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First Title value, for Searching Hattam, Harold Bickford (1913 - 1994)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-12 2015-03-13
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Occupation Art collector Artist Gynaecologist
Details Harold Bickford Hattam, known as 'Hal', was a gynaecologist and a landscape artist and art collector. He was born in Edinburgh on 14 January 1913, the son of Bickford Hattam. The family moved to Australia in 1920 when Hattam was seven. He joined the Australian Army in January 1941 and served in the Middle East, New Guinea and the UK. He was discharged with the rank of captain in January 1947. He gained his FRCS in 1946 and established a medical practice in Melbourne. He also began to paint, although he had no formal training. Between 1962 and 1988 he held a number of solo exhibitions, mostly of abstract seascapes, and participated in a number of group shows. Hattam and his wife also collected a large body of works of Melbourne artists from the 1950s, including paintings by the leading Australian landscape artist Fred Williams. Hattam was married to Kate. They had three daughters (Katherine, Frances and Victoria), a son (John) and six grandchildren. Hattam died on 29 January 1994 in the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne. He was 81.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001712
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First Title value, for Searching Peckham, Sir Michael John (1935 - 2021)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-01-18
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Occupation Oncologist Artist
Details Sir Michael Peckham was an oncologist, research director and artist, who pioneered treatments for testicular cancer and founded the British Oncological Association in 1985. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010052
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First Title value, for Searching Hinman, Frank (1915 - 2011)

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by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2012-02-01
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Occupation Artist Urologist
Details Frank Hinman was a renowned American urologist, educator and skilful artist. He was chief of the urology service at San Francisco General Hospital from 1959 to 1977, and chief of urology at the Children's Hospital, San Francisco, from 1959 until his retirement from clinical practice in 1985. In addition to his busy clinical workload, he was active in teaching students and residents. He was born on 2 October 1915 into a medical household, the oldest of five sons of Frank Hinman senior, the first trained urologist in California, and his wife Mittie née Fitzpatrick. After attending Grant and Galileo public schools, Frank junior started his medical education in San Francisco and graduated *magna cum laude* from Stanford University in 1937. Completing an MD at Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, he remained in Maryland for internships from 1941 to 1942, before undertaking two years of surgical residency at the University of the Cincinnati College of Medicine under Mont Reid. Enlisting in the US Navy, he served initially with the Seabees, the construction battalions, in the Pacific sector of the Second World War. He was later a medical officer on the aircraft carrier *Intrepid*. Following his demobilisation, he undertook a urological residency on the University of California rotation, before joining his father in private urological practice and gaining hospital appointments. In addition to a heavy clinical workload, he was active in research. His studies of bladder defence mechanisms, supported for over 17 years by a National Institutes of Health grant, led to a better understanding of many aspects of urinary infection. In the paediatric field his work on bladder dysfunction led to the recognition of the 'nonneurogenic neurogenic bladder' now called the 'Hinman syndrome'. Frank Hinman was a prolific writer, and his clinical and laboratory work resulted in the publication of over 250 scientific articles. Numerous books bear his name, including the comprehensive book *Benign prostatic hypertrophy* (New York, Springer, 1983), and he personally wrote three definitive atlases: *Atlas of urologic surgery* (Philadelphia, Saunders, 1989), which was translated into German, Italian, Spanish and Chinese, *Atlas of urosurgical anatomy* (Philadelphia/London, W B Saunders, c.1993) and *Atlas of pediatric urologic surgery* (Philadelphia/London, Saunders, 1994), all with his own original drawings in conjunction with illustrator Paul Stempen. He was a specialty consultant to *Stedman's medical dictionary*. Many honours came his way including the pediatric urology medal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Barringer medal of the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons, the Valentine medal of the New York