First Title value, for Searching Orgias, Richard ( - 1972)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-23
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Occupation General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Richard Orgias was born at Palmerston North, New Zealand, and went to the Palmerston North Boys' High School and then to Otago University where he graduated with the MB degree in 1934. For his post-graduate training Orgias came to London and worked at St Thomas's and University College Hospitals, and also went to the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. He took a special interest in paediatric surgery and worked under Barrington-Ward at Great Ormond Street. On returning to New Zealand he became a consultant to the Wellington Hospital where he became distinguished as a teacher and writer, being assistant editor and contributor to the *New Zealand medical journal*. He was on the executive committee of the Wellington Division of the Cancer Society of New Zealand, and was on the New Zealand Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and an examiner both for the College and the University of Otago. Orgias served in the second world war in Italy and Japan, and after the war remained in the Territorial Army, retiring as Lieutenant-Colonel. But it was for his sound character and humanity, his deep religious convictions and love of his fellows that he will long be remembered. For the last five years of his life he knew he had an incurable disease, but faced this predicament with exemplary fortitude. He died on 30 October 1972, and his wife and family survived him.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005996
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First Title value, for Searching Swain, Valentine Andrew James (1910 - 1998)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-07
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Occupation Paediatric surgeon
Details Valentine Andrew James Swain was a paediatric surgeon in London's East End. He was born on 21 February 1910, a twin, in Ilford, Essex, into a family with a strong medical tradition. His father, James Steel Swain, and grandfather were both doctors. His mother was Mary Blanche née MacMunn. He went from Chigwell School to St Bartholomew's, qualifying in 1933. He had his general surgical training at the Royal Northern Hospital under McNeill Love and Hamilton Bailey, and was house surgeon at Great Ormond Street, where he was influenced by Sir Lancelot Barrington-Ward and T Twistington Higgins. During the first two years of the second world war he served in the Emergency Medical Service in London. He then joined the RAMC, serving as a surgical specialist with the rank of Major with the 1st Airborne Division in the 181 Airlanding Field Ambulance through the North African and Italian campaigns, where he was mentioned in despatches. Later, as a Lieutenant Colonel, he was in charge of the surgical division of 21 British General Hospital in India. After the war, he returned to the Royal Northern Hospital as a senior registrar. In 1948, he once again specialised in paediatric surgery and was appointed to the staff of Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, Hackney, and Queen Mary's Hospital Stratford, where he developed a particular interest in the care of children with myelomeningocele. He was a founder member of the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons (BAPS) in 1953, at a stage when there was a marked distinction between those who only treated children and those who also held appointments in adult surgery. Swain helped abolish the distinction within a few years. He was the natural choice as the first archivist of BAPS. In 1981, he produced a brochure on the origins of the association. He was a member of the Council of the Hunterian Society and was for ten years chairman of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Children's Appeal Fund. He never married, but took great pleasure in the children of his twin sister, Blanche Moody. A gentle, quiet, courteous man, he had many outside interests, notably medical history, painting and collecting paintings. He died on 10 April 1998.
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