Search Results for Medical Obituaries - Narrowed by: General practitioner

First Title value, for Searching Everett, Michael Thornton ( - 2014)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-04-09 2016-07-08
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Michael Everett was a general practitioner who worked in Plymouth. He studied medicine at the London Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1956. He gained his FRCS in 1965. Prior to becoming a general practitioner, he was a surgical registrar in Cardiff. Michael Thornton Everett died on 25 March 2014.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005260
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First Title value, for Searching Biswas, Prasanta Kumar (1929 - 2018)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2019-04-03 2022-03-14
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009500-E009599
Occupation General practitioner
Details Prasanta Kumar Biswas qualified MB, BS in Calcutta in 1954 and passed the fellowship of the college in 1967. A general practitioner in Pouleton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, he died on 29 December 2018.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009588
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First Title value, for Searching Mukherji, Santanu ( - 2010)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Dee Mukherji
Publication Date 2012-10-17 2014-05-02
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375221375221
Occupation General practitioner
Details Santanu Mukherji was a general practitioner in Yorkshire, with a special interest in cardiology. He was born in Calcutta. His father, Captain Maniklal Mukherji, was a founder member of the Indian Radiological Association, and physician to and friend of the poet Rabindranath Tagore, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Santanu was educated at St Xavier's College, Calcutta, and the Nilratan Sircar Medical College (formally the Campbell Medical School). He went to Britain for postgraduate studies, and gained his FRCS and FRCS Edinburgh in the same year, 1968. He was appreciated by his fellow doctors. Derek J Rowlands, a consultant cardiologist at Manchester Royal Infirmary, records how he was 'a delightful, stimulating and inspirational colleague'. He was survived by his wife Dee, his son and two daughters, and one granddaughter. One of his daughters entered the medical profession.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003038
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First Title value, for Searching Jagose, Rustom Jamshedji (1918 - 1991)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2005-11-23 2014-07-23
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372354372354
Occupation General practitioner
Details Rustom Jamshedji Jagose, known as 'Rusty', passed the fellowship in 1957 and emigrated to New Zealand, where he was a general practitioner in Cambridge, in the Waikato region of the North Island. Although he did not continue to practise surgery, he regularly attended grand rounds at Waikato Hospital. He died on 16 September 1991 and was survived by his wife Anne and their five children - Pheroze, Maki, Annamarie, Una and Fiona.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000167
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First Title value, for Searching Bainbridge, David Robert (1939 - 2022)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-10-20
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details David Robert Bainbridge was a general practitioner who lived in Cuckfield, West Sussex.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010441
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First Title value, for Searching Siddeley, Thomas ( - 1884)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-31
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375677375677
Occupation General practitioner
Details Received his professional training at the Royal Infirmary, Manchester, and the Middlesex Hospital. He was at first in general practice at Leigh, Lancashire, and then for many years at Bowdon, Cheshire. He died in 1884 or 1885.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003494
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First Title value, for Searching Gasquet, Raymond (1789 - 1856)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

First Title value, for Searching Fsadni, John (1954 - 2023)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-10-11
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Occupation General practitioner
Details John Fsadni was a general practitioner who lived in Harpenden. 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: E010482
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First Title value, for Searching Williamson, Bruce Christopher MacGregor ( - 2011)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-23 2014-04-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374070374070
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Bruce Christopher MacGregor Williamson was a general practitioner and an assistant surgeon at Melton and District War Memorial Hospital, Melton Mowbray. After qualifying MB BS in 1959, he held house posts at Middlesex Hospital. He went on to become an assistant lecturer at University College London and a surgical registrar at the London Hospital. He wrote several papers, including an article on the work of the general practitioner surgeon (*Practitioner* 1982 Mar;226[1365]:521-2,524-5). Bruce Christopher MacGregor Williamson died on 22 May 2011 in Leicester Royal Infirmary. He was 75.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001887
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First Title value, for Searching Goode, Alan Francis (1908 - 1995)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2018-11-20 2021-07-22
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Alan Francis Goode was born on 8 May 1908. He studied medicine at Birmingham University and trained at the Middlesex and St Bartholomew’s Hospitals. After working as an assistant in the surgical unit at the Welsh National School of Medicine and as a surgical registrar at the General Hospital in Birmingham, he passed the fellowship of the college in 1934 and served in the RAMC as a surgical specialist during the second world war. For many years after the war he worked as a general practitioner in Alton, Hampshire, retiring in the early 1970’s. He died in November 1995.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009513
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First Title value, for Searching Bozman, Edward Harvey (1940 - 2023)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-10-17
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Edward Harvey Bozman was a general practitioner in Maldon, Essex. 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: E010486
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First Title value, for Searching Lasserson, Elias Michael (1938 - 2011)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-08-03
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010300-E010399
Occupation General practitioner
Details Elias Michael Lasserson was a general practitioner in Mitcham, London. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010389
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First Title value, for Searching Gilbert, Michael Chaplain (1925 - 2016)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-07-26 2019-09-30
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381345381345
Occupation General surgeon General practitioner
Details Michael Gilbert was a general practitioner in Beccles, Suffolk. He was born in Lewisham, London on 8 March 1925, the son of John Charles Gilbert and Averilliday Rudyard Gilbert née Kent. He initially trained as a surgeon at Guy’s Hospital and gained his FRCS in 1954, but decided to become a general practitioner in Beccles in 1958. He retired in 1988 and devoted much of his time to caring for his wife, Anna Margaret (née Lloyd-Evans). Following her death in 1997, he enjoyed travelling and spent more time on the golf course. Michael Chaplain Gilbert died in Beccles Hospital on 18 April 2016 at the age of 91. He was survived by his five children.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009162
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First Title value, for Searching Swain, Robert George (1936 - 2018)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2019-04-03 2022-02-09
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009500-E009599
Occupation General practitioner
Details Robert George Swain was born on 26 July 1936 in Surrey and spent his early years there. He studied medicine in the UK and passed the fellowship of the college in 1963. After marrying Ann, he moved with his family to Canada in 1965 to join a rural medical practice in Alberta as a general practitioner. Ten years later they moved to Nanaimo, British Columbia for him to take up a post at the Caledonian Medical Clinic, where he worked until retirement. He died on 20 August 2018 aged 82. His wife of 48 years predeceased him and he was survived by their children Paul and Nicola, grandchildren Kristopher, Braeden, and Aleksander and great grandchildren, Xavier and Kaius.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009594
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First Title value, for Searching Cridland, Arthur John ( - 1860)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-02 2013-08-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373509373509
Occupation General practitioner
Details Was in general practice at Chelsea; at Maidenhead; at 60 Old Steine, Brighton, where he was a Member of the Brighton and Sussex Medico-Chirurgical Society; and at Putney, where he was in partnership with Charles Shillito, MRCS. He died in or before 1860.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001326
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First Title value, for Searching Cowan, Alan Normington (1929 - 2021)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-01-11
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010100-E010199
Occupation General surgeon General practitioner
Details Alan Cowan was a consultant surgeon and general practitioner in Canberra, Australia. 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: E010196
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First Title value, for Searching Ryan, Edward Leo (1921 - 2019)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-01-11
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010000-E010099
Occupation General surgeon General practitioner
Details Edward Ryan was a surgeon and general practitioner who lived in Sandringham, Victoria, Australia. 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: E010044
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First Title value, for Searching Evans, John Gwynfor (1956 - 2021)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-02-04
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010000-E010099
Occupation General surgeon General practitioner
Details John Evans was a principal in general practice in Gateshead. 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: E010075
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First Title value, for Searching Kernutt, Raymond Herbert (1926 - 2004)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-02-10
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009900-E009999
Occupation General surgeon General practitioner
Details Raymond Kernutt was senior surgeon at Box Hill Hospital, Melbourne. 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: E009923
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First Title value, for Searching Walton, Anthony ( - 1994)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

First Title value, for Searching Diamond, William Batchelor ( - 1855)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-28
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E001000-E001999/E001400-E001499
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373600373600
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Was in the Honourable East India Company's Naval Service, next in general practice, and the proprietor of the Burman House Lunatic Asylum, Henley-in-Arden, where he died on September 4th, 1855. He was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Numismatic Society.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001417
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First Title value, for Searching Maltby, John Wingate (1928 - 2009)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-03 2014-10-17
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373667373667
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details John Wingate Maltby was a general practitioner and surgeon in Tiverton, Devon. He was born in London in 1928, the son of Henry Wingate Maltby, a doctor. He was educated at Trinity College School, Ontario, Canada, and Marlborough College, and went on to Cambridge University and St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School. He qualified with the conjoint examination in 1954. He held house posts at Bart's and was a house surgeon at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, London. He also carried out his National Service in the Royal Corps of Signals. From 1961 to 1990, when he retired, he was a general practitioner in Tiverton and a clinical assistant in surgery at Tiverton and District Hospital. In his retirement he wrote two books - *A brief history of science for the citizen* (Tiverton, Halsgrove, 2003) and *A brief history of psychiatry* (Tiverton, Halsgrove, 2005). John Wingate Maltby died on 2 January 2009, aged 80.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001484
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First Title value, for Searching Chalmers, David Hastings Kerr (1955 - 2018)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2019-06-06 2022-06-13
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009600-E009699
Occupation General practitioner
Details David Chalmers studied medicine at Cambridge University qualifying MB, BChir in 1979. He moved to Oxford University as a demonstrator in anatomy and then became a casualty officer at the Birmingham Accident Hospital and Rehabilitation Centre. Following that he joined the staff of the Churchill and John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, working as an SHO in renal transplantation and general surgery. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1985. Eventually he moved to Douglas, Isle of Man where he became a popular and much loved general practitioner. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. On 19 February 2018 he died aged 63.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009606
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First Title value, for Searching Majid, Syed Hasan ( - 1996)

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First Title value, for Searching Price, Dilwyn Arthur ( - 1996)

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First Title value, for Searching Nottidge, Ralph Edward ( - 1999)

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First Title value, for Searching Kok, Ronald Huck Chye (1935 - 2022)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-02-13
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010200-E010299
Occupation Trauma surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon General practitioner
Details Ronald Huck Chye Kok was a general practitioner who lived in Scarborough. 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: E010209
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First Title value, for Searching Dukes, Heather Margaret (1942 - 2014)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-06-12 2017-12-21
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Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E007000-E007999/E007400-E007499
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379640379640
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Medical Officer Paediatrician
Details Heather Margaret Dukes was a general surgeon, paediatrician and general practitioner. She was born Heather Margaret Starkie in Hyde, Cheshire on 4 September 1942. Her father, Colin Starkie, was medical officer of health for Kidderminster; her mother was Margaret Joyce Starkie née Wrigley. She was educated at the Knoll School, Kidderminster, and then Kidderminster High School. In 1960, she started studying medicine at Birmingham University, qualifying in 1965. Immediately after qualifying, she went to Rhodesia, where she worked in junior posts in the professorial units at the University of Rhodesia. She developed skills in vascular access surgery and helped to start central Africa's first renal unit. In 1969, she returned to the UK, to Coventry and then as a resident surgical officer at the Children's Hospital in Birmingham. She took a break from work while her children were young, and then retrained in paediatrics. In 1981, she was appointed as Coventry's principal medical officer for child health. She later retrained and became a general practitioner, founding the Anchor Centre, providing primary healthcare for the homeless and for refugees. In 1964, she married David Dukes. They had four children and five grandchildren. Heather Margaret Dukes died on 20 September 2014 from angiosarcoma. She was 72.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007457
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First Title value, for Searching Currie, John Alexander ( - 1984)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-06-28 2014-06-27
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374726374726
Occupation General practitioner Urological surgeon Urologist
Details John Alexander Currie was a consultant urologist in Cape Town, South Africa. He was the son of James Oswald Currie, a medical practitioner, and was educated at Diocesan College ('Bishops') in Cape Town. During the First World War he was commissioned in the Royal Field Artillery. He then went on to study medicine at Guy's in London, gaining his MRCS LRCP in 1923 and his MB BS in 1924. He returned to South Africa, where he was a general practitioner in Wynberg, Cape Province. He then went back to London to study urology and obtained his final FRCS in 1938. In the same year he was awarded his masters in surgery. During the Second World War, he served in the South African Medical Corps. After the war he established a private urological practice in Cape Town. He was also appointed to the staff of Groote Schuur Hospital and Victoria Hospital, Wynberg. Currie was president of the Medical Association of South Africa in 1961. After retiring from his private practice in Cape Town, he became a general practitioner on the island of St Helena for a year or so. He was married to Gertie, a former nurse, whom he had met at Victoria Hospital. Currie died on 23 August 1984.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002543
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First Title value, for Searching MacIntyre, Alexander Grant (1930 - 2009)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-03 2014-10-17
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E001000-E001999/E001400-E001499
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373675373675
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Neurosurgeon
Details Alexander Grant Macintyre was a family medicine specialist and general surgeon in Alliston, Ontario, Canada. He was born in Lucknow, Ontario, in 1930 and grew up on a farm. In 1948 he began studying medicine at the University of Toronto, but moved to England and Oxford University in 1951 on a scholarship. He gained his BA and BM BCh, and was awarded prizes in pathology and surgery. Whilst at Oxford he captained the university hockey team. From 1955 to 1961 he held university postgraduate posts in Oxford, Heidelberg, the Sorbonne in Paris and Harvard, and gained his FRCS from the Edinburgh and English Royal Colleges of Surgeons. From 1961 he was a resident and then consultant neurosurgeon at Walton Hospital, Liverpool, and a postgraduate clinical lecturer at the University of Liverpool. In 1970 he returned to Canada and settled in Alliston, Ontario, where he practised family medicine and general surgery. He retired in 1999. Outside medicine, he enjoyed sports (including skiing, baseball, inline and ice skating), travelling, carpentry and studying history and languages. In 1971 he married Josée van der Schilden in Amsterdam. They had two daughters, Johanna and Ruth-Ann. Alexander Grant Macintyre died on 19 August 2009, aged 79.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001492
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First Title value, for Searching Stevenson, Derek Cecil ( - 2001)

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First Title value, for Searching Islam, Mohammed Shamsul (1937 - 2005)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-10-17
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372745372745
Occupation General practitioner
Details Mohammed Shamsul Islam was born in Tangail, East Bengal, the former training station for ICS officers, on 7 June 1937. He qualified in Dacca and then went to England to specialise in surgery. Sadly, the college has no more information about his subsequent career until he settled down in general practice in Cheshire. He died on 24 February 2005.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000562
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First Title value, for Searching Bosworth, Philip (1948 - 2008)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2018-11-19 2021-06-16
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009400-E009499
Occupation General practitioner
Details Philip Bosworth (Bos) was a general practitioner, school doctor at Bryanston School and a keen campanologist. Born in Market Harborough, Leicestershire on 11 October 1948, he initially studied chemistry at Imperial College London after a gap year spent in Norfolk. In 1971 he enrolled at Bristol University to study medicine. He moved to Truro nine years later and passed the fellowship of the college in 1981. After four years in Cornwall he decided that hospital medicine was not for him and he took up a partnership in a general practice in Blandford Forum, Dorset. The family moved first to Pimperne and then, in 1987, to Stourpaine. Three years later in 1990 he joined the staff of Branston School as school doctor. Popular both with pupils and colleagues, he very much enjoyed this role and participated widely in the life of the school, especially on the music scene. He served on the council of the Medical Officers of Schools Association and was about to serve as its president at the time of his unexpected demise. He learnt bell ringing from his father as a teenager and rang his first peal when he was fifteen. While he was studying in London he continued the activity with enthusiasm and his time at Imperial was his most active peal ringing period. He became master of the University of London society from 1969 to 1970. On moving to Bristol he joined the University of Bristol Society of Change Ringers where he met his wife Sue, whom he married in 1971. On their move to Dorset he revived a local band, rejuvenated the Dorset Ringing Festival and was responsible for training many new ringers. A convivial and entertaining man known for his eccentric bow ties, he and his family hosted numerous local social events in the ringing community. He died suddenly after a heart attack at his home on 30 November 2008, aged 60. His wife, Sue and children Charlie, Alice and Will (born 1987) survived him.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009475
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First Title value, for Searching Sleeman, Philip Rowling ( - 1884)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-31
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375686375686
Occupation General practitioner
Details Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He was House Surgeon to the Westminster Lying-in Hospital in 1840, and then settled in general practice at Redcliff Hill, Bristol. He moved in time to 11 Redcliff Parade West, and then to 16 Buckingham Place, Clifton, and finally to Montrose House. He was Medical Referee to several Life Assurance Societies. He died in 1884 or 1885. His photograph is in the Fellows' Album. Publications:- "On the Efficacy of Oxgall" (through Dr Clay). - *Med Times*, 1845, xiii, 146, etc. "On Dysmenorrhoea" (through Dr Rigby). - *Ibid*, 1851, NS iii, 431.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003503
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First Title value, for Searching Kinder, Alexander (1883 - 1930)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-31
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E004000-E004999/E004300-E004399
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376505376505
Occupation General practitioner
Details He was educated at the Otago High School and University. He came to London, where he took the MRCS and the FRCS, and then returned to New Zealand. He practised for a time at Kumara in the South Island and afterwards settled in Auckland, where he was appointed surgeon to the Auckland Hospital, an appointment he held until a year or two before his death. In the war he served as a captain in the New Zealand Medical Corps during the occupation of Palestine. He died of carcinoma of the stomach on 3 May 1930 and was survived by his widow.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004322
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First Title value, for Searching Johnson, William ( - 1991)

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First Title value, for Searching McKelvey, John Alan William (1932 - 2014)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-10-17 2016-12-22
Unknown
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378324378324
Occupation General practitioner Ophthalmologist
Details John Alan William McKelvey was a consultant ophthalmologist for the Cornwall Hospitals Trust. He was born in 1932 into a farming family in Northern Ireland. He studied medicine at Queen's University, Belfast, qualifying in 1955. He held junior hospital posts at Belfast City Hospital, and in 1957 moved to Derby, where he became a general practitioner at the Station Road practice. After nine years, he decided to retrain as an ophthalmologist, and held training posts in Sheffield and Manchester, before becoming a registrar and then a senior registrar at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital. In 1973 he was appointed as a consultant ophthalmologist to the Cornwall Hospitals Group. He became head of the eye department, first at City Hospital, Truro, and then at Falmouth Hospital. He retired in 1999. He was chairman of the Cornwall Clinical Society and the South West Ophthalmological Society. John Alan William McKelvey died on 17 August 2014. He was survived by his widow, Ruth, their two sons, daughter and six grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Canaan, Lionel Abbot (1903 - 1985)

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First Title value, for Searching Kenney, Robert Wallace (1903 - 1993)

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First Title value, for Searching Craddock, John Gwithian ( - 1990)

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First Title value, for Searching Thomas, Zachariah (1946 - 1997)

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First Title value, for Searching Chambler, Kenneth (1927 - 2021)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Andrew Chambler
Publication Date 2022-03-29
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/385571385571
Occupation General surgeon General practitioner
Details Kenneth Chambler was a surgeon in Texas before becoming a general practitioner in East Sussex. He was born in Doncaster on 3 December 1927, the son of Frank Chambler and Mary Chambler née Wilson. His father worked on the railways, as did his maternal grandfather. He attended grammar school and then studied medicine at Edinburgh University. He qualified in 1951 and enrolled in the RAMC, serving in the Middle East and Kenya and reaching the rank of major. He returned to the UK and embarked on his surgical career, becoming a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and of England in 1958 and 1959 respectfully. He developed an interest in burns and ventured to America, undertaking research in Galveston, Texas in 1960 into the immunological response in burn patients. He gained his MD in 1961 and established a general surgical practice. In 1967, Kenneth returned to the UK to become the Raynes research fellow at the McIndoe burns unit at East Grinstead. His research culminated in a thesis, ‘The late burn illness’, for his MCh (Edinburgh). He returned to Texas, where he led the English Group Practice in Alvin until 1974. From 1975, in the small town of Tahoka in the north of the state, he worked in a general practice to provide care to the local community, including carrying out surgery at Lynn County Hospital. He retired from surgery in 1977. His interest in medicine continued and, shortly after returning to the UK, he took over a small GP practice in Heathfield, East Sussex. He expanded this over the coming years, taking on four partners and building a purpose-built surgery on the High Street. It was also one of the first pharmacy dispensing practices in the UK. While he was a GP, he mentored several students from the local Heathfield Comprehensive School to successfully gain places at medical school; some have become surgeons. Kenneth finally retired in 1992, the year his youngest son qualified from St Mary’s Medical School, London. During his time in Texas, he established an apple farm in East Sussex and bought a villa in Spain. Ken was an integral part of the local community, being president of both the rugby club and horticultural society. In later years he settled in Eastbourne with his wife, Marion (née Bancroft), and they spent most of each year in Dénia, Spain. Ken first met Marion at the age of seven; they sat together at Park School in Doncaster before their families moved apart. A chance meeting at Doncaster Royal Infirmary some years later, Ken as a surgical registrar and Marion as a physiotherapist, turned into a marriage which lasted 68 years. Ken died on 2 June 2021 at the age of 93 due to the consequences of myeloid sarcoma. He was survived by Marion, their two sons, Jonathan and Andrew (an orthopaedic consultant), seven grandchildren (one an anaesthetic/intensive therapy unit consultant) and two great-grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010095
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First Title value, for Searching Todd, Ronald Thomas (1925 - 2011)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-11-25 2017-01-12
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378620378620
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Ronald Thomas Todd was the senior surgeon at Ipswich Hospital, Queensland, Australia. He was born in Brisbane on 16 January 1925, the eldest son of Frederick Edmund Todd, an optometrist, and Rose Emma Todd née Thomas, a business secretary. He attended the Church of England Grammar School, Brisbane, and then the University of Queensland. He qualified MB BS in 1948. He was a resident medical officer at Brisbane General Hospital and then went to the UK for further studies. He was a senior house officer at St Bartholomew's Hospital, Rochester, Kent. He returned to Australia and worked as a surgical registrar at Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney, and at Broken Hill, New South Wales, where he remained for seven years. In the mid-1960s he was appointed to his surgical post at Ipswich Hospital, Queensland. After his mandatory retirement, he continued in private practice and at St Andrew's Hospital, Ipswich, until he retired as a surgeon in 1996. He then became a general practitioner in the maximum security jail at Wacol, Queensland. He finally retired in 2009. He was a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, the American College of Surgeons and the International College of Surgeons. Outside medicine, he played tennis, bred cattle and grew orchids. He studied art, history, botany, gemology, economics and sociology, among other subjects, and gained a BA at 66 and a BSc at 80. He also travelled extensively. In 1950 he married Velyian MacDonald. They had a son, Ronald Peter, and two daughters, Alison Velyian and Margaret Jean, and four grandchildren. Ronald Thomas Todd died on 16 June 2011 in Ipswich, Queensland. He was 86.
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First Title value, for Searching Verma, Terence Rai (1926 - 1999)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by George Mason
Publication Date 2015-09-14 2018-02-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380236380236
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Terence Verma (known as Terry) was a general practitioner and general surgeon on Prince Edward Island, Canada. He was born in Kalaw, Burma, on 6 October 1936, into a devout Brahmin Hindu family. His father, Bhagwan Das Verma, was a civil engineer; his mother was Devi Verma née Achara, the daughter of a herbalist. His early education was interrupted by the Second World War and he only started school at the age of nine. At 15 he had to leave education for financial reasons and spent two years as a sergeant in the Army, before going to the University of Rangoon at the age of 17. He qualified in 1962, with a gold medal. After junior posts in Burma, he went to the UK, where he worked at Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, North Lonsdale Hospital, Barrow-in-Furness and Hammersmith Hospital, London. He ultimately migrated to Prince Edward Island in Canada. There he served the community area of West Prince county as a general practitioner and surgeon, building one of the province's two largest private practices. He and his wife, Prem, raised a son who became a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. In the fraternity of Freemasonry, Terry rose through the ranks of senior offices in both the Grand Lodge of Prince Edward Island and the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, reaching election to the second highest office in both. On 19 November 1999, while driving with his wife to an appointment on Cape Breton Island, he pulled over and suffered a fatal heart attack. He was 63. Both his Masonic memorial service and Hindu funeral drew crowds as large as any in memory.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008053
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First Title value, for Searching Ridout, Dorothy May (1921 - 2013)

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by Michael Pugh
Publication Date 2013-02-20 2013-09-06
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Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E003000-E003999/E003600-E003699
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375784375784
Occupation General practitioner Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Dorothy Ridout was an obstetrician and gynaecologist, and later a general practitioner in Leeds. She was born in Southsea, Hampshire, the sixth of nine children of Charles Archibald Scott Ridout, a GP surgeon in Portsmouth, and Gladys Mary Ridout née Hooper. Medicine was in the family: Dorothy, with her brother and sister, became the fourth successive generation of doctors. She was educated at Portsmouth High School for Girls and then Cheltenham Ladies' College, before entering the Royal Free Medical School. After qualifying in 1943, she chose to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology. She was a registrar at Northampton General Hospital and at the Central Middlesex Hospital, and a senior registrar in gynaecology at the Royal Free. She gained her membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1951, and her FRCS in 1952. She then made a change in her career path and became a general practitioner in Harrogate, but maintained her special interest in gynaecology, with posts in local hospitals and clinics. In 1955 she met Douglas Shortridge, a master tanner and company director, and they married in June 1959. Dorothy moved with her husband to Leeds, where she continued in general practice and held an associate specialist post at St James's Hospital. Her contribution was recognised by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists with the award of her fellowship in 1986. Her interests away from medicine were bee keeping and local politics. Her husband died in 1996, and in widowhood she became an avid traveller, until she had a stroke in 2009. She died on 17 January 2013 at the age of 92, and was survived by her son, Andrew.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003601
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First Title value, for Searching Sidra, Rushdi Shafiq (1943 - 2006)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-07-27 2020-01-17
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Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009100-E009199
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381382381382
Occupation General practitioner
Details Rushdi Sidra was a general practitioner in Bradford. He was born on 15 October 1943 in Wad Medani, Sudan. His father, Shafig Sidra, was a civil servant for the Sudan government whose last post before retirement was as controller of accounts in the Sudan Purchasing Office in London (from 1964 to 1968). He was later a financial adviser to the Sudan Council of Churches. His mother was Hanna Makary Sidra née Kamal, the daughter of a wealthy merchant in Egypt. His uncle was a surgeon in Sudan and minister of health in Sudan from 1968 to 1971. Sidra was educated at primary and intermediate levels at Wad Medani and then studied at the Khartoum Government Secondary School. He went on to medical school at the University of Khartoum, qualifying in 1968 with prizes in anatomy and surgery. He held a preregistration surgical post in Khartoum under Marriot Nicholls and junior posts at Khartoum Civil Hospital. He went to the UK, where he worked in Lincoln and Dewsbury and, from 1974, in Bradford, where he was a senior house officer and registrar at Bradford Royal Infirmary and St Luke’s Hospital. He gained his FRCS in 1976 and specialised in urology. In 1980, he decided to become a general practitioner in Bradford, though he initially worked as a police surgeon. He worked at a practice on Vulcan Street, which later moved to Highfield Health Centre, where he carried out minor surgeries. He retired, but returned to work just 18 months later when he was invited back to do four to five surgeries a week. Outside medicine he enjoyed snooker and chess. Rushdi Sidra died on 24 July 2006 at work from a massive heart attack. He was 62. He was survived by his widow Denise (née Falkingham), who he met in December 1971 while working in Dewsbury.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009199
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First Title value, for Searching Lowman, William Henville (1879 - 1952)

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First Title value, for Searching Wilkins, Richard Dennis (1916 - 1980)

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First Title value, for Searching Urala, Kota Seetharama (1937 - 1999)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-08
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E008000-E008999/E008900-E008999
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381161381161
Occupation General practitioner Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Urala qualified in Manipal in 1962. After junior posts he taught anatomy, becoming reader in his university, and then took up orthopaedics, becoming first reader and then assistant professor. He came to Britain in 1971 and did a number of registrar posts in York, Preston and Blackpool, hoping to specialise in urology but was unable to obtain a consultant appointment. Reluctantly he went into general practice in Bolton in 1980. He retired for reasons of health in 1996, and died on 1 August 1999, survived by his wife.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008978
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First Title value, for Searching Lacy, Peter Broadhead (1923 - 1987)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Sir Barry Jackson
Publication Date 2015-06-05 2018-05-24
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Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E007000-E007999/E007400-E007499
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379585379585
Occupation General practitioner
Details Peter Broadhead Lacy was born in New Malden, Surrey, on 11 November 1923, the son of Ernest Lacy, a pharmacist, and his wife Alice Mildred, née Broadhead. He was educated at Ewell Castle School and Surbiton County School before being awarded a scholarship to Manchester University to read medicine. He qualified in 1946 gaining a distinction in medicine and then trained in surgery in the Greater Manchester area, being particularly influenced by Sir Harry Platt. He passed his FRCS in 1955 but three years later gave up surgery to enter general practice in villages in Lincolnshire. He was a true family doctor, enjoying all aspects of medicine and putting great energy into helping all who came his way. He served on the local Parish Council and was active in the Methodist Church, being a lay preacher and a steward. For many years he worked with young people in the Crusader movement and latterly with the Youth for Christ movement. In 1950 he married Joan, nee Millar, and there were two sons and three daughters of the marriage. He was a model railway enthusiast, a keen photographer especially of wild flowers, and enjoyed travelling abroad. Shortly before he died he had visited his elder son who was working in a Mission Hospital in Pakistan. When he died on 17 April 1987 he was survived by his wife, also a doctor, and his five children, two of whom, Ian and Ruth, are doctors.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007402
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First Title value, for Searching Dixon, Michael Hadley Nurrish (1922 - 2017)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2018-11-20 2021-07-22
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009500-E009599
Occupation Medical officer General practitioner
Details Michael Dixon was born in Esher on 14 August 1922. During the second world war he studied medicine at London University and trained at St Mary’s Hospital, passing his MB,BS in 1944. He did house jobs at St Mary’s and at the Central Middlesex Hospital before becoming surgeon in charge of the Varicose Vein Clinic at Thames Ditton Hospital. After passing the fellowship of the college in 1951, his interest moved to general practice and he qualified MRCGP in 1954 and FRCGP in 1978. He worked as a general practitioner in Esher for over 50 years, even continuing part time private practice after his official retirement, and made a huge contribution to the local community. In 1968 he and his wife founded the Cranstoun Therapeutic Community, a charity providing residential and community care for a wide range of problems such as drug and alcohol abuse. The Home Office began to support the organisation in 1973 and it has inspired 16 similar centres supported by around 32 local authorities. Michael was appointed chair of the Surrey Drugs Resource Scheme. In 1948 he married Anne, who was four years younger than him having been born on 4 February 1926. She was a nurse who eventually became a physiotherapist and then qualified as a probation officer. Anne died on 26 July 2016 and Michael died the following year, survived by four children and eleven grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009509
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First Title value, for Searching Connor, Ronald Edward ( - 1984)

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First Title value, for Searching Shaeena, Petrous Roufa (1935 - 2011)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-16 2014-06-06
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373774373774
Occupation General practitioner Police surgeon
Details Petrous Roufa 'Peter' Shaeena was a general practitioner in Coventry and a police surgeon. He was born in Baghdad, Iraq, on 13 October 1935, the son of Roufa Shaeena, professor of woodcraft and cabinet making at Baghdad Technical College and a lecturer at the Engineering College, Baghdad, and Sabiha Shaeena née Jacob, a housewife. One uncle was a doctor and several of his cousins became doctors and pharmacists. He was educated at an elementary Catholic school, an intermediate school in Rasafa, and then at Al-Markazia Secondary School, where he gained his baccalaureate with distinction. He then studied medicine in Baghdad, gaining his MB ChB in 1959, as one of the top six graduates. He held junior posts in Iraq, at the Children's and Republic teaching hospitals in Baghdad and at Kut Hospital. He then went to the UK. He held senior house officer posts at Albert Dock Hospital, London, Harold Wood Hospital, London, Leicester Royal Infirmary and Coventry and Warwick Hospital. He then became a registrar at St Cross Hospital, Rugby, in orthopaedics and general surgery, and was subsequently a registrar at Coventry and Warwick Hospital in orthopaedics. In 1973 he became a general practitioner in Coventry and a clinical forensic examiner for the West Midlands police. He resigned from the NHS in 1990, in protest at the imposition of new contracts by the Government, which he felt were not in the interests of patients or doctors. He continued with his police work until January 1999, when he stopped working due to ill health. He officially retired in April 1999. Outside medicine, he enjoyed sports, including cycling, walking, swimming and ballroom dancing. He was also interested in drawing and painting, including watercolours and oils, and car mechanics. He owned several cars. In 1968 he married Madeline Rita, a radiographer, whom he had met at Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital. They had one son, James William Edward. Peter Shaeena died on 23 April 2011, at the age of 75, from long-standing complications associated with diabetes.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001591
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First Title value, for Searching Benjamin, Victor Ariyaratnam (1928 - 2014)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-06-13 2017-06-26
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Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E005000-E005999/E005400-E005499
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377650377650
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Victor Ariyaratnam Benjamin was a general practitioner in Goodooga, New South Wales, Australia. He was born in Jaffna in what was then Ceylon, the son of Charles Ariyanayagam Benjamin, a railway clerk and later station master, and Catherine Rose Gnanatheraviam Benjamin née Asirwatham, the daughter of a postmaster. His two younger brothers, Robert Arulnayagam and Frederick Arumanayagam, also studied medicine and became fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons. Benjamin was educated at St John's College, an Anglican school, and then went on to study medicine at Colombo Medical School. After qualifying in 1952, he was a demonstrator in pathology in the faculty of medicine, Colombo and then held senior house officer posts, also in Colombo. In 1958 he went to the UK, where he worked at St Charles' Hospital, London. He gained his FRCS in 1959. He stated that during his training he was greatly influenced by Charles Anthony Jackson, a thoracic surgeon at St Charles', and P R Anthonis, senior surgeon at the General Hospital, Colombo. In 1959 Benjamin returned to Ceylon, where he worked as a consultant surgeon in hospitals in Jaffna, Trincomalee, Batticaloa, Colombo and back in Jaffna. He was president of the Jaffna Medical Association from 1970 and 1971, and during the same period was on the council of the Ceylon Medical Association. From 1978 to 1979 he was professor of surgery at the newly-established Jaffna Medical School. He took early retirement from the Department of Health in Sri Lanka and worked as a consultant surgeon in Yola, Nigeria. He was subsequently head of the department of surgery at Fiji Medical School. In February 1984 he emigrated to Australia and started a new career as a general practitioner in Goodooga, New South Wales, a rural area serving a largely Aboriginal population. He retired in June 2011 and went to live in Campbelltown, also in New South Wales. He had a strong Christian faith. In December 1957 he married Saraswathie Louise Rasiah (known as 'Sara'). He died on 10 May 2014 at the age of 86. Predeceased by a son, he was survived by his wife, their two daughters and two grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005467
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First Title value, for Searching La Vere, Graham Vaughan (1934 - 2008)

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by Robert Claxton
Publication Date 2012-01-10 2015-03-27
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Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E001000-E001999/E001800-E001899
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374016374016
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Graham Vaughan La Vere was a warm and gentle man, with a humble Christian faith, whose life was directed towards helping others. After leaving Shore, he studied Medicine at Sydney University graduating in 1957. After RMO appointments at RPAH and Royal Newcastle Hospital, he commenced post-graduate training in Psychiatry. He then undertook training in Surgery in the UK but returned to Australia so he could prepare for medical missionary service in response to a call he had felt from his early years. He subsequently spent the late sixties and early seventies at Murgwanza Hospital in Western Tanzania with the Church Missionary Society. He then went to the UK again to gain his FRCS in 1973 before coming back to Australia to gain his FRACS in 1974. He subsequently worked for some years as a surgical locum and assistant before deciding to pursue a career in General Practice which continued until his retirement. In his latter years, he had a significant pastoral ministry at the Church of his youth, St Paul's Chatswood, where his funeral was held. Consistent with Graham's character, he made a request that joyful colours be worn at his funeral! He died peacefully in his sleep after a long heroic battle with pancreatic cancer. He is survived by his sister, Charmaine McCahon, and his nephew Derryn McCahon and niece Cory Banks. His faith and hope and love especially in the midst of adversity were a great inspiration to all who knew him.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001833
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First Title value, for Searching Lewis, Ernest ( - 1978)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-28
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378864378864
Occupation General practitioner
Details Ernest Lewis graduated at the University of Witwatersrand in 1953 and served his residencies in the Johannesburg Teaching Group of Hospitals. He subsequently worked at the Doctors' Hospital in New York, the Birmingham Accident Hospital and the University of Bristol. Obtaining his FRCS he returned to South Africa where he was a resident surgeon at the Baragwanath Hospital in Johannesburg, but then returned to England to study cardiac surgery in Liverpool. He then went back to Cape Town and was registrar to Christiaan Barnard at the Groote Schuur Hospital. Despite this protracted surgical apprenticeship he entered general practice in Germiston in 1964 and became completely and happily involved in family practice. His fame however was in the world of golf where his name was a byword. As a young student he was golfing champion of his university and the South African universities on numerous occasions. He finished second in the Boyd Quaitch Tournament for world universities at the St Andrews golf course in 1950 and in 1952 he was in the South African team which played the amateur British golfers. Despite many offers he never turned professional. The demands of general practice did not allow him further to compete in this type of golf. Ernest Lewis was survived by his wife, Lorna, and a son and daughter, when he died on 22 May 1978.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006681
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First Title value, for Searching Goonatillake, Hansa Deva Perera ( - 1994)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-09
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Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E007000-E007999/E007900-E007999
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380148380148
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Goonatillake received his medical education at the Colombo Medical School, qualifying MB BS Ceylon in 1966 and later gained the MS at that university. From 1949 to 1957 he held posts in hospitals in Ceylon and was a registrar at Colombo General Hospital for three years before coming to Britain in 1954. He held house positions at St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey, and the King Edward Memorial Hospital, London, before gaining his Fellowship and returning to Ceylon. He was visiting medical officer at the General Hospital, Kalutara, the General Hospital, Galle, and the Colombo North Hospital, Colombo, from 1960 to 1974, when he emigrated to Australia and practised thereafter as a general practitioner at Footscray, Victoria. He died in 1994 before 28 July when his diploma was returned to the College.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007965
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First Title value, for Searching Ghosh, Dulal Chandra (1930 - 1995)

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First Title value, for Searching Cahill, Francis Joseph (1914 - 1989)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-12-24 2017-04-18
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Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E006000-E006999/E006600-E006699
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378783378783
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Francis Cahill was a general surgeon at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne. He was born in Melbourne on 1 July 1914 and was educated at St Brendan's Catholic Primary School in Flemington and at St Patrick's College in East Melbourne. At 15 he began to study medicine at Melbourne University, qualifying in 1935 at the age of just 21. He was a resident at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, and was awarded the Michael Ryan scholarship in surgery. Cahill then travelled to London for further studies at Guy's Hospital, gaining his FRCS in 1939. He returned to Melbourne and was appointed as a surgical clinical assistant (outpatients) at St Vincent's in March 1939. In February 1941, he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Forces, was appointed as a captain (medical officer) in the 2/9 Field Ambulance and deployed to the east coast of Malaya. A year later, he became a prisoner of war and was incarcerated on Singapore Island. In April 1943, Cahill was one of 10 Australian medical officers who were sent to Thailand as part of 'F Force', a party of 7,000 POWs made up of 3,400 British and 3,600 Australians. This Force endured a long train trip to Thailand and were then made to march north for about 270 kilometres towards the Burma border. Cahill later moved with the sick to Tanbaya Hospital Camp in Burma, where he was the only surgeon. After the Burma Railway became operational, Cahill remained at Tanbaya to care for the sick and dying, but later moved into Thailand and then back to Singapore. He was liberated from Changi Camp on 14 September 1945 and repatriated to Australia. In November 1945, he returned to his post as a clinical assistant at St Vincent's. A month later, he was awarded his FRACS. In April 1946, he was appointed as a surgeon to the outpatients at St Vincent's and worked in an honorary capacity until 1956, when he became a surgeon for inpatients. He resigned in August 1961. From 1946 to 1960 he also had a private practice in Melbourne. In 1962, he became a general practitioner in Hughesdale. Victoria. He was later a medical officer for the Victorian Railways, retiring in 1978. In February 1941, he married Marjorie Mary Atchison, a nurse. They had six children - Peter, Mary, Anna, Eileen, Frank and Stephen. Frank Cahill died on 2 September 1989 in San Remo, Victoria. He was 75.
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First Title value, for Searching Beasley, Jack Hesketh (1899 - 1978)

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First Title value, for Searching Lowry, James Shanks (1927 - 1996)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-17
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E008000-E008999/E008100-E008199
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380336380336
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Jim Lowry was born in Chicago of Northern Irish parents in 1927. He trained at the London Hospital where he played rugby, and was known as a popular, quiet person who had a good sense of humour. He also played the London Irish. After doing his National Service he returned to London to study for the FRCS which he obtained in 1957, and started on the general surgical registrar rotation, working for a time with Vernon Thompson. He found it impossible to get any further up the ladder, and turned to general practice, joining a practice in Shepherd's Market, about which he would tell the most wonderful stories. He remained in the professorial department at Charing Cross to run the varicose vein clinic and keep his surgical hand in. He died unexpectedly of a heart attack on 15 February 1996, leaving a wife, Audrey, one son and two daughters.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008153
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First Title value, for Searching Talbot, Francis Theodore (1872 - 1969)

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First Title value, for Searching Glendining, Vincent (1888 - 1964)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-10
Unknown
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377626377626
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details "Glen", as he was known to all his friends, came to England from New Zealand in 1904 and entered Guy's hospital in 1905. He qualified in 1911 and became house surgeon to Arbuthnot Lane. He entered general practice at Watford in 1914 with Dr F H Berry, whose daughter Frida he married in 1915. He served in the RAMC during the 1914-18 war on the Western Front and in what was then German East Africa. On his return to Watford he continued in general practice until 1947, and was honorary surgeon at the Peace Memorial Hospital. On giving up general practice he was appointed full-time senior surgeon at the hospital, and retired in 1953 at the age of 65. He played in the Guy's Rugby XV at the age of 17, was good at tennis and golf, enjoyed fishing, and was an expert shot until failing eyesight hindered him; gardening was another of his interests. He lived first at 6 Upton Road, Watford and later at 67 Gallons Hill Lane, Abbots Langley. He died on 25 May 1964, survived by his wife, two daughters and a son.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005443
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First Title value, for Searching Foenander, Frederick James Theodore (1898 - 1977)

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First Title value, for Searching Wilkin, William John (1901 - 1983)

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First Title value, for Searching Smith, George Hill (1815 - 1893)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-02-07
Unknown
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375731375731
Occupation General practitioner
Details Educated at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals. He had some experience in London, then practised for nearly half a century at Stevenage in Hertfordshire, and was well known throughout the county as a hard-working medical man. Although engaged in the quiet duties of a country practitioner, he determined, soon after the examination for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons was instituted, to obtain that honour, and succeeded in doing so, his sole ambition being to raise himself to as good a position in his profession as was possible and then take his share in elevating it. At the time of his death he was Medical Officer of the 4th District of the Hitchin Union. He was a man of literary taste with a well-stored mind, which rendered his society agreeable and interesting. He died at Stevenage on November 5th, 1893, having been in failing health for some time.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003548
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First Title value, for Searching Mitchell, David Matthew (1895 - 1978)

