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First Title value, for Searching Amoroso, Emmanuel Ciprian (1901 - 1982)

2025-06-21T16:51:44Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-31
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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 Allcock, Edward Ambrose ( - 2005)

2025-06-21T16:51:44Z

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 Wasunna, Ambrose Eric Onyango (1938 - 2008)

2025-06-21T16:51:44Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-09-14 2018-06-26
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Ambrose Wasunna was head of the department of surgery at the University of Nairobi and director of the programme on health technologies at the World Health Organization (WHO). He was born on 4 August 1938 in the village of Nyahera, Nyzana province, Kenya and attended Maseno High School and then Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, qualifying in 1965 with the medical ethics and best finalist prizes. In 1970, he gained his FRCS, winning the Hallet prize medal. He returned to Kenya, to take over as chairman of the University of Nairobi's department of surgery, the first African Kenyan to hold this post. Here he established a WHO research centre and undertook his own research in gastroenterology. He went on to become dean of the faculty of medicine. In 1986, he left Nairobi to join WHO in Geneva. In 1987, he was an active member of the Global Blood Safety Initiative, a collaboration between WHO's global programme on AIDS, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the World Federation of Hemophilia and the International Society of Blood Transfusion. He later became director of the programme on health technologies. While at WHO, he wrote or contributed to several books and reports, including *General surgery at the district hospital* (Geneva, World Health Organization, 1988), and wrote several key papers, including 'Surgical manpower in Africa' (*Bull Am Coll Surg* 1987 Jun;72[6]:18-9) and 'Technology for health in the future' (*World Health Stat Q.* 1998;51[1]:33-43). He gave many guest lectures around the world. He retired to Kenya, where he rejoined the department of surgery and realised his dream of building a district hospital in Samburu. He was a deeply devoted Christian; he gained a BA in theology in 1993 and at the time of his death was a church leader. Ambrose Wasunna died at the age of 71 and was survived by his widow Marigold and their four children. A Professor Ambrose Wasunna oration has been established in his honour by the Surgical Society of Kenya.
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First Title value, for Searching Spong, Ambrose (1875 - 1959)

2025-06-21T16:51:44Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-25
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in 1875 youngest son of Frederick Spong of Old Mauston House near Leeds, he was educated at Leeds and at the London Hospital. After qualification he was appointed house surgeon at Leeds General Infirmary. He served as civil surgeon with the South African Field Force during the Boer War, for which service he received two medals and clasp. During the war of 1914-18 he had a temporary commission in the RAMC and he became consulting surgeon to the South Torbay Hospital, Torquay, having at one time been attached to the Devon and Exeter Hospital. He died on 8 December 1959 at his home in Jersey, aged 84, survived by his wife.
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First Title value, for Searching Jolleys, Ambrose (1919 - 1991)

2025-06-21T16:51:44Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-15
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Ambrose Jolleys was born on 25 September 1919 in Ireleth, Westmoreland. He was educated at Urmston Grammar School, Manchester, and graduated MB ChB from Liverpool University in 1942. He was appointed a consultant in 1952, the first full-time paediatric surgeon in Manchester. He was a true pioneer of paediatric surgery and he set up a vast service encompassing all three children's hospitals in Manchester. His special interests were surgery for hare lip and cleft palate, and neonatal surgery. He spent many years striving for the establishment of a single children's hospital, but this was agreed only after his retirement. A founder member of British Association of Paediatric Surgeons, he was its President from 1979 to 1980 and Forshall lecturer in 1984. In his retirement Ambrose went to the Lake District often, where he enjoyed walking, hill climbing and botany. He also enjoyed his garden and woodwork, making reproduction antique furniture. He died of lymphoma on 16 October 1991 survived by his wife, Betty, a son and four daughters, and his grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching King, Ambrose (1902 - 2000)

