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First Title value, for Searching Nall, John Frederick (1863 - 1935)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-08-28
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Occupation Anaesthetist General surgeon
Details Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was clinical assistant in the gynaecological department. He was for some years medical officer of health at Toombay and Kedronshire, Brisbane, Queensland, and during that time lived at Rahere, Clayfield, Brisbane. During the war returned to England, he volunteered for service, and was appointed one of the resident medical officers at the First London General Hospital. At end of the war he became anaesthetist at the Royal Victoria Hospital Netley. He died at Kalinga, Torquay on 11 November 1935, survived his wife. Mrs Nall died at Torquay on 21 September 1949.
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First Title value, for Searching Lawrence, Sandanam Joseph (1920 - 1971)

2024-05-06T18:54:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-23
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Occupation Anaesthetist General surgeon
Details Born 15 March 1920 Sandanam Joseph Lawrence studied medicine in Colombo at the University of Ceylon and qualified in 1946. He held house appointments in Colombo and entered the health department, serving for four years as an anaesthetist to the Government Hospital in Kandy and three years in the General Hospital, Colombo. For four years from 1955 he worked in England and then returned home to surgical appointments in Ceylon. He returned to England in 1965 and obtained the FRCS in 1967. He returned to Ceylon in 1968 to an appointment as resident surgeon at Colombo and was resident surgeon at Kandy Hospital when he died on 28 April 1971.
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First Title value, for Searching Slinger, Robert Townley (1880 - 1929)

2024-05-06T18:54:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-31
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Occupation Anaesthetist General surgeon
Details Graduated with honours at Owens College, Manchester, was House Surgeon at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, and Resident Medical Officer at the Children's Hospital, Pendlebury. He settled in practice at Worcester in 1909 in partnership with T P Gostling, and became Anaesthetist and afterwards Surgeon to the Worcester General Infirmary. He served in France during the European War as a Surgical Specialist. He died at 42 Foregate, Worcester, on Sept 10th, 1929, when his colleagues and friends were about to present him with a testimonial in token of their regard and to show their sympathy with him in his misfortune at having to give up practice owing to bad health. Publication: "Orientation of Points in Space by the Muscular, Arthrodial, and Tactile Senses of the Upper Limb, in Normal Individuals and in Blind Persons" (with Sir VICTOR HORSLEY). - *Brain*, 1906, xxix, 1. The paper was initiated by Horsley, and is important.
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First Title value, for Searching Laurence, Noel Ellis (1902 - 1967)

2024-05-06T18:54:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-26
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Occupation Anaesthetist Gynaecologist Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Born and educated in Trinidad, he obtained an island scholarship to England in 1917 from QRC Port of Spain. Proceeding to St Bartholomew's Hospital for his medical education, he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1924 and then held various appointments, as resident anaesthetist at St Bartholomew's, as house surgeon at Leicester and as orthopaedic registrar at Salford. After being admitted to the Fellowship, and he was probably one of the first West Indians to be admitted, he practised for many years as a consulting gynaecologist to Southport Infirmary and the Christian Hartley Maternity Hospital and St Katharine's Maternity Hospital. Retiring to his native Trinidad he took a post at the General Hospital. One evening in March 1967, while watching television in the drawing room of his house at 12 Wariuriger Street, Port of Spain, he was attacked by a burglar, beaten unconscious and died without regaining consciousness.
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First Title value, for Searching Cook, John Holford (1943 - 2006)

2024-05-06T18:54:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-06-23
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Occupation Anaesthetist Ophthalmologist
Details John Holford Cook began his career as an ophthalmologist, but later re-trained as an anaesthetist. Born on 16 May 1943, in the middle of the Second World War, he did not meet his father until he was three years old. He studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital, London, and, following qualification, trained as an ophthalmologist. He later switched to anaesthesia, and ultimately became director of the intensive care unit at Eastbourne. There ‘Cookie’, as he was always known, was an enthusiastic teacher and trainer. He was clinical tutor for his hospital and a college tutor for the Royal College of Anaesthetists. He had many interests outside medicine. He had long been an enthusiastic radio ‘ham’ and built his own equipment and branched out into designing circuits for the radio control of the model boats that were built by his step-father. He mastered machine code for his computers and, when his children took up music, he decided to learn the trombone, which he played in the British Legion Band and the Eastbourne Concert Orchestra, using his computer to make new arrangements for his band. He developed adenocarcinoma of the lung and died on 27 December 2006, leaving his wife Lesley, four children and a grandson.
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First Title value, for Searching Morley, Arthur Solomon (1877 - 1962)