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First Title value, for Searching Everett, Alan Doyle (1905 - 1987)

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First Title value, for Searching Ernst, Max Roslyn (1903 - 2002)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-29
Unknown
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380767380767
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Born on 16 November 1903, Max Ernst studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he completed house jobs and then spent a period at sea as a ship's doctor. He then settled down in Romford as a general practitioner-surgeon. At the outbreak of war he was rejected for military service because of weakness in his right leg, the result of childhood poliomyelitis. Instead, he found himself more and more busy, and opened up a separate surgical unit at Rush Green Isolation Hospital, which expanded until his unit had 100 beds. He retired with reluctance in 1970, but returned to general practice for another 10 years. He was a fine organist and a lover of boats. His wife Dorothy, who predeceased him, was also a doctor, as were both his sons, Peter and Malcolm. He had four grandchildren and one great grandson. He died on 11 July 2002.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008584
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First Title value, for Searching Biswas, Sudhansu Bimal (1933 - 2000)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-22
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E008000-E008999/E008500-E008599
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380688380688
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Sudhansu Bimal Biswas was born in the Tateswar district of Noakhali, India, on 17 August 1933, the son of Kumar Aswini Biswas. Bimal was educated at Khandal School, Tateswar, and the medical school of the University of Calcutta. He won college scholarships in his last three years, along with the four gold medals for anatomy, surgery, obstetrics and pathology - a unique achievement. After qualifying, he completed junior posts in Calcutta, before deciding to come to England to specialise in surgery, pawning his gold medals to raise the fare. He held registrar posts in Tunbridge Wells, Leeds, Burnley and Blackpool. He met Margaret Draper, a midwife, in Burnley and they were married in 1967. After the birth of his son, Ronen, he moved into a general practice in Poulton le Fylde, in 1970. His wife died in 1984. He had many interests, including the Labour Party. He died on 7 March 2000 in Poulton le Fylde.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008505
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First Title value, for Searching Kirkland, George King (1904 - 1992)

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First Title value, for Searching Boothroyd, Lawrence Sydney Arthur (1920 - 2014)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-08-07 2018-03-05
Unknown
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379836379836
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Urologist
Details Lawrence Sydney Arthur Boothroyd, known as 'Boots', was a consultant general surgeon and urologist at Lions Gate Hospital, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire, on 12 September 1920, the son of Sydney Lionel Boothroyd, a master printer and lithographer and the founder of Calcutta Chromotype Limited, and Margaret Sarah Elizabeth Boothroyd née Butt, a milliner and later co-director of Calcutta Chromotype. Boothroyd spent his early years in Calcutta, before being sent to England at the age of eight. He was educated at Colet Court, St Paul's Preparatory School, and then Berkhamsted School in Hertfordshire, and went on to study medicine at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. During the Blitz he was posted to rooftop fire-duty. He qualified with the conjoint examination in 1943 and was a house surgeon at St Thomas' Hospital and a house physician at Botleys Park Hospital. In 1945, he was conscripted into the Royal Army Medical Corps and served in England and India, ending his service as a captain. He gained his FRCS in 1950 and was a registrar at the Royal Masonic Hospital under Sir Arthur Porritt, Sir Cecil Wakeley and Eric Riches, and then a resident surgical officer at Bolingbroke Hospital, working with Edward Muir. He gained his FRCS in 1950 and decided to emigrate to West Vancouver, Canada, in 1955. He worked as a general surgeon and urologist at Lions Gate Hospital and, later, as a family practitioner. He also volunteered overseas, training medical staff in small hospitals in the Caribbean and Africa. He retired in 1990. Outside medicine, he served on the West Vancouver School Board, as a school trustee and chairman. He enjoyed singing, dancing and performing - and organised the New Year's fancy dress balls at the West Vancouver Community Centre and musical revues at the West Vancouver United Church. Throughout his life he was an active sportsman. He also led his family on adventures, including cycling from John O'Groats to Land's End. In 1953, he married Margot Findlay, a graduate of the Royal Free Hospital Medical School. They had four children (Wendy Margaret, Gillian Sarah, James Findlay and Susan Elizabeth) and seven grandchildren. In his final years he suffered from dementia, and died peacefully in early December 2014 following a stroke. He was 94.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007653
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First Title value, for Searching Candler, Thomas Oswald (1920 - 2016)

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by Hilary Richards
Publication Date 2013-10-18 2017-12-08
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E004000-E004999/E004500-E004599
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376700376700
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Thomas Candler, known to everyone as 'Tom', was a general practitioner and general surgeon in Bideford, Devon. He was born on 3 June 1920 in Exeter. His father, Arthur Lawrence Candler, was a surgeon who learned his craft in Mesopotamia in the First World War, and then became a consultant at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. Tom's mother was Lottie Kathleen Hardie, who was an accomplished pianist. Tom's twin brother James ('Jim') was killed in Kenya in 1954. Their older brother, Peter, also qualified as a doctor and became an obstetrician and gynaecologist in Nairobi. Tom was educated at Norwood School in Exeter and was then awarded a scholarship to Sherborne School. He went on to study at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Middlesex Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1942. In 1943 Tom became an Army medical officer and was appointed captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving in Italy and subsequently in Palestine, where he was mentioned in despatches. After the war, he trained as a surgeon at Bristol Royal Infirmary, where he met and in 1949 married Stella Christine Hill, a junior doctor there. They had three children: Hilary, who followed her parents into the profession, and Christopher and John. Tom became a general practitioner in 1950 and moved to Bideford, North Devon. He was also appointed as a general surgeon at Bideford and District Hospital, and he had a particular interest in orthopaedics. He was one of the last generation of general practitioner surgeons who would see sick patients in their homes and, if the diagnosis was surgical, undertake the surgery in the local hospital. He ceased operating once a specialist surgical service was developed at the district general hospital in Barnstaple. He maintained his interest in orthopaedics and provided a local outpatient clinic, treated casualties and performed minor surgical procedures. He embraced what were then revolutionary developments in general practice and in 1970 became one of the first general practitioners to take medical students on attachment from Bristol University. He became a GP trainer and helped set up the North Devon general practice vocational training scheme. He also instigated a plan for local doctors to move to a purpose-built health centre in the town. He was a founder member of the Royal College of General Practitioners and was subsequently elected as a fellow. Tom was a family man and was also devoted to his local community in Bideford and supported the local hospital, the St John's Ambulance Brigade and other worthy causes. He was a good singer. The original Bideford merchant's house he purchased for his surgery had a large walled garden where he and Stella had many happy years growing a huge variety of plants. They had a great interest in growing organic vegetables. They were happy to share their garden and it was opened to the public annually to raise money for charity. In retirement, he was chair and subsequently president of the North Devon Parkinson's Society with which he initially became involved as a carer for Stella who suffered from the disease for many years. Tom was skilled with his hands as becomes a surgeon, and loved woodwork in all its forms. In retirement, he made exquisite marquetry pieces, which were sought after by friends and family. Tom died on 25 February 2016, aged 95. He will be remembered primarily as a caring family doctor and a champion for good general practice. His kindness to patients and his pioneering work in teaching students, taking trainees and promoting the idea of doctors working together for the benefit of patients will be his main professional legacy.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004517
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First Title value, for Searching Hunt, Peter Woodland (1916 - 2011)

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by Susan Stewart
Publication Date 2011-12-15 2014-11-07
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E001000-E001999/E001700-E001799
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373945373945
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details For most of his career Peter Woodland Hunt was one of the few surgeons in the vast country of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). There he rapidly learnt to cope efficiently with mine accidents, ophthalmics, plastics and obstetrics, in addition to a heavy general surgical workload. He was born in Dublin on 27 May 1916 and raised in Newbury, Berkshire, where his parents owned and ran two newsagents. His father died from tuberculosis when Peter was 12, possibly contracted during the First World War, but his mother continued to run both businesses successfully. Peter's secondary education was at Christ's Hospital School, in which he took a lifelong interest. He went on to study medicine at the Middlesex Hospital School of Medicine, qualifying with the conjoint examination in January 1939. He was a house surgeon and then a casualty officer at the Middlesex Hospital until he was conscripted in 1940. Wartime service with the Royal Army Medical Corps took him to many places, including Northern Ireland, Normandy, Norway and finally India. His experience resulted in a deep interest in the war and he was widely read on the subject. It was during the war that he met and married Margaret Reed, a nursing sister at the Middlesex Hospital. The needs of conscription meant that their early years of marriage were largely spent apart. In 1946 he was discharged with the honorary rank of lieutenant colonel. Following his demobilisation, Peter was firstly an orthopaedic house surgeon at Ealing Memorial Hospital. During this time he obtained his MB BS. Then, whilst a general surgical registrar at the Middlesex Hospital (from 1947 to 1950), he gained his FRCS. In 1950, with his wife and two young children, he set off for a new beginning in Northern Rhodesia. Initially he was a surgeon and general duties medical officer with the Rhodesia Broken Hill Development Company. In 1953, he was appointed as a surgeon specialist to the Rhokana Corporation Ltd, Kitwe, a large mining and ore processing company. For some years he was in private surgical practice serving all the Northern Rhodesia copperbelt towns. Following the consolidation of the mining companies after Zambia's independence, he became group medical adviser to Nchanga Consolidated Copper Mines Ltd, one of two conglomerates created to manage the copper industry. There were many challenges, not least the breadth of surgical specialties that he was required to cover and be expert in. On retirement in 1976, Peter and his family settled in the Channel Island of Alderney, where his mother had bought a house before the Second World War (she moved there permanently in the 1946, following the repopulation of the island). For the first year or so on the island he was a locum in one of the island's general practices. Sadly, in 1986, Margaret, his wife of 44 years, died. In Alderney, Peter created a fine garden and home, which was frequently visited by his son and daughter, four granddaughters and six great grandchildren. He travelled widely to visit his family in South Africa, Germany, Hong Kong, Brazil and Australia. A quiet and unassuming man, he enjoyed listening to classical music, reading widely and had an addiction to crosswords. In his final years he was well cared for in the island's care home, surrounded by family and his many friends. He died on 8 April 2011, aged 94. Peter Hunt was indeed a general surgeon in the broadest sense, working successfully in an environment and situation that would have been at the very least challenging.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001762
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First Title value, for Searching Mathams, Alan James (1953 - 1999)

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First Title value, for Searching Bennett, Marjorie Olive (1915 - 2000)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-17 2015-10-16
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380325380325
Occupation General practitioner Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Marjorie Olive Bennett was a general practitioner and gynaecologist. She was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, on 23 July 1915. Her father, Reginald Stanley Dunster, was a headmaster, and her mother, Olivia Sextone, a headmistress. From Newport High School she won a state scholarship to Bristol University and qualified in 1939. After junior appointments at Bristol Royal Infirmary and Southmead, she worked for a short time in general practice, before deciding to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology. She married Douglas Bennett FRCS in 1950 and accompanied him to the Mayo Clinic. On her return she was appointed as a consultant at Southmead, where she coped with a tremendous workload in one of the largest units in the region. They retired to Porlock, where she and her husband enjoyed walking on Exmoor. Her husband died in 1992. She died on 5 January 2000. They leave a daughter, Sally.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008142
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First Title value, for Searching Woodhead, David Hamilton (1922 - 1996)

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First Title value, for Searching Butterfield, Albert Roy (1929 - 2002)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-22
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E008000-E008999/E008500-E008599
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380690380690
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Roy Butterfield was a GP surgeon in Teignmouth. He was born in Bolton on 26 January 1929, the son of Howard Vincent Butterfield, a cotton yarn executive, and his wife, Edith née Entwistle. He was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He went on to the Westminster Hospital for his clinical training, and there captained the University Football Club. He did his National Service in the RAMC in Egypt and returned to the Royal Marsden Hospital for two years. He was then a registrar at the Miller Hospital in Greenwich. He went to Canada in 1957 for nine months, but returned to England, as a registrar at Boscombe Hospital, Bournemouth, and then went to Teignmouth in 1961 as a GP surgeon, where he remained until he retired in 1985. He married Marie Margaret Overne in 1959, a Canadian nurse. They had two sons and a daughter, none of whom went into medicine. He was a keen golfer and was captain of the Teignmouth Hospital in 1972. He loved sea fishing and angling. He died on 7 August 2002 from Alzheimer's disease.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008507
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First Title value, for Searching Hack, Philip (1900 - 1981)

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First Title value, for Searching Backwell, Maurice (1900 - 1974)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-06
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Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E006000-E006999/E006300-E006399
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378491378491
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Maurice Backwell was born in Hull on 21 January 1900, and educated at The Old College, Windermere, and Charterhouse. Towards the end of the first world war he served for a short time in the East Yorkshire Regiment before starting his medical studies at Leeds University. He graduated MB ChB, in 1925 and held surgical appointments at Leeds General Infirmary. He took the FRCS in 1931 and the following year entered general practice at Skegness. Then also began his long association with Skegness Hospital where he practised general surgery. In 1943 he joined the RAMC as a surgical specialist and served in the Shetlands, Normandy and West Africa attaining the rank of Major on demobilization. He returned to general practice and part-time surgery at Skegness. In 1948 he was appointed senior house and medical officer and became a graded consultant a few years before he retired in 1966. He was active in hospital management and was divisional surgeon to the St John Ambulance Brigade. He was appointed a serving brother of the order in 1952. In retirement, he enjoyed foreign travel, walking the Yorkshire Moors and gardening, as well as amateur dramatics. He gained the respect of his colleagues, friends and patients and will long be remembered for his sense of humour, unselfishness and kindness beyond the normal call of duty. He married Olga Birks in 1934 and they had a son and daughter. He died on 27 December 1974.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006308
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First Title value, for Searching Green, Douglas (1887 - 1954)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-24
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E005000-E005999/E005500-E005599
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377712377712
Occupation General practitioner
Details Douglas Green belonged to a well-known Ecclesfield family. Educated at Barnsley grammar school, he obtained an open scholarship and a major open county scholarship from the West Riding of Yorkshire to Sheffield University medical school. Green excelled both at work and games: he was a keen Association footballer and he won the physiology scholarship in the intermediate examination of the University of London. After graduating in 1910, Green spent three years in resident posts at Sheffield Royal Infirmary, where he developed an inclination for surgery. Hence whilst holding a resident post at St Luke's Hospital, London, he attended a postgraduate course at University College Hospital and took the FRCS in 1914. He served with the RAMC in France and the Middle East as a regimental medical officer during the first world ward, and afterwards settled at 2 Camping Lane, Woodseats, Sheffield as a general practitioner. During the second world war Green was chairman of Sheffield pensions board and the medical recruitment board. For many years he was honorary secretary of the local branch of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund, and was an active member of the West Riding Medical Charitable Society in 1950, at the end of his presidency. Green was twice married. He had one son and two daughters, one of whom was a doctor, Dora Green MRCS, LRCP, and the other was senior occupational therapist at the City General Hospital, Sheffield. He died on 25 July 1954 at the age of 76.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005529
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First Title value, for Searching Taylor, Charles (1905 - 1973)

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First Title value, for Searching Naylor, Arthur (1912 - 1999)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-25
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E008000-E008999/E008800-E008899
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380997380997
Occupation General practitioner Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Arthur Naylor was born in Hoyland, near Barnsley, on 28 September 1912, the son of Albert Naylor, a colliery underground manager, and Louisa Armitage, the daughter of a miner. He was educated at Barnsley Grammar School and did his medical education at Sheffield, where he obtained first class honours in his BSc. He was a house surgeon, a senior casualty officer and deputy RSO at Sheffield Royal Hospital for two years. He then worked in general practice from 1939 to 1940, before becoming resident surgeon at the Westwood Emergency Medical Service Hospital, Bradford, where he remained for the duration of the war. He was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in 1945. He was an Hunterian Professor in 1951, Arris and Gale lecturer in 1961, and visiting professor to the South African Bureau of Mines in 1975, and to Brasilia in 1982. He wrote many papers on accident services and injuries of the spine. In his spare time he enjoyed Rugby football, cricket and painting. In 1938 he married Kathleen Mary Eagle, who died in 1956. In 1958 he married for a second time, to Cynthia Margaret Holling. He had two sons, Anthony and Tim, the eldest being a consultant radiologist in Texas. There are four grandchildren - Marco, Alexis, Natasha and Aysen. He died on 2 December 1999.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008814
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First Title value, for Searching Mather, Barrington Sherwood (1932 - 2012)

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by Janet Mather
Publication Date 2012-09-07 2013-11-25
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E002000-E002999/E002800-E002899
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375032375032
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Barrington Sherwood Mather, known as 'Barrie', was a surgeon in Cairns and Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Birmingham on 15 February 1932, the eldest of three children of Cecil Aubrey Mather, a general practitioner, and Dorothy Collins Mather née Guest. His brother John also became a doctor and worked as an anaesthetist in Birmingham. Barrie was a 'wartime educational casualty' (as he noted on his CV), attending nine primary schools before settling at King Edward's School in Birmingham for his secondary education. He studied medicine at Trinity College, Cambridge, and St Bartholomew's Hospital. In July 1959 he married Janet Michelle Guenault, who was also a doctor. Barrie was keen to travel to Australia, and to possibly work there as a flying doctor. To this end, the couple sought to gain a range of skills that would be valuable in isolated areas. Barrie obtained his diploma in obstetrics in 1960 and his FRCS in 1961. In June 1962, with his wife and infant son, he flew to Australia to take up the position of superintendent at Dalby Hospital in Queensland. He soon realised there was little scope there for his surgical skills and, in February 1963, was granted a transfer to Cairns Base Hospital as a surgical registrar. Here he was able to gain valuable experience and take on much of the accident and orthopaedic load, as these cases were not favoured by the superintendent, who was a general surgeon. In 1964 he gained a position as a teaching registrar with the University of Queensland's department of surgery at the Royal Brisbane Hospital. Their policy encouraged registrars to take on a research project and, following his interest in treating fractures, he embarked on the study of the mechanical properties of human long bones, work which had relevance to crash protection in transport design. His research was partly funded by a grant from the Australian Government's National Health and Medical Research Council, and became his MD thesis. The analysis of his research data involved complex calculations, requiring him to develop an interest and expertise in the use of early computers. This led him to join a team in the Department of Health in New South Wales which was developing clinical information systems. In 1971 he moved to Melbourne, to develop computer applications for the Royal Children's Hospital. He stayed in Melbourne for ten years, but left when the toxic atmosphere of hospital politics made his position untenable. As he had spent 13 years away from surgery, returning was not possible, so he decided to complete some refresher sessions to enable him to work as a GP. In practice in rural Victoria he discovered he had not lost his diagnostic skills or his ability to perform minor surgical procedures. He always valued his surgical qualifications and the rewarding experience of the work, particularly the wide range of surgery in Cairns. He often regretted leaving there. Barrie retired in late 1998 and devoted himself to his great passion, the production, preparation and consumption of good organic food and wine, living on his smallholding in rural Victoria. He was a keen gardener and enjoyed providing a bountiful table for his family as it expanded to include sons- and daughters-in-law and grandchildren. In 2004, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, but continued to live at home with Janet, until a fall in 2012, when he had to be admitted to the local hospital. He died peacefully a few weeks later, on 31 May 2012, aged 80. Despite his condition, his last years were happy and he made the most of his love of literature and poetry, his connections with his family and community, and retained his sense of humour and his dignity. He was survived by his wife Janet, his sons, Andrew and Jeremy, his daughters, Jenny and Kathleen, and eight grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002849
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First Title value, for Searching Tuckett, Cedric Ivor (1901 - 1975)

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First Title value, for Searching Bellemore, Charles Francis (1920 - 1990)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-24
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E007000-E007999/E007100-E007199
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379326379326
Occupation General practitioner
Details Charles Bellemore was born in June 1920, the third of eight sons of Charles and Mary Bellemore, and grew up in Ashfield, Australia. He was educated at the Christian Brothers' High School, Lewisham, and received his medical training at the University of Sydney. He started general practice in Chester Hill in 1947 and then practised with his brother Kevin in Auburn. He came to England for part of his surgical training at Hillingdon Hospital before returning to Sydney where he was appointed to the staff of Lewisham and Liverpool Hospitals, and St Joseph's Hospital at Auburn. Much of his work was at Lewisham Hospital where he became chairman of the medical staff and also the first Chairman of the Liverpool Hospital Medical Board. He was a general surgeon in the true sense and much admired for his skill and clinical judgement. He published papers on abdominal surgery. In 1947 he married Catherine Fitzgerald and they had seven children; one son, Michael, is a paediatric orthopaedic surgeon. Charles enjoyed his weekly golf and was a very competent gardener. He learned to ski in his late fifties. His wife died in 1976 and he married Margot Moor who cared for him devotedly during a long distressing neurological illness. He died on 17 January 1990.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007143
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First Title value, for Searching Costobadie, Lionel Palliser (1889 - 1977)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-25
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Occupation General practitioner Pathologist
Details Born 25 October 1889, the son of H A Costobadie, Lionel Palliser Costobadie was educated at his father's old school, Haileybury College, Hertford, from 1905 to 1908. He went to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took his BA with 1st class honours in the Natural Science Tripos. He then entered the London Hospital as Price Scholar. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1914, took a house surgeon post at the London and then joined the RAMC. He served from 1914 to 1919 in Gallipoli, France and India, with the rank of Captain. After the war he took his Cambridge MB BCh, and moved to general practice in Folkestone, where he became honorary pathologist to the Royal Victoria Hospital. He took his FRCS in 1920, but did not practise as a surgeon. In 1932 he married Aileen, daughter of G. B. Wildinson of Folkestone. On the outbreak of the second world war he moved with his wife to Newbury, where he became medical officer of health to the West Berks Districts from 1941 to 1952. His interests were archaeology and painting, and he was a member of the Field Club. He died early in 1977. There were no children.
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First Title value, for Searching Wilson, Edric Frank (1898 - 1970)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-31
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Edric Frank Wilson was born on 6 September 1898 and did his medical studies at Guy's Hospital, the course being interrupted by naval service as a Surgeon Probationer during the first world war. On demobilization he returned to Guy's and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1920. He took the FRCS in 1924 and went to Plymouth to enter general practice but he soon joined the surgical staff of the South Devon and East Cornwall Hospital, Greenbank, and of the Royal Albert Hospital Devonport, which became the Plymouth General Hospital, which he served for the rest of his professional life. Wilson was absolutely dedicated to surgery, and being distinguished for dexterity and gentleness was much appreciated by colleagues and patients alike, and was a pioneer in thyroid surgery in the West country. He took a prominent part in the affairs of the local BMA as secretary of the Plymouth Division from 1927 to 1931 and Chairman in 1963 to 1964. His favourite recreation was gardening and it was sad that ill health limited this kind of enjoyment after his retirement. When he died on 29 July 1970 he was survived by his wife and their three daughters.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006279
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First Title value, for Searching Leonard, Francis Reginald (1902 - 1971)

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First Title value, for Searching Ghosh, Sachindra Nath (1928 - 1992)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-08
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General practitioner
Details Sachindra Ghosh was born in Calcutta, India, on 20 June 1928, the son of a marine official in the British India Steam Navigation Company. He received his early schooling in Calcutta, attended Calcutta Science College where he obtained a BSc, and graduated MB BS from the National Medical College in 1959. After house surgeon and house physician posts in Calcutta he came to England in 1962 and after initial experience in general practice in Nuneaton decided to follow a surgical career. He had a wide experience as a surgical registrar in general, cardiothoracic and orthopaedic surgery at various centres in the West Midlands and was ultimately appointed as a clinical assistant in accident and emergency surgery at Walsall General Hospital. Ghosh obtained the FRCS Edinburgh in 1969 and the FRCS in 1971. In 1974 he married, and he and his wife, Mallika, who was also a doctor, had a son, Sandip. Ghosh was keenly interested in football, gardening, cooking and photography. He was devoted to his family and loved sports cars and travelling. He died of cancer on 28 July 1992.
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First Title value, for Searching Allwright, Graham John (1953 - 2001)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-13
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380626380626
Occupation General practitioner
Details Graham Allwright was a general practitioner in Formby, Merseyside. He was born on 9 July 1953 in Shoreham, Sussex, where his father, Fred, was a civil servant. He attended a number of schools as his father was posted abroad, ending at Sutton High School. He studied medicine at the London Hospital, where he qualified in 1976. He completed house jobs in Luton and Dunstable, before returning to the London as an anatomy demonstrator to read for the primary. He then did the Whipps Cross registrar rotation, passed the final FRCS, and became a senior registrar at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, Kent. He decided to change track, to general practice, in 1986, completed a vocational training scheme in Bury St Edmunds, and became a general practitioner in Formby. Well-liked and popular, he continued his interest in minor surgery and audit, and was keen on football and the local Rotary Club. He had just taken up scuba diving when he drowned in a diving accident at Fort William, Scotland, on 1 December 2001, leaving his wife Jane, who had been a radiographer, a son, Stuart, and a daughter, Fiona.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008443
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First Title value, for Searching Hayes, Keith Leslie (1921 - 2009)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by T T King
Publication Date 2011-12-12 2013-12-16
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373900373900
Occupation General practitioner Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Keith Hayes was an orthopaedic surgeon at Stawell District Hospital, Victoria, Australia. He was born in Melbourne on 4 August 1921, the third child and only son of Francis Leslie Hayes, a chartered accountant, and his wife, Isobel Oliver Hayes née Young. He obtained a scholarship to Malvern Church of England Grammar School and finished his secondary education at Melbourne Boys' Highs School. He studied mining engineering at Melbourne University, from 1939 to 1941, and then joined the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) as a flight lieutenant, flying Curtiss Kittyhawk fighters in northern Australia. On his return to civilian life, he entered Melbourne University medical school, completing his clinical years at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, where he was a resident medical officer between 1950 and 1952. He was influenced there particularly by the surgeons Sir Albert Coates and Sir Alan Newton, and the physician Sir Clive Fitts. In 1952 he became a general practitioner in Stawell, in the western part of Victoria, and a visiting medical officer at the local district hospital. There he developed an interest in surgery and, having decided to obtain surgical qualifications, in 1958 he returned to Melbourne as a senior surgical registrar at St Vincent's Hospital, taking a particular interest in orthopaedic surgery. In 1959 he obtained his fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and in 1960 he travelled to England to gain his fellowship of the English College. Returning to Stawell, he was in practice there as a surgeon and a visiting medical officer at the district hospital, from 1961 until 1986, during which time he had a busy surgical practice. He maintained a special interest in orthopaedic surgery and trauma, the latter being common as a result of motor and farming accidents in the country area. In 1986 he left Stawell and conducted a medico-legal practice in Melbourne, until 2003. He was a member of the Medico-Legal Society of Victoria, and served on the Australian Health Insurance Commission from 1967 until 1993. Outside medicine, his interests included painting and the breeding and training of horses. He was a member of the Victoria Racing Club and a life member of the Stawell Racing Club, the Stawell Trotting Club and the Melbourne Harness Racing Club. He was married three times. His first wife was Ada Lillian Martin. Their marriage was dissolved and he married Margaret Mary Noble in 1965. Tragically, she was killed in a motor accident in 1967. His third wife was Susan Mary Hayes, who survived him, along with four of his five children: Rowan Keith Martin, Annabelle Margaret, Paul Timothy Francis and Peter Edward. A daughter, Danielle Susan, predeceased him in 1999. Keith Leslie Hayes died on 28 December 2009, at the age of 88.
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First Title value, for Searching Herbert, Gerald (1904 - 1982)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-18
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Gerald Herbert was born in Liverpool on October 7, 1904, the first son of Lt-Col H Herbert, FRCS, IMS, an ophthalmic surgeon, and his wife Agnes, née Killey. After leaving the IMS his father became a consultant ophthalmologist in Nottingham. Gerald Herbert was educated at Lees Preparatory School, Hoylake, Charterhouse, Selwyn College, Cambridge and St Thomas's Hospital where he won the Cheselden Medal in surgery. He qualified MRCS LRCP in 1929. After holding house surgeon, casualty officer and senior casualty officer posts at St Thomas's he became RSO at Preston Royal Infirmary. He took his FRCS in 1931. He was always interested in surgery and was much influenced by Sir Max Page. After his junior hospital appointments he joined a general practice in Rugby with a special commitment to surgery. He was honorary surgeon to the Hospital of St Cross, 1934-39. From 1939 to 1943 he served with the RAMC, attaining the rank of temporary Lieutenant-Colonel and working in India as a surgical specialist and officer-in-charge, surgical division. After the war he was appointed consultant surgeon to the Chesterfield Royal Hospital, where he worked until his retirement in 1969. He was a careful and dexterous surgeon with sound judgement allied to remarkable intuition. This made him a welcome colleague to those who relied on his loyalty, unselfishness and willingness to help, especially to help the underdog. In 1952 he married Martha Wilson by whom he had a son and a daughter. His retirement was devoted to happy family life and to gardening. He died at his home in Chesterfield on May 23, 1982, aged 77.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006573
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First Title value, for Searching Sankey, William (1789 - 1866)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-31
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Born at Eythorne, Kent, where his father had a large practice up to 1804, when he removed to Wingham, in the same county. William was the eldest son, and was early sent to St Bartholomew's Hospital under Abernethy. He was appointed at the age of 21 on the medical staff of the Army serving in Sicily and Spain, and after four years was invalided home and ordered to join the Rifle Brigade at Shorncliffe (1814). At the close of the year he left the Army and entered upon general practice at Dover, a seaside place chosen by him as suitable to his health. In the course of this career he became personally and professionally endeared to half a century's succession of inhabitants, visitors, and neighbouring families. He was unfailingly kind and sympathetic to all classes. Devoted to his profession, a man of great mental and untiring physical powers, he gained a position of eminence which was recognized by his election as honorary FRCS. He retired from practice owing to heart disease, and died at 2 Guilford Lawn, Dover, on March 5th, 1866. A small photograph of him in old age is in the College Collection. His appointments, etc., as stated in Johnston's *RAMC Roll* (No 3254) were; Surgeon's Mate on the Hospital Staff, not attached to a Regiment on active service, October 25th, 1810; Assistant Surgeon to the 95th Foot, June 2nd, 1814; retired on half pay, September 15th, 1814; and commuted half pay on November 12th, 1830.
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First Title value, for Searching Griffith, Christopher Arthur (1858 - 1949)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-25 2017-05-05
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Born in Dublin on 2 April 1858 the son of Arthur Hill Griffith solicitor, and his wife Hannah Rose Cottingham. The family emigrated to Australia in 1872, and he was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne from his fourteenth to eighteenth year. He took his medical training in England, qualifying at the age of twenty-seven in January 1886, and then returned to Melbourne, where he built up a large general practice, and became in the course of his long life the best known and most respected family doctor in the Mentone district, where he lived at 15 Moorabbin Road. He was health officer and government vaccinator at Caulfield, and honorary medical officer to the Foundling Hospital at Beaconsfield. He was a member of the Victorian Medical Society. After retiring from practice he lived at Westbourne, Harkaway, Berwick, Victoria. Griffith visited London and in spite of his age studied the progress of English medicine in 1912 and again in 1928. After 62 years Membership of the College, he was elected "as a Member of twenty years' standing" to the Fellowship in 1948, on the proposal of Sir Alan Newton. Griffith married twice: (1) in about 1894 Annie Lau Graham; (2) in 1928 Alice Gilbert. There were no children. Griffith died at Melbourne on 14 January 1949, aged 90.
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First Title value, for Searching Barton, David Charles (1933 - 1989)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-17
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details David Barton was born in Adelaide on 20 January 1933, the son of Arthur Augustus Barton, a bank manager and his wife, Ellen. He was at school at Riverton and was awarded the Prince Alfred College Grasby Scholarship before entering the University of Adelaide where he graduated in medicine in 1955. His surgical training continued in Fremantle and Adelaide but also included senior registrar posts in England at Dartford and Blackpool. In 1968 he was appointed as an honorary surgeon to the Warrnambool Hospital in Victoria, Australia. Moving to the outback he became a rural GP in West Wyalong, New South Wales. He continued in general practice and also took up an appointment as visiting surgeon to the Hutchinson Hospital, Gawler in New South Wales. For seven years, before retirement in 1988, he ran a private practice in Christics Beach, South Australia. In 1962 he married Jean McGonnell Halley, a medical scientist, and they had a son James who became an aeronautical engineer with a degree in engineering and a daughter Catriona who became a public relations officer after taking her BA. David Barton was a keen tennis player. He enjoyed reading and stamp collecting (especially first day covers). It was said that he regularly won prizes for correctly diagnosing medical problems in the journal *Update*. He died on 24 March 1989.
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First Title value, for Searching Bates, Ralph Marshall (1902 - 1978)

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First Title value, for Searching Mackillop, Neil Campbell (1920 - 1980)

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First Title value, for Searching Richards, Linsell Donald (1934 - 1986)

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First Title value, for Searching Taylor, Robert Claude (1901 - 1988)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-07
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Robert Claude Taylor was born in Hampstead on 9 May 1901, the eldest child of Edwin Claude Taylor MD, MS, FRCS (1981-1924), see *Lives of the Fellows*, Vol.2, p.386. He was educated at Heath Mount School in Hampstead and Leighton Park School, Reading, before entering University College for medical studies. He qualified in 1923 and shortly afterwards was appointed house surgeon to Wilfred Trotter who had an appreciable influence on his subsequent choice of career. After further junior posts at University College Hospital and at All Saints' Hospital for Genito-urinary Diseases he passed the FRCS in 1929. He then entered a general practice at Watford and served as medical officer to Merchant Taylors' School. During the war years he served as surgeon in the Emergency Medical Service at Watford Peace Memorial Hospital and, after the introduction of the National Health Service, was senior hospital medical officer at the hospital until his retirement in 1966. He was a Past President of the West Hertfordshire and Watford Medical Society. After retirement he went to Birmingham and pursued his hobby of gardening. He married Dorothy Margaret Lott in 1934 and there was one son and two daughters of the marriage. He died on 16 December 1988 and is survived by his wife and family.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007701
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First Title value, for Searching Mathias, Henry Hugh (1887 - 1963)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-21
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Born at Penally, Pembrokeshire son of Charles Mathias (1817-88) MRCS 1839, Surgeon IMS, he was educated at Clifton College and King's College, Cambridge where he gained an entrance scholarship and was awarded a first class in both parts of the Natural Sciences Tripos, despite a long period of illness during his second year. Having obtained a Price scholarship, he went to the London Hospital for his clinical studies, and qualifying in 1913 he held a house surgeon's appointment at the London Hospital and an appointment as senior house surgeon at Poplar Hospital. In 1914 he joined the RAMC and served throughout the war, principally on the Italian Front. He was admitted a Fellow in 1920, and then joined his brother in the family practice in Tenby as surgical partner. With the introduction of the National Health Service he was graded as a Senior Hospital Medical Officer, which enabled him to continue in the dual role of a general practitioner and of a surgeon, but as time passed he devoted himself more and more to surgery. The last year of his life was spent in hospital, but he endured his failing health with patience and cheerfulness. He married Elsie Ann Salmon in 1922, and their only son David is a doctor in Norfolk. Mathias died on 23 February 1963 aged 75.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005147
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Edward Archibald (1875 - 1958)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-25
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Born near Rotherham on 12 March 1875, he was educated at Wesley College, Sheffield, the Yorkshire College, Leeds, and University College, Liverpool, graduating through the Victoria University with first-class honours in 1896. After serving as house surgeon and medical registrar and tutor at Liverpool Royal Infirmary, he began in general practice at Southport, but spent two years on the Continent working in the surgical clinics of Berlin, Heidelberg, Vienna, and Paris, and after taking the Fellowship in 1900 was appointed surgeon to the Western General Dispensary, London. Smith was interested in vascular surgery, published a small book on the *Suture of Arteries* in 1909, and received a grant from the British Medical Association to continue his researches. He emigrated to Vancouver, British Columbia in 1910, was appointed surgeon to St Paul's Hospital, and was also a successful general practitioner. He was popular and friendly, but reserved; a big bluff man, a constant pipe-smoker, overflowing with energy. He retired in 1929 to the Channel Isles where he lived at Trinity, Jersey, but on the outbreak of war in 1939 moved to Wells, Somerset, where he died at Eastfield House on 25 June 1958 aged 83. Publications: *Suture of arteries, an experimental research*. London, H Frowde 1909, 70 pages. On circular or end-to-end suturing of arteries, being a modification of an already published method. *Brit med J* 1910, 1, 1407.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005550
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First Title value, for Searching Cundall, Robert Davies (1924 - 2009)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by David B Cundall
Publication Date 2010-05-20 2012-03-22
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Occupation General practitioner Missionary surgeon Missionary doctor
Details Robert Davies Cundrall was a missionary surgeon and a general practitioner. He was born in Wuhan, China, on 26 August 1924, where his parents, Edward and Mary Cundall, were Methodist missionaries. His parents had to make the very difficult decision to send him home to school in England at the age of 8, while they remained in China. Bob went to Nottingham High School and gained a scholarship to study medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, going on to the London Hospital for his clinical training. After qualification, he was a house surgeon on the surgical unit under Victor Dix. Bob had originally intended to work in China, like his parents, but that country was closed to missionaries. Bob was advised by Ralph Bolton, the medical secretary of the Methodist Missionary Society, that it was essential that Bob passed his fellowship, which he did in 1953, before he started work as a missionary. Bob worked at Ituk Mbang Hospital, Nigeria, for the next six years, where the medical superintendent was Harry Haigh. Bob enjoyed the challenge of surgery in this environment, turning his hand to many unusual cases, as well as countless hernias and caesarean sections. He enjoyed teaching the nurses, both in formal lectures and at the bedside. Bob entered general practice in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, in 1959, joining an old friend from college days, George Johnson, as the second partner in the practice. He missed operative surgery, but for many years was clinical assistant to Graham-Stewart in his rectal clinic at Harrogate General Hospital. The general practice expanded and, when George Johnson moved on to a career in public health, Bob became a senior partner and made the partnership into a teaching practice. In his medical work, Bob was a highly regarded as a meticulous clinician, supportive colleague and excellent teacher. He had met Monica Pritchard, an English student at Girton College, Cambridge, and they married in 1948. They moved to Nottingham, where his maternal uncle, Jack Davies, a senior surgeon at Nottingham City Hospital, was a mentor. Bob and Monica were devoted to each other and, in his later years, Bob took on the role of caring for Monica when she developed a progressive ataxia. They celebrated their diamond wedding in December 2008. Bob had experienced a major cognitive decline over the preceding year and died, following a major stroke, a few months later. Of their four children, Edward is a tropical plant breeder, David, a community paediatrician, while Ruth and Margaret are both teachers. Two of their 10 grandchildren intend to be doctors. Bob and Monica were active members of the Methodist Church and were committed to ecumenical and inter-faith initiatives. In retirement, Bob was able to indulge his passions for walking, natural history and photography. Although by nature reserved, Bob as a TV rugby supporter was a wonder to behold! He had a lively sense of fun and a quick wit. He died at Hampden House, Harrogate, on 25 May 2009.
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First Title value, for Searching Sinclair, Charles Gordon (1906 - 1990)

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First Title value, for Searching Davies, Daniel Alexander (1897 - 1958)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-05
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Born in 1897, Daniel Alexander Davies first took the BSc and then studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital. He qualified in 1922, became house surgeon there, and later whole time demonstrator of anatomy. In 1926, after taking the FRCS Davies settled at Deal. He combined the skills of a first-rate general practitioner with those of a consultant surgeon. He was on the staff of the Victoria Hospital, Deal, and was a popular doctor and a sound diagnostician. He kept abreast by wide reading and frequent visits to St Thomas's. During the 1914-18 war Davies had served in the Welsh Guards and wished to serve abroad again in the second world war, but had to content himself by combatant training of the Home Guard and by war surgery during the bombing of the Kent coast. Shortly after the war Davies had a severe attack of coronary thrombosis which he described most graphically in *The Lancet* in the "Disabilities" series (1949, 1, 36). After recovery he worked as hard as ever, not only in his practice but for the St John Ambulance Corps, the Kent and Canterbury executive council and the SE Kent hospital management committee. He was also a golf and football enthusiast. Alec Davies lived vigorously; his colourful, direct speech fitting his warm personality. He died in Deal Hospital on 8 April 1958, aged 60, survived by two daughters.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004989
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First Title value, for Searching Messent, Arthur David (1915 - 1985)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-15
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Occupation General practitioner Genito-urinary surgeon Urologist Vascular surgeon
Details Arthur Messent obtained an open exhibition to Mill Hill School and proceeded to St Bartholomew's Hospital where he won the Brackenbury Prize in surgery and anatomy. He qualified in 1938 and after a short spell in general practice he joined the Royal Air Force and served in Coastal Command both in the Faroe Islands and the Middle East where he was mentioned in despatches. After the war he continued his surgical training, passed the FRCS examination in 1948, and held senior registrar appointments in Norwich, Reading and Hammersmith before his appointment as consultant in vascular and genito-urinary surgery to the Brentwood Group of Hospitals in 1955. In 1940 he married Margaret, a doctor's daughter and medical secretary at St Bartholomew's Hospital where one of their daughters eventually trained as a nurse. Their second daughter trained as a physiotherapist at the London Hospital. He enjoyed gardening, reading, entertaining and being entertained. He was kind, courteous and ready to help those in need, and it was sad for him and his family when he was struck by a long illness. He retired in 1980 to Nantgaredig in Carmarthen, his wife's birthplace, hoping to enjoy the countryside he loved and he died on 2 August 1985 survived by his wife and daughters, Rosemary and Ann.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007502
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First Title value, for Searching Griffiths, Griffith John (1901 - 1987)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-18
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Griffith John Griffiths was born in Barry on 23 September 1901. He was educated at Barry County School and Cardiff University before qualifying from the Middlesex Hospital. He was then in the Royal Air Force Medical Branch for three years on a short service commission in Egypt and Iraq before returning to junior hospital posts in London. After passing the FRCS in 1929 (he and his brother, Iorwerth Havard Griffiths, were reputed to be the first brothers in Wales to become Fellows) he joined a general practice in Bedford where he was appointed to the honorary staff of Bedford County Hospital. At the inception of the NHS in 1948 he gave up general practice and was appointed as consultant surgeon to Bedford County Hospital. He served his hospital with distinction, was Chairman of the Medical Committee and was known as a wise and sound teacher as well as an able general surgeon. His gentle manner and innate kindliness endeared him to all; he was a sensitive man with a great sense of fun. A dedicated musician, steeped in classical music, he was an excellent pianist, his greatest loves being Mozart and Beethoven, and especially the late Beethoven sonatas. He had two children, both of whom became musicians and, after the death of his first wife, he later married again. He died in his own hospital, in his 86th year, when he was survived by his wife and the children of his first marriage.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007296
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First Title value, for Searching Tracey, Basil Martin (1899 - 1991)

