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First Title value, for Searching Gammon, Veronica May (1925 - 2021)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

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 Oliver, John Dudgeon ( - 1963)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

First Title value, for Searching Munsif, Krishnalal Ghelabhai (1903 - 1959)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-28
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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 Faulkner, Mildred (1897 - 1982)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006484
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First Title value, for Searching Naidu, Venkataswamy Maddimsetti (1909 - 1985)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-25
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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 Ridley, George Walter (1861 - 1911)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-07
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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 Collins, Edward Joseph (1901 - 1958)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-05
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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 Bellwood, Kenneth Benson (1890 - 1955)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-22
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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.
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First Title value, for Searching McCarter, Frederick Buick (1887 - 1954)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-07
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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 Dalàl, Anandrai Keshavlal (1886 - 1929)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-24
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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 Yorke, Courtenay (1884 - 1970)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-31
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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 Harris, Herbert Elwin (1898 - 1965)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005775
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First Title value, for Searching Ruddall, James Thomas (1828 - 1907)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

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 Wilson, Charles Paul (1900 - 1970)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

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 Niblock, Willie McNeill (1907 - 1996)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

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 Black, Wallace (1917 - 1972)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

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 Harsant, William Henry (1850 - 1933)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-03
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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 Woodman, Edward Musgrove (1884 - 1974)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-14
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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 Berkley, Reginald Maurice (1931 - 2002)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-16
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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 Dreadon, John (1898 - 1971)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-25
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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 O'Brien, Michael Coleman (1945 - 1975)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-18
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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 Macrae, Robert Cunningham Bruce (1897 - 1970)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-12
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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 Permewan, William (1865 - 1926)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

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 Keene, Reginald (1897 - 1975)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

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 Dickinson, Harold Bertie (1869 - 1943)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

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 Bowen, William Henry (1879 - 1963)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

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 Goodwin, Bernard Grainger (1886 - 1979)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

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.
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First Title value, for Searching Steele, Gerald Hector (1903 - 1946)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-13
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Born in 1903, son of the Rev Dr John Steele. He was educated at University College Hospital, where he won the Bruce, Liston, Erichsen, Aichison, and Atkinson Morley medals and scholarships. He also won a gold medal at the University of London MB BS examination. After qualification he served as house surgeon, house physician, obstetric assistant, and assistant to the surgical unit at the Hospital, and first assistant at the Royal Ear Hospital, the ear department of University College Hospital. He also served as clinical assistant at St Peter's Hospital for Stone. Steele then settled in practice at Guildford, living at Stoney Cross, 11 Downside Road. He was appointed surgeon to St Luke's Hospital, Guildford, and to the Royal Surrey County Hospital in 1928; and was also surgeon to the ear, nose, and throat departments of the Aldershot, Farnham, and Fleet Hospitals. In partnership with Dr Heward Bell, he had a large practice in the district. Steele's wife, sister of Dr Charles Hansard Lack of Wembley, died after a long illness in the spring of 1946. He suffered from insomnia and depression, and took poison from which he died in the garage of his house at Guildford on 10 November 1946, aged 43. He was survived by his parents and by his two sons. The funeral was at North Street Congregational Church, Guildford on 15 November. Publications: Carcinoma of the oesophagus, a method of treatment by means of radon seeds, with T B Jobson. *Brit med J* 1934, 1, 233. Delayed rupture of spleen, with H Bell. *Lancet*, 1944, 1, 598. Resection of carcinoma of the oesophagus. *Lancet*, 1944, 2, 797.
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First Title value, for Searching Firth, John Lacey (1866 - 1943)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-05
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Born at Blackburn on 21 January 1866, the second child and eldest son of Thomas Firth, cotton spinner and manufacturer, and Betty Fielden Lacy, his wife. He was educated privately and at Owens College, Manchester, before beginning his medical training at King's College and University College Hospital Medical Schools in London. He won an exhibition and the gold medal in physiology and histology at the intermediate MB, and took honours in anatomy, materia medica, and obstetrics at the first MB examination in 1886. He served as house surgeon at the Royal Infirmary, Bradford, at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, and at the General Hospital, Bristol, where he then settled in practice. He was connected with the General Hospital, a branch of the Royal Hospital, for forty-seven years, being appointed house surgeon 1893, assistant surgeon 1896, surgeon to the throat, ear, and nose department, full surgeon 1902, and consulting surgeon on his retirement in 1926. During the war of 1914-18 he served at the 2nd Southern General Hospital at Bristol, having been commissioned captain *à la suite* at the formation of the RAMC territorial force 30 September 1908. He was a Fellow of the Association of Surgeons, and president of the Bristol Medico-chirurgical Society in 1923-24; he had been a rapporteur of its meetings from 1901 to 1913, and for many years editor of the reviews in the society's *Journal*. Lacy Firth married on 12 March 1908 Winifred Mary, daughter of Lewis Edmund Naish, of Bristol, and widow of Henry Ernest Grace, also of Bristol. He died suddenly at his house, 8 Victoria Square, Clifton, Bristol, on 26 April 1943. Mrs Firth survived him; there were no children. Publications:- Torsion of the spermatic cord. *Bristol med chir J*. 1904, 22, 320. On nephropexy. *Ibid*. 1913, 31, 220. The evolutionary history of renal surgery and of temporal bone (Presidential address). *Ibid*. 1924, 41, 1 and 49.
