and then at Worthing, where he died on Feb 4th, 1908. He married twice: (1) Miss Christiana Cooke, by whom he had six children - four sons and two daughters. The eldest son was Herbert William Allingham, (qv). Of his two daughters both married medical men; the elder, who afterwards became Mrs Chevallier Tayler, having been first the wife of Mr Charles Cotes, of St George's; the younger was married to Claud E Woakes. (2) Miss D H Hayles, [1] who, like Mr Herbert William Allingham, predeceased the subject of this memoir. William Allingham appears in the portrait group of the Council by Jamyn Brooks (1884). Publications: Fistula, Hæmorrhoids, Painful Ulcer, Stricture, Prolapsus, and other Diseases of the Rectum, their Diagnosis and Treatment, 8vo, London, 1871. The Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of the Rectum. Edited by Herbert William Allingham. 8vo, London, 1871. The final 1901 edition, a collaboration between father and son, was practically rewritten. The work was translated into several foreign languages. "On the Treatment of Fistula and other Sinuses by Means of the Elastic Ligature, being a Paper (with Additional Cases) read before the Medical Society of London, November, 1874." 8vo, London; reprinted again in 1875, etc. [Amendments from the annotated edition of *Plarr's Lives* at the Royal College of Surgeons: [1] who had nursed him through a severe illness]
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First Title value, for Searching Allinson, Francis Ward (1904 - 1990)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-17
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Francis Ward Allinson was born in Alford, Lincolnshire on 12 July 1904 the son of Sidney Ward Allinson and his wife Frances Mary. He attended Aldenham Preparatory School and studied medicine at University College London, qualifying in 1928. He held early appointments at the Miller Hospital, Greenwich, the West London Hospital and the City of London Maternity Hospital. During the second world war he served as Major in the IMS and was captured in Singapore in 1942. He was a prisoner of war of the Japanese for three and a half years. After the war he became Superintendent of the Presidency General Hospital in Calcutta, India. In 1948 he was appointed Professor of Surgery at the Dacca Medical College in East Pakistan. He moved to the United States in 1953 and was in private practice in Phoenix, Arizona for 37 years. He was very popular and was on the staff of several hospitals. He married Edith in 1953 and they had two children, Eva and Richard. His son is an eye surgeon specializing in retina and vitreous work. In his youth he enjoyed skating and he later took up golf and swimming. He was always a keen walker. His twin brother Sidney Ward Allinson was also a Fellow of the College - he gained the Fellowship a year before Francis in 1932 and he died a year later than his brother in November 1991. Francis Ward Allinson died on 1 November 1990 in Phoenix survived by his wife and family.
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First Title value, for Searching Allinson, Sidney Ward (1904 - 1991)

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First Title value, for Searching Allison, John Douglas ( - 1995)

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First Title value, for Searching Allison, Philip Rowland (1907 - 1974)

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First Title value, for Searching Allwright, Graham John (1953 - 2001)

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First Title value, for Searching Almond, Robert Lester (1902 - 1992)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-01 2017-05-05
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Robert Lester Almond was born on 4 April 1902 in Myrtleford, Victoria, Australia, the son of William Thomas, a schoolmaster, and Fanny Were. He was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, and Ormond College, Melbourne University, graduating MB BS with honours in 1925. After residency in the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, he came to the Royal Free Hospital in London, and passed MRCS and FRCS in 1929. He went to South Africa, becoming senior surgeon in the General Hospital, Johannesburg. He was also lecturer and examiner at the University of the Witwatersrand. During the second world war he served in the South African Medical Corps as major. He married Miss Lowe in 1939 and they had one daughter, Wendy. His interests included golf, tennis and racing. While a student, he was Australasian hurdles champion in 1923, Victorian hurdles and long jump champion 1922-4, with a university blue in athletics and football. He died in 1992 aged 90 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Alms, Michael (1922 - 2022)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2022-03-29
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Michael Alms was an orthopaedic surgeon in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. He was born Tadashi Kubo in Kyoto, Japan on 29 January 1922. His mother, Naka Kubo (‘Kimi’), was from a samurai family; his father, George Frederick Hill Alms, was a member of the Royal Engineers who went on to become a brigadier. Kimi’s relations felt she had brought shame to her family by marrying an Englishman and rejected the young couple. George returned to the UK and in 1924 Kimi and Tadashi joined him. On arriving in Taunton, Tadashi was renamed Michael Alms. He was educated at Bembridge School on the Isle of Wight and went on to study medicine at Bristol University, qualifying with the gold medal in 1945. He trained at the United Bristol Hospitals and spent three years (from 1951 to 1954) as an orthopaedic surgeon in Mauritius. He went on to Liverpool University, gaining an MCh in orthopaedics in 1955 and became a senior registrar in orthopaedic surgery at Bristol. As his nephew wrote in his obituary in *The Guardian*: ‘Despite his ample qualifications, he was told that because of his racial origins, he would never be appointed as a consultant surgeon.’ As a consequence, in 1960 Alms decided to emigrate to Canada. He was an orthopaedic surgeon at University and St Paul’s hospitals in Saskatoon and later went into private practice. He invented a surgical retractor used to keep open insertions and wounds, known as an Alms retractor, still widely used. After retiring from private practice, Alms volunteered for Care International, in the Dominican Republic and later Peru. He finally retired in 2000 and settled in Vancouver. Outside medicine, he was a keen sailor, golfer, photographer and potter. After the death of his mother in 1990, Alms traced some of his family in Japan and returned several times to visit. In 1946 he married Beryl Norris (known as ‘Goo’), a nurse. Predeceased by Goo and their daughter Charlotte, Alms died on 22 January 2022, a week before his 100th birthday. He was survived by their remaining children, Harriet, Richard and Georgie, five grandchildren and a great grandchild.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010093
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First Title value, for Searching Alpar, Emin Kaya (1943 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-03-15 2007-08-02
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Occupation Trauma surgeon
Details A trauma surgeon, Emin Alpar was a former medical director of the Birmingham Accident Hospital. He was born on 30 August 1943, in Istanbul, Turkey, the son of Mithat Alpar, an industrialist, and Nevin Alpar, a housewife. He was educated at Ankara College, where he gained a baccalaureate in 17 subjects, and went on to study medicine at Ankara University. In 1966 he graduated with first class honours. He trained in surgery at Bristol, the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry, Liverpool and Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York. He was particularly influenced by Donal Brooks, Robert Owen and Sir Reginald Watson-Jones. In 1973 he returned to Turkey to complete his National Service, working as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Sarikamis Military Hospital. In 1975 he was appointed associate professor of orthopaedic surgery at Hacettepe University. Five years later, in 1980, he transferred to Birmingham, as a senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham department of surgery. He was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Birmingham Accident Hospital (1981), Birmingham General Hospital (1993) and University Hospital Birmingham (1995). From 1990 to 1993 he was medical director of the Birmingham Accident Hospital. In 1994 he set up a MMedSci course in surgery of trauma at the University of Birmingham, and was course director until 2000. He was chairman of the Institute of Accident Surgery from 1993 to 2002. Essentially a trauma surgeon, he felt that the trauma surgeon must be a generalist because trauma does not observe anatomical boundaries. He was particularly interested in the treatment of whiplash injury and the association with atypical carpal tunnel syndrome. A committed teacher and trainer, he was supportive of all staff. As a result of his experience he was much in demand as an expert witness in medico-legal disputes. Alpar played basketball as a young man and enjoyed swimming and walking later in life. He was interested in history and specifically the history of medicine. In 1966 he married Oya, now professor and head of the centre for drug delivery research at the School of Pharmacy, University of London. They divorced in 2003. They had two sons – Bora and Burak, both of whom work in the finance sector. Alpar died early in November 2005.
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First Title value, for Searching Altemeier, William Arthur (1910 - 1983)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-17
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Occupation General surgeon
Details William Arthur Altemeier was born in Cincinatti on 6 July 1910. During his student days at the medical school there he helped pay his way by working as a bacteriology technician, an experience which led to a lifelong interest in the application of microbiology to surgery. While a resident at the Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, he undertook research into surgical infections which earned him a mastership in the University of Michigan. On his return to Cincinatti he so impressed his senior colleagues with his work on bacteroides and his academic expertise that in 1952 he was appointed over the heads of many seniors to the Christian R Holmes Chair of Surgery and Chairman of the University department of surgery, director of surgical services at the Cincinatti General Hospital and surgeon-in-chief at the Children's and Holmes Hospitals. During the next twenty-six years until his retirement in 1978 he established in what was a city hospital an academic surgical centre of international repute. As a result of his dedication he founded the Shriner's Burns Institute and the Centre for the Comprehensive Clinical Study of Trauma. He ran a very happy department and was paid that rare compliment that many heads of surgery in other parts of the United States sent their sons to work with him. "Bill" Altemeier was a "joiner", but to all organisations to which he subscribed he gave freely of his time and expertise. He was President of the American College of Surgeons in 1978-79 and received their Distinguished Service Award in 1975. He was admitted to the Honorary Fellowship in 1977. Other than surgery his interests were baseball and golf. He was a staunch supporter of the Cincinatti Redlegs and entertained his residents and his visitors in his permanently reserved box whenever possible. He married twice; his first wife Edna, by whom he had two sons and a daughter, died in 1975. His second wife, Dorothea, whom he married in 1977, survived him. He died on 23 November 1983 aged 73.
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First Title value, for Searching Altman, Barry (1927 - 1998)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-11-21 2020-01-30
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Barry Altman was director of surgery at White Plains Hospital, New York. Born in London on 29 July 1927 he was the second son of Louis Altman, a millinery manufacturer and his wife Raie née Bacal. Educated in Salford, Lancashire at St John’s Elementary School and Salford Grammar School, he studied medicine at King’s College London and Westminster Medical School qualifying MB BS in 1951. It was at the Westminster that Edward Stanley Lee had a great influence on him and suggested that he became a surgeon. He did house jobs in the Isle of Wight and at the Miller General Hospital in Greenwich before doing his national service in the RAF medical branch as a flight lieutenant from 1952 to 1954. In 1953 he was awarded the Air Officer Commanding’s commendation. In 1955 he joined the staff of the Birmingham Accident Hospital and proceeded to house jobs at the Manchester Royal Infirmary (March 1956 to March 1957); Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute (1957) and Westminster Hospital (1958 to 1960). He passed the fellowship of the college in 1958 and was Hunterian professor from 1962 to 1963. Appointed a senior surgical registrar at the Westminster he spent a year on study leave at Harvard Medical School as a research fellow from 1960 to 1961 and helped to launch the kidney transplantation programme at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Before he left the Westminster he assisted Sir Roy Calne with his work on renal transplantation. In 1964 he returned to the States taking up three concurrent posts at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Two years later he went to the White Plains Hospital and stayed until 1970, also working at the Grasslands and the St Agnes Hospitals in New York. He continued as an attending surgeon on the staff of White Plains and St Agnes and also the Westchester County Medical Center. At the New York Medical College he was clinical associate professor of surgery. President of the Westchester chapter of the American College of Surgeons, he was also president of the Westchester chapter of the American Cancer Society, chairman of the peer committee on medical and professional review of the Medical Society of Westchester, president of the medical staff of White Plains Hospital and a founder member of the Transplantation Society. He enjoyed cross country skiing and was an enthusiastic sailor. A talented artist he was invited to give three one-man shows, exhibited widely and had paintings in many private collections in the USA and Europe. A few years before he died he also took up sculpture. During his time at Harvard he met Helen Jacob, a psychiatric social worker from Ohio, at a New Year’s Day Party. They married in Boston in 1961 and moved to the UK to live in Dulwich for three years before returning to the USA. They had three children Deborah Jean, a teacher; Louis Gregory, a financial officer and Peter George, a grant and program writer for Texas Citizen’s Action. When he died on 1 January 1998 aged 70, he was survived by his wife, children and seven grandchildren. Helen died on 30 December 2013.
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First Title value, for Searching Alton, Francis Cooke (1888 - 1956)

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First Title value, for Searching Altounyan, Ernest Haik Riddall (1890 - 1962)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-20
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377020377020
Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Aleppo, son of Dr A A Altounyan, an Armenian, founder of the hospital of his name in Aleppo, and his Northern-Irish wife, he was educated at Rugby, went up to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, of which he was an exhibitioner, and then to the Middlesex Hospital. The greater part of his surgical career was spent in the hospital at Aleppo, where he returned at the end of the first world war, having served in the RAMC and won the Military Cross in France for gallantry in action. He was a close friend of T E Lawrence, whom he met before the war when Lawrence was an archaeologist at Carchemish on the Euphrates; he wrote the poetic lament "Ornament of Honour" on learning of Lawrence's death. During the second world war he rejoined the RAMC and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. His official role of medical officer was an effective cover for activities as an expert adviser on Middle Eastern affairs. In 1941 he was attached to the Arab Legion under General Sir John Glubb and took an active part in the emergence of Syria as an independent state; the first president of Syria placed great reliance on his advice. After the Suez campaign (1958), when Syria severed diplomatic relations with Great Britain, Altounyan lost all his possessions in Syria, which, including the hospital, were seized without compensation and, after a life of comparative affluence, he was reduced to poverty, a poor reward for his loyalty to Britain but a fate he accepted without complaint or bitterness. He married Dora, daughter of W G Collingwood, Ruskin's last secretary, who was well known as a novelist and an authority on Lake District antiquities; her brother was the Oxford historian and philosopher R G Collingwood. They had four daughters and one son, who is a medical man and holder of the AFC and was a model for one of the five children in Arthur Ransome's books. Altounyan died at Lanehead, Coniston, where he retired on leaving Syria, on 13 March 1962 at the age of 72. He was intensely interested in the arts, a poet, a chess player, and a vigorous conversationalist, whose upbringing enabled him to appreciate the viewpoints of both East and West. Sailing was also one of his recreations.
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First Title value, for Searching Alty, Henry Myers (1929 - 2019)

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by John Cawood Adrian Flower
Publication Date 2023-07-04
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Occupation Oral and maxillofacial surgeon
Details Henry Myers Alty died on 27 February 2019 aged 89, after a short illness, and his well-attended funeral took place in his local church on 22 March 2019. ‘Harry’ or to be precise ‘HMA’, as he was known to his many colleagues, was modest and above all unflappable, which are the traits that spring to mind when remembering this caring gentleman. However, such a description belies a man of immense ability, secure within himself and always in control. He resolved many a conflict with tact and diplomacy, keeping all sides satisfied. Harry Alty was born in Newburgh, Lancashire on the 8 October 1929, the eldest of three brothers. He was educated at Hutton Grammar School and then followed his father into the dental profession and obtained the BDS from the University of Liverpool in 1952. Following graduation, he commenced his oral surgery training at St Bartholomew’s and the Eastman Dental Hospital. He obtained the FDSRCS (Eng) in 1954 and the MBChB (University of Liverpool) in 1958. In 1963, he was appointed Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, Regional Maxillofacial Unit, Broadgreen Hospital; Liverpool Dental Hospital; Chester Royal Infirmary; and Nobles Hospital, Isle of Man. Posts which he held until 1994. It is a mark of the esteem in which HMA was held by professional colleagues that he was elected to significant national and local appointments. President BAOMS, Chairman Central Committee for Hospital Dental Services, Chairman Dental Subcommittee of the Central Manpower Committee DHSS, Joint Consultants’ Committee BMA, Consultant Adviser on medico-legal aspects of dental and maxillofacial surgery, President Oral Surgery Club of Great Britain, President of Liverpool and District Odontological Society. His cool head, easy manner and surgical prowess endeared him to students and trainees alike. Many owe HMA a huge debt of gratitude for his wise counsel and training opportunities. After retirement, Harry played an active public role in institutions and causes which were important to him. He was Chairman of the Governors of Bishop Martin School, Liverpool; Chairman of Council, Liverpool College; and Chairman of the Mersey branch of the Red Cross. His faith underpinned all that he was, in a quiet undemonstrative way. He played an active role in the church right up to the end, as a member of his Bible study group as well as a faithful worshipper. His beloved wife, Heather, whom he married in 1952, predeceased him. His son and daughter, John and Fiona, and his grandchildren, Henry, David, Richard and Helena, survive him. Harry was kind, generous and patient. Above all, he had a sense of duty and responsibility and he will always be remembered as a true gentleman. 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
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First Title value, for Searching Alvarez, Arthur Felix (1921 - 1973)

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First Title value, for Searching Alyan, Mohamed Yassin Ahmed (1922 - 1973)

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First Title value, for Searching Ambegaokar, Anil Gopinath (1935 - 1996)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-01 2018-04-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Anil Ambegaokar was born in Bombay in 1935 and qualified MB BS Baroda in 1958. Coming to Britain he obtained the Fellowship in 1973 and spent the rest of his life at Newport, Gwent and Cardiff, apart from thirteen years as a consultant in the United Arab Emirates. He died suddenly in Hong Kong on 5 March 1996, leaving a wife, Uma, and two daughters, Suneeta and Sangeeta.
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First Title value, for Searching Ambler, Edward Holland (1821 - 1879)

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First Title value, for Searching Amdrup, Erik (1923 - 1998)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-05-10 2014-08-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372527372527
Occupation Gastroenterological surgeon
Details Erik Amdrup was director of surgical gastro-enterology and professor of surgery at Aarus Kommune Hospital, Denmark. He was born on 21 February 1923. His PhD thesis in 1960 was on the dumping syndrome. Later he developed a method of 'precise antrectomy' to avoid that complication and carried out research into the effect of vagotomy on parietal cell function, work which led to the Arhus county vagotomy trial. This won him international fame, the Novo Nordisk prize in 1977 and the *Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology* Prize for 1987. As a supervisor of research he was an unpretentious and highly regarded teacher, and published (together with J F Rehfeld) *Gastrins and the vagus* (London, Academic Press, 1979). In addition he had another career as an author of detective novels, several of which were made into films. Some of his short stories made their way into anthologies alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers. Erik Amdrup died on 22 February 1998, the day after his 75th birthday.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000341
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First Title value, for Searching Amen, Amer Abdul Aziz (1944 - 2008)

