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First Title value, for Searching Barrington-Ward, Sir Lancelot Edward (1884 - 1953)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-15
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Occupation General surgeon
Details He was born at Worcester on 4 July 1884, son of Mark James Barrington-Ward, an Inspector of Schools, and Caroline Pearson his wife. His father was ordained late in life (1907) and became Rector of Duloe, Cornwall, and a Canon of Truro. The five sons all distinguished themselves, one (Robert) becoming Editor of *The Times* 1941-48. Lance began his education in College at Westminster, but owing to ill-health he was transferred to Bromsgrove, where also he won a classical scholarship, and then entered Worcester College, Oxford with a classical exhibition. He took his medical training at Edinburgh University, qualifying with honours in 1908. In the same year he was captain of the University Rugby XV, having played in it for six seasons; in 1910 he represented England in four Internationals. He took the Edinburgh Fellowship in 1910, and the English Fellowship in 1912 after working at the Middlesex Hospital. At Edinburgh in 1913 he took the ChM with honours and was awarded the Chiene medal in surgery. He was appointed house surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street in 1910, working under G E Waugh and H A T (Sir Thomas) Fairbank. He proved an ideal children's surgeon, was appointed assistant surgeon in 1914, resumed his connection with the Hospital after the war, and was ultimately senior surgeon. During the war he served as surgeon-in-chief of Lady Wimborne's hospital at Uskub in Serbia, and was awarded the Order of St Sava. After the war, in addition to his large practice among children, he was appointed as an abdominal surgeon to the staff of the Royal Northern Hospital, where he became senior surgeon. In 1918 he operated for appendicitis upon H R H Prince Albert, afterwards Duke of York and then King. He was appointed surgeon in ordinary to the Duke's household in 1936, a post in which he was continued when the Duke acceded to the throne as King George VI in December 1936. He had been created KCVO in King George V's jubilee honours list in June 1935. He attended King George V's sister, the Queen of Norway, received the Grand Cross of St Olav, and subsequently operated for appendicitis on several younger members of the Royal family. Queen Elizabeth II appointed him an extra surgeon to Her Majesty on her accession in 1952. He was consulting surgeon to Wood Green and Southgate Hospital and to Sutton Hospital and was active in promoting their success. He examined for the Universities of St Andrews and of Edinburgh, served as President of the Section of Diseases of Children in the Royal Society of Medicine, and was a Hunterian Professor at the College (14 February 1952) lecturing on "Swellings of the neck in childhood". Barrington-Ward married twice: (1) in 1917 Dorothy Anne, second daughter of T W Miles of Caragh, Co Kerry, at one time an official in the Indian Public Works department. Lady Barrington-Ward undertook much charitable work in connection with her husband's hospitals and for the Peter Pan League. She died on 26 August 1935, leaving three daughters (*The Times* 27 August 1935, p 13 F and 29th, p. 12 B). He married (2) on 22 May 1941 Catherine Wilhelmina, only daughter of E G Reuter of Harrogate, who survived him with a son. He died after a long illness at his country home, Hawkedon House, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk on 17 November 1953, aged 69. He had formerly practised at 85 Harley Street, and at Harcourt House, Cavendish Square. A memorial service was held at St Peter's, Vere Street on 2 December 1953, at which the Queen, who was then at sea crossing the Pacific Ocean, was represented by Her Majesty's Serjeant Surgeon, Sir Arthur Porritt, and a memorial oration was given by Sir Thomas Fairbank. Barrington-Ward was a small, good-looking man of great charm, and a perfectionist in his work. Publications: Congenital enlargement of the colon and rectum. *Lancet* 1914, 1, 345-360. *Abdominal surgery for children*. Oxford 1928. *Royal Northern Operative Surgery*, edited. London, H K Lewis, 1939; 2nd edition, 1951. Acute abdominal emergencies. *Ann Roy Coll Surg Engl* 1948, 3, 77. Swellings of the neck in childhood. *Ann Roy Coll Surg Engl* 1952, 10, 211.