Academy of Science, the distinguished alumnus award from Johns Hopkins and honorary membership of the Gold-headed Cane Society of the University College of San Francisco. The American Urological Association honoured him with the Hugh Young award and the Ramon Guiteras medal, and he received the William P Didusch award for his contributions to medical art. He was a trustee of the American Board of Urology, a founding member and president of the Society of University Urologists, vice president of the American College of Surgeons and president of the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons, to name a few prestigious positions. During quieter moments during his wartime naval service, Frank Hinman took up painting, which he continued to enjoy for the rest of his life. One of his works was published in *Life* magazine, two were used as cover illustrations for the *Journal of the American Medical Association*, and he held two 'one-man' exhibitions. In later life he switched to acrylic paint - 'because it dries quickly'. He married Marion Modesta Eaves in 1948: they had no children. Marion shared her husband's love of sailing, and Frank was named yachtsman of the year in 1998 by the San Francisco Yacht Club. He was a keen member of the Bohemian Club and the St Francis Yacht Club. Frank Hinman died on 22 May 2011 in San Francisco, the city of his birth and his outstanding career. His wife, Marion, predeceased him in 2006, as did all his brothers over the years. The family name survives through one sister-in-law, Mrs Alice Hinman and her children Alanson Jr, William, Robert F and Frank II. There is another surviving sister-in-law, Mrs Sally Lewis and her two children, Windermere Tirados and Dixie Lewis. Frank Hinman's body was cremated and his ashes were scattered on his beloved Pacific Ocean. A celebration of his life was held at the St Francis Yacht Club, San Francisco.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001933
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First Title value, for Searching Tonks, Henry (1862 - 1937)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-27
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Occupation Artist Medical Officer
Details Henry Tonks was born at Solihull, Warwickshire, on 9 April 1862, second son and fifth of the eleven children of Edmund Tonks, sometime barrister of Gray's Inn, of Packwood Grange, Knowle, Warwickshire, and Julia Anne Johnson, his wife. Edmund Tonks left the bar on his marriage and joined his father's brass-foundry at Birmingham. He invented the "Tonks library fitting" for adjustable book-shelves. Henry Tonks was educated at Clifton College, January 1877 to December 1879, and became a pupil at the Royal Sussex Hospital, Brighton in 1879, and whilst there had already begun to draw; he tried without success to sell his drawings at a shop in Brighton. He filled the post of house physician in 1887, and his skill as a draughtsman led to his taking the place temporarily as an assistant demonstrator of anatomy. He went to Germany in 1888, and whilst visiting the Dresden Gallery determined to devote himself to art. On his return to England, Sir Frederick Treves appointed him house surgeon at the London Hospital. At the end of his term of office he was elected senior medical officer at the Royal Free Hospital, whence he derived the bias in favour of the work and enthusiasm of women students which lasted throughout his life. During his tenure as senior medical officer he wrote to Frederick Brown, head of the Westminster School of Art, asking whether he might become a pupil. In 1892, when Brown was appointed Slade professor in succession to Alphonse Legros, he invited Tonks to become his assistant, his colleagues being P Wilson Steer (afterwards OM) and C Koe Child. Brown retired in 1917, and was succeeded by Tonks who held the post until 1930, when he resigned with the complimentary title of emeritus Slade professor and the honorary Fellowship of University College, and was succeeded by Randolph Schwabe. Tonks, though he was not the founder of the New English Art Club, was one of its earliest and strongest supporters. In October 1936 many of his works were on view in Rooms XIX and XX of the Tate Gallery, which at his death in 1937 contained seven of his paintings. During the war of 1914-18 Tonks worked with a French Red Cross Hospital and later with a British Ambulance Unit in Italy. On his return to England he was commissioned, 1 January 1916, as temporary lieutenant, RAMC, and did valuable work both at the Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot, and at the Queen's Hospital, Sidcup, Kent. The Army Medical collection at the Royal College of Surgeons Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields contains sixty-nine pastel drawings and three pen-and-ink sketches by him, which are striking portraits of men who were treated for facial injuries received during the war. In 1918 he visited France as an artist with John Sargent; he visited