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First Title value, for Searching Sandrasagra, Anthony Pathmanathan (1909 - 1978)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-10
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon Paediatric surgeon
Details Anthony Pathmanathan Sandrasagra, the son of M F R Sandrasagra, was born on 9 May 1909 at Jaffna, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). After education at St Patrick's College, Jaffna and St Benedict's College, Colombo, he entered Colombo Medical College with the five year Jeejee Bhoy scholarship. He had an outstanding student record with first class passes in each professional examination and qualified in 1935. After serving as a house officer at Colombo General Hospital he was demonstrator of anatomy, 1936-38, and then district medical officer at Hinduma until 1940. He returned to Colombo as demonstrator of physiology and pharmacology at Ceylon Medical College for five years. There followed one year as a medical officer at Trincomalee before he was given study leave in the UK. Between 1946 and 1949 he studied for and passed the Final Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons and also passed the FRCS Edinburgh. On his return to Ceylon he did ENT surgery for four years at Kandy and Jaffna, followed by four years in general surgery at Kandy and Kurunegala. Continuing in the government medical service he worked as surgeon to the Children's Hospital in Colombo for twelve years from 1959. Sandrasagra wrote papers on infant pyloric stenosis and childhood intussusception and he was S C Paul Orator when he spoke on the surgery of hare lip. He was married to his cousin Helen Sandrasagra and they had one son and three daughters. The son is a Fellow of this College but now in radiological practice in the UK and the eldest daughter is married to Mr P Ratnesar, a Fellow of the Edinburgh College, who is now an ENT surgeon in England. Anthony Sandrasagra was a Tamil and was highly esteemed in Ceylon. When he died on 8 April 1978 he was survived by his wife and children.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006916
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First Title value, for Searching Lewin, John (1901 - 1988)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-08 2015-10-28
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details The following was published in volume 7 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows John Lewin was born in London on 8 August 1901 and educated at Southend Grammar School and Guy's Hospital qualifying in 1923. He held house appointments at Guy's Hospital before being appointed resident surgical officer at Lynn Hospital and consultant general surgeon and ENT surgeon in 1929. In addition to his professional duties he published a history of the West Norfolk and King's Lynn General Hospital (1981) and played a prominent part in local affairs, serving as town councillor, magistrate and chairman of the National Savings Committee. He was involved in musical activities and the Lynn Festival as well as being a prominent Rotarian. His public service was recognised by the award of OBE. He officially retired in 1966 but remained in part-time work until 1975. He married Ghita Harwich in 1930 and had one son, Richard, who is a general practitioner. His wife died in 1985 and he died on 11 May 1988. The following was published in volume 8 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Born on 8 August 1901 in London, John Lewin was educated at Southend Grammar School and Guy's Hospital, where after qualification he became house surgeon. He obtained the FRCS in 1926 and was resident house officer at Lynn Hospital in 1927 and consultant surgeon from 1929 to the new West Norfolk and King's Lynn General Hospital. Officially retiring in 1966 he continued on a part-time basis until 1975. For a time he was a JP in King's Lynn, Chairman of National Savings West Norfolk, a councillor with King's Lynn Borough Council from 1948 to 1957, and District Governor of the Rotary District 108 from 1967 to 1968, for which he received the Paul Harris Fellowship in 1985 - a distinction shared only by the Duke of Edinburgh. He played a prominent part in the organisation of the Lynn music festivals. His public service was recognized by the award of the OBE in 1965. He married Ghita née Harwich on 11 February 1930, and they had one son, Richard, who followed his father into medicine, via Cambridge and Guy's Hospital. Ghita died in 1985, and John spent his last years in a Downham nursing home, dying there on 11 May 1988.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007423
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First Title value, for Searching Bowen, John Glyn (1906 - 1981)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-14
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details John Glyn Bowen was born at Maestag, West Glamorgan, on May 13 1906 and was educated at Cardigan Grammar School. He entered the Welsh National School of Medicine in 1924 where he had a distinguished student career and graduated BSc with distinction. In 1927 he entered the London Hospital Medical College to complete his clinical studies, where he gained prizes in surgery and pathology and graduated MB BS in 1930. He held numerous resident posts at the London Hospital, including house surgeon to Sir James Walton and Mr (later Sir) Hugh Cairns. Later he was elected surgical first assistant and then registrar to the cancer and radium departments. The latter post led to study in Vienna and Bucharest and the preparation of a report on cancer treatment in those centres. In 1938 Glyn Bowen was appointed surgeon and ear, nose and throat surgeon to Barry Accident and Surgical Hospital, an exacting task for he was the only surgeon. The outbreak of the second world war caused more work for him there because numerous casualties from the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy were admitted. In 1946 he was appointed honorary surgeon to Swansea General and Eye Hospital and later to Gorseinon Hospital. He moved with his colleagues to the Singleton Hospital which opened in 1968 and continued his work there until his retirement in 1971. Glyn Bowen was a remarkably competent general surgeon, never flustered and his calm confidence was transmitted to all around him, especially to his patients. In person he was neat and efficient, as in his operating, and the rapid growth of his practice and the number of colleagues who entrusted themselves and their relatives to his care were proof of the high esteem in which he was held. Teaching was second nature to him and many generations of juniors are grateful for his instruction. He will always be remembered as an outstanding raconteur with a fund of stories of people and places. Glyn Bowen had a most happy family life with his wife Mali and was devoted to his children Christine and Timothy and his grandson Daniel. He died on 17 April 1981, following a stroke.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006326
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First Title value, for Searching Martin, John Stuart (1917 - 1997)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-18
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon Otolaryngologist
Details John Stuart Martin was senior consultant otolaryngologist at Hull Royal Infirmary. He was born on 19 June 1917 in Robinstown, County Meath, and qualified from Queen's University Belfast in 1939. After completing his junior appointments in Belfast he joined the RAMC, where he served in North Africa and Europe, commanding field ambulances. He was later appointed assistant director of medical services with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. In 1943, he was awarded the Military Cross for conspicuous bravery having, "immediately proceeded to the place which was being most heavily shelled…quite undaunted by the heavy shellfire he attended to the wounded men without regard for his personal safety. By his brave action he undoubtedly saved lives and the example had a steadying influence on all around him." After the war he studied general surgery for a time in Dublin, where he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1949. He then decided to make otolaryngology his career and went to England, where he was appointed senior registrar at the Middlesex Hospital, working with Monkhouse and C P Wilson. In 1952 he passed the DLO and took his FRCS (otolaryngology) in 1954. He was appointed consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon to Hull Royal Infirmary, succeeding Robert Simpson, and he remained there for the rest of his working life. He continued to live in Hull after his retirement. His many friends described Martin both as a gentleman and a gentle man. He was a devoted family man and in 1953 he married Violet Henrietta Meyerstein, who had been a house surgeon at the Middlesex. They had three daughters. One is a general practitioner in Yorkshire. Another trained as a nurse, also at the Middlesex, and later obtained a PhD in nursing. John Martin enjoyed the practical side of his specialty and was particularly skilful in drilling the temporal bone. When he retired from practice, he devoted himself to woodwork and made a long case clock for each of his three daughters after he had panelled the rooms in his house. His wife Violet survived him by six months following his death from cancer on 3 September 1997.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008763
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First Title value, for Searching Carew-Shaw, Edward (1901 - 1998)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-22
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Edward Carew-Shaw was born in Lymm, Cheshire, on 28 March 1901, the son of Edward, a cotton broker, and Carolyne Hetty Newman, an actress. He received his schooling at Connaught School, Hove, and then Brighton Grammar School. He began evening classes at King's College, London, and then two years later became a full-time medical student, supporting himself by working in a chemist shop. He later transferred, to study at St George's. Following qualification, he worked as a junior doctor in Southampton and Nottingham, before setting up as a general practitioner in Chelsea. In the evenings he taught anatomy to medical students while he worked for the primary Fellowship examination. He became a chief assistant in ear, nose and throat surgery at the Westminster Hospital, and when he passed the FRCS in 1932 he was appointed as a consultant at the Bolingbroke and National Temperance Hospitals. He also worked at the Princess Louise Hospital for Children, the Luton and Dunstable Hospital and for the Middlesex County. Carew-Shaw joined the supplementary reserve of officers in 1937 and was called up for service on 4 September 1939. He saw service in France and was involved in the retreat from Dieppe and St Nazaire. When the bombing of London began he was seconded from the Army to work at the London Hospital. Following the second world war in 1946 he went to New York to study the technique of fenestration that had been developed by Julius Lempert. On his return he decided not to join the National Health Service and practised from Harley Street. For a time he served as a councillor on Marylebone Council. In retirement he bought a derelict house in Surrey with 35 acres of land, where he developed a beautiful garden and planted thousands of trees. He was married twice; first to Davis Lucy Fryer in 1937 and, when she died, in 1972, to Millicent Beatrice Williams. There were no children of either marriage. He had many interests outside medicine and was considered an authority on Chinese art and ceramics. He collected paintings and as a development of his enthusiasm for gardening he grew mushrooms commercially. He died on 8 May 1998.