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First Title value, for Searching Davies, David Owen (1909 - 1997)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-22
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Occupation General surgeon
Details David Owen Davies was a consultant surgeon to the Epsom group of hospitals. He was born in Hampstead, London, on 17 June 1909. His father, Frederick Moses Davies, was a bank official. His mother was Amy Maude Mary Flanders. Educated at St Olave's Grammar School, Tower Bridge, he went to St Bartholomew's, from which he took the primary and won the Hallett prize. After junior posts at the Royal Northern Hospital, he was house surgeon, surgical registrar and resident surgical officer at Great Ormond Street, working under Sir Lancelot Barrington Ward and Sir Denis Brown, before going to Crumpsall Hospital, Manchester. He joined the RAMC at the outbreak of war and as a temporary Lieutenant Colonel was in command of a field surgical unit at the Normandy landings. Later he was posted to India as a surgical specialist and was mentioned in despatches. After the war, he was appointed consultant surgeon to the Epsom District Hospital in 1946. He married Marion Watson in 1940. They had one son, John, who trained at Bart's and an adopted daughter, Sarah, who became a nurse at the Westminster Hospital. He was a keen stamp collector and gardener. He died on 26 February 1997.
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First Title value, for Searching Hindenach, Jack Carl Rudolf (1905 - 1983)

2024-05-04T21:40:24Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-22
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Jack Carl Rudolf Hindenach was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 19 May 1905, the son of Carl Rudolf Hindenach, a printing engineer. He was educated at Richmond Primary School, Christchurch Boys' High School and Otago University, where he was a junior scholar. He obtained distinction in his first MB and came to England on a travelling scholarship in 1930, with MD (NZ) and was awarded the Hallett Prize in 1931. He held posts at Great Ormond Street, the West London, and Hampstead General Hospitals and Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children and was influenced by Sir Lancelot Barrington Ward and Blundell Bankart. He passed the FRCS in 1935. He was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the West London Hospital and was President of the West London Medico-Chirurgical Society and secretary of the Orthopaedic Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was a double blue in rugby and athletics at Otago and was in the All-Black trials in 1928. He wrote on the cerebellum of *Sphenodon punctatum* in the *Journal of anatomy*, 1931, 65, 283-318. He married in 1947 Gertrude (Trudie) Aphra Willis, a consultant anaesthetist who had served as a Major in the RAMC. They had no children. His wife survived him when he died on 28 August 1983 aged 78 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Orgias, Richard ( - 1972)

2024-05-04T21:40:24Z

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.
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First Title value, for Searching King, Cyril Arnold (1895 - 1983)

2024-05-04T21:40:24Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-05
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Cyril Arnold King was born in Oamaru, New Zealand. He had a very distinguished school career, winning a university scholarship in 1912. In the same year he won the Lord Meath Empire Day Cup for an essay, fostering imperial patriotism, open to all secondary school students in the Empire. Making the presentation of the cup Sir Joseph Ward, premier, referred to the efforts made by these Waitaki students. King gained a BSc in chemistry and geology at Otago University. He declined a lectureship in the University in geology and proceeded to the medical school, graduating in 1920 when he was awarded the medical travelling scholarship for the year. He held junior appointments in the Christchurch Hospital and then went to London to study at the Royal Northern, the Middlesex and the Royal Masonic hospitals. Here he was influenced by Barrington Ward, Kenneth Walker, Webb-Johnson, Gordon-Taylor and Victor Bonney. He gained the FRCS in 1924. Returning to New Zealand he went into surgical practice with Hunter Will in Palmerston North. Unfortunately he developed an incapacitating allergy which forced him to retire from the visiting staff of the Palmerston North Hospital in 1950. He continued in general practice and in 1962 went to live in Taupo where he resumed general practice from his lovely home by the lake until his death. In 1933 he became FRACS. Late in 1982 an inoperable carcinoma of the pancreas was confirmed, a decision he accepted with great fortitude, returning to Middlemore for palliative surgery one month before he died. He died on 23 March 1983 in his 89th year. He was survived by his wife Margaret and three children Robin, Dennis who became an orthopaedic surgeon in Auckland and Christopher who is a lecturer in mathematics.