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by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2009-10-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372895372895
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Amer Amen was a consultant ENT surgeon in Essex. He qualified in Baghdad and worked there and in Kut, Iraq. In 1976, he went to the UK and held registrar posts in otolaryngology at Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, and at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. He became a senior ENT registrar at the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin, before being appointed consultant ENT surgeon to St Margaret’s Hospital, Epping, Essex. He was a naturally gifted surgeon and teacher, who was able to perform a wide range of ENT operations. In 1989 he established a charity to purchase a carbon dioxide laser and endoscopic sinus surgery instruments, which he put to good use. Ahead of his time, Amen established electronic records for all his patients early in his consultant career. He was interested in literature, poetry, politics and the stock market. He also enjoyed travelling and horse racing. The last four years of his life were marred by ill health and he died from metastatic adenocarcinoma on 17 September 2008. He leaves his wife, Bushra, two sons, a daughter and a grandson (born a few weeks before his death).
Resource Identifier RCS: E000712
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First Title value, for Searching Amery, Anthony Henry (1936 - 2022)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2024-12-11
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Anthony Amery was director of surgery at Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010686
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First Title value, for Searching Amias, Alan Gerald (1929 - 2018)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2018-11-19 2021-03-08
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Occupation Obstetrician Gynaecologist
Details Alan Gerald Amias was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at St George’s Hospital, London. Having spent his early years in the East End of London where he was born on 25 June 1929, he was evacuated to Bedford when he was eleven years old to escape the Blitz. Although he managed to gain swift entry to medical school in spite of his disrupted education, the emotional trauma of being sent away stayed with him for life. He studied medicine in London and, after house jobs at University College Hospital and national service at an army hospital in Germany, he passed the fellowship of the college in 1957. He joined the staff of St George’s Hospital – then situated at Hyde Park Corner – as a senior registrar and later, consultant. After he had been at St George’s for some years it was decided in 1973 to move the hospital to a new site in Tooting. Alan was closely involved in the extensive planning process which involved moving the medical school in 1976 and the hospital four years later. He became medical chairman of the St Georges’s NHS Trust and later of the district medical advisory committee and a member of council for the medical school. A fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, he was on their board of examiners. A prolific contributor to the medical literature, he also took his teaching responsibilities very seriously. Having suffered a reprimand as a junior himself for questioning a senior’s opinion he encouraged his staff to speak their minds. He turned his back on medicine after retirement and threw himself enthusiastically into other pursuits. Having researched Samuel Pepys’ medical history for a lecture he was writing, he became an active member of the Samuel Pepys Club. A keen theatre goer, for many years he had enjoyed attending the Shakespeare course at the City Lit in Covent Garden. Having learnt to read music and play the oboe, he joined an orchestra and took on the organisation of their summer workshop in a monastery in Provence. France meant a lot to him – for 20 years he had entertained family and friends at an old farmhouse he had done up in the south west of the country. When he died from a sudden heart attack on 4 January 2018, he was survived by his wife Fay, six children and step children and twelve grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009472
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First Title value, for Searching Amoroso, Emmanuel Ciprian (1901 - 1982)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-31
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378435378435
Occupation Physiologist
Details Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad on 16 September 1901, Emmanuel Ciprian Amoroso was the third oldest of twelve children. He came from an exemplary Roman Catholic family. His father, Thomas Amoroso, had been a book-keeper on an estate in Trinidad and later owned estates of his own, until a slump in the cocoa market caused many estates to fail. Thomas Amoroso then returned to book-keeping. Thomas' wife, Juliana Centeno, was of Venezuelan (Spanish) descent, a small charismatic woman to whom Amo, as he became known, was deeply devoted. He was educated at St Thomas's Preparatory School and St Mary's College, Trinidad. He had to leave school early because of a severe attack of typhoid fever that temporarily affected his vision and although one eye recovered, the other was permanently damaged. Amo enrolled in University College of the National University of Ireland in 1921. He was awarded 1st class honours and came first in all of the examinations in science and medicine. He graduated BSc with honours in anatomy in 1926 and MB BCh BAO cum laude, in 1929. After resident appointments at Jervis Street Hospital, Dublin, he was awarded a travelling studentship for his thesis entitled *Myelination of the cranial nerves of the pig* and he went to the Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut für Zellforschung in Berlin, where he learned histological techniques and tissue culture methods under Professors Trendelenberg, Krause and Erdmann. In 1933 he became demonstrator in histology and embryology at University College, London and he was awarded his PhD in 1934 for his work *Observations on the development of the urogenital system of the rabbit, with special reference to the development of the Müllerian ducts*. He became senior assistant in charge of histology and embryology at the Royal Veterinary College, Camden Town in October 1934, but his first years there were not happy as his intelligence, commanding presence and brilliance as a teacher aroused great envy among his colleagues. In 1936 he married but his wife left him soon afterwards and, because of his beliefs he could not divorce her. On the outbreak of war in 1939, the Royal Veterinary College was evacuated to the University of Reading and Amo had a Nissen hut as his laboratory. He took 'digs' with Mrs Howes, the housekeeper at the University Halls. Mrs Howes' husband had died in 1934 leaving her with three children and Amo became a second father to them. One of the girls, May, was later to type his work for him and Kay, her sister, was his lifelong friend and confidante. When the Royal Veterinary College returned to London after the war, his research career flourished. He had collaborated with A E Barclay, K J Franklin and M L Prichard in their studies on the foetal circulation, during the war years, and with S J Folley, FRS, and A S Parkes, FRS, at Reading and Mill Hill. In 1947 he became a Fellow of the Zoological Society of London and in 1948, Professor of Physiology in the Royal Veterinary College, a post he held until his retirement in 1968. He was a founder member of the Society of Endocrinology and was later treasurer and Chairman from 1961 to 1966. During his chairmanship, the Society was host to the Second International Congress of Endocrinology, in London in 1964, and his great organising ability led to his election to the Chairmanship of the Executive Committee of the International Society of Endocrinology from 1964 to 1967, in preparation for the Congress later held in Washington, DC. His greatest scientific achievement was the publication in 1952, of his masterly article on placentation in Marshall's *Physiology of reproduction*. It was this publication that made his international reputation and led to his election as Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1957. He was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in England in 1960 and became Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1965, of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1966, and of the Royal College of Pathologists in 1973. The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons made him an honorary associate in 1959. He became a Fellow of the Institute of Biology in 1957, of the Royal Veterinary College in 1969, and of University College, London in 1970. He was awarded an honorary DSc, National University of Ireland, at a ceremony in Dublin Castle in 1963, on the occasion when one of the other recipients was John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President of the United States of America. He was made honorary DSc by the University of Illinois 1967, the University of Nottingham 1970, the University of the West Indies 1971 and the University of Guelph, Ontario, in 1976. An honorary Doctorate of Veterinary Science was conferred by the University of Chile in 1966. 'Amo' was a big man in every way, physically, and intellectually, he was head and shoulders above his companions, but dominating all was his great sense of fun, he enjoyed life to the full. His sense of humour was exemplified by an account of an invitation to dinner with a rich widow in New York, with Professors Wislocki and Dempsey, two anatomists who hoped to obtain funds for their research. The lady was carving a turkey when she asked Amo which type of meat he liked. His reply 'breast please' shocked her and she gently advised him that one should refer to white meat or dark meat. On the eve of his return to England, he sent the lady a beautiful orchid, expressing the hope that she would pin it to her white meat in honour of the occasion. He died on 30 October 1982 and a memorial Mass was held at the church of St Anselm and St Cecilia in London. Lord Zuckerman, OM KCB FRS, representing the Duke of Edinburgh, Patron of the Royal Veterinary College, delivered the memorial address.
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First Title value, for Searching Amory, Derick Heathcoat, 1st Viscount (1899 - 1981)

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First Title value, for Searching Amphlett, Edward (1848 - 1880)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-09-25
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372860372860
Occupation General surgeon
Details Born on Oct 20th, 1848, the second son of Samuel Holmden Amphlett (qv), by Mary Georgiana, his wife. He was nephew of Sir Richard Amphlett, of Wychbold Hall, near Droitwich, at one time Lord Justice of Appeal. Edward Amphlett was the grandson of George Edward Male, an early nineteenth century authority on medical jurisprudence. He was educated for the sea, and served as midshipman in the Royal Navy for several years, seeing many parts of the world and acquiring great interest in nautical matters. At the time of his death he was Surgeon to the Naval Artillery Volunteers, with whom he had recently been a cruise on board HMS *Esk*. He suffered so severely from asthma that he was invalided out of the service. Determining to enter the medical profession, he first graduated at Cambridge from Peterhouse as a Junior Optime in the Mathematical Tripos (his uncle, Sir Richard Amphlett, who died in 1883, had been Sixth Wrangler). He is thus one of the first Cambridge man on our record. Entering at Guy’s Hospital, he was House Surgeon and Resident Obstetrician. After qualifying and passing the Fellowship examination he was appointed Assistant Surgeon to Charing Cross Hospital, and began to devote himself to practice and more particularly to diseases of the eye, which he had studied at Vienna. At the time of his death, besides being Assistant Surgeon, he was also Demonstrator of Surgical Pathology in Charing Cross Hospital Medical School and Assistant Surgeon at the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital. He practised at 40 Weymouth Street, Portland Place, W, and died there on Sept 9th, 1880. His elder brother was Richard Holmden Amphlett, QC, Recorder of Worcester.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000677
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First Title value, for Searching Amphlett, Samuel Holmden (1813 - 1857)

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First Title value, for Searching Amstutz, Harlan Cabot (1931 - 2021)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2025-01-07
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Harlan Cabot Amstutz was chair of the division of orthopedic surgery at the University of California, Los Angeles. 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: E010698
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First Title value, for Searching Amyot, Thomas Edward (1817 - 1895)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-09-25
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372862372862
Occupation General surgeon
Details Eldest son of Thomas Amyot, FRS, Treasurer of the Society of Antiquaries and sometime Private Secretary to the Right Honourable William Wyndham. His mother was Jane, daughter of Edward Colman, of Norwich, surgeon. Thomas Amyot was born on Jan 28th, 1817, and was admitted to Westminster School on Jan 12th, 1829. Educated professionally at the Hunterian School of Medicine and at St Thomas’s Hospital. Married on Oct 28th, 1847, Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev Francis Howes, Minor Canon of Norwich Cathedral, and had issue one son and a daughter. He practised at Diss in Norfolk, and died there on Dec 15th, 1895. Amyot appears to have inherited the versatility of his father, for his leisure hours were spent in microscopy, astronomy, geology, and botany. He is also said to have had musical and literary tastes. He was President of the Norfolk and Norwich Medico-Chirurgical Society and of the East Anglian Branch of the British Medical Association. Publications: “Diabetes: Saccharine Treatment – Death – Autopsy.” – *Med. Times and Gaz.*, 1861, i, 327. “A Case of Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus with Bursting of the Head.” – *Ibid.*, 1869, i, 330. “Foot and Mouth Disease in the Human Subject.” – *Ibid*, 1871, ii, 555.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000679
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First Title value, for Searching Anand, Anand Kumar (1935 - 1999)

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First Title value, for Searching Anand, Rajiv (1967 - 2024)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2024-09-06
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Occupation Oral and maxillofacial surgeon
Details Rajiv (‘Reg’) Anand was a consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon in Portsmouth. 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
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First Title value, for Searching Anand, Santokh Singh ( - 1996)

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First Title value, for Searching Anandarajan, Somasundaram (1926 - 2012)

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by Dharman Anandarajan
Publication Date 2020-10-19 2022-03-18
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Somasundaram Anandarajan was a consultant ophthalmic surgeon in Sri Lanka. He was born in Kayts, a small village in northern Ceylon on 31 May 1926. Although he initially wanted to become an historian, being the only child of a blind mother inspired him to a pursue a career in medicine. He studied at the University of Ceylon and qualified in 1952. He was then appointed as a house surgeon and worked at government hospitals throughout Ceylon, including at Jaffna and Galle. In 1960 he moved with his wife Rajapoopathy and children to England and earned a diploma in ophthalmology in 1961. He worked with Edgar Frederick King at Moorfields Eye Hospital and passed his FRCS in 1966. His desire to serve his home country brought him and his family back to Ceylon in 1967, where he set up an eye practice. He spent the following decades as a leading consultant eye surgeon in Sri Lanka and set up monthly free eye clinics throughout the island to help the poor. Following his wife’s death in 1999, he created the Rajapoopathy Memorial Glaucoma Centre, with the goal of raising awareness about glaucoma and setting up free eye clinics across Sri Lanka. He had a passion for reading and writing. He published numerous articles in the *Ceylon Medical Journal* and was the author of many books published through the Rajapoopathy Memorial Glaucoma Centre, including on ophthalmic neurology, the macula and retinal pigment epithelium, the optic nerve and the history of ophthalmology. Somasundaram Anandarajan died on 11 May 2012 and was survived by his three children – Asokan, Valli and Murugan.
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First Title value, for Searching Anchen, John Brian (1929 - 2011)

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First Title value, for Searching Ancrum (or Ancrum), William Rutherford (1816 - 1898)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-09-25 2013-08-06
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372863372863
Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at the Manor House, Weston, near Bath, on Feb 5th, 1816. Educated at private schools, and apprenticed at the age of 15 to T Taylor Griffith (qv) at Wrexham, where he is said to have had Sir William Bowman (qv) as a fellow-apprentice. Three years later he entered as a student at University College, had a brilliant career, and was elected House Surgeon, with such success that Robert Liston (qv) invited him to become his private assistant. He accepted and acted in this capacity for three years. In 1843 he left England and practised in the City of Mexico. In 1848 he was appointed Surgeon to the Naval Hospital at Valparaiso, a post he held for eleven years, during which he built up a large and lucrative practice. Returning to England, he took the FRCS on Dec 12th, 1850, having been admitted MRCS on Oct 11th, 1839. During this visit he also became a member of the Royal College of Physicians of London. He resigned his practice in Mexico in 1859, returned to London and took a house, 75 Inverness Terrace, Bayswater. He retired from all practice in 1863 and bought St Leonard's Court, Gloucester. From 1863 until his death in 1898 Ancrum took an active part in the public life of Gloucester. He served for twenty-seven years as Chairman of the County Infirmary, bringing method, order, and financial soundness into the working of the institution. A ward in the infirmary is named in his memory "The Ancrum Ward." He was appointed Chairman of the Committee of the Wotton County Asylum in 1878, and was mainly instrumental in founding and financing the second County Asylum in 1882. In 1878 he was also elected Chairman of the Barnwood House Private Asylum, which was much enlarged during his tenure of office. He was an active magistrate and was at one time Chairman of the Gloucester County Bench, a member of important Committees of the old Court of Quarter Sessions, and an Alderman of the County Council, where he was Chairman of the Prison Visiting Committee. He married in 1852 the youngest daughter of Arthur Lewis, of Brighton, and by her had three sons and two daughters. He was an invalid during the last three years of his life, died at St Leonard's Court, Gloucester, on Oct 9th, 1898, and was buried in the neighbouring churchyard of Upton St Leonard's.
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First Title value, for Searching Anders, Christopher John (1927 - 2002)

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First Title value, for Searching Andersen, Daniel Anthony (1906 - 1967)

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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, Alan Frank Gordon (1926 - 2000)

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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, Alexander (1804 - 1880)

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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, Alexander Dunlop (1794 - 1871)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-10-02 2013-08-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Son of Andrew Anderson, merchant, of Greenock, and nephew of Professor John Anderson, founder of the Andersonian University, Glasgow. Born in Greenock, he pursued his preliminary studies in Glasgow, and completed his medical training in Edinburgh and London. He was appointed a Surgeon's Mate (General Service) in 1813, and on March 13th was Hospital Assistant to the Forces. On May 12th, 1814, he joined the 49th Foot as Assistant Surgeon, but was afterwards placed on half pay, was re-employed by exchange on full pay, was again placed on half pay, and finally commuted on Sept 3rd, 1830. He served in Canada for a part of the time. He practised in Glasgow in 1820 and was elected Surgeon to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary in 1823, being appointed Physician to the Institution in 1838. Also served as Physician to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, and from 1852-1855 was President of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons. He married in 1829 a daughter of Thomas McCall, of Craighead, Lanarkshire, and had by her four sons and two daughters. Of the sons one, Dr T McCall Anderson, became Professor of Medicine in the Andersonian University. A D Anderson died at 159 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, on May 13th, 1871. He wrote only a few articles for professional papers, and is best remembered by that "On the Treatment of Burns by Cotton," published in the *Glasgow Medical Journal* for 1828. He is said to have enjoyed an extensive share of what is called "the best practice". He had a delicate sense of honour, and always showed himself acutely sensitive in regard to the feelings of others. His portrait by Sir Daniel Macnee, painted in 1870, hangs in the Faculty Hall at Glasgow.
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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, Alexander Richard (1855 - 1933)

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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, Charles Vernon (1888 - 1965)

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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, Frederick Jasper (1886 - 1957)

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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, George Reinhardt (1864 - 1931)

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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, Gerald Victor Wright (1893 - 1986)

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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, Graham Roland (1922 - 2010)

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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, Henry Graeme (1882 - 1925)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-10-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born Aug 1st, 1882, the younger son of Nicol Anderson, of Barrhead, Renfrewshire. Educated at Glasgow, King’s College, London, and the London Hospital. Graduated at the University of Glasgow, and was admitted a Member and a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England on the same day. He filled various minor posts at the London, St Mark’s, the Royal Orthopaedic, the Metropolitan, and the Cancer Hospitals before he was elected Assistant Surgeon at St Mark’s Hospital, where he devoted himself to the surgery of the rectum. He joined the Royal Navy on the outbreak of War in 1914 and was posted to the Royal Naval Air Service Expeditionary Force, serving at Antwerp, Ypres, and on the Belgian and Northern French coasts. Appointed Surgeon to the British Flying School at Vendôme in 1917, and from 1918-1919 was Surgeon to the Central RAF Hospital, and was afterwards transferred from the Royal Navy to the Royal Air Force as Surgical Consultant to the RAF, with the rank of Major. He returned to civil practice at the end of the war, living at 75 Harley Street, and died suddenly whilst playing in a lawn tennis tournament on June 28th, 1925. He was married and left a widow and one daughter. Anderson was one of the small number of Air Medical Officers who obtained a pilot’s certificate when flying was in its infancy. He gave much thought and research to the physical fitness of airmen, the prevention and treatment of aerial injuries, and the selection of aviators from the surgical point of view. He was a keen sportsman and was particularly interested in boxing. Publication: *The Medical and Surgical Aspects of Aviation*, Oxford Medical Publications, 1919.
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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, Hugh Fraser (1910 - 1986)