2025-06-21T16:51:44Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-13
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Occupation Venereologist
Details Ambrose King was born in Hackney on 19 April 1902, the second son of the owner of a steam laundry business in the East End of London. His mother was the eldest of the five daughters of an Irish immigrant, and had trained as a teacher. He was educated, along with Alfred Hitchcock and the future Cardinal Heenan, at the Jesuit College of St Ignatius, in Stamford Hill, a school renowned for not sparing the rod. During the first world war, Ambrose and his brother had a variety of duties, including lighting and de-scaling the factory boiler, and driving the horse-drawn delivery van. He studied the basic sciences at Queen Mary College and went on to the London Hospital in October 1919, where he played rugby, was taught by Russell Howard and followed his brother (A C King) into taking the primary FRCS as a student. His first house appointment was in the bacteriology department under William Bulloch, one of the leading microbiologists in Europe, who had worked with Lister on the sterilisation of catgut. He was house physician to Lord Dawson and house surgeon to Sir James Walton, whose registrar was McNeill Love. He passed the final FRCS from a post in the VD department, which was combined with that of registrar at Poplar Hospital. Ambrose found himself in sole charge of the department, which dealt with gonorrhoea and its complications, nominally under two genito-urinary surgeons who were seldom seen. When a full-time consultant was appointed in their place, Ambrose was invited to stay on as chief assistant at an attractive salary. The subject was, however, unpopular; he sought advice from Bulloch who replied, "King, if you take up this work you will have an interesting life and your future will depend on human nature. Human nature will never let you down." Over the next few years, Ambrose established his department with the highest standards of compassion and clinical care. This was the time when the first sulphonamides were being tested, but treatment for gonorrhoea and syphilis was protracted and largely ineffectual. King was soon the leading venereologist in London; he visited the United States to learn the new hyperthermia technique for the complications of gonorrhoea and syphilis (undergoing the treatment himself in the process). The London County Council refused to buy the necessary equipment, but the London Hospital did, and soon the new treatment was in full swing. Ambrose was for a time clinical assistant to Barrington at St Peter's. He had joined the Territorial Army and when the second world war had begun he was appointed specialist in venereal diseases for Southern Command, in charge of the VD section at Netley. Soon his patients occupied more than 80 per cent of the hospital. Before long a purpose-built annexe was erected for Lieutenant Colonel King's patients which other soldiers, from many nations, nicknamed 'The College'. He remained in charge until the end of the war, was not honoured by the British, but was awarded the Bronze Star by the United States. After the war, Ambrose returned as director of the VD clinic at the London (now the Royal London) and was later appointed to the London Lock Hospital. He began the task of rebuilding his former private practice. At that time Ambrose staffed his department with bright young physicians and surgeons, from whom he demanded the highest standards for his patients, but gave plenty of spare time to study for higher degrees; in this way he attracted staff of the highest calibre, and in return they learned much from him. He married and had one daughter, Mary. Ambrose retired from the London in 1967, but continued in private practice and at Moorfields, travelling extensively on behalf of the World Health Organization - including detailed tours of brothels and massage parlours in the Far East. He was co-author with Claude Nicol of the standard textbook *Venereal diseases* (London, Cassell, 1964) and joined his brother in writing *Strong medicine* (Churchman, 1990), a kind of dual autobiography, in which his delightful sense of humour shines through, as does his deeply felt Catholic piety. He died at Seaford, East Sussex, on 25 September 2000.
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First Title value, for Searching Lediard, Henry Ambrose (1847 - 1932)

