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First Title value, for Searching Linder, Leslie (1923 - 1987)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-08
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Occupation Anatomist Casualty surgeon Accident and emergency surgeon General surgeon
Details Leslie Linder was born in London on 29 October 1923 to Hyman Linder, a merchant and his wife, Anna, née Karsberg. He was educated at Westminster School and Cambridge University. In 1962 he became lecturer in anatomy in the University of Natal for two years, and then was casualty surgeon in King Edward VIII Hospital, Durban. He took up the post of principal surgeon and senior lecturer in the department of surgery, University of Natal, Durban in 1968 and held this position until his death. He married Vivienne Sara on 27 January 1965 and they had two sons. His hobbies were bridge, photography, chess and music. He died on 1 November 1987 aged 64 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Garraway, John Windsor (1915 - 1992)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-08
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Occupation Casualty surgeon Accident and emergency surgeon General surgeon Military surgeon
Details John Garraway was educated at Eastbourne College and the Middlesex Hospital. On graduating he joined the RAF, in which he served in North Africa and in the RAF hospital in Vereeniging, South Africa, where he married Margaret Lapping in June 1944. After the war he returned to England to serve in various RAF bases, from which he was seconded in 1952 to accompany the Royal Family as their family physician. He was seconded from the RAF to do surgical training at the Hammersmith Hospital and passed the FRCS in 1957, continuing to serve in the RAF until he retired as Group Captain. On retirement Garraway returned to South Africa as surgeon superintendent at the Eben Donges Hospital in Worcester, and later settled in Durban, where he ran the casualty department at King Edward VIII Hospital. He was given the nickname of *Khanyisani* from his Zulu staff, meaning 'light': this was because, on busy weekends, when casualty was crowded, he rolled up his sleeves and dealt quickly with everyone, which made him the 'light at the end of the tunnel'. He died on 31 December 1992, survived by his wife, three children and three grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Caro, David Bernard (1922 - 1996)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-02 2017-05-18
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon Casualty surgeon
Details David Caro was born in Auckland, New Zealand on 8 February 1922, the son of Harold D Caro, a merchant, and Rubina, née Ballin. He was educated at King's School and College, Auckland, before entering Otago University in Dunedin. He qualified in 1946 and shortly afterwards came to England for postgraduate study, passing the FRCS in 1949. He returned to New Zealand and was appointed part-time assistant surgeon at Waikato Hospital, Hamilton. After a few years in his home country he returned to England and was appointed senior casualty officer at St James's Hospital, Balham. When that hospital closed he obtained an appointment as consultant in charge of the Accident and Emergency department of St Bartholomew's Hospital and was associated with the formation of the Casualty Surgeons Association, becoming its second president. He was involved in drafting the major accident and emergency plan for St Bartholomew's Hospital which was put into operation on several occasions, notably after the IRA bomb explosion at the Old Bailey. After retiring from hospital work he went to live in New Zealand. He died of lymphoma on 15 March 1996 and left a wife, Dulcie, née Dunningham, whom he had married in 1950, a son, a daughter and two grandchildren. His outside interests were the theatre, music, art and the history of art.
