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First Title value, for Searching Wolfson, Sir Isaac (1897 - 1991)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-09
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Occupation Businessman Philanthropist
Details For Sir Isaac Wolfson's distinctions and career see *Who's Who* 1990 and the excellent memoir by Lord Bullock in *Biographical memoirs of the Royal Society* 1994 423-7.
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First Title value, for Searching Kleinwort, Sir Cyril Hugh (1905 - 1980)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-23
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Occupation Businessman
Details Born on 17 August 1905, Sir Cyril was the son of Sir Alexander Kleinwort and became Chairman of the family company. He had long associations with the Royal College of Surgeons and was a leading figure, under Lord Kindersley, in arranging the College appeal. His outstanding experience and wisdom in merchant banking and insurance became a great benefit to the College and he was admitted to the Court of Patrons in 1968. Thereafter he continued to help the College and demonstrated how medicine and society can work together. In 1978 a citation was delivered by Walpole Lewin when Sir Cyril was admitted to the Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons. He served in the RNVR during the war as a Lieutenant-Commander. In 1933 he was married to Elizabeth Kathleen Forde and they had three daughters. He listed his hobbies as hunting and yachting. He died on 8 September, 1980.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006663
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First Title value, for Searching Levy, Percy Reginald (1917 - 1995)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-17
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Occupation Businessman Fundraiser
Details Born on 28 September 1917, the son of George Levy, a company director, and his wife Beatrice, née Birn, Percy Levy was educated at Clifton College and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He joined the RAF in 1940 and rose to be Squadron-Leader. He worked with the 600 Group, being responsible for their sales promotion and publicity, and brought this expertise to the College, where he founded the Fund Raising Committee and served on it for 34 years. He was also active in producing a video illustrating the College's activities. He was elected an honorary Fellow in January 1983 and was a member of the Court of Patrons. He married Doreen Michael Collins on 26 May 1946 and they had two daughters, Deirdre and Moira. On 19 November 1965 he married Connie Elisabeth Hasselgaard and they had one daughter, Keren. He was fond of writing, photography and Chinese art, and was a keen golfer. He died in November 1993.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008143
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First Title value, for Searching Blond, Neville (1896 - 1970)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-14
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Occupation Businessman
Details Blond was a generous benefactor to the College, in conjunction with his relatives in the Marks family. He had made his wealth as a textile manufacturer in Manchester, and also served with distinction in both world wars, and as a public servant in influential positions in Whitehall, Paris, Washington and Ottawa. Blond was born at Hull, Yorkshire on 11 February 1896 and educated at Manchester Grammar School. He served in France 1914-18, reaching the rank of Major, Royal Horse Guards, and winning the Croix de Guerre avec Palme and appointment as Officier, Légion d'Honneur. He served as a Wing Commander in RAF Fighter Command 1940-42, and subsequently with the Ministry of Production and the Board of Trade. He was a Vice-President of the British Legion for the North-West area 1933-48. He was United Kingdom Trade Adviser in the United States 1948-49, honorary trade adviser to the Board of Trade on North American exports 1949-51, and special trade adviser to the British High Commissioner in Canada. He was created OBE and CMG for his services. Blond was a Past Master of the Company of Pattenmakers and a Freeman of the City of London. In recognition of his benefactions Blond was elected an Honorary Fellow of the College. He died on 4 August 1970 aged 74, survived by his wife Elaine, daughter of Michael Marks, and by his two sons of his first marriage. One of his sons, Anthony Blond, undertook publication of *A History of the Royal College of Surgeons of England*, written by Sir Zachary Cope, in 1959.