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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, James Christie (1899 - 1984)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-17
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Occupation Farmer General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details James Christie Anderson, third child and third son of James Alexander Anderson, a schoolmaster, and Jeanie (née Boswell), was born in Dundee on 4 December 1899. After early education at Butterburn School and Dundee High School he secured an entrance scholarship to St Andrew's University where he originally intended to study agriculture. But his studies were interrupted by the first world war when he joined the Navy as a probationer Surgeon Lieutenant in 1917. On returning to Queen's College, Dundee, he won the obstetrics and gynaecology medal before graduating in 1922. He was house surgeon at Dundee Royal Infirmary and at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, before serving as resident surgical officer at St Mark's Hospital in London. During this period in London he played rugby football for the London Scottish. He then moved to Chesterfield before becoming surgical registrar at the Royal Hospital, Sheffield, in 1926. He passed the FRCS in 1928 and was appointed honorary consultant surgeon at Sheffield in 1934. He was also lecturer in surgery and applied anatomy to Sheffield University. Originally a general surgeon, Jock, as he was universally known, developed a growing interest in urology to which he later made a number of important contributions, notably in relation to carcinoma of the bladder and also hydronephrosis. The Anderson-Hynes pyeloplasty procedure was devised in concert with a plastic surgeon colleague in Sheffield. Having enrolled in the Territorial Army before the second world war, he was called up on the outbreak of hostilities and became officer in charge of the surgical division of No 29 British General Hospital with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He served in Persia and Iraq and later in Normandy after D-day. When hostilities ceased he was called on to tend the victims of Belsen. He was awarded the OBE and TD and was mentioned in despatches. On demobilisation in 1945 he returned to Sheffield where his surgical work became primarily urological. He was President of the Section of Urology of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1961 and hosted a meeting in Sheffield of the British Association of Urological Surgeons in 1962. He also served for two spells on the court of examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons up to 1968 and was on the advisory panel on the training of surgeons. Outside his surgical work with relatively little knowledge of agriculture, Jock purchased a farm in Lincolnshire in 1948. Busily engaged in surgery during the week, farming soon became his second love at weekends. This led quite naturally to a new life after retirement when he and his wife bought a farm in Western Australia some 200 miles south of Perth where he raised sheep and a splendid herd of cattle and, not forgetful of his first love, became an elected Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1971. One of his sons, James Christie Anderson, FRCS, is an orthopaedic surgeon in Perth; the second son is a veterinary surgeon also in Australia, and two of the three daughters emigrated to Australia, so that the family largely remained in proximity after his retirement from Sheffield. Jock Anderson was a most industrious, cheerful and kindly man who made innumerable friends all over the world. Above all he loved a good argument. His surgical firm at Sheffield was a happy one for he gave much encouragement to his juniors and had the knack of bringing the best out of everyone. He had an abiding interest in history; was blessed with a good memory, and was a generous and charming host, with as much enthusiasm for vintage wines as for vintage Rolls-Royces. When he died in Perth, WA, on 3 February 1984 he was survived by his wife, his five children and fourteen grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, John Barry (1953 - 2013)

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by Steve Payne
Publication Date 2014-10-17 2016-12-08
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details John Barry Anderson was a consultant urological surgeon at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield. He was born on 10 April 1952 in Redhill, Surrey, the eldest son of Edward James Anderson, a hospital administrator and ex-bomber pilot, and Catherine Elizabeth Anderson née Boland, a nurse who had emigrated from the west of Ireland. He was educated at Toldene County Primary School and then progressed to grammar school, the only boy to have done so in three years. John's initial inclination was to the arts and, having studied history and languages to A level, he headed to Exeter University to read philosophy. A moment of reflection changed the course of his life. John left Exeter and drove bulldozers in a Fuller's earth works to help him afford to convert to medicine. In 1973 he left for Bristol to start his medical studies. He qualified six years later, decided to become a surgeon and took his fellowship in 1983, beginning, as many did, on rotational training programmes in general surgery. His time with Robin Williamson defined that John's career was going to take a urological turn and in 1988, having completed his ChM, he moved to Sheffield to gain specific urological training with John Williams. After three months in California, in 1991, he went back to Yorkshire to become the first consultant to be appointed with a specific remit to treat urological malignancy, especially the rising tide of early prostate cancer. John's initial consultant career at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital was littered with examples of innovation many years ahead of their adoption as the norm in clinical practice. He established combined oncology clinics, became an oncological sub-specialist and set up a consortium for private practice, all in the early 1990s. His expertise in change management and his easy, winning, charm made John a natural target for leadership to promulgate best practice throughout the NHS. He was one of the first regional cancer leads, was on the national steering group for sub-specialist oncological practice and one of the first chairman of the British Association of Urological Surgeons' (BAUS) section of oncology. John was also a committed and dextrous surgeon, inspirational to his juniors, whether they were wedded to urology as a career or not, and kind, considerate and compassionate to his patients who had surgical treatment of the highest quality in his hands. John had an international reputation for his work in the field of hormonal therapy for advanced prostate cancer; he sat on European guidelines committees and advised the Medical Research Council, the National Cancer Research Institute, the Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths and the Prostate Cancer Advisory Group about the management of urological pelvic malignancy. John was widely published in his field and sat on editorial boards of the *British Journal of Urology International* and the national urological cancer guidance. He also devoted a lot of his time, from 2005, as a trustee of the Prostate Cancer Charity and, subsequently, Prostate Cancer UK. John's persistence, firm fairness and invariable good humour meant that he was universally liked and respected. He was elected to the presidency of BAUS in 2009, but was unable to take up that role as a consequence of the urological cancer to which he devoted so much of his time trying to defeat. John treated his final illness in the way that he approached virtually every other aspect of his life, straightforwardly and with a positive tilt at every bit of adversity. John's many friends were inspired by the way he dealt with the initial uncertainty of his diagnosis, his decision to defer therapy until he became symptomatic and the inexorable decline in his health from the metastatic disease that was evident at the outset. John beat the drum for prostate cancer awareness until he was too unwell to do so. John was a hugely entertaining man whose glass was always more than half full. He loved balanced simplicity and had an informed view on almost everything, no matter how obscure the topic was. His love of spontaneous adventure was a facet of his character that those close to him will recognise as being instantly engaging. John's last year was filled with wonderful memories, which he enthusiastically shared with his family. There may be others who will try to emulate John Anderson, but if anyone manages to recreate that wonderful balance of humour, empathy, fairness and overriding positivity, they will be a unique person indeed. John Barry Anderson died on 27 May 2013. He was 60. He was survived by his three children - Josie Marie, James Edward and Luke Oliver from his marriage to Susan Claire Bailey.
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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, John Douglas Chalmers (1924 - 2006)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-10-26
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details John Douglas Chalmers Anderson, known as ‘Jock’, was an ophthalmologist who spent much of his career working in Afghanistan. He was born in Redbourne, Lincolnshire, on 21 August 1924, the second of three sons of William Larmour Anderson, a general practitioner, and Eileen Pearl née Chambers. He was educated at Bedford School, where he won the Tanner prize in science, and then went to Peterhouse, Cambridge, on a state bursary. After a year his studies were interrupted by the war and he joined the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, where he was a technical assistant, working on magnetrons. During the war he also served in the Home Guard and found time to obtain a BSc and a certificate of proficiency in radiophysics from London University. He returned to Cambridge in 1947 to complete his preclinical studies, and then went on to Middlesex Hospital, where he won the Mrs Charles Davis prize in surgery. After qualifying he completed house jobs at Bedford General Hospital and, after a year as a trainee assistant in general practice, returned as a demonstrator in anatomy at Cambridge. He was then an orthopaedic registrar at Bedford General Hospital. Influenced by his deeply held Christian beliefs, he accepted an invitation to work as a general surgeon at the Church Mission Society in Quetta, Pakistan. He was later an ophthalmic registrar at the Christian Medical College in Ludhiana, Punjab, India. In 1959 he returned to the UK, as an ophthalmic registrar at Northampton General Hospital and completed a course in London for the diploma in ophthalmology. He also raised funds for Afghanistan, returning there in 1961 to set up a moveable ‘caravan hospital’, taking general medical, surgical and ophthalmic services to remote desert communities. He returned to the UK as a clinical assistant in ophthalmology at Southampton Eye Hospital to study for the final FRCS. In 1967, having gained his FRCS, he was appointed consultant ophthalmologist with the National Organisation for Ophthalmic Rehabilitation in Kabul, establishing a 100 bed eye hospital and teaching centre there, from which subsidiary outpost treatment camps were organised. His centre survived the invasion by the Russians and the enmity of the Taliban, with only occasional interruptions. In 1973 he was appointed associate director (West Asia) of the Bible and Medical Missionary Fellowship, which involved two tours of three months every year in west Asia, taking him to Kunri, on the edge of the Sind Desert. In 1978 he returned to Southampton as a lecturer in ophthalmology, where he remained until 1980, when he returned to Kabul. Civil unrest meant he had to return to the UK earlier than expected. By now a world expert on trachoma, he joined the newly formed department of preventive ophthalmology at Moorfields and was appointed OBE in 1981. He carried out studies on the prevention of blindness in Zanzibar and the Sudan, and in 1984 was made an honorary consultant at Moorfields. He retired in 1988 after developing a tumour of the spinal cord. After several operations he became paraplegic. He married Gwendoline Freda Smith (‘Gwendy’), a Middlesex Hospital nurse, on 25 July 1953. They had two daughters (Ruth and Jean) and a son (Christopher). He died on 16 June 2006.
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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, John Maxwell (1928 - 1982)

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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, Peter Christie (1929 - 2009)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-26 2015-02-27
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon Specialist in rehabilitation medicine
Details Peter Christie Anderson was an orthopaedic surgeon and a specialist in rehabilitation medicine in Perth, Western Australia. He was born in Sheffield on 23 September 1929, the eldest son of James Christie Anderson, a urological surgeon and a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, and Mary Ann Anderson née Warner. He was educated at Shrewsbury, Queen's College, Cambridge, and Middlesex Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1954. He was a resident medical officer at Middlesex Hospital and then a demonstrator in anatomy at Sheffield University from 1955 to 1956. After a house surgeon post in Cheltenham, and at a time when, as he writes, 'Australian graduates went to England', he decided to take the opposite route and go to Perth for his surgical training. But, having failed at his first attempt to take the fellowship examination in Melbourne in 1959, he returned to England. He was a registrar in Kettering and passed the FRCS in 1960. He then spent two years as a registrar training in orthopaedic surgery at Harlow Wood Orthopaedic Hospital in Mansfield. In 1963 he returned to Western Australia, as a senior registrar in the accident and emergency department at the Royal Perth Hospital, and then a registrar in orthopaedics. From 1964 to 1975 he was a specialist in orthopaedics at the Repatriation General Hospital, Perth, and, from 1965 to 1972, an assistant surgeon in the orthopaedic department at the Princess Margaret Hospital. From 1965 to 1976 he was also an assistant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Perth Hospital. During this period he also served as a surgeon with the Australian Army in Vietnam. In 1976 he became director of medical services at the department of social security's rehabilitation service in Perth, a post he held for 10 years. In 1980 he became a fellow of the Australian College of Rehabilitation Medicine. He continued in private practice as a specialist in orthopaedics and rehabilitation medicine until 1997. Outside medicine, he was interested in golf and sailing. In 1958 he married Mary Margaret Humphrey, a nurse. They had three daughters (Judith, Susan and Dianne) and three sons (John, Geoffrey and Martin). Peter Christie Anderson died on 21 November 2009, aged 80.
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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, Richard Benjamin (1874 - 1900)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-10-02 2013-08-06
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372867372867
Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Lincolnshire, the son of a medical man, he was educated at St Mary's Hospital. Entered the school in 1866, won a prize in 1867, and became Prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons, House Surgeon at St Mary's, and afterwards at the South Devon and East Cornwall Hospital, Plymouth. Admitted FRCS in 1873 and joined his brother, James G Anderson, who was in practice in Tobago, acting as colonial surgeon. By 1889 he was a member of the Legislature, a Justice of the Peace for the Islands, and a landowner. In this year he was consulted by a native woman suffering from necrosis of the lower jaw. The patient and her husband proved troublesome and Anderson declined further attendance. Litigation followed, and Anderson was finally imprisoned by Justices Corrie and Cook for fourteen days in default of finding bail. In 1891 Anderson brought an action in London ("Anderson v Corrie and others") and obtained a verdict in his favour with £500 damages against Mr Justice Cook (Justice Corrie having died). Lord Esher on appeal decided that no action could lie against a judge for an act done in his judicial capacity, and refused to award damages, though he confirmed the verdict of the jury. The rest of Anderson's life was spent in a campaign against the wrongs and injustice done to the medical profession, and he strove to advance his cause by acting as Hon Secretary of the Corporate and Medical Reform Association. This labour and the disappointments no doubt shortened his life, for he died of angina pectoris, in straitened circumstances, at 82 Montague Place, Russell Square, on Sept 8th, 1900, and was buried at the Lambeth Cemetery, near Balham.
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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, Robert James Lownie (1949 - 2021)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2022-07-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Edinburgh on 20 July 1949, Robert (Bob) James Lownie Anderson was the son and nephew of eminent surgeons. After attending Fettes College he studied for his BSc at St Andrews University, passing in 1971 and then graduated MB, ChB from Dundee in 1974. After house jobs in Inverness for the Highland Health Board and in Dundee at Ninewells Hospital, he passed the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1980 and took up a research fellowship at the University of Manchester. The topic of his MD thesis was pancreatic secretions and disease and it was a subject he was to publish on again over the years along with problems of the biliary tract. He then worked as a registrar and senior registrar in general surgery for Bury General Hospital in Manchester before being appointed in 1991 consultant surgeon at the Southport and Ormskirk Hospital (SOH). Bob spent 20 years at the SOH and, during this time, he began increasingly to specialise in colorectal diseases, being a specialist in the developing practice of treating such disorders laparoscopically. In time he was to lead many national courses in laparoscopic surgery and was an examiner for the college both in the UK and Hong Kong. He was awarded the fellowship ad eundem in 1996. In line with his specialism, he was a lively participant in the activities of the Association of Coloproctology of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and also the Association of Surgeons. He had a reputation as a kind and compassionate surgeon. On retirement in 2011, he was, ironically, diagnosed with colorectal cancer. Outside medicine, he enjoyed skiing, playing squash and golf, and also found time for gentler pursuits such as bird watching, playing the guitar and writing poetry. He died on 26 November 2021 aged 72, having been cared for in his own hospital. His wife Kathy, a retired theatre nurse, survived him along with their two children Colin and Ailsa.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010128
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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, William (1842 - 1900)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-10-02 2016-01-22
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in London, Dec 18th, 1842, and educated at the City of London School. Studied for a time at Aberdeen and afterwards at the Lambeth School of Art, where he won a medal for artistic anatomy. Entered St Thomas's Hospital in 1864, when Sir John Simon (qv) and Le Gros Clark (qv) were surgeons. There he won the first College Prize, the Physical Society's Prize, and the Cheselden Medal. After acting as House Surgeon at the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, he returned to St Thomas's Hospital on the opening of the new buildings in 1871, to fill the offices of Surgical Registrar and Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy. In 1873 he was appointed Professor of Anatomy and Surgery at the Imperial Naval Medical College in Tokio, where he lectured on anatomy, surgery, medicine, and physiology. He remained in Japan until 1880, when he returned to London and was appointed Assistant Surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital and Senior Lecturer on Anatomy in the medical school. He became full Surgeon in 1891. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was elected a Member of the Board of Examiners in Anatomy and Physiology for the Fellowship in 1884, and served as a Member of the Court of Examiners from 1894-1900. In 1891 he was Hunterian Professor of Surgery and Pathology, and in the same year was elected Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy in succession to John Marshall (qv). He died suddenly on Oct 27th, 1900, the result of the rupture of a cord of the mitral valve without any other morbid condition of the heart or other organs. He married: (1) In 1873, Margaret Hall, by whom he had a son and a daughter; (2) Louisa, daughter of F W Tetley, of Leeds, who survived him. Anderson may be said to have been steeped in art; [1] form and colour appealed equally to him, and his residence in Japan, when the old world there was changing into the new, gave full scope to his love of art. It enabled him to form a superb collection of Japanese paintings and engravings, most of which are preserved in the British Museum. Between 1882 and 1886 Anderson prepared a *Descriptive and Historical Account of a Collection of Japanese and Chinese Paintings in the British Museum* (London, 1886), which contains a very complete account of the general history of the subject. In 1886 he also published in portfolios to make two volumes, *Pictorial Arts of Japan, with some Account of the Development of the Allied Arts, and a Brief History and Criticism of Chinese Painting*. Many of the plates are reproduced in colour. Anderson was Chairman of the Japan Society from its constitution in January, 1892, until his death eight years later. In 1880 he was decorated by the Emperor of Japan a Companion of the Order of the Rising Sun. Anderson was a good surgeon and a competent operator, but except for a small book issued in 1897 (*The Deformities of the Fingers and Toes*) he published no surgical work. The book was based on his Hunterian Lectures given in 1891, and in it he advised excision in preference to notching of the fibrous bands in Dupuytren's contraction. He was an excellent teacher for art and medical students, his lectures being made especially attractive by the facility with which he sketched on the blackboard. Personally he was a handsome man of distinguished appearance, quiet in voice and manner, highly cultivated but very retiring. Dr Frank Payne says: "To speak of Anderson we must first observe that he was notable for the thoroughness of his work. He continued to give lectures and demonstrations on anatomy at a stage of his career when most surgeons prefer to reserve their mornings for the consulting-room. In operations he was indefatigable. He would go straight through a long list, and at the end of it was quite willing to take two or three cases from the medical ward in addition. All this would be done with unruffled composure and without any outward signs of fatigue. In his intercourse with colleagues, students, and nurses he showed the unaffected sweetness of his nature; it would be difficult to remember an instance of his being impatient or out of temper. Though his retiring disposition prevented him from becoming a prominent personality in the eyes of the public, no one was more highly esteemed or, by those who knew him well, more warmly loved, while all his abilities and attainments were recommended by the conciliatory grace of modesty." Portraits of him appear in the *Transactions of the Japan Society*, iv; in the *Lancet*, 1900, ii, 1869; and in the *St Thomas's Hospital Gazette* 1900, November. [Amendments from the annotated edition of *Plarr's Lives* at the Royal College of Surgeons: [1] An outline of the history of art in its relation to medical science. Introductory address, Medical and physical society, St. Thomas's Hospital 1885- St. Thos. Hosp. Repts. 1886, 15, 151-181]
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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, William Ainslie (1925 - 2011)