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First Title value, for Searching Greenwood, Eric John (1902 - 1979)

2024-05-04T21:40:24Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-11
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Occupation Anaesthetist General practitioner General surgeon
Details Eric John Greenwood was born on 10 October 1902 in Greenwich, London, the only son of Eustace Noel Greenwood, an accountant and former mayor of Greenwich, and Gertrude Freida Scarr. He was educated at the Rowan School, Greenwich, before starting medicine at Guy's Hospital in 1918. He then went to Downing College, Cambridge, obtaining his MA MB BCh and Primary Fellowship. He held house appointments at Guy's Hospital and the Royal Northern Hospital where he came under the influence of W N Mollinson and Sir Lancelot Barrington-Ward. In 1929, he joined the staff of St Bartholomew's Hospital, Rochester, beginning a close relationship with this hospital which he maintained for fifty years, being one of the brethren at the time of his death. In 1930 he married Dorothy Helen Jones. Greenwood settled in Rochester where he practised with Dr Green. His first hospital appointment was as an anaesthetist, but after he obtained his FRCS he was appointed honorary consultant surgeon in 1935. With the advent of the National Health Service in 1948, he gave up general practice and continued as consultant surgeon until his retirement in 1967. His great attachment to his hospital was exemplified by the research and publications carried out about its origin, especially the chapel dating back to AD 1097. He became a serving brother of the Order of St John and held grand rank in Freemasonry. On his retirement from surgery, he became a visitor to the Borstal Institution and spent much time helping his wife with her charitable work in the locality. He was an active BMA supporter; a member of the local executive committee from 1932 to 1969 and treasurer from 1953 to 1964. He served on the ethical committee from 1953 to 1977 and was BMA representative on the local EMS committee. Greenwood was well loved and respected by his partners and his friends throughout the Medway district. He died at his home on 27 July, 1979 survived by his wife Helen and his son and daughter, both of whom are in general practice.
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First Title value, for Searching Swain, Valentine Andrew James (1910 - 1998)

2024-05-04T21:40:24Z

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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First Title value, for Searching Bickford, Bertram John (1913 - 2001)

2024-05-04T21:40:24Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-16
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Occupation Thoracic surgeon
Details Bertram John Bickford was a consultant surgeon in Liverpool. He was born in Tavistock, Devon, on 17 October 1913, and was to become the third generation of his family to enter medicine. His grandfather, Thomas Leaman Bickford, was a Surgeon Captain RN. His father, Bertram Raleigh Bickford, was a GP and also a former Surgeon Captain RN. His mother was Bertrude Annie Reid, née Camozzi. Bickford was educated at Epsom College and went to Bart's with a scholarship. There he won the Matthews Duncan prize and qualified in 1936. He completed house jobs at King George's Hospital, Ilford, and Bart's, and after a succession of training posts at the Royal Northern Hospital, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Broadgreen Hospital and Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, he passed the FRCS at the first attempt in 1939. He attributed his success in the operative viva to his examiner, Sir Henry Souttar, who rescued him by offering him an elevator to lift up the disc of bone which was adherent to the dura in the cadaver. During this period he was influenced by Kenneth Walker and Barrington-Ward and at first thought of specialising in urology, in which he gained further experience in the RAFVR in North Africa, Italy and at Wroughton, where he followed in the footsteps of Alec Badenoch. He reached the rank of Wing Commander. While in the RAF he developed improved mountain rescue methods, and whilst in Northern Ireland devised pre-packed rations for the flying boats, eliminating the need for vegetable sacks and a Primus stove. He found it was not easy to get into urology and decided to specialise in thoracic surgery, partly from the influence of 'Uncle Tom' Holmes Sellors, and later from experience in Liverpool under Morriston Davies and Ronald Edwards. His own contributions were mainly in the surgery of congenital heart disease at the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital. In the days when housemen were forbidden to marry, he married (in secret) Honor née Rose, by whom he had two sons and two daughters, one a physiotherapist. In retirement he moved to North Wales, where he pursued his hobbies of music and the theatre. In 1997 he underwent an aortic valve replacement and bypass surgery, but it was complicated by bacterial endocarditis from which he never really made a full recovery, and which led to his death on 26 April 2001.