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First Title value, for Searching Bors, John Kaspar (1912 - 2002)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-22 2021-02-09
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Occupation Businessman General surgeon
Details John Bors was born in Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia, on 27 October 1912. His father, Herbert Kaspar Bors, came from a German family that emigrated from Hanover in around 1840 and settled as farmers in Mount Gambier in 1842. At the time of John's birth his father was chairman and owner of Ingot Metals Australia. His mother was Alice Peele, née Allen. John was the only son, but his cousin, Frank Howard Bors, was also an FRCS. He was educated at Chatswood School, Tudor House School, Barker College and St Paul's College, Sydney. After house jobs at the Prince Henry and Royal North Shore Hospitals, he went to Manchester to specialise in surgery and completed registrar posts at Manchester Northern Hospital, Crumpsall Hospital, and the Whiston County Hospital. There he served in the Emergency Medical Service during the air raids. After the war he returned to Australia, as clinical assistant at the Royal Prince Alfred, Prince Henry and Royal Melbourne Hospitals, and was appointed honorary surgeon to Geelong Hospital. In 1952, on his father's death, he became chairman of Ingot Metals and remained there until the company was sold. He married Kathleen Merton, née Richards, by whom he had two daughters Angela Virginia (later Mrs Lucas then Jackson) and Veronica Anne (later Mrs Taubman - transcribed from mss cv form) who both became executive secretaries. A keen skier and surfer, he died on 4 February 2002 of emphysema and pulmonary fibrosis. Ever proud of his FRCS, he was dressed in the College robes for his funeral. He was survived by his family which by then included 4 grandchildren; Theodosia and Patrick Lucas and Christian and Justin Taubman.
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First Title value, for Searching Stewart, James Cuming (1905 - 1970)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-14
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Occupation Businessman General surgeon
Details James Cuming Stewart was born on 26 October 1905, the son of Sir Alexander Stewart who was born in Scotland and ultimately became an eminent Australian industrialist and company director. James was educated at Melbourne Grammar School and Ormond College, graduating MB BS in 1930. After holding junior surgical appointments at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne he came over to England to study for the FRCS, and in 1935 became RSO at St Mark's Hospital, and in 1936 was admitted to the Fellowship. On returning to Australia he was appointed associate surgeon to the Alfred Hospital and obtained the FRACS in 1939. During the second world war he served with the Australian Army Medical Corps from 1940-46, being ADMS (Equipment) in the New Guinea Force in 1943-44. On demobilization he returned to the Alfred Hospital, as surgeon to outpatients from 1946-56, and as surgeon to inpatients from 1956 till he retired prematurely in 1962 because of the onset of angina which forced him to abandon surgical practice. He spent the rest of his life as director of several industrial companies, but he maintained his association with the Alfred Hospital as a member of the Board of Management. Jim Stewart was a big gentle man, methodical and fond of hard work. He had a happy disposition and he and his wife took a delight in entertaining surgical colleagues visiting Melbourne. His own colleagues and his patients loved and trusted him. He enjoyed golf and travel, and was particularly happy in his family life. In 1937 he had married Anne Killough and they had two sons the elder of whom was killed tragically in a road accident at the age of 21, and the younger one, Malcolm, is an artist. He died of heart failure during an attack of pneumonia on 3 November 1970, and was survived by his wife and younger son.
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First Title value, for Searching Sieff of Brimpton, Rt Hon Lord Marcus Joseph, Baron Sieff of Brimpton (1913 - 2001)

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by John Blandy
Publication Date 2011-06-16
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Occupation Businessman
Details A businessman and former chairman of Marks and Spencer, Marcus Sieff was elected to an honorary fellowship in 1984 in recognition of his contributions to the College. He was born in 1913, the younger son of Israel Sieff and Rebecca Marks, an ardent Zionist. Rebecca's father Michael had co-founded the retailer Marks and Spencer in Leeds in 1884. Marcus was educated at Manchester Grammar School, St Paul's in London and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where he read economics. He started working at Marks and Spencer in 1935. In the Second World War he served in the Royal Artillery, winning an OBE for gallantry and reaching the rank of colonel. From 1954, he was successively a director, assistant managing director, vice-chairman, joint managing director and deputy chairman of Marks and Spencer. He was chairman of the company from 1972 to 1984. He introduced schemes to improve the welfare of his employees, including profit sharing. He was created a life peer in 1980. He died in London on 23 February 2001.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001253
