Search Results for BRIAN MCFARLAND

First Title value, for Searching McFarland, John Bryan (1930 - 2013)

2025-07-03T21:24:40Z

by Sir John Temple
Publication Date 2013-12-16 2014-03-07
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Occupation General surgeon
Details John McFarland was a consultant surgeon in Liverpool. He was born on 17 September 1930 in Rodney Street, Liverpool, into a well-established medical family. His father, Bryan McFarland, was professor of orthopaedics at the city's university; his mother, Ethel McFarland née Ashton, was also a doctor. John spent his early childhood in Liverpool, but was probably as often in Trearddur Bay, Anglesey, where his father built a holiday home 'Bryn Ion', which overlooked the ninth tee of the Holyhead golf course. John's early schooling was at Trearddur House School, where no doubt he began his long affection and interest in the sea and sailing. Senior school followed at Shrewsbury, from where he entered Liverpool Medical School in 1948. He qualified in 1954 and, after house posts, began his National Service, as was the norm at that time. He spent the next two years serving in the RAMC, mainly in Kenya at the height of the Mau Mau troubles. While in Kenya he often acted as an anaesthetist, which might explain why he was always kinder to and more tolerant of his anaesthetic colleagues than many others with a surgical leaning. He never talked about his time in the Army: like many ex-service men, he may have felt that those who didn't have similar experiences would never be able to understand, particularly the actions, deprivations and necessities entailed in military service, in what was effectively a war zone. Returning to civilian life, he became a demonstrator in anatomy. During this time he met a childhood acquaintance, Meryl McKie Reid, the daughter of Andrew McKie Reid, an ophthalmic surgeon. It turned into a love match and they duly married in 1962. Surgical training in Liverpool followed at Sefton General, Alder Hey, the Royal Infirmary and, of course, the Royal Southern Hospital. The opportunity to spend two years in America arose, then considered essential for an academic or teaching hospital career in many disciplines. He went to work in Owen H Wangensteen's department at the University of Minnesota. His research was centred on gastric freezing as a method for reducing gastric bleeding associated with peptic ulcers. This was a major area of upper gastrointestinal research at that time inspired, particularly in Liverpool, by the work of the Rod Gregory and his discovery of the hormone gastrin. In the early autumn of 1963, John and Meryl travelled from Minnesota down to New Mexico by Greyhound bus, a journey that took the best part of three days. By chance, a fellow traveller was Lee Harvey Oswald, the reputed assassin of President Kennedy in November 1963. John never said much about this episode, but both he and Meryl were questioned by the FBI and figure in the Warren Report. Whenever any new investigation occurred into that tragic event, the American agents from the Liverpool consulate would appear to re-question John and Meryl. John wrote up his research and unusually did this as two separate theses, for his MD and ChM. He furthered his academic leanings by being appointed as a senior lecturer in surgery with an honorary consultant contract, based at the Liverpool Royal infirmary in Frank Stock's department. It might have been thought that this indicated a serious intent to follow an academic career, leading to a professorial position like his father, but John finished his training and settled upon an NHS teaching hospital career. In 1968 John moved across to consultant status. He was first, for a year, at the Northern and Walton hospitals, and then went to the Royal Southern Hospital, where he remained until it closed in 1978. Thereafter he transferred to the new Royal Liverpool University Hospital. He was a popular teacher of both undergraduates and trainees, renowned for his diagnostic prowess, surgical dexterity, kindness, hospitality and subtle, quiet sense of humour. He never sought power or influence in medical politics either locally or nationally, but preferred to devote his extra medical energies to teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. This brought college involvement as a regional tutor, and as a member of the Court of Examiners (from 1973 to 1979). Other, even more prestigious, peer recognition of his qualities and achievements as a surgeon did come along. He was elected to the Liverpool XX Club, and was one of two Liverpool members of the Moynihan Chirurgical Club. He became a James IV traveller in 1976. This opportunity afforded him the chance to travel to Asia, including in Afghanistan, India and Iran, and other countries on the north west frontier to teach, lecture and operate. Subsequently he became a full member of the James IV Association of Surgeons. His hospitality was always convivial and relaxed. Visitors to his lovely family home in Fulwood Park might be invited to take a sauna, which John had built in the cellar. Unfortunately, the pine wood, bought from a local timber merchant in Liverpool, had not been properly seasoned. Guests were advised to try to avoid the hot resins and oils that continually seeped and dropped from the ceiling. John decided to retire at the relatively early age of 61 in 1991, a conscious decision having seen his own father die whilst still in harness at a similar age. Immediately following his retirement party at the Royal he went down to Liverpool Marina and sailed off with his son Jonathan into retirement on the next full tide in his Vancouver 32 *Nuada*. The next four years were spent sailing around the Mediterranean, sometimes with Jonathan, but often alone, before settling in Soller, Majorca, where he bought an apartment in the port. Here he had built his last *Nuada*, a Menorcan Llaut. Sadly he didn't get many opportunities to enjoy this vessel as his health problems began to limit his mobility. In early retirement, John devoted much time to teaching and operating in a small hospital in Kerala, India. There are many anecdotes involving such a colourful character, but John will be best remembered for his generosity of spirit, both ethereal and actual, his knowledge, skill and humanity as a general surgeon, his gifts as a teacher, his genuine pride and pleasure in the success of those he helped to train, and his unfailing courtesy and friendship to the many he encountered during a long life. John McFarland died on 5 October 2013, aged 83. Predeceased by his ex-wife Meryl, who died in 2000, he was survived by his son Jonathan.
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First Title value, for Searching McFarland, Bryan Leslie (1900 - 1963)