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First Title value, for Searching Midgley, Gordon Siegfried (1913 - 1985)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-15
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Occupation ENT surgeon General practitioner Maxillofacial surgeon
Details Gordon Midgley received his medical training at the Westminster Hospital Medical School where he qualified in 1937 and proceeded to house appointments at the Charing Cross Hospital. In 1938 he joined a general practice in Winchester and also the Territorial Army. He was called up in 1939 and served as regimental medical officer in the Household Cavalry and at Dover Castle before being posted to India for the next five years. He became a registrar in the ear, nose and throat department at Charing Cross Hospital before his appointment as the first consultant in ear, nose and throat surgery at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester. He was also consultant to the maxillo-facial unit at Rooksdown House in Basingstoke where he worked with Sir Harold Gillies and John Barron. He took an active part in the committee work in the hospital where he became chairman of the medical staff and a member of the higher awards committee. He also visited Guernsey on a regular basis to advise on their ear, nose and throat problems. Gordon Midgley became a keen Mason, Master of the Merdon Lodge, Provincial Grand Officer and a member of Winton Rose Croix. He was an active member of the BMA becoming Chairman of the Winchester division. In 1938 he married Inez Masters and they had one daughter. He died on 19 February 1985 survived by his wife, daughter Susan, and granddaughter Antonia.
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First Title value, for Searching Wilson, George Ewart ( - 1965)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-31
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details George Ewart Wilson was born at Atwood, Ontario and graduated with honours from the Stratford Collegiate Institute. He worked for a short time as a teacher, and then entered the Medical School of the University of Toronto in 1899. He graduated in 1903 with honours, winning the silver medal and the George Brown Scholarship, and then spent a year in the department of physiology under Professor MacCallum. After a short period in general practice in Palmerston he came over to England and took the Conjoint Diploma in 1907 and the FRCS in 1908. On his return to Canada he was appointed surgeon to St Michael's Hospital and a teacher in the University of Toronto. During the first world war Wilson served as a surgeon to No 4 Canadian General Hospital in England, Greece and Egypt, from 1915-17, and being invalided back to England in 1917 he later became chief of the surgical department of the Kitchener Hospital, Brighton. On demobilization he returned to Toronto and worked in the emergency and out-patient department of the Toronto General Hospital, and in 1927 he reorganized the surgical staff of St Michael's Hospital where he became surgeon in chief and Professor in the University. He distinguished himself especially in the treatment of surgical emergencies and as a teacher, and retired from these appointments after the second world war, though he continued in practice till 1960. In 1953 Wilson became a life Fellow of the Academy of Medicine, Toronto, and he was also a Fellow and later Vice-President of the American College of Surgeons. He was married to Elizabeth Charlotte Pearson, and when he died in 1965 his wife, their son who was a surgeon, and their two daughters survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Walker, Harold (1875 - 1966)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-24
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Harold Walker was born in 1875, the elder son of Dr Samuel Walker, JP, MRCS, a general practitioner in Middlesbrough. He was educated at Uppingham and King's College, Cambridge, going into residence in 1893, taking an honours BA and being captain of tennis. For his clinical training he went to St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1901 and graduating the same year. He served as house surgeon and ophthalmic house surgeon at St Bartholomew's and was admitted as a Fellow in 1905, before joining his father in practice in Middlesbrough as a general practitioner surgeon, a common practice in his generation. In 1914 he was commissioned in the RAMC serving in France as a Captain in No 6 CCS. Apart from this interlude, the whole of his life was spent in Middlesbrough in the public affairs of which he played a prominent part as a Justice of the Peace. Beside his general practice he was ophthalmic surgeon to the Eston Hospital, and later surgeon, senior surgeon, and finally consulting surgeon to the North Ormesby Hospital. With the advent of the NHS he was made honorary consulting surgeon to the Teesside Hospital Group. For a time he was joined in practice by his brother; he and his father before him practised medicine in Middlesbrough for a century. He was a medical referee to the Ministry of Labour and National Service and in 1924 Chairman of the Cleveland Branch of the BMA. He was much in demand as an after dinner speaker with a superb sense of humour and command of the Yorkshire dialect. His hobbies were fishing and shooting at both of which he was expert. He died at his home, 20 Southfield Road, Middlesbrough on 3 June 1966, aged 91. He was unmarried.
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First Title value, for Searching Langmaid, Charles (1913 - 1997)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-13
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Occupation General practitioner Neurosurgeon
Details Charles Langmaid was a consultant neurosurgeon in Cardiff from 1951 to 1973. He was born in Cardiff on 29 July 1913, the son of Sidney Langmaid. He attended Cardiff University and did his house jobs at the London Hospital where he qualified in 1935 and won the Hepburn medal for the best student and the John Maclean medal for obstetrics and gynaecology. After passing his FRCS in 1940, Charles spent a year in general practice in Cardiff, followed by a house job at the Royal Infirmary and a trip to the Far East as a ship's doctor. He joined the Royal Navy in 1941 and served at the Royal Naval Hospital, Devonport, and later at Sherborne, practising general surgery and treating a large number of peripheral nerve injuries. In 1973, just before his retirement, when in London for a BMA committee meeting he called at the offices of the Methodist Missionary Society and asked if he could be of any use in the mission field. The result was a year in Dabou in the Ivory Coast, where he operated three days a week and conducted outpatient sessions in between. In later retirement he edited *Neurochirurgia*, translated medical texts from German into English, and attended neurosurgical conferences. He was also well known in the Welsh Methodist movement and was chairman of the United Council on Alcohol and Other Drugs in Wales. With a lifelong love of music, particularly that of Bach, he played organs in churches throughout Britain and Europe and sang regularly in choirs. Predeceased by his wife, Olga, he left a son and two daughters and four grandchildren when he died of carcinoma of the prostate on 4 May 1997.
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First Title value, for Searching Lumsden, Kenneth (1900 - 1968)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-11
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Occupation ENT surgeon General practitioner Medical Officer
Details Kenneth Lumsden was born in Leeds on 26 May 1900 of Scottish ancestry and perhaps it was for this reason that he went to Edinburgh for his medical education, and graduated in 1922. He then joined the Colonial Medical Service and worked in Uganda, and took the Diploma of Tropical Medicine in 1925. When he returned to England he held house appointments at St Bartholomew's Hospital, the Middlesex Hospital, and the Samaritan Hospital to gain the training necessary for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, which he obtained in 1930. He then decided to specialize in ear, nose, and throat surgery and was appointed to the department at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. In 1934 Lumsden decided to set up in general practice in Saffron Walden, and also acted as ENT surgeon to the Saffron Walden General Hospital until 1948 when the coming of the National Health Service altered the conditions of that appointment, but he continued in his general practice until his death. He also held the post of medical officer to the Friends' School until he died. It is unusual for someone who has developed skill as a surgical specialist to become a successful family doctor, but Lumsden did manage to gain the confidence and affection of his patients to a remarkable degree. He was widely read, enjoyed golf and tennis and the company of friends and colleagues by whom he was highly esteemed. After a pneumonectomy in 1956 he was able to return to active practice, and even after a laryngectomy in 1966 he was recovering his voice well when he ultimately died on 1 January 1968. He was survived by his wife and two sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Campbell, Allan Gordon (1916 - 2011)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Elizabeth Thompson
Publication Date 2013-06-12 2015-06-05
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Allan Gordon Campbell, known as 'AG', was born on May 4, 1916, in Adelaide, the first child of Iris (née Fisher) and Gordon Campbell. His sister, Judith, was born in 1920. Schooled at St Peter's College, Allan entered the University of Adelaide Medical School at 16. At university, he excelled at sprinting, as had his father. By remarkable coincidence both held the junior and senior State Sprint Championships and Inter-University 100 yards championship 30 years apart. After graduating in 1938, Allan became Resident Medical Officer at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH). His registrar, Dr Ina Fox, three years his senior, later became his wife. In 1940, he became an RMO at the Adelaide Children's Hospital. His grandfather, Dr Allan Campbell, who was married to Florence Ann (sister of Sir Samuel Way, Lieutenant-Governor and Chief Justice), founded the hospital in 1876. Allan joined the Royal Australian Naval Reserve as Surgeon Lieutenant in 1939. During World War II, he served on the destroyer HMAS *Vendetta*. In 1941 following evacuation from Greece, Allan, then 25, was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for service and bravery. While on leave, he married Dr Ina Fox in 1942 at St Peter's College Chapel. After discharge, in 1945, Allan returned to Adelaide to join a general practice at Hindmarsh. He then began surgical training at the RAH. He gained Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1949 and Master of Surgery in 1950. At that time, to practice in Australian public hospitals, Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, England, was required. Allan attended Hammersmith Hospital, London, then Warrington General Hospital, Lancashire. He was admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1951. On return to Adelaide in 1953 Allan was appointed Honorary Assistant Surgeon at the RAH, becoming Honorary Surgeon in 1963. His vision - broader than usual at the time - included the surgery of trauma and lead to the mentorship of a succession of younger sub-specialty surgeons. Upon abolition of the honorary system in 1970, he became a Senior Visiting Surgeon in 1971. Throughout this time he held teaching appointments in Surgery and Surgical Anatomy at the University of Adelaide Medical School, was a member of the Curriculum Committee of the Faculty of Medicine, the Foreign Practitioners Assessment Committee, the Advisory Committees to the University of Adelaide, RAH and Queen Elizabeth Hospital, and was Visiting Specialist in General Surgery to the Department of Repatriation. In 1976 following establishment of Flinders Medical Centre, Professor Jim Watts offered Allan, then 60, the position of Senior Visiting Surgeon which he accepted. In those days, it was unusual for a Senior Surgeon to move from an established position to new territory, but Allan's sense of adventure, wisdom, practicality and humility ensured the move was successful. He retired from FMC in 1981, aged 65. For years, Allan conducted his private practice from the Botanic Chambers opposite the RAH. He also visited Angaston and Mount Gambier Hospitals. Allan was a mentor and role model to several generations of surgeons and offered wise counsel in difficult clinical and management scenarios. He was a life member of the AMA. Although a keen golfer, Allan chose rose-growing as his hobby, so he could be on call and near the family. It also provided opportunities to meet people outside of medicine. He was an adept horticulturalist. At its peak, his home garden boasted around 800 rose bushes, as well as camellias, orchids, hydrangeas and fruit trees. Allan was involved with the Rose Society for 50 years. He was president in South Australia from 1974 to 1976, and nationally in 1975 and 1981. He was a judge at Rose Society Shows and a delegate to meetings of the World Federation of Rose Societies. For service to the Rose in Australia, he received the T A Stewart Memorial Award in 1976 and the Australian Rose Award in 1981. Allan established rose gardens at various hospitals, including the RAH in 1976. A commemorative plaque was later placed its North Terrace end. Allan was a national representative on the Board of the National Rose Trial Garden at the Botanic Gardens. He established a rose garden at Pineview Retirement Village and his monthly notes on Rose Care were published in a book "Pineview Roses - A Rose Lover's Handy Guide", proceeds of which go to the Women's and Children's Hospital. Allan and Ina were active members of their local church, St Chad's, Fullarton, for 50 years. Allan served on the Parish Council and was the Synod Representative for years. He was a generous financial supporter of the Parish. Allan and Ina held many open days of their garden in Fisher Street to raise funds for the Parish. Allan and Ina celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 1992. Allan was devastated when Ina died suddenly in 1998. Allan died on June 29, 2011, aged 95. He is survived by his two daughters, Anne and Elizabeth and two grandchildren, Alexandra and Andrew. He is remembered as a hard-working, conscientious, talented, generous and humble gentleman who maintained dignity and humour until the very end.
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First Title value, for Searching Nurick, Arthur William (1921 - 2013)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by John Nurick
Publication Date 2014-08-15 2015-09-01
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Arthur Nurick was chief medical officer to Williamson Diamonds Ltd, Tanzania, and later a general practitioner in Western Australia. He was the third and last child of Max Nurick, a north London GP, and Annie Nurick. After Haberdashers' Aske's School, he entered the Middlesex Hospital Medical School in 1938. His teachers included David Patey and Dick Handley. He passed his MB BS and MRCS LRCP in 1944, and joined the RAMC. After military training, he was attached to the Indian Army Medical Corps and sent to Burma with a mobile surgical unit. He acquired a wind-up gramophone and some 78 rpm records of classical music, including a Beethoven symphony on five 12-inch discs and excerpts from Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov's *Caucasian sketches*. Whenever the spring of the gramophone's clockwork motor broke, he dismantled it, annealed the broken end over a spirit lamp, and shaped it to fit. Eventually the spring was so short he had to crank it up three times to get through a 12-inch disc. He told this and other stories, but never spoke about his experiences treating men newly released from the Japanese prison camps. After demobilisation in 1948, he returned to Middlesex Hospital. He worked for a short time in Lyons under Pierre Mallet-Guy and later published three papers on cholangiography (two as sole author, one with Patey and C G Whiteside). With his friend and Middlesex contemporary John (later Sir John) Golding, he kept a five-ton sailing boat at Ramsgate. In 1950, he married Jane Musgrave, a medical photographer at the Middlesex; they had met when he took his sailing photographs to the photographic department hoping to get them printed. In this period the NHS had produced many more would-be consultants than there were posts. After an unhappy locum appointment at the Royal West Sussex Hospital, Chichester (when Jane developed appendicitis he ensured that she was admitted to St Richard's), Arthur and his family returned to London. Through Middlesex contacts he was introduced to a Canadian geologist, John Williamson, who had discovered a rich kimberlite pipe in Tanganyika in 1940 and - despite wartime and post-war difficulties - had developed it into one of the biggest diamond mines in the world. Williamson had come to London for treatment for his oesophageal cancer. Arthur seized the opportunity and in 1957 became chief medical officer to Williamson Diamonds Ltd, responsible for medical services and public health for a self-contained township with a population of more than 10,000 African, Indian and European employees and dependents - and personal physician to the owner. There was a well-equipped hospital - by the standards of the time and place - and one other doctor, a very experienced Brahmin from Pune. Having made it a condition of his appointment that his work should not be limited to the population of the mine, he held weekly clinics at the nearest government hospital (at first the district medical officer there was Giovanni Balletto, one of the Italian soldiers who escaped from a POW camp by attempting to climb Mount Kenya) and an Africa Inland Mission hospital (where, despite his intractable atheism, he made lasting friends among the medical and nursing staff). Many patients were admitted for treatment at the mine hospital, presenting a full range of surgical challenges with almost no possibility of tertiary referral. Instruments and prostheses were improvised if necessary. For this and other work he was appointed as an honorary consultant surgeon to the Government of Tanzania. Recreation facilities at the mine included a sailing club on a large dam built to supply water for the mineral processing plant. Arthur built two sailing dinghies, was a competitive sailor and more than once was commodore of the club. The mine - south of Lake Victoria - was also within an easy day's drive of the Serengeti National Park, which the family visited many times. In 1973 Arthur and Jane settled in Western Australia, where - deterred by what seemed an insular Perth surgical establishment - Arthur joined a GP practice in Narrogin. As was then usual in country towns, the hospital had no surgeon or doctors and the local GPs would admit and treat their own patients. While practising mainly as a GP, he operated on many patients who would otherwise have had to be referred to Perth (his baggage from Africa had included a part-built 27-foot sailing yacht and instruments for the transurethral resection of the prostate). In 1988 Arthur and Jane retired to Albany on the south coast of Western Australia, where he was soon in demand as a locum GP, maker of furniture and repairer of all sorts of gadgets. Widowed in 1996, Arthur gave up general practice but continued assisting in theatre at the Albany hospital. He took part in many hundreds of operations and was delighted when in his eighties he had to sign a new contract with the department of health and start contributing to a superannuation fund. The last operation in his records is a rotator cuff repair in 2007; until then he had worked in theatre two or three sessions a week. He died peacefully in a hospice on 19 August 2013 at the age of 91 after refusing further surgery for failing circulation in his leg, which would have left him unable to stay in his multi-level house or use his beloved model engineering workshop. He was survived by his two children, John and Elizabeth.
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First Title value, for Searching Taor, Richard Ernest (1940 - 2014)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Bryson Webb
Publication Date 2014-12-24 2015-05-22
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Richard Taor was a medical leader in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and contributed significantly to the setting of standards for measuring and ensuring the quality of medical care in western Newfoundland. He was an assistant professor with the medical school at Memorial University in St John's, Newfoundland. He was born on 13 August 1940 to Ernest and Muriel (née Lowe) Taor. His father was a civil engineer and worked with the Ministry of Defense. He attended Sutton County Grammar School and helped the family by working at various jobs at weekends. One of his jobs was selling confectionary items on Saturday afternoons at the local football ground. Since he was allowed to eat as much as he wanted and still get paid, this was his favourite job. After completing his secondary school education, Richard received a scholarship to attend university. He enrolled at London University and spent two years focused on physics. On a visit to his brother, William, studying medicine at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, he became aware that there was a vacant place in the medical school for the following year. His application was accepted and in 1962 he started studies in anatomy, winning the Murray prize in 1963 under the guidance of William James Hamilton. After completing his BSc in anatomy, he received a postgraduate scholarship and worked with Murray L Barr in London, Ontario, Canada, where he participated in cytogenic studies resulting in two published papers. He completed his MB BS in 1967. His older brother (who also gained his FRCS) and younger sisters, Lesley Muriel and Helen Jennifer, all graduated from Charing Cross Hospital Medical School. In 1970 Richard became a surgical registrar at St Helier Hospital in Surrey, where he worked for several years. He successfully completed his FRCS in 1973. In 1977 Richard decided to explore new opportunities and moved to Port aux Basques, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, to work as a surgeon, general practitioner and provide obstetrical services to an immediate population of about 13,000. Richard quickly decided that rural Newfoundland provided him with the opportunity to expand his medical skills in an environment that was medically and socially very much in tune with his soul. He struggled through many difficult times when it was almost impossible to hire and retain doctors and other professional staff in rural Newfoundland. He became the rock on which the community depended for continuing medical care. To Richard, the care of his patients was paramount. He believed in and completed many continuing medical education programs. He was appointed chief of medical staff at the Dr Charles L LeGrow Heath Centre and in that role was the leader in establishing processes to look at standards of care within the hospital and achieving the highest quality based on best practices. To improve his administrative skills he successfully completed the management program for clinical leaders from Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, as well as a program from the physician leadership institute of the Canadian Medical Association. As services became more regionalised, Richard became deputy chair of the Western Newfoundland Medical Advisory Committee and served on many committees and through this contributed his experience and skills to governing the provision of health care within all the hospitals, clinics and long term care facilities in the region. In 1981 approval was given by the provincial government to design and build a new 50-bed hospital in Port aux Basques. Richard was totally involved in the planning and design for the new building and spent many hours briefing architects and medical design consultants on the needs and requirements of all of the medical and other clinical services which the hospital should provide. As construction proceeded he kept a watchful eye to ensure the final product would best meet the needs of staff, patients and the community. The new hospital opened in 1984. Richard realised that to successfully recruit and retain medical staff it was necessary to maintain a high quality of care standards and become involved with Newfoundland's medical school at Memorial University in providing practical training and research opportunities to medical students and general practice residents. He worked with the university in designing and implementing these practical training programs at the Dr Charles L LeGrow Health Centre. He was appointed a student preceptor in 1980 and was appointed as a clinical assistant professor (family practice) in 2000. As a consequence of the relationship Richard built with the university, and his leadership, internships were developed in a number of related health disciplines and saw the health centre becoming a centre of excellence in primary health care and in implementing a nurse practitioner program throughout Newfoundland. Richard retired in 2011 and his contribution to his community and province was recognised in the provincial House of Assembly and nationally in Canada's House of Commons. He was not designed for retirement. After working all his life with long hours and total commitment to his patients, he found it very difficult to adjust. In 1969 Richard married Magda Kovats of Budapest, Hungary, who was a staff nurse at Charing Cross Hospital. They had two children, Fiona and Christopher. Other than family, Richard's passions included sailing, formula one racing and curling. In January 2014 he became sick and was admitted into the hospital to which he had dedicated so much of his life. He bore his illness with his usual great dignity and fortitude, and succumbed to his illness on 1 March 2014. He was 73.
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First Title value, for Searching Jayasuriya, Bodyabaduge Piyatissa (1932 - 2014)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Nisali Jayasinghe
Publication Date 2016-11-21 2016-12-22
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Piyatissa Jayasuriya (known as 'Tissa') was an acclaimed medical professional and surgeon in Sri Lanka and Australia, credited with countless surgeries and medical advice he performed and provided. He was born on 21 September 1932 in Beruwala, Sri Lanka, to Simon Perera Jayasuriya and Cicilin Dimingo, who were of Sinhalese origin. His eagerness as a young boy to assist others inspired his wish to become a medical practitioner. From the age of six, Tissa attended Ananda College in Colombo. Due to the considerable distance between Colombo and Beruwala, as he approached his college years he resided in the nearby Gothama Vihara Temple in Borella, Colombo. This experience greatly influenced his views regarding religious values, which consisted of a large part of his life. He excelled at his studies at school, but his talents were not restricted to academic achievements; he also shone at the visual arts, in which he took a particular interest. His leisure time was devoted to reading, occasionally fishing with friends in his neighbourhood, and drawing and painting his parents and four siblings. From a young age he was known as a compassionate and caring individual, never losing his temper and quick to lighten tense situations. After graduating from Ananda College in 1950, Tissa attended the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, where he enrolled in a MB BS degree, qualifying nine years later. In April 1959 he began as an intern, as a medical officer in the Colombo Group of Hospitals. After continuing on as an intern for another year, he then became a house officer in the district hospital of Wathupitiwala. In 1962 he became a demonstrator in physiology in the medical faculty of the University of Ceylon and was promoted to grade II medical officer mid-year. He married Shirley Ranjani, the daughter of a businessman, on 24 December 1962. They later had three children: Anura, Nilmin and Rohan, all born in Colombo. Yet this seemingly joyful year took a dark turn when Tissa's mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. His yearning to cure her influenced his subsequent training, leading him to a post as a senior house officer in the obstetrics and gynaecology department at Colombo General Hospital the following year, in 1963. A year later, he moved to the general surgery ward, followed by the orthopaedic ward of the same hospital. Having taken an interest in surgery, Tissa moved to Kalubowila, where he worked as a resident surgeon from 1966 to 1967. In pursuit of further studies and to specialise in surgery, he sat and passed the primary FRCS examination held in Colombo, before travelling to England in 1968 to study at the Royal College of Surgeons. During this time, he acted as a psychiatry registrar at Harperbury Hospital in London in 1968, and spent the subsequent year as a house officer in the gynaecology department at the Middlesex Hospital in London. In the same year, 1969, he sat the final exam to attain the FRCS and shortly afterwards returned to Sri Lanka to a new position at Colombo General Hospital. In 1970 he operated on his mother in an attempt to cure her cancer, extending her life for approximately another two years. After a year of working in Colombo, he moved to the Base Hospital in Negombo, where he stayed for two years, and was then in Matale from 1973 to 1976, when he resigned as a surgeon. A member of parliament, Major General A R Udugama, praised Tissa for serving the residents of his constituency and remarked that he was a 'rare type of gentleman' who was appreciated by the general public for having a 'keen conscience to duty'. Driven by hopes of spreading his practice overseas, Tissa migrated to Australia with his wife and three sons in 1976, where they spent their first year in the town of Lightening Ridge, Walgatt Shire, in the north west of New South Wales, where Tissa worked as a general practitioner. He also continued to make regular visits to Sri Lanka to see his extended family. He later moved and settled in Peak Hill, New South Wales. During his residence in Peak Hill, his love for gardening was established. He actively engaged with the wider community, serving as the sole medical practitioner in his own practice and in the district hospital for 25 years. In the early years, Tissa also served as a consultant surgeon in the nearby town of Parkes. In 2002, he and his wife moved to Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory. He soon commenced work at Winnunga Nimmityjah Aboriginal Health Service Centre in Narrabundah, being one of the first two doctors to serve Canberra's indigenous community. Shortly after being diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2006, he underwent treatment and was cleared a year later. He resumed work at Winnunga for a further six years, before being diagnosed with lung cancer. At the age of 80, he underwent surgery and recovered sufficiently to resume work for a short time. He finally retired in March 2014, after his condition rapidly worsened. Tissa was undeterred by this; his thorough understanding of human life and his extensive practice of meditation helped him to calmly approach his death, which occurred peacefully at home on 8 July 2014 surrounded by family. He was 81. Filled with an extraordinary amount of talent and goodwill, Tissa carried out numerous surgeries and was a compassionate and sympathetic man who never forgot his identity and gave without ever expecting acknowledgement or praise in return. His generosity was reflected in his decisions to extensively support his family as well as Canberra's indigenous population, who knew Tissa as a humble, unforgettable man who was an icon of their community.
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First Title value, for Searching Leedham-Green, John Charles (1902 - 1984)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Sir Barry Jackson
Publication Date 2015-06-08 2018-05-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379601379601
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details John Charles Leedham-Green was born in Birmingham on 30 October 1902, eldest son of Charles Albert Leedham-Green FRCS (1867-1931), sometime Professor of Surgery at Birmingham University, and his wife, Ethel, née Lees. He was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read chemistry before taking up medicine. He went to the Middlesex Hospital for his clinical studies where he was awarded the Hartley Clinical Prize in 1930, qualifying in 1931. In the same year he won the Rose Hunt Travelling Scholarship from Oxford University which enabled him to visit surgical clinics in Berlin and Stockholm. Junior hospital appointments were in Birmingham and at the Middlesex Hospital where he was house surgeon to Victor Bonney and Sampson Handley and registrar to Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor. During the war he served in the RAMC as a surgical specialist and was in charge of surgical divisions in hospitals in West Africa, France and India, holding the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. After returning to civilian life he decided to go into general practice in Southwold, Suffolk, doing part-time surgery at Lowestoft Hospital. He remained in general practice for the rest of his career. He was a founder member of the Royal College of General Practitioners and in his time was Chairman of the East Anglia Faculty Board and representative of the Faculty on the Council of the College. In 1970 he was elected FRCGP. He was President of the Rotary Club of Southwold and President of the Southwold Branch of the Royal British Legion. His hobby was correspondence chess. In 1939 he married Gertrude Mary Somerville Caldwell who was a Cambridge medical graduate. He died on 25 February 1984 aged 81 and was survived by his wife Mary, his son Charles who is a mathematics lecturer at Queen Mary College, London, and his daughter Elisabeth.
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First Title value, for Searching McFadzean, James (1900 - 1975)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-28
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details James McFadzean was born at Colmonell, Ayrshire, on 22 October 1900 and educated at Ayr Academy and Glasgow University, where he graduated MB ChB in 1924. After appointments at the London Hospital he took the FRCS. In 1927 he joined a general practice at Morecambe, Lancashire, and was soon appointed honorary surgeon to the Royal Lancaster Infirmary and Queen Victoria Hospital, Morecambe. As time went by he was occupied mainly by surgery, and with the advent of the NHS he severed his connexion with general practice and was appointed consultant surgeon to the Lancaster and Kendal Hospital Group. He retired in 1965. A son of the manse in a country parish in Scotland, his knowledge of a self-sufficient way of life that has virtually disappeared was fascinating, and from this upbringing stemmed his skill and interest in numerous hobbies. He was a keen angler, an excellent shot, an enthusiastic gardener, and skilful at carpentry. In addition he had a wide knowledge of English and Scottish literature, making him an interesting conversationalist and a witty after-dinner speaker. As a young man he was a keen hockey player and played for Glasgow University and in international matches for the Scottish universities. His strong physique was matched by a great zest for life. He was always ready to respond willingly to a call for advice or help from a colleague or a friend. In his time he served on many medical committees. He took a keen interest in the BMA and was Chairman of the Lancaster Division. He also found time to help many voluntary associations, including the Railway Ambulance Movement, to which he was honorary surgeon for many years and for which he was admitted to the Order of St John as a serving brother. In 1932 he married Winifred Atkinson and they had one son and one daughter. He died suddenly on 22 March 1975 after a morning spent fishing on the River Lune.
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First Title value, for Searching Keene, Reginald (1897 - 1975)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-16
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378827378827
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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006644
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First Title value, for Searching Vernon, Eric (1909 - 1975)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379198379198
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Eric Vernon was born on 29 November, 1909, in Marple, Cheshire, the son of Arthur Vernon, furnisher and antique dealer. He was educated at Stockport Secondary School (Hallam Scholar) and Manchester University where he graduated BSc in 1930 and MB, ChB in 1933, winning prizes for pathology and paediatrics. After house appointments at Manchester Royal Infirmary, where his interest in surgery was stimulated by E D Telford, Harry Platt and Geoffrey Jefferson, he spent two years as demonstrator in anatomy in the department of Professor J S B Stopford, proceeding MD with commendation as a result of his research there. He was then successively assistant resident surgical officer at Manchester Royal Infirmary and resident surgical officer at Crumpsall Hospital and in 1938 he became FRCS. In 1939, he married Dr Kathleen Henderson, a fellow graduate, and they went into general practice in Douglas, Isle of Man. During the second world war, he not only served the numerous patients of their practice but acted as honorary surgeon to Noble's Hospital. In 1945, he was appointed surgeon to HM Lieutenant-Governor's household, a position he held until he retired. In 1946 he gave up general practice and became the first full-time honorary surgeon on the island. He was senior surgeon to Noble's and Ramsey Hospitals for many years. As the first Chairman of the Isle of Man Health Services Advisory Council, he played a major part in the introduction in 1948 of a comprehensive health service and he was President of the Isle of Man branch of the BMA. He was appointed OBE in 1972 for his services to medicine in the Island. The Vernons' hospitality in their happy home was memorable. He was a popular and gregarious host and his many friends were saddened to learn that he had developed a fatal disease. He died on 29 August, 1975, survived by his wife, his twin daughters and his son, now a consultant physician.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007015
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First Title value, for Searching Shepherd, William George (1815 - 1898)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-17
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375575375575
Occupation General practitioner
Details Educated at the Aldersgate School of Medicine, where he was at one time Demonstrator of Anatomy. He was afterwards a successful general practitioner in Claremont Square, then in Myddelton Square, Clerkenwell, and was a good operator. The son of an Army officer, he inherited a taste for military life, and was for thirty-one years connected with the Victoria Rifles, rising from the rank of private to that of Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel. His geniality and spirit of comradeship rendered him very popular in the ancient corps. His surgical aptitude brought him to the front in the very beginning of the movement for teaching first-aid to the wounded. His lectures and the drilling of his bearer companies were typical of a happy combination of military and surgical ability. The example which he set to the volunteers has been followed all over the kingdom, and the system which he was one of the first to illustrate has taken shape in the education of lay people in first-aid to the wounded in many directions. His pupil was Surgeon General Bradshaw. Shepherd was a fine type of the general practitioner of the last generation; somewhat rugged, but honest, thorough, and a sterling friend. He kept his friends, and his patients loved him. Almost to the last year of his life he moved among those of longest standing, valued for what he had been in all the years gone by as well as for the energy and devotion which he still exhibited. He died at his residence, 30 Myddelton Square, on March 30th, 1898.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003392
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First Title value, for Searching Gillam, John Francis Edward ( - 1987)

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First Title value, for Searching Clagett, Oscar Theron (1908 - 1990)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-08
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Oscar Theron "Jim" Clagett was born in Jamesport, Missouri, on 19 October 1908, the son of a country doctor and after early education at high school entered the University of Colorado for medical studies, qualifying in 1933. Initially he entered general practice but in 1935 he was successful in his application for a fellowship at the Mayo Clinic and was invited to join the surgical staff of the clinic in April 1940. He rose to Professor of Surgery in the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine and was a certified specialist in both general and thoracic surgery. He was elected President of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery in 1962 and President of the Western Surgical Association from 1966 to 1967. During his tenure of the Chair of Surgery many young surgeons from Britain and the Commonwealth passed through his department and all of them owe him a great deal for the high standards he set for himself and inspired in others. In 1968 he received the Clement Price Thomas award for meritorious contributions to surgery and on 13 November 1969 was admitted to the Honorary Fellowship of the College when Mr Norman Barrett gave the citation. Jim Clagett maintained a lifelong love of the Colorado mountains and enjoyed many years of boating on the Mississippi. He also appeared in two productions of the Rochester Civic Theatre. In 1972 he retired from surgery and became Chairman of the Mayo Clinic Board of Development. He died on 27 September 1990 aged 81 and is survived by his wife Alicia, daughters Mary, Nancy, Barbara and Martha, son Robert and fifteen grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Hope, Eustace Victor (1914 - 1982)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-19
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon GP surgeon
Details Eustace Victor Hope, the younger son and second of three children of Herbert Ashworth Hope, a barrister and company chairman, was born on 3 June 1914 at Church Stretton, Shropshire. He was educated at Stowe School and Trinity College, Cambridge, before entering St Thomas's Hospital Medical School and qualifying in 1940. He was then house surgeon and surgical registrar at Botley's Park War Memorial Hospital (in the St Thomas's Hospital wartime sector), later serving in the RAF medical service as a Flight-Lieutenant from 1945 to 1947. On demobilisation he was senior surgical registrar at West London and Westminster Hospitals, 1948-54, and also an outpatient registrar at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, 1947-51. He then moved to Paignton, Devon, where he became one of the last of the GP surgeons, giving robust and cheerful service to the local hospital for 26 years. A keen athlete in his youth, he had represented Cambridge University in the one mile and half mile events for three years. He had a great interest in vintage cars and some of his colleagues have happy recollections of their conscription into the hilarious events of his beloved Rolls Royce and Bentley Clubs. He lived life with a boundless and cheerful enthusiasm and became a keen golfer in his later years. In 1942 he married Anne Powell and they had a son and a daughter. He died on 11 July 1982 after a six months' illness, borne with cheerful equanimity. He was survived by his wife and children.
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First Title value, for Searching Green, Charles William (1881 - 1968)

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First Title value, for Searching Harvie, Adam Hamilton (1894 - 1978)

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First Title value, for Searching Wellish, Gilbert Charrington (1893 - 1969)

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First Title value, for Searching Jones, John Trengove (1918 - 1989)

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First Title value, for Searching Guerin, Robert Langley (1932 - 1999)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-03
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Occupation ENT surgeon General practitioner
Details Robert Guerin was born in Adelaide on 8 July 1932. His father, Robert Guerin, and mother, Vera Jean née Langley, were both schoolteachers. He was educated at Adelaide High School, where he won numerous prizes and became head prefect. He qualified with credit, winning the gynaecology prize, from the University of Adelaide in 1957. After being house surgeon at the Royal Adelaide and the Adelaide Children's Hospital, he did six years in general practice, before returning to the Royal Adelaide Hospital to train as a surgeon, soon deciding to specialise in ENT. He went to London to be a registrar in ENT at St Mary's, and later senior house officer in ENT at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, being promoted to registrar in 1968. Having passed the Edinburgh and English Fellowships, he returned to Adelaide in 1970, as registrar at the Adelaide Children's Hospital. He was appointed visiting medical officer there, and to the Repatriation General Hospital in 1971, with the appointment as clinical lecturer in otology at the University of Adelaide and, in the following year, to Flinders University. He was an external examiner at the University of Papua, New Guinea, in 1995. He published papers on hypophysectomy and the treatment of recurrent tracheo-oesophageal fistula by means of a sternomastoid flap. He married Naomi Heather née Schultz in 1960. They had one son, Robert Alfred, and one daughter, Frances, who became a university lecturer. He died on 24 October 1999.
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First Title value, for Searching Vickery, William Henry (1863 - 1944)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-09
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Born on 1 August 1863 in Alderney, Channel Islands, second son of William Vickery, engineer, and his wife, *née* Tucker. He was educated at Plymouth and at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, where he was senior Broderip scholar in 1887, the year of his qualification. He became an ardent admirer of the Middlesex surgeons Henry Morris, Alfred Pearce Gould, and above all John Bland-Sutton. He settled at Newcastle-on-Tyne in a general practice, intending to specialize as a surgeon, and served for about two years as registrar at the Royal Infirmary. He was then appointed surgeon to the Newcastle Children's Hospital and to the Northern Counties Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, to both of which he eventually became consulting surgeon. He never really became recognized as a surgeon outside the hospitals, as his general practice absorbed the whole of his time and energy. Vickery successfully removed from the thigh of an infant, aged nine months, a lipoma growing from the sheath of the great sciatic nerve and weighing 121 ounces. His publication of this interesting case was later used by Bland-Sutton in his book on *Tumours*. Vickery married in 1892 Ada M Cook who survived him with two daughters. After retiring he had settled at Shirley, Broad Oak Road, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, where he died on 9 January 1944, aged 80, in the Queen Alexandra Memorial Hospital after a short illness. Publication: Large lipoma in an infant; operation; recovery. *Middx Hosp J* 1900, 4, 106; also in Bland-Sutton *Tumours*, 7th edition, 1922, figure 11, and previous editions.
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First Title value, for Searching Storrs, Guy Simonds (1904 - 1971)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-14
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378281378281
Occupation General practitioner Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Storrs was educated at Sherborne School, Emmanuel College, Cambridge and St Thomas's Hospital. After qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1928, he held house appointments at St Thomas's, first as a casualty officer for six months, followed by six months as a house surgeon. This was followed by a year as senior casualty officer with charge of beds in the block for septic cases. He then went to Mount Vernon Hospital as resident medical officer and, for a time, was clinical assistant at St Peter's Hospital for Stone. In 1931 he passed the Fellowship and then joined a large partnership in general practice in Bradford; having an opportunity to specialise, he chose orthopaedics and, in 1934 was appointed orthopaedic surgeon to Bedford Hospital, at the same time carrying on a busy general practice. With the coming of the NHS in 1948 he gave up general practice and was appointed orthopaedic surgeon to the Bedford Group of Hospitals. He ran an extremely busy unit with only minimal help right up to his retirement in 1966. His interests outside his profession were many. He was a fine watercolour artist as well as a skilled craftsman. He designed and built his own caravan which he used on his travels abroad. Sailing and golf were his other hobbies and, after retirement to North Huish in Devon, he was able to enjoy his garden in spite of a coronary thrombosis in 1969. He died on 27 January 1971 survived by his wife and two sons, one of whom became a doctor.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006098
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First Title value, for Searching Williams, Hugh Morgan (1908 - 1980)

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First Title value, for Searching Shaw, Donald Grant (1953 - 2015)

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by Bruce Tulloh
Publication Date 2016-01-21 2016-09-08
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Donald Shaw was a GP surgeon in Cinderford, Gloucestershire, and the Dilke Hospital in the Forest of Dean. He was born on 3 October 1953 in Liverpool as the first child of John and Dorothy Mary Shaw (née Mudie). His two younger siblings, Charlie and Fiona, were born in 1955 and 1957 respectively. Donald completed his secondary education at King's School, Macclesfield, in 1972 and progressed to Bristol University to study chemistry. During those years he also worked as a lab assistant studying, amongst other things, various aspects of Hodgkin's disease. He transferred to medicine at Southampton in 1975, at least in part because he had become attracted to the clinical side of a career in science. It was during his first year at Southampton that he suffered the first of several medical setbacks that were ultimately to claim his life. With fateful irony, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1976 and endured 12 months of extensive chemo-radiotherapy. Just as he emerged from the gruelling treatment, his brother Charlie was killed in a road accident, but despite these two tragic events, Donald managed to continue with his medical degree and graduated in 1981. After house jobs in Poole, Southampton and Croydon, he was attracted to surgery and obtained the FRCS in 1985. A stint in obstetrics and gynaecology in Bedford followed from 1985 to 1986 and led him to successfully obtaining the DRCOG in 1987. He worked as a general surgical registrar in Northampton from 1986 to 1989. There he met his future wife Elaine, a nurse on the surgical ward, and around the same time developed the long-term view of working in the community as a GP surgeon. Thus was set in train a series of major changes in the direction of both of their lives and careers. By the end of 1989, he and Elaine were married and living in Cinderford, Gloucestershire, where Donald had joined the Forest Health Care practice as a GP trainee. A year later, he was a partner in the practice. He revelled in the breadth of skill and knowledge that general practice demanded, as well as the interpersonal connections that rural practice brings. He relished the opportunity to offer his surgical skills both in the surgery and at the local Dilke Hospital, saving many a patient the tedious journey to the Gloucestershire Royal Infirmary for day-case operations. An early adopter of computer technology, he led the process towards a paperless practice in the Forest and the introduction of computerised records. He then moved on to managing the dispensing and purchasing aspects of the practice at a time when, for the first time, individual practices were taking charge of their own budgets and establishing financial links with regional hospital trusts. This led on to several years of committee work and a leading role in the planning of health services for the Forest of Dean as a whole - all the time continuing with a full clinical workload. With no children of their own, Donald and Elaine devoted their attention to family, friends and other interests. Donald was a loving uncle to several nieces and nephews from both his and Elaine's sides of the family. One great ambition of Donald's came to fruition as he oversaw the design and building of their dream house in the rural village of Hope Mansell, Herefordshire, which was completed in 1996. Built into the floor was a spiral staircase cellar for his extensive wine collection. Over the next ten years their lovely home was the focus for numerous dinners, barbeques and social gatherings for friends, family, work colleagues and neighbours - always accompanied by a generous selection of superb wines from around the world. With a particular love for good food, along with New World wines and, in particular, champagne, Donald and Elaine travelled to Australia, New Zealand and the northern France on numerous occasions, usually returning with several cases of something special. To escape the English winters, they also often holidayed in equatorial locations, the Canaries and Maldives being particular favourites, with fine dining being an integral part of each trip. Donald developed a love for rugby during his school days, which continued throughout his life. He was a season ticket holder at the Gloucester Rugby Club and attended games there whenever he could. In later years, with the advent of recordable television, he had rugby games to watch at any time of day. One New Zealand trip in 2005 took in several games of the Lions' rugby tour, in addition to many vineyard visits. Donald became troubled with intermittent dysphagia about this time. A combination of post-radiotherapy stricturing and dysplastic changes on biopsy led eventually to an oesophagectomy in 2006. The operation was technically successful, but left him with impaired eating and recurrent chest infections secondary to radiation pneumonitis. This forced his retirement from practice, and although these problems significantly affected his ability to socialise, travel and enjoy good food, he tried hard not to let them do so. As the years went by his health took further knocks, with progressive radiation-induced cardiac disease and then oral cancer, for which he underwent major surgery in 2014. Despite poor exercise tolerance, and with impaired taste and swallowing, which deprived him of the ability to enjoy his beloved food and wine, Donald remained in good spirits and continued to face his tribulations with good humour. He kept up to date with news and current affairs, reading several newspapers avidly each day and welcoming visitors and the chance to discuss politics, current affairs and rugby. By then essentially confined to his home and with full-time care provided by his loving wife Elaine, Donald's condition declined further as heart failure supervened and he finally lost the battle with his succession of illnesses on 24 November 2015. He was 62. Donald was an affable, thoughtful and sociable man with an enviable intellect. Well read and always up for a friendly debate, he was prone to carrying the air of someone who knew he was always right - which, to the frustration of some of his antagonists, he usually was! Throughout his life and career, he showed great determination and fortitude, not only in achieving his medical and personal goals, but also in the way he handled his long illness, bearing his ailments with remarkable courage and dignity. He will be missed by his many friends, colleagues and grateful patients.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, William Henry Maitland (1907 - 1989)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-07
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Occupation General practitioner Orthopaedic surgeon
Details William Henry Maitland Smith was born in 1907 and after early education at George Watson's College entered Edinburgh University for his medical studies, qualifying in 1929. After initial house appointments at Birkenhead General Hospital and the Royal South Liverpool Hospital he entered general practice in Leeds but in 1931 decided to pursue a career in surgery. He was surgical registrar and clinical tutor at the David Lewis Northern Hospital, Liverpool, and passed the FRCS in 1936; later he transferred to the orthopaedic department of the same hospital and acquired the MCh Orth in the following year. He was appointed to the first post of consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Doncaster Royal Infirmary in 1938 with additional appointments at Montagu Hospital, Mexborough, and King Edward VII Hospital, Sheffield, and soon established a high quality fracture and orthopaedic service at the hospitals. For the first 16 years of his appointment he was the only orthopaedic surgeon at Doncaster and although his interests were necessarily wide he particularly enjoyed working with children's problems. He was a founder member of the Yorkshire Orthopaedic Travelling Club, later called the Holdsworth Club. He retired from the hospital service in 1972 but continued to live at Doncaster and to enjoy his hobby of golf, at which he became highly proficient. He never married and died on 31 October 1989 aged 82.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007679
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First Title value, for Searching Toland, Gertrude Mary Beatrice (1901 - 1985)