2024-05-06T18:54:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-28
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Occupation Anaesthetist General surgeon
Details Born on 18 May 1877 younger son of Alexander Moseley MRCS (1858), surgeon dentist of Craven Hill Gardens; Alexander and his eldest brother Benjamin changed their name to Morley in 1869; they were sons of Ephraim Moseley a surgeon-dentist of Grosvenor Street, were both St George's men, Members of the College, and dental surgeons. Alexander's elder son Frank Morley (1870-1942) MRCS LDS became dental surgeon to St George's. Arthur Morley was educated at University College School and St George's, where he was house physician and house surgeon in 1901. He was assistant medical officer to the South Western Fever Hospital and temporary surgeon to St Mark's Hospital for Diseases of the Rectum. During the first world war he saw active service as a Captain RAMC. He was afterwards anaesthetist to the King George V Hospital, the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, and the Samaritan Hospital, and was later principal medical referee to various assurance companies. He was a member of the Medico-Legal Society. Morley lived successively at Gordon Square, Upper Wimpole Street, and Devonshire Street, and after retirement at 24 Harley House where he died after long illness on 7 February 1962 aged 84.
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First Title value, for Searching Benson, John Robinson (1869 - 1952)

2024-05-06T18:54:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-22
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Occupation Anaesthetist General surgeon
Details Born about 1869, he was educated at King's College Hospital, where he served as surgical registrar. He was clinical assistant at the Royal Eye Hospital, and then settled in practice at 11 The Circus, Bath, where he was appointed surgeon to the Bath Eye and Ear Infirmary. He was also senior anaesthetist at the Royal United Hospitals at Bath. In 1914 he left Bath and settled at Market Lavington, Wiltshire as resident medical licensee of a private hospital at Fiddington House. To this he subsequently added a second hospital at Laverstock House, Salisbury. Later he lived at Old Mill-house, Alderholt, Salisbury, and finally made his home at Venn, Morchard Bishop, near Crediton, Devon, while retaining his interest in Fiddington House, Market Lavington. He was an Associate of King's College, London. During the war of 1914-18 he served in the Territorial reserve with the rank of Major RAMC. Benson married Enid Whishaw, who died on 10 March 1936. He died at Morchard Bishop on 7 July 1952, aged 83. Publications: Treatment of burns and skin grafts by the antiseptic cage. *Lancet* 1896, 2, 1373. Notes on surgical cases, and surgical reports. *King's College Hosp Repts* 1899, 5, 99, 109, and 115. Dermato-myositis. *Clin J* 1904, 24, 315.
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First Title value, for Searching Linford, Hilda Margaret (1900 - 1980)

2024-05-06T18:54:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-28
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Occupation Anaesthetist Public health officer
Details Born on October 9 1900 at Leicester, the second daughter of William Frederick Linford, a marine engineer, and Sarah Elizabeth Basford, Hilda Linford was educated at Wyggeston Grammar School, Leicester and Manchester University, obtaining the University Prize in medicine in 1921. From 1924 to 1926 she was an assistant lecturer in physiology in the University and in 1928 was appointed Dickinson Research Scholar in Medicine of the University which enabled her to spend a year working in neurophysiology at the College de France, Paris. She then set out on a career in anaesthesia and was resident anaesthetist at the Royal Victoria Infirmary at Newcastle-upon-Tyne from 1929 to 1930 and joined the LCC anaesthetic service until 1934. Having achieved her ambition of gaining the Fellowship of the College, she studied maternity at Sheffield for 16 months and in 1936 became the first woman to be appointed to the Isle of Wight Public Health Department with special charge of maternity and child welfare. Hilda Linford never married; she was an inveterate traveller visiting most corners of the globe especially in connection with her interest in the archaeological remains of pre-history. She died on 27 March 1980.
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First Title value, for Searching Blackwell, Arthur Seal (1869 - 1931)