2025-07-03T21:24:40Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-07
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Born on 18 July 1900, the son of John William and Eileen MacFarland from Northern Ireland, he spent nearly the whole of his life in Liverpool and was educated at Wallasey Grammar School and Liverpool University where he qualified in 1922. From 1922 to 1925 he held a series of resident appointments and, having received special commendation for his MD thesis in 1924, he was appointed assistant surgeon to the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital in 1925, at which he became senior surgeon in 1948. His next additional appointments were to the Alder Hey Hospital and in 1933 as assistant surgeon to the Royal Southern Hospital, Robert Jones' old hospital, where he became senior in 1935. Between 1928 and 1933 he had been orthopaedic surgeon at the David Lewis Northern Hospital. He was consulting orthopaedic surgeon to Preston Royal Infirmary, the Lancashire County Council and Liverpool City Council, covering West Lancashire, Caernarvon, Anglesey and the Isle of Man for twenty years. He had been appointed clinical lecturer in orthopaedic surgery in 1925 and in 1948 became director of orthopaedic surgical studies, culminating in appointment as Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in 1951 in succession to T P McMurray. As a young man he had been a pupil of Robert Jones and became his assistant for seven years. Through the teaching of Robert Jones and McMurray Liverpool had become a centre of attraction for postgraduates from all over the Commonwealth, and McFarland added further lustre, displaying great personal interest in every student, in particular those from overseas, and making frequent visits abroad to maintain contact with them. He himself had been one of the first four to obtain the degree of MCh Orth in 1926 and the broadening of the curriculum for this degree was his particular interest. He formed the Liverpool Orthopaedic Centre in 1944, was President of the Orthopaedic Association in 1953, of the Liverpool Medical Institution in 1956, of the University Club in 1959, and of the Merseyside Branch of the British Medical Association. He did much to further the interests of the *Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery* for which he had been a founder member of the board of the British Section, thereby furthering Anglo-American collaboration. He was elected President of the International Orthopaedic Society, and at the time of his death was busy preparing for the triennial meeting to be held in Vienna. A warm hearted, kindly man of great energy and enthusiasm, he was a superb host and incomparable raconteur, being much in demand as a speaker. His principal recreations were fishing, shooting and gardening. He married in 1928 Ethel Ashtonby by whom he had three sons, one of whom was accidentally killed in 1956. He died on 23 January 1963 at his home in Liverpool.
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First Title value, for Searching Lunz, Manuel (1924 - 1994)

2025-07-03T21:24:40Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-17
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details 'Mannie' Lunz was born in Benoni on 4 May 1924. He was educated at King Edward VII School in Johannesburg and studied medicine at the University of Witwatersrand, qualifying in 1946. After junior posts at Johannesburg General Hospital he went to England to study orthopaedics under Professor Brian McFarland in Liverpool from 1946 to 1953, passing the FRCS and the MCh Orth of Liverpool. On his return to Johannesburg he was appointed orthopaedic surgeon at the Johannesburg Hospital and lecturer in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Witwatersrand. In 1958 he was awarded the first American-British-Canadian (ABC) travelling fellowship. Mannie was an enthusiastic teacher and an early proponent of the Muller total hip arthroplasty. In 1959 he set up in private practice in Johannesburg but remained consultant surgeon to the Mines Benefit Society and Mines Cotteslow Hospital. He was an examiner in the final orthopaedic fellowship examination of the College of Medicine of South Africa. He died on 4 May 1994, his seventieth birthday.
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First Title value, for Searching Milsom, Henry Britton Coates (1919 - 1983)

2025-07-03T21:24:40Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-24
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Henry Milsom was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on 30 September 1919. His father, Edwin Henry Britton Milsom, was also a surgeon who had trained at Guy's. Mary Lavinia, née Nelson, his mother, was the daughter of Charles Moseley Nelson, a Church of England canon and the granddaughter of James Coates who had been the first Sheriff of Auckland in 1830. Henry attended King's College School in Auckland, qualifying from Otago University in 1942. After house appointments in New Zealand he joined the RNZNVR and served afloat for two years with the rank of Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander. He then went to Liverpool and did his orthopaedic training there under the aegis of Professor Brian McFarland winning the gold medal on qualifying MCh Orth in 1949. He spent three more years as registrar to Professor McFarland and then passed the Fellowship in 1952 and, after a six month spell at Norwich with H A Brittain he returned to New Zealand in 1953 and took up orthopaedic practice at Tauranga, starting the orthopaedic unit there and remaining there until his death. Initially he also worked at provincial hospitals in Rotorua and Whakatane. He worked closely with the Bay of Plenty branches of the Crippled Children Society. An authority on Perthes disease, he won a Gillies Medal on the subject and similar conditions such as Scheuermann's spondylolysis. He was responsible for the modification of the Thomas splint - the "Tauranga Splint" for emergency and rescue work. An open-air man he was keen on deer stalking, sailing, and fishing but latterly developed asthma which increasingly curtailed his activities and led to his death at the age of 64 on 22 December 1983. He was survived by his wife Pat, nee Weight, the granddaughter of a naval doctor, whom he had married in 1943 and by his children, Peter, Mary, Eleanor and Britton. One of his sons became a surgeon.
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