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by Ken Callum
Publication Date 2012-01-26 2012-08-29
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details William Ainslie Anderson was a paediatric and general surgeon in Derby. He was born on 24 September 1925 in Aberdeen into a medical family. His father, William Anderson, was a well-known surgeon and a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. His mother was Barbara Matthew Kate Anderson née Gibson, a nurse. Ainslie was educated locally in Aberdeen and then at Gordonstoun, which he loved and often talked about. He looked after the bloodhounds, partly for his love of dogs, but also to get out of the compulsory morning runs before breakfast! He once chopped down a tree from the neighbouring estate to build kennels for the dogs, and had to hide the evidence. The boys had to man the old telephone switchboard, which Ainslie was no good at, but he used to enjoy the stream of German swearwords from the headmaster Kurt Hahn when he cut him off! He held Kurt Hahn in high regard and the principles of integrity and diligence, which he learnt at school, lasted him through his life. He started medical school in Aberdeen at the age of 17, and was taught in part by his father. He captained the second XV medics rugby, and was an enthusiastic member of the student shows. The course was shortened due to the war, so that he qualified in 1947 at the age of 22, just before the NHS began. Soon after qualifying, he started postgraduate training in paediatric and general surgery in Aberdeen, which included a year in general practice in the Outer Hebrides. This training also included a year studying pathology in Edinburgh, which enabled him to understand surgical pathology better than most surgeons. Throughout his consultant career he enjoyed regular surgical pathology meetings. His surgical training also included a research fellowship in Denver, Colorado. His voyage to America was earned as the ship's doctor to one of the Woolworth millionaires who was an alcoholic: his duties were to hide the key to the drinks cabinet, and provide penicillin for the crew. The research he carried out in Denver was into cardiac valve implantation techniques, the downside for him being that it was conducted on dogs. He also missed his family - his wife had been expecting one of their children when he left. In 1961 he was appointed as a consultant paediatric and general surgeon to the Derby hospitals, retiring in 1990. He bought a house close to the Children's Hospital and for the first 13 years was on call virtually all the time for paediatric surgery, and prior to the setting up of a specialist unit in Nottingham he performed a number of major neonatal operations, such as repair of duodenal and oesophageal atresia, with considerable success. For the remaining 16 years until he retired he was on a one-in-two rota for paediatrics with his colleague David Thomas, who lived across the road from him in order to give the same service. He was a skillful surgeon and an astute clinician who gave a huge contribution to surgery in Derby. He was a keen and active member of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons, and often took his family to the association's annual meeting, incorporating it with his own annual holiday. He was widely read, with an in-depth knowledge of his own and other specialties, and he impressed his colleagues with his grasp of the latest developments. He ran a monthly journal club at home - always well attended - where he would elucidate how to analyse and critique an article for the benefit of his surgical trainees and his consultant colleagues. This was always an enjoyable and convivial evening. As a member of numerous committees he was a vociferous and skillful advocate, ensuring that the needs of both patients and clinicians were given due consideration; as a result he did not always endear himself to the administration, but was highly regarded by his clinical colleagues, who were usually in accord with the views he expressed. He regularly attended the Derby Medical Society and held the office of president in 1986. As a friend he was always available to support colleagues who needed help and gave good advice that was sympathetic and sound. He had a delightful turn of phrase and a sense of humour, evidenced by his engaging smile coupled with a mischievous twinkle in his eyes. He was an altogether outstanding personality. Shooting was a lifelong passion of his, particularly on retirement when he kept busy with pheasants and his dogs, and he was a keen birdwatcher. Even in his latter days when he became too breathless to go shooting he would drive to a shoot to chat with his friends and to see the dogs. During his surgical training in Aberdeen he met his future wife Eileen who was an anaesthetic registrar. They were married in 1956 and had three children, Bill, Sue and Jim, two of whom went in for medicine. Sue became an anaesthetist and now lives in America, and Jim became a surgeon, making the third generation of Anderson surgeons. Sadly Eileen died of breast cancer in 1985 and Ainslie continued to miss her for the rest of his life. In conclusion, he was a great friend and colleague, and a devoted family man. Beneath his slightly gruff exterior he was a very kind and caring man, a very able clinician and a man of great intellect and integrity. He read a great deal about non-medical matters as well, so that talking with him on almost any subject was always interesting. He died on 3 October 2011 and is greatly missed.
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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, William Alexander ( - 1882)

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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, William John (1821 - 1871)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-10-02 2013-08-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Only son of William Anderson, of Paddington, gentleman. Admitted to the Head Master's House (C T Longley) at Harrow in January, 1835, left at midsummer, 1839, and matriculated from Christ Church, Oxford, on Oct 16th, 1839, but never graduated. Educated at St George's Hospital and in Paris. He started practice in Prince's Street, Cavendish Square, removing in 1849 to 10 Welbeck Street, where he restricted his practice to midwifery, was District Accoucheur to St Mary's Hospital, and Accoucheur to the St George's and St James's Dispensary. He was Hon Secretary to the Harveian Society and a member of the Royal Institution. He left this country to reside at Balmain, in New South Wales, and died on a voyage home from Sydney in 1871. Publications: *The Causes, Symptoms and Treatment of Eccentric Nervous Affections*, 8vo, London, 1850: 'Eccentric' affections being such as originate in causes extraneous to the nervous centres. *The Symptoms and Treatment of the Diseases of Pregnancy*, 8vo, London, 1852. *Hysterical and Nervous Affections of Women*, 12mo, London, 1853. "Continued Fever in Children," reprinted from *Assoc. Med. Jour.*, 1854, 751. With which is: "On the Use of Nitrosulphuric Acid in Cholera and Diarrhœa", reprinted from *Assoc. Med. Jour.*, 1853, 964. 8vo, London, 1854. "Remarks on the Treatment of Procidentia Uteri." *Assoc. Med. Jour.*, 1854, 904. "Some Anomalous Cases of Scarlatina." *Lancet*, 1854, i, 327. "On Leucorrhœa." *Med. Times*, 1856, xxxiii, 108, 435. "On the Submucous Section of the Sphincter Ani for Spasmodic Constriction with Anal Fissures." The paper is interesting because it emphasizes the advantages of operative treatment, as practised by Professor Blandin of Paris, over the older method of stretching the sphincter ani in cases of fissure which had been recommended by M Recamier.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000687
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First Title value, for Searching Anderton, Henry (1790 - 1870)

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First Title value, for Searching Andrea, Brian Maxwell (1925 - 2002)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2020-08-12
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Brian Maxwell Andrea was born on 26 January 1925 in Kattang, Western Australia. He studied to become a dental surgeon before graduating MB, BS from the University of Sydney. Having travelled to the UK, he passed the fellowship of the college in 1957 and worked as a registrar at the Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton. On returning to Australia he worked at the Canberra Hospital from 1959 to 1990. He died on 21 December 2002 on the South Coast, New South Wales, Australia, aged 77.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009757
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First Title value, for Searching Andreasen, Jens Ove (1935 - 2020)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-07-04
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Occupation Specialist in dental trauma, Oral and maxillofacial surgeon
Details Jens Ove Andreasen was a professor in the department of oral medicine and surgery at University Hospital, Copenhagen and a pioneer in the field of dental traumatology. 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
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First Title value, for Searching Andrew, Edwyn (1832 - 1887)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-10-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Educated at University College Hospital. Held the offices of Resident Medical Officer, House Surgeon, and Physician’s Assistant, as well as President of the University College Medical Society. Practised in Shrewsbury, devoting himself especially to the treatment of diseases of the eye and the ear. He was appointed Surgeon to the Shropshire and North Wales Eye and Throat Infirmary. At that time the building was very small and inadequate, “but under his exertion, and with the aid of others, he lived to see a new hospital erected and completed in 1881, replete with every comfort and with ample accommodation”. The hospital cost £10,000 to erect. It is a fine building and may be regarded as his monument. Andrew was President of the Shropshire and Mid-Wales branch of the British Medical Association, 1883-1884; Hon Local Secretary and Treasurer to the Royal Medical Benevolent College; Surgeon to the Shropshire Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital; Consulting Surgeon to the Montgomeryshire Infirmary; Certificated Factory Inspector; and Surgeon to Shrewsbury Royal Grammar School. He died at his residence, 12 St John’s Hill, Shrewsbury, on Jan 10th, 1887. Publications: “Extirpation of Lachrymal Gland in Obstruction of Nasal Duct.” – *Brit. Med Jour.*, 1877, ii, 256, 623. “Intestinal Obstruction.” – Ibid., 1878 ii, 470. “On the Extraction of Senile Cataract and its Capsule.” – Ibid., 1883, i, 41.
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First Title value, for Searching Andrew, George (1852 - 1948)

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First Title value, for Searching Andrew, Henry (1815 - 1875)

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First Title value, for Searching Andrew, John (1922 - 1999)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-09-27 2015-12-09
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Occupation Neurosurgeon
Details John Andrew, also known as 'Tony', was born on 2 February 1922 in Poulton-le-Flyde, Lancashire. He was the son of Percy Andrew, a general practitioner, and Ida Louise née Rishworth, a first-generation American, whom his father had met as a nurse in France during the first world war. His grandfather had been house surgeon to Sir James Paget at St Bartholomew's and later worked in Monte Carlo. Andrew was educated at the Perse School, Cambridge, and at first wished to be a classicist, but his father persuaded him to follow the family tradition and go to Bart's. After junior osts, his training in neurosurgery was mainly at Bart's under J E A O'Connell, but he spent a year in Chicago working with Percival Bailey. Afterwards, he was appointed consultant neurosurgeon at Oldchurch Hospital, Romford, a post he relinquished on his appointment to the Middlesex Hospital and the West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases. Tony Andrew was a man of meticulous habits, demanding the highest medical standards from his staff. Though he was an extremely skilful general neurosurgeon and wrote on lumbar spinal canal stenosis, his special interest was in stereotaxic surgery. In 1969 he published, with E S Watkins, an atlas based on detailed anatomical work, which provided quantitative information about the variability of the position of nuclei within the basal ganglia. This was a valuable practical tool. Other important research work was done with P W Nathan on the site within the frontal lobes, damage to which resulted in impaired bladder function. Andrew combined a keen if acerbic sense of humour with his conscientious, careful and even intolerant personality. His premature retirement from the Middlesex Hospital was precipitated by the noise in the operating theatre resulting from the temporary accommodation of orthopaedic surgery from the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. Andrew had a busy private practice, mainly from the Middle East and Mediterranean, which he valued for the interesting clinical material it provided. After a time he set up a neurosurgical service in Abu Dhabi. In later life he built a house in Cyprus, where he spent much of his time. He spoke Greek, as well as German and French. In 1974 he married Margaret Morrell, a widow. There were no children. In his youth he had been a keen mountaineer and rock climber. Later in life he took up wind-surfing. He was fond of music, was an enthusiastic pianist, and a painter. He was a Catholic and his religion meant much to him. His last years were clouded by illness, by low pressure hydrocephalus, Parkinsonism and prostatic cancer. He eventually succumbed to a stroke and died on 30 May 1999. The following obituary was provided at a later date by a member of Mr Andrew's family. John Andrew was a consultant neurosurgeon at the Middlesex Hospital. His mother, an American, met his father during the First World War in France where she was a nurse, and he a doctor. They married and he went into general practice. When John was born, his mother really wanted to call him Anthony, but, thinking that Anthony Andrew would sound rather odd, he was christened just John. He was known officially as John, but 'Tony' to his friends. He attended the Perse School in Cambridge and wanted to read classics but, as his grandfather and father were doctors, there was pressure on him to follow suit. When he subsequently became a fellow of the RCS, he was the youngest and his grandfather the eldest. He received his medical training at Bart's and, when he first qualified, he went as an assistant doctor on a brides' ship to Australia and the Caribbean. He was then appointed as a registrar to John O'Connell at Bart's. JOC was a great character and excellent teacher. John subsequently went to Chicago on a Fulbright scholarship. For a time he was a consultant at Oldchurch Hospital, Romford, and then a consultant neurosurgeon at the Middlesex Hospital. He was very encouraging to his registrars and gave them every opportunity to acquire surgical skills. Like most doctors, he expected nightly reports on the patients and was readily available for visits to the hospital of any time. He had a special interest in tremor and published in 1969 *A stereotaxic atlas of the human thalamus and adjacent structures* (Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins Company) with E S Watkins. The work that gave him the most satisfaction was the discovery, with Peter Nathan, of the area of the brain that governed the bladder. He was totally dedicated to his NHS work, and his private practice provided him with much interest in view of the unusual cases that presented themselves. He spoke Greek and had many patients from Greece and Cyprus, where he subsequently built a house and enjoyed playing the piano and sitting on the veranda, watching the stars in the wonderfully clear sky. Watching birds and identifying them by their song was another hobby. In Romford he had worked with Nikos Spanos, a well-respected neurosurgeon in Cyprus, and with Jesus Lofuente, from Barcelona. Said El Gindi from Egypt worked with him for a time in London, and John had many patients from Egypt. He learnt some Arabic, and this was to prove useful when he went to Abu Dhabi to set up neurosurgery on his retirement from the Middlesex Hospital. He spent some happy years there and learned to windsurf, which was an achievement requiring great tenacity. John really was a Renaissance man with many interests. When young, he was a member of a climbing club and had a climb named after him in Cornwall. He was also a keen sailor and owned a squib, a small racing keelboat, which was moored at Burnham-on-Crouch, and he and his wife headed there every Sunday when the weather was fine and after the patients had been visited (he operated on a Saturday morning and enjoyed tea in the afternoon whilst watching the wrestling). When these physical activities were curtailed by ill health, he was able to spend many quiet hours painting. He had never had the opportunity to do this when he was young, but he had lessons with the painter Conchita Moore and, in Cyprus, with Nicolas Panayi. He was a member of the Medical Art Society and went with them to Morocco. His painting of a rough sea in Essaouira was shown at their annual exhibition at the Royal Society of Medicine. He was happily surprised by this. He also played the piano and made a good curry! Finally, one must also add that he had a keen sense of humour, rather acerbic at times, and had a stock of limericks. Margaret Andrew
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First Title value, for Searching Andrews, Archibald George (1858 - 1943)

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First Title value, for Searching Andrews, John Alban (1887 - 1964)

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First Title value, for Searching Andrews, John Goldwyer (1782 - 1849)

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First Title value, for Searching Andrews, William ( - 1862)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-04-03
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Practised at Salisbury, where he died, in the Close, on February 19th, 1862.
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First Title value, for Searching Andrews, William (1784 - 1862)

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

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First Title value, for Searching Angell, James Cyril (1918 - 1994)

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First Title value, for Searching Angell-James, John (1901 - 2002)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-13
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details John Angell-James, known as 'Jack', was in his day the doyen of ear, nose and throat surgeons. He was born in Bristol on 23 August 1901 into a medical family. His father, John Angell James, was a doctor. His mother was Emily Cormell née Ashwin. After Bristol Grammar School, he did his medical training at Bristol and Guy's Hospital. In 1924, he qualified from both London and Bristol Universities with honours. After resident appointments in Bristol and London from 1924 to 1928, he embarked on a career of clinical research and teaching in ear, nose and throat surgery at the Bristol Children's Hospital and the Bristol Royal Infirmary. His first appointments were in the pre-NHS era and honorary, to the Children's Hospital in 1928 and, in the following year, to the Bristol Royal Infirmary. With the advent of the NHS, he held definitive consultant posts at both hospitals from 1948 to 1966. He was active in Bristol University: he was a clinical tutor from 1928 to 1955, and later became a lecturer. He was head of the department of otorhinolaryngology from 1955 to 1966. During the second world war, he served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the RAMC, mainly in the Middle East, being an adviser in his specialty. In the 1960's, he pioneered two new operations. One was transethmoidal hypophysectomy approached through the nose. Harpooning the pituitary gland using specially devised instruments and an operating microscope, he helped patients with hormone dependent metastatic breast cancer: few other surgeons became adept at this technique. The other operation he pioneered was successful in relieving Meniere's disease by selective destruction of the semicircular canals using ultrasound. This was a preferable alternative to the existing conservative treatment of salt and fluid deprivation, and, in more severe cases, destruction of the inner ear, which cured the vertigo at the expense of resultant deafness. Many honours came his way: he was Hunterian Professor in 1962, Semon lecturer in laryngology to the University of London in 1965, James Yearsley lecturer in 1966 and gave the Sir William Wilde memorial lecture to the Irish Otolaryngology Society in 1966. He was made an honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1976, having previously received the Dalby prize in 1963 and the W J Harrison prize in 1968. He wrote extensively and contributed to many publications on diseases of the ear, nose and throat, ultrasound as a diagnostic tool and Meniere's disease. He was chairman of the editorial committee of *Clinical Otolaryngology*. He was a member of many societies and bodies in the UK, including the section of laryngology of the Royal Society of Medicine (President in 1955), the British Association of Otorhinolaryngologists from 1942 (President from 1966 to 1969), and the Otolaryngological Research Society (President in 1978). Locally, he was a member of the South West Laryngological Society, becoming Chairman in 1956, and the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical, serving as President in 1961. He was also active in the British Medical Association, being Chairman of the Bristol division from 1966 to 1967, and President of the Bath, Bristol and Somerset branch from 1968 to 1969, having already received the Jobson Horne BMA prize in 1962. From 1948, he was a member of the *Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitiae* Sacrum, serving as a councillor from 1966 to 1974 and becoming President in 1974. He enjoyed travelling with fellow specialists in the UK and became a member of the Visiting Association of ENT Surgeons of Great Britain from 1948, serving as President from 1965 to 1966. In spite of a busy working schedule, Jack travelled abroad frequently, being visiting lecturer to many universities, including Toronto, Vermont, Cornell, Baylor, Chicago and also the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He inevitably became an honorary member of many specialty societies overseas, including the Irish Otorhinolaryngological Society, the equivalent in South Africa, and was also a corresponding member of Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Hals-Nasen-Ohren-Heilkunde Kopf und Hals Chirurgie. He was awarded the coveted Colles medal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland in 1963. He had what many would regard as a successful private practice; but he never sent invoices to friends, colleagues or those who had served their country. This may seem unusual to the present generation, but was the norm in those who had given their services voluntarily and also after the NHS came into being, that is until market forces took control! A tall handsome man, with a ramrod straight back, an aquiline nose and blue eyes, Jack combined his surgical career with farming, keeping pigs - occasionally practising new surgical techniques on them - and a herd of prize Guernsey cows. His prize bull was often sent around the county by rail from Bristol Temple Meads Station. He exhibited his prize heifers at the Bath and West Show. In 1974, he won the silver medal at the International Dairy Event, Stoneleigh Park, for his calf and lamb resuscitator. He was active in the Gloucester Society, becoming President in 1977, and also of the Colston Society from 1984 to 1985. He retired in 1966, and lived to be 100. He was still milking cows in his seventies, shooting in his eighties, and was writing his autobiography when he was nearing his century. He had a stroke early in June 2002 and died from pneumonia two weeks later, on 19 June. He was predeceased by his wife Evelyn Miriam née Everard. He leaves a son, Roger, and two daughters, Rosemary and Jennifer.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008449
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First Title value, for Searching Angliss, Eric Leonard (1922 - 1968)

