Search Results for Medical Obituaries - Narrowed by: Accident and emergency surgeon

First Title value, for Searching Warren, Nicholas Paul ( - 2019)

2024-05-04T15:35:47Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2019-06-06 2022-06-13
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon
Details Nicholas Warren studied medicine at London University and the London Hospital, qualifying MB, BS in 1976. He did house jobs in accident and emergency medicine at the London and for the North West Thames Regional Health Authority. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1983 and became an accident and emergency surgeon at Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow. He died on 6 January 2019.
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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, Richard (1922 - 2009)

2024-05-04T15:35:47Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-16 2015-03-06
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Richard Harrison was a consultant orthopaedic and accident and emergency surgeon in south west Cumbria. He was born on 8 July 1922 and studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, London, qualifying MB BS in 1944. He was a house surgeon at the Royal Cancer Hospital, a senior registrar at the Central Middlesex and a senior orthopaedic registrar at the Royal Free prior to his appointment in Cumbria. He died on 7 December 2009, aged 87.
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First Title value, for Searching Chowdhury, Abani Kumar ( - 1985)

2024-05-04T15:35:47Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-27 2015-05-18
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon
Details Abani Kumar Chowdhury passed his MB in Calcutta in 1946 and his FRCS in 1958. He came to England and became a surgical registrar to the Walsall Hospital Group. In the 1960s he became senior casualty officer (and later consultant) to the accident and emergency department of Doncaster Royal Infirmary. He died on 14 May 1985 survived by his wife, June, who subsequently moved to Blackheath, London.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007151
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First Title value, for Searching Davies, Howard Rowe ( - 2000)

2024-05-04T15:35:47Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-22
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon
Details Howard Davies qualified in 1960 and worked first in Newport, and then as consultant to the accident and emergency department at Carmarthen, where he is thought to have worked for 15 to 20 years. After his wife died prematurely of breast cancer, he became rather a recluse and the College has little information about his latter days. He died in Llanstephan, Dyfed, probably in 2000, survived by his son who became a vet in Somerset.
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First Title value, for Searching Manidas, Sadanandan (1953 - 2010)

2024-05-04T15:35:47Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-03 2015-09-17
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Occupation Accident and emergency physician Accident and emergency surgeon
Details Sadanandan Manidas was a senior staff physician/surgeon in accident and emergency medicine at the Whittington Hospital, London. He was born in Njekkad, Kerala, India, and studied medicine at Trivandrum Medical College, Kerala. He qualified MB BS in 1979. He held a house officer post at Trivandrum General Hospital and was then a resident medical officer in general medicine and paediatrics at Kayamkulam, in the Alleppy district of Kerala. In 1983 he went to the UK. Whilst at Mayday Hospital, Croydon, he gained his conjoint and LMSSA examinations. He then held house officer posts at Good Hope District General, Queen Elizabeth District and St Chad's hospitals. He went on to become a senior house officer at Solihull General, the Royal National Orthopaedic and Sutton General hospitals. From 1987 to 1988 he trained in general practice in Croydon. He then returned to hospital medicine, as a senior house officer at Royal East Sussex, Eastbourne District General, Wexham Park and Mount Vernon hospitals. From 1994 he specialised in accident and emergency medicine. He was a clinical assistant at Greenwich District and Brook General hospitals, then a staff physician/surgeon at Stoke Mandeville, Kettering General and Warwick hospitals. From 1999 he was a senior staff physician surgeon at the Whittington Hospital. He listed his outside interests as reading, travelling, photography and pen friends. He was married to Beena Manidas. They had a son, Robin. Manidas died from an intracerebral haemorrhage on 20 October 2009. He was 55. A plaque has been unveiled at the Whittington Hospital in his honour.
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First Title value, for Searching Garrick, Herbert David Oluwolw (1945 - 2016)

2024-05-04T15:35:47Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2017-11-02 2020-07-02
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Occupation Consultant in accident and emergency medicine Accident and emergency surgeon
Details David Garrick was head of the accident and emergency department at Grantham Hospital. He was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa and studied medicine in Moscow, qualifying in 1972. He went to London and gained his FRCS in 1979. Prior to his appointment as a consultant in Grantham he worked as a consultant surgeon in the Cayman Islands and at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Nassau, Bahamas. He was a member of the British Association for Accident and Emergency Medicine. He retired in 2008. He was married to Sheila and had two daughters, Rachel and Rebecca, and two grandchildren. Garrick died of kidney failure in Grantham Hospital on 5 October 2016. He was 71.
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First Title value, for Searching Vaishampayan, Prabhakar Ganyadhar (1932 - 1974)

2024-05-04T15:35:47Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-24
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Prabhakar Ganyadhar Vaishampayan was born on 30 May 1932. He passed the FRCS in 1973 while working at the Good Hope General Hospital, Sutton Coldfield. He had begun his career there as a senior house officer in orthopaedics and accident and emergency surgery in 1971 and progressed to being SHO in surgery in 1972 and surgical registrar in 1973. Sadly, he died on 2 February 1974.
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First Title value, for Searching Hindle, John Frank ( - 1997)

2024-05-04T15:35:47Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-03
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon
Details John Hindle trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital and after junior posts specialised in accident and emergency surgery. He was a registrar to Tilbury and Riverside Hospital and Accident Officer at the Middlesex Hospital before being appointed consultant in charge of the emergency department at Luton and Dunstable Hospital. He wrote extensively on the management of hand injuries and of multiple injuries, and studied the provision of accident and emergency services in Russia. He died on 1 January 1997, leaving a widow, Gweno, two sons, Hugh and Peter, and grandchildren, Jenny, Sally, Lucy and Ross.
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First Title value, for Searching Kadzombe, Edward Andrews Maonga (1947 - 2004)

2024-05-04T15:35:47Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-13 2015-03-13
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon
Details Edward Kadzombe was a consultant in accident and emergency surgery in Liverpool. He was born in Mgoza village in Balaka, Malawi. He was educated at Mtendere and Blantyre secondary schools before gaining a scholarship to study medicine at the University of Manchester. He qualified MB ChB in 1975. He was a house physician and senior house officer at Manchester Royal Infirmary and then a registrar in surgery for the South Lothian Health Board in Edinburgh. He subsequently went to Liverpool as a senior registrar at Aintree Hospital and the Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, Alder Hey. He then became a surgical registrar at North Manchester General Hospital and a consultant in accident and emergency surgery at Fazekeley and Aintree hospitals, Liverpool. He was also a founding member and the first chairman of the charity Malawi Health Care Support UK. Edward Kadzombe died after a short illness on 8 January 2004 at University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool. He was 56. He was survived by his wife Cecilia and three children - Chapuka, Zaithwa and Nthambi.
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First Title value, for Searching Choyce, Matthew Quentin (1963 - 1997)

2024-05-04T15:35:47Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-22 2016-01-07
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon
Details Matthew Choyce, the son of David Choyce (q.v. above) and Diana Graham, was born on 28 June 1963. He read medicine at Oxford and then did junior jobs at the United Hospitals in Bath and the Frenchay Hospital, Bristol. He specialised in accident and emergency medicine, becoming first registrar at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, and then senior registrar at the Royal Victoria Infirmary. He disappeared suddenly, without trace, in 1997.
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First Title value, for Searching Akpan-Essien, Akpaneyen (1946 - 2011)

2024-05-04T15:35:47Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-27 2015-02-16
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General surgeon
Details Akpaneyen Akpan-Essien was a consultant surgeon in the Cross River State, Nigeria. He was born on 21 March 1946 in Ubium, Ibibio Land, Nigeria, the son of David Akpan-Essien and Grace Akpan-Essien née Udoekpo, both peasant farmers. His great grandfather was a landowner, general and physician to the clan chief, while his uncle, John Udoekpo, was one of the first doctors to be trained by the British. Akpan-Essien was educated at the local Ubium district council primary school, then a mission school at Etinan, and went on to take science A levels at the Federal Emergency Science School in Lagos on a scholarship. From 1970 to 1975 he attended the University of Nigeria Medical School, where he was particularly supported by his mentor Fabian Udekwu. In 1978 he attended the primary course at the Royal College of Surgeons and went on to pass his final examination in 1983. He became a consultant surgeon to the government of the Cross River State in Nigeria, but political and religious crises in the area meant he was forced back to the UK, where he carried out a number of locum appointments as a consultant in accident and emergency units. He was a founding member of the African Academy in Ubium, which aims to promote education and skills training, and was an academic counsellor to the council of elders of Ubium-Ibibio. Outside medicine, he enjoyed table tennis, classical music, reading, writing and jogging. He was interested in issues of social justice. In 1997 he had to retire early due to cancer of the prostate. He died on 10 February 2011, aged 64. He had a daughter, Ekaefe Grace, and a son, Marc Emmanuel Aroud.
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First Title value, for Searching Kiriella, Leonard Penrynne Bandera ( - 1984)

2024-05-04T15:35:47Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-05
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon
Details Leonard Penrynne Bandera Kiriclla received his professional education at the University of Ceylon, qualifying MB BS in 1947. After coming to Britain he gained the DLO in 1053 and both the English and the Edinburgh Fellowships in 1957. He held posts at St James's Hospital, Balham and at St Mary Abbots Hospital Kensington and in 1974 became consultant in the accident and emergency department at St Helier Hospital, Carshalton, where he continued to work until his death on 7 January 1984.
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First Title value, for Searching Turner, Wing Lincoln (1916 - 1994)

2024-05-04T15:35:47Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-08 2016-01-07
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General surgeon
Details Educated at Liverpool University, Turner qualified MB ChB in 1941 and was elected to the Fellowship on 12 March 1979. After holding house posts at Mossley Hill Hospital, and Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool, he was assistant medical officer at Fazakerley Isolation Hospital, Liverpool, before becoming consultant surgeon at Mossley Hill Hospital and Newsham General Hospital, Liverpool. In 1981 he became consultant surgeon in accident and emergency surgery at the Sefton and Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool, and in 1983 was given the title of emeritus consulting surgeon at the Royal Liverpool Hospital. He retired in 1984 and died aged 78 on 2 November 1994, survived by his wife Margaret and son Martin.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008381
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First Title value, for Searching Linder, Leslie (1923 - 1987)

2024-05-04T15:35:47Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-08
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Occupation Anatomist Casualty surgeon Accident and emergency surgeon General surgeon
Details Leslie Linder was born in London on 29 October 1923 to Hyman Linder, a merchant and his wife, Anna, née Karsberg. He was educated at Westminster School and Cambridge University. In 1962 he became lecturer in anatomy in the University of Natal for two years, and then was casualty surgeon in King Edward VIII Hospital, Durban. He took up the post of principal surgeon and senior lecturer in the department of surgery, University of Natal, Durban in 1968 and held this position until his death. He married Vivienne Sara on 27 January 1965 and they had two sons. His hobbies were bridge, photography, chess and music. He died on 1 November 1987 aged 64 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Louis, Francis (1900 - 1965)

2024-05-04T15:35:47Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-11
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Francis Louis was born in 1900, and went for his medical education to University College, London where he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1922, proceeding to the London University degree in 1924. In 1926 he obtained the FRCS and then held posts in general surgery in various London hospitals, but later became interested specially in accident and orthopaedic surgery. At the outbreak of the second world war he joined the Emergency Medical Service and was appointed as accident surgeon to St Margaret's Hospital, Swindon, which was then a receiving centre for war casualties. With the advent of the National Health Service he became consultant accident and orthopaedic surgeon to the Princess Margaret Hospital, Swindon, and continued in that appointment till he retired in 1965. Louis had an extensive knowledge of literature and spoke four languages. He was fond of classical music, and golf provided his outdoor exercise. He did not live long in retirement, for he died suddenly on 10 November 1965.
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First Title value, for Searching Myers, John (1945 - 2000)

2024-05-04T15:35:47Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-25 2016-01-07
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon
Details John Myers was a consultant surgeon in the accident and emergency department at Newham General Hospital in the East End of London. He qualified from St Mary's in 1968, where he did junior posts before passing the FRCS. He went on to be a casualty officer at St Thomas's Hospital, London, then a registrar at Good Hope Hospital, Sutton Coldfield. He was subsequently a senior registrar at Whipps Cross and St Bartholomew's. At Newham, he ran the accident and emergency department for many years single-handed. A born teacher, he inspired loyalty in his trainees, and was much in demand as a lecturer on medico-legal matters. He was an outstanding athlete, and even after major surgery returned to training in martial arts and running. He died of a carcinoma of the oesophagus on 27 March 2000. He was married to Celia and they had one son.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008810
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First Title value, for Searching Jackson, Jeffrey (1925 - 1994)

2024-05-04T15:35:47Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-10
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Occupation Consultant in accident and emergency medicine Accident and emergency surgeon
Details Jeffrey Jackson was born in Bolton on 20 January 1925, studied medicine at Manchester University, graduating in 1949, and held various junior surgical posts at Hillingdon Hospital, Uxbridge. Comparatively late in his career, in 1974, he was appointed the first consultant in accident and emergency medicine at Hillingdon Hospital. During the sixteen years he held this post major changes in the specialty occurred and his diligent attention to the training of staff and provision of adequate facilities resulted in a high quality service. Among his special interests were hand injuries and the prevention of accidents in children including, in 1970, the Hillingdon child accident prevention scheme, which provided training for children and adults and was taken up by other casualty departments. He was an accomplished pianist and travelled widely, having a particular love for France and speaking the language fluently. He died on 19 August 1994, aged 69.
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First Title value, for Searching Basu, Ranjit (1926 - 1988)