Ypres and spent a night under shell-fire at an advanced dressing station. In 1919 he accompanied the British expedition to Murmansk. His drawings of the Murmansk expedition and his picture of "An underground clearing station, Arras" are in the Imperial War Museum collection. Tonks died unmarried at his house, 1 The Vale, Chelsea, SW, on 8 January 1937. Tonks was a caricaturist by way of pastime and an artist by profession. As an artist and teacher he raised the Slade School to a high degree of perfection. His masterpiece "The Bird Cage" hangs in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. He was very tall, very thin, and very caustic, living the life of an ascetic epicure, but a few minutes' conversation discovered humour and sympathy, above all sympathy with youth. He nourished the most conscientious side of everyone he influenced, and to know him was to be influenced at once. The spell of trying to gain or keep his approbation never broke. His face did not easily register pleasure, but the brilliant eyes over his formidable nose glowed with sincerity and positive hunger to behold excellence. In February 1937 his friends subscribed to set up in the Slade School a portrait bust of Tonks in bronze by his pupil A H Gerrard, which was presented on 25 November 1937; they also founded an annual Henry Tonks prize for drawing at the Slade School. A memorial-exhibition of his works was held in June 1937 at Barbizon House, Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square; and an inscribed tablet was placed on his house in The Vale, Chelsea. His self-portrait, in the Tate Gallery, is reproduced as frontispiece to Hone's *Life*; a portrait-drawing by Powys Evans was published in *The London Mercury*, 1930, 22, 295. Publication: The vicissitudes of art, new words for old ideas. *The Times*, 2 March 1932, pp. 13 and 14.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004717
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First Title value, for Searching Watson, Neil Alexander (1944 - 2009)

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by David K C Cooper
Publication Date 2012-01-23 2013-09-06
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Occupation Artist Hand surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Neil Watson was a hand surgeon in Oxford and Milton Keynes, and later a successful artist. He was born on 13 February 1944 at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. Neil's father, John Stuart Ferra Watson, and paternal grandfather were both Guy's-trained doctors. As his father served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, Neil's parents were overseas for most of his childhood, and, after the age of five, he saw them during only one school holiday each year. The other holidays he would spend with his grandparents or with various great aunts in the UK. With the help of a British Army bursary, Neil was educated at St Edward's School in Oxford, which proved 'a marvellous experience' for him. Although he already had an interest in the arts, probably inherited from his 'extremely creative' mother Rosemary (née Underhill), St Edward's exposed him to art and music on a greater scale. He played the violin in the school orchestra and greatly enjoyed the chapel organ and choir. He described these formative years 'as if I was in paradise'. He also developed a love of rowing but, because of the extremely high standard at the school at the time, he had to be content with being a member of the second or third VIII. He originally planned a career in architecture but, through the influence of a biology teacher, he finally chose medicine. Although offered a place at St John's College, Cambridge, he chose to go straight to Guy's, a decision he later regretted as he 'missed out on the Cambridge experience'. First, however, he spent several months in Florence and Rome, developing his drawing and painting, and learning Italian. In 1962, Neil entered Guy's Hospital Medical School, and found the next five years 'immensely exciting'. Rowing became very important to him and, in the summer of 1963, he represented the boat club at Henley Royal Regatta. He was also an active member of the arts club and the theatre club, for which he designed sets. He bought 'beer and petrol' and even 'a fiercely fast car' by selling etchings and paintings. One of his pen and ink drawings of the hospital featured on the cover of *Guy's Hospital Gazette*. In his clinical years, he was greatly influenced by the senior orthopaedic surgeon, Tim Stamm, who he described as 'an absolutely phenomenal surgeon'. After graduating in 1967, he was appointed orthopaedic house surgeon at Guy's, during which period he married, and followed this by a series of house appointments in Truro in Cornwall. He then returned to Guy's on the junior surgical registrar rotation (when Sir Hedley Atkins was handing over to Lord McColl as professor of surgery). He found working with the urologists, F R Kilpatrick and Hugh Kinder, and the