Search Results for Medical Obituaries - Narrowed by: ENT surgeon

First Title value, for Searching Shalom, Albert Saimah ( - 2015)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2017-07-12 2020-07-02
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Albert Saimah Shalom was a consultant ENT surgeon for the North West Surrey Hospital Group. He qualified in 1954 and gained his FRCS in 1961. Prior to his consultant appointment he was a senior registrar at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital in Gray’s Inn Road, London. He retired in 2002. In 1961, he married Jane I K Binnie in Cardiff. Albert Saimah Shalom died on 27 December 2015. He had a daughter, Jenny.
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First Title value, for Searching Livesey, Brian (1928 - 2016)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2017-01-25 2020-07-02
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Occupation ENT surgeon Military surgeon
Details Major General Brian Livesey was an ENT surgeon at Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital, Woolwich and an honorary surgeon to HM The Queen. He was born on 17 December 1928 and studied medicine at Bristol University medical school. He qualified in 1952. He gained his diploma in laryngology and otology in 1958 and became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1965. He was a former commandant and postgraduate dean of the Royal Army Medical College and a chairman of the Isle of Wight Health Authority. Livesey died on 15 November 2016. He was 87.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009297
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First Title value, for Searching McKim, Robert Stewart (1930 - 2019)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2019-09-16
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Robert Stewart McKim was born on 30 April 1930, qualified MB, BChir from Cambridge University in 1954 and passed the fellowship of the college in 1961. He lived in Bath and was a consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon to the Bath Area Health Authority. He died on 19 July 2019 aged 89 years.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009647
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First Title value, for Searching Williams, Gareth Thomas (1939 - 2019)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2022-05-17
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Gareth Thomas Williams qualified MB, BCh in Wales in 1963. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1969 and of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh in 1968. At the West Wales General Hospital in Carmarthen he was appointed a consultant ENT surgeon and eventually he worked at the University Hospital in Cardiff. He died on 28 October 2019 aged 80.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010124
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First Title value, for Searching Radcliffe, Anthony ( - 2006)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Jerry Kirk
Publication Date 2011-11-18 2012-02-01
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373803373803
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Anthony Radcliffe was a consultant ENT surgeon in London. He was born in South Africa and grew up in the same small village as his long-term friend Aaron Klug, the Nobel laureate, who influenced him greatly. Radcliffe qualified in Ireland and completed junior posts at the West London Hospital, Hemel Hempstead, and was encouraged by John H Young, the influential house governor of the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, to go there. He subsequently obtained ENT consultant posts at Willesden General Hospital, the London Jewish Hospital and the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital. He was a renowned operator and teacher, and acquired a larger private practice in Harley Street, London. His reputation ensured that he had a stream of medical visitors. When the Royal Society of Medicine no longer offered a venue for the presentation of difficult and puzzling ENT problems, he formed a club to do so. His wife, Lillian, was his practice manager. His son is a consultant ENT surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001620
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First Title value, for Searching Clark, George Ogilvie ( - 2007)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2011-11-10 2013-09-30
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373739373739
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details George Ogilvie Clark was a consultant ENT surgeon to the Wolverhampton Area Health Authority and the Dudley Guest Hospital. He qualified in medicine in 1946 at Aberdeen University and held early appointments as ENT registrar at Dundee Royal Infirmary and senior ENT registrar at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. Before taking the fellowship of the college in 1957, he passed the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1953. In the RAMC he had served as a captain. He was living in Wolverhampton when he died on 11 November 2007 survived by his wife, Eileen N Clark.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001556
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First Title value, for Searching Bartlett, Denis (1918 - 2014)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-02-16 2017-05-17
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378964378964
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Denis Bartlett was a consultant ENT surgeon at Victoria Hospital, Kingston upon Thames. He was born on 16 October 1918 and studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School. He qualified with the conjoint examination in 1942. Prior to his consultant post at the Victoria Hospital, he was a consultant ENT surgeon for Kingston and Richmond Area Health Authority and at the Star and Garter Home for Disabled Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen, and a temporary surgeon lieutenant in the RNVR. Bartlett was married to Pamela (née Cocking). He died on 10 December 2014, aged 96.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006781
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First Title value, for Searching Ramachandra, Channarayapatna Ramakrishna Setty ( - 2012)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-07-12 2015-09-21
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Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Channarayapatna Ramachandra was an otolaryngologist at North Tyneside General Hospital. He qualified MB BS from Mysore University in India in 1959. He gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1967 and his diploma in otolaryngology in 1973. Prior to his consultant appointment he was a senior registrar in otolaryngology in the west Midlands, a registrar at Singleton Hospital, Swansea, and a surgical registrar at Moorgate General Hospital, Rotherham. He died on 31 May 2012.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002645
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First Title value, for Searching Nagar, Felix Robert ( - 1974)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

First Title value, for Searching Groves, Harry John ( - 2010)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-20 2018-01-04
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details John Groves was a consultant ENT surgeon at the Royal Free, Hampstead General and New End hospitals in London. He studied medicine at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, qualifying MB BS in 1947. He gained his FRCS in 1953. Prior to his consultant appointments, he was a house surgeon at St Mary’s Hospital, a senior house officer in the ENT department at Westminster Hospital, and a senior ENT registrar back at St Mary’s. He was a member of the British Association of Otolaryngologists and an examiner for the diploma in otolaryngology. With John Ballantyne he co-edited the second (1965), third (1971) and fourth (1979) editions of W G Scott’s *Diseases of the ear, nose and throat* (London, Butterworth). John Groves died on 12 July 2010.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001782
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First Title value, for Searching Cawood, Roderick Hugh (1942 - 2023)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-12-13
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Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon Head and neck surgeon
Details Roderick Hugh Cawood was a consultant otolaryngologist at Peterborough City Hospital
Resource Identifier RCS: E010574
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First Title value, for Searching Murphy, David James Llewellyn ( - 2007)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-10 2015-07-20
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details David James Llewellyn Murphy was a consultant ENT surgeon in Leicester. He gained a BSc in Cardiff in 1942, and then went on to University College Hospital Medical School in London, where he qualified MB BS in 1950. He gained his FRCS in 1954. Prior to his consultant appointment he was a surgical registrar at University College Hospital and then a senior registrar at the Royal Ear Hospital, London. He was a member of Leicester Medical Society. David James Llewellyn Murphy died on 30 April 2007.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001567
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First Title value, for Searching Lobo, Victor John Eudes Dominic ( - 2008)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

First Title value, for Searching Vincenti, Norman (1926 - 2018)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-04-12
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Norman Vincenti was a consultant ENT surgeon in the RAF. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk.
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First Title value, for Searching Freeman, James (1914 - 2010)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-13 2018-06-26
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details James Freeman was a consultant ENT surgeon in Bristol. He studied medicine at Middlesex Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1940. He gained his FRCS in 1948 and his diploma in laryngology and otology in 1950. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a house surgeon at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, a resident surgical officer at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, and then a senior registrar at Bristol General Hospital. He had five children - Wendy, Sue, Joy, James ('Jim', who is a consultant anaesthetist in Kettering) and Pamela. His first wife, Hilda Mary, died in 1973 and he later married Dorothy, his dearest companion through his retired years. He died on 25 April 2010, a day before his 96th birthday. At the time of his death he had eight grandchildren; Heidi, Christian, Jessica, Joceline, Petrina, Laura, Harriet and Emily; and four great grandchildren; Joseph, Holly, Isobel and Hebe.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001729
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First Title value, for Searching Djazaeri, Behnam (1957 - 2020)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-10-20
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Behnam Djazaeri was a consultant ENT surgeon at the North Middlesex and Chase Farm hospitals, London. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010024
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First Title value, for Searching Ransome, Joselen (1924 - 2022)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-01-11
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Joselen Ransome was a consultant ENT surgeon at the West Middlesex Hospital, London. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010202
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First Title value, for Searching Horowitz, Martin ( - 1999)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-06
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380885380885
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Martin Horowitz was educated at Cambridge and did his clinical studies in Manchester. After junior posts he specialized in ENT surgery, becoming lecturer and senior registrar at the University of Liverpool. He was appointed to the North Riding Infirmary, Middlesbrough, where he became the senior consultant ENT surgeon. He died in 1999, survived by his wife.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008702
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First Title value, for Searching Knox, Lance O'Neill ( - 1995)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-13
Unknown
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380899380899
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Lance O'Neill Knox practiced in Durban, South Africa as an otorhinolaryngologist. The College was notified in 2002 that he had died "more than six years ago".
Resource Identifier RCS: E008716
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First Title value, for Searching Sanderson, Robert James (1960 - 2006)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2010-04-28
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373106373106
Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Robert Sanderson was a consultant otolaryngologist in Edinburgh and Livingstone. He and his twin brother, Paul, were the first identical twins to pass the FRCS in general surgery together. ‘Rob’ elected to study otolaryngology and trained with Arnold Maran in Edinburgh, before doing a fellowship in head and neck surgery in Rotterdam with Paul Knegt. There he learnt Dutch and met his wife Christine, with whom he subsequently had three children. He was appointed as a consultant otolaryngologist to Edinburgh and Livingstone hospitals. A keen teacher, he lectured frequently and was a regular guest speaker at national and international meetings. He was lead clinician in the Scottish head and neck audit. He died on 13 December 2006.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000923
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First Title value, for Searching Leeson, Peter Charles (1920 - 2013)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-06-12 2015-06-05
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376269376269
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Peter Charles Leeson was a consultant ENT surgeon at Tunbridge Wells Hospital, Kent. He was born on 1 October 1920 and studied medicine at Guy's Hospital Medical School, qualifying MB BS in 1945. He gained his FRCS in 1956 and his diploma in laryngology and otology (DLO) in 1958. He trained at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London, and became a consultant in ENT surgery at Salford and West Manchester Hospital Group before he moved to Tunbridge Wells Hospital. He was a member of the British Association of Head and Neck Oncologists. Peter Charles Leeson died on 22 March 2013, aged 92. He was survived by his widow Stella Winifred Leeson and son Noel James Leeson.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004086
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First Title value, for Searching Kapur, Tilak Raj (1930 - 2018)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2018-11-20 2021-07-22
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Tilak Raj Kapur was a consultant ENT surgeon at the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary, Stoke-on-Trent. Born in India on 3 June 1930, he studied medicine at Osmania University in Hyderabad. He graduated MB,BS in 1953 and did house jobs at the Osmania General Hospital before coming to the UK. After working as a senior registrar in ENT at the United Birmingham group of hospitals, he moved to the Staffordshire General Infirmary as a resident surgical officer. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1953 and was the author of many significant papers in his field. He died on 18 June 2018 aged 88.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009516
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First Title value, for Searching Owen, William Mervyn ( - 2004)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-11 2015-07-20
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374025374025
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details William Mervyn Owen was a consultant ENT surgeon who worked in Liverpool. He was brought up in Caernarfon, Wales, and studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, qualifying with the conjoint diploma in 1937 and the MB BS in 1938. During the Second World War he served in the RAMC and in 1940 was on the beach at Dunkirk. After the war he continued to serve in the RAMC. He rose to the rank of major and spent a long period stationed in Germany, on the Rhine. In 1948 he gained his diploma in laryngology and otology, and became a senior specialist in otolaryngology. After leaving the Army, Owen became a consultant ENT surgeon on Merseyside. He was also a visiting consultant to the Isle of Man Health Services Board. He was a member of the Liverpool Medical Institution. Owen was married to Annie (née Daly), a nurse who had trained at the Middlesex Hospital. They had seven children. Two sons (Anthony Wynn Michael Carton and Eoghan) became surgeons. William Mervyn Owen died on 21 April 2004.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001842
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First Title value, for Searching Grippaudo, Marcello (1927 - 2005)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-05-12 2019-05-20
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Marcello G Grippaudo was an ENT surgeon at the West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth. Born in Palermo, Sicily on 4 August 1927, he was the first child of Vincenzo Grippaudo, also an ENT surgeon and his wife Maria née Velardi. After being educated at the Jesuit’s College Gonzaga in Palermo, he attended Palermo University and trained as a resident in general medicine and surgery at the university hospital. He continued his studies in Rome as an assistant at the University of Rome’s Institute of Otolaryngology where he was mentored by G Ferreri and passed the DLO in 1954. Coming to the UK he worked as a registrar at the West Middlesex Hospital with Eliasz Zwiefach and gained the college fellowship in 1972. Later he became a consultant ENT surgeon at the Kingston and West Middlesex Hospitals. He married Jacqueline Puplett an artist and book illustrator in 1958 and they had a daughter and son Vincenzo who qualified in medicine and became a GP. Outside medicine he enjoyed music. He was living in Weybridge, Surrey when he died in December 2005 aged 78.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009109
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First Title value, for Searching Robinson, David ( - 2002)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-04
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details David Robinson qualified from the Westminster Hospital and trained in ENT surgery at University College Hospital before going on to the Southampton and Bournemouth specialist senior registrar rotation. He was appointed a consultant surgeon in ENT to the Queen Alexandra Hospital and the South East Hampshire Hospital Authority. He was killed in a car accident in September 2002, survived by his wife and family.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008880
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First Title value, for Searching Thomas, John Alun Beynon (1912 - 2006)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2012-01-12 2014-06-06
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374039374039
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details John Alun Beynon Thomas was a consultant ENT surgeon to the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, and consultant otologist to the Medical Research Council's Institute of Hearing Research (Welsh section). Thomas was president of the South Western Otolaryngological Society and in 1973 he was elected president of the section of laryngology of the Royal Society of Medicine. He died peacefully at home on 10 October 2006 at the age of 93, having been predeceased by his wife Doreen. He left his children - Janet, Roger and Robert.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001856
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First Title value, for Searching Resouly, Adel (1943 - 2021)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-03-22
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Occupation ENT surgeon Head and Neck surgeon
Details Adel Resouly was a consultant ENT and head and neck surgeon at the Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010092
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First Title value, for Searching Bihari, Julian (1925 - 2010)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-09-14 2018-05-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380217380217
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Julian Bihari was a consultant ENT surgeon at Singleton Hospital, Swansea and Glantawe Hospital. He was born on 24 June 1925, the son of Ida and Emil Bihari. Both of his parents were Jewish - his mother was from Lwów, Galicia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his father was from Budapest, Hungary. When he was born, the family lived in Berlin, but fled Nazi Germany in 1936 and went to live in England. Julian had a younger brother, Herbert, who became a consultant paediatrician and pioneering neonatologist in London (after changing his surname to Barrie). Julian Bihari studied medicine at University College Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1948. Prior to his consultant appointments, he was a captain in the RAMC, a clinical assistant in the throat and ear department of the Brompton Hospital and a senior ENT registrar at University College Hospital. He gained his FRCS in 1953 and his diploma in otolaryngology in 1957. Outside medicine he was vice-president of Morriston Orpheus Choir. In 1951, he married Maud McMullan (known as 'Mac'). Julian Bihari died on 27 August 2010, aged 85. Predeceased by his wife, he was survived by his children, Katie and David (a professor of intensive care), and his two grandchildren, Olivia and James.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008034
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First Title value, for Searching Leach, Wilfred (1929 - 2000)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-05-13 2019-04-25
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381320381320
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Wilfred Leach was an ENT surgeon in St Louis, Missouri, USA. He was born on 9 January 1929 in Rochdale, the son of Harvey Leach and Chrystal Leach née Lord. He was educated at Norden Church of England School and Rochdale Municipal High School. From 1947 to 1949 he carried out his National Service. He then went to Downing College, Cambridge and qualified in 1956. He was a house surgeon at St Thomas’ Hospital from 1955 to 1956 and then a prosector in the department of anatomy from 1957 to 1958. During his training, he was particularly influenced by Sir Geoffrey Bateman at St Thomas’, Myles Formby at University College Hospital and Sir Terence Cawthorne at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases. He emigrated to the United States. In the mid 1960's he was a fellow at Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis. He later became an assistant professor and subsequently professor at the St Louis University School of Medicine. He was a member of the St Louis Medical Society. Outside medicine, he enjoyed skiing and photography. He died on 20 March 2000 at the age of 71. An MD scholarship at St Louis University was established in his name.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009137
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First Title value, for Searching Chaudhuri, Prasanta Kumar ( - 1984)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

First Title value, for Searching Holden, Harold Benjamin (1930 - 2021)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-02-23
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Harold Holden was a consultant ENT surgeon and former dean of Charing Cross Medical School. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010090
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First Title value, for Searching Gammon, Veronica May (1925 - 2021)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-05-17
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Occupation General surgeon ENT surgeon
Details Vera Gammon was an consultant ENT surgeon in East Glamorgan. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010117
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First Title value, for Searching Tonkin, John Paul (1926 - 2018)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-01-28
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010000-E010099
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details John Paul Tonkin was an ENT surgeon at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010063
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First Title value, for Searching Houlihan, Finian Peter (1942 - 2022)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-02-22
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010000-E010099
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Fin Houlihan was a consultant ENT surgeon at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010085
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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First Title value, for Searching Owen, Edwin Nicholas (1914 - 2005)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-09 2015-07-20
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E001000-E001999/E001800-E001899
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374013374013
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Edwin Nicholas Owen (known as 'Tim') was a consultant ENT surgeon for the Shrewsbury Group of Hospitals. He studied medicine at Liverpool University, qualifying in 1938 with the conjoint diploma and the MB BS. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a registrar in the ENT department, Charing Cross Hospital, and at the Pigott-Wernher Deafness Research Unit, London, and first assistant in the deafness aid clinic at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital. He was a member of the British Association of Otolaryngologists. He was co-founder and president of the Shropshire Deaf Children's Society and was awarded an MBE in 2001 for his work for the charity. Predeceased by his wife Jean (née Rennie), Owen died on 29 March 2005. He was 90.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001830
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First Title value, for Searching Malley, Cecil Patrick ( - 1981)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-03
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E006000-E006999/E006700-E006799
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378909378909
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Cecil Patrick Malley was surgeon to the Metropolitan Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, surgeon to the ENT Department of the St Mary's Hospital for Women and Children in Plaistow and consultant in aural surgery at Bushey Heath Hospital. He retired to Malaga and died there on 21 June 1981.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006726
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First Title value, for Searching Chalton, Rosemary Anne ( - 1998)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-22
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E008000-E008999/E008500-E008599
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380702380702
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Qualifying from Leeds in 1976, Rosemary Chalton specialised in ENT surgery. She held registrar and senior registrar posts at Charing Cross and the Metropolitan and Lewisham Hospitals, before returning to Leeds General Infirmary. When her marriage ended, she went to live in Dublin, where she practised at the Blackrock Clinic until her death on 9 April 1998.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008519
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First Title value, for Searching Steel, Anthony Edgar (1924 - 2019)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2019-12-18
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009700-E009799
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Anthony Edgar Steel trained at St Mary’s Hospital in London where he did house jobs before moving to the Hammersmith Hospital. He served in the RAMC as a lieutenant colonel in the territorial army. In 1960 he passed the fellowship of the college and, the following year, was appointed consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon to the Southend and Rochford Hospitals. He lived in Leigh-on-Sea and ran a successful private practice from his home and also at the Wellesley Hospital in Westcliff-on-Sea. Inner ear surgery was one of his main interests and he published many important papers on the topic. He retired in 1987 and went to live in Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex where he enjoyed playing golf and racing his yacht. His wife Jo died in 2001 and Christopher, one of his twin sons, died in 2015. He died on 28 October 2019 aged 95, survived by his son Robin and two grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009700
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First Title value, for Searching Stead, Barbara Elizabeth (1932 - 2018)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2019-03-04
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009500-E009599
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Barbara Elizabeth Stead was an ENT surgeon at Nottingham General Hospital. She was born Barbara Elizabeth Wood on 13 November 1932 in East Dulwich, London, the daughter of Norman Victor Mark Wood, a clerk, and Violet Annie Wood née Dight. She studied medicine in Leeds and qualified with the conjoint examination in 1957. She gained her diploma in laryngology and otology in 1960 and her FRCS in 1971. She was a registrar for the Metropolitan Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital in Kensington, London and then a supernumerary senior registrar in ENT surgery in Nottingham. She was a member of the Otology Joint Medical Research Council/National Physical Laboratory Working Group on Industrial Noise and Hearing. She lived in Burton on the Wolds, Leicestershire, where she was a member of the Woodland for Burton committee. In 1968 she married John Cawthorne Stead, a research and teaching physicist. Barbara Stead died on 12 December 2018. She was 86.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009586
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First Title value, for Searching Glanville, John Dixon (1922 - 2016)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2017-02-17 2020-07-02
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009300-E009399
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381491381491
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details John Dixon Glanville was a consultant ENT surgeon for the Salisbury group of hospitals and Swindon and district hospitals. He was born on 15 January 1922. His father, Walter Josolyne Glanville, was an officer in the Army; his mother was Kathleen Glanville née Dixon. His older brother, Hugh Josolyne Glanville, became a consultant in physical medicine in Salisbury. Glanville studied at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1945. Prior to his consultant appointments, he was an ENT house surgeon at St Mary’s, a registrar for the Bristol United Hospitals and a senior registrar in the ENT department at the Royal Free Hospital. He gained his diploma in otorhinolaryngology in 1952 and his FRCS in 1953. In 1955, he married Elizabeth Marjorie James. She predeceased him in 1996. John Dixon Glanville died on 22 December 2016. He was 94.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009308
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First Title value, for Searching Mackinnon, David Michael (1931 - 2021)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-02-23
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010000-E010099
Occupation ENT surgeon Head and Neck surgeon
Details David Mackinnon was a consultant otorhinolaryngologist and head and neck surgeon in London. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010089
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First Title value, for Searching Stammberger, Heinz Richard (1946 - 2018)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-09-20
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Heinz Stammberger was head of the department of oral, head and neck surgery at the Medical University of Graz, Austria. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010462
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First Title value, for Searching Haikel, Sherif Mohamed Shaker (1971 - )

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2024-04-30
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010600-E010699
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Sherif Haikel was a consultant ENT surgeon at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, University College London Hospitals NHS Trust. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010609
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First Title value, for Searching Young, Austen (1914 - 2005)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

First Title value, for Searching O’Malley, Steven Patrick (1954 - 2022)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-10-13
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010100-E010199
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Steven O’Malley was a consultant ENT surgeon at Northampton General Hospital. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010168
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First Title value, for Searching Walsh-Waring, Gerald Patrick (1934 - 2019)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-01-28
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010000-E010099
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Gerald Walsh-Waring was an ENT surgeon from Radstock, Somerset. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010067
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First Title value, for Searching Briffa, Vincent ( - 1998)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-22
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E008000-E008999/E008400-E008499
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380672380672
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Vincent Briffa was a consultant ENT surgeon at Hammersmith Hospital. He was born in Malta, where he studied medicine. After qualifying in 1949, he came to the United Kingdom to study otorhinolaryngology. He was a clinical assistant at the Royal National Ear Nose and Throat Hospital in London, and obtained the diploma in laryngology and otology in 1956. After registrar appointments at the Central Middlesex Hospital and the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, he was appointed as a clinical assistant at Hammersmith, where he remained for the rest of his professional life. He was unmarried and died on 5 October 1998.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008489
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First Title value, for Searching Pillai, Sivathanu Subramania (1925 - 2009)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2011-11-11 2013-11-06
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E001000-E001999/E001500-E001599
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373754373754
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Sivathanu Subramania Pillai was an ENT surgeon in Sunderland. He was born in Nagercoil, India, on 30 November 1925 to Sivathanu Pillai and Marthandalakshmi née Muthukaruppan. He was educated at St Francis Primary School and the Scott Christian College in Nagercoil. Deciding to follow a career in medicine, he entered Madras Medical College, where he won an anatomy prize and qualified in 1950. He decided to move to the UK, where he elected to pursue a surgical career. He worked at the County Hospital, Colchester, the Ipswich General Hospital, the Shotley Bridge General Hospital, the County and Dryburn hospitals in Durham, and the Odstock Hospital, Salisbury, before being appointed as a consultant ENT surgeon to the Royal Infirmary and General Hospital in Sunderland. He also served the Durham community (child care) clinic. In 1963 he married Mary, a former nurse. They had three children, two daughters and a son. He died on 5 January 2009, aged 83.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001571
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First Title value, for Searching Gandhi, Abhayakumar Gulabchand (1928 - 2001)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-11-25 2017-01-12
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E006000-E006999/E006400-E006499
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378609378609
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Abhayakumar Gulabchand Gandhi (known as 'Arun') was a consultant ENT surgeon at St James's and Seacroft University hospitals, Leeds, and an honorary senior lecturer in otorhinolaryngology at the University of Leeds. He qualified MB BS from Bombay in 1959 and then worked in villages in Karnataka and at the Christian Medical College, Vellore. He went to the UK, where he trained in High Wycombe, Warrington, Liverpool and Barnsley. In 1965 he was appointed as an ENT senior registrar at Leeds General Infirmary and subsequently became a consultant. He gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1965 and was made a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons *ad eundem* in 1994. In his retirement he travelled and learnt French. He had a passion for fast cars. Abhayakumar Gulabchand Gandhi died on 22 February 2001 from metastatic carcinoma. He was survived by his widow Vimal, two children and four grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006426
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First Title value, for Searching Hennessy, Raymond Valentine ( - 1993)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

First Title value, for Searching Pracy, Robert (1921 - 2015)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-12-10 2018-11-27
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009000-E009099
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381203381203
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Robert Pracy was director of the department of otolaryngology at Liverpool University. He was born in Atherstone, Warwickshire on 19 September 1921. His father, Douglas Sherrin Pracy, was a surgeon; his mother was Gwendoline Blanche Pracy née Power. He was educated at Berkhamsted School and then went on to study medicine at St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School. He qualified with the conjoint examination in 1944 and the MB BS in 1945. From 1947 to 1949 he was a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps. From 1966 to 1975 he was director of the department of otolaryngology at the University of Liverpool and a consultant to the Liverpool United Hospitals and Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. In 1976, he became a consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Royal Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital in London. From 1981 to 1983 he was dean of the Institute of Laryngology and Otology. He was a member of the Court of Examiners at the Royal College of Surgeons from 1971 to 1977, a member of the Specialist Advisory Committee on Otolaryngology from 1971 to 1982 (chairman from 1978 to 1981) and president of the British Association of Otolaryngology from 1978 to 1981. He was awarded the Semon lectureship of the University of London in 1980. He was an associate editor of the *International Journal of Paediatric Otolaryngology*. Outside medicine he enjoyed painting, engraving and printing (he was a member of the Medical Art Society), fly fishing, cabinet making, reading and the theatre. In 1946, he married Elizabeth Patricia Spicer. They had two sons – one died and the other, John Paul Myles Pracy, is a surgeon and also an FRCS – and two daughters.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009020
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First Title value, for Searching Neame, John Humphrey (1926 - 2007)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2008-05-01 2009-05-07
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E000000-E000999/E000500-E000599
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372694372694
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details John Humphrey Neame was an ENT surgeon in Norwich. He was born in London on 14 July 1926, the eldest son of Humphrey Neame, an ophthalmological surgeon on the staff of Moorfields Hospital, and Minnie née Goodwin. Neame followed his father to Cheltenham College and then went to Lincoln High School, Portland, Oregon, during the war, returning to Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He went on to complete his clinical studies at University College Hospital, London, where he was influenced by Miles Formby. After junior posts, he specialised in ENT, becoming house surgeon, registrar and senior registrar at the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital. He was appointed consultant ENT surgeon to the Salisbury Hospital Group and Swindon and Marlborough hospitals. He was blessed with plenty of opportunities to fish and much enjoyed working with electronics. In 1960 he married Ruth Richards, with whom he had two sons, Stephen and Robert, and a daughter, Rachel. Both of his sons have entered the medical profession. He died on 13 July 2007, the eve of his 81st birthday.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000510
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First Title value, for Searching Mills, Richard Graham Stead (1943 - 2021)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-11-19
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010000-E010099
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Richard Mills was an ENT surgeon from Cardiff and a former member of council at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E10035
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First Title value, for Searching Burge, Alan Jeremy Stuart (1938 - 2022)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-10-17
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010400-E010499
Occupation ENT surgeon Otolaryngologist
Details Alan ‘Budgie’ Burge was a consultant ENT surgeon in Hong Kong and Antigua. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010485
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First Title value, for Searching Orton, Peggy Kathleen Lillian (1914 - 2009)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-10 2015-07-20
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E001000-E001999/E001800-E001899
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374014374014
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Peggy Kathleen Lillian Orton was a consultant ENT surgeon at Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, Carshalton, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, London, and the South London Hospital for Women and Children. She was born on 8 March 1914 and studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School in London. She qualified with the conjoint diploma in 1943, gained her diploma in laryngology and otology in 1947 and her FRCS in 1955. Prior to her consultant appointments, she was a house surgeon at the Royal Cancer Hospital, a senior registrar in the ENT department at the Royal Free and a first assistant in the aural department of the London Hospital. Peggy Kathleen Lillian Orton died on 2 January 2009. She was 94.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001831
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First Title value, for Searching Pink, Wilfred Langrish (1889 - 1950)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

First Title value, for Searching Rasanayagam, Vaitialingham (1919 - 2013)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-07-27 2019-11-27
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009100-E009199
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381371381371
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Vaitialingham Rasanayagam was an ENT surgeon at the General Hospital, Colombo. He was born on 19 January 1919 in Alaveddy, Jaffna, the eldest son of Murugesu Vaitialingam, who worked for Colombo Electric Tramways, and Meenadchiamma. He was educated at St Joseph’s College, Colombo and then joined Ceylon University College in 1937. He passed the premedical examination in June 1938 with first class honours and was awarded the University premedical medal. He gained his MB BS in September 1943, was placed first in the order of merit, gained distinctions in medicine, surgery and midwifery, and several gold medals. He was then a house officer at the General Hospital, Colombo, the De Soysa Lying in Home and the Lady Ridgeway Children’s Hospital. At the beginning of April 1946, he was appointed as a district medical assistant at the Karawanella Hospital, Ruwanwella. In October 1947, he became a demonstrator in anatomy in the faculty of medicine, Colombo. He passed the primary FRCS examination held in Colombo in December 1948 and was given a scholarship by the Ceylonese department of health to go to the UK to train in ear, nose and throat surgery. He left for the UK in December 1949. He gained his diploma in laryngology and otology in June 1950 and the FRCS in November 1950. He returned to Ceylon in January 1951 and was appointed as an ENT surgeon at Kurunegala Hospital. In July 1955, he became an ENT surgeon at the General Hospital, Colombo, a post he held until he retired in 1972. After his retirement, he went into private practice. In 1983, he emigrated to Australia. Vaitialingham Rasanayagam died on 27 December 2013 at the age of 94. He was survived by his wife, Jeyalakshmy née Sivaguru, whom he married in August 1945, their two daughters, Malathy and Myurathy, their son, Shivaraj, their grandchildren Arjuna, Anandhi, Logan, Shankari, Narendran, Shivani and 12 great grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009188
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First Title value, for Searching Wells, Meher Derek (1937 - 2011)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-23 2015-07-20
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E001000-E001999/E001800-E001899
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374065374065
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Meher Derek Wells was a consultant ENT surgeon in Canterbury and Thanet, and a research fellow at the Institute of Laryngology and Otology, London. She was born Meher Mehta in Hyderabad, India, in 1937. She studied medicine at Osmania Medical College and qualified MB BS in 1960. After going to the UK, she was a senior house officer in otorhinolaryngology at the Royal Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital in London, and a registrar at Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth, and at Great Ormond Street. She then became a senior registrar and later a locum consultant at University College Hospital, London. She was subsequently appointed as a consultant in Canterbury and Thanet, Kent. She was also a research fellow in pathology at the Institute of Laryngology and Otology in London. She gained her fellowships of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and of England in 1968 and 1970 respectively, and, in 1992, was awarded an MD for her work on neonatal temporal bone development and pathology. She was a devout Parsi Zoroastrian. She was married twice. Her first husband died of renal failure, and she then married Derek Wells, a haematologist. Meher Derek Wells died on 24 May 2011.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001882
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First Title value, for Searching Brown, James Stinson (1923 - 2009)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2011-11-04 2013-09-30
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E001000-E001999/E001500-E001599
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373700373700
Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details James Stinson Brown was a Canadian surgeon who specialized in treatment of the deaf. He was born on 24 February 1923 in Brandon, Manitoba, the son of Abner John Brown and his wife Lillian "Lilly" Roben Kidd. He graduated in medicine from the University of Manitoba in 1949 and came to England to study ear, nose and throat medicine at the University of London. While there he also played professional hockey. Having passed the fellowship in 1952 he returned to Canada in 1956 to establish a practice in Calgary, Alberta. He was consultant in otolaryngology to the Calgary General and Banff Mineral Springs Hospitals. After retiring from the hospitals he continued work part-time in a medical practice in Banff and, in 2004, he was given an honorary doctorate by Brandon University who named a campus building after him and his wife. He married Margaret "Lucille" Millions and they had five children; John, Mary Ann, David, Michele and Joyce. He died at his home in Calgary on 1 May 2009 aged 86 years and his papers were donated to the University of Manitoba Faculty of Medical Archives.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001517
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First Title value, for Searching Tucker, Antony Gower (1947 - 2013)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2013-03-20 2016-02-02
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E003000-E003999/E003700-E003799
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375918375918
Occupation ENT surgeon Otorhinolaryngolologist
Details Antony Gower Tucker was a consultant otorhinolaryngologist at Bradford Royal Infirmary and an honorary senior lecturer at Leeds University. He was born on 12 December 1947 and studied medicine at Sheffield Medical School, qualifying MB ChB in 1972 and gaining his FRCS in 1977. Before he was appointed to his consultant post he was a registrar for the Avon Area Health Authority and honorary tutor in otolaryngology at the University of Bristol between 1975 and 1977. He then became a senior registrar in Liverpool and a lecturer at the University of Liverpool. He had a particular interest in voice disorders, benign head and neck surgery, and otology, including bone-anchored hearing devices. He was a member of the British Voice Association and the North of England Otolargyngology Society. For two weeks every year he and his team worked in Bangladesh's only ENT hospital. With his wife, Sheila Webb, a director of public health and a GP, he set up a charity, Digdeep for Bangladesh, to raise funds for the project and to sponsor Bangladeshi medics to go to Bradford to study. Antony Gower Tucker died on 8 February 2013. He was 65. He was survived by his wife and family.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003735
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First Title value, for Searching Bradbeer, Thomas Linthorn (1925 - 2015)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-04-27 2018-11-27
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E007000-E007999/E007100-E007199
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379360379360
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Thomas Linthorn Bradbeer was a consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. He was born on 8 January 1925 in the west country, the son of a dentist. He was educated at Dartington Hall, Devon and went on to study medicine at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, London. He qualified in 1948 and gained his FRCS in 1956. He held a prestigious house officer post on St Mary’s surgical unit and then carried out his National Service. He went on to posts at the Royal Free and Charing Cross hospitals before he returned to Devon as a consultant at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. He was an officer of the British Association of Otorhinolaryngology, held positions in hospital management and influenced the building of the new Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital He enjoyed skiing and during his retirement spent the summers on his yacht, sailing the northern coasts of France and Spain. He died on 6 November 2015 at the age of 90 and was survived by Vivyen, his wife of 64 years, three children and five grandsons.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007177
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First Title value, for Searching Stubbings, John Campbell (1931 - 2007)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-07-27 2020-01-17
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381388381388
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details John Campbell Stubbings was an ENT surgeon in Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Red Cliffs, Victoria on 28 December 1931, the fourth and youngest child of Claude Henry Stubbings, a horticulturalist, and Catherine Campbell Stubbings née Bothroyd, the daughter of a state schools inspector. He attended Red Cliffs’ state school and then Melbourne Church of England Grammar School, and went on to Melbourne University to study dentistry, gaining his BDSc in 1954. He practised as a dentist for three years before returning to Melbourne University, to the medical school. He qualified in 1962. He was a junior and then a senior medical officer at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne and then, from 1968, a registrar. He gained his diploma in otorhinolaryngology in 1968 as well as his fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He became a FRCS in 1970. He was an ENT surgeon at the Alfred Hospital and to the Royal Australian Air Force and Australian Army. Outside medicine he enjoyed golf and yachting. In 1960, he married Agnes Doreen Wilson. They had a son and a daughter. John Campbell Stubbings died in 2007 in Melbourne, Victoria.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009205
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First Title value, for Searching Sellick, Richard James (1928 - 2016)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2017-01-25 2020-07-02
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381483381483
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Richard James Sellick was a consultant ENT surgeon at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. He was born on 21 November 1928 in Blackheath, London, the son of Richard Sellick, a medical practitioner, and Vera Sellick née Harvey, the daughter of a bank manager. He attended Dulwich College and then went on to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1953. Prior to his consultant appointment he was a chief assistant at St Thomas’ Hospital and a registrar at the Royal Marsden Hospital. He also carried out his National Service in the RAF as a squadron leader. He listed William Allin Mill and Sir Geoffrey Bateman as the surgeons who particularly influenced him during his training. In 1964, he began his consultant post at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and worked there until his retirement in 1989. He spent much of his career at Norwich developing the audiology services for children and adults. He was a member of ENT UK for 52 years and also served as chair of the specialist advisory committee. In 1959, he married Elisabeth Schofield. They had three children, Jane, Sarah and Edward, and five grandsons. Richard James Sellick died on 15 September 2016 at the age of 87.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009300
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First Title value, for Searching Kumar, P.V. Rajender (1935 - 2021)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-11-19
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010000-E010099
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details P V Rajender Kumar was professor of medical audiology at the Institute of Speech and Hearing, Madras Medical College and Government General Hospital, Chennai, India. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010032
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First Title value, for Searching Rhys Evans, Peter Howell (1948 - 2022)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-09-21
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010100-E010199
Occupation Otolaryngologist Head and neck surgeon ENT surgeon
Details Peter Rhys-Evans was a consultant otolaryngologist and head and neck surgeon at the Royal Marsden Hospital, London and the founder of the Oracle Cancer Trust. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010159
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First Title value, for Searching Wakelin, John Leach ( - 2005)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-29 2012-12-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373824373824
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details John Leach Wakelin trained at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, where he became senior registrar in the ENT department. In 1944 he is recorded as serving in the RAMC as a lieutenant. In the 1971 *Medical Directory*, he is listed as being an honorary consultant ENT surgeon to the Bulawayo Government Hospitals in Rhodesia and this is given as his address until he moved to Andorra in the early 1980s. He died in Andorra on 29 November 2005, survived by his daughter.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001641
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First Title value, for Searching Mason, Margaret Mary ( - 1985)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-15
Unknown
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379672379672
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Margaret Mary Mason was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, and King's College Hospital Medical School, and qualified MB BCh in 1945. Specialising in otolaryngology after her house appointments, she held posts at the Institute of Laryngology and Otology and at Princess Beatrice Hospital and was ear, nose and throat surgeon at Sutton General Hospital and King George's Hospital, Ilford, before becoming consultant in audiology at St Mary Abbots Hospital, Kensington. She retired in 1984 and died in St Christopher's Hospice, Sydenham, on 2 March 1985.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007489
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First Title value, for Searching Kingdom, Leonard Grantley ( - 2002)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-18 2015-12-09
Unknown
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380948380948
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Leonard Kingdom was educated at Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital. After junior jobs he entered the RAMC where he was a graded surgeon. After the war he returned to Cambridge to demonstrate anatomy, and then went back to Bart's to specialise in ENT. He became chief assistant in the ENT department at Bart's before being appointed as a consultant ENT surgeon to University College Hospital. He was honorary consultant to St Luke's Hospital for the Clergy. He died on 18 December 2002, survived by his family.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008765
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First Title value, for Searching McKenzie, James (1922 - 1999)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-18
Unknown
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380959380959
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details James McKenzie received his medical education at Aberdeen University. After National Service in the RAMC he specialised in ENT, training at Manchester Royal Infirmary and Wolverhampton. He became consultant ENT surgeon to Wolverhampton, Dudley and Worcester/Hereford Area Health Authorities. He published on lesser malignancies of the nose and antro-ethmoidal complex. He and his wife, Brenty had a son, Iain and daughter, Susan. He died in Stourbridge on 6 January 1999, aged 77 years survived by his wife, children and grandchildren, James, Richard and Alex.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008776
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First Title value, for Searching MacNamara, Marcelle Alpheda Maria (1958 - 2009)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-03 2015-07-20
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E001000-E001999/E001400-E001499
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373673373673
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Marcelle Alpheda Maria MacNamara was a consultant ENT surgeon at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital and an honorary senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham. She was a lead clinician in head and neck oncology. She was born on 18 September 1958. Her maiden name was Von Schoenberg. She studied medicine at Somerville College, Oxford University, and went on to University College Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1985. Prior to her consultant appointment in Birmingham she was an ENT registrar at the Royal Ear Hospital and University College Hospital, London, and then a senior registrar (ENT) on the west Midlands rotation. She was a member of the British Association of Head and Neck Oncology and the Midlands Institute of Otorhinolaryngology. Marcelle Alpheda Maria MacNamara died on 11 April 2009. She was 50.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001490
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First Title value, for Searching Hopper, Ian (1938 - 2005)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2006-09-22 2009-05-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372447372447
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Ian Hopper was an ENT consultant in Sunderland. He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne on 19 May 1938, the son of John Frederick Hopper, an insurance manager, and Dora née Lambert. He was educated at Dame Allans School, Newcastle upon Tyne, and High Storrs Grammar School, Sheffield, where he played rugby in the first XV. At Sheffield University, although he boxed for a short while, he turned away from contact sports and played table tennis for the university and the United Sheffield Hospitals. He was much influenced by the skills of the professor of surgery, Sir Andrew Kay. He held house physician and house surgeon posts at Sheffield Royal Infirmary and Wharncliffe Hospitals. Having obtained his primary fellowship, he chose to specialise in ENT surgery. He became registrar and later senior registrar in ENT at the Sheffield Royal Infirmary. In 1969 he was appointed ENT consultant at Sunderland Royal Infirmary and General Hospital, where he stayed until his retirement in 1997. Ian Hopper was regional adviser in otolaryngology, a member of the Overseas Doctors Training Committee and the College Hospital Recognition Committee. He was on the council of the British Association of Otolaryngologists (from 1983 to 1997), honorary ENT consultant at the Duchess of Kent Military Hospital, president of the North of England Otolaryngological Society, a council member of the Section of Otology at the Royal Society of Medicine and chairman of the Regional Specialist Subcommittee in Otolaryngology. He married Christine Wadsworth, a schoolteacher, in 1961. Their son, Andrew James, was bursar at Collingwood College, Durham University, before entering the private student accommodation market and their daughter, Penelope Anne, teaches art at Poynton High School, Cheshire. In retirement Ian Hopper made bowls his main sport and subsequently became vice-chairman of Sunderland Bowls Club. He was also a keen snooker player. He died peacefully in hospital after a long illness on 4 March 2005.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000260
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First Title value, for Searching Handousa, Ahmed El Sayed ( - 1958)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

First Title value, for Searching Ryan, Rowena Marion (1958 - 2005)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2008-05-08 2022-03-17
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372696372696
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Rowena Ryan was an ENT consultant at Northwick Park Hospital, London. She was born in East London, South Africa, on 4 February 1958, where her father, Cecil Crawford Lindsay Ryan, was serving as a diplomat. Her mother, Dorothy Hazel née Lampkin, had been a secretary. Her paternal grandfather had qualified at Trinity College, Dublin, and became a general practitioner in Bath. She was educated at Alexandra College, Dublin, where she won the Governors Association scholarship, and went on to read medicine at Trinity. After qualifying she held junior posts at the West Middlesex, Stoke Mandeville, Hammersmith and Addenbrooke’s hospitals, before becoming an ENT registrar at the Royal Ear Hospital and senior registrar at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital. She was appointed as a consultant ENT surgeon to Northwick Park and the Central Middlesex hospitals in 1996, where her principal interest was in paediatric audiology. She was an examiner for the intercollegiate FRCS (otol) and was chair elect of the ENT comparative audit group of the British Association of Otorhinolaryngologists - Head and Neck Surgeons. In 1989 she married Audoen Healy, a dentist, with whom she had a daughter, Greta, and a son, Duncan. Outside work and family, her passions were music, literature, foreign languages, squash and tennis. She died of cancer of the pancreas on 9 December 2005.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000512
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First Title value, for Searching Ardouin, Alan Peter (1930 - 2014)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-11-21 2020-01-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381455381455
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Alan Peter Ardouin was a consultant ENT surgeon at Kent and Canterbury Hospital. Born on 6 October 1930 in London, he was the second son of Herbert Charles Ardouin LDS, RCS, a dental surgeon and his wife Joyce Marion née Edmett. He was educated at Franklin House School in London, Vermont Academy in the USA and then Highgate School back in London. He trained at Charing Cross Hospital and qualified MB BS in 1954. For his national service he was posted to Cyprus and served as a captain in the RAMC from 1957 to 1959. On his return he joined the staff at Charing Cross as a senior registrar in the ENT department and was mentored there by Lionel Taylor. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1962 and was appointed consultant ENT surgeon to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital and the Isle of Thanet District Hospital in 1964. From 1966 to 1969 he was also a clinical tutor at the Kent Postgraduate Medical Centre. He was a member of the British Association of Otolaryngologists and the BMA. In 1955 he married Miss Clayton and they had two daughters. A music lover, he was a keen pianist and a one time member of the Alexandra Choir in London. Golf was also a favourite pastime, he had been a member of the University of London team and was captain of the Canterbury Golf Club from 1979 to 1980. He died on 18 August 2014 in Margate, Kent, aged 83.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009272
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First Title value, for Searching O'Reilly, James Alphonsus (1925 - 2008)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-10 2016-04-27
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374022374022
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details James O'Reilly, known as 'Seamus' was a consultant ENT surgeon at South Tyrone Hospital, Dungannon, Northern Ireland. He was born in 1925 into a medical family in County Cavan, Ireland. His father, grandfather, two uncles, a brother and several cousins were all doctors. He studied medicine at University College Dublin, qualifying MB BCh BAO in 1948. He trained in surgery in Bradford and Hull, and also spent time in general practice, as a locum for members of his family. In 1960 he gained his fellowships of both the Royal College of Surgeons of England and of Edinburgh. In 1962 he was appointed to South Tyrone Hospital. Initially he also worked at Mid Ulster Hospital (Magherafelt) with some sessions in Omagh. He retired in August 1989. James O'Reilly died on 25 March 2008 at his home in Cookstown, County Tyrone. He was survived by his wife, Rosamund, and children, John, Katharine and James.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001839
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First Title value, for Searching Acharya, Bindiganavale Srinivas Srinivas (1910 - 1996)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-11-21 2020-01-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381453381453
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Bindiganavale Srinivas Srinivas Acharaya was a consultant ENT surgeon at Ashford Hospital, Middlesex. Born on 12 April 1910 in Ahmadnagar, India, he was the son of Bindiganavale Garuda Srinivas, an ophthalmologist, and his wife Rajamma. Educated at the London Mission High School in Bangalore, he then proceeded to London and studied medicine at London University and St Bartholomew’s Hospital (Barts). He did house jobs in ENT at Barts and the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading (where he was mentored by Gordon Leonard Bohn) qualifying MB BS in 1938. During the second world war he served as a major in the RAMC from 1941 to 1946. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1947 and joined the staff of Ashford Hospital where he became a consultant in ENT. He married Muriel Gladys Steel in 1953 and was a keen tennis and badminton player. He died in June 1996 aged 86.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009270
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First Title value, for Searching Sinha, Achyutananda (1927 - 2017)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2018-02-26 2020-11-17
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381829381829
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Achyutananda Sinha was professor and head of the ENT department at Patna Medical College Hospital, Patna, India. Born on 4 October 1927 in Dhanbad, India, he was the son of Gaya Prasad Sinha, who worked in the Bihar Civil Service, and his wife Tara Devi. After attending Patna High School, he matriculated in 1942 and attended Patna Science College for two years. He studied medicine at Patna University, graduating MB BS in 1949. After initial house jobs in the ENT department of Patna Medical College, he travelled to the UK and worked as a registrar and senior registrar between 1953 and 1956. During that time he spent a year (1954) in the USA working as a resident in otolaryngology at St Luke’s Hospital and the Manhattan ENT Hospital in New York. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1957 and worked in the ENT department at Neath General Hospital for a year. On his return to India in January 1958, he was a junior ENT surgeon at the Patna Medical College, before being appointed associate professor (in 1966, professor) and head of otolaryngology at the All India Institute of Medical Science in New Delhi in December 1969. At the Institute he pioneered a separate ear, nose and throat department and later set up the same in Ranchi, where he was professor and head of ENT from January 1979 to August 1974, and Patna, where he held the same position from August 1974 to June 1985 when he retired. Publishing extensively throughout his career, he was revered as a teacher and was a past president of the Indian Association of Otolaryngologists, and surgeon to the president of India. He was also principal of Patna Medical College and director of health services in Bihar. Outside medicine he was a district governor for Rotary International and, after retiring, took up meditation and charitable work. Married to his wife, Indu, for 53 years, he moved to the UK for the last 7 years of his life to live with his three sons, all of whom became consultants in the fields of ophthalmology, otolaryngology and orthopaedics respectively. When he died of heart failure on 29 December 2017, aged 90, he was survived by his sons, seven grandchildren and ten great grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009425
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First Title value, for Searching Appleton, Joseph Norman ( - 1990)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