2024-05-04T15:35:47Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-17
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon
Details Ranjit Basu was born on 15 August 1926 and studied for his MB BS at Grant Medical College in Bombay. He became a Fellow of the College in 1957 and came to England to live in Liverpool. He became surgical registrar at Alder Hey Children's Hospital and then senior registrar at the Liverpool Thoracic Surgical Centre and the Broadgreen Hospital. He was an associate member of the British Society for the Surgery of the Hand and a member of the Casualty Surgeons' Association. On 8 October 1965 he was appointed consultant in charge of the accident and emergency department at Whiston Hospital and St Helen's and Knowsley AHA. He retired from this post on 31 August 1987 and died a few months later. He was survived by his wife, Dr Raj Basu (née Kumar) MB BS Bombay 1950, who was associate specialist in accident and emergency medicine at Arrowe Park Hospital from 1 November 1964 to 2 October 1989 when she took up an appointment at Victoria Central Hospital, Wallasey.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007108
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First Title value, for Searching Olney, David Bingham (1950 - 1995)

2024-05-04T15:35:47Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-25
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon
Details Olney, who was born in 1950, received his medical education at Westminster Hospital, qualifying with the conjoint diploma and the London MB BS in 1973. After a year working in various surgical specialties in Australia, he completed his training in Yorkshire. He was tutor in accident and plastic surgery at Leeds General Infirmary where he later became senior registrar (accident and emergency). He then moved to Milton Keynes General Hospital where he was appointed consultant in the accident and emergency department, which post he held at the time of his premature death. An obituary in the *British Medical Journal* says that he was active in medicopolitics with a prominent role in reviewing acute services regionally. He was chairman of his local pastoral church council and a keen bridge player. He died in his sleep on 26 July 1995.
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First Title value, for Searching Melville, Charles Bernays (1903 - 1978)

2024-05-04T15:35:47Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-10 2017-05-05
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General surgeon Urologist
Details Charles Bernays Melville was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 29 April 1903. He was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, where he was captain of school and athletics, and at the University of Melbourne where he was awarded a blue in athletics and in football. He obtained first class honours and an exhibition in medicine, graduating MB BS in 1927. He was resident medical officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He came to London, was resident surgical officer at All Saints' Hospital and worked under Terence Millin. He obtained the MRCS and LRCP in 1930, the FRCS in 1931, and became FRACS in 1934. On his return to Australia, he was appointed emergency surgeon to the Alfred Hospital and urologist to the Austin Hospital, Melbourne. He married Jean Cookes in 1928 and they had one daughter. He died on 6 July 1978, aged 75 years.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006746
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First Title value, for Searching Jaya-Ratnam, Joseph Sripalan Williams (1936 - 2002)

2024-05-04T15:35:47Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-06
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon
Details Joe Jaya-Ratnam was born in Ceylon on 17 December 1936. He trained in Colombo, where he practised for 15 years before going to England to train in surgery. He specialised in accident and emergency medicine, was a registrar in Lincoln and Leicester, and a senior registrar in Middlesborough, before being appointed as a consultant at Tameside General Hospital, Ashton-under-Lyne. He was an active member of his local church, where his singing voice was greatly appreciated. He married Sajo and they had one son, Darrell, and one daughter, Caroline. He died on 9 June 2002.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008682
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First Title value, for Searching Rutherford, William Harford (1921 - 2007)

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by Norman Kirby
Publication Date 2010-10-14
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon
Details William Rutherford was one of the pioneers of accident and emergency medicine as a specialty in the UK. The son of a Presbyterian minister, he was born on 15 July 1921 at Warrenpoint, County Down. His family moved to Dun Laoghaire near Dublin, but he went to boarding school in Belfast. He rejected Greek to study physics and chemistry instead. In 1939, he entered Trinity College, Dublin, graduating in 1944. He had had qualms about being exempt from service during the Second World War, but was persuaded to continue as a medical student. His father died whilst he was still a student, but a family friend helped financially so William and his sister could finish their medical studies and qualify. After house appointments in Belfast, he felt the call to become a missionary doctor. He accepted an appointment at Anand in Gujarat, India, in 1947, months before independence. He saw the chaos and slaughter as Hindus and Muslims fled to India and Pakistan. As all old fashioned general surgeons, he did orthopaedics and obstetrics and was also responsible for administration, and his standards were high. The hospital closed in 1966 and he returned to Belfast. There he was appointed as a medical assistant in the casualty department of the Royal Victoria Hospital. At this time there was extreme pressure for the specialty of casualty surgeons to be recognised. William was one of the founder members of the Casualty Surgeons’ Association and became president in 1981. The specialty was eventually accepted and in 1972 30 consultants were appointed, of whom he was one. This was at the time when Belfast was the centre of the troubles with the IRA. The Royal Victoria Hospital was in the middle: there were regular mass casualty situations that he and his staff had to deal with. As an experienced surgeon, he was able to train his team and control one of the most efficient departments in the UK. For his inspired work he was appointed OBE in 1971, but he always insisted that this decoration was earned by his department. He wrote and published regularly about his experiences in India and Belfast. He wrote about bomb blasts, gunshot injuries, the damage caused by rubber bullets, cardiac contusion, and injuries treated in his department. Mass casualty situations were discussed and he wrote on the essential requirements for the organisation of a department receiving them. His plan for the Royal Victoria Hospital served as a template for many hospitals. He wrote about scoring the severity of injuries and the social factors, such as unemployment, which affected patterns of injury. The use of seatbelts was a subject that he studied and tried to get enforced. He knew what excellent results there were in Australia. The Government in the UK was dithering, so he carried out and published an excellent report. Figures taken before and after the Act to enforce seat belt wearing showed a significant decline in both deaths and serious injuries. The Act is now accepted by all, thanks to his outstanding work. The development of the specialty of accident and emergency medicine was a serious contribution to medicine in the UK. Similar efforts were being carried out in Australia, Canada and the United States. The International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM) was created and he became a founder member. There are now 21 member countries. William was an active walker and, after retiring in 1985, he walked, in stages, the Ulster Way. He found it gave him space and time to think. William looked after his wife, Ethne, at home until her death from Alzheimer’s disease. Sadly, he was to die of the same disease on 22 December 2007. He was survived by his daughter, a nurse, and two sons, both doctors.
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First Title value, for Searching Reddy, Kareti Venkata Krishna (1929 - 1988)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-20 2015-09-04
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon
Details Kareti Venkata Krishna Reddy was born on 21 October 1929 at Gadur, Nellore District, Andhra Pradesh, India, the third son of Kareti Ranga Reddy and his wife Kareti Seshamma. His early education was at the High School in Gudur before being admitted to Madras Medical College. He qualified in 1953 and after 12 years working in Indian hospitals came to Britain in 1965. He passed both the Edinburgh and English Fellowships in 1966. Initially he worked as registrar in orthopaedics at Pembury Hospital and as registrar in general surgery at Gravesend and North Kent Hospital under Sol Cohen. Later he was appointed medical assistant to the accident and emergency department of the Medway Hospital, Gillingham, where he remained until shortly before his death aged 58 on 27 June 1988. He was unmarried.
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Eric Reginald Lloyd (1939 - 2013)

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by Richard Collins
Publication Date 2013-06-12 2013-09-06
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Reg Jones, 'Jones the Bones' to his friends and colleagues, was a consultant orthopaedic and accident surgeon in the south east Kent, Canterbury and Thanet area. He was born in Southport on 5 October 1939, the son of Eric Lloyd, a transport manager, and Royal Audrey Joan Lloyd née Johnstone-Brown, a housewife. He attended Waterloo Grammar School, left to go to King's College Medical School a year early at the age of 17, and graduated in 1962. He held house posts at Freedom Fields Hospital, Plymouth, King's, and at Luton and Dunstable, Devonport and Frenchay hospitals. In 1968 he began his training in orthopaedic and accident surgery at King's. In 1971 he was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic and accident and emergency surgeon for south east Kent, which covered Ashford Hospital, Royal Victoria Hospital (Folkestone), Kent and Canterbury Hospital and the Royal Sea Bathing Hospital (Margate). He had a particular interest in children's orthopaedics and started the first children's orthopaedic clinic at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital. He wrote several papers, including 'Displaced factures of the neck of the radius in children' (*J Bone Joint Surg Br*. 1971 Aug;53[3]:429-39) and 'Sacral extradural cysts. A rare cause of low backache and sciatica' (*J Bone Joint Surg Br*. 1973 Feb;55[1]:20-31). He also helped develop a machine which used pulsed electromagnetic stimulation to promote cellular healing in bone fractures, which could be used in outpatient clinics as opposed to invasive surgery. He was also interested in sports orthopaedics. He attended boxers when they had fights at Leas Pavillion in Folkestone, was medical adviser to Kent County Cricket Club for 18 years, and accompanied West Bromwich Albion football team on their visit to China in 1977. In 1994 he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, forcing him into early retirement as he was unable to operate. Outside medicine, he was a lifelong supporter of Liverpool football club. He was a keen bird and wildlife photographer, and travelled the world to follow his passion, including trips to Antarctica, South America, Indonesia, Vietnam and Costa Rica. He met his wife Candy (Shelagh Ann Hayward), a nurse, in 1963 whilst they were both working on the orthopaedic ward at King's. They married in March 1964 and had four children, Sarah, Peter, Debbie and Alex. Jones died on 6 May 2013 at the age of 73. He was survived by Candy and their children.
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First Title value, for Searching Hinchley, Geoffrey William (1959 - 2016)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-08-25 2019-10-28
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon
Details Geoffrey William Hinchley (Geoff) was an accident and emergency surgeon at Chase Farm Hospital, Enfield, London. Born in Barrow in Furness on 4 December 1959, he was the second of four children. At Barrow Boys Grammar School he excelled both in class and on the athletics field. He studied medicine at Charing Cross Hospital and London University where he was a convivial and popular member of the student union. Keeping up his northern image he was renowned for a repertoire of notorious rugby songs and his ability to down his beer. After house jobs in Jersey and at Charing Cross he moved to Plymouth and worked at Mount Gould and Derriford Hospitals specialising in orthopaedics, thoracic surgery, general surgery and urology. He passed the fellowship of the College in 1988 and spent a while as a ship’s doctor on the cruise liner the *Ocean Pearl*. It was during his time on board that the ship visited China and he was present in Beijing during the time of the Tiananmen Square massacre. After a short spell in London he then moved to Nottingham Hospital as an SHO in plastic surgery followed by three years as a registrar in accident and emergency medicine first at Derbyshire Royal Infirmary and then at the Queen’s Medical Centre back in Nottingham. Relocating to Poole, he worked as a senior registrar at the hospital there and at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital. At this time he also studied for a master of laws degree in the legal aspects of medical practice. He completed this in three years and was then able to lecture on the subject to healthcare professionals and give evidence in court as an expert witness. In 1995 he returned to London and took up the post of clinical director of emergency services at Chase Farm Hospital in Enfield where he stayed for 11 years, working latterly at Barnet Hospital. He took his role as a mentor to junior trainees very seriously and in 2000 joined the North East Thames Specialty Training Committee. Seven years later he became associate dean at the London Deanery developing training programmes and introduced a new acute care common stem (ACCS) pathway. As London head of school for emergency medicine his innovative approach set the path of his specialty for future years and he abolished historic practices in favour of modern training methods. He took a very active role at the Royal College of Emergency Medicine both in setting standards and in examinations, and also held many significant positions at the British Medical Association. Apart from medicine, politics was central to his life. When he was in Plymouth in his youth he had been an active member of the newly formed SDP but he later became committed to the Labour Party and acted as a fundraiser for the MP Chris Smith during the run up to the 1997 election. A great believer in equality he reformed the fundraising process to include those who could only contribute a small amount. He had a great enthusiasm for the European Union and the result of the 2016 referendum when the UK voted to leave clouded his last days. He had met Neville Walker in London in 1990 and they were to remain together, first as civil partners and later as a married couple until he died. Neville was a restaurant critic and author who occasionally worked overseas for long periods. They had homes in Islington, London and St Gilgen in Austria. Their holiday home in the mountains of the Salzkammergut region provided welcome relief from the pressures of work as did his contemporary art collection. Many well known modern artists became intimately acquainted with the couple. He died from multiple myeloma on 3 July 2016. The disease had been diagnosed at the end of 2013 but he managed to maintain a fairly active life, including a visit to his native Cumbria, until just before the end. He was survived by Neville and by his niece and nephew Adam and Megan to whom he was a devoted uncle.
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First Title value, for Searching Ghosh, Sachindra Nath (1928 - 1992)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-08
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General practitioner
Details Sachindra Ghosh was born in Calcutta, India, on 20 June 1928, the son of a marine official in the British India Steam Navigation Company. He received his early schooling in Calcutta, attended Calcutta Science College where he obtained a BSc, and graduated MB BS from the National Medical College in 1959. After house surgeon and house physician posts in Calcutta he came to England in 1962 and after initial experience in general practice in Nuneaton decided to follow a surgical career. He had a wide experience as a surgical registrar in general, cardiothoracic and orthopaedic surgery at various centres in the West Midlands and was ultimately appointed as a clinical assistant in accident and emergency surgery at Walsall General Hospital. Ghosh obtained the FRCS Edinburgh in 1969 and the FRCS in 1971. In 1974 he married, and he and his wife, Mallika, who was also a doctor, had a son, Sandip. Ghosh was keenly interested in football, gardening, cooking and photography. He was devoted to his family and loved sports cars and travelling. He died of cancer on 28 July 1992.
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First Title value, for Searching Garraway, John Windsor (1915 - 1992)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-08
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Occupation Casualty surgeon Accident and emergency surgeon General surgeon Military surgeon
Details John Garraway was educated at Eastbourne College and the Middlesex Hospital. On graduating he joined the RAF, in which he served in North Africa and in the RAF hospital in Vereeniging, South Africa, where he married Margaret Lapping in June 1944. After the war he returned to England to serve in various RAF bases, from which he was seconded in 1952 to accompany the Royal Family as their family physician. He was seconded from the RAF to do surgical training at the Hammersmith Hospital and passed the FRCS in 1957, continuing to serve in the RAF until he retired as Group Captain. On retirement Garraway returned to South Africa as surgeon superintendent at the Eben Donges Hospital in Worcester, and later settled in Durban, where he ran the casualty department at King Edward VIII Hospital. He was given the nickname of *Khanyisani* from his Zulu staff, meaning 'light': this was because, on busy weekends, when casualty was crowded, he rolled up his sleeves and dealt quickly with everyone, which made him the 'light at the end of the tunnel'. He died on 31 December 1992, survived by his wife, three children and three grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Simpson, David Andrew (1954 - 2003)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-11-30
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Occupation Consultant in accident and emergency medicine Accident and emergency surgeon
Details David Simpson was a consultant in accident and emergency medicine. He was born in London in 1954 and entered King’s College Hospital for medical training. He had considered a career as an engineer, but changed his mind after early training in this discipline. After gaining his FRCS, he became a surgical registrar at the Westminster Hospital and then settled on a career in accident and emergency medicine. He became an associate member of the British Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons and a member of the British Association for Accident and Emergency Medicine, and his future career seemed assured at a time when the specialty was expanding from the old ‘casualty departments’ to the modern ones capable of dealing with a variety of emergencies. He was very interested and had a great knowledge of ‘Scott of the Antartic’, to whom he was distantly related. On entering the Cambridge/Norwich senior registrar training programme he was described as a likeable and hard working, intelligent trainee, but then he developed health problems which dogged his lifestyle and made it difficult for him to engage in permanent posts. Eventually he went to the Middle East, working mainly in Saudi Arabia, and from thence to New Zealand, where he died suddenly on 14 July 2003. He is survived by Raja, his second wife, and Sue and his children, Duncan and Victoria.
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First Title value, for Searching Caro, David Bernard (1922 - 1996)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-02 2017-05-18
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon Casualty surgeon
Details David Caro was born in Auckland, New Zealand on 8 February 1922, the son of Harold D Caro, a merchant, and Rubina, née Ballin. He was educated at King's School and College, Auckland, before entering Otago University in Dunedin. He qualified in 1946 and shortly afterwards came to England for postgraduate study, passing the FRCS in 1949. He returned to New Zealand and was appointed part-time assistant surgeon at Waikato Hospital, Hamilton. After a few years in his home country he returned to England and was appointed senior casualty officer at St James's Hospital, Balham. When that hospital closed he obtained an appointment as consultant in charge of the Accident and Emergency department of St Bartholomew's Hospital and was associated with the formation of the Casualty Surgeons Association, becoming its second president. He was involved in drafting the major accident and emergency plan for St Bartholomew's Hospital which was put into operation on several occasions, notably after the IRA bomb explosion at the Old Bailey. After retiring from hospital work he went to live in New Zealand. He died of lymphoma on 15 March 1996 and left a wife, Dulcie, née Dunningham, whom he had married in 1950, a son, a daughter and two grandchildren. His outside interests were the theatre, music, art and the history of art.
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First Title value, for Searching Adams, Idris William (1940 - 1990)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-17
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon
Details Idris William Adams was born at Tonyrefail, South Wales on 14 June 1940 the son of Philip Darwin Adams, a schoolmaster and Fiona Mary, née Jenkins, a headmistress. He was educated at Cowbridge Grammar School where he was head boy in 1958 before entering Charing Cross Hospital Medical School which he represented at rugby football. He qualified in 1965 and was house surgeon, casualty officer and anatomy demonstrator. His early career in general surgery was inspired by Trevor Tanner and in orthopaedic surgery by David Trevor. After undertaking further junior posts in Leicester and the United Arab Emirates he became interested in work in accident and emergency departments. He passed the FRCS in 1978 and shortly afterwards was appointed consultant in accident and emergency at Leighton Hospital, Crewe. After five years he successfully applied for a similar post at Withybush General Hospital, Haverfordwest. He served as Chairman of the Pembrokeshire Division of the British Medical Association and a member of the Welsh Consultants and Specialists Committee. His main hobbies were classical music, rugby and game shooting (accompanied by his spaniel Rufus). He died on 3 July 1990 aged 50 after a long illness and is survived by his wife Rosalie whom he married in 1972 and by their children, Michael, Hywell, Fiona, David and Philip.
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First Title value, for Searching Abson, Edward Pennington (1918 - 2009)