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First Title value, for Searching Henry, Mitchell (1826 - 1910)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-13
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Occupation Businessman General surgeon Politician
Details Born at Ardwick Green, Manchester, in 1826, he was the younger son of Alexander Henry (d1862), Liberal MP for South Lancashire, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of George Brush of Dromore, Co Down, Ireland. Educated privately and at University College School in London. He afterwards joined the Pine Street School of Medicine at Manchester, which was subsequently incorporated with the medical department of the Owens College. He began to practise as a Consulting Surgeon at 5 Harley Street, London, W. He was elected Surgeon to the North London Infirmary for Diseases of the Eye in Charlotte Street, Portland Place, W. In 1857 he was elected Assistant Surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, becoming Surgeon in 1858. He lectured on morbid anatomy and later on surgical jurisprudence. He abandoned his profession in 1862 and became a partner in the family firm of A & S Henry, merchants and general warehousemen, of Manchester and Huddersfield. In 1865 he contested Woodstock unsuccessfully in the Liberal interest, and was defeated at Manchester both at a by-election in 1867 and at the general election in 1868. During his second Manchester candidature he founded the *Evening News* as an electioneering sheet, and after his defeat sold it to William Evans. He finally entered Parliament in 1871 as Member for Co Galway, being a warm supporter of Isaac Butt and a Member of the Home Rule League. His first important speech in Parliament was in support of Butt's motion for an inquiry into the judgement of Mr Justice Keogh in the matter of the Galway election petition in 1872. He opposed Gladstone's Irish University Bill, and when Butt was ill in 1877 he became the Leader of the Irish Party in the House. When the Land League came into existence he supported Forster as opposed to Parnell, and was unseated at the general election in 1885. He was, however, returned to Parliament by the Blackfriars Division of Glasgow, voted against Gladstone's Home Rule Bill on June 7th, 1886, failed to obtain re-election at the general election in that year, and retired from Parliament. Meanwhile he had bought from the Blakes a large estate of some 14,000 acres, mostly bog, in Co Galway between Letterfrack and Galway, and at the edge of Kylemore Lough he built a stately house in the baronial style, which passed afterwards to the Duke of Manchester and is now a convent. Here he lived on good terms with the peasantry until the days of the Land League. The firm of A & S Henry became a limited company in 1889 and Mitchell Henry remained chairman till 1898. His interest in Ireland declined, Kylemore was sold, and he retired to Leamington, where he died on November 22nd, 1910. Mitchell Henry married in 1850 Margaret, daughter of George Vaughan, of Quilly House, Dromore, Co Down, by whom he had three sons and three daughters. His wife died before him, and in her memory he built a very beautiful chapel in the grounds of Kylemore which has survived the recent 'bad times'. A cartoon by 'Spy' appeared in *Vanity Fair* in 1879. Publications:- Although Henry soon deserted surgery for politics he wrote - "Description of a Brain with Deficient Corpus Callosum." - *Med-Chir Trans*, 1848, xxxi, 239. "Case of Abscess in Vesicula Seminalis perforating the Bladder Peritoneum." - *Ibid*, 1850, xxxiii, 307. Translation of Velpeau on "Diseases of the Breast" for the Sydenham Society.
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First Title value, for Searching Collins, Sir William Henry (1873 - 1947)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-06
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Occupation Businessman
Details Sir William Henry Collins was the most munificent benefactor in the history of the College, his gifts for the endowment of the scientific departments being comparable to, but surpassing, the great donations of Sir Erasmus Wilson and Sir Buckston Browne. He gave £100,000 to endow the professorship of human and comparative pathology in 1943, and a similar endowment for the professorship of human and comparative anatomy in 1945, and in 1946 a third hundred thousand for the general endowment of the scientific departments; both the professorships were named after him. He was awarded the Honorary Medal in 1944 for his services to the advancement of surgery, and was elected an Honorary Fellow in 1945. Collins made his fortune chiefly in the Cerebos Salt Company, which he joined as a young man, and became its managing director in 1916. He was also associated with other large companies, including Fortnum and Mason, Crosse and Blackwell, and Carreras. During a severe illness his life was saved by three successful surgical operations, and he determined as far as possible to devote his wealth to promoting the welfare of the sick. He gave £25,000 to the Middlesex Hospital in 1933 to provide an X-ray diagnosis department, which was called after him. He was elected a governor and later a vice-president of the hospital. He was also closely associated with the King Edward VII Hospital at Windsor, of which he became chairman. He gave £20,000 to rebuild the out-patients department, provided new boilers for the hospital at a cost of £10,000 in 1942, and in 1938 after his appointment as chairman he made a New Year gift of £10,000 in the hope of setting an example to others according to their means. His gifts to the College are detailed above. He was knighted in 1944 at the birthday honours. Collins was a tall, thin man; there is a bronze bust of him by Epstein at the College and another at the Middlesex Hospital, and several photographs in the College's collection. His first wife died before him; he married secondly in 1946 Mrs Norah Royce-Callingham, who survived him; there were no children. Collins died on 30 November 1947, aged 74, at Wexham Park, Slough, and was buried at Bishops Sutton, Alresford, Hampshire.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004058