First Title value, for Searching Oliver, John Dudgeon ( - 1963)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

First Title value, for Searching Wheeler, Donald Reid ( - 1973)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378376378376
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Donald Reid Wheeler was educated in Belfast, graduating in medicine in 1918. He undertook post-graduate study in London and Vienna, and obtained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1922, and the Membership and Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1923. He specialized in otolaryngology and was appointed surgeon to the ENT department of the London Hospital and of the King George Hospital, Ilford, and of the Kent County Ophthalmic and Aural Hospital, Maidstone. After his retirement he made his home at Letterkenny in County Donegal, and died there on 3 November 1973.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006193
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First Title value, for Searching Reid, John Lewis ( - 1995)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-01
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380460380460
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Reid received his medical education at Oxford and the Middlesex Hospital, qualified with the conjoint diploma and the Oxford BM BCh in 1937 and gained his Fellowship in 1949. Having obtained the DLO in 1940 he decided to specialise in otolaryngology and was assistant ENT surgeon at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, before becoming consultant ENT surgeon at Preston Hospital. He later moved to Kent as consultant ENT surgeon to the Canterbury and South East Kent Health District. During the second world war he was a squadron leader in the RAFVR and was adviser in ENT surgery to Air Headquarters, India. He died in July 1995.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008277
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First Title value, for Searching Beagley, Harry Andrew ( - 2002)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-15 2015-10-16
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380278380278
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Harry Beagley qualified at the University of Otago in 1946 and came to England to specialise in ENT surgery. He returned to Auckland as a consultant ENT surgeon, but came back to London as a consultant otologist at the Nuffield Hearing and Speech Centre of the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital, and senior lecturer at the Institute of Laryngology and Otology. He published extensively on the effect of acoustic trauma on the cells junctions in the organ of Corti. He retired to live in the South of France, where he died after a prolonged illness on 18 November 2002.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008095
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First Title value, for Searching Steward, Edward Simmons (1869 - 1954)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-25
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E005000-E005999/E005500-E005599
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377758377758
Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Born at York on 14 February 1869 the son of Henry Steward, he was educated at Leeds Medical School and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He was house surgeon at the Leeds General Infirmary in 1895 and resident ophthalmic officer 1896-98. He practised as an ophthalmologist and laryngologist at Harrogate, where he was surgeon to the ear nose and throat departments of the Infirmary. He died at Elleray Bank, Windermere on 10 January 1954, aged 84.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005575
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First Title value, for Searching Pereira, Arthur Leonard (1906 - 1999)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

First Title value, for Searching Martinson, Francis Douglas (1916 - 2010)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-03 2014-09-19
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373668373668
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Francis Douglas Martinson was professor of otorhinolaryngology at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He was born on 15 October 1916 in Kumasi, Ghana. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, qualifying in 1942. He was a house physician and resident anaesthetist at Leith Hospital, Edinburgh, from January to July 1943, and then a house surgeon at Sunderland Royal Infirmary. From March to October 1945 he was a resident surgical officer at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. He then became an ENT registrar and clinical assistant in Manchester. From 1950 to 1953 he was an ENT registrar at the Salford Royal and Eccles and Patricroft hospitals. In January 1954 he became a senior ENT registrar at the Royal Eye and Ear Hospital, Bradford. In 1956 he was appointed to University College, Ibadan, as a senior lecturer. In October 1963 he became an associate professor and, in October 1967, professor of otorhinolaryngology. He was head of department on two occasions - from 1968 to 1979 and then again briefly in January 1984. He pioneered the study of rhinophycomycosis, a subcutaneous fungal infection. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1951 and of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1953. In 1985 he was awarded the Adesuyi prize for his contributions to health care in West Africa. Martinson formally retired in 1976, but carried on working for another 10 years, training a new generation of otorhinolaryngologists in West Africa. He died on 21 January 2010, aged 93.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001485
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First Title value, for Searching Woolf, Cyril Isaac (1930 - 2012)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-11-09 2014-11-25
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375307375307
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Cyril Isaac Woolf was an ear, nose and throat surgeon in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He was born in the East End of London, into an orthodox Jewish family, the eldest of three sons of Adolph Woolf and Regina Woolf née Frey. He studied medicine in London, qualifying MB BS in 1952. After house posts, he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps for his National Service, as a medical officer in Germany. There he met his future wife, Margaret Gibson, at that time serving as a British Army nursing officer. They married in England in 1956. After leaving the Army, Woolf trained in ENT surgery at the Institute of Laryngology and Otology in London. He then went to Northwestern University, Chicago, USA, as a research fellow. In 1961 he emigrated to Winnipeg, where he practised as an otolaryngologist for 45 years, for 22 of which he was head of otolaryngology at St Boniface Hospital. He was particularly interested in the training of graduate students and made a major contribution to the University of Manitoba's programme in otolaryngology. He also carried out voluntary work, especially in the Northwest Territories, where he made numerous visits to tend to the ear problems of children from indigenous communities. Outside medicine, he was passionate about classical music. He was a talented amateur pianist, and in retirement bought his own concert grand piano. He was also interested in modern languages, and spoke French and fluent German. Cyril Isaac Woolf died at the Victoria General Hospital, Winnipeg, on 3 October 2012 from a stroke. He was 82. He was survived by his wife, their sons Daniel and Jeremy, and grandchildren Sarah, Sam, David and Bridget.
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First Title value, for Searching Khambata, Ardeshir Shiavax (1936 - 2015)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Rumy Kapadia
Publication Date 2016-05-13 2016-08-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381313381313
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Ardeshir Shiavax Khambata (known as 'Eddie') was a consultant ENT surgeon at West Hill and Joyce Green hospitals in Dartford, Kent, and Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, and chief laryngologist to the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the English National Opera and the Royal College of Music, London. He was eagerly sought after for an opinion when opera singers had problems. Born in Bombay into a devout Parsee Zoroastrian family, he was educated at the Cathedral Boys' School there (where he sang hymns) and went on to qualify in medicine from Grant Medical College. He moved to London, gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1966 and secured a senior registrar post at the London Hospital. He was subsequently appointed as an ENT consultant in Dartford and Sidcup. His publications included chapters in *Music and the brain: studies in the neurology of music* (William Heinemann Medical Books, 1976), *Scott-Brown's diseases of the ear, nose and throat* (London, Butterworth, 1979) and *The voice* (London, Souvenir, 1983). He was a close friend to several singers, including Rosalind Plowright, Victoria de los Ángeles, Ghena Dimitrova, Carlo Bergonzi, Jamie MacDougall, Bruce Ford, Vladimir Chernov, Felicity Lott and Dame Eva Turner. A *bon viveur*, he was an expert in French cooking, fluent in several European languages and even drew a portrait of his beloved paternal grandmother. In his retirement he returned to his roots in Bombay, but was always to be seen on the European festival circuit each summer. He also indulged his hobby of travelling frequently to the Far East, the temples of which fascinated him. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, to which he ultimately succumbed on 2 June 2015.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009130
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First Title value, for Searching Mahindrakar, Naganath Hanamanthrao (1932 - 2014)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-05-16 2019-05-10
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381328381328
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Naganath Hanamanthrao Mahindrakar was joint head of the ENT department at Royal Bolton Hospital. He was born in Dharwad, India on 3 September 1932. His father, Hanamanthrao Appaji, was a businessman selling cigarettes wholesale; his mother, Parwatbai, was a housewife. He was educated at Karnatak High School in Dharwad and Karnatak College. He went on to study medicine at the Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College in Bombay, qualifying in 1956. After junior posts in India, he went to the UK. He gained his diploma in otorhinolaryngology in 1961. He was a registrar at Bolton Royal Infirmary and then at St Nicholas’ Hospital, Plumstead, London. From 1965 to 1967 he was a senior registrar at Manchester Royal Infirmary. He then became a lecturer in otolaryngology at Manchester University. In 1968, he was appointed as a consultant in ear, nose and throat surgery at Bolton Royal Infirmary. From 1970 until his retirement in 1997 he was joint head of the ENT department. He was chairman of the Bolton Deaf Society from 1980. He was also involved in other charity work. Through Rotary International he successfully established at blood bank in his home town of Dharwad. He was presented with Rotary International’s Paul Harris award for ‘service above self’. Outside medicine, he enjoyed golf, bridge and painting. In 1965, he married Ursula Patricia Quirk, a nurse. They had two sons – Peter Raj and Arwin Francis. After his first wife’s death, he married Therese O’Grady, a teacher, in 1994. He died following a heart attack at his home in Chorley, Lancashire on 11 July 2014. He was 81.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009145
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First Title value, for Searching Bennett, Richard James (1921 - 2017)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by David Brain
Publication Date 2017-02-17 2017-11-22
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381486381486
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Richard James Bennett (or 'Jim' as he was universally known) was a consultant ENT surgeon in Birmingham. He was born on 24 July 1921 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. His father, James Bennett, worked as a potter. Jim was educated at St Joseph's School in Stoke and later progressed to Birmingham University as a medical student and qualified in 1944. Whilst still a student Jim began to suffer from a duodenal ulcer, which was to plague him for much of his life. After completing his junior house jobs, he decided to train as a pathologist, but this had to be abandoned as he developed a sensitivity to formalin. It was then he embarked on his surgical career, leading to a decision to specialise in ENT surgery. After completing his specialist training, he worked for short periods as a consultant ENT surgeon at Durham and later Stoke-on-Trent, before obtaining a consultant post in Birmingham. Jim rapidly developed a consuming interest in otology and he was fortunate in obtaining a post at the Queen Elizabeth and the Birmingham and Midland Ear, Nose and Throat hospitals, which enabled him to largely abandon the nose and throat and devote most of his time to surgery of the ear. Jim was a first class tympanoplasty surgeon and became a national authority on this subject. Jim was happily married to Jacqueline, a fellow Birmingham medical graduate, for nearly 60 years. They had two children - Richard and Anne. His main recreation was bridge, but he also played some golf. Sadly, at the very end he suffered from dementia. He died on 10 January 2017 at the age of 95.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009303
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First Title value, for Searching Hollis, David George Hanbury (1924 - 2006)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2008-06-19
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372708372708
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details David Hollis was an ENT surgeon in south London. He was born in Northwood, Middlesex, on 16 June 1924, the elder son of Frederick James Hollis, a priest and university lecturer, and Christina Mary née Hanbury. Educated at Ovingdean Preparatory School, Brighton, and Lancing College, David Hollis read medicine at King’s College, London, and King’s College Medical School. Here he was influenced by those two ENT giants, Sir Victor Negus and Sir Terence Cawthorne, which, coupled with his own childhood experience of otitis media, led him to choose ENT as his specialty. He was a house surgeon and later a registrar in ENT at King’s College Hospital and senior registrar at the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital. He was subsequently appointed consultant ENT surgeon to the Lewisham, North Southwark and Greenwich Health Authorities. He married Barbara Moore, a radiotherapist, later to become a consultant, in 1947. They had two sons, one of whom became a child psychiatrist, and two daughters (the eldest of whom became a state registered nurse and later a chiropractor). His principal interests outside his work were campanology, horticulture and cycling. He died on 28 September 2006.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000524
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First Title value, for Searching Amen, Amer Abdul Aziz (1944 - 2008)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

First Title value, for Searching Flett, Robert Louttit ( - 1986)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-13
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379437379437
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Robert Louttit Flett qualified MB ChB from the Otago Medical School in 1925, where he was also demonstrator in anatomy. As an anatomist he won the Scott Memorial Medal in applied anatomy and was a member of the Anatomical Society. After obtaining his Fellowship he spent the rest of his career and life in Derbyshire and specialised in aural surgery, being ENT surgeon to a large number of hospitals in the Derby area. After retirement he was given the title of surgeon emeritus to the Derby Hospital Group. He was an honorary member of the British Association of Otolaryngologists and was President of the Section of Laryngology at the Royal Society of Medicine in 1960. He died on 18 March 1986.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007254
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First Title value, for Searching Sharp, Malcolm (1933 - 2014)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Dodi Sharp
Publication Date 2014-10-17 2016-11-03
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378331378331
Occupation ENT surgeon Head and neck surgeon
Details Malcolm Sharp was a consultant ENT surgeon with a special interest in head and neck surgery at St Helier Hospital, Carshalton, St George's Hospital, Tooting and the Royal Marsden Hospital, London. Following a visit to the United States to Duke University, North Carolina and Penn University, Philadelphia, he introduced, for the first time in UK, day surgery at St Helier Hospital for a range of ENT operations, including tonsillectomy. He was born on 30 June 1933 at Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London, the second child of Abraham Sharp (known as 'Arthur'), who managed a shoe shop, and Deborah Sharp née Zack. Having started in primary school in Stamford Hill, London, he, with the onset of the Second World War, was evacuated with his older sister, Sybil, to Yaxley near Cambridge. Later he won a scholarship to Westminster City School. Trained at University College Medical School, where he successfully produced a Christmas show entitled 'The fallopians', he qualified in 1956 and was appointed as a house physician in Newcastle, before returning to University College Hospital as a house surgeon. Malcolm Sharp then gained experience in general surgery and orthopaedics. He was influenced by Peter London at the Birmingham Accident Hospital and by Norman Tanner at Charing Cross Hospital. With this strong background in general surgery and orthopaedics, Malcolm Sharp decided that his anatomical surgical field should be the head and neck. To this end he was trained at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, Gray's Inn Road and was influenced by Donald Harrison. Malcolm Sharp was first and foremost a clinician; he chaired his district management team and took part in teaching medical students from St George's Hospital. He enjoyed travel, particularly within Europe and the USA, was a sociable, humorous man who loved the company of family and friends, and was a keen and knowledgeable gardener. He liked music, in particular opera, and was an enthusiastic painter and photographer. In June 1966 he married Deborah ('Dodi') Bierer, who later became a consultant anaesthetist at St Helier Hospital, Sutton Hospital and the Nelson Hospital in Wimbledon. She lived in Israel for 17 years and served as a sergeant in the Israeli army for two years, before going to the UK to read medicine at the Charing Cross Medical School, qualifying in 1964. She represented the fifth generation of doctors in her family. They had three children - Amanda, co-founder of the Frieze Art fair, Julia, a specialist in European Union/competition laws and Gideon, a corporate city lawyer. There are eight grandchildren. Malcolm Sharp died from hepatocellular cancer on 13 July 2014. He was 81.
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First Title value, for Searching Cameron, Duncan Stewart (1940 - 2010)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2011-12-15 2013-09-02
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373944373944
Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Stewart Cameron was a much respected otolaryngologist at the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with a special interest in skull-based surgery. He was born in Newcastle on 3 July 1940 and was head boy at Dame Allan's School. A keen rugby player at school, he went on to play scrum half for the Northern Football Club. Stewart Cameron qualified from the University of Durham, having completed his clinical course on the new curriculum at the University of Newcastle. His house appointments were in and around Newcastle, after which he became an assistant lecturer in the department of anatomy at the University of Glasgow (from 1965 to 1968). After gaining his Edinburgh FRCS, he decided to start training in ENT and undertook a clinical tutorship in Edinburgh. Drawn back to Newcastle, he was successively a registrar and a senior registrar at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, before being appointed as a consultant to the Freeman Hospital. Here he developed his special interest in skull-based surgery, in particular the establishment, with his neurosurgical colleagues, of a regional acoustic neuroma service. It was perhaps as an examiner that Stewart Cameron was most admired. He served on the examining boards of both the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Edinburgh and of England for 25 years, and was awarded the FRCS *ad eundem* by our English College. He was also regional surgical adviser for the Edinburgh College. Stewart Cameron was a person who was always positive and upbeat, and who treated everyone with the same courtesy. His decision to undergo orthopaedic surgery to ease his increasing discomfort whilst playing golf regretfully resulted in a fatal post-operative pulmonary embolus. He died on 23 January 2010, aged 69, and was survived by his wife, Gladys, and his two sons, Alasdair and Iain.
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First Title value, for Searching Lessington-Smith, Caroline Mathilda (1918 - )

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2006-06-21 2009-05-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372430372430
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Caroline Lessington-Smith was an ENT surgeon at King’s College Hospital, London. Born Caroline van Dorp on 25 May 1918, she was the daughter of a Dutch pastor based in London. She qualified at the London School of Medicine for Women in 1941 and, choosing ENT as a career, she became senior registrar to the ENT departments at the Royal Hospital, Sheffield, and the Royal Infirmary, Leicester, and senior registrar to the department of surgery of the General Hospital, Leicester. She was subsequently appointed as surgeon in charge of the ENT department of St Giles Hospital, Camberwell, and the Dulwich Hospital. She was interested in paediatric ENT and later worked at the Belgrave Hospital for Children. All three of these hospitals became part of the King's College Hospital group in the early 1960s. A highly intelligent and amiable colleague, she brought her extensive experience to the foreign body endoscopy unit at Camberwell and published a paper in the *Journal of Laryngology & Otology* (1954) entitled ‘Unusual foreign body in the maxillary antrum’, which turned out to be a flat metal ring measuring 7.7cms in diameter which had penetrated the antrum. A year earlier she wrote ‘Tonsillectomy for carcinoma of the tonsil in a dog – with survival’ in the *Veterinary Record*. Whilst at Camberwell in 1963 she met and married Hugh Sim, who had been injured at the Battle of Arnhem and was at the time a hospital administrator. They had two sons. Hugh died whilst Caroline was still working and, shortly after her retirement in the mid 1970s, she remarried and lived in her delightful cottage in Mayfield, East Sussex. She is believed to have died in late 2001 or early 2002, as noted in the *Medical Directory* 2002.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000243
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First Title value, for Searching Dowie, Lancelot Newton (1930 - 2018)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2018-12-13 2021-11-11
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009500-E009599
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Lancelot Newton Dowie was born in Aberdeen on 13 August 1930, the son of Alexander Morrison Dowie, a banker and his wife Frances Elena née Newton. He had a brother who later became a GP in Scotland. After attending the Glasgow Academy he trained at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, qualifying in 1954. While at Barts he won the Hayward prize and was mentored by Dennis Ellison Nash, Sir Clifford Naunton Morgan, John Cope and James Cecil Hogg. He did house jobs at Barts and at the King Edward VII Hospital for Officers in London and, in 1962, became a fellow of the college. From 1969 to 1989 he headed the ENT department at Barts, moving to the Princess Grace Hospital in London when he retired from that post. He was a visiting professor at the University of California in the USA and an examiner for the DLO part 1. A fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, he was secretary to the section of laryngology and a member of the British Association of Otolaryngology. He was the author of numerous articles published in the ENT journals During his national service he served with the Royal Navy as a surgeon lieutenant commander and was attached to an amphibious warfare squadron at Suez in 1957. He married Sine Audrey née Buttar, a nurse at the Westminster Hospital, on 2 April 1960. They had two sons and a daughter who became a nurse at St Thomas’s. He was a keen rugby player in spite of breaking his neck playing full back for Barts in 1948 and he played tennis in the University Hospital team. He died on 16 September 2018, aged 88 and was survived by his children (including a son named Mark) and grandchildren. His wife, who had been born in 1936 and was 77 when she died, predeceased him in 2014.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009547
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First Title value, for Searching Alles, Roshini Marcelle (1953 - 2016)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-10-27
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381440381440
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Roshini Marcelle Alles was consultant in audiovestibular medicine at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital (RNTNEH) in London. She was born in Ceylon in 1953 and qualified from the University of Sri Lanka in Colombo in 1978. After completing postgraduate training in ear, nose and throat medicine she travelled to the UK to further her training at St Thomas’ Hospital and the RNTNEH. She passed the fellowship of the college in 1985. The following year, in 1986, she was appointed consultant ENT surgeon to the Lady Ridgeway Hospital for children in Colombo and also became honorary consultant ENT surgeon to the Sri Jayawardenpura Postgraduate Teaching Hospital where her caseload consisted of injured members of the armed forces. Throughout the late 1980’s she became more and more interested in audiovestibular techniques and embarked on the development of a screening programme for the hard of hearing in her country. She came to London and, after successfully completing an MSc in audiovestibular medicine at University College (UCL) she returned to the RNTNEH and was appointed consultant in 1993. At RNTNEH, she was in charge of training and examined for the UCL MSc. Her main areas of expertise were with disorders of the central auditory nervous system, young adults with hearing loss and particularly complex cases. A member of the national steering committee on auditory disorders, she also helped develop the Department of Health’s 18 week pathways on hearing problems and writing its good practice guides. She continued her support for the treatment of children with hearing problems in Sri Lanka and was particularly involved with the Ratmalana School for the Deaf in Sri Lanka. Married to Pasqual, she had two daughters, Santoshi and Anouki. Her family survived her, as did her parents, when she died on 28 August 2016 aged 63.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009257
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First Title value, for Searching Bull, Tony Raymond (1934 - 2016)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-05-13 2019-04-03
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381311381311
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Tony Bull was an ENT surgeon at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London. He was born on 21 December 1934 in Bath, Somerset, the son of Henry Bull, a dentist. He was educated at Monkton Combe School, where he excelled academically and on the sports field, playing tennis for Somerset and hockey for Essex and Wales. He studied medicine at the London Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1958. He was a house surgeon at the London Hospital, a senior fellow in otology at the University of Memphis Foundation, USA and later worked in Jamaica. He was subsequently appointed as a consultant surgeon to the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital and later also at Charing Cross Hospital. He was one of the first surgeons to undertake stapedectomy in the UK and was also known for developing nasal plastic surgery. In 1970, he set up the rhinoplasty course at the Institute of Laryngology and Otology. With Claus Walter, he founded the European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery, becoming president. He was also president of the International Federation of Facial Plastic Surgical Societies and of the section of otology at the Royal Society of Medicine (from 1993 to 1994). He wrote many papers and chapters in textbooks, and was co-editor, with Eugene Tardy, of the quarterly monograph *Facial Plastic Surgery*. His book *A colour atlas of ENT diagnosis* (London, Wolfe), first published in 1974, was translated into several languages, and is now in a fifth edition. He was a keen boxing fan, a member of the tennis club Queen’s and the MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club). He was also interested in golf. He married Jill Rosemary Beresford Cook in 1958 and they had three children – Amanda, Karen and Antony – and six grandchildren. He died on 19 April 2016 aged 81.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009128
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First Title value, for Searching Linstrom, Christopher James (1950 - 2016)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2018-11-20 2021-05-06
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009500-E009599
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Christopher James Linstrom was born on 22 March 1950 in Washington, D.C., the son of Mary and John Linstrom. Brought up in Greenbelt, Maryland, he initially graduated in philosophy and music from the University of Maryland. On moving to Canada he studied medicine at McGill University, Montreal. While he was there he founded (and became president of) the McGill Faculty of Medicine Refugee Fund to support the Vietnamese Boat People in their efforts to emigrate to Canada. Following his internship at McGill, he completed a residency at Cornell University Medical College and a fellowship in otology and neurotology at the Michigan Ear Institute. A fellow of the American Board of Otolaryngology and the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada, he was awarded the fellowship of the college ad eundum in 2001. He had been professor of otolaryngology at the New York Medical College and was a visiting professor of otolaryngology at the Medical University of Southern Africa. For 26 years he was surgeon director of otology, neurotology and skull base surgery at the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, where his research concentrated on studies in facial nerve and hearing restoration. While there he carried out the infirmary’s first cochlear implant on a ten year old patient, establishing Mount Sinai’s reputation as a leading centre in the field. A popular and member of staff, he was much in demand as a speaker and published extensively. Outside medicine he had a wide range of interests and performed internationally as a musician and singer. When he died suddenly on 17 February 2016, aged 65 years, he was survived by his partner Swee Khing Hong and his siblings: Mary, John, Katherine, Nora, Joan, Gerard, Elizabeth and David, and many nieces, nephews and grandnieces and grandnephews.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009519
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First Title value, for Searching Gudé, Somnath Jaivant (1929 - 2013)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-11-21 2020-01-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381463381463
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Somnath Jaivant Gudé was a consultant ENT surgeon at Burnley General Hospital. Born in Goa on 27 September 1929, he was the son of Jaivent Ganesh Gudé, a postmaster, and his wife Laxmibai Naik. In Goa he attended Liceu Nacional Panjim and the Popular High School Margao before moving to Wilson College, Bombay. He studied medicine at Bombay University and Grant Medical College where he won prizes in anatomy and surgery (coming first in the university in the latter) and qualified MB BS in 1957. After house jobs at the Gokuldas Tejpal Hospital in Bombay he travelled to the UK. From 1959 to 1961 he worked at Mansfield General Hospital in Nottinghamshire and then moved to Salford Royal Hospital for two years. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1961. Returning to India in 1963 he became a lecturer in surgery at the Goa Medical College and stayed there until 1966. The following year he became a consultant at the Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital in Liverpool and stayed there until 1970 when he took up the post of ENT consultant at Burnley General Hospital. He was a patron of the East Lancashire Tinnitus Association from 1975 until he retired in 1994. In October 1966 he married Jean Hilda neé Kirk and they had two daughters, Anita who became a solicitor and Sheila who was a teacher. Jean died in June 1988 and in May 1991 he married Margaret Wilkinson. When young he had been a keen sportsman representing his college and medical school in cricket, football and table tennis. Later he enjoyed playing golf. He died on 5 July 2013 aged 83.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009280
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First Title value, for Searching Booth, Patrick John (1932 - 2017)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2018-05-18 2021-01-06
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381844381844
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Patrick Booth (Pat) was an ENT surgeon at Gwynedd Hospital in Bangor. He was born on 17 March 1932. During the second world war he was evacuated from Hastings to St Albans and then sent with his two brothers, Geoffrey and Anthony, to Allhallows, a boy’s independent school in Rousdon, Devon in 1941. His later memories of his days there included the attractions of the stuffed bird collection, watching out for incendiary bombs from the clocktower, shooting in the rifle range in the walled garden, afternoon tea in the landslip cottage, the awfulness of the school porridge, catching the school train and walking up from the hamlet of Combpyne. After winning his miniature range and full bore shooting colours he represented the school at Bisley for three years from 1947. In 1949 he left Allhallows, having been very successful both academically and on the rugby and hockey fields, and enrolled as a medical student at St Thomas’ Hospital. He qualified MB, BS in 1955 and, on being called up for national service, joined the RAMC as a surgeon. In Germany he served as a consultant ENT surgeon at the British Military Hospital in Munster and he also spent time in Hong Kong and the Tidworth Military Hospital in Wiltshire. Retiring from the army with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, he moved to North Wales as a consultant ENT surgeon at the Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor. He was a member of the British Association of Otolaryngologists and retired in 1994. He had two daughters, Fiona and Jane (now Mrs Pollard) whom he sent to Allhallows in the early 1970’s when the school began admitting girls in the sixth form. They survived him, along with his brothers, when he died on 15 March 2017, two days short of his 85th birthday.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009440
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First Title value, for Searching Maconie, Alan Cameron (1901 - 1989)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-15 2015-10-12
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379658379658
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Alan Cameron Maconie received his medical education at St Bartholomew's Hospital whence he qualified MB, BS in 1923. After holding house posts at St Bartholomew's and the Royal Northern Hospitals, he specialised in otolaryngology and was successively surgeon in the ENT departments at the Virginia Water and Heatherwood Hospital, the Holloway Sanatorium, and the Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital, Taplow. Later he became surgeon in charge of the ENT department, and consultant surgeon at the King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor and Maidenhead. His death was reported in the GMC list for 3 March 1989.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007475
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First Title value, for Searching Ellis, Maxwell Philip ( - 1996)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-23
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Maxwell Philip Ellis qualified in medicine in London and trained at University College Hospital. He eventually became surgeon-in-charge to the ENT department at the Central Middlesex Hospital, surgeon to the Royal National Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital and Dean of the Institute of Laryngology and Otology in London. He was a wing commander in the RAF volunteer reserve. At the College he was a Hunterian Professor, and he was a Fellow of University College London. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (and ex-President of the Section of Otology) and a Fellow of the Medical Society of London, serving as President and honorary treasurer trustee. He edited several books and published many papers on laryngeal surgery and cancers of the ear, nose and throat. He died on 12 December 1996.
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First Title value, for Searching Savage, Christopher Smallwood (1915 - 2007)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2011-11-14 2013-07-11
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373767373767
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Christopher Savage was a consultant ENT surgeon at the Chelmsford and Essex Hospital, and the Southend General Hospital, where he developed a special interest in microsurgery of the ear. Born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, on 21 November 1915, he was part of the third generation of a family of surgeons. His father, Ernest Smallwood Savage, who gained his FRCS in 1896, was a gynaecologist at Birmingham and Wolverhampton. His grandfather, Thomas Savage, who was awarded the FRCS in 1869, was a professor of gynaecology in Birmingham. Christopher Savage's mother Constance was a housewife. Savage was educated at West House School, Edgbaston, Marlborough College, Gonville and Caius, Cambridge, and then the London Hospital. He managed to do his pre-registration house jobs at the Haymeads Hospital, Bishop's Stortford, before serving as a surgeon lieutenant in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve on HMS *Havelock* on the North Atlantic convoys. At the end of the Second World War he became a supernumerary registrar at the London Hospital, during which time he gained experience in general surgery and otolaryngology with Charles Keogh, Alan Bowen Davies and Johan Lindahl. Their influence led him to become first assistant to the aural department at the London from 1948 to 1952. He contracted polio in 1953, but fortunately made a near complete recovery. In 1949 he was appointed to his first consultant post, in Chelmsford, and, in 1953, he was also made a consultant at Southend. Among his consultant colleagues he was respected for his hard work, humour and principles. He retired in April 1979. He continued to sail at the Blackwater Sailing Club and took up woodcarving and fly fishing. He died from pneumonia on 10 December 2007 at the age of 92. He was survived by his wife Jill née Dawe, whom he married in April 1951, and his three children. His sons James and Robert have continued the family tradition, becoming a general practitioner and a consultant orthopaedic surgeon respectively. His daughter became a physiotherapist. Three of his seven grandchildren have also become doctors.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001584
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First Title value, for Searching Nassar, Wadi Yusuf (1932 - 2011)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-02-03 2014-01-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374138374138
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Wadi Yusuf Nassar was an ENT surgeon at Wythenshawe and Withington hospitals, Manchester. He was born in Jifna, a small village near Jerusalem, in the then Palestine, the fourth child and second son of Yousif Nassar, a priest in the Greek Orthodox Church, and Zakia née Samara, the daughter of a farmer. He was educated in Jerusalem at Beir Zeit College and Rashedya College, and then went on to the American University of Beirut to study medicine, graduating in 1956 with an MD. He then joined the Jordanian Army as a major, commanding the 4th field ambulance. He went to the UK to train in ENT surgery, initially in London, and gained his MCh from Liverpool. He fully intended to return to his homeland, but was encouraged to remain by his consultant when he was at Stockport, Kenneth Harrison. He then took the primary and final FRCS within six months and joined the Manchester training circuit as a registrar and senior registrar in ENT. He also lectured at Manchester University. In 1970 he obtained his consultant post at Wythenshaw and Withington hospitals, later the University Hospital of South Manchester. He also had sessions at Stretford Memorial Hospital and Trafford General Hospital. He was an invited speaker at international conferences. He helped develop tympanometry and Teflon paste augmentation of the vocal cord, and established training schemes for junior doctors in the Middle East. Outside medicine, he was a justice of the peace, an active Rotarian, and a trustee of Manchester Council for Community Relations. He was awarded an OBE in 2005. While working as a registrar at Stockport Royal Infirmary he met Gwen Wood, a theatre nurse. They married in 1968 and had two children: Victoria and Greg, who became head of clinical audiology at Trafford General Hospital. Gwen died of a subarachnoid haemorrhage in 1985. Wadi Nassar died in Wythenshawe Hospital on 6 November 2011, aged 79.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001955
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First Title value, for Searching Wilmot, Thomas James (1920 - 2011)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-23 2015-07-03
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374068374068
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Thomas James Wilmot was a consultant ENT surgeon in Tyrone and Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. He was born in 1920. His father was a general practitioner in Louth, Lincolnshire, but was originally from County Kerry. His mother was from Inverness. Wilmot was educated in Norfolk and at Epsom College, and then studied medicine at Middlesex Hospital Medical School. He was evacuated to Leeds and Bristol during the Second World War and qualified MB BS in 1944. His first posts were in Inverness and at Mount Vernon Hospital. He then returned to Middlesex Hospital, first as a surgical registrar and then as an ENT registrar. From 1947 to 1949 he served in the Royal Air Force as a graded ENT specialist. In 1950 he was based at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, where he gained his FRCS and MS. He then returned to Middlesex Hospital as a senior ENT registrar. In 1951 he was appointed to a consultant post at Omagh in County Tyrone, where he set up the first ENT service outside Belfast. Working with colleagues at Middlesex Hospital and the University of Geneva, he installed specialist auditory and rotational equipment for the study of sensorineural deafness and vertigo, then the most advanced equipment in the British Isles. He published papers, wrote a monograph on Ménière's disease and contributed to text books on otology, audiology and occupational medicine. He was president of the otology section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1973 and of the Irish Otolaryngology Society in 1981. In the 1970s he was awarded the Dalby, Jobson Horne and Norman Gamble prizes. He was a founder member of the Otorhinolaryngological Travelling Club. Outside medicine, he had a passion for fishing and was a skilled painter in oils. He also made his own wine. In later years he developed Parkinson's disease. His first wife Pat died in 1986. He died on 31 March 2011 and was survived by his second wife, Ivy, his son Tom and daughter Heather, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001885
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First Title value, for Searching Robson, Frank Charles (1930 - 2001)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-07-27 2019-12-02
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381375381375
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Frank Charles Robson was an ENT surgeon in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He was born in London, England on 20 October 1930, the son of Frank Herbert Robson, an insurance broker and member of Lloyd’s, and Helen Ruth Robson née Barr. He attended Monmouth School from 1944 to 1949 and then carried out his National Service in the Royal Air Force. He went on to study medicine at Durham University, qualifying in July 1957. At school and at university he was captain of rowing. He was a house surgeon in the ENT department of the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne and then a house physician in the department of neurology there. From October 1959 to June 1961, he was demonstrator in anatomy at King’s College, Durham University. He went back to the Royal Victoria Infirmary for his surgical training, as a resident surgical officer, senior house officer and then surgical registrar. From August 1965, he was a senior registrar to the ENT department at Cardiff Royal Infirmary. In September 1966, he was appointed as a consultant in administrative charge of the ENT department, Cumberland and Dumfriesshire. In 1971 he emigrated to Canada, to Winnipeg, where he was head of the section of adult otolaryngology and coordinator of the multidisciplinary head and neck unit, Health Sciences Centre, and head of the section of otolaryngology at Victoria General Hospital. He was also an associate professor at the University of Manitoba. He was chairman of the Hearing Conservation Council of Manitoba, chairman of the ENT section of the Manitoba Medical Association and the Manitoba representative on the council of the Canadian Society of Otolaryngology. In 1957, he married Margaret Amy Thornton, also a medical graduate. They had three children – Penelope Ann, Helen Jane and Frank Gerald – and six grandchildren, David, Jennifer, Alexandra, Jessica, Kathryn and James. Predeceased by his son who died from cancer, Frank Charles Robson died on 24 January 2001 at the age of 70.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009192
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First Title value, for Searching Dalton, George Allen (1924 - 2016)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2015-12-04 2019-05-20
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381077381077
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details George Allen Dalton was an ENT surgeon in Birmingham. Born in Coventry on 15 June 1924, he was the son of George Thomas Dalton, a farmer, and his wife Elsie Emily née Hence. He attended Walsgrave Colliery School from 1929 to 1935, Bablake School in Coventry from 1935 to 1940 and King Edward VI School in Nuneaton from 1940 to 1942. He then spent seven years at the University of Birmingham Medical School where he qualified MB ChB in 1947. During house jobs at the Birmingham General Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth and the Children’s Hospital he was influenced by Arthur James Moffett and Norman Lloyd Crabtree. On national service from 1950 to 1952 as a captain in the RAMC, he was in charge of the ENT department at the Commonwealth Military Hospital in Japan. This was during the early years of the Korean War. When he returned he became a senior ENT registrar at the United Bristol Hospitals where he worked with Jack Angell James. In 1961 he was appointed a consultant in ENT at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital and the Queen Elizabeth but took a year’s sabbatical to complete his research and visit other centres in the USA and Europe. On his return he took on a huge workload especially in the treatment of head and neck cancer. With Sir Geoffrey Slaney he had the reputation of holding the world series in surgery for postcricoid carcinoma and was instrumental in introducing various ground breaking surgical techniques. He was secretary of the Midland Institute of Otology from 1966 to 1972. He married Elizabeth Mary Wood (Mary) in 1952 and they had four sons. Favourite pastimes were foreign travel and sailing at his second home in the Scilly Islands. In 1984 he retired on health grounds and he died from ischaemic heart disease on 20 February 2016 aged 91. His son Bob (who also qualified in medicine) predeceased him in 2003 and he was survived by Mary, three sons (one of whom was a general practitioner) and nine grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008894
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First Title value, for Searching Ghanekar, Dinker Govind (1934 - 2000)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-30
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380802380802
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Ghanekar qualified in Bombay and came to England to specialise in ENT, working at first in Farnborough, Liverpool and Burton-upon-Trent where he was appointed a consultant otolaryngologist and was involved in planning a new ENT unit. He was particularly interested in surgery of the parotid. Later he moved to North Tyneside General Hospital. A deeply spiritual person he was a keen reader of philosophy and of English and Indian literature. He was said to have a calm nature combined with a good sense of humour. He enjoyed travelling and socialising. He died on 13 February 2000, leaving his wife Asha, also a doctor, son, Kiran, and daughter, Anita.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008619
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First Title value, for Searching Howells, Gilbert Haywood (1897 - 1982)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-19
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378769378769
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Gilbert Haywood Howells was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, on 23 August 1897. He was the second son of Henry Haywood Howells, a solicitor. After Newport High School he attended University College, Cardiff, and St Thomas's Hospital. He became surgeon at St George's Hospital, the National Hospital, Moorfields Hospital and, eventually to Upton Hospital, Slough, in each case specialising in ENT. During the first world war he served as a private in the 1/28 London Regiment between 1916 and 1918. In 1926 he married Dorothy Mary Jones and they had no family. His main interests were golf and gardening. He died in 1982 aged 85.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006586
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First Title value, for Searching Malkin, Edwin Anthony (1916 - 1997)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380939380939
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Tony Malkin was born on 4 February 1916 in Cardiff. His father, Edwin Malkin, was a musician and organ-builder. His mother, Winifred Mary Lyddon, was the daughter of a Bristol stockbroker. He was educated at King's College School, Wimbledon, and King's College Medical School and Hospital. After junior positions, he specialised in ENT and worked under Sir Victor Negus and Sir Terence Cawthorne. During the war he joined the RAF as a Squadron Leader and served throughout the Levant and Western Europe, being mentioned in despatches. He was appointed consultant ENT surgeon to St Helier Hopsital, Carshalton, and was a consultant aurist to the Ministry of Pensions. He never married. He died on 8 August 1997.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008756
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First Title value, for Searching Howarth Anthony Edward (1916 - 2012)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Mark Howarth
Publication Date 2013-07-24 2014-09-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376457376457
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Anthony Edward Howarth ('Tony') was a consultant ENT surgeon at St Nicholas' Hospital, Plumstead, the Erith Hospital, Brook General Hospital, Bromley Hospital, Beckenham Hospital and Sydenham Children's Hospital, which he always regarded as his base. He was also an audiologist to the London County Council and worked for the Royal National Institute for the Deaf. Tony Howarth was born in London on 18 November 1916, the first child of the renowned St Thomas' ENT surgeon Walter ('Wally') Goldie Howarth and his wife, Esther Mary Howarth née Ricardo. He was educated at Shrewsbury School, King's College, Cambridge, and St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London. His interest in ENT surgery came from his father, and his postgraduate appointments were as a house officer and registrar at St Thomas'. During the Second World War he served in the RAF in Burma and Bengal. He was later appointed as an ENT senior registrar at the Middlesex Hospital. Tony Howarth married Rosemary (née Clay), an art historian and daughter of Sir Charles Clay, librarian to the House of Lords, in June 1950 in London. They had three children - Mark (who became a general practitioner), Simon (a water engineer) and Catherine (a molecular geneticist), and five grandchildren. Living 30 years after retirement, Tony Howarth immersed himself in his large extended family and transferred his surgical skills to craftsmanship, becoming an expert cabinet maker as well as a DIY enthusiast. He was very interested in the arts and architecture, and loved the galleries and museums of London. He was remarkably fit well into his nineties, having fought off carcinoma of the gall bladder against all odds and then of the colon. Sadly, his beloved Rosemary developed Alzheimer's and he became her devoted carer. A year before his death he realised that he could no longer cope alone in London and moved down to his parents' old house in Sussex, now occupied by one of his sons; a house that he had done much to restore. It was very much a coming home and he died there on 27 April 2012, surrounded by his family. He was 95.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004274
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First Title value, for Searching Adlington, Peter (1932 - 2011)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Alan Bracewell
Publication Date 2012-01-12 2012-12-20
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374036374036
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Peter Adlington was an ear, nose and throat surgeon to the West and East Dorset Health Authorities between 1969 and 1997. He was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, on 8 April 1932. His father Basil was an ear, nose and throat surgeon and a general practitioner, and also a fellow of the College. His mother was Katherine Adlington née Williams. Peter went to school at Worcester Royal Grammar School and then attended Epsom College from 1945 to 1950, where he was captain of rugby. His family had a strong connection with King's College Hospital. His father had trained there, his aunt was a nurse at King's, as was Peter's future wife, Margaret. Peter went to King's College Hospital Medical School in 1950 and qualified in 1956. After pre-registration house officer posts he joined the Parachute Regiment to carry out his National Service and later transferred to the SAS and saw active service in Malaya and Oman. On returning to civilian life, he was Leverhulme research lecturer in the department of anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons and, between 1976 and 1982, was examiner in part one of the diploma in otolaryngology. He held various training posts in London, before becoming a senior registrar in the ENT department at King's College Hospital. There he worked for Sir Terence Cawthorne, William Daggett and Roland Lewis. He was appointed to his consultant post in Dorset in 1968. Until his arrival the consultant at West Dorset was single-handed and Peter's time was split between Weymouth and Poole General Hospital. After about 10 years another full-time consultant was appointed in West Dorset and Peter then spent all his time centred on Poole Hospital. He took part in all aspects of the ENT department's work at Poole, taking a particular interest in education and the training of the junior staff. He specialised in reconstructive nasal surgery, and his colleagues referred this work to him. He undertook research projects throughout his career, publishing 12 papers. In 1967 he investigated the ultrastructure of the saccus endolymphaticus at a time when surgical decompression of the saccus was thought to be helpful in the management of Ménière's disease (*J Laryngol Otol* 1967 Jul;81[7]:759-76). He carried out a controlled study of adenotonsillectomy in children, which was published in 1967 (*J Laryngol Otol* 1967 Jul;81[7]:777-90) and subsequently, with consultant colleagues and senior registrars, investigated the bacteriology and virology of secretory otitis media (*J Laryngol Otol* 1969 Feb;83[2]:161-73, (*J Laryngol Otol* 1980 Feb;94[2]:191-6). As part of his interest in reconstructive nasal surgery he investigated the effect of the preparation of cartilage grafts on their long-term survival by implanting differently prepared grafts in laboratory animals. When he first moved to Dorset he lived in the village of Horton, which was conveniently situated for the road journey to Weymouth and Poole. In Horton he had a large garden, which he continued to develop during his time there. He was always keen on sport, played rugby at school and for the United Hospitals team when he was a student. He was a good tennis player and went on playing almost to his retirement. He took up cycling in retirement, undertaking several of the long distance national routes and made cycling tours in Thailand, Italy and regular trips to France He retired in 1997 and moved to Wootton St Lawrence to be closer to one of his daughters. He developed a rare, slowly degenerative neurological illness and died on 29 September 2011. He was survived by his wife Margaret née Jefferies, whom he married in 1968, and their two daughters, one of whom is a consultant in genitourinary medicine.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001853
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First Title value, for Searching Keogh, Charles Alfred ( - 1986)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-26
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379565379565
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Little is known about the life of Charles Alfred Keogh. He qualified in medicine from Queen's University, Belfast, the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast and St Thomas's Hospital, London. He was appointed Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St Olaf after his work as an ENT surgeon with the Norwegian Hospital, London in the 1940's. During the second world war he was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the London Home Guard. Later appointments followed at the Essex County Hospital, Wanstead and the Kingston Victoria Hospital. From 1960 to 1966 he was on the Court of Examiners of the College. He also held appointments in the ENT department of the London Hospital and at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. He contributed chapters to *Diseases of the ear, nose and throat* 1965 and to various other publications. He retired to Bognor Regis and died on 21 February 1986.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007382
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First Title value, for Searching Potter, Jeffery (1929 - 1993)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-01
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380477380477
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Potter was born on 27 September 1929 in Manchester, the son of James Henry Francis Potter, a wholesale tobacconist, and Marion, née Knott. He was educated at the South Manchester Grammar School, The King's School, Macclesfield, and Manchester University Medical School, qualifying MB ChB in 1954. In 1955 he married Miss Newbold. After qualification and early house appointments he specialised in oto-rhino-laryngology and held registrarships in his specialty at the Ear Nose and Throat Infirmary, Liverpool, at Warrington General Hospital and the Victoria Hospital, Blackpool, before becoming consultant ENT surgeon to the Barrow-in-Furness Hospital Group. He published papers in the *Journal of Laryngology and Otology* on dysphagia in myasthenia gravis and on the surgical treatment of hemifacial spasm. He was a keen golfer, fell walker and gardener. He died before May 1993, survived by his wife and three sons.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008294
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First Title value, for Searching Mallett, Kenneth John Hinton (1935 - 1998)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380940380940
Occupation ENT surgeon Military surgeon
Details Kenneth Mallett qualified from St Mary's Hospital in 1959 and after practising as ENT house surgeon decided to specialise in that field. He became a senior registrar in ENT at St Mary's, was a senior specialist in ENT in the Royal Air Force, and finally became consultant surgeon to the Lincoln County and Grimsby General Hospitals. He died at Heighington, near Lincoln, on 19 November 1998 leaving a widow, Ann, two daughters, Sophie and Lucy, and three sons, John, George and Edward.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008757
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First Title value, for Searching Jenkins, John Thomas Moore Christopher (1915 - 2002)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-06
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380862380862
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details John Jenkins was born on 19 October 1915. He trained at Guy's where he became house surgeon in ENT and then moved to Cardiff where he took up the post of senior registrar in ENT to the Cardiff Royal Infirmary. He became consultant ENT surgeon to the Leicester Royal Infirmary and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was living in Ynys Pandy, Gwynneth when he died on 23 July 2002.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008679
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First Title value, for Searching Shea, John Joseph (1924 - 2015)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-09-14 2018-06-26
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380234380234
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details John Joseph Shea Jr was a pioneering ear surgeon who, in 1956, performed the first successful reconstructive stapedectomy. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee on 4 September 1924, the third of six children of John Joseph Shea, an eminent ENT specialist, and Catherine Shea née Flanagan. He graduated from Christian Brothers High School in Memphis and then attended the University of Notre Dame. He went on to Harvard Medical School and completed his training at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston. In 1952, he founded the Shea Clinic in Memphis, Tennessee, and in 1954 went to Vienna for further postgraduate training. Here he developed the idea of creating an artificial replacement for the stapes bone in the middle ear, which in otosclerosis progressively stiffens, causing hearing loss. When he returned to the US, he enlisted the help of a young engineer and designed the world's first prosthetic stapes. In May 1956, Shea performed a stapedectomy on a woman with otosclerosis, restoring the patient's hearing. Shea presented his results to an initially sceptical medical audience; the operation is now performed and taught worldwide. He went on to pioneer numerous other techniques for the treatment of deafness and dizziness, and developed many instruments and prostheses to restore hearing. In 1957, he was appointed as a special consultant by the surgeon general, US Navy. He was a professor at the ENT departments of the University of Tennessee, the University of North Carolina, Tulane University and the University of Mississippi. In 1977, he became an honorary fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and in 1992 he was awarded an honorary FRCS. Among many awards, he received the first gold medal from the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology, and an achievement award from the Deafness Research Foundation. He delivered the prestigious James Yearsley lecture at the Royal Society of Medicine. A devout Catholic, he was director of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. John J Shea Jr died at home on 8 February 2015 from a respiratory illness. He was 90. He was survived by his wife of 50 years, Lynda (née Mead), their five children (John Joseph III, Gwyn Rainer, Paul Flanagan, Susanna Mead and Peter Ryan), seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008051
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First Title value, for Searching Roydhouse, Noel (1925 - 1999)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2016-07-27 2017-10-27
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381378381378
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Noel Roydhouse was an ENT surgeon at the Middlemore Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand. He served in the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve, achieving the rank of surgeon captain, and, as an enthusiastic sports medicine physician and scuba diver, he became an expert in underwater ear and nose care. He wrote manuals for scuba divers in which he described the 'Roydhouse manoeuvre' - a combination of contraction of the levator palati and the tensor palati muscles, that raise up and tilt forwards the uvula, with tensing of the muscles of the tongue in such a way as to effect the crackling sensation of the Eustachian tube opening. Roydhouse was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 17 December 1925, the sixth of seven children born to Arthur Payton Roydhouse, a pioneer organiser of physical education in Otago, and Dorothy Roydhouse née Booth. He was educated at Otago Boys' High School, where he was *dux* (top pupil), and Dunedin Medical School, University of Otago. After house posts and an appointment as registrar and assistant lecturer in ENT at Dunedin Hospital and Otago Medical School, Roydhouse went to the UK in 1952. He was an ENT registrar in Southampton and then went to the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital in London to study for the FRCS. On his return to New Zealand, Roydhouse developed a successful ENT practice, firstly at Green Lane Hospital, Auckland and later at Middlemore Hospital, where he set up a new ENT department and remained in charge until his retirement in 1995. During this time he established community ear clinics in South Auckland. He was befriended by his polymath ENT colleague, Patrick William Eisdell Moore, who regularly referred to him as 'Royd-Hound'. In 1970, he wrote a seminal paper entitled 'A controlled study of adenotonsillectomy' in which he found that children with marked susceptibility to respiratory tract infection benefitted from a reduction in throat illness and otitis media (*Arch Otolaryngol*. 1970 Dec;92[6]:611-6). This work formed the basis of his ChM awarded the same year. In 1974 Roydhouse was an ENT surgeon in a New Zealand surgical team in Vietnam. Noel was an enthusiastic scuba diver and wrote * Scuba diving and the ear, nose and throat* (Auckland, 1975) and *Underwater care of the ears and nose* (Auckland, 1981). His other sporting activities included gymnastics, jogging, the javelin, rugby, cricket, sailing, rifle-shooting, squash and, in particular, basketball, at which he represented New Zealand Universities and New Zealand from 1947 to 1948. He became national secretary, then treasurer, of the New Zealand Federation of Sports Medicine and was founding editor of the *New Zealand Journal of Sports Medicine* (from 1973 to 1993). He was also a longstanding member of the British Association of Sports Medicine. Noel Roydhouse was president of the New Zealand Medical Association (in 1995), and was president of both the New Zealand League for the Hard of Hearing and the Hearing Association, Auckland (from 1985 to 1988). On his retirement, the New Zealand Society of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery instituted the Noel Roydhouse oration. His colleagues remember him for his encyclopaedic memory of things professional, and for his critical appraisals of much published and unpublished work through his own clinical research. He worked tirelessly for the hearing impaired in every position and through every route available to him. One of his proudest achievements was a law change so that people with hearing impairment could obtain unrestricted driving licences. In 1954 he married Patricia D Mabel Marshall. They had four children, the first of whom, Michael Noel, sadly lived only 59 days. Their other children were Trevor Bruce, Wendy Patricia and Andrew Marshall. Noel Roydhouse divorced in 1978 and in February 1986 married Naomi Frances Smith, who had three daughters from a previous marriage. Noel Roydhouse died on 6 April 1999. He was 73.
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First Title value, for Searching McKechnie, William Richard (1906 - 2004)