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by Jonathan Marrow
Publication Date 2018-04-05 2018-04-27
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon Casualty surgeon
Details Edward Abson was a major player in the movement to improve casualty services by the creation of specialist consultant posts. He became one of the first 30 such specialist consultants, being appointed to Kent and Canterbury Hospital, and was later the third president of the Casualty Surgeons' Association (CSA). He was born in Merthyr Tydfil on 6 March 1918, one of four children of James Abson and Lily Abson (née Hulme). His family were from the Stockport area, but were living in Wales when Edward and his twin sister were born. His father was secretary of a gas company. The family moved back to Cheshire when Edward was a young child. His first school was in Romiley and he went on to the King's School in Macclesfield. He later studied medicine at the Victoria University of Manchester, qualifying MB ChB in 1941. Soon after obtaining full registration, he volunteered for the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He was commissioned with the rank of temporary surgeon lieutenant, and between 1942 and 1945 served on HMS *Penn*, a destroyer on convoy duties. Among numerous active engagements at sea, HMS *Penn* was involved in bringing a tanker, loaded with inflammable fuel and crippled by enemy action, into Valetta harbour, a turning point in the siege of Malta. At the end of hostilities, Edward was stationed at an air/sea rescue base for a year, where he gained further experience in the management of trauma. His interest in the sea continued after demobilisation: he was a keen sailor and took part in several long-distance transfers of sailing boats. After the war, he held hospital positions in Stockport and Blackburn, and also carried out some locum work in general practice. He secured the diploma of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and then spent six months as a postgraduate student in the anatomy department in Manchester before passing the primary FRCS in 1949. Surgical training posts followed, mostly in the Manchester region. He gained orthopaedic as well as general surgical experience. In 1956, he was successful in the final FRCS exam in London. By then he had moved to Dudley, in the Midlands. In Dudley, Edward worked first as a surgical registrar and then as a senior clinical medical officer (SCMO). He also had a chance to see the work of the pioneering Birmingham Accident Hospital. SCMO was one of the sub-consultant grades given to experienced doctors in charge of casualty departments, which was most likely Edward's role for the latter part of his time in Dudley. In 1963 he moved again, first to Southampton and then to the Isle of Wight, holding senior casualty officer posts at each. In 1962, a report by Sir Harry Platt, a distinguished orthopaedic surgeon, was commissioned by the Department of Health. It recommended that casualty departments be renamed 'accident and emergency' and that they should be supervised by orthopaedic surgeons. Many of the other recommendations were very welcome, but the senior casualty officers pointed out that the work of their departments had many challenges outside the field of orthopaedics. A senior casualty officers' subcommittee was set up within the British Medical Association in 1963, with Edward Abson as secretary. Between 1963 and 1980, Edward was prominent among those campaigning for the establishment of consultant posts in casualty departments. In 1965, he co-wrote an article in *The Lancet*, 'The casualty consultant' (*Lancet*. 1965 May 29;1[7396]:1158-9), the first of a series of publications about casualty departments and their patients. In October 1967, he was one of nine doctors in charge of casualty departments who met at BMA House in London and resolved to set up the CSA, the precursor to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. In 1972, 30 consultants in accident and emergency were appointed, as an experiment, to improve care in accident and emergency departments. Edward was one of them, being appointed to Kent and Canterbury Hospital. Edward was elected president of the CSA, serving from 1975 to 1978. He was the third to hold this office. The writer first attended a meeting of the CSA in 1977, during Edward's presidency. The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) was formed in 1968. Cordial relations were quickly established between the ACEP and the CSA. In 1981 Edward Abson, was made an honorary member of the ACEP, together with David Caro and John Collins, CSA presidents before and after Edward. There has been exchange of equivalent honours between presidents of British and US emergency medicine bodies since then. Edward retired from clinical work in about 1983. He saw himself as a surgeon in the casualty department and vigorously opposed changing the name of the CSA. Casualty or accident and emergency? Surgery, medicine or both? Debate about the name of the Association and of the specialty continued for many years, but in 1990 an AGM of the CSA voted by a large majority to change the name of the Association to the British Association for Accident and Emergency Medicine. Sadly, Edward was one of two senior members of the Association who felt so strongly that they resigned and walked out of the meeting to show their opposition to the change. Edward never married. He remained in Kent, living independently until 2007, when he moved to a care home in Folkestone. He died on 13 March 2009, seven days after his 91st birthday.
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First Title value, for Searching Stillman, Irvine Roger (1915 - 1987)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-07
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon
Details Irvine Roger Stillman was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, on 29 September 1915 and after early education went to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, graduating with a BA degree and later proceeding to MA. His clinical studies were undertaken at Oxford University and the Radcliffe Infirmary and he qualified in 1943. After early house appointments in general surgery and orthopaedics he was appointed resident surgical officer at Chesterfield and passed the FRCS in 1957. He later became senior hospital medical officer to the casualty department of Chesterfield Royal Hospital and played an important role in the design of a new accident and emergency department at the hospital. Shortly after the new department was opened he was promoted consultant and was a founder member of the Casualty Surgeons' Association. He was one of the first to recognise the importance of immediate treatment of road accident victims and having visited Heidelberg to study their methods founded the "Flying Squad", established in 1978, at Chesterfield to take a team of doctors and nurses to road-side victims. He had a keen interest in photography, and was instrumental in spearheading the development of clinical photography at the hospital. He retired in 1981 and his contribution to the town where he had spent most of his working life was recognised by the award of the honorary freedom of the Borough of Chesterfield in 1983. In 1947 he married Kay Walton, a nursing sister, and their daughter has qualified in medicine. He died in 1987 aged 72.
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First Title value, for Searching Lowden, Thomas Geoffrey (1910 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-01-13
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Occupation Casualty surgeon Accident and emergency surgeon
Details Thomas Lowden was a casualty surgeon in Sunderland. He was born in Leeds on 25 March 1910, where his father, Harold Lowden, was an engineer and his mother, Ethel Annie Lamb, a schoolteacher. From Leeds Grammar School he won a Holroyd scholarship to Keble College, Oxford, and went back to Leeds for his clinical training, qualifying in 1934. After junior posts in Leeds General Infirmary and the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne (from which he passed the FRCS), he joined the RAMC as a surgical specialist in 1941. He served in India, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, North Africa and Egypt, before taking part in the Sicily landings and the invasion of Italy, rising to the rank of acting lieutenant colonel. He remained for a time in Germany, before returning to specialise in accident and emergency surgery, becoming consultant in that specialty in Sunderland in 1946 and establishing its casualty department. He published The casualty department (Edinburgh and London, E & S Livingstone, 1956), and developed a subspecialty of hand surgery and was an early member of the Hand Club (later the British Society for Surgeon of the Hand). After he retired in 1970 he continued to do locums at Hexham General Hospital. He married Margaret Purdie, a doctor, in 1945. They had a daughter, Catherine, who became a teacher, and a son, Richard, a lawyer. Among his hobbies were mountain walking, especially in Norway, 16 mm photography and the history of the Crusades. He died on 9 October 2005.
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First Title value, for Searching Nish, John Noel (1913 - 1983)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-25 2015-09-04
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details John Noel Nish was born in Benalla, Victoria, Australia, in 1913, the son of a general practitioner and the grandson of the Reverend Dr Nish who left Scotland to preach to the goldminers in Bendigo. He was educated at Geelong Grammar School before entering Trinity College, Melbourne, for medical studies. He qualified in 1935 and after early house appointments was surgical registrar at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne. He was then awarded the Marion Flack travelling scholarship to come to England. His first appointment in England was as resident surgical officer at the Ashington Hospital and he passed the FRCS in 1941. He was then first assistant to Sir Reginald Watson-Jones at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary until 1943 when Sir Reginald was approached by Sir Frank Lord, Chairman of Oldham Royal Infirmary and as a result John Nish was appointed consultant in charge of the orthopaedic and accident services at Oldham. The accident department was built to his design and served a large industrial area as well as many motorways and trunk roads. He continued to run the department until his retirement in 1977. He married Sarah McAllister in 1940 and there were two children of the marriage. After retiring from hospital work he continued to pursue his interests in his house and garden, and to enjoy family life. He was busily occupied in reconstructing an Irish cottage and doing most of the physical work himself when he died suddenly after a myocardial infarction on 6 October 1983, aged 70, while staying at his son Ian's house in Dublin. He is survived by his wife and family.
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First Title value, for Searching Wilson, David Hedley (1928 - 2015)