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First Title value, for Searching Abson, Edward Pennington (1918 - 2009)

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by Jonathan Marrow
Publication Date 2018-04-05 2018-04-27
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon Casualty surgeon
Details Edward Abson was a major player in the movement to improve casualty services by the creation of specialist consultant posts. He became one of the first 30 such specialist consultants, being appointed to Kent and Canterbury Hospital, and was later the third president of the Casualty Surgeons' Association (CSA). He was born in Merthyr Tydfil on 6 March 1918, one of four children of James Abson and Lily Abson (née Hulme). His family were from the Stockport area, but were living in Wales when Edward and his twin sister were born. His father was secretary of a gas company. The family moved back to Cheshire when Edward was a young child. His first school was in Romiley and he went on to the King's School in Macclesfield. He later studied medicine at the Victoria University of Manchester, qualifying MB ChB in 1941. Soon after obtaining full registration, he volunteered for the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. He was commissioned with the rank of temporary surgeon lieutenant, and between 1942 and 1945 served on HMS *Penn*, a destroyer on convoy duties. Among numerous active engagements at sea, HMS *Penn* was involved in bringing a tanker, loaded with inflammable fuel and crippled by enemy action, into Valetta harbour, a turning point in the siege of Malta. At the end of hostilities, Edward was stationed at an air/sea rescue base for a year, where he gained further experience in the management of trauma. His interest in the sea continued after demobilisation: he was a keen sailor and took part in several long-distance transfers of sailing boats. After the war, he held hospital positions in Stockport and Blackburn, and also carried out some locum work in general practice. He secured the diploma of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and then spent six months as a postgraduate student in the anatomy department in Manchester before passing the primary FRCS in 1949. Surgical training posts followed, mostly in the Manchester region. He gained orthopaedic as well as general surgical experience. In 1956, he was successful in the final FRCS exam in London. By then he had moved to Dudley, in the Midlands. In Dudley, Edward worked first as a surgical registrar and then as a senior clinical medical officer (SCMO). He also had a chance to see the work of the pioneering Birmingham Accident Hospital. SCMO was one of the sub-consultant grades given to experienced doctors in charge of casualty departments, which was most likely Edward's role for the latter part of his time in Dudley. In 1963 he moved again, first to Southampton and then to the Isle of Wight, holding senior casualty officer posts at each. In 1962, a report by Sir Harry Platt, a distinguished orthopaedic surgeon, was commissioned by the Department of Health. It recommended that casualty departments be renamed 'accident and emergency' and that they should be supervised by orthopaedic surgeons. Many of the other recommendations were very welcome, but the senior casualty officers pointed out that the work of their departments had many challenges outside the field of orthopaedics. A senior casualty officers' subcommittee was set up within the British Medical Association in 1963, with Edward Abson as secretary. Between 1963 and 1980, Edward was prominent among those campaigning for the establishment of consultant posts in casualty departments. In 1965, he co-wrote an article in *The Lancet*, 'The casualty consultant' (*Lancet*. 1965 May 29;1[7396]:1158-9), the first of a series of publications about casualty departments and their patients. In October 1967, he was one of nine doctors in charge of casualty departments who met at BMA House in London and resolved to set up the CSA, the precursor to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. In 1972, 30 consultants in accident and emergency were appointed, as an experiment, to improve care in accident and emergency departments. Edward was one of them, being appointed to Kent and Canterbury Hospital. Edward was elected president of the CSA, serving from 1975 to 1978. He was the third to hold this office. The writer first attended a meeting of the CSA in 1977, during Edward's presidency. The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) was formed in 1968. Cordial relations were quickly established between the ACEP and the CSA. In 1981 Edward Abson, was made an honorary member of the ACEP, together with David Caro and John Collins, CSA presidents before and after Edward. There has been exchange of equivalent honours between presidents of British and US emergency medicine bodies since then. Edward retired from clinical work in about 1983. He saw himself as a surgeon in the casualty department and vigorously opposed changing the name of the CSA. Casualty or accident and emergency? Surgery, medicine or both? Debate about the name of the Association and of the specialty continued for many years, but in 1990 an AGM of the CSA voted by a large majority to change the name of the Association to the British Association for Accident and Emergency Medicine. Sadly, Edward was one of two senior members of the Association who felt so strongly that they resigned and walked out of the meeting to show their opposition to the change. Edward never married. He remained in Kent, living independently until 2007, when he moved to a care home in Folkestone. He died on 13 March 2009, seven days after his 91st birthday.
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First Title value, for Searching Lowden, Thomas Geoffrey (1910 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-01-13
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Occupation Casualty surgeon Accident and emergency surgeon
Details Thomas Lowden was a casualty surgeon in Sunderland. He was born in Leeds on 25 March 1910, where his father, Harold Lowden, was an engineer and his mother, Ethel Annie Lamb, a schoolteacher. From Leeds Grammar School he won a Holroyd scholarship to Keble College, Oxford, and went back to Leeds for his clinical training, qualifying in 1934. After junior posts in Leeds General Infirmary and the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne (from which he passed the FRCS), he joined the RAMC as a surgical specialist in 1941. He served in India, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, North Africa and Egypt, before taking part in the Sicily landings and the invasion of Italy, rising to the rank of acting lieutenant colonel. He remained for a time in Germany, before returning to specialise in accident and emergency surgery, becoming consultant in that specialty in Sunderland in 1946 and establishing its casualty department. He published The casualty department (Edinburgh and London, E & S Livingstone, 1956), and developed a subspecialty of hand surgery and was an early member of the Hand Club (later the British Society for Surgeon of the Hand). After he retired in 1970 he continued to do locums at Hexham General Hospital. He married Margaret Purdie, a doctor, in 1945. They had a daughter, Catherine, who became a teacher, and a son, Richard, a lawyer. Among his hobbies were mountain walking, especially in Norway, 16 mm photography and the history of the Crusades. He died on 9 October 2005.
