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First Title value, for Searching Greeves, Reginald Affleck (1878 - 1966)

2024-05-14T23:53:56Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-05
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Occupation Curator General practitioner Ophthalmic surgeon Pathologist
Details Born at Springtown, Co Down, on 23 August 1878, youngest of the eleven children of Thomas M. Greeves whose family, at first Quakers and later Plymouth Brethren, had been settled in Northern Ireland since the mid-seventeenth century. Affleck Greeves was educated at Queen's University, Belfast, where he won an exhibition, and at University College Hospital and Guy's, graduating MB London in 1903 and BS with honours in 1906, when he also took the Conjoint Diploma in the summer and the Fellowship in December. For the next two years he was in general practice in the Transvaal, South Africa, where he married, in 1908, Sarah, daughter of Leonard Acutt of Natal. Returning to London he was appointed surgical tutor and registrar at Guy's, but decided to specialise in ophthalmology. After serving as pathologist and curator of the museum at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital (Moorfields), he was appointed assistant ophthalmic surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital in 1914 and to Moorfields in 1915. He became a consultant surgeon to both these hospitals, retiring from Moorfields at the sixty-year age limit in 1938, but from the Middlesex only in 1946. He had also been on the staff at Paddington Green Children's Hospital and at St Saviour's Hospital, had lectured on ophthalmology at Oxford, and was a Conjoint Board examiner for the DOMS. Though somewhat nervous and reserved, Greeves was a brilliant diagnostician, achieved excellent results as a surgeon, and proved a first-class teacher, particularly in clinical work with graduate students. He became an authority on lesions of the fundus, whose opinion was sought and valued by colleagues and former students long after his retirement. He published influential papers on ocular pathology and many case histories, particularly in the *Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society*, of which he was a member for fifty-five years, becoming President for 1941-42. He was Montgomery Lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1935. Greeves carried on a large private practice at 23 Wimpole Street long after giving up his hospital work, finally retiring in 1960 when he was eighty-two. His country home was at Crapstone, near Yelverton, in Devonshire. His wife had died in 1954, and he died on 4 October 1966 aged eighty-eight, survived by his daughter and two sons, the elder of whom was also an ophthalmic surgeon. Though brought up in a narrowly puritanical home, Greeves was a man of wide cultivation, a traveller and linguist, a pianist and trained musician, with a keen appreciation of painting and drawing. His students and patients became his lifelong friends.
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First Title value, for Searching Beadles, Cecil Fowler (1867 - 1933)

2024-05-14T23:53:56Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-10
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Occupation Curator Pathologist Physician
Details Somewhat above middle height, clean-shaven with prematurely white hair and of ascetic appearance, Cecil Beadles was unmarried and lived for his garden and the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons. He was so excessively shy that he was rarely seen even by his colleagues unless they went to look for him in the work-rooms or the museum of the College. He was born in 1867, the son of Hubert Beadles, of Southgate, and thus came of a family of general practitioners, some of whom practised in Forest Hill and others at New Southgate, when both were villages which had not yet become engulfed by the suburbs of London. He was educated at University College, where he won the gold medal for histology in 1885 and became known to S G Shattock, then curator of the museum. He qualified MRCS and LRCP in 1890 and must soon have recognized his unfitness to deal with private patients, for his shyness made him brusque in manner and address. He was house surgeon at the Cancer Hospital for a short time and from 1892 until 1906 was assistant medical officer at the London County Asylum, Colney Hatch. Here he did good scientific work and contributed articles to *The Lancet* as early as 1891, 2, 754 and 1892, 2, 1159, showed cases at the Pathological Society and wrote in the *Journal of Mental Science*, work which led to the award of a prize by the Medico-psychological Association in 1894 for his dissertation entitled "The degenerative lesions of the arterial system in the insane". He resigned his post at Colney Hatch in 1906 and became an unofficial worker at the Royal College of Surgeons, where his value was recognized by S G Shattock, the pathological curator. In 1908 he was a Hunterian professor of surgery and pathology, and in October 1909 he was appointed to assist Shattock in selecting, arranging, and cataloguing specimens in the museum to illustrate the main principles of general pathology. His energy, foresight, orderliness, and excellent technique, aided by the wide philosophic outlook of Professor Shattock, completed "for the first time", as Sir Arthur Keith wrote, "a work written not in words but in illustrative specimens, a complete and systematic treatise on general pathology". From 1916 onwards Beadles was engaged in arranging and describing the Army medical war collection of pathological and other specimens. The work occupied him, with the help of T W P Lawrence, FRCS, until 1921, when the preparations were entrusted by the War Office to the keeping of the College. The College recognized his services in 1927, when he was elected FRCS without examination. He was appointed pathological curator when Shattock died in 1925, and from then onwards was engaged in the never-ending task of making a new descriptive catalogue of the pathological specimens in the museum together with the examination and description of those which are being constantly added. He died on 3 January 1933 at Gresham House, Egham, and was buried at Englefield Green. It may fairly be said of Beadles that he was in the true line of succession of those who built up the pathological side of the Hunterian Museum: Clift, Paget, Doran, Goodhart, Targett, and Shattock; more he would not have wished.