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First Title value, for Searching Lawrence, Laurie Asher (1857 - 1949)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-31
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born on 23 October 1857, the eldest child of John Moss Lawrence, a company director, and Emily Asher, his wife. He was educated at University College School and St Bartholomew's Hospital, and afterwards at Vienna. He served as senior house surgeon 1884-85 at St Bartholomew's, and later as chief aural assistant. Lawrence later became surgeon in charge of the throat and ear department at the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, and ultimately consulting surgeon to the Western General Dispensary. Lawrence married in June 1886 Elizabeth Rachel Joseph; there were four sons and a daughter of the marriage. He lived latterly at 44 Belsize Square, Hampstead, where he died on 5 July 1949, aged 91. He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Royal Numismatic Society.
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First Title value, for Searching Mant, Harold Turley (1880 - 1956)

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First Title value, for Searching Mills, Gordon Walter (1927 - 1978)

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First Title value, for Searching Townrow, Vincent (1885 - 1979)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-24
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Vincent Townrow was born on 1 June 1885 in Chesterfield, the youngest child of Thomas Townrow, a miller and his wife Mary (Adlington). Educated at Chesterfield Grammar School and Guy's Hospital, where he was prizeman of the Guy's Philosophical Society, he qualified with honours in medicine. Working under illustrious 'honoraries' such as Hale White, Alfred Fripp, Arbuthnot Lane, Charters Symonds and L A Dunn, he was the surgical registrar to Guy's 1910-1912. In 1913 he was appointed assistant surgeon at Sheffield Royal Hospital. In the first world war he served throughout from September 1914 as Captain RAMC in France, Gallipoli and East Africa. In 1924 he was appointed ENT surgeon at Sheffield Royal Hospital retiring in 1948. He was honorary lecturer at the University of Sheffield. In 1924 he married Jean Naish, the daughter of Professor Naish and Lucy Naish who was reader in anatomy at Sheffield. They had a son and four daughters, one of whom also entered the medical profession. He died on 22 April 1979.
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First Title value, for Searching Guthrie, Thomas (1878 - 1961)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-24
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Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Born on 3 May 1878, son of Alexander Guthrie of Mossley Hill, Liverpool, he gained an exhibition at Sedburgh and, from there, an exhibition at King's College, Cambridge, where he obtained a first class in the Natural Science Tripos in 1899. For his clinical studies he entered the medical school of St Thomas's Hospital where he qualified in 1903. After a house surgeon's appointment and a clinical assistantship in the throat department he proceeded to Vienna for postgraduate study. He then returned to Liverpool and was appointed consulting surgeon to the Ear Nose and Throat Hospital, Hoylake and the West Kirby and Neston Cottage Hospitals. He became consulting laryngologist to the Royal Infirmary, Liverpool and consulting aurist and laryngologist to the Royal Liverpool Hospital for Children. He was honorary lecturer on laryngology to the University of Liverpool. He died on 1 April 1961 at Pembury, Kent aged 82.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005540
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First Title value, for Searching Wells, Arthur George ( - 1971)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-24
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Arthur George Wells was a student at University College London, and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1905, and took the MB BS London the following year. He became specially interested in otolaryngology, and held the post of senior assistant in the ENT department at Univesity College Hospital. Wells subsequently held appointments as consultant otologist to the Buckinghamshire County Council and principal assistant medical officer and chief aurist to the Public Health Department of the London County Council. His early surgical career was later influenced by his interest in legal matters - he became a Barrister-at-Law of Gray's Inn and also a Justice of the Peace - and this accounted for his attachments to the local authority medical services in Buckinghamshire, where he lived, and in London. Wells was admitted to the Fellowship by election in 1937, and he died suddenly at his house at Medmenham on 24 November 1971.
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First Title value, for Searching Harvey, Thomas Gourlay (1910 - 1992)

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First Title value, for Searching McAlary, Robert Stratton (1929 - 1993)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-21
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born in Sydney on 9 May 1929 the son of Daniel McAlary, a grazier, and his wife, Beryl Luita, née Stratton, McAlary was educated by the Christian Brothers in Sydney and went on to study medicine at Sydney University, where he qualified in 1954. After junior posts he came to England to study otorhinolaryngology at the Royal National ENT Hospital, obtaining the DLO and later the FRCS. His outside interests included golf. He married Joan (née Hood), a nurse, in 1957. They had four daughters - Gabrielle, Barbara, Catherine and Elizabeth - and two sons, Robert and Geoffrey, none of whom went into medicine. He died suddenly on 9 August 1993.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008182
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First Title value, for Searching Paterson, William (1917 - 2002)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-25
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details William Paterson was born in Leeds on 23 January 1917. His father Alexander was a mining engineer. His mother was Mary Hunter. He was educated at West Leeds High School for Boys and studied medicine at Leeds University, where he qualified with second class honours. After junior posts at Leeds General Infirmary, he joined the RAMC as a graded surgeon, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. After the war, he returned to Leeds as an anatomy demonstrator, and passed the primary, but his further progress was held up by a disabling illness caused by war injuries. On returning to surgery, he specialised in ENT surgery and obtained a consultant position in 1957 in South Manchester and North and Mid-Cheshire. He was President of the North of England Otorhinolaryngological Society in 1981. He married Sarah Llywela Susan Phillips (Susan), a doctor, in 1950: they had three sons, Richard, Andrew and David (a consultant pathologist). There are six grandchildren. He died on 28 July 2002 after a long illness.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008835
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First Title value, for Searching Panikkar, Sankar (1924 - 1987)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-02
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Sankar Panikkar was born in Manchester in 1924 and educated at Manchester Grammar School and the University of Manchester, qualifying in 1948. After house appointments he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps with a National Service Commission in 1949 and served as medical officer in the Parachute Regiment as well as at Chester Military Hospital. On demobilisation he held posts in the Manchester area, passing the DLO in 1951 and the FRCS in 1953. Four years later he was appointed consultant in ear, nose and throat surgery to the Blackburn and District Group of Hospitals. He was an active member of the Otorhinolaryngology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine and became President of the North of England Otorhinolaryngology Society in 1980. In early life he represented his university at cricket, athletics and soccer, but later in life his main sporting interests were golf and squash. He died on 10 July 1987 and is survived by his wife, Margaret, and his daughters, Susie, Katie and Jane.
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First Title value, for Searching Baylis, Herbert Naughton (1925 - 1998)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-15 2015-10-16
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380277380277
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Herbert Naughton Baylis was a consultant ENT surgeon at the Salford group of hospitals. He was born in Glasgow on 20 January 1925, the son of Herbert Ledbrooke Baylis, an engineer, and Winifred Louise Buchanan. He was educated at Dame Alice Owen's School, Islington, and the London Hospital. After junior posts, he entered the RAMC in 1948, ending as Captain. Following demobilisation he returned to the London, where he completed a series of registrar posts for Alan Perry, A M A Moore and J Thompson Fathi at the London and Poplar Hospitals, but had difficulty progressing further. In 1958 he decided to specialise in ENT and after a series of specialist positions obtained a consultant post at the Salford group of hospitals. He died on 3 August 1998.
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First Title value, for Searching Peacock, John Roydon (1903 - 1982)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-25
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details John Roydon Peacock was the son of Ralph Peacock, an accomplished portrait painter whose work is represented by two paintings in the Tate Gallery and others in various national galleries throughout the world. He studied at Cambridge where he graduated with first class honours in the Natural Science Tripos in 1922 and at St George's Hospital. He became surgeon to the ENT Department of the Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital, Taplow, and then held posts as honorary surgeon to the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London, and recognised teacher of otology to the University of London. Finally he was honorary consulting surgeon to the ENT Department at St George's Hospital, London. He died on 28 March 1982.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006845
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Owen Daniel (1969 - 2000)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-07 2018-02-14
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381120381120
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Dan Smith qualified in Manchester, did his house jobs at the Hope Hospital, Salford, and continued his surgical training at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford before going to Taunton and Exeter to specialise in ENT. He was a competent diver and enjoyed outdoor pursuits such as fell-walking and skiing. He played the French horn and was a former member of the Clwyd and North Wales Youth Orchestras. It was after a party in Richmond that he sustained serious head injuries in a fall from a first floor window following an assault. He was rushed to the Atkinson Morley Hospital, Wimbledon, but died four days later on 29 November 2000 survived by his parents and two brothers. A memorial lecture was set up in his memory.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008937
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First Title value, for Searching Jackson, James McGillivray (1932 - 2017)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Ian Lord
Publication Date 2018-05-18 2019-01-15
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381847381847
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details James McGillivray Jackson (‘Jimmy’) was an ENT surgeon at West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St Edmunds. He was born on 24 February 1932 in the Lowlands of Scotland, the son of a dentist. He had two brothers and one sister, and went to a boarding school in Scotland. When he was 18 he carried out his National Service, serving in Malaya during the Malayan Emergency. Whilst in Malaya he contracted acute hepatitis and was promptly invalided home. He commenced his medical training in Newcastle and qualified MB BS in 1954. He trained at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, where he was an ENT registrar. He was subsequently a senior registrar at the University Hospital of the West Indies in Jamaica. During his training, he was a clinical fellow at the University of St Louis, where he came into contact with several eminent head and neck surgeons. He obtained his diploma in laryngology and otology in 1960 and his FRCS in 1962. Jimmy was appointed as a consultant ENT surgeon to West Suffolk Hospital, Bury St Edmunds with sessions at Ipswich Hospital in 1967. At the time of his appointment, the West Suffolk Hospital had ENT services provided by a visiting surgeon from Ipswich with clinical assistance from local general practitioners. He worked tirelessly as a single-handed consultant and developed the ENT service, forging close professional relationships with local GP's and public health doctors. He spent a day a week at Ipswich and an Ipswich consultant came to Bury St Edmunds. Apart from the last few years of his consultancy, he was continually on call. In his final years as a consultant Jimmy worked solely in Bury and was joined by a second full-time appointment. He retired in 1991. Jimmy played a full part in the life of West Suffolk Hospital and was chairman of the medical staff committee. Outside of West Suffolk Hospital, he was chairman of the East Anglian ENT Association and an active member of the sections of otology and laryngology at the Royal Society of Medicine and, after retirement, he continued to attend these meetings. He gave a paper at a section of otology meeting. Outside medicine, Jimmy enjoyed the country pursuits of shooting and fly fishing. He was secretary to a local fly fishing club and went to Scotland on fishing trips. He also enjoyed fine food and good company – a local friend said he was liked by everyone. He met his wife Joan in Newcastle and they married in 1951. She died in 2003. They had no children. James McGillivray Jackson died on 23 December 2017. He was 85.
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First Title value, for Searching Shepperd, Harold Walter Henry (1924 - 2013)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2014-08-15 2016-11-03
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Occupation Head and neck surgeon Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Harold Walter Henry Shepperd was a consultant otolaryngologist at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast with a special interest in head and neck surgery. He was born in Belfast on 24 May 1924, the first child of Reginald Henry Shepperd, a director of Ulster bank, and Kathleen Maude Shepperd née West. He was educated at Brackenber House School, Belfast, and then Campbell College, where he was head prefect, and subsequently studied medicine at Queen's University. He qualified in 1947. He was a house officer at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. Deciding on a career in surgery, he trained in Belfast and at the Middlesex Hospital. In 1959 he was appointed to a consultant post at four hospitals close to Belfast, and then in 1966 he moved to the Royal Victoria Hospital and Lagan Valley Hospital, Lisburn. He retired in 1989. He was secretary and later president (from 1985 to 1986) of the section of laryngology, Royal Society of Medicine, and was president of the Irish Otolaryngological Society. He had the distinction of simultaneously chairing the otorhinolaryngology board of examiners of both the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England and Ireland. He was an active member of the Royal Naval Reserve, becoming a surgeon commander and senior reserve officer on HMS *Caroline*. He also enjoyed hill walking and photography. He married Cecilia Mary Carr in 1957. Her father was a general practitioner and came from a family of four generations of doctors. They had two sons and a daughter who trained as a nurse at St Thomas' Hospital. This marriage ended in divorce in 1970. His second marriage was to Madeleine June Whitely. Harold Walter Henry Shepperd died on 20 November 2013. He was 89.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005830
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First Title value, for Searching Schofield, John Norman McMichael (1926 - 2019)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2019-06-28
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details John Norman McMichael Schofield was born on 11 April 1926 in Teddington, Middlesex. He was the eldest son of James William Schofield, a consultant dental surgeon at the Middlesex and University College Hospitals in London and his wife Lena née McMichael, who was the daughter of an Edinburgh JP. After attending St George’s School in Harpenden, he trained at the Middlesex Hospital where his two uncles had also studied medicine. John’s twin sister became a dental surgeon. Qualifying MB, BS in 1950, he was house surgeon to Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor who strongly influenced him. Later that year he joined the Royal Navy to do his three years national service and served as a surgeon lieutenant. Demobilised in 1953, he worked for the United Birmingham Hospitals before being appointed consultant ENT surgeon in 1962 to the Warneford, Leamington Spa, Warwick and Stratford-upon Avon Hospitals. He retired in November 1990. A member of the British Academy of Otology, he was also the UK representative to the the European Federation of Otological Surgeons, president of the Midland Institution for Otology and one time president of the section of laryngology of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was on an appeals tribunal of the DHSS. As a student he played rugby and then cricket for the Navy. A member of the MCC, he was also a real tennis enthusiast and he continued to play golf well into his 80s. In 1952 he married a Belgian woman from Brussels, Arlette van Cavel, who died in 1994 from motor neurone disease. They had three children and his daughter predeceased him in 2017. He married his second wife Jane in October 1997. On 28 April 2019 he died aged 93 and was survived by Jane, his two sons from his first marriage, his stepchildren and their families.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009625
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First Title value, for Searching Parsons, Howard Michael (1918 - 2010)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2012-01-11 2013-05-23
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374030374030
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Howard Michael Parsons was an ENT surgeon in Lewisham and then Croydon. He was born in Paddington, London, on 14 April 1918, during a Zeppelin raid, the third child of John Parsons, a master builder, and his wife Maude Parsons née Percival. He was educated at St Andrews Prep School, Eastbourne and then Radley College. He then read medicine at University College Hospital Medical School, London, where he was 'fast tracked' through medicine during the Second World War. On qualifying in 1942, he was soon recruited into the RAMC as a medical officer with the rank of captain, serving with the Long Range Desert Group in North Africa and Italy. His daring rescue of his commanding officer, who had been severely injured in a parachute drop into the occupied Albanian mountains, speaks of his courage and adaptability. Having diagnosed a fractured spine and encased his boss' back in plaster, he then escorted him via mountainous mule tracks to the coast and to repatriation to Brindisi. On the journey he treated numerous wounded partisans, often operating on kitchen tables lit by oil lamps. After his wartime exploits, Michael Parsons returned to civilian life and trained as an ear, nose and throat surgeon. He served as a consultant to the Lewisham Hospital Group for 16 years, and then to the Croydon Group for 17 years. He was also the assistant director of the speech and hearing centre (audiology unit) and a consultant surgeon at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, Gray's Inn Road and Golden Square in London for three years, and a senior consultant otologist to London County Council for four years. Having retired in 1983, he nevertheless continued in private practice until the age of 72. His practice was general ENT, with a particular interest in head and neck cancer. He was an experienced and popular medical manager, who chaired many committees in Croydon and led the development of Shirley Oaks, Croydon's first private hospital, becoming the first chairman. In 1942 he married Sarah Muriel Foley, a staff nurse at University College Hospital, who served with Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service during the war. She landed in Normandy shortly after D-Day and was nursing in Caen while it was being bombed by the Allies. They shared an enthusiasm for motor racing; in the 1950s this led to annual trips to watch the Le Mans 24 Hours race. Later this experience was replicated at home by owning a succession of Jaguars and Aston Martins. Michael Parsons died on 21 September 2010 at the age of 92, leaving his wife, son Christopher, daughter Luise, a general practitioner, and four grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Juby, Herbert Bernard (1925 - 2004)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2009-10-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372902372902
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Bernard Juby was a consultant ENT surgeon at the Ipswich Hospital. He was born in Stowmarket, Suffolk, on 9 April 1925, the only son of L H Juby, a draper, and Ethel née Quinton. He was educated at Culford School. His early wish was to be a farmer, but was encouraged by his mother to read medicine. He attended St Bartholomew's Medical School from 1942 to 1947. As a house surgeon to F C W Capps he had an early experience of ENT surgery. After a surgical officer post at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital, where he gained from the influence of Donald Barlow, Juby became an ENT registrar at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and was later a senior registrar at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital. His training was interrupted by National Service in the RAMC in Berlin. There he rapidly learnt to cope with all surgical emergencies, including salvaging the one remaining upper limb of a brigadier involved in a road traffic accident. Bernard Juby’s interest in ENT must have been maintained during this period as in 1953 he published a paper entitled ‘The incidence of middle ear disease in serving soldiers’ in the *Journal of the RAMC* (*J R Army Med Corps*, 1953 Apr;99(3):115-7). In early 1958 he was appointed as a consultant ENT surgeon at the Dryburn Hospital and the following year to the Durham and Shotley Bridge General Hospital. He longed, though, to return to his native Suffolk and, in 1962, was appointed to the West Suffolk General Hospital in Bury St Edmunds. Three years later, on the retirement of Kenneth Mackenzie, he moved over to Ipswich Hospital, where he continued his ENT practice until his retirement in 1987. Juby’s was a general ENT practice, but he will be remembered for his review paper published in 1969 in the *Journal of Laryngology and Otology* entitled ‘The treatment of pharyngeal pouch’ (*J Laryngol Otol* 1969 Nov;83(11):1067-71)and for his chapters on the same subject in Rob & Smith's *Operative surgery* (London, Butterworth’s, 1986). Bernard Juby represented East Anglia on the council of the British Association of Otolaryngologists and served on council of the section of otology of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was medical officer to Ipswich Town football club. Outside medicine, he built a dry stone wall whilst in Yorkshire. He was a keen golfer and a long-standing member of the Ipswich Philatelic Society. A charming man with a dapper demeanour, Bernard Juby married Elizabeth Birdwood (a Bart’s nurse) in 1949. They had two sons (one a solicitor) and two daughters (one a nurse who died of cancer of the spine at the age of 46 and the other an occupational therapist). Bernard Juby died peacefully in St Elizabeth Hospice, Ipswich, of hepatocellular carcinoma on 22 May 2004.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000719
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First Title value, for Searching Milling, Peter Francis (1916 - 2004)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2011-11-03 2013-10-04
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373682373682
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Peter Milling was senior surgeon at the Royal Ear Hospital, Huntley Street, then part of University College, London, and a hidden treasure of ENT wisdom. He was born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad on 1 April 1916, the elder son of Frederick William Milling, a Yorkshireman, who, after gaining a degree in greats at Oxford, went straight into business, and Audrey Franca Myra (neé Messerby), whose father had been a bank manager. Peter Milling was educated at Wimbledon College and Stonyhurst, and then read medicine at Trinity College, Cambridge, and St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. Shortly after qualifying he was offered a clinical assistantship by D F A ('Fred') Neilson, consultant ENT surgeon at St Thomas'. He then joined the RAMC, with the rank of lieutenant, and was seconded to a field ambulance unit in England. After nine months of service he was invalided out on the grounds of deafness and sinusitis. The deafness was to be a burden to him for the rest of his life (he wore bilateral hearing aids). He resumed his training in ENT, first as a surgical registrar to the ENT department at the Royal Cancer (later Marsden) Hospital and then, with the help of R I ('Bobby') Cann, as a chief clinical assistant and registrar at Guy's Hospital. He later returned to St Thomas' as chief assistant (senior registrar) to W A ('Bill') Mill and Geoffrey Bateman. In addition to his consultant post at the Royal Ear Hospital, Peter Milling was also appointed to sessions at the Brompton Hospital, Epsom District Hospital, Oxsed and Limpsfield hospitals, and to the Civil Service Chest Hospital at Benenden. Peter Milling was somewhat old fashioned in his manner. He was a shrewd diagnostician and contributed chapters to the first edition of *Diseases of the ear, nose and throat* (London, Butterworth & Co, 1952) edited by Bill Scott-Brown. As a young man he played rugby, cricket, squash and bridge, which he used to play before breakfast at Cambridge. Peter Milling's main passion, though, was for trout fishing. This started in 1961 and continued well into his retirement at the age of 60, when he moved to the Isle of Man. He described himself as being a 'crazy trout fisherman who would prefer to fish than to work, but who seldom managed to exercise the preference'. In 1941 Peter Milling married Peggy Todd, who was a childhood friend and a Guy's nurse. She was the sister of T F Todd, a gynaecologist. They shared their Catholic faith and a long marriage. Despite falling down the stairs at his home and breaking his neck, Peter Milling nevertheless lived on to the grand age of 88. He died on 31 October 2004.
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First Title value, for Searching Wadge, Winifred Joan (1904 - 2010)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2011-11-25 2014-06-06
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373816373816
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Winifred Joan Wadge was a consultant ENT surgeon at the Royal Ear Hospital (University College Hospital) and the Nelson Hospital, Wimbledon. She was born on 22 May 1904 in Ilford, Essex, the second of three children to Frederick Collett Wadge, a solicitor, and Winifred Hardwick Wadge née Shacklock, whose father was the owner and manager of Mansfield Brewery. Both her brothers became doctors. Educated at St Paul's Girls' School from 1915 to 1923, Winifred Wadge went up to Newnham College, Cambridge, to read natural sciences and physiology. On completion of her BA in 1926 she became a research assistant to B A McSwiney in Leeds. With him she published two papers on the sympathetic nervous system in the *Journal of Physiology* ('Effects of variations in intensity and frequency on the contractions of the stomach obtained by stimulation of the vagus nerve.' *J Physiol*. 1928 Aug 14;65[4]:350-6, 'The sympathetic innervation of the stomach: I. The effect on the stomach of stimulation of the thoracic sympathetic trunk.' *J Physiol*. 1930 Oct 31;70[3]:253-60). It is highly probable that this experience led Winifred Wadge to consider medicine as a profession, as her next move was to study anatomy at University College, London (UCL) (from 1929 to 1931), before starting her clinical studies at University College Medical School in 1931. As a student she continued her interest in physiology as an assistant in the UCL department of physiology. After qualifying MB BS in 1936, she became a house surgeon to the ENT department of University College Hospital, which was situated in the Royal Ear Hospital and was encouraged to do ENT by F E Watkyn-Thomas and Myles Formby. Part of this job was to work with the general surgeons Gwynne Williams (who in 1935 also became dean of the medical school) and E K Martin, both of whom also influenced her choice of career. No doubt torn between these surgical specialties, Winifred Wadge became casualty officer at King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor, and later undertook several short-term anaesthetist appointments at UCH, before electing to pursue a career in ENT, starting as a registrar at UCH in 1937. Throughout the Second World War she held the post of first assistant and in 1946 she was appointed as an assistant surgeon. She was advanced to full surgeon in 1948. In 1953 she wrote the section on throat and oropharynx in Watkyn-Thomas' *Diseases of the throat, nose and ear* (London, H K Lewis & Co). On her retirement in 1969 she became consulting surgeon. Winifred Wadge led a busy life outside medicine. She followed the country pursuits of riding and gardening, loved music and collected antique furniture and pictures. Perhaps her greatest pursuit was to breed, exhibit and judge Pembroke Welsh corgis of the Whielden line. Winifred Wadge died on 6 April 2010, aged 105. She never married.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001633
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First Title value, for Searching Wadsworth, Paul Vincent (1919 - 2010)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2011-11-25 2013-10-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373817373817
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Paul Vincent Wadsworth was a consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon to the Brighton and Haywards Heath hospitals and, for many years, also principal laryngologist to Glyndebourne Opera. He was born in Harewood, Yorkshire, on 2 November 1919, the son of Joseph Harold Wadsworth, a school master, and Clarice Seymour Wadsworth née Hemmines. He was educated at Leeds Grammar School and, in 1938, won an open exhibition in natural sciences to St Peter's College, Oxford, where he played both rugby and cricket for his university (during the Second World War no blues were awarded). He did, however, become a member of Vincent's Club, the elite sporting and social club, and was selected to play two games of cricket for his native Yorkshire. His clinical studies were at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. On qualification in 1944 he became a senior house officer to George Grey Turner at the Postgraduate Medical School, before serving in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a surgeon lieutenant, being one of the first officers to visit Hiroshima following its destruction by an atomic bomb. After the war Paul Wadsworth decided to train in ear, nose and throat surgery and, influenced by Ronald Macbeth, he returned to Oxford as a senior house officer and later a registrar at the Radcliffe Infirmary (from 1947 to 1951). He completed his training as a clinical tutor (senior registrar) with Ion Simson Hall at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, where he developed an interest in surgery for otosclerosis. In addition to being appointed as a consultant ENT surgeon to the Royal Sussex County Hospital and the Sussex Throat and Ear Hospital, Paul Wadsworth was also on the staff of the Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital, Brighton, and the Haywards Heath and Cuckfield hospitals. He readily adapted to the use of the operating microscope, which enabled him to introduce stapedectomy, transsphenoidal hypophysectomy and later homograph tympanoplasty to Brighton. A somewhat domineering Yorkshireman, with strong leadership qualities, Paul Wadsworth started teaching sessions and regular interdisciplinary team meetings, effected the appointment of an audiological scientist, and established Brighton as a major training centre with the creation of a senior registrar rotation with the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London. Paul Wadsworth was president of the Sussex Medico-Chirugical Society (founded in 1847) and an active member of the Brighton and Mid Sussex division of the British Medical Association, serving as secretary (from 1957 to 1960) and chairman (in 1967). For relaxation he played golf regularly at the Dyke Golf Club in Sussex and enjoyed sailing. In 1948 he married Elizabeth, the daughter of R H Emmett of Southsea, a doctor, who at that time was a colonel commanding the Royal Engineers Territorial Unit at Portsmouth. Paul Wadsworth died on 24 October 2010, aged 90. He was survived by his wife, three daughters and seven grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001634
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First Title value, for Searching Milton, Catherine Maureen (1951 - 2003)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2007-08-16 2009-05-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372565372565
Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Catherine Milton was a consultant otolaryngologist at Kent and Sussex Hospital, Tunbridge Wells. She was born in Bristol on 6 April 1951, the middle of three children. Her brothers were Kevin and Richard. Her parents, Maureen and Robert, were both primary school teachers. The family moved in Catherine’s early teens to Littlehampton in West Sussex, her parents pursuing new opportunities at the local primary school. Catherine attended Worthing High School for Girls from 1962 to 1969 and subsequently read zoology at King’s College, London, graduating with a BSc honours degree in 1972. From there Catherine transferred to medicine, to the Middlesex Hospital, where she qualified in 1977. As part of her student training at the Middlesex she was attached to the Ear, Nose and Throat department under Sir Douglas Ranger, Dick Williams and Garfield-Davies, kindling her interest in ENT. Catherine then secured a training post at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital in Gray’s Inn Road, where Sir Donald Harrison was the patriarchal head of department. Catherine was one of three mercurial female senior surgical trainees at Gray’s Inn Road at this time. Of the others, Vicky Moore-Gillon was later appointed to St George’s, London, and Valerie Lund became chair of ENT at the Institute of Laryngology and Otology. Catherine was subsequently a senior registrar at St George’s Hospital, where in addition to advancing her surgical training, Brian Pickard, the senior surgeon in the department, enthused Catherine with his love of flying. She embarked on, but never completed, her private pilots licence. Following a six month sabbatical in Hillbrow Hospital, South Africa, with Theo Gregor, she returned to the UK and was appointed to her consultant point at the Kent and Sussex Hospital in Tunbridge Wells, joining Robert Sergeant. Catherine’s main interests lay within her paediatric practice, particularly otology. Outside medicine, Catherine maintained her earlier interest in zoology and kept a keen interest in animal husbandry, accumulating copious dogs, Jacob sheep, Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs, New Forest ponies and a number of chipmunks, the latter she had inherited from Donald and Audrey Harrison. Catherine married a medical school classmate, Graham Venn, later a cardiothoracic surgeon at St Thomas’ Hospital in London, in 1979 and the couple had two children. James, the elder, followed his mother’s leanings, studying zoology at University College London before converting to law and being called to the Bar in 2006. Jonathan, following a music exhibition at Tonbridge School, studied commercial music at Leeds and Cambridge. The marriage ultimately ended in 2002. Catherine retired prematurely from practice at 50 with progressive ill health, finding the stresses of a changing and pressing surgical practice increasingly arduous. Following her retirement her health deteriorated and, following a short illness, Catherine died of hepatic failure with concomitant breast carcinoma on 18 August 2003.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000381
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First Title value, for Searching Wengraf, Carol Lindsay (1938 - 2012)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2012-09-07 2014-06-19
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375040375040
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Carol Wengraf was a consultant ENT surgeon at the Greenwich, Lewisham and Woolwich Hospital and later at the University Hospital, Hull. In later life she started fencing and rose to compete and win international competitions in the veterans' class. She was the third of four children born to Frank and Winifred Slack née Beattie, but the first to survive to adulthood. Her father owned a knackery. Educated at Cheadle Hulme School in Stockport, Carol went on to study medicine at Guy's. There she was much influenced by Philip Reading, an ENT surgeon, who convinced her to specialise. Her postgraduate training in ENT was at the Westminster Hospital and Guy's, and her first consultant appointment was on the Guy's circuit at Lewisham. There she established herself as a general ENT surgeon with a special interest in head and neck surgery. She was appointed at a time when out of the 300 ENT surgeons in the UK only four were female. She had exacting standards, which were much admired by her junior staff, if not always appreciated at the time, and was adored by her patients for the time and interest she invested in them. She was actively involved in her registrar's research projects and, as an assistant editor of the *Journal of Laryngology and Otology*, was well aware of the work needed to get a paper published. In 1988 she moved to the University Hospital, Hull, conscious that she was devoting too much time both to commuting in London traffic and on administration. At that time the department in Hull was smaller and the opportunity to devote more time to clinical work was greater. Carol was also aware that she did not want her son David to spend his teenage years in south London. She served as an honorary secretary and later vice-president of the section of otology of the Royal Society of Medicine. Carol met her husband, Alex Wengraf, at Guy's. After completing his dentistry training he chose, on the death of his parents, to take over the family antiques business. Sadly the marriage did not last. Her son David, who at the age of 11 started to develop a passion for fencing, was responsible for influencing his mother to follow his passion. Carol, a self confessed adrenaline junkie, tiring of driving her son around the country to compete, readily decided to try the sport for herself. She became addicted and over a period of 15 years reached a level of proficiency that enabled her to enter veterans' international competitions. She was both European and World champion in the sabre, and European champion in epée at the time of her death, which occurred suddenly on the 3 July 2012 whilst she was competing and winning her bout for the Welsh Veterans' in the Celtic challenge in Galicia. She was 73. Carol Wengraf approached her work and her relaxation with the same thoroughness and enthusiasm, and she excelled. These high standards influenced her many trainees.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002857
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First Title value, for Searching Carruthers, Michael Oliver (1919 - 2014)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Jo Carruthers
Publication Date 2014-02-24 2015-03-13
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377202377202
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Michael ('Mike') Carruthers was a consultant ENT surgeon at St Thomas' Hospital and Lambeth Hospital, London. He had a great sense of humour, a profound sense of the ridiculous, and as a practical person was happiest when operating and being with his extensive family. He was born on 31 July 1919 in Reigate, the second of three children of William Stephen Carruthers, who ran W S Carruthers, a building and property firm, and Marion Dorothy (née Belgrave). His family had no medical connections. Educated at Gresham's School in Norfolk, where he excelled in most sports and became a competitive shot, he decided to pursue a career in medicine. Mike Carruthers gained a place at Clare College, Cambridge, and was accepted for clinical studies at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London. He qualified in 1943 and was enlisted into the RAMC and sent to France 30 days after D-Day. In common with many, he spoke little about his experiences in the war, but was undoubtedly affected by them. After peace had been declared Mike was stationed for 18 months in and around Wuppertal, Germany, where he salvaged medical equipment and cared for survivors of concentration camps. During this hard period of his life he raised his own morale and that of the local villagers by shooting a 'royal' stag. The villagers gained the carcass and Mike the 12-pointed antlers, which with difficulty he managed to get home to the UK when he was demobilised in October 1946. Mike Carruthers returned to St Thomas' and, no doubt influenced by his wartime experience, decided that he wanted to become a surgeon. After passing the primary FRCS, he did general surgery at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, and completed the FRCS in 1949. A further year was spent in plastic surgery before in 1950 being appointed registrar to the ENT department at St Thomas', where he was greatly encouraged by (later Sir) Geoffrey Bateman. In 1956 he replaced Fred Neilson as consultant ENT surgeon. Before starting his job he was given the opportunity to absorb the changing practice of ENT by visiting clinics in Zurich, Bordeaux, Padua, Freiburg and Stockholm. Mike enjoyed operating, teaching and examining for the diploma of laryngology and otology and was heavily involved in the planning of the new ENT department in the north wing. In July 1952 he married Kathleen Reeve (always known as 'Jo'), who was a Nightingale nurse. They had two sons and a daughter who trained as a physiotherapist. Mike retired at the age of 60 in August 1979. He built a house in the beautiful village of Noss Mayo near Plymouth, Devon. There he enjoyed sailing, fishing and practical activities associated with the village. Above all his family and grandchildren formed the most important part of his life. Although he had a stroke in 2011, which affected his speech, he managed to stay at home, where he died peacefully two and a half years later on 24 January 2014 - with his sense of humour still intact. He was 94.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005019
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First Title value, for Searching Duncan, Robert Bruce (1920 - 2004)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2020-08-12
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009700-E009799
Occupation ENT surgeon Allergist
Details Bruce Duncan was head of the ENT department at Wellington Hospital, New Zealand and an allergist. He was born on 11 June 1920 at Wellington. He qualified in 1943 and held house surgeon and house physician posts at Wellington Hospital from 1944 to 1945. He went on to registrar appointments in the eye and ENT departments at Wellington from 1945 to 1947, which included a period spent with the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force in Japan. He then went to the UK for postgraduate studies, first at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary and then as a house surgeon and later registrar at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London (from 1949 to 1951). He gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1949 and of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1951. He returned to New Zealand, as Wellington’s first ENT surgeon to hold fellowships from the Edinburgh and English Royal Colleges. He was an ENT surgeon at the Wellington and Hutt hospitals until 1962. He was subsequently a visiting ENT surgeon and visiting otologist in the audiology department at Wellington Hospital until 1979, and head of the ENT department from 1968 to 1976. He was a visiting senior otologist at Palmerston Hospital from 1980 to 1987. He retired from his private practice in 1999. He was he first person in his field to use microsurgery in the inner ear and introduced binocular surgery to New Zealand. He realised early on that surgery was not helping his patients with chronic sinus problems and decided to train as an allergist. He became a fellow of the American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy in 1974 and founded the first allergy clinic at Wellington Hospital. In the 1970s he pioneered food allergy testing and early on appreciated the importance of gluten and grain allergies. He devised a no ‘old world grass grains’ exclusion diet and helped his patients obtain gluten free products. He believed that medications that suppressed symptoms were not helpful for people with chronic health conditions, and devised methods to address underlying stressors and help cells detoxify. By the early 1980s he was using provocative-neutralisation techniques to diagnose and treat food, pollen and mould allergies. He also pioneered this treatment for latent viruses, work which was controversial. He specialised in treating people who were very debilitated and had already tried conventional and alternative treatments. His writings included two books *The hidden viruses within you: discover the new latent viral approach to body, mental, and functional illnesses* (Viroprint, Wellington, 1993) and *CFIDS, fibromyalgia and the virus-allergy link: new therapy for chronic functional illnesses* (CRC Press, 2001). He was devoted to his family and was a music lover. Duncan died in Wellington on 9 September 2004. He was 84.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009770
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First Title value, for Searching Keene, Malcolm Howard (1947 - 2020)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Michael Wareing
Publication Date 2021-01-07 2021-01-28
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Occupation ENT surgeon Otolaryngologist
Details Malcolm Keene was a consultant ENT surgeon at St Bartholomew’s and Newham hospitals, London. He was born on 3 May 1947 at Westminster Hospital, London, the only child of Hyman Keene and Elsie Keene née Levene. He attended Christ’s College, Finchley and then studied medicine at the London Hospital Medical College, qualifying MB BS in 1970. As a medical student, he spent three months on an elective in San Francisco, at the height of flower power. A house post in general and ENT surgery kindled his lifelong interest in otolaryngology. He was a house physician at St Margaret’s, Epping, and then gained his primary FRCS while working in the Whitechapel Clinic, in a post in genitourinary medicine favoured by future surgeons. After training in ENT at the London Hospital, he gained experience in general, thoracic and ENT surgery at the Royal Masonic Hospital. His higher surgical training in ENT was at University College Hospital (the Royal Ear) and Middlesex Hospital. He also held a TWJ fellowship at the University of Toronto. In 1984 he joined the consultant staff of St Bartholomew’s and Newham hospitals. He was a consummate general otolaryngologist, equally happy in the ear, nose or throat. During his 26-year career at Barts he inevitably saw many changes. Whilst he was initially appointed to Newham, he later moved his peripheral clinic to Homerton Hospital in Hackney, where he developed the service, before focusing his clinical work back at Barts in the late 1990s. He subsequently seamlessly rode out the centralisation of services back to his *alma mater* in Whitechapel. An excellent clinical opinion, he was always available to his colleagues as a safe pair of hands and always gave sound and measured advice. He had a large and loyal following of both practitioners and patients. He was particularly interested in the professional and singing voice, and was honoured by the Guildhall School of Music with an honorary degree, of which he was immensely proud. He served on the council of the Royal Society of Medicine’s section of laryngology. He had many interests outside of ENT. He was a longstanding member of Barts Golf Society, latterly taking over responsibility for running the staff versus students match. He was a wine connoisseur, coming second as RCS wine taster of the year on one occasion. He also enjoyed cooking and vintage cars, was a competent artist and an entertaining raconteur. In 2010 he achieved a personal ambition by gaining his private pilot’s licence. He loved Italy, and Venice in particular, and spent his early retirement between Venice and London. Malcolm Keene died on 26 October 2020 at the age of 73. He was survived by his wife of 42 years, Sandra, and two sons, Simon and David.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009906
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First Title value, for Searching Hardcastle, Brian (1925 - 2008)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-03-27
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372789372789
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Brian Hardcastle was an ENT surgeon in private practice in Gainesville, Florida. He was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, on 14 March 1925, the only son of Francis Beaumont Hardcastle, a pharmacist, and his wife, Florence May née Boothroyd, a builder’s daughter. He was educated at Paddock Elementary School and Royds Hall Grammar School and in 1944 joined the Royal Navy. There he rose to become a petty officer radar mechanic. On demobilisation in 1947 he entered Leeds School of Medicine. After house surgeon and house physician appointments at the County Hospital York, he specialized in otorhinolaryngology, becoming a registrar at York and passing the FRCS in 1962. He then went to the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, as a registrar and first assistant to McBeth and Gavin Livingstone and carried out research into cochlear pathology following stapes stimulation, which was published in 1968. He emigrated to the United States, where he set up in private practice in Florida. He married Heather Sheila Holt, a doctor, in 1954. They had one son and one daughter. His hobbies included boating, fishing and golf. He died on 6 January 2008.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000606
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First Title value, for Searching Freeman, Granville (1922 - 2001)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-29
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Granville Freeman was a consultant ENT surgeon at Lancaster, Kendal and Morecambe Hospitals. Born in 1922, he was educated at Bedford Grammar School and Uppingham, where he was house captain. He read medicine at Oxford and completed house jobs at the Radcliffe Infirmary. He did his National Service in the RAMC as a graded otologist and returned to Oxford to be registrar to Ronald Macbeth and Gavin Livingstone. After a fellowship with Julius Lempert in New York, he became senior registrar at University College Hospital in 1953, being appointed consultant at Lancaster in 1954. There he was the only ENT surgeon until 1977. He performed a full range of surgery, set up an integrated unit at the Beaumont Hospital, and took a great interest in teaching specialised ENT nurses, who elected him President of the Midland Institute of Enrolled Nurses. After he retired in 1982, he continued to work for the Pensions Appeal Tribunal and busied himself repairing a family cottage and creating a garden in the Pennines. He had two sons, Paul and Guy, by his wife Mary. He died on 6 July 2001.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008604
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First Title value, for Searching Siegler, Gerald Joseph (1921 - 2005)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-06-21 2009-05-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372436372436
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Gerald Joseph Siegler, or ‘Jo’ as he known to colleagues, was an ENT consultant in Liverpool. He was born in London on 3 January 1921, and studied medicine at St Bartholomew’s Hospital. He held junior posts in Huddersfield, Lancaster, Nuneaton and Birkenhead, before completing his National Service with the RAF. After passing his FRCS he specialised in ENT, becoming a registrar at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital and then a senior registrar at Liverpool, where he was appointed consultant in 1958. He was past president of the North of England ENT Society and an honorary member of the Liverpool Medical Institute. After he retired in 1986 he continued to be busy, working for Walton jail until 1995. He died from the complications of myeloma on 4 October 2005, leaving a wife, Brenda, two daughters, Sarah and Pauline, and three grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000249
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First Title value, for Searching Munsif, Krishnalal Ghelabhai (1903 - 1959)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-28
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377369377369
Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Born in Bhavnagar on 15 September 1903, he was educated at the Elphinstone High School, the Elphinstone College and the Royal Institute of Science, Bombay. He received his medical education at Grant Medical College, Bombay from 1923 to 1928, and was appointed house surgeon and surgical registrar at the King Edward Memorial Hospital. In 1930 he came to England and worked as a clinical assistant in the Ear Nose and Throat department at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He was admitted a Fellow of the College in 1933. Returning to Bombay he was elected to the staff of his old Hospital and College, where his contributions to the surgical literature of India were numerous. Munsif was a founder Member of the Association of Surgeons of India. He died in the early part of 1959 aged 56.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005186
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First Title value, for Searching Allinson, Sidney Ward (1904 - 1991)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-01
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379971379971
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Sidney Ward Allinson was born in Alford, Lincolnshire on 12 July 1904, one of identical twins. His brother, Francis, was also FRCS, and died in 1990. He was educated at Aldenham School and University College Hospital. He subsequently joined the Indian Medical Service and worked as a civil surgeon in Burma; during the war he served in the Indian army, becoming a lieutenant colonel. With the coming of independence, Sidney returned to Britain and retrained in otolaryngology. He was appointed to the Boston hospitals in 1951 and worked single handedly and without junior staff for twenty years, until his retirement. Sidney had a great zest for life, and strongly-held beliefs. He studied psychology and musical appreciation, maintained his own cars, and swam every morning until shortly before his death. He died in 1991, survived by his wife Margaret, five children and three grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007788
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First Title value, for Searching Kelham, Bernard Harold (1928 - 1962)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

First Title value, for Searching Boyle, Thomas McMaster (1911 - 1996)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-02
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380019380019
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born in 1911, Boyle was educated at Ilkley Grammar School and Leeds University Medical School. After qualifying in 1935 Boyle successively was aural officer at the Leeds General and aural surgeon at Dewsbury Infirmary and an ENT specialist in the Royal Air Force, before becoming consultant ENT surgeon at Leeds General Infirmary: his interests included parotid surgery and school audiology clinics. He was also a senior clinical lecturer at Leeds University and consultant surgeon to the Ministry of Pensions. In his youth he had played rugby for both his school and his medical school. An obituary in the *British Medical Journal* says: 'A mischievous sense of humour and slight twitch of his eye could be confusing to friends and on occasion led to amusement from young patients winking back at him during consultations.' He died of pulmonary embolism on 3 March 1996, survived by his wife and three daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Hall, Dorothy Winifred (1896 - 1958)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-10
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born 3 September 1896 only child of Matthew Henry Hall, a professor of music, and Sarah Parry his wife, she was educated at Aigburth Vale High School, Liverpool, and the University of Liverpool, where she was Holt Fellow in physiology for 1919-1920. She took postgraduate courses at St Mary's Hospital, London, and was registrar and first assistant at the Central London Nose and Throat Hospital. She was appointed ear nose and throat surgeon to the Mildmay Mission Hospital, Shoreditch and the Western Hospital, Fulham. Subsequently she held similar posts at the Elizabeth Garratt Anderson Hospital, the Eastern Hospital, Homerton, St Ann's Hospital, Tottenham, and Clare Hall Hospital, South Mimms. She was a member of the Medical Women's Federation. Miss Hall practised at 101 Harley Street, and lived at Woodhill near Hatfield, Hertfordshire. She died in the Royal Free Hospital on 17 February 1958 aged 61.
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First Title value, for Searching Godden, John Lidington (1925 - 1991)