2025-06-21T16:51:44Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-08-21
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Occupation General surgeon Public health officer
Details Born at Cirencester 12 November 1847 the third son and youngest child of Samuel Lediard, a solicitor, and Mary Croft Whatley, his wife. The Lediards were of the same family as Thomas Lediard, FRS, (1685-1743) the historian of Marlborough. H A Lediard entered Cheltenham College at Michaelmas term 1862 and left in 1865. He then went to study medicine at Edinburgh. Here he acted for two years as house surgeon at the old Infirmary to James Spence, became an ardent admirer of Syme and a disciple of Lister. In 1878 he was house surgeon at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, and at the end of his tenure of office came to London, where he was assistant medical officer to the Sick Asylum at Highgate and then to the Central London Sick Asylum at Cleveland Street. In 1880 he joined the firm of W B Page and J A Macdougall at Carlisle, bringing with him a recommendation from James Matthews Duncan. He was immediately appointed surgeon to the Cumberland Infirmary and held office until 1930, when he resigned and was elected consulting surgeon and vice-president. He also became surgeon to the London and North Western Railway, medical officer to the Post Office, and surgeon to the gaol. He married in May 1875 Elizabeth Ann Wright; she survived him with a daughter and died 22 June 1935. His elder daughter died during the war whilst serving as a VAD. He died at Woodview, Chatsworth Square, Carlisle on 31 October 1932 and was buried, after cremation at Darlington, in Crosthwaite churchyard near Keswick. A man of strong character, independent mind, and unconventional manners, Lediard did much for surgery in Carlisle and the surrounding district. He early mastered and practised the details of Listerian surgery and introduced the methods into the Carlisle Infirmary, where in 1897 he was instrumental in causing an X-ray apparatus to be installed. He had a highly cultivated mind and a discriminating judgement in matters of art and music. A lover of animals he detested the motor car and to the last drove about in a horse-drawn victoria, the last of its kind to be seen in the city and district. He excised successfully the artery and part of the vein for the cure of a popliteal aneurysm, but does not seem to have published the case. Publications: Ecchymoses from natural causes. *Med-Chir Trans* 1896, 79, 75-86. Case of successful excision of a subclavian aneurysm. *Trans Clin Soc Lond* 1900 33, 246. Acromegaly and operation for goitre. *Ibid* 1903, 36, 190. Melanotic sarcoma of choroid with metastases in liver and intestine. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1912, 32, 239-244. Also other papers in the *Trans Clin Soc Lond* and the *Trans Ophthal Soc UK*, and articles on archaeological subjects.
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First Title value, for Searching Graham, Evarts Ambrose (1883 - 1957)

2025-06-21T16:51:44Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-24
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in Chicago on 19 March 1883 son of Dr David W Graham (1843-1925), surgeon to the Presbyterian Hospital, and Ida Barnet Graham his wife, he was educated at Princeton and took his clinical training at Chicago, qualifying from Rush College in 1907. After holding resident posts at the Presbyterian Hospital he was assistant (1909-11) and lecturer in surgery (1911-16) at Rush College but at the same time was pursuing his own graduate education. He spent two years in the study of advanced chemistry, and from 1911 to 1914 was associated with Rollin T Woodyatt at the Sprague Institute of Clinical Research. His interests at this period were mainly pathological and he took an active share in the meetings of the Chicago Pathological Society, publishing articles also in the *Journal of experimental Medicine* and the *Journal of infectious Diseases*. When America entered the war in 1917 he was employed on an "empyema commission", working at Baltimore, and his report was influential. He was then sent to France as a surgical specialist. He had already married Helen Tredway Graham, but when the war ended was somewhat at a loss, intending to practise surgery but having spent all the previous years in research. He was invited in 1919 to fill the new Bixby Professorship of Surgery in the Washington University School of Medicine at St Louis. Here he made his life's work. He was able from small beginnings to build up a great teaching school of surgery, and was given a free hand to develop the Barnes Hospital and his teaching duties in the way he thought best. He was also surgeon at the St Louis Children's Hospital. He held the chair until 1951 when he retired with the title Professor Emeritus. In these thirty-two years Graham established his reputation as probably the greatest teaching surgeon in the world, and had the pleasure of seeing his pupils established in leading professorships in America and abroad. He served as President of the leading national surgical societies such as the American College of Surgeons, American Surgical Association, American Association of Thoracic Surgeons, American Board of Surgery (1937-51) and the International College of Surgeons (1953). His earliest work was on blastomycosis; after the war he continued his studies in empyema and was working also on biliary surgery. Later he made his mark as a thoracic surgeon in connection with treatment of cancer of the lung. He was the first surgeon to perform a successful total pneumonectomy, when in 1933 he removed an entire lung for a squamous carcinoma involving the bronchus of the upper left lobe. The patient was able to return to a busy practise as a gynaecologist and outlived Graham. In 1939 an annual lecture was founded and named in his honour at St Louis. Graham was awarded the Lister medal in 1942, but delivered the oration only in 1947. He was elected an honorary Fellow of the College, at the centenary of the institution of the Fellowship in 1943. He edited the *Yearbook of Surgery* 1926-39 and was on the editorial boards of *Archives of Surgery* 1920-43 and the *Journal of thoracic Surgery* from its inception in 1931. He served as temporary Professor of Surgery at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1939 and was elected a perpetual student. After his retirement, the issue for July 1952 of *Annals of Surgery* (vol 136, no 1) was dedicated to him. It contains a valuable survey of his early career by E D Churchill and a contribution from Graham himself. He died in St Louis on 4 March 1957 just before his seventy-fourth birthday, survived by his wife and children. Graham was a large, heavily built man of determination and pertinacity. He was a most inspiring teacher, gaining a retaining admiration and affection, and setting an example of unwearied patience and resource. He was a pattern of the virtues of his Scottish Presbyterian ancestry.
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First Title value, for Searching Rodocanachi, Ambrose John (1874 - 1942)