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First Title value, for Searching Sames, Christopher Patrick (1912 - 2008)

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by Sir Barry Jackson
Publication Date 2009-02-10
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Patrick Sames was a general surgeon in Bath with an interest in coloproctology. He was born on 17 January 1912 in Enfield, Middlesex, the only son of Christopher, a railway clerk, and Caroline née Radmore. He was a late entrant to medicine, leaving Harrow County School to become an apprentice in the fur trade, working at Debenham and Freebody in London for three years, before entering St Mary’s Hospital Medical School. There he was a good rugby player and excelled in academic studies, winning two prizes in pathology, as well as prizes in ophthalmology and surgery. On qualifying in 1937 he held house officer posts at St Mary’s and the Royal Northern Hospital, Holloway. He then became a registrar at St Mary’s, before passing his final FRCS examination in 1939. At the outbreak of war he was recruited into the Emergency Medical Service (EMS), in which he obtained considerable surgical experience with the victims of London bombing raids and evacuees from Dunkirk. He also obtained part-time appointments at St Mark’s Hospital for Diseases of the Rectum and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and gained the MS (London) in 1943. The terms of his engagement with the EMS meant that he was unable to join the armed services until 1945, when he was conscripted into the Royal Army Medical Corps as a surgical specialist with the rank of major. After spending two years in Nigeria he returned to civilian life and obtained the post of assistant director of the professorial surgical unit at St Mary’s. During his early years in training, Sames was greatly influenced by the various chiefs for whom he worked – Charles Pannett, Arthur Dickson Wright, Hamilton Bailey, R J McNeil Love, Zachary Cope, W B Gabriel and Lancelot Barrington Ward. Appointed as consultant surgeon to the Bath clinical area in 1950, Sames developed a special interest in coloproctology, publishing a number of articles in this field and becoming president of the section of proctology of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1967. He also served as a member of council of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland and as a member of the editorial committee of the *British Journal of Surgery*. He was a founder member and secretary of the Surgical Sixty Club. On retirement in 1977 he spent his time sailing, painting and rose-growing. A devoted Anglican and church warden, he published *Autumn leaves: some personal reflections on the Christian life* (Charter, 1999). His first wife, Margaret Porteus, by whom he had two sons and two daughters, died in 1970. He went on to marry Eleanor Brigham née Jenkins in 1971. She survives him. He died of heart failure on 3 January 2008.
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First Title value, for Searching David, John Brooke (1912 - 1980)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-25
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details John David was born on 12 July 1912 in Rugby. He was the first son of the Rev Albert Augustus David, DD, who was headmaster of Rugby School and later Bishop of Liverpool, and of Edith Mary Miles whose father had been a civil engineer in Jaipur, India. John was educated at Rugby School and graduated from Liverpool University in 1936 with distinction in forensic medicine. He held resident appointments at Liverpool Royal Infirmary and the Royal Northern Hospital, London, and was especially indebted to Sir Robert Kelly at the former institution and to Hamilton Bailey, Sir Lancelot Barrington Ward and Kenneth Walker in London. He was appointed to the Indian Medical Service in the second world war serving as a full surgical specialist in the Middle East and with the 4th Indian Division and retiring as a War Substantive Major. He then worked at the Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith and the Royal Masonic Hospital until 1949. After passing the general FRCS examination he became clinical assistant in aural surgery at the London Hospital and later registrar at the Royal National ENT Hospital, the Whittington and Charing Cross Hospitals. After applying for the colonial service he was appointed to the Gold Coast in 1954 to take charge of the first specialist ENT department there, and continued in that appointment until his death. His devoted service to the people of Ghana was recognised by the award of the Ghana Gold Medal in 1973. A member of the BMA for many years, David took a keen interest in the formation of the Ghana Medical Association and was for some time its treasurer. He was also a foundation member of the West African College of Surgeons and served on its faculty of otolaryngology and ophthalmology. He made it possible for young Ghanaians to go abroad to train in ENT work. He undertook much plastic surgery on patients with cancrum oris, especially children, and showed great concern for their well-being. Despite a lifelong stammer he was a good and entertaining lecturer. Though his special interests were in Africa and its art, dance and sculpture, he spent most of his vacations on the Isle of Harris in the outer Hebrides where he liked to restore ancient buildings. He was also interested in plant cultivation. He wrote a number of papers including a notable one with Denis Burkitt. John David will always be remembered by the people of Ghana and he was much loved by his patients, especially the children. He never married and when he died on 30 September 1980, he was survived by his mother, a sister and two brothers.