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First Title value, for Searching Redmayne, Thomas (1864 - 1931)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-16
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Born 20 June 1864 at 21 Wentworth Place, Newcastle-on-Tyne, the second son of Robert Robey Redmayne, a chemical manufacturer, and Mary Gooch, his wife. He was educated at Repton School from September 1877 until July 1881, when the Rev Dr Huckin was headmaster. From school he proceeded to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was admitted a pensioner on 13 June 1881 and gained an exhibition in 1883. He graduated BA in 1884, after he had been placed in the second class of the first part of the Natural Sciences Tripos. He then entered the London Hospital, where he acted as receiving officer, house physician, and house surgeon. At the end of his hospital career he became a partner with Claude Baker Gabb at St Leonards-on-Sea and was appointed junior surgeon to the Royal East Sussex Hospital, where he took charge of the ear, throat, and nose department. On the administrative side of the hospital he served as a member of the house committee and as chairman of the medical committee. He was ultimately senior surgeon to the hospital and retired at the end of 1930 after 34 years' service, unbroken except for the time he served at the Netley Military Hospital during the war of 1914-18. He married Gwendolen Balfour on 3 July 1902, who survived him with two daughters. He died on 1 April 1931 at St Leonards and was buried at Hollington Church-in-the-Wood in that town. C B Gabb writing of him says: "He was born and brought up in the North of England and, at first, folk at Hastings did not readily understand him or his manner, nor he theirs. He was not over keen on the day of small things, nor was he of especial use in building up a general practice in a seaside town with its many visitors, very often of the small-fry kind. Later, if at first slowly, he dug himself deep into the respect, regard, and affections of a great number of people and in the end commanded and very successfully managed a considerable high-class general practice with strong surgical leanings. His work for many years at the Royal East Sussex Hospital, first in the out-patients department and later in the surgical wards, as well as his great general interest in the well-being of the hospital was distinguished and was fully appreciated and warmly acknowledged. The funeral was, I am told, a wonderful testimony to the great regret so deeply felt by his many friends at the heavy loss to the town and to themselves and of affectionate remembrance. Socially, Redmayne was always a welcome guest. A man with plenty of culture, he had it fully in his power to make himself a great success in company both as host and guest. He had an excellent baritone voice, which he used charmingly; he was always ready to help with it at local concerts and entertainments for the young men of the town, in whose sports he ever showed a ready and willing interest." Publications: Bronchiectasis successfully treated by incision and drainage, presenting some unusual features. *Practitioner*, 1906, 76, 832.
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First Title value, for Searching Nottingham, John (1810 - 1895)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-05
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Was a Yorkshireman, and was apprenticed to the father of C G Wheelhouse (qv). He received his professional training at Guy's Hospital, and in Paris under Dupuytren and Velpeau, where he became a member of the Medical Society formed of English students studying in Paris. He was appointed about the year 1837 House Surgeon to the Liverpool Infirmary (now the Royal Infirmary), and was noted for his eagerness in pursuing his clinical and pathological studies. He and a contemporary made post-mortem examinations together early in the morning, and throughout life Nottingham did much work at that time of day. He began general practice in the centre of Liverpool about the year 1840, but excluded midwifery cases from his routine. He soon acquired a good surgical practice, and in a few years settled at Everton in succession to Wainwright. This was then a charming and opulent suburb, and here John Nottingham continued till his retirement in the late seventies of the nineteenth century. He practised at 20 Roscommon Street, which became a slum during his time. Together with the late J Penn Harris and others he founded the St Anne's Dispensary, which rapidly became popular, and is now one of the Liverpool East Dispensaries. Here he made a reputation as specialist in eye and ear diseases. In 1850 or thereabouts Nottingham was appointed Surgeon to the Southern Hospital, where he was known as cautious, ingenious, and skilful in operations. During his tenure of office the hospital was rebuilt on a new site (1872) as the Royal Southern Hospital. After his retirement he suffered from double cataract, and remained in seclusion and blindness at his country seat at Whitchurch, Salop, till successfully operated upon in 1880 and 1881. He then again enjoyed good eyesight till 1887, when, just before Christmas, exposure on a cold night brought on inflammation and the globe of one eye had to be extirpated. The question of sight affected him in an extreme degree, for he had an immense library, comprising medical, surgical, and other literature, dictionaries and encyclopaedias, in most of the European languages, arranged on the walls of four spacious rooms, where also he had in many cabinets an extensive museum of surgical instruments. He was a great student, an omnivorous reader, and when not reading hard himself he employed a polyglot reader who lived in his house and arranged and managed his books. He was an accomplished linguist, and had a most retentive memory. A mind thus well stocked from many literary and scientific sources, great conversational power, and a quiet affable manner rendered him a most charming companion. He was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and of the Royal Medical Society of Berlin. Nottingham visited much among his well-chosen circle of friends, including Sir Joshua Walmsley, ex-Mayor of Liverpool, with whom he travelled in Spain and frequently shot in England. Latterly the old scholar never appeared abroad without a veil, and he died of mere old age on May 7th, 1895. He married Sarah Worthington, of Whitchurch, who survived him. Publications: *Report on the Restoration of Sight, by the Formation of an Artificial Pupil, in a Patient of St Anne's Dispensary*, l6mo, Liverpool, 1850. *Surgical Report on Bilateral Lithotomy, with General Remarks on Operations for Stone*, 8vo, London, 1850. *Practical Observations on Conical Cornea, and on the Short Sight and other Defects of Vision connected with it*, 8vo, London, 1854. *Diseases of the Ear. Illustrated by Clinical Observations*, 8vo, plate, London, 1857.
