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First Title value, for Searching Guy, Tom (1819 - 1868)

2024-05-06T09:34:17Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-03-22
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Occupation Coroner General surgeon
Details Practised at 30 Hall Gate, Doncaster, where he was Surgeon to the 3rd West York Militia and Deputy Coroner for the Borough. He died on May 21st, 1868.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002076
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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First Title value, for Searching Missen, Anthony John Bartley (1936 - 2013)

2024-05-06T09:34:17Z

by William Shand
Publication Date 2018-05-18
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Occupation General surgeon Coroner Magistrate Medico-legal adviser
Details John Missen was a consultant surgeon at Hackney Hospital and an assistant coroner in north London. He was born in Wigan on 25 August 1926. Almost immediately the family moved to Suffolk when his father, Leslie Robert Missen, was appointed chief education officer for East Suffolk. John’s mother, Muriel Sarah Deakin Alstead, was a writer and an actress, who had the enviable gift of making friends, an ability she passed on to her two sons. John was educated at a local prep school in Ipswich before going to Lancing College in Sussex. Early interests at school included ornithology and coin-collecting, rapidly followed by archaeology through his interest in the excavations at Verulamium, St Albans. He was chairman of the Young Farmers’ Club and of the motor club, secretary of the badminton club and of the Shakespeare society, founder of the Linnaeus club and more, an inkling of why he developed such a wide range of interests in later years. From Lancing he went to Christ’s College, Cambridge. Here he sang in the choir, was president of the Milton Debating Society and founder of the Goat Club, an exclusive dining club in the college. One year he was part of the college Poppy Day appeal, putting on a revue with songs and sketches, and in his final year he donated his beloved 1926 Riley Nine Tourer to the Poppy Day rag week charity. A more serious pursuit was of course the study of natural sciences, with a view to doing medicine. In 1958, he entered St Bartholomew’s Hospital for his clinical training. Here he met Janet, his future wife, who had just come down from Oxford. John qualified in 1961, she in 1962 and they were married later that year. Essential house jobs followed and further examinations, including the FRCS, came next. A senior registrar post and a lectureship in surgery followed, together with the prestigious Cattlin research fellowship, all at Barts, and in due course he was awarded his doctorate in medicine. In 1972, having always been interested in medico-legal matters and rather to the surprise of his friends, John joined the Coroners’ Society of England and Wales, and applied for and was appointed to the post of assistant deputy coroner for inner London (north), a post he held until 1984. His appointment as a justice of the peace followed in 1995. Concurrently with all this, he was appointed as a consultant surgeon to Hackney Hospital. Part of this appointment was a surgical tutorship at Barts with responsibility for setting up the surgical teaching programme at Whipps Cross Hospital. However, in spite of one of the senior consultant surgeons at Barts describing John as having the best pair of surgical hands that he had ever seen, it was his medico-legal career that was now to take off. In 1980 John was admitted to the membership of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, although he was never in fact called to the Bar. In 1984, having been appointed as an assistant secretary to the Medical Defence Union (MDU), he left Hackney and Barts. His experience as a coroner and his medical background ensured that he was admirably qualified for this post, a rather archaic Civil Service title for an important job as a medico-legal adviser. During his years at the MDU, he became a highly respected and much appreciated member of staff and in due course was appointed to a post which rejoiced in the title of ‘senior medical claims handler’. His colleagues at the MDU were unanimous in their praise. ‘A steadier man of integrity and principle it would be hard to imagine’ said one, ‘a real brick’. ‘If you wanted a carefully thought out opinion about a serious problem, then John was your man,’ said another. All said that his work was meticulous, his search for clues in a morass of hospital records assiduous, and his subsequent reports beautifully crafted, and all agreed that, when John had something to say, you listened. There was of course a lighter side to all this for he and a colleague became avid collectors of quite unforgettable typos in hospital notes. And two hallmarks emerged – his immaculate three-piece suit and the wisp of smoke curling from beneath the door of his office, for he was by now a pipe smoker and a connoisseur of rather fine cigars: open the door and there he would be, engrossed in a stack of files and enveloped in a cloud of smoke. Above all however, he is remembered at the MDU for his wise counsel, calm demeanour and effective management. There are many in the medical profession who have very good reason to be grateful to John. Following his retirement from the MDU, he continued his legal career serving as a magistrate on the City of London Bench until 2001. Concurrent with his professional career, John developed and maintained strong connections with the City of London livery scene. His interest started at a comparatively early age when he became a yeoman of the Society of Apothecaries in 1967, being granted the Freedom of the City two years later. In 1971, he became a liveryman of the Society and in 1991 was elected to the court. Over the years at Apothecaries’ Hall he served on the livery committee and the charity committee, and for seven years was the Society representative on the court of City University. In 1978, he was admitted to the livery of the Barbers’ Company, joining the court there in 1991, the same year that he joined the court of the Society of Apothecaries – an extraordinary coincidence and a rare achievement. At Barber-Surgeons’ Hall he was a founder member of the historical group, now the Barbers’ historical society, serving as chairman of both that and the charity committee, and having then served in the post of all three wardens, he was elected master in 1997. He listed ‘avoiding public speaking’ on his CV under ‘interests other than hobbies’, but he was in fact a very good after-dinner speaker and his year of office was a great success. During the year however, he suffered a slight stroke, from which he made an excellent recovery and proceeded with the duties of master with undiminished gusto. Unfortunately, this setback in his health persuaded him a year or two later not to proceed to the private court and thence to the mastership of the Society of Apothecaries. Both the Society and the Company will remember with gratitude the very generous gift to each by John, of a banner (with a spare in each case) which fly over the entrance to the halls in Black Friars Lane and in Monkwell Square on high days and holidays. Away from the City and work, he had many other interests. He was a wine buff. He had a comprehensive knowledge of silver and amassed a splendid collection of magnificent pieces associated with the City Livery. He was an expert on clocks. A spin-off of all this was his appointment as a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. But his greatest love, apart from family, was probably his collection of vintage cars, an interest he shared with Janet. Between them they acquired and maintained a remarkable garage. Many were the international rallies that they both attended all over Europe in one of their Bugattis on a near annual basis. John died on 21 December 2013 at the age of 77. He was survived by his widow Janet, liveryman of both the Society of Apothecaries and the Company of Barbers, by his daughter Clare, who is also an apothecary and barber, and by his son Andrew, barber and glass seller.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009444
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First Title value, for Searching Wells-Cole, Gervas Charles (1889 - 1974)