2024-05-06T18:54:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-10
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Occupation Anaesthetist General surgeon
Details Born 23 March 1869, the son of John Blackwell, draper, of Northampton and Marian, his wife, daughter of James Bumpus, shoe manufacturer. He was educated at the Northampton Grammar School under the Rev S J W Sanders, rector of St Katherine's Church, Northampton. He entered the medical school of St Bartholomew's Hospital 1 October 1887, where he gained the junior scholarship in 1888, the Harvey prize in 1889, the Sir George Burrows prize and the Skynner prize in 1892, the Lawrence scholarship and gold medal in 1893. At the University of London he was placed in the honours list in medicine, forensic medicine, and obstetric medicine at the final MB examination. He then served as medical officer at the Tonbridge Cottage Hospital, and was assistant medical officer to the county asylum at Prestwich, Manchester. He practised at Monte Carlo from 1909 until he returned to England on the outbreak of war in 1914, received a temporary commission dated 24 October 1915 as captain, RAMC, and served in Gallipoli and in Flanders near Ypres until 1919, when he was demobilized. He then settled in Jersey and acted as visiting anaesthetist at the St Helier General Hospital. He married: (1) May, daughter of James Buckley of the Clough, Prestwich, Manchester; and (2) Mary Rice. There were no children by either marriage. He died at Maison Bruges, Don Road, St Helier, Jersey on 31 May 1931.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003843
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First Title value, for Searching Hughes, Gerald Stephen (1878 - 1959)

2024-05-06T18:54:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-03
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Occupation Anaesthetist General surgeon
Details Born at Maidstone on 23 February 1878, the youngest son of Henry Hughes a solicitor, he was educated at Maidstone School, the Middlesex Hospital and St Bartholomew's Hospital. After qualification he held appointments as house physician and house surgeon to Sir Henry Morris, later as assistant demonstrator of anatomy at Bart's, and as prosector at the College of Surgeons. From 1906 to 1908 he was at the Bolingbroke Hospital as medical superintendent, registrar and pathologist. In 1908 he moved to York on appointment as honorary anaesthetist to the County Hospital, and was later appointed surgeon to out-patients and then consulting surgeon, retiring in 1946 after thirty-eight years' service to the hospital. He was also consulting surgeon to Driffield Cottage Hospital, and was instrumental in establishing the Purey-Cust Nursing Home. In 1914 he was commissioned as surgical specialist RAMC attached to Northern Command and from 1915 to 1918 served with the BEF. In 1942 he became a Governor of the Merchant Adventurers Company of York, and he was also a member of Council of the Magistrates' Association and of the Church Assembly. For fifty years a member of the BMA, he was chairman of the Workmen's Compensation committee 1935-39. A wealthy man, he made many generous gifts to charity and to York Minister. He was unmarried and died on 24 November 1959.
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First Title value, for Searching Olive, Eustace John Parke (1862 - 1951)

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First Title value, for Searching Mumford, Wilfred George (1870 - 1955)

2024-05-06T18:54:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-28
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Occupation Anaesthetist General surgeon
Details Born on 14 June 1870, he studied medicine at Guy's Hospital, where he qualified in 1895. He continued his studies in London obtaining the MB with honours in medicine in 1902 and the FRCS in 1903. Shortly after this Mumford settled in practice at Bath where he spent his working life. He was appointed anaesthetist to the Royal United Hospital in 1905 and assistant surgeon in 1910. During the first world war he served in the RAMC as a surgeon specialist at the military orthopaedic hospital at Southmeads, Bristol, with the rank of Major, and was appointed OBE. After the war Mumford built up a large surgical practice in Bath. He became surgeon to the Royal United Hospital, the Royal Mineral Water Hospital, the Ministry of Pensions Orthopaedic Hospital, and the Bath and Wessex Children's Orthopaedic Hospital at Combe Park. While honorary secretary of the Bath division of the BMA he was appointed local secretary for the annual meeting there in 1925; owing to the sudden illness of the President, F G Thomson, Mumford took his place most capably. He was a vice-president of the section of surgery at the Nottingham meeting, 1926, and President of the Bath and Bristol branch, 1931-32. Mumford was a handsome and conscientious man. He lived at 18 The Circus, Bath, but retired in 1934 to Willingdon, Sussex. He died at Eastbourne on 27 April 1955 aged 84, survived by his wife, their son and two daughters.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005185
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First Title value, for Searching Pryce, Harold Vaughan (1873 - 1946)