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First Title value, for Searching Wallace, Robert Allez Rotherham (1888 - 1980)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-24
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Occupation ENT surgeon General practitioner General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Robert Allez Rotherham Wallace, the elder child and only son of Robert Wallace and Amelia (née Rotherham), was born on 2 November 1888 at Queenscliffe, Victoria, Australia. After early education at Melbourne Grammar School he had architectural training at Perth Technical School and worked as a junior architect to Sir John Monash. He later secured two scholarships on switching to medicine at Sydney University where he graduated with honours in 1911. Though the present medical degree at Sydney is the MB BS, all records confirm that his first qualification is correctly shown above. After serving as house surgeon at the Alfred Hospital, Sydney, and other resident jobs, he came to England and took the FRCS in 1914. At the outbreak of the first world war he joined the RAMC until 1916 and was then invalided as a Captain to the RAAMC base hospital at Melbourne. On leaving the service he was outpatient surgeon to the Melbourne Children's Hospital from 1916 to 1923. He then returned to England in 1924 and took surgical appointments to outpatients at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and at Huntingdon. From 1925 to 1928 he worked as an ENT surgeon in South East London under the old LCC medical service, and then as a general surgeon at the Herts and Essex Hospital and in general practice at Bishop's Stortford from 1928 until his retirement in 1949. During his varied career both in Australia and here, Wallace had enjoyed contact with Hamilton Russell and Sir Charles Ryan in Melbourne; Sir Alexander MacCormick in Sydney, and with Sir John Bland-Sutton and Cecil Joll in England. He married Eleanor Dora Watson in 1925 and they had three children: one son is a doctor, another a dentist and the daughter is a trained nurse. Both in Melbourne and later in Bishop's Stortford he was medical officer to establishments which took care of foster-children. He was an honorary life fellow of the Hunterian Society of London and, outside his professional work, he was interested in joinery and had been keen on swimming, rowing, and both rifle and game shooting. He died in Bishop's Stortford in June, 1980 and was survived by his three children, his wife having died in 1974.
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First Title value, for Searching Cumberbatch, Alfonso Elkin (1847 - 1929)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-07
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Born in London on April 11th, 1847, the second son of Mr Cumberbatch, a merchant in Barbados. He was educated at Grosvenor College, Bath. As a medical student at St Bartholomew's Hospital he soon showed himself a skilful dissector, obtained a prize for anatomy, and in due course won the Kirkes Gold Medal for Clinical Medicine. He was appointed House Surgeon by Holmes Coote (qv) in October, 1870, and was elected Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1871, becoming full Demonstrator and eventually Senior Demonstrator in charge of the 'rooms'. These offices he filled for ten years and trained a succession of good anatomical surgeons. In 1869 the Governors of St Bartholomew's Hospital established a department for the treatment of diseases of the ear and placed it under the charge of Sir Thomas Smith (qv), then an Assistant Surgeon. He was succeeded in 1873 by John Langton (qv), to whom Cumberbatch acted as unpaid assistant in the scanty leisure he obtained from his work in the Anatomical Department. Langton became full Surgeon to the Hospital and Cumberbatch was elected the first Aural Surgeon. In spite of restricted accommodation he carefully instructed the few students who were far-seeing enough to attend. Towards the latter part of his service he was assisted by Laurie A Lawrence, FRCS. In 1907 Cumberbatch became Consulting Aural Surgeon, and was succeeded by C E West, FRCS, and S R Scott, FRCS. The department had become fittingly housed in the new block of buildings. During the European War (1914-1918) Cumberbatch, aided by Lawrence, resumed active service during the absence of West and Scott. He was also Aural Surgeon to the National Hospital, Queen's Square. Cumberbatch was one of the founders of the Otological Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 1899, serving as Treasurer in 1899 and President in 1905. After his retirement from the hospital he devoted himself entirely to the large private practice which he had built up, first in Queen Anne Street, Cavendish Square, and afterwards in Park Crescent, Portland Place, but later he retired to Great Sarratt Hall, near Rickmansworth, where he died of pneumonia on March 25th, 1929, and was buried in the East Finchley Cemetery. He married Alice Lucy Moffatt in 1881. She died before him, leaving one son and three daughters. Cumberbatch wrote no book but contributed many articles on diseases of the ear to the Otological Society and to the various medical periodicals. He became wealthy by marriage independently of his practice, so that he had no stimulus to make public the knowledge he had amassed in the course of years. He was an excellent teacher of anatomy, especially for students who only required the broad facts, and he left to his juniors the more minute and scientific knowledge. As a man he had many hobbies: he played golf, tennis, and billiards more than creditably; he collected stamps and Oriental porcelain and was an authority upon both. He always had a grievance on some minor point, but as he aired it humorously his friends never took it seriously and were not bored by it because it changed almost daily.
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First Title value, for Searching Ouston, Thomas George (1869 - 1911)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-12
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details The only son of Thomas Ouston, of Holmefield. He was educated at the Yorkshire College and at Guy's Hospital. For two or three years he held important posts at Leeds General Infirmary, where he was Senior House Surgeon and Ophthalmic and Aural House Surgeon, and at Horsforth, where he was Resident Medical Officer at the Ida Hospital. In 1895 he took over the practice of Dr Robertson in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and at once became prominent in the medical work of the town. Relinquishing general practice after a time, Ouston specialized in diseases of the throat and ear and in the surgical diseases of children. He was appointed Surgeon to the Fleming Memorial Hospital for Sick Children, and resigned this post when he was Senior Surgeon shortly before his death, when he was also Surgeon to the Newcastle Throat and Ear Hospital and a Referee under the Workmen's Compensation Act. He contributed frequently to the local Medical Societies and was President of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Clinical Society. For the two years preceding his death he had been Secretary to the local division of the British Medical Association, and showed considerable ability at a difficult turn in the Association's affairs. He was much sought after in consultation in throat and ear cases. In his work he showed much originality, and had little respect for the ordinary textbook methods. Only a few weeks before his death he operated on a patient with a lesion in one semicircular canal. He devised an operation for exposing the canal, and was successful in finding and removing the cause of the trouble. He performed many mastoid operations, and kept careful records of these with a view to publication. In the year before his death he used radium successfully in the treatment of intranasal lupus. He was a universal favourite, and in his professional relationships scrupulously honourable, expecting to be treated by his colleagues as he treated them. In his holidays Ouston excelled as a mountaineer, and was a keen member of the Alpine Club. He climbed not only in the Alps and in the English Lakes, Wales, and Scotland, but also in Corsica, the Tyrol, Norway, and the Lofoten Islands. He and his friend, Mr Mundahl, a barrister, were the first to ascend Raeka in the Lofoten Islands, but were successful only after several attempts. The same pair were the second party to ascend Taponato in Corsica, and it was Ouston's ambition to conquer the hitherto impregnable Sulitielma in Northern Norway. He took admirable photographs when on his expeditions, and described his experiences in entertaining magic lantern lectures. He may be said to have died in harness, for he caught a chill while out on his rounds ten days before his death, and could not shake off its effects despite his physical strength and athletic stature. He died at 1 Saville Place, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on August 1st, 1911, and was buried at St Andrew's Cemetery. Mrs Ouston, to whom he had only recently been married, was Mary, daughter of E Taylor, of Airton. Publications:- "Case of Antro-tympanic Disease and Bezold's Mastoid Abscess Complicated with Extradural Abscess; Paralysis on Same Side as Lesion; Recovery." - *Brit Med Jour*, 1898, i, 208. "Operation for Protruding Auricles." - *Ibid*, 1903, ii, 16.