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First Title value, for Searching Dodd, William Harold Alfred (1899 - 1987)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-08
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Occupation General surgeon Priest
Details William Harold Alfred Dodd, the eldest of three sons and second of five children of Alfred Leward Dodd and Annie Elizabeth (née Marshall), was born at Crewe, Cheshire, on 13 March 1899. He was educated at St Michael's Church School, Coppenhall, Crewe, and at Crewe Grammar School. From September 1917 until March 1919 he was initially a cadet, rising to the rank of Lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps, later RAF. He then went to Liverpool University as T Williams Prizeman and graduated in 1922 with a distinction in surgery. He was appointed house surgeon to Professor Thelwall Thomas, and house physician to Professor Hill Abram, at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary. While surgical registrar at that Infirmary from 1924 to 1926, he demonstrated anatomy in 1924, and operative surgery in 1925, also serving as Captain RAMC (TA) from 1923 to 1931. In later life he recorded his appreciation of the help and inspiration he had received from Thelwall Thomas, Cecil Joll, Sir Lancelot Barrington-Ward, E T C Milligan and Professors Adam and von Lichetenberg of Budapest. On his election to the honorary surgical staff of King George V Hospital, Ilford, the rest of his working life was spent in the London area, with subsequent appointments at Princess Louise Hospital for Children, the Royal London Homoeopathic and the Royal Hospital, Richmond. He rapidly established a high reputation as a general surgeon and was a skilful operator with a flourishing private practice. Dating from his days in Liverpool he had a lifelong interest in the then unfashionable specialty of varicose veins. Having previously written on this subject he then, in 1956, in collaboration with a much younger colleague, Frank Cockett, of St Thomas's Hospital, published *The pathology and surgery of the veins of the lower limb*, a textbook which had an immense and worldwide influence on the teaching and practice of this poorly comprehended subject. His enthusiasm, once fired, never faltered and there followed a steady flow of papers. He lectured widely in the United Kingdom, the USA, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand and published further papers on proctology and the treatment of hernia. Harold Dodd was active in many other fields. He was honorary secretary and later President of the Section of Proctology of the Royal Society of Medicine; President, and later treasurer, of the Regional Hospital Consultants' Association; Governor of Epsom College from 1950 to 1972; a councillor for the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund for two spells and chairman of its management committee. A devout man, who was observed to say many a prayer for his patients in the theatre, he was an ever courteous and conscientious person, and a warm and steadfast friend to a generation of the Boys' and Girls' Grammar School in Crewe, Cheshire, and at Bury, Lancashire. He had married Mary (née Bond) in 1945 and they had one son, Dudley, a solicitor. Following his retirement he became a deacon at All Souls' Church, Langham Place, in 1970, and was ordained as an Anglican priest in June 1971. When he died, aged 88, on 29 March 1987, he was survived by his wife and son.
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First Title value, for Searching Saner, Francis Donaldson (1884 - 1975)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-10
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Francis Donaldson Saner, or Frank Saner as he was always known, was born in Hull on 24 August 1884, the youngest of ten children of a wealthy family. His father died whilst he was a teenager and his mother was the daughter of a merchant sea captain, there being seven sons and three daughters. After early education locally, Frank went on to Bedford School and Queen's College, Cambridge, where he played rugby for the college and was captain of cricket and hockey. He entered Guy's Hospital where he became a regular member of the rugby team. After qualifying in 1910 he was house surgeon to Arbuthnot Lane who remained his surgical idol thereafter. He was also resident surgical officer and demonstrator of anatomy at Guy's. During the first world war he served in France as a Captain in the RAMC and obtained his FRCS in 1916. During part of his war service he was joined by his wife who ran the hospital canteen. He recalled one occasion when his operating tent caught fire. The operation was continued but he only just managed to get his patient and two assistants out before the tent was destroyed. He drily added that, though the assistants were awarded the Albert Medal, the surgeon was reprimanded for taking undue risk! After the war he was appointed consultant surgeon to the Army of the Rhine with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and returned to London where he practised from Hamilton Terrace, before moving to Harley Street. He was appointed to the Royal Northern Hospital to become part of a team which included Sir Lancelot Barrington-Ward, McNeill Love, Hamilton Bailey and William Gabriel. He was also on the staff of the Evelina Hospital, and later worked at Willesden General, St John's Lewisham and the Victoria Hospital, Kingston, as well as the St Monica's Home Hospital for Children. Saner's early publications covered a wide range of subjects but his later interest was mainly in the breast: he was editor and joint author of *The breast: structure, function and diseases*, published in 1950. He also contributed to *The Royal Northern operative surgery*. Frank Saner, widely known as 'Stumpy' because of his small stature, was a shy and unobtrusive man who never sought the limelight, but he engendered great esteem and affection amongst his patients, colleagues and nursing staff. His wisdom, commonsense, humour and unflappability were much appreciated, as was his later stoic acceptance of increasing deafness and ill-health. He and his wife were the epitome of kindness and consideration to his juniors. His house surgeons were often invited to join him at functions where white tie and tails were the rule. Afterwards he would instruct his chauffeur to take the guests home in the Rolls. During the second world war he was in administrative charge of the Royal Northern and constantly in evidence. His earlier experience was invaluable in the triage of air raid casualties and in supervising their care. After retirement from the NHS in 1952 he remained at Harley Street but he and his wife spent increasing time at Porlock, Devon, where they had owned a house for many years. He gradually became more of an invalid and, when his wife died in 1973, he moved to a nursing home in Ealing where, practically blind, he insisted on helping himself and constantly advised and assisted the nurses. He died there on 24 January 1975 in his 92nd year.