2024-05-06T18:54:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-04
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Occupation Anaesthetist General surgeon
Details Born 22 February 1873, the fifth child and third son of the Rev Robert Vaughan Pryce, DD, and Elizabeth Tippetts his wife. His father was principal of New College, London University, the Congregational theological college, from 1889 to 1907, and died in 1917; his grandfather George Pryce, FSA, had been City Librarian of Bristol. Pryce was educated at University College, London, St John's College, Cambridge, and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, 1895, and first-class honours in surgery and midwifery at the MB, BCh examination in 1902. After serving as a dresser to Sir Henry Butlin, he went as house surgeon to the Portsmouth Hospital in 1899, contracted typhoid, and then took a sea-voyage to New Zealand to recoup his health. In 1900 he was house surgeon to Butlin at St Bartholomew's and also filled the post of extern midwifery assistant and clinical assistant in the throat department, Vaughan Pryce practised at Brighton from 1901 to 1905, and from 1905 till the end of 1930, when he retired, at Stamford Hill, London, N. He was anaesthetist to the Tottenham Hospital and the German Hospital. During the war of 1914-18 he was civil surgeon to the Mile End and the City of London military hospitals. In 1905 Pryce married Marian Frances Violet Clarke, who survived him but without children. Mrs Vaughan Pryce's sister married H G Pinker, FRCS, who had been a fellow-student with Pryce at St Bartholomew's. He died suddenly on 6 December 1946 at 40a High Street, Welshpool, Montgomery, aged 73.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004487
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First Title value, for Searching Winstone, Norman Edward (1924 - 2001)

2024-05-06T18:54:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-08
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Occupation Anaesthetist General surgeon
Details Norman Winstone was a consultant surgeon at Selly Oak, Birmingham. He was born in Gidea Park, Essex, on 8 February 1924, the son of Herbert Charles Winstone, a property manager, and Kate née Robinson, a policeman's daughter. He was educated at Gidea Park College and Romford Royal Liberty School, before going to St Bartholomew's. After junior house appointments at St Bartholomew's and Luton and Dunstable, he joined the P&O Steam Navigation Company as a ship's surgeon for two years. Returning to resident posts in anaesthesia at Bart's, he later became a demonstrator of physiology and obtained his FFA. In spite of attempts by Langton Hewer and F Evans to get Norman to pursue a career in anaesthetics, he decided that he was more suited to surgery. To gain more surgical experience he became a casualty registrar at Bart's, and was then appointed senior registrar at the United Birmingham Hospital, where he was greatly influenced by Bryan Brooke. He was a tall well-built man, who was agile on the tennis court, and whose quiet and unassuming manner was spiced by soft and kindly humour. Playing chess against him was a challenge and his thoughtful, caring and gentle manner went beyond his consultant work at Selly Oak Hospital, leading him into helping others in community activities. Fond of restoring antique cars, he became more disabled as vascular disease took its toll and confined him to a wheelchair, where his fortitude remained an example to all those around him. He married Anne Acock at St Peter's, Vere Street, in 1956. She was the daughter of a former superintendent of police in Lucknow. They had four sons - Mark, Jamie, Denny and William. Norman Winstone died on 22 March 2001.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009002
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First Title value, for Searching Brown, Ralph Charles (1870 - 1947)