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First Title value, for Searching Frew, Ivor James Cunningham (1921 - 2009)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-21 2015-07-03
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Ivor James Cunningham Frew was a consultant ENT surgeon in Newcastle. He was born in Sheffield on 2 October 1921, the son of William Frew, an area manager of Terry's Chocolate, and Kate Gibb Frew née McGillivray, a housewife. He was educated at Glasgow High School and Liverpool College, then studied medicine at Liverpool University, where he was particularly influenced by Henry Cohen, later Lord Cohen of Birkenhead. From 1945 to 1947 he was a captain in the RAMC, with the 6th Airborne Division, seeing active service in Palestine. Following his demobilisation, he was a senior registrar at Liverpool Ear, Nose and Throat Infirmary on Myrtle Street. In 1950 he was appointed as a consultant ENT surgeon at Newcastle General, Hexham General and St Nicholas hospitals, Newcastle. He was also an examiner and an honorary lecturer at the University of Newcastle. He was a regional adviser for the Royal College of Surgeons. He retired in September 1983. He will be particularly remembered for his development (with his neurosurgical friend and colleague Ian McIver) of the use of tracheostomy in brain stem injury. This was later extended to other unconscious patients, especially those suffering from tetanus. First developed in Newcastle, this treatment is now accepted worldwide. He published papers on conductive deafness, tracheostomy and Ménière's disease, among other topics, and co-wrote *The facial nerve* (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1979). He was president of the North of England ENT Society and vice president of the section of laryngology at the Royal Society of Medicine. Outside medicine, he was chairman of the board of directors of the Newcastle upon Tyne YMCA, a regional chairman and a member of the national board. He enjoyed golf and was a member of Close House University and Alnmouth Village golf clubs. He was married twice. In January 1947 he married Elizabeth Mary Frew. They had two children, William David Cunningham and Jane Elizabeth. His first wife died in August 1987 and three years later he married Frances Moya Frew. Ivor Frew died in January 2009. He was 87.
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First Title value, for Searching Upton, Julian John Mainwaring (1937 - 2015)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Andrew Drysdale
Publication Date 2020-10-19 2021-10-25
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Julian Upton was a consultant ENT surgeon at Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, Somerset from 1974 until his retirement in March 1999. His father Cecil Upton was an hotelier and owner of the Winter Gardens Hotel, Bournemouth, married to Dodo Upton née Brembridge, who sadly died giving birth to Julian’s younger brother, Jonathan. His middle brother, Adrian, became a professor of neurology at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. His father subsequently married Sheila née Bollom and they had two sons, Andy and Philip, Julian’s half-brothers. Julian was born in Bristol, and educated at Clifton College, Bristol, and was awarded a major scholarship to Peterhouse, Cambridge, to read natural sciences, graduating in 1959. He went on to complete his clinical training at Guy’s Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1962. He was a house surgeon at St Luke’s Hospital, Guildford to Paddy Boulter, who became president of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. After initial training in general surgery and urology at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, Julian decided to specialise in ENT, becoming a registrar at Leeds General Infirmary and a senior registrar on the Yorkshire Regional Health Authority training scheme. He gained his FRCS in 1969. He married Angela Hicklin in 1964. They had three boys, Tim, Mark and Alex. Angela worked for many years as a practice nurse in Taunton, but sadly predeceased Julian in 2003. He was a keen gardener with a passion for cultivating lilies and enjoyed collecting objets d’art. When these started to fill the house his children took them to the local charity shop, whereupon Julian would buy them back again. Julian was a notable bon viveur, a core member of the West Somerset Medical Club (becoming president in 1997), the Anglo-French Otolaryngological Society and a travelling club of fellow West Country ENT surgeons. Julian died of multiorgan failure at Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton on 2 September 2015. He was 78.
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First Title value, for Searching Cohen, Ben (1915 - 2016)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Phil Cohen
Publication Date 2017-01-25 2017-03-30
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Ben Cohen was an ENT surgeon at the North Middlesex Hospital, London. He was born into a family of poor Jewish immigrants who settled in the Glasgow Gorbals area before the First World War. His father, Philip, was a militant socialist who fled from Vitebsk to avoid both political and religious persecution under the Tsar. His mother was Pasha (née Verachopskaya). Their son grew up in the political culture of 'red Clydeside', attended socialist Sunday school and accompanied his father to many meetings, where he heard the leader of the Independent Labour Party, Jimmy Maxton, and the Marxist organiser, John Maclean, speak of social injustice; these were early experiences which left a lasting impression on his political sympathies. He won a scholarship to Hutchesons' Grammar School, where he excelled in classics, but was persuaded by his family to study medicine at Glasgow University, where he qualified at the age of 22. He wanted to volunteer for the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War, but was deterred by the fact that he was the family's main breadwinner after his father's untimely death from a bungled surgical operation. This event was responsible for his resolve to become a surgeon and specialise in ENT. He went to London to take up his first appointment at the Jewish Hospital in the East End, and then, at the time of Munich, worked as a houseman at Addenbrooke's in Cambridge. He went on to spend a year at the Radcliffe Infirmary at Oxford, which must have left the greater mark as he always cheered on the dark blues in the Boat Race. Locum work took him temporarily back to his home town, but he spent most of the Second World War at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital in London. There he met his wife to be Myrtle Dearman, who was a ward sister, and, after a whirlwind hospital romance, they married. His only son, Philip, was born in 1943. After the war, he was called up to the Royal Air Force, where he served as a squadron leader, and, in addition to his hospital duties, spent many hours in the air studying the effect of fatigue on pilots. On discharge, he studied for his fellowship and obtained his first consultant appointment at the Royal Northern in 1950. Having experienced working conditions in pre-war medicine, he was a strong supporter of the NHS. Subsequent appointments were at the North Middlesex, Barnet General and Potters Bar hospitals. In 1965 he co-published a paper on a new surgical procedure for the treatment of leukoplakia of the palate ('Surgical treatment of leukoplakia of the palate' *J Laryngol Otol.* 1965 Mar;79:225-32). He was a conservative surgeon, whose priority was to consider the clinical picture within a wider understanding of the patient's life circumstances. He was also ahead of his time in insisting that mothers or other carers should be allowed to spend as much time as possible with children in the ward in order to lessen the psychological trauma of separation from the family. He worked as an unpaid consultant to Dr Barnardo's Children's Homes for many years. He developed a private practice, mainly working for trade unions, assessing industrial injury compensation claims from factory workers who suffered hearing loss as a result of inadequate protection from noisy machinery. He also had a number of well-known opera singers and actors as patients. On his retirement from the NHS in 1980, he was given a distinguished career award, but in the latter stages of his medical career he had become somewhat disillusioned with the bureaucratic management structure of the NHS. He was very widely read, with a range of interests in literature, topography and history. In his retirement he collected an impressive library of antiquarian books on London and the Thames. He compiled and self-published three bibliographies, on the Thames, the Clyde and the Delaware, the latter sparked by an acquaintance with Irma Lustig, an American academic, whom he met at a conference sometime after his wife's death. His interest in rivers, and the Thames in particular, was stimulated by having a cabin cruiser, which he kept at Henley, where he spent increasing amounts of time, although he also travelled widely across Europe, including a trip to Russia. In the last decades of his long life he regularly attended lectures at the Royal Society of Medicine and the London School of Economics. He returned to his academic interests and researched a number of case studies in clinical biography, which he published in a variety of medical journals. He also wrote up his reminiscences of life as a junior hospital doctor. This material, including a long study of Chekhov, was collected as a miscellany and self-published in 2010. He left behind an extensive memoir detailing his early life growing up in the Gorbals and his experiences as a young doctor. Ben Cohen died on 16 November 2016 at the age of 101. He was survived by Irma and his son, Philip.
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First Title value, for Searching Appleyard, William (1880 - 1961)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-20
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born at Bradford, 7 February 1880, son of John Appleyard FRCS, surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, who died in 1905 aged 57, he was educated at Bradford Grammar School and University College Hospital, London, where he was a scholar and gold-medallist and a house surgeon. He studied in Berlin and was resident surgical officer at Wolverhampton General Hospital before returning to Bradford, where he was appointed assistant surgeon at the Royal Eye and Ear Hospital in 1911. During the war of 1914-18 he served in France as an ear nose and throat specialist. Returning to Bradford he became in due course consultant aural surgeon at the Royal Eye and Ear Hospital and laryngologist to the Royal Infirmary. He was also aural surgeon to the Reedyford Memorial Hospital, Nelson. He retired in 1948. He was treasurer of the Bradford division of the British Medical Association in 1930-31. At the annual meeting of the Association at Bradford in 1924 he had been a vice-president of the section of laryngology and otology. He was a shy, reserved man, whose personal interests were in music and Freemasonry. Appleyard was twice married. He died on 31 March 1961 aged 81, survived by his wife and two daughters; his son had been killed in a driving accident.
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First Title value, for Searching Faulkner, Mildred (1897 - 1982)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-01
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Mildred Faulkner (née Warde) was born in Knowsley, Lancs, on 18 February 1897 the daughter of Wilfred Brougham Warde who was medically qualified holding a London MD. She was educated at Hamilton House, Tunbridge Wells, and studied at Manchester University from 1915 to 1918. She studied medicine at the School of Medicine for Women at the Royal Free Hospital, London, and was the first woman to be awarded the gold medal in the examinations for the MS. She went on to become a surgical registrar at the Royal Free and had an ENT practice in Harley Street. She was on the council of the Medical Defence Union. In 1931 she married Mr O T Faulkner and gave up surgery. She brought up her husband's sons by his previous marriage, Denis and Alan, and had two of her own, Henry and Tony. When her husband died in 1958 she took up painting and was chairman of the Norfolk and Norwich Art Circle. She was still painting a few weeks before her death. She was also a Samaritan helper, manning the Norwich telephone at even the most unpopular times. She died on 8 October 1982 survived by her sons and eight grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Ross (1920 - 1971)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-14 2015-04-30
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Ross Smith came from the Ashburton district of New Zealand, and from St Andrew's College went to Otago University where he graduated MB, ChB in 1945 and as a student won a university blue for rugby football. During his resident year at Christchurch Hospital he married Biddy MacDougall, and in 1946 came over to the United Kingdom to obtain the FRCS in 1948 and to gain experience of otolaryngology at the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital, London. Smith returned to New Zealand in 1949 and was appointed consultant ENT surgeon to Christchurch Hospital and soon established a busy private practice. By 1961 he had become senior ENT surgeon to the hospital, but also managed to combine medical work with business and farming activities in which he was equally successful. He was greatly appreciated by colleagues and patients alike, because in spite of his many interests his primary duty was always to his patients, and to his home and family. He was at the height of his professional and business career when he and his wife were both killed in a motor accident near Rotarua on 14 August 1971, leaving behind them their daughter and twin sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Pavey-Smith, Alfred Bernard (1890 - 1964)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-07
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Educated at Clare College, Cambridge, winning first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I in 1908, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was senior house surgeon to the throat and ear department, he practised at 14 Leeds Road, Harrogate, was aural surgeon to the General Hospital, and was a member of the Harrogate Medical Society. During the first world war he served as a Major in the RAMC, won the Military Cross, and was twice mentioned in dispatches. Pavey-Smith retired to Blake House, Springhill, Nailsworth, Gloucester, near his old home The Hollies, Nailsworth, and died on 3 June 1964 in Standish Hospital, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, aged about 75.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005242
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First Title value, for Searching Shaw, Henry Jagoe (1922 - 2007)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2008-08-28
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Occupation Head and neck surgeon Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Henry Shaw was a pre-eminent otolaryngologist and head and neck surgeon. He was born in Stafford on 16 March 1922, the son of Benjamin Henry Shaw, a physician, psychiatrist, artist and fisherman, and Adelaide née Hardy, who became a JP and Staffordshire County councillor. His father came from a distinguished Anglo-Irish family with one relative an army surgeon at Waterloo, another in the 32nd Foot in the same campaign; George Bernard Shaw was an ancestor. Educated at Summer Fields School, Oxford, and Eton College, Henry Shaw read medicine at Oxford University and the Radcliffe Infirmary, where he held junior appointments. Perhaps influenced by R G Macbeth and G Livingstone, otolaryngologists at Oxford, he became registrar and senior registrar at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear (RNTNE) Hospital and Guy’s Hospital, London. He was appointed to a Hunterian professorship at the College (1951). After a fellowship and residency at the Sloan Memorial Hospital, New York (1953 to 1954), Henry Shaw was appointed assistant director of the professorial unit and senior lecturer at the RNTNE Hospital and the Institute of Laryngology and Otology. During this time he spent a further year in New York as senior resident at the Bellvue Hospital. In 1962 he was appointed consultant ENT surgeon to the RNTNE Hospital. This appointment was combined with a consultancy at the Royal Marsden Hospital, an honorary consultancy to St Mary’s Hospital and the post of ENT surgeon to the Civil Government and St Bernard’s Hospital, Gibraltar. In addition he was civilian consultant ENT surgeon to the Royal Navy. He retired in 1988. Henry Shaw’s professional life was devoted to the care of those suffering from cancer of the head and neck. His appointments at the Royal Marsden and RNTNE Hospital enabled him to lead the field in this aspect of otolaryngology. He wrote many publications, lectured nationally and internationally, and became a founder member and treasurer of the Association of Head and Neck Oncologists of Great Britain, president of the section of laryngology, Royal Society of Medicine, member of council, executive committee and professional care committee of the Marie Curie Cancer Care Foundation and a member of the Armed Services Consultant Appointment board. During the Second World War Henry Shaw served as a surgeon lieutenant in the RNVR. He continued in the Royal Naval Reserve, advancing to surgeon lieutenant commander. He was awarded the Volunteer Reserve Decoration in 1970. Henry Shaw was a gentlemanly person who achieved a great deal in a quiet way. He was never happier than when sailing boats of any kind. His long family association with St Mawes in Cornwall (where he eventually retired) enabled him to indulge fully in this hobby. He married Susan Patricia Head (née Ramsey) in 1967. They had no children of their own, but he gained a stepson and stepdaughter. The marriage was dissolved in 1984 and he married Daphne Joan Hayes (née Charney) in 1988, from whom he gained a further two stepdaughters. He died on 1 August 2007.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000552
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Charles William (1923 - 2006)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2008-05-08 2009-05-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372695372695
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Charles William Smith was a consultant ENT surgeon in York. He was born in Kenton, London, on 24 October 1923, the first son of Cecil Smith and Mabel née Gibb. His father, who had served in the First World War with the Royal West Kent Regiment (known as ‘the Dirty Half Hundred’), was badly wounded in the face at the Battle of the Somme, and remained disfigured and partially incapacitated for the rest of his life. Charles Smith and his brother were both educated at the Merchant Taylors’ School in Northwood and were brought up in a happy Christian household. He always maintained that his acceptance at St Thomas’ Medical School was more due to the fact that the Dean recognised his father from the war than his own academic prowess. At medical school he was a keen athlete and rugby player. His first house job was with the ENT department, which no doubt shaped his future career. He continued his training at the Royal Waterloo, the Charing Cross and the Royal Marsden hospitals, and then fitted in his National Service (spent in the Royal Army Medical Corps serving in Chester and Klagenfurt, Austria), before becoming chief assistant to the ENT department at St Thomas’ in 1956. He was appointed, initially as the sole ENT consultant, to the York hospitals in 1959 and served there until 1988. During this time he not only developed his own department, but was also the lead clinician in the planning of the new York District Hospital. Charles Smith became a member of the Court of Examiners at the RCS in 1962. He served as chairman of the York division of the BMA and was president of the North of England Society of Otolaryngology, the section of otology at the RSM and the Visiting Association of Throat and Ear Surgeons of Great Britain. He was honorary treasurer of the British Academic Conference in Otolaryngology, and served as honorary treasurer and then president (from 1984 to 1987) of the British Association of Otolaryngologists. During the time of his presidency he did much to represent the specialty’s interests in Europe and was founder president of the European Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (EUFOS). At the end of his term of office he was awarded a gold award by the International Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (IFOS). His appointment to the Archbishop’s council reflected his longstanding friendship with Donald Coggan who, ahead of him at school, had been a curate to the Rev Marshall Hewitt (Charles’s future father-in-law). He persuaded his superior that Charles was a suitable match for his only daughter, and was given the privilege of marrying them at All Soul’s Langham Place. When Charles Smith eventually arrived in York he found Donald Coggan was Archbishop. Charles Smith married Moyra (née Hewitt) in 1955. They had five children, Penn, Basil, Johanna, Rupert and Jeremy. His wide range of other interests included his local church, motor caravanning, gardening, photography, golf, natural history and fly fishing. He was master of the Merchant Taylors’ Company of York. He died on 2 October 2006.
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First Title value, for Searching Brown, Betsy (1923 - 2012)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Isabel F MacDonald
Publication Date 2012-07-12 2013-05-17
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Betsy Brown was a consultant ENT surgeon at Bradford Royal Infirmary. She was born on 15 February 1923 in Glasgow, the second daughter of Robert and Isabella Brown. Her father was a master builder, her mother a legal secretary until she married. Together with her sister and brother, Betsy attended Hillhead High School, travelling across the city by tramcar. She left school in 1940 with good qualifications, having been a regular prize winner and showing considerable sporting prowess. Her headmaster wrote of her: 'She has a good brain, is hard working and earnest, and showed herself always of high conduct and ideals.' This description epitomised her character. As a young child, she told her surprised father that she wished to be a doctor: he was more than happy to support her ambition and so, on leaving school, she went to Glasgow University to study medicine, qualifying in 1945. The medical year-book tagged her 'a minx or a sphinx', another apt description! Betsy's early working life was in general practice in Wales. She then transferred to the Children's Hospital in Hull, where working with R R Simpson awakened her interest in ENT. As that interest deepened, she spent two years at the Institute of Otolaryngology in London, before returning to Hull. By 1956 she was working in Manchester, at the Royal Infirmary, where she was to remain for the next 10 years. During her time there she also lectured to undergraduate medical students at the university, to trainee nurses and to student speech therapists. In 1957 she travelled on the *Queen Mary* to America, to complete the first tranche of specialist training as a research fellow at the Lampert Institute in New York. Despite lucrative offers of positions in the USA, she showed her commitment to the NHS by returning to Britain as one of the earliest practitioners of stapedectomy for the cure of conductive hearing loss in otosclerosis. Although in the early years of her career it was difficult for women to progress, by 1966 she had returned once again to Hull, this time as a consultant ENT surgeon at the Royal Infirmary. In 1969 she moved to Bradford Royal Infirmary, where she remained until her retirement. Betsy was professional to her fingertips. Her slight stature was no impediment to her considerable surgical skills. She was a willing and untiring worker, with considerable compassion for her patients, always anxious to help alleviate their conditions, respected by both her colleagues and her patients, and deeply committed to both. In 1974 Betsy married Harry McIntyre, a dental surgeon whom she had met during her time in Manchester. They had no children. Harry commuted on a weekly basis from his practice in Manchester to the marital home in Bradford. When they both retired in the mid-1980s, they made their home in Glasgow, living happily until his death in 1998. Always elegant and immaculately dressed, Betsy enjoyed listening to classical music. She was an excellent cook, enjoying good food and fine wine. She took much pleasure from her garden. She died in Glasgow in June 2012 at the age of 89.
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First Title value, for Searching Blacklay, James Brydon (1921 - 2013)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2013-06-12 2014-06-06
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376261376261
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details James Bryden Blacklay was a consultant ENT surgeon to the South East Kent Health District from 1957 until his retirement in 1981. He worked at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Folkestone, with sessions at the Buckland Hospital, Dover, the William Harvey Hospital at Willesborough, Ashford, and the Victoria Deal Walmer and District War Memorial Hospital. He described his work as 'run of the mill for a provincial ENT surgeon', but found in it great satisfaction and prided himself on keeping his waiting lists short. Over time the pattern of work in his area changed, such that he was never without a challenge. He was born on 16 February 1921 in Accrington, Lancashire, to Oliver Henry Blacklay, a general practitioner who had an Edinburgh FRCS and MD, and Emily Mabel Blacklay (née Forsyth), a teacher who had gained an Edinburgh MA. Educated at Crewe County Secondary School and Leys School, Cambridge, James Blacklay attended the London Hospital Medical College from 1938 to 1943. Immediately after qualification, he joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve as a surgeon lieutenant and for a time was shore-based in Ceylon. Later he served in V-class destroyers in the Far East Fleet. He was demobilised in 1947 and returned to postgraduate training at the Hammersmith Hospital as a house surgeon to George Grey Turner and Ian Aird, both of whom he greatly respected. He moved on to the Royal Cancer Hospital (later renamed the Royal Marsden Hospital) as a house surgeon to Lawrence Abel and Ronald Raven. Blacklay had hoped to become a general surgeon, but after the Second World War competition was particularly heavy. Having gained the FRCS in December 1948, he eventually decided to switch to ENT and passed the diploma in laryngology and otology in 1953 whilst a registrar at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital. He completed his training as senior ENT registrar at King's College Hospital, from 1954 to 1957, and was appointed consultant ENT surgeon to the South East Kent Health District in 1957. As a member of the British Medical Association, Blacklay served his local branch as honorary treasurer and honorary secretary. He was also a founder member of the Semon Club (an academic group of ENT surgeons named after the laryngologist, Sir Felix Semon). In 1962 Blacklay bought Washington Farm, 10 acres of pasture, where for 30 years he single-handedly reared a flock of 35 breeding ewes. To add to this work, in 1977, he planted a small vineyard which produced 100-150 bottles of white wine per year, and kept bees. James Blacklay married Margaret Elizabeth Calbourne (née Johnson) in 1948. They had two daughters: Sarah, born in 1950, who became a teacher, and Harriet, born in 1951, who qualified in medicine in 1975 and became a general practitioner. Her daughter, Eleanor, has become the fourth generation of her family to qualify in medicine. James Blacklay died on 5 March 2013 at the age of 92. Predeceased by his wife, he was survived by his daughters, six grandchildren and one great grandchild.
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First Title value, for Searching Chapman, David Frederick (1943 - 2022)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Peter Bull
Publication Date 2022-03-29 2022-04-19
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/385589385589
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details David Chapman was a consultant ENT surgeon in Sheffield. Although his family were Londoners, he was born in Matlock, Derbyshire, where his mother Daisy Chapman, a Barnardo’s nurse, had been evacuated on account of the wartime air raids. His father was Bob Chapman, a building worker. They later returned to the East End of London, before moving to Arkesden, a small village near Saffron Walden, Essex. Coming from a family with very little material advantage, he emphasised the advantages he did have – access to a good public library, free state education at Newport Free Grammar School and access to university; he qualified in medicine at Leeds in 1967. It was while they were students that he met and married Jane Burrell before starting their house jobs. His early exposure to ENT surgery was in York with Charles Smith. While working as an anatomy demonstrator he co-wrote *Anatomy and physiology: a self-instructional course* in multiple choice format (Edinburgh, Churchill Livingstone, 1977). A series of posts in general surgery, orthopaedics, and neurosurgery led to the FRCS in general surgery in 1974. His training in ENT surgery was initially in Nottingham and after gaining the FRCS in otolaryngology in Edinburgh in 1976, he completed his training as a senior registrar on the Oxford/Reading rotation. David was appointed as a consultant ENT surgeon in Sheffield in 1981 with both a paediatric practice at Sheffield Children’s Hospital and an adult practice, initially at the Northern General, but which later transferred to the Royal Hallamshire Hospital. While he carried out all aspects of ENT surgery, he was an extremely skilled ear surgeon. He undertook cochlear implant surgery in its early days, and skull base surgery for the removal of vestibular schwannomas. Both procedures require the highest level of expertise and he performed them with signal success, which he audited meticulously. It was a sadness to him that national reorganisation of the cochlear implant programme meant that it was not possible to continue with the surgery in Sheffield. He greatly enjoyed teaching and instigated a sub-regional study day for trainees and consultants, an advanced aural care course for nurses and general practitioners and was principal lecturer in the university department of speech science. He took on the onerous task of clinical director at a difficult time, a role which he fulfilled with courtesy, tact, patience and organisational skill. David was keenly interested in politics as a vigorous member of the Liberal Democrats. He and Jane were active and generous supporters of Music in the Round, a highly regarded Sheffield-based chamber music ensemble. Intensely practical from his youth, he was a skilful craftsman, from making model wooden boats to tree houses, and he and Jane greatly enjoyed hill walking. A kind, erudite and gentle man, David Chapman died on 14 February 2022, peacefully at home with his family. He was survived by his wife, Jane, a son Ian who is in general practice in Suffolk, a daughter Sarah in Sheffield, and four grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Pothier, David Douglas (1973 - 2018)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Martin Birchall
Publication Date 2018-11-19 2019-1-15
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details David Pothier was a consultant otologist at Toronto General Hospital, Canada. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa, the son of an ENT surgeon. His father developed a national system for supporting deaf children and those needing hearing aids that continues to help thousands of underprivileged South Africans to this day. Not always the most attentive student at his Catholic College, David developed a keen interest in becoming a doctor second and a mountaineer first: he became a champion in one of the most athletically demanding sports in the world, something that those who only knew him from his later, voluntary exercise-free, years often found hard to imagine. After qualifying in medicine at Cape Town University, he gained a place on the south west ENT training programme in the UK, where he rapidly demonstrated leadership qualities and research awareness far ahead of his peers. He gained an MD degree, and developed a vibrant research network amongst his fellow trainees, making the south west one of the most productive in terms of trainee research in the UK. His mind was so far ahead of the rest of us that he was even able to provide mentorship and research guidance to his consultant supervisors and became a light within the Otorhinolaryngological Research Society. In 2008, he gained a prestigious fellowship award to spend time training in neuro-otology at the world’s leading centre in Toronto, Canada. So impressive was he as a fellow, that he was rapidly marked as a potential recruit, and indeed was persuaded (without too much trouble) to stay on. He blossomed in the role of consultant and junior professor at the University of Toronto, pioneering, together with the visionary ear surgeon Muaaz Tarabichi, endoscopic ear surgery. He was a founder, and was president when he passed away, of the world endoscopic ear surgery organisation, the International Working Group on Endoscopic Ear Surgery. David was a phenomenal judge of character and could weigh somebody up from seconds of observation or snatches of conversation, with laser-guided accuracy. David’s mentorship came with a clarity that knifed through the turgid barriers that mediocre people, bureaucrats and mundane organisations impose on people with vision. Moreover, he showed us how to do amazing things with both conviction and humour in equal parts; the yin and yang of change. David was a champion for the most side-lined of ENT patients, those with dizziness. He established a unique multidisciplinary approach, including routine input from specialist psychiatrists, a world first. He developed a cost-effective balance assessment system (vestio) with his friend, Cian Hughes, now a scientist with Google. With Jane Lea, an audiologist from Vancouver, he put together his combined experiences and research into a unique book on vestibular disorders (*Vestibular disorders: advances in oto-rhino-laryngology* Karger, 2018). David Pothier died on 27 July 2018 at the age of 44 from brain cancer, and was survived by his wife Louise and son James. The little world of ENT surgery will miss him hugely, but to have had him in our ranks, for even such a brief, shimmering time, has helped make the lives of thousands with ENT problems more tolerable, and inspired science that will help and cure millions more in decades to come.
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First Title value, for Searching Hiranandani, Lakhumal Hiranand (1917 - 2013)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-05-12 2019-07-01
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381298381298
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Lakhumal Hiranand Hiranandani was a pioneering ear, nose and throat surgeon, social activist and philanthropist. Born on 17 September 1917 in Tatta which was in the Sindh province of India and is now part of Pakistan, he was the first son of Hiranand Hiranandani, a businessman, and his wife, Lila. After he had attended a village primary school and high school in Karachi, the family moved to Bombay in 1937 and it was there that he studied medicine at the Topiwala National Medical College. On graduating MB BS in 1942 he did house jobs at the King Edward Memorial Hospital and the Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College. He was particularly influenced by the surgeons Anappa Vithal Baliga and Home Ghandi. Travelling to the UK, he studied in London and passed the fellowship of the college in 1946. On his return to India he joined the staff of his former medical college and also the Bai Yamunabai Laxman Nair Charitable Hospital as an ENT surgeon. At the latter hospital he established the first ENT department in India to include head and neck surgery in its range and it was later named Dr Hiranandani’s Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck in his honour. He pioneered many new surgical treatments including a protocol for throat cancer and his methods were known collectively as *Dr Hiranandani’s Operations*. Actively involved in the promotion of postgraduate training in medicine he was on the committee that established 14 medical colleges in Maharashtra and raised the academic retirement age. The author of numerous articles in his field he also wrote two books - *Histopathological study of middle ear cleft and its clinical applications* and *Head and neck cancer*. A founder member and president of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India he was also a member of the American Society of Head and Neck Surgery. He was the first person from the Indian subcontinent to receive the golden award of the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. He retired from his hospital at the age of 58 but continued to work as a consultant at the Breach Candy and Jaslok Hospitals and was active as an emeritus professor at the medical school until he was 83. During the devastating drought of 1972 in Mumbai he temporarily abandoned medicine to take on the organisation of aid distribution. He carried out a similar role the following year when floods hit Bihar and Odisha and 20 years later he co-ordinated medical assistance to the injured in the 1993 Bombay riots. A generous benefactor, he was the founder and chairman of the Hirandani Foundation Trust which supported two local schools. In the early 1990’s he was one of the leading lights in the campaign against the unregulated organ trade which cumulated in the passing of an act in 1994 which imposed strict restrictions on the practice. He was awarded the Padma Bushan by the Government of India for his various contributions to medicine and society. In 1937 he married Kanta and they had three sons, the eldest of whom, Navin, followed his father and became an otolaryngologist and well known medical journalist. His other two sons Niranjan and Surendra are leading developers and entrepreneurs. When he died on 5 September 2013, aged 96, he was survived by Kanta and his two younger sons, Navin having predeceased him.
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First Title value, for Searching Guerrier, Timothy Hugh (1941 - 2020)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Jenny Guerrier
Publication Date 2020-11-24 2021-10-08
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Occupation ENT surgeon Otolaryngologist
Details Timothy (Tim) Hugh Guerrier was a consultant ENT surgeon at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester from 1978 to 2003 with a special interest in functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS). Tim was the eldest of four sons of Hugh Phillip Guerrier, a consultant general surgeon with an interest in urology at Torbay Hospital, Torquay and his wife Shelagh Marion Guerrier née Streafeild, who trained at the Royal Free Hospital and became a consultant anaesthetist. Her father, William Hugh Raymond Streatfield, read medicine at Queens’ College, Cambridge and St George’s Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1906. From 1908 he followed a career in general practice. Tim was educated initially at Highgate School until his family moved to Devon and then at Bryanston School. He started to read medicine at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, but after two years decided to commence his clinical studies at Guy’s Hospital Medical School, where he did both his house officer posts and a further six months as a senior house officer to Lord Russell Brock and Donald Ross on the thoracic unit. This was followed by a year as an anatomy demonstrator at the London Hospital Medical School. A move to Bristol for a casualty post and more general surgery resulted in the beginning of his ENT training under Jim Freeman at the Bristol General Hospital. In 1971 Tim moved to a joint junior registrar post at Mount Vernon and Middlesex hospitals, London, working with Douglas Ranger and Roland Lewis. He gained his FRCS in 1972. A year later he became a senior registrar on the Southampton/Poole rotation working in Poole with Alan Bracewell and in Southampton with John Glanville, Douglas Worgan and Noel Morgan. In 1978 Tim was appointed as a consultant ENT surgeon at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester. In the 1980s, as a result of the work of Walter Messerklinger in Graz, Austria and his younger colleague Heinz Stammberger, the use of the rigid fibrescope combined with the increasing sophistication of CT scanning led to the development of functional endoscopic sinus surgery. Tim attended one of the early courses conducted by Stammberger and became a keen promoter of FESS in the UK through courses in London, Liverpool and Glasgow. His experience with FESS featured in Tim’s presidential address to the section of laryngology and rhinology of the Royal Society of Medicine in November in 1999. He concluded his address with a cleverly constructed slide showing King Alfred the Great’s well-known statue in the Broadway, Winchester, brandishing not a sword but a rigid endoscope! Tim married Guy’s staff nurse Jenny (née Turner) in 1967. They had five children: a daughter and four sons. None of them have gone into medicine, saying that they would not work the hours their father did! In retirement Tim, who was a friendly, charming and knowledgeable person, enjoyed having time for theatre, concerts, gardening, travel, cooking and seeing his extended family. He became a keen volunteer at the RCS Hunterian Museum and through this joined the Hunterian Society, having to decline the presidency because of ill health. He was involved in the Winchester Festival of literature and music, serving on the committee and as chairman. He also volunteered at Winchester Cathedral. Tim died on 10 October 2020 of metastases from a carcinoma of the caecum diagnosed seven years previously. He was 79.
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First Title value, for Searching Richards, Stephen Higgs (1928 - 2006)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-11-09
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372472372472
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Stephen Higgs Richards was an ENT surgeon in Cardiff. He was born on 8 April 1928 in Llanbrynmair, Montgomeryshire, the fifth son of Sylfanus Higgs, a farmer, and Gwladys Jane née Brown. He went to Machynlleth County School and then to Guy’s Hospital, where he qualified in1951. After house jobs at Guy’s and Putney he did his National Service in the RAMC as RMO to the 5th Training Battalion RASC. Following demobilisation, he was a registrar at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and then at the Radcliffe Infirmary, and became a lecturer at Manchester Royal Infirmary. He specialised in otorhinolaryngology and was appointed as a consultant ENT surgeon in Cardiff. He published on veingraft myringoplasty and mastoidectomy using an osteoplastic flap. He married Dorothy Todd in 1956 and they had one son, Jamie, and two daughters, Jane and Aileen. Among his hobbies he enjoyed ancient cartography and shooting. He died in Cornwall on 9 March 2006.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000285
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First Title value, for Searching Kelly, John Peter (1943 - 2004)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-11-23
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372356372356
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details John Kelly was born in Ayr, Queensland, on 12 September 1943, the son of John Kelly, a general practitioner and superintendent of the Ayr District Hospital. He was educated at the Marist Brothers College in Ashgrove, Brisbane, and studied medicine at the University of Queensland. After junior posts at the Royal Brisbane Hospital, where he met his future wife Shelly Parer, he went to England to specialise in ENT surgery, and was a registrar at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, being on duty when the victims of the 1974 Guildford IRA bombing attack were admitted. Later, he was at the Royal Free Hospital under John Ballantyne and John Groves. On his return to Australia he set up in practice at Southport and Palm Beach, where, in addition to surgery, he developed a passion for windsurfing, gardening and classical music. Early in 2004 he was found to have metastatic colorectal cancer, and died on 23 May 2004, leaving his widow and three daughters (Caroline, Krissi and Georgie).
Resource Identifier RCS: E000169
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First Title value, for Searching Faulkner, Ebenezer Ross (1876 - 1939)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-05
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376221376221
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born in 1876, he graduated MD at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and came to London, where he took postgraduate courses at University College, King's College, and St Thomas's Hospitals. He settled in practice at New York as a specialist in diseases of the ear, throat, and nose. From 1922 to 1925 he was a member of the staff at the New York Policlinic Medical School and Hospital, and was afterwards surgical director of the Manhattan Eye, Ear, and Throat Hospital. He died of coronary thrombosis on 29 May 1939 at 570 Park Avenue, New York. Publications:- Inflammatory affections of frontal, ethmoid, and sphenoid sinuses, contributed to *Nose, Throat, and Ear*, edited by C Jackson and G M Coates, Philadelphia, 1929. The intranasal sinus operation, with special instruments. *Laryngoscope*, 1920, 30, 115. A new method of exposing the pituitary. *Ibid*. p. 750. The treatment of intranasal suppuration. *New York State med J*. 1921, 21, 118.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004038
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First Title value, for Searching Hayes, George Constable (1869 - 1944)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-03
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376362376362
Occupation ENT surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born 31 March 1869 at South Yarra, Melbourne, Australia, the fifth child and third son of George Horace Hayes, a mill owner, and Anna Hall his wife. He was educated at the Church of England Grammar School and at the University of Melbourne, and then came back to England and took his medical training at King's College Hospital. Hayes served as house surgeon at the Belgrave Children's Hospital and as resident medical officer at the Golden Square Throat Hospital. He then settled in practice at Leeds, was appointed ophthalmic and aural surgeon at the General Infirmary, and ultimately became consulting surgeon in the ear, nose, and throat department. During the first world war he was commissioned captain, RAMC(T), on 29 August 1914, and served at the Second Northern General Hospital, Leeds. Hayes married in April 1902 Renee P Storey, who survived him but without children. He retired to The Greenway, Shurdington, Cheltenham, where he died on 12 June 1944, aged 75.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004179
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First Title value, for Searching Watson, Heyworth Alexander Wigglesworth ( - 1976)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379211379211
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Heyworth Alexander Wigglesworth Watson studied medicine at Melbourne where he passed MB, BS in 1929. He was ENT resident at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1931. He moved to Edinburgh in 1932 where he was clinical assistant at the Royal Infirmary. He passed his Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1935 and returned to Melbourne where he became second assistant surgeon at the ENT department of Prince Henry's Hospital from 1936 to 1949. He was appointed surgeon in charge of the ENT department 1950-63 and consultant ENT surgeon in 1963. He was a member of the AMA. During the second world war he served as a Major (ENT surgeon) in the 119 AGH Darwin and the 13 AGH in Malaya 1940-5. In 1946 he was Major, ENT Specialist at the Heidelberg Military Hospital. Two of his publications were *Herpes zoster oticus* and *Multiple lipomata of hypopharynx and oesophagus*. He is believed to have died in 1976.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007028
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First Title value, for Searching Gill, Neville Winter (1918 - 1992)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-08
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380139380139
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Neville Gill was born in Naini Tal, India, on 4 October 1918, the son of Eric Henry Neville Gill, who was in the Indian Civil Service, and Kathleen Beryl, née Gregory. He was sent home to preparatory school in Eastbourne and then to King's School, Canterbury. He trained at the Middlesex Hospital, winning the Thomas Charles Bell anatomy prize. Qualifying during the war, he held junior posts at Mount Vernon Hospital and the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary, and then joined the Indian Medical Service, from which he retired in 1946, having reached the rank of captain. Returning to the Middlesex Hospital, he trained in ENT, first as house surgeon and later as the Bernhard Baron research scholar. He later became senior registrar at the Leeds General Infirmary. In 1944 he married Bettine Williams, by whom he had two daughters. Outside medicine, he was interested in fell walking and photography. He died in 1992.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007956
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First Title value, for Searching Naidu, Venkataswamy Maddimsetti (1909 - 1985)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-25
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379723379723
Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Venkataswamy Maddimsetti Naidu was born in Madras on 22 March 1909, the son of Sitiah Naidu, a magistrate. His early education was at schools in Karinada and Raramudry in Madras and then he entered Andhra Medical College. After qualifying he was tutor in physiology and during the war years served in the medical services of the Royal Indian Air Force with the rank of Squadron Leader. He came to England after the war and passed the DLO in 1953 and the FRCS in 1958. After returning to India he served as surgeon to the Singareni collieries near Hyderabad. He married Dr Prema Naidu MD, FRCS Edinburgh, FRCOG, on 26 November 1939 and they had a daughter Renuka, who held the Cambridge MSc and MA. A keen sportsman, he was College champion in tennis and cricket and was also fond of hockey, billiards and swimming. He died on 3 October 1985 aged 76, survived by his wife and daughter.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007540
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First Title value, for Searching Lo, Thomas (1927 - 2012)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Annabelle Lo
Publication Date 2012-07-12 2017-03-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374824374824
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Tom Lo was a consultant ENT surgeon in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. He was born in Hong Kong, the son of a solicitor, Man Wai Lo, a member of the Legislative Council and, with his brother Sir Man Kam Lo, co-founder of the law firm of Lo & Lo. Tom's education was interrupted when he was 14 by the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in 1941. During the four years of the occupation his schooling was limited to English lessons at a private tutor's home, dodging Japanese sentries on the way, and private Chinese lessons at home. After the end of the Japanese occupation, Tom passed his matriculation exam and went on to study medicine at the re-opened University of Hong Kong, in spite of not having studied any science subjects. He qualified in 1954 and was a house surgeon and junior registrar to both Francis Stock, dean of the faculty of medicine and professor of surgery, and A R Hodgson, senior lecturer in orthopaedic surgery. In 1958, with his wife and eight month old son, Tom went to Edinburgh and then Liverpool to prepare for the fellowship exams of the Edinburgh and London Colleges. He passed both in 1961. Then followed several years working as a surgical registrar and senior registrar at Clatterbridge Hospital, Cheshire, Kent and Canterbury Hospital, and Chester Royal Infirmary. On a visit to England in 1966, Francis Stock advised Tom to take up ENT surgery, as the specialty might provide more opportunities to gain a consultant post. With a family of by then four young children, Tom returned to his studies and gained his diploma in laryngology and otology (DLO) in 1967. He was appointed as a senior registrar at the Liverpool Ear, Nose and Throat Infirmary, and later moved on to Alder Hey Children's Hospital and Sefton General Hospital in Liverpool. In 1969 he applied for and was appointed as a consultant ENT surgeon by the Hawke's Bay Hospital Board in Napier, New Zealand. Tom and his family arrived in Napier in February 1970. He took over the private practice of Reg Bettington, who had been killed in an accident, and over the years built up a successful private practice of his own. For eight years Tom was the sole ENT specialist for Hawke's Bay and had operating sessions at both Napier Hospital and Hastings Memorial Hospital. In addition, he had operating sessions at the two private hospitals, Royston and Princess Alexandra. Most of his surgery was for tonsils and adenoids, grommets, stapedectomy and otosclerosis, operating with a microscope. Tom was a somewhat reserved and quiet man, but he was well-liked and respected by colleagues, staff and patients. Chris Peychers, an audiologist, remembers Tom as 'a very caring person who was especially good with children'. He enjoyed close co-operation with Tom, resulting in a team approach to ear issues. Grace Williams, a retired theatre sister at Napier Hospital, recalls that it was wonderful to work with Tom: he always pleasant and courteous to patients and staff, and very good at explaining things to students. Tom had always been keen on sports. With studies, work and a young family, in the UK he hadn't had the opportunity to play. In Napier he joined the Greendale Tennis Club and eventually built his own tennis court. Sunday tennis at home with friends and colleagues was a regular fixture. He was also very keen on cricket and enjoyed playing in the social grade of the Taradale Cricket Club. He was their opening bat and once made a century. When he retired from playing, he was invited to become patron of the club. Tom retired in 1988 after a third ENT consultant was appointed for Hawke's Bay. In accepting Tom's retirement, A P Jones, the medical superintendent-in-chief at the time, noted: 'The hallmarks of your service over the years have been your conscientiousness, reliability and equable temperament.' He also advised Tom that the board had granted him 'honorary status providing public recognition of the high personal regard in which you are held by the board and your consultant colleagues in the two hospitals'. In his retirement Tom enjoyed a lot of travelling, including going on safari in Kenya, trips to Antarctica, Machu Picchu, Petra and Jordan, Indonesia, and many other parts of the world. He made frequent visits to family members in Hong Kong, Britain and the United States. He also took great pleasure in spending time on a sheep and cattle farm in Hawke's Bay, which he had bought several years earlier. He learned much about farming and rural life from his farm manager. In November 2002 Tom suffered a severe stroke that left him paralysed on his left side. He recovered his speech, but lost his peripheral vision, which sadly left him barely able to read or watch TV. Before the stroke he was an avid reader. Fortunately, he did not suffer any memory loss and at the nursing home where he lived he would from time to time be approached by student nurses who found they could discuss medical issues with him. All through the nine and a half years that Tom was confined to a wheelchair he remained patient and tolerant as ever and never complained about his condition. Tom died on 1 May 2012, the day after his 85th birthday, after failing to recover from a chest infection. He was survived by his wife Annabelle, two sons and two daughters, their spouses and nine grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Rustomjee, Rusie Cawasjee Jamshedjee (1912 - 2012)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2012-11-09 2013-08-13
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375306375306
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Rusie Rustomjee, an ENT surgeon, practised medicine for 75 years, starting in Colombo, Ceylon and finally retiring in Australia at the age of 89. He was born in Colombo on 9 November 1912 one of the six children of Cowasjee Rustomjee, whom he described as a merchant, and his wife Piroja née Mistry. His grandfather, Jamshed Ji Rustomjee JP a prominent Ceylonese philanthropist, donated money to the Children's Hospital and the Victoria Home for Incurables in Colombo. He studied at Ceylon Medical College where he was awarded a bursary, and won the Rockwood gold medal for operative surgery. During the Second World War he served as a temporary major in the Ceylon Army Medical Corps. Travelling to London after the war he passed the FRCS in 1949 and became a clinical assistant at the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital in 1950, working with William McKenzie and Maxwell Ellis, both distinguished fellows of the College. Returning to Colombo he became senior ENT surgeon to the General Hospital. In 1975, concerned by the political situation in Sri Lanka, he and his family emigrated to Australia and settled in the Blue Mountains at Lapstone. He continued to practice ENT surgery at Springwood Hospital and at Nepean and Governor Phillip Hospital, Penrith, finally retiring in 2002. He had married his cousin, Jer Rustomjee in 1948 and they had three children: two daughters, Zarine Mistry (born 1949) who became a consultant physician in Virginia, USA; Tehmi Meher-Homjee (born 1950) who managed a fashion boutique in Australia; and son, Jamshed (born 1951) who worked for the NSW transport board. He was a past president of the Colombo Lions Club and of the Sri Lanka College of Surgeons. In Australia he became a member of the Australian Returned Serviceman's Club and of the Penrith Rugby Leagues Club. He enjoyed swimming, walking, reading and bridge and noted that he regretted not having enough opportunity to practice ocean swimming which had been one of the favourite pastimes of his youth. A year before he retired he remarked that he had had "a varied but happy medical career." He died on 6 October 2011 survived by his wife, children, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003123
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First Title value, for Searching Hanna, Ghassan Salem Suleiman (1949 - 2009)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2010-09-30
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373210373210
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Ghassan Hanna was a Palestinian who left his troubled homeland during the Six-Day War of 1967 to realise his dream of becoming a doctor; he subsequently made his home in Britain, where he became a successful ENT surgeon. He was born into a Palestinian Christian family in Nablus on 19 October 1949, one of 11 children of a primary school headmaster. Having dismissed his chances of becoming Pope, Ghassan decided, at the age of seven, to become a doctor. The Six-Day War proved to be the catalyst. Leaving home, with no money and unable to complete his school leaving examinations, he fled to Amman, where he was cared for by one of his aunts. With no physics qualification, he could not gain admission to Cairo Medical School, but was instead accepted at Alexandria Medical School, from where he was later able to transfer to Cairo. He qualified in 1973. Hanna developed an interest in ENT surgery whilst practising in Dubai. His desire to return to Palestine was thwarted as his country was occupied, and he had discovered that he had not been included in the Israeli census. He decided to make his career in Britain and arrived in 1980. After obtaining the fellowship of the RCS and completing a registrar post at Wexham Park Hospital, Slough, he was, in 1988, appointed consultant ENT surgeon to the General Hospital (later the County Hospital) at Hereford. His special interest was head and neck cancer, and he delighted in teaching. Hanna married, in 1976, Wafa Nemer Bishara, whose family also came from Nablus. He created a beautiful garden at his home in the village of Clehonger near Hereford and took pleasure in his proficiency at Middle Eastern cuisine. In 2007 he retired from the NHS, but sadly died from a heart attack on 13 June 2009, as he and his wife were preparing for their joint 60th and 50th birthday party. He is survived by his wife, their son, who is a communications manager at Barnet and Chase Farm hospitals, and three daughters, all of whom are doctors.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001027
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First Title value, for Searching Griffith, Iolo Pyrs (1933 - 2011)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Vera Griffith
Publication Date 2011-12-13 2016-05-27
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373908373908
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Iolo Griffith was a consultant ENT surgeon at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, who, as an otologist, co-established the South Wales Cochlear Implant Programme and, as a laryngologist, served the Welsh National Opera. He was greatly respected as a modest, private and diligent man, and admired for his hatred of dishonesty, drama or affectation. He was born in Llanaelhaearn, in the foothills of Snowdonia, the third of three sons of John Pierce Griffith, a farmer, and Rebecca Ellen Griffith née Jones. Iolo Griffith decided that he wanted to become a doctor at an early age after falling off a wall at school and fracturing a leg. He was educated at Pwllheli Grammar School, which hitherto had not taught A-level biology. The North Walian characteristic of stubbornness prevailed and he won a state scholarship to read medicine at University College London. He qualified in 1959, having won the prize in anatomy. After house posts at University College Hospital (in surgery) and the Charing Cross Hospital (in medicine) and a year in casualty and orthopaedics at Barnet General Hospital, he decided to become a surgeon. In preparation for the primary FRCS, Iolo became a demonstrator and later an assistant lecturer in the department of physiology at St Bartholomew's Medical College, London (from 1962 to 1966). Whilst at St Bartholomew's he developed testicular cancer and received linear accelerator treatment at the Royal Marsden at Sutton. During his recuperation he was encouraged by Robin McNab Jones to prepare a PhD thesis on the subject of 'Neurophysiology of taste'. Much of this work involved the use of the dissecting microscope, which naturally stimulated an interest in other uses of a microscope and a career in ENT. The thesis, which had been supervised by Norman Joels, was awarded in 1967. Iolo Griffith started as a senior house officer at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, Golden Square, followed by a registrar post at the Westminster Hospital working with E H Miles Foxen and Christopher Holborow. In 1969 he became a senior registrar at the Middlesex Hospital, where he was influenced by Douglas Ranger, R A Williams and D Garfield Davies. Always anxious to serve his fellow countrymen, Iolo Griffith returned to Wales in 1972 as a senior lecturer and honorary NHS consultant to University College of Medicine and University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff. Later in 1978 he changed to a maximum part-time contract, which he held until his retirement in 1998. Among his many professional appointments was membership of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (from 1989 to 2000) and the presidency of the section of otology of the Royal Society of Medicine (from 1997 to 1998). In September 1962 he married a fellow North Walian Vera Parry, a physiotherapist trained at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, and later a magistrate. They had two children - Gwyn, who gained a doctorate in mycology and worked in research for 15 years before retraining as a probation officer and Ffion, who has had a successful career in human resources. Iolo and Vera Griffith had five grandchildren. Iolo Griffith shared a love of gardening and music with his wife. He used his ENT expertise to help many musicians associated with the Welsh National Opera. Above all, he gave himself to his profession and his patients. He is remembered as a modest person who honoured everyone with deep respect, believing strongly in their right to be treated with dignity. The last few years of his life, troubled by Alzheimer's, were hard, but his family and friends guarded his dignity and in the end he died peacefully on 27 June 2011 in his own home nursed by his loving wife. He was 77.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001725
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First Title value, for Searching Jackson, Peter Douglas (1930 - 2015)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Rumy Kapadia
Publication Date 2016-05-12 2016-09-23
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381303381303
Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Peter Douglas Jackson was a consultant otolaryngologist for the Lewisham Group of Hospitals, but it would be fair to say that he would rather be remembered as an operatic tenor/baritone. He was born on 9 May 1930 in Maryport in what was then Cumberland, the son of Percy Jackson, a Methodist minister, and Ethel Jackson née Harding, an accomplished artist. He was educated at King Edward VI School, Stourbridge, and Kingsmead School, Bath, before going to Jesus College, Cambridge. He gained his MB BChir in 1956. He was a senior house officer at Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, moving to a resident surgical officer post at Hallam Hospital, West Bromwich, and then at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh. He gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1962 and in the same year joined the Royal Navy, serving until 1978. While in the Navy he served aboard aircraft carriers HMS *Hermes* and *Eagle*, and on shore at RNH Haslar, Gosport, and RNH Stonehouse, Plymouth. A highlight during this time was his appointment in 1969 as medical officer in charge of the naval base in Mauritius, where he was appreciated for his skills as a compassionate and efficient surgeon, as well as a teacher and linguist, working off-site with Mauritian medical colleagues. It was during his time in the Navy that Peter specialised in ENT. He passed his diploma in laryngology and otology in 1967 and his FRCS (ENT) in 1968. On retirement from the Navy, Peter joined the Institute of Laryngology and Otology, University College, London, in 1978 as a senior lecturer. While at the Institute, he researched tinnitus, and was called upon as an expert witness in occupationally-induced deafness and tinnitus. He wrote several papers on tinnitus, including a chapter on tinnitus, hearing and balance in the elderly in 1981. He joined the Southwark and Lewisham, Greenwich and Bromley Health Authorities as a consultant ENT surgeon in 1981, retiring in 1988. During this time, he co-authored *Ear, nose and throat nursing* (Oxford, Blackwell Scientific) in 1986. He was also a member of the Joseph Society (as the European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery was then called). Peter sang throughout his life, singing with the Lewisham choir until 2014, and participating in numerous singing competitions, winning many rosettes. He was invited to sing before Indira Gandhi and other dignitaries in Mauritius. He sang both choral and solo works, enjoying English songs from Dowland to Williams, lieder and opera. In 1955, while still at University College Hospital, he sang the part of the poet in the first revival of Rossini's 'Il turco in Italia'. He was a keen and proficient linguist, being near fluent in several European languages, giving U3A Spanish classes up to his final illness. In addition to his service in the Navy, Peter was in the RAF for his National Service and joined the Territorial Army in 1978, thus covering all three services. However, he became a member of CND (the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) in his later years, as well as being an active member of the Liberal Democrats, having a lifelong interest in politics and social justice. He enjoyed sailing, the Navy providing ample opportunity, teaching his children the basics of dinghy sailing, and taking them on a number of sailing holidays to Croatia. Peter died on 3 October 2015 of metastatic carcinoma from bowel cancer. He was 85. He was survived by his widow, four children, one grandchild and two great grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009120
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First Title value, for Searching Mann, George Edgar (1923 - 2019)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by David Moffat
Publication Date 2019-08-05 2019-09-20
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009600-E009699
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details George Mann was an ear, nose and throat surgeon at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge between 1965 and 1983. George was born on 4 June 1923 in Cheltenham, the son of Edgar Mann and Winifred Mann née Ballinger, and was subsequently educated at Cheltenham Grammar School. Whilst still at school he suffered a complicated appendicitis at the age of 16, which made him decide to become a surgeon. He qualified in 1947 having graduated from Merton College, Oxford and completed his clinical studies at University College Hospital in London. He became a house surgeon at the North Middlesex Hospital in December 1947 and a house physician at Woolwich Memorial Hospital in July 1948. Having completed his National Service as a medic in the RAF in September 1950, he quickly decided on a career in ear, nose and throat surgery and became an ENT registrar to Geoffrey Barker at Cheltenham General Hospital until March 1952. He then moved to Oxford as a registrar under the tutelage of Gavin Livingstone at the Radcliffe Infirmary and subsequently Ronald Macbeth, attaining his English FRCS and Edinburgh FRCS in 1955. In December of that year he became a senior registrar to Austen Young and Robert Peasegood at Sheffield Royal Infirmary. He was appointed as a consultant ENT surgeon at Chesterfield Hospital in 1958 and practised within the generality of the specialty. In 1965, he moved to Cambridge following his appointment to Addenbrooke’s Hospital and received an honorary Cambridge MA on joining the consultant teaching staff as well as membership of Peterhouse College. Whilst both consultants at that time were generalists some sub-specialisation was developing and, as George’s senior colleague Kenneth Wilsden had an interest in neck surgery, it was not surprising that George further developed his interest in otology and microsurgical techniques and in particular, following the worldwide emergence of stapedectomy for otosclerosis, he began performing the operation in Cambridge. He set up a hearing assessment clinic for congenitally deaf children at Cherry Hinton Hall. He retired from Addenbrooke’s Hospital and from clinical practice in the same year at the age of 60 years. George loved to travel and he visited many countries beyond Europe, including Iceland, Namibia, the Galapagos Islands and as far as China. A trip to Egypt in 1977 sparked an interest in archaeology and he was able to develop this in his retirement. He studied Egyptian skulls stored in a basement in the archaeology department of Cambridge University, from which he was able to submit an MPhil thesis in 1984 on the torus auditivus (exostosis of the deep external auditory canal), which persuaded archaeologists that bony exostoses in the external ear canal were caused by swimming in the cold water of the Nile rather than by heredity. His expertise as a bone specialist archaeologist was utilised between 1983 and 1995, in particular for the Brochtorff Circle excavations on Gozo, Malta with Caroline Malone, Simon Stoddart and David Trump, and the work provided data for the human remains catalogue of the excavation report of 2009. Apart from archaeology, his hobbies included studies in the practise, theory and history of art. George Mann did not have the archetypal surgical persona, but was humble and reserved, with a quiet, often laconic, sense of humour. He was loyal and supportive and liked by all who met him in whatever sphere. In 1949, he married Ilse Metzger, with whom he had one son, Anthony, and a daughter, Margaret. In 1983, he divorced his first wife and subsequently married Sheila Bouchier. George Mann died on 7 April 2019 at the age of 95.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009635
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First Title value, for Searching Ridley, George Walter (1861 - 1911)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375280375280
Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on October 6th, 1861. He studied at the Medical College and was House Surgeon and Surgical Registrar at the Royal Infirmary At one time he was Resident Medical Officer at the Newcastle Dispensary and House Surgeon at the Ingham Infirmary, South Shields. He was then appointed Surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, and was instrumental in establishing a Throat and Ear Department, to which he became Surgeon-in-Charge. He was also for a time Surgeon to the Newcastle Hospital for Sick Children, Examiner in Elementary Anatomy at the Durham University, President of the Northern Division of the London and Counties Medical Protection Society, and Surgeon to the Ocean Accident Insurance Association. He was a careful diagnostician and a successful operating surgeon - genial, a general favourite, and a good golfer. Rheumatism and cardiac disease followed upon a wetting caught when visiting a distant patient. He died at 6 Ellison Place, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on January 18th, 1911, and was buried in Elswick Cemetery.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003097
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First Title value, for Searching Dalàl, Anandrai Keshavlal (1886 - 1929)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-24
Unknown
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376111376111
Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Born on 17 September 1886 the son of Keshavlal Dalàl, a broker by occupation and a Hindu Bania by religion. He was educated at Bombay University, at King's College Hospital and the Middlesex Hospital in London. He was appointed lecturer on diseases of the ear, nose and throat at the Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Hospital, Bombay on 11 November 1915, and held the post until 30 August 1916. On 1 August 1916 he became professor of operative surgery and surgeon to the hospital, posts which he held his appointment as acting professor of surgery at the Grant Medi College in August 1919. He also acted as professor of midwifery physician to the Bai Motlibai Hospital in 1920. He resigned his appointments in November 1928 on account of ill-health, having been decorated OBE on 3 July 1926 in recognition of his exceptional services in Bombay as a surgeon. He died at Queen's Road, New Crigaum, Bombay on 27 April 1929. Publication: Case of rat-bite fever. *Practitioner*, 1914, 92, 449.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003928
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First Title value, for Searching Collins, Edward Joseph (1901 - 1958)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-05
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377149377149
Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Born in 1901, Edward Collins was educated at Summerhill College, Sligo and qualified from the National University of Ireland in 1923. After seven years in general practice he held resident appointments at the Royal Marsden, the West London, St Mary Abbott's, and Hammersmith Hospitals from 1930 to 1934. He worked at the Fulham Hospital from 1934 to 1939, and then in Birmingham where he remained until his death. After working in the EMS as a general surgeon, he was appointed surgeon to the Ear Nose and Throat Department of the Selly Oak Hospital in 1942 with Philip Reading. Edward Collins, familiarly known as "Ned", was a confirmed bachelor and lived in the hospital during his years at Selly Oak. He was widely read and a first-rate raconteur. He was a man of absolute integrity with a quick, analytical mind. He had been an athlete in his youth. He died from a heart attack while out shooting in his native County Roscommon, aged 57, on 20 December 1958.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004966
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First Title value, for Searching McCarter, Frederick Buick (1887 - 1954)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377298377298
Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Born at Castlerock, Co Derry on 26 July 1887, the son of William McCarter JP, he was educated at schools in northern Ireland and entered Trinity College, Dublin in 1906. He was senior moderator (first in the first class) in natural sciences and won the gold medal at the BA degree examination in 1910, served as demonstrator of anatomy 1910-11, and after qualifying in 1912 was appointed house surgeon at Macclesfield Infirmary in 1913 and York County Hospital in 1914. He won the Military Cross during the first world war, when he served as a Major in the RAMC, and soon after its end he took the Fellowship. From 1922 to 1923 he was throat surgeon to the LCC school clinic in Garratt Lane, and in 1925 he was medical officer to the Royal Victoria Patriotic School for Girls at Wandsworth. Later he practised in the Portsmouth area, first at Southsea and then at Havant where he died on 19 April 1954. He married Beatrice, daughter of H G Sherlock.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005115
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First Title value, for Searching Bellwood, Kenneth Benson (1890 - 1955)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-22
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377082377082
Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Born at Middlesbrough, he won a scholarship at Pembroke College, Cambridge, took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1911, and won the Shuter scholarship at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He qualified just after war broke out in 1914, and served for four years as a surgeon in the Royal Navy. He was created OBE for his service. After the war he settled in general practice at Bedford in partnership with W H Miller FRCS, but soon specialised as a laryngologist. In 1930 he was appointed ear nose and throat surgeon to the County Hospital and subsequently to the General Hospital, where he became consulting surgeon in 1949. Bellwood married in 1921 Florence Violet Cooper. They usually spent their holidays walking on the Yorkshire moors. Bellwood became ill in 1940 but continued to practise. He died at his home, 4 De Parys Avenue, Bedford, on 17 April 1955, aged 64, survived by his wife and their two daughters.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004899
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First Title value, for Searching Bowen-Davies, Alan (1907 - 1974)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-14
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378507378507
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Alan Bowen-Davies was born on 26 July 1907 and educated at Harrow School (Headmaster's House) and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He was chief clinical assistant, registrar and house surgeon to the ENT department at Guy's Hospital. He qualified MA MB BCh in 1933 and passed the Fellowship in 1936. During the second world war he served in the RAF from 1942 to 1946 in Normandy and Germany with the rank of Wing Commander RAFVR. He joined the staff of the London Hospital in 1946 and became surgeon in charge of the aural department. He was also on the staff of Redhill General Hospital until he retired and did two sessions a week which he enjoyed very much. In 1955 he published 'Disability of chronic ear disease in relation to insurance and employment' in the *Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine* and, in 1965, contributed three chapters to Scott-Brown's *Diseases of the ear nose and throat*, 2nd ed. He died on 19 February 1974, survived by his wife Irene and children, Carol, Gillie and David.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006324
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First Title value, for Searching Neilson, Drevor Frederick Acton (1891 - )