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First Title value, for Searching Angorn, Israel Barnett (1924 - 1986)

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First Title value, for Searching Angus, Henry Brunton (1867 - 1927)

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First Title value, for Searching Anikwe, Raymond Maduchem (1935 - 2008)

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by John Blandy
Publication Date 2008-09-11
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Occupation Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Raymond Anikwe was a leading urological surgeon in Nigeria. He was born on 5 June 1935, the son of Chief Lawrence Akunwanne and Helen Oyeigwe Anikwenze in Nnobi, Anambra State, Nigeria. He was educated at St Mary Primary School, Umulu, and St Joseph Primary School, Onitsha. In 1951 he entered the Government College, Umuahia, where he excelled at sports, as well as his studies, winning a Nigerian Central Government scholarship to the Nigerian College of Technology, Ibadan. After two years there he won a scholarship from the Government of Italy to study medicine at the University of Rome. He learnt Italian, and obtained the degree of MD in July 1964. After qualifying he served as a pre-registration house officer and senior house officer in general surgery in Turin, and then went to the UK as a senior house officer at Dudley Guest Hospital. He was later a registrar in surgery (urology) at the Central Middlesex Hospital. From there he went to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary as a research fellow, studying urodynamics with a special interest in urethral resistance. In 1973 he returned to Nigeria as a lecturer at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and consultant surgeon at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu. He rose through the academic ranks to become professor of surgery (urology) in 1978. He served on numerous committees: he was chairman of the medical advisory committee, director of clinical services and training at Enugu (from 1978 to 1980), chief executive and medical director (from 1982 to 1985), provost of the college of medicine and medical sciences and deputy vice chancellor of the University of Nigeria Enugu campus in 1986. In 1987 he went to Saudi Arabia as professor of urology and consultant urologist at the King Faisal University and King Fahd Hospital. In 1999 he returned to Nigeria to the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, until he established his own private hospital, the Galaxy Urology Specialist Hospital, Enugu, which was equipped with the latest endoscopic facilities. He published extensively and was a member of numerous learned societies. In 2007 he received the prestigious D’Linga gold award by Corporate and Media Africa Communications Ltd for his contribution to nation building through the medical profession. In 1974 he married Gladys Ngozi (née Ojukwu) and they had six children, of whom two became doctors. He died on 17 May 2008.
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First Title value, for Searching Annamunthodo, Sir Harry (1920 - 1986)

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First Title value, for Searching Annandale, Thomas (1838 - 1907)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-10-02 2016-01-29
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the second son of Thomas Annandale, surgeon, [1] by his wife E Johnstone. Educated at Bruce's Academy, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and apprenticed to his father. Matriculated at Edinburgh in 1856 and graduated MD in the University in 1860, gaining the highest honours and winning the Gold Medal for his thesis "On Injuries and Diseases of the Hip-joint". Acted as House Surgeon to James Syme (qv) at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and as Syme's private assistant from 1861-1870. Appointed a Junior Demonstrator of Anatomy in the University by Professor John Goodsir. He was a lecturer on the principles of surgery in the extramural school at Edinburgh in 1863, and gave a yearly course of lectures until 1871, when he began to lecture on clinical surgery at the Royal Infirmary. In 1864 he won the Jacksonian Prize at the Royal College of Surgeons of England with his dissertation on "The Malformation, Diseases and Injuries of the Fingers and Toes with their Surgical Treatment". The essay was published at Edinburgh in 1865. Annandale was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary in 1865, and became Acting Surgeon in 1871. He was appointed Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery in the University in 1871 [2] in succession to Joseph, Lord Lister (qv), who migrated to King's College, London. He was made an honorary DCL of the University of Durham in April, 1902. He joined the Royal Archers, His Majesty's Bodyguard in Scotland, as an Archer in 1870, and was Surgeon-General to the corps from May 27th, 1900, until his death. He married in 1874 Eveline, the eldest daughter of William Nelson, the publisher, of Edinburgh, and had by her three sons and three daughters. He died suddenly on Dec 20th, 1907, having operated as usual on the previous day. A bust executed by W G Stevenson, RSA, is in the lecture theatre of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, and there is a small portrait of him in the collection at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Annandale lived through the revolution in surgical practice. He kept himself abreast of all the varying phases and combined the good parts of each. He was keenly interested in University matters, and more especially in the welfare of the students. He was prominent at the Students' Union and in the Athletic Club. The 'Annandale Gold Medal' for Clinical Surgery commemorates him at the University of Edinburgh. Publications: Surgical Appliances and Minor Operative Surgery, Edinburgh, 1866. Abstracts of Surgical Principles, 6 Parts, 1868-1870. 3rd ed., 1878. Observations and Cases in Surgery, 1875. On the Pathology and Operative Treatment of Hip Disease, 1876. [Amendments from the annotated edition of *Plarr's Lives* at the Royal College of Surgeons: [1] to the Newcastle infirmary 1854-66; [2] '1871' is deleted and '1877 see *BMJ* 1938, 2, 436' added]
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First Title value, for Searching Annesley, Sir James H [1] (1774 - 1847)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-10-18 2016-01-29
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Son of the Honourable Marcus Annesley, born in County Down, Ireland, about 1774, and educated at Trinity College and the College of Surgeons in Dublin, also at the Windmill Street School in London. On April 29th, 1799, he received a nomination in the medical service of the HEIC on the Madras side from Sir Walter Farquhar, and arrived in India in December, 1800. He was at once appointed to the Trichinopoly Corps and saw hard fighting with the field force in Southern India during the whole of the year 1801. He served with a battalion of native infantry at various stations from 1802-1805, when he was invalided home. Two years later he returned from England and was appointed Garrison Surgeon at Masulipatam, where he made himself well acquainted with native diseases and their treatment. He took careful notes of every case which came under his care, recording the symptoms, the remedies used, and the results. Annesley was placed in medical charge of the 78th British Regiment during the Java expedition in 1811. He had the satisfaction of landing 1070 men fit for duty out of a strength of 1100, and the field hospital at Cornalis being in an unsatisfactory condition, Annesley, although the junior officer, was ordered to take command, and it is on record that in ten days he had the hospital in proper order, with its 1400 or 1500 patients clothed, victualled, and treated. He was soon ordered back to Madras to superintend a field hospital established by Government for the native troops who had lost their health in the expedition to the Isle of France and Java. His administration proved so successful that he was publicly thanked by the Commander-in-Chief for "the ability, exertion and humane attention displayed by Surgeon Annesley, equally honourable to his professional talents and public zeal, which His Excellency trusts will entitle him to the good opinion and favourable notice of government". Native troops had been employed upon foreign service, and as a result of Annesley's treatment the Madras Sepoys were said to be willing to volunteer for any service in any part of the world. In 1812 Annesley joined the Madras European Regiment, with which he remained until 1817, when the last Mahratta and Pindaree War began. Annesley was appointed Superintending Surgeon to the advanced divisions of the Army and served in the field until the end of 1818, being repeatedly mentioned in general orders for his zeal and ability. He was appointed Garrison Surgeon at Fort St George on his return to Madras, and placed in charge of the General Hospital, where he remained until he was invalided home in 1824. On leaving India on furlough the Admiralty presented him with a piece of plate of the value of one hundred guineas "as a mark of the sense their Lordships entertained of his gratuitous medical attendance on the officers and men of His Majesty's ships in Madras Roads, 1823". Annesley returned to India in 1829, and was immediately appointed to examine the Medical Reports of former years with the view to selecting such cases as might tend to throw light upon the diseases of India. He made a digest of the Reports from 1786 to 1829, and also reported upon the climate, healthiness, and production of the hills in the Madras presidency. The digest occupied twelve volumes and was accompanied by four volumes of medical observations, all of the highest value. The digest had been made without cost to the Government, but on its completion the Court of Directors of the HEIC voted Annesley an honorarium of 5000 rupees. He was appointed a member of the Medical Board in 1833, and in 1838 was permitted to retire from the Honourable Company's service on the pension of his rank, having served in India for the long period of thirty-seven years. On his return to England he received the honour of knighthood in [2] 1844; he was also elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. During his later years he lived at 6 Albany, Piccadilly. He died at Florence on Dec 14th, 1847. Annesley did good service to the medical profession by his zeal, tact, and administrative ability, for he founded the tradition upon which was built the high reputation afterwards gained by the Indian Medical Service both amongst the Europeans and the native population of India. Publications:- Sketches of the Most Prevalent Diseases of India, Comprising a Treatise on Epidemic Cholera of the East, London, 1825, 2nd ed., 1828 [3]. Annesley discusses cholera with extensive first-hand information and makes some inquiries on the historical side in regard to the disease. The sketches include "Topographical, and Statistical Reports of the Diseases most prevalent in the different stations and divisions of the Army under the Madras Presidency", and "Practical Observations on the Effects of Calomel on the Mucous Surface and Secretions of the Alimentary Canal; and on the Use of this Remedy in Disease, more Particularly in the Diseases of India". For these sketches he received the Monthyon Prize, and the section on cholera was translated into German by Gustav Himly, Hannover, in 1831. Researches into the Causes, Nature and Treatment of the more Prevalent Diseases of India, and of Warm Climates Generally, 4to, 2 vols., with 40 coloured engravings, London, 1828. The work is rendered unwieldy by its wealth of detail. [4] [Amendments from the annotated edition of *Plarr's Lives* at the Royal College of Surgeons: [1] The 'H' is deleted and the following added - *Crawford's Roll of I.M.S;* Madras list no 435; [2] Crawford says knighted 13 May 1844 'F.R.S. 1840'; [3] 3rd edition 1841; [4] *Digest of Madras Medical Reports* 1788-1829 (Crawford) & ? above p.29; Portrait in College Collection]
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First Title value, for Searching Annis, David (1921 - 2003)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-07-06 2012-07-19
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Occupation General surgeon
Details David Annis was a consultant surgeon at Liverpool's Royal Infirmary. His father was a Polish Jew who emigrated from England to Canada and served with distinction in the Canadian Army during the first world war, being decorated for his conduct at Vimy Ridge. After the war, he returned to England to set up a pharmaceutical company in Manchester and married a Christian Protestant woman, much to the displeasure of his family, who held a funeral service for him. David was educated at Manchester Grammar School, and then studied medicine at Liverpool. He always wanted to be a surgeon. He took his primary FRCS after his second MB in 1939. After house jobs at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary, he gained his FRCS. He was appointed research fellow in experimental surgery at the Mayo Clinic from 1949 to 1951, but refused a third year and returned to Liverpool University as senior lecturer in the department of surgery. He was appointed consultant surgeon at the Royal Infirmary in 1954. For the next 25 years he had a distinguished academic career. He was director of studies in surgical science and of the bioengineering unit. He was an examiner at many British universities, as well as in Lagos and Riga, and was a member of the Court of Examiners, accompanying them to India, Ceylon, Burma and Singapore. In 1981, he left his hospital post to set up a new department of clinical engineering at Liverpool University where, together with a polymer scientist, he used electrostatic spinning to produce elastic polyurethane grafts which provided pulsatile vessels for implanting into pigs and sheep. He was a member of the editorial committee of the Bioengineering Journal and the British Journal of Surgery and of the physiological systems and disorders board of the Medical Research Council. A physician colleague described him as a physician/physiologist who operated. He was a popular member and sometime President of the Moynihan Chirurgical Club, where he and his wife Nesta were superb hosts. As a young man David enjoyed playing the clarinet and writing verse. He enjoyed the countryside and motoring abroad. A shy, diffident, kind, amusing and courageous man, he was a role model for a generation of young surgeons. He and Nesta had four children, three of whom work in the NHS. For the last two years of his life he was affected by Alzheimer's disease. He died on 3 February 2003.
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First Title value, for Searching Anscombe, Anthony Rex (1923 - 1998)

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First Title value, for Searching Ansell, Barbara Mary (1923 - 2001)

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First Title value, for Searching Anthonis, Polwattearachchige Romiel (1911 - 2009)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-05-20
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Romiel Anthonis was the most celebrated Asian surgeon of his day, and a role model to generations of Sri Lankans. He was born in Bambalapitiya, a suburb of Colombo, on 21 January 1911, one of the 16 children of Polwatte Arachchige Michael Anthonis, a master-carpenter, and Hettiarachchige Engaltina Perera, the daughter of an ayurvedic physician. Although the ancestral home, Madangahawatte, had extensive lands, the family were not well off. His father had little English education, but was widely read in Sinhala and was himself a celebrated poet. Romiel had been taught his letters at the age of six, and a year later entered the Milagiriya Sinhala School, walking there barefoot each day with his elder brother and sister. His father persuaded Fr Nicholas Perera, the rector of St Joseph’s College South (later to become St Peter’s College), to admit them provided they improved their English. By the time he was seven, Romiel was winning prize after prize, a feat repeated a few years later at secondary school, where he became the senior prefect. At the Colombo Medical College he again became head of his class in every year and, when he qualified in 1936, it was with gold medals in pathology, forensic medicine and surgery, and the rare government diploma medal. He became a house surgeon to Sir Arthur Marcellus de Silva who, he said, treated him like a son. In 1939 he was awarded a new scholarship, but was unable to take it up because of the war and it was not until 1945 that he went to England to specialise in surgery, passing the primary and the final FRCS at the first attempt. He returned to Ceylon in 1947 as a consultant surgeon to the teaching hospital in Colombo, now the National Hospital of Sri Lanka, where he served until he retired in 1971. He had a very extensive experience and kept meticulous notes of each of his cases, carefully illustrated with his own drawings. Among his more celebrated patients was the Prime Minister S W R D Bandaranaike, who had been repeatedly shot by a visiting Buddhist monk. He had multiple abdominal injuries and the operation took many hours. The patient recovered sufficiently well to ask that his misguided assailant should not be ill-treated, but died the following day from what was presumed to be a massive pulmonary embolism. Anthonis continued to work long after his retirement from government service, was sought after by many distinguished patients and was the recipient of many honours including the title of ‘Deshamanya’, the highest national honour of Sri Lanka. He was chairman of the Sri Lanka Medical Council and chancellor of the University of Colombo in 1981, remaining in that office for another 22 years. The College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka awarded him the title of ‘Pride of the Medical Profession’ in 2005. The Government of Japan conferred on him the ‘Order of the Sacred Treasure’. He was head of the Police Reserve Medical Corps, and a founder director of Seylan Bank. He was much revered as a teacher, never sarcastic or humiliating, but always inspiring. He collected rare books and works of art, and was an expert on the Buddhist scriptures. In 1943 he married Lilian Constance Perera, who predeceased him. Their son, P Ravindralal Anthonis, is a photographer. He died on 17 December 2009, aged 98.
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First Title value, for Searching Anthony, Rene Francis (1934 - 2013)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-12-16 2015-12-14
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Occupation Urologist
Details René Francis Anthony was a urologist at the Dr Georges L Dumont and the Moncton City hospitals, New Brunswick, Canada. He was born on 10 August 1934. He gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1967. He was also a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada. He died on 18 October 2013, aged 79.
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First Title value, for Searching Antia, Nohir Hormasji (1922 - 2007)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-02-19 2016-05-27
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Occupation Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon Social worker
Details Noshir Hormasji Antia was a pioneering plastic surgeon in India, particularly known for his work treating patients with leprosy. He was born in Bombay, India, on 8 February 1922, into a Parsi family, the son of Hormasji Antia, a shopkeeper, and Soonamai. He was educated at Esplanade High School, Bombay, and then completed the pre-graduate course at Fergusson College, Poona. He went on to study medicine at Grant Medical College and the Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy group of hospitals, qualifying MB BS in 1945. He began his career by joining the British Indian Army as a medical officer, where he worked for two years. In 1947 he went to the UK for postgraduate studies. He held posts at the plastic surgery unit, Basingstoke, where he worked with Sir Harold Gillies, at the burns and trauma unit at Birmingham Accident Hospital, and with A B Wallace in Edinburgh, where he was a senior house officer in plastic surgery. His final post in the UK was with Rainsford Mowlem at Mount Vernon Hospital. Antia gained his FRCS in 1952. He returned to India in 1956 and was initially posted to the Jehangir Nursing Home, Poona, where he was a general surgeon but also practised plastic surgery there, as well as at the Dr Bandorawalla Government Leprosy Hospital. He was later invited to establish a department of plastic surgery at Grant Medical College and the Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy group of hospitals, the first such unit in western India. The unit became known as the Tata department of plastic surgery, and grew to accommodate burns, hand and leprosy surgery. Antia headed the Tata department for 22 years until 1980, helping to establish it as a leading training centre for plastic surgeons in India. Antia wrote five books, contributed to other publications and published almost 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals. His autobiography *A life of change: the autobiography of a doctor* (Penguin Books India) was published in 2009. He established three charitable organisations - the Foundation for Research in Community Health, the Foundation for Medical Research and the National Society for Equal Opportunities for the Handicapped. He was president of the International Confederation of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, of the Association of Plastic Surgeons of India and the Indian Association of Leprologists. He was one of the founder members of the Burns Association of India and the Society for Reconstructive Surgery, Rehabilitation and Research, Bombay. In India he gave the Pandalai oration of the Association of Surgeons of India in 1969 and Gillies memorial oration of the Association of Plastic Surgeons of India in 1972. He was a Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1962 and gave the Clayton memorial lecture there in 1980. He was an honorary fellow of the American College of Surgeons and was the Kiskadden memorial orator at the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons in 1973 and the Maliniac memorial lecturer for the same organisation in 1984. He was an honorary surgeon to the president of India and the governor of the state of Maharashtra. The Government of India awarded him the Padma Shri in 1990. In 1957 Antia married Arnie Noshir Batliwala, a kindergarten teacher. They had two children, a son, Rustom, and a daughter, Avan. N H Antia died on 26 June 2007. He was 85.
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First Title value, for Searching Antonie, Thomas Emanuel (1921 - 2007)