2025-06-21T16:51:44Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-23
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born in London on 10 April 1874 the fifth child and second son of John Theodore Rodocanachi, merchant, and Fanny Mavrogordato, his wife. He was educated at University College School, University College, and University College Hospital. He won an exhibition and the gold medal in organic chemistry at the BSc examination in 1893, took honours in medicine and obstetrics at the MB in 1895, and proceeded to the MD the next year. After serving as ophthalmic assistant at University College Hospital, he was house surgeon at the District Hospital, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, and remained on the staff becoming eventually consulting surgeon. He was also surgeon to Ancoats Hospital, Manchester. Later he practised at Stalybridge, Cheshire. Rodocanachi was a member of the Manchester Medical and Pathological Societies. He married on 18 June 1913 Florence Lilian Andrew, who died on 14 November 1937, but without children. After his wife's death his sister kept house for him at Aingarth, Stalybridge, where he died on 13 October 1942, aged 68. He was of a reserved and somewhat cynical temperament. He left the residue of his estate to the endowment fund of the Ashton-under-lyne District Infirmary; his other legacies included £1000 to University College Hospital. Publications: Incubation period of chicken-pox. *Brit med J* 196, 2, 1416. Colotomy simple and complicated. *Ibid* 1899, 1, 1026. On four cases of goitre treated by operation and certain dangerous symptoms. *Lancet*, 1897, 2, 911.
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First Title value, for Searching Stevens, Ambrose Edgar (1906 - 1991)

2025-06-21T16:51:44Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-02
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Ambrose Stevens ('Steve') was born in Colombo, Ceylon, on 4 January 1906, the second son of William Stevens, a missionary. His early education was at the Grocers' Company School, Hackney, London, and at Breeks Memorial School, Ootacamund, South India. He then entered the London Hospital Medical College, qualifying in 1930. After junior appointments at the London Hospital he passed the FRCS Edinburgh and was appointed resident surgical officer at the Connaught Hospital, Walthamstow. Having passed the Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, he went to India as a medical missionary, having been appointed medical superintendent at the Thomas Emery Hospital, Moradabad, in the United Provinces. He remained there until the outbreak of war when he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as a surgical specialist, serving as officer commanding the surgical division of the Combined Military Hospital attached to the 14th army on the Burma border. He held the rank of lieutenant colonel and was twice mentioned in despatches. After demobilisation in 1946 he returned to England and secured a consultant appointment at Redhill General Hospital, where he was surgical tutor. He was Chairman of the Medical Missionary Association and also churchwarden at Reigate Parish Church. After retiring from the National Health Service he returned to missionary work and was surgeon in a mission hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan. His chief recreations were playing tennis (it was said that few juniors could take a set off him even in his late 50's) and sailing. He married Margaret Pimm in 1936 and there were three sons and one daughter of the marriage. One son entered medicine and passed the MRCP. After returning to England Steve settled in Grayshott, Surrey, and died on 12 January 1991, aged 85, survived by his wife from his second marriage.
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First Title value, for Searching Dodd, Ambrose Thomas Sturges (1803 - 1847)