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378990378990
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Drevor Frederick Acton Neilson was born in Bulwell, Nottingham, on 19 September 1891. His father was an MD of Glasgow. He was educated at Dunchurch Hall and Rugby, at Trinity College, Cambridge, and at St Thomas's Hospital. After qualifying MRCS, LRCP he joined the Army on 30 January 1915 and served with infantry divisions in Gallipoli and France until his discharge in August 1919. He then did several house jobs at St Thomas's and was house surgeon to Sir Percy Sergeant and H G Howarth. He was appointed lecturer in the ear, nose and throat department and was consulting surgeon from 1930 to 1956. He had a distinguished career in his speciality, he contributed a section in the text book by Romanis and Mitchiner, was an examiner at the College and President of the Otological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was divorced from his first wife in 1936 and in 1939 married Pamela Chester Beatty, who died in 1955. They had one son and daughter. His hobbies were golf, shooting, sketching and water colouring.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006807
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First Title value, for Searching Jowett, Ronald Edward (1901 - 1986)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-26
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379557379557
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Ronald Jowett was born in Halifax on 5 March 1901, the eldest child of James Edward Jowett, a musician, and Emma, née Hoyle. Educated at Heath School, Halifax, and Leeds University, he qualified in 1922 and gained his MD in 1923. Thereafter he pursued a career in ear, nose and throat surgery at Leeds and Sunderland, passing the DLO in 1925 and serving as surgeon to the Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, from 1926. During the second world war he was an EMS surgeon. Between 1951 and 1970 he served the Regional Hospital Consultants' Association and the Regional Hospital Board (Vice-Chairman 1967-1970). He was elected FRCS in 1966 and was awarded the CBE in 1969. He married Lilian Waring in 1929 and of their two sons the younger, Andrew, became a surgeon. His wife, and their eldest son, Peter, predeceased him. His extracurricular interests included skiing (until aged 70), fishing, the pianoforte and the cello. He died 29 August 1986.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007374
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First Title value, for Searching Moffett, Arthur James (1904 - 1995)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380388380388
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Jim Moffett was born in Galway in 1904 among people who had witnessed the Irish potato famine. The family then moved to Bromsgrove, where he grew up on a farm and became a keen rider. He received his medical education in Birmingham and qualified in 1929 and after early junior posts specialised in oto-rhino-laryngology. He had been a territorial and joined the RAMC in 1939, took part in the evacuation from Dunkirk and was then posted as ear, nose and throat surgeon and adviser in India and south east Asia where he counted among his patients the mules of the Chindit expedition (which he successfully managed to silence) and Lord Mountbatten (whom he did not!). After the war he was appointed consultant ENT surgeon to the Birmingham United Hospitals. He took early retirement to return to active life as a farmer, and to take up the piano at the age of eighty. He was a talented water-colourist. He died on 12 December 1995, leaving his wife, Ella, one daughter and four sons.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008205
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First Title value, for Searching Cox, Michael Gordon (1922 - 1992)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380057380057
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Michael Cox was born in Camberley, Surrey, on 14 April 1922, the son of Colonel Michael Cox of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment. From Bradfield School he went to Corpus Christi Cambridge, and then to St Thomas's Hospital, where he qualified in 1946. He did house appointments at St Thomas's and then his National Service in the RAMC. On demobilisation he returned to St Thomas's as registrar. passed the FRCS in 1951 and then changed from general surgery to otorhinolaryngology, becoming ENT registrar at St Thomas's and then senior registrar at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. In 1962 he was appointed consultant otorhinolaryngologist at Portsmouth and Chichester, as well as the King Edward VII Hospital, Midhurst. After his retirement in 1987 he was able to enjoy his hobbies of gardening, fly fishing and antiques. Five years later he developed a carcinoma of the caecum which was sadly inoperable at diagnosis, and he died on 24 January 1992. He married Patsy, a radiographer, in 1958 and they had five children, Amanda, Andrew, Michael, Adrian and Desmond, one of whom became a nurse.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007874
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First Title value, for Searching Yorke, Courtenay (1884 - 1970)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-31
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378448378448
Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Courtenay Yorke was born at Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, on 18 May 1884, the son of a Methodist Minister. He was educated at Epworth College, near Rhyl, North Wales, and at University College, Liverpool (now University of Liverpool) where he graduated MB ChB in 1905. He also obtained the MB BS degree in the University of London in 1908, and the MD of Liverpool in 1908. In 1911 he obtained the FRCS. In the University of Liverpool Yorke served as a senior demonstrator of anatomy, and was on the surgical staff of the Liverpool Royal Infirmary. He also held appointments at the Northern Hospital and Stanley Hospital, Liverpool, and at the Victoria Central Hospital, Wallasey. He was also appointed aurist and laryngologist to the Ministry of Pensions Hospital, Liverpool. During the first world war Yorke was a Captain RAMC and served as surgical specialist to No 6 General Hospital, Rouen, and also in Mesopotamia. His private life is of interest in that his brother became a Fellow of the Royal Society for his work at the School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, and his sister was on the nursing staff of the Liverpool Royal Infirmary. Yorke was married in 1916 to Constance Lilian Longbottom and they had two sons and a daughter. He was killed in a road accident on 22 November 1970.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006265
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First Title value, for Searching Thompson, Warren Leishman ( - 1980)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-24
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Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E006000-E006999/E006900-E006999
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379182379182
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Warren Leishman Thompson was educated at Christ's College, New Zealand, from 1933 to 1937 where he, like his brother, Bruce, was a distinguished athlete representing the school at both cricket and rugby for some years and being a champion fives player and school prefect. On leaving school he entered Otago University and Selwyn College where he was a resident from 1939 to 1942, represented the University at both cricket and rugby, being awarded a blue in the latter. He graduated MB ChB in 1945 and was for a period house surgeon at Christchurch Hospital, subsequently travelling to England and taking the FRCS in 1950 and the DLO later that year. He was first assistant in the aural department at the London Hospital for some time and then returned to Christchurch where he entered private ENT practice and was appointed visiting ENT surgeon to the Christchurch Hospital in early 1955. He relinquished this appointment in mid-1956 though continuing in private consultation practice as at this stage he suffered the first of the health problems which were to dog the rest of his life. Because of these he took up an appointment at Templeton Hospital in 1963 and held this until his eventual retirement in March 1980. He was a quiet unassuming man who bore his ill health with courage and good humour. He died suddenly on 2 July 1980 at his home in Fendalton, survived by his wife Pauline and six children, Prue, Peter, Sue, Michael, David and Juliette.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006999
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First Title value, for Searching McGuckin, Francis (1905 - 1983)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-08
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Francis McGuckin graduated MB, BS from the University of Durham in 1926, obtained the FRCS Ed in 1930 and the MD with Gold Medal in 1935. He was ear, nose and throat surgeon to the Royal Victoria Infirmary and formerly lecturer in otolaryngology at King's College Medical School in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Having experience of the intracranial complications of non-malignant destructive ear disease he developed a lifelong interest in the pathogenesis of cholesteatoma and his hypothesis that it "develops from without inward". Having great gifts for lucid speaking and of friendship, he was in great demand as a speaker especially in the USA and was a frequent contributor to meetings of the Section of Otology of the Royal Society of Medicine, of which he was secretary, member of council and President (1963). He was awarded the W J Harrison Prize in otology of the RSM and the Jobson Horne Prize of the BMA. He was President of the North of England Otolaryngological Society and of the Durham University Medical School Society. He was a good golfer, a keen fisherman and a lover of Bach. He played the organ in church and had an annexe built for an electric organ in his house. Latterly his eyesight failed but he was supported by his many friends, his family and his own courage and deep religious faith. He died on 25 January 1983 aged 78.
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First Title value, for Searching Younus, Mohammod (1944 - 1987)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-13
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Mohammod Younos was born in Pakistan on 11 November 1944 and after early education entered King Edward Medical College, Lahore, in 1962. He qualified six years later and after junior appointments in Pakistan came to England in 1969. He completed senior houses officer posts in ear, nose and throat surgery, general surgery, plastic surgery and neurosurgery and after passing the FRCS in 1978 was registrar to the ear, nose and throat department at Salisbury General Hospital and senior registrar at Southampton. In 1981 he went to Saudi Arabia where he became consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon at the Riyadh Armed Forces Hospital and honorary assistant professor at King Saud University, Riyadh. In addition to professional and teaching duties he made many contributions to professional journals on a wide range of subjects in the sphere of otorhinolaryngology and was founder president of the Riyadh Ear, Nose and Throat Club. His hobbies were squash and tennis and reading English translations of world literature. He married Azmat, a graduate teacher of Urdu, on 15 May 1970 and they had two sons and two daughters. Tragically he was shot by the father of a patient on whom he had performed a tonsillectomy and died on 25 October 1987 aged 42. He is survived by his wife and four children, and his eldest son was studying medicine in the United Kingdom at the time of his death.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007746
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First Title value, for Searching Seymour-Jones, John Anthony (1911 - 2008)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2010-05-20 2012-03-09
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Tony Seymour-Jones was an otolaryngologist to the Portsmouth and South East Hants Health District. He was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, on 7 April 1911, the son of Bertrand Seymour-Jones, a consultant otolaryngologist, and Hilda Katherine née Poole, the daughter of a mining agent. Educated at West House Preparatory School, Edgbaston, Birmingham, Seymour-Jones proceeded as an exhibitioner to Shrewsbury School and from there as a classics scholar to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Whilst at Cambridge he switched to natural sciences as he decided to pursue a career in medicine. He undertook his clinical studies at St Thomas' Hospital, London, where on qualifying he became a house surgeon and later a clinical assistant to the ear, nose and throat department. Here he was influenced by Walter Howarth, Geoffrey Bateman, and by the general surgeon Sir Heneage Ogilvie. After gaining his FRCS in 1940, Seymour-Jones joined the RAMC as a consultant otolaryngologist with the rank of temporary major and served in the Italian Campaign and at the Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot. He made a life-long friendship with a captured Italian surgeon. At the end of the Second World War, Seymour-Jones became a registrar to the Portsmouth, Southsea and Cosham Eye and Ear Hospital, before being appointed as a consultant otolaryngologist to the Portsmouth Group of Hospitals. He was also on the staff of King Edward VII Hospital, Midhurst. He served as chairman of the British Medical Association Portsmouth division and of the South Western Laryngological Association.He represented Wessex on the council of the British Association of Otolaryngologists and served on the council of the section of laryngology of the Royal Society of Medicine. He sailed, and became commodore of the Royal Albert Sailing Club. Musical evenings were a source of enjoyment, and he had a repertoire of songs which he sang in Italian, French and German. Tony Seymour-Jones met his future wife, Elizabeth Irving Pinches, daughter of H I Pinches, a physician at the Royal Masonic Hospital, whilst she was a staff nurse at St Thomas'. They were married on 15 June 1940. She predeceased him, in 2003, as did his son Nicholas, an architect. At the grand age of 97, Tony Seymour-Jones died on 28 June 2008 at Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth, shortly after a massive stroke and myocardial infarction. He is survived by his daughters Carole and Louise, six grandchildren, and four great-grand children.
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First Title value, for Searching Rao, Akkinepalli Badri Narayan (1923 - 2017)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Priti Dixit
Publication Date 2018-11-20
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Narayan Rao was an ENT surgeon in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. He was born in a village in the princely state of Hyderabad on 9 October 1923. His father, Sita Ram Rao, was an agriculturist and zamindar (landlord); his mother, Rama Chudamma Rao, was a housewife. Being the first-born male and showing an aptitude for study, he was sent to the nearby city of Hyderabad for schooling. At the end of high school, he was awarded a scholarship to study medicine at Osmania Medical College, Hyderabad. He qualified in 1947. After house posts in Hyderabad, he was a district medical officer which, apart from public health, required him to certify the health of animals for slaughter. This job enabled him to study for the primary through correspondence and save enough money for the journey and initial expenses in Britain. From May 1951 to February 1952, he was a house surgeon at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London. He was then a registrar in ENT surgery at the Birmingham and Midland Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital. He achieved his FRCS in 1954 and returned to Hyderabad. He worked in the state medical service as an ENT consultant and established the first dedicated ENT hospital in Hyderabad. He returned to the UK in 1967 with his wife Norah (née Gardner) and two daughters (Priti and Nandita), and worked in Birmingham as a consultant ENT surgeon until 1969. From November 1969 to August 1974, he worked as a professor of otolaryngology at the Osmania Medical College and as an ENT surgeon and superintendent at the government ENT hospital, Hyderabad and visiting ENT surgeon to the Radium Institute and Cancer Hospital, Hyderabad. He was invited to work in Australia and emigrated with his family in 1974, settling in Darwin, Northern Territory, where he was a senior ENT specialist. His work in northern Australia involved treating the indigenous population with a high incidence of middle ear disease. He was awarded the citizen of the year award in 1995, followed by the Order of Australia in 1997 for services to the community. On retiring from the Northern Territory, he settled with his wife in Melbourne, close to his family and grandchildren. He continued ENT non-surgical work past his 90th birthday. He died on 28 August 2017 at the age of 93. From humble beginnings, he achieved a great deal in his long and illustrious career, and was held in high regard by his colleagues and students.
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First Title value, for Searching Newbegin, Christopher John Richard (1953- 2020)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Andrew Grace
Publication Date 2020-04-14 2020-07-15
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Chris Newbegin was a consultant ENT surgeon at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. He was born on 11 January 1953 in London. He was educated at Harrow County School for Boys and went on to study medicine at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School. He originally planned on becoming an orthopaedic surgeon, but a friendship with a fellow anatomy demonstrator who had experience in ENT surgery influenced him to change direction. He was an ENT registrar at Charing Cross Hospital, where he worked under Tony Cheeseman, and then a senior registrar on the Leeds/Bradford rotation. Chris was appointed to his consultant post at Huddersfield in 1985, where he built up the ENT department. At Huddersfield he is remembered as an exceptionally kind and thoughtful colleague. His patients appreciated his down to earth manner and honesty about what was about to happen. By temperament and by manner he was a true Yorkshire surgeon. At Huddersfield he introduced new techniques and innovations that have gone on to transform lives globally. He recognised the potential for using a linear transecting and stapling device to perform a pharyngeal pouch diverticulotomy: Chris was the first surgeon to use this technique to relieve pharyngeal pouches. Endoscopic stapling of a pharyngeal pouch transformed a 10-day stay following traditional resection into an overnight stay with much reduced morbidity and mortality. Chris taught the technique in and around Yorkshire, and it is now the most commonly used approach worldwide, but he didn’t receive the full recognition he deserved. He was a member of the Intercollegiate Examining Board and was regional adviser for Yorkshire and Humberside from 2001 to 2006. He was a founder member of the Draffin ENT Society, where he is remembered with great fondness. Chris was a great, kind teacher, always willing to give friendly, supportive advice. As he grew more senior, he never lost his impish sense of fun. He met Hilary Moss in 1973 and they later married. She became a consultant anaesthetist in the same hospital. Although they didn’t do routine work together, their on-calls sometimes coincided: their working relationship was extremely professional. She loved working with Chris, reflecting: ‘He was exactly the sort of surgeon you wanted to look after you.’ In retirement Chris and Hilary travelled, sailed and skied together. Chris died on 1 February 2020 from a glioblastoma multiforme. He was 67. He was survived by Hilary and their two daughters, both doctors, of whom he was so proud.
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First Title value, for Searching Lund, William Spencer (1926 - 2010)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Andrew Freeland
Publication Date 2011-12-16 2022-01-31
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373952373952
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details William (Bill) Spencer Lund was a consultant ENT surgeon at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. He was born on 19 July 1926 to non-medical parents, Reginald James Spencer Lund and Beatrice Alice Lund née Cudemore. He thought he might join the Navy and was accordingly educated at Pangbourne College. Before entering National Service in the Navy, where he became a morse code expert, he decided to study medicine and subsequently enrolled at Guy’s Hospital. There he played for the first XV and developed his love of cricket. He did two preregistration house jobs at Guy’s, where he had the good fortune to meet a young nurse, Patricia Miles (Paddy), who soon became his wife. Bill decided on a career in ENT, demonstrated anatomy at King’s College, and, as a registrar at the Radcliffe Infirmary, gained his FRCS. It was at the Radcliffe that he developed his lifelong interest in swallowing and joined forces with the radiologist Gordon Ardran at the Nuffield Institute for Medical Research. Two and a half years of research work, both in Oxford and as a fellow at University Hospital, Iowa, led to some very significant findings on the mechanism of the function of the cricopharyngeal sphincter, particularly in relation to pharyngeal pouch development. For this work he gained an MS in 1963 and was appointed as an Arris and Gale lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1964. He was subsequently the author of many chapters and papers on swallowing problems. From Iowa he returned as a senior registrar at the Radcliffe Infirmary and then, in 1965, was appointed as a consultant ENT surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital. On the retirement of Ronald Macbeth from Oxford in 1968, Bill successfully moved to Oxford in December 1968. Gavin Livingstone, who pioneered congenital ear reconstruction in the UK, died within a month of Bill’s appointment, so he immediately took over this challenging area of ENT. Among the many children and adults suffering from ENT congenital defects treated by Bill Lund and his colleague Bernard Colman, were some affected by thalidomide. They introduced many new techniques to keep Oxford as the foremost department in this field. In 1987 Oxford was the first to use the new Swedish system of bone anchored osseointegrated hearing aids and ear prostheses, which revolutionised the management of those with congenital ear malformations. Bill Lund continued his interest in the management of swallowing problems and particularly pharyngeal pouch surgery. In 1987 he was elected president of the section of laryngology of the Royal Society of Medicine, where he delivered a brilliant and entertaining address on the technique of sword swallowing! He took a particular interest in teaching medical students and was named ‘His Rhinoplasty’ by the student Tingewick Society and was taken off beautifully in one of their pantomimes, where his characteristic ward round habit of putting one foot up on the patient’s bed while pinning the patient’s legs with his fine leather brief case was depicted very well! Retirement gave him more time for golf and, as a leading light and one time chairman of the Woodstock Players, he was equally happy as the pantomime dame, the spy Anthony Blunt or a bishop, which fitted his natural mannerisms! He was a true gentleman and was much loved by his patients and colleagues. His patients all considered Bill as their friend, and he was enormously popular with all who were fortunate to know him. He died on 22 July 2010 at the age of 84 and his thanksgiving service in Woodstock was packed with many friends and colleagues, all giving thanks for a man who lived life to the full and gave so much to so many. He had a very happy family life and was survived by Paddy, his adored wife of 54 years, their three children, Sarah, James and Kate, and six much-loved grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Fisch, Ugo Peter (1931 - 2019)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Paul Fagan
Publication Date 2020-08-12 2022-05-03
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Occupation Otorhinolaryngologist Otoneurologist ENT surgeon
Details Ugo Fisch was a leading otorhinolaryngologist and professor of otorhinolaryngology at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. He was born in Weinfelden, Switzerland on 3 March 1931 but, on the death of his father when he was two, moved to Lugano. He finished high school in 1949 and went to the University of Zürich to study medicine, qualifying in 1955. He trained in surgery at Winterthur and then in the otorhinolaryngology department at Zürich under Luzius Rüedi. In 1958 he gained his doctorate for his work on thrombosis. He then spent two years as a research fellow in otophysiology at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore and at the University of Chicago. He returned to Zürich, where he continued his specialist training in otorhinolaryngology. In 1966 he was promoted to associate professor and received his privatdozent for his research on lymphographic examinations of the cervical lymphatic system. During 1967 he spent six weeks at the House Ear Institute in Los Angeles, where he worked with William House on the latest surgical approaches to the internal auditory canal. On his return to Zürich, he began his fruitful collaboration with the neurosurgeon Gazi Yaşargil. In April 1970 Ugo was appointed to the chair of the otorhinolaryngology department at the University of Zürich. In 1998 he founded the Fisch International Microsurgery Foundation and, after his retirement from his academic post in 1999, he opened a private otology and skull base surgery unit at the Hirslanden Clinic in Zürich. His surgical skills were legendary. He wrote 300 papers and book chapters and several books. Two books were related to his microsurgical practice; *Tympanoplasty and stapedectomy: a manual of techniques* (Stuttgart, Thieme), first published in 1980, renamed *Tympanoplasty, mastoidectomy and stapes surgery* (Stuttgart, New York, Thieme) when a second edition appeared in 2008, which has been translated into German, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Chinese, Japanese and Turkish; and *Microsurgery of the skull base* (Stuttgart, New York, Thieme, 1988), which has been translated into German, Spanish, and Chinese. A third book was *Microscope and ear – the origin of microsurgery* (Zürich, Museum of Medical History of the University of Zürich, 2012), a historical work to honour his teachers and mentors. The quality of his books was augmented by the simple but detailed drawings that accompanied the texts. He was a member of seven editorial boards of academic journals and was awarded 27 honorary fellowships from countries around the world, including, in 1990, an honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Ugo Fisch was a man of astonishing intellect in that he spoke at least five languages with ease and had an enormous breadth and depth of knowledge, both of history and science. He could discuss any scientific, historical or philosophical topic with ease. In 1964 he married Monika Haas and they had two children, Jann and Marina. His generosity was legendary. There were always two fellows in the department to whom he gave unstintingly of his knowledge and help. There were wonderful evenings at his home, and Monika ensured the fellows’ practical needs were met, including having somewhere to live, schooling for their children and furniture for their home etc. Ugo Fisch died after complications following a fall in his home and died in Zurich on 12 December 2019. He was 88. Everyone who knew him owes him an immense debt of gratitude for his contribution to his art, not only by improving the lives of thousands of patients but also by helping his fellows and students to advance their skills to a new level through his exceptional teaching. Ugo was one of the most outstanding and impressive people that one could meet. He was a man of astonishing talents who was never spoiled by his success. As a colleague and friend, one could not wish for better. We feel privileged to have known and worked with such a legendary figure.
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First Title value, for Searching Crabtree, Norman Lloyd (1916 - 2004)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-09-23
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Norman Lloyd Crabtree was an ENT surgeon in Birmingham. He was born on 2 June 1916 in Birmingham, the only child of Herbert Crabtree, a clergyman and past president of the Unitarian Assembly, and Cissie Mabel née Taylor. He was educated at Alleyn’s School and then, following the advice of Sir Cecil Wakeley to take up medicine, went to King’s College Medical School on an entrance scholarship. During the second world war he was a Major in the RAMC, serving in India from 1942 to 1945 with the 17th General Hospital and the British Military Hospital, New Delhi. He was a house surgeon and then a registrar in ENT at King’s College Hospital, and then a registrar at Gray’s Inn Road. During his training he was influenced by Sir Victor Negus, Sir Terence Cawthorne and W I Daggett. He was appointed as a consultant at United Birmingham Hospitals. He was honorary treasurer of the Midland Institute of Otology and of the British Academic Conference in Otolaryngology, and President of the section of otology of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was co-founder and President of the British Association of Otolaryngology. He married a Miss Airey in 1939 and they had two daughters and one son. He enjoyed yacht cruising and cinematography.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000043
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First Title value, for Searching Fenton, Thomas Gerald (1876 - 1947)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-05
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born 17 October 1876, eldest son of Thomas Fenton of Castletown, Co Sligo, Ireland, and his wife, Mary MacMunn. He was educated at Middleton House School (Dr Conder's), near Bognor, Sussex, and at St Thomas's and St Bartholomew's Hospitals. At St Bartholomew's he served as clinical assistant in the throat and ear department, and was clinical assistant and surgical registrar at the Throat Hospital, Golden Square. Fenton qualified in 1899 and took the Fellowship eleven years later. During the war of 1914-18 he was commissioned as lieutenant, RAMC. He practised at Torquay, South Devon, living at Rialto, Higher Erith Road, and became consulting ear, nose, and throat surgeon to the Paignton and District Hospital, consulting throat and aural surgeon to the Brixham Hospital, and consulting laryngologist to the Torbay Hospital and to the Rosehill Children's Hospital at Torquay. Fenton married twice: (1) in 1901 his cousin Ida Angelina MacMunn; there was one son of the marriage; (2) in 1929 Adelaide Elizabeth Forrest, who survived him but without children. He had retired to Hatchet Mead, Beaulieu, in the New Forest, where he died on 10 March 1947, aged 70.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004041
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First Title value, for Searching Ruddall, James Thomas (1828 - 1907)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-20
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Studied at St Thomas's Hospital, and was then appointed Assistant Surgeon in the Royal Navy. He sailed on HMS *Talbot* on one of the last expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin. On his return he resigned his Commission, passed the examination for the FRCS and in 1858 sailed to Melbourne, where he soon attained a leading position as a surgeon, specializing in eye, ear and throat diseases. He acted as Surgeon to the Melbourne Hospital, to the Alfred Hospital, to the Blind Asylum, to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, and for many years he was a member of the Medical Board of Victoria. He had made himself an excellent French and German scholar, so that he was abreast of current medical literature. He was also a musician, performing on several instruments and devoting his attention to orchestral music in connection with the Melbourne Musical Societies. In later years he lived at 57 Collins Street, Melbourne, and in Armadale, Victoria. He died on March 4th, 1907, and was survived by his widow, a daughter and a son - James Ferdinand Ruddall, MB, BS Melbourne, MRCS, who also practised in Collins Street.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003171
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First Title value, for Searching Rainforth, John Jekyll (1880 - 1959)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-28
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born in Lincoln, he was educated at Neuheim College, Heidelberg, Felsted School and the London Hospital where, after qualifying in 1904, he acted as house surgeon, house physician, aural house surgeon and receiving room officer. After being admitted a Fellow in 1909, he returned to Lincoln to practise and in 1913 was appointed ear nose and throat surgeon to Lincoln County Hospital. On the outbreak of war in 1914 he was mobilised with the 4th Northern General Hospital and in 1916 proceeded overseas to Egypt and Palestine. In March 1919 he returned to Lincoln having been mentioned in Allenby's dispatches for gallantry. He retired from the hospital in 1945 following a severe operation from which he had made a good recovery. His colleagues made him a presentation of a silver salver as a token of their regard for a true and faithful colleague whose work was of a very high standard. For many years he was secretary of the Lincolnshire Medical Benevolent Society. He died on 6 November 1959 aged 79 survived by his sister Miss Zara Rainforth, with whom he had lived all his professional life.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005293
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First Title value, for Searching Evans, David John (1890 - 1947)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-29
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born 27 July 1890 at Tientsin, North China, the eldest child of David Price Evans, a missionary, and Sarah Wilson, his wife. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Birmingham University, graduating in medicine in 1913. He served in the RAMC during the first world war, and was promoted captain. Evans then went back to China and was assistant professor of surgery and otolaryngology at Shantung Christian University Medical School 1922-27. Returning to Birmingham, and taking the Fellowship at the end of 1927, he became assistant surgeon in the ear and throat department Queen's Hospital and afterwards at the United Hospitals. He was then elected surgeon to the Birmingham Ear and Throat Hospital, and was aural surgeon to the Birmingham Education Committee. He acted as honorary secretary, 1930-35, and chairman, 1935-36, of the Birmingham central division of the British Medical Association. Evans married on 10 June 1919 Mary Gertrude Hancock, who survived him, but without children. They lived at 90 Hagley Road, Edgbaston He died from chronic nephritis on 19 May 1947.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004026
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First Title value, for Searching Mason, Francis Courtenay (1891 - 1953)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-21
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born on 16 January 1891 the only child of Dr Arthur Edwin Mason LSA of West Hampstead and Alice Mary Courtenay Cole his wife, he was educated at the Haberdashers Aske's Hampstead School and graduated BA in four subjects at London University. He took his clinical training at Middlesex Hospital, qualifying in 1916. He served in the RAMC during the war, being promoted Captain on 13 September 1918. He proceeded to the Fellowship and the London MS in 1920. After serving as surgical registrar at Middlesex Hospital and clinical assistant at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, he specialised as a laryngologist. He was registrar in the Throat Hospital, Golden Square, and clinical assistant in the ear nose and throat department at the Middlesex Hospital; in due course he was appointed surgeon to the ear nose and throat departments at the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, the King George Hospital, Ilford, and the West Middlesex Hospital, and was oto-rhino-laryngology consultant to the London County Council. He practised at 18 Harley Street. Mason married in 1928 Muriel Blomfield Jackson, who survived him with a son and daughter. He died at his house, 14 Gainsborough Gardens, Hampstead on 5 July 1953, aged 62.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005143
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First Title value, for Searching Wilson, Charles Paul (1900 - 1970)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-31
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Charles Paul Wilson was born on 17 August 1900 and received his medical education at the Middlesex Hospital, qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1922. He obtained the FRCS in 1925 and then specialized in otolaryngology. He was appointed a consultant at the Middlesex Hospital in 1930, and in 1945 became the senior surgeon in the department of otolaryngology and director of the Ferens Institute. He was Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1955, and in 1961 gave the Semon Lecture in the University of London. He became a Justice of the Peace in 1962, the year he retired from the Middlesex Hospital. Wilson's profound love and knowledge of anatomy enabled him to devise operative techniques for his own specialty, but that knowledge was not confined to the head and neck for during the second world war he was one of two consultant surgeons in a team which was on duty on alternate nights to deal with air raid casualties, and he appeared equally capable of dealing with injuries of all parts of the body. In 1924 Paul Wilson married Margaret Cameron, and when he died in Middlesex Hospital on 12 March 1970 after a long illness his wife and their three children survived him.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006280
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First Title value, for Searching Citron, Solomon Lewis (1920 - 1987)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-27
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Solomon Lewis Citron was born in London on 5 November 1920 the son of Alik Citron, a tailor, and was educated at Regent Street Polytechnic before entering University College Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1943 and after house appointments at the medical unit of Hammersmith Hospital and the Royal Ear Hospital joined the Royal Air Force where he served at Princess Mary's Hospital, Halton and attained the rank of Squadron-Leader. After demobilisation he pursued a career in otorhinolaryngology and passed the DLO in 1949 and the FRCS in the following year. He was then appointed senior registrar at University College Hospital and the Royal Ear Hospital until 1953 when he joined the consultant staff at Enfield. In addition to his hospital work he maintained his research interest, publishing papers and contributing chapters to standard textbooks. He was also part-time research assistant at the Medical Research Council's otological research unit at the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases. He retired from practice in 1981 but continued his interest in classical music and was an accomplished pianist. In 1983 he married Lorna Sills, a hospital administrator, but there were no children from the marriage. He died on 22 November 1987.
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First Title value, for Searching Pidcock, Bertram Henzell (1892 - 1950)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-02
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born 22 August 1892, the third and youngest son of George Douglas Pidcock, MD Cambridge, MRCP, who was in general practice at 74 Fitzjohn's Avenue, Hampstead, London, NW. Mrs Pidcock, née Thorn, had previously been married to a Mr Tasker, and had a son by that first marriage. He was educated at University College School and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He qualified in the middle of the war of 1914-18, and served as a surgeon-lieutenant, Royal Navy. He was appointed clinical assistant in the ear, nose, and throat department at St George's Hospital, surgical registrar, and resident assistant surgeon. He then settled in practice at Winchester, where he became surgeon to the ear, nose, and throat department of the Royal Hampshire County Hospital. He was consulting surgeon to the Cottage Hospitals at Odiham and Fleet, and to the Andover War Memorial Hospital. He was a member of the Southampton Medical Society. Pidcock married in 1929 Margaret Griffith, who survived him with three sons. They lived at The Friary, St Cross Road, Winchester. He died after an operation on 23 March 1950, aged 57. Publication: Two cases of intestinal obstruction. *Brit med J* 1924, 1, 369.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004465
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First Title value, for Searching Bain, Edward Walter (1877 - 1958)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-15
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born on 11 March 1877 he trained at the London Hospital, qualified in 1902, and studied in Vienna. After serving as assistant surgeon to the Metropolitan Ear Nose and Throat Hospital, he was appointed the first ear nose and throat surgeon of the General Infirmary and lecturer in his specialty in the University of Leeds. During the war of 1914-18 he served as a Captain RAMC at the Beckett Park military hospital, Leeds. After the war he built up a large private practice at 45 Park Square, Leeds, and also served on the consultant staffs at St James's Hospital, Leeds, and the Castleford and Normanton Hospitals. He retired in 1937, but returned to work at the General Infirmary through the war of 1939-45. He retired to Arkendale, where he enjoyed gardening, and became a keen member of the Harrogate fly-fishing club. As a younger man he had been fond of golf; he was a connoisseur of antique furniture. He died at West View, Arkendale on 15 July 1958 aged 82. His wife had died in 1943. Bain was a popular member of the medical community at Leeds and widely known as "Bill".
Resource Identifier RCS: E004874
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First Title value, for Searching Harris, Herbert Elwin (1898 - 1965)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-11
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Herbert Harris was born in Bristol and was educated at Clifton College. In the first world war he was commissioned in the King's Shropshire Light Infantry and served in the Dardanelles where he was awarded the Military Cross. After the war he studied medicine at Cambridge University and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying in 1923. Later he joined his father in general practice in Clifton, but soon became interested in ear, nose and throat surgery and took his Fellowship in 1931. He very soon was appointed to the staff of the Bristol General Hospital as a consultant in the former specialty, although continuing in general practice. During the second world war he undertook heavy additional responsibilities while deputising for his colleagues who were on active service. In 1955 he finally gave up general practice but continued his surgical work for a time while living at Halse, near Taunton. From his home in Somerset he was able to enjoy his recreations of sailing, photography and gardening. Elwin was a member of the BMA and the Bristol Chirurgical Society. He died after a short illness at the age of 68 on 17 July 1965 leaving a widow, a son and a daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Niblock, Willie McNeill (1907 - 1996)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-24
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Niblock was born on 12 September 1907 at Canford Cliffs, Bournemouth, the son of Lt Col William James Niblock, IMS, sometime Professor of Surgery at Madras Medical College. He came of a distinguished family of medical men, whose names appear in the family tree for 200 years: among them were Sir Edward Johnson, MD, assistant surgeon 28 Foot, who fought at Corunna and was awarded the Peninsular Medal, Maj Gen Robert Lyons (1859-1947), Director-General, IMS, and Maj Gen John Smith IMS (1865-1928). Niblock was educated at Eastbourne College, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and King's College Hospital Medical School, where he was influenced by and worked with Sir Cecil Wakeley and Sir Victor Negus. Following his father's footsteps - and the family tradition - he joined the Indian Medical Service after graduation and was twice mentioned in despatches during the second world war. After returning from the IMS he practised as an oto-rhino-laryngological surgeon at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, and at the Royal Buckinghamshire and St John's Group Hospitals, Aylesbury. In April 1936 he married Monica Hulbert Austin MRCS LRCP. He died on 18 November 1996, survived by his wife, three sons and a daughter, none of whom entered medicine.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008229
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First Title value, for Searching Elcock, Humphrey William (1937 - 1998)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-23
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Humphrey William Elcock was a consultant otorhinolaryngologist in Brighton. He was born in Birmingham on 6 November 1937, the son of Alfred William Elcock, a headmaster, and Edith née Hendrick. He was educated at Adams School, Newport, Shropshire, and St Andrew's University. After junior posts in Dundee, Cardiff and then Bristol, he spent a year as the Conacher research fellow in Toronto in 1971. He returned to complete his training in otorhinolaryngology, and was appointed to Brighton in 1973. He was one of the first ENT surgeons to specialise in facial plastic surgery, to which he brought an artistic flair. He had a huge circle of friends and acquaintances outside medicine and was very well known around Brighton as a *bon viveur* and raconteur. He was captain of Brighton and Hove Golf Club and also chairman of the Hove Club for several years. He was also a keen photographer and fisherman. He married Aileen Davidson in 1961. They had one daughter and three sons, one of whom, David Humphrey, became a consultant anaesthetist. He died from carcinoma of the prostate on 21 October 1998.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008561
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First Title value, for Searching Vivian-Blaubaum, Rex (1905 - 1987)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-12
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Rex Vivian-Blaubaum was born on 23 August 1905 in Scotsdale, Tasmania. His father, Athol Blaubaum, was a consultant at the Alfred Hospital, and his mother was Blanche, nee Vivian. He was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne, and then entered the medical college of Melbourne University where he qualified MB, BS with honours in 1930. After resident posts in the Alfred Hospital he came to England before the second world war. He specialised in otolaryngology and passed his FRCS in 1941. He joined the RNVR as a specialist surgeon and saw service in hospitals in Scotland, Trincomalee and in the Far East. After demobilisation in England in 1946 with the rank of Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander he returned home and was appointed assistant surgeon in the ENT department of the Alfred Hospital, becoming full surgeon in 1951. He retired in 1962. He was a keen motorist taking part in many rallies and hill climbs and was a skilled yachtsman with a great love for the sea. A keen reader, he collected books which he housed in his own handsome library. He enjoyed collecting antique glass and furniture and was interested in silversmithing. He married Jean Constance Ennis who was a trained nurse and they had two sons and a daughter who also became a nurse. He died in 1987.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007722
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First Title value, for Searching Scott, Philip Geoffrey (1907 - 1996)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-01
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Scott was born in 1907 in London, the son of a consultant aurist at St Bartholomew's Hospital, receiving his medical education at Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital. In 1939 he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and went to France, luckily getting home in 1940. He was then posted to India as ear, nose and throat specialist with the rank of major. He had a strong artistic streak, giving delightful illustrations of complex surgery in the hospital notes. He was always keen to adopt new surgical techniques and travelled extensively for this, particularly to France, being fluent in the language. Specialising in oto-laryngology, after posts at St Bartholomew's Hospital and the Middlesex Hospital he became consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. He felt deeply about the worth of his specialty and could be ferocious when the department was threatened. Enjoying cars (he owned a Bristol 403) he was also a food and wine connoisseur and a versatile cook. His lasting memorial may be his paintings, in a variety of media, where he and his wife almost competed. He died on 31 July 1996; his wife Elizabeth survived him by only a month and a day, leaving two daughters.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008308
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First Title value, for Searching Trethowan, John Durham (1920 - 1989)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-12
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born in 1920 the second son of W H Trethowan, his elder brother, another W H Trethowan (FRCP), is Professor of Psychiatry at Birmingham University, his maternal great-uncle, HE Durham, and his father before him, A E Durham, were all Fellows of the College and at Guy's Hospital. He was educated at The Hall School, Hampstead; Oundle School and Clare College, Cambridge, and then proceeded to Guy's Hospital for his clinical training. After qualifying in 1943 he held house appointments at Guy's and the EMS Sector Hospitals. His registrarships were held at the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary and Guy's Hospital where he was senior registrar from 1951 to 1954 and came under the influence of E G Slesinger. In 1954 he was appointed a consultant ENT surgeon to the Kent and Sussex Hospital. He also was a member of the Deaf Children's Assessment Panels for mid-Kent and East Sussex. In 1948 he married Kathleen Isitt, who was a State Registered Nurse and they had two daughters, Jane and Tiggi, and one son, Hugh, none of whom are following medicine. He died on 10 March 1989 survived by his wife and family.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007735
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First Title value, for Searching Magauran, Wilfred Henry Bertram (1898 - 1964)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-19
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born in Wolverhampton of Irish parents he graduated at University College, Dublin with first-class honours, and specialised in ear nose and throat surgery. He became senior ear nose and throat surgeon to the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth and to several other hospitals in London. After service in the RAMC during the war of 1939-45 he became also consulting ENT surgeon to St Anthony's Hospital, Cheam. He was among the pioneers of the fenestration operation for deafness in England, and designed many special instruments. He was created a Knight Commander of the Order of St Gregory the Great by Pope Pius XII. Wilfred Magauran practised at 116 Harley Street and died at his home 25 Alexandra Road, Epsom on 27 May 1964 aged about 65, survived by his wife Dr Iris Mary Magauran, née Lamey, MRCS DOMS, their son and two daughters, one of whom is Dr Denise Mary Magauran MRCS.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005123
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First Title value, for Searching Taylor, John Norman Stamp (1924 - 1980)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-19
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details John Taylor was the son of a West Riding GP and was educated at Giggleswick School and Leeds University. Entering the ENT speciality immediately with posts at Leeds and Leicester he did National Service as a graded ENT specialist in the Middle East Command and in Kenya (1949-51). Subsequently he moved through the training grades in Leeds, Leicester and Sheffield, but because of the slow expansion of the consultant grade he emigrated to Southern Rhodesia in 1958. There, in the large Mpilo Hospital at Bulawayo, serving the whole of Matabeleland, he worked for 22 years. He was in the forefront of the developments in microsurgery in Rhodesia and he pioneered the use of ultrasound in the treatment of juvenile laryngeal papillomas. His interests outside his work included the wild life in Africa and, in England, navigating a narrow boat on the canals. He died on 29 January 1980, survived by his wife Diana, his son and three daughters.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006989
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First Title value, for Searching Eastes, Claude Neville d'Este' (1918 - 2010)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2011-12-16 2014-04-09
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373946373946
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Claude ('Petal') Neville d'Este Eastes was a consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon in Sussex. He was born in Canada and in 1942 qualified in medicine at Guy's Hospital. During the Second World War he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, travelling to East Africa, Madagascar, India and Ceylon. He was demobilised with the rank of captain. After the war he returned to Guy's and gained his London University MB BS qualification in 1948. His friendship with Leslie Salmon at Guy's led him to follow a career in ear, nose and throat surgery. He was a registrar at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and then returned to Guy's as a chief assistant, by which time Salmon had been appointed to the staff. They remained close friends until Salmon's death in 2002. Claude Eastes was appointed as a consultant ENT surgeon to the Royal Sussex County Hospital, the Sussex Throat and Ear Hospital, the Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital, Brighton, and the Worthing and Southlands hospitals in 1956. His interests were mainly in head and neck surgery, but he was happy to provide a general ENT service. He was much involved with the development of the postgraduate medical centre. Nothing was too much for Claude Eastes; he was always the last to leave the outpatients' and the first to offer help to anyone in need. He was a true gentleman, much respected by all as a surgeon, a keen teacher and a wise mentor. His love of France permeated his life. He drove Citroëns and Renaults, and travelled frequently and widely in that country. He retired at the age of 62 in order to care for his wife Marjorie who suffered from mitral stenosis, secondary to childhood rheumatic fever. She eventually died in 1994. Claude Eastes continued to live in Storrington, Pulborough, until his death from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on 3 February 2010 at the age of 92.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001763
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First Title value, for Searching Hensman, Arthur (1842 - 1893)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-13
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374387374387
Occupation Anatomist ENT surgeon
Details Born at Northampton, the younger son of John Hensman, a well-known local solicitor. He gained his medical education at the Northampton General Infirmary and University College Hospital, London. He commenced practice at Chatteris, near Cambridge, but in 1870 was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy at Middlesex Hospital under Dr R Liveing, the Lecturer. He taught in the dissecting-room for the following twelve years, and published his *Anatomical Outlines* in 1878-1880, also his Introductory Lecture delivered on October 1st, 1877. In 1881 he succeeded Henry Morris (qv) as Lecturer. In addition to being Demonstrator of Anatomy he had lectured in the summer session on botany and comparative anatomy. He was an admirable artist with chalk upon the blackboard, as well as an accomplished water-colour artist, sketching country scenes including animals, birds, and angling. Shortly after his election as Lecturer he was appointed Surgeon to the Throat and Ear Department and Lecturer on Aural Surgery. In 1891 he suffered from influenza which weakened his health, but on Oct 1st, 1893, he was able to take the chair at the largest dinner of Old Middlesex Students hitherto known. Alarming advances of Bright's disease set in, and he died on November 1st, 1893. He married in 1868 Miss Elizabeth Fisher, who survived him. One of his brothers was a barrister with a large practice in Australia. Publication:- Hensman wrote a standard text-book in four parts entltled, *Anatomical Outlines for the Use of Students in the Dissecting Room and Surgical Classroom*, with original drawings by Arthur E Fisher, 4to, plates, London, 1878-80.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002204
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First Title value, for Searching McGuire, Neil Gilbert (1919 - 2009)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2010-11-11
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Neil McGuire had a varied surgical career, ranging from active service in the RAMC during the Second World War, followed by general surgical training, 11 years in the Colonial Medical Service, further senior registrar posts (initially in cardiothoracic surgery, before changing to ENT surgery) and finally as a consultant ENT surgeon at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading. He was born in Simla, India, on 30 August 1919. His father, Gilbert William McGuire, of Irish parentage, had served as a medical officer in France and Mesopotamia during the First World War, and later became a civil surgeon and assistant inspector general of civil hospitals in the Indian Medical Service. His mother, Dorothy Marguerite (née De Rhé Philipe) was a nurse in the Red Cross. Her father, of French-Huguenot parentage, was assistant judge advocate-general in the Indian Civil Service. McGuire was educated by Belgian nuns at the Sacred Heart Convent, Dalhousie, in the Himalayas and by the Irish Christian Brothers at St Joseph's College, Naini Tal, Himalayas. In 1937, he entered St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, which was in 1939 evacuated to Cambridge. He particularly valued the tuition of Hamilton, Hartridge and Paterson-Ross. After qualifying in 1943, he became a house surgeon at the Royal Victoria and West Hants Hospital, Boscombe, before being called up in December 1943. He served as a captain in the RAMC and was regimental medical officer with forward units in the Normandy landings and throughout the European campaign. At the end of the war, McGuire was posted with the British Army of the Rhone (BAOR) and was involved in repatriation of Polish citizens. He was demobilised in February 1947 and passed the primary FRCS in April 1947. He had an excellent general surgical training with Arthur Hill in Ipswich, passed the FRCS in 1949, and was well equipped to join the Colonial Medical Service in 1951. He initially served four years in Tanganyika, East Africa, where in Dar-es-Salaam he helped to establish a three-year training scheme for 'medical assistants' who were employed to staff small dispensaries in remote areas. Using some home leave in 1954, Neil McGuire chose to spend six months studying at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital for the DLO examination, which he gained in January 1955, before returning this time to Nigeria, West Africa. Further study leave in 1958 at Southampton Chest Hospital enhanced his experience of cardiothoracic surgery. Nigeria gained its independence in 1961, and in 1962 McGuire returned to the United Kingdom to seek a new surgical life. He could have chosen any surgical specialty, but clearly was torn between cardiothoracic and ENT surgery, as he next became a senior registrar to the cardiothoracic unit at the London Hospital (from 1962 to 1963). Perhaps he foresaw that the prospects in cardiothoracic surgery were limited at that time, as later in 1963 he became ENT registrar to Esmé Hadfield at High Wycombe Hospital for six months, followed by an appointment as an ENT senior registrar to Hector Thomas at the Cardiff Royal Infirmary (from 1963 to 1966). He was appointedconsultant ENT surgeon at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading in 1966, where he specialised in hypophysectomy and pharyngo-oesophageal resections with colon replacement and researched into the possible prosthetic replacement of the oesophagus in pigs (*Research in Veterinary Science*, Vol.14, No.3, May 1973, p.358). He retired in 1984. He was instrumental in arranging senior registrar rotations with first the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London, and, secondly, with the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. Using his surgical experience with the micro-drill, McGuire developed the hobby of glass engraving and became a craft member of the Guild of Glass Engravers. On 18 December 1943, McGuire married Alison Erna (née Liddell), who was a nurse at St Bartholomew's Hospital. She died in 1999 and on 4 April 2001 he married Elizabeth Isla Hayward, a retired consultant anaesthetist. Neil McGuire died at Russell's Hall Hospital, Dudley, on 5 November 2009 at the age of 90. He was survived by his second wife and by two sons (Michael Alexander and Timothy John) and a daughter (Shelagh Alison) from his first marriage.
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First Title value, for Searching Keene, James (1834 - 1883)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-05-31
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374599374599
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details The son of a well-known dentist in Boulogne. He became a student at St George's Hospital in 1851, studied at Heidelberg, and after qualifying was appointed one of the Surgeons of the West London Hospital, Hammersmith, on its foundation in 1856. He had only held this post a short time, as well as that of Surgeon to the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital, when he went out to Australia, whence he returned to London in 1870. He became almost simultaneously FRCS and MRCP. In 1874 he was elected Assistant Surgeon to Westminster Hospital, and in 1878 Aural Surgeon and Lecturer on Aural Surgery, posts which he held to the time of his death. His ingenuity in the arrangement and perfecting of the appliances of his department was very great. He was genial, kindly, unobtrusive, and content to do his best for his patients without studying his own advantage. He suffered for three years before his death from a splenic tumour and from leueocythemia. Though exhausted by anemia and cough, he worked on almost to the end, and died at his residence, 59 Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, W, on November 27th, 1883. When in Australia he was editor of the *Australian Medical and Surgical Review*, published at Melbourne, from 1863-1865. Publications: *The Causes and Treatment of Deafness: a Manual of Aural Surgery*, 8vo, 4 plates, London, 1873. *Defective Hearing: its Curable Forms and Rational Treatment*, 8vo, 4th ed., London, 1876. "A New Method for Removing the Eyeball." - *Med Times and Gaz*, 1862, ii, 273. "Foreign Bodies in the Ear." - *Med Exam*, 1878, iii, 12. "On Middle-ear Deafness." - *Lancet*, 1878, ii, 690.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002416
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First Title value, for Searching Black, Wallace (1917 - 1972)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-14
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Wallace Black was born at 14 Park View Road, Finchley on 12 September 1917; his father, James Black was a company director and his mother was Jane Duckworth, whose father was an electrical engineer. Black was educated at Finchley County School and at King's College London, and Westminster Hospital Medical School; there he won the Chadwick Prize in clinical surgery and, after qualification in 1941, was appointed house surgeon to Sir E Rock Carling and Sir Clement Price Thomas. During the second world war he served three years at sea in the Royal Navy in ships which covered the invasion of Southern Europe and of North France, and then became duty officer to the Royal Naval Hospital, Plymouth. While at Plymouth he gained experience in general surgery but became chiefly interested in ear, nose and throat work. Black was demobilised in 1946 and took his Fellowship the following year. He worked at the Hammersmith Hospital under Ivor Griffith in the ENT department till in 1951 he was appointed consultant ENT surgeon to Harrow Hospital and visiting surgeon to Northwick Park and Wembley Hospitals. In 1952 he was appointed to the staff of the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital, an appointment which he held till his death. Black married, during the war, Jane only daughter of P C Nicholson and they had two sons. For many years he was an invalid and had his first heart attack at the age of 38. He died in St Richard's Hospital, Chichester on 17 May 1972 from a coronary occlusion.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005650
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First Title value, for Searching Kathirgamatamby, Vairamutta (1893 - 1940)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-18 2014-10-24
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details This obituary appeared in volume four: Born in Ceylon about 1905, he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1927 and took the Fellowship two years later. Returning to practise at Colombo he was appointed ear nose and throat surgeon to the General Hospital. He died at Colombo about 1940, but his name remained on the College books till 1952. The following obituary appeared in volume five: Vairamutta Kathirgamatamby, a Jaffna Tamil, was born on 14 June 1893. He was educated at Hartley College, Jaffna, Ceylon and passed his Senior Cambridge examination at the age of 14. Next year he proceeded to Madras to study science. At the age of seventeen he joined the Medical Faculty and qualified five years later in Madras. In 1917 he entered the Ceylon Medical Department and was appointed house surgeon at the General Hospital Colombo. During the first world war he served temporarily in the Indian Medical Service and was stationed at Peshawar. After the war he was stationed at various places in Ceylon as a medical officer. In 1928 after a period of study in England he was admitted to the Fellowship of the College, having previously obtained his DLO. He then decided to specialise in ear, nose and throat surgery. On his return to Ceylon he was appointed as consultant to the General Hospital in Colombo with charge of the ear, nose and throat department. He was also appointed lecturer and examiner in anatomy at the Ceylon Medical College. He was a keen member of the Ceylon Branch of the British Medical Association and remained so until his untimely death from a cerebral haemorrhage on 28 April 1940.
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First Title value, for Searching Murrant, Nicholas John (1958 - 2015)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Andrew Robson
Publication Date 2015-09-14 2016-01-15
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380230380230
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Nick Murrant was a consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon based initially at the City General Hospital and latterly the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle. He was born in Sotik, Kenya, on 25 August 1958 and moved to Eastbourne when he was three. He was the only child of Peter Murrant, an insurance broker, and Edna May Murrant, who worked for the Halifax Building Society. He was educated at Bexhill Grammar school from 1969 to 1976 and then went on to King's College Medical School, qualifying MB BS in 1981. After qualification, he pursued a career in otolaryngology, with senior house officer posts held in Swindon and the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital at Golden Square in 1985. He was a registrar at Bart's and Whipps Cross hospitals from 1986 to 1990, working for, among other distinguished consultants, Robin McNab Jones and Alan Fuller. One of his contemporaries was Jim Cook, an otologist who founded the Leicester Balance Centre. Nick Murrant spent time at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, Hackney, where he developed an interest in paediatric otolaryngology. In February 1990 he was appointed as a senior registrar in Aberdeen and Inverness. Between 1991 and 1992 he spent six months as a fellow in head and neck surgery and neuro-otology at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, where he worked for Chris O'Brien. He gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1989. He was appointed as a consultant in 1993 and served the people of north Cumbria for nearly 22 years. Nick Murrant was an integral part of a close-knit and happy ear, nose and throat department consisting of doctors, nurses, audiologists, secretaries and administrative staff who pride themselves on the quality of care they deliver to patients in north Cumbria. He was initially part of a team of three consultant ENT surgeons, which grew to four in 2005. Nick Murrant led this team by example, working tirelessly in providing high quality care, both for elective and for emergency cases. He had a particular interest in otology and operated on thousands of patients to improve their hearing and cure chronic infections of the ear. He also set up a bone anchored hearing aid service in north Cumbria, thus opening up more opportunities locally to rehabilitate patients with hearing loss. Nick Murrant's lasting professional legacy was in developing a multidisciplinary approach to helping children with severe and profound hearing loss. This has been until recently a neglected area of patient care, but north Cumbrian patients were fortunate that Nick recognised this gap many years ago and pulled together a dedicated team of audiologists, teachers of the deaf, representatives of the voluntary sector and health visitors to investigate, treat, rehabilitate and support these children and their families. Many hundreds of children have had their lives immeasurably improved as a result of his forethought and leadership in developing this service. He developed fruitful links with colleagues in Newcastle and was well regarded by peers both locally and nationally. Nick Murrant led by example. He was a true public servant, dedicated to the principles of the National Health Service. He dealt positively and constructively with challenges faced at work. He served as associate medical director for surgery in the hospital's trust for several years, and implemented many changes that have benefited patients. His unique sense of humour, humanity and common sense was appreciated by all and he inspired a huge amount of loyalty and friendship from all who worked with him. He was responsible for training many junior doctors and nurses in managing ENT disorders over the years, another lasting legacy that he can be proud of. In 1988 he married Felicite (née Craddock), a nurse who trained at Bart's, who has continued to work as a theatre nurse at the Cumberland Infirmary. Nick and his family settled in Longburgh, west of Carlisle. He was proud of his large garden, and enjoyed long walks on Burgh Marsh with his family and dogs. Nick passed away on 24 May 2015 from pancreatic cancer. He was 56. As well as his wife, he was survived by his father, his sons, Sam and William, and daughters, Kate and Harriet.
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First Title value, for Searching Zwiefach, Eliasz (1910 - 1987)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-13
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Eliasz Zwiefach (Elek or Alek to his friends) was born in 1910 and after gaining the diploma in medicine in 1936 proceeded to the degree of MD two years later. He had started to practise otorhinolaryngology before the war, but shortly after its outbreak was taken prisoner by the Russian Army and spent three years as otolaryngologist in a Siberian prison camp. He was then permitted to move to the West in order to serve with the Polish under General Anders and led a party of compatriots through Russia and Persia in order to enlist. He served in the Middle East, Egypt and Italy before being demobilised and his distinguished war-time service was recognised by the award of the Silver Cross of Merit with swords. At the end of the war he decided to settle in England as both his parents and his two brothers had died. He was appointed house surgeon and later registrar at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital and subsequently was research assistant at the Institute of Laryngology at the University of London. In 1953 he was appointed consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon at the West Middlesex Hospital where he devoted his energies to the skilful care of his patients and to building up the department. He was an enthusiastic teacher of students and junior staff. He retired from practice in 1975 but continued to live in London. In 1955 he married a colleague, Joselen Ransome and she survived him when he died on 28 June 1987.
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First Title value, for Searching Bradwell, Robert Alexander (1938 - 2017)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Andrew Bradwell
Publication Date 2018-01-17 2018-03-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381811381811
Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Robert Alexander Bradwell was a consultant otorhinolaryngologist in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. He was born in Sheffield on 1 February 1938, the son of John Bradwell, a coke ovens manager and chemist, and Edith née Bakewell, owner and managing director of Bradwell Electrical Ltd. He was educated at Ranby House Preparatory School and Worksop College, and then studied medicine at St Andrews University. On graduation in 1963 he worked in general medicine at Nottingham General Hospital and then in the accident and emergency department at Adenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. He returned to St Andrews in 1964 to work as an anatomy demonstrator whilst studying for his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. In 1965 Robert was appointed as a senior house officer under the watchful eye of Sir John Bruce at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, enjoying the legendary Sir John's support and famed bonhomie. He gained his fellowship of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh as a general surgeon in 1966. In October 1966 Robert decided to change direction to otorhinolaryngology and took an appointment at Bristol United Hospitals to work under Kenneth Roddie at Southmead Hospital. The influential John Angell-James was developing innovative techniques in the field of ear, nose and throat surgery and Robert was keen to draw on Angell-James' expertise to establish himself in his chosen field. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1970. Robert returned to Edinburgh in 1970 as a consultant ENT surgeon and, as well as clinical work, he joined Francis John Gillingham on the otoneurology unit and developed his research into the relationship between the brain and the nose. He was appointed as an honorary senior lecturer at Edinburgh University and was involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. He also fulfilled his duties as a member of the ear, nose and throat clinical team at Western and Bangour hospitals. In 1974 Robert was offered a consultant ear, nose and throat position at Harrogate and decided to leave academic medicine for a more general hospital career in the North Yorkshire spa town. Between 1974 and 2001 he carried out his duties as a consultant otolaryngologist with great diligence, treating patients at Harrogate hospitals and Ripon Cottage Hospital. Although not working at a teaching hospital, he continued to develop new techniques for treating patients, including an innovative laser procedure for the treatment of pharyngeal pouches. He also filled the post of honorary treasurer of the otolaryngology section of the Royal Society of Medicine for 12 years and was a frequent visitor at the headquarters on Wimpole Street to attend lectures and social events. Unfortunately, he suffered a brain stem stroke in 1993, which caused a number of underlying health problems, which he carried with great fortitude and stoicism until the end of his life. Despite this setback, he returned to full-time work in the space of six months and continued his career with the same characteristic determination, retiring in 2001. He cut a dashing figure in Harrogate in his distinctive three piece suits, complemented with a paisley or club tie and matching pocket handkerchief. He was particularly liked by his colleagues, surgical, nursing and domestic, a large number of whom gathered for his retirement party. He was keen to champion the young house officers who came under his care and encouraged his protégés to study for a fellowship or take the ENT experience into general practice. Robert married Gabrielle née Murphy (known as 'Gaye') in 1965, although they had met some years earlier when both studying at St Andrews. They had three children: Andrew, Isobel and Catherine. Robert and Gaye were well-known amongst the medical profession and wherever they lived the Bradwell house was known as a fun place to be. Robert was a keen sportsman and represented the Scottish Universities' Athletics Union at hockey as well as playing for Edinburgh Northern and Harrogate hockey clubs respectively. He was a keen golfer and indeed he won the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh's annual golf tournament in 1988. In retirement Robert and Gaye spent time in the Languedoc in their house by the Canal du Midi. Robert indulged his passion for classic cars and toured around Europe with his wife in a number of classic Jaguars. He was also a keen walker in both the Yorkshire Dales and the French countryside. Robert died on 14 December 2017 at the age of 79. He was survived by his wife and children.
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First Title value, for Searching Robinson, James Milner (1937 - 2021)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Peter Bull
Publication Date 2022-02-22
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Occupation Otologist ENT surgeon
Details James Milner Robinson FRCS, formerly a consultant otologist to Gloucester and Cheltenham hospitals, died peacefully on 3 November 2021 at the age of 84 after several years of ill health. In keeping with his lifelong love of nature and care for the environment, he was interred in a woodland burial. James was born into a medical family; his father had been a chest physician and died of TB when James was 8, a loss which was to influence James greatly. Educated alongside his younger brother on a scholarship at Epsom College, he did National Service as a physical training instructor before deciding to follow his brother into medicine. An indication of his determination was his attendance at a ‘crammer’ to do the necessary science A levels and he entered medical training in the footsteps of his grandfather, father and brother at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, qualifying in 1966. He decided early on a career in ENT surgery, encouraged by Mr Robin McNab Jones and Mr Alan Fuller. He moved to Bristol as senior registrar to complete his training and in 1975 was appointed to a consultant post in Cheltenham and Gloucester. He travelled widely in Europe and the USA to broaden his experience and before long took the then very unusual step of limiting his practice to ear surgery. He developed an outstanding expertise in the surgery of chronic middle ear disease; he published his results extensively and long-term in a precise and honest way, writing clearly and unambiguously. He was an invited speaker at many national and international conferences and courses; his high reputation as an ear surgeon was recognised by his being elected as president of the Section of Otology at the Royal Society of Medicine in 1995, a prestigious confirmation of his leading role in the specialty. He was one of the originators of the Combined Universities Advanced Otology Course, now in its 32nd year. His talents and interests were wide. He was a youthful gymnast and later was an enthusiastic and skilful amateur racing driver with a Lotus Eleven, a serious racing car. He was passionate about the environment and the natural world. He had married Diana, a medical photographer, in 1965 and while living in their first house in Kent started a Foresters’ Group to manage and protect the local woodland. In retirement he and Diana moved to a small farm on the Black Hill in Herefordshire where he became an expert sheep farmer. He trained his sheepdogs himself to a high standard. Being James, he took courses in dry stone walling, hedge laying, green oak construction and the practicalities of sheep farming He re-roofed a medieval barn at the farm in stone. He was proud to be introduced at the livestock market as ‘This is James, a sheep farmer’. Their first home was a new build house in Kent but all subsequent properties were major restoration projects of old buildings to produce as eco-friendly a building as possible, and on the Black Hill farm he planted a small woodland of 4000 native trees, a fitting memorial. Their final move from the farm was to a Colt house in the nearby village which he made into the ultimate eco-house with a beautiful garden. Having dismissed in his younger days the idea of skiing, he became bitten around the age of 50 and learned fast. His agility and fitness had him skiing on and off piste with professional level racing skiers in a very short time and he was a natural teacher. On his 80th birthday he took a flight in a Spitfire, including a Victory Roll over Beachy Head. Following a visit to Africa, he had become very engaged in a research project on cheetahs in Namibia and did work on their skull morphology, analysing their ability to lock their jaws onto prey after a 60 mph chase and still be able to breathe. His findings were incorporated recently into a text book on the comparative anatomy of the cheetah. He returned each year to continue the work until his health started to fail. He was a pioneer in otologic surgery, in natural history and in the environment. A consummate craftsman, he had a passion for gardens and wildlife and had an extensive and detailed knowledge of the natural world. Unconventional and of the highest integrity, he was quietly but determinedly influential in everything he did so expertly.
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First Title value, for Searching Harris, Eric Oliver (1904 - 1984)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-18
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Occupation Anatomist ENT surgeon
Details Eric Harris was born on 18 October 1904 in Harbledown, Canterbury, the son of a pharmacist. He was educated at the King's School, Canterbury, and the Middlesex Hospital. He qualified MRCS, LRCP in 1927 and MB, BS in 1929, and he became FRCS in 1941. During the war, he held temporary appointments as ENT surgeon to the Connaught Hospital, Walthamstow, and Hillingdon Hospital and he later became consultant ENT surgeon to the Hampstead General Hospital, St Andrew's Hospital, Dollis Hill, Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, Hackney and Hounslow Hospital. After he retired, he was appointed senior lecturer in anatomy at the Royal Free Hospital Medical School, a post he held until his 78th year. He was a senior Fellow of the British Association of Clinical Anatomists and honorary consultant surgeon to the Royal Masonic School for Girls for 25 years. Golf was his favourite recreation. He married Hilda Dorothy Innis on 2 March 1941. They had no children. He died on 28 September 1984, in his 80th year, survived by his wife.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007314
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First Title value, for Searching O'Mara, Maxwell Lachlan (1923 - 1990)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-02
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Occupation ENT surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Maxwell O'Mara was born 28 September 1923 the only son of William Timothy (Tim) O'Mara a grazier and Mary Rose (May) Long. He was educated at the Christian Brothers College, Waverley, NSW, St Ignatius' College, Riverview, NSW and Sydney University (St John's College and St Vincent's Hospital). During the second world war he served as a Captain in the Australian Army Medical Corps and afterwards enjoyed postgraduate training in the UK under Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor, and Messrs Rotter, Battle, Hamblen-Thomas and Mansfield in ear nose and throat and plastic surgery, gaining the DLO in 1949 and FRCS in 1951. He returned to Sydney to become honorary plastic surgeon to Sydney, St Vincent's and St Margaret's Hospitals. His extracurricular interests included swimming and photography. In 1954 he married Mary Patricia Mayo and they had one son and two daughters. He died of cancer on 9 March 1990, survived by his wife and family.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007554
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First Title value, for Searching Haydon-Baillie, Malcolm (1906 - 1984)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-22
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Malcolm Haydon-Baillie was born in Sunderland on 27 August 1906, the elder son of Dr Thomas Cleghorn Baillie, DSc, principal of a technical college and Lily Christine Haydon. He was educated at Whitgift Grammar School and St Edmund's College, Ware, before entering King's College, London, and King's College Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1930. After early hospital appointments he was EMS surgeon at St John's Hospital, Lewisham, and at the County General Hospital, Worksop, throughout the war years. In the years after the war he became medical superintendent and assistant surgeon in the ENT department at Worksop and also served as a member of Worksop Borough Council from 1960 to 1969. Finally he was appointed department medical officer in ENT at Nottinghamshire Area Health Authority. His favourite recreations were, he said, "politics and squash". He married Edith Agnes Willies in 1939, by whom he had three sons, and Irene Blackwell in 1949 by whom he had one son. He died on 23 March 1984, aged 77.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007319
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First Title value, for Searching Timmis, Peter (1922 - 2010)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Jane, Adam and Ben Timmis
Publication Date 2012-01-18 2014-06-06
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Peter Timmis was appointed consultant ENT surgeon at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital, West Herts Hospital, and Hemel Hempstead and Hitchen Hospital in 1960. He was born on 30 September 1922 to Colin Timmis, a mechanical engineer, and Sarah Ellen Timmis née Pyatt, and was educated at Chesham Preparatory School and Berkhamsted School. He was the first of his family to read medicine and trained at St Bartholomew's Medical College, qualifying MB BS in 1948. After surgical house jobs at St Bartholomew's Hospital with the general surgeon Geoffrey Keynes and the ENT surgeon Freddie Capps, Timmis had already elected to become an ENT surgeon. In December 1947 he was called up for service in the RAF and spent two years at the Central Medical Establishment in London as an ENT specialist under the supervision of Air Commodore E D Dickson. With this experience, he was well placed to become a registrar and later a senior registrar at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London, and St Bartholomew's Hospital. Here he was re-united with Freddie Capps, who was his mentor and a very able and colourful surgeon. Timmis took over Capps' appointments at Luton and Dunstable Hospital on his retirement. This was a busy job with a one in two rota. He succeeded in building a high quality department and trained many visiting surgeons from around the world. Following retirement in 1987, Timmis enjoyed golf and bridge, and in his 80s was marching in London against the Iraq war. The garden was his main enthusiasm; he was a regular exhibitor at the local horticultural event, a magnificent cucumber winning 'best in show' only three months before his death from colon cancer on 15 December 2010, aged 88. He was survived by his wife Kathreen née Brierley, a Bart's nurse, and their three children, Jane, who also became a Bart's nurse, Adam, who is professor of cardiology at Bart's and the Royal London hospitals, and Ben, who was a consultant radiologist at the Whittington Hospital, London, and seven grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001871
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First Title value, for Searching Mawson, Stuart Radcliffe (1918 - 2008)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Norman Kirby
Publication Date 2010-10-14
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Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details A renowned ear surgeon, Stuart Mawson was a consultant otolaryngologist at King’s College Hospital, London. He was born on 4 March 1918 in London. His father, Alec Robert Mawson, was chief officer of the parks’ department of the London County Council. His mother, Ena Grossmith, was an actress and the granddaughter of George Grossmith, author of *The diary of a nobody*. Stuart’s parents divorced while he was still a boy. He was educated at Stagenhoe Park and Canford schools, and then went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, and then to St Thomas’ Hospital in London to study medicine. Qualifying in 1943, he was a house surgeon at St Thomas’ during the first years of the Second World War and during the London Blitz. He then joined the 11th Battalion of the Parachute Regiment, after being encouraged to join the Airborne Forces by another St Thomas’ graduate, Charles G Robb. His introduction to surgery began on the battlefield of the ill-fated airborne assault on Arnhem, Holland, in September 1944. In Arnhem, Stuart and his RAMC section were separated from their battalion and joined the advanced dressing station located in the very heart of the battle. The brigadier commanding the 4th Brigade, Sir John Hackett, was one of the casualties treated at the station. He survived and later wrote the introduction to Stuart’s book *Arnhem doctor* (London, Orbis publishing, 1981). All doctors, orderlies, dentists and padres stayed with the injured after the remnants of the 1st Airborne Division were evacuated, and all were captured. After being liberated by the American Army in 1945, Stuart returned home. In 1947 he passed the FRCS and became chief assistant to the ENT department at St Thomas’ in 1950. The following year, he was appointed as a consultant to the ear, nose and throat department at King’s College Hospital and the Belgrave Hospital for Children, where he worked until his retirement in 1979. He took a great interest in the diagnosis and management of deafness in children. During the 1960s and 1970s, ear surgery enjoyed a renaissance initiated by the use of the binocular operating microscopes and Stuart was one of the pioneers in the adoption of these new techniques of microsurgery of the ear. He published a textbook of ENT surgery *Diseases of the ear* (London, Edward Arnold) in 1963, which has become the standard British and international work and essential reading for all trainee otologists. His second memoir, Doctor after Arnhem (Staplehurst, Spellmount, 2006), described how the inspiration of his belief sustained him during his worst moments as a prisoner of war when he cared for the sick and wounded in many camps in and around Leipzig. He later wrote *The devil’s doctors*, a history of the Airborne Medical Services: this was not published, but a copy is held in the archive of the Army Medical Services Museum. During his last years at King’s, he was the chairman of the medical committee and the district management team during a difficult time of change in the health service. He enjoyed the full support of his medical colleagues when he fully exercised his well-honed tact and diplomacy. He was a member of the council of the British Association of Otolaryngology. In 1974, he was elected president of the section of otology at the Royal Society of Medicine. Married after the war, in 1948, he and his wife, June Irene née Percival, known to many as ‘Julie’, had a happy family life, which was of paramount importance to Stuart. They had four two daughters (Judith Helen and Deborah Rose), two sons (Robert Stuart and John Percival) and 13 grandchildren. It was a joy to him that so many of them lived close to him in Suffolk. Stuart and Julie spent their retirement years in Knodishall, Suffolk, where he sailed his own boat from the Aldeburgh Yacht Club until he felt it unwise to expect Julie to be able to rescue him should he fall overboard at sea. Ever active in affairs of the Church, he was licensed as a lay reader in 1959, appointed a lay elder in 1990, and served as a church warden at his local church, St Lawrence’s. He played golf regularly in Aldeburgh until very soon before his death. Julie had died in 2006. He died from leukaemia on 20 February 2008, just missing his 90th birthday. His son Jock spoke at his father’s funeral service and summed up his life: “Stuart was a warm, stubborn, courageous perfectionist; forged in war, never offering less than total commitment to his country, his profession, his family, and his God.”
Resource Identifier RCS: E001042
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First Title value, for Searching Fuller, Alan Pearce (1929 - 2010)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Geraint Fuller
Publication Date 2010-09-30 2013-10-11
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Alan Fuller was an ENT surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He was born in Swansea on 18 March 1929, one of three sons, but the only one to survive more than 24 hours. His mother, Sarah Ann (née Williams), was later an hotelier and his father Frank Austin, who died when Alan was five years old, was on the sales staff of a firm of furniture manufacturers. His mother remarried, but Alan's stepfather later died when Alan was 12 years old. He was educated at Swansea Grammar School and in 1946 won a major county scholarship to St Bartholomew's Medical College. Alan was in the first entry after the college returned from evacuation to Queens' College, Cambridge. The entry was mainly made up of ex-servicemen, and for the first time women were admitted to the college. As a student he worked on the Clifford Naunton Morgan firm at the time when Reginald Murley was chief assistant. After qualifying, he held house appointments in general and ENT surgery, and a senior ENT house surgeon post in Swansea. He was able to do his National Service in the RAMC (1953 to 1955) as a junior specialist in otology as he had obtained the DLO in 1953. He served with the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR), in Singapore and in Malaya during the Malayan emergency. Whilst in Singapore he, with a fellow Bart's student, Michael Pugh, co-founded the Rahere dining club. On return from National Service he completed his ENT training at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, before returning to Bart's in 1959 as chief assistant (senior registrar). Here he was much influenced by F C W Capps and (Sir) Cecil Hogg. He was appointed to the consultant staff of St Bartholomew's in 1963 and was also on the staff of Ealing Hospital (1963 to 1985), the Mile End Hospital (1964 to 1968), and later the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children and the Royal Masonic Hospital. Fuller was an enthusiastic teacher who served St Bart's Medical College as assistant dean (1971), sub-dean in charge of discipline (from 1972 to 1978) and admissions dean (1981 to 1985). He was president of the student's union and a keen supporter of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society and the rugby club (he had played in the second row as a student). Fuller had once unwittingly won an informal competition held by junior doctors at Bart's for the 'loudest tie of the week', but he later adopted bow ties after he found normal ones were grabbed by playful children while he looked in their ears. In 1973 Bart's celebrated the 850th anniversary of its foundation. Among the events was an outdoor play. Alan Fuller's perceived resemblance, in stature and beard, to King Henry VIII caused him to be cast as the monarch who had given Bart's a Royal Charter. In November 1982, Alan Fuller was summoned to King Edward VII Hospital, London, to attend HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, who had choked on a salmon bone which she could not dislodge. He removed it under a general anaesthetic given by his colleague Bryan Gillet. The Queen Mother, a keen angler, declared: "The salmon have got their own back". Some 11 years later the same problem happened to her again. Alan Fuller examined in surgery for the University of London, was a member of the Court of Examiners (from 1984 to 1990) and an external examiner for the ENT fellowship examination of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (from 1990 to 1992). He served on the councils and was a vice-president of both ENT sections of the Royal Society of Medicine. A delightful companion and most clubbable man, he was secretary of the Rahere Lodge for years, an enthusiastic member of the 17th London General Hospital Territorial Army (TA), a member of the Savage Club, and a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Barbers. As a painter in pastels and watercolour he belonged to the London Sketch Club and the Medical Art Society (president from 1993 to 1996). He also in late life enjoyed rough shooting and sailing his hand built dingy aptly named *Incus*. Allan Fuller met Janet Marina Williams (known as 'Nini'), a professional caterer, on New Year's Eve 1956, successfully proposed to her on St Valentine's Day 1957 and married her the following month. Their happy married life culminated in their golden wedding anniversary celebrated the year before Nini died after a short illness. Alan Fuller's last years were clouded by Alzheimer's disease. He died on 6 May 2010, and was survived by his son, Geraint, who is a consultant neurologist, and two daughters, Rowena and Charlotte.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001025