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by Paul Steedman
Publication Date 2016-02-19 2016-05-11
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Thomas Emanuel Antonie was a general surgeon at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne between 1961 and 1986. Tom Antonie was born in 1921 and received his secondary education at St Patrick's College, East Melbourne, matriculating in 1940. He studied medicine at Melbourne University graduating in 1945. He spent some time at Newman College as a student. Tom Antonie spent his internship at St Vincent's with Frank Darcy, surgeon and also Leo Doyle, surgeon. Tom obtained his FRACS in 1950. He went to England as a ship's surgeon obtaining the FRCS England in 1951 and worked as the Ashford Hospital in Middlesex as a senior surgical registrar. On returning to Australia in 1952 he was appointed a clinical assistant to the outpatient's surgeons at St Vincent's Hospital. He was assistant to outpatients surgeon in 1954, became surgeon to outpatients in 1961 and finally surgeon to outpatients in 1973. He retired from St Vincent's in 1986. Tom was a general surgeon who showed considerable technical skills. Later on he became interested in pancreatic surgery. He was a keen teacher. Tom Antonie was elected chairman of the Senior Medical Staff just before his retirement in 1986. He had the difficult task of guiding the staff through a period when strike action by the hospital doctors appeared imminent. This situation was caused by the state government's refusal to implement the Lochtenberg Report which had addressed anomalies in the seasonal payment to the visiting medical officers. Fortunately the government saw reason and the strike was averted. Quite early on Tom enjoyed his private surgical practice operating mainly at the Mercy and Cabrini Hospitals. He also showed a great interest in medico-legal work and often said that if had not become a successful surgeon he would have been very keen to become a barrister. Initially he concentrated on the prosecuting side but then later changed mainly to representing defendants. He enjoyed both sides of this medico-legal work. Tom met his future wife Joan, who was a nurse at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, in 1948. They were married for fifty-five years. They had five children, four daughters and one son. At the present time there are seventeen grandchildren. Tom travelled overseas a lot, mainly to surgical meetings in the UK and US. On some occasions Joan stayed at home and Tom would take one of his children overseas with him. Tom and Joan's son Peter Antonie became an Olympic rower. Peter won a gold medal in the double skulls at Barcelona in 1992. He had won a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games at Edinburgh in 1986 and he won a gold medal in the World Championships as well. Tom and Joan had a lovely holiday home at Mt Eliza and after Tom retired from surgical practice he and Joan spent most of the time from Christmas to Easter at Mt Eliza. Tom was a very keen reader. In the latter part of Tom's life he had minor strokes and became quite disoriented. He eventually died at home after a long illness.
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First Title value, for Searching Antrum, Ralph Manfred (1954 - 2020)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2020-11-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Ralph Manfred Antrum was born 9 January 1954. He studied medicine at London University and trained at St Mary’s Hospital, graduating MB, BS in 1977. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1983 and worked as a house surgeon at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton. After spending some time in the USA as a research fellow at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center in Ohio, he returned to the UK and was appointed senior house officer to the Leicester Royal Infirmary and General Hospital. Following that he moved to Leeds where he worked at the General Infirmary, the York District Hospital and Chapel Allerton Hospital. His final consultant post was at the Bradford Royal Infirmary.
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First Title value, for Searching Apley, Alan Graham (1914 - 1996)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-02
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Alan Graham Apley was born in London on 10 November 1914, the youngest son of a Jewish immigrant tailor from Poland, Samuel Apley. His mother was Mary Hilda, nee Tandos. He attended St Ethelburga's school where he came top of all London in the eleven-plus equivalent of the day. He subsequently attended Regent Street Polytechnic and then University College Hospital, whence he qualified MRCS LRCP and graduated MB BS in 1938. He was awarded the gold medal in anatomy in the second MB. After early resident appointments at UCH he passed the Fellowship of the College in 1941. In the second world war he enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps as a surgical specialist and served in West Africa, India, Gibraltar and England as a major. In 1947 he was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Rowley Bristow Hospital, Pyrford, and worked with the pioneering orthopaedic surgeon George Perkins. A year later he started his orthopaedic course for the FRCS which became renowned internationally: hundreds of postgraduate students came to benefit from his exceptional teaching and never to forget 'listen, look, feel, move; then x-ray'. His course lecture notes were subsequently published as the '*System of orthopaedics and fractures*', reaching the seventh edition in 1995. The later editions incorporated the innovative diagrams and groups of teaching x-rays which made understanding and remembering so effective on his course. In 1972 he was appointed Director of Orthopaedic Surgery at St Thomas's Hospital and further enhanced its international reputation. He was elected by a large majority to the Council of the College in 1973, surely with the support of the thousands of surgeons who had passed their FRCS through his teaching. He served and became Vice President. In 1976 he attended the ASIF course in Davos, Switzerland, to take an active part in the course to learn AO techniques - and to indulge his hobby of skiing in the free periods. He subsequently introduced the AO system to the United Kingdom in practical courses at the RCS. Always interested in trauma, he designed one of the first purpose-built accident and emergency departments at St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey - a department to which orthopaedic support was readily available. On retirement from the NHS in 1979 he became editor of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. His rejection letters were always instructive, constructive and encouraging, and were of great assistance to an otherwise disappointed author. An excellent skier, he was a founder of the orthopaedic ski club whose meetings combined travel, work and pleasure. He was a President of the Orthopaedic section of the Royal Society of Medicine, and was elected an honorary Fellow of the Society in 1996. Naturally he was a past President and treasurer of the British Orthopaedic Association. An accomplished pianist, he listed music as his main recreation; playing jazz as a student, in later years he was particularly devoted to the music of Bach. In 1939 he married Janie Kandler who died in 1986 after a long illness. They had a son, Richard, and daughter, Mary, who are not in the medical profession. In 1988 he married a second time to Violet, who survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Appleby, Lyon Henry (1895 - 1970)

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First Title value, for Searching Appleton, Joseph Norman ( - 1990)

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First Title value, for Searching Appleyard, John (1848 - 1905)

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First Title value, for Searching Appleyard, William (1880 - 1961)

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First Title value, for Searching Arafa, Mohamed Aly Mohamed (1950 - 2015)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-04-17 2018-03-08
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Occupation Hand surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Mohamed Aly Mohamed Arafa was a consultant in trauma and orthopaedic surgery at Worcestershire Royal Hospital. His sub-specialty was hand surgery. He was born on 9 May 1950 and gained his MB BCh from Cairo University in 1973 and his FRCS in 1978. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a registrar in Bristol and a senior registrar at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore. Mohamed Arafa died on 7 March 2015, aged 64.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007112
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First Title value, for Searching Archampong, Emmanuel Quaye (1933 - 2021)

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by J N Clegg-Lamptey
Publication Date 2022-01-28 2022-04-04
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Emmanuel Archampong was a professor of surgery at the University of Ghana Medical School. He was born in Jamestown, Accra on 12 October 1933. His father was Emmanuel Quarmine Archampong, an accountant at the general post office; his mother was Mary Naryie Archampong née Abbey, a petty trader and the daughter of a cabinetmaker. He attended Bishop’s Boys’ School in Accra, then Accra Academy Secondary School. He also embarked on a correspondence course at Wolsley Hall, Oxford. He studied natural sciences at the University of the Gold Coast from 1952 to 1955, after which he won a scholarship to University College London (UCL), where he studied basic sciences with anatomy. In 1957 he won the Cluff Memorial prize for basic sciences and an anatomy exhibition and gained his BSc in 1958. He went to study medicine at University College Hospital Medical School, where he won the Suckling prize in obstetrics and gynaecology in 1960, and qualified in 1961 with distinctions in pathology, applied pharmacology and therapeutics. He was adjudged the best student in his graduating year, earning the unique privilege of working as a house physician in the medical unit at University College Hospital for Max Rosenheim, later president of the Royal College of Physicians. He was also a house surgeon on the surgical unit in 1962. He undertook a range of training positions across the United Kingdom, including a senior house officer post at Leicester General Hospital and Royal Infirmary. He returned to Ghana in 1967 and joined the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital and newly established University of Ghana Medical School (UGMS). His observation of the unduly high mortality from typhoid perforation in Ghanaians led him to investigate the phenomenon. In 1969, he wrote an article in the *British Medical Journal* on the topic, emphasising the importance of timing of surgery in these patients, which significantly impacted outcome (‘Operative treatment of typhoid perforation of the bowel’ *BMJ* 1969 3 273-6). He was awarded a Commonwealth Medical fellowship in 1971; he returned to UCL and undertook research on mucosal transport of the human colon and obtained the MS by thesis in 1974, the first Ghanaian to achieve this milestone. During this second visit to the UK, he lived in the newly built International Students Residence, and his flat was visited by the Queen Mother when she attended the official opening of the building. He returned to Ghana in 1972 and rose through the academic ranks to professor of surgery in 1976. He maintained treasured relationships with colleagues in the UK, including John Wyllie at UCL and Alan Johnson in Sheffield. These were among the many who frequently visited Emmanuel in Ghana as external examiners for undergraduate and postgraduate (FRCS primary and part one) examinations. Whilst in Ghana, he continued to play an active role at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, as an external examiner (from 1982 to 1989). He was also a senior fellow of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. He was editor in chief of the *Ghana Medical Journal* (from 1973 to 1980) and of the *West African Journal of Medicine* (from 1991 to 1996), served on the editorial board of the *British Journal of Surgery* (from 1984 to 1996) and was widely published nationally and internationally. His quest to invest in surgery in the West African region led him to collaborate with eminent surgeons Emmanuel Badoe and M O A Jaja to publish *Principles and practice of surgery including pathology in the tropics* (Ghana Publishing Corporation, 1986). This has become the ‘go-to’ textbook in Ghana and West Africa. He mooted the idea of a college of health sciences in Ghana, an idea he picked up from a senior medical fellowship to the UK (from 1992 to 1993). This led to the formation of the College of Health Sciences, implemented by his successors. The College’s library has been named in his honour. He was appointed emeritus professor of surgery on his retirement. Positions he held locally included dean of the University of Ghana Medical School (1984 to 1994), vice president of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993 to 1994), vice president of the Ghana Surgical Research Society (1992 to 1994), among many. Regional and international positions included president of the West African College of Surgeons (1997 to 1999) and World Health Organization missions consultant in medical education and surgery in Guyana (1990 to 1991), Ethiopia (1992), Sierra Leone (1994 to 1999) and the Gambia (1996 and 2004). Emmanuel delivered several major scientific presentations, including the inaugural lecture and the J B Danquah memorial lecture at the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the 19th Sir Samuel Manuwa lecture, in Cameroon in 2016. He received many honours, including the Chevalier of the Republic of Senegal (in 1997) and the Companion of the Order of the Volta of the Republic of Ghana (in 2006). In 2015 he was the first Ghanaian honoured with the fellowship of the American College of Surgeons, for his contributions to specialist medical training and the delivery of surgical services in West Africa. In 1967 he married Catherine Awulata Konotey-Ahulu, and they had five children: Eliz, Ruth, David (a surgeon), Timothy (a physician) and Emmanuel. He was a family man, loved gardening, classical music and played the piano brilliantly. Emmanuel worked for 53 years as a consultant surgeon and trainer, lived a full and enjoyable life and above all was a devout Christian. He died on 11 November 2021 after a short illness. Survived by his wife and children, he was laid to rest after a state funeral in Accra in the presence of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, president of the Republic of Ghana, and Mahamudu Bawumia, vice president of the Republic of Ghana.
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First Title value, for Searching Archer, Charles William (1885 - 1956)

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First Title value, for Searching Archer, Edmond ( - 1869)

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First Title value, for Searching Archer, John (1809 - 1886)

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First Title value, for Searching Archer, Kenneth Richard (1915 - 1999)

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First Title value, for Searching Archer, William (1809 - 1891)

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First Title value, for Searching Archer, William Gammon (1848 - 1890)

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

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-27
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Montreal on 5 August 1872, a son of John Sprott Archibald, a Canadian judge, and Ellen Hutchison his wife. The family was of Scotch-Irish descent and had emigrated to Montreal through New Hampshire and Nova Scotia during the eighteenth century. Archibald and his brothers and sisters were brought up to speak both English and French with equal facility, and he became a fluent and graceful orator in both tongues. He was educated at Montreal High School and matriculated at McGill University 1888, graduating in arts 1892 and in medicine 1896. He interrupted his course in his third year to spend a year at the University of Montpellier; one of his brothers worked in the faculty of law at Montpellier at the same time. After serving as an interne at the Royal Victoria Hospital he went in 1899 to Europe where he worked at various clinics and at the University of Freiburg. Archibald was impressed by the French system in which the medical student is treated as a member of the clinical team at the hospital and is introduced early to pathological problems. He paid numerous later visits to Europe, and worked at the National Hospital, Queen Square, London in 1906. He was elected an Hon MD of Paris in 1937 (*Canadian med Ass. J*. 1939, 40, 289: commendatory verses by W B Howell). Archibald was at first interested in the surgical pathology of neoplastic processes, and though he made notable contributions to various other special branches of surgical science, cancer problems continued to interest him throughout life. In all his surgical work he sought to fathom the underlying physiologic causes of abnormality or repair, in the true Hunterian tradition. When developing the surgery of the pancreas, he went deeply into the chemistry of enzymes; when pioneering lung surgery he studied the latest experimental work on control of respiration; when occupied with war fractures and gunshot wounds, he mastered the theory of ballistics. Archibald was appointed demonstrator of clinical surgery in the department of surgery at McGill in 1902, lecturer 1908, assistant professor 1918, professor of surgery and director of the department 1923, a post he held till 1937, when he was elected emeritus professor. He became assistant surgeon to the Children's Memorial Hospital, Montreal 1904 and chief surgeon 1930. At the Royal Victoria Hospital, the centre of the group of teaching hospitals connected with McGill Medical School, he was surgical interne 1896-99, chef de clinque 1899, surgeon in charge of dispensary and surgical pathologist 1908, surgeon 1918, chief surgeon 1928, and consulting surgeon 1932. On the outbreak of the first world war in 1914 he joined the Canadian Army Medical Corps and served in France from May 1915 with the rank of major, gazetted 6 May 1915, with No 3 Canadian General Hospital, first at Dannes-Carriers and later near Boulogne till 1917, having spent four months at No 1 Canadian casualty clearing station at Bailleul. He was one of the first surgeons to perform a blood transfusion in the allied armies; his first donor was Dr W B Howell, a life-long friend, and for many years his anaesthetist. As professor and chief surgeon he rejuvenated the somewhat traditional methods to which he succeeded, and founded a school of surgery which influenced the whole of North America. His teaching emphasized the necessity to combine scientific research with clinical practice. In 1932 he founded a cancer research section in the department of surgery at McGill, and worked there after retiring from the directorate of the department in 1937. He early realized the need for an adequate department of neurosurgery, and realized too that in spite of his own experience and skill in brain surgery he was not the man to undertake it. His influence secured the development of the outstandingly successful Montreal Neurological Institute in the university under Professor Wilder Penfield, Hon FRCS. Archibald took an active part in medical societies. Early in the century he was a leading promoter of the Society of Clinical Surgery, although considerably younger than most of the members. He was a founder of the American Interurban Surgical Society, a group of some thirty-five forward-looking surgeons of the eastern states and Canada. He was especially prominent in the American Surgical Association, and his activity in it did much to increase the cordial friendship of the profession across the American-Canadian border. His presidential address to the association in 1935 on "Higher degrees in the profession of surgery" led to the establishment in 1937 of the American Board of Surgery, one of the unofficial national specialty boards which assumed with success the standardizing of educational levels. His address also led to the formulation of a programme for graduate training in surgery by the American College of Surgeons, of which he had been a Fellow since the year of its foundation 1913. Among Archibald's more important researches was his study of interstitial pancreatitis, or as he called it "oedema of the pancreas". He also demonstrated experimentally the current hypothesis that acute pancreatic necrosis is chiefly due to the presence of bile in the pancreas. He was a pioneer of thoracic surgery, his interest having been aroused by the tentative surgery of chest wounds in France in 1916. He was one of the first surgeons in North America to operate for pulmonary tuberculosis, and became a charter member of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, which he later served as president. He was elected an Hon FRCS in 1927, an Hon Fellow of the Australasian College in 1935, and an Hon Doctor of the University of Paris in 1937; he was a corresponding member of numerous European and American societies. He was awarded the Trudeau medal by the US National Tuberculosis Association in 1936, and the H J Bigelow medal by the Boston Surgical Society in 1937. He was a Fellow of the surgical division of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada from its foundation in 1930. "Eddie" Archibald was much beloved by patients and colleagues throughout North America and in Europe, and by a large circle of friends, in Montreal. He was inspiring, unselfish, and generous of time and trouble, though distressingly absent-minded and oblivious of punctuality. He was frail of physique, but never allowed ill-health or increasing deafness to interfere with his work. He was a very well-read man. Archibald married in 1904 Agnes Maud Black Barron, who survived him with four daughters. They lived at 3106 Westmount Boulevard, and he had practised at 900 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, with consulting rooms also at 292 Somerset Street West, Ottawa. He died at Montreal on 17 December 1945, aged 73, after long illness. Publications (a short selection):- Surgical affections and wounds of the head. *American practice of surgery*, ed J D Bryant and A H Buck. New York, 1908, 5, 3. Pancreatitis. *International clinics*, 1918, series 28, 2, 1; *Canad J med and sci*. 1913, 33, 263; *Canad med Ass J*. 1913, 3, 87; *Surg Gynec Obstet* 1919, 28, 529; *J Amer med Ass*. 1918, 71, 798. The surgical treatment of unilateral pulmonary tuberculosis. *Amer J Surg*. 1924, 38, 17. The surgical treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. *Canad med Ass J*. 1928, 18, 3. The dangers involved in the operation of thoracoplasty for pulmonary tuberculosis. *Surg Gynec Obstet*. 1930, 50, 146. A consideration of the dangers of lobectomy. *J thoracic Surg*. 1935, 4, 335.
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First Title value, for Searching Ardagh, James Warne (1920 - 1983)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-17
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details James Warne Ardagh, son of Patrick Augustine Ardagh, CBE, DSO, MC, a surgeon, and Lily Hebe Anderson (née Lowick), was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 5 December 1920. After education at Loreto College and Christ's College, Christchurch, he entered the University of Otago in 1940 and graduated in 1944. After house surgeon appointments in New Zealand he came to London where he took a number of resident surgical posts before completing the FRCS in 1948. Returning to New Zealand in 1949 he was surgical registrar at Christchurch Hospital and became FRACS in 1949. In the same year he entered general practice and held a number of assistant surgical posts at Christchurch Hospital and Burwood plastic surgical unit. He gave up general practice in 1953 and two years later was appointed visiting surgeon to the North Canterbury Hospital Board, becoming chairman of surgical services and head of the department of surgery in 1979. He had also been appointed honorary surgeon to the Mary Potter Hospice in 1961. His father had served as a Brigadier with the New Zealand Army Medical Service and he himself was commanding officer of the 3rd N.Z. Field Ambulance from 1960 to 1966; director of medical services to the New Zealand Combat Division from 1966 to 1976 and Colonel Commandant of the ANZAMC from 1977 to 1980. He was surgeon consultant to the New Zealand Armed Services in 1975 and had three tours of duty. James Ardagh had great administrative ability which was well utilised in his hospital and military appointments. He was Chairman of the Christchurch Hospitals Post-Graduate Society 1971-74, chairman of medical staff 1974-76 and President of the Canterbury Division of the NZMA in 1977. He also served on the Canterbury Disciplinary Committee up to the date of his death and was a member of the New Zealand Dominion Committee of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1962 to 1970. He was recognised as a talented surgeon of wide interests with a special interest in vascular surgery on which he published a number of papers. A reserved and somewhat diffident manner masked a warm character with a nice sense of humour which served him well in his committee work. He was a man of firm faith and a dedicated churchman who was never too busy to help friends and colleagues when they were in trouble. He was principal medical officer of the St John Ambulance in the Canterbury and West Coast centre, and divisional surgeon to the St Matthew's Nursing Division, being appointed to the Order of St John in 1981. When he died at his home in Christchurch on 23 June 1983 he was survived by his wife Margaret, and by their four sons and three daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Arden, George Philip (1913 - 1997)