2025-06-21T16:51:44Z

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Publication Date 2011-09-28 2015-08-11
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Born at Chichester on January 16th, 1803, the son of the Rev Moses Dodd, of Fordham, Essex. He was a pupil of Mr Lightford, of Oxford Street, and while there suffered from a serious inflammatory illness, the nature of which was not diagnosed. He became in time a student at Guy's Hospital, and was eventually appointed Curator of the Museum and Demonstrator of Anatomy. His connection with Guy's Hospital lasted some five or six years. In 1828, Mr Guy, general practitioner at Chichester, invited Dodd to join him in partnership. Within a few days of coming to Chichester he was appointed Surgeon to the Infirmary. He succeeded Guy in his practice, and took an active part in the life of the old Sussex city, interesting himself especially in the Literary Institution, where he lectured and helped to form the Museum, of which the ornithological department was collected and arranged by him. In 1843 his health broke down, and he suffered from the second of two serious attacks of haemoptysis. In 1844-1845 he took a trip to America, but did not recover sufficiently to resume practice at Chichester. In 1845 he went to Ryde, where he was soon invited to join partnership with a practitioner of long standing. At Ryde his health improved, and in December, 1845, he called a public meeting for the purpose of establishing an infirmary for the Isle of Wight. He became the active secretary of the new undertaking, which prospered in his hands. Although he did not live to see the foundation laid, yet he may be said to be the posthumous originator of this institution, which can be looked upon as his last work. In August, 1846, Dodd again fell ill, and he died on January 30th, 1847. As the nature of his case and cause of his death were matters of doubt, puzzling to the specialists of the day, including Sir James Clark and Drs Watson and Walsh, who had at different times seen him, he desired that his chest might be examined after death. This was done by Mr Marriott, his partner, and two other colleagues. A full account of the post-mortem and the discussion which it produced will be found in the *Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal* for 1847, pp. 103-4 and 138-9. He married in 1832, and left a widow and four children. Dodd was latterly a Surgeon Extraordinary to Queen Victoria, and was an early member of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, to which he was much attached. As one of its most distinguished members he delivered the Retrospective Address on Surgery at the Southampton Meeting in 1840. Publications: Dodd was a frequent contributor to medical journals, and wrote able articles in *Todd's Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology*.
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First Title value, for Searching Woodall, Ambrose Edgar, Lord Uvedale of North End (1885 - 1974)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-14
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Ambrose Edgar Woodall was born in Eccles, Lancashire on 24 April 1885, the second son of the Reverend Samuel Russell Woodall, a Primitive Methodist minister. He was educated at Manchester Central High School and having won a science scholarship from Lancashire County Council, he became a student of Manchester University, graduating BSc in 1905 and MB ChB in 1908, winning the Renshaw Exhibition, the Bradley Surgical Prize and the Leech Junior Research Fellowship. He then spent a year as a demonstrator in physiology and a further year as a research fellow, graduating MSc in 1909 and MD in 1911. He held various resident posts at Manchester Royal Infirmary from 1910 to 1913 before enlarging his experience at the London and St Bartholomew's Hospitals. He served in the RAMC from 1915 to 1919 and after obtaining the FRCS in 1916, he went to France and later to Italy before returning to London as resident surgeon to the Manor House Hospital, a post he held from 1920 to 1958. During these years he was medical advisor to the National Union of Railwaymen and other trade unions and an 'expert medical witness'. He was surgical specialist to the Ministry of Pensions from 1921 to 1924. His knighthood, conferred in 1931, was regarded as a reward for his services to Manor House Hospital and the Trades Unions whose hospital it is. As a medical man he established a unique position in socialist circles. George Lansbury, Tom Williams, Ben Tillett and Lord Citrine were among his distinguished patients. He was a member of the Central Medical War Committee during the second world war and he was made a Baron in 1946. In 1949, at the age of 63, he married Joyce Eleanor, the widow of the Rt Hon H B Lees-Smith, PC, MP. There was no heir. He died on 2 February 1974, aged 88 years.
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Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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