neurosurgeon, Murray Falconer (at the Maudsley), especially valuable. After two years as a registrar in Guildford (becoming an FRCS in 1971), he was appointed orthopaedic registrar at Oxford under Robert Duthie, one of the most influential orthopaedic surgeons in the UK. In 1977, a travelling fellowship from the Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers enabled him to spend time with several innovative hand and plastic surgeons in Melbourne, Australia, where he learned microsurgery and wrote several research papers. He returned to Oxford as a senior registrar. His first consultant position was a joint appointment between the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and Banbury, where he acquired an operating microscope, and started carrying out peripheral nerve surgery and teaching microsurgery courses. Unfortunately, at Oxford, Duthie was of the opinion that 'we're all generalists here', and Neil's efforts to expand his work in nerve surgery met with resistance. Sadly, during this period, his marriage broke up, but he was able to maintain a close relationship with his three children. When the post of clinical reader in orthopaedics at Oxford became vacant, he was appointed and also elected to a fellowship at Green College. He specialised in surgery for rheumatoid arthritis, which he found particularly rewarding, but he was disappointed that his planned research projects were not fully achieved. After two or three years, a new hospital opened in Milton Keynes, and the opportunity of developing a new type of consultant-led service was so appealing that he accepted a position there and began to specialise in hand surgery. During these years at Oxford and Milton Keynes, he wrote about 50 scientific communications and three books on hand surgery. As a registrar, he had written *Practical management of musculo-skeletal emergencies* (Oxford, Blackwell Scientific, 1985), and as a consultant, *Hand injuries and infections* (London, Gower Medical, 1986). He then co-edited *Methods and concepts in hand surgery* (London, Butterworths, 1986). At a surgical conference, he met an American woman who ran a hand and rehabilitation centre in North Carolina. Neil soon made the momentous decision to relocate to the US, with the intention of obtaining a license to practise hand surgery there. However, the medical board of North Carolina made it so difficult for him that he made the even more momentous decision to abandon his surgical career and revert to his first love, drawing and painting. Even though he was thereafter relatively financially insecure, he never regretted the decision to begin his new career as a 'creative person'. For the next 20 or more years he painted, taught workshops in drawing and painting, and made several CDs of his own improvisational music. These endeavours went well, and he found he was earning $45,000 to $50,000 a year selling paintings in galleries. The highlight of his artistic career was when he held an exhibition of his work, 'Architecture observed', in Venice in 1996. For three months he exhibited 135 of his works, which were viewed by almost 10,000 people. One visitor was a Venetian writer, Renato Pestriniero, and together they published a book of Neil's paintings with commentaries by Pestriniero, *Seeking Venice* (Vianello Libri, 2001), which became available in Italian, French and English. Neil also found time to learn to fly, partly by using simulation, which gave him the idea of developing a simulator for microsurgical techniques. He received a grant of $250,000 from the US National Institutes of Health, with which he developed realistic layered replications of the rat femoral artery, vein and sciatic nerve. He became co-director of the Microsurgical Training Institute in Santa Barbara, California, where surgeons came from all over the world. When his second marriage was dissolved, he decided to move to the San Francisco bay area, where he continued painting and, for periods, was more active in teaching and in writing about art. He taught intermittently at Cal Poly and at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco (now the Academy of Art University). His painting evolved from being realistic and conventional to more abstract, eventually combining images with the written word, a form of art he termed 'diagraphica'. He brought out several CDs, including *The drawing spirit: developing the art of your drawing hand* (2003) and *Trigraphica: a drawing trilogy* (2007?), and a book *Drawing - developing a lively and expressive approach* (Neil Watson, 2007). He also rekindled his early interest in music. In late 2008 he became engaged again, but the development of a brain tumour curtailed this plan and, having returned to Oxford to be near two of his children, he died there on 4 October 2009 at the age of 65. He was survived by his three children, Ben, Anita and Hugh, and his two former wives.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001883
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