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First Title value, for Searching Mann, Robert James (1817 - 1886)

2024-05-07T11:59:20Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-07-31
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Occupation Educationalist Meteorologist
Details Born at Norwich, the son of James Mann, and was educated at University College, London. He practised for some years in Norwich and Buxton, but weak health led him to give up medicine. He published in 1845 *The Planetary and Stellar Universe*, which was followed by a long series of text-books on astronomy, chemistry, physiology, and health, designed to popularize science. He graduated MD at St Andrews in 1854, and in 1857 he left England for Natal on the invitation of Bishop Colenso, and lived in the Colony for the next nine years. He was appointed to the newly established office of Superintendent of Education two years after his arrival, and established the system of primary education which long remained in force. He also made a careful and valuable record of the meteorology of Natal. He returned to London in 1866 with a special appointment as Emigration Officer for the Colony, and became President of the Meteorological Society, a post he held for three years. He was also, for the same length of time, one of the Board of Visitors of the Royal Institution. From 1874-1886 he was Secretary of the African and the Foreign and Colonial sections of the Royal Society of Arts. He took an active part in the organization of the scientific apparatus at the South Kensington Exhibition in 1876, having superintended the collection and dispatch of the Natal collections to the Great Exhibition of 1862. He also compiled the catalogue of the Natal Court at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886. He died at Wandsworth on August 8th, 1886, and was buried at Kensal Green Cemetery.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002654
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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First Title value, for Searching Morris, Sir Philip Robert (1901 - 1979)

2024-05-07T11:59:20Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-10
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Occupation Educationalist
Details Born on 6 July 1901, the second son of M C Morris, HM Inspector, Philip Robert Morris was educated at Tonbridge School, St Peter's, York, and Trinity College, Oxford, where he graduated (Modern Greats) in 1923. He took the teachers' diploma of London University in 1924 and was lecturer in history and classics at Westminster Training College, 1923-1925. He was appointed administrative officer to Kent Education Committee, becoming assistant director in 1932 and director, 1938-1943. From 1938 to 1944 he was educational advisor to HM Prisons and Director-General of Army Education from 1944 to 1946, the year in which he was knighted for his distinguished service. He served as member, vice-chairman and chairman of committees, councils and advisory bodies, including the Carnegie UK Trust, UNESCO, the British Council, the BBC, and the General Nursing Council. He was Vice-Chancellor to Bristol University, 1946-1966 and Chairman of the South-West Regional Hospital Board from 1948 to 1953. Sir Philip was elected an Honorary Fellow on 13 January 1966 and he was admitted by the President at a ceremony held in the Great Hall at the University of Bristol. The ceremony was preceded by an organ recital by Dr Willis Grant, Professor of Music and it was attended by His Grace the Duke of Beaufort, Chancellor of the University and by the Lord Mayor and Sheriff and their ladies. Sir Philip was closely connected with the veterinary school in Bristol and he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in 1958. He married in 1926, Florence Redvers Davis, second daughter of Walford Davis Green, barrister-at-law, and they had two sons, one a medical practitioner, and two daughters, one of whom predeceased him. Sir Philip died at his home in Wales on 21 November 1979, survived by Lady Morris and their sons and daughter.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006773
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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First Title value, for Searching Edwards, William Thomas (1821 - 1915)

2024-05-07T11:59:20Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-16
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Occupation Educationalist Physician
Details Born at Caerphilly on December 6th, 1821, the son of a medical man who had an extensive country practice, which he conducted on horseback; he was proud of his stable, and his son had the advantage of an active outdoor life in his boyhood and after his apprenticeship to his father. William Edwards (1719-1789), his great-grandfather, was the bridge-builder of European reputation, who in the middle of the eighteenth century spanned the Taff at Pontypridd with the largest one-span stone bridge then known. After serving his apprenticeship at Caerphilly, William Thomas Edwards completed his professional education at University College Hospital and graduated brilliantly at the University of London. In 1844, after a brief period of practice at Llanfabon, he settled at Cardiff, then a town of little more than 10,000 inhabitants, and possessed of neither docks nor railways. In 1849 he was appointed Out-patient Medical Officer to the Infirmary, which was a small institution admitting in a year 113 in-patients and 2360 out-patients. From 1851-1860 he was Hon Surgeon, then Consulting Surgeon, but in 1862 was appointed Physician to the Infirmary, becoming eventually Consulting Physician. From an early period of his residence in Cardiff Edwards showed a keen interest in education. Beginning in a small way and assisted by a few friends, in 1847 he built a substantial single-story building known for many years as the British School. It provided elementary education for children of the working classes, the only other school in the town being one maintained by the Church of England. What his objection to the excellent old National School can have been is not stated, but we find him an early member of the Cardiff School Board and its Vice-Chairman in 1890. He was Governor of the Craddock Wells Charity till its absorption under the provisions of the Technical Education Act, and he laboured in the cause of higher education. In 1872, when the question of founding a university college in South Wales was under consideration, he strongly supported the scheme and urged that the college should be established at Cardiff. When this was decided upon he made a donation of £500, and as a Life Governor and in other capacities he ever afterwards laboured loyally and unostentatiously for the college, of which he was eventually elected Vice-President. He was elected President of the British Medical Association at its Cardiff Meeting in 1885, and then advocated his long-felt desire for the establishment of a medical school in Cardiff. He offered £1000 to found a school in connection with the University College, and his pupil and friend, Dr William Price, also of Cardiff, made a gift of the same amount. Other contributions followed, and it was one of Edwards's proudest memories that he had been instrumental in bringing the school into being, as he foresaw its utility in the future as part of the University of Wales. He was for many years a member of the Cardiff Town Council and was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Glamorgan and the County Borough of Cardiff. He was made a Life Governor of University College, London, in 1871. He was also Vice-President of the Liberal Association, and took a considerable part in the establishment of the English Congregational Union of Wales, which has built chapels where English services are held. He joined in the jubilee of the Union the year before his death. At the time of his death he was, in addition to his other distinctions, Hon Physician to the *Hamadryad* Seamen's Hospital. He died on April 11th, 1915, and was buried at Caerphilly. His address latterly was at Springfield House. He left estate valued at over £80,000. On the cessation of certain trusts, the testator bequeathed £7000 for the University College of South Wales and £5000 for Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire Infirmary. His donations to University College, Cardiff, amounted during his lifetime to £8000. In 1902 the jubilee of his services at the infirmary was celebrated at a banquet given by his local confreres.
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