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First Title value, for Searching Haq, Zafar Ul (1927 - 1984)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379495379495
Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General practitioner General surgeon
Details Zafar Ul Haq was born in Masaka, Uganda, in 1927. He studied medicine at the Punjab University, Pakistan, where he graduated in 1950. Following house appointments in Pakistan he returned to his parental home at Masaka where he worked in general practice and as a surgeon to the Nkozi Mission Hospital. Intent on a surgical career he came to England in 1962, taking the Fellowship of the College in 1968. He held surgical posts at St James's Hospital, Tredegar, and at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital and an associate specialist post at the Royal South Hampshire Hospital. Finally in 1974 he was appointed consultant in accident and emergency surgery at the Medway Hospital, Kent. His great interest was in the treatment of burns and in the associated plastic surgery. He had a continued interest in scholarship and took great pains to help his juniors in their exams. Success in the surgical fellowship was both expected and achieved under his guidance and he derived intense pleasure from the examination successes of his juniors. Zafar was a perfectionist surgeon who applied the same attention to his hobbies of photography and gardening. It is said that his lawns and borders were as perfect as his skin grafts. He died suddenly in his own department on 26 April 1984. He was survived by his wife, Salmi, and his three sons.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007312
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First Title value, for Searching Halstead, Charles George Dines (1913 - 1992)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-09
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380163380163
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Obstetrician
Details Charles Halstead was born in Auckland on 11 September 1913. His father, Regement Dines Halstead, was company manager of the NZ Union Shipping Company, and his mother was Ivy Davies, née MacNab. He went to school at Timaru Boys' High School, and then to Otago Medical School. He held junior posts in Dunedin and Timaru. Then he came to England and was demonstrator of anatomy at Cambridge in 1939 and surgeon at Queen Mary's Hospital for the East End. From 1941 to 1945 he served in the NZRAMC, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel, and was surgeon to Guadalcanal Hospital. He returned to surgical practice at Timaru Hospital. His practice included delivering over 3000 babies, as well as general surgery. He continued in general practice after retirement and until his death. He was medical officer to the Jockey Club, Rugby Union and Hunt in South Canterbury, and worked hard to establish Bidwell Trust Hospital. He was much respected for his competence and dedication, and for the help he gave to his juniors. His hobbies included tennis, squash, billiards, snooker, golf and reading. He died on 23 May 1992, survived by his wife, Joyce May Patrick, whom he married on 23 January 1942, and their two sons, Charles and David, and daughter Patricia, who became a nurse.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007980
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First Title value, for Searching Macrae, Kenneth Sinclair Elphinstone (1914 - 1982)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-03
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Kenneth Sinclair Elphinstone Macrae was born on 6 August 1914. He was the second child and first son of Kenneth William Duncan Macrae, MB ChB Edinburgh, a general practitioner in Rainford for 51 years, and of Isabel Marion Duncan Macrae (née Adams). He was educated at Ormskirk Grammar School and the University of Liverpool where he graduated in 1936 before serving as house surgeon and orthopaedic house surgeon at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary. He was then house physician and house surgeon in obstetrics at Walton Hospital. During the second world war he served in the RAMC from October 1939 to March 1946, being demobilized with the rank of Major. After the war he became a surgical registrar at Ormskirk Hospital and took the Final FRCS in 1953. He then became a general practitioner in Rainsford with his father and worked as a part-time senior casualty officer at Warrington Infirmary. He also lectured in anatomy and physiology at the Liverpool School of Occupational Therapy from 1948 to 1958 and was a member of the Liverpool Medical Institution. In 1958 he married Monica T. Barry, who had graduated MB ChB Liverpool. She also held the DA and was the daughter of a general practitioner who worked first in Newport and later in Liverpool. Of their five children, four were daughters and the eldest a son. Macrae died suddenly on 12 September 1982, aged 68 and was survived by his wife and children.
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First Title value, for Searching Batten, Henry Herbert Evans (1920 - 1998)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-15 2015-10-16
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380274380274
Occupation General practitioner
Details Henry Herbert Evans Batten was a GP in Cambridge. He was born in London on 8 January 1920, the son of Herbert Ernest Batten FRCS, consultant orthopaedic surgeon to Charing Cross Hospital, and Margaret Elizabeth Evans. He was educated at Westminster and Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he was a keen oarsman, captained the first boat and was a member of the Leander and Hawks clubs. He did his clinical training at St Mary's, where he continued to row, and was captain of the United Hospitals Boat Club. After house jobs at St Mary's, he was registrar at the Princess Louise Hospital and St Mary's. He then served in the RAMC in India, Kenya and Mauritius. On his return he forsook surgery for general practice in Cambridge. There he specialised in the care of students, and was a co-founder of the Cambridge student counselling service. In his spare time he continued to coach rowing. He was an examiner for the Civil Aviation Authority and served on medical boards for war pensions and industrial injuries. He retired due to ill health in 1976, taking up gardening and water-colour painting. He married Mary in 1945; they had a son (also a doctor) and two daughters. He died on 27 August 1998 after a stroke.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008091
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First Title value, for Searching Riley, Peter William Stewart (1910 - 1994)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-01
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380456380456
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Peter William Riley was born in Dunedin in 1910, the son of Professor F Radcliffe Riley, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. He was among the first day pupils at John McGlashan College when it opened in 1918 and was a prefect and a member of the school cricket and rugby teams. He entered the Otago Medical School and graduated in 1934. He was house surgeon at Dunedin Hospital. With a postgraduate scholarship he studied in Melbourne and London, becoming FRCS and MRCOG. He returned to Dunedin as resident surgical officer in the late 1930s. During the war years Riley served with the 3rd New Zealand Division in the Solomon Islands with the rank of captain. On returning to Dunedin he decided to enter general practice, initially in Dunedin and after 1946 at Lauder in Central Otago. He worked for the Vincent Hospital Board covering a large, sparsely populated area. He was superintendent at Ranfurly Hospital for a period. In 1954 he returned to Dunedin and worked in general practice until 1980. He was a quiet, self-effacing man who always did his best for his patients. He was a keen fly fisherman with a love of the Lake Hawera area where for a time his father owned Timaru Creek Station. He was proud of his association with McGlashan College. His wife, Kathleen, died four years before him. He died on 13 April 1994, survived by three sons.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008273
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First Title value, for Searching Ellis, Maurice (1905 - 1977)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-01
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378681378681
Occupation Casualty surgeon Accident and emergency surgeon General practitioner
Details Maurice Ellis, the son of a motor engineer, who founded a milk business which later became Associated Dairies, was born on 16 September 1905 in Leeds and was educated at Rydal School, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and Leeds University School of Medicine. After qualifying in 1930 he was appointed to house posts at Leeds General Infirmary and at Barnsley. In 1933 having decided to join the Colonial Medical Service, he took the London University DTM&H and sailed for Nigeria. During his first tour of service, spent mainly in sleeping sickness control in Northern Nigeria, he became proficient in the Hausa language. Part of the second and the whole of the third tour were spent in general surgical work at Lagos. Ill health caused an early retirement from the Colonial Medical Service in 1945. After his return to the United Kingdom he worked for a year and a half in general practice, in Gainsborough. In 1948 he took the FRCS and after a surgical post at Dewsbury was transferred back to his own teaching hospital. With the inception of the National Health Service and the increased demand for casualty services he was appointed to work full-time in the casualty department. From 1949 he was senior registrar and in 1952 was made consultant. He retired in 1969. In 1967 Ellis had become founder President of the Casualty Surgeons Association, and after his retirement he campaigned vigorously for the improvement of casualty work throughout Britain. He was especially interested in tetanus and was co-founder of the tetanus unit at Leeds. He is remembered for his hard work, administrative ability, original thought, and love of teaching. Hundreds of clinical students and junior doctors referred to him affectionately as Father Ellis. In 1962 he published his *Casualty officers' handbook*, which ran to three editions in his lifetime and continued to be widely read thereafter. In 1933 he married Irene Thornley, surgical ward sister at the Leeds General Infirmary. They had one son who qualified in medicine. Ellis died on 13 October 1977, after having suffered for some years from progressive brain-stem ischaemia.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006498
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First Title value, for Searching Jansz, Aubrey William (1926 - 2011)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Ken Brearley
Publication Date 2012-03-29 2016-11-17
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374288374288
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Aubrey Jansz, the youngest of three children, was born in Sri Lanka; his father was a bookstore manager and his mother a nurse. He initially attended Royal College, completing his secondary schooling at Alexandra College from where he won the prestigious Rustomjee Jamshediji Jeejeeboy Scholarship to study Medicine at Colombo University, graduating in 1948. Having completed Internship in Sri Lanka, Aubrey was then appointed Lecturer in Physiology at the University of Colombo and it was here that he was stimulated and encouraged to pursue surgery. Having obtained his First Part FRCS, he then travelled to UK to study and sit the Second Part FRCS, working at The Seaman's Hospital, Croydon General and Great Ormond Street Hospitals. His son, Martin, took Aubrey to visit The Seaman's Hospital in Greenwich some years ago, as he had a great fondness for it. Evidently he had been able to see the 'Cutty Sark' from his window and, more importantly, it was here that he learned so much from surgical mentors of many nationalities that he was able to be a 'good surgeon'. From earliest childhood, Aubrey had indicated that he wanted to help people and be challenged; hence his becoming a doctor and subsequently a surgeon was no surprise. In 1962, Aubrey, his wife Patricia and daughter Andrea migrated to Melbourne. Aubrey's first position in Melbourne was at the Prince Henry's Hospital where he took up a post as an Honorary Clinical Assistant Surgeon to the Outpatient's Department. This position kept him in touch with clinical surgery, but there were no operating rights as was the practice of that era. It was here that he met Ken Brearley (FRACS), the Acting Honorary Surgeon to Outpatients. At about the same time in 1963, Aubrey joined three other doctors in a practice in Melville Road, Pascoe Vale South; it was fairly common then for surgeons to work as 'GP-surgeons' in a general practice. In 1964 Aubrey was lured 'across the Yarra' by Ken, to take up a position at Preston and Northcote Community Hospital (PANCH) where the outpatient numbers there were building rapidly and Aubrey was appointed as a Clinical Assistant Surgeon to Ken's Unit. In those days the work was honorary, but after some years payment was introduced, courtesy of the Whitlam Government. And so it was that Aubrey commenced his long and rewarding career in the northern suburbs of Melbourne. Initially, whilst still at the Melville Road GP practice, Aubrey was operating at Sacred Heart, Vaucluse and PANCH hospitals, but soon after commencing at PANCH, he was appointed as an Assistant Surgeon in Ken's Unit which gave him operating rights and responsibilities. By 1975, his surgical practice was secure and he ceased GP work, however the legacy of his time in general practice lived on. In 1986, following the untimely passing of John Fethers, Aubrey was appointed Head of the Surgical 3 Unit where he became interested in Upper GI endoscopy and evidently introduced the first gastroscope to PANCH. His surgery was of a high standard and the care of his patients was exemplary. Aubrey possessed a quiet, pleasant and respectful personality which rendered him most popular with staff, colleagues and patients, added to which he also had a well-developed sense of humour. Ken remembers being told by Aubrey that he had once operated on a patient, a young girl with peritonitis from a ruptured appendix. On receiving the account, probably in the order of $200 in those days, the girl's father told him the fee was too high and refused to pay. Aubrey then suggested he should pay whatever he felt his daughter's life was worth; he duly received a cheque for $50! Inquisitiveness was perhaps something Aubrey inherited from his bookstore manager father. He delighted in books and found nothing more pleasant than spending half a day browsing around small bookshops in and around Melbourne, from where he would emerge with one or two extraordinary volumes. He later became PANCH Medical Librarian, a position he greatly enjoyed. Palliative Care and philosophical matters of life and death were things that had always interested Aubrey, and he was greatly impressed and influenced by the inspirational Helen Kübler-Ross who had given a number of lectures in Melbourne. His inquiring mind and reading on a broad range of subjects resulted in Aubrey challenging, in all manner of ways, colleagues, students and family alike, urging them to solve puzzles and to question statements made by others. This made him a great teacher for most of his life, combining common sense, humility and whimsy. In a way, the lessons were more about life and surgical attitudes than strict clinical material. Not surprisingly, Aubrey was held in high regard by all students attached to his Unit, as well as at St Vincent's Hospital Clinical School where he continued to take 'Lumps and Bumps' sessions for a good many years after he retired from PANCH and active surgery in 1992. One of the important hints he passed on was that: 'It is important to buy two copies of any special book, so that when a volume is lent to a colleague, you are thus assured of retaining a copy when this 'lent' book inevitably fails to return!' Another special attribute was the care and attention, surgical and emotional, that he gave to his patients at all times, both in the Public and Private sectors. Years after retiring, Aubrey's patients continue to ask after his health and comment on his interest in them as people, rather than them being 'just another case.' What greater legacy could one have? On one occasion Aubrey challenged his colleagues by enquiring: 'How many of you have had occasion to visit your patient in their home?' - his reason being - that to visit someone in their home really grounds the relationship and gives all kinds of insight into their lives. Aubrey Jansz made a wonderful contribution to the surgical care of the northern suburbs of Melbourne and to the much broader education of his colleagues and medical students at PANCH. He was much loved, respected and is fondly remembered by all as a gentle, compassionate and giving man. Moreover, he was a devoted family man who would frequently tell us of the progress of his children, Andrea and Martin, who certainly lived up to all the expectations held by Aubrey and his loving wife of 56 years - Patricia.
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First Title value, for Searching Doyle, Richard Webster (1905 - 1989)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-08
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379382379382
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Richard Webster Doyle qualified in 1928 and graduated from Liverpool University in the following year. There is no record of his early appointments but he served in the RAMC during the second world war. He was taken prisoner by the Japanese in the Far East, spending three years in Changi jail where his surgical work in extremely onerous conditions earned him the gratitude of many fellow prisoners and a personal citation from Admiral Lord Mountbatten. On return to Liverpool he was appointed consultant surgeon to the Royal Southern Hospital and became a member of the Travelling Surgical Club. An able communicator and teacher, he was most popular with his students who elected him postgraduate president of the Liverpool Medical Students' Society. Little is recorded of his work in his published obituary but it is clear that he was a good-humoured and colourful character who lived life to the full and was invariably topped by a bowler hat. He was Irish to the backbone. In 1977, for his services to the community, he was a recipient of the Queen's Silver Jubilee Medal and of a papal knighthood - the highest accolade the Roman Catholic church is able to award to a layman. The diversity of his character was shown by the pleasure he derived from owning a daunting collection of vintage motorcycles, one of which he rode to the Rome Olympic Games in 1960. He was also a keen fly fisherman who especially enjoyed a stretch of river in the Lake District. But medicine and a spirit of service was clearly in his blood for, long after his retirement from surgery, and even after the age of 80, he continued to do locum work in general practice. When he died, aged 84, on 22 October 1989 he was survived by his wife, Margaret, and four children.
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First Title value, for Searching Spriggs, Neville Ivens (1878 - 1967)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-14
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378289378289
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Born at Foxton, Leicestershire on 26 March 1878 he trained at Guy's Hospital, qualifying in 1903 with the Conjoint Diploma and graduating at the University of London. He took the Fellowship in 1904 and the MD in 1905. After house appointments at Guy's he was in general practice first at Southport and then at Shrewsbury. He moved to Leicester in 1910, practised for many years at 169 London Road, and was surgeon to the City Police for more than thirty years. In this office he soon noticed the danger caused by car drivers who were under the influence of alcohol. He wrote several papers in medical journals and public newspapers on the need for control. He also lobbied members of both Houses of Parliament, and had the satisfaction of finding his opinion vindicated when legal controls were imposed towards the end of his long life. During the first world war he served the 5th Northern Hospital at Leicester as an Army surgeon. He was chairman of the Leicester and Rutland division of the British Medical Association in 1929-30, and President of the Leicester Medical Society. He had many interests outside his profession, and had been President of the Literary and Philosophical Society and the Rotary Club at Leicester. He was active in the Leicestershire Archaeological society, and a staunch advocate of preserving his native countryside. He was also a supporter of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund. Spriggs visited the College from time to time throughout his career, maintaining his interest in the Library and the Museum. He died at 16 Meadowcourt Road, Leicester on 12 January 1967 aged eighty-eight, survived by his wife and three of their four sons; the other son had been killed on active service during the second world war.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006106
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First Title value, for Searching Baker, Anthony Harvard (1903 - 1989)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-17
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379281379281
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Anthony Harvard Baker was born at North Walsham, Norfolk, the eldest son of the Reverend Anthony Charles Baker a Methodist minister; his second name recalled a distant relationship to John Harvard who had bequeathed his library to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the eighteenth century and had given his name to Harvard University. He was educated at Kingswood School, Bath, from 1914 to 1922 where he became senior prefect and acquired a school leaving scholarship before entering Manchester Medical School. He qualified in 1927 having obtained a distinction in anatomy and the prize in pathology and was appointed house surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary, resident surgical officer at Stockport Infirmary and later surgical registrar at Manchester under ED Telford and Sir Geoffrey Jefferson. He then joined a general practice in Stroud and passed the FRCS in 1933. When the new hospital was opened in Scarborough in 1936 he moved there, joined a general practice and was appointed honorary surgeon to the hospital. Shortly after the outbreak of war he joined the RAMC serving as Lieutenant-Colonel in command of a surgical division with the 1st Army in North Africa and later in Italy where he was mentioned in despatches. After the introduction of the National Health Service he left general practice to become consultant surgeon at Scarborough and introduced the technique of open prostatectomy without the use of a catheter, publishing his results in the *Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine* in 1964. He retired from surgical practice in 1968 and was shortly afterwards elected Councillor to Scalby District Council, later becoming Chairman and Mayor of Scarborough in 1974. He married Gwen Image in 1930, and they had one son and one daughter. He died on 6 December 1989, aged 86.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007098
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First Title value, for Searching Wilson, John Walker (1899 - 1983)

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First Title value, for Searching Secretan, Walter Bernard (1875 - 1966)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

First Title value, for Searching Page, Iven Alastair (1914 - 1971)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378184378184
Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General practitioner General surgeon
Details Iven Alastair Page was born at South Grafton, New South Wales, in 1914, being the third son of Sir Earle Page. He was educated at the Fort Street Boys' High School and the Sydney Church of England Grammar School, and then proceeded to the University of Sydney where he graduated in medicine in 1937. After holding junior posts in the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital he enlisted in the RAMC in 1940, and served in Iceland, Europe, India, Burma and Thailand, gaining extensive experience in surgery and obtaining the FRCS England in 1943. After the war he returned for a short period to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, but in 1946 started in general practice in Grafton. He became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1958, and in 1964 he decided to give up general practice and to specialize as a consultant surgeon. His previous experience in general practice, and what he had learned during war service combined to make him an outstanding general surgeon, who gained the confidence of his patients by quietly listening to what they had to say, and by the wise avoidance of unnecessary surgery. He was also well qualified as an accident surgeon in the days before the specialty was well recognized. Page was a keen sportsman and a valued member of the local community, not only in his professional capacity as chairman of his hospital board and as an active member, and ultimately president of the local medical association, but also through his practical interest in the Grafton news media, and in broadcasting. His many and varied activities were brought to a premature end by an illness borne with quiet dignity, and he died at the age of 57 on 5 August 1971. His wife Elizabeth and their four sons survived him.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006001
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First Title value, for Searching Stansfield, Frederick Ross (1904 - 1983)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379868379868
Occupation General practitioner Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Frederick Ross Stansfield was born at Ilkley, Yorkshire, on 28 September 1904, the son of a cotton manufacturer. His early education was at Ilkley Grammar School before entering the University of Leeds and St Bartholomew's Hospital for medical studies. He qualified in 1928 with honours in medicine and two years later passed the FRCS. He served as house surgeon at Queen Charlotte's Hospital and later as resident medical officer at the Chelsea Hospital for Women. After passing the London MD in 1932 and winning the gold medal he settled in general practice at Ipswich where he also obtained an appointment as visiting gynaecologist to the hospital. Before the outbreak of war he had built up his obstetric and gynaecological hospital practice to the extent that he was able to devote all his time to the specialty and discontinue general practice. At the time of the introduction of the National Health Service in 1948 he was appointed consultant gynaecologist and obstetrician. In addition to his heavy professional commitment in Ipswich he was a frequent attender of the meetings of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Royal Society of Medicine. He retired from practice in 1969. His first marriage was in 1932 and they had two sons, Richard and Ian. After the death of his first wife in 1959 he remarried in 1963. His second wife is Eileen Hopkins, a nursing sister. His outside interests were gardening and sailing and he was particularly proud of winning the Harwich to Hook of Holland race in 1958. He died from carcinoma of the colon on 8 October 1983 aged 79 and is survived by his second wife and the two sons of his first marriage.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007685
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First Title value, for Searching King, Cyril Arnold (1895 - 1983)

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First Title value, for Searching Rose, John Richard (1910 - 1998)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-04
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381070381070
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Born in Sandwich, Kent, on 30 September 1910, John Richard Rose's father, William Richard Rose, was a wholesale grocer, JP, county councillor and was twice Mayor of Sandwich. His mother was Beatrice Matilda Paragreen, a musician and poet, and a governor of St Thomas's Hospital. He was educated at Sir Roger Marwood's School, from which he won a scholarship to Queens' College, Cambridge. From Queens' he won an exhibition to St Thomas's Hospital, where he was much influenced by Cyril Nitch, Romanis and Mitchiner. Barrett was his surgical tutor. After qualifying, he became a house surgeon at St Thomas's and then went to China as a surgeon to the Methodist Missionary Society. He then joined the Hong Kong Volunteers in 1939. There he was interned in a Japanese civilian camp near Canton from 1942 to 1945. On being released, he returned to his missionary work in China for another four years, becoming Professor of Surgery to the Canton Medical School (Lingan University) in 1947, and Chairman of the South China Medical Relief Society. He became an expert in ancient Chinese scripts and watercolour painting. He was then sent to Sierra Leone, where he qualified as a witch doctor in the Mende Tribe in 1957, a life appointment. He then returned to the UK, where he was a GP in Kent and Cumbria. He married Dorothy Barritt, and had one son, Michael, who also became a surgeon, and two daughters, Janet and Alison. This marriage ended in divorce and he later married Elizabeth Loyns and had two sons, Richard and Stephen. He published *A Church born to suffer* (London, Cargate Press) in 1951, a history of the first 100 years of the Methodist Church in South China, and an autobiography *Traveller's joy* in 1991. He died on 6 November 1998.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008887
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First Title value, for Searching Gough, Arkyl Staveley (1900 - 1990)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379471379471
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Arkyl Staveley Gough was born on 16 September 1900 and after completing his early education became a cadet pilot in the newly formed Royal Air Force. He was demobilised in 1919 and entered Guy's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1925. During his student years he served in the Territorial Army with the Artists' Rifles and represented London University at athletics - gaining a blue. Shortly after qualification he entered general practice at Watford but studied for the FRCS which he passed in 1929. He continued with his general practice which included part-time duties as a general surgeon at Peace Memorial Hospital until 1948. His forthright opinions and interest in committee work attracted his attention towards medical politics. He served as Chairman of the North West Hertfordshire and Watford Division of the British Medical Association and was a member of the Association's Council from 1943 to 1960. In 1948, with the introduction of the Health Service, he left his general practice and became a consultant general surgeon. His interests were wide-ranging and he continued in administration, serving as a member of the North West Regional Hospital Board from 1947 to 1968 and as Chairman of the Harefield and Northwood Hospital Management Committee from 1966 to 1974. In addition to these commitments he was Chairman of the Watford and Bushey St John Ambulance Brigade and the local branch of the British Rheumatism Association. After his retirement from surgical practice in 1965 he continued his committee work until the Health Service reorganisation in 1974 and then devoted his energies to his garden and greenhouses. He died on 23 February 1990 at the age of 89 and is survived by his wife Aileen and two daughters, one of whom qualified as a nurse at the Middlesex Hospital and is married to a surgeon.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007288
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First Title value, for Searching Jauch, Francis Joselin (1897 - 1991)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-15
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380287380287
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Francis Joselin Jauch was born in Hampstead on 17 February 1897, the son of Alexander Karl Sigismund Jauch, an importer and exporter of toiletries, and his wife Elise, née Waibel. After early education at the school which later became the Marylebone Grammar School, his dental studies were interrupted in 1916 by army service, where his experiences in a hospital in France influenced him to become a surgeon instead. His early surgical training was in London at the Middlesex Hospital, where he gained an entrance scholarship, the Royal Free, and the London Hospital, where he worked with Sampson Handley, Cecil Joll, Russell Howard and Sir James Walton. He also held posts at the Universities of Zurich and Berne. In 1930 he became a part-time consultant surgeon at Grantham Hospital, working in general practice as well. During the second world war he ran both the surgical ward and his practice single-handedly, a time of immensely hard work. In 1948 he was appointed a full-time consultant at the hospital, and subsequently became heavily involved in hospital and BMA committee work. In the process he successfully resisted the threatened closure of his hospital and nurses' school. To prove that he had won the battle he himself designed the hospital's coat-of-arms. In retirement he carried on in a part-time casualty post and also in a country general practice, retiring from the former at 80 and the latter some years later. He loved his garden and was interested in trees, ornithology, ecology and the preservation of architecture. He was survived by his wife Irma (whom he had married in 1929), five children (one a doctor), twelve grandchildren (one a doctor) and three great grandchildren. He died on 1 February 1991, aged 93.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008104
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First Title value, for Searching Whittingdale, John (1894 - 1974)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-13
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Medical Officer
Details John Whittingdale, the son of Dr John Flasby Lawrance Whittingdale, MB Cambridge, MRCS, and of Marie Whittingdale (née Jennings), was born on 14 June 1894 in Sherborne, Dorset. He was to spend most of his long life in that place. After education at Sherborne Preparatory School and Sherborne School, he was an exhibitioner to Downing College, Cambridge, in 1913. Two years later he secured a scholarship to St Bartholomew's Hospital where he won the Brackenbury Scholarship in surgery, the Matthews Duncan Prize in obstetrics and the Walsham Prize in pathology. His undergraduate work was interrupted in 1915-16 whilst he served with a British Red Cross Society Mission to Russia. After qualifying in 1918 he was house surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital, then casualty officer and house surgeon at Nottingham General Hospital, before taking the FRCS in 1920. Following a period of ill health he took the Diploma in Ophthalmology and spent a short period as an assistant in general practice at Seaton, Devon, before joining his father's practice in Sherborne. He was appointed surgeon to the Yeatman Hospital and also served as medical officer to both Sherborne boys' and girls' public schools, all appointments which he greatly valued and enjoyed. Whittingdale was notable amongst his colleagues for his careful and painstaking observation, and his care in diagnosis, which were object lessons to all. He had a remarkable memory for people and for clinical detail. His old-world courtesy, together with his tall, double-barred and old-world bicycle, were well known in the town. He loved country pursuits and went shooting and fishing in all weathers. He was convinced that his life style and satisfying form of practice helped him to outlive most of his contemporaries, and he will be remembered as one of the last of the true general-practitioner surgeons. During wartime, virtually single-handed, he undertook a truly prodigious workload in and around Sherborne. In 1957, relatively late in life, he married Mrs Margaret Esme Scott Napier and they had one son. He died peacefully, following a myocardial infarct in his eightieth year, on 4 September 1974, in the Yeatman Hospital which he and his father had faithfully served for more than seventy years. He was survived by his wife and son, John.
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First Title value, for Searching Godson, Charles (1819 - 1904)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-02-08
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Born in June, 1819, at Heckington, Lincolnshire, and was apprenticed for the sum of £294 for five years in 1834 to Wilson Wade, of the Westminster Dispensary, Gerrard Street, Soho. His indenture stated that he was apprenticed for the purpose of being instructed in the arts, business, or professions of a surgeon, apothecary, accoucheur, or man midwife, and that he was to be allowed good and sufficient meat and drink at the table of the said William Wade. Besides dissecting and attending lectures and practice at his own dispensary, he went through a similar course of instruction at St George's Hospital. After qualifying in 1840, and acting as House Surgeon at the Lying-in-Hospital, he married in 1842, and bought the practice of a Mr Morison at Barnet, Middlesex, and in time became very well known as one of the kindest-hearted and most genial of general practitioners. Godson held many local appointments, and was at one time Medical Officer to the Barnet Union Infirmary and Enfield Districts of the Edmonton Union, Divisional Surgeon to the 'S' Division, Metropolitan Police, Surgeon to the 2nd Middlesex Royal Rifle Regiment of Militia, Surgeon to the Great Northern Railway, and Surgeon to the Leather Sellers' Company. He sold his practice at Barnet in 1878, and continued his medical career in South Kensington till his final retirement some years later. He went, about 1884, to enjoy well-earned leisure at Ealing, where in those days he was able to live the life of a country gentleman. There he enjoyed the same popularity as of old. The best evidence of his professional work will be found in the *Transactions of the Obstetrical Socicty of London* (1876, xviii, 223), in which there is a paper entitled, "Midwifery Statistics of Thirty-five Years' Practice compiled by Clement Godson from the records of his father, Charles Godson, FRCS." It contains a record of 3223 confinements conducted by Charles Godson with only 7 deaths, or 1 in 460. The way in which the details of the cases are recorded shows clearly the care and scientific acumen which Godson brought to bear upon his work, and fully accounts for the position he occupied while in general practice at Barnet. His death occurred at his residence, The Gables, North Common, Ealing, on February 6th, 1904. Dr Clement Godson, sometime Assistant Physician-Accoucheur at St Bartholomew's Hospital, was his son.
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First Title value, for Searching Fry, John (1922 - 1994)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-08
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Occupation General practitioner
Details John Fry was born in South London on 16 June 1922, the son of a general practitioner, and was educated at Whitgift School, Croydon, and Guy's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1944. He took his FRCS diploma in 1947, but very soon decided to take up general practice, and he remained a single-handed GP in Beckenham, Kent, until he retired in 1992. He was a skillful clinician and researcher, which followed careful observation and meticulous recording of his cases. He subsequently made major contributions to the development of general practice in this country, using this information to challenge some existing practices at the time, such as an excessive resort to tonsillectomy. He showed that books written by a general practitioner could influence both primary health care and hospital treatment, and his careful clinical research stimulated others to do likewise. He liked to quote the 16th century French military surgeon Ambroise Paré's description of a doctor's role - 'to cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always'. He was elected a founder member of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 1952 and received their Foundation Council award in 1993, after serving 34 years on the Council. His appointments were numerous, and he was much in demand as a lecturer in general practice, both at home and abroad. He was adviser to the World Health Organisation, consultant to the army in general practice, trustee of the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust (who honoured him by establishing a John Fry lecture), and a member of the General Medical Council for many years (and ultimately its treasurer). He was awarded the CBE in 1988, and received the Charles Hastings prize twice from the BMA (in 1960 and 1964), and the Hunterian Society gold medal twice (in 1955 and 1956). He was a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation, and he was also awarded the James MacKenzie prize in 1965. He was a prolific author, and wrote several books including *The catarrhal child* (1961), *Profiles of disease in childhood* (1966) and *Common diseases* (1974). He also edited *Primary care* (1980), *Scientific foundations of family medicine* (1978), and introduced the popular medical magazine *Update* with Dr Abraham Marcus. He married twice, firstly in 1944 to Joan Sabel who died in 1989, and secondly to Trudy Amiel, née Schwer. He had a son and a daughter by his first marriage, who survive him. He died on 28 April 1994, aged 71.
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First Title value, for Searching Willett, George (1933 - 1995)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-09
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Occupation General practitioner Paediatric surgeon
Details George Willett was born on 11 February 1933 at Leigh, Lancashire, the son of George Willett, a canon of the Church of England and his wife Beatrice, née Juniper. Willett won a music scholarship at Denstone College and was runner-up in the organ scholarship examination for Gonville and Caius College Cambridge. On coming down from Cambridge in 1954 he went to Guy's Hospital Medical School, qualifying MRCS and LRCP in 1957. After qualification he did two years' national service in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Northern Ireland and later worked as senior surgical registrar in paediatric surgery at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children from 1969 to 1971, when he decided to go into general practice in Kelvedon, Essex. On 19 May 1962 he married Joyce Ketteringham, SRN. Outside medicine his other interests were music and chess: he was a very talented pianist and organist who played for church services from the age of 10, and gave organ recitals; he was Medical News chess champion 1976. He died from ischaemic heart disease on 20 November 1995 aged 61 and was survived by his wife and adopted son, David. Mr J. Douglas George writes: 'I had the pleasure of training with George Willett when we were both senior registrars in paediatric surgery in the Royal Victoria Hospital for Sick Children in Belfast in 1968-9. After I became a consultant surgeon in the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital in 1970, I again worked with George before he decided to take up general practice and went to work in Kelvedon, Essex. He was a superb doctor and a very capable surgeon. I actually believe that he was too good a doctor and too nice a person to waste his time as a surgeon with sleeping patients in an operating theatre. His great asset was his ability to relate to patients and to help them at a much deeper level than most doctors find possible. He built up a very successful practice in Kelvedon and his patients realised and appreciated his great ability. George had a very confident, but slightly reserved, character. There was, however, a remarkable transformation when he sat down at a piano. He became extrovert and the true person came to the fore. George has been greatly missed by patients and colleagues.'
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First Title value, for Searching Wardle, Derek Basil James (1924 - 1997)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Deborah Wardle
Publication Date 2017-04-21 2017-05-17
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Vascular surgeon
Details Derek Wardle was a general surgeon and general practitioner in New South Wales, Australia. He was born in Herefordshire to Harold Wardle and Elsie Wardle née Clarkeson. As a boy, he loved working on local farms, developing a love of agricultural work that played out later in his life in Australia, when he purchased a small property at Torryburn, East Gresford, in the Hunter Valley. Here he raised Hereford cattle, as a link to his childhood. He had an older sister, Margaret, who married French pilot, Rene Jonchier, and lived with their three daughters in French colonies and Paris. Derek was a keen sportsman, excelling at rowing, cricket and football during his university years. He studied at Cambridge and then King's College Hospital Medical School. Derek married Jacqueline Payne in London 1948 and, against his parents' wishes, he converted to Catholicism at Jacqueline's request. They courted through the end phases of their medical training. A family tale is told of them in a training session on eyes. Students were asked to turn the eyelid of the person next to them. Derek turned to Jacqueline, folded her eyelid back, and that, as they say, was that. They worked in the mid 1950's at the Royal Infirmary in Cardiff, Wales. From there they made the decision to move to Australia, following some colleagues and friends, the Coulthards and the Withercoms. Derek flew to Australia in 1957 to set up a home and work. Originally, he considered working in Kalgoorlie, but decided on a practice in the western suburbs of Newcastle, New South Wales. They had by then four children; Penelope, Timothy, Rebecca and Deborah, who was born after Derek had flown to Australia. Jacqueline followed with the four children, on an eight-week boat trip through the Suez Canal to Australia. The family lived initially in Wallsend, then set up home on ten acres at Cardiff, New South Wales. They had two more children, Nicholas and Felicity. The family took annual holidays to Narrabri Pony Camp for over 30 years, where Derek was the camp doctor, patching up children after falls from their horses. Derek worked at the Mater Hospital and Wallsend Hospital, and in general practice in both Glendale and in Wallsend. Derek and Jacqueline often worked together in general practice. When Derek completed his studies to become a surgeon, he established a surgery in Watt Street, Newcastle. He specialised in vascular surgery and, through private research, developed a successful alternative to general anaesthetic and vein stripping. The method of vein compression with bandages in the treatment of varicose veins was a day procedure, which involved injecting saline for small, spider veins and tetradecyl sulphate diluted into larger veins. He also did some vein stripping and was a pioneer with sclerotherapy when it started. Patients with bandaged legs were required to walk regularly to ensure circulatory rehabilitation. He was a respected senior surgeon in Newcastle, New South Wales and much-loved by his patients for his compassion and generosity. He was a doctor who often surpassed the constrictions of medico-legal or political correctness. Derek was appointed as an anatomy teacher at the newly-established medical school at Newcastle University in the 1980's. His kind rapport with students made him an excellent and popular teacher. Derek practised surgery until his late sixties. Derek and Jacqueline retired to Kilaben Bay, on Lake Macquarie and remained strongly involved in the Catholic parish at Toronto. In retirement Derek had more time for his much-loved fishing on Lake Macquarie and growing vegetables. He also practised woodturning and amateur furniture making. Each of the children had a garden bench made for them, along with numerous bowls, cigarette trays and three-legged stools, which became known as the 'child-killers', for all the tumbles that the grandchildren took from them. Derek was a loving and engaged father and grandfather. His passions, including Australian history, reading, the bush, fishing and amateur construction, have been passed on. He built sheds, stables and a tree house, among his many practical endeavours on the 10-acre block. He kept a cow and, for some years, a pig, an expression of his childhood love of farming. Jacqueline died in April 1997, and his six children knew that he would not last long after the death of the love of his life. Derek was a man of strong integrity and had a great sense of humour. He died from peripheral arterial disease and septicaemia, following a stubbed toe. 'At least the smoking didn't get me', was one of his parting quips. He and the children refused lower-leg amputation. Derek Wardle died on 28 August 2007. He was 82. He lived a full life, fostered principles of love in his family, and held the respect and admiration of friends and colleagues.
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First Title value, for Searching MacLeod, Charles Edward Alexander (1867 - 1939)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-09-30
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Born at Brindisi, 10 August 1867, the eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Charles MacLeod, MRCP, FRCS, by his third wife Ann, daughter of George Golland. He was a grandson of John MacLeod, MD, Surgeon-General of Madras. Charles MacLeod was educated at Shrewsbury School, and entered the Westminster Hospital Medical School on 1 May 1886. He served as senior house surgeon at Westminster Hospital, and then became clinical assistant at the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children and in the eye, ear, and skin departments at the Westminster Hospital. In 1898 he was appointed anaesthetist to the Westminster Hospital and to the National Dental Hospital, posts which he held until 1904. Failing to obtain the post of assistant surgeon at the Hospital he went into general practice, first as assistant and then as partner to Dr G L Turnbull of Ladbroke Grove, Notting Hill, the partnership being dissolved in 1907. MacLeod moved to 70b Ladbroke Grove in 1907 and soon acquired a large general practice. He married on 5 October 1898 Edith Ann, fourth daughter of Frederick John Budd-Budd of Restlands, Horsted Keynes, Sussex. She survived him with three sons and two daughters. Two of the sons hold the diploma of FRCS. He died in London on 9 January 1939 and was buried at Kensal Green cemetery. MacLeod was the eldest surviving member of the Bay branch of the MacLeods of Skye, popularly known as the Clan Mhic Mac Alasdair Ruaidh, to which belonged the famous Gaelic poetess Mairi Nighean, and his great-grandfather was one of the boat crew which rowed the Young Pretender to safety in the Isle of Skye.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004426
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Ellis William Parry (1926 - 1994)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-15
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Born at Llanfairpwll, Anglesey, on 6 December 1926, the son of Leslie William Jones MRCS, a general practitioner, and Prudence Mary, née Snelling, he was of the fourth generation in his family to become a doctor. He was educated at the Llanfairpwll Elementary School, Hillgrove School, Bangor, Epsom College, and finally Emmanuel College, Cambridge, whence he gained the Price Entrance Scholarship to the London Hospital in 1946 and there did his clinical training and won the Anderson Prize in clinical medicine, qualified in 1949 and became in turn house physician, house surgeon and later senior resident accoucheur. After this he joined his father in general practice in Anglesey, where he spent six years, during which he gained the MRCOG and an MD, an unusual achievement from a rural general practice. Unusual too was the breadth of his experience, for he had worked as a ship's doctor on voyages to Australia, as well as studying obstetrics and gynaecology in America. He returned to the London Hopsital as senior registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology, during which time he took the FRCS and developed a particular interest in urinary diversion. In 1955 he married Mary Snelling, by whom he had three sons (one of whom continued the family tradition of general practice) and one daughter. He was a man of great energy, a keen gardener, photographer and genealogist, and a particularly enthusiastic Liveryman of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries. He died on 23 March 1994 in his birthplace, Llanfairpwll.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008116
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First Title value, for Searching Hosford, Reginald Walter Patrick (1898 - 1988)