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First Title value, for Searching Ardill, Bertram Leslie (1937 - 1977)

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First Title value, for Searching Ardouin, Alan Peter (1930 - 2014)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-11-21 2020-01-21
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Alan Peter Ardouin was a consultant ENT surgeon at Kent and Canterbury Hospital. Born on 6 October 1930 in London, he was the second son of Herbert Charles Ardouin LDS, RCS, a dental surgeon and his wife Joyce Marion née Edmett. He was educated at Franklin House School in London, Vermont Academy in the USA and then Highgate School back in London. He trained at Charing Cross Hospital and qualified MB BS in 1954. For his national service he was posted to Cyprus and served as a captain in the RAMC from 1957 to 1959. On his return he joined the staff at Charing Cross as a senior registrar in the ENT department and was mentored there by Lionel Taylor. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1962 and was appointed consultant ENT surgeon to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital and the Isle of Thanet District Hospital in 1964. From 1966 to 1969 he was also a clinical tutor at the Kent Postgraduate Medical Centre. He was a member of the British Association of Otolaryngologists and the BMA. In 1955 he married Miss Clayton and they had two daughters. A music lover, he was a keen pianist and a one time member of the Alexandra Choir in London. Golf was also a favourite pastime, he had been a member of the University of London team and was captain of the Canterbury Golf Club from 1979 to 1980. He died on 18 August 2014 in Margate, Kent, aged 83.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009272
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First Title value, for Searching Ardouin, Dennis George Francis (1930 - 2017)

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by Keith Isaacson
Publication Date 2023-07-05
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Occupation Orthodontist
Details Dennis Ardouin was a consultant orthodontist in Tunbridge Wells, Eastbourne and Hastings. He was born on 8 February 1930. Though his grandfather, George Ardouin, had been a tailor, his father, Joseph Francis Ardouin, was a dental surgeon. His mother was Martha Louise Ardouin née Zucca. Dennis went to Oakwood Primary School in Southgate, north London, followed by Edmonton County School, close to where his father, a founder member and secretary of the local dental committee, had his practice. After completing his National Service, Dennis entered the Royal Dental Hospital School of Dental Surgery in 1951. A keen sportsman, and a lifetime supporter of Arsenal, he played football for the Royal, and later organised cricket tours in the West Country for fellow students. He completed his specialist orthodontic training at the Eastman Dental Institute and, now determined on a hospital career, achieved his fellowship while a senior registrar there. In 1968 he was appointed as the first consultant orthodontist to Tunbridge Wells, Eastbourne and Hastings hospitals, where he set up an excellent service and established a senior registrar post linked with the Royal Dental Hospital. Always meticulous in assessment and thoughtful in treatment planning, he was an outstanding teacher to a generation of senior registrars, several of whom have gone on to play significant national and international roles. Outside dentistry, Dennis played squash and enjoyed travelling and walking (he completed the 630-mile southwest coastal path). He was very knowledgeable about classical music, especially opera and in retirement his large garden gave him much pleasure and satisfaction, particularly in the growing of his own vegetables. Dennis died on 8 March 2017 at the age of 87. He was survived by his wife Anthea (née Rousset), whom he married in 1969, two daughters and five grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Arkle, James Vere (1902 - 1952)

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First Title value, for Searching Arkle, John Stanley (1890 - 1969)

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First Title value, for Searching Armitage, George (1896 - 1979)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details George Armitage was born at Rothwell, near Leeds, on 20 April 1896 the son of George Armitage, a company director and chairman of the family brickworks. His mother was Annie Elizabeth Flocton, the daughter of a prison governor. He was educated at the village school at Ackworth and entered Leeds Medical School in 1912, but his medical education was interrupted by his distinguished service in the first world war with the Royal Artillery, attaining the rank of Colonel when he commanded 269 Field Regiment RA. He was engaged in the battle of the Somme in 1916 and was awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous bravery in the field. The following year he took part in the battle of Passchendaele and was awarded a bar to his MC. In 1918 he returned to medical school and qualified from Leeds in 1921 with first class honours and was awarded the William Hey Gold Medal as the most outstanding student of the year. From 1921 to 1923 he was demonstrator in anatomy and then became house surgeon to Sir Berkeley Moynihan. In 1925 he was appointed resident surgical officer at the General Infirmary at Leeds and achieved the FRCS. He became university surgical tutor in 1927 and two years later he was awarded a Rockefeller travelling fellowship to Harvard University and worked for a year under Professor Harvey Cushing at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston. Following this excellent experience and training George Armitage was appointed honorary consultant surgeon at the General Infirmary at Leeds in 1933, having already carried out the first brain surgery at Leeds and was instrumental in the appointment of a full-time neurosurgeon, William Henderson, a fellow student with Harvey Cushing. In 1934 additional appointments included consultant surgeon at Clayton Hospital, Wakefield and consultant to the Ministry of Pensions at Chapel Allerton. In 1939 he was Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons and in 1940 he became full surgeon to the General Infirmary. George, as he was affectionately known to generations of medical students, soon established a fine reputation as a great surgical teacher and technician and was among the first to recognise the importance of transurethral surgery and the first Leeds surgeon to apply this technique. He excelled in thyroid surgery, but he was also a general surgeon of outstanding technical ability. No wonder, therefore, that he established an enormous hospital and private practice. He always felt real concern for all his patients and deep sympathy for the relatives of those who were dangerously ill or dying. He could recall with ease the details of the family life of a patient who returned to him with recurrent illness and he knew where his patients lived and worked. As a member of the Moynihan Travelling Club he toured widely through Europe and the United States and there were few leading surgeons whom he did not know personally. In 1956 Sir Harry Platt invited him to represent the Royal College of Surgeons as an official delegate to the USSR which he regarded as one of the highlights of his surgical career. George Armitage had many interests and was a countryman at heart. In 1938 he acquired a herd of British Friesian cattle. He was President of the Yorkshire British Friesian Breeders Club in 1962-63 and was Vice-President of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society. A great golfer, despite his limp, he won the Medical Golfing Society of Great Britain and Ireland Trophy in 1952 and the Armitage Cup is played for annually on his favourite golf course at Alwoodley, Leeds. For many years after the first world war he remained in the Territorial Army and was awarded the Territorial Decoration for his long service. On retiring from the National Health Service he put his tremendous energies into the family business and became chairman of Armitage Bricks, holding this post until 1976. George Armitage is remembered with real affection for the warmth he brought to his personal relationships with his friends, colleagues, patients and staff. He married Mildred Jane Hare in 1929 and they had two daughters and a son. He died on 30 May 1979 while on holiday in the USA.
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First Title value, for Searching Armour, Donald John (1869 - 1933)

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First Title value, for Searching Armour, Roger Hanif (1934 - 2020)

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by Peter Kelly
Publication Date 2020-11-24 2020-12-18
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Occupation General surgeon Vascular surgeon
Details Roger Armour was a consultant general and vascular surgeon at the Lister Hospital in Stevenage, who in retirement invented an inexpensive ophthalmoscope, which could be used in poorer regions of the world. He was born Roger Hanif Ahmed on 19 August 1934 in Murree, a small hill station in the foothills of the Himalayas, the son of Aziz Ahmed, a veterinary surgeon, and Edith Florence Ahmed née Raymond. Roger had a younger brother, David; both became highly-respected surgeons. Roger’s first school was in Kidderminster, but subsequently his schooling was split between Lahore and Peshawar. It was in Peshawar that he did his O and A level equivalents and, having achieved amongst the highest scores in the country, he was accepted to study medicine at the prestigious King Edward Medical College in Lahore. In his final years as a student he found himself having to work as both a temporary nurse and stand-in doctor. He has said this was when he learnt that medically knowing about diseases is a world away from actually looking after and caring for patients. It had a lasting effect, to the point where he always thought nursing more important and more difficult than medicine. It was a salutary lesson on the importance of compassion and caring that guided his whole life and was so apparent both to those who worked with him and of course to his patients, for whom he cared deeply. In 1956, he qualified as a doctor and went to Britain with £20 in his pocket, and took his first post as a house surgeon at North Hertfordshire Hospital in Hitchin. It was here that he met Gillian Evans, a pretty staff nurse who had just accepted an offer to become an air hostess with Pan Am. He quickly persuaded her to become his wife instead and proposed to her on a bench halfway up Windmill Hill. They married in 1957 and had the happiest of marriages, celebrating their diamond wedding anniversary in 2017. Realising how competitive it was to become appointed as a consultant surgeon, Roger ensured that he was more than adequately qualified by first obtaining the fellowships of the Royal College of Surgeons of both England and Edinburgh. As if that wasn’t enough, he then successfully studied for his membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians, followed by a diploma in tropical medicine and hygiene, and finally by a Liverpool masters’ degree in surgery. He was appointed as a consultant surgeon in Birkenhead and Wallasey, where he spent three years. It was here that Roger and Gillian had their much-loved family, daughters Jasmin and Sara, and son Steven. It was at the end of the three years in 1972 that Roger was appointed as a consultant general and vascular surgeon to the Lister Hospital, Stevenage, where in essence his career had originally started. He soon built a reputation as not only a technically gifted surgeon but one who led with compassion, dedication and commitment. He was held in the very highest respect across all layers of hospital life and made lifelong friends – the greatest compliment being that he was a surgeon’s surgeon. With retirement in 1996 Roger remained as active as ever. He was most concerned with the incidence of blindness, especially in Africa and Asia, much of which was potentially curable but untreated because diagnoses were unachievable without the aid of an expensive ophthalmoscope. He set about designing a cheap lens-free ophthalmoscope at a cost price of just £1. It won several awards, including two Medical Futures Innovation awards, the 2005 Edward de Bono medal for application and simplicity, and was placed second in the global Saatchi and Saatchi World Changing Ideas award. Roger was made a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2018 – a source of immense pride to him. Roger died peacefully at home on 17 September 2020, surrounded by his loving family. He was 86. With his death, the world of medicine and we ourselves are all the poorer. He was a gentleman, a teacher and the surgeon par excellence to his patients and colleagues, and to his family a dearly-loved husband, father and grandfather to his beloved grandsons Daniel and James. He led a remarkable life and his biography is testament to the caring and integrity which was evident in everything he did and witnessed by his many friends and family who will miss him deeply.
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First Title value, for Searching Armstead, Hugh Wells (1865 - 1943)

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First Title value, for Searching Armstrong, Harold Grover (1895 - 1951)

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First Title value, for Searching Armstrong, Hugh (1860 - 1935)

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First Title value, for Searching Armstrong, James Rowan (1910 - 1996)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-02
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details James Armstrong came from a staunchly medical Belfast family but spent very little of his life in his native province. His father John was a surgeon and sometime Member of Council of the RCS Ireland; his mother Maria, née Rowan, was a doctor, as were three of his brothers and his sister. James was born on 3 June 1910 in Ballymena, County Antrim. He was Educated at Dungannon School and at Queen's University, Belfast, where he qualified in 1933. His father introduced him to basic surgery, teaching him to exploit his ambidexterity and to operate with equal facility with either hand. After his house jobs he left for London, where he took a number of Junior surgical appointments in smaller hospitals and was inspired by Dickson Wright's operative skill. At Charing Cross Hospital he was orthopaedic registrar with David Trevor, confirming his inclination towards that specialty. After gaining his FRCS in 1938 he was for a time surgical registrar to the Metropolitan Hospital, but having already joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve he was called up soon after the outbreak of war. Much of his war service was at RAF Ely, where as a surgical specialist he developed his orthopaedics and on the treatment of fractures by bone grafting. He rose to the rank of wing commander. His first consultant post was at the Royal Waterloo, followed by appointments at the Manor House, the Metropolitan and Lambeth Hospitals. The last named was later taken over by St Thomas's, with which the staff was integrated. His particular expertise was in the management of the prolapsed intervertebral disc by laminectomy. His book *Lumbar disc lesions* was first published in 1952 and went through three editions; he co-authored *Injury in sport* with W E Tucker. As a sportsman he excelled, playing both cricket and rugby for his university and golf for his County (handicap 2); salmon and trout fishing increasingly occupied his later years. His wife commented that he always selected his house surgeons from among the more sporting types on the grounds that they might be more intelligent and would work harder so that they could have time off. This worked well enough (apart from the odd 'patching up' that had to be done on Monday mornings) until a yachtsman was stranded on the other side of the world and was away for longer than anyone had anticipated! He was a very private person who could seem austere, declining to take part in any committee work or social activities, but to those who knew him well he was a warm and loyal friend and could be immensely entertaining as a raconteur. He was married twice but had no children. After the dissolution of his first marriage he took good care to teach the lady who was to become his second wife, Patricia Timpson, to be both keen and competent on the golf course and the river before he married her. He died on 16 August 1996 after a long illness.
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First Title value, for Searching Armstrong, John Henry (1911 - 1994)