2024-05-06T18:54:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-24
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Occupation Anaesthetist General surgeon
Details Born 1870 at St Arnaud, Mornington peninsula, Victoria, Australia, son of the Rev Ralph Brown, he was educated at Toorak College and at Queen's College, Melbourne University. He won several scholarships, graduating in medicine and surgery in 1892 with the Beaney scholarship and the first place in surgery; and he played tennis for his college. He then served as resident medical officer and later as acting medical superintendent at the Melbourne Hospital. Through the generosity of a relation he was able to go to England for postgraduate study at the London Hospital, and took the Membership in November 1895 and the Fellowship a month later. Brown was at this time threatened with pulmonary tuberculosis. He therefore became a ship's surgeon and, after several voyages to various African ports, recovered his health, returned to Australia and settled in practice at Wycheproof, Victoria in 1899. 1903 he moved into Melbourne and practised till 1926 at Wellington Sreet, East St Kilda, in close association with A U M Anderson, H Fetherston, J P Major and R Warne. Later he practised at Pasteur House, 32 Collins Street, Melbourne. He served as anaesthetist at the Alfred Hospital and was appointed surgeon to out-patients in 1910, and surgeon to in-patients in 1912 on the retirement of H M O'Hara. Throughout the war of 1914-18, in addition to his private and hospital practice, he served on the staff of the Repatriation Hospital, Caulfield, taking special interest in the surgical repair of cranial defects. In 1926 he travelled for a year in Europe and America, visiting surgical clinics. He retired from his hospital appointments in 1930 and was elected consulting surgeon. Brown married in 1900 Marion Louisa Stead of Melbourne. After retirement he lived at Frankston with his son and grandchildren. He died at Heidelberg House, Melbourne, on 12 March 1947, aged 76. Brown was a thorough and meticulous surgeon, at his best in gastric surgery.
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First Title value, for Searching Panton, John Alison (1894 - 1945)

2024-05-06T18:54:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-09-11
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Occupation Anaesthetist General surgeon
Details Born at Bolton, Lancashire, on 12 May 1894, fourth child and eldest son of John Edward Panton, MD, MRCS, in practice there, and Emma Louisa Allison, his wife. He was educated at Ilminster Grammar School, Somerset, and Bolton Church Institute, at the Victoria University of Manchester, where he graduated in medicine in 1916, and at St Bartholomew's and Guy's Hospitals. At Manchester University he won the Tom Jones anatomy exhibition, a gold medal in anatomy, and the senior Robert Platt exhibition in physiology in 1913; at the MB, ChB examination in 1916 he gained distinction in obstetrics and gynaecology, and was bracketed equal for the John Henry Agnew scholarship in diseases of children. Panton then saw three and a half years' service as a captain, RAMC. After the end of the war he returned to Manchester, where he served as house surgeon, house physician and resident surgical officer at Ancoats Hospital, and was demonstrator of anatomy at the University. He also served as gynaecological house surgeon at St Mary's Hospital, and won the gold medal for his MD thesis in 1921. He served as surgical registrar at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, and in 1925 took the Manchester Mastership and the Edinburgh and English Fellowships in surgery. After a short period at Bolton he settled in practice at 36 Hoghton Street, Southport, Lancashire, in partnership with A W Hare of Birkdale and latterly also with W L Ackerman, MRCS. He was appointed anaesthetist and later became senior surgeon to the Southport Infirmary. Panton served as secretary of the Southport division of the British Medical Association, and was an active member of the Manchester Medical and Surgical Societies. He married in 1926 Kathleen Amy Heath, who survived him with a daughter. He died suddenly at Southport on 1 July 1945, aged 51. Publication: Factors bearing upon the aetiology of femoral hernia. *J Anat* 1923, 57, 106-146.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004412
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First Title value, for Searching Greenwood, Eric John (1902 - 1979)

2024-05-06T18:54:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-11
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Occupation Anaesthetist General practitioner General surgeon
Details Eric John Greenwood was born on 10 October 1902 in Greenwich, London, the only son of Eustace Noel Greenwood, an accountant and former mayor of Greenwich, and Gertrude Freida Scarr. He was educated at the Rowan School, Greenwich, before starting medicine at Guy's Hospital in 1918. He then went to Downing College, Cambridge, obtaining his MA MB BCh and Primary Fellowship. He held house appointments at Guy's Hospital and the Royal Northern Hospital where he came under the influence of W N Mollinson and Sir Lancelot Barrington-Ward. In 1929, he joined the staff of St Bartholomew's Hospital, Rochester, beginning a close relationship with this hospital which he maintained for fifty years, being one of the brethren at the time of his death. In 1930 he married Dorothy Helen Jones. Greenwood settled in Rochester where he practised with Dr Green. His first hospital appointment was as an anaesthetist, but after he obtained his FRCS he was appointed honorary consultant surgeon in 1935. With the advent of the National Health Service in 1948, he gave up general practice and continued as consultant surgeon until his retirement in 1967. His great attachment to his hospital was exemplified by the research and publications carried out about its origin, especially the chapel dating back to AD 1097. He became a serving brother of the Order of St John and held grand rank in Freemasonry. On his retirement from surgery, he became a visitor to the Borstal Institution and spent much time helping his wife with her charitable work in the locality. He was an active BMA supporter; a member of the local executive committee from 1932 to 1969 and treasurer from 1953 to 1964. He served on the ethical committee from 1953 to 1977 and was BMA representative on the local EMS committee. Greenwood was well loved and respected by his partners and his friends throughout the Medway district. He died at his home on 27 July, 1979 survived by his wife Helen and his son and daughter, both of whom are in general practice.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006537
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First Title value, for Searching Hayden, Arthur Falconer (1877 - 1940)