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First Title value, for Searching Dahne, Stanley Frederick Logan (1901 - 1971)

2024-05-28T03:17:27Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-22
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Born at Morriston, Glamorgan on 27 July 1901, only child of C G Dahne a general practitioner at Portardawe, Glamorgan, and Mabel Louise Thomas his wife, daughter of a Swansea dental surgeon. C G Dahne, whose father was a Danish metallurgist naturalised in Great Britain, was surgeon to the factories and mines and had been commended for bravery in several mining accidents. Logan Dahne was educated at Shrewsbury School, Pembroke College, Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1927 and proceeding to the Cambridge Degrees in surgery in 1932 and in medicine in 1936. He was a resident at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading and settled there in a general practice partnership with Norman Hooper FRCS, and Eric Beale MD. During the second world war he remained at his post in Reading, serving on many medical boards and on the Borough Council for five years. In 1948 he decided to specialise in otolaryngology, took his Cambridge MD with a thesis based on his extensive experience of tonsillectomy, and was appointed consultant in otolaryngology at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, where he originated allergy clinics in his department. He retired to Wales in 1966 and settled at St David's, where he involved himself in local affairs, but kept in touch with his English friends and former associations. Dahne was Chairman of the Reading Division of the British Medical Association 1939-43 and in 1960, and represented it at many central Representative Meetings from 1944 till 1966; he was President of the Oxford and Reading Branch 1940-41 and a member of the Association's Council 1948-59, when he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the BMA; from 1966 to 1971 he served on the West Wales executive. He was President of the Reading Pathological Society 1955-56, and a member of the Council of the British Society of Allergologists. In younger days Logan Dahne was a fine oarsman both at Shrewsbury and Cambridge, where he was in the winning crew of the Head of the River race; he belonged to the Leander Club for forty-eight years. Later interests which he cultivated assiduously were gardening, history, and heraldry, in which his skill enabled him to design arms for the Royal Berkshire Hospital and the BMA. Dahne married in 1928 Mary Katharine, daughter of Martin Randall MD, FRCS; Mrs Dahne was herself a Cambridge graduate in Arts; her brother and several cousins were in medical practice. He died at St David's on 12 June 1971, six weeks before his seventieth birthday; he had successively survived severe coronary thromboses in 1952 and 1969. The funeral service was held in St David's Cathedral, he was survived by his wife and their married daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Harmer, William Douglas (1873 - 1962)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-26
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon Radiologist
Details Born on 25 August 1873 in Norwich, son of F W Harmer cloth merchant and glacial geologist, and brother of Sir Sidney Harmer KCB, FRS, he was educated at Uppingham and King's College, Cambridge, proceeding to St Bartholomew's Hospital and qualifying in 1898. After qualification and house appointments first at Great Ormond Street and then at St Bartholomew's he taught anatomy and operative surgery obtaining his mastership of surgery in 1901 and being the last graduate to be designated MC as opposed to MChir. He was appointed warden of the medical college in which capacity he prevented the pre-clinical school from being absorbed into that of University College, thereby preserving the complete entity of the medical school. In 1904 he was appointed assistant surgeon, but in 1906 he contracted a severe pulmonary infection and spent a year at Davos, Switzerland. It was here that he mastered the art of needlework and a piece of embroidery in petit point which he brought back was used as a firescreen in his London home. In 1907, returning fully recovered, he was persuaded by his colleagues to accept full responsibility for the throat department and to give up general surgery as it was thought this would be too arduous. At this period it had been the usual practice for one of the assistant surgeons to have charge of the throat department in addition to his general surgical duties, and Harmer had followed D'Arcy Power. It was also customary at this period for otology, if recognised as a specialty, to be treated in a different department to laryngology. Harmer, far from working less arduously, was busier than ever. In the 1914-18 war he served as Captain RAMC and made an important contribution to the study of wounds of the larynx, part of the time serving in Russia. He had already in 1913 begun research into the use of radiotherapy in disease of the throat, and after the war he became attached to the Radium Institute and was appointed honorary surgeon to Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood also. In 1931 he was appointed Semon lecturer to London University, and in 1932 he published a monograph on the use of radiotherapy in the treatment of cancer of the upper air passages. To the end of his active career he treated cancer of the vocal cords by radium needles introduced through a window in the thyroid cartilage, which in his hands gave better results than other forms of treatment. He retired from St Bartholomew's at the age of 55 but continued working at the Radium Institute and Mount Vernon until 1948. Harmer made a gift to the rare book room of the College library in the shape of a handsome rosewood bookcase, and in 1963 a bequest under his will. A countryman and a keen sportsman with rod and gun, he also played golf at Cambridge down to a handicap of three, with wooden clubs of his own making, and was also a champion skater. He married in 1906 May, daughter of Dr John Hedley and sister of JP Hedley FRCS. She died suddenly while on holiday in New Zealand in 1954. She had been for many years prominent in the work of the Ladies Guild, the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund. They had three sons, the second of whom, Michael FRCS, is a surgeon at the Royal Marsden Hospital. He died at his home at Littlestone, Kent on 24 October 1962 aged 89, and a memorial service was held at St Bartholomew's the Less on Wednesday 7 November.
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First Title value, for Searching Reading, Philip Vernon (1906 - 1998)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-02
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Philip Vernon Reading was senior ENT surgeon at Guy's. He was born on 16 January 1906 and educated at St Dunstan's College, Catford, and Guy's Hospital Medical School. He gained distinctions in surgery and midwifery, and was awarded the University gold medal in 1931. In the same year he passed his FRCS and two years later, in 1933, gained a masters degree in surgery. Following qualification, he was appointed house officer at Guy's and pinned his hopes on being appointed to the senior staff there, but at that time no posts were vacant and he moved to the provinces, to the Birmingham area, where he practised as a general surgeon. His surgical technique was outstanding and he soon applied for a post at Selly Oak Hospital where, in 1935, he accepted an appointment as an assistant surgeon. Eventually a vacancy on the senior staff became available in ear, nose and throat surgery and he was urged to apply. This he did, but, feeling that his knowledge of the subject was inadequate when he was successful, he sought help from the literature and from colleagues practising in the specialty. In no time he became a highly respected and technically excellent surgeon in all three departments of the specialty. At about this time a post became available in the ear, nose and throat department of Guy's Hospital, and Reading was appointed to replace his old senior T B Layton. His arrival at Guy's proved to be very short-lived - the second world war had now started and Reading was posted to a British military hospital in Egypt. Time hung heavy on his hands and he started to produce a textbook for students entitled *Common diseases of the ears, nose and throat* (London, J & A Churchill, 1950). This became a bestseller. When he returned to Guy's, Reading felt that the ear, nose and throat department needed to be modernised. He introduced major surgery of the head and neck, and acquired an operating microscope, which enabled him to offer patients advanced treatment for deafness. He was also keen to improve medical illustrations and built up a collection of slides and drawings to help the teaching of medical students and postgraduate students. His energy was such that when the time came to establish a hospital department of medical illustration, Reading was appointed head of department, a post he occupied with distinction for 12 years. He served for six years on the Court of Examiners of the College. Shortly before his retirement, he was elected to the Presidency of the section of otology of Royal Society of Medicine. He also acted as medical adviser to the Commonwealth Society for the Deaf. Philip Reading was an unusually modest and self-effacing man, and for this reason his eminence as an ear, nose and throat surgeon was only properly appreciated after he had retired. Retirement for him meant an absolute separation from all medical practice and, as a gesture, on his last working day, he went down to London Bridge and ceremonially flung his head mirror into the waters of the Thames. In 1935, he married Kathleen Seery, a Guy's nurse, who died in 1994. There was one daughter of the marriage. In his retirement in Alfriston in East Sussex, he devoted himself to wood carving, books and music and, above all, to the care of his beloved and beautiful garden. He died on 7 July 1998.