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First Title value, for Searching Stephen, Robert Alexander (1907 - 1983)

2024-05-04T21:40:24Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-07
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Robert Alexander Stephen was born in Elgin, Morayshire, on 20 June 1907, the son of James Alexander Stephen, MB, ChB, DPH a general practitioner who later became the first medical officer of health for mother and child welfare in Aberdeen. He was educated at East End School in Elgin and Aberdeen Grammar School before entering King's College and Marischal College. During his clinical years he came under the influence of Sir John Marnoch KCVO, of whom he often spoke in later years. He qualified in 1930 and after an appointment as house surgeon to the professor of surgery at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, came to London as house surgeon at Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital, then in the Marylebone Road. While there, he started to prepare a thesis on the use of Kielland's forceps in obstetrics which he submitted to the University of Aberdeen in 1933 and was awarded the MD degree. He also served as house surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, and came under the influence of Tyrrel Gray, Sir Lancelot Barrington-Ward and Twistington Higgins. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and received his commission in July 1934. Shortly after the outbreak of war he was posted to a Field Ambulance in France with the British Expeditionary Force and later was a surgical specialist serving in casualty clearing stations in Egypt, Libya, Greece and Crete. During the North African campaign he was one of the originators of the "Tobruk splint" and appreciated the value of immobilising wounds of the lower limb in this modification of the Thomas splint prior to evacuation of the injured to base hospitals. Later he served in 21 Army Group in NW Europe as ADMS to the 51st Highland Division. His war services were recognised by his being mentioned in despatches on three occasions. Shortly after the end of the war he returned to the Royal Army Medical College to study for the FRCS, which he passed in 1947. He was awarded the Montefiore Prize at the Royal Army Medical College in the same year. From 1951 to 1952 he was officer commanding the surgical division at the Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot, and from 1952 to 1956 he was assistant professor of military surgery at the RoyalArmy Medical College. He then became consultant surgeon to the medical directorate of GHQ Far East Land Forces until 1959. He was appointed Hunterian Professor in 1958 and returned to England to give a lecture entitled *Malignant testicular tumours*. The large audience in the Great Hall of the College was a testimony of the high esteem in which he was held. He was awarded the MS (Malaya) in 1959 and the ChM of Aberdeen University in the following year. In 1960 he was appointed director of army surgery until his retirement in 1967 and during this period he was also HM Queen's Honorary Surgeon. During the latter part of his military career he was responsible for the care of all Army staff and their dependents suffering from cancer and he forged strong links between the Queen Alexandra Military Hospital at Millbank and the radiotherapy and medical oncology units of the Westminster Hospital. Throughout his entire career he emphasised the importance of every army surgeon having a basic training in surgery, whatever specialty he intended to pursue. He took a great personal interest in the careers of junior officers and the high personal standards which he set as well as his sympathetic rapport with patients and relatives were examples to be emulated. He married Audrey Royce, a nurse from Moorfields Ophthalmic Hospital, in 1935 and there was one daughter of the marriage. His wife died in 1972 and after five lonely years he married again. Major-General Stephen died at his home on 9 July 1983 aged 76 and is survived by his widow Patricia and by his daughter Jane and stepson James.