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First Title value, for Searching Hammond, Valentine Thomas (1929 - 2017)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Mark Hammond
Publication Date 2017-12-13 2017-12-21
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Valentine Hammond ('Val') was a distinguished ENT surgeon at St Thomas' Hospital, London. As a child, he had suffered from repeated ear infections and, on becoming a medical student at St Thomas's, he had a recurrence that introduced him to the friendly ENT firm of Fred Neilson, Bill Mill and Geoffrey Bateman. He was so impressed with their care that after qualifying he applied successfully for their house job. Following a short spell in Plymouth, he returned to St Thomas', first as a senior casualty officer then as a registrar and chief assistant. Somewhat disillusioned with the austerity of post-war London, he decided to take an assignment in Western Australia with a view to possible permanent emigration. On the retirement of Mill in 1962, he was called back by Bateman and was appointed as a consultant surgeon at the age of 32. Val was born in London, the only child of Tom Hammond and Roseanne (née McCullagh) and was named after his mother's brother who had been killed in the First World War. At the age of five his family moved to Faversham, Kent, only to move back to London at the beginning of the Second World War in anticipation of the German invasion of Kent. He started at grammar school in Greenford, but was evacuated to Torquay at the age of 12. Here one day, whilst walking to school, a German fighter plane swooped down, firing on the road ahead of him. He was saved by a portly local milk lady, who leapt on top of him, flattening him to the ground. Both survived unscathed, but the memory of this episode and of his otherwise happy time staying with a family with four children never left Val. It was here in the West Country where Val learned to fish and where later he bought a family holiday cottage in South Pool, Devon. Val took a 'gap year' before starting at St Thomas's Medical School. He spent it staying with an aunt in New York. He used the time well to visit museums and art galleries, and met an English lady who gave him free tickets to the opera thus nurturing a lifetime love of this art form. Shortly after qualifying in 1953 he met Diana (née Hitchings), a Nightingale nurse. They were married in 1955 and had three children - Pippa, Mark and Guy. Their long happy marriage ended in Diana's death from complications associated with Parkinson's disease in 2012. Val, whose subspecialty was otology, was also on the staff of the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, Gray's Inn Road (from 1964 to 1974), the Royal Masonic Hospital and King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers. He served as a member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons and was an external examiner of the Irish fellowship. He was president of the section of otology of the Royal Society of Medicine (from 1984 to 1985) and was later elected an honorary member of the section. His presidency of the British Association of Otolaryngology (BAOL) (1987 to 1990) was frustrated by an attempt by the RCS council to withdraw the otolaryngology FRCS. He fought hard and gained a reprieve of three years, but this forced the Association to seriously consider the formation of a College of Otolaryngology. Ultimately this idea did not materialise as BAOL had insufficient members and funding. On a more positive note, he introduced audit and the adoption of *Clinical Otolaryngology* as the BAOL journal. Valentine Hammond was quietly spoken, immaculately dressed and charming to all. He attracted a large practice, both in the NHS and privately. He and Diana were very social and travelled widely. Val was a passionate gardener and excelled in cultivating rare and exotic orchids. He was a keen salmon and trout fisherman, a good shot and an enthusiastic skier. In Devon, he sailed a Salcombe yawl named *Clickety Click* (it was boat number 66) and later changed to a motor cruiser named *Primula*. All these passions were devolved to his children: Pippa's love of skiing and water sports, Mark's sailing and fishing, and Guy's gardening. Following his retirement in 1994, Val worked for the charity Prisoners of Conscience, which required him to assess potential asylum seekers who had been victims of torture in their native countries. He also became a patron of the Britain Nepal Otology Service, a charity established in 1988 by one of his previous registrars. Val and Diana, through Mark, had two grandchildren, Louisa and Jack. After Diana's death, he moved close to them in West Meon, where he died on 28 September 2017 from prostate cancer. He was 87. In common with many wartime children, Val had a challenging start to his life but with his hard work and charming disposition he became a sought-after surgeon and an excellent role model for aspiring otolaryngologists.
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First Title value, for Searching Denny, William Roy (1921 - 2008)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-09-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372743372743
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details William Denny was an ENT surgeon in St Helier, Jersey. He was born on 18 January 1921 at Arrathorne, Tadworth, Surrey, the son of James Risk Denny, who became a ship builder’s agent (Denny Brothers, Shipbuilders, Dunbarton) after leaving the Army. His mother was Nellie Scott née Roy. He was educated at Bilton Grange Preparatory School and Cheltenham College, from which he entered St Bartholomew’s Hospital. At that time early in the war the preclinical school was in Cambridge and he shared rooms there with the author Richard Gordon. After qualifying and doing house jobs at St Bartholomew’s, he joined the RAMC and spent six months in Germany and then at Chester and Liverpool. On demobilization he specialized in ENT and completed registrar posts at the Middlesex and St Thomas’ hospitals. He was appointed consultant ENT surgeon at the General Hospital, St Helier, Jersey, where he was in partnership with Michael Messervy until he retired. Denny published on the diagnosis of acoustic neuroma, which in later life he diagnosed in himself and underwent successful surgery. He married a Miss Blackbourn, whom he met when she was in the Land Army during the war. They had two sons, Hamish Roy Denny, a veterinary surgeon, and Peter William Denny. He was keen on gardening and landscaping. He died in Jersey on 20 March 2008, leaving seven grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000560
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First Title value, for Searching House, Howard Payne (1907 - 2003)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-09-28 2013-10-11
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372264372264
Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Howard Payne House was a pioneering ear specialist. During his long career he treated thousands of patients, including Howard Hughes, Bob Hope and the former President, Ronald Reagan. A graduate of the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine, House perfected the wire loop technique to replace the stapes bone of the middle ear and developed procedures to reconstruct middle ear parts. In 1946 he established the House Ear Institute as a research facility dedicated to the advancement of hearing research and education. A year later, he was appointed Chairman of the subcommittee on noise and directed the national study on industrial noise that set the Occupational Safety and Health Administration hearing conservation standards in use today. House was head of the department of otolaryngology at University of Southern California School of Medicine from 1952 to 1961 and served on the faculty as clinical professor of otology. House received numerous awards and honorary degrees. He served as President of many professional associations in the US, including the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery and the American Otological Society. He was awarded the University of Southern California's outstanding career service award, and was named a physician of the year by the California Governor's committee for employment of the handicapped. House died from heart failure on 1 August 2003 at St Vincent Medical Center, Los Angeles. He is survived by his sons, Kenneth and John, and his daughter Carolyn, and nine grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000077
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First Title value, for Searching Harsant, William Henry (1850 - 1933)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-03
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376356376356
Occupation Anatomist ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Born at Epsom on 20 March 1850, the second child and eldest son of William Harsant, chemist, and Sarah Wilkinson, his wife. He was educated at the City of London School. At Guy's Hospital he was gold medallist in surgery, and served as house surgeon in 1874 and resident obstetric officer. He then acted as house surgeon at the Bristol General Hospital. He was soon appointed assistant surgeon to the Bristol Royal Infirmary, where he was placed in charge of the newly-established aural department. He became surgeon in 1885 and resigned the office in 1902, having been disabled by the loss of his right index finger which was amputated for a poisoned wound contracted during an operation. He was then elected consulting surgeon to the Royal Infirmary and for the rest of his life undertook private practice at Clifton. From 1887 to 1893 he lectured on anatomy in the Bristol Medical School. In 1899 he was president of the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society and for many years he was a member of the editorial staff of the *Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Journal*. He married Margaret Evans in June 1881, who died before him. He died at Tower House, Clifton Down Road, Bristol on 10 February 1933, and was buried at Canford Cemetery, Clifton.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004173
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Robin Francis McNab (1922 - 2009)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Neil Weir
Publication Date 2012-01-05 2016-05-27
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374000374000
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Robin Francis McNab Jones, a much-respected leading ENT surgeon, was a consultant at both St Bartholomew's Hospital and the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London, where for five years he also served as dean of the Institute of Laryngology and Otology (from 1971 to 1976). He was born in Bristol on 22 October 1922. His father was a civil servant; his mother, Mary, née Evans, a teacher. He moved as a child to Manchester, where he attended Manchester Grammar School. His family later went to London and Robin McNab Jones completed his secondary education at Dulwich College. He used to reminisce that he first thought of medicine as a career at about the age of nine after falling from a horse and receiving stitches in an ear. His parents both had an interest in science and were heavily involved in charitable work; theirs was a caring family. McNab Jones graduated from St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College in 1945. He completed his house posts at St Bartholomew's, which included ENT, where he was much inspired by Frederick Capps to follow him into the specialty. National Service in the RAF intervened before McNab Jones could start his ENT training, firstly as a registrar at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, and then as a senior registrar at St Bartholomew's. He then returned to Manchester as senior lecturer in otolaryngology. A vacancy at St Bartholomew's arose in 1961 and Robin McNab Jones was appointed consultant ENT surgeon. For the Royal College of Surgeons, he served as a co-opted member of the Council and as a member of the Court of Examiners. He was president of the section of laryngology of the Royal Society of Medicine and a member of the North of England Otolaryngology Society. He wrote on 'Diseases of the nose, sinuses, pharynx and larynx' for *Price's textbook of medicine* (tenth edition; London, English Language Book Society, Oxford University Press, 1966) and chapters on the nose in the third edition and on the mouth, pharynx and oesophagus in the fourth edition of *Scott-Brown's diseases of the ear, nose and throat* (London, Butterworths). His innovations included using the operating microscope for nasal surgery and an external approach for medialisation of a paralysed vocal fold. Robin McNab Jones was a kindly man who showed a keen interest in benefitting his patients and also those who worked with him. Well-known as a teacher, in his retirement he continued his interest in education as chairman of the board of governors of Worsley Bridge School, Beckenham (from 1992 to 1997). He also served as a trustee of the Macnab Memorial Trust. (His mother was descended from Archibald McNab the 17th chief of the clan.) Throughout his life he had been a keen sportsman and an avid fisherman. He married Mary Garrett in 1950, with whom he had four children. Two daughters have studied at St Bartholomew's; one read medicine, the other became a nurse. A third daughter has in midlife changed her profession to become an occupational therapist. Robin and Mary were close to all their family. They enjoyed holidays in Cornwall together with their ten grandchildren and it was on such a holiday in June 2009 that Robin McNab Jones became unwell. He died on 15 June after a short illness, aged 86.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001817
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First Title value, for Searching Hinde, Raymond Thomas (1916 - 1959)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-26
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377235377235
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Raymond Thomas Finde, son of T J Hinde of Harrow, was educated at the Haberdashers' School and at Guy's Hospital, where he played in the Rugby XV. After qualifying in 1940 he held house appointments at Guy's and then joined the Indian Medical Service. While in India he transferred to the Royal Indian Navy in which he served as a Surgeon Lieutenant during the second world war. In 1944 Hinde was invalided from the service and returned to Guy's as registrar to the ear nose and throat department and demonstrator in anatomy. In 1946 he became registrar and then first assistant to the Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology at the Radcliffe Infirmary. In 1949 he took the Fellowship, and in the same year he married Dr Jean Mary Briscoe who was also on the staff of the Radcliffe. In 1951 Hinde was appointed consultant ear nose and throat surgeon to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. Hinde was a brilliant conversationalist; speaking lucidly and precisely himself, he was amused by the small pomposities of everyday speech. Beneath his humour was a deep Christian faith. He was a keen yachtsman and sailed in the Fastnet race. He died after a few months' illness at the age of 43 on 27 June 1959 in the Radcliffe Infirmary, survived by his wife and their young son. Publications: Review of diagnostic problem in 100 cases of chronic maxillary sinusitis. *J Laryngol* 1950.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005052
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First Title value, for Searching Wostenholm, Maurice Humphrey (1915 - 1952)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-23
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377696377696
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born in South Africa on 31 May 1915 the son of Harold Wilson Wostenholm, a financier, he was educated at St Andrew's College, Grahamstown and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he took third-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I in 1937. He took his medical training at the London Hospital, qualified in 1941, and after holding the usual house appointment at the Hospital served in the RAMC till the end of the war in 1945, as a graded surgeon with the rank of Captain. He was first assistant in the ear department at the London Hospital in 1946, and took the Fellowship in 1947. He then settled in practice at 23 Dalkeith Road, Harpenden, Herts, and was appointed in 1951 ear nose and throat surgeon at Bedford General Hospital and was also attached to the St Albans City Hospital. He was a brilliant operator, of sound judgment. His enthusiasm, energy, and tireless attention to detail were combined with an amiable and helpful nature. He had proved himself supremely self-disciplined through difficulties and frustrations. Wostenholm married in 1940 Marigold Jessie de Mancha. He and his wife were killed in a car accident on 12 December 1952, aged 37 and 38. One son had died in childhood, and they were survived by three sons. They were buried at Westfield Cemetery, Harpenden.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005513
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First Title value, for Searching Barwell, Harold Shuttleworth (1875 - 1959)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-15
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377070377070
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born in London in 1875 the son of Richard Barwell FRCS, surgeon to Charing Cross Hospital, and Mary Diana Shuttleworth his wife, he was educated at Temple Grove and Westminster School, where he was Bishop Williams exhibitioner, and at St George's, where he held resident posts. Deciding to specialise as a laryngologist, he became senior clinical assistant at the Golden Square Hospital. After taking the Fellowship in 1901 he was elected to the staff of the Metropolitan Ear Nose and Throat Hospital, laryngologist to Mount Vernon Hospital, and otolaryngologist surgeon to Hampstead General Hospital, and finally surgeon to St George's throat and ear department. He was President of the Laryngological Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was a frequent contributor to the specialist literature and published a successful textbook on *Diseases of the larynx* in 1907, which reached a third edition in 1928. Barwell gave up his hospital appointments while still comparatively young, but continued in private practice at 39 Queen Anne Street. He retained his youthful vigour and was an excellent tennis player. Barwell married in 1907 Evelyn, daughter of James Foster Palmer MRCS. Their two sons Alan and Claud distinguished themselves in the medical profession, the latter becoming Professor of Bacteriology at the London Hospital. He died on 27 May 1959 at Fincham End, Crowthorne, Berkshire aged 83, and Mrs Barwell died on 4 August 1964.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004887
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First Title value, for Searching Cobb, John Henry (1885 - 1968)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-30
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378407378407
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born in Sheffield on 26 June 1885, son of Frank Cobb and Martha Griffiths, his wife. He was educated at Firth Park Grammar School, Sheffield and at Sheffield University, where he graduated with honours and won a gold medal in gynaecology. He was house surgeon and resident surgical officer at the Royal Infirmary, Sheffield. In 1915 he joined the 3rd Northern General Hospital, Territorial Force, with the rank of Captain and saw active service with the 3rd West Riding Field Ambulance in France. On demobilisation in 1918 he was appointed surgeon to the Sheffield Children's Hospital. He decided to specialise in ear, nose and throat surgery and in 1928 was appointed surgeon in charge of this department at the Royal Infirmary and also at the Children's Hospital. He was an examiner for the Royal College of Surgeons of England and at Leeds University. In 1947 he was elected President of the Sheffield Medico-Chirurgical Society. He retired from practice in 1960. In October 1917 he married Eleanor Mann Davidson, daughter of George Scott Davidson, a Sheffield doctor. Mrs Cobb died in 1963. He died in Leeds on the 18 October 1968, survived by two daughters and a son, John, a QC and Recorder of Bradford. Cobb was well read, particularly in Shakespeare and Dickens, and his great hobby was golf.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006224
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First Title value, for Searching Bateman, Arthur Daunt (1913 - 1994)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-02
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379998379998
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Arthur Bateman ('Bryan') was born on 7 December 1913 in London, the son of Dr Alfred Benjamin Bateman, a general practitioner, and his wife Gwendoline Florence, née Grey. He was educated at Oundle and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He recorded that he assisted and was influenced by Sir James Paterson Ross, Geoffrey Keynes and R M Vick, and during his second world war service in the Royal Navy by Gordon-Taylor and R J Willan and was a Surgeon Lieutenant Commander 1944-5. He served on H M Ships *Gambia* and *Bellona* with the Home Fleet and on convoys to Russia and the North Atlantic. After the war he specialised in ear, nose and throat surgery and was consultant ENT surgeon at Bath and Devizes, Chippenham and Malmesbury. He was chairman of the S W Regional Consultants' Specialist Committee and chairman of the medical panel of the RAC competitions committee. He continued to serve in the Royal Naval Reserve (Severn Division) until 1965. His extra-curricular interests were photography and pre-war motor sport, being a member of the British Racing Drivers' Club, and more recently with the organization of the sport's medical side. He married a Miss Grey in 1938 and when he died on 6 July 1994 he was survived by his four daughters, Elaine, Wendy, Mary-Anne and Tina, and five grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007815
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First Title value, for Searching Mills, Charles Peter (1925 - 1977)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-10
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378935378935
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Charles Peter Mills was born in Linton-on-Ouse in North Yorkshire and studied medicine at Guy's Hospital for which he also played rugby. After graduating with honours at London University in 1948 he held house appointments at Guy's and, after a period of national service in the RAF obtained the FRCS in 1953. He then decided to specialise in otolaryngology and trained at Bristol and Guy's. In 1959 he was appointed ENT surgeon to Leeds General Infirmary and to St James's, the Public Dispensary, and Seacroft Hospitals. Quickly becoming established as a leading otolaryngologist, his main contributions were in the surgery of the larynx and upper oesophagus. He addressed the Royal Society of Medicine, the North of England Otolaryngological Society (on whose council he was serving at the time of his death) and other professional bodies. Among his publications was the entry on cricopharyngeal sphincterectomy in Rob and Smith's *Operative surgery*. An able organizer and administrator, he took a large part in the planning and rebuilding of the ENT departments at St James's and Seacroft Hospitals and in the reconstruction of the outpatients' department at the Infirmary. In 1972 he became a city magistrate and was very proud of this contribution to the community, a task he undertook with typical enthusiasm, fairness and ability. He had a very happy family life and, when he died on 2 March, 1977, was survived by his wife Nanette, son Ian, daughters Susie and Shauna and grandson Ian.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006752
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First Title value, for Searching Woodman, Edward Musgrove (1884 - 1974)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-14
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379243379243
Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Edward Woodman was born in Hornsey, London on 19 October 1884. His father was a chartered accountant. He was at school in Barnet and later in Bromley before entering St Bartholomew's Hospital where he passed the MB BS with honours and distinction in 1908. He worked at the Institute of Pathology under Professor Aschoff before obtaining the FRCS in 1909. He held house surgeon appointments at St Bartholomew's and Highgate before he became cancer research registrar at the Middlesex Hospital. He held this appointment for three years during which time he obtained the MS degree and Gold Medal. In 1912 he was appointed assistant surgeon to Birmingham General Hospital. During the first world war Edward Woodman served in the RAMC in France and was surgeon in charge of one hospital receiving the vast numbers of casualties from the battle of the Marne. From 1918 he devoted his further career to cancer of the nose, throat and maxilla and changed to oto-rhino-laryngology as a consultant to the United Birmingham Hospitals. At the age of 63 he became a barrister at the Inner Temple and served for a short time as assistant coroner for the borough of St Pancras. He married and had two sons and a daughter. His interests were varied and included yachting, cricket, restoration of old houses and homeopathy. In 1952 he moved to South Africa and died on 7 May 1974, at Somerset West, near Cape Town.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007060
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First Title value, for Searching Hamblen-Thomas, Charles (1887 - 1983)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379488379488
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Charles Hamblen-Thomas was born on 25 March 1887 at Paignton, Devon, the eldest child of Charles Kaines Thomas, a civil engineer, and Evelyn Hamblen. He was educated at Glengorse School, Eastbourne, before entering St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1914 and after house appointments to Sir William Girling Ball and Louis Bathe Rawling joined the British Expeditionary Force in France as Captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps. After demobilisation he passed the FRCS Edinburgh in 1923 and the FRCS in 1926. His initial appointments were as assistant ear, nose and throat surgeon to the Evelina Children's Hospital, aural specialist to the Ministry of Pensions and Finchley Urban District Council. He was also consultant otologist to Essex County Council. Later he was appointed consultant otorhinolaryngologist to the West London Hospital and the North East Metropolitan Throat Hospital and consultant laryngologist to the British Red Cross Society rheumatism clinic. He served as President of the West London Medico-Chirurgical Society and as honorary secretary of the Otology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was also a member of the Council of the Laryngology Section. After retiring from the hospital service he remained in private practice, eventually retiring in October 1978. He married Eulalie Oliver in 1926 and they had one son, an engineer. His hobbies were flying, golf, fishing, shooting and philately. He died on 5 April 1983, aged 96.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007305
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First Title value, for Searching Binns, Philip Metcalfe (1928 - 1992)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-02
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380007380007
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Philip Binns was born on 26 June 1928, son of Harry Binns, a merchant, and Selena Ellen Moore. He was educated at Keighley Grammar School, and then did his National Service with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers as a radar mechanic. He was demobilised in 1948 and entered Leeds University Medical School, where he was influenced by M C Oldfield and Professor Digby Chamberlain. He qualified in 1955 and was house surgeon at Otley General Hospital and obstetric house officer at St Mary's Hospital, Leeds, passing the DRCOG in 1957 and the FRCS in 1959. At this stage he decided to specialise in oto-rhino-laryngology and was appointed senior registrar in the ENT department of Leeds General Infirmary from 1963 to 1964, where he worked under Angell James. Deciding to emigrate to the USA he passed the ECMFG examination and the Michigan State Board exams in 1965, and was appointed assistant professor in ENT surgery at Wayne State University, Detroit, later becoming associate professor. He was elected a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1966. A man of wide interests, he was a keen swimmer and skier, and enjoyed gardening and bee-keeping. He married Maryan Ratcliffe in 1953. They had one son and three daughters, one of whom became a doctor. Binns died on 14 January 1992, aged 63.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007824
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First Title value, for Searching Wharry, Harry Mortimer (1891 - 1933)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-11
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376946376946
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born at Exmouth on 30 April 1891, the second child and only son of Surgeon Major A J Wharry, of the Egyptian Army, and Lillie Adeline Barker, his wife. He was educated at Radley and matriculated from New College, Oxford in 1910, but took no degree in the University. He received his medical education at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and on 8 May 1917 was gazetted captain in the RAMC (special reserve), serving in France and in Mesopotamia. He became interested in disease of the throat, nose, and ear, and acted as clinical assistant at St Bartholomew's, St George's, and University College Hospitals, and finally filled the post of laryngologist at Mount Vernon, the West End Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System, and the Bolingbroke. He did much good work in the National Institute for the Deaf, where he was chairman of the medical sub-committee. He was also aural surgeon to the Ministry of Pensions and to the Royal Masonic Institute for Girls. He invented in the course of his work the differential microphone and binaural electrical hearing apparatus, and at the time of his death was engaged on the assessment of deafness and the prescription of hearing aids. He married in 1919 Cicely Henrietta Bless, who survived him with a son and two daughters. He died after a short illness at 19 Chester Terrace, Regent's Park on 1 August 1933.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004763
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First Title value, for Searching Zamora, Alberto Medardo (1887 - 1980)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-14
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details 'Zammy' or 'Zam' as he was known to colleagues and friends was born in Colombia, South America, on 13 January 1887 and came to school in England, to Tonbridge and to Cambridge University. His subsequent medical education was at Guy's Hospital, London, where he qualified in 1912. To his disgust when war broke out he was considered to be a foreigner and so remained a civilian working at Guy's in his chosen speciality of ENT surgery. After the war he was appointed as consultant at the Royal Northern, Royal National Orthopaedic, Royal Chest and Putney Hospitals. He built up a large private practice and was just as meticulous and caring about his hospital patients as those in private. He was the epitome of an English gentleman and much loved and respected by patients and friends alike. His special interest was in para-nasal sinusitis and this was the subject he chose for his presidential address to the Section of Laryngology at the Royal Society of Medicine. He was well read with a wide appreciation of art and literature and was constantly a source of support and encouragement to his junior staff. In addition he was an excellent host. He died on 18 November, 1980 at the age of 93, after a long illness, survived by his wife Barbara and two daughters, Mary and Monica.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007067
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First Title value, for Searching Cope, John Wigley (1907 - 1987)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-08
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379365379365
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details John Cope was born on 1 November 1907, in Birmingham, the son of John, a master drysalter and his wife Rose, née Wigley. He went to school at King Edward's in Birmingham before proceeding to Trinity College, Cambridge. He received his medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he became president of the rugby club, before house surgeon appointments in the surgical professorial unit and the ENT department. Aural surgery became his chosen specialty, serving in the Royal Air Force before his appointment as consultant to the Royal Waterloo Hospital, the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, and finally at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he was Dean of the Medical College from 1962 to 1968. He was elected as an examiner in the DLO examination, adviser in ENT to the North East Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board and President of the Otology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1970. Apart from rugby he was a keen hill walker, rock climber and also active as a Freemason where he rose to Grand rank. He also enjoyed shooting, fishing and gardening. In 1937 he married Muriel [Bunny] Pearce Brown and they had two sons, and a daughter who is medically qualified. He died on 15 June 1987 and his wife died on 8 August the same year.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007182
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First Title value, for Searching Richards, Linsell Donald (1934 - 1986)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-20
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379780379780
Occupation ENT surgeon General practitioner
Details Linsell Donald Richards (Lin) was born in Levin, New Zealand, and after early education at Horowhenua College entered Otago University for his medical studies, qualifying in 1959. His first house appointments were at Cook and Wellington Hospitals and during this time he decided to specialize in otorhinolaryngology. Before coming to England for postgraduate studies he spent three years as a general practitioner in Tolaga Bay and a year in Hastings as surgical registrar. He came to Britain in 1966 and did most of his postgraduate appointments at Nottingham General Hospital. In 1969 he obtained both the DLO and FRCS and returning to New Zealand passed the FRACS in 1971. After his appointment as consultant in otorhinolaryngology at Wellington Hospital he worked vigorously to modernise the department and to establish audiology clinics. He was elected to the New Zealand Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1980, served as President of the New Zealand Otolaryngology Society and was appointed to the court of examiners in otolaryngology. Throughout his life he remained active in physically demanding sports, especially hockey. He married Helen and they had four children, Megan, Andrew, Meryl and Kate. He died at home on 21 June 1986, aged 51, survived by his second wife Sheryl and Paul, his youngest son.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007597
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First Title value, for Searching Peacock, Michael Robert (1939 - 1983)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-02
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379752379752
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Michael Robert Peacock, born in the North of England in 1939 was educated at Repton School and the University of Liverpool, qualifying in 1963. Shortly afterwards he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and became interested in otorhinolaryngology. He passed the DLO in 1968 and the FRCS five years later. He was graded a specialist and rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel during his eighteen years service. Towards the end of this time while serving at home he became interested in the problems of deaf children and was appointed honorary senior registrar to the Nuffield speech and hearing centre. After retiring from the RAMC he was appointed senior registrar at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital and later, consultant to the North Riding Infirmary at Middlesbrough. He pursued his interest in the problems of deaf children and established special clinics in paediatric audiology. He travelled widely lecturing on this subject and had a special interest in genetics in deafness. He also helped to initiate the "Let Me Hear" appeal to provide special hearing aids for deaf children. Tragically he was stricken with leukaemia at this stage of life when his reputation was becoming established; the disease did not respond to treatment and he died on 28 November 1983 aged 44. He is survived by his wife Valerie, and children Martin, Melanie, Veronique and Matthew.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007569
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First Title value, for Searching Berkley, Reginald Maurice (1931 - 2002)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-16
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380651380651
Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Born in London on 20 February 1931 to Harris Berkley, a pharmacist and Dora Le Vine, Reginald Maurice Berkley was educated at King Edward VII School, King's Lynn. He went to Melbourne in 1950, where he studied medicine at the University of Melbourne and the Royal Melbourne Hospital. After graduating he was junior and senior resident medical officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, a demonstrator in anatomy, and registrar at the Royal Women's Hospital in 1959. He was registrar at the Royal Melbourne Hospital whilst studying for the FRACS. He then came to England as senior registrar at the Royal Infirmary and Ronkswood Hospitals, Worcester. On returning to Melbourne in 1964, he was honorary assistant surgeon at the Alfred Hospital and then specialised in otorhinolaryngology, becoming ENT registrar at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital. He later moved to Gippsland, where he was in general and ENT practice for five years, before returning to Melbourne to practice entirely in ENT. He had many interests, including travel, classical music, opera and art. In 1986 he studied for a degree in fine arts at the University of Melbourne and in 1989 for a bachelor of letters, submitting a thesis on the Angry Penguins, through which he came to know Albert Tucker, an Australian artist. He married Valerie Miles in 1962. They had two daughters, Jane and Vanessa. He died on 12 November 2002.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008468
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First Title value, for Searching Jarvis, John Fulford (1910 - 1978)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-16
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378804378804
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details John Fulford Jarvis was born at Carshalton, Surrey, in 1910 and educated at Whitgift School, winning an open scholarship at King's College and King's College Hospital. He graduated in 1933 and then took the MRCP and the FRCS. He joined the Colonial Medical Service to work in Tanganyika in 1936. He was always keenly interested in missionary work and went with that in mind. He took the Diploma in Laryngology and Otology in 1947 and was transferred to Kenya, where he became ear, nose, and throat specialist to the Kenyan Government. For the further education of his family he moved to Cape Town in 1959 and later became head of the department of otorhinolaryngology at Groote Schuur Hospital. He remained in this post until 1975, when he retired from full-time work but continued to teach anatomy at the University. Jarvis was an elder at the local chapel of Christian Brethren for many years. Student Christian work took up much of his leisure time. He was especially interested in the Student Christian Association of South Africa and was its President in later years. He married Betty Wintler in 1936 and they had a son and three daughters, one of whom is a doctor at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. His wife died in 1971 and he died on 1 June 1978, aged 68 years.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006621
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First Title value, for Searching Lipscomb, John Francis (1908 - 1986)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-08
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379612379612
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details John Francis Lipscomb was born in Sydney on 18 July 1908, the son of Thomas W Lipscomb, a surgeon and chairman of the postgraduate committee of New South Wales, and his wife, Beatrix, née Norris. He was educated at the preparatory school of St Aloysius, Sydney, and later at St Ignatius College before entering the University of Sydney for medical studies. He qualified with honours in 1933 and after completing house appointments in Sydney came to England for postgraduate study and worked in the ENT department of Guy's Hospital under Mr W M Mollison for 3 1/2 years. He passed the FRCS in 1939 and at the outbreak of war joined the Australian Army Medical Corps, serving for six years, attaining the rank of Major and being mentioned in despatches in 1943. After demobilisation he returned to England and was initially appointed ENT surgeon to Kent County Council for whom he did a survey of the blind and deaf. At the beginning of the National Health Service he was appointed consultant to the ear, nose and throat departments at Farnborough Hospital, Kent, Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and the Dartford Group of Hospitals. After retiring from the hospital service he continued to pursue his hobbies of golf and squash. He married Dorothy Waterhouse in 1937 and they had two sons, both of whom have qualified as doctors. He died in 1986 aged 78.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007429
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First Title value, for Searching Shenoi, Pundalika Mangalpady (1933 - 1991)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-01
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380483380483
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Pundalika Shenoi was born on 28 September 1933 in Mangalore, Southern India, into a family of numerous medical men, although his father, Gopal Krishna Shenoi, was a merchant. His early education was in the University of Madras and Andrha Medical College, where he gained the MB degree with three gold medals. Coming to England, he took the course in Birmingham and qualified with the MB there in 1956. After his house posts he joined the surgical unit in that city under Professor Geoffrey Slaney, at first working on the metabolic consequences of major surgery while at the same time pursuing an interest in the treatment of pharyngeal cancer. During this period he took firstly the Edinburgh FRCS and then the College Fellowship. Turning his attention to otolaryngology he visited, and learnt from, many centres in Germany, Belgium and Sweden before becoming senior registrar at the Royal Free Hospital in London. Finally he returned to Birmingham as consultant ENT surgeon but continued his research interests. He was an active member of the Otolaryngological Research Society and a few days before his death he was elected an Honorary Member of the Section of Otology at the Royal Society of Medicine. He married Anne Clifford in 1961 and they had five daughters and a son. He was keen on tennis and cricket. When he died suddenly on 11 February 1991, he was survived by his wife and family.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008300
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First Title value, for Searching Kilcoyne, Anthony Gerard (1927 - 1995)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-15
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380310380310
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Gerry Kilcoyne was born on 24 January 1927 in Glasgow to a general practitioner father, Dr Patrick Kilcoyne and his wife Rita, née McNulty. He was educated at Clongowes College Dublin, the National University of Ireland, Wood College and University College, Dublin. He held house appointments at St Laurence's Hospital and was later surgical registrar at Mansfield and King's Mill Hospital, senior registrar in ENT at the Royal Infirmary, Sheffield, and was finally appointed consultant at High Wycombe Hospital in 1964. There, together with the late Esmé Hadfield, he played an active part in bringing the service up to a high standard, and later served as an authoritative member of the medical committee. A handsome, tall, distinguished looking man, always elegantly dressed, he stood out in any gathering and was a keen traveller and gourmet. He was secretary of the Section of Otology of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1982-3, President of the Amersham and Chesham Hard of Hearing Club, and carried out an important study into adenocarcinoma of the nose, which affected workers in the local furniture industry. He married Mary, née Staunton, in 1961, and they had a son, Peter, and three daughters, Margaret, Rosemary and Angela. He died on 11 December 1995, from adenocarcinoma of the lung.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008127
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First Title value, for Searching Midgley, Gordon Siegfried (1913 - 1985)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-15
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379688379688
Occupation ENT surgeon General practitioner Maxillofacial surgeon
Details Gordon Midgley received his medical training at the Westminster Hospital Medical School where he qualified in 1937 and proceeded to house appointments at the Charing Cross Hospital. In 1938 he joined a general practice in Winchester and also the Territorial Army. He was called up in 1939 and served as regimental medical officer in the Household Cavalry and at Dover Castle before being posted to India for the next five years. He became a registrar in the ear, nose and throat department at Charing Cross Hospital before his appointment as the first consultant in ear, nose and throat surgery at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester. He was also consultant to the maxillo-facial unit at Rooksdown House in Basingstoke where he worked with Sir Harold Gillies and John Barron. He took an active part in the committee work in the hospital where he became chairman of the medical staff and a member of the higher awards committee. He also visited Guernsey on a regular basis to advise on their ear, nose and throat problems. Gordon Midgley became a keen Mason, Master of the Merdon Lodge, Provincial Grand Officer and a member of Winton Rose Croix. He was an active member of the BMA becoming Chairman of the Winchester division. In 1938 he married Inez Masters and they had one daughter. He died on 19 February 1985 survived by his wife, daughter Susan, and granddaughter Antonia.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007505
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First Title value, for Searching Lamb, Christopher Edmund Manley (1936 - 2019)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Joanna Lamb
Publication Date 2021-10-08 2022-01-07
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Occupation Dental surgeon ENT surgeon
Details Christopher (Chris) Lamb started his professional life as a dentist but, whilst a lecturer at Guy’s Hospital dental school, he realised that he wanted to be the one performing the procedures he was obliged to refer. He subsequently chose to retrain, gaining a medical degree and a dental fellowship and elected to have a career in ENT surgery, becoming a consultant at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, Essex and at St Margaret’s Hospital, Epping. Chris was the only child of Alexander Raymond Lamb, a company director, and Phyllis Lamb née Manley, who was called to the Bar in 1934 and became chair of the Epping Juvenile Bench. He was very close to his family, especially his parents. After being educated at Repton, Chris claimed that he could have survived Colditz. His long-held hope of a future test-flying jets was dashed when he failed his medical on the grounds of imperfect eyesight. However, whilst sitting in his dentist’s chair, he thought ‘I could do this’! Thus started his long and happy association with Guy’s dental and then medical schools. In 1964, he was awarded a Nuffield Foundation travelling scholarship in tropical medicine that enabled him to spend his three-month elective in Hong Kong. He wrote up this experience in the *Guy’s Hospital Gazette* (2 October 1965). Having decided on ENT surgery as a career, Chris trained at the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital and the Institute of Laryngology and Otology where, as a senior registrar, he came under the guidance of Donald Harrison. At that time there was a close link with the University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica where, for a year, Chris was seconded as a consultant working with John Conley, the world-famous American head and neck surgeon. This experience not only gave him a superb training but also fostered in him a lifelong love of the Caribbean and its people. He then returned to Epping, his home, and Harlow, where he established an ENT service. He was a keen member of the Royal Society of Medicine’s sections of laryngology and otology and the European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery (he gained a diploma in nasal plastic surgery in 1986). Chris’s first marriage was in 1965 to Susan Evans. They had two daughters, Sally and Helen. In 1989 he met Joanna Griffiths, a local GP, at Chislehurst Golf Club and they were married the following year. Their daughter Madeleine was born in 1991. None of his children followed in their father’s footsteps. Whilst at medical school Chris was actively rallying, flying (he featured in Harold Preiskel’s book *Wings of youth*) and playing football. Chris was a devoted golfer, a lover of French wines and a voracious reader, particularly of non-fiction. He was reading a book on quantum physics on the day he suffered from a terminal stroke. He died on 6 December 2019 in the Princess Royal University Hospital, Farnborough Common. He was 83.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010012
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First Title value, for Searching Dreadon, John (1898 - 1971)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-25
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377895377895
Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details John Dreadon was born in Northern Wairoa, North Auckland, New Zealand on 29 May 1898, the fourth child in a family of six; his father was a farmer and his mother's maiden name was Elizabeth Webb. He was educated at Auckland Grammar School and Otago University, Dunedin, qualifying in 1921. He held various resident posts for 18 months at Auckland Hospital, before travelling to London by sea in 1922. While in England he held appointments at the Hampstead General Hospital, New End Hospital, and other London hospitals, and obtained his Fellowship in 1924. In 1926 he returned to general practice in Auckland, but in 1927 was appointed to the staff of Auckland Hospital, as an ear, nose and throat surgeon, and from 1929 as a general surgeon, working with Sir Carrick Robertson and Kenneth Mackenzie. During the second world war he served at Auckland Hospital, being unfit for overseas service, but after the war on his appointment as a senior surgeon he moved to Green Lane Hospital. He retired in 1959. During his active life he contributed much to Huia, and Lavington Trust Private Hospitals, being in turn Deputy Chairman and Chairman of the Trust. Among other services he was President of the Auckland Divison of the BMA and a referee for the Southern Cross Medical Care Society; his private pursuits included gardening and bowls. From 1945 onwards he suffered from diabetes and vascular trouble for which he underwent operations. In 1967 he suffered a severe fracture dislocation of one ankle, and this was followed by a coronary attack. He married in 1928 Madge Griffiths and they dispensed generous hospitality in their home and garden; he died after a short illness on 14 July, survived by his wife, a son and daughter and five grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005712
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First Title value, for Searching Lumsden, Kenneth (1900 - 1968)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-11
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378089378089
Occupation ENT surgeon General practitioner Medical Officer
Details Kenneth Lumsden was born in Leeds on 26 May 1900 of Scottish ancestry and perhaps it was for this reason that he went to Edinburgh for his medical education, and graduated in 1922. He then joined the Colonial Medical Service and worked in Uganda, and took the Diploma of Tropical Medicine in 1925. When he returned to England he held house appointments at St Bartholomew's Hospital, the Middlesex Hospital, and the Samaritan Hospital to gain the training necessary for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, which he obtained in 1930. He then decided to specialize in ear, nose, and throat surgery and was appointed to the department at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. In 1934 Lumsden decided to set up in general practice in Saffron Walden, and also acted as ENT surgeon to the Saffron Walden General Hospital until 1948 when the coming of the National Health Service altered the conditions of that appointment, but he continued in his general practice until his death. He also held the post of medical officer to the Friends' School until he died. It is unusual for someone who has developed skill as a surgical specialist to become a successful family doctor, but Lumsden did manage to gain the confidence and affection of his patients to a remarkable degree. He was widely read, enjoyed golf and tennis and the company of friends and colleagues by whom he was highly esteemed. After a pneumonectomy in 1956 he was able to return to active practice, and even after a laryngectomy in 1966 he was recovering his voice well when he ultimately died on 1 January 1968. He was survived by his wife and two sons.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005906
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First Title value, for Searching Asherson, Nehemiah (1897 - 1989)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-17
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379272379272
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Nehemiah Asherson was born in South Africa in 1897, the son of Isaac Asherson and was educated initially at the University of Cape Town before coming to England in 1919, entering University College Hospital Medical School and qualifying in 1923 after gaining the Liston and Bruce Medal. He undertook early house appointments at the Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, before being casualty officer at University College Hospital. He was later Harker Smith cancer registrar at University College Hospital and developed an interest in pursuing a career in ear, nose and throat surgery, passing the FRCS in 1926. In 1929 he won the Geoffrey Duveen Travelling Scholarship in otorhinolaryngology which enabled him to go to Vienna for further study and shortly after his return was appointed to the staff of the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Children's Hospital, the Charterhouse Rheumatism Clinic and the Bolingbroke Hospital. He was appointed Hunterian Professor in 1941 and delivered a lecture on otogenic brain abscess. He served as President of the Section of Otology at the Royal Society of Medicine. An abiding interest was medical history and he contributed many papers on historical subjects. In particular he will be remembered for his study *The deafness of Beethoven* (1965) and his 1979 bibliography of GJ Du Verney's *Traité de l'organe de 1'ouie*, the first scientific treatise on the ear, published in 1683. He was a liveryman of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries and in addition to attending regularly was an enthusiastic member of the Faculty of the History of Medicine and Pharmacy. He was a keen collector of medical books and continued to write on medical history during his retirement. He died on 1 November 1989, aged 91, survived by his wife, son and daughter.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007089
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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, Kenneth (1913 - 1991)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-09
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380173380173
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Ken Harrison was born in Manchester on 3 August 1913 and subsequently studied medicine at Manchester University. He qualified in 1938 and became house surgeon to Sir Harry Platt, with whom he kept in close touch until Sir Harry's 100th birthday. He served in the RAF from 1941 to 1946, mainly in the Middle East, and after the war was appointed senior registrar to the ENT department at Manchester Royal Infirmary. In 1950 he was travelling fellow at the Lempert Institute of Otology in New York, and he was subsequently appointed consultant ENT surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary and the Christie Hospital. He was director of the department of otolaryngology at the University of Manchester from 1963 until his retirement in 1978. He was also consultant otologist to the Royal Schools for the Deaf in Manchester, and together with Sir Alexander and Lady Irene Ewing he helped to pioneer the education of deaf children. He was appointed Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1955, and later became a member of the Court of Examiners. He was awarded the BMA Jobson Horne Prize in 1974 and at various times served as President of the North of England Otolaryngological Society, the Section of Laryngology of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Visiting Association of Throat and Ear Surgeons of Great Britain. Ken Harrison was a keen sportsman with a particular interest in Manchester United Soccer Club, and was close friends with Sir Matt Busby. Sadly, his activities were curtailed in his latter years by hypertension and a stroke, and he died on 1 July 1991, aged 77. He was survived by his wife, Joan, and their three sons, one of whom, Richard, became a consultant anaesthetist at Manchester Royal Infirmary.
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First Title value, for Searching Mitra, Byomkes (1931 - 2002)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-18
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Byomkes Mitra, known to all as 'Sona', was a former consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon at Crawley and Redhill Hospitals. He was born on 1 June 1931 into a landowning family in Suri, West Bengal. His father, Barunish Mitra, was a general practitioner and eye specialist who carried out ophthalmic surgery in remote villages, often *pro bono*. Mitra qualified from Calcutta University in 1955 and practised in rural North Bengal for three years, operating and giving anaesthetics with the help of a paramedic whom he had trained. He married Sulekha Sinha, the daughter of a Bengal family connected with Britain since the days of Clive. The couple came to England in 1960. Sona did junior posts under Maxwell Ellis in Staffordshire Royal Infirmary and the Royal Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, passed the DLO in 1963 and the Edinburgh and English Fellowships within a month of each other in 1968. He was appointed consultant ENT surgeon at Crawley Hospital in 1970, just after the hospital was opened, and was instrumental in building up the growing ENT department. He developed head and neck oncology services at Crawley, and was particularly interested in treating deafness in children with glue ear. His greatest satisfaction was to restore hearing to children, thereby enabling them to make the most of their education. He was a popular colleague with a legendary sense of fun, whose jokes enlivened his operating sessions. His hobbies were golf, bowls and gardening, and he was a talented painter. He died from a ruptured aortic aneurysm on 5 November 2002, shortly after beginning chemotherapy for small cell carcinoma. He is survived by his wife, and daughter Lara, a biochemist.
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First Title value, for Searching Pease, William Simon, 3rd Baron Wardington (1925 - 2019)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2019-06-28
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details William Simon Pease was born in London on 15 October 1925. He was the son of Lord Wardington, the first Baron Wardington (1869-1950), who was the chairman of Lloyds Bank and his mother was the Honourable Dorothy Charlotte née Forster, the daughter of Lord Forster. After preparatory school at St Peter’s Court in Broadstairs, Kent, he attended Eton College where he was captain of Oppidans. From 1944 to 1947 he served as a captain in the Grenadier Guards. He read PPE at New College, Oxford, graduating in 1949 and proceeded to study medicine at London University and St Thomas’s Hospital, qualifying MB, BS in 1956. After various house jobs at St Thomas’s, where he was strongly influenced by the ENT surgeon, Sir Geoffrey Bateman, he became a surgical registrar at St Mary’s Hospital, Portsmouth. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1960 and from 1962 to 1964 he returned to St Thomas’s as an ENT registrar and then moved to Great Ormond Street for four years. Appointed consultant ENT surgeon to the Central Middlesex and Northwick Park Hospitals, he also worked at the Ealing, Acton, Willesden and Wembley Park Hospitals for various times until his retirement from the NHS in 1985. He retired from private practice in August, 1990. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Medical Society of London. As a student he had played golf and squash and represented his college in competitions. He was a keen sailor and a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron. Later he continued to enjoy golf and was an enthusiastic gardener. In 1962 he married the Honourable Jane Elizabeth Ormesby-Gore, the daughter of Lord Harlech, and she predeceased him in 2004. He died on 19 March 2019, aged 93 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Freeman, Richard Peter (1925 - 2015)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Vincent Cousins
Publication Date 2015-09-14 2016-02-22
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380224380224
Occupation Head and neck surgeon Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Peter Freeman had been School Captain and Head Cadet at Hutchins School in Hobart and qualified in Medicine at Melbourne University (MBBS) in 1948. As a young graduate he worked in General Practice in St Kilda for a couple of years but had a clinical appointment at The Alfred Hospital and was influenced by his boss Noel Box to become an ENT Surgeon. He went off alone to England to study for a year or so and passed the Fellowship of the College of Surgeons there in 1955. This was a separation driven by commitment to succeed - as he did. Lesley and Richard joined him soon after and he spent two further years in London and Northampton gaining valuable surgical experience before returning to Melbourne and The Alfred Hospital in 1957. He gained his Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons 1959. At The Alfred he was visiting specialist and long term Head of the ENT Unit until he retired from the public hospital system in 1985. He had a collaborative approach to the management of patients with complex conditions and worked well with surgeons and specialists of other disciplines. This approach led to the beginning of skull base surgery at the hospital. He inspired numerous young residents to train as ENT Surgeons. He was also responsible for the establishment of the hearing and balance investigation department at the hospital in the 1980s. This was a highly sophisticated diagnostic facility, which was the first and only one of its kind in Melbourne for many years. He served as Chairman of Medical Staff at The Alfred, he was involved in various Committees, and was a pro-active member of the Planning Group responsible for the new ward block, keen to ensure that the interests of patients and staff were best served. He served as a Member of the Board of Management from 1984 to 1987. Peter had a number of national roles in ENT. He was a Member and then Chair of the National Training Board and Examiner for final Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He was President of the Otolaryngology Society of Australia from 1977 to 1979 and later awarded Life Membership of the Australian Society of Oto-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, as it became. Peter was a member of the Royal Australian Naval Reserve for 35 years and attained the very senior rank of Surgeon Captain. During this time, he was Senior ENT Consultant to the Royal Australian Navy and long term national ENT Advisor to the Director-General of Naval Health Services. As part of his clinical role in the Navy he was involved in treating naval divers who had suffered inner ear damage in the course of their work and also produced some significant scientific publications on this condition. He earned multiple military decorations during his navy service. Peter served as Honorary Otologist and Board Member of the Victorian School for Deaf Children over many years and was made a Life Governor of The School in 1992. He had a significant international profile. He was well known and respected by a wide group of senior ENT Surgeons in the UK, Europe and America - a number of whom became his friends. He visited them when overseas at surgical conferences and was successful in having many of them come to Australia, regarded as a relatively remote destination in those days, to lecture and teach our trainees and surgeons, providing world class instruction for them at home. Over the years, his professional connections in the Northern Hemisphere enabled many young ENT surgeons to secure advanced surgical fellowships in various overseas departments in a wide range of sub-disciplines. They subsequently brought new experience and expertise back to Australia. With two or three other senior Australian ENT surgeons, Peter maintained contact in America over many years with Ms Barbara Williams, the widow of a fellow ENT Surgeon. Their long and trusted association contributed to the establishment of The Garnett Passe and Rodney Williams Memorial Foundation in Australia in the mid 1980s - a great gift to Australia. This is now one of the world's major philanthropic bodies in medicine, supporting research and practice in ENT Surgery and related fields. He served as a Trustee, Chairman of the Board and then Chairman of Trustees in his 25 years with the Foundation and was awarded their inaugural Foundation Gold Medal in 2012. Peter was awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in the year 2000 for his extensive contribution to Otolaryngology. Peter Freeman was a leader, and he led from the front. He was a force to be reckoned with, but a force for good. He has had a great influence on the specialty of ENT or Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery in Australia and this has directly and indirectly benefited many thousands of our patients. His has left an enduring legacy.
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First Title value, for Searching Macrae, Robert Cunningham Bruce (1897 - 1970)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-12
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378101378101
Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Robert Cunningham Bruce Macrae was born in New Zealand and served in the New Zealand Army Medical Corps in the first world war. He graduated in Edinburgh, and after obtaining the FRCS in 1924 he practised in Milford Haven before going out to Port Elizabeth in 1931 where he joined Dr James Gilbert in general practice. From 1940 onwards he specialized in surgery and was on the staff of the Provincial Hospital till he retired at the age of 60, though he continued to work in the ENT department of the Livingstone Hospital. He established a considerable reputation for his successful surgery and the care he took of his patients, and his good qualities were acknowledged by his colleagues in his election as President of the Medical Association. He was also keenly interested in the work of the Red Cross. In his leisure time he enjoyed golf, and also made regular big game hunting trips to Northern Rhodesia where he had the misfortune to be mauled by a wounded lion, but the injuries, which included the loss of a finger, did not prevent his return to his surgical work. He remained fully active till the time of his sudden death in 1970 at the age of 73.
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First Title value, for Searching Das Gupta, Asok Ranjan (1936 - 2018)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Sir John Temple
Publication Date 2018-06-19 2018-11-26
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381865381865
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Asok Das Gupta was a kindly and much-respected ENT surgeon in Birmingham and Walsall. He was born into a highly-educated Hindu family in Daulatpur, Bengal; his father later became professor of mathematics at the University of Calcutta. As a consequence of the Partition of India in 1947, Asok and his family were forced to migrate to Calcutta. Asok completed his schooling in West Bengal and went on to study medicine at Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College, Calcutta, qualifying in 1958. He carried out early ENT appointments in Calcutta and, having decided that this was the specialty he wished to follow, he went to England for further training. Between 1961 and 1965 he worked at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital and other hospitals in London and the south east. In 1966, he became a senior registrar, first in Wolverhampton and then at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. In 1969, he was appointed as a consultant at the Birmingham and Midland Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital and the Walsall Group of Hospitals. With the closure of the Birmingham and Midland Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital in 1988, he transferred to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Although he became widely known and respected as a head and neck cancer specialist, particularly at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, he continued to provide a full range of ENT surgery at Walsall Manor Hospital. He was not afraid to be unconventional in his specialised cancer field and the good outcomes he produced are a testament to his surgical skill and logical approach. He retired from clinical work in 2004, but continued with some outpatient clinics and undergraduate teaching for a couple of years. He was popular with colleagues, young and old, and his nursing fraternity. He was an acknowledged, inspirational teacher, but was also known for his great sensitivity and kindness. The most fitting epitaph to describe this quiet, highly professional man was as someone who was kind, caring, enthusiastic, hard-working, skillful and dependable. Just before his death he expressed a wish that he be remembered for the patient care he provided. Beyond medicine and his family, the great recreational love of his life was that most English of all sports, cricket, not only to watch, but in his younger days to play. He was survived by his widow, Anne (née Fenn), whom he married in 1970, and their two daughters, Nina and Roma.
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First Title value, for Searching O'Brien, Michael Coleman (1945 - 1975)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379006379006
Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Michael Coleman O'Brien was born in Cork on 29 April 1945 and was educated there. His father was a distinguished ear, nose and throat surgeon. He graduated in medicine at University College, Cork, in 1968 and held a house appointment at the Mercy Hospital, Cork. In 1972 he took the FRCSI and the following year the FRCS England. After a post as senior house officer at Leicester Royal Infirmary he went to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, where he worked in the ENT department for six months and then returned to general surgery. He held a research scholarship from Queen's University. In 1973 he married Deidre McGrath who was a nurse and they had one daughter. Mike O'Brien endeared himself to all northerners and showed himself to have three valuable gifts: a fine pair of hands, an excellent intellect, and a marvellous, attractive personality. The surgical world seemed to be at his feet when he developed a carcinoma of the transverse colon. He bore the knowledge of his inevitably fatal illness with tremendous dignity and courage. He died on 22 December 1975, aged 30 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Sharp, Henry Sutcliffe (1910 - 1984)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379805379805
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Henry Sutcliffe Sharp was born in Leeds in 1910 into a distinguished medical family. He was educated at Haileybury and Caius College, Cambridge, whence he graduated MB, BCh in 1936 having obtained the Conjoint Diploma in the previous year. After holding junior appointments at St Thomas's Hospital, London, and the General Hospital at Nottingham he became a Fellow in 1939. After the outbreak of war he joined the RAMC and served with the rank of Major as a specialist in diseases of the ear, nose and throat, initially in the Middle East, including Crete, and subsequently in the Head Injuries Unit at Oxford. After demobilisation he was appointed a consultant surgeon to the ear, nose and throat departments of the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, Charing Cross Hospital and Putney Hospital. His main interest was paediatric otolaryngology and he was a pioneer in the reconstruction of the auditory passages in childhood. He retired from his hospital appointments in December 1975 and sadly in the latter years of his life chronic illness greatly curtailed his interests, especially golf which was his main hobby. He was twice married and died on 17 November 1984 survived by three sons, one of whom is a doctor.
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First Title value, for Searching Waldeck, Henry John Smith (1927 - 1986)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-12
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379903379903
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Henry John Smith Waldeck was born at Oakengates, Shropshire, on 10 June 1927, the son of David Waldeck, an engineer, and his wife Annie Elizabeth, née Roberts. He was educated at Camphill Grammar School and King Edward VI High School, Birmingham, before entering the Birmingham Medical School. He qualified in 1950 and after house jobs in medicine, surgery and ENT he had two years national service in the Royal Naval Reserve. From 1963 to 1964 he held training posts in ENT in Birmingham and Edinburgh and obtained his FRCS and his ChM. In 1964 he was appointed consultant otolaryngologist to the Coventry Area Health Authority and aural surgeon to the Birmingham and Coventry Education Committees. His main interest was in the relief of conductive deafness and he carried out research in this field at the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital. He married Shirley Karen in 1968. He maintained his connection with the RNR retiring on the grounds of ill-health with the rank of Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander. His other hobbies were fishing, shooting, sailing, golf and archery. He retired in 1980 for reasons of health and died in 1986 survived by his wife and two children, Jennifer and David.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007720
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First Title value, for Searching Pickard, Brian Harold (1922 - 2018)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Michael Bagshaw
Publication Date 2018-11-19
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009400-E009499
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Brian Pickard led the ear, nose and throat department at St George’s Hospital, London, for many years, being particularly influential in establishing the new premises at Tooting on the move from Hyde Park Corner. Technically highly-skilled, his insight and compassionate care for his patients and respect for his colleagues set the highest standards to which juniors and students aspired. Brian Harold Pickard was born in London on 14 February 1922, the son of Alfred Harold Pickard (a civil servant working at South Africa House before independence) and Winifred Sarah Pickard, daughter of Thomas Cockrill, an architect. One of three boys, he went to school at Eltham College in Mottingham, Kent between 1932 and 1940. One brother was killed at the beginning of the Second World War, and it was after witnessing the death of his elder brother in a road accident at the age of ten that Brian declared that he would ensure that he would never feel so helpless again and that he would become a doctor. Qualifying with the LMSSA in November 1945, Brian graduated from Guy’s in November 1946. He initially worked at Great Ormond Street before serving in the Royal Air Force Medical Services for two years, returning to civilian hospital practice at King’s College Hospital in 1950. He was subsequently a consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon and head of department at St George’s Hospital, London, also an honorary consultant to Moorfield’s Eye Hospital, London and Dreadnought Seamen’s Hospital, Greenwich, continuing in an honorary capacity after his retirement from the NHS. Brian was appointed as an honorary consultant to L’Hôpital Français in 1964 and to the Dispensaire Français, London. For his unpaid services, he was invested as a Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite (France) in 1970. He was also a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries. He also enjoyed his role as a visiting consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon to the Island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, making two long distance sea voyages on the RMS *St Helena* on behalf of the Ministry of Overseas Development. He was held in high regard by the islanders and their medical practitioners. Whilst in the RAF, he learned to fly, thus beginning a lifelong passion and involvement with aviation and flight safety. He held a pilot’s licence for the rest of his life, including the same instrument flying qualification used by professional pilots, and regularly flew his Chipmunk or Piper aircraft to meetings throughout the UK and Europe. One epic involved a flight to Poland at the height of the Cold War to attend a congress of the European Strabismology Association – as usual Brian confounded those who said that it could not be done. He had a special interest in the effects of flight on human physiology, encouraging his junior colleagues to join him flying to assist their understanding of the aviation environment. He used his clinical acumen and surgical skills to facilitate the return to flying fitness of many grateful aviators who had feared ENT pathology might mean the end of their flying careers. Brian Pickard was secretary, then president, of the British Medical Pilots Association and for many years was an active and influential member of the General Aviation Safety Council. He was a liveryman of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators, proceeding to master in 1979, a singular honour and recognition for a non-professional aviator. For many years, he represented the Guild on the medical advisory panel of the Civil Aviation Authority. After retiring from the NHS, Brian acted as an aviation medical examiner on behalf of the Civil Aviation Authority, assessing the fitness of professional and private pilots to exercise the privileges of their licences. Sailing was Brian Pickard’s other passion, with a Snowbird berthed at Walton and Frinton Yacht Club. He was honorary medical officer to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s Walton and Frinton Lifeboat and took great pride in sponsoring and naming a buoy in the seaward channel. As commodore of the London Hospitals Sailing Club he supported and encouraged generations of medical students in their sailing activities. Modest and self-effacing, Brian’s apparent unhurried and measured pace belied a competent and timely manner; he had the ability to make the individual feel that whatever they were saying was the most important thing in the world. A gentle man, he was a deep and analytical thinker and encouraged colleagues to reflect on their practice and actions, always to consider outcomes and alternatives. Brian appreciated music and the arts and had been a keen cellist. He mentioned to his daughter that his Huguenot ancestors had been clockmakers and that operating on the ear was similarly intricate. He described himself as an artisan and not an intellectual, although his extensive library belied that suggestion. Like many, he often said that surgery was a trade and not a profession; Brian Pickard’s life demonstrated the fallacy of this assertion. He married his childhood sweetheart, Joan Daisy Packham, in 1944 and they went on to have two sons and two daughters (one of whom is the mother of Jonathan Yeo, the acclaimed portrait artist). He secondly married Diana Stokes in 1987; their daughter is a paediatrician. Brian Pickard died on 13 July 2018. He was 96. A celebration of his life was held at the Regent Street Cinema, London, in September 2018. This might be thought an unusual location for one so eminent and respected, but his elder daughter is chair of the governors at Westminster University, which owns the cinema, and Brian was by his own admission an atheist and occasional agnostic – thus entirely appropriate.
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First Title value, for Searching Williams, Richard Athelstan (1924 - 2016)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Malcolm Keene
Publication Date 2016-10-07 2018-06-12
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381437381437
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Dick Williams was a consultant ENT surgeon at the Middlesex Hospital, London. He was born in London on 10 October 1924 to General Sir Guy Charles Williams and Ruth Eleanor Williams (née Coode), the younger of two sons. His father was a professional soldier, having served with distinction in the First World War. Dick joined his parents in India in 1930, where he was looked after by a local nanny; his best friend was his pet crane. After attending boarding pre-prep and preparatory schools in the UK, he went to Marlborough. His parents lived in Sevenoaks, where the conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent was the next door neighbour and General (later Field Marshal) B L Montgomery (Monty) came to stay after his wife died. After Marlborough, he entered Clare College, Cambridge to read medicine. A request to leave to go into the Army was refused by his tutor and, at the end of the first term, he deliberately failed all his examinations and was sent down. He was soon in the Army and, after passing out as a second lieutenant, he wrote to his father's friend, Monty, and was given a special posting to France rather than to the Far East. He joined the Royal Artillery and advanced through France participating in operation Market Garden. After the Ardennes counter offensive, Montgomery and General Eisenhower visited his unit. Monty emerged from the staff car and asked for Dick Williams, the most junior officer present. The corps commanders were incandescent, but Dick was fortunately promoted to forward observation officer and was in the first Bren gun carrier to cross the Rhine on a portable Bailey bridge. Whilst in North Western Germany, he was ordered to take two 25 pounder field guns to fire red smoke shells to mark a RAF target. Entering a large field, he came under heavy machine gunfire, which killed six of his eight-man detachment. Dick and his driver, who was subsequently killed, fired two high explosive rounds at very short range, killing eight enemy soldiers and neutralising their position. He received a number of bullet wounds to his leg, sustaining a fractured femur and temporary paralysis. He was captured, operated upon by a German surgeon and eventually repatriated to a military hospital in Cambridge, where he was treated with penicillin, which probably saved his leg. There being no surviving witnesses to this action, he was not decorated but was mentioned in despatches. In hospital, his old tutor fortunately failed to recognise him and he managed to restart his studies in medicine, qualifying in 1950. After graduate training in ENT surgery at the Westminster, Bristol and the Middlesex hospitals, he was appointed in 1962 to the consultant staff of the Middlesex Hospital and the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital at Welwyn Garden City. He was also a consultant to King Edward VII's Hospital for Officers and honorary consultant otolaryngologist to the Army. He served as a member of the Court of Examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons, and the cases committee and council of the Medical Protection Society. He succeeded Sir Douglas Ranger as director of the Ferens Institute at the Middlesex Hospital, where Charles Skinner Hallpike and Margaret Dix had earlier described the pathology of Ménière's disease and Keith Bosher was researching the electrochemistry of the endolymph. With Margaret Snelling, he set up a combined ENT/radiotherapy clinic, a new idea at the time with weekly teaching sessions seeing all new patients referred to both departments. He developed an interest in hypophysectomy and for some years operated on cases of carcinoma of the breast and prostate before the era of hormone treatment and chemotherapy. Finally, trusted by John Nabarro to remove pituitary tumours, he operated on hundreds of cases of secreting and non-functioning tumours, including children with non-pneumatised sphenoids, improved the existing instrumentation for the transsphenoidal approach, and lectured and published widely in this field. A self-effacing man, he was much in demand, but declined high office in his specialty. He was a talented surgeon and patient teacher, but on occasions medical students failed to understand his dry wit or acerbic remarks. He trained a large cohort of senior registrars who were grateful for his wisdom and unfailing support. His genial kindness emerged with acquaintance. He married Sheelagh Mary Rainsford, a Middlesex physiotherapist, in 1959 and they had two daughters, Sally Ruth and Rebecca Jane, and five grandchildren (Thomas, James, Connie, Laura and George). They divorced in 1984. He enjoyed travelling in Europe, USA, the Far East and Australasia, where he had many friends. He played golf extremely well with antiquated clubs and also enjoyed water sports during his annual holiday in Greece. At the age of 59 he learnt to fly in upstate New York and piloted himself to JFK Airport for the commercial flight home. A skilled pilot, he kept a Grumman AA5 at Panshanger Aerodrome and regularly flew to Europe to attend meetings of his travelling club. His enthusiasm for aviation continued after his licence was withdrawn due to cardiac disease and he lived with a pacemaker for over 20 years. After retirement, he settled in Goring-on-Thames, where he made new friends and was active in the local photographic society and the village hall committee. He became a proficient bridge player and travelled on ice-breakers to both the Arctic and Antarctic. His penchant for the latest technology did not diminish and he continued to enjoy sporty cars and gadgets. He died suddenly at home on 13 August 2016. He was 91.
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First Title value, for Searching Buffin, John Terence (1930 - 2015)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Peter Bull
Publication Date 2015-12-10 2016-12-08
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381194381194
Occupation ENT surgeon Specialist in medical audiology
Details John Terence Buffin, always known as 'Terry', was an ENT surgeon in Chesterfield and Sheffield, and subsequently a distinguished consultant in medical audiology in Sheffield. He was one of the pioneers of that specialty, recognised for his published contributions to the accurate diagnosis of noise-induced deafness and the management of intractable tinnitus, as well as his care for the deaf in South Yorkshire and north Derbyshire. Terry was born in Cheltenham on 29 August 1930 to Albert Thomas Buffin ('Tom'), a greengrocer, and Annie (née Cutts), a teacher, and attended Cheltenham Grammar School from 1941 to 1948. He went up to Pembroke College, Oxford as a Townsend scholar, continuing at Oxford Clinical Medical School from 1952 to 1955. He graduated with a BA in animal physiology and biochemistry in 1952, and gained his medical degree in 1955. During his appointments as a house physician and house surgeon in ENT surgery at Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary, he met and married Joan Lawrence, originally from Llay in north Wales, then a staff nurse. Following a further appointment in ENT surgery in High Wycombe, he carried out his National Service in the Army as a junior ENT specialist with the rank of captain at Catterick. Following his National Service, Terry completed his training in ENT surgery in Aylesbury and High Wycombe, Wrexham, Manchester Royal Infirmary and at the United Sheffield Hospitals, where he was a senior registrar from 1965 to 1967. He was appointed as a consultant in ENT surgery to the United Sheffield Hospitals and Chesterfield Royal Hospital in May 1967. In 1976 he relinquished his post in Chesterfield to work entirely in Sheffield at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, and the Sheffield Children's Hospital, before retiring in 1994. He was an honorary clinical lecturer in audiological medicine at the University of Sheffield from 1976 to 1994, having previously held a similar position in the department of diseases of the ear, nose and throat from 1967. His work in medical audiology was widely recognised; he undertook early work in transtympanic electrocochleography with John Stevens of the department of medical physics, both for threshold estimation and for diagnostic purposes, and was an early pioneer with him of electric response audiometry and the use of click-evoked otoacoustic emissions in the diagnosis of neonatal hearing loss. In addition to his paediatric clinical work, he was the joint author of several important papers on the diagnostic criteria for noise-induced hearing loss used widely in medico-legal proceedings. He joined his surgical colleagues in starting cochlear implantation in Sheffield in its early days, but the surgical element had to be discontinued with the introduction of the national implant programme, although the department continued to provide the post-operative rehabilitation in Sheffield. His expertise and his dedication to the cause of deafness led to his appointment as president of the Sheffield Deaf Children's Society and of the Sheffield Tinnitus Association and as a governor of the Maud Maxfield School for the Deaf and, after its closure, to Greystones School, which housed an integrated facility for deaf and hearing-impaired children. He was medical adviser and chairman of the professional advisory committee of the British Tinnitus Association and a council member of the British Association of Otorhinolaryngologists (now ENT UK). He served both as secretary and president of the North of England Otolaryngology Society and taught regularly on the audiology courses run by the University of Nottingham. Terry and Joan, who predeceased him in 2012, had three sons - Andrew, an oil exploration geologist; Michael, a cardiac bypass pump technologist; and David, an environmental scientist. They had five grandchildren, one of whom (Oliver) has followed Terry into medicine. Terry and Joan were skilled and enthusiastic gardeners, and opened their garden for charitable causes. They travelled extensively, including a flight to New York on Concorde, and were knowledgeable lovers of art galleries and museums. They took part in amateur dramatics and had a large circle of friends from Theatre Focus in Sheffield. A cultured polymath, Terry was a pianist and organist, and a linguist with a sound knowledge of French and Italian, as well as Anglo-Saxon, Latin and Greek. In retirement, he joined a philosophical discussion group, an interest which persisted until his final days. This prompted him to write a monograph - *An essay on hearing* - which was a distillation of his views on perception and the nature of sound and hearing. He read avidly, particularly political biographies, had a large collection of such books and was a ready source of recondite information and learning. In recent years, he joined an amateur choir in the Peak District village of Hathersage, having been formerly a member of the Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus. His last years were affected both by the loss of Joan, for whom he had cared lovingly, and by the illness of his son David, who became very disabled following a dissecting aortic aneurysm, and who for his last four years he would visit weekly in London, taking immense pleasure in every improvement that David made. He bore these tribulations with great resolve and optimism. Terry Buffin died peacefully in St Luke's Hospice in Sheffield on 24 October 2015 following a short illness. He was 85. His intellect and his calm happy personality are missed by his family and friends.
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First Title value, for Searching Duff, John Keitley (1935 - 2019)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Johan Fagan
Publication Date 2020-08-12 2020-11-23
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009700-E009799
Occupation Otorhinolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details John Duff was an ENT surgeon in Cape Town, South Africa. He was born in Golders Green in London. He recorded on his *Lives of the Fellows* biographical form that: ‘Amazingly the exact date of my birth is confused. My father who registered it quotes 20.3.35. My mother claims it to be 21.3.35. Of no significance except 20.3 is Pisces & 21.3 is Aries which has been a conscionable social disability!’ His father, Keith Keitley Duff, was a gynaecologist in Harley Street, who moved his family to Nairobi, Kenya after the Second World War. His mother was Florence Olive Duff née Reed. John attended Glenalmond College Boarding School in Perthshire, Scotland, and then proceeded to study medicine at Guy’s Hospital in London, qualifying in 1958. He subsequently undertook ENT training at King George VI Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya from 1958 to 1964, and was awarded the diploma in laryngology and otology in 1963. He gained his FRCS in 1965. In Kenya, he worked with Peter Clifford, a pioneer in the fields of Burkitt’s lymphoma and nasopharyngeal cancer. Together, they published the results of novel research relating to the use of methotrexate, and reportedly performed the first bone marrow transplant in Africa. John then took up a senior consultant position in Barbados in the West Indies (from 1965 to 1968). He related how he gained a large stapedectomy experience as the West Indies had a virgin population of otosclerosis patients. He showed us how he used to fashion a stapedectomy piston from a wire and would crimp the end around a piece of fat or fascia. He was once called upon to attend to Princess Margaret, who was recuperating in Barbados with Lord Snowdon following a tonsillectomy she had undergone in London. Despite the perfect weather in the West Indies, he missed the change of seasons in Africa and the UK. He relocated to Johannesburg, South Africa and shortly thereafter to Pietermaritzburg. There he held positions both in private practice and at the Edendale Public Hospital. John was a born teacher and loved training junior doctors at Edendale. In Pietermaritzburg, John met Pamela, who was to become his third wife. They moved to Cape Town in 1986, where she had been appointed headmistress of Herschel Girls’ School. He became a senior specialist at Groote Schuur and Red Cross War Memorial Children’s hospitals and a senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town, positions he held until his retirement in 1995. John ran the medical student ENT training programme at the University of Cape Town. He managed to reduce the ENT curriculum to 10 key points that students had to know to pass their block exam, one of which was that ‘a child with a runny ear and facial nerve palsy has TB until proven otherwise’. When Blom and Singer first wrote about voice prostheses to restore speech in laryngectomy patients in the early 1980s, John unsuccessfully tried to fashion a prosthesis using the tip of a Foley catheter, but subsequently proceeded to pioneer fistula speech in South Africa with speech therapist Roslyn Lentin. The authors were both ENT registrars to John Duff at Groote Schuur Hospital and remember him as a wonderfully inspiring teacher, a versatile surgeon with a great pair of hands, a raconteur, an excellent cook and lover of good food and wine, and a gardener with a large collection of orchids. John’s experiences and advice on practice management, which he acquired whilst in private practice, were extremely helpful to those of us who entered private practice. John was a keen sportsman. He played rugby for Guy’s Hospital and captained the West Indies rugby team. John was a regular golfer and captained the University of Cape Town ENT department golf team, which he aptly named ‘the ENT Bogies’ in the interdepartmental golf days. Our team was often the winner of this annual event, mostly due to John’s positive encouragement, his golfing skill and his fiercely competitive spirit. John and Pamela were most gracious hosts, often inviting the entire department to a seafood extravaganza evening at their home. We would arrive at their home to the sight of John with apron on standing over a pot of mussels and cooking up a storm. He would share the recipes, many of which are still used in our own kitchens to this day. These seafood evenings would often be preceded by John doing a slide show of his latest overseas trip, which kept us all thoroughly entertained. Following his retirement in 1995, Pamela and John moved to Greyton, a small village 85 miles from Cape Town. There he enjoyed country life, tended to his orchids, read widely, played golf and served on the Greyton Conservation Society committee and the Greyton Nature Reserve advisory board. In tributes from colleagues and friends following John’s death, reference is made to his surgical prowess, his sound clinical judgement, his inspirational teaching, and his broad interests outside of medicine. John was married three times. In 1957, he married Julia Mary Wilson. They had a daughter, Karen, and a son, Jonathan, and divorced in 1968. In 1969, he married Maureen Snow. His third wife was Pamela Macdonald. John died on 28 August 2019 at the age of 84 and is keenly missed by Pamela, his daughter and son, his stepdaughters Fiona and Shelagh, and all their families.
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First Title value, for Searching Head, Peter Warren (1924 - 2013)