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First Title value, for Searching Bailey, Alison George Selborne (1915 - 1997)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-13
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Occupation General practitioner Medical Officer
Details Alison George Selborne Bailey, known as 'Joe', was larger than life. He was born on 19 July 1915, the son of George Frederick Selborne Bailey, a general practitioner and Mabel Yardley Guard, a midwife. He was educated at Radley, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he spent much of his time rowing. He was captain of boats at both institutions. He went to St Bartholomew's for his clinical training, where he was considerably influenced by James Paterson Ross, Harold Wilson, Geoffrey Keynes and later by Harold Gillies and Archibald McIndoe. It was while he was a student at Bart's that he developed Crohn's disease, and was successfully operated on by Michael Harmer - the story of which was amusingly recounted in the *Lancet* in 1986. He followed his father into general practice. He occasionally made his rounds on horseback, and became famous for his skill in manipulation. He continued to coach crews from Radley, Cambridge and Oxford. He was honorary medical officer to the Royal Windsor Racecourse for more than 20 years, as well as several local hunts. His Rolls was always parked under the same oak tree at Henley. He married Christine Marguerite Delfosse, a trainee architect, in 1947. They had four children, Alison, Margaret, George and William. A gourmet, wit, enthusiast and good companion, he was co-opted to the Council in 1986 and made FRCS by election in 1988. He died on 8 November 1997.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008459
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First Title value, for Searching Rankin, Joan Frances Elaine (1920 - 2000)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-02
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Elaine Lister was born in Sandgate, Kent, on 5 November 1920. Her father, Major Charles Martin Lister MC, was in the Royal Artillery. Her mother was Frances née Cameron. She was educated at Babbington House School, Eltham, Hillingdon School and Cheltenham Technical College. She studied medicine at the Royal Free Hospital and, after junior posts, went to the College to be a prosector for Raymond Last whilst studying for the primary. Having passed the FRCS and intending a career as a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist, Elaine was registrar to Dame Josephine Barnes at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital. Subsequently she became registrar at the City Maternity Hospital in Carlisle under Josephine Williamson, and there, in 1958, met and married Archibald MacPherson Rankin, a general practitioner. They had one son, Robert Archibald Lister Rankin, and one daughter, Elizabeth Catherine Cameron Rankin, who became a consultant rheumatologist in Birmingham. At first Elaine was a part-time locum while her children were growing up. She then joined her husband as a full-time GP. She retained her interest in gynaecology and family planning. Elaine was a JP for nearly 30 years, was governor of the Nelson-Thomlinson School in Wigton and a member of the management committee of a nursing home in Silloth. A keen horsewoman, she enjoyed hunting and show jumping. For many years she was the area secretary of the Medical Women's Federation. She died from cerebrovascular disease on 24 February 2000.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008862
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First Title value, for Searching Purves, James Ewart (1894 - 1964)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-28
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Purves was born in Edinburgh on 25 December 1894 and graduated from Edinburgh University in 1917. During the first world war he served as a Surgeon-Lieutenant in the Royal Navy and afterwards returned to the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh, where he held a number of appointments, including an assistant lectureship in physiology. Later he was specialist surgeon to the Isle of Lewis and Harris. Long before the National Health Service, the Highlands and Islands of Scotland had their own medical organisation under the Scottish Board of Health: a general practitioner and a nurse were posted to isolated parishes, where otherwise there would have been no chance of a doctor. When the scheme was developed Purves received the first appointment in pure surgery at the Lewis Hospital, Stornoway in the middle 1920s. The town was at the end of a six-hour sea crossing from a port eight hours by rail from Edinburgh or Glasgow. Purves found himself in complete isolation in those days before the aeroplane. There was no laboratory, house surgeon or secretary, and only a part-time anaesthetist. Purves persevered and convinced the critical island community of the value of the hospital; his practice included gynaecology and orthopaedics, and he made or repaired most of his own apparatus. Eventually he obtained an adequate theatre and extended wards. After a period on the staff of the New End Hospital, Hampstead he went into general practice at Bromley, Kent where he had charge of the Phillips Memorial Hospital; he became attracted by homeopathy. He campaigned against the impending National Health Service in 1947-48 and did not join it, but continued to practise privately till his retirement. He was secretary of the Bromley division of the BMA 1953-57. Jim Purves was a generous individualist with many interests and many friends. He married Dr Joyce C B Mitchell MB who died before him. He lived at 74 The Knoll, Beckenham where he died on 2 September 1964 aged 69, survived by his only daughter Dr Rosabelle Purves LRCP & SEd.
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First Title value, for Searching Lupton, Charles Athelstane (1897 - 1977)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-28
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Charles Athelstane Lupton was born on 17 April 1897. His great-grandfather was Thomas Michael Greenhow of Newcastle-upon-Tyne who was one of the first to excise a carious os calcis and one of the original 300 Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was educated at Wellington College. After training at Exhill Training College, Cambridge, he was commissioned into the Royal Garrison Artillery in 1916 and served on the Western Front, mostly in the Ypres salient, until the end of the war. He was awarded the MC in 1917 and reached the rank of acting Major. In 1919 he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, taking the Natural Sciences Tripos and gaining a scholarship to St Thomas's Hospital in 1921. After qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1923 he held house appointments at St Thomas's and took the MB BCh in 1924. In 1926 he took the FRCS and entered general practice. For thirty-three years he was an outstanding Farnborough doctor and general practice surgeon at Farnborough and Cove War Memorial Hospital, where his skill and resourcefulness never seemed to fail him. His high ethical standard won the respect of his colleagues and his conscientiousness and endless patience the affection of his patients. He found time to support the Red Cross as medical officer, and he was divisional president of the St John Ambulance Brigade. His sound judgment was welcomed on group hospital management committees. His interests included literary and artistic work. He was President of the Thoresby Archaeological Society and chairman of 'Aid in Sickness' for Leeds, of the Leeds Housing Trust, and of the local branch of the Royal United Kingdom Benevolent Association. He was also chairman of the Yorkshire area of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England. In later years he travelled widely. He married Esther Tuckey in 1926 and she predeceased him. They had a son and two daughters, one of whom is a physiotherapist. He died on 2 March 1977, aged 79 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Rao, Dhulipala Kameswara (1905 - 1973)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-02
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Occupation General practitioner Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Dhulipala Kameswara Rao was born in Andhra Pradesh, South India, on 18 August 1905, the son of a lawyer. He was educated locally until he entered the Madras Medical College, from which he graduated MB BS in 1930. He was a junior house officer at the Government General Hospital and at the Government Maternity Hospital Madras, and obtained the diploma in gynaecology and obstetrics in 1932. He then worked for four years in general practice in 1936 came to Britain to obtain higher qualifications. He passed the FRCS Edinburgh in 1938 and then settled down for the rest of his working life in the Birmingham district. Rao was first a house surgeon at the Birmingham Ear and Throat Hospital in 1938-9, and then in 1940 he went to the Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital as house surgeon, and, in 1941, resident surgical officer. From 1942 onwards, for the rest of his career, he worked there as senior hospital medical officer and clinical assistant. Ophthalmology thus became his principal interest and he obtained the FRFPS Glasgow in 1950, and the Diploma in Ophthalmology in 1951. From 1956 he was also ophthalmic clinical assistant at the West Bromwich and District Hospital, and SHMO at the Birmingham Children's Hospital from 1960. As the years passed his interest in ophthalmology deepened, and it became his ambition to obtain the Fellowship in ophthalmology. After many failures in the examination during the 1960's he ultimately succeeded in 1971. Rao was married in 1923 and had a son and two daughters of whom the younger took up medicine and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and worked as an anaesthetist in Southport. He left his family in India when he first came to Britain. He died at the age of 67 on 9 July 1973, in Birmingham.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006054
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First Title value, for Searching Campbell, Robert Harold (1881 - 1967)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-25
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Campbell was the youngest son of the Rev Robert Campbell, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. His medical education was at Glasgow University, and he qualified there in 1902. While waiting to take his English Fellowship he held posts at the London Hospital, Mildmay Mission Hospital and Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton. For many years he was attached to the London Hospital as clinical assistant to the orthopaedic department, which was in the charge of Robert Milne; this post he kept after being appointed surgeon to the Victoria and Rochford Hospitals at Southend. At the outbreak of the second world war in 1939 he became surgeon to an EMS hospital at Brentwood, Essex, but in 1940 he moved to Paignton, at first as a general practitioner, and soon became attached to the local cottage hospital where he worked until the age of 75. While living in Southend he was Justice of the Peace and a keen member of the Rotary Club; his chief pastime was sailing a Thames barge in which he used to take numbers of his colleagues and students for week-end parties. After moving to Devon music and gardening filled a good deal of his leisure hours, but eventually both his grand pianos were given to local schools. Campbell was a sincerely religious man and was always ready to comfort those of his patients who needed God's help; this side of his character especially appealed to the elderly people whom he had to treat when he worked in Devon. In 1910 he married Isabel Marguerite Hayter who came from a musical family; she died in 1955. In 1956 he married Miss Tweedie Smith, daughter of a former Mayor of Southend; she had been a great friend of the family since 1924. Campbell died suddenly while on a visit to London on 24 December 1967 at the age of 86.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006035
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First Title value, for Searching Dickinson, Osler Briggs (1908 - 1977)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

First Title value, for Searching Debenham, Leonard Snowden (1893 - 1976)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

First Title value, for Searching Reid, Robert Gerrett (1909 - 1987)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-20
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Robert Gerrett Reid, the son of the Rev Dr James Reid, DD, a Presbyterian Minister and well-known preacher, and of Isa Reid (née Gerrett), a school mistress, was born at Oban, Scotland, on 21 September 1909. He was educated at Roborough School, Eastbourne, the Leys School, Cambridge, and Guy's Hospital Medical School. On graduating in 1932 he held various house appointments at Guy's and elsewhere and, after a period as a ship's doctor, he settled in general practice in Reading and was appointed honorary surgeon to the Royal Berkshire Hospital. During the second world war he joined the RAMC as a surgical specialist, serving in Algeria, Sicily and Italy with the First Army and subsequently becoming a keen member of the First Army Travelling Surgeons' Club. He returned to Reading after the war and gave up general practice in 1947, becoming consultant general surgeon there at the inception of the NHS in 1948. He there established a reputation as a true generalist. Calm, tolerant and well-mannered, he was a conscientious and tireless worker and a wise counsellor. During a period of change and expansion of the hospital service he served as chairman of the surgical department, and was onetime President of the Reading Pathological Society. On retiring from hospital practice in 1974 he moved to the Kennet valley where he established a beautiful garden and arboretum of which he was justifiably proud. He was widely read with a retentive memory and a fund of information on many subjects, clinical, classical and Shakespearian. He was an accomplished musician and enjoyed many sporting activities, including golf, skiing and fly fishing. Relatively late in life, in 1961, he had married a journalist widow, Mrs Morag Williams (née Forster), and there were no children. When he died on 21 October 1987, after a protracted illness, he was survived by his wife.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007598
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First Title value, for Searching Rees-Thomas, Kenneth (1908 - 1992)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-01
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Pharmacist
Details Kenneth Rees-Thomas was the son of Arthur, an accountant in Roseneath, New Zealand, and his wife Edith Amy, née Heal. He was educated at Roseneath Primary School and then at Wellington College. On leaving school he trained and qualified as a pharmacist, but then on the advice of a family medical friend he decided to seek a career in medicine. He got a place in the Otago Medical School, from which he qualified in 1934. After completing junior appointments in Wellington and Newtown he decided upon a career in surgery and sailed for London in January 1937. In May of that year he passed his primary Fellowship and then worked at the West London Hospital, Guy's, and St Peter's Hospital for Stone, passing his final Fellowship in 1939. Returning to Wellington at the end of 1939 he combined general practice and surgery until 1941, when he joined the army, serving with the 3rd Division Ambulance of the 4th General Hospital and 2nd Field Surgical Unit in New Caledonia with the rank of major. In 1948 he was appointed assistant surgeon to Wellington Hospital and also became FRACS in that year. In 1958 he became senior surgeon, finally retiring ten years later. In addition to this respected surgical career he had been adviser to the health department in Wellington and adviser on the pharmacology and therapeutics committee there for twenty years. Following retirement he continued his longstanding interest in musculoskeletal medicine by continuing in practice using osteopathic techniques. Outside his professional work he was active in the Baptist Church and President of the Christian Businessmen's Association, as well as the Wellington Marriage Guidance Council. Enjoying the outdoor life, he was a keen fisherman and skier. He married Irene Kent in 1938 and she pre-deceased him, as did a second son with Hodgkin's disease. He died on 26 March 1992, survived by two sons.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008280
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First Title value, for Searching Lewis, George Morley (1914 - 1994)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-17
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details George Lewis was born on 24 October 1914 in Bedwas, Monmouthshire, the son of Edgar John Lewis and Ella, née Thomas. His father was a businessman and JP and was also High Sheriff of Monmouthshire in 1936. George was educated at Malvern College, where he gained an entrance scholarship to Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1933. He was a rowing Blue, and a member of the Cambridge crew which won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley in 1936. From Cambridge he went on to St Thomas's Hospital where he qualified in 1939, and subsequently he worked at Botley's Park Hospital in Chertsey and at St Helier Hospital, Carshalton, where he was assistant to Aubrey Mason. During the latter part of the war he served with a field ambulance attached to the Guards' Armoured Division, and took part in the invasion of Normandy and liberation of Brussels. After demobilisation in 1946 he was appointed surgical registrar at the Hammersmith Hospital, and he later became Terence Millin's private assistant at Queen's Gate Clinic in London, working with him until 1954. During this period he also worked at the Brompton Hospital, St James's Hospital, Balham, and the Chelsea Hospital for Women. In 1954 he went to Canada where he demonstrated the Millin prostatectomy technique, and this was followed by two further stints abroad, one as a doctor on a Cable and Wireless ship in the Indian Ocean. On his return to England he took up general practice in Seaford, Sussex, and he worked there until he took early retirement to pursue his many other interests. These included gardening, painting, walking and swimming, as well as carpentry and wood-carving, at which he excelled. In 1939 he married Janet, née Iles, and they had two children, Jeremy, a publisher and writer and Julia, a freelance journalist. George Lewis died on 6 September 1994, survived by his wife and children.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008145
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First Title value, for Searching Nield, Alexander Cowell (1931 - 1996)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-24
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Transplant surgeon
Details Sandy Nield was born in Adelaide on 16 September 1931, the son of Hugh Kingsley Nield, a grain merchant, and Dorothy Hammond, née Cowell. He attended St Peter's College, Adelaide, whence he won a university bursarship to Adelaide University Medical School. There he won the Dr Davies Thomas scholarship, played for the University 'A' team at football, was a formidable hurdler and was active in the University Regiment. After qualification he spent a year at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and then entered general practice in Elizabeth, a suburb of Adelaide, where he spent seven years before returning to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital as a registrar. He married Rosemary Piper, a physiotherapist, in 1957 and took his wife and young family to England in 1965. There he held a number of junior posts at the Mayday Hospital in Croydon and King George's Hospital in Ilford, and passed the FRCS. He returned to Adelaide as senior registrar in 1968, spent three months at St Mark's Hospital in London and then joined the Australian Civilian Surgical Team at Bien-Hoa during the Vietnam war in 1970. On returning to Adelaide he continued in private practice, but served the Queen Elizabeth Hospital as part of the renal transplant team, specialising in donor retrieval. Before any surgical procedure patients would receive detailed instructions on all aspects of management, often including diagrams and caricatures of patients in various poses. 'Informed consent' was simply a way of life for him. Although plagued by heart disease since 1980 and undergoing bypass surgery, Sandy Nield kept up his love of sport until the end, and it was while playing in a golf competition that he died of an acute myocardial infarction (on the tenth tee) on 1 February 1996. He was survived by his wife, daughter Susan, a general practitioner, and son Simon, a hydrologist, their son Peter having predeceased him.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008231
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First Title value, for Searching Ticehurst, Norman Frederic (1873 - 1969)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

First Title value, for Searching Wood, William Charrington (1870 - 1958)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-23
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Born on 8 December 1870 at Marlborough where his father was manager of the Bank, he followed his three elder brothers to Marlborough College and St Mary's Hospital, which he entered with a scholarship. He served as house surgeon, house physician, and resident obstetric officer, and intended to become a surgeon. But in 1899 when he had just taken the Fellowship his elder brother Edmund fell ill, who was in general practice at Penshurst, Kent. He went to take his brother's place temporarily but, as Edmund Wood became a chronic invalid, he took over the practice and remained at Penshurst for the whole of his life. He became a typical country doctor of the best kind, the friend of his patients in every rank and a centre of the village life. He was a churchwarden for twenty-four years and vice-chairman of the parish council. During the war of 1914-18 he served at the VAD Hospital at Nevill Park, Tunbridge Wells and also took a leading part in first-aid training, for which services he was made an honorary life member of the British Red Cross Society. He was also awarded the Belgian medal for services to Belgian wounded soldiers and civilian refugees. During the war of 1939-45, when he was about 70, he served as medical officer to the local Home Guard. Wood married in 1901 Ethel Lucy Blackburn, who died in 1946. He died in Westminster Hospital on 17 May 1958 aged 87, survived by his son and daughter. A memorial service was held in Penshurst Church on 23 May 1958. He had enjoyed playing the organ and piano, and gardening; in earlier years he was an active hill walker and climber. At the age of 83 he took up basket-making to sell his baskets in aid of the parish church funds.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005510
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First Title value, for Searching Reid, James George (1906 - 1994)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-01
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Occupational physician
Details James Reid was born in Bournemouth on 24 October 1906, the son of George Alexander Reid, a general practitioner, and his wife Muriel, née Hopwood. He was educated at Hailey Preparatory School in Bournemouth, and Marlborough College, Wiltshire. He then went to Oxford University and on to St George's Hospital Medical School, graduating in 1930. Initially he followed his father into general practice in Bournemouth, but soon became a surgeon at Boscombe Hospital. On 8 December 1941 he married Hilda Murray Searle. During the war he served in the RAMC from 1939 to 1945 in France, North Africa and Italy with the 11th Field Hospital and attained the rank of lieutenant colonel. While serving in Italy he attended King George VI, having been invited to do so because of his candour and manner. He was subsequently made a Member (later translated to Lieutenant) of the Royal Victorian Order. After the war he had a spell of farming beside Poole harbour, where he enjoyed boating. In 1955 he was appointed civilian specialist surgeon at Tidworth Military Hospital. His manner and bearing were those of an Edwardian country gentleman, and he entertained people with many anecdotes. He nearly lost his job because of his contempt for bureaucratic 'fiddle faddle'. In 1962 he joined British Rail as an occupational physician and became intensely interested in the working conditions of railwaymen, the crews of Sealink ferries and the staff at Eastleigh Railway Works of the Southampton Docks Board. He was a champion of the underdog, appreciating every person's value, maintaining confidences, and often reminding management of its correct role. He lectured and examined in first aid and was made an Officer Brother of the Order of St John. His library and his culinary skills were among his hobbies, which also included sailing, snooker and gardening. He died on 29 August 1994, survived by his daughter Sally Long and three step-children from the first marriage of his wife Hilda, who died before him.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008278
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First Title value, for Searching Tandy, William Harry (1904 - 1995)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-08
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details William (Bill) Tandy was born on 9 September 1904, one of the three sons of W S Tandy, a jeweller, and Ann, née Hickman. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School. After qualification in 1927 he worked as a surgical registrar at the General Hospital in Birmingham and also in Manchester, where he met his future wife. From 1934 to 1939 he worked as surgeon in charge of the Friends' Hospital in Itarsi, Central India. He was a Quaker and a pacifist but served as doctor to the local Home Guard in the second world war. He had married Dr Mary Isabel MacIntosh MB BS in 1930, and she worked with him in India until he returned to England. They had two children - a daughter, Mary Brown, a tutor/counsellor with the Open University, and a son, William Robert, who qualified as a doctor but died in 1967. After his first wife died in 1972 he married a second time to Anne McNeill, who had been matron of the Dilke Hospital in Cinderford. Bill Tandy took up general practice in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire and also worked as assistant surgeon at Lydney and the Dilke Memorial Hospitals. He was a forthright and independent character who understood the foibles and ways of the local people in the Forest of Dean, who in their turn accepted and respected him. At one time he intended to put himself forward as a Liberal candidate in a forthcoming election but he withdrew due to pressure of work. His other interests included angling for the disabled, and the Samaritans; he also published two books, *Doctor in the forest* in 1978 and *The ever-rolling stream*. He retired to Monmouth in Gwent and celebrated his 90th birthday in 1994, having become very much a local legend. He died aged 91 on 25 July 1995, survived by his daughter, Mary.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008401
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First Title value, for Searching McDowall, Andrew (1901 - 1978)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-28
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Andrew McDowall was born at Bradford on 22 February 1901 of parents who had been born and brought up in Wigtownshire. He was educated first at Fort William School, where he developed a great interest in history. He went on to George Watson's College, Edinburgh, and then to Edinburgh University, where he graduated in medicine in 1923. He set up in general practice at Bradford and remained there for six years. He then decided to undertake specialist surgical training, and after hospital appointments in London took the FRCS in 1935. In 1938 he married Agnes Woodman and later that year took up a Foreign Office appointment as surgeon to the Iraq Government at Baghdad. He later became Professor of Surgery at the Royal Iraq College of Medicine, and in recognition of his service to the country the Order of Al Rafidian Class IV was conferred on him. McDowall was a Territorial officer before the second world war, and in 1943 he entered the RAMC from Baghdad with the rank of Major. He served in Italy; then as a Lieutenant-Colonel with the British Liberation Army, in charge of a field ambulance unit in Germany. Towards the end of the war he was in charge of a surgical division in Singapore. In 1947 he returned to Britain and was appointed consultant plastic surgeon to the Manchester region at the outset of the NHS. The regional service was based at Wythenshawe Hospital, but he also set up a burns unit for the treatment of children at Booth Hall Hospital in north Manchester. He became an authority on the treatment of burns, particularly in children, and wrote on the subject. He was active in the campaign aimed at reducing the frequency of firework and night-dress burns in children. He had additional appointments at Wigan and Preston, where he created the plastic surgery unit, and where, after his retirement from Wythenshawe Hospital in 1966, he continued as a consultant plastic surgeon until his 70th year. He was a director of the East Lancashire Division of the British Red Cross Society and a representative on its national council. He will be remembered as a delightful colleague dedicated to the care of his patients and to his specialty of plastic surgery. He died on 30 June 1978, survived by his wife, Dorothy Agnes, whom he had married in 1938, and his son, F AW McDowall, also an FRCS and senior registrar in plastic surgery at East Grinstead.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006710
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First Title value, for Searching Modlin, Monte (1917 - 1980)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-10
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Occupation General practitioner Urologist
Details Monte Modlin was born in Bloemfontein in 1917. He attended the South African College School in Cape Town and then entered the University of Cape Town Medical School. During the second world war he served for three years in the SAMC in Egypt. In 1943 he returned to South Africa and joined the air school in Oudtshoorn. After general practice in Oudtshoorn for six years he decided to specialise and spent the next four years working at Trinity College, Dublin, the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, and Leeds General Infirmary, studying surgery and calcium metabolism. During this time he made many friends and developed what was to become a lifelong interest in the problem of renal stone formation, an interest which was stimulated by his work with Professor Pyrah at Leeds University. In 1954 he obtained the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons. Returning to South Africa in 1956, he commenced private practice in Cape Town and was appointed part-time consultant urologist at Groote Schuur Hospital where he started the renal stone clinic in 1962. Over the next twenty years he accumulated a mass of data on renal stones and did some excellent research work on their rarity in black people. He was acknowledged to be a world authority in this field and was regularly invited to international symposia. In June 1965 his research resulted in an MD thesis entitled *Some chemical and physical properties of urine with relation to renal stone formation - an inter-racial study*. He delivered a Hunterian Lecture in 1966 on the aetiology of kidney stones and, in spite of a series of illnesses and operations he started an ambitious study of the structure of stones using sophisticated apparatus - work which was halted by his death. His home in Sea Point reflected the diversity of his interests. He spent what leisure time he had pottering in his garden with his dogs and relaxing in his study while pursuing his interest in history with an emphasis on Jewish, Greek, Roman and Ancient Egyptian. He had a respectable knowledge of Egyptian and Greek archaeology and, in later years, studied Greek in order to understand the subtleties of ancient history better. He married Julia Judith Green, a fellow student from the University of Cape Town, in 1943 and they had a son, Irwin, who also studied medicine. It was while visiting his son, who was in the department of surgery at the State University of New York, that Modlin died suddenly. He was attending a symposium at Williamsburg, Virginia when he collapsed. He died on 23 June 1980 survived by his wife, Julia, his son and a granddaughter, Carmen.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006759
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First Title value, for Searching Bullock, William (1908 - 1995)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-02
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details William Bullock was born in Toxteth, Liverpool, on 6 October 1908, the son of Albert Edward Bullock, an engineer. He was educated at Liverpool Collegiate School before entering the University of Liverpool Medical School. He qualified in 1932 with first class honours and subsequently served in junior surgical posts at St Bartholomew's Hospital, Rochester, the Royal Masonic Hospital, Guy's Hospital and the Royal South Hampshire Hospital. In 1935 he married Dr Kathleen Slaney, also a Liverpool graduate, who was the daughter of a prison medical officer in the Isle of Wight. At the outbreak of war he volunteered for military service and was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps. Initially he was posted to West Africa and later went to Burma with a division of West African troops. For much of the time he was in charge of an advanced dressing station near the Kaladan river close to the Indian frontier, and although most of the wounded were evacuated by air to base hospitals in India, there were many occasions when the intensity of fighting made air evacuation impossible or when the severity of the injury demanded immediate surgery. At a later stage in the war he was transferred to North West Europe and entered Belsen concentration camp with his field surgical team on the second day after its liberation. At that stage many of the dead inmates were still being buried but thousands more emaciated prisoners needed adequate clothing to protect them in the cold spring of 1945. He therefore commandeered a car which had belonged to a German general to bring back sheets, curtains and blankets which were made into clothes for the inmates. After the war he passed the FRCS examination and returned to the practice in Southampton which he shared with his wife. In addition to a busy professional life he served as an Independent Councillor in Southampton and was a member of Southampton Water Board. He retired from his practice in 1968 at the age of 60 in order to accompany his wife on visits to countries overseas in need of medical care but sadly his wife died a month after their retirement. He therefore went alone to Fiji and was allowed to take up the post of consultant surgeon in the Lau group of islands, based at the Lavuka Hospital on Overlau. Later he went to Suva to be external examiner in anatomy and surgery at the University of the South Pacific. On his return to England he married Sheila Crow in December 1970 and they lived at Martyr Worthy, near Winchester. His later years were devoted to growing carnations and chrysanthemums and to his other hobby of photography. He died on 29 April 1995, survived by his second wife Sheila and the two daughters of his first marriage, Jill and Eve, both physiotherapists.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007843
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First Title value, for Searching Shepherd, James Forrest (1899 - 1972)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-14
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Occupation General practitioner Military surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details James Forrest Shepherd was born on 3 December 1899 and educated at Aberdeen University where he graduated MB ChB, in 1922. He then spent a short time in general practice and a year as house surgeon at the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, Monmouthshire. In 1924 he joined the Indian Medical Service and during his early years on the military side assisted his colleagues on the civil side in their surgical work as often as he could. In 1929 he spent his study leave in Liverpool and obtained the MChOrth degree and thus became a military surgical specialist. In 1934 Shepherd was posted for civil duty in the Madras Presidency and became surgeon at Malabar and later at Vellore. In 1937 he returned to England, obtained the FRCS, and married Margaret Ferguson who passed the examination at the same time. On returning to India he was appointed Professor of Surgery and acting principal of the Medical College at Vizagapatam, but shortly after the outbreak of the second world war he was recalled to military duty and took charge of surgical divisions of hospitals in Bombay and Poona. Subsequently he was sent to Assam where he did so well under service conditions that he was mentioned in dispatches and awarded the MBE. After the war he returned to civil work in Malabar and in 1947 he left India with an excellent record behind him, and was appointed consulting surgeon in orthopaedics to the British Army with the rank of Brigadier. In 1949 he was appointed full-time consultant surgeon to the Sutton Coldfield group of hospitals, a post which he held with distinction till he retired at the age of 65 in 1964. He then moved to Farnham where he continued to do some private work until he developed cancer of the colon which was removed but had spread to the liver; he faced the inevitable result with great courage, but died on 21 October 1972. His wife Margaret, who had also been his surgical colleague, survived him.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006125
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First Title value, for Searching Duffy, Brian Thomas (1922 - 1978)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-26
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Brian Thomas Duffy, the son of John and Alice Duffy was born on 13 July 1922 at Rockhampton, Queensland and was the third of four children. The family moved to Sydney, New South Wales, in 1938 where he was educated at the Christian Brothers' College, Waverley, before entering the College of St John the Evangelist within the University of Sydney. He graduated in 1946 and, after resident appointments at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital at Crow's Nest, he became medical superintendent at St Joseph's Hospital, Auburn. His great skill and tact in handling delicate staff matters there led to his appointment as medical superintendent of St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, in 1950 where he soon won the confidence and affection of the medical staff. However, he then decided to go into general practice at Bathurst though he retained a close association with his last hospital through the St Vincent's Hospital Society, becoming its President in 1964, after returning to private practice in Sydney. Brian Duffy earned the high regard of his school and university teachers as well as that of his colleagues and patients. In his early days he was noted for his easy acquisition of knowledge, and later he was warmly respected for his unruffled and kindly demeanour, his reserve and his abundant charity to others. He built up a large surgical and general practice and was enormously popular with both patients and colleagues. A keen golfer in his later years, he had been a fine all round athlete in his youth and had represented his school and university at rugby, as well as serving in his college cricket and football teams. He was an active supporter of the Australian College of General Practitioners and of a number of other medical associations. During his fourth year at university he had married Enid Benecke and they had five sons, three of whom are medical graduates. The exact date of his death is not recorded (possibly in July 1978) and he was survived by his wife and five children. He had certainly worked in the UK when taking the Fellowship but no details of this period are available.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006448
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First Title value, for Searching Greenwood, Eric John (1902 - 1979)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-11
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378720378720
Occupation Anaesthetist General practitioner General surgeon
Details Eric John Greenwood was born on 10 October 1902 in Greenwich, London, the only son of Eustace Noel Greenwood, an accountant and former mayor of Greenwich, and Gertrude Freida Scarr. He was educated at the Rowan School, Greenwich, before starting medicine at Guy's Hospital in 1918. He then went to Downing College, Cambridge, obtaining his MA MB BCh and Primary Fellowship. He held house appointments at Guy's Hospital and the Royal Northern Hospital where he came under the influence of W N Mollinson and Sir Lancelot Barrington-Ward. In 1929, he joined the staff of St Bartholomew's Hospital, Rochester, beginning a close relationship with this hospital which he maintained for fifty years, being one of the brethren at the time of his death. In 1930 he married Dorothy Helen Jones. Greenwood settled in Rochester where he practised with Dr Green. His first hospital appointment was as an anaesthetist, but after he obtained his FRCS he was appointed honorary consultant surgeon in 1935. With the advent of the National Health Service in 1948, he gave up general practice and continued as consultant surgeon until his retirement in 1967. His great attachment to his hospital was exemplified by the research and publications carried out about its origin, especially the chapel dating back to AD 1097. He became a serving brother of the Order of St John and held grand rank in Freemasonry. On his retirement from surgery, he became a visitor to the Borstal Institution and spent much time helping his wife with her charitable work in the locality. He was an active BMA supporter; a member of the local executive committee from 1932 to 1969 and treasurer from 1953 to 1964. He served on the ethical committee from 1953 to 1977 and was BMA representative on the local EMS committee. Greenwood was well loved and respected by his partners and his friends throughout the Medway district. He died at his home on 27 July, 1979 survived by his wife Helen and his son and daughter, both of whom are in general practice.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006537
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First Title value, for Searching Sheaves, Bruce Boyd (1925 - 1975)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-10
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Occupation ENT surgeon General practitioner
Details Bruce Sheaves was born on 12 February in Bathurst and attended Bathurst High School. He enrolled at Sydney University to study medicine in 1942. In 1947 he graduated and took up residency at Manly District Hospital, where he eventually became superintendent before leaving in 1951 to move into general practice. He selected Caringbah, a rapidly growing southern suburb of Sydney, where he soon developed a large general practice. Before long he headed a big partnership but, despite his success, decided that he would like to move into a more academic atmosphere. He had developed a liking for ear, nose and throat work through an association with the St George District Hospital and felt he should learn more about the speciality. He originally planned only a part-time interest but after being appointed a registrar at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital it soon became apparent that a full-time approach would be more appropriate to his talents. After gaining his Sydney DLO he spent a period in the United States before taking his FRCS which he obtained in the short space of six months - a tribute to his academic prowess. Returning to the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in 1962 he was appointed an honorary surgeon and served there with distinction and universal respect until his death. He also joined the staff of the Auburn District Hospital in 1963 and soon built up a busy consultant practice from this area. Sheaves enjoyed his work and was prominent as a teacher at the Prince Alfred both at student and registrar level. He made great efforts to improve his speciality and provide better ENT training. Always interested in the affairs of the Otolaryngological Society of Australia, he served in several executive posts and was the federal treasurer at the time of his death. While a student he had developed a keen interest in tennis and was a badge player for the University. He retained this interest all his life and was still playing competition tennis until shortly before his death. He was also very fond of golf and made many friends on the course. He died on 5 February 1975, survived by his wife, Gwen, and his daughters, Susan, Margaret and Joanne.
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First Title value, for Searching Marks, Dudley Proctor (1899 - 1980)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-03
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Dudley Marks was born on 3 April, 1899 at Peckham Rye, and was educated at Haberdasher's Aske's School from whence he secured a scholarship to Cambridge. With the outbreak of the first world war he joined the Queen's Own Regiment on his 18th birthday in 1917. In the following year he suffered severe head injuries and was fortunate to survive. In 1919 he resumed his medical studies at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and then at St Thomas's Hospital, qualifying from there in 1924 and taking the FRCS in 1926. He then went to work in a Protestant mission at Travancore where he met Dorothy, also a medical missionary, who later became his wife. In 1928 Dudley returned to a surgical post at St Thomas's Hospital and was awarded a travelling surgical scholarship to study ear, nose and throat surgery in Vienna and Utrecht. He moved to Stratford-upon-Avon to join a group practice in 1932 where he soon established himself as a popular general practitioner and a skilful surgeon. During the second world war the local hospital was substantially enlarged to deal with air-raid casualties from Coventry, and he became heavily committed to hospital work. He was faced with a somewhat difficult decision on the inception of the NHS; in what proved to be a happy compromise he was appointed consultant surgeon at the Stratford- upon-Avon General Hospital, but he remained a partner in his old practice so that he could continue to look after some private patients. Until his retirement in 1964 nearly all of his time was devoted to general surgery and to the administration of the hospital which he loved. After retirement from the NHS he was appointed chief medical officer to the National Farmers' Union Mutual Insurance Company for five years. Dudley Marks was deeply committed to the support of the work of his local church at Luddington. His patients, partners and colleagues remember him with affection for his kindness, loyalty and complete dedication to his work. He was the last of Stratford's distinguished GP surgeons. When he died on 19 June, 1980, he was survived by his wife, Dorothy, and daughter, Daphne.
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First Title value, for Searching Whitaker, Allen James (1905 - 1976)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-13
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Allen James Whitaker, the fifth son of Dr James Smith Whitaker who was formerly a family doctor in Great Yarmouth, was born in Hendon on 16 April 1905. His father, having been the first medical secretary of the British Medical Association, became senior medical officer at the Ministry of Health on its creation in 1919 and was knighted one year before his retirement in 1932. Allen was the seventh child in a family of eight and was educated at University College School before entering University College, London. He then went to University College Hospital where he qualified in 1930, holding resident appointments there and at Kingston General Hospital. He entered general practice in Guildford with his brother, Donald Faraday Whitaker, in 1932, and practised there for forty years. He was notable as a dedicated general practitioner and he also took a special interest in the orthopaedic department of the Royal Surrey County Hospital where he worked for thirty years. During the second world war he served as a Surgeon-Lieutenant RNVR and was mentioned in dispatches. On demobilisation he returned to his practice where, as senior partner, he planned and developed an outstanding purpose-built and independent surgery premises in Guildford. He was active in medical politics at the local level, was Chairman of the Guildford division of the BMA in 1957 and was particularly interested in postgraduate medical education. He was a member of the South West London and Surrey Local Medical Committees and was a founder member of the Royal College of General Practitioners, later serving on its council. He thereby became the co-opted GP member of the Royal College of Surgeons Council for five years, at the end of which period he was elected to the FRCS. He had married Dr Barbara G C Clarke in 1934, herself a general practitioner, and they had three daughters two of whom are in medical practice. When he died at his home on 22 February 1976 he was survived by his wife and daughters, Annette, Diana and Rosalind.
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First Title value, for Searching Dwyer, Frederick Charles (1907 - 1989)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-08
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Occupation General practitioner Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Frederick Charles Dwyer, the son of Henry Law Dwyer, a civil engineer, and of Edith Maud (née Devenish) was born at East London, South Africa, on 25 August 1907. He was educated at St Andrew's College, Grahamstown, and the University of Cape Town where he graduated in 1931. After a period in general practice at Kimberley he came to England for his orthopaedic training and higher qualifications, taking his MCh and FRCS just before the second world war. During the war he was in charge of the orthopaedic services at Wigan and afterwards he was appointed to Alder Hey Children's Hospital and Sefton General Hospital. Throughout his career, and as a former general practitioner himself, he was especially supportive of his colleagues in general practice to whom he was always readily available for both hospital and private practice. He had an enquiring mind and developed a great interest in the foot. His calcaneal osteotomy was a major contribution to the management of both talipes equinovarus and pes cavus. He gave a Hunterian lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1963 on the relationship of variations in the size and inclination of the calcaneus to the shape and function of the foot. He was an excellent teacher, especially for the MCh Orth degree at Liverpool where he was an examiner. A man of integrity, strong religious conviction, and gentle courtesy, he inspired deep affection and trust among his patients and their families, especially in the industrial and mining communities. Dwyer was a man of seemingly unlimited energy with a great interest in outdoor and sporting activities. He was a keen gardener and an energetic player of tennis, squash rackets and golf. During his early years in South Africa he had been an accomplished rugby footballer, mountaineer and water polo player, and he swam for Western Province. Throughout his working life, he and his wife dispensed warm hospitality at their home, later retiring to Anglesey and then to Cambridge. In 1940 he married Norah Eileen Milroy, later a Liverpool magistrate, and when he died on 25 February 1989 he was survived by her and their two daughters, Patricia and Hilary.
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First Title value, for Searching Armstead, Hugh Wells (1865 - 1943)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-27
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Born in London on 8 November 1865, the fourth child and only son of Henry Hugh Armstead, RA (1828-1905), sculptor, for whom see *DNB*, and Sarah his wife, daughter of Henry Tanworth Wells and sister of Henry Tanworth Wells, RA (1828-1903), portrait-painter, for whom see *DNB*. The father's best-known works are the bronze allegorical figures at the base of the Albert Memorial, and the fountain in the centre of the front court at King's College, Cambridge. H W Armstead was educated at Harrow and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he won a preliminary science exhibition in 1887, the Harvey prize and the second junior scholarship in 1889, a senior scholarship in 1890 and the Sir George Burrows prize in 1892. He served as prosector of anatomy (1889) in the medical college and as senior house surgeon. He took first-class honours in medicine at the London MB examination, and also studied at University College Hospital. Armstead then settled in practice in the West End, and became well known as a London General practitioner. He was president of the West London Medico-Chirurgical Society in 1925-26 and contributed an account of 'Thirty Years of General Practice' to the society's *Journal*. He lived first at 58 Chepstow Villas, Bayswater, then at 30 Queensborough Terrace, Hyde Park and later at 18 Clifton Hill, NW8. He was medical officer to the Kilburn and district dispensary, and a medical referee for the Builders' Accident Insurance Company. Armstead married in 1894 Olive Gertrude Holl, who survived him with a son and two daughters. After retiring he lived at Mercers, Haven View Road, Seaton, Devon, and died on 2 February 1943, aged 77. He inherited artistic tastes, which he exercised in his studies of comparative anatomy. He served for some years on the council of Epsom College, and was a benefactor to its library. Publications: Anatomical nature casts of animals. *Magazine of Art*, 1898. *The artistic anatomy of the horse*, 20 plates. London, 1900. Thirty years of general practice. *West London med J*. 1925, 30, 173.
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First Title value, for Searching Mitchell, Robert Ian (1927 - 2002)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-18
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Occupation General practitioner Thoracic surgeon
Details Robert Mitchell was born in Longueville, New South Wales, on 13 October 1927. His father, William Robert Mitchell, was an accountant. His mother was Lilian née Coram. He was educated at the Sydney Church of England Grammar School and studied medicine at the University of Sydney. He did junior posts at the Royal North Shore Hospital, before going to Guy's in 1954 to specialise in surgery. After passing the FRCS, he was registrar at Oldchurch Hospital, Romford, and then resident surgical officer at St Mark's. He spent a year as a fellow at the Center for Cancer and Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, under George Pack. He then returned to the Royal North Shore Hospital in 1959 as lecturer in surgery. In 1960 he emigrated to Canada, as thoracic and general surgeon to the Wellesley Hospital. He remained there until 1983 as chief of thoracic surgery, but also held the position of associate professor in the department of surgery in the University of Toronto. During this period he held a consultant position at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh. In 1984, he became chairman of the board of trustees of the Eye Research Institute of Canada. He was also a director of George Weston Limited. He was executive director of the medical services division of the Workers Compensation Board of Ontario. A man of many interests, Bob Mitchell was a tireless campaigner against smoking, socialism and mediocrity. In 1978, he was the co-founder of a new political reform movement - One Canada. He was a keen swimmer, tennis-player, gardener and bird-watcher. He married Barbara Elizabeth née Weston in Cannes in 1957. They had two sons, Garfield and Mark, and four daughters, Eliza, Emma, Sarah and Serena, none of whom went into medicine. There are three grandchildren - Charlotte, Thomas and Wesley. He died on 13 February 2002. A new building for bird studies in Canada was established in his memory along one of the greatest migratory flyways in the world.
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First Title value, for Searching Reader, Norbert Leo Maxwell (1885 - 1975)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-25
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Norbert Leo Maxwell Reader was born at Marshfield, Gloucestershire, on 13 October 1885. His father, Jeremiah Reader, was a doctor of medicine. He was educated at Wakefield Grammar School, Stonyhurst and at Leeds University, where he won the anatomy prize. He went from there to Guy's Hospital where he was taught by Arbuthnot Lane, qualifying in 1910. During the first world war active service in Mesopotamia and Gallipoli was followed by a period as surgical specialist in India. In 1919 he returned with the rank of Major RAMC to take charge of the Northumberland War Hospital. He took his surgical fellowship in 1920 and the mastership in surgery the following year. On discharge from the RAMC he went into general practice at Bromley with surgical attachment to the local hospital until 1925, when he spent two years in Switzerland because of ill health. He was able to take up the appointment of surgeon at Barry Hospital in 1927. There he did an enormous amount of surgery till 1938, when he went to Wimbledon to join a general practice and take up the appointment of surgeon at the Nelson Hospital. Capable and conscientious in his surgery, and with this background of experience, 'Nobby' Reader was a splendid example of a GP surgeon. He was Chairman of the Wimbledon Medical Society. After his retirement from hospital in 1952 he continued in general practice until failing eyesight forced him to retire two years before he died. He is remembered by his patients as a much-loved personal physician. He married Mabel Harmer in 1925. They had a son who qualified in medicine and did general practice, and a daughter who was secretary to Sir Cecil Wakeley and Sir Harry Platt at the Royal College of Surgeons. He died on 2 December 1975, aged 90 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Shaw, Simeon Cyril (1893 - 1984)