2024-05-06T09:34:17Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-13
Unknown
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Occupation Coroner General practitioner General surgeon
Details Gervas Charles Wells-Cole, the eldest son of Gervas Frederick Wells-Cole, a farmer, was born in Lincoln on 5 May 1889. His mother, Mary Beatrice, who died aged 98, was a daughter of Charles Brook, FRCS, who himself survived to the age of 91. After education at St Edmund's School, Hindhead, and Repton College, he went on to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and St Bartholomew's Hospital where he qualified in 1914 and became house surgeon and resident anaesthetist before joining the RAMC. He served with 138 Field Ambulance in France and Belgium, but was invalided home to spend the remainder of the war in military hospital appointments and was demobilised as a Captain in 1919. After the war he joined his maternal grandfather and his cousin W H B Brook, MD, FRCS in general practice at Lincoln. He was appointed to the staff of Lincoln County Hospital in 1920, took his Cambridge mastership in surgery in 1922 and served that hospital for many years. Soon after the second world war, when his eldest son joined him, he gave up general practice and continued to serve as senior surgeon until 1954 when he retired from the NHS. In 1925 he was appointed deputy coroner for the city of Lincoln and became city coroner in 1935, a post which he held until 1971. He was on the council of the Coroners' Society of England and Wales for many years and was its President in 1954, continuing to attend council meetings until the last year of his life. He served on many other medical committees and was President of the Lincoln Medical Society in 1932 as well as Chairman of the Lincoln Division of the BMA in 1936. He was appointed as JP in 1933, then sheriff of the city in 1952 and became an OBE in 1964. He was elected FRCS in 1962, as one of the last general-practitioner surgeons, and continued to look after the hospital nurses until 1971. Outside his professional work he loved the outdoor life - walking in Iona, bird-watching, gardening, shooting and, above all, cricket. He had played for Lincolnshire, served on the county committee until his death, and had been president of the county club on three occasions. Whilst a student he had also played football and hockey for his Cambridge college and for St Bartholomew's Hospital. A strong churchman, regular in attendance at parish church and cathedral, he was also a committed Freemason. All this, and a talent for cooking, an appreciation for port and an interest in bridge, left little time for anything else. He married Miss F R Allen, daughter of the Rt Hon C P Allen, MP, in 1915 and they were devoted to their four sons, the eldest of whom had qualified at St Bartholomew's Hospital. Very sadly that son contracted severe poliomyelitis in 1947 and spent five years in an iron lung ventilator before dying in 1952. His wife died in 1958 and when he himself died, aged 85, on 21 December 1974 he was survived by his three sons.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007032
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