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First Title value, for Searching Robin, Ian Gibson (1909 - 2005)

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Publication Date 2006-11-30 2009-05-07
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Ian Robin was a distinguished London ear, nose and throat consultant. He was born at Woodford Green, Essex, on 22 May 1909, the son of Arthur Robin, a Scottish general practitioner, and Elizabeth Parker née Arnold, his American mother. He was educated at Merchiston Castle School, in Edinburgh, and at Clare College, Cambridge, where he achieved a half blue in cross country running (once getting lost in the fog) and gained a senior science scholarship to Guy’s Hospital, London. There he won the Treasurer’s gold medal in both clinical surgery and clinical medicine, the Charles Oldman prize in ophthalmology and the Arthur Durham travelling scholarship. At Guy’s he returned to rugby, in which sport he had won a school cap at Merchiston, and subsequently captained the hospital’s first XV. He also played regularly for the United Hospitals and the Eastern Counties. After graduating in 1933 he became house physician to Sir Arthur Hirst and Sir John Conybere and house surgeon to Sir Heneage Ogilive and Sir Russell Brock at Guy's and house surgeon to Sir Lancelot Barrington-Ward at the Royal Northern Hospital, during which time he passed the FRCS. He was so highly thought of that in 1937 he was invited back to the Royal Northern to become a part-time ENT consultant whilst still working as a senior ENT registrar and chief clinical assistant at Guy's Hospital, where he was much influenced by W M Mollison, T B Layton and R J Cann. In the same year he started his private practice, which he continued until 1994. In 1947 Ian Robin was appointed consultant ENT surgeon to St Mary's Hospital, Paddington. He served both St Mary's and the Royal Northern until his retirement in 1974. At the onset of the Second World War Ian was invalided out of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve because of his left total deafness (the result of mastoid surgery as a child) and served with the EMS Sector 3 London Area seconded to the Royal Chest Hospital. He put his disability to good use and, always a practical optimist, he used to remark that ‘if he turned in bed onto his good ear he did not hear the guns and doodle bugs.’ Although he, together with J Golligher, in 1952 performed the first colon transplant in the treatment of post cricoid cancer, he was principally an otologist and was deeply concerned about deaf people and those who cared for them. A member of the medical and scientific committee and one-time vice chairman of the Royal National Institute of the Deaf (from 1954 to 1958) he was also, in 1953, a founder member of the Deaf Children's Society (later the National Deaf Children's Society) and, through the British Association of Otolarynoglogists, of which he became president in 1972, he fought hard for improved recognition and pay of audiological technicians and was the first chairman of the Hearing Aid Technicians Society. Determined to relieve children of the burden of body-worn hearing aids, Ian tried to convince the then Secretary of State for Health (Barbara Castle) that the newly available post-aural aids should be issued to children. In the Royal Society of Medicine Ian Robin was vice-president of the section of otology (from 1966 to 1969) and president of the section of laryngology (from 1967 to 1968), where his presidential address on ‘snoring’ raised much public interest. He gave the Yearsley lecture on ‘the handicap of deafness’ in 1967 and the Jobson Horne lecture in 1969. He jointly wrote *A synopsis of otorhinolarynoglogy* (John Wright, Bristol, 1957), and chapters on deafness in the second and third editions of *Diseases of the ear, nose and throat*. His last article, entitled ‘Personal experience of deafness’ was published in ENT News in 2003. Always popular with his colleagues and loved by his patients, he treated his juniors with great friendliness, regarding them as equals. He also took an active part in many student activities at St Mary’s Hospital. In his long retirement Ian Robin was able to continue his hobbies of golf, bowls, gardening, furniture restoration and painting, where he was an active exhibiting member of the Medical Art Society. In later retirement he progressively lost his sight and remaining hearing, but this did not stop him at the age of 90 becoming singles champion of Rutland Blind Bowls Club or completing a computer course to learn a voice activated programme. His first wife Shelagh (née Croft), whom he married in 1939, died suddenly in 1978. In 1994 Ian happily married Patricia Lawrence (Pat), who was the first patient that he operated on when he became a consultant at the Royal Northern Hospital when he was aged 28 and she 13. Neil Weir
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First Title value, for Searching Cox, Robert (1912 - 2000)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-23
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Occupation General surgeon Urologist