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by Susan Wilson
Publication Date 2016-01-21 2016-05-27
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon Missionary Tropical medicine specialist
Details David Hedley Wilson was a consultant surgeon in the accident and emergency department, Leeds General Infirmary. He was born in Leeds on 5 October 1928, the son of Herbert Wilson and Phyllis Wilson née Hield. His grandfather had been a master grocer and his father, who served in the First World War, returned to join the business; however, sadly, this collapsed in the 1930's. At the age of eight, David decided that, despite the family being poor, he was going to be a missionary doctor. He was educated at Roundhay School in Leeds. At the age of 15 he met his wife to be and a year later he won a scholarship to study medicine at Leeds University, living at Rawdon Theological College. As well as studying, he loved sport and was the reserve for the 400 metres at the 1948 Olympics. He qualified in 1951 and married Robina McKenzie Simpson in July 1953; so started a relationship that lasted 40 years. After posts in surgery, casualty and obstetrics in Leeds, he took the diploma in tropical medicine and hygiene in Antwerp in 1954. On his 26th birthday, David and Robina sailed with their young baby girl Pamela to Pimu in the Belgian Congo. Their location was a very isolated hospital in the heart of the rain forest. He stayed in the Congo from 1954 to 1968, eventually moving south to a large mission hospital near the Angolan border at Kimpese. On his first period back at home in 1958, he felt the need to train in orthopaedics. In his work in Africa he was dealing with much disability from poliomyelitis and leprosy. He did this training at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital at Stanmore. On his return to the Congo, he developed a limb fitting centre, then the only one in Central Africa. During the Congo uprising following independence, Robina returned with the children to the UK and David stayed caring for the patients at Kimpese. During this time, he treated many horrific injuries owing to the civil war. On returning to the UK in 1961, David studied for his FRCS. In 1964 he gained the Edinburgh FRCS and later, in 1988, gained his FRCS from the Royal College of Surgeons of England. The family returned to the Congo in 1964 and stayed until 1968. During this time, he became a visiting lecturer at the newly formed National University in Kinshasa and medical director of the Institut Médical Evangélique at Kimpese. They now had four children - Pamela, Gerard, John and Christine. In 1968 they returned permanently to the UK and he held registrar posts in orthopaedics in Yorkshire. In 1970 he was appointed as a consultant in accident and emergency medicine at the General Infirmary at Leeds. During the subsequent years, he pioneered the growth of the specialty of accident and emergency medicine, seeking to establish it as a specialty with its own consultants. He wrote textbooks and developed patterns of training throughout the UK. He advised and lectured in Australasia and America, where he was awarded honorary fellowships. He also lectured in Canada and Europe. At this time, he was conducting research in spinal nerve regeneration and the effectiveness of Diapulse (electromagnetic therapy) in the healing of damaged tissues and nerves. He campaigned for the use of seat belts and against drink-driving. He also oversaw the introduction of computerised records in the accident and emergency department at Leeds in 1974. Paul, born in Leeds, completed the family in 1968. David was a committee man! He sat on various national committees and became an examiner for the FRCS (accident and emergency surgery) from 1982 to 1990 in Edinburgh. During this period, he represented the specialty of accident and emergency surgery on the council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 1986 he played a leading role in the organisation of the first International Conference of Emergency Medicine in London. He was appointed postgraduate dean of medical education at the University of Leeds in 1986, becoming chairman in 1989 and also represented the university on the General Medical Council. In 1990 he was appointed to the chief medical officer's Forum on Education and Training in the Health Service. Sadly, after celebrating 40 years of married life, Robina died of carcinoma of the stomach in 1992. David took retirement to care for her, living at that time in Harrogate. In 1994 he married Susan Evans, a nurse who had also worked in the Congo. They married on 16 April 1994 and David moved to live near Presteigne, mid Wales. He continued to be guided by his Christian faith, maintaining an interest in the church and serving as secretary in the local Baptist Church. He became president of the Baptist Union of Wales and of the Baptist Missionary Society. His love of committees and organisation continued well into his retirement. He was privileged to be one of the founding members of the College of Emergency Medicine and attended the inaugural ceremony officiated by Princess Anne in 2008; the college later became the Royal College in 2015. In 2004 his autobiography *Doctor at the cutting edge* (Houghton Regis, Bound Biographies) was published. He loved walking and gardening, enjoying the beauty of his home and life in mid Wales, although he was always proud to be called a Yorkshire man. Sadly, David developed vascular dementia and over a five-year period there was a slow decline; he was cared for in his home until he died on 4 October 2015, just two hours short of his 87th birthday. David was a visionary, always challenging the status quo and seeking better ways of doing things. He will be remembered for his contribution to changing the face of accident and emergency medicine, his Christian service in the UK and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and for his diplomacy in committees.
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First Title value, for Searching Haq, Zafar Ul (1927 - 1984)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-18
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General practitioner General surgeon
Details Zafar Ul Haq was born in Masaka, Uganda, in 1927. He studied medicine at the Punjab University, Pakistan, where he graduated in 1950. Following house appointments in Pakistan he returned to his parental home at Masaka where he worked in general practice and as a surgeon to the Nkozi Mission Hospital. Intent on a surgical career he came to England in 1962, taking the Fellowship of the College in 1968. He held surgical posts at St James's Hospital, Tredegar, and at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and an associate specialist post at the Royal South Hampshire Hospital. Finally in 1974 he was appointed consultant in accident and emergency surgery at the Medway Hospital, Kent. His great interest was in the treatment of burns and in the associated plastic surgery. He had a continued interest in scholarship and took great pains to help his juniors in their exams. Success in the surgical fellowship was both expected and achieved under his guidance and he derived intense pleasure from the examination successes of his juniors. Zafar was a perfectionist surgeon who applied the same attention to his hobbies of photography and gardening. It is said that his lawns and borders were as perfect as his skin grafts. He died suddenly in his own department on 26 April 1984. He was survived by his wife, Salmi, and his three sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Ellis, Maurice (1905 - 1977)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-01
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Occupation Casualty surgeon Accident and emergency surgeon General practitioner
Details Maurice Ellis, the son of a motor engineer, who founded a milk business which later became Associated Dairies, was born on 16 September 1905 in Leeds and was educated at Rydal School, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and Leeds University School of Medicine. After qualifying in 1930 he was appointed to house posts at Leeds General Infirmary and at Barnsley. In 1933 having decided to join the Colonial Medical Service, he took the London University DTM&H and sailed for Nigeria. During his first tour of service, spent mainly in sleeping sickness control in Northern Nigeria, he became proficient in the Hausa language. Part of the second and the whole of the third tour were spent in general surgical work at Lagos. Ill health caused an early retirement from the Colonial Medical Service in 1945. After his return to the United Kingdom he worked for a year and a half in general practice, in Gainsborough. In 1948 he took the FRCS and after a surgical post at Dewsbury was transferred back to his own teaching hospital. With the inception of the National Health Service and the increased demand for casualty services he was appointed to work full-time in the casualty department. From 1949 he was senior registrar and in 1952 was made consultant. He retired in 1969. In 1967 Ellis had become founder President of the Casualty Surgeons Association, and after his retirement he campaigned vigorously for the improvement of casualty work throughout Britain. He was especially interested in tetanus and was co-founder of the tetanus unit at Leeds. He is remembered for his hard work, administrative ability, original thought, and love of teaching. Hundreds of clinical students and junior doctors referred to him affectionately as Father Ellis. In 1962 he published his *Casualty officers' handbook*, which ran to three editions in his lifetime and continued to be widely read thereafter. In 1933 he married Irene Thornley, surgical ward sister at the Leeds General Infirmary. They had one son who qualified in medicine. Ellis died on 13 October 1977, after having suffered for some years from progressive brain-stem ischaemia.
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First Title value, for Searching Rogers, Norman Charles (1916 - 2011)

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by Norman Kirby
Publication Date 2011-08-26 2011-09-01
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General surgeon
Details Major General Norman Rogers was the director of Army surgery, and during his career encouraged the training of Army surgeons and the study of military wounding at the research establishment at Porton Down. He was born on 14 October 1916 in Long Acre, central London, the only child of Charles William Rogers, a wing commander in the RAF, and Edith Minnie née Weaver. He was initially educated at Mostyn House School in Cheshire, but, with his father's posting to Egypt, he moved to Victoria College, Alexandria. Finally, he was schooled at Imperial Service College, Windsor. He then studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was awarded the Brackenbury scholarship in surgery. Immediately on qualifying, he volunteered to join the Royal Army Medical Corps and was soon posted to join the British Expeditionary Force in France, Belgium and eventually the beaches of Dunkirk, from where he was evacuated to the UK. For his work with the wounded at Dunkirk he received his first mention in despatches. In 1941 he joined the 4th Royal Tank Regiment and served in North Africa, Tobruk, and the battle of Gazala. During this battle they were surrounded and came under heavy shellfire. When the crew of an anti-tank gun was hit, Rogers collected the wounded in his truck and, whilst moving them to the field ambulance, he was intercepted by a German armoured car and taken prisoner. He was sent to a prisoner of war camp in northern Italy at Fontanellato near Parma. In this camp were 600 prisoners with a wide variety of characters and abilities. He wrote that there seemed to be experts on everything from physics to forgery, and the personalities ranged from the straight laced to the raffish. The student could learn fascinating details about low-life east of Suez or the Danish system of pig farming. He also was involved in a discussion with an Italian doctor about whether the novel *Don Quixote* is a comedy or a tragedy: later he was able to discuss the same problem with his grand-daughter when she was studying the same book at university. In September 1943, after the Italian Armistice, the camp commandant opened the gates and allowed the prisoners to march out. Norman joined up with Captain Arthur Jones, later an MP, and they decided to walk south to meet the Allied Forces who were 400 miles away near Naples, they believed. Other prisoners, Eric Newby and Richard Carver, the stepson of Field Marshal Montgomery, made the same walk and wrote books about it. Norman and Arthur skirted La Spezia, crossed the river Arno east of Florence and trekked along the Appennine ranges. They used sheep tracks, knocked on the doors of isolated houses of shepherds and peasants. They slept in barns and dodged the German patrols who were furiously seeking the escapees. The Italians fed, sheltered and sometimes clothed them. However poor they were, they always shared with them what little they had. They were voluble, occasionally unreliable, but generous, kind and brave. As they approached the Volturno river, near Venafro, the Germans were establishing a new defensive line and blowing things up. At Raviscanina the village was empty - they were in no-mans land. There was a castle on the high ground being shelled. As they went towards it along a narrow alleyway, an old woman shouted at them - the path was mined and had killed a boy the night before. Following in her footsteps, they got through the minefield and reached the crest. They were eventually met by an astonished GI of the 36th Texas Division. Rogers considered that they had covered 400 miles as the crow flies, but his maps and diary indicated that the tortuous route they had actually walked had taken them more than twice the distance. They gave the Americans a lot of useful information, but then were moved under armed escort to a British intelligence officer for more debriefing. They were flown to Algiers and then repatriated on a troopship. Norman woke his parents at dawn on Christmas Eve. He was later mentioned in despatches for the second time. He then wrote his personal diary of his escape - it was for his family, not for publishing. In June 1944 he was the resident medical officer of the 1st Battalion of the Black Watch in the Normandy landing and served in North West Europe. He was wounded in the leg and evacuated to the UK. After surgery, he rejoined his regiment and served with them to the end of the war. He was mentioned in despatches for a third time. On 31 March 1945 he was released, unemployed, from the Army. His experience of treating battle casualties during the Second World War led to his desire to become a surgeon. Following his demobilisation, he commenced training in surgery, starting as a house surgeon at Bart's and then as a casualty and surgical registrar in Norwich hospitals. He passed his FRCS in November 1949 and was subsequently appointed as a senior registrar at the Birmingham United Hospitals in 1952. It was there that he met and married Pamela Marion Rose, a doctor, in 1954. They had three children, Charles, now a car designer, Emma, a dentist, wife and mother, and Richard, a consultant paediatric anaesthetist at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. He rejoined the RAMC in 1956 and was soon designated a consultant and officer in charge of the surgical divisions at the British Military Hospitals in Chester, Dhekelia in Cyprus, Catterick in the UK and Iserlohn in Germany. He was promoted to brigadier and appointed as a consultant surgeon to the British Army of the Rhine in 1967. In 1969 he was appointed as the director of Army surgery and honorary surgeon to the Queen. He was promoted to major general on 23 March 1969 and retired from the Army in May 1973. Returning to the NHS, he became the consultant in the accident and emergency department at Guy's Hospital, London, and was soon appointed as clinical superintendent, dealing with the many changes to which the NHS is subject. On retirement from his distinguished career at Guy's, he returned to the Army as a civilian consultant surgeon at the British Military Hospital at Iserlohn in Germany. His main hobbies were gardening and walking, and he loved the countryside. But his abiding love was books. His knowledge of history, both military and political, was enormous. He finally retired to Kidlington, and became a familiar figure to residents, walking into the village every morning to collect his paper. A religious man, he attended St Mary's in Kidlington every week until his last illness. He died from porocarcinoma on 19 February 2011. He was survived by his wife Pamela, their three children and five grandchildren. At his funeral, his grand-daughter, Ruthie, gave a eulogy, emphasising how grateful he had been for the kindness and generosity of the Italian peasants during his trek across Italy. It was 'the most important lesson that he wanted his family to learn from his experience'.
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First Title value, for Searching Dignan, Albert Patrick (1920 - 2012)