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First Title value, for Searching Bailey, Leonard Alec (1910 - 1997)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-13
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Occupation Businessman Industrial chemist
Details Leonard Bailey was an industrial chemist and managing director of Ethicon, who used his scientific knowledge and impressive managerial skills not only to succeed in his own career, but also to help others. He was born in Pontypridd, South Wales, on 8 August 1910, the son of a deputy chief inspector of the Ministry of Health. He was educated at Cardiff High School, the University of Wales and University College London. He qualified as an industrial chemist in 1932. He started his career with Monsanto Chemicals and then moved to the pharmaceutical division of ICI. In 1943 he joined the medical inspectorate of the Ministry of Supply. At the end of the war he took what must have been one of the most decisive steps of his life when in 1945 he joined the pharmaceutical company Johnson and Johnson. In 1947 he became the sales manager and director of their subsidiary, Ethicon and shortly thereafter its managing director. In this capacity he displayed both his scientific background and his flair for business management and Ethicon Limited of Edinburgh became the most advanced suture organisation in Europe. Their technical knowledge was in constant demand and they helped to establish suture-manufacturing plants in various parts of the Commonwealth and Europe. They were the first to pioneer acceptable standards for surgical sutures, the first in this country to introduce radiation sterilisation and the first company to establish and maintain a research unit constantly seeking for improvements in the production of sutures already in use and the testing of new materials. Ethicon has always given the most generous support to surgical research and Leonard Bailey was the instigator of all this. Subsequently a series of fellowships was established to enable young surgeons to travel and study abroad. The tenure of an Ethicon fellowship has been the start of many successful surgical careers. In 1936 Bailey married Audrey Margaret Colley and they had a son and a daughter, who became a veterinary surgeon. Despite his involvement in a very busy professional life, Bailey found time to take a keen interest in civic affairs in Edinburgh and was a town councillor for 12 years, serving on many important committees concerned with the welfare of Scotland, ranging from Leith docks to hospital boards. His interest in and support for surgical affairs was widespread and in recognition of this he was elected an Honorary Member of the prestigious James IV Association of Surgeons in 1969, and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, of Edinburgh, and of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He was elected to the Court of Patrons of this College in 1970, in recognition of his substantial contributions; he was responsible for obtaining the gift from Ethicon for the oak panelling in the Council Room, gave generously to support the research establishment at Downe and, in addition to setting up the Ethicon travelling fellowships, he also donated funds to enable the presidents of the College to travel abroad. Surgery throughout the British Isles and elsewhere owes much to this man for his foresight and generous benefaction. He died on 11 September 1997.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008461
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First Title value, for Searching Marks, Sir Simon, Lord Marks of Broughton (1888 - 1964)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-21
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Occupation Businessman
Details Simon Marks was born on 9 July 1888 son of Michael and Hannah Marks and was educated at Manchester Grammar School. His father died in 1906 and Simon aged 18 went into the business his father had founded in Leeds market in 1884 of penny bazaar stores. During the first world war he worked on various Government projects chiefly under Chaim Weizmann and developed his latent interest in Zionism. After the war he expanded his family business with unprecedented success and profit, till "Marks and Spencer" became familiar throughout the country. He persuaded manufacturers to produce goods of quality and style and sold them within the means of poorer people on a great scale, thus incidentally improving public taste especially in clothing. He was an excellent employer, providing good conditions for all his staff. His range of interests was wide, and in his charitable dispositions he particularly encouraged the application of scientific developments to practical purposes. He gave munificent financial help to this Royal College, to which he was attracted by the advocacy of Sir Archibald Mclndoe. Marks gave more than half a million pounds to the College for the expansion of education and research, and persuaded the Council to open a campaign to raise further funds. He was elected an Honorary Fellow in 1957 and to the Court of Patrons; other members of his family followed his lead in support of the College's work. Lord Marks died on 8 December 1964 aged 76, survived by his wife with their son and daughter.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005136