Details Robert 'Bobbie' Cox, formerly senior surgeon to the Westminster Hospital, was born in Batu Gajah, Perak, Malaya, on 24 October 1912, the son of Irish parents who came from Cork. His father, Robert, was a doctor, and his mother, Mary Ann neé Cummings, a nurse. At the age of eight, the family relocated to the UK, to Dulwich, where his father became a family doctor. At this time Bobbie could speak fluent English and Malay, but could neither read nor write. This lack of formal education was rectified at Brightlands Preparatory School, before he entered Dulwich College. His father died, aged 45, of septicaemia from a carbuncle of his neck. Robert had just matriculated and had, against his father's wishes, but with his supportive advice, decided on a career in medicine. As his mother was destitute, he fortunately gained an entrance scholarship to the Westminster Hospital, commencing his training at King's College. Here he gained the Chadwick prize in both surgery and clinical surgery, the Hanbury prize in diseases of children, and the Abraham prize in pathology. He played scrum-half for the hospital and was proud to become president of the rugby club at a later date, when he made a habit of taking nurses, doctors and other theatre staff to vital cup matches, before returning to complete a full operating list! After house appointments and registrar training at both the Westminster and Royal Northern Hospitals, with such famous names as A Tudor Edwards, Sir Lancelot Barrington Ward, Kenneth Walker and G T Mullally, he took a well-earned break as a ship's doctor to Shanghai. During the second world war, he served as a Major in the British Expeditionary Force in France, before going to North Africa and taking part in the desert campaign with the Eighth Army. It was in Aleppo, Syria, that he met Joan Mayoh, a Queen Alexandra's nurse, in 1943. They married in Brindisi, Italy, in 1944, and she became a vital part of his successful career. Of his experiences in the war he spoke little, although he kept a diary of events which is a family treasure. Clearly, he was affected by entering Belsen; his respect for life and his caring approach pervaded all that he did. At the end of the war, he returned to an austere civilian life. The governors of the Westminster Hospital wisely appointed him assistant surgeon to Sir Stanford Cade and Sir Clement Price Thomas as a mark of Bobbie's promise and in order not to lose his talents. He was an exceptionally dextrous and precise surgeon; his teaching by the bedside and in outpatients sparkled with humour. But he would never tolerate inefficiency, stupidity or timidity. At these times his twinkling Irish eyes became laser-like. Although he had a leaning towards urology, coupled with the generality of surgery, his Hunterian Professorship in 1957 was entitled 'The management of dysphagia due to malignant disease of the thoracic and abdominal oesophagus', not a subject for the fainthearted in those days. He was secretary of the section of surgery of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1955 to 1957, and remained an associate member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons, his opinions being highly regarded in this field. As secretary of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland from 1966 to 1971, and a member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 1965 to 1971, he was widely respected for both his wisdom and judgement. In university life he examined in London and Manchester. But he remained totally loyal to the Westminster Hospital for giving him a start in life - becoming senior surgeon in 1972. He held other appointments at Queen Charlotte's Hospital and to British Airways. Some honorary appointments he rated above all others, in particular those connected with the Army. He was honorary consulting surgeon to Queen Alexandra Hospital, Millbank, from 1960 to 1967, consulting surgeon to the Army and to the Royal Hospital for Pensioners, Chelsea, making weekly visits. For this he was appointed a CBE in 1974. From a small flat in Pimlico, he moved to Howards Lane in Putney, where he created a beautiful garden. No evening was complete without a horticultural ward round, usually with gin and tonic in hand. Bobbie was very knowledgeable, often confounding visitors with the Latin names of plants, shrubs and trees. A keen fisherman, he retired to an idyllic spot by the river Itchen, in Hampshire, where he created another beautiful garden. Sadly, Joan developed increasing dementia, while he underwent a pericardiectomy himself. The need for continuing medication for this and his prostate cancer was a fine balancing act, which he bore with typical stoicism and witty asides. His comments were often pithy and terse, but the delightful Irish twinkle was never far away. Although small of stature, he was a giant in many ways. Above all, he was a family man with two sons, Robert and Patrick (one a consultant urologist), and a daughter, Rosemary, who became a Nightingale nurse. Initially he cared for Joan in her long illness, until she needed care in a nursing home. Yet during these times, a simple phone call was answered 'How nice to hear from you, dear boy!' Eventually, after her death, he moved to Cornwall to appreciate one last summer with his son and daughter-in-law. Bobbie died on 7 February 2000.
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