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by R Peter Craig
Publication Date 2014-01-10 2014-02-24
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Occupation ENT surgeon Naval surgeon
Details Surgeon captain Peter Warren Head was an ENT consultant in the Royal Navy. He was born on 4 October 1924. He trained at Guy's, qualifying MB BS in 1948, and then held house posts at Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester, including a six-month appointment in ear, nose and throat surgery. In 1950 he joined the Royal Navy, and promptly went to Bickleigh barracks near Plymouth to undertake training to join the Royal Marines. He passed, achieving his 'green beret', and became regimental medical officer of 41 Independent Commando on its deployment to Korea alongside the US Marines under General McCarthy, during the advance into what is now North Korea. The unit lost 31 soldiers and 95 were wounded. During this period Peter gained extensive experience of the injuries of war. On his return from Korea, he renewed his interest in ENT and proceeded to take the diploma in laryngology and otology at the Royal College of Surgeons, in 1954. He was graded a junior specialist and continued his career in the Royal Navy, with postings to the Royal Naval Hospital at Haslar, on the tip of the Gosport peninsular, and also at the Royal Naval hospitals at Chatham and Portland as a specialist in ENT, followed by a three-year posting to Malta. He took a great interest in the introduction of microsurgical techniques in ENT and he pursued this with attachments in both France and at St Thomas' Hospital, London. He then introduced these techniques to the hospital at Haslar. In 1968, at the venerable age of 44, Peter gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, at his first attempt, paving his way to senior specialist and consultant status. This was a formidable achievement considering that he had done no actual general surgical training since being a student, although his experience in Korea must have helped. He continued in the Royal Navy, including a posting as medical officer in charge of the Royal Naval Hospital at Haslar, considered for most of its history as the premier military hospital in the Royal Navy. To command it was undoubtedly a sign of singular recognition by the Sea Lords and also demonstrated the respect that was afforded him by the hospital staff. As medical officer in charge he managed to install a striking ship's figurehead by the main gate of the hospital, where it remains today. He was made an honorary surgeon to The Queen, which entailed him being present and on medical duty at a number of functions at Buckingham Palace. He wrote numerous publications, all specifically related to ENT problems in the military, including papers on temporary and permanent loss of hearing after exposure to sound. He retired from the Royal Navy in 1982, but remained very keen to follow his clinical specialty. He went on to take civilian medical practitioner consultant ENT posts at military hospitals in Münster and Berlin. By all accounts he was meticulous and methodical in his approach to both clinical and administrative problems, almost a perfectionist, and always insisted on developing and maintaining high standards. He was intelligent, had a quick mind, and had a strong sense of duty. He got the best out of his people by setting a strong personal example. Throughout his career he was famed for always being able to clear his desk before finishing for the day. His wife Betty was a marvellous support during his career. They had one son. Sadly, his wife predeceased him and he missed her enormously. Peter died on 26 November 2013, at the age of 89.
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First Title value, for Searching Thomas, Richard Stephen Alban (1940 - 2016)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Richard Maw
Publication Date 2017-12-13 2018-02-21
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Occupation ENT surgeon Otolaryngologist otorhinolaryngologist
Details Stephen Thomas (or 'Steve' as he was known to his friends) was a consultant ENT surgeon at Leicester Royal Infirmary. He was born in Cardiff on 12 July 1940 to Hector Thomas, a consultant otolayrngologist at Cardiff Royal Infirmary, and Enid Thomas, a Welsh hockey international. He attended Radley College, where he distinguished himself academically and excelled as a sportsman, playing in the rugby, cricket, squash, golf and hockey first teams. He captained the hockey team in 1958. After Radley, he went up to Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he read natural sciences. In 1961, he commenced his clinical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where subsequently he held preregistration house appointments. Steve opted to follow his father into a career as an ear, nose and throat surgeon. He began his higher surgical training as an ENT registrar at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, Grays Inn Road, London. There he worked for a range of surgeons with varying sub-specialty interests. His senior registrar training was at St Bartholomew's Hospital. At that time, the appointment involved general and sub-specialty ENT surgery at Bart's and attachments to the Royal Marsden Hospital, Fulham Road and to the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square. These attachments provided considerable higher surgical and medical training in head and neck surgical oncology and neuro-otology respectively. During his senior registrar training he spent a year as a senior ENT resident at Kingston General Hospital, Ontario, Canada. In 1975, he was appointed as a consultant ENT surgeon at Leicester Royal Infirmary. Ultimately, he became clinical director for surgery at the Infirmary. He was an examiner in ENT surgery for the University of Leicester and also examiner for the FRCS (otolaryngology) at the Royal College of Surgeons. With that role, he was also a member of the working party on the 'new style' MRCS examination. He examined for the College both at home and abroad. Steve supported international ENT training by virtue of his appointment at St George's University, Grenada between 1999 and 2011 as both a tutor and examiner. This included becoming chair of surgery at St George's in 2004. At home in Leicester, he served on both district and regional ENT committees. He was a member of the Visiting Association of Throat and Ear Surgeons of Great Britain, becoming honorary secretary for eight years. The Association carried out annual visits to ENT departments in the United Kingdom and abroad, fostering a network of inter-departmental contacts which assisted teaching and training for trainees. In addition to his clinical and teaching roles, Steve gave particular interest and support to the Leicestershire Hospice LOROS. He served as a member of the board and later became chairman, serving from 2005 to 2010. Like his mother, Steve was also an international hockey player. During his early training, he achieved 14 caps for Wales. His sporting expertise led to his appointment as an honorary medical officer to the Great Britain men's hockey team between 1978 and 1987. Subsequently, he was appointed as an honorary ENT specialist to the British Olympic Association, attending the Olympics in Los Angeles, Seoul and Barcelona. In 1967 Steve married Sally Cousins, a Bart's nurse. They had a son, Matthew, and a daughter, Katie. Between them there are now five granddaughters. As a colleague and friend, Steve ranked in the highest echelon for solidarity, support, generosity, charm and good humour. He was a joy to be with and was a formidable opponent at any particular sport in which he chose to be involved. Tragically his last years were blighted by progressive supranuclear palsy. This malign condition he withstood with typical resolve and fortitude. Stephen Hume died on 8 July 2016. He was 75.
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First Title value, for Searching Permewan, William (1865 - 1926)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-26 2022-06-01
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon Politician
Details Born at Redruth, the son of John Permewan and Jane Permewan née Thomas. Both his father and his older brother Arthur Edward Permewan were medical practitioners. He studied at University College Hospital, and was then Resident Surgeon to the Miners’ Hospital, Redruth. In 1887 he went to Liverpool, where he became Surgeon to the David Lewis Northern Hospital and Northern Dispensary. Later he took up laryngology, and was Surgeon to the Throat and Ear Department of the Southern Hospital and to the Southport Infirmary. In 1914 he was appointed Lecturer in Laryngology to the University of Liverpool, and he wrote much on diseases of the nose, throat, and ear. He practised at 31 Rodney Street, but he became chiefly known as a politician on the City Council, representing the Abereromby Ward from 1901-1907. In 1910 as a Liberal and Home Ruler he fought one of the keenest political battles in the history of Liverpool against the Unionist Candidate, F E Smith, later Lord Birkenhead. He wrote articles in the *Fortnightly Review*, and failed in a second attempt to enter Parliament. Later as an old-fashioned Liberal he supported Conservative candidates against Socialists. Permewan was a brilliant conversationalist and debated with a splendid voice which, if he had trained, might have gained him a reputation as a singer. During the War (1914-1918) he served as Captain RAMC (T) at the Western General Hospital. After six months of ill health he died on March 9th, 1926, and his funeral was attended by the Lord Mayor of Liverpool and other dignitaries. He was survived by his widow, Stella, a sister of the chemist and politician Sir Max Muspratt, whom he married in 1901. They had a brilliant daughter, Gwendolen Philippa, who died seven weeks before her father, and a son, William Muspratt.
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First Title value, for Searching Watson, Donald (1887 - 1957)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-16
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377669377669
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born on 7 July 1887 at Thames, North Island, New Zealand the son of John Watson and his wife Mary Pascoe, he was at school at Thames and at Wellington and then entered the civil service. Soon however he came to the medical school at Edinburgh, and qualified in 1911. During the first world war he served in the RAMC in India and the East, and then returned to Edinburgh. After acting as assistant to Sir Harold Stiles from 1919 to 1922 he decided to specialise as a laryngologist and accepted the post of assistant surgeon to the Royal Eye and Ear Hospital, Bradford. Watson spent the rest of his life at Bradford and played a leading part in professional affairs. He was treasurer of the Bradford division of the British Medical Association for many years and its President three times between 1939 and 1947. He was also President of the North of England Otolaryngological Society and of the section of otology in the Royal Society of Medicine. He was the first chairman of the Laryngologists Group in the British Medical Association, and was secretary of the laryngology and otology section when the Association met at Bradford in 1924 and a vice-president at Cambridge in 1948. When the National Health Service was established in 1948, Watson was appointed to the Leeds Regional Hospital Board and became chairman of its medical services committee and a representative governor of the United Leeds Hospitals; he was also chairman of the Leeds regional consultants committee. Watson was a rugged and robust individualist who always spoke his mind, but kept warm friendship with many men with whom he disagreed. He was a man of boyish enthusiasm in his work and his recreations, the chief of which were golf, shooting, and fishing. Watson married on 4 July 1914 Jean Craigen Hendry, who survived him with their daughter. He retired from his hospital appointments in 1952, and died at 3 Park Drive, Heaton, Bradford, Yorkshire on 28 March 1957 aged 69. He had lived earlier at 33 Manor Row, Bradford.
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First Title value, for Searching Winston, Percy (1922 - 1978)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-14
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379239379239
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Percy Winston, the second child and only son of Joseph Winston, a furrier, was born in London on 5 February 1922. He was educated at the Grocers' Company Grammar School and then went to the London Hospital Medical College. He qualified in 1945 and took several resident appointments before entering the Royal Air Force Medical Service from 1948 serving as a surgical specialist with the rank of Squadron Leader. On demobilisation, after taking the FRCS in 1951, he was appointed senior registrar in the ENT department at St George's Hospital and then first assistant in the professorial unit at the Institute of Laryngology and Otology. He also served as clinical assistant at the National Hospital Queen Square. After initial appointment as consultant ENT surgeon at the Brentwood group of hospitals from 1959 to 1964 he became consultant at Edgware General Hospital and King George Hospital, Ilford. He was a member of the Association of Otolaryngologists and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, whilst his considerable interest in rhinoplasty led to him becoming a founder member and first Vice-President of the European Academy of Facial, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He gained considerable experience in reconstructive nasal surgery and it gave him great pleasure to communicate his skills and experience to others through courses and demonstrations at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital. He had the reputation for treating his patients and his colleagues with dedication and generosity and was readily available to them. He was a keen gardener in Hampstead and passionately fond of walking on the Heath. He had a deep interest in art and was a regular visitor to art galleries abroad: he was also an accomplished cook. He married Dr Margaret Robson in 1956 and they had a son and daughter. His wife predeceased him in 1976 and, when he died at the age of 55 on 21 January 1978, he was survived by his two children.
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First Title value, for Searching Crooks, James (1901 - 1980)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-25
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378595378595
Occupation ENT surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Born on 2 October 1901, Crooks graduated in Edinburgh. He moved to London working first as house physician and casualty officer at Great Ormond Street and then, in 1929, as resident medical superintendent. He had taken his FRCS the previous year, and came under the influence of Denis Browne when paediatric surgery was an exciting new specialty. At first he intended to follow a general surgical career, but in 1931 the opportunity of a consultant post at Great Ormond Street led him into ENT surgery, which became his lifelong study. He had a great rapport with children which, combined with his deft technique enabled him to carry out many examinations and therapeutic manoeuvres under local anaesthesia. He was a pioneer in the treatment of the infected antrum, and was a skilled but selective tonsillectomist in an era when wholesale tonsillectomy was the fashion. He built up a large and successful practice, which included several members of the Royal Family. He was appointed CVO in 1958. When the Hospital for Sick Children was being rebuilt in the 1930s he was much involved in planning the main block with the architect, not only concerned with the main concepts but also with details of cleanliness, control of infection, nursing supervision and facilities for parents. Much of what he initiated has become standard practice. Though the war held up development for many years he continued, as Chairman of the Building Committee from 1948 to his retirement in 1967, to guide the formation of the present hospital. He married first in 1931 Irene Heath, painter and writer, by whom he had two daughters. In 1970 he married Caroline Woollcombe. He was himself a lover of the arts and an amateur painter of distinction. In his retirement he extended hospitality to his old friends from Great Ormond Street and exercised his surgical craftsmanship in his workshop on the care of an ancient Rolls-Royce. He died on 16 April, 1980.
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First Title value, for Searching Keene, Reginald (1897 - 1975)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-16
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Occupation ENT surgeon General practitioner General surgeon
Details Reginald Keene was born in Islington, London, on 11 September 1897, the son of a chief administrative officer of the LCC Mental Hospitals' Department, and used to visit Oulton Broad on holiday as a child. A foundation scholar of Highgate Grammar School, he passed his first MB in 1915 but shortly afterwards volunteered for the Army and was sent to France as a platoon commander in the 13th Middlesex Regiment with the rank of Lieutenant. He spent some time at the front, until August 1918, but was then ordered home to complete his medical training. He qualified from St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1924 and in 1925 joined Dr James Taylor in Lowestoft in general practice. He was appointed surgeon to the ENT department at Lowestoft Hospital in 1927, took the FRCS in 1932, and continued to practise as a general practitioner-surgeon until 1963. During the second world war he was working as an EMS surgeon at Bodmin. For many years he devoted himself to local government affairs and became a senior alderman and in turn deputy mayor and chairman of various committees. A keen angler, (he caught a salmon weighing 54 1/4 lbs in Norway), and gardener, he was president of the local piscatorial and dahlia societies. He had a dahlia named after him. He was also foundation member of the Lowestoft Rotary Club and a past-captain of the local golf club. On his retirement in 1970, after 45 years in general practice, a large number of patients gathered to pay him tribute, and he was long remembered as a kind, extremely capable general practitioner and surgeon. He was a member of Council of the BMA in 1938-9 and for many years served as honorary secretary of the North Suffolk Division. He married Edith Winifred Davies in 1926 and she predeceased him. They had one son and one daughter who is a doctor and married to a general practitioner. He died on 5 January 1975, aged 77 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Eiron (1921 - 1996)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-15
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380298380298
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Eiron Jones was born on 6 June 1921 in Putney, London, of Welsh parents. His father, John, was a master dairyman and his mother was Mary Jane, née Davey. He was educated at Latymer Upper School, and this was followed by medical training at the London Hospital Medical College between 1940 and 1945, during which time he was awarded an honorary certificate in clinical surgery in 1942. After qualification he held junior house surgical appointments at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and the West London Hospital, Hammersmith, between 1945 and 1946. His training continued as senior casualty officer at Queen Mary's Hospital, Stratford, and as junior surgical registrar at the London Hospital. Subsequently he moved to Wales as senior surgical registrar at Cardiff Royal Infirmary, and this led to his appointment as consultant ENT surgeon to the Caernarfonshire and Anglesey Infirmary in North Wales (now Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor). He was very proud of his roots in Welsh farming stock in Cardiganshire, and was honoured by a couplet written for him by the Archdruid of Wales: *Daeth yntau at boenau'n byd A'i foddion a'i gelfyddyd* He brought to the suffering of our world His physic and his skill He was a committed supporter of the National Health Service and devoted his life to his patients and his professional work. He was especially convinced that there should be active involvement of clinicians in management responsibilities, and he took a lead in this with several administrative posts. He retired from clinical practice at the age of 67 in 1988. In 1946, he married Mabel, a nurse, and they had a daughter, Mair Rhiannon, who became a pharmacist at Ysbyty Gwynedd, and two sons, Rowlan Llewelyn and John Roderic, who became involved in the television industry. His main interests were walking and swimming, and he also enjoyed studying the Welsh language and politics. He died of prostate cancer on 1 March 1996.
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First Title value, for Searching Roddie, Robert Kenneth (1923 - 2004)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-10-19
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Kenneth Roddie was an ENT consultant surgeon in Bristol. He was born in Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, on 30 August 1923, the son of John Richard Wesley, a Methodist minister, and Mary Hill Wilson. The family had a strong medical tradition – over three generations there were 23 doctors, and all three of Kenneth’s brothers studied medicine. He was educated at the Methodist College, Belfast, and at Queen’s University, Belfast. He received his early training in ENT surgery at the Royal Victoria and Belfast City Hospitals. He was often the only junior doctor in a large and busy unit, having to cope with an enormous throughput of patients requiring various ENT procedures, mainly tonsillectomy or mastoidectomy. This huge workload gave him the clinical acumen and surgical skill that later characterised his work. He was appointed senior registrar at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London, in 1957 and in 1960 was appointed consultant ENT surgeon at Southmead and Frenchay Hospitals, Bristol. He was later head of the department of otorhinolaryngology at Bristol University and consultant in charge of the Bristol Hearing and Speech Centre. He was also a consultant aurist to the Civil Service commissioners. He retired from the NHS in 1990, but continued in private practice at St Mary’s Hospital. His hobbies were golf, travel, painting and his garden. He married Anne née Mathews, also a doctor, in 1957 and they had a daughter, Alison, who has followed her parents into medicine, and two sons. There are five grandchildren. His wife predeceased him in 1997, a loss from which he never fully recovered. He died on 29 February 2004, from a heart attack.
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First Title value, for Searching Bland, Nicholas Chandos (1932 - 2005)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-11-22
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Nicholas Chandos Bland was a consultant ENT surgeon in Birmingham. He was born in Birmingham in 1932. His mother was Alice Harvey, Birmingham born and bred. He stayed in the city to study medicine, qualifying in 1956, and gaining his diploma in child health in 1959. After qualifying, he was resident at various Birmingham hospitals, including Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Birmingham General Hospital. He developed a great interest in audiology and was responsible for establishing the Centre for Hearing Impaired at Western Road, providing a hearing aid service and hearing tests for a vast number of patients. He played a very active part in the assessment of deaf children, both at Birmingham Children’s Hospital and aural services at Birmingham City Council. His interest in audiology was recognised by the British Association of Audiology, which elected him as their chairman. In 1967 he was jointly awarded the Alexander Wherner Piggott fellowship. He was a well-read man, with a passion for trivia, even remembering the timetable for rail services in Hong Kong! He was a member of the Edgbaston Convention Rotary Club and took an active part when able to do so. Following pancreatitis, he developed diabetes, which went out of control in the latter part of his life, giving rise to retinopathy, leading to early retirement as he could no longer carry out microsurgery. He was married to Hazel and they had two sons, Adrian and Symon. He died on 9 November 2005.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000426
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First Title value, for Searching Mole, Harold Frederic (1867 - 1917)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-22
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374921374921
Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Studied at the Bristol Medical School in 1884 and at the Royal Infirmary, where he won the Tibbits Memorial Prize for Practical Surgery, then at St Bartholomew's Hospital. After acting as House Surgeon, House Physician, and Anaesthetist at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, also as Curator of the Museum, he was subsequently Resident Medical Officer from 1895-1902. From 1879 there was an informal clinic for treatment of diseases of the ear; Mole was elected Assistant Surgeon in charge of the Aural Department in 1902, in connection with which he made some models of the labyrinth in fusible metal, and was an active member of the Otological Society, which became later a Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, on which he served as a Member of Council. He became Surgeon to the Infirmary in 1909, relinquishing his charge of the Ear Department, and was Teacher of Clinical Surgery in the University of Bristol until 1916. Asthma had afflicted him from childhood and had seriously handicapped his professional career, yet he was able, in addition to other work, to act as Secretary to the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society from 1903-1907. He had held for two months in 1914 a commission in the RAMC (T), but was obliged to resign on account of ill health. He also resigned in 1916 his post of Surgeon to the Infirmary. He died at 24 College Road, Clifton, Bristol, on December 21st, 1917. He had married in 1913 and was survived by his widow and two sons; a daughter was born posthumously.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002738
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First Title value, for Searching Dickinson, Harold Bertie (1869 - 1943)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-01
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Born on 16 March 1869 at Stoneycroft, Green Lane, Liverpool, the fourth child and second son of John Edward Dickinson, owner of the Liver Block Works, Peter's Lane, Liverpool, and Elizabeth Humphreys, his wife. He was educated at the Merchant Taylor's School, Great Crosby, Liverpool and at Liverpool University College, then a constituent of the Victoria University, where he won medals in botany, surgery, anatomy, physiology, and midwifery and the Harvey Gibson prize, and took honours at his qualification. He completed his medical training at St Bartholomew's and at the Rotunda, Dublin. After serving as house surgeon at Bootle Borough Hospital, he was for a period resident medical officer of the Liverpool Lock Hospital, house surgeon and house physician in the Thornton wards for diseases of women at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary, and assistant laryngologist, aurist, and ophthalmologist in the infirmary. He was then appointed assistant surgeon to the Liverpool Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital and surgeon to the Birkenhead Borough Hospital. In 1900 he settled in practice at Hereford, first at 21 King's Road and afterwards at Greyfriars. Dickinson married on 18 February 1911 Ellen Peto Yetts, who survived him with two daughters. After retiring Dickinson lived at Tannachie, West Malvern, Worcestershire. During the second world war he served on the medical examination board for recruits at Worcester till within a short time of his death, which took place at West Malvern on 12 January 1943.
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First Title value, for Searching Kander, Herbert Sigmund (1911 - 1961)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-07
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Occupation Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Born on 27 February 1911 at Karlsruhe, Herbert Sigmund Kander came from a family with a strong medical tradition. He studied medicine at the Universities of Vienna and Munich, but was obliged by the Nazi tyranny to leave Germany before graduating, and came to England in 1933 at the age of 22. He studied at St Mary's Hospital, and qualified in 1937. After serving as house surgeon at St Mary's, Kander became interested in otolaryngology and during the next two years was a registrar in the ear nose and throat departments of St Mary's and Queen Mary's Hospitals, and at Golden Square Throat Hospital. During the war he was in general practice at Stafford, and in 1946 was appointed consultant surgeon in otolaryngology to the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital, where he made his mark. He was particularly interested in treatment of deafness, for which he organised special clinics at Coventry. Kander achieved much in spite of recurrent illness. He had charm, humour, and enthusiasm. He died suddenly at 35 Morningside, Coventry on 17 November 1961 aged 50, survived by his wife Dr Edith Kander, who had been part-time Medical Officer of Health for Coventry and Warwickshire, and by their daughter and son, a medical student at St Mary's. Publications: An unusual case of cerebellar abscess, with W Wallchurch. *J Laryngol* 1944, 59, 223. Treatment of deafness and recurrent otitis media with x-rays, jointly with K Sicher. *Lancet* 1950, 2, 672. Three cases of respiratory paralysis treated by pressure breathing through a tracheotomy, with J F Galpine. *J Laryngol* 1957, 71, 123.
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First Title value, for Searching Munby, William Maxwell (1881 - 1968)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-18
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details William Munby was born in North Shields on 22 May 1881 and received his medical education at Edinburgh University where he qualified in 1904. He became house surgeon to the Central London Ear Nose and Throat Hospital and senior house surgeon to the Cancer Hospital, Fulham Road. Later he held the appointment of resident aural officer at the General Infirmary, Leeds. He also studied at the London Hospital, Berlin and Vienna. When the first world war started he joined the RAMC and afterwards was appointed to Leeds General Infirmary in 1918, and became clinical lecturer in diseases of the ear, nose and throat there. He also served as otologist to the Ministry of Pensions and the Dewsbury District General Infirmary. He practised at 25 Park Square, Leeds. Munby retired in 1947 when he went to live at Lydney in the Forest of Dean, moving later to Wantage and finally returning to Leeds for the last years of his life. He was always considerate, careful and thorough in his work and was most successful with his patients and was affectionately known as "Buster". His recreations were gardening, music and the study of church architecture. He was also a skilled mechanic and craftsman who loved servicing his household equipment and his cars with his own hand; he was also an excellent cook. For many years he was President of the West Riding Branch of the graduates of Edinburgh University. He died in the General Infirmary, Leeds on 11 April 1968, aged 86, and was survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Thompson, Guy Lawrence (1897 - 1970)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-20
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Guy Lawrence Thompson was born in Scarborough on 26 October 1897, the son of a local practitioner. He was educated at Winchester College and served in the Royal Field Artillery in the first world war. On demobilization he went to Trinity College Cambridge and took his BA in 1920, and then went to the London Hospital for his clinical course, qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1923, and graduating MA and MB BCh in 1925. In the same year he obtained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons. Thompson then joined his father in practice in Scarborough and in 1930 he was appointed honorary consultant surgeon to the Scarborough Hospital. In 1948 he became ear, nose and throat surgeon to the Scarborough, Malton and Whitby group of hospitals, and served on their management committee from 1948 till 1961. He was also honorary secretary of the Scarborough Division of the BMA from 1928 till 1938, and Chairman from 1945 till 1949. He was appreciated as a colleague for his integrity, forthrightness and humour, and by his patients for the kindly way in which he listened to their problems. He took a special interest in the education of children and was on the governing bodies of a number of schools. He had a very happy home life, and when he died aged 72 on 12 April 1970 at his retirement home at Hutton-le-Hole, after some years of failing health, he was survived by his wife, their son and two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Ashcroft, Dudley Walker (1904 - 1963)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-20
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born on 21 November 1904 son of Peter Ashcroft he was educated at Knox College and the University of Otago, New Zealand. He came to the United Kingdom for postgraduate study in 1931, after his home town of Napier in North Island had been devastated by an earthquake. He was appointed otological registrar and first assistant in the ear nose and throat department of the Middlesex Hospital, and Bernhard Baron research scholar at the Ferens Institute of Otolaryngology, where he came under the influence of Somerville Hastings and F J Cleminson. In 1939 he was appointed registrar to the ear nose and throat department of the Westminster Hospital. During the war of 1939-45 he served with the RAMC as a specialist in otology and was mentioned in dispatches. During the later part of this service he was stationed at Bari at the time of the explosion of munition ships in the harbour, as a result of which he suffered from traumatic deafness which progressed over the years. After the war he returned to the Westminster Hospital, and later also held appointments at the Westminster Children's Hospital and the Chelsea Hospital for Women. Ashcroft was a keen sportsman and an able cricketer, and at the time of his death was president of the Westminster Hospital Cricket Club. He married first in 1937 Enid Jessie, daughter of James Patrick; there was one son of the marriage. His wife died in 1956, and in 1957 he married secondly Nancy Clarke, who survived him. Ashcroft died suddenly at his home at Horsham on 7 May 1963.
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First Title value, for Searching Monkhouse, John Parry (1899 - 1968)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-18
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details John Parry Monkhouse was born on 18 December 1899. He did the medical course at St Mary's Hospital and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1925, proceeding to the London degree the following year. After house appointments he soon began to specialize in otolaryngology, and after taking the FRCS in 1928 he was appointed to the staff of the Middlesex Hospital, and also to the Throat Hospital, Golden Square and the King Edward Memorial Hospital, Ealing. Though he always retained a proper affection for St Mary's, once he was appointed to the Middlesex that hospital became the chief element in his life and he devoted his characteristically meticulous attention to all its affairs. His interest in minute detail was shown in his hobby of watchmaking, and also in the real pleasure he derived from either repairing or devising new surgical instruments. It was also natural that he should have excelled in the microsurgery of the ear. He was elected president of the Section of Otology of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1960-61. He was a very hard worker and in spite of failing health he continued to work long hours in the theatre and outpatient department. His relaxations were golf and horticulture, chrysanthemums being his special interest. He had looked forward to enjoying more of these pastimes when he retired, but unfortunately a prolonged illness robbed him of these pleasures. He died on 28 December 1968, a few days after his 69th birthday, and his devoted wife and his daughter survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Bowen, William Henry (1879 - 1963)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-22
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details He was educated at the High School, Birmingham and later at Guy's Hospital where he was a prizeman and held house appointments, obtaining a gold medal in the MS in 1905. Originally intending to become a consultant in London, he was appointed to the East London Hospital for Children, Shadwell and the Royal Ear Hospital, but in 1910 he went to Cambridge and became aurist and assistant surgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital. Later he became full surgeon at Addenbrooke's and a separate otolaryngologist was appointed. He was also surgeon to the Royston Hospital. He was a Hunterian Professor in the College in 1943 lecturing on the problems of acute appendicitis, a subject he was particularly interested in and on which he had written a monograph in 1937. He was a member of the Court of Examiners from 1941 to 1944 and was also examiner in surgery and supervisor of surgical examination at Cambridge. In 1928 he was President of the Cambridge and Huntingdon branch of the BMA, and honorary secretary from 1929 to 1936. Bowen was a hard working, sincere and forthright man who hated humbug and was unequivocal in his opinions. After retirement he devoted his energies to literary work, publishing a book on Charles Dickens and his family. His parish church gained his active support in his role as vicar's warden. In 1914 he married K E Clark of Harrogate, by whom he had two sons and a daughter. He died in Cambridge on 31 December 1963, aged 85. Publication: *Appendicitis: a clinical study*. 1937.
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First Title value, for Searching Clark, Dennis Owen (1907 - 1974)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-20
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Dennis Owen Clark was born at Kawimbe, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), on 18 August, 1907. His father was a missionary. He was educated at Eltham College, where he obtained exemption from the first MB and an entrance scholarship to St Thomas's Hospital when he won the Hadden Toller Prize. He graduated in 1931 and took the FRCS the following year. In 1933 he joined a practice at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, and in 1938 also became an honorary assistant surgeon at Queen Alexandra Memorial Hospital. During the second world war he was appointed MBE for his courageous work in an air raid. This was in 1942, immediately before he joined the RAMC, in which he served for four years and attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1946, after demobilization, he left general practice to devote all his time to consulting surgical work in the hospital. He continued to develop a specialized department in ENT work and was able during the next twenty five years to achieve considerable success. He initiated a new service in which help was taken to the elderly deaf in their own homes. He gave devoted service to the St John Ambulance Association, which he joined in 1937, reaching high rank in the county and national organizations. He married Miss Bearden in 1934 and they had one daughter and two sons, both of whom have a PhD in physics. His wonderfully courageous, determined, and warm hearted life ended on 13 December 1974, at the age of 67.
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First Title value, for Searching Shorney, Herbert Frank (1878 - 1933)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-06
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Occupation ENT surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Adelaide, 10 October 1878, the son of George Shorney, who was associated with the milling firm of John Dunn and Co; his father had settled in Adelaide in 1851. He was educated at Prince Alfred College, the non-conformist and principally Wesleyan secondary school. He entered the University of Adelaide in 1895, but in consequence of the great hospital trouble migrated to the University of Melbourne at the end of his third year. He undertook general practice in New South Wales for a year or two from 1903, and then came to London for a postgraduate course. He acted as house surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital and the Golden Square Throat Hospital, and then, having taken the FRCS without entering for the MRCS, he visited Vienna. Returning to Australia he settled in Adelaide as a specialist in diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat. He was appointed assistant ophthalmic surgeon to the Adelaide Hospital in 1910, succeeded to the full staff, and was lecturer on the subject at the University of Adelaide. When the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons was founded in 1927 he became a foundation Fellow. His leisure was devoted to gardening, he was fond of music and was a freemason. He married the daughter of a wealthy miller and died suddenly on 8 May 1933, survived by his wife but without children, at Cariana, Malvern, Adelaide. Publication: Protein therapy in affections of the eye. *Med J Austral* 1926, 1, 177.
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First Title value, for Searching Little, Neil Campbell (1924 - 1979)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-28
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Occupation ENT surgeon
Details Born in Dunedin on 27 January 1924, Neil Little was educated at John McGlashan College and Otago Medical School, graduating in 1948. After house appointments in Otago and Invercargill and a registrarship in Dunedin, he proceeded to the United Kingdom. Here he studied and gained experience at Willesden, the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospitals and the Institute of Laryngology and Otology, obtaining his FRCS in 1956. Returning to New Zealand he became visiting surgeon at Palmerston North Hospital, a position he was to hold until his untimely death. A man of great energy he rapidly established himself in his chosen specialty and took on further appointments at Masterton and Waipurkurau; in addition he took over the pituitary implants with yttrium for patients in the radiotherapy department. As he had a flair for administration he was appointed chairman of his own hospital's medical staff committee and was particularly active in the affairs of the New Zealand Medical Association. He was much involved in the affairs of his community and as a dedicated Christian he ran a Bible class for many years. A true craftsman, he loved working with his hands and for relaxation built ship models and old keyboard musical instruments, in addition he was a keen gardener. He collected stamps and coins, and specialised in early New Zealand currency, such as ships' bolts. While in England he married Elspeth Hanton who survives him with their four sons, Alastair, Gordon, Stephen and Christopher. He died on 22 May, 1979.
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First Title value, for Searching Goodwin, Bernard Grainger (1886 - 1979)

