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First Title value, for Searching Doggart, James Hamilton (1900 - 1989)

2025-10-03T21:09:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-08
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon Pathologist
Details James Hamilton Doggart, the third child and third son of Arthur Robert Doggart, a master draper, and of Mary (née Graham), was born at Bishop Auckland on 22 January 1900. After education at King James I Grammar School, Bishop Auckland, and Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Darlington, he served for a short while as a Surgeon Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1918. He entered King's College, Cambridge, as a senior open foundation scholar in 1919, before moving on to St Thomas's Hospital. After qualifying he was ophthalmic house surgeon at St Thomas's, then house surgeon and casualty officer at the Royal Northern Hospital. Doggart was extremely unlucky to reach the peak of his ophthalmic training in the late 1920s and early '30s, when the policy of Moorfields Hospital was rarely to accept a UK doctor as a house surgeon. Australia and New Zealand were the chief beneficiaries of this policy. As a result, early in his career, Doggart substituted pathology for surgery as his main interest, serving as pathologist at the Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital and, later, Lang Research Scholar at Moorfields Hospital from 1930 to 1933. Later he was appointed as assistant surgeon, then surgeon and lecturer in ophthalmology to St George's Hospital; ophthalmic surgeon to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, and lecturer in the Institute of Child Health; ophthalmic surgeon to Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital; assistant surgeon to the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital and eventually assistant surgeon, then surgeon, to Moorfields Eye Hospital as well as lecturer in the Institute of Ophthalmology. Jimmie, as he was widely known, was a bibliophile and classics scholar who enjoyed reading ancient Greek. He loved the ambience of a literate community and never felt at home in the operating theatre. Consequently he was happy to leave the "carpentry of ophthalmology", as he called it, to others, while he interested himself in the medical aspects of his specialty. He found his metier in coping with diseases of the eye in children; in slit lamp microscopy (at that time a new method of investigation); and in the esoteric problems of ophthalmic medicine, on which he published a number of books: *Diseases of children's eyes*, *Children's eye nursing*; *Ocular signs in slit-lamp microscopy* and *Ophthalmic medicine*. He also wrote numerous chapters in books of multiple authorship as well as many medical papers on ophthalmology. He wrote in lucid style, bordering on the poetic, and the substance of his message was polished and superbly presented. He was an examiner in ophthalmology for the Royal College of Physicians and examiner for the ophthalmic FRCS, and he also served as Faculty of Ophthalmology representative on Council of the Royal College of Surgeons. Doggart was a liveryman of the Society of Apothecaries, and an honorary member of the Australian, New Zealand, Canadian and Peruvian Societies of Ophthalmology, and of the Oto-neuro-ophthalmological Society of the Argentine. He was a man of intense likes and dislikes, his world being peopled by faultless gods or demons without virtue which, at times, could be a greater embarrassment to himself than to his associates. His usual stance was that of a well groomed member of the establishment, precise to the verge of primness, but he would occasionally make a comical remark which reduced his listeners to convulsive laughter. He was often at the centre of lively conversation at the Garrick Club where he was a regular and much appreciated member. He was certainly held in high regard by his students who found him a colourful and inspiring teacher. In his retirement he gained great satisfaction by recording many of the classics of English literature on electronic tapes for the blind. He was twice married: first to Doris Hilda Mennell in 1928, by whom he had a daughter who married Dr Walter W Yellowlees, of Aberfeldy; and, secondly, to Leonora Sharpley Gatti in 1938, by whom there was a son who became a barrister. When he died on 15 October 1989 he was survived by his second wife and by his son and daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Haggart, Brian Gerard (1928 - 2014)

