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First Title value, for Searching Thomas, Harold (1925 - 2011)

2024-05-03T09:19:22Z

by Robert D Wines
Publication Date 2016-07-27 2016-09-01
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Occupation Farmer Urologist
Details Harold Thomas was a consultant urologist in Sydney, Australia. As a result of his American experience, when he trained with Roger W Barnes in California, he was able to make a significant contribution to the development of urological practice in Australia. Harold was born into a humble family in Rakaunui in rural New Zealand. He finished school at 14 and worked in a bank to pay for night school, and later earned a diploma in agriculture. Realising there was little chance of being able to buy his own farm, he turned to medicine and went to Otago University. To pay his way through medical school, Harold worked as a shearer, bent over heavy sodden sheep pulling belt-driven clippers. Once he graduated, he worked at Auckland Hospital, where he courted and married Shirley. In 1957 they left for the UK, with Harold working as a ship's doctor on board *Flowergate*, an old cargo freighter. They sailed across the Pacific, through the Suez and then to Marseille. They travelled on to London, where he spent the next four years working at St Paul's Hospital in Endell Street, Covent Garden. In 1958 he gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1961 he and Shirley departed for the USA on the *Queen Mary*. He and his family, then including two sons, Michael and Philip, drove across America to southern California, where Harold trained under Roger W Barnes, then one of America's most prominent urologists and a pioneer of endoscopic surgery. Harold completed his fellowship of the American College of Surgeons and worked at Riverside County Hospital attached to Loma Linda University school of medicine. Harold and Shirley later moved to Australia, to Sydney. He became a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and was appointed as a urologist to the Prince Henry/Prince of Wales Hospital complex and established a busy private practice at Randwick. He was elected secretary of the Urological Society of Australia and New Zealand. He was held in high regard by his medical colleagues and patients alike. He introduced American short-stay urology, which was not routine at the time. Despite a busy operating schedule, Harold took time to pass on his skills to other urologists, especially prostatic resection. Two more children, Kay and Geoffrey, were added to the family. When Harold retired as a surgeon he moved to the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, where he planted trees, farmed the land and looked after his cattle. He died in 2011, aged 85.
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First Title value, for Searching Burfield, Joseph (1879 - 1970)

2024-05-03T09:19:22Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-22
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Occupation Farmer General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Born on 30 May 1879 at Hailsham, Sussex, the second eldest child of Joseph Burfield and his wife, née Birt. He belonged to a Quaker family with interests in farming and a rope business. He was educated at Beiston in Somerset and at London University and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He came to Norwich as assistant in general practice to Dr Michael Beverley in 1908 and was appointed assistant surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital in 1911. He became surgeon in 1930 and consulting surgeon in 1944. After his retirement from the Hospital he continued as medical officer to the Great Hospital, a mediaeval charity, and to Colman's the famous mustard firm. During the first world war he was commissioned as Captain in the RAMC and served at Gallipoli. He married in 1908 Mary Fenning then a nurse at St Bartholomew's Hospital; their son Major Bernard Burfield was killed in action in the Burma Campaign during the second world war; their daughter is married to a well known Norfolk farmer. Joe Burfield was always interested in farming and acquired a farm in Norfolk when he came out of the Army; this interest continued after his retirement. He attributed his good health and youthful appearance and longevity to the open-air life which he led. At the age of 86 he underwent a major operation from which he made a rapid recovery, and returned to his full and active life for another five years, dying on 5 February 1970, aged ninety.
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First Title value, for Searching Fenwick, William Stephen (1881 - 1961)

2024-05-03T09:19:22Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-03 2018-06-26
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Occupation Farmer General surgeon
Details Born on 6 July 1881 he developed an ankylosed tuberculous left hip which seriously interfered with his education. This illness necessitated a long rest in the open air and thus engendered a love of the country from which he profited in later years. Fenwick studied first for the BSc and graduated with honours in botany. In 1902 he became a medical student at Charing Cross Hospital and took nearly all the prizes. He qualified in 1906, graduated MB BS with a gold medal and honours in surgery, medicine, and pathology in 1908, took the FRCS the same year, and gained the MS with a gold medal in 1909. After serving as house surgeon to Sir Herbert Waterhouse, Fenwick became surgical registrar, and on the death of Sir Frederic Wallis he was appointed to the full surgical staff of the Hospital. Among other surgical appointments, he was at various times on the staff of the Hampstead General Hospital, the Gordon Hospital, the Queen's Hospital for Children and the Hendon Cottage Hospital. During the first world war he was unable to serve in the forces owing to his disability, but was increasingly active at home. Unfortunately his car collided with a tram during a black-out, and his injuries made it increasingly difficult for him to operate. He retired in 1922 to Earldoms Lodge, Whiteparish, near Salisbury, where he became a successful farmer and veterinary surgeon. (1) He was elected chairman of the South Wiltshire brank of the National Farmer's Union in 1937, and during the second world war was chairman of the National Service Medical Board at Salisbury. Fenwick was a quiet, unobtrusive man with a genius for excellence. He died on 17 January 1961 at the age of 79, survived by his widow and his son, Thomas Fenwick FRCS, consultant surgeon to the Portsmouth group of hospitals. Publications: Sterilisation of skin by alcoholic solution of iodine, with H Waterhouse. *Brit med J*. 1910, 2, 61. Transplantation of a segment of small intestine to repair the resected sigmoid flexure. *Brit med J*. 1911, 2, 781. [(1) It has been questioned as to whether he held a formal veterinary degree. It is likely that he practiced as a vet without being on the register or the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons - June 2018.]
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First Title value, for Searching D'Arcy, Francis Florence (1895 - 1967)