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First Title value, for Searching Bennett, Douglas Geoffrey Bertossa (1918 - 1992)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-02
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Douglas Bennett was born on 18 July 1918, the son of Geoffrey Bennett, an officer in the North Somerset Yeomanry who subsequently took to ranching in Argentina and his wife Elizabeth Elsa Müller, who was Swiss. He was educated at Minehead Grammar School and at University College Hospital in London, where he qualified in 1942. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps very soon afterwards and served in South Africa, India, Burma and Singapore, where he was one of the first to enter the Changi gaol prisoner of war camp. He returned to University College Hospital for two years and then went as registrar to Mr Robert Cook in Bristol, where he worked until 1951. Having by then married Marjorie Dunster FRCS, a gynaecologist, he spent a year with her in the USA. On return she was appointed as a consultant in Bristol and he determined, with his DRCOG and FRCS behind him, to enter general practice in Keynsham. It was to provide him with a most satisfying career. With beds in the Keynsham Hospital he was able to practise midwifery, with a clinical assistantship at the Bristol Royal Infirmary he kept in touch with the consultants, with a cottage in Porlock he was able to follow the stag hounds and was a familiar figure at shoots and point-to-points. He was an accomplished artist, and produced some beautiful pictures of the scenery he loved so much. He retired from practice in 1985 to continue his country pursuits but died on 21 May 1992. He was survived by his wife and their daughter Sally, a solicitor in Bristol. He was a devoted husband and father and his widow remarked that he was 'a wonderful man who led a very full, balanced and happy life'.
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First Title value, for Searching Hester, Kenneth Henry Clement (1908 - 2001)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-03
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Kenneth Hester was a GP in Hertfordshire, an honorary surgeon at the St Albans and Mid-Herts Hospital, and assisted at Red House Hospital (now Memorial Hospital) in Harpenden. He was born on 27 October 1908 in Catford, London, the only son of William Clement, a schoolmaster, and Ellen Carter née Smith. Hester was educated at Eltham College, London, from which he won the Price entrance scholarship to the London Hospital Medical College. He qualified in 1932 and was house surgeon and resident accoucheur at the London Hospital, before becoming resident medical officer at Croydon General Hospital. In 1936, he became a general practitioner in Staley Bridge, Lancashire, but moved to Harpenden, Hertfordshire, in October 1937 and, apart from his war service, stayed there for the next 36 years. During the war he served in India under Sir John Bruce in the Royal Army Medical Corps from 1942 to 1946 and rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He enjoyed sailing, but found little time to do it, loved reading biographies and history, and was fascinated by railways. After his retirement in 1973 he took every opportunity to travel on trains across the country. He fondly remembered travelling on the footplate of an engine in India and being allowed to take the controls for a short period. In 1936, he married Muriel Harrison, a Croydon General Hospital nurse. They had four sons, Andrew, triplets - Michael, Richard and David - and two daughters, Mary and Janet, the elder of whom became a nurse. Two grandchildren, Rachael and Rebecca, are also both nursing. He died on 20 September 2001.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008664
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First Title value, for Searching Berg, Derek Oliver (1926 - 2014)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Graeme Morgan
Publication Date 2016-02-19 2017-10-19
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Oncologist Radiologist
Details Derek Berg was born in 1926 in Hong Kong, where his father was a shipping broker and Norwegian Consul-General. His Australian mother Constance died of cerebral malaria just before his third birthday, and Derek was sent to live with his aunt in Adelaide. His father remarried and he returned to Hong Kong, travelling with his stepmother - who he was led to believe was his own mother. At the age of 10, Derek was sent to boarding school at St Giles British School in Tsingtao, China, and travelled there by cargo ship, taking up to 10 days. In 1939 the school closed due to the outbreak of World War II, and Derek returned to Australia to live with his step-uncle at Bundarra in northern NSW. He became a boarder at The Armidale School (TAS), where he excelled at athletics and was a member of the rugby First XV. It was here that he built up life-long friends, as, without a family, he spent most of his holidays at the homes and stations of families he never forgot. He was unhappy at TAS and was unaware of the fate of his parents. On mature reflection he would regret it, but he left school at 16 to stay with an aunt in Sydney. He tried to join the Navy. Despite stating that he was older in age, he was not accepted as he was found to be colour blind. He therefore instead joined the Bank of New South Wales (Westpac) in O'Connell Street, Sydney, and studied at night to pass the Leaving Certificate. In 1945 he joined the Army and became Private Berg (NX206272). One month later Germany surrendered, although Derek was sure there was no connection between the two events. In 1946 Derek was reunited with his father and step-mother in Sydney. In 1941 they had become prisoners of war. When Derek saw them for the first time in 7 years, they were painfully thin and their possessions consisted of two little bags. They had lost almost everything. Derek enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney in 1947. While 600 students enrolled, only a group of 100, which included Derek, graduated in 1953. As a student, Derek was a boarder at St Andrew's College for several years and played rugby for the University reserve grade, as the First XV at that time had 13 players who had played for either the Wallabies or the All Blacks (selected from NZ students studying at the Sydney University Veterinary school, as veterinary studies were at the time not being offered in NZ). After graduating, Derek became a doctor at the Sydney Hospital, where he decided to become a surgeon. He travelled to England as a ship's surgeon on a cargo vessel and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1956. He then spent a year as a registrar at the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, where his surgical skills were developed with operating lists taking up to 16 hours. On his return to Australia, Derek obtained a position as a GP/surgeon in Tamworth, where he later became a specialist surgeon. Derek built up contact with GPs in surrounding towns and often flew up to Collarenebri, Wee Waa or Walgett or drove to Quirindi, Walcha or Barraba for minor surgical procedures, with the local GP being the anaesthetist. He also spent time in Sydney at Royal Prince Alfred, St Vincent's and Prince Henry's Hospitals to assist and learn about thoracic surgery. Derek obtained the Australasian Fellowship in Surgery and later (after Vietnam) the American Fellowship in Surgery. In 1968, with Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War, Derek volunteered for a 3-month period as a surgeon in Long Xuyen, in the Mekong delta 150 km south-west of Saigon. It was an exhilarating time for him professionally. Lighting and hot water were not always available in the operating theatres, but the doctors made do with torches and candles. The medical team was extremely busy, and Derek started operating the morning after his arrival and virtually never stopped for 3 months. The majority of cases were gunshot, shrapnel or mine injuries, but there were also perforated typhoid ulcers and complications of tuberculosis and diphtheria. In 1969 Derek returned home and resumed his practice in Tamworth. Soon to follow was the setting up of a consultative cancer clinic at the Tamworth Base Hospital by Professor Leicester Atkinson from the Radiotherapy Department at Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney. Derek was actively engaged with the clinic, and this was the catalyst that kindled his interest in the treatment of cancer by radiotherapy. In early 1971 Derek was appointed a senior surgeon in Papua New Guinea in Goroka in the highlands for the first 3 months and then at ANGAU Hospital in Lae. Surgical problems included injuries from arrows and spears, parasitic diseases and infections. Cancer of the mouth was very common and was attributed to the habit of chewing betel-nut. The Australian Head & Neck Oncology Group held their annual meeting in Lae in 1972, and Derek presented a paper on treatment of mouth cancers. St Vincent's Hospital Sydney subsequently arranged to send senior surgical registrars to Lae on a rotating basis for 3 to 6 months. Under the supervision of the Queensland Radium Institute (now Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital), a radiotherapy unit was established at ANGAU in 1972. A Cancer Workshop was held in Lae in 1974 and resulted in Derek and Dr John Niblett (founding director of radiotherapy at Lae) producing a booklet, *A Guide to Management of Malignant Disease in Papua New Guinea*. A third edition was published in 2006. Professor Leicester Atkinson from Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, was a frequent visitor to PNG and Lae and talked to Derek about a new career move, given his interest in treatment of cancer. In 1977, Derek joined Prince of Wales as a registrar and embarked on a four-year training course. At the time he was 50 years of age and had five children to support on a registrar's wage. … He subsequently became a staff specialist in radiotherapy at Prince of Wales, responsible for the St George Hospital 'peripheral' clinic. In 1982 Derek was appointed Director of Radiotherapy at St Vincent's Hospital. The department was at a crisis point when he took over, as not only was the department in decline, treating only 20 or so patients a day, but in late 1981 the Trinker Report on Radiotherapy in NSW had recommended that radiotherapy at St Vincent's should be closed or amalgamated with the nearby Prince of Wales Hospital. However, the Sisters of Charity averted this by meetings with the then NSW Health Minister (Mr Laurie Brereton), and a new cobalt machine was purchased with funds from the Curran Foundation. The St George Hospital clinic was also transferred to St Vincent's and provided an immediate supply of patients for treatment. St Vincent's was the beginning of an extraordinary happy, rewarding and successful time for Derek professionally. He had an immediate support base from surgical friends from his time at Tamworth and also from registrars (now consultants) whom he helped train at Lae. The Wagga Wagga Clinic - the oldest peripheral clinic of any discipline in NSW, established by Leicester Atkinson in 1954 - was expanded by Derek. In addition, Dr Graeme Morgan, who became a life-long friend and a partner in the new St Vincent's Clinic department, established a new clinic at Griffith Base Hospital. Consultative clinics in head & neck, haematological and lung cancers were continued, along with support for total body irradiation prior to bone marrow transplantation, and new clinical cooperation was developed in gynaecological and urological cancers. A gynaecological cancer clinic was established with Professor Neville Hacker at the nearby Royal Hospital for Women, Paddington. Here Derek helped develop a technique of small-field irradiation, rather than whole-pelvis treatment, to be given postoperatively to high-risk, node-negative Stage 1B cervix cancer patients. This approach has now become the standard of care for this group of patients. In urological cancer, Derek's visit to Perth to learn the new technique of permanent I-125 seed implantation for early carcinoma of the prostate resulted in the first treatment at St Vincent's Clinic of a patient with his disease in 1995. Around 1000 patients had been treated at the unit using this technique by the time Derek retired. In 1991, Derek and Graeme Morgan borrowed heavily to establish a radiotherapy department within the newly opened St Vincent's Clinic that provided a state-of-the-art facility to expand radiotherapy services at St Vincent's. Much to the delight of Sister Bernice and many others at St Vincent's, this initiative proved to be extremely successful. As a clinician, Derek was first-class, and his caring and supportive approach to patient care was well recognised by the colleagues, patients and families with whom he came into contact. He was always available to see a patient at any time and did not restrict his availability to standard hours of duty. With his gentle and unassuming but vibrant and energetic behaviour, Derek was a quiet achiever, leading the department from the front foot. He had the unique ability to make every member of the staff feel special, taking time to chat and to encourage and acknowledge the contributions each person was making. In 1998 Derek retired from St Vincent's and moved to Noosa, where he and Judy spent 13 fun-filled, relaxing years. During his time Derek wrote an autobiography, *My Paper Trail*, plus a biography of his father, *The Shipping Broker*, and was in the process of writing a third, *World Faiths*, about his concepts of the meaning of religion and life. Derek always maintained his love for St Vincent's Hospital, the Sisters of Charity, Sister Bernice and the medical staff. When he was found to have prostate cancer, he and Judy returned to Sydney to be closer to care at this hospital. Later through his illness, he went on to receive palliative radiotherapy for bony secondaries in the very department he had played a key role in establishing. Ironically, Derek died on World Cancer Day, 4 February 2014. We extend our deepest sympathies to Judy and the Minchin family, to Derek's children - Janet, Andrew, Michelle, Amanda and James - and their partners, and to his 10 grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Johnson, Joseph Arthur Russell (1913 - 1984)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-26
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Joseph Arthur Russell Johnson was born on 30 December 1913 and his early education was at King Edward VII School in Birmingham, where he was a foundation scholar. He entered Birmingham University for his medical studies, graduating in 1936 and subsequently serving as house officer in his teaching hospital. He spent some time in general practice before the war and was also resident surgical officer at Birmingham Children's Hospital. Early in 1939 he joined the Territorial Army and shortly after the outbreak of war was called up, initially serving in the Middle East with a Field Ambulance and eventually becoming a graded surgeon. While serving in the Middle East he met and married Mary and in 1944 they returned with their young daughter. Shortly after demobilisation he passed the FRCS and later worked at St George's Hospital. Within a few years he was appointed consultant surgeon to the Royal Salop Infirmary, honorary consultant surgeon to the Montgomery County Infirmary, Newtown, and to the Robert Jones and Afnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry. Although a general surgeon he had a special interest in urology throughout his professional career. He retired in 1978 and towards the end of his life worked briefly in the new Royal Shrewsbury Hospital. Apart from his professional work he was an enthusiastic countryman and gardener. He shared a great interest in fine art and furniture with his wife and was an authority on paintings. He died on 26 January 1984 aged 70 and is survived by his wife, two daughters, one of whom is in general practice, and a son.
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First Title value, for Searching Kergin, Frederick Gordon (1907 - 1974)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-22 2015-01-23
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Frederick Gordon Kergin was born at Port Simpson, BC, January 11 1907, the son of W T Kergin, MB. After preliminary schooling at Prince Rupert he attended the University of Toronto, earning his BA in biological and medical sciences in 1927 and the MD in 1930, both with honours. He won the George Armstrong Peters and Lister Prizes in surgery. In 1931 he was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship and for two years at Oxford he studied physiology and anatomy, earning a BA from that university. His postgraduate clinical training occupied the years 1930 to 1937 and was taken at the Toronto General Hospital, the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, and St Bartholomew's Hospital and the Soho Hospital for Women in London, England. His attainments included the FRCS in 1936; the Canadian Fellowship in 1939, the Toronto MS in 1944 and Fellowship of the American College of Surgeons in 1958. Thoracic surgery was an early interest and he was a worthy successor of Shenstone and Janes in this area. He served with distinction in the RCAMC 1939-1945, in the United Kingdom, North Africa and North West Europe and attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. On his return from overseas he resumed his teaching appointment in the department of surgery of the University of Toronto and became Professor and head of the department in 1957. In 1966 he became Associate Dean and was responsible for the conversion of Sunnybrook Hospital to a teaching institution. His outstanding academic qualifications were matched by his personal qualities, and his aid to aspiring surgeons elicited the respect, gratitude and affection of all who knew him. He succeeded Dr Robert Janes as chairman of the editorial board of the *Canadian journal of surgery* in 1965 and continued in that position until he retired in 1972. He wrote some 30 papers mostly relating to thoracic surgery. He was for several years chairman of the CMA's central program committee, his expert guidance ensuring a high quality of contributions to the scientific sessions. In 1972 he was made a senior member of the CMA. A marksman and a hunter, he took his recreation in the field. In 1940 he married Suzanne Marie Speleers and had one son. He died in Toronto on 20 December 1974, aged 67.
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First Title value, for Searching Greenwood, Charles Henry (1875 - 1969)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-05
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Charles Henry Greenwood was born in Leeds on 3 September 1875, the second son of Henry Greenwood, a director of the engineering firm of Greenwood and Batley, and his wife, Charlotte Elizabeth, née Wartzburg. He was educated at Sedbergh School, and entered Leeds University Medical School in 1894, qualifying in 1899. He became house surgeon to Sir Arthur Mayo Robson and casualty officer later, followed by some postgraduate study, and he took the FRCS in 1904. He settled at Ripon in 1907 joining a general practice partnership which he had greatly enlarged by the time he retired nearly forty years later. He was the driving force behind the development of the Ripon and District Hospital, building a theatre block, and later physiotherapy and X-ray departments. Previously surgical cases went by horse-drawn ambulance to Ripon station and thence by rail to Leeds General Infirmary. Greenwood proved himself an excellent general practitioner surgeon. During the first world war he was in charge of a small military hospital at Ripon. In 1929 he was appointed as part-time Medical Officer of Health to Ripon city, developed an interest in social medicine, housing and slum clearance. He formed the Ripon Housing Improvement Trust, and was its first chairman. Its objective was to buy old property, improve it to the required standard, and let it at minimal rates. This Trust is still active and of considerable benefit to the city of Ripon. During the second world war he was responsible for civil defence and first aid in the Ripon area. Greenwood was also medical officer to the Post Office, to Ripon Training College, and to Skellfield School. He was Chairman of the Harrogate branch of the BMA 1922-23 and President of the Harrogate Medical Society 1924, and was the Founder Chairman of the Ripon Rotary Club. Greenwood loved good literature and music, often hearing opera and concerts at Leeds or Harrogate. Fishing and camping in the Western Highlands made his favourite holidays. He built a house at Windermere to which he retired in 1946. His wife, Mabel Mortiboy, died in 1944; they had married in 1907. Their elder daughter married Lieutenant-General Sir John Worsley; his son and younger daughter Dr Joan Greenwood MB, ChB Leeds lived with him. He died on 26 January 1969, aged 93.
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First Title value, for Searching Churcher, Duncan Gillard (1894 - 1983)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-27
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Occupation General practitioner Physician Police surgeon
Details Duncan Gillard Churcher was born at Dunoon, Scotland, on 4 October 1894, one of six children of Dr Thomas Churcher, a medical missionary, and Margaret, née Robertson, an Edinburgh trained nurse. He was educated at the City of London School and obtained a scholarship to St Thomas's Hospital which he represented at rugger during his student days as well as playing for the Surrey team. He qualified a year early with MRCS, LRCP in 1917 in order to serve with the Royal Navy, hunting submarines off the coast of Ireland. At the end of the war he returned to St Thomas's Hospital and passed both the final MB BS and the FRCS in 1920. Two years later he passed the London MD and was appointed surgical registrar at St Thomas's Hospital, a post normally reserved for those expecting a consultant appointment there. Hitherto his education had been funded by scholarships but he was unable to continue in an honorary capacity and accepted an appointment as inspector in the Sudan Medical Service for several years before returning to general practice in England, initially at Tarporley and later at Eastbourne. He wanted to join the surgical staff at Princess Alice Hospital but as no surgical vacancy was expected for some years he applied for a post as physician and served on the consultant staff in that capacity from 1926 to 1959. In addition he served as doctor to the Eastbourne lifeboat and as police surgeon; he also looked after the royal household when King George V convalesced at Eastbourne. After retiring from his post as consultant physician at the age of 65 he returned to general practice and continued as police surgeon until 1975. His relaxation came from the sea and he spent many hours on the Eastbourne lifeboat. In 1940 the SS *Barnhill* was bombed and set on fire in the English Channel. Although it was thought that all survivors had been taken off, the ship's bell was heard and the lifeboat was launched once again, Churcher leapt on to the ship and found the severely injured captain ringing the bell with his teeth. After his rescue the man made a good recovery returning to service at sea. He died on 13 July 1983, survived by his wife Nancy, a medical practitioner, and by five children, two being consultants, one a general practitioner and one a nurse.
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First Title value, for Searching Alexander, Ivan Allan (1915 - 1994)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-01
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Alexander was born in Taradale, Hawkes Bay, and educated at Napier Boys High School and the Otago Medical School, graduating MB ChB in 1939. He was house surgeon at Wellington Hospital in 1940-1941. He served with the New Zealand Army Medical Corps 1942-1945 and was RMO to 8th Brigade in the Pacific and in the CCS. Later he was with a CCS in Italy with the rank of major. After the war he went to London as surgical registrar at the Royal Masonic Hospital, London, and became FRCS in 1946. He returned to New Zealand as surgeon superintendent of Thames Hospital but soon tired of this position. He returned to Napier in 1949 and started as a general practitioner surgeon. Soon he joined the staff of Napier Hospital as a visiting surgeon. He became FRACS in 1949. At that time Napier Hospital was a cottage hospital staffed by general practitioners. Alexander was one of a small group of younger doctors who persuaded the rest of the staff and the hospital board to develop the hospital to a general hospital with fully qualified specialists. He had a very wide range of ability; at the hospital as well as being general surgeon he was for 5 years an orthopaedist and continued to practise gynaecology, obstetrics and genitourinary surgery until he retired. When fibre optics came in he was the first to do gastroscopies in Hawkes Bay. In private he included general practice, surgery and obstetrics. On retiring from hospital at 65 he continued in general practice until he was 78, although he slowed down from advancing cancer of the prostate. Alexander was a quiet, even-tempered man who was quick to make up his mind and get on with the job. He was straightforward in expressing an opinion and a friendly and helpful colleague to work with. Although he never seemed in a hurry, his operating lists were renowned for being very long. As well as his heavy professional work, he found time to run two sheep and cattle stations and an orchard. He played a very significant part in the development of surgery in Hawkes Bay. He married June McCallum in 1941 and he is survived by five children. He died at his home in Napier on 13 March 1994, aged 79.
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First Title value, for Searching Scholefield, Bernard Graham (1899 - 1976)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-10
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Bernard Graham Scholefield was born at Blackheath on 7 May 1899, the only son of Robert Ernest Scholefield, a general practitioner who had held a Radcliffe Travelling Fellowship from Oxford. His mother, Elizabeth Graham (née Marshall), was daughter of a former Vicar of Blackheath and Canon of Rochester. After early education at Stratheden Preparatory School, Blackheath, and a King's Scholarship at Westminster School, Bernard went to Christ Church College, Oxford, and was then a War Memorial Scholar at Guy's Hospital. After house surgeon appointments at Guy's he secured a Commonwealth Fund Travelling Fellowship to Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, where he worked with Harvey Cushing. On returning to England he spent two years as an anatomy demonstrator and three years as surgical registrar and tutor during which period he became DM, FRCS and MCh. In 1932 he was appointed honorary surgeon to the Hereford General Hospital with a partnership in general practice for the next ten years. He retired from general practice in 1942 to confine himself to general surgery at the Hereford General and the County Hospital. During the second world war he was commandant of the wartime Emergency Medical Service for the county and initiated its pathology and blood transfusion services. He returned to Guy's during the London blitz to help with the surgery. After the war, Scholefield became chairman of the regional consultants committee for Birmingham, 1953-56, and chairman of the Midland Surgical Society in 1954. He was divisional surgeon in the St John Ambulance Brigade and served as county surgeon for many years. In his youth Bernard Scholefield was a first class rugby footballer, he won a blue at Oxford and later played for Kent and the London Counties and served as an England reserve. He retired in 1964 and is remembered for his surgical skill and even more for the devoted care and kindness which earned him the affection and confidence of his patients. He had a great love for Hereford Cathedral and was a sincere churchman. He married in 1928 and had three children, a son who qualified from Guy's, and two daughters, one of whom was a Guy's nurse and married to a Guy's doctor. When he died at his home in Hereford on 18 June 1976 he was survived by his wife and children.
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First Title value, for Searching Ingram, Peter Willoughby (1910 - 1985)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-26
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Peter Willoughby Ingram was born in Muswell Hill, London, on 30 August 1910, the son of a general practitioner surgeon. His early education was at Highgate School and his pre-clinical studies were at Cambridge University. He graduated BA in 1931 and went to Aberdeen for his clinical studies, qualifying from Aberdeen University in 1934. After junior surgical appointments he passed the FRCS Edinburgh in 1937 and was Garden Scholar in clinical research at Aberdeen working under Professor Learmonth. In 1939 he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving with the British Expeditionary Force and eventually being evacuated from Dunkirk in one of the last boats. He subsequently served in North Africa where he met Professor Ian Aird. After the war he remained in the Army Emergency Reserve attaining the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. After demobilisation he initially worked at St James's Hospital, Balham, under Norman Tanner and later was lecturer and honorary consultant in surgery at the Postgraduate Medical School under Professor Aird before being appointed consultant surgeon to the Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester. He was elected FRCS ad eundem in 1962 and maintained a special interest in gastroenterology. He was a founder member of the Surgical Sixty Travelling Club and also a member of the British Society of Gastroenterology. He had to retire early from his post at Winchester because of ill health but he maintained his interest in surgery and subsequently worked in a mission hospital in Pakistan. For a time he was in general practice and in 1977 joined the academic department of surgery at the Royal Free Hospital as honorary lecturer under Professor Hobbs. He was responsible for much of the undergraduate teaching in the five years he spent in the department. Throughout his life he maintained an interest in others less fortunate than himself and in 1968 he was responsible for the foundation of the Wessex Council for Alcoholism. Much time and effort was spent raising funds and the Council's large premises in Southampton is called "Peter Ingram House" to commemorate his efforts on behalf of these patients. After retiring he spent much of his time at his cottage in Suffolk while retaining a flat in Camden. He died in hospital in Colchester on 10 September 1985. His first wife Lecky predeceased him but he is survived by his second wife Ruth and two daughters of his first marriage.
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First Title value, for Searching Sandor, Francis Ferenc (1905 - 1994)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-01
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details Francis Sandor was born in Budapest on 13 July 1905. His father, Ignac, was a businessman in Budapest and his mother, Jenni Cipszer, was a teacher. He left Hungary with the advent of Communism and went back to medical school in Edinburgh and re-qualified as LRFPS (Glasgow) in 1952. He originally trained in medicine in Budapest with an MD in 1930 and a diploma in operative surgery in 1932, and then studied in Paris. He was at first chief of surgery at the Cancer Hospital and at St Rokus Hospital, Budapest. After he left Hungary in 1950 he initially trained in Glasgow and Edinburgh and ultimately settled in Hartlepool as an assistant surgeon. After twenty years of surgery in Britain he retired to go on to do another ten years as a general practitioner in Hartlepool, at the same time continuing his research into thoracic trauma in the department of surgery at Newcastle University. Sandor was a man of great enthusiasm. He spoke four European languages fluently and was competent in even more. He had a composite understanding of Latin and Greek and was a classical scholar of note. He was a dedicated skier until the age of 78. He was a great music lover and played the violin. As a young man he went to all the concerts around the North East and would be regularly met there, listening particularly to string quartets. At heart a musician, his love and understanding of music was unsurpassed. His particular clinical interest in later life was the effect of major trauma on intra-thoracic organs, and he published articles on traumatic mediastinal haematoma in both English and German language publications. He married Mimi Garai, a dietician, in 1940 and they had three sons. The first, Stephen Mathew, became a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Portland, Oregon; the second, Peter Ivan, became an analytical chemist in Newcastle-upon- Tyne and the third, George Gabor, became a Professor of Paediatric Cardiology at the University of British Columbia. He was credited with an ascent to the top of the medical profession in both Hungary and England after he decided to flee to the West. He died on 23 February 1994, survived by his wife and family.
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First Title value, for Searching Lister, Arthur Reginald (1895 - 1973)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-26
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Occupation General practitioner Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Arthur Reginald Lister was born in Totteridge, north of London, on 4 April 1895 into a distinguished medical family. Lord Lister was his great-uncle, his father, Sir William Lister, and his cousin, Arthur Lister, were well-known eye surgeons, and one of his brothers was a consultant physician at Plymouth. He was at school at Winchester, and then went on to Trinity College, Cambridge, but when war broke out in 1914, at the end of his first year at the university, he volunteered for army service and was attached to the field artillery. He served in Gallipoli and in France and was awarded the Military Cross. After the war he completed his pre-clinical studies at Cambridge and then came to the London Hospital where he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1923. He held house appointments under Lord Dawson and Henry Souttar, whom he assisted in his first operation for mitral stenosis. In 1925 he completed the MB BCh and also obtained the FRCS. He then settled in York where for some years he undertook general practice as well as surgery and gynaecology; but in time he gave up general practice, and with the advent of the National Health Service he specialized in obstetrics and gynaecology as a consultant to the York (A) Group of Hospitals. Reggie Lister, as he was known to his colleagues and his large circle of friends, was a first class operator, but it was his charm and the personal interest he showed in all his patients which endeared him to them. He had to suffer more than his proper share of illness himself, for he underwent a gastroenterostomy for a duodenal ulcer in 1927 which continued to give him a lot of trouble till a partial gastrectomy was done in 1954, yet he bore all these misfortunes with remarkable courage. Reggie married Margaret, daughter of Rev Carey Taylor, and they had two daughters, the elder of whom became a nurse at Great Ormond Street, and later at Westminster Hospital, and the younger became a physiotherapist. He was a keen golfer, a member of the Royal and Ancient Club at St Andrew's for many years, and will be long remembered as an outstanding personality in the city of York. He died after a long illness on 3 November 1973, and his wife and daughters survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Crisp, William John Cowie (1914 - 1989)

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First Title value, for Searching Knights, Laurence Edgar Davison (1907 - 1986)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