2025-10-03T21:09:26Z

by Anthony Haggart
Publication Date 2014-02-24 2014-10-14
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Occupation General surgeon
Details Brian Haggart was a consultant general surgeon at Walton and Fazakerley hospitals in Liverpool. He was born in Walton, Liverpool, on 6 May 1928, the eldest of three children. He had two younger, twin sisters, Shirley and Pauline. They were from a modest background; their father worked for Reece's Dairy in Liverpool. Brian was educated at St Francis De Sales Junior School and then by the Jesuits at St Francis Xavier School, where he attended from 1939 to 1946. This period included a brief evacuation to north Wales during the Second World War. When he was there the diet consisted mostly of rabbit, ensuring a life-long aversion to this particular delicacy. A visit to hospital to have his appendix removed as an early teenager convinced him that surgery was his vocation. He gained a place to study medicine at Liverpool University in 1946 and graduated in 1951. He was a house officer at the Stanley and Whiston hospitals from 1951 to 1952. During his early years, two surgeons particularly influenced him - Stanley Unsworth, who he described as 'an outstanding surgeon who treated operative surgery as an exercise in anatomy', and Dicky Doyle, who he described as 'just brilliant'. After National Service as a medical officer with the RAF (ironically he never flew in his entire life), he became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1960. This was followed by two years of research. His thesis 'The radio-isotope renogram' earned him a master of surgery degree in 1963. Brian was appointed as a consultant surgeon at Walton Hospital in 1965, and later gained an appointment at Fazakerley Hospital. Further published work included a paper 'A general intensive therapy unit' (*Br Med J*. 1966 Jan 1;1[5478]:39-41), which shared experiences of acute medical and surgical cases at the Royal Southern Hospital in Liverpool. The paper recommended more widespread use of intensive care units (which at that time were relatively new), in the belief that they would 'prove indispensable in future hospital services'. His main interests were abdominal, thyroid and urological surgery. His ward rounds were a time for many stories and many cigarettes! A colleague once recalled his comment about the welfare of the man who had had an open prostatectomy the day before - from the ward door he said 'he is sitting reading the newspaper so all is well!' He was respected by his colleagues for both his surgical and teaching skills. Many young surgeons benefited from watching his superb surgical technique. He retired in 1989. Brian Haggart was a committed Catholic and was active in CAFOD (the official Catholic aid agency) in Liverpool for several years. His academic interests were extremely varied and included astronomy, physics and philosophy. More prosaic interests included storytelling (of the Tommy Cooper variety), *The Daily Telegraph* cryptic crossword (which he completed most days) and chess. In December 2013 he received a certificate of life membership from the Liverpool Medical Institution, of which he was very proud. He died of lung cancer aged 85 on 31 January 2014 and was survived by his wife Columba Haggart (née Gilleran), who he married in 1955, his sister Pauline, a daughter, four sons and 11 grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Taggart, Hugh Joseph (1893 - 1969)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-20
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Hugh Joseph Taggart was born on 9 April 1893 and studied medicine at the University of Belfast where he obtained the BA in 1914 and qualified with the MB BCh BAO degree with honours in 1919. He decided to specialize in ophthalmology and so took the DOMS in 1921 and the FRCS in 1926. Taggart became surgeon to the Western Ophthalmic Hospital, and ophthalmic surgeon to the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth, and to the Chelsea Hospital Group. He was particularly interested in squints and ptosis; and in addition to being a competent ophthalmologist, the warmth of his personality distinguished him among his contemporaries, and was an inspira¬tion to his juniors, and deeply appreciated by his patients. His hobby was collecting musical boxes. After retiring from hospital work he lived with his wife Frances, who was also a doctor and interested in child-welfare work, at Boolham in Sussex and he died there on 12 October 1969 at the age of 76. His wife survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Priestley, James Taggart (1903 - 1979)

2025-10-03T21:09:26Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-02 2020-08-05
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Occupation General surgeon
Details James Priestley was senior surgeon at the Mayo Clinic. He was born on 7 April 1903 in Des Moines, Iowa. He was the son of Crayke S Priestley and Lilian Priestley, and a descendant of the Rev Joseph Priestley FRS (1733-1804), friend of Benjamin Franklin and Joseph Banks, a notable theologian and the discoverer of 'dephlogisticated air' (oxygen). Joseph emigrated to Philadelphia in 1796, where he became a friend of Adams and Jefferson, and founded the First Unitarian Church. James was the fifth member of his family to be educated at the University of Pennsylvania and was an intern at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital from 1926 to 1928. He went to Rochester as a fellow in surgery at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, where he received the degree of master of science in experimental surgery, followed by the DPhil in surgery the following year. He was appointed to the staff of the Mayo Clinic in 1933, and in 1934 became the head of a section of surgery, a post he occupied for the next 34 years. He was commissioned into the Medical Corps of the US Army in 1943, where he won the bronze star and the oak leaf cluster for gallantry. He became senior surgeon of the Mayo Clinic in 1963. He retired in 1968, having been President of the central surgical association, and special consultant on the clinical research training committee of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health. In 1965, 70 of his former first assistants in surgery formed the Priestley Society, which now comprises more than 600 members, mostly Mayo Clinic alumni, from all over the world. Priestley was the author of several surgical textbooks. He married Klea Palica in 1930. They had three daughters (Barbara Ann, Martha and Judith) and one son (James Priestley III). There are 12 grandchildren. He died on 9 February 1979 of a heart attack whilst on vacation in Florida.
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