2024-05-03T09:19:22Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-22
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Occupation Farmer General surgeon
Details D'Arcy was a third generation Australian, born at Greendale, Ballan, Victoria, where his grandfather Thomas D'Arcy came from Killarney, Co Kerry, Ireland and settled in 1848. His father Patrick was Thomas's second son and his mother was a Macgillicuddy, a member of the chief clan in the same part of Ireland. He was educated at St Patrick's College, Ballarat and then went to Ireland, became a novice in the Redemptorist Order and studied at University College, Dublin. Finding however that he had no true vocation for the religious life D'Arcy went back to Australia and studied medicine at St Vincent's Hospital, graduating at Melbourne University in Arts (1920) and in medicine (1923). He proceeded to the higher degrees in medicine and surgery, after serving as private assistant to Dr Tom Ryan at Nhill, Victoria. He came to London for postgraduate work and took the Fellowship in 1931; he was also a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He went into private practice at Toorak Road, South Yarra and later at 7 Darling Street there. He was elected to the surgical staff of St Vincent's Hospital in 1933, and became a surgeon to the hospital in 1940, and ultimately consulting surgeon. His consulting rooms were at 33 Collins Street, Melbourne. D'Arcy married in 1934 Julia McCormack MA, who survived him with their son and six daughters. He was a short, thick-set, strong man. While leading the busy life of a successful surgeon in the city, he was a country man at heart who farmed his own land. He was a good naturalist, with a deep knowledge of the wild life of bush and sea-shore. He was also a scholar, a lover of good literature, and widely read in medical literature. He fell from his tractor on his farm at Greendale on 20 December 1966, was picked up unconscious, and died in hospital four months later on 24 April 1967 aged 72, from the effects of a subdural haemorrhage.
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First Title value, for Searching Baines, Guy Harrison (1911 - 1985)

2024-05-03T09:19:22Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-17
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Occupation Farmer General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Guy Harrison Baines was born on 16 September 1911 at the Vicarage, St Helens, Lancashire, where his father Albert Baines, a Cambridge graduate, was a clerk in Holy Orders and later archdeacon of Halifax. His mother Mabel (née Harrison) came from Liverpool. After early education at Mostyn House, Parkgate, he went to Charterhouse where he became head of his house and represented his school at football, boxing, athletics and swimming. At St John's College, Cambridge, he secured an honours degree in natural sciences in 1932 and became demonstrator in anatomy and physiology. He was president of the University Medical Society and gained blues for boxing and swimming before becoming Hector Mackenzie Exhibitioner at St Thomas's Hospital in 1933. After qualifying in 1936 he held resident surgical posts at his teaching hospital and took the primary FRCS before moving in 1939 to the new Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, where he was surgical registrar and resident surgical officer while completing the final Fellowship in 1939. He joined the RAMC in 1943, becoming a surgical specialist in the First Airborne Division with which he served in North Africa, Sicily and Italy and was then transferred to Burma. There, with a mobile surgical unit, he took part in the Arakan campaign before returning to hospital and field surgical units in NW Europe. After VE day he commanded hospitals at Sandbostel and Belsen concentration camps before becoming officer in charge of the surgical division at No 25 General Hospital. He there met Janet Douglas Ward, a physiotherapist, whom he married just after the war. In December 1945, just before his demobilisation, Guy Baines was appointed assistant surgeon to the Queen Elizabeth and Children's Hospitals in Birmingham, and surgeon to the Guest Hospital, Dudley. He rapidly built up a large practice in general surgery, with a special interest in urology, and eventually devoted himself entirely to urology. He published valuable papers on ectopic ureter, nephrocalcinosis and abacterial pyuria and became an active and popular member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. A man of strong and handsome appearance, a conservative but skilful surgeon, his courtesy, charm and kindly consideration for his patients caused him to be in constant demand. Shortly after their marriage he and his wife settled on a 100 acre farm in Worcestershire, where they raised a family of four children and kept a fine dairy herd. After suffering a myocardial infarct in 1970 he sold the farm but continued with his surgical work until normal retiring age in 1976 when he took up market gardening and served on medical tribunals. He loved the country life but later suffered increasing cardiac disability until his sudden death on 13 December 1985, aged 73. An unselfish and generous man of assertive character, his cheerful temperament and wide interests made him an excellent colleague and staunch friend. He was survived by his wife and by his two sons, Robert and Michael, and two daughters, Rachel-Claire and Julie-Anne.
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First Title value, for Searching Spencer-Bernard, John Gray Churchill (1907 - 1977)