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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.
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First Title value, for Searching Lawrence, Thomas William Pelham (1858 - 1936)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-31
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Occupation Curator Pathologist
Details Born 20 March 1858 at The Grange, Ware, Herts, the fifth of the seven sons of Robert Lawrence, owner of maltings at Ware and Hertford, and of Elizabeth Dawes, his wife. He was educated at the Cholmely School, Highgate under J Bradley Dyne, DD, and played rugby in the first XV. He began to study law in a solicitor's office, but in 1879 entered University College Hospital. He soon attracted the attention of Sir George Dancer Thane, professor of anatomy at University College, by his skilful dissections and his artistic powers, and became his assistant demonstrator. After a short experience as assistant to a doctor in Devonshire he returned to London and was appointed curator of the museum at University College in succession to Charles Stonham in October 1890, became lecturer on morbid anatomy in UCF Medical School in 1910, and was pathologist to the hospital from 1910 until 1924. As curator of the museum at University College he was responsible for the description of the surgical and obstetric specimens, and he arranged all the preparations in the museum of the new medical school after its separation from the College. In 1923 he retired from University College and went to the Royal College of Surgeons to assist Cecil Beadles, who followed Samuel Shattock as pathological curator. Beadles died in 1933 and Lawrence continued to serve until March 1935, when he retired on account of ill-health. His retirement was marked by a special vote of thanks from the President and Council of the College and by a farewell banquet at the Langham Hotel given by his numerous friends and colleagues. He lived during his active life at Latimer Cottage, Epsom Lane, Tadworth, Surrey, and died on 26 June 1936 at Shaston, Little Common, Sussex, survived by his wife, Christina Knewstub, whom he had married on 6 August 1902, and by his only child, a daughter. Lawrence was a man of many interests in life and his motto was "thorough", for all that he did was well done and always to the very best of his ability. Well read in Latin and Greek, he knew French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, and Russian, and kept himself well informed of the chief works on pathology in those languages. His artistic ability is seen in the drawings of the bones which he made for the tenth edition of Quain's *Anatomy*. He was devoted to his garden and was skilled in the almost lost art of mowing with a scythe. He was a true friend and a man of great modesty and self-effacement. Publications: Necrosis of the cortex of both kidneys, with Sir John Rose Bradford, *J Path Bact* 1893, 5, 195. The optic commissure. *J Anat* 1894, 28, *Proc Anat Soc* pp 18-20. Redescription of the specimen of spondylolisthesis in the museum of University College. *Trans Obstet Soc Lond* 1900, 42, 75-89. *University College, London: Descriptive catalogue of surgical pathology*, new edition, with Raymond Johnson. London, 1899-1906. True hermaphroditism in the human subject. *Trans Path Soc Lond* 1905-06, 57, 21-44, with summary in Latin. Tumours, in Choyce's *System of Surgery*, 3rd edition, 1932, 1, 328-587, with Raymond Johnson. A note on the pathology of the Kanam mandible; notes on the pathology of a neolithic skeleton and also certain pathological bones from Bromhead's site, Elmenteita, appendices A and D, in L S B Leakey's *Stone-age races of Kenya*, 1935. He delivered the Erasmus Wilson demonstrations at the RCS 1928, on surgical specimens in the museum; they were not published.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004338
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