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First Title value, for Searching Wolfson, Leonard Gordon, Baron Wolfson of Marylebone in the City of Westminster (1927 - 2010)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-10-14
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Occupation Businessman Philanthropist
Details Lord Wolfson was a businessman and an outstanding philanthropist. He was born in London, the only child of Edith and (later Sir) Isaac Wolfson, the son of Russian immigrants who had settled in Glasgow, and was educated at King’s School, Worcester. He succeeded to the Great Universal Stores business empire that had been established by his father. He ran the Wolfson Foundation and supported the Wolfson Colleges, which his father had established in Oxford and Cambridge, as well as many Jewish charities. He also built up a valuable art collection. He was elected to the Court of Patrons of our College in 1976 and was made an honorary fellow in 1988. He married first Ruth Sterling, by whom he had four daughters, and, after a divorce, Estelle Feldman. He died on 20 May 2010.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001052
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First Title value, for Searching Kindersley, Hugh Kenyon Molesworth, Second Baron Kindersley of West Hoathly (1899 - 1976)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-07-25
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Occupation Businessman
Details Lord Kindersley was born in 1899, the son of the first Lord Kindersley and Gladys Margaret Beadle. Educated at Eton he served in the first world war in the Scots Guards, where he won the Military Cross in 1918. During the second world war he rejoined his old regiment and served with the 6th Airborne Division with the rank of Brigadier, and won the MBE and CBE (military. After the war he succeeded to his father in 1951, became chairman of Rolls Royce (from 1956 to 1968) and a director of Lazard Brothers (1967 to 1971). He was chairman of the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration from 1962 to 1970, and President of the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council. In the College he was a very successful chairman of the Appeal Committee, from 1958, with Sir Simon Marks as his vice-chairman: together they collected £3.6 million in the next 15 years, by which means the College was rebuilt. During this time old fellows were invited, and new fellows obliged, to make an annual subscription. A valued and highly respected member of its Court of Patrons, the College acknowledged his services with their honorary gold medal in 1975. He died on 6 October 1976.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000374
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First Title value, for Searching Sieff, Israel Moses, Lord Sieff of Brimpton (1889 - 1972)

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First Title value, for Searching Hayward, Sir Charles William (1892 - 1983)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-22
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Occupation Businessman
Details Charles William Hayward was born in Wolverhampton on 3 September 1892, the son of John and Mary Hayward. His father, a bicycle salesman, died when Charles was two years old and his mother died four years later. He and his younger sister were then cared for by their grandparents and he was educated at St John's Church School in Wolverhampton. His spare time was spent with his grandfather who owned a lock making business. He helped in the workshop, collected castings from a local foundry, delivered finished locks and latches to customers and collected cash from them. He left school when he was thirteen years old and he was then apprenticed as a pattern maker at Joseph Evans, heavy pump manufacturers. In 1910, with a small loan from a friend and one assistant, he rented a small factory for half-a-crown a week where he made wooden patterns for engineering and motor car firms, later producing motor cycle sidecars, tubular chassis and motor car bodies. In 1920, his company merged with the AJS Motor Cycle Company using premises that covered 100,000 square feet and employed a thousand people. In 1932, he sold his interest in AJS and moved to London where he formed Electrical and General Industrial Trusts Ltd to finance new inventions and new processes. This led to the formation in 1956 of the Firth Cleveland Group which operated twenty factories in the UK, employing over seven thousand people. The turnover in 1970 exceeded £52 million. There were factories in Holland, Germany, India and Australia and agencies worldwide. The Group headquarters was Stornaway House, a Crown property, formerly the home of Lord Beaverbrook. Air raids almost destroyed it and Charles Hayward restored it in 1956. He built a port, factories and a hospital in Grand Bahama, a hospital in Sri