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First Title value, for Searching Ellis, Maurice (1905 - 1977)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-01
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Occupation Casualty surgeon Accident and emergency surgeon General practitioner
Details Maurice Ellis, the son of a motor engineer, who founded a milk business which later became Associated Dairies, was born on 16 September 1905 in Leeds and was educated at Rydal School, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and Leeds University School of Medicine. After qualifying in 1930 he was appointed to house posts at Leeds General Infirmary and at Barnsley. In 1933 having decided to join the Colonial Medical Service, he took the London University DTM&H and sailed for Nigeria. During his first tour of service, spent mainly in sleeping sickness control in Northern Nigeria, he became proficient in the Hausa language. Part of the second and the whole of the third tour were spent in general surgical work at Lagos. Ill health caused an early retirement from the Colonial Medical Service in 1945. After his return to the United Kingdom he worked for a year and a half in general practice, in Gainsborough. In 1948 he took the FRCS and after a surgical post at Dewsbury was transferred back to his own teaching hospital. With the inception of the National Health Service and the increased demand for casualty services he was appointed to work full-time in the casualty department. From 1949 he was senior registrar and in 1952 was made consultant. He retired in 1969. In 1967 Ellis had become founder President of the Casualty Surgeons Association, and after his retirement he campaigned vigorously for the improvement of casualty work throughout Britain. He was especially interested in tetanus and was co-founder of the tetanus unit at Leeds. He is remembered for his hard work, administrative ability, original thought, and love of teaching. Hundreds of clinical students and junior doctors referred to him affectionately as Father Ellis. In 1962 he published his *Casualty officers' handbook*, which ran to three editions in his lifetime and continued to be widely read thereafter. In 1933 he married Irene Thornley, surgical ward sister at the Leeds General Infirmary. They had one son who qualified in medicine. Ellis died on 13 October 1977, after having suffered for some years from progressive brain-stem ischaemia.
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First Title value, for Searching Aldridge, Richard Thomas (1930 - 1999)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-13
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Occupation Casualty surgeon Accident and emergency surgeon General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Dick Aldridge was a surgeon in Wellington, New Zealand. He was born in Auckland on 18 June 1930. He was educated at Palmerston North Boys High School, where he was dux of the school. He attended Victoria University College and qualified from Otago Medical School in 1953. He was a house surgeon in Wellington and Stratford Hospital, returning to Wellington as orthopaedic registrar and junior surgical registrar in 1957. In 1958, with his young family, he came to England. He took the Edinburgh fellowship and became surgical registrar at Barnet General Hospital, and later at University College Hospital, passing his FRCS in 1959. He returned to New Zealand with his first wife, Margaret, daughters, Victoria and Jane and son, Richard, and was appointed casualty surgeon and admitting officer at Wellington Hospital. This was followed by two years as surgical tutor in the Wellington Clinical School and then he became full-time surgeon in paediatric and general surgery. From 1970 to 1989 he was on the visiting staff of Wellington Hospital, which he combined with a busy private practice. He was a keen territorial soldier, having joined as a student, and was the commanding officer of the Second General Hospital from 1968 to 1970. A keen skier and golfer, he was registrar of the Court of Examiners of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons from 1968 to 1970. He took early retirement in 1989, but continued to play bowls, despite ischaemic heart disease and became president of the Karori Bowling Club. Pottery was a new found pleasure in retirement and friends commented on his artistic skills. Dick married Joan Curle, theatre supervisor at Wellington Hospital, in 1974: they had one daughter, Robyn, who became a doctor. He died suddenly on 27 July 1999, while attending his pottery class.