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First Title value, for Searching Toynbee, Joseph (1815 - 1866)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-21
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon Philanthropist
Details The second son of George Toynbee, a large tenant farmer and landowner in Lincolnshire, was born at Heckington in that county on December 30th, 1815. He was educated at King's Lynn Grammar School, and was apprenticed at the age of 17 to William Wade, of the Westminster General Dispensary in Gerrard Street, Soho. He studied anatomy at the Little Windmill Street School under George Derby Dermott and became an expert dissector. He attended the practice of St George's and University College Hospitals, and showed his interest in diseases of the ear as early as 1836, when he wrote letters to the *Lancet* under the initials 'J T'. In 1838 he assisted Richard Owen (qv), who was then Conservator of the Hunterian Museum, and was soon afterwards elected one of the Surgeons to the St James's and St George's Dispensary, where he established a useful Samaritan Fund. He also promoted the building of a model lodging-house near Broad Street, Golden Square. He was admitted a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1842 for his researches demonstrating that articular cartilage, the cornea, the crystalline lens, the vitreous humour, and the epidermal appendages contained no blood-vessels. Toynbee lived in Argyll Place, Regent Street, so long as he was Surgeon to the Dispensary, and there began to specialize in aural surgery, but soon becoming successful moved to 18 Savile Row. When St Mary's Hospital was established in 1852 he was nominated the first Aural Surgeon and Lecturer on Diseases of the Ear, holding the appointments until 1864. He married in August, 1846, Harriet, daughter of Nathaniel Holmes, and by her had nine children, of whom the second son, Arnold (1852-1883), was the well-known social philosopher and economist, a founder of the first University Settlement - Toynbee Hall. Joseph Toynbee died from an overdose of chloroform on July 7th, 1866, and was buried in the churchyard of St Mary's, Wimbledon. At the time of his death he was Aural Surgeon to the Earlswood Asylum for Idiots, Consulting Aural Surgeon to the Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, President of the Quekett Microscopical Society, and Treasurer of the Medical Benevolent Fund, an office he had filled since 1867. Toynbee raised aural surgery from a neglected condition and made it a legitimate branch of medicine. The Toynbee Collection illustrating various diseases of the ear is exhibited in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in Lincoln's Inn Fields. It is the result of minute dissections extending over twenty years, during which time he is said to have made preparations from more than two thousand human ears. Many of the specimens came from the patients in the Deaf and Dumb Asylum whose ears he had examined during life. One of his most valuable contributions to the treatment of deafness was his invention of an artificial tympanic membrane. He first demonstrated the existence of many bony and other tumours of the ear, of the ossicles, and of the tympanum, and demonstrated that the Eustachian tube is always closed except during the act of swallowing. As a philanthropist the English public owes much to Toynbee. He advocated the improvement of workmen's dwellings and surroundings at a time when the duties of a Government in regard to public health were hardly beginning to be appreciated. His benevolent efforts centred in Wimbledon, where he occupied a country house from 1854. Here he was indefatigable in forming and maintaining a village club and a local museum. He published in 1863 *Hints on the Formation of Local Museums*, and his enthusiastic advocacy was of great value in furthering the establishment of similar clubs and museums in other parts of the kingdom. He also took a deep interest in the condition of the deaf and dumb, and devised plans by which they were taught to speak. The Otological Society subscribed a sum of money to name the Committee Room at the Royal Society of Medicine which is called the 'Joseph Toynbee Room'. Publications: *The Diseases of the Ear; their Nature, Diagnosis and Treatment*, 8vo, London, 1860. A new edition with a supplement by JAMES HINTON, 1868. Translated into German, Würzburg, 1863. This was Toynbee's chief work, and placed aural surgery on a firm basis. It is still interesting on account of the details of cases and methods of treatment. *On the Use of Artificial Membrane Tympani in Cases of Deafness*, 8vo, London, 1853; 6th ed, 1857. *A Descriptive Catalogue of Preparations illustrative of the Diseases of the Ear in the Museum of Joseph Toynbee*, 8vo, London, 1857.
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First Title value, for Searching Worthington, Robert Alfred (1878 - 1945)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-18
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Born 18 June 1878 at Saltair, Yorkshire, only son, with one sister, of Arthur Mason Worthington (1852-1916), FRS, then head master of the Salt Schools, Shipley, and afterwards professor of physics successively at HM Dockyard School, Portsmouth, the Royal Naval Engineering College, Devonport, and the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, and of his wife Helen, younger daughter of Professor Thomas Solly. Both his parents were accomplished artists, and R A Worthington inherited their taste and talent. He was educated at Malvern and Rugby, where he won a drawing prize, and entered Clare College, Cambridge with a mathematical scholarship in 1897, but read biology and took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part 1, 1900. At Cambridge he made friends with Keith Lucas, the physiologist. He entered the London Hospital in 1900, where he served as house surgeon, house surgeon to the ear, nose and throat department, and house physician; and he served as clinical assistant in the outpatients department at the East London Children's Hospital. He then became pathological assistant and assistant director at the London Hospital Institute of Pathology, serving under Dr Charles Miller and Dr H M Turnbull, and was largely responsible for the production of the two excellent volumes of *Archives* published by the Institute in 1906-08. He went for postgraduate study to Berlin, and there became an enthusiast for endoscopic instruments. In 1911 he was appointed surgical registrar and assistant pathologist at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, and set up as a surgical consultant at Exeter. The same year his father retired to Exmouth. Worthington was at this time chiefly interested in sigmoidoscopy and cystoscopy, and was an excellent genito-urinary surgeon. But he was already attracted to otolaryngology, which he ultimately made his sole specialty. In 1914 he was appointed surgeon in charge of the ear, nose, and throat department at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, but through the war served as officer in charge of the 2nd Exeter General Hospital, carrying out the general surgery here while overseeing the ear, nose, and throat work throughout the district. He was created OBE for his services. After 1918 he devoted himself exclusively to otology, and became aurist to the West of England Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, and aural surgeon to Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital, Exeter, to the Victoria Hospital, Sidmouth, and to Okehampton, Ottery St Mary, Exmouth, Budleigh Salterton, and Bovey Tracey Cottage Hospitals, and to the Devonshire Mental Hospital. He served as a vice-president of the section of otology at the Royal Society of Medicine. Worthington had been a stammerer, but practically cured himself, and he took a keen interest in voice-production defects, writing a thesis on their connexion with respiratory spasm. He was for a time lecturer on vocal physiology at the London Academy of Music, and in 1928 joined with E T Evatts in writing on *The Mechanism of Singing*, a book illustrated with radiographs of his own throat. In his first years in Devonshire Worthington's chief recreations were music and foxhunting, and he rode to hounds regularly with the Cattestock Hunt every Saturday. About 1923 at the age of 45 his latent love of painting re-awoke on his journeys by car to the meets, and there-after he never went on a professional or sporting journey without his painting equipment. "You never know" he said, "when a suitable subject for a sketch might occur, especially on Dartmoor". In 1925 he organized at Exeter an exhibition of paintings by Devonshire artists which aroused considerable interest. He was subsequently appointed a governor of Exeter Museum. Besides achieving considerable success as an artist himself, Worthington collected paintings and was particularly fond of the old English water-colourists. In the "Baedeker" air-raid on Exeter on 4 May 1942 his house was hit by incendiary bombs and was destroyed with his whole collection. He had generously given asylum to valuable pictures belonging to his London friends, and exhausted himself moving these to safety during the fire and "blitz". An exhibition of his own watercolours was held at the Fine Art Society, London, in March 1946. He never fully recovered from the effects of the shock and over-exertion of that night, and died on 11 July 1945 at Hembury Hill, Honiton, from severe cerebral haemorrhage, aged 67. Worthington was survived by his wife Evelyn, daughter of Joseph Bankart and sister of Arthur Sydney Blundell Bankart, FRCS, whom he had married on 5 October 1911 in Exeter Cathedral, and by his only daughter Margaret, a physicist and artist. Worthington was a skilful surgeon of somewhat conservative technique. He was a fairly frequent contributor to *The Lancet*, and in all professional contacts punctual and punctilious. A constitutional shyness made him seem brusque, but he was generous and unostentatiously kind, and was loved by his intimates for his wit and charm.