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by Peter Craig
Publication Date 2013-02-20 2013-09-06
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon Military surgeon
Details Albert Patrick ('Paddy') Dignan was a former director of Army surgery. He was a remarkable character who was born into a modest family in Dublin. His father, Joseph, a tailor, was able to get all five of his sons through medical school. (Whether an ability to stitch can be inherited remains open to speculation.) Joseph Dignan had worked in the War Office during the First World War collating casualty lists, and had concluded that doctors were less likely to die during wars. Patrick won a medical scholarship to Trinity College, Dublin, which certainly eased the financial burden on his parents. Unusually, he became an anatomy demonstrator as a student and from that time decided to pursue a career in surgery, qualifying in 1943 and proceeding to the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1947. In order to supplement his income after qualifying he became a GP's assistant, sending much of his income to his family back in Ireland. He was then a resident surgical officer at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, a registrar in Wigan, and a senior registrar at the Bristol Royal Infirmary and at Wanstead Hospital, London. He then carried out his National Service, going to Malaya as a surgical specialist in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Emergency, with the rank of captain, subsequently major. He had been under no compunction to sign on, being Irish, but decided to do so anyway and his efforts there culminated in his award of an MBE in 1952. It was during that tour of duty that he met his future wife Eileen (Helena née White), who happened to be designated as his theatre sister. Their first meeting was less than immediately convivial. She had been ambushed by Malayan insurgents in a convoy on the way to the hospital and she had arrived late and in a not unsurprisingly dishevelled state. Patrick had been raring to start his list and gave her a strong ticking off. After a transient look at civilian practice, he made the decision that the excitement of military surgery prevailed and he re-joined in December 1953 as a regular Army doctor. During the next eight years he served primarily in military hospitals in Germany, but for a short period in Cyprus during the Suez Crisis of 1956. On a posting to the British Military Hospital Singapore in 1961 he began publishing papers on exotic surgical cases in consequence of tropical diseases. On his return to Tidworth in Hampshire, he took a great interest in the prevailing surgical treatment of peptic ulcers and gained an MD for his work on this topic. This was by no means easy, working as he was in a military hospital, with no direct university back-up support. During his penultimate tour, by then a brigadier in Singapore, and as a consultant surgeon to the Army in the Far East, he visited Vietnam at the height of the war in 1969 and became very impressed by the benefits of the evacuation of wounded soldiers by helicopter. There were others in the Army at that time who also realised this need, and helicopters were unofficially used in Borneo, Oman and Northern Ireland, despite the Ministry of Defence's continued refusal to sign up to the idea of medical helicopter evacuation. It is perhaps interesting to note that in both Iraq and Afghanistan this became standard practise, with evacuation hugely enhanced by on-board resuscitation teams. Patrick was, like many of his military colleagues, prescient. On his promotion to major general in 1974 as director of Army surgery, he was able to continue with his surgical practice at the Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital at Millbank, rather than become just an administrator, a move that enhanced his position with junior staff. In truth, he was more than happy to flee the headquarters of the Army Medical Services on a regular basis to avoid the persistent intrusion of a whole crowd of junior non-medical administrative officers attempting to introduce quite nonsensical bright ideas that had no proven evidence-based support. This was his last military appointment and he retired from the Army in 1978. In the same year he was appointed as an accident and emergency consultant at the newly-opened Ealing Hospital in west London, but was unhappy and resigned after 18 months. He concluded that the ways of the Defence Medical Services, with its recognised chain of command, bore no relation to the NHS as it was operating at that time. This was followed by 10 very happy years as president of the medical boards, based at the Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital in Woolwich. Paddy was a sharp rather than blunt dissector, but his results were always very good. His compassion for his patients on the oncology/cancer unit at Millbank and bedside manner was unparalleled and much admired. He was the most concerned and kind clinician one could imagine. His dealings with some particularly ill-disciplined junior surgeons was robust; in one case he was threatened by a disgruntled young surgeon, who nearly thumped him. His comment after that interview was that 'it had been difficult'. His autobiography *A doctor's experiences of life* (Edinburgh, Pentland Press, 1994) was less than accurate, which is perhaps a pity. While writing about some very frightening surgical emergencies, he sometimes neglected to credit the other people who had been directly involved. Outside medicine, he was enthusiastic about horse racing and golf. At the latter, he was frankly a menace. One incident ended up being reported in the *The Straits Times* in Singapore, when his driver ended up 30 feet up a tree and had to be rescued by his caddy. He also managed to hit a series of other golfers with his wayward shots. He was great fun to be with and his conversation was always engaging, incorporating a mixture of humour, sagacity and utter nonsense, almost one after the other. Sadly his wife Eileen died in 2001, and he ended his days happy in the Priory Home in Tetbury, from where he was able to go for a pint and place the odd bet. He died on 11 October 2012, at the age of 92, and was survived by his sons, Terence and Fergus, and daughter, Finola. He was a consummate surgeon and a thoroughly delightful colleague, who gave the most superb and genuine support to all his patients, and was basically a very gentle, kind and considerate man. The idea of a gentle director of Army surgery seems somehow out of place, but was, in this case, correct.
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First Title value, for Searching Watson, Alan Jardine (1905 - 1993)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-08
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380544380544
Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon Military surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Alan Jardine Watson was born on 2 December 1905. He received his medical education at the Middlesex Hospital and qualified with the conjoint diploma in 1927. He graduated MB BS two years later. He served in the RAMC from 1942 to 1946 in North Africa, Italy and Britain. After the second world war he worked at the Middlesex Hospital and the British Postgraduate Medical School, before being appointed director of accident services in Coventry and consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Coventry and South Warwickshire from 1939 to 1966. An obituary in the *British Medical Journal* by J H Penrose says: 'Within two years of being appointed director of accident services and consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital in 1939, Alan Jardine saw the hospital almost completely destroyed in the air raids on the city. After his demobilisation from the army he returned to Coventry and set about rebuilding an accident service in hastily reconstructed buildings in the bombed out hospital. 'With the advent of the NHS he was appointed a member of Birmingham Regional Hospital Board and served on this for nine years, during which time he helped to plan Coventry's new hospital at Walsgrave. The accident and orthopaedic departments remained at the old hospital and, under his guidance and with the gradual opening of new facilities, had grown into a highly efficient unit by the time he retired. 'A bachelor, Alan had a keen sense of humour and was a charming and genial host who enjoyed entertaining friends at his home. He also enjoyed music and foreign travel, but in recent years a slowly progressive illness gradually deprived him of all his main interests.' He died on 17 January 1993, survived by his sister Margaret.
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First Title value, for Searching Page, Iven Alastair (1914 - 1971)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-24
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General practitioner General surgeon
Details Iven Alastair Page was born at South Grafton, New South Wales, in 1914, being the third son of Sir Earle Page. He was educated at the Fort Street Boys' High School and the Sydney Church of England Grammar School, and then proceeded to the University of Sydney where he graduated in medicine in 1937. After holding junior posts in the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital he enlisted in the RAMC in 1940, and served in Iceland, Europe, India, Burma and Thailand, gaining extensive experience in surgery and obtaining the FRCS England in 1943. After the war he returned for a short period to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, but in 1946 started in general practice in Grafton. He became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1958, and in 1964 he decided to give up general practice and to specialize as a consultant surgeon. His previous experience in general practice, and what he had learned during war service combined to make him an outstanding general surgeon, who gained the confidence of his patients by quietly listening to what they had to say, and by the wise avoidance of unnecessary surgery. He was also well qualified as an accident surgeon in the days before the specialty was well recognized. Page was a keen sportsman and a valued member of the local community, not only in his professional capacity as chairman of his hospital board and as an active member, and ultimately president of the local medical association, but also through his practical interest in the Grafton news media, and in broadcasting. His many and varied activities were brought to a premature end by an illness borne with quiet dignity, and he died at the age of 57 on 5 August 1971. His wife Elizabeth and their four sons survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Taylor, Katharine Mary (1929 - 1987)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-07
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General surgeon
Details Katharine Mary Burkill (Kit) was born in Cambridge on 25 October 1929, the daughter of John Charles Burkill, FRS, Professor of Pure Mathematics in the University of Liverpool and later Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and Helen Margareta Braun-Pritchard. She was educated at the Perse School and Newnham College and University College Hospital, London. She was awarded the Muriel Edwards Prize, Newnham College Prize, Arthur Hugh Clough and Marmaduke Shield Scholarships and first class honours in parts 1 and 2 of the Natural Science Tripos. She was house physician, house surgeon and casualty senior house officer at Addenbrooke's, resident surgical officer at the Royal Marsden Hospital, senior house officer at Bromley and surgical registrar at Addenbrooke's where she was trained by Philip Ghey and the late Brian Truscott. She was then appointed registrar on the surgical rotation in Sheffield and there, in 1963, she married Frank Whitehead Taylor FRCS, consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Sheffield Royal Hospital. They had two sons and three daughters. She later resumed work at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital and was soon appointed the first consultant in charge of the accident and emergency unit at the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield. She was a gifted teacher and clinician and she maintained an interest in clinical research. Her hobbies were equitation, antiques, gardening and dressmaking but she was best known as the organiser of celebrity concerts held in the school hall at Dore where they lived. Well known musicians were invited to perform in front of audiences that included many doctors, whose enjoyment was rounded off by the parties held afterwards in the Taylors' home. Kit Taylor died on 31 August 1987 after a long illness, survived by her husband and children, Tamara, Felicity, Julian, Jeremy, and Lucy.
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First Title value, for Searching Aldridge, Richard Thomas (1930 - 1999)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-13
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Occupation Casualty surgeon Accident and emergency surgeon General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Dick Aldridge was a surgeon in Wellington, New Zealand. He was born in Auckland on 18 June 1930. He was educated at Palmerston North Boys High School, where he was dux of the school. He attended Victoria University College and qualified from Otago Medical School in 1953. He was a house surgeon in Wellington and Stratford Hospital, returning to Wellington as orthopaedic registrar and junior surgical registrar in 1957. In 1958, with his young family, he came to England. He took the Edinburgh fellowship and became surgical registrar at Barnet General Hospital, and later at University College Hospital, passing his FRCS in 1959. He returned to New Zealand with his first wife, Margaret, daughters, Victoria and Jane and son, Richard, and was appointed casualty surgeon and admitting officer at Wellington Hospital. This was followed by two years as surgical tutor in the Wellington Clinical School and then he became full-time surgeon in paediatric and general surgery. From 1970 to 1989 he was on the visiting staff of Wellington Hospital, which he combined with a busy private practice. He was a keen territorial soldier, having joined as a student, and was the commanding officer of the Second General Hospital from 1968 to 1970. A keen skier and golfer, he was registrar of the Court of Examiners of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons from 1968 to 1970. He took early retirement in 1989, but continued to play bowls, despite ischaemic heart disease and became president of the Karori Bowling Club. Pottery was a new found pleasure in retirement and friends commented on his artistic skills. Dick married Joan Curle, theatre supervisor at Wellington Hospital, in 1974: they had one daughter, Robyn, who became a doctor. He died suddenly on 27 July 1999, while attending his pottery class.
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First Title value, for Searching Morgan, James Dunbar (1913 - 1982)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-10
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details James Dunbar Morgan was born in Liverpool in 1913 and educated at Liverpool College and at Sheffield University where he graduated in medicine in 1940. He later worked in the orthopaedic department of the Sheffield Royal Infirmary, then under the influence of Sir Frank Holdsworth. He was thus well grounded in orthopaedics and traumatology. During the second world war he joined the RAMC and served in the Middle East and in Italy, taking part in the Anzio landings. He returned first to Sheffield and then afterwards to Oxford, where in 1949 he became first assistant to Joseph Trueta, at that time Nuffield Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery. He held this post for the next six years and was Joseph Trueta's first academic appointee. During this time he was co-author of several important papers on, among other subjects, vascularity and osteogenesis; growth studies of the human femora; the treatment of osteomyelitis by penicillin; and lengthening - all in the vanguard of orthopaedic thinking at that time. At the end of his time as Trueta's assistant he became consultant to the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and the Radcliffe accident service. He made a major contribution to the development of orthopaedics and accident surgery in Oxford and helped establish one of the first growth clinics in England with the outstanding paediatrician, Victoria Smallpiece. He spent a good deal of time on the practical aspects of building up the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. One of his strengths lay in his devotion to his patients and he was often to be found in the late hours, checking their condition and talking to them. He was a keen countryman and an expert and knowledgeable gardener. He died on 23 May 1982 after a long illness, survived by his wife, Ruth, and sons Patrick and David.
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First Title value, for Searching Gawne, Douglas William Cowley (1906 - 1977)

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First Title value, for Searching Gissane, William (1898 - 1981)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-08
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon
Details William Gissane was born in Sydney on 26 April 1898 and educated at Ignatius College, where he captained the cricket and boxing and played rugby for the public schools of New South Wales. He served in the RAA during the first world war and returned to Australia to study medicine at the University of Sydney where he played rugby and gained blues for cricket and boxing becoming light heavyweight inter-university champion. He graduated in 1925 and the same year left for Britain where he obtained the FRCS Edinburgh and England, later becoming Honorary FRACS. Gissane's interest in accident surgery began when he served in London in 1938 and he was greatly influenced by his visit to Böhler's clinic in Vienna. During 1941, a group of Birmingham businessmen decided to re-open the old Queen's Hospital for the treatment of accidents and Gissane became first clinical director and surgeon-in-chief. He quickly transformed the Birmingham Accident Hospital into an internationally renowned centre and attracted men like Leonard Colbrook as director of the MRC Burns Research Unit and others such as Miles, Robert Williams, Bull, Lowbury and later Ruscoe Clarke, Jackson and Sevitt. They were able to put into practice the famous 'Birmingham experiment'. His work on the reduction of road and industrial accidents brought him international recognition. He was made CBE in 1964 and was awarded an honorary DSc from the University of Wales and a life membership of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons. He became Vice-President of the British Orthopaedic Association delivering the Robert Jones Lecture in 1961. His interest in accident problems brought him into contact with industrial processes and machinery and motor cars and the work of the accident hospital had considerable influence over faults on car safety and seat belts. For this work, Gissane was made an honorary member of the American Association of Automobile Engineers. He was a great traveller and apart from an extensive tour as Sir Arthur Sims' Commonwealth Travelling Professor in 1959, he lectured in South Africa, Canada and Europe. In 1961 Birmingham University made him an honorary and personal Professor of Accident Surgery. Gissane never lost his interest in sport of all kinds and was very proud of being the honorary medical officer and vice-president of the Warwickshire cricket club and a life member of the Edgbaston golf club. He died in his sleep on 1 April 1981 - the fortieth anniversary of the establishment of the Birmingham Accident Hospital from which his name is inseparable. He was survived by his wife and son.
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First Title value, for Searching de Fonseka, Chandra Pal (1919 - 2008)