2024-05-06T18:54:16Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-03 2022-11-03
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Occupation Anaesthetist General surgeon Pathologist Military surgeon Bacteriologist
Details Born 24 August 1877 at Frogmoor House, High Wycombe, Bucks, in the house where his grandfather, William Hayden, LSA 1837, MRCS 1856, and his father, William Gallimore Hayden, MRCS 1863, had successively practised medicine. His mother was Elizabeth Matilda, daughter of William Falconer, who founded the Union Castle line to South Africa, and he was the fourth child of the marriage. Educated at the Grammar School, High Wycombe, when George Peachell was headmaster, he entered St Mary's Hospital, London, with the entrance scholarship and acted as a prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons. He served as house surgeon and assistant anaesthetist at St Mary's Hospital and as pathologist at the County Asylum, Winwick, Lancashire. He was gazetted lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service on 1 September 1905, and during his course in the Army Medical School won the Montefiore medal for military surgery and the Martin gold medal. Proceeding to India he was promoted captain on 1 September 1908, but was placed on temporary half pay on 23 January 1910 after an attack of poliomyelitis, which obliged him ever afterwards to use a mechanical chair for locomotion. He retired on 23 January 1912. Returning to England he undertook work at St Mary's Hospital as pathologist to the venereal disease department and as an assistant in the inoculation department. He married Ruth Lacey on 14 April 1912; she survived him with two sons and a daughter. He died on 8 March 1940 at 4 Graham Road, Hendon, NW4. Publications:- An inquiry into the influence of the constituents of a bacterial emulsion on the opsonic index. *Proc Roy Soc Lond*. 1911, B, 84, 320. Relative value of human and guinea pig complement in the Wassermann reaction. *Brit J exper Path*. 1922, 3, 151. **See below for an expanded version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 2 of Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk** Arthur Falconer Hayden was a surgeon in the Indian Medical Service who, after contracting polio, later joined the inoculation department at St Mary’s Hospital, London, where he worked under the influential immunologist Sir Almroth Wright. Hayden was born on 24 August 1877 at Frogmoor House in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Both his father, William Gallimore Hayden, and paternal grandfather, William Henry Hayden, were doctors. William Gallimore Hayden trained at Charing Cross Hospital, qualified in 1863, and became the medical officer at the Little Marlow District and Workhouse Wycombe Union. William Henry Hayden was a medical officer for the 12th District Wycombe Union. Hayden’s mother was Elizabeth Matilda Hayden née Falconer. Hayden was educated locally in High Wycombe and then studied medicine at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School with an entrance scholarship. He was a prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He qualified with the conjoint examination in 1900, and subsequently gained a MB degree with honours in materia medica and forensic medicine, and a BS in 1904. He was an assistant demonstrator of anatomy, chemistry and pathology and a prosector in anatomy at St Mary’s, and went on to become a house surgeon at Newport and Monmouthshire Hospital and an assistant medical officer and pathologist at the County Asylum, Winwick. He was subsequently an assistant anaesthetist and house surgeon back at St Mary’s. He joined the Indian Medical Service on 1 September 1905 as a lieutenant. During his studies at the Army Medical School he won the Montefiore medal and prize for military surgery and the Martin gold medal for tropical medicine. He gained his FRCS in 1906 and became a specialist in advanced operative surgery. On 1 September 1908 he was promoted to captain. His military career came to end when he caught poliomyelitis. He was placed on half pay on 23 January 1910 and retired from the Indian Medical Service two years later. He returned to St Mary’s, where he was recommended for a job in the inoculation department by his friend Alexander Fleming. In 1917 Hayden became a pathologist in the newly opened venereal diseases department at St Mary’s, taking over from Fleming who had returned to military service. Hayden wrote ‘An inquiry into the influence of the constituents of a bacterial emulsion on the opsonic index’ *Proc Roy Soc Lond* 1911 B 84 320 and ‘Relative value of human and guinea pig complement in the Wassermann reaction’ *Brit J Exper Path* 1922 3 151. In 1939 he wrote ‘Acute conjunctivitis caused by a gram-negative diplococcus resembling the gonococcus’ *Brit J Vener Dis* 1939 Jan; 15(1):45-54 with his son. Hayden died on 8 March 1940 in Hendon, Middlesex. He was 62. He was survived by his widow Ruth Campbell Hayden née Lacey, originally from New Jersey, whom he had married in 1912, and their sons Arthur Falconer and Roger Keith, who both qualified as doctors. Hayden and his wife also had a son, William John, who died in 1916 aged just one month. Sarah Gillam