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First Title value, for Searching Armstrong, Robert ( - 1855)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-10-02 2016-10-13
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Occupation General surgeon
Details At one time he was Physician to the Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth, and at the time of his death (1), which occurred before 1860, was Inspector of Hospitals and Fleets. He was residing at Hills Court, Exeter, when he died. Publication: *The Influence of Climate and Other Agents on the Human Constitution, with Reference to the Causes and Prevention of Disease among Seamen; with Observations on Fever in general, and an Account of the Epidemic Fever of Jamaica*, 8vo, London, 1843. [(1) Date of death 28 June 1855 - details on gravestone. Notified by Alan Taylor by email 11 October 2016.]
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First Title value, for Searching Armstrong, William Louter Hunter (1924 - 2020)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2022-02-22
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Occupation General surgeon
Details William (Bill) Louther Hunter Armstrong was born in Melbourne, Australia on 27 October 1924. His father, William Louther, was a medical practitioner and his mother, Nita Elizabeth née Hunter, was the daughter of a brewer. Educated at Shepparton State School and Geelong Grammar School, he then joined the RAAF and served as a pilot from 1943 to 1946. After demobilisation he studied medicine at Trinity College, Melbourne. He travelled to the UK, having worked for a while at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. At the Hammersmith Hospital he worked with the professor of surgery, Ian Aird. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1958. On his return to Australia, he worked at the Austin Hospital in Melbourne before being appointed consultant surgeon to the Geelong Hospital in 1962. He married Susanna (Sue) née Heath also in 1962 and they had a son, Sam, and daughter, Kate. A keen farmer, he also enjoyed playing golf. He died on 20 November 1920 aged 96, survived by Sue, his children, their partners, Chris and Abesi, and grandchildren William and Jimena.
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First Title value, for Searching Armstrong-Jones, Sir Robert (1857 - 1943)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-27
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Occupation Physician in mental diseases
Details Born 2 December 1857 at Ynyscynhaiarn, Carnarvonshire, the eldest son and second child of the Rev Thomas Jones (born 1826) of Cefnmaesydd, afterwards of Eisteddfa, Criccieth, a small landed proprietor, and Elizabeth, the only daughter of Robert Jones of Eisteddfa; seven of their ten children grew up. Thomas Jones was christened and confirmed in the Church of England but, disturbed by the religious neglect of the people, he joined the Congregationalists and had places of worship built for them at Pentrefelin, Penmorfa, Rhos-lan and Criccieth. Helped by Samuel Morley (see *DNB*), John Rylands (see *DNB*) and others, he founded a society to support the ministries of south Carnarvonshire and also started "British schools" at Pentrefelin and Tremadoc. His missionary zeal continued for fifty years. His wife, whom he married in 1855, claimed to be the twenty-first in lineal descent from Collwyn ap Tangno, one of the Welsh princes who was Lord of Eifionydd. Robert Armstrong Jones (he assumed the surname of Armstrong-Jones in 1914) was educated at Pormadoc Grammar School, to which he walked three and a half miles each way in all weathers, at the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth, where he entered at the age of fourteen, and at Grove Park School, Wrexham. He matriculated for London University in 1875 and after six months at the surgery of Robert Jones, MRCS 1850, at Pormadoc, he entered St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College on 1 October 1876. Here he acted as prosector for the anatomy lecturers, and won the Wix essay prize and the Hichens prize after an examination in Butler's *Analogy of religion*. He then served from 1880 to 1882 as junior medical officer to the (Royal) Earlswood Institution and from 1882 to 1888 at Colney Hatch Asylum. During this period he took the London MD in 1883 and the FRCS in 1885. He went back to Earlswood as medical superintendent in 1888, till in 1893 he was elected the medical superintendent of the first new asylum of the first London County Council at Claybury, near Woodford, Essex. Frederick Mott (1853-1926, Kt, FRS, see *DNB*) was appointed at the same time pathologist to the asylum, and with Jones's cordial encouragement he began the long series of scientific publications which so greatly influenced psychiatric progress. Claybury was the first municipal asylum to take private paying patients, under the Lunacy Act of 1890. Besides the ordinary asylum an annexe was started for patients unable to afford a private institution yet above the pauper class - "a private asylum under public control". The experiment was successful: an old country house - Claybury Hall - was reconditioned and provided with accommodation for fifty male patients, the surroundings being made as home-like as possible. This progressive step, taken by the LCC at the instigation of Sir William J Collins FRCS, has been copied by many other authorities. While at Claybury, Jones was nominated honorary secretary of the (Royal) Medico-psychological Association and served the office for ten years, receiving, when he resigned, an illuminated address from the council and nomination to the presidential chair. He was also secretary of the psychology section of the British Medical Association at the Newcastle meeting in 1893, and president of the same section at the Swansea meeting in 1903. With Frederick Eustace Batten, MD (1865-1918), he was joint secretary of the psychology section at the second international congress on school hygiene held in London in 1907. In 1932 he was president of the section of psychiatry at the Royal Society of Medicine. During his time at Claybury he organized the teaching of mental nurses, and this was the first asylum under the London County Council to begin special training of mental nurses by lectures and demonstrations from the medical staff. Previously no LCC nurse had sat for the certificate in nursing given by the Medico-psychological Association; it is now universal. In recognition of this improvement Armstrong-Jones was made a Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. At Claybury much attention was also given to the employment of patients by what came to be called "occupational therapy". Many hundred standard roses were budded or grafted by patients for the gardens and courts, which they kept in order themselves. Another occupation was the making of shell-cases during the first world war. While he was at Claybury, Armstrong-Jones gave evidence with W McAdam Eccles, FRCS, before the Select committee of Parliament on physical deterioration; and at the request of the British Medical Association he gave evidence for it, with Sir Thomas Clouston, MD (1840-1915), before the Royal Commission on divorce and matrimonial causes in 1910. He was nominated a Justice of the Peace for Essex. He was appointed in the same period lecturer on mental diseases at St Bartholomew's; in this capacity he held demonstrations in the wards and laboratory at Claybury and continued them for fifteen years. He had already held similar positions at Westminster Hospital and at the postgraduate college attached to the West London Hospital, Hammersmith. He ultimately became consulting physician on mental diseases at St Bartholomew's. The University of Wales recognized his work by conferring on him the honorary degree of Doctor of Science in 1918. He resigned the post of medical superintendent at Claybury at the end of 1916, as he was beginning to feel the strain of twenty-five years' institutional work among the insane. The LCC asylums committee recognized his services by a special addition to his pension, while he received marks of esteem from the medical and lay staff who had served under him, and a special record of praise from the Board of Control. He was gazetted a Knight Bachelor in the New Year's honours of 1917. His zeal and administrative ability, no less than his urbanity and clinical skill, had won Claybury a world-wide reputation. During the war of 1914-18 he was the first consulting physician in mental diseases to the London command with the rank of temporary honorary major in the RAMC (T), his commission being dated 5 January 1917. His jurisdiction was extended to include the Aldershot command and he was promoted temporary lieutenant-colonel on 25 May 1918. He was also consulting physician to the American Red Cross Hospital at Alford House. For these services he was awarded the CBE (military) in 1919. From 1917 to 1927 he was Gresham professor of physic. In 1921 he was appointed by Lord Birkenhead to be one of the three Lord Chancellor's visitors in lunacy, his colleagues being Sir James Crichton-Browne, MD (1840-1938) and Lord Sandhurst. In connexion with his duties he travelled widely in Europe, Russia, and North Africa to study foreign asylums. He also served on the Archbishop (Lord Davidson) of Canterbury's special committee on spiritual healing, 1920-23. In 1925 he gave evidence about defective child offenders before the Home Office (Molony) committee on young offenders, on behalf of the Magistrates Association, of which he was the first founding member. He was nominated a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant for the counties of London and Carnarvonshire, and was High Sheriff of Carnarvonshire in 1929. He married in 1893 Margaret Elizabeth, elder daughter of Sir Owen Roberts, DCL, who was High Sheriff of Carnarvonshire in 1904. Sir Owen Roberts was Clerk of the Clothworkers' Company, a pioneer of technical education and one of the founders of Somerville College, Oxford; a scholarship is named after him at the Royal Free Hospital. Lady Armstrong-Jones was interested in charitable and social work. She was a governor of Westminster Hospital and of the Welsh Schools at Ashford, Middlesex, and a Dame of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. Of their three children, the eldest, Elaine, married Colonel C E Wauchope, MC, Royal Artillery; the son Ronald became a barrister, and, like his father and grandfather, was High Sheriff of Carnarvonshire in 1936-37, and became Deputy Judge Advocate during the second world war; the younger daughter, Gwendolen, married the Hon Denys Buckley, youngest son of the first Lord Wrenbury (1845-1935). Armstrong-Jones died on 30 January 1943, at Plas Dinas, Carnarvon, aged 85, and was buried at Llanwnda. His wife and children survived him. A memorial service was held at St Bartholomew-the-Less on 9 February 1943, when W McAdam Eccles, FRCS gave the funeral oration. Lady Armstrong-Jones died on 2 May 1943. Armstrong-Jones was above middle height, of spare figure and somewhat military bearing. He was not only an excellent clinician and teacher, but a wise counsellor and a first-rate director and inspirer of other men's work. He was a man of decided views and often wrote letters to *The Times* and articles for the lay reviews as well as for professional journals. He furthered not a little the great advances in care and treatment of lunatics which took place during his life, for he was, at least on the administrative side, the master alienist of his day. His second brother, John Lloyd Thomas Jones (1862-1925), MRCS 1885, became a lieutenant-colonel in the Indian Medical Service and then assay master of the Indian mint at Bombay and Calcutta (see Crawford's *Roll of the IMS*, Bombay list No 1091, and *Brit med J*. 1925, 2, 1036). Another brother became head of a banking business in the east, and the youngest, David Fowden Jones, took a prominent part in Carnarvonshire affairs and unsuccessfully contested the county as a Conservative. His eldest sister married Robert Davies Evans, MRCP Edinburgh, High Sheriff and a JP of Merionethshire. Her son, Sir Thomas Carey-Evans, FRCS, married Olwen, elder daughter of David Lloyd George, PC, MP, OM. Publications:- *A textbook of mental and sick nursing*. Introduction by Sir W J Collins, FRCS London, 1907. Relation of insanity and epilepsy, in Allbutts' *System of medicine*, Vol. 8. *The growth of the mind* (Henderson Trust lecture). Edinburgh, 1929.
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First Title value, for Searching Arnold, Ernest Charles (1860 - 1938)

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First Title value, for Searching Arnold, Gilbert James (1869 - 1939)

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First Title value, for Searching Arnold, James (1819 - 1866)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-10-07 2013-08-06
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Occupation General surgeon
Details After being educated at Belfast and at Edinburgh University, he settled in practice in Liverpool, first in Abercromby Square, and then at 1 Rose Vale, Great Homer Street. He died on March 10th, 1866.
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First Title value, for Searching Arnott, David Athol (1912 - 1954)

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First Title value, for Searching Arnott, Eric John (1929 - 2011)

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by Enid Taylor
Publication Date 2012-02-02 2012-11-15
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Occupation Ophthalmologist
Details Eric John Arnott was an ophthalmologist and a pioneer of modern cataract surgery. He was born on 12 June 1929 in Sunningdale. His father, Sir Robert John Arnott, was chairman of Arnott Trust, Dublin, and director of *The Irish Times*. His mother was Emita Emelia James. He attended St Peter's Court Preparatory School and Harrow. His medical education was at Trinity College, Dublin, where he gained honours in obstetrics and the surgical prize in 1953. After house jobs, his first ophthalmic appointment was at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, followed by postgraduate training at Moorfields Eye Hospital and University College Hospital, London. Here he worked under Sir Stewart Duke-Elder, Henry Stallard and Sir Harold Ridley, and subsequently became a senior lecturer to the Institute of Ophthalmology, London. He was appointed as a consultant ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Eye, Charing Cross and Royal Masonic hospitals, and was consultant emeritus to Cromwell Hospital. He was an innovative surgeon and was especially known for pioneering changes in cataract surgery. In 1966 he was one of the first surgeons to follow Dermot Pearce's use of the surgical microscope, and in 1971 was the first surgeon outside the United States to perform phacoemulsification, a technique he taught and championed against stiff opposition throughout the 1970s and 1980s. In 1974 he designed the Little-Arnott lens to be positioned behind the iris after removing the cataract and in 1978 designed and patented the first one piece polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) intraocular lens. He was the first person to describe the use of a poly-HEMA foldable implant (in 1981), inserted into the eye through a small incision. In 1988 he was the first surgeon in Europe to insert a bifocal lens. But his work was not limited to cataract surgery - in 1967 he used the first silicone implant for retinal detachment surgery, and in 1968 developed a modified operation for glaucoma surgery. He bought one of the first excimer lasers and in 1992 was the first person in the UK to perform LASIK laser refractive surgery. In 1982 he reduced his NHS work and to concentrate on establishing Arnott Eye Associates, the UK's first independent multidisciplinary ophthalmic centre, and international teaching and charitable work, especially the promotion of modern cataract surgery in India and Africa. He was one of the first surgeons to perform phaco-surgery and lens implantation in India, and in 1991 received a special award from the Asian branch of the Royal National Institute for the Blind for 'outstanding support' to blind Asians in London and India. He was made an honorary professor at Indore University. With his wife and son, he raised funds to equip a mobile operating theatre to perform eye surgery in remote Indian villages, and in 2007, with G Chandra, he established the charity 'Balrampur Hospital Foundation UK'. He wrote over 40 published scientific articles and books and contributed specialist chapters to other medical books. He was a member of many international societies - president of the European Society for Phaco and Laser Surgery, secretary of the Ophthalmic Society of the UK, president of the Chelsea Clinical Society, president of the International Association of Ocular Surgeons, president of the Asian Blind Association, fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and a founder member of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, from whom in 2007 he received the honoured guest award for services to ophthalmology. On 19 November 1960 he married a ballerina, Veronica Mary Langué von der Seedeck. They had three children, Stephen John, Tatiana Amelia and Robert Lauriston John. He was a very fit man and his hobbies reflected this - gardening, tennis, cycling and swimming - swimming a mile every morning and once from Alcatraz Island to the shore of California. He retired aged 70 and bought a retirement cottage in Cornwall, where he wrote his memoirs *A new beginning in sight* (London, Royal Society of Medicine Press, c2007). Predeceased by his wife, he died aged 82 on 1 December 2011.
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First Title value, for Searching Arnott, Henry (1842 - 1931)

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First Title value, for Searching Arnott, James Moncrieff (1794 - 1885)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-08-10 2016-01-29
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Chapel, near Ladybank, Fife, March 15th, 1794; educated at the High School and at the University of Edinburgh. Began his medical studies in Edinburgh, and continued them in London, Vienna, and in Paris under Dupuytren. He attached himself to the Middlesex Hospital, where he was for many years Surgeon, and was one of the founders of the Medical School of the Middlesex Hospital. He afterwards occupied the chairs of Surgery at King's and University Colleges. [1] He was an active member of the Royal College of Surgeons, being made one of the original Fellows in 1843; he was a Member of Council in 1840, and a Member of the Court of Examiners from 1847-1865. Became four times Vice-President and twice President, in 1850 and 1859, and in 1843 he delivered the Hunterian Oration. This oration is remarkable in that the orator had to commemorate Sir Astley Cooper, Sir Charles Bell, and Baron Larrey, who had recently died. He was instrumental in obtaining a grant of £15,000 from the Government to rebuild the Museum. [2] In 1865 he retired from practice and lived for a long time in Fifeshire. He died in London, May 27th, 1885. [3] His bust by H. Weekes, R.A., ordered by the College, is in the College house. The [4] portrait in the Secretary's office [5] is by an unknown painter, and was bequeathed by Miss Moncrieff Arnott in May, 1907. There are several [6] other portraits (engravings) in the College Collections. [7] [8] PUBLICATIONS: - Eight papers in *Med.-Chir. Trans.*, the chief of which was on "Secondary Effects of Inflammation of the Veins" (1829, xv, 1). [9] [Amendments from the annotated edition of *Plarr's Lives* at the Royal College of Surgeons: [1] Professor of Surgery, King's College 1836-40 (Lyle's *King's & some King's men*, p.19); at University College 1848-50 (information from Charles Marmoy, Thorne ? Library UCL, 1967); [2] in 1852; [3] aged 91; [4] oil; [5] 'Secretary's office' is deleted and 'College' added; [6] 'several' is underlined and a question mark added; [7] He bequeathed (subject to his daughter's life-interest) £1000 to found a demonstratorship on the contents of the Hunterian Museum; [8] watercolour by Daniel Maclise RA (see *Cat. Of Portraits*); [9] The rest are case-reports. He was President of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society in 1847; The annotations also include a family tree: James Moncrieff Arnott P.R.C.S. - - Arnott, Canon of Rochester - Scott Arnott, senior partner in Freshfields, solicitors - James Arnott MRCS (and) Phyllis m. John Kilmaine, Baron]
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First Title value, for Searching Arnulf, Georges ( - 1995)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-02
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Occupation Cardiovascular surgeon
Details In his citation at the admission of Professor Arnulf to the Honorary Fellowship, Professor John Kinmonth said: 'Mr President, it is a pleasure to introduce you to my friend, Dr Georges Arnulf, of Lyon. Georges Arnulf is held in high esteem in France. He is a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur. He is a holder of the Croix des Combattants Volontaires, which is the decoration for outstanding work in the Resistance. He is also Officier des Palmes Académiques. His surgical appointments include those of Chirurgien des Hôpitaux de Lyon and Chief of the Surgical Service of the Claude Bernard Clinic. He is Professor in the University of Lyon. 'Georges qualified and did his surgical training in Lyon. He was introduced to surgical research by early contact with Alexis Carrel, the Nobel laureate who had been responsible for the pioneer work on arterial repair and organ transplantation. Later he worked closely with Réné Leriche who, I might recall to you, was also one of the great surgeons from France who have been honorary Fellows of this College. (q.v. *Lives* 1952-64, p.209). 'In the second world war Arnulf cared for the wounded in the retreat in Northern France in the bad days of 1940 and was taken prisoner on the Loire. After caring for the wounded he escaped to resume civilian surgery. He soon became secretly involved in work for the Resistance when a combatant with a severe vertebral wound was brought to him for treatment. He operated and helped this patient, and others followed. The work included not only surgery but many other things. Members of the Resistance and escaped soldiers of France and of our army and air force were hidden, cared for, provided with false documents, and helped to escape. This was done in collaboration with London as part of the network 'le coq enchainé'. It was done at great personal risk had he been discovered. In 1944 when the tide of war turned he joined the French 1st Army and served in the upper Rhine and Danube campaigns. 'After the war Arnulf resumed surgical practice and research in the cardiovascular fields. He did pioneer experimental work in animals on lymphography, but I think his greatest contributions have been in his interest in the carotids and in the coronary vessels. He wrote excellent books on these and persevered in their study and insisted on their future importance when others denied it or were defeatist. When we see now the amount of surgery performed on the carotids and upon the coronary arteries we know that he was a prophet. 'I first met Arnulf in 1951 at Turin when he, with Leriche, dos Santos, and others, founded the European Society of Cardiovascular Surgery. I was privileged to be present in a very junior capacity at that meeting. He has since then been the chief driving force in this society, which has included all the leading cardiovascular surgeons of Europe, including two former Presidents of this College - Lord Brock and Sir Thomas Holmes Sellors. Georges Arnulf was secretary of the society for nineteen years and its President in 1971 and 1972. I believe that his energy and vision have been the chief reasons for the success of that society. It has spread knowledge and friendship between European surgeons in this field. His friendship and help in particular to British surgeons have been warm and outstanding.' Arnulf died in January 1995.
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First Title value, for Searching Aroney, Michael Peter (1934 - 2001)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-02-19
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Occupation General surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Michael Peter Aroney was a general and trauma surgeon in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was born on 16 August 1934 in Brisbane, Queensland. His father, Peter Nicholas Aroney, was a confectioner; his mother was Irene Adie née Mavromatis. He attended Brisbane State High School and then went on to the University of Queensland to study medicine, qualifying in 1958 with honours and the William Nathaniel medal. He held junior posts at the Royal Brisbane Hospital and then went to the UK for surgical training, at Lambeth Hospital, London, Fairfield Hospital, Middlesex, and Mayday Hospital, Croydon. He gained fellowships at the Royal College of Surgeons of England and of Edinburgh, and later became a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. From 1965 to 1966 he was a research fellow at the Lahey Clinic, Boston. He returned to Australia, to Sydney, where he was a senior surgical registrar at Prince Henry Hospital from 1959 to 1968. For six months in 1967 he served as a surgeon in Vietnam with the Australian government. He later became a visiting medical officer at Bankstown, Canterbury and Marrickville hospitals, with rooms in Macquarie Street and Marrickville, where he had a large following in the Greek community. Bankstown, Canterbury and Marrickville hospitals, with rooms in Macquarie Street and Marrickville, where he had a large following in the Greek community. He was secretary, chairman and then vice president of the Australian Association of Surgeons (AAS) in New South Wales during the ‘doctors’ dispute’ from 1984 to 1985, when doctors in the state demanded changes to their role and remuneration in public hospitals and to the federal government’s Medicare scheme. He was also a federal councilor of the AAS from 1980. Outside medicine he enjoyed fly fishing, music (particularly jazz) and Greek history. In 1960, he married Anna Simos. They had two daughters. Michael Aroney died on 29 December 2001. He was 67.
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