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First Title value, for Searching Rivington, Walter (1835 - 1897)

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Publication Date 2012-11-07
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Occupation Anatomist ENT surgeon General surgeon
Details Born at Highgate in December, 1835, the son of George Rivington, a member of the well-known firm of publishers. His mother had been Miss Ann Finlay. He was educated under Dr G A Jacob at Sheffield Collegiate School, was afterwards apprenticed to a practitioner in Stepney and entered as a student at the London Hospital, where his cousin, Thomas Blizard Curling (qv), was Surgeon. He shared rooms with Morell Mackenzie, whom he especially numbered among his friends. Both young men were frequent speakers at the London Hospital Debating Society. Rivington was an exceptionally brilliant student at the Hospital, and at the same time he gained high honours at the University of London. On taking the Membership in 1859 he was appointed House Surgeon at the London Hospital. He served for a brief period as Surgeon with the P&O Steam Navigation Company, and in 1863 was elected to the Assistant Surgeoncy and Demonstratorship of Anatomy at the London Hospital on the promotion of Jonathan Hutchinson (qv) to the full staff. He showed great energy in these positions, and his teaching was so much appreciated by the students that they presented him with a testimonial. In 1865 he became associated with John Adams (qv) as Lecturer on Anatomy, and held this post till 1884, John Adams having long ago retired. In 1884 he gave up the lectureship and succeeded James Adams (qv) as Lecturer on Surgery, retaining office till 1890, when he retired from the active staff. He was also teacher of operative surgery. He had become full Surgeon in 1870, and, retiring under the twenty years rule, was appointed Consulting Surgeon. He devoted himself at one period to the study of aural surgery, and was the first Surgeon to the Aural Department of the London Hospital, but gradually gave up the study of diseases of the ear and resigned his appointment. For a time he lectured on comparative as well as on human anatomy. For some thirty years up to the time of his death he was the Secretary of the London Hospital Club in succession to John Adams. He was the moving spirit of the club, and a link between successive generations of students, ever keeping alive tradition and esprit de corps. He was, in fact, very much of the family at the London Hospital, where two former Presidents of the Royal College of Surgeons, Sir William Blizard and Thomas Blizard Curling (qv), were his kinsmen. He was Dean of the Medical School for several years, and as such made great efforts in behalf of entrance scholarships, successfully initiating a movement for their establishment. He was devoted to the School and Hospital in all its aspects, and this was recognized at a dinner given in his honour a few years before his death, when he was presented with a handsome service of plate. As a lecturer he was able, impressive, and humorous, and exceedingly popular with the students. He was gifted with an extraordinary memory, and upon several occasions - notably that of his introductory address at the opening of the Medical College and his Oration at the Hunterian Society - he committed his addresses to memory, after carefully writing them out, and delivered the whole from beginning to end without hesitation. The former oration was remembered as one of the best so far delivered. As an operating surgeon it must be allowed that Rivington made no decided mark, though he could on occasion be very brilliant; and a certain absent-mindedness, which was characteristic, caused him to be an uneven teacher at the bedside. His enormous experience made him most instructive when his interest was aroused, but there were times when he did not seem called upon to exert his undoubtedly high gifts of exposition and lucid description. From 1878-1883 he was an Examiner in Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons, and in 1891 was elected to the Council in the interest of the 'Reform Party'. As a Member of the Council he was faithful to his pledges, his voice and vote being immediately exercised towards obtaining for Members of the College a share in the management of their own collegiate affairs. Had he been familiar with the internal government of the ancient Universities, he would have known that, at Oxford at least, none share therein save the 'Regent Masters', who are a moiety of the Masters of Arts, while the great majority of members of the University (ie, Masters, Bachelors, and, of course, all undergraduates) are without votes. In 1896 he offered himself as a candidate for a seat upon the General Medical Council as a direct representative of the profession. In his election address he maintained that Members of the Council of the College of Surgeons were not directly representative of the profession in that Members had not shared in their election; but, presumably, forgot to add that he was in a precisely similar position on the Council of the College so far as regarded his own election thereto. He was not elected. The cause of R B Anderson (qv) was ardently espoused by him as put forth by the Civil Rights Defence Committee, on which Rivington represented the College of Surgeons. Anderson's rights, professional and civil, were held to have been invaded, and Rivington was bringing forward a motion before the College Council in Anderson's behalf when cut off by his last illness. For some three or four years before his death Rivington was a Member of the Standing Committee of the Convocation of the University of London, and consistently opposed the scheme for altering the constitution of the University as recommended by Lord Cowper's Commission. He held that by this scheme the real governing body would be a small academic council; that the powers of Convocation would be altogether taken away; that there was danger that the standard of examinations would be lowered and that the Imperial character of the University would be forfeited. In June, 1896, he was nominated for the Fellowship of the University in opposition to Sir Joseph Lister (qv), who strongly supported the scheme for the reconstitution of the University into a teaching body. Rivington was elected by 963 votes against 846. A man of marked character and singular determination, Rivington in his devotion to reform was quite untainted by selfishness, although at times he appeared too pertinacious. He was deeply aware of the necessity for the amelioration of many of the conditions now existent in the professional life of his poorer brethren, and he spared himself no trouble to make his beliefs shared by others. His death occurred, after a short illness, at his country house at Epping - his address in London being 95 Wimpole Street, W - on the evening of Saturday, May 8th, 1897. He had suffered a great loss by the death of Mrs Rivington some years previously, and he was survived by a family of eight children. His friend, Timothy Holmes (qv), writing of him in terms of eloquent eulogy in the *British Medical Journal* very shortly after his death, speaks of him as the mainstay of the Association of Fellows. His death followed closely on that of George D Pollock (qv), its Chairman, to whom he did not yield in his devotion to the interests of the Association. His was an uphill battle at the College, avers his friend, but in its "utter sincerity and