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Occupation Anaesthetist General surgeon Pathologist
Details Charles Aubrey Pannett, born in Shepherd's Bush, London, on 21 September 1884, was the only son of Charles Yeatman Pannett, an ironmonger, and Louisa (née Sealey). An elder son had died in infancy. There were three daughters in the family. The family was poor, so from his youth Pannett had accustomed himself to hard work, allowing little time for social activities. He went to the Westminster City School under Mr Goffin. About the age of fourteen, against his father's wish, he decided to become a doctor. With this in mind, after matriculating, he took the Intermediate Examination for BSc, in botany, zoology, chemistry and physics, which gained him entrance to St Mary's Hospital where, in his first year, he obtained a scholarship. Those were vintage years at St Mary's: in 1902 Alexander Fleming, E H Kettle, C W Vining and Pannett were all successful in gaining scholarships. Throughout their medical course Pannett and Fleming were close rivals, sharing between them all the medical school prizes and the distinctions at London University examinations. Pannett qualified in the autumn of 1906. In 1907 he obtained his MD, with a gold medal, and his FRCS in 1910. Surgery was his aim. "But if I were to be a surgeon," he wrote, "I wanted to enter this life from an angle not then usually considered. In those days the road to surgery was through the anatomy department. A man would spend years as a demonstrator of anatomy while waiting for a surgical appointment. As a student I was deeply struck by seeing operations performed which so obviously must be a severe strain on the normal adaptability of the body. Surgery, I perceived, in many cases profoundly disturbed the physiology of the man. It was clear to me that it was upon this which attention needed focusing if progress was to be made. So I determined to know more of the processes of disease and their effects upon normal physiology." He decided to graduate in pathology, and obtained a post as junior assistant with a salary of £100 a year in the department of pathology under Almroth Wright. The influence of Wright was great and beneficial in shaping Pannett's outlook on life. But the work was arduous and, coming so soon after years of hard study and evening coaching, it told on a constitution which had never been robust. He developed tuberculosis and was obliged to spend the next four years, first in a sanatorium, then as house surgeon in a mental hospital at Westbury-on-Trym near Bristol. Here the work was light, so he was able to read for his MD in pathology, which he took with a gold medal. In 1911 he became house surgeon at Plymouth, where he met his first wife, who was nursing there. That same year he had a chance of getting on the staff of St Mary's, but lost the job to Zachary Cope. Deciding to wait until he was accepted he became resident anaesthetist. At this time he was also assistant surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital. At length, in 1914, he became registrar at St Mary's and, with a more assured future, married Nora Kathleen Moon from Dublin. His first war service was as surgeon on the luxury yacht *Liberty*, converted by Lord Tredegar into a naval hospital. In 1915 Pannett wrote an article on the role of the hospital ship. In 1916 he volunteered to go to Mesopotamia and was given the rank of Major. There he contracted typhoid and was invalided to Secunderabad where he did some surgery. After the war Pannett returned to St Mary's and to private practice, living first in Maida Vale and then in St John's Wood. In 1922 he became assistant director to Clayton Green. When Clayton Green gave up to do more private practice, the newly formed Surgical Unit at St Mary's Hospital needed a full-time Professor of Surgery and Pannett was elected to the post, which he held for twenty-eight years. On this appointment he resigned his post at the Royal Free. "At that time," wrote Sir Zachary Cope in 1950, "there