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First Title value, for Searching Cowell, Sibert Forrest Antrobus (1863 - 1949)

2024-05-09T01:46:11Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-06
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Occupation Administrator
Details Born 24 September 1863, the son of Thomas William Cowell, MRCS. He was educated at Westminster, where he entered in 1876, and was elected a Queen's Scholar in 1879, and at University College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1886. He became assistant secretary of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1888 and succeeded Edward Trimmer as Secretary in 1901. He resigned in 1934, and was succeeded by his nephew. Forrest Cowell never married. Having lived throughout his working life in London, he moved to St Albans in 1940 and died there on Thursday, 13 January 1949, aged 85. His portrait is included in the council group of 1927, and there is a separate portrait in oils in the college's collection.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004076
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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First Title value, for Searching Clifford, Sir Geoffrey Miles (1897 - 1986)

2024-05-09T01:46:11Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-08
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Occupation Administrator Diplomat
Details Sir Miles Clifford was born in 1897 and, after a private education and military service in France and Flanders during the first world war, entered the Colonial Service and was appointed to the administration service in Nigeria. In the early years of the second world war he commanded the Nigerian European Defence Force and from 1942 to 1944 he served as Colonial Secretary in Gibraltar. In 1944 he returned to Nigeria as senior resident and from 1946 to 1954 served as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Falkland Islands. After retiring from the Colonial Service he devoted his life to civilian administration, serving as a member of the London County Council from 1955 to 1958 and also on many charitable trusts including the Leverhulme Trust from 1956. He was a life governor of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, a trustee of the East Grinstead Research Trust and a member of the management committee of the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences. He was honorary treasurer of the Society of Health Education and a member of the Porritt Working Party on Medical Aid to Developing Countries. He also served as chairman of the planning committee of the Chelsea group of postgraduate hospitals and as vice-chairman of the Royal College of Surgeons' appeal committee. His devoted work was recognised by the award of an Honorary Fellowship on 11 February 1965, when the formal citation was delivered by Sir Edward Muir, then Dean of the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences. He died on 21 February 1986 aged 88.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007191
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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First Title value, for Searching Johnson-Gilbert, Ronald Stuart (1925 - 2003)

2024-05-09T01:46:11Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-10-12 2012-03-22
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Occupation Administrator College secretary
Details Ronald Stuart Johnson-Gilbert, or 'J-G' as he was known with affection throughout the College, was our secretary from 1962 to 1988. He was born on 14 July 1925, the son of Sir Ian A Johnson-Gilbert CBE and Rosalind Bell-Hughes, and was proud to be a descendant of Samuel Johnson. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and Rugby, from which he won an exhibition in classics and an open scholarship to Brasenose College, Oxford. During the second world war he served in the Intelligence Corps from 1943 to 1946 and learnt Japanese. On demobilisation he became a trainee with the John Lewis partnership for a year and then joined the College on the administrative staff in 1951, becoming the sixth secretary in 1962, having previously been secretary of the Faculties of Dental Surgery and Anaesthetists. He worked under 13 presidents, from Lord Porritt to Sir Ian Todd, bringing to everything he did an exceptional administrative skill, an ability to write succinct and lucid prose, an unrivalled knowledge of the most arcane by-laws of the College and above all an unruffable charm. He served as secretary to the board of trustees of the Hunterian Collection, the Joint Conference of Surgical Colleges and the International Federation of Surgical Colleges. He was the recipient of the John Tomes medal of the British Dental Association, the McNeill Love medal of our College and the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons medal. He served the Hunterian Collection as a trustee for 10 years. A skilled golfer, his other interests included music, painting, literature and writing humorous verse. He married Anne Weir Drummond in 1951 and they had three daughters, Clare, Emma and Lydia. He died on 23 April 2003.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000082
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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