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by John Blandy
Publication Date 2008-10-17 2015-09-11
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon
Details Chandra Pal de Fonseka was an accident and emergency surgeon in Bristol. He was born in Panadura, Ceylon, on 22 December 1919 into a family with many medical connections. His grandfather and two uncles were medical practitioners. His father, Hector Clarence de Fonseka, was a landowner who managed his own rubber and coconut estates. His mother was Inez Johanna née Gunewardene, whose three brothers studied medicine in London. Three of his cousins were also in medicine. Chandra qualified in medicine from the University of Ceylon with the Sir Andrew Caldecott and Dadabhoy gold medals in his final examination. He then held house appointments in his own teaching hospital. At the end of the war it was difficult to get a passage to England, so he signed on as ship's doctor to the Blue Funnel liner SS Demodocus, which was a naval auxiliary that had been held up in Colombo because her doctor had fallen ill and had been sent back to England. After a seven-month voyage, he arrived in Liverpool in November 1946. He attended the primary course at the Middlesex Hospital, passed the examination, and returned to Ceylon, where he underwent an arranged marriage to his first wife Rukmani Dias. He returned to London to specialise in surgery, doing registrar jobs at Hammersmith, the North Middlesex and St Mark's hospitals, enriching his experience by attending rounds and courses in a number of hospitals, among which he particularly valued his experience at St James's, Balham. Having passed the FRCS in 1949, he became a resident surgical officer at St Bartholomew's Hospital, Rochester, for two years and was then a registrar in Bath under Sholem Glaser who, with the other five general surgeons, gave him a glowing testimonial. There he met Peter London, then the senior registrar in orthopaedics. From Bath he went to Bristol to widen his experience in cardiothoracic surgery under Ronald Belsey in the Frenchay Hospital thoracic unit for another two years. Belsey was unstinting in praising his clinical and operative skills. Whilst there he did his best to learn neurosurgery and plastic surgery, experience which he found particularly valuable on his return to Ceylon in 1956 as senior lecturer in the university department of surgery in Colombo. Celyon had won its independence from Britain in 1948 without a drop of blood being shed. In 1958 communal riots broke out between the Tamil and Sinhalese populations. Chandra was in the theatre round the clock, dealing with gun-shot and knife wounds under the most difficult circumstances. His Tamil anaesthetist was beaten up by a Sinhalese mob. Buddhist priests complained to the administrator (a Tamil) that another doctor was treating Tamils rather than Sinhalese and the doctor was duly dismissed. The Prime Minister was assassinated in September. Laws were passed to outlaw the Tamil language and make Sinhalese the only official language. Chandra was appointed professor of surgery in July 1960. The workload increased, especially in cancer. In 1962 his marriage was dissolved and he married his second wife, Maria Thérése Bertus in Colombo. In 1963 he was asked to set up a new department of surgery in Kandy. By now Chandra was one of the senior figures on the medical scene, having become president of the medical section of the Ceylon Association for the Advancement of Science. He had been granted a sabbatical year to study in the UK and had planned visits to the foremost centres in Britain and Germany, with introductions from Ronald Raven and Sir James Patterson Ross among others. But permission was repeatedly refused for his wife to accompany him until eventually she was allowed to go as a pilgrim to Rome with their new baby daughter. They eventually made their way to the UK in 1964. There Chandra was appointed senior research fellow to set up the road accident research unit in Birmingham, the report of which was published in five volumes in 1969. During this period he was a clinical assistant to the accident department of Dudley Road Hospital. In 1969 the Medical Research Council invited him to set up a similar study into accidents in the home and he was appointed honorary lecturer in accident epidemiology in the department of public health in the University of Bristol. This project developed into the National Home Accident Monitoring Scheme of the Home Office. From then on he continued to work in the accident and emergency department until he retired in 1985. He was a man of great integrity, charm and courtesy, who was widely admired for his qualities not only as a technical surgeon but as a teacher. He published extensively on road and domestic accidents, and was in demand as a lecturer in Europe and America. His many outside interests included geology, cosmology and astronomy, and with Thérése he was a keen traveller and photographer. He was for many years treasurer of the Society of St Vincent de Paul, a charity for the disabled that was affiliated to the Catholic Church. He died on 5 April 2008, leaving his widow and the youngest of their two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Kirby, Norman George (1926 - 2019)

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by Sir Miles Irving
Publication Date 2019-09-16 2019-09-20
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Occupation Military surgeon Trauma surgeon Accident and emergency surgeon
Details Major general Norman Kirby was a military surgeon and director of clinical services, accidents and emergencies, at Guy’s Hospital, London. *On wings of healing* (Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood & Sons) by Howard Cole is the definitive account of the airborne medical services from their beginning in 1940 to 1960. It was published in 1963, in a maroon binding reflecting the regimental colours of the airborne forces. On page 218, Cole records that on 5 November 1956, during the Suez Crisis, a parachute surgical team led by the unit surgeon, captain Norman Kirby, dropped on El Gamil airport in Egypt and set up a casualty collecting post and operating theatre. Kirby was soon busily engaged. This particular conflict, Operation Musketeer, described by Kirby as ‘a political disaster but a surgical success’, brought to a conclusion the story of the beginnings of airborne medical services as told in the book. Norman Kirby, having entered the annals of British military surgical history, went on to serve it and the cause of trauma management in the United Kingdom for decades to come. Norman Kirby was born on 19 December 1926 in Coventry, the son of George William Kirby and Laura Kirby née Sparrow. He went to school at King Henry VIII School in Coventry and subsequently studied medicine at Birmingham University, qualifying in 1949. That year he married Cynthia Mary Bradley, commencing a long and happy marriage that produced a son, Robert, who also became a surgeon, and a daughter, Jill, a broadcaster and travel writer. Norman’s surgical training was undertaken in the NHS at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Birmingham Accident Hospital and two years at the Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith Hospital, London, as well as in Army hospitals. He gained his FRCS in 1964. The early awakenings of the military side of his career first blossomed in 1948 when he became a member of the Territorial Army whilst still a student. After qualification, he became regimental medical officer to 10th Parachute Regiment and, following two years National Service, he decided to stay in the regular armed forces. In the subsequent years, he had plenty of opportunity to exercise his skills in trauma management coping with, amongst others, treating EOKA terrorist casualties in Cyprus and casualties of the officer’s mess bomb in Aldershot in 1972. In 1978, he was made director of Army surgery and honorary surgeon to the Queen and elevated to the rank of major general. He received the OBE in 1971 and the Order of Saint John in 1977. After leaving the Army in 1982, following a highly successful career, he returned to civilian life and the NHS as head of the accident and emergency department at Guy’s Hospital. He might have thought that this appointment would be busy but straightforward and surgically based, as indicated by his title of accident and emergency surgeon, but he soon found his experience of managing military casualties was also required in civilian life, dealing with casualties from terrorist bombs, train accidents and civilian disasters, notable amongst which was the sinking of the *Marchioness* boat on the River Thames (in 1989). The year 1992 was especially taxing, with three terrorist bomb explosions in the city centre and the London Bridge rail crash. His and his staff’s exemplary and kindly management of the victims of the Cannon Street rail disaster in 1991 was brought to the attention of the House of Lords by Lord McColl during a debate on the provision of major accident services in London. In subsequent years, it soon became apparent that his management skills and diplomacy were also needed in the machinations surrounding the ultimately successful transition of his specialty from being ‘casualty’, as represented by the Casualty Surgeons’ Association, to the newly-named, independent specialty of accident and emergency medicine with its own Royal College. He used his considerable experience to help bring this transition about, even though it is possible that personally he would have preferred to be a trauma surgeon in one of the newly developing centralised trauma centres of which he approved. He retired from Guy’s in 1993. Throughout the two principal phases of his career, he was heavily involved in educational activities. He edited and wrote several books on disasters and emergencies, including the 1981 edition of the *Field surgery pocket book* (London, HMSO), treasured by generations of military surgeons, and gave lectures on the management of injury and disasters in the United Kingdom and overseas. He was an examiner for the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England and of Edinburgh. He was also active in medical societies and livery companies, holding office in many. Needless to say, he received honorary fellowships from colleges and learned societies. He was particularly proud of the award of the Mitchener medal by the Royal College of Surgeons in 1982. Norman Kirby died on 25 July 2019 aged 92. Predeceased by his wife, he was survived by his son and daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Cashman, Bernard (1920 - 1996)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-07 2015-09-17
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Bernard Cashman was born on 10 June 1920 in Hammersmith, London. He was the son of Joseph, a master tailor, and his wife, Lena, née Whipp, a tailor and dressmaker. He entered the medical school at University College Hospital, London. He was sufficiently advanced in his medical studies to be exempted from military service at the outbreak of the second world war. After qualification in 1944 he was commissioned in the RAMC, serving throughout in India Command. The years he spent there were colourful and interesting, covering the end of the British Raj with the advent of Independence. From the professional point of view, senior specialists were being demobilised and returned to the United Kingdom and there was much work for the younger men who were replacing them. It was a time when much experience could be gained in a short time. Outside professional duties the pattern of Indian life and society and its social conditions were there to be seen. There was much to be learnt of the needs and indeed hardships of fellow man. Bernard was by nature sensitive and observant and these things did not escape his attention. Returning to England he completed his surgical training at the Middlesex and Central Middlesex Hospitals, London, passing his FRCS in 1955. His consultant appointment was that of orthopaedic surgeon in Bedford. He was an able surgeon but also a most capable administrator and he set up there an orthopaedic and accident department of the highest quality. His concern for getting things right led him to take an interest in the administrative affairs of the district, and he gave much time to this, finally as Chairman of the Medical Executive Committee. Apart from his busy professional life he had many interests in art, music and literature but his social conscience was especially shown in his support for Riding for the Disabled. He devoted much of his retirement to research on the history of the medical establishments in and around Bedford, resulting in two publications, including a history of Bedford General Hospital, but sadly dying before he completed his memoirs. He married Captain Aileen Joyce Carlson RAMC on 20 September 1947 and they had a son, Dr Peter Martin Cashman, PhD, BSc (Hon), who became a biomedical engineer at Imperial College, London, and a daughter Celia Isobel, BSc (Hon) MCIH, who was a social housing assistant. When he died of myelomatosis on 17 October 1996 he was survived by his wife Joyce, children, and three grandchildren. Publications Private charity and the public purse - A history of Bedford General Hospital 1794-1988 A Proper House: Bedford Lunatic Asylum, 1812-1860
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First Title value, for Searching Clark, Charles Denley (1908 - 2001)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-07-10
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General surgeon
Details Denley Clark was a consultant surgeon at Pinderfields Hospital and Pontefract General Infirmary. He was born in Thailand (then Siam) on 12 August 1908. His father, Percy Leonard Archibald Clark, was a missionary, as was his mother, Mary Lenore née Denley. He was educated in Thailand until the age of ten, when he was sent to boarding school in Devon, and thence to Leeds Central High School. He qualified from Leeds Medical School in 1933, and spent three years in junior posts at Leeds General Infirmary and at St James’s and passed the Edinburgh Fellowship, before going to Labrador, Canada, for two years to serve with the International Grenfell Association. He published an account of these experiences, in which he told of the difficulties of managing ten huskies, the high prevalence of tuberculosis, and the widespread lack of food. On returning to the UK, he became resident surgical officer at the Woolwich Memorial Hospital, and completed his surgical training at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, St Peter’s and St Mark’s. In 1943 he joined the RAMC as surgical specialist, serving in Chester before being posted to the Far East, where he served with 33 Field Surgical Unit, 13 CCS in Burma, and 14 Mobile Surgical Unit and 53 Indian General Hospital. In 1946 he was appointed officer in command of 72 Indian General Hospital, in Malaya, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. After demobilisation, he was senior registrar in Woolwich and at the Brook Hospital, and became consultant surgeon to the Royal Herbert Military Hospital in 1949. In 1950 he was appointed consultant surgeon to Pinderfields Hospital and Pontefract General Infirmary. After retiring at 65, he returned full-time for the next five years to set up the first consultant-led accident and emergency department at Pinderfields. He married Margaret Eileen Canneva (née Goulden) in 1954. There were no children of the marriage, which ended in divorce in 1965. He married for the second time, to June Elizabeth Nichols, in 1976. There were no children. He was a keen skier and gardener. He died from Alzheimer’s disease on 27 January 2001.
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First Title value, for Searching Weston, Peter Alexander Murray (1924 - 2016)