2024-05-03T09:48:25Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-08
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Bernard Grainger Goodwin was born on 13 November, 1886. He was educated at the King's School, Worcester, and subsequently Birmingham University and the London Hospital, where he qualified MRCS LRCP in 1909. He gained his Fellowship two years later. During the first world war he served with the RAMC as a surgical specialist in a casualty clearing station in France. After the war he became honorary surgeon at the old Queen's Hospital and the Children's Hospital in Ladywood Road, Birmingham. In 1930 ill health caused him to retire for several years and he lived in the country. In 1932, he returned to surgery again and became an honorary ENT specialist to the Kidderminster Hospital and the Corbett Hospital, Starbridge, before finally retiring in 1952. Goodwin lived for 27 years at Hillhampton House before moving to Pol House which he built in the grounds of Whitley Court. He and his first wife Amy were largely responsible for restoring the beautiful Baroque church at Whitley Court, where he served as churchwarden for many years. He played a prominent part in local affairs and was Chairman of the Hundred House petty sessions, the Public Health Committee of the Old Martley Rural District Council and the Parish Council. Goodwin was a country man, well known for his shooting and fishing and the breeding of springer spaniels. He died at his home at Great Whitley on January 10 1979 at the age of 92. He was survived by his wife Marjorie and three daughters.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006513
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