2024-05-03T09:19:22Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-19
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Occupation Farmer General practitioner Pathologist
Details John Spencer-Bernard was born on 26 May 1907 in Ootacamund, India, the elder son of Sir Charles and Lady Edith Spencer. His father was ICS Puisne Judge of High Court of Judicature, Madras, while his uncle A J Spencer was editor of the standard textbook *Landlord and tenant*. It was in 1955 in relation to an inheritance that John Spencer changed his name by deed poll to Spencer-Bernard and at the same time changed the emphasis of his career from medicine to farming. He was educated at Marlborough College, winning the Guillebrand Prize in natural history and the leaving exhibition to be senior scholar and choral scholar at Magdalene College, Cambridge, gaining a first class in the Natural Science Tripos before going to the London Hospital Medical College as Freedom Research Scholar and winning several prizes. He enjoyed his house appointments under Sir James Walton and Charles Goulden and became a clinical assistant in pathology and also to surgical outpatients, working for and being influenced by Russell Howard, Sir Hugh Lett and Robert Hutchison (whom he described as much respected). During the second world war he volunteered repeatedly, but was finally pronounced unfit owing to sinus trouble. He became teacher and officer in the St John Ambulance in Shrewsbury where he was assistant surgeon to the Royal Salop Infirmary. After the war he became pathologist at Frenchay Hospital, Bristol. He also spent some years in general practice. In 1955 he inherited 850 acres in Buckinghamshire and abandoned his surgical career to farm them. However, towards the end of his life he conducted a clinic for the injection of varicose veins at Bletchley on behalf of John Hadfield, one of the surgeons at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. He was at one time Chairman of the Buckinghamshire Country Landowners' Association. Other interests included photography, piano, organ and forestry. At school and college he excelled in shooting and rowing, being stroke for Magdalene. In 1933 he married Phyllis Corley and they had two daughters and two sons. When he died on 28 March 1977 he was survived by his wife and family.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006967
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First Title value, for Searching Anderson, James Christie (1899 - 1984)

2024-05-03T09:19:22Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-17
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Occupation Farmer General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details James Christie Anderson, third child and third son of James Alexander Anderson, a schoolmaster, and Jeanie (née Boswell), was born in Dundee on 4 December 1899. After early education at Butterburn School and Dundee High School he secured an entrance scholarship to St Andrew's University where he originally intended to study agriculture. But his studies were interrupted by the first world war when he joined the Navy as a probationer Surgeon Lieutenant in 1917. On returning to Queen's College, Dundee, he won the obstetrics and gynaecology medal before graduating in 1922. He was house surgeon at Dundee Royal Infirmary and at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London, before serving as resident surgical officer at St Mark's Hospital in London. During this period in London he played rugby football for the London Scottish. He then moved to Chesterfield before becoming surgical registrar at the Royal Hospital, Sheffield, in 1926. He passed the FRCS in 1928 and was appointed honorary consultant surgeon at Sheffield in 1934. He was also lecturer in surgery and applied anatomy to Sheffield University. Originally a general surgeon, Jock, as he was universally known, developed a growing interest in urology to which he later made a number of important contributions, notably in relation to carcinoma of the bladder and also hydronephrosis. The Anderson-Hynes pyeloplasty procedure was devised in concert with a plastic surgeon colleague in Sheffield. Having enrolled in the Territorial Army before the second world war, he was called up on the outbreak of hostilities and became officer in charge of the surgical division of No 29 British General Hospital with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He served in Persia and Iraq and later in Normandy after D-day. When hostilities ceased he was called on to tend the victims of Belsen. He was awarded the OBE and TD and was mentioned in despatches. On demobilisation in 1945 he returned to Sheffield where his surgical work became primarily urological. He was President of the Section of Urology of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1961 and hosted a meeting in Sheffield of the British Association of Urological Surgeons in 1962. He also served for two spells on the court of examiners of the Royal College of Surgeons up to 1968 and was on the advisory panel on the training of surgeons. Outside his surgical work with relatively little knowledge of agriculture, Jock purchased a farm in Lincolnshire in 1948. Busily engaged in surgery during the week, farming soon became his second love at weekends. This led quite naturally to a new life after retirement when he and his wife bought a farm in Western Australia some 200 miles south of Perth where he raised sheep and a splendid herd of cattle and, not forgetful of his first love, became an elected Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1971. One of his sons, James Christie Anderson, FRCS, is an orthopaedic surgeon in Perth; the second son is a veterinary surgeon also in Australia, and two of the three daughters emigrated to Australia, so that the family largely remained in proximity after his retirement from Sheffield. Jock Anderson was a most industrious, cheerful and kindly man who made innumerable friends all over the world. Above all he loved a good argument. His surgical firm at Sheffield was a happy one for he gave much encouragement to his juniors and had the knack of bringing the best out of everyone. He had an abiding interest in history; was blessed with a good memory, and was a generous and charming host, with as much enthusiasm for vintage wines as for vintage Rolls-Royces. When he died in Perth, WA, on 3 February 1984 he was survived by his wife, his five children and fourteen grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007083
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