was considerable discussion and criticism as to the wisdom of appointing such professors in London medical schools and in some cases the criticism was justified, but the most exacting critic was silenced when one pointed to the way in which Pannett filled the chair. Gradually he became an institution at St Mary's and round him a strong surgical department was built up which provided a source of inspiration and stimulation alike to students and staff." "Pannett was best known for his consummate skill in doing partial gastrectomies," wrote Dickson Wright, "with removal of the ulcerated portion of the duodenum, and in 1929 he astonished the surgical world by announcing a sequence of a hundred of these operations without a death at a time when surgeons as a whole were losing twenty patients in every hundred operations." Unlike some professors Pannett always did his own lectures. He also spent much time in the post mortem room watching his friend Professor Newcomb, the pathologist, at his work. After a hurried lunch they would adjourn to the PM room and have friendly arguments. Pannett always asserted that cancer was due to a virus to which Newcomb disagreed. Each would be on the lookout for evidence to support his theory to the discredit of the other, to the huge delight and education of the crowds of students who attended these informal and unrehearsed debates. Pannett had a bench in the Wright-Fleming laboratory and was continually working on some problem concerning cancer. Later Arthur Compton worked with him in the physiology laboratory. Pannett was Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1922 and 1929. During the late 1930s and early 1940s he acquired a reputation for being the most dreaded of examiners amongst Final FRCS candidates. During the second world war Lord Moran, as Sector Officer, sent Pannett down to Basingstoke to make surgical arrangements at Park Prewett Mental Hospital which was converted into an Emergency Medical Service Hospital. Later in the war he worked at St Mary's, sleeping in a small room in the Wright-Fleming Institute. During an air raid in March, 1944, Miss Diana Stanley, living in Radnor Place, was wounded while on fire-watching duty, and was taken into St Mary's and to Pannett's theatre. Ten years later, after his first wife had died, Pannett married Miss Stanley. In 1950 Pannett retired from St Mary's and surgery. Although he had many interests outside medicine - painting, carving and clock-making - his heart and mind was still very much on his work, not as a surgeon, but as a research scientist. And so it seemed a stroke of good fortune when, in the early 1950s, he met Mr Frederick Pearson, the American millionaire and philanthropist, who lived at Liphook and was a patient of Pannett's brother-in-law, Dr Corry. Immediately these two men were drawn together in the common interest of the cancer problem and, until his death in 1958, Pearson helped to finance Pannett's work at St Mary's, giving him an X-ray apparatus. But changes in the Wright-Fleming Institute in the late 1950s made it impossible for Pannett to stay on there, and in 1962, thanks to Sir Arthur Porritt, his former assistant and colleague at St Mary's, who was then President of the Royal College of Surgeons, facilities were given him in the Biochemistry Department to continue his research work. Thus, with the help and friendliness of Professor Cyril Long and many others there, began a new and exceedingly happy chapter in Pannett's long career, marred only by his inability to get consistent results in his research experiments. At this time Pannett also found time and energy to sit in committees of the Regional Hospital Board in Winchester. Illness overtook Pannett in 1964. With a highly-strung, sensitive nature, he had always had a tendency to abdominal complaints and much back-ache in his youth. He developed a duodenal ulcer, admitting wryly that all doctors eventually get the disease they are best known for curing. But he did not allow either pain or fatigue to stand in his way and carried on with his work. Early in July 1969 he suffered a heart attack at the College, but told no one about this, continuing to go up to London until two days before he died, on 29 July at his home, after two coronary attacks, the second releasing him from a long, full, arduous, and very worthwhile life. As already noted he was twice married, first in 1914 to Nora Kathleen, daughter of John Moon of Dublin, who died in 1952; and in 1954 he married Diana Margaret Stanley, who survived him. There were no children of either marriage.
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