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First Title value, for Searching Robinson, Richard Garwood (1915 - 1997)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-06-13 2016-09-23
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Occupation Editor Neurosurgeon
Details Richard Garwood Robinson was professor of neurosurgery at Otago University, New Zealand. He was born in Dartford, Kent, on 9 April 1915, the son of William Thomas Robinson, a pharmacist, and Annie Elizabeth Robinson née Garwood, the daughter of a farmer. He was educated at St Dunstan's College in Catford and then studied medicine at Guy's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1939. He held house posts at the Seaman's Hospital, Addenbrooke's and Guy's, and then in 1941 joined the RAF Bomber Command as a squadron leader, serving until 1946. He was awarded the George Medal for bravery in 1941. Following his demobilisation, he trained in neurosurgery in Sheffield. In 1951 he was appointed as a consultant neurosurgeon in Dunedin, New Zealand. He was director of neurosurgery there from 1964 to 1981, and a professor at the University of Otago from 1976 to 1981. He pioneered stereotactic surgery for Parkinson's disease in New Zealand. He was president of the Neurological Association of New Zealand from 1963 to 1965. In 1959 he was Hunterian professor at the Royal College of Surgeons on hydatid disease affecting the nervous system, and gave a guest lecture at the National Hospital, Queen Square, on temporal lobe agenesis. In 1967 he became editor of the *New Zealand Medical Journal*, a role he continued until a few months before his death on 27 September 1997 from metastatic cancer of the prostate. He was 82. Predeceased by his wife Flo (née Monk), he was survived by his two daughters, Sara and Celia, and five grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005462
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First Title value, for Searching Horner, Norman Gerald (1882 - 1954)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-03
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Occupation Editor
Details Born on 1 January 1882 son of Dr A C Horner, he was educated at Tonbridge School, Caius College, Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital. His father had been surgeon and naturalist to two Arctic expeditions before settling down to general practice in Tonbridge, where he was medical officer to Tonbridge School. While at St Bartholomew's Horner was editor of the students' *Journal*, and in 1911 became assistant editor of *The Lancet* until 1915. During the war of 1914-18 he served as a Captain in the RAMC, and afterwards joined the staff of the *British Medical Journal* under Sir Dawson Williams, whom he succeeded in 1928. In May 1941 enemy action destroyed the printing offices of the *BMJ*, which increased the problems of its editor. Latterly his life was overshadowed by ill health and he retired in 1946. He married Grace, daughter of W M Fearon, by whom he had one son; she died in 1950. He died on 7 March 1954.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005059
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First Title value, for Searching Morland, Egbert Coleby (1874 - 1955)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-28
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Occupation Editor Journalist Physician
Details Egbert Morland was elected a Fellow in recognition of his services as Editor of *The Lancet*. Born in 1874, the fifth son of Charles Coleby Morland of Croydon, he came of a well-known Quaker family; an elder brother, Harold, a prominent accountant and auditor in the City of London, was Clerk (ie Chairman) of the Society of Friends 1927-32. Egbert was educated at Bootham School and Owens College, Manchester, and won an open scholarship to St Bartholomew's, qualifying in 1897 and winning the gold medal in physiology at the London MD examination in 1898. He held house appointments at St Bartholomew's and at Great Ormond Street. Adding Swiss qualifications, he practised as a chest physician in Switzerland for eleven years (1903-14) first at Davos and later at Arosa, where he was a pioneer of the English colony and helped to build the church. In the first year of the war he served in France under the Friends Relief Committee, but in 1915 joined the staff of *The Lancet*. He lived for twelve years in Buckinghamshire, moved into London in 1928, and succeeded Sir Squire Sprigge as Editor in 1937. During the second world war he evacuated *The Lancet's* office to Aylesbury and lived "over the shop" from 1939 to 1945. He then retired to Holmfirth, Yorkshire where his wife died in 1948. She had been Mary Windsor Latchmore, also a Quaker, and had shared his work and interests. They were married in 1903 and adopted two sons and a daughter. Morland died at York on 26 April 1955 aged 81. Morland was ideally suited to carry on *The Lancet's* tradition of sturdy independence and social conscience. He was an amusing and sympathetic companion, and experienced in clinical practice before he became a journalist. Personally he was interested in such humanitarian problems as child welfare, the treatment of tuberculosis, and the care of the aged, but in his editorial work he drew contributions from a very wide circle of acquaintance and was keenly awake to every advance in scientific medicine.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005179
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