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First Title value, for Searching Redford, George (1816 - 1895)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-31
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Occupation Curator General surgeon
Details George Redford is chiefly remembered in connection with sculpture. He was Registrar of the Crystal Palace Collection of Sculpture in 1853-1854; Curator of the Art Treasures Exhibition in Manchester, 1857; Commissioner for the National Exhibition of Works of Art, Leeds, 1868. He lived at Cricklewood, London, and died there on October 26th, 1895. His eldest son, George Alexander Redford, was well known for many years as the official examiner of plays. Publication: *A Manual of Ancient Sculpture, Egyptian, Assyrian, Greek, Roman, with illustrations and chronological lists of ancient sculptors and their works*, 8vo, London, 1886. There is a copy in the College Library, interesting as the work of a Fellow.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003055
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First Title value, for Searching Carter, Robert Markham (1875 - 1961)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-03
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Occupation Curator General surgeon Pathologist
Details Born on 18 October 1875, son of Captain Arthur William Markham Carter of the 25th Native Infantry and Rosalie Edmunds Bradley, Robert Markham Carter was educated at Epsom where he played in the fifteen. He then studied medicine at St George's and St Bartholomew's Hospitals and in Paris. He took the MRCS and LRCP in 1901 and entered the Indian Medical Service on 29 January 1902 as medical officer to the 1st Bombay Lancers. From 1903 to 1904 he was attached to the Anglo-Turkish Boundary Commission in the Aden interior. During leave in Britain in 1904 he carried out research work in several laboratories. On his return to India, then a Captain, he was posted to the North-West Frontier, where in the Zakka Khel expedition of 1908 he was severely wounded. He was awarded the medal with clasp. After this Carter was transferred to the civil side of the Service and his first posting was at the Pasteur Institute, Kasauli where his previous research experience was useful, but he wished to devote his life to clinical work so in 1911 he went to St George's Hospital, Bombay as resident surgeon. He obtained the FRCS in 1912 and was appointed Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy at the Grant Medical College in that year. In 1913 Carter became Second Presidency Surgeon, and 2nd Physician at the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy Hospital, Bombay, and the following year he was appointed Third Presidency Surgeon, Professor of Pathology and Morbid Anatomy, and Curator of the Museum of the Grant Medical College, Bombay. With the outbreak of the first world war Carter was recalled to military duty and placed in medical charge of the Varela. This hospital ship was sent to Basra to evacuate casualties from the defeat at Ctesiphon. The many sick and wounded were transported in barges along the tortuous river Tigris; Carter was profoundly shocked by their condition on arrival and said so. This criticism led to a succession of stormy interviews in which Carter was accused of being meddlesome and interfering, but he was not intimidated by threats of arrest and loss of his career. He insisted on a personal interview with the Commander-in-Chief, General Sir John Nixon. The result is recorded in the report of the Mesopotamian Commission, which contains these words: "Carter by his persistence brought to the notice of his superiors the terrible condition of the wounded when they arrived at Basra after Ctesiphon, and in other ways he revealed shortcomings which might have been ignored and left unremedied. His sense of duty seems to be most commendable, and he was fertile and resourceful in suggesting remedies." In April 1916 Carter was sent to the India Office in Whitehall to organise medical equipment for the Mesopotamian expedition; when the War Office took over the operations Carter was transferred there and was made responsible for the complete fitting out of the hospital ships. He organised a river hospital fleet, a water-post system and purification plant, an ice-making fleet and refrigerator barges. He was thrice mentioned in dispatches, and given the brevet of Lieutenant-Colonel on 26 April 1916. In 1918 Carter was appointed CB and placed on special duty under the Controller-General of Merchant Shipping. He did valuable work for the Admiralty as medical supervisor of labour and housing. After the war he returned to his civil career in Bombay, as first Physician at the JJ Hospital and Professor at the Grant Medical College. In 1925 he was appointed First Presidency Surgeon, and consulting physician to the European General Hospital, Bombay. He retired in 1927 with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He married Kate Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Michie Saunderson; they had one son and three daughters. He died on 13 March 1961 at his home, Paddock Cottage, Ascot, Berkshire at the age of 85. Mrs Carter died there on 30 April 1965 aged 86.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004949
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First Title value, for Searching Eve, Sir Frederick Samuel (1853 - 1916)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-30
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Occupation Curator General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Son of William Eve, The Manor, North Orthendon, Essex; entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1872, and was House Surgeon to Luther Holden (qv) in 1876-1877. After that he studied surgery at Leipzig, and becoming FRCS, was appointed Curator of the St Bartholomew's Hospital Museum in 1879. In conjunction with Anthony A Bowlby (qv) he compiled in 1882 a catalogue of the Museum, and meanwhile made several communications to the *St Bartholomew's Hospital Reports*. In 1881, with the support of Paget, Flower, and others, a pathological curatorship in the Museum of the College was instituted, and Eve was appointed; he held the post until 1890. In the *Transactions* of the Pathological Society are some sixty papers by Eve, with descriptions of pathological specimens. As Erasmus Wilson Lecturer (1882-1884) he gave his first description of cystic tumours of the jaw (distinguishing the unilocular from the multilocular) and the connection with disturbed enamel formation. A revised account "On Cystic and Encysted Solid Tumours of the Jaws" appeared in the *Transactions* of the Odontological Society, 1886. Eve dwelt in particular upon tumours and cysts, adding the microscopic appearances to the clinical ones. Among descriptions of museum specimens may be noted: those relating to diseases of animals, rare tumours of the great omentum, renal tumours combining sarcomatous and embryonic muscle tissue, endotheliomata of the brain, cystic tumours of the testis, gigantism of the extremities, psorospermic cysts in the mucous membrane of the ureter; enlargement of lymphatic glands was demonstrated to be tuberculous although caseation was absent, and lupus was identified as a tuberculous disease. An appointment upon the staff of the London Hospital caused Eve to leave St Bartholomew's; he was at first Surgical Registrar, in 1884 Assistant Surgeon, Surgeon in 1888, Consulting Surgeon in 1914. He also acted as Ophthalmic Surgeon before a special department was instituted, and lectured on pathology. He served as Assistant Surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital and was Surgeon to the Evelina Hospital for Children. He published many surgical observations, his surgery being infused with his pathological knowledge, microscopical as well as naked-eye - for example, in his cases of melanotic tumours following injury, and those of tumours at the base of the tongue. He was Secretary of the Section of Surgery at the Nottingham Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1892, Vice-President of the Section of Diseases of Children at Bristol in 1894, and President of the same Section at Cheltenham in 1901. He was a Member of the Court of Examiners of the College from 1902-1911, was elected to the Council in 1904, gave the Bradshaw Lectures on "Acute Hemorrhagic Pancreatitis" in 1914, and was Vice-President at the time of his death. He was knighted in 1911. At the outbreak of the War he became Major RAMC (TF), 2nd London General Hospital, and in December, 1914, he was appointed Surgeon to the Eastern Command with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. This post involved him in long journeys. In July, 1915, with the assistance of Dr A S Woods, he organized a special hospital at Croydon for Gunshot Injuries of Nerves. He was attacked by influenza, followed by pneumonia, and he died on December 15th, 1916. There was a memorial service at All Saints', Margaret Street. He was survived by Lady Eve, a daughter of H E Cox, of Jamaica, by a son then serving in France, and by a daughter.
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