manliness" it conciliated even those who most differed from him. At the time of his death, in addition to his other appointments, he was Surgeon to the London Dispensary, Spitalfields. Publications: *Address delivered at the London Hospital Medical College, at the Commencement of the Winter Session*, 1865, 12mo, London, 1865. *Remarks on the Necessity for a Revision of the Medical Curriculum made at the Medical Teachers' Association*, 8vo, London, 1868. *Remarks on Dislocations of the First and Second Pieces of the Sternum*, 8vo, London, 1874. "A Case of Pulsating Tumour of the Left Orbit, consequent upon a Fracture of the Base of the Skull, Cured by Ligature of the Left Common Carotid Artery: with a Résumé of Recorded Cases of Intra-orbital Aneurism," 8vo, London, 1875; reprinted from *Med-Chir Trans*, 1875, lviii, 183. A classic paper. "A Case of Rupture of the Internal and Middle Coats of the Popliteal Artery, and Complete Rupture of the Popliteal Vein, for which Primary Amputation of the Thigh was Successfully Performed: with Remarks," 8vo, London, 1878; reprinted from *Brit Med Jour*, 1878, i, 47. This is his chief contribution to the literature of surgery. *Medical Education and Medical Organization. Oration before the Hunterian Society*, 8vo, London, 1879. (He was President of the Society in 1883.) *The Medical Profession*, being the essay to which was awarded the first Carmichael Prize of £200 by the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, 1879, 8vo, Dublin, 1879. *The Medical Profession of the United Kingdom*. First Carmichael Prize revised 1887, 8vo, Dublin, 1888. These two exhaustive treatises were the best standard accounts of the Profession when they were written. *Rupture of the Urinary Bladder, based on the Records of more than 300 Cases of the Affection*, 8vo, London, 1884. "A Case of Encysted Vesical Calculus of Unusually Large Size removed by Supra-pubic Cystotomy," 8vo, London, 1886; reprinted from *Med-Chir Trans*, 1886, lxix, 361. "A Case of Ligature of the Left Common Carotid Artery Wounded by a Fish-bone which had Penetrated the Pharynx: with Appendix of Forty-five Cases of Wounds of Blood-vessels by Foreign Bodies," 8vo, London, 1886; reprinted from *Med-Chir Trans*, 1886, lxix, 63. *Neuroma of the Median Nerve removed by Operation*, 12mo, nd. "Account of a Peculiar Variety of Encysted Hydrocele of the Spermatic Cord combined with Inguinal Hernia." - *Lond Hosp Rep*, 1865, ii, 371. "Valves in the Renal Veins." - *Jour Anat and Physiol* 1873, vii, 163. "Clinical Lectures on Varieties of Psoas Abscess." - *Lancet*, 1874, ii, 407, etc. "Cases of Diseases of the Testis for which Castration was Performed." - *Ibid*, 1877, i, 489, 526.
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First Title value, for Searching Drummond, Sir William Alexander Duncan (1901 - 1988)

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Publication Date 2015-05-08
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon Military surgeon
Details William Alexander Duncan Drummond was born in Cape Town on 16 September 1901 where his father was then working for the Anglo-American Tobacco Company. The family later returned to England. Having initially studied engineering and lost two fingers of his left hand in an accident at the Liverpool shipyards, he completed his education at Dundee and qualified in medicine from St Andrew's University. While there he was a member of the University Officers' Training Corps. After joining the RAMC in 1925 he did two five year spells in India interrupted by an appointment as a territorial army adjutant in Chelsea when he developed his interest and skills in otorhinolaryngology as a registrar at Charing Cross Hospital. During the mid-1930s in India, when faced with a patient who had respiratory paralysis following a snake bite, he showed considerable enterprise by getting an "iron lung" made locally from two large oil drums welded together and powered by a vacuum cleaner. On the outbreak of the second world war he took over the RAF hospital at Sarafand, in Palestine, which was then expanded into a 1200 bed army hospital where new staff were trained and a central medical store was organised. He was also responsible for some of the Polish medical units which arrived from Syria after the fall of France, and he ran a hospital train between Haifa and the Canal area. He moved to Iraq and Iran "Paiforce" in 1942 where he was ADMS (Assistant Director of Medical Services) with the Poles in 10 Corps and commanded No 31 Indian General Hospital. In the following year he commanded the British Military Hospital at Taranto, Italy, and later ended up in Trieste. During that period he formed close relationships with the Yugoslays and their medical services, subsequently receiving both the Polish and Yugoslav decorations. After the war he went to Millbank as adviser in otorhinolaryngology from 1946 to 1949, and then, from 1949 to 1952, as commanding officer of Queen Alexandra Military Hospital. During that time he developed his plans for higher medical training in the Army, and also some firm views on hospital standards which later became a dominant theme. He was then sent to Malaya as assistant director of medical services during the height of the communist terrorist campaign. It is said that he made an immediate impression on the army commander, General Sir Gerald Templar, by telling him "If you don't like my methods you had better send me home for another doctor". But they worked very successfully together and Drummond's experience and style was admirably suited to coping with the generalised ringworm, scrub typhus, leptospirosis, malaria and encephalitis which plagued the British and Gurkha troops then fighting the communist bandits. He also helped set up the Lady Templar Hospital for Gurkhas. On returning home he became Director-General of Army Medical Services from 1956-1961 when he enthusiastically worked a seven day week and insisted on expanding the standards of medical training throughout all ranks of the RAMC. He also, though much ahead of his time and not without some opposition from the sceptics, pioneered a central sterile supply system for dressings and instruments throughout the Army. On retiring from the Army Medical Service he became Colonel Commandant of the RAMC from 1961 to 1966 and president of various general hospitals with which he had been earlier associated. He did much for the Order of St John of which he was made deputy commissioner and wrote a first aid training textbook for the St John Ambulance Brigade. He also did a great amount of research into the medals won by members of the RAMC and their medical predecessors. Alex Drummond had a reputation for being straightforward, direct, and even blunt, in his pursuit of high standards. His drive and restless energy charcterised his whole career. He never sought popularity but won loyalty from his juniors and respect from all who came in contact with him. His further honours included the award of OBE in 1945, with advance to CBE in 1951; the CB in 1954, and then KBE in 1957. He was also honorary surgeon to the Queen; a Knight of the Order of St John; honorary LID Birmingham University in 1959, and of the Punjab University in 1950. He and his wife Mabel (née Fullinger) first met as undergraduates at St Andrew's when she was training in biochemistry and they were married in 1929. They had no children and when he died, aged 87, on 20 September 1988, his wife survived him.
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