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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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008496
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First Title value, for Searching Stewart, James Cuming (1905 - 1970)

2024-05-25T08:31:58Z

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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006099
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First Title value, for Searching Henry, Mitchell (1826 - 1910)

2024-05-25T08:31:58Z

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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002203
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