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by Theo Weston
Publication Date 2016-07-28 2016-12-22
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General surgeon
Details Peter Weston was a consultant accident and emergency surgeon in Nottingham. He was born in Oswestry, but spent his early years in Eastbourne, where amongst other things he taught himself to sail and thereby developed his love of the sea. He went to Chelmsford Hall Preparatory School and was then awarded a Kitchener scholarship to board at Bradfield College, Berkshire. Following the family tradition (his grandfather and father were both general practitioners), he started his medical training at St Bartholomew's Medical School in London in 1942. After qualifying in 1947, he spent a short time in the Army doing his National Service (based at Millbank during the Korean War treating returning casualties), while also studying for his FRCS from 1949 to 1951. He then worked at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, from 1953. This included being doctor in charge of the Grenfell Mission Hospital, St Anthony, Newfoundland, during the winter of 1953 to 1954, where he had many adventures, including rescuing casualties by dog sled and seaplane. From 1954 to 1955 he spent a year as a registrar at Farnborough Hospital, before moving out to Jamaica to work as a senior orthopaedic registrar and lecturer in surgery at the University College of the West Indies from 1956 to 1962. Whilst in Jamaica he developed an interest in urology, in particular the management of urethral strictures. In 1960, he was awarded a Rockefeller scholarship to the USA, which allowed him to visit hospitals in Boston and Los Angeles. While in Jamaica, he met and married his wife, Ann, a physiotherapist working with polio victims, and they were married for 59 years. They had three of their four children, Theo, Cecilia and Penelope, in Jamaica; the fourth, Georgia, was born back in the UK. The family returned to the UK in 1962 and Peter took up the post of senior registrar in urology at Newcastle General Hospital and subsequently on the professorial surgical unit at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, in 1964. Later that year he took up his first consultancy post as consultant surgeon in the accident and emergency department, Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle, where he stayed until 1972. During this time, he made huge changes to the way casualties were treated in the department and also helped to start up the local pre-hospital medical care service, the Penrith and District Accident and Emergency Scheme, where doctors volunteered to give up their time when called out to emergencies by the ambulance service (a very novel and pioneering idea in those days). Unfortunately, he then developed rheumatoid arthritis, which affected his hands, feet, ankles and knees, and meant he had to take a career change to a more administrative/teaching role as a consultant in the accident and emergency department at the University Teaching Hospital, Nottingham, in 1972. Here he was very involved in the move to the new Queen's Medical Centre and in teaching medical students. He also became involved in the treatment of head injuries and the setting up of the support group, Headway (which continues to provide support and assistance to patients). Fortunately, around 1981 his joints were sufficiently stable to allow him to return to a more active surgical role and his very wide training and experience enabled him to work in East Africa for the last few years of his professional career. This included three short spells in Zimbabwe following the civil war (working in hospitals in Harare, Umtali and Bulawayo), five years in the Mbeya Government Hospital, Tanzania (from 1981 to 1986) working as a surgeon in a team sent by the Overseas Development Administration and finally six months in St Francis Hospital, Katete, Zambia. He was co-author of *Accident and emergency medicine* (Tunbridge Wells, Pitman Medical, 1980) and wrote various articles in journals including the *West Indian Medical Journal*, *Injury*, *Hand*, *Archives of Emergency Medicine* and *Tropical Doctor*. He gave the Hunterian lecture in 1961 on urethral stricture and the Ruscoe Clarke memorial lecture in 1986 on the care of the injured in the Third World. Peter was an outstanding surgeon, whose technical abilities, even with the most challenging and delicate of procedures (such as hand surgery and cleft palate repair), was second to none. His range of surgical skills, especially when he worked in the remote hospitals of Africa, was extremely wide ranging and accomplished. Despite his significant disability, his exceptional drive and determination meant that he was able to continue his work, which was his passion. He had a very innovative way of working, encouraging the use of local resources, skills and expertise, thereby leaving a legacy of sustainability in some very testing environments. After his retirement, his zest for life continued in a variety of pastimes including canoeing, fell-walking, gardening, carpentry and choral singing, though his lifelong passion from a very early age was sailing. Throughout most of his life he was never far from a sailing boat and when his family were quite young he built a 20 ft sailing boat in his backyard, which was used on family holidays for many years. Even when he was in his mid-eighties he was still canoeing around the Lakes in Cumbria and also off the west coast of Scotland, including two trips across the Solway Firth. He was also very involved with the Jubilee Sailing Trust, sailing tall ships with mixed ability crews, Carlisle Overseas Aid Trust and talking newspapers. When he was younger he played the flute to a high standard and latterly enjoyed singing in local choral groups. He had a very active and well-read mind right up until recent years, and used his literary skills to write a book about the local history of a stretch of the Caldew River between Caldbeck and Sebergham in north Cumbria. Latterly, despite some physical ailments, he characteristically continued to work hard in his garden and workshop with many DIY and carpentry projects. He died peacefully on 15 April 2016 after a short illness with his family at his bedside. He was 92.
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First Title value, for Searching Brown, Harold Spencer (1924 - 1999)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-22
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon Military surgeon
Details Harold Brown was born at Lostwithiel, Cornwall, on 7 August 1924 and educated at Truro School. He trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying in 1949. After house surgeon appointments, including obstetrics and orthopaedics, he joined the RAMC in March 1952. Initially on National Service, he was appointed to a regular commission in 1954. Following a surgical rotation at the Royal Herbert and Queen Alexandra's Military Hospitals and the Royal Army Medical College, he was graded as a surgical specialist and posted to the British Military Hospital at Kamunting, Malaya, during the internal troubles. He was awarded the General Service medal with the clasp 'Malaya'. During this time he was actively engaged in a wide range of military surgery, including treating active war wounds and was promoted to Major. He returned to the Royal Army Medical College for the senior officers' course, during which he passed the FRCS in 1959 and was graded as a senior specialist. Service in the British Army of the Rhine followed at the busy British Military Hospitals in Hostert, Munster and Rinteln. At Rinteln he was appointed as a consultant by the armed services consultant approval board, made officer in charge of the surgical division, and was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. In 1965, he returned to Malaya to the British Military Hospital at Terendak. Here he was officer in charge of the surgical division, but, as the troubles had ceased, life was quieter. He was then posted to the Cambridge Military Hospital Aldershot in 1967, a busy hospital serving a large garrison, including the Parachute Brigade. This appointment introduced him to a wider range of trauma. He decided to retire on retired pay in 1969 and return to his beloved Cornwall. He had a wide experience of general and trauma surgery, and thus was a good candidate to join the newly expanding specialty of accident and emergency. He was appointed A&E consultant to the Royal Cornwall Hospital at Truro, where he was able to revitalise the department. He retired in 1989, remaining in Truro. He was a keen sailor and sailed his yachts from the River Fowey. A long distance walker, he walked the Cornish coastal path, as well as the Western Isles of Scotland. Happily married to Barbara née Robson, she survives him with their two sons, Stephen and David. He died on 25 November 1999.
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First Title value, for Searching Fulford, John Collett (1919 - 1997)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-29 2015-12-16
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon
Details John Fulford was the former director of Birmingham General Hospital's accident and emergency department and a consultant surgeon. He was born in Birmingham in 1919 and entered the medical school there in 1937. He had a most distinguished undergraduate career and qualified in 1942, after passing several subjects of the course with distinction. He was awarded a degree with first class honours, an unusual event at that time, together with prizes as the best student in the final examination and of the whole degree course. He was very sturdily built and an effective member of the university rugby club first XV. Under wartime regulations, he became a house surgeon whilst still a final year medical student. He joined the RAMC on graduation and landed in Normandy on the day after D-day with an advance party. Subsequently, he became medical officer to the Parachute Regiment and insisted on completing a full course of training and obtaining his 'wings'. He later acquired an impressive collection of SS officers' ceremonial daggers, but was rather reticent on the details of how this was achieved. Following his discharge from the RAMC, he was appointed surgical registrar at the General Hospital in Birmingham, a post that carried a heavy workload and provided extensive surgical experience, especially in emergency surgery. He was appointed a consultant surgeon and director of the accident and emergency department at the General Hospital in 1952. Fulford had adopted a rather West Midlands vernacular, and was warm-hearted and possessed a charming smile. He was extremely popular with staff and students, and a much liked and effective teacher. He was an early advocate of the advantages of intensive care facilities, especially for the acutely injured, and was an early pioneer in the use of prostheses for fractured neck of the femur. For several generations of surgical residents his modification of the Thompson prosthesis was known irreverently as 'Fulford's knob'. Because of the large diabetic clinic at the General, he also became particularly interested in the surgical complications of diabetes. Outside his professional commitments, his major interest was in the countryside. On their small farm, he and his wife, Ruth, bred and exhibited ponies and dogs, winning many prizes and also acting as judges at county shows. Sadly, his later years were clouded by a depressive illness. He died in his sleep on 22 May 1997, leaving his wife, three daughters and eight grandchildren, one of whom is a doctor.
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First Title value, for Searching Weliwita-Gunaratne, Lucien Gladwin (1930 - 2012)