First Title value, for Searching Francis, William John Lawrence (1906 - 1994)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-08
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Radiotherapist
Details William Francis was born on 10 June 1906 in Twechar, Dumbartonshire, the eldest son of the Reverend James Francis and his wife Janet Bilsland, née Mackellar. He was educated at the Greenock Academy and at Glasgow University, where he distinguished himself by winning the BMA Essay Prize. He qualified MB ChB in 1928, then came south for his junior hospital appointments between 1929 and 1936. At the Bradford Royal Infirmary he worked for James Philips who set him on the surgical road; in Salford he was strongly influenced by Sir Geoffrey Jefferson but here he also fell under the spell of the theatre sister Frances Chapman, whom he married in 1936. In the same year he gained both his FRCS and the ChM of Glasgow and was appointed assistant surgeon to the Royal Halifax Infirmary. At the outbreak of war he volunteered for military service but was directed to remain in Halifax as both surgeon and general practitioner. In 1946, however, he was able to join up and served as lieutenant colonel RAMC in Trieste, treating many of the wounded from the Yugoslav conflict. After demobilisation he decided on a career switch: he enrolled on a two year course in radiotherapy at Liverpool University, emerging with the MRad Liverpool and the DMRT in 1949. He was consultant radiotherapist at the Liverpool Radium Institute for two years but in 1951 was appointed to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital in the same capacity, retiring in 1971 after twenty years of distinguished service. A kindly man of great integrity, he won respect for these qualities wherever he worked. He was a man of wide interests, enjoying literature, French conversation and astronomy, and regularly attended church. He took up computer programming at the age of 62. He died on 2 October 1994, his wife having predeceased him in 1989. He was survived by his only son, James Stewart Macduff Francis, a computer systems analyst.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007938
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First Title value, for Searching Pendered, John Hawkes (1888 - 1972)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-24
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Military surgeon
Details John Hawkes Pendered was born on 7 September 1888 at Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. He was educated at Wellingborough School and Caius College, Cambridge where he gained first class honours in the Natural Science Tripos in 1909. He then proceeded to the London Hospital where he did well in all his examinations and won the Sutton Prize in pathology. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1912, got the Cambridge MB in 1913 and the FRCS in 1914. After holding a number of junior hospital posts at the London Hospital he joined the RAMC at the outbreak of the first world war and was soon sent to France where he served for the rest of the war, at first in a Field Ambulance and then as DADMS. In 1916 he was awarded the French Silver Medal of Honour, and in 1917 was mentioned in despatches and won the Military Cross. He remained in the Army till 1923, serving as a Major in Malta where he wrote a thesis on infective hepatitis for which he was awarded the MD degree. When he left the Army he went into general practice in Southampton. In 1939 he was called up for army service and was in France until Dunkirk. He was then sent to the Middle East as Lieutenant-Colonel in charge of the surgical division of various hospitals, in one of which, in 1943, King Farouk was admitted with a fractured pelvis. After caring for him Pendered was awarded the Order of the Nile, Third Class. In 1944 he was released from the RAMC and returned to Southampton where he continued to practise till 1967 when he retired at the age of 79. He was a dedicated doctor, respected for his diagnostic skill and warm sympathy. He was also a cultured person with a particular interest in European history and Shakespearean theatre. He had been a first class tennis player, and kept up his fishing and bridge playing to the end. In 1921 he married Margaret Singer, a nurse at King's College Hospital, and they had two sons and three daughters; one son became medically qualified at the London Hospital, and a daughter became a nurse at King's College Hospital. John Pendered died on 30 July 1972, a week after a fall in which he fractured his skull. His wife and family survived him.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006017
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First Title value, for Searching Slater, Russel Bell (1922 - 1972)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-14
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Military surgeon Urologist
Details Born 23 February 1922 at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the only child of R O Slater, company director, and Emma Bell, his wife. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and at the Medical School of the University of Durham. He qualified in 1943 and was appointed house surgeon at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He entered the Royal Naval Medical Service in the rank of Surgeon Lieutenant on 31 March 1944, and was present, aboard a landing ship, at the invasion of Normandy in June 1944. He joined the destroyer, HMS *Keppel*, patrolling in the English Channel, in September 1944, and the corvette, HMS *Lancaster Castle*, engaged on Arctic duties, in the following year. Slater was released from the Service in February 1947, but continued to retain an active interest as a reservist. He held appointments as surgical registrar at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and demonstrator in the department of anatomy at the Medical School of the University of Durham. He entered general practice at Boroughbridge, Yorkshire in 1954 but remained restless in civil life. On 31 July 1956, Slater re-entered the Royal Naval Medical Service with the rank of Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander. He was drafted to HMS *Theseus* and in the sick bay of the aircraft carrier demonstrated his surgical competence by performing a number of successful emergency operations, under trying conditions, on wounded evacuated from Suez during the crisis of November 1956. He was appointed specialist in surgery at RNH Hong Kong from 1957 to 1960; promoted Surgeon-Commander in 1961 and later served in a surgical capacity at RNH Haslar, and aboard the aircraft carrier HMS *Bulwark*. He was appointed medical officer-in-charge of RNH Mauritius and senior specialist in surgery in 1964, returning to the United Kingdom in 1966. Thereafter, he served mainly in RNH Plymouth, at first as a general surgeon and later as a urologist. He was appointed consultant in surgery in 1970 and promoted Surgeon-Captain in December 1971. Apart from being an accomplished surgeon and pleasant colleague, Slater was also a skilled amateur photographer. He married on 22 June 1950 Geraldine O'Connor who survived him. There were no children. He died on 14 June 1972 from an astrocytoma and was buried in the naval reservation in Weston Mill Cemetery, Plymouth. Publications: Duodenal diverticulum treated by excision of mucosal pouch only. *Brit J Surg* 1971, 58, 198. A case of closed injury of the upper ureter. *Brit J Urol* 1971, 43, 591.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006118
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First Title value, for Searching Gray, John Duncan (1905 - 1975)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-08
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Occupation ENT surgeon General practitioner
Details John Duncan Gray was born of Scots parents on 18 November 1905 and educated at Chesterfield Grammar School and Sheffield University, where he graduated in medicine in 1928. After house appointments at Sheffield Royal Infirmary he was resident medical officer at the General Hospital, Jersey, until 1932. Further posts were at Huddersfield as senior ophthalmic house surgeon at Sheffield Royal Infirmary, and as deputy director of Sheffield Radium Centre. In 1934 he married and with his wife was in general practice at Sheffield for two years. In 1937 he became an assistant in the ENT department at Sheffield Royal Hospital and in 1941 took the FRCS. That year he entered the RAMC and served first as otologist at Shrewsbury with rank of Major. He took his watchmaker's lathe with him, for he made many of his own surgical instruments. Later he did good work as an otologist at Lagos and Accra, where at times he was in command of the surgical division of the hospital. He was also in charge of a workshop for making artificial limbs for West Africans. For these services he was mentioned in dispatches. He returned to England and was then posted to Poona, where he remained until the end of the war. After demobilization he was appointed in 1946 honorary consultant at Sheffield Royal Hospital and later also became ENT surgeon to Bakewell Cottage Hospital. On the inauguration of the National Health Service he became part-time consultant ENT surgeon to Sheffield Royal Hospital and lecturer in diseases of the ear, nose and throat to Sheffield University. He produced many devices to assist his surgery, showing remarkable versatility. The success of his film of intra-aural surgery earned him the 1959 Norman Gamble Prize of the Royal Society of Medicine. He produced a silent suction pump, a mechanical chisel for minor surgery in the ear, and a microdrill, both electric and air powered, for the same purpose. Among other things he constructed a simple impedance audiometer and an averaging computer for EEG audiometry. He made a deep study of the pathology and treatment of chronic otitis media and at the time of his death was engaged in research on the transformation of sound vibrations into impulses transmissible to the brain. The last four years of John Gray's life as a consultant were years of great strain. Three severe abdominal operations sapped his stamina and tested his stoical endurance. He was married and had two sons and two daughters. He died on 27 June 1975.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006505
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First Title value, for Searching Robertson, David Blair (1916 - 1985)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-20
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Occupation General practitioner Neurosurgeon
Details David Robertson was born in August 1916 in Auckland, a son of Sir Carrick Robertson. He was educated at Wanganui Collegiate School where he represented the school in rugby, rowing and swimming. He studied medicine first at Dunedin and then at Melbourne, where he won an anatomy scholarship under Professor Wood Jones, qualifying in 1940. While still at medical school he took part in a survey of the Sir Joseph Banks Islands in the Spencer Gulf, and was the co-author of a paper on the fishes of South Australia. With the onset of war he joined the New Zealand Army as a resident medical officer, and was wounded at Cassino. He served with the 6th Field Ambulance and the No.1 General Hospital. On demobilisation he returned to England to take his FRCS, which he obtained in 1946. He returned to New Zealand for two years working with his father at the Mater Hospital and doing general practice in Otahuhu. He decided to study the newly emerging specialty of neurosurgery so returned to England where he studied at the Manchester Royal Infirmary under Sir Geoffrey Jefferson. Upon returning to New Zealand in 1951 he was appointed as neurosurgeon to the Auckland Hospital and to the Mater Hospital. He had a particular interest in the surgery of Parkinson's disease and hydrocephalus in children. In 1958 he became a Fellow of the Australasian College. He continued in active practice until his retirement in 1981. David was a very active conservationist and an elected member of the Auckland Institute and Museum. He had a special interest in the native birds and trees of New Zealand. In 1978 he was elected to the Waipoua Forest Sanctuary advisory committee and helped in the formation of the Tahuna-Torea reserve in Glen Innes. In his own property in the Bay of Islands he propagated many hundreds of native trees. He made a special study of the exotic Macademia nut tree, working to find which variety was most suitable for growth in New Zealand. His work on this matter is being carried out by his son, an orchardist at Kerikeri. A lifelong interest in sailing gave him the impetus to both build and sail racing dinghies. He was for many years one of the group trained to act as guides at the Auckland War Museum. He was survived by his wife, Isabel, daughter of Jane Taylor, a nurse, and son Ian, when he died suddenly at his home in Auckland on 26 January 1985, aged 68.
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First Title value, for Searching Stanley-Jones, Douglas (1905 - 1999)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-07
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Douglas Stanley-Jones was born in London on 2 February 1905. His father, Herbert Stanley-Jones, was a chartered accountant. His mother, Florence Eliza née Parry was the daughter of William Parkes Parry, a wholesale pharmacist, and the sister of Leonard Arthur Parry MD FRCS. Douglas was educated at Whitgift Grammar School, Croydon. He won an open scholarship in science to St Bartholomew's. After qualifying in 1929, he did junior posts at the Albert Dock and Bristol General Hospitals. In 1936, he bought a practice in West Cornwall, where he worked as a family practitioner over an extensive rural area, combining this with surgery. He was the only FRCS in Cornwall at that time and during the war he was also a district medical officer of health. He continued to operate as an 'honorary' at the local voluntary hospitals, and after the war he began to work towards his dream of having his own surgical nursing home, but its opening coincided with the inauguration of the NHS and it did not prove viable. In the fifties, he immersed himself in reading and writing about neurophysiology, publishing his theories on topics ranging from the evolution of the optic chiasma to the role of the hypothalamus in emotion, and applying the new science of cybernetics to physiology - for which he coined the term 'kybernetics'. He published three books on this topic: *Structural psychology* (Bristol, J Wright, 1957), *Kybernetics of natural systems* (Oxford, Pergamon, 1960) and *Kybernetics of mind and brain* (Illinois, Charles C Thomas: American Lecture Series, 1970). This work aroused considerable interest in the USA and he was invited to lecture at universities and medical centres across America. In the fifties he also founded the Full Circle Foundation for Education and Research, of which he was director, to formalise his interest in intelligence and education. He successfully coached his own children, grandchildren and groups of local children in subjects ranging from classical Greek and Latin, to history, physics, chemistry and biology. From the seventies, he became involved in teaching at camps and summer schools for gifted children. He was made a bard of the Cornish Gorseth in the early fifties for his contribution to knowledge of the geology, industrial history and archaeology of Cornwall. He married Irene Katherine Fox in 1936. They had two sons, Kenneth and Geoffrey, and two daughters: both sons (who predeceased him) became consultant anaesthetists; the younger daughter is also a doctor. He died on 21 January 1999, just before his 94th birthday.
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First Title value, for Searching Wilson, Ian Irvine (1920 - 1978)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-14
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Occupation Dentist ENT surgeon General practitioner
Details Ian Irvine Wilson, the son of Leonard and Dorothy Garland Irvine, was born at Wellington, New Zealand, on 10 October 1920. After education at John McGlasher College he went to the University of Otago to graduate in dentistry at the age of twenty-one. After three years in dental practice he returned to Otago to study medicine and qualified in 1951. He spent two years as a house surgeon at Auckland Hospital and then entered general practice at Thames, North Island. After five years he decided to specialise in otorhinolaryngology and worked for a year as registrar at Green Lane Hospital before taking his family to London. For two and a half years he worked at the Royal National Throat Nose and Ear Hospital and at Golden Square Hospital and passed the DLO and FRCS examinations. After returning to New Zealand he became FRACS in 1962 and spent a further year at Green Lane Hospital as tutor in ENT work before entering private practice with consultant appointments at Auckland Hospital and the Mater Hospital. He decided to make a subspeciality of rhinoplasty and developed that interest on study trips abroad. He served on the executive of the New Zealand Otorhinolaryngological Society for many years and was its most active and successful treasurer. Outside his professional work he had quite unusual competence and expertise in his hobbies. While working at Thames he had established his own radio transmitting station which kept him in touch with other enthusiasts around the world. He was a driver of fast cars who always knew exactly how they worked and, in his mid-forties, he became interested in flying. He had married Jessie Mary Wyman, in 1945, and they both now became fully qualified instrumental commercial pilots and aircraft operators. Such was his enthusiasm that he became one of the most experienced and highly qualified private pilots in New Zealand and proceeded to organise an ENT practice in Norfolk Island and at Tauranga. He and his wife flew themselves to a combined conference of the Australian and New Zealand ENT societies in South East Asia via New Guinea, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Singapore, and they also made extensive flying tours around New Zealand and Australia. His keen and enquiring mind was always interested in anything or anywhere new. He died aboard his launch on Lake Taupo, N Island, on 28 December 1978, survived by his wife Jessie and daughters Barbara, Susan and Cheryl.
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First Title value, for Searching Parker, Roger Jacques (1936 - 2000)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-25
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Occupation ENT surgeon General practitioner
Details Roger Parker was an ENT surgeon at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading. He was born on 25 April 1936 and educated at Christ's Hospital. He gained entry to Balliol, Oxford, to read history, but instead did his National Service in the Royal Navy. He spent his last six months in the Navy playing the euphonium in the Blue Jackets Band, the resident band of HMS Victory. Half way into his National Service, he decided on a career in medicine, but needed A levels to get into London University, so he brushed up his French at the Sorbonne and got into Guy's, where his grandfather Tubby Layton was a consultant ENT surgeon. Qualifying early with the LMSSA, his first house job was at Putney, working under Guy Blackburn, Grant Massie and Rex Lawrie. He then returned to Guy's, as children's house physician. He contemplated a career in cardiac surgery and was a thoracic research fellow under Lord Russell Brock, having won the British Heart Foundation research fellowship. He then decided to marry, and tried general practice in Weybridge. This was, he wrote, for him "a disaster", and he decided to take up ENT surgery. After six months at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, he returned to Guy's as a registrar, rotating to Lewisham and Hither Green, before returning to Gray's Inn Road as senior lecturer to Donald Harrison. Here he finished his MS thesis on cardiac transplantation. He was appointed consultant ENT surgeon to the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading. Within a year he had obtained a travelling fellowship to visit America to learn otology. He also learnt the then new technique of laser surgery and, on his return, with help from the Reading Lions Club, he bought the second CO2 laser in the British Isles. An enthusiastic teacher, he continued to work as a part-time senior lecturer in anatomy at Guy's, coaching for the primary and teaching students in the dissecting room. He was on the Court of Examiners of the College. His long association with the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, beginning with its licentiate, continued a family tradition: his great grandfather William Bramley Taylor and grandfather Thomas Bramley (Tubby) Layton had both been Masters. He himself was Master in the millennium year. He had just completed his year in office when he died suddenly on 24 September 2000. He married in 1969 and was subsequently divorced. He leaves three sons and one daughter of this marriage.
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First Title value, for Searching Roberts, Richard Lloyd Brunt (1920 - 1984)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-20
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Richard Roberts (Roy) was born in Holywell in 1920. After school in North Wales he studied at the Liverpool University Medical School graduating in 1942. He played an active part in the Medical Student Society and was an excellent speaker at meetings. He decided on a career in surgery and took the primary Fellowship while working in the department of anatomy at Liverpool. He held house appointments in the Royal Liverpool United Hospital and obtained his final Fellowship in 1948. After holding registrar appointments at the Royal Liverpool and at the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospitals he moved to London to the Wanstead Hospital. While working there he decided to give up his career in surgery. Doctor Roberts, as he would have preferred to be called, then entered general practice. He worked in the Woodford Green and Waltham areas. He continued to work in general practice for some 32 years when he had to retire owing to ill health as he had developed cardiac symptoms. His work as a general practitioner may have been prompted by his great interest in the BMA. He became Chairman of the Waltham Forest Division and also of the Redhill Division. He was also Chairman of the local medical committee and of the Redhill and Waltham Forest Family Practitioner Committee. He also held a hospital practitioner post in rheumatology at the Hackney Hospital. His work in general practice and with the BMA occupied all his time and he found no interest in outside matters. Being forced by ill health to retire in 1983 he returned to his well loved Wales and lived in Bangor. He enjoyed only one year of retirement, dying on 22 February 1984, from cardiac failure due to ischaemic heart disease. Richard was survived by his wife Constance and four daughters and nine grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Watkins, Wolfe Kildare Milton Colston (1925 - 2000)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-08
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details 'Dare' Watkins was born in Bristol on 29 December 1925. His father, Henry Herbert Watkins, and mother, Brenda Florence née Taylor-Milton, were both dentists. He was educated at King William College, Isle of Man, where he was an enthusiastic sportsman. Later, he went to Liverpool University Medical School, where he qualified in the minimum time with a distinction in pharmacology. He did house jobs at the Royal Southern Hospital under Cosbie Ross and Sefton General Hospital in Liverpool, and for six months in the neurosurgical unit at Frenchay, Bristol. He then did a four year commission in the Royal Australian Navy, which started with a training course at Portsmouth, where he became a keen sailor. Once he arrived in Australia he chose to specialise in tropical medicine and was posted to HMAS *Tarangau* and found himself responsible for the health of Japanese prisoners of war on Manus Island. He returned to England as a demonstrator of anatomy in Liverpool, and to sit the FRCS. From 1954 to 1955 he worked as a surgical registrar at Broadgreen. He returned to Australia and set up in private general practice in Mildura. He was a Rolls-Royce enthusiast, and once discovered a 1912 Silver Ghost abandoned in the outback, which he retrieved and rebuilt. In 1952, he married Janet ('Cat') Margaret Stanley née Wild. They had two sons, Andrew Mark Colston and Simon Mark Colston, and two daughters, Fiona Mary Stanley and Sophia Elizabeth Stanley. Their elder son, Andrew, became director of paediatrics at the Mercy Hospital. In 1996 Dare was fitted with a pacemaker and was later found to have a carcinoma of the lung from which he died on 19 August 2000.
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First Title value, for Searching Grice, John William Hawksley (1891 - 1976)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-11
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Gynaecologist Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Born on 7 April 1891 at Tonbridge, Kent, John William Hawksley Grice was educated at Yardley Court School, Tonbridge School and Guy's Hospital Medical School. During the first world war he left his medical studies at Guy's and went to France as a dresser; later he returned to Guy's and qualified in 1917. After a surgical house job he joined the RAMC and went to Mesopotamia. Remaining in the RAMC after the war, he specialised in orthopaedics until he went to North China in 1922. He looked after the British community in Tientsin as a general practitioner and general surgeon and gynaecologist at the Victoria Hospital. During the Tientsin floods he organised a large Chinese refugee camp at the British Race Club. In the second world war he was interned in a Japanese camp at Weihsien, Shantung province. He brought surgical instruments and drugs into the camp, where a hospital was started. He was appointed OBE for his work there. After the war he returned to Tientsin. Surgical instruments were in short supply and he used tools from an Italian marble works for mastoid operations. Following the Communist occupation he remained in Tientsin, finally leaving China in 1952. In 1954 he was elected FRCS for his work for the British community in China. He went into general practice at Bognor Regis in 1954 and retired in 1973. Grice was interested in Chinese antiques and collected jade, pewter and bamboo carvings, highly prized by the Chinese, but little known in the West. He wrote numerous articles on these, published in *Chinese art*, *Country life* and *The Field*. A representative part of his bamboo collection is in the Victoria and Albert Museum and an exotic ivory woven bed mat, said to have been used by one of the Chinese emperor's favourite concubines, is in the Ethnography Department of the British Museum. He also had a lifelong interest in ornithology. In 1920 he married Kathleen Kilbride, whose father and two brothers were medical men. There were two daughters of the marriage, one of whom took up medicine as a career. Grice died on 12 November 1976, at Bognor Regis, aged 85 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Bulman, John Forster Harrison (1911 - 1985)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-27
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details John Bulman was born on 5 March 1911, in Burnopfield, Co Durham, the second child and first son of Harrison Francis Bulman, a mining engineer, and of his wife Norah (née Jones). His uncle was Beresford Jones, FRCS, surgeon to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital. After preparatory school in Warwickshire, he went on to public school at Rugby, where he read classics. At Trinity College, Cambridge, he took his BA with first class honours in parts I and II of the Natural Sciences Tripos and was appointed research scholar. His medical training was at St Thomas's Hospital, London, after which he graduated MB BCh in 1937 at Cambridge. He then held posts as house surgeon at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital and at the Royal Marsden Hospital and as registrar at the Royal Northern Hospital, before the outbreak of war. He was particularly influenced by McNeill Love at the Royal Northern. From 1939 he held an emergency commission as Captain in the RAMC. He served for four years in North Africa and was present at Tobruk and Benghazi, after which he attended the Military Hospital at Shaftesbury. He was then posted for a year to France (Bayeaux), Belgium (Antwerp) and Holland. After demobilisation he took the FRCS in 1946 and entered general practice in Wallington, Surrey, in 1947. He continued to practice surgery and was appointed senior hospital medical officer at the War Memorial Hospital, Carshalton, and the Wilson Hospital, Mitcham. Towards the end of his career he was appointed consultant surgeon to the St Helier Group of Hospitals, and gave up general practice. He retired in 1976. Bulman's main interest was in his work, to which he devoted himself unstintingly. He had little time for publications, but contributed practical papers to medical and surgical journals on strangulated mesenteric hernia of the caecum, acute phlegmonous colitis and the use of floss nylon in the repair of inguinal herniae. Apart from surgery his interests lay in dinghy sailing and bird watching to which he devoted himself on retirement in Norfolk. In 1938 he married Maida (née Hunter). They had two daughters and two sons, both doctors. He died after a long illness on 23 February 1985, aged 74.
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First Title value, for Searching Roberts, James Llewellin Digby (1912 - 1977)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-04
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Occupation General practitioner
Details James Llewellin Digby Roberts was born on 15 July 1912 at Kalimpong, India, where his father was a medical missionary. His early years were spent in India, where a favourite family pastime was butterfly hunting on horseback: the superb family collection, which his father initiated, was to become a lifelong hobby. He went to England to be educated at King's School, Ely, and St Bartholomew's Hospital. After posts at Bart's and Princess Beatrice Hospital he took the FRCS in 1939. Then came war service, first in the Middle East and West Africa, then as surgeon to the Parachute Brigade, Airborne Division as Lieutenant-Colonel. After the war he decided to go into general practice in Hove to join a well-established private practice. Digby was a cultured, warm, good-humoured man who generated affection and respect wherever he went. He was widely read and had many interests. He was a church-warden of St John's Church, Hove. He was ADMS to 44 (Home Counties) Division of the Territorial Army and at the time of his death medical officer to the Sussex Army Cadet Force, TAVR. He was also an officer of the Order of St John, and medical officer to the Police Convalescent Home, Hove. He refereed for, and was later chairman of the Brighton and Hove Hockey Club, and he was founder-chairman of the Hove Civic Society. Among other offices he had been treasurer of the Brighton and Cuckfield Division of the BMA for the last ten years. He was a founder member of the Sussex Postgraduate Medical Centre and financial secretary to the Brighton and Sussex Medico-Chirurgical Society. In 1952 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners and was provost of the South-east England faculty from 1969 to 1971. A particular interest of his was the Innominate Society, a small medical club holding its meetings in members' homes in rotation, the host for the evening delivering a paper. He married Miss Dod in 1939 and they had a son and daughter. He died on 31 January 1977, aged 64 years.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006893
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First Title value, for Searching Parry, John Niall Meredith (1914 - 2002)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-25 2015-12-21
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Occupation General practitioner
Details John Parry was born in Barry, Glamorgan, Wales, on 8 May 1914. His father, William Thomas Parry, was a barrister who died in 1917. His mother, Constance Esther née Daniel, had been a teacher of domestic science. His mother married Thomas Davies, a general practitioner, in Cardiff in 1920. John was educated at Llandaff Cathedral School (where he sang in the choir) and Newport High School. He studied medicine at University College Cardiff and the Welsh National School of Medicine. He was a house surgeon in Cardiff Royal Infirmary. He joined the Territorial Army and was mobilised at the outbreak of the war, becoming resident medical officer to the 77th HAA regiment, and later on troopships going to and from North Africa. He was demobilised with the rank of Major. After the war, he returned to Cardiff, studied for the FRCS and became a lecturer in anatomy. In 1948, he entered general practice. He was a founder member of the Royal College of General Practitioners, provost of its Welsh faculty, and appointed to the Todd Royal Commission on Medical Education in 1965. He was a member of the Council of the University of Wales. In 1965, he joined the Civil Service Welsh Office and became divisional medical officer for Wales in 1972. He was an active member of the Order of St John, becoming prior of the chapter general in London and commander of the priory for Wales. He married Joan Meredith Pittard-Davies, who was a member of the staff of the Blood Transfusion Service. He and Joan were keen sailors, and he became rear-commodore of the Saundersfoot Sailing Club. They had two daughters. The eldest, Heather Mereddyth Parry, became a solicitor and died in a fall in Greece in 1970. They endowed a prize for the best female final year student in the University College of Wales in her memory. The younger daughter, Lisa, became a doctor. There are three grandchildren - Jonathan, Grace and Jack. He retired in 1994, devoting himself to philately and sailing. He died on Christmas Day 2002.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008833
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First Title value, for Searching Maidlow, William Harvey (1868 - 1933)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-30
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376726376726
Occupation General practitioner
Details Born at Richmond, Surrey, on 13 January 1868, the eldest son of William Smith Maidlow, a member of the London Corn Exchange, and his wife, *née* Jupp. He entered Charterhouse School in Long Quarter 1883 and left in the same term in 1885. Having matriculated at London University, he entered St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School in 1886, acted in due course as house surgeon to Alfred Willett, and gained several of the school prizes; he was also obstetric house physician. He then proceeded to Newcastle-on-Tyne, and at the University of Durham gained the L Armstrong scholarship and was placed first in the honours list at the final MB examination. He was one of the first batch of qualified medical men allowed to study at the Metropolitan Fever Hospital, and he also worked at Bethlehem Hospital, where his cousin Percy Smith was the medical superintendent. In 1896 he was well in the running for appointment to the senior staff of St Bartholomew's Hospital and was filling the post of assistant physician in the electrical department, but decided to enter general practice. He therefore took the post of resident medical officer at the Taunton and Somerset Hospital, and in 1897 joined W P H Munden, MD, in partnership at Ilminster, Somerset, after paying a short visit to India to study tropical disease. The rest of his life was spent at Ilminster, where he was for ten years medical officer of health. He was also president of the Literary Society, worshipful master of the Nyanza Lodge of free¬masons, and president of the West Somerset branch of the British Medical Association. He was, too, president of the Ilminster branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society. He married in 1911 Queenie, the second daughter of Mrs Cross of Bullen Court, Broadway, Somerset, who survived him with three sons and a daughter. He died on 29 July 1933, and was buried at Ilminster. Maidlow was a careful physician, whose opinion was much sought after and valued in Somerset, Dorset, and Devonshire. Early in life he was a keen surgeon, and his case of removal of the kidney, which was undertaken and brought to a successful termination in a country cottage, was much commented upon at the time. He was a well-read man, who wrote excellent papers upon Shakespeare, Hardy, Keats, Dickens, and Johnson. He was, too, a ready after-dinner speaker. Publications: Extirpation of the kidney for sarcoma. *Brit med J* 1898, 1, 426. After ten years of general practice. *Ibid*1910, 2, 129. Some British medical men of letters. *Med Press* 1915, 151, 283, etc.
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First Title value, for Searching Nightingale, Henry John (1880 - 1973)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-23
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Physician
Details Henry Nightingale was born in Kingston on Thames on 21 April 1880. His father, James, was a surveyor and his mother before marriage was Agnes Thrupp. He went to school at Kingston Grammar School from where he obtained a scholarship to King's College, London. Nightingale next gained a scholarship to St Thomas's Hospital, where he had a distinguished record as a student, qualifying in 1906. He was appointed to various resident posts at St Thomas's and then moved to Southampton as a general practitioner, although his chief interest was of course surgery. In 1913 he was appointed to the staff of the Royal South Hants Hospital, first as a physician, a post he held until the outbreak of war in 1914. In 1915 he joined the RAMC as a surgeon and throughout the war served in France and during that time he gained a great experience in a variety of war wounds. This experience he later wrote up in a classic article in the *Lancet* (1944, 1, 525). He was a pioneer in the operative treatment of wounds of the abdomen and was one of the first surgeons in this country to realise that fulminating fatal gas gangrene is nearly always associated with the interference to the main blood supply to the limb. Many of the lessons he recognised and taught had to be relearned all over again at the time of the second world war. After the war he returned to his general practice together with his duties at the hospital, but gave up general practice in 1933 in favour of consulting surgery. Between the wars he was surgeon to the Southampton Borough Hospital, the Free Eye Hospital and Knowle Hospital as well as being consultant to the Royal Mail and Union Castle Lines. Nightingale was for a time chairman of the Royal South Hants Management Committee as well as being actively engaged in all the affairs of the other hospitals to which he was attached. In 1938 he was Chairman of the local division of the BMA and from 1941-55 he served as magistrate on the Southampton City Branch. During the second world war he stayed in Southampton and was responsible for the treatment of many air raid casualties as well as those wounded evacuated from France; for his services during this period he was awarded the OBE. In 1945 he retired and lived a full and active life from his home in Lymington until his death. Nightingale was loved and respected by all his colleagues and he had an unrivalled experience of the treatment of war wounds and any who are interested in this subject should not fail to read his article in the *Lancet* on this subject. In 1909 he married Kathleen Barber and had a supremely happy marriage. There were no children. Nightingale died quietly at the age of 93 on 27 May 1973.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005986
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First Title value, for Searching Ardagh, James Warne (1920 - 1983)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-17
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details James Warne Ardagh, son of Patrick Augustine Ardagh, CBE, DSO, MC, a surgeon, and Lily Hebe Anderson (née Lowick), was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 5 December 1920. After education at Loreto College and Christ's College, Christchurch, he entered the University of Otago in 1940 and graduated in 1944. After house surgeon appointments in New Zealand he came to London where he took a number of resident surgical posts before completing the FRCS in 1948. Returning to New Zealand in 1949 he was surgical registrar at Christchurch Hospital and became FRACS in 1949. In the same year he entered general practice and held a number of assistant surgical posts at Christchurch Hospital and Burwood plastic surgical unit. He gave up general practice in 1953 and two years later was appointed visiting surgeon to the North Canterbury Hospital Board, becoming chairman of surgical services and head of the department of surgery in 1979. He had also been appointed honorary surgeon to the Mary Potter Hospice in 1961. His father had served as a Brigadier with the New Zealand Army Medical Service and he himself was commanding officer of the 3rd N.Z. Field Ambulance from 1960 to 1966; director of medical services to the New Zealand Combat Division from 1966 to 1976 and Colonel Commandant of the ANZAMC from 1977 to 1980. He was surgeon consultant to the New Zealand Armed Services in 1975 and had three tours of duty. James Ardagh had great administrative ability which was well utilised in his hospital and military appointments. He was Chairman of the Christchurch Hospitals Post-Graduate Society 1971-74, chairman of medical staff 1974-76 and President of the Canterbury Division of the NZMA in 1977. He also served on the Canterbury Disciplinary Committee up to the date of his death and was a member of the New Zealand Dominion Committee of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1962 to 1970. He was recognised as a talented surgeon of wide interests with a special interest in vascular surgery on which he published a number of papers. A reserved and somewhat diffident manner masked a warm character with a nice sense of humour which served him well in his committee work. He was a man of firm faith and a dedicated churchman who was never too busy to help friends and colleagues when they were in trouble. He was principal medical officer of the St John Ambulance in the Canterbury and West Coast centre, and divisional surgeon to the St Matthew's Nursing Division, being appointed to the Order of St John in 1981. When he died at his home in Christchurch on 23 June 1983 he was survived by his wife Margaret, and by their four sons and three daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Greeves, Reginald Affleck (1878 - 1966)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-05
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Occupation Curator General practitioner Ophthalmic surgeon Pathologist
Details Born at Springtown, Co Down, on 23 August 1878, youngest of the eleven children of Thomas M. Greeves whose family, at first Quakers and later Plymouth Brethren, had been settled in Northern Ireland since the mid-seventeenth century. Affleck Greeves was educated at Queen's University, Belfast, where he won an exhibition, and at University College Hospital and Guy's, graduating MB London in 1903 and BS with honours in 1906, when he also took the Conjoint Diploma in the summer and the Fellowship in December. For the next two years he was in general practice in the Transvaal, South Africa, where he married, in 1908, Sarah, daughter of Leonard Acutt of Natal. Returning to London he was appointed surgical tutor and registrar at Guy's, but decided to specialise in ophthalmology. After serving as pathologist and curator of the museum at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital (Moorfields), he was appointed assistant ophthalmic surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital in 1914 and to Moorfields in 1915. He became a consultant surgeon to both these hospitals, retiring from Moorfields at the sixty-year age limit in 1938, but from the Middlesex only in 1946. He had also been on the staff at Paddington Green Children's Hospital and at St Saviour's Hospital, had lectured on ophthalmology at Oxford, and was a Conjoint Board examiner for the DOMS. Though somewhat nervous and reserved, Greeves was a brilliant diagnostician, achieved excellent results as a surgeon, and proved a first-class teacher, particularly in clinical work with graduate students. He became an authority on lesions of the fundus, whose opinion was sought and valued by colleagues and former students long after his retirement. He published influential papers on ocular pathology and many case histories, particularly in the *Transactions of the Ophthalmological Society*, of which he was a member for fifty-five years, becoming President for 1941-42. He was Montgomery Lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1935. Greeves carried on a large private practice at 23 Wimpole Street long after giving up his hospital work, finally retiring in 1960 when he was eighty-two. His country home was at Crapstone, near Yelverton, in Devonshire. His wife had died in 1954, and he died on 4 October 1966 aged eighty-eight, survived by his daughter and two sons, the elder of whom was also an ophthalmic surgeon. Though brought up in a narrowly puritanical home, Greeves was a man of wide cultivation, a traveller and linguist, a pianist and trained musician, with a keen appreciation of painting and drawing. His students and patients became his lifelong friends.
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First Title value, for Searching Waterston, Richard Ernest (1908 - 1977)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-24
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Military surgeon
Details Richard Ernest Waterston, the elder son of David Waterston, FRSE, FRCSE, a former Professor of Anatomy at St Andrews University, and of Isabel (née Simson), was born in Edinburgh on 26 May 1908. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University where he graduated in 1931. After resident appointments at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh he demonstrated physiology at King's College, London. He then worked as a general practitioner in Cirencester before joining the RAMC in 1936 when he was posted to the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich. The following year he went to India and, apart from a nine months' spell with a field ambulance on the north-west frontier, he worked at the military hospital in Peshawar until 1941. He was then with the military hospitals at Karachi and Ranchi, returning to England in 1944 before joining 88 British General Hospital in north-west Europe. On taking the FRCS in 1945 he served immediately after the war at the Connaught Hospital, Knaphill, until 1947 and was then posted to the British Joint Services Mission at Washington DC as liaison officer. He returned to the UK in 1948 and was in charge of the surgical divisions of the military hospitals at Chester and Cowglen. In 1954 he was surgeon to the British Military Hospital, Hong Kong, and then consultant surgeon to the Middle East Land Forces in Egypt. From 1956 to 1959 he was senior surgeon at Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, Millbank, and was awarded the Mitchener Medal in 1956 in recognition of his outstanding services. He was promoted Brigadier and appointed consultant surgeon, first to the Far East Land Forces in Singapore and then with the British Army of the Rhine. A year before his retirement from the Army Medical Service in 1968 he was appointed honorary surgeon to the Queen, and he then devotedly cared for the military community at Bordon camp for many years. Richard Waterston was well known throughout the RAMC and was as highly respected in service life as his younger brother, David, who became a distinguished cardiothoracic surgeon at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital after the war. Richard was an able surgeon, an excellent doctor and a fine sportsman. He excelled at golf, with a handicap of two as a student, and six at the time of his death. He had been a member of the Royal and Ancient, St Andrews, since 1928 and represented the RAMC in many matches. He was also keen on skiing and mountaineering. In 1938 Waterston married Christine Graves who was, at that time, a member of Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. They had one daughter and, when he died suddenly on 12 May 1977, he was survived by them both.
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First Title value, for Searching Elkington, George Ernest (1889 - 1986)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-13
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Occupation General practitioner
Details George Elkington was born in Newport, Shropshire on 20 March 1889, the eldest child of two general practitioners, Ernest Alfred and Annie Isabella Baddeley. The Baddeley practice had existed in Newport since the 1770's and the Elkington family had practised medicine in Birmingham since the 1830's. George was educated at Adams' Grammar School, Newport, and the University of Birmingham, qualifying in 1912. He was resident pathologist at the General Hospital, Birmingham when the first world war started. Volunteering for the RAMC immediately, he sailed for France on 26 August 1914 in company with A A Martin who described their early experiences together in *A surgeon in khaki*, published in 1916. He spent the entire war (temporary commission - Captain - Acting Major) in forward positions of great hardship and danger, much of it with the West Yorkshire Regiment, as recounted in Sidney Rogerson's *Twelve days, and General Jack's diary 1914-18* edited by John Terraine (1964). George's own diary has been presented to the Imperial War Museum. In 1919 he served with the RAMC in Germany until October and was awarded the Military Cross in that year in recognition of his prolonged and gallant service. After demobilisation he studied in London and in 1920 obtained both the FRCS and the London MB BS, the latter in emulation of his father's own degree. He was especially proud of his distinction in pathology. James Paterson Ross obtained distinction in surgery at the same examination. Whatever his experience and ambitions may have been George Elkington did not subsequently practise as a surgeon. Instead he joined the family practice in 1921 to assist his father (a former house surgeon to Joseph Lister) who at 72 was unable to retire because his younger children were still undergoing education. The youngest of these was J St C Elkington of St Thomas's Hospital and the National Hospital, Queen Square. George Elkington had unrivalled knowledge of and love for the people and country along the Shropshire/Staffordshire border where he spent almost all of his life. His great pleasures were country pursuits with his family; his great virtues were steadiness and rectitude. He was Chairman of the Shropshire Panel Committee for several years. He retired in 1959, completing with his father 99 years in practice in Newport. He continued to live in the town until his death at 97. To the end he remained intensely interested in the science and development of medicine. On 20 April 1931 he married Kathleen Mary Budgen (Kitty), second daughter of the Rector of Newport, and almoner to the Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital. They had one daughter and three sons (two consultant surgeons and one consultant physician). George Elkington died on 6 May 1986.
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First Title value, for Searching Cox, Martin Henry (1922 - 1989)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-08
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Martin Cox was born in Ladysmith, Cape Province, on 7 March 1922, the son of Herbert Walter Cox, an inspector of banks for Barclays DCO. His early education was at the Diocesan College, Rondebosch, from 1933 to 1939 where in addition to obtaining a first class matriculation he was also captain of boxing, winner of the Jameson Prize for athletics and was awarded colours in Rugby. After leaving school he joined the 5th Field Regiment South African Artillery as a gunner in July 1940, later attending the officers' course from May to September 1941 and being commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant. He was posted to Egypt in 1942 where he served in the 4th Field Regiment, South African Artillery during the Battle of El Alamein. He returned to South Africa after the battle when the 1st and 2nd South African Divisions were repatriated but was again posted to Egypt in September 1943 serving with the 6th South African Armoured Division, and later transferring to the South African Air Force. He qualified as a pilot in December 1944 and after acting as a Royal Artillery "spotter" in early 1945 was later employed ferrying Beaufighters to India. His final posting was to 28th South African Air Force squadron based in Algiers, flying Dakotas up to the time of his demobilisation in March 1946. He studied medicine at the University of Cape Town where he was awarded half blues for tennis and boxing and at Groote Schuur Hospital, qualifying in 1951. His early house appointments were at his teaching hospital followed by six months at Peninsula Maternity Hospital under Professor Louw. In August 1953 he came to England for postgraduate study and initially worked at Mount Gould Orthopaedic Hospital, Plymouth, as senior house officer to Michael Salz and Norman Capener. Later he was appointed casualty officer and surgical registrar at Chelmsford and Essex Hospital, where he worked under Peter Martin. He passed the FRCS in 1958 and shortly afterwards returned to South Africa, where he was appointed honorary surgeon at Witbank Hospital after joining a general practice in the town. Whilst attending courses at the College he met Georgina Elizabeth Woodgate who was secretary to the British Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the British Association of Plastic Surgeons and who earlier had been tennis champion of Middlesex in addition to representing her country at tennis. They were married in December 1957 and had two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret Louise, neither of whom took up medicine. He continued his sporting activities after the war and was the main instigator of a squash club at University College Cape Town, both of his daughters becoming experts at the game. He was also very fond of golf. Sadly he developed a malignant tumour in the lung and after a long debilitating illness died in July 1989 aged 67, survived by his wife and family.
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First Title value, for Searching Ungley, Harold Gordon (1906 - 1991)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-08
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Gordon Ungley was born on 17 January 1906 in Harringay, North London, the son of Charles Ungley, an accountant and company secretary, and his wife, Grace Daisy Eleanor, née Goody. After a spell at a local school he went as a boarder to Archbishop Holgate's Grammar School in York and from there to medical school in Newcastle, where his elder brother (later a consultant physician in Newcastle) had preceded him. As a student he won prizes in all the clinical subjects and qualified MB Durham in 1928. After six months' general practice he joined the Blue Funnel Line as a ship's surgeon 'anxious to make some money to help my family'. He was on an eight month voyage round the world which he found most enjoyable, and noted that he spent some time in Manila with the retiring medical superintendent of the leper colony who was leaving after 30-40 years' service. He spent five years in junior surgical appointments at the Newcastle Royal Victoria Infirmary, during which time he developed a severe dermatitis on the hands and forearms as a consequence of the scrubbing-up regime then in force. This had involved rinsing in turpentine and biniodide of mercury before donning wet gloves. After prolonged treatment he was able to control the problem by wearing dry cotton gloves underneath the newer dry, rubber gloves, so that he could carry on with his surgical career. Moving south in 1935 he worked with Lawrence Abel at the Gordon and with Victor Riddell at the Royal Waterloo Hospital for Children and Women. Having joined the RNVR in 1925 he was called up at the outbreak of war and served with the navy until 1946 as surgeon commander RNVR (surgical specialist). He was awarded the VRD in 1941 and a commendation by Commander-in-Chief the Nore in 1944. On return to London he was appointed consultant to the Southend Group of Hospitals and to the Royal Waterloo. However, at the start of the NHS the Waterloo was taken over and closed by St Thomas's and he was transferred to the Lambeth Hospital. This was later in its turn incorporated with St Thomas's and finally closed in 1971. Ungley, who was a meticulous surgeon and record-keeper, was able to play a full part in the student teaching programme but contributed little to the literature. He was a regular attender at the Royal Society of Medicine and presided over the Section of Proctology from 1969 to 1970. He married in 1935, while he was a house surgeon, Miss Heslop, a nurse on the ward, and they had an exceptionally happy married life and produced two children, Gillian, and John, who became a distinguished barrister. After a long retirement, during which golf became his chief diversion, he died on 27 November 1991, survived by his children.
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First Title value, for Searching Nissen, Karl Iversen (1906 - 1995)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-24
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Occupation General practitioner Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Karl Nissen, born in Otago in 1906, had a Danish father and an English mother. He was educated in New Zealand and entered the medical school in Otago, where he qualified in 1932. He first went into general practice before deciding to specialise. He undertook research into several generations of a family affected by brachydactyly, and a thesis on this gained him the MD (New Zealand) in 1934. In the next year he came to England to train in surgery. He was appointed as the first resident surgical officer at the newly established Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital in Exeter, where he worked under Norman Capener. From 1943 to 1945 he served as an orthopaedic specialist in the RNVR in South Africa. He was therefore on hand when the epidemic of poliomyelitis broke out on the island of St Helena and the island's inhabitants were fortunate in having his presence and advice in dealing with this disaster. In 1946 he was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, where he stayed until his retirement in 1971. He was one of the first to operate for carpal tunnel syndrome and Morton's neuroma and will be particularly remembered for his management of primary osteoarthrosis of the hip by osteotomy before the later hip replacement surgery was introduced and perfected. He wrote a paper which drew him to the attention of Sir Reginald Watson-Jones in 1948 and he went on to give distinguished service as an assistant editor of the *Journal of bone and joint surgery*. When he first came to England he had enjoyed some of the courses run by the Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine and later for some twenty years ran a popular course for the Fellowship, many of his trainees, especially from overseas, becoming his close friends. He continued to take an interest in the Fellowship, serving on its Council and finally as its President from 1968 to 1976. After retirement he maintained an active interest in orthopaedic surgery, and his enquiring mind led him deeply into study of the genetic basis of osteoarthritis. A few months before his death he attended a meeting of the British Orthopaedic Association, where he was given a standing ovation after receiving its honorary Fellowship. He had enjoyed a happy marriage with his wife Honor, who in later years sadly suffered from multiple sclerosis. Karl was devoted to her, and often took her for holidays abroad in her wheelchair. Their happy life together was ended by her death in 1981. Karl died in his sleep on 30 December 1995, survived by a daughter, a son and three grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Burge, Harold William (1909 - 1975)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-21
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Harold William Burge was born on 23 July 1909. He originally entered King's College, London, as an engineering student and shortly transferred to the faculty of medicine to graduate from King's College Hospital in 1933. After a few years in general practice he decided on a career in surgery and took the Final FRCS in 1937. He was then resident assistant surgeon at the West London Hospital and resident surgical officer at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. During the second world war he served in the RAMC, commanding a field surgical unit in North Africa and later at the Salerno and Anzio landings. He was mentioned in despatches and awarded the MBE (Mil). Shortly after demobilisation he was appointed honorary surgeon to the West London Hospital in 1947, and then surgeon to the Ministry of Pensions Gastric Unit at Stoke Mandeville Hospital and consultant surgeon to the Northwood and Pinner District Hospital. At West London Hospital and Stoke Mandeville he was able to develop his special interest in gastric surgery. He was one of the pioneers of truncal vagotomy, leading on to bilateral selective vagotomy and proximal gastric vagotomy, so becoming an international authority in this field. In his determination to establish the completeness of this operation, Harold Burge developed, and was an enthusiastic exponent of, the electrical stimulation test. He was a tireless teacher, attracting visitors to the West London Hospital from many parts of the world, where he received everyone with warm courtesy. Following local hospital reorganisation, he later transferred from the staff of West London to Charing Cross Hospital. Harold Burge was an examiner for the universities of London and Oxford. He served on the Court of Examiners of the College and was also an honorary surgical tutor. He was a Hunterian Professor in 1959 and 1965 and both his lectures were related to vagotomy. He travelled widely in Europe, America and the East and made numerous contributions to the literature of gastric surgery, including his monograph *Vagotomy*, published in 1964. He was a man of great enthusiasm and not all of his colleagues shared his faith in the electrical stimulation test as a means of determining the completeness of vagotomy. However, he was fruitful of ideas, a valuable catalyst in the discussion of his own surgical interests and impatient to follow them through even after his retirement. Outside his surgical work, he was a keen golfer and his chief interests were in his family and his garden. He died on 19 December 1975, after a long illness, and was survived by his wife and daughter, and by two sons, both of whom are doctors.
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First Title value, for Searching Guymer, Ronald Frank (1901 - 1977)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-11
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Occupation General practitioner Industrial medicine specialist Medical Officer
Details Ronald Frank Guymer was born in London on 7 June 1901, the eldest child of Frank Guymer, wholesale corn and grain merchant, one of whose wharves now supports the Festival Hall. Guymer was educated at Durston House, Ealing, and Westminster School where he played football for the school and gained several prizes and an exhibition to Trinity College, Cambridge. He took an honours degree in natural sciences before going up to St Thomas's for his clinical training. He held several house surgeon and house physician jobs at various London and provincial hospitals and entered general practice in 1928 where he remained until the second world war. He served in the expedition to Norway, in the Middle East and in India. He became a full Colonel and received the TD in 1945. After the war, he returned to general practice for three years before changing to industrial medicine which became his life work and interest. He became medical officer to several large firms including Sainsbury's and was chief medical officer to Lloyd's Bank for seventeen years. Guymer was chairman of many medical boards and a member of many advisory committees including the WHO. He was lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, at St Bartholomew's and St Thomas's Hospitals and the Royal Army Medical College at Millbank. He was an examiner in industrial health for the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Surgeons and the Society of Apothecaries. He was a Charles Hastings Prize winner of the BMA and visited the USA with a Rockefeller Travelling Fellowship. His publications included papers on poisoning and accidents in industry and also on the role of general practice in industrial medicine. Guymer had two children by his first marriage and subsequently three grandsons. In 1952, he married as his second wife, Dr Patricia Lesley Bidstrup (MD FRACP FRCP London) who was educated in Adelaide and came to Europe in 1945 with the United Nations relief and rehabilitation administration. Between them, they played a leading part in the improvement of industrial health in Britain over a period of some 30 years. His hobbies included football, ballet, biography, tennis and cricket (he was a member of the MCC). He had an attractive personality and was a shrewd and effective committee man. During his latter years, he became interested in financial appeals for causes of which he approved. He collected several hundreds of thousand pounds for the Royal College of Physicians, and the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal College of Surgeons who made him Patron of the College in 1977. He died on 15 September 1977 at the age of 76, survived by his wife, son Tony and daughter, Jill, who became a physiotherapist.
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First Title value, for Searching Barnes, Keith Loraine (1917 - 1984)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-17
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Occupation General practitioner Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Keith Loraine Barnes, the son of a general practitioner, was born in Blackpool and educated at Arnold School and Manchester University where he qualified in 1940. After resident appointments at Manchester Royal Infirmary he enlisted in the Royal Navy and served throughout the second world war in the Mediterranean where he took part in a number of convoys to Malta. On demobilisation he returned to Blackpool to take over the family practice from his father who was terminally ill. After his father's death he began his surgical career and eventually returned to the North Manchester Hospital Group and Manchester Royal Infirmary as a senior surgical registrar. He was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon and superintendent to Wrightington Hospital in 1959 where he was responsible both for general orthopaedic surgery and the treatment of the then more prevalent bone and joint tuberculosis. He was also consultant orthopaedic surgeon to Chorley and District Hospital; Fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association and a Fellow of the Manchester Medical Society. His administrative duties at Wrightington soon embraced the management of what was fast becoming an international centre for hip surgery where John Charnley, who had first been appointed to the staff in 1949, began to develop his epic work on total hip replacement in 1956. Barnes was rapidly recognised as an authority on the management of skeletal tuberculosis so that Wrightington became a referral centre from a wide area. He also developed a keen interest in medico-legal work which led to increasing demand for his services by many major insurance companies. Unfortunately, during the last ten years of his life "KLB" as he was affectionately known, developed serious health problems which required two major operations following each of which he rapidly returned to full duty. Just after his retirement from Wrightington in 1982 he underwent a further major operation, again returning to his medico-legal work which he continued until a few days before his death. Keith Barnes was a man of ready wit and good humour, a fine doctor and an excellent diagnostician who enjoyed very good relationships with his patients and colleagues. He and his wife, Sheila, provided much hospitality for the many visitors and foreign residents at Wrightington, and she was a great support to him during his several illnesses. When he died, aged 67, on 1 April 1984 he was survived by his wife and their daughter, Patsy.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007103
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First Title value, for Searching Wallace, Robert Allez Rotherham (1888 - 1980)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007024
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First Title value, for Searching Hallett, Geoffrey St John (1911 - 1997)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-03
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Geoffrey Hallett was born at Pyrford, Surrey, on 27 September 1911. His father, Norman Hallett, owned the Wings fleet of cargo ships which regularly travelled between Cardiff and South America. His mother was Annie née Bashford. Geoffrey was educated at Stubbington Prep School and Wellington. He then went on to Clare College, Cambridge, and St Thomas's. He qualified in 1936, and then worked at Hampstead New End Hospital. When war broke out he joined the RAMC and was posted to Woolwich Hospital. In 1940 he was posted overseas, to the hospital at Asmara, the capital of Eritrea. Two years later, he joined No 4 General Hospital in Alexandria, and was then moved to Haifa, to the Suez Canal No 1 General Hospital at Kantara near Ismalia. It was here that he met his future wife, Patricia Hammersley-Smith, a theatre sister with the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service. They were married in Cairo Cathedral in 1945 and, because it was a service rule that married couples were not allowed to work in the same hospital, Patricia was made to work in the 15th Scottish Hospital on the banks of the Nile, while Geoffrey was working at the 63rd General Hospital in Heliopolis. Patricia rebelled and joined the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA), as a result of which she met many leading people in the entertainment business who went out to Cairo to entertain the forces. In 1946, the couple returned to England, with Geoffrey returning to St Thomas's Hospital. Later that year he took up an appointment as a GP surgeon in Lymington. After 18 months, he obtained an NHS contract as general consultant surgeon for the Southampton General Hospital and also covered the Royal South Hants, Lymington, Hythe and Milford Hospitals - a post he retained for 30 years before retiring in 1976. He successfully defended Lymington Hospital from being downgraded on three occasions. A courteous, gentle and rather shy man, his interests apart from surgery included sailing and skiing, and he was also a talented carpenter, expertly restoring antique furniture. He also enjoyed painting in oils and watercolours. For 21 years he suffered from Parkinson's disease. He is survived by his wife, his son, Nigel, who is a missionary in Islamabad, three daughters, Clare, Louise and Tamsin, and five grandchildren. He died on 3 November 1997.
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First Title value, for Searching Fuller, Harold William Charles (1914 - 1997)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-29
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Harold Fuller was a GP based in Eastleigh. He was born in Norwood, south London, in 1914. He was educated at Battersea Grammar School and awarded a Warneford scholarship to King's College Hospital, where he qualified in 1937, with honours in medicine, surgery and pathology, a unique triple for which he was awarded the university medal. After junior posts at King's, he passed the FRCS and joined the Red Cross surgical team in Ethiopia, where he worked in the Haile Selassie I Hospital in Addis Ababa. There he was joined by a King's nurse, Marjorie Noyes, and they were married in Addis in January 1943. The Emperor took a great interest in the hospital and Harold was invited both to dinner at the palace, and to a reception on the marriage of the Emperor's daughter. He was transferred to hospitals in Syria and Transjordan in September 1943 and on, leaving the Red Cross team, served as a locum surgeon in the Edinburgh Medical Mission Hospital in Nazareth. After the Second World War, on returning to the UK, he held surgical registrar posts in Beckenham, but the prospect of a consultant appointment seemed very poor. There were now two sons and a daughter to consider, so he turned to general practice in Eastleigh, remaining there until he retired. Fuller was a remarkable man in many respects: gifted with a prodigious memory and being a great reader, he became an authority on any subject that took his interest, from medicine, through to ornithology and Biblical scholarship. He and Marjorie were loyal members of Eastleigh Baptist Church and Harold was a frequent preacher in the district. He was co-author of a book on Christians in medicine. He did not tolerate bureaucracy, and NHS functionaries were the target of his wrath. On retirement, Harold and Marjorie moved to Alresford, in Hampshire. There Marjorie suffered a severe hemiplegia in 1990 and remained chair-bound. Harold, notably incompetent in domestic matters, took over and became an excellent cook. Their elder son Peter, a distinguished art critic and founder editor of the magazine *Modern painters*, predeceased them in a road accident. Their daughter, Ruth, became a consultant psychotherapist. Their younger son, Ian, is a social worker in Staffordshire. Harold developed carcinoma of the prostate with metastases, but died of a myocardial infarction on 12 January 1997.
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First Title value, for Searching Bird, John Daniel Henry (1908 - 1979)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-14 2017-06-05
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Occupation General practitioner
Details John Daniel Henry Bird was born in Longcot, Berkshire on 4 August 1908. His father, Daniel Henry, was a schoolmaster. He was educated at Ranelagh School, Bracknell, where he won a scholarship to King's College Hospital Medical School where he had a notable academic career. He gained a BSc in physiology (1929) and the University Gold Medal on graduating MB BS in 1932, having already won the Todd, Burridge and Legg Prizes and the senior scholarship. He then held the posts of house surgeon, senior casualty officer and surgical registrar at King's College Hospital and then assistant surgical officer at King George's Hospital, Ilford, and senior hospital medical officer at Maryport Hospital. During this period his most memorable post was that of senior casualty officer at King's College Hospital where he had extensive clinical experience, especially in treating fractures and he displayed the scrupulously high standards of workmanship he was to apply throughout his life. It was unfortunate that his hospital career was abruptly ended by a serious attack of pneumonia. On recovery his deep love for the Lake District led him to a post in general practice in Maryport. There the cottage hospital run by general practitioners allowed the full use of his skills especially with trauma among the mining community. John Bird was instrumental in steering together the separate town practices into a purpose-built centre to provide optimum facilities for patient care. He supported the Royal College of General Practitioners from its early beginnings, constantly striving to improve standards and he developed fully with his patients that affectionate and trusting relationship which is the greatest satisfaction of general practice. John Bird had many activities and interests in Maryport. He was Chairman of the Educational Settlement, encouraging the development of further education, and he filled various leading roles in the life of his local church. He enjoyed photography, reading, gardening and foreign travel, especially camping holidays on the Continent. Through his wide-ranging interest in life he was always a kindly, unassuming fount of knowledge and common sense, having a valuable contribution to make to any subject. He married Marjorie Clements in 1936 and they had two sons, one a doctor, and two daughters, both nurses. During his last illness he displayed immense personal courage, combined with calm acceptance. He died on 31 July 1979.
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First Title value, for Searching Irvine, Sir Donald Hamilton (1935 - 2018)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Alan Craft
Publication Date 2019-03-04
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Sir Donald Irvine was an outstanding general practitioner who throughout his career was at the heart of changing the relationship between the public and their doctors. He was the first, and so far only, general practitioner to become president of the General Medical Council (GMC). He was responsible for a seismic change in the philosophy of the GMC, from one of protecting doctors to that of protecting patients. He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, the son of Andrew Bell Hamilton Irvine, a general practitioner, and Dorothy Mary Irvine née Buckley, and grew up in Ashington, a mining town in Northumberland, in a house which was integral with the surgery. He therefore had early exposure to many aspects of medicine. He recalls in his memoir, *Medical professionalism and the public interest, reflections on a life in medicine* (London, Royal College of Practitioners Heritage Committee, 2018), that the practice was part of the family’s life and that everything fitted around the patients. At the age of ten, he developed rheumatic fever whilst on holiday in Edinburgh and he spent many months 100 miles from home. He recalled years later that the one thing that stuck in his mind from this time was the trust that he had in the doctor looking after him, Charles McNeil, because his manner and way of talking made him believe everything that was said. He was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School in Morpeth and then Durham University, where he qualified in 1958. In spite of encouragement to specialise, he was determined to join his father in general practice in Ashington. He did not do National Service because of his history of rheumatic fever. In the early years of the NHS general practice was very much the poor relation. Churchill’s doctor, Lord Moran, stated in 1958 that general practice was the place that doctors landed when they fell off the hospital ladder. This stung young Irvine. The recognition that standards needed to improve in general practice had been part of the stimulus for the formation of the College of General Practitioners in 1952 and his father was a founder member. At the age of 33, Irvine found himself as secretary to the College and from that time built a base from which he could fulfil his dream of making general practice an equal partner in the delivery of modern medicine. In those post war years, which of course saw the beginning of the NHS, a young doctor could enter general practice after only a year of hospital posts and never need to undertake any further training or recertification until they retired. This was clearly not good enough. John Walker at Newcastle University Medical School had worked hard to establish general practice in the undergraduate medical curriculum and he then turned his hand to postgraduate education, working with Irvine. A three-year vocational training for general practice was led by what was by then the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and Irvine was at the forefront of this. It was organised on a regional basis and he led that in the North. Recognising that there were no standards for general practice, he led a major study harnessing most of the northern region GPs and hospital paediatricians. He showed that it was possible to set standards for the care of children. He became chairman of the council of the RCGP and through that position was able to develop his ideas around improving professionalism, but it was on the wider stage of the GMC that he was to have most influence. Here he met the lawyer Sir Ian Kennedy, who had somewhat antagonised the medical profession with his 1980 Reith Lectures ‘Unmasking medicine’. Irvine had seen these lectures as a breath of fresh air, particularly their call to make the patient, rather than the doctor, the centre of care. Kennedy joined a small group with Irvine to revise the code of practice of doctors. Irvine’s vision was to change radically the GMC’s, and hence doctors’, approach to ethics. The crucial insight was to talk about what the ‘good doctor’ should do. At a stroke this shifted a cultural approach, which had been geared to telling doctors what they should NOT do, to one which emphasised what they should do. The result was the guideline *Good medical practice*, which, with regular revisions, continues to guide the practice of all doctors working in the UK. The GMC at that time had around 110 members, most of whom were elected, and only 11 non-doctors. The British Medical Association, the doctors’ trade union, had a large influence in those who were elected. It is not surprising therefore that there was considerable hostility to these changes. That there was any change was down to Irvine’s commitment to do good by patients, his toughness and a deal of charm. His cause was helped by several high profile medical scandals, including errant practice by doctors such as the gynaecologists Rodney Ledward and Richard Neale, the case of the serial killer Harold Shipman, and ‘Bristol’. It became known through a whistle blower that the results for children’s heart surgery in Bristol were substantially worse than they should have been. Three of the doctors involved were suspended and referred to the GMC. Irvine himself chaired the disciplinary panel, which found the doctors guilty and two were struck off the register. There was considerable media and public attention, which led to an inquiry led by Sir Ian Kennedy. Irvine gave evidence, not about the specific issues thrown up by Bristol, but about the prevailing paternalistic culture amongst the medical profession and what changes might be called for. Kennedy recalls that his sense was that Irvine was weighed down by the burden of what Bristol was exposing regarding a ‘club’ culture, the stifling of unwelcome views, the bullying and oppressive management, all of which he felt personally both responsible for and affronted by. His strongly expressed ideas were very influential in the direction that the Kennedy report took about education and training of doctors, and the need for patients to be at the centre. The Bristol report also gave Irvine external validation of the need to press ahead with change. The GMC council, however, remained hostile, but the appointment of a new chief executive, and political threats that if the GMC did not reform it would be abolished, were sufficient to precipitate reform of the composition and *modus operandi* of the organisation. His tenure as chairman was a bruising time and he had to survive a vote of no confidence and challenge to his leadership. He left seven months earlier than he might have done. His presidency was an unhappy period and not the obvious pinnacle of his career that it should have been. His book *The doctors’ tale: professionalism and public trust* (Abingdon, Radcliffe Medical), published in 2003, records this period of his life. He remembers 2000 as an *annus horribilis* for the GMC, a year which included high profile conduct proceedings, tensions within and between medical tribes, and significant pressure from government. Not surprisingly, his book received a mixed reception from the medical profession, but was received more favourably by the public. The overall result was a move to an independent GMC, which still exists but now with a clear focus on protecting patients as well as the education and training of doctors. It was slimmed down, with more lay representation and much strengthened conduct procedures. A move to revalidation, with doctors having to undergo revalidation, is also a result of the change of culture started by Irvine. Loie Hanscomb, of the US Picker Institute, recalls that as a doctor Irvine had a deep understanding of the importance of the human relationship between patient and physician. He was a pioneer, not only in the UK but in the US, through his work with the Picker Institute. In 2017, the American Board of Medical Specialties awarded him the prestigious Health Care Quality and Safety award, which recognises extraordinary achievement, with a particular focus on physician performance and professionalism. He made an indelible mark on the patient-centred care movement. He was tall, always immaculately dressed, unceasingly polite and described as a true gentleman. His hobbies included gardening (where he would wear kid leather gloves), birdwatching and walking in the Northumberland countryside. He had two sons and one daughter by his first wife, Margaret McGuckin, whom he married in 1960. They divorced in 1983. His second marriage to Sally Fountain was in 1986. They divorced in 2004 and he married his third wife Cynthia Rickitt in 2007. His last two years were marred by ill health with cardiac and renal failure. Cynthia, a nurse, managed his home dialysis and looked after him with immense dedication and devotion.
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First Title value, for Searching Fitzsimons, Robert Allen (1892 - 1978)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-01
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Occupation Chemist General practitioner General surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Robert Allen Fitzsimons was born on 16 March 1892 at Maugherow, County Sligo, Ireland, and educated there at Summerhill College. He entered the Customs and Excise branch of the Civil Service by competitive examination in 1911 and in 1912 was transferred from Ireland to the Custom House at Billingsgate, London, where he rose to the position of Government Analyst. Although he loved his work as a chemist he decided on a career in medicine. He studied in the evenings at Birkbeck College and took the BSc in physics, chemistry and zoology in 1920. He was offered a scholarship to Charing Cross Hospital Medical School and resigned from the Civil Service in 1921. After further distinctions and prizes he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1926 and took the MB BS with distinction in surgery in 1930. After a post as house surgeon at Charing Cross he was in general practice at Brixton. He then moved to a practice in Cardiff and, while there, held part-time posts as a demonstrator in anatomy at the Welsh National School of Medicine and as a clinical assistant at Cardiff Royal Infirmary. In 1931 he became surgical registrar at Charing Cross. He took the FRCS in 1932 and the following year was appointed to the consultant staff. After a part-time appointment as surgical registrar to the National Orthopaedic Hospital he became in 1936 surgeon to the Metropolitan Hospital. His interest in fractures continued throughout his surgical career. He started a fracture clinic at Charing Cross and held this on two mornings a week, as well as a general surgical out-patient clinic, until his retirement in 1957. His research was on the healing of fractures and his clinical interest surgery of the thyroid and breast. During the second world war he was surgeon with charge of air-raid casualties at Charing Cross and he also worked at Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, and the Metropolitan. He was a loyal friend and colleague with a keen sense of humour. His memory was phenomenal which might be attributed to his mother's custom of teaching him poetry to recite as they walked over the hills to and from school. He read poetry all his life and delighted his family and friends with his recitations. His other interests included music, art and drawing and his sketches during ward rounds and teaching sessions in his clinics were very fine. He loved using his hands and restored many works of art. Photography was another of his interests and he was also a keen gardener and rose-grower. In April 1927 he married Dr Mary Patricia McKelvey, a Westminster graduate whom he met at Charing Cross Hospital, which at that time was providing clinical facilities for students from the Westminster while it was being rebuilt. Their son, James Thomas, qualified as a doctor and became reader in physiology at Cambridge University and their daughter, Judith Mary, specialised as a paediatric neurologist. He died on 2 May 1978 aged 86 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Beare, Stanley Samuel (1890 - 1978)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-06
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Stanley Samuel Beare was born on 20 June 1890 at Newton Abbot, Devon, the son of Samuel Beare an ironmonger and engineer, and Alice Austin Beer, whose father was a journalist and Crimean War veteran. He was educated at Newton Abbot Grammar School and Strand School, King's College, London. In 1909 he entered the Middlesex Hospital Medical and Dental Schools and won prizes in chemistry, physics and biology but these studies were interrupted when he started his dental training. He achieved the LDS in 1912 and was awarded the Rymen gold medal as the most distinguished final year student. He never practised dentistry and qualified medically in 1914 with the Conjoint Diploma and held several junior appointments at the Middlesex Hospital, including house surgeon to Sir John Bland-Sutton and Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor. At the outbreak of war in 1914 Samuel Beare joined the Royal Navy as Surgeon-Lieutenant, serving until 1919. In the part he played in the Zeebrugge raid he was awarded the OBE (Mil) and he was mentioned in despatches by Admiral Sir Roger Keyes. Returning in 1919 to the Middlesex Hospital he was appointed to the important post of resident surgical officer, following a few months as resident assistant anaesthetist. He carried out much emergency work and gained considerable surgical experience, so that when he entered general practice in Weybridge, he carried out the surgery of the practice and also of the district. At the inception of the National Health Service Samuel Beare became a full- time surgical consultant at the Woking and Chertsey group of hospitals. He was elected FRCS in 1947 as a member of the College of more than 20 years' standing. In 1956 he retired from the NHS and was appointed Emeritus Surgeon, but continued in private practice. Following retirement with more time to spare, he returned in 1959 to the Middlesex Hospital as honorary curator of the Ferens Institute, director of the department of medical illustration and medical advisor to the records department. He carried out all this work most conscientiously and was much loved by everyone who knew him. He was also advisor in cancer registration to the North-West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board and a Fellow of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. Samuel Beare possessed superb surgical skill and looked after all his patients with unremitting care. He had a sympathetic personality with a keen sense of humour; his patients adored him. His younger colleagues at the Middlesex Hospital in his later years looked forward to his presence at the staff lunch table listening to his stories with fascination which often concerned his chief hobby of fishing for trout and salmon. He also told anecdeotes about the great characters who had taught at the Middlesex Hospital who had been his fellow students. He played tennis when younger and was swimming regularly at 82 years! He married in 1920 and he and his wife had a son, Robin, who became a plastic surgeon and was a member of the Court of Examiners of the College. Samuel Beare died on 13 June 1978 after a short illness, survived by his second wife.
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First Title value, for Searching Riddell, Leith Alexander (1903 - 1982)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-20 2015-09-25
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General practitioner General surgeon
Details The following was published in volume 6 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Born on 5 November 1903 in Wellington, New Zealand, Leith Alexander Riddell was the only son of Alexander Riddell, an engineer, and Hannah Cressall Newman. He was educated at Roseneath Primary School, Wellington, and Wellington College. Later he attended Knox College, Otago, and studied medicine there, qualifying in 1925. After resident appointments in Wellington Hospital he came to England, took the MRCS, Primary FRCS (winning the Hallett Prize) and the Final FRCS, all in 1929, before undertaking a series of postgraduate appointments including one at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, under Bevers. After two years surgical appointments in Port Elizabeth and a research appointment in Finland, he returned to New Zealand to become surgeon superintendent of the Wairoa Hospital in 1938, where he soon built up a reputation as an immensely experienced and careful general-practitioner surgeon, a role which carried him as far afield as Nauru Island. On retiring from Wairoa in 1969 he was invited to Tasmania to take over the management of the accident and emergency department in the Napier Hospital, a position he occupied until his death on 8 September 1982 at the age of 78. A man of academic distinction and unstoppable energy he was active in amateur dramatics (he both wrote plays and acted in them) and also co-founded the Port Elizabeth Surf Life-Saving Club. He married first Miss Ostrorog in 1930 and later Enid Moss, who survived him. He had four sons and two daughters. The following was published in volume 7 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Leith Alexander Riddell was educated at Wellington College and Otago University Medical School. After a short time he came to England for surgical training. He was awarded the Hallett Prize in 1929. Little is known of his hospital appointments before his return to New Zealand in 1938 but he spent time in England, South Africa and Finland where he held a research appointment. From 1938 until 1969 he was surgeon superintendent of the Wairoa Hospital where he had to cope with all the problems of surgery, gynaecology and orthopaedics with little assistance. Many times the hospital matron would act as anaesthetist, laboratory technician and radiologist in order to cope with major surgical emergencies. In addition to his hospital work he acted as peripatetic general practitioner to the saw-milling area in the surrounding countryside. After his retirement at the age of 65 he moved to Tasmania where he was appointed chief of the outpatient and accident and emergency service in the town of Birnit. Following a heart attack he returned to New Zealand intending to retire to Napier but once again he was asked to take control of the accident and emergency department at Napier Hospital. Riddell was a founder of the Wairoa Little Theatre Society where he acted and wrote plays. He was an original member of the Port Elizabeth Surf Life Saving Club and in his latter days enjoyed playing bowls at Bluff Hill Club, Napier. He worked at Napier Hospital until his death on 8 September 1982, aged 78, of coronary disease and was survived by his wife, Enid.
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First Title value, for Searching Kindersley, Charles Edward (1890 - 1966)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-26
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Occupation General practitioner Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Charles Kindersley was born on 5 May 1890 at Eton, where his father was a housemaster. He was educated at Sedbergh, where he won his colours for rugby, cricket and shooting, and at Magdalen College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1912. He then went to St Bartholomew's Hospital where he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1916, and he played rugger for Bart's, the United Hospitals and the Harlequins. He served for the remainder of the first world war in the Royal Navy, and in 1918 he married Miss Peggy Carlisle, by whom he had two sons. On demobilization he served as a house surgeon at the Royal United Hospital, Bath, and took his MB in 1920. He then went into general practice at Warminster where he was instrumental in building up the Cottage Hospital, and the surgery he was able to do there convinced him that he should make it his career. Therefore in 1928 he courageously gave up the practice and returned to Bart's as a demonstrator of anatomy, in preparation for the Fellowship which he obtained in 1930. In the same year he was appointed consultant surgeon to the Royal United Hospital, and for the next 25 years he worked tirelessly and methodically to improve the hospital services in the Bath clinical area. He started a fracture clinic in the hospital which developed into a complete orthopaedic department; he joined the staff of the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases where he inaugurated a plaster service for arthritics; and he played a prominent part in the integration of the group of cottage hospitals in the neighbourhood of Bath. In 1939 he joined the local Territorial hospital and took charge of the surgical division, but had to resign on health grounds in 1941, though he was well enough to continue his hospital duties till his retirement in 1955 when the regional board appointed him Emeritus Consulting Surgeon. Kindersley's energies were not confined to his clinical duties, for he showed a special aptitude for committee work. After serving for many years on the Hospital Management Committee he was its Chairman from 1957 till 1965. In the British Medical Association he was Chairman of the Bath Division in 1944, and President of the Bath, Bristol and Somerset Branch in 1953-54; he also served on the Central Consultants and Specialists Committee. No doubt his success as a committee man was akin to his faculty for creating a team spirit among his surgical colleagues, and sharing out the work and its rewards. He took a special interest in the educational programmes of the Royal College of Surgeons, and his assistance at the time of the re-building appeal was greatly appreciated. Charles was a good shot, but his chief recreation was salmon fishing on his beloved river Dart. His enthusiasm for life and work never seemed to wane, even in retirement, and it was after only a short illness that he died on 20 November 1966. His second wife Evelyn and one of his sons survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Doous, Trevor Watson (1932 - 1975)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-26
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Born on 15 October 1932 in Auckland, Doous attended the Mount Albert Grammar School, Auckland University College and the University of Otago where he graduated MB ChB in 1956, and where in his final year he was awarded the Sir Carrick Robertson Surgical Prize. He was junior and senior house surgeon with the Auckland Hospital Board and a foundation member of the House Surgeons' Association. In 1959 he went as a general practitioner to the Chatham Islands and then returned to Auckland for two years as surgical registrar. In 1962 he went to the United Kingdom and while in England became a Fellow of both the English and Edinburgh Colleges of Surgeons within the same year, 1963. He was chief assistant to the department of surgery at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1966 and from 1968 to 1970 was senior registrar and surgical tutor at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School. Throughout his eight years in the United Kingdom he made a name for himself in surgical research and in 1967 he was awarded a research fellowship by the Imperial Cancer Research Fund. While holding this fellowship he made a study in vivo of steroidogenesis by the human adrenal gland and ovary. In order to carry out this work he mastered the intricacies of steroid biochemistry so that he was able to discuss and plan experiments as an equal with the best steroid biochemists in London - no mean feat for a surgeon. He presented this work as a thesis to the University of Otago and was awarded the degree of ChM in 1969. He returned to Auckland in 1970 as senior lecturer in the new department of surgery and in 1973 was promoted to Associate Professor in recognition of his clinical, teaching and research contributions to the department of surgery. Trevor Doous was an excellent example of that rare breed of person known as an academic surgeon. He was a skilled and imaginative clinical surgeon with a real flair for research. His special interest was in surgery of cancer of the breast, and his opinion and advice on the handling of patients with disseminated breast cancer was much sought after, and these cases were put under his care. That the quality of his research was fully recognized can be seen from the number of his papers in international journals in the field and from his being invited to participate in conferences in Singapore, Malaysia and India. He was an excellent and enthusiastic teacher, a good bedside instructor and most insistent on the correct interpretation of clinical signs in surgery. He was a clear and imaginative lecturer, using modern audio-visual methods, and with a flair for the theatrical to stimulate his student audience. He had a genuine interest in the students he taught and in their activities, both curricular and extra-curricular. One of his favourite recreations was fishing in both sea and lakes, and he learnt to fly after his return to New Zealand. He died on 21 June 1975 and was survived by his wife Dr Jennifer Wilson and two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Streeter, John Soper (1802 - 1873)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-11
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Born in Drury Lane, where his father was for long in general practice, and was educated at the united hospitals of Guy's and St Thomas's and at the Middlesex Hospital. After qualifying he joined his father in his practice, and continued to carry it on in the same house until a few years before his death, when he removed to Harpur Street, Red Lion Square. He was one of the pupils of Spurzheim, whose lectures on phrenology he attended and whose cause he advocated both when it was popular and when under the cloud of derision. He was a man above the ordinary standard both in intellect and acquirements, and found time in a laborious practice to read and to write. Much esteemed by his brethren, he constantly attended the meetings of the Medical Society of London and that of Westminster, and made carefully prepared and somewhat didactic speeches. He served the office of President in the second of these societies in a manner at once urbane and dignified. His biographer, who signs himself "J F C", says of him: "Though fully impressed with a sense of his own importance, he was one of the kindest and most inoffensive of men. I recollect no instance, during a period of thirty years, of his ever having uttered an offensive word. During the last few years of his life, being in independent circumstances, he became what may be called somewhat of an idle man, devoting himself to reading which was mainly confined to works on medical subjects. He was very fond of chat and was apt to hold his hearer 'by the button'. No matter how urgent was the business of his friend, or whatever excuse he might make to be released, Streeter always managed to arrest him for a time in a manner which was really comical." Yet he left no enemy behind him and was sincerely mourned by a large circle. He died at 20 Harpur Street on July 3rd, 1873, and was buried in the family vault at Thornton Heath. His photograph is in the College Album. He is described as being above the middle height, of robust frame, and with a face full of intelligence. His head, says J F C, "might have been moulded into a phrenological model". His likeness is reminiscent of the late Sir John Simon, KCB. He was a Member of the Russell Institute, Hon Fellow (at one time President) of the Physical Society of Guy's Hospital, and Hon Fellow of the Medical Society of London. Publications:- Streeter's writings are of some importance and include: *Practical Observations on Abortion*, 8vo, with plates and woodcuts, London, 1840. In this he advocated the free use of opium. An edition of A L Moreau's *Icones Obstetricae*. A series of sixty plates illustrative of the art and science of midwifery, with tables, fol, London, 1842. "On Small-pox and its Combination with Pregnancy."- *Lancet*, 1837-8, i, 611. "On Whooping-cough."- *Lond Med Gaz*, 1844, xxxv, 195. "On Statistics of Cholera of 1832, at St Giles's."- *Lancet*, 1849, i, 290.
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First Title value, for Searching Tyler, James Mackenzie (1915 - 1995)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-08
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Born on 16 September 1915 in Auckland, New Zealand, Jim was the son of James Tyler, the city engineer of Auckland, and his wife Eva, née Mackenzie. He was educated at Auckland Grammar School and Otago Medical School, whence he qualified MB ChB in 1938. After qualifying he worked at Auckland Public Hospital and in 1940 joined the second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. He was posted to the Middle East in 1940 as RMO, 5th Field Regiment. He served in Greece and was left behind at the evacuation, but escaped back to Egypt in a fishing smack to join his regiment. As RMO, 5th Field Regiment he was captured at Siddie Azziz in 1941, but escaped one week later with the help of some divisional cavalry soldiers. After this battle, he was posted to the 5th Field Ambulance and served in charge of an ADS behind 5th Brigade from Alamein to Tunis at the end of the desert campaign. He was awarded an immediate mention in despatches for his work over this period. At the end of the war he decided to become a surgeon and went to London, obtaining the FRCS in 1946. In 1947 he returned to New Zealand as surgical registrar at Auckland Hospital. The next year he set up in surgical and general practice at Hastings. He was visiting surgeon to the Memorial Hospital, Hastings, and became senior surgeon in 1960. He retired from the hospital in 1980 and finally gave up practice in 1985. He became FRACS in 1950. During this time he was supervisor of surgical training and responsible for the Hastings Hospital being accepted for one year in the FRACS training programme. To his colleagues, Jim was a friendly, unassuming, generous man with a keen sense of humour. He was a good listener and a clear communicator. His approach to patients was holistic. He was an astute diagnostician and a fast and skillful operator. He would lend a sympathetic ear to all and always came up with simple, direct advice of a high order, whatever the problem. Outside medicine, he had a multitude of interests. He was medical officer to the Hawkes Bay Territorial Regiment 1950-6 and received the Efficiency Decoration. A major interest was the Cancer Society, of which he started the local branch and became President of the National Council 1970-1; in 1988 he was made a life member. He was honorary surgeon to the Hawkes Bay Jockey Club. He was a member of the New Zealand Medical Association. He helped set up the YMCA in Hastings and was active in the Hawkes Bay Postgraduate Society. His penchant for cooking was well known. He also enjoyed cars, especially his favourite Jaguar, and had an active interest in the stock market - commenting on the news of Ceramco shares dropping on the day he died! Tyler died of cancer, a disease which he had done so much to alleviate, on 20 January 1995. He was survived by his wife, Betty Mary, née Ellis, a nurse whom he had married in Rome on 20 February 1945, his daughters Pamela and Diana (both nurses) his son James (Jay) who was also a surgeon, and ten grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Luke, Clifton James (1925 - 1991)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-17 2015-10-14
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Occupation General practitioner Medical Officer Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Clifton James Luke was born in Sydney, Australia, on 25 April 1925, the only son of Clive Herbert Luke, a businessman, and Dorothy May (nee Mullaney) whose father was Mayor of Goulburn, New South Wales, and whose great grandfather had been the Professor of Botany at Dublin University. His education was at St Patrick's College, Strathfield NSW and the University of Sydney, where he qualified MBBS in 1947. He was resident medical officer at St Vincent's Hospital then at Townsville Base Hospital from 1949 to 1950. After five years as the medical officer with the Department of Immigration in Rome and Athens he returned to the St George's area in 1957 to general practice. Following this wide experience he sailed to the UK to commence training in ophthalmology at Moorfield's Eye Hospital, London, where he passed his DO in 1962. In 1963 he attended the Basic Sciences course in the RCS, ensuring that his friends learnt one fact a day thoroughly. Many of these were to be tested in the subsequent Primary FRCS. He worked in the Western Ophthalmic Hospital from 1965 to 1967, passing his FRCS. Subsequently he was appointed visiting ophthalmic surgeon to the Prince of Wales Hospital and lecturer in ophthalmology at the University of New South Wales. From 1967 he was honorary assistant ophthalmic surgeon to St George's Hospital in Sydney. He regularly worked in eye camps in India arranged by the Jesuit missions. He met and married Iris Newton in Rome in 1954 and they had three daughters and one son; Caroline is a general practitioner in London; Margaret, Elizabeth and Peter are all in the paramedical professions. He was filled with a great sense of adventure, and after a small aircraft flight throughout the north of Australia and the Solomon Islands he learnt to fly. He was an active skier, yachtsman and trout fisherman throughout his life and was a great traveller. An enthusiast, he imparted this to his friends and colleagues and was always most generous to his juniors, to whom he gave considerable help during their early years of individual practice. Actively involved in local medical politics he served as President of the Illawarra Suburbs Medical Association from 1981 to 1983. In his last years he moved to Potts Point where he helped many country colleagues by relieving them as *locum tenens*. His terminal illness of repeated episodes of multiple thromboemboli of unknown aetiology lasted for three years: he maintained his usual cheerful humour, showing tremendous courage till the end. He died peacefully at the age of 66 on 6 September 1991 from melaena from ruptured oesophageal varices. Cliff was trusted by his patients, respected by his colleagues and loved by his family and many friends. He met his wife Iris in Rome and they married in 1954. Clifton James Luke died on 6 September 1991 aged 66. He was survived his wife and their four children: Caroline, Margaret, Elizabeth and Peter.
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First Title value, for Searching Haine, Francis Henry (1908 - 2000)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-03
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Frank Haine was born in Little Wolford, Oxfordshire, on 13 November 1909, the eldest of four boys. His father, Robert John Haine, was a farmer who had moved from Somerset to the north Cotswolds after the death of his first wife. His mother, Marianne Baines Horne, was the daughter of a corn merchant and became a magistrate. He grew up on the farm, and, when once asked what was the greatest of modern inventions replied unhesitatingly "Wellington boots", having unhappy boyhood memories of hours standing in the fields in soaking leather boots when he was sent to scare the birds. He was educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Stratford upon Avon, the school that Shakespeare attended. There he won the Victor Maslin prize for religious knowledge and gained third class honours in the School Certificate. He left school at 16 and was apprenticed to a local chemist for three years, but then decided to train as a doctor in order to become a medical missionary in China. He studied medicine in Edinburgh - cycling there in summer (it took four days). In winter, he went by tramp steamer from London, and it was on one of these trips that he met Jean Cuthbertson, a fellow medical student, who later became his wife in 1939. He qualified in 1936 with a gold medal for materia medica. He completed junior posts in Wakefield and Hammersmith, where he was house surgeon to A K Henry, and was much influenced by Grey Turner. A succession of registrar posts followed, in Cheltenham, Gloucester, Ipswich and Bournemouth, prior to joining the RAMC in 1940. Frank was captured in the desert in 1941 whilst treating the wounded and was a prisoner of war for three and a half years. When liberated, he continued to serve as medical officer to a civilian internment camp in Austria until he was repatriated in 1945. After the war, he worked in hospitals in Hastings, Cheltenham, Gloucester and Tilbury, passing the FRCS in 1954. By then Jean was practicing as a GP in the Cotswolds and surgical posts within reach of home were difficult to find. He went into partnership with Clark Nicholson at Moreton in Marsh, until Nicholson retired, when Frank and Jean merged their practices until their own retirement in 1980. They were both very concerned about the large number of lonely old people in the area, and this inspired them to start an Over 60 Club, which they ran for 20 years. They also founded the Cotswold Villages Old People's Housing Association, in order to build small dwellings for elderly people in the centre of the village where they lived. He had many interests, among them beekeeping, and he had a small herd of Hereford cattle, for which he cut hay in the traditional way with a scythe. He had a good bass voice and was a member of the Blockley Choral Society for many years. He and his wife had one son and two daughters, one of whom was called Theresa. Jean developed dementia in the early 1990s and this overshadowed the last few years of his life. He died of bronchopneumonia on 21 April 2000.
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First Title value, for Searching Pye-Smith, Charles Derwent (1878 - 1965)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-24
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Charles Derwent Pye-Smith was born in Sheffield in 1878, but came south for his education at Mill Hill School and Guy's Hospital. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1903 and in the same year passed the examination for the MB degree in the University of London, but did not complete the BS till 1905. He took the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in the same year and then returned to the North to enter general practice in Huddersfield. It must have been his intention to practise as a GP surgeon, and this may be regarded as an early indication of the shyness which always caused him to underrate his capability. In 1914 he joined the RAMC and in the Army his sterling qualities could be assessed and rewarded more adequately. He was mentioned in dispatches in 1916, 1917 and 1918, in 1917 he was awarded the MC and the DSO, to which a bar was added in 1918; at the end of the war he retired with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. Returning to civil life in 1919 he was appointed honorary surgeon to the Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and served in that capacity until he reached the retiring age of 60 in 1938, when he was made consulting surgeon and so continued till 1947. The high esteem in which he was held by his colleagues is shown by his appointment as President of the Huddersfield Medical Society, and also Chairman of the Huddersfield Division of the British Medical Association. His was an unusual personality for he was a physician-surgeon who was interested in medicine as a way of life rather than a career. The experience he gained from close attention to detail made him a first-class clinician, and a wise counsellor to many young surgeons who benefited from his friendship and training. His disciplined life and his humility were inspired by his Christian convictions, and it was therefore natural that he served as a churchwarden of the parish church. He retired to Bakewell in Derbyshire where he could enjoy the beauty of the country, which was a real delight to him, and he was able to follow his literary and musical hobbies and also trout fishing. He was unmarried, and he died in 1965 at the age of 86, after an illness which brought him back as a patient to his old hospital. In his will he left money for artists painting the countryside surrounding Huddersfield and whose work was to be exhibited at the local art gallery.
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First Title value, for Searching Mullins, Allan Edwin Joseph (1928 - 1983)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-24
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Singer
Details Allan Edwin Joseph Mullins was born in Haberfield, Sydney, on 19 May 1928 and after early education at De La Salle College, Ashfield, entered the University of Sydney for his medical studies, qualifying in 1953. Initially he entered general practice in Albury and Wagga Wagga but came to England in 1957 to pursue postgraduate studies. He passed the FRCS in 1960 and was subsequently senior surgical registrar at the Royal Northern Hospital. In addition to his surgical work his singing ability was such that he was able to accept singing engagements with the New Opera Company, Sadlers Wells Theatre and also with Philopera, London. In 1959 his fiancée Joan Sligo whom he had met at Wagga Base Hospital came to London and they were married in August of that year. He returned to Australia in 1963 and initially started in private practice at Penrith in the western suburbs of Sydney. He was appointed honorary surgeon and chairman of the department of surgery at Nepean District Hospital, Penrith. He was later also visiting consultant surgeon to the Hawkesbury Benevolent Society and Hospital, Windsor, and consultant surgeon to Governor Philip Special Hospital, Penrith. He had a special interest in the use of hypoglossofacial anastomosis in the treatment of facial palsy after radical surgery for malignant tumours of the parotid gland and in 1973 visited the United States to study the newly developed stapling techniques for intestinal anastomoses. He was elected a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1975. At Nepean Hospital he instituted postgraduate meetings and after some years played an important role in the development of a new private hospital at Jamison which was completed in 1967. Despite his heavy professional commitment he served as a member of the New South Wales Branch Council of the Australian Medical Association from 1968 to 1969 and was a co-opted member of the Hospital Committee Council from 1970 to 1977. He had a beautiful tenor voice and in 1981 he became president of the National Lieder Society of Australia and the Nepean District Music Club. The next year he was proud to be asked to sing Haydn's Creation at the Canberra School of Music and Bach's St Matthew Passion in Newcastle. Only a month before his death he recorded a tape of Schubert songs for the Australian Broadcasting Commission. He died in 1983 and is survived by his wife Joan and eight children.
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First Title value, for Searching Spencer-Bernard, John Gray Churchill (1907 - 1977)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