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First Title value, for Searching Schrire, Theodore (1906 - 1991)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-01 2015-12-10
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Occupation Casualty surgeon Accident and emergency surgeon General surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details The following obitiuary was published in volume eight of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows: Theodore Schrire, nicknamed 'Toddy', was born on 6 November 1906 in Cape Town. He matriculated at the age of sixteen, afterwards attaining his MA from the University of Cape Town, where he received the medal in physiology in 1925. He qualified MB ChB in 1930, and obtained his FRCS in London in 1933. He subsequently studied at the Mayo Clinic, and under Chevalier Jackson, who stimulated his interest in thoracic surgery. He went on to broaden his interests, studying orthopaedics at the Allgemeines Krankenhaus in Vienna, but soon left because of the prevailing anti-semitic sentiments. He returned to Cape Town in 1935 as a general surgeon in private practice, and was attached to the department of surgery at the University of Cape Town Medical School under Professor Saint. In 1938 he married Sylvia Sohn, and together they returned to Europe where under Professor Semb in Norway he pursued his studies in thoracic surgery, a discipline he would ultimately pioneer in Cape Town. He published several papers in local and international journals on this topic. In 1943 Schrire convened the first meeting of the Association of Surgeons of South Africa. Here, in collaboration with A G Sweetapple and Marcus Cole-Rous, he presented a proposed constitution for a College of Surgeons of South Africa. He started the Head and Neck Clinic at Groote Schuur Hospital and soon became renowned for his heroic and aggressive surgery in this field. In 1955 he was awarded the Hamilton-Bailey medal of the Medical Association of South Africa. In March 1956, in his prime at the age of 49 years, Schrire was struck down by a stroke. Unable to perform active surgery he was appointed assistant editor to Dr T Shaddick-Higgins of the *South African Medical Journal*, and subsequently to the joint medical staff in charge of the casualty department at Groote Schuur Hospital. There, he supervised the junior staff, at the same time publishing numerous papers, culminating this work by editing two books: *Emergencies: casualty organisation and treatment* in 1962, and *Surgical emergencies: diagnoses and management* in 1972. In 1966 Schrire published *Hebrew Amulets*, still recognised today as the definitive work on this topic. He was equally renowned for his collection of netsukes and received international recognition. Throughout his life, Schrire was a serious collector of these, together with amulets, maps of Africa and Palestine, Judaica and a variety of literary works. In 1971, at the age of 65, Schrire retired from his surgical career and spent much time pursuing his interests in other fields. He was widely recognised as a scholar and academic. His temperament, described by his wife as 'fiery', may have proved intimidating to some, but to his family and close friends it was a constant stimulus to continued intellectual pursuits. He died on 6 May 1991, survived by his wife and four daughters, Tamar, Carmel, Sharon and Gail. The following obitiuary was published in volume nine of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows: 'Toddy' Schrire was born in Cape Town on 6 November 1906, the son of Max Mordechai Schrire and Rebecca Mauerberger. He was educated at the South African College School and studied medicine at the University of Cape Town, winning a medal in physiology. After qualifying, he went to London, passed the conjoint, and took the FRCS. Later he travelled extensively, visiting the Mayo Clinic, studying under Chevalier Jackson, and the Algemeine Krankenhaus in Vienna. He decided to leave Austria because of the prevailing anti-semitic climate. He returned to Cape Town in 1935 as a general surgeon in private practice, and was attached to the department of surgery under Saint. In 1938, he married Sylvia Sohn, and together they returned to Europe, where he studied under Semb in Norway. He resolved to specialise in cardiothoracic surgery, a discipline which he pioneered in South Africa. In 1943, Toddy convened the first meeting of the Association of Surgeons of South Africa, from which evolved a College of Surgeons of South Africa. He started the head and neck clinic at Groote Schuur Hospital and was soon famous for his aggressive surgery in this field. In 1955, he was awarded the Hamilton Bailey medal of the Medical Association of South Africa. In 1956, when only 49, Toddy was afflicted by a stroke. Giving up operating, he became assistant editor of the *South African Medical Journal* and was put in charge of the casualty department at Groote Schuur. There he published innumerable papers, supervised the junior staff, and wrote two textbooks. He had several hobbies. He was a respected collector of Japanese netsukes and Hebrew amulets, hobbies he shared with Sylvia. He retired in 1971. He died in Cape Town on 6 May 1991, leaving four daughters, three of whose names were Mrs Sharon Godfrey, Mrs Carmel Steiger and Mrs Gail Flesch.
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