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by Anne Weliwita-Gunaratne
Publication Date 2012-04-13 2013-12-19
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Lucian Gladwin Blaise Weliwita-Gunaratne was an accident and emergency surgeon in Kidderminster, and later returned to Sri Lanka, where he was a consultant surgeon at the Central Hospital (Nawinne). He was born on 3 February 1930 at Teldeniya, near Kandy, Ceylon. His parents, Don Zacharias Weliwita-Gunaratne and Theresa Weliwita-Gunaratne (née Perera Illanganratne), were headmaster and headmistress of boys' and girls' schools in Ragama, near Colombo. He attended secondary school at St Joseph's College, Colombo. He displayed a talent for languages. He was introduced to Sanskrit and Pali at home by his father (who was a linguist and hymn writer), had the obligatory Latin at school, was bilingual in Sinhala and English, and, as an adult, learned Tamil and French. He contemplated following his cousins, Julian and Paulinus, into the Catholic priesthood, but was dissuaded by his (otherwise devout) mother, who had already lost three of her young children to illness, leaving only him and his older brother Michael. The loss of his younger brothers, Paul Leslie and Peter Kingsley, were formative experiences in his childhood, and pointed him towards his calling to become a surgeon. The loss of four-year-old Peter had an especially painful impact, about which he found it difficult to speak, even 60 years later. He entered the University of Ceylon, and graduated MB BS in 1954. He then worked for two years as a medical officer in charge of a peripheral unit in Hingurakgoda, and then moved to England. His surgical education began as a junior house officer at Birch Hill Hospital, Rochdale. He was then a senior house officer at Louth, Coventry and Bromsgrove, and at Battle Hospital, Reading. From 1959 to 1962 he was a surgical registrar in Bromsgrove, and subsequently a registrar in the thoracic unit at Yardley Green Hospital, Birmingham. He gained his FRCS in 1962. Returning to Ceylon in 1963, he worked as a resident surgeon at the General Hospital Colombo, and then as a general surgeon at the General Hospital Ratnapura. He was also a consultant surgeon in two missionary hospitals in Jaffna and Marawila, and at Sulaiman Hospital Colombo (from 1969 to 1973). In 1973 he returned to the UK, joining Kidderminster General Hospital in Worcestershire, where he worked variously as a locum registrar, accident surgeon, and associated specialist in the accident and emergency dept. In 1985 he returned to Sri Lanka, where he worked as a consultant surgeon in trauma, orthopaedics and general surgery in Central Hospital (Nawinne) until 1990. His professional life as a surgeon spanned two very different countries, but he was always aware, in his own words, that 'a human being in pain, is a human being in pain'. Well into his retirement he was always ready to listen, give advice, alleviate worries and make judicious use of his first aid kit when necessary. He truly felt that his profession was a calling, a vocation. So much so that when there was a dearth of surgeons in the war-torn area of northern Sri Lanka, he volunteered in 1996 for five months of what could only be termed gruelling surgery, taking care of civilians and soldiers alike. The most heart-breaking cases, in his view, were the children with abdominal injuries from anti-personnel mines, designed to injure the legs of adults. While he was no stranger to trauma from his previous work in accident and emergency, the cruelties of war and the lack of post traumatic care for caregivers took a toll on his psyche. He did however have a great sense of humour. He was an avid philatelist, and was a member of the Kidderminster and District Philatelic Society and the British Society of Australian Philately. He had enjoyed ballroom dancing in his youth, and loved reading, listening to bird song, jazz, classical music, opera and Gregorian chant, playing chess and bridge, collecting (in both countries) a fascinating group of bridge partners. Manual dexterity was another skill, which remained with him to the end - it is not an exaggeration to say that he repaired every man-made object in and around his home. He died on 6 February 2012 from cancer of oesophagus, aged 82, and was survived by his wife Anne (née Balasuriya), whom he married in 1955, his daughters Chintra and Cherine, and grandchildren Nina and Martin. Perhaps his greatest legacy was the National Institute for the Care of Paraplegics in Sri Lanka, which he founded in 1988, the first meetings taking place at his home in Kurunegela. Today it is in the capable hands of professionals from Kandy Teaching Hospital and other volunteers from Digana Rehabilitation Hospital.
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First Title value, for Searching Bourns, Herbert Kitchener (1916 - 1991)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-02
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon
Details Herbert Kitchener Bourns was born in County Galway on 14 July 1916, the sixth of seven children of Harry J Bourns, a farmer and landowner, and his wife Esther Josephine, née Cornwall. His early education was at St Columba's College near Dublin, after which he entered Trinity College Dublin for his medical studies. He qualified in 1940 and shortly afterwards came to England to work, initially at the Emergency Medical Service Hospital in Exminster and later as house surgeon and resident surgical officer at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital in Plymouth, where he was influenced by Norman Capener. In 1942 he volunteered for service in the RAMC and at first was a trainee orthopaedic surgeon at the Military Hospital in Shaftesbury. He later became an orthopaedic specialist with the rank of major and landed in Normandy four days after the invasion in order to set up a field hospital in Caen, later moving to Brussels at the end of the campaign in North West Europe. Later still he was posted to the Far East, and served in India, Burma and Malaysia until he was demobilised in 1947. Two years later he passed the FRCS and was appointed senior registrar at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. In 1952 he became the first casualty surgeon in charge of the Accident and Emergency department of Bristol Royal Infirmary and additionally was appointed consultant surgeon at Frenchay and Cosham Hospitals in Bristol. His close contact with the ambulance services led him to volunteer as lecturer and examiner to the St John's Ambulance Service. Later he became Director of the St John's Association in Avon and his services were recognised by his appointment as an Officer of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in 1971, later being promoted to Commander, and shortly before his death to Knight of the Order. He was President of the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society and of the Surgical Club of South West England. He was a popular teacher of medical students and throughout his life performed a wide range of surgical operations. His manner was calm and kind and enlivened by a quick wit and ready humour. With the advent of the hospice movement he played an active role in the foundation of St Peter's Hospice in Bristol and in setting up a domiciliary nursing service. He was a member of the Christian Medical Fellowship and an active member of St Vincent Lodge in Bristol, where he was a holder of Provincial Grand Rank. After retiring from hospital practice in 1981 he continued to play an active part in medical appeal tribunals. He married his wife Joan, née Glanville, in 1942, having met her the previous year when she was a Red Cross nurse at Exminster, and there were four sons of the marriage. He enjoyed the country life at his wife's family farm in Devon and was a keen gardener at his home in Bristol. He died suddenly on 12 October 1991, aged 75, survived by his wife, sons and ten grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Riddell, Leith Alexander (1903 - 1982)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-20 2015-09-25
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General practitioner General surgeon
Details The following was published in volume 6 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Born on 5 November 1903 in Wellington, New Zealand, Leith Alexander Riddell was the only son of Alexander Riddell, an engineer, and Hannah Cressall Newman. He was educated at Roseneath Primary School, Wellington, and Wellington College. Later he attended Knox College, Otago, and studied medicine there, qualifying in 1925. After resident appointments in Wellington Hospital he came to England, took the MRCS, Primary FRCS (winning the Hallett Prize) and the Final FRCS, all in 1929, before undertaking a series of postgraduate appointments including one at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, under Bevers. After two years surgical appointments in Port Elizabeth and a research appointment in Finland, he returned to New Zealand to become surgeon superintendent of the Wairoa Hospital in 1938, where he soon built up a reputation as an immensely experienced and careful general-practitioner surgeon, a role which carried him as far afield as Nauru Island. On retiring from Wairoa in 1969 he was invited to Tasmania to take over the management of the accident and emergency department in the Napier Hospital, a position he occupied until his death on 8 September 1982 at the age of 78. A man of academic distinction and unstoppable energy he was active in amateur dramatics (he both wrote plays and acted in them) and also co-founded the Port Elizabeth Surf Life-Saving Club. He married first Miss Ostrorog in 1930 and later Enid Moss, who survived him. He had four sons and two daughters. The following was published in volume 7 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Leith Alexander Riddell was educated at Wellington College and Otago University Medical School. After a short time he came to England for surgical training. He was awarded the Hallett Prize in 1929. Little is known of his hospital appointments before his return to New Zealand in 1938 but he spent time in England, South Africa and Finland where he held a research appointment. From 1938 until 1969 he was surgeon superintendent of the Wairoa Hospital where he had to cope with all the problems of surgery, gynaecology and orthopaedics with little assistance. Many times the hospital matron would act as anaesthetist, laboratory technician and radiologist in order to cope with major surgical emergencies. In addition to his hospital work he acted as peripatetic general practitioner to the saw-milling area in the surrounding countryside. After his retirement at the age of 65 he moved to Tasmania where he was appointed chief of the outpatient and accident and emergency service in the town of Birnit. Following a heart attack he returned to New Zealand intending to retire to Napier but once again he was asked to take control of the accident and emergency department at Napier Hospital. Riddell was a founder of the Wairoa Little Theatre Society where he acted and wrote plays. He was an original member of the Port Elizabeth Surf Life Saving Club and in his latter days enjoyed playing bowls at Bluff Hill Club, Napier. He worked at Napier Hospital until his death on 8 September 1982, aged 78, of coronary disease and was survived by his wife, Enid.
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First Title value, for Searching Barker, Eric Anthony (1920 - 1993)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-02 2015-09-17
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General surgeon
Details Anthony Barker was born in Birmingham on 3 September 1920, the son of Charles Edward Barker, a solicitor and clerk of court in Birmingham, and Alice Mary, née Short. He was educated at Mill Hill School and the University of Birmingham Medical School, where he met his future wife Margaret (Maggie) Newton, 'over a dead body' as he put it. She was already committed to serving three years in Africa as a medical missionary, having had her medical education financed by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. They qualified and were married in 1943. Barker had registered as a conscientious objector, and joined the Merchant Navy as a ship's surgeon. His ship was torpedoed in the Indian Ocean but fortunately the crew survived. In 1945 Anthony and Maggie went together to the Charles Johnson Memorial Hospital ('the Charlie J') in Nqutu, Zululand. Over the next thirty years together they built this up from a converted store with seven beds into a thriving general hospital with six hundred beds; it became a training centre for doctors and nurses from Johannesburg and all over Africa. Anthony was a gifted teacher, and a general surgeon in the widest sense, performing laminectomy, craniotomy, cataract extraction, nephrectomy and caesarean section in addition to the commoner general surgical procedures. Meanwhile his wife, who by now had an MD, organised the anaesthetic, midwifery and paediatric services. In 1948 Barker returned to England for three years to write MD thesis and take the FRCS. Anthony and Maggie mastered the Zulu language, took South African nationality, but resisted the apartheid regulations, which they were able to do because the hospital was owned by the Church, not the State. Thus all the staff ate and played softball together, regardless of the attention of the plain-clothes police. After thirty years in Africa they returned to England in 1975 and Anthony was appointed consultant to the Accident and Emergency Department at St George's Hospital, with Maggie as senior house officer in the same department, 'unsure whether to call him darling or sir'. He subsequently became sub-dean of the Medical School. In 1975 he was appointed CBE for his outstanding work in Nqutu; arriving at Buckingham Palace on a bicycle he was refused admission until he could produce the necessary identification! In 1978 he was made an honorary FRCP for his work. When the old St George's Hospital was converted into an hotel Anthony, always conscious of avoiding waste, used the teak floorboards from the Nightingale wards to make furniture. He was an accomplished cabinet maker, and had built much of 'Charlie J' with his own hands. His wife was a good artist and seamstress, and created an allotment on the waste ground behind the casualty department at St George's. On retirement in 1985 the couple returned to Africa for six months to organise the casualty department in Alexandra Township Health Clinic, a hazardous undertaking in a deprived black settlement. Together Anthony and Maggie raised considerable sums of money for various charitable trusts by sponsored bicycle rides in the Pyrenees and the Arctic Circle. He was a gifted writer, and published articles on these experiences and his time at St George's. In August 1993 Anthony and Maggie celebrated their golden wedding anniversary and decided to retrace the steps of their honeymoon on a tandem in the Lake District. Tragically, both were killed in a road accident. So ended two remarkable lives, linked by a strong faith and dedicated to their fellow men. They had no children.
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First Title value, for Searching Schrire, Theodore (1906 - 1991)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-01 2015-12-10
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Occupation Casualty surgeon Accident and emergency surgeon General surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details The following obitiuary was published in volume eight of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows: Theodore Schrire, nicknamed 'Toddy', was born on 6 November 1906 in Cape Town. He matriculated at the age of sixteen, afterwards attaining his MA from the University of Cape Town, where he received the medal in physiology in 1925. He qualified MB ChB in 1930, and obtained his FRCS in London in 1933. He subsequently studied at the Mayo Clinic, and under Chevalier Jackson, who stimulated his interest in thoracic surgery. He went on to broaden his interests, studying orthopaedics at the Allgemeines Krankenhaus in Vienna, but soon left because of the prevailing anti-semitic sentiments. He returned to Cape Town in 1935 as a general surgeon in private practice, and was attached to the department of surgery at the University of Cape Town Medical School under Professor Saint. In 1938 he married Sylvia Sohn, and together they returned to Europe where under Professor Semb in Norway he pursued his studies in thoracic surgery, a discipline he would ultimately pioneer in Cape Town. He published several papers in local and international journals on this topic. In 1943 Schrire convened the first meeting of the Association of Surgeons of South Africa. Here, in collaboration with A G Sweetapple and Marcus Cole-Rous, he presented a proposed constitution for a College of Surgeons of South Africa. He started the Head and Neck Clinic at Groote Schuur Hospital and soon became renowned for his heroic and aggressive surgery in this field. In 1955 he was awarded the Hamilton-Bailey medal of the Medical Association of South Africa. In March 1956, in his prime at the age of 49 years, Schrire was struck down by a stroke. Unable to perform active surgery he was appointed assistant editor to Dr T Shaddick-Higgins of the *South African Medical Journal*, and subsequently to the joint medical staff in charge of the casualty department at Groote Schuur Hospital. There, he supervised the junior staff, at the same time publishing numerous papers, culminating this work by editing two books: *Emergencies: casualty organisation and treatment* in 1962, and *Surgical emergencies: diagnoses and management* in 1972. In 1966 Schrire published *Hebrew Amulets*, still recognised today as the definitive work on this topic. He was equally renowned for his collection of netsukes and received international recognition. Throughout his life, Schrire was a serious collector of these, together with amulets, maps of Africa and Palestine, Judaica and a variety of literary works. In 1971, at the age of 65, Schrire retired from his surgical career and spent much time pursuing his interests in other fields. He was widely recognised as a scholar and academic. His temperament, described by his wife as 'fiery', may have proved intimidating to some, but to his family and close friends it was a constant stimulus to continued intellectual pursuits. He died on 6 May 1991, survived by his wife and four daughters, Tamar, Carmel, Sharon and Gail. The following obitiuary was published in volume nine of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows: 'Toddy' Schrire was born in Cape Town on 6 November 1906, the son of Max Mordechai Schrire and Rebecca Mauerberger. He was educated at the South African College School and studied medicine at the University of Cape Town, winning a medal in physiology. After qualifying, he went to London, passed the conjoint, and took the FRCS. Later he travelled extensively, visiting the Mayo Clinic, studying under Chevalier Jackson, and the Algemeine Krankenhaus in Vienna. He decided to leave Austria because of the prevailing anti-semitic climate. He returned to Cape Town in 1935 as a general surgeon in private practice, and was attached to the department of surgery under Saint. In 1938, he married Sylvia Sohn, and together they returned to Europe, where he studied under Semb in Norway. He resolved to specialise in cardiothoracic surgery, a discipline which he pioneered in South Africa. In 1943, Toddy convened the first meeting of the Association of Surgeons of South Africa, from which evolved a College of Surgeons of South Africa. He started the head and neck clinic at Groote Schuur Hospital and was soon famous for his aggressive surgery in this field. In 1955, he was awarded the Hamilton Bailey medal of the Medical Association of South Africa. In 1956, when only 49, Toddy was afflicted by a stroke. Giving up operating, he became assistant editor of the *South African Medical Journal* and was put in charge of the casualty department at Groote Schuur. There he published innumerable papers, supervised the junior staff, and wrote two textbooks. He had several hobbies. He was a respected collector of Japanese netsukes and Hebrew amulets, hobbies he shared with Sylvia. He retired in 1971. He died in Cape Town on 6 May 1991, leaving four daughters, three of whose names were Mrs Sharon Godfrey, Mrs Carmel Steiger and Mrs Gail Flesch.
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First Title value, for Searching Gibbons, John Robert Pelham (1926 - 1999)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-30
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General practitioner Military surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details John Gibbons was born in Moseley, Warwickshire, on 26 November 1926. His father, Leonard Norman Gibbons, who had been severely gassed in the trenches during the First World War, later became legal adviser to the Birmingham Gas Board. His mother was Gladys Elizabeth née Smith, a secretary. John was educated at Moseley Grammar School and Pates' School, Cheltenham, before enlisting in the ranks of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in 1944. He was then commissioned in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and, while on active service with them in Palestine, he had his first experience of battlefield casualties. He later transferred to the Guards Battalion of the Parachute Regiment, leaving Palestine for Egypt by road on the last day of the British Mandate on 14 May 1948. On completing his service, he went to Leeds Medical School, where he gained prizes in anaesthesia and clinical medicine and won the Brotherton scholarship, qualifying in 1954. He then worked as a registrar at Leeds General Hospital and also helped his brothers-in-law run their general practice. He obtained the FRCS diploma in 1960 and later, when senior registrar at the National Heart Hospital, he was one of the team who carried out the first heart transplant in the United Kingdom. He was appointed locum senior lecturer and consultant at King's College Hospital, following which he became a consultant in accident and emergency medicine at the Royal Free Hospital. This led on to his definitive appointment as surgeon to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. He managed to combine his medical career with territorial services in the Army, from 1948 to the day of his death. In Northern Ireland he was honorary surgeon to the Army and medical officer of the 10th Battalion of the Ulster Defence Regiment. He also served with the Royal Tank Regiment, the Warwickshire Yeomanry, Leeds Rifles and the Parachute Regiment, where in the late 1960's he commanded a company until it was decided he should be transferred to the RAMC. He was president of the Northern Ireland branch of the Parachute Regiment Association. During the Iran/Iraq war of the 1980s, when Britain was supporting Iraq, Gibbons was asked to go to Basra to help treat the wounded and organise the evacuation of some casualties to British hospitals. He was subsequently decorated by Iraq for his work during the conflict. He served as consultant thoracic surgeon to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast between 1977 and 1993, becoming the pre-eminent British authority on crush, blast and missile wounds of the chest. This led to the award of a Hunterian Professorship in 1984. He published widely on chest injuries and oesophageal surgery, enjoyed teaching his juniors and acknowledged the influence of Digby Chamberlain and John Goligher in both his training and in his surgical practice. In his younger days, John had played rugby football, gaining his university colours at Headingley, and also playing for Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Derby, as well as the Territorial Army. He was also interested in shooting, travelling, railways, good food and wine. In 1952 he married Marie-Jeanne Brookes, a teacher, and they had four sons and two daughters, two of the sons being doctors.
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