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.
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First Title value, for Searching Clark, John Mounsten Pemberton (1906 - 1982)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-20
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Occupation General practitioner Orthopaedic surgeon
Details John Mounsten Pemberton Clark was born in Leicester on 28 November 1906, the son of Edwin George Clark, a bank clerk, and Hilda Mary, née Pemberton. He was educated at North Manchester Grammar School (Preparatory) and Wellingborough School, Northants. He entered the medical school at Leeds, qualified in 1931 and soon began his orthopaedic training. Family circumstances interfered with his career and he entered general practice in Dewsbury. However, he returned to surgery in 1938 becoming orthopaedic registrar at the General Infirmary in Leeds, obtaining his FRCS in 1939. Clark joined the RAMC in 1939 becoming a Major and an orthopaedic specialist. He was evacuated from Dunkirk and later served in Malta throughout the third siege. Apart from his care of service personnel he helped with the treatment of the child victims of a poliomyelitis epidemic on the island. He subsequently served in North Africa, Italy and Austria. During his war service he was encouraged by Sir Herbert Seddon to develop his pioneering work in muscular transplantation. After the war he was appointed orthopaedic surgeon in Leeds in 1946 and established a regional poliomyelitis unit at Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield. He was closely associated with the development of units for tuberculosis and cerebral palsy and encouraged the development of the College of Remedial Gymnasts, and the integration of the orthopaedic nursing schools in Wakefield and Thorpe Arch. In 1947 the British Government sent him to Israel to advise on the poliomyelitis services and in 1961 the Israeli Minister of Health invited him to start a poliomyelitis unit at Zrifin. 'Pasco' Clark as he was affectionately known was a popular teacher at the General Infirmary and at St James's Hospital. He received a personal Chair in Orthopaedic Surgery and was a strong supporter of Sir Frank Holdsworth in the new concept of rotational training of registrars and encouraged his own trainees to visit other national and international centres. He wrote a classic paper during the war on pectoralis-major transplantation for brachial plexus lesions. He continued to be interested in this problem and he published a book, *Tether contractions and deformity*, four years after his retirement. In 1966 Clark married Sue Hartley who had been theatre superintendent at the orthopaedic unit at Pinderfield's Hospital. He was a shy man with great physical and mental courage. His other life interests were fell walking and classical music and his dislike of dance music did not prevent him conducting a dance band during the Malta siege. John M P Clark died at the age of 75 on February 17 1982, leaving his wife Sue. They had no children.
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First Title value, for Searching Mills, Ronald Hubert Bonfield (1923 - 1989)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-23
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Occupation General practitioner Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Robert Hubert Bonfield Mills was born at Merthyr Tydfil and educated at St John's College, Cambridge, and University College Hospital, graduating MB BCh in 1946. After national service in the Royal Navy he entered general practice in Merthyr Tydfil. Having obtained his Fellowship in 1953, he left general practice in 1954 and was appointed surgical registrar at Merthyr General Hospital. In 1956 he was appointed specialist in accident and emergency surgery at East Glamorgan General Hospital, where he later became consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon. He was chairman of the Welsh Committee for Hospital Medical Services from 1977 to 1981 and was chairman of the Welsh Council of the BMA from 1981 to 1983, as well as serving on a number of Welsh medical committees. An approachable, kindly and helpful man, Mills devoted himself to his professional commitments, though his family occupied chief place in his life. He retired in 1984 and died on 21 August 1989, survived by his wife, Audrey, a son, and a daughter who is a consultant obstetrician. See below for an amended version of the published obituary: Robert Hubert Bonfield Mills was a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at East Glamorgan Hospital, south Wales. He was born in Merthyr Tydfil on 31 December 1923. His father, Lewis Mills, was a sanitary inspector and chairman of Merthyr Tydfil football club and the Dowlais choir. His mother, Margaret Ann née Bonfield, was a teacher who was granted a retrospective degree from Cardiff University. Mills was educated at Castle Grammar School in Merthyr. He then went on to St John's College, Cambridge, and University College Hospital, graduating MB Bchir in 1946. During his National Service he was a surgeon lieutenant in the fleet air arm of HMS Illustrious. He was subsequently a general practitioner in Merthyr Tydfil and was then appointed as a surgical registrar at Merthyr General Hospital. In 1956 he was became a specialist in accident and emergency surgery at East Glamorgan Hospital, where he later became consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon. He also had a medico-legal practice. In 1959 he gained his MD, writing on 'the problems of closed liver injuries'. He was chairman of the Welsh Committee for Hospital Medical Services from 1977 to 1981 and was chairman of the Welsh Council of the BMA from 1981 to 1983, as well as serving on a number of Welsh medical committees. He married Audrey Vera Mountjoy and they had two children, Angela, a gynaecologist, and Nigel, a solicitor. He was interested in travel and photography. A keen pianist, he received a gold medal at the age of 13. As a student he played rugby for London Welsh. He was an approachable, energetic, hard working and kind man, with an enormous sense of humour. Mills devoted himself to his professional commitments, though his family occupied chief place in his life. He retired in 1984 and died on 21 August 1989.
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First Title value, for Searching Kohn, Frederick (1892 - 1984)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-05
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Frederick (Fritz) Kohn was born of Jewish parents on 22 May 1892 in Komotau in North West Bohemia, the son of a horse dealer and his early education was at the local gymnasium (grammar school), where he was taught by Cistercian monks. In 1910 he went to Prague for medical studies at the German Karl Ferdinand University and qualified in 1915. After six months postgraduate work in Prague he was commissioned into the Austro-Hungarian Army as a Lieutenant, serving on the Eastern Front. At the end of the war he returned to civilian life, initially as a general practitioner but in 1920 he moved to work in Karlsbad, a spa town with a population of about 20,000. He was appointed surgeon to a private hospital and in addition to treating the local population also looked after many patients from other parts who required surgical attention while visiting the spa. He remained in practice at Karlsbad until 1938 when he was called upon to serve in the Czechoslovakian Army for a short while until the Sudetenland was taken over by German troops. He was then arrested and imprisoned by the Germans and spent some time in Dachau before being released as a result of intervention by the Quakers. He and his wife arrived in England shortly before the war and after the outbreak of hostilities the Medical Officer of Health of the City of London, Dr C F White, appointed him a stretcher-bearer in the service of the ARP. At first the duties were light but when the air-raids on London started in October 1940 his work was arduous and dangerous. Many of his victims were taken to St Bartholomew's Hospital and his work and surgical knowledge came to the attention of Professor Sir James Paterson Ross. In 1941 he was given permission to work as a doctor and was successful in his application for the post of house surgeon at St Martin's Hospital, Bath. Within a few weeks the resident surgical officer had been called up and as Fritz's ability had by then been recognised he was appointed medical superintendent and in addition to his administrative duties continued to work as a surgeon throughout the war years; this included treating most of the victims of the air raids on Bath on two consecutive nights in May 1942, when over two hundred casualties were brought to the hospital. Wounded soldiers from North Africa came to the hospital after arrival at Avonmouth by convoy and later in the war some of the wounded from Normandy came to St Martin's after being flown home only a few hours after sustaining their injuries on the battlefield. St Martin's Hospital was a local poor law hospital, enlarged by Emergency Medical Service huts and at its maximum capacity during the war years accommodated nine hundred patients. After the introduction of the National Health Service his administrative duties as medical superintendent ceased but he remained on the hospital staff as consultant surgeon until 1957. His cheerful manner made him popular with patients and professional colleagues, but he could be abrasive in the operating theatre when difficulties arose. The high esteem in which he was held is testified by the building of the Kohn Hall and Library at St Martin's Hospital with money raised by public subscription and his services to the nation and the Royal College of Surgeons were recognised by the award of the King's Medal and his election to the Fellowship in 1975. He died on 18 December 1984, aged 92 and was survived by his wife and son, Ernst.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007398
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First Title value, for Searching Gowland, Humphrey Walter (1918 - 1981)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-08
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist
Details Humphrey Walter Gowland was born in 1918 in Dunedin, New Zealand, the second son of Percy Gowland, who later became the eminent Professor of Anatomy at Otago Medical School. He was educated at first in Dunedin and later at Waitaki College where he had a distinguished international athletic career. He received his undergraduate medical education at Otago, qualifying MB ChB in 1941. He represented the University in cricket and football. His first house surgeon job was at Wellington Hospital. He obtained his Primary FRCS in Dunedin at the first examination for the College to be held outside the UK. He joined the New Zealand Air Force as a medical officer in 1943 serving at Woodbourne and later at Green Island. After the war, he spent a short time in general practice and then became surgical registrar at Wellington Hospital. In 1948 he proceeded to London to study for the Final FRCS and his old friend Dr Tuckey tells an anecdote of this time: 'In January 1948 I left for the UK and Humphrey followed towards the end of the year. I was doing medicine while Humphrey did surgery. Our wives and children shared much in common and we made a few expeditions together. Once on a non-stop trip in southern England on a double decker bus our sons both had urgent need to pass water, Humphrey led the way to the back platform and grasped his son with one hand and held on with the other while his son sprayed following cars, that son is now also a urologist'. He obtained his FRCS in 1949 and then worked at All Saints' Hospital in London during 1952-53 where his subsequent interest in urology was much influenced by Terence Millin. Gowland returned to New Zealand in 1953, entered specialist urological private practice and was appointed to the staff of Wellington Hospital where he served until his death. He became FRACS in 1953 and was appointed to the Dominion Committee of the Council of which he subsequently became Chairman. In 1964 the Medical Council was reconstituted and he became the representative of the RACS and served for four terms on Council. During this time, he became Chairman of the very difficult Penal Cases Committee and Chairman of Council itself in the last year of his life. He held every post of significance in medical and university circles in Wellington. Gowland retained his interest in aviation medicine and became a Wing-Commander in the Territorial Air Force acting as civilian consultant to the Civil Aviation Department and subsequently to the armed services. He became medical advisor to the Antarctic division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and was one of the few medical officers who visited Antarctica and the South Pole in person. Gowland retained his interest in sport, especially cricket and football. He was medical officer to the rugby football union, chairing its committee on spinal injuries. He was also made a life member of the cricket association. He was a Rotarian and gave much to community service, including the setting up of a spina bifida clinic at the Wellington Hospital. He was also concerned with postgraduate education for the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and in his own speciality of urology. He had an enormous circle of friends who packed Wellington Cathedral for his memorial service. He died suddenly on 20 February 1981 aged 63, while operating at Bowen Hospital, Wellington.
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First Title value, for Searching Last, Raymond Jack (1903 - 1993)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-14
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Occupation Anatomist General practitioner Medical Officer
Details Raymond Last was born on 26 May 1903 in Adelaide, South Australia, the son of John Last, a bookseller, and Mildred Louisa Rundle - interestingly he always made a point of describing himself as English! He was educated at Adelaide High School and the University of Adelaide, where he was taught anatomy by Professor Wood-Jones. He graduated MB BS in 1924 just after his 21st birthday, the youngest person ever to qualify in medicine in Adelaide. He was appointed resident medical officer at Adelaide Hospital in 1925 and then worked as a general practitioner in Booleroo Centre, a country town in South Australia, from 1926