Lanka and an old people's home in Wolverhampton. Apparatus for cardiac surgery was presented to St George's Hospital, Haywards Heath and he defrayed the greater part of the cost of rebuilding the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children. Generous contributions were made to Moorfields Eye Hospital and to the Institute of Ophthalmology and he presented a splendid organ to the chapel at Gordonstoun. He was a member of the Post Office Advisory Council, Vice-President of the Wildfowl Trust, President of the Wolverhampton School, a Liveryman of the Barbers' Company and a Freeman of the City of London. He was Honorary Fellow of Keble College and Oriel College, Oxford, and the University of Birmingham conferred on him the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws in 1975. He was elected Knight of the Order of St John in 1973. He was admitted to the Court of Patrons on 9 April 1964 and the citation by Clifford Naunton Morgan was published in the Annals, as was the citation by Robert Cooke when Mr Hayward, as he then was, was admitted an Honorary Fellow in 1970. On that occasion, he unveiled a replica of his Coat of Arms in the room at the College that now bears his name. He was made CBE in 1970 and created a Knight Bachelor in 1974. In 1915, he married Hilda, the daughter of John and Alexandra Arnold. They had one son, now Sir Jack Hayward. Hilda assisted in the business from its early days in Wolverhampton and she organised the entertaining of their friends and business associates at their home in Sussex. Her death in May 1971 precipitated a decision to find a suitable buyer for the Firth Cleveland Group and it was acquired by Guest Keen and Nettlefold in 1972. In December 1971, Sir Charles purchased the lease of a Crown property the Isle of Jethou, east of Guernsey and in December 1972, he married Elsie Darnell George, the daughter of the late Charles and Kate George. They lived on Jethou until Sir Charles died on 3 February 1983, in his 91st year.
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First Title value, for Searching Sims, Sir Arthur (1877 - 1969)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-14
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Occupation Accountant Businessman Cricketer Philanthropist
Details Born in Lincolnshire in 1877, Arthur Sims went to New Zealand with his parents at the age of three. In the then rugged pioneering days of that young country, those same parents spared nothing to ensure that his upbringing and education were the best possible under existing conditions. He responded with deep affection and admiration - a fact which influenced his whole future. Their faith in the Empire, their belief in the essential value of a good education, their foresight in appreciating the part science would play in a rapidly developing world, their staunch adherence to basic moral principles, and their ultimate deaths from cancer are all reflected in Arthur Sims' subsequent career. As a boy he was brought up in the country, and early acquired a love of outdoor life and games. At Christchurch Boy's High School he was the first boy ever to score 1000 runs and take 100 wickets in one season - an early indication of what was to become one of his greatest interests. He proceeded to Canterbury University where, in the company of Lord Rutherford, he qualified MA with First Class Honours in Chemistry. He then turned his attention to business, and qualified as an accountant - and combined his scientific and commercial knowledge in becoming the protagonist of the frozen meat industry in New Zealand. Ultimately his business interests became protean and world wide. He was an astute man of affairs par excellence - a real merchant venturer - but his dealings were always essentially within the Empire. A born individualist, he was an ardent supporter of free enterprise, and equally an outspoken opponent of Socialism and the Welfare State concept. His amazing success story in business, which developed a breadth of interests and took him from New Zealand to Australia, to South Africa and Rhodesia, and ultimately to the United Kingdom, stemmed from an intense vitality, an inexhaustible energy, an infectious enthusiasm for whatever he was doing, and a belief that the one inexcusable sin was wasting time! In his younger days, his prowess in cricket was phenomenal - and the love of the game stayed with him throughout life. He played for New Zealand in 1899 versus Australia, and again in 1905 and 1910; but his greatest feat was when leading an Australian side against New Zealand in 1914 he, with Victor Trumper, put up what is still the world's record stand for an 8th wicket partnership of 433 runs in 190 minutes - his own contribution being 140. He himself probably appreciated even more the making of 127 not out playing with the great Dr Grace in a charity match at Blackheath in 1913. Since 1926 he was a member of the Imperial Cricket Conference, and who more deserved membership of the MCC, which he achieved in 1955. One stresses this cricket side of his life because it, was indirectly an important side of his working routine. It was not in his nature to get worried - especially after he married his life partner and ardent supporter and admirer, Nancy, in 1909 - but if tension in business tended to mount too high, he had three antidotes - the Tate Gallery, the Choir at St Paul's, and Lords. A Test Match without Arthur Sims was a rare occasion! Certain side lights of his personality are shown by the fact that he played active tennis until he was over 75; that although he enjoyed food, he smoked little and drank less; that he had no clothes sense whatsoever; that he was a voracious reader (especially of history); that he collected books and Oriental pottery; and that his admitted heroes were Alexander the Great, W G Grace, Winston Churchill and Cecil Rhodes! It was not until after the second world war that this indomitable little man - with his own business empire well and truly established - became a philanthropist and a patron of science - particularly medicine. Sitting in his rather featureless office in Holborn Viaduct, he began to turn his long cherished ideals into eminently practical ideas. His generosity was immense, and was only rivalled by his modesty. His retiring nature hid a dynamic drive, and few knew of the varied spread - the quality as well as ample quantity of his donations to the many causes he espoused. He neither asked for, nor expected, thanks for his largesse. The success of his many schemes was rewarded enough, but over the years he built up a goodly company of firm friends whose appreciation of his generosity was matched only by the admiration and affection they had for the man himself. A list of some of these donations is surely merited, and it will be obvious how most of them mirror the loves and interests and beliefs that made up his own life. In 1938 he endowed a Rutherford Memorial Scholarship in Physics at Canterbury University - his alma mater. Soon after, he donated the first radium ever to be used medically in New Zealand, and followed this up after the war with the gift of a cobalt therapy unit to the Christchurch Hospital - a £35,000 gesture. In 1945, he set up his "Empire Scholarships" - to bring one young man each year to Cambridge from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada. This scheme was planned on a Rhodes Scholarship basis. In the same year, so impressed was he by Sir Alexander Fleming, the the discovery of penicillin, and so depressed by the lack of recognition accorded to him, that he gave him an annuity for life, and at the same time a generous donation to the Research Fund of Fleming's Hospital - St Mary's. During the war, he provided all the specialised equipment required by the first New Zealand Mobile Surgical Team to operate in the Middle East; and in 1953 he donated the stained glass windows in Lincoln Cathedral, which commemorate the 198 New Zealand airman who lost their lives serving with Bomber Command. In 1955 he presented the thrones which decorate the Legislative Chamber of the New Zealand House of Parliament; and in 1965 he gave £10,000 to help establish halls of residence in his old University in Christchurch. In 1956 he gave £15,000 to the research funds of the Royal College of Surgeons of England; but undoubtedly his most valuable contribution was the setting up of the Sims Commonwealth Travelling Professorships in 1946. These - now usually two annually - were to allow medical men at the top of their profession to travel from the Dominions to the "Old Country" (Sims' terminology!), and from Britain to the Dominions. So inbred an Empire man was he that it took much persuasion to extend and enlarge these invaluable personal contact tours to include the more recent parts of the Commonwealth - over and above the Dominions. When he did, he was overjoyed at the result. It is typical of the man that one of the clauses of the award stipulated that where possible, the Travelling Professor's wife should travel with him, and that if possible they were to have their week-ends free. There are now over thirty of these Professors (and a similar scheme has been established in his only daughter's name for obstetrics and gynaecology), and until his death, they were wont to meet the Donor annually at a dinner held in one of the Royal Colleges. The obvious delight of Arthur Sims and his wife on these occasions was heart-warming to see. It was not surprising that his service to the Commonwealth was recognised by a surely well deserved and earned Knighthood in 1950. Other awards to him steadily mounted over the years. New Zealand University gave him an Hon LLD; both the Australian Royal Colleges made him an Honorary Fellow, as did the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists; and the Royal College of Surgeons of England awarded him its highest honour - the Honorary Medal - in 1949 - made him a Member of the Court of Patrons, and an Honorary Fellow in 1956. He was a constant visitor to the College up till the last months of his life - always welcomed by a growing host of friends trying - quite unsuccessfully! - to make him appreciate what an invaluable contribution he had made to British and Commonwealth medicine. Industrious, courageous and pertinacious - witty, intelligent, ever seeking new knowledge - kindly, modest and over-generous, Sir Arthur Sims loved life - fully. He mixed the astute business man with the philosopher idealist. In his youth he played his games in the same way as in more mature years he ran his business - for the delight he got out of them; and in so doing he gave, and gave gladly, friendship and stimulus to many who knew him, and hope and happiness to thousands who did not - surely a most honourable Honorary Fellow. He died on 27 April 1969, aged ninety-one, and was survived by his wife, and his daughter Margaret Black who followed her father's example by endowing a travelling fellowship of obstetricians and gynaecologists.
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First Title value, for Searching Morris, Sir William Richard, Viscount Nuffield (1877 - 1963)

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Details Born on 10 October 1877 he grew up at Oxford and when he was 16 started to earn his living in a bicycle shop. Very soon he had his own shop, was winning bicycle-races, and designed and sold first a bicycle and then a motor-cycle. Capital accumulated and in 1904, aged 27, he started his Morris Garage. Car-driving was becoming fashionable, but cars were expensive and temperamental. Morris acquired a small factory at Cowley, then on the edge of Oxford, and in 1913 produced the first cheap but reliable British car. Through the war of 1914-18 his works served the national cause, but after 1919 his success was phenomenal. He had a talent for design, though untrained, a genius for business, and an unlimited capacity for hard work. Moreover, with all his energy and determination, he remained straightforward and simple through years of success. The Morris-Cowley and the Morris-Oxford cars took the public fancy, and within six years he was selling 60,000 cars a year. The long series of Morris's benefactions began in 1926. Hospitals in Birmingham and West-Midland towns were nobly helped, St Thomas's in London received a princely gift, but Morris's generosity favoured Oxford above all. Beginning with support for the Radcliffe Infirmary, he also, on the wise advice of G R Girdlestone FRCS, created an orthopaedic service for the whole district, centred on the Wingfield-Morris Hospital. His munificent help for Guy's Hospital began in 1934, and in 1936 he established a £2 million Trust to develop the Medical School of Oxford University, where five Nuffield Professorships were first founded and several ancillary Departments created. At Oxford he also founded Nuffield College for graduate research into social problems in 1938. Morris was created a Baronet in 1929, was raised to the peerage as Lord Nuffield in 1934 and advanced to a Viscountcy in 1938. Lord Nuffield's most influential contribution to medicine was the creation in 1939 of the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust, parallel to King Edward VII's Fund for the Hospitals of London. This Trust facilitated the raising of standards throughout the country, and prepared the way for the integration of the Hospitals into well-organised groups. He established the Nuffield Foundation in 1943 to arrange the distribution of his bounty, but he himself continued to give detailed personal attention to every cause which he supported. He made princely donations to the College during the period of post-war reconstruction, first to provide from 1948 a temporary student's residence by reconditioning 44 and 45 Lincoln's Inn Fields at the west of the College, and subsequently to build the Nuffield College at the east side, providing eighty-seven bed-sitting rooms for graduate students, with common-rooms, recreation facilities, a dining hall, a flat for the President and another for the Warden, etc. When the Faculty of Dental Surgeons established a Department of Dental Science within the College, Lord Nuffield munificently endowed the Professorial Chair for this new Department in 1956. The College recognised Lord Nuffield's vast gifts to medicine by awarding him its rarely given Honorary Medal in 1942. He was only the nineteenth recipient in 140 years of this medal which is voted for "liberal acts or distinguished labours eminently conducive to the improvement of natural knowledge and the healing art". He was elected an Honorary Fellow in 1948, and for the great support he had given to research in anaesthesia and its practical application he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Anaesthetists at the College in 1953. When he was admitted to the Honorary Fellowship of the College, Lord Nuffield confessed that as a boy he had wished to become a surgeon, and as a young man he came under the inspiring influence of Sir William Osler, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford. By the time of his death on 22 August 1963 Lord Nuffield had given, either directly or through various Trusts which he established, some £30 million, mainly to medical causes. He presented his portrait painted by John Wheatley ARA to the College in 1950. Morris married in 1904 Elizabeth Maud Anstey who died in 1959; there were no children; he died on 22 August 1963, and a memorial service was held in St Paul's Cathedral on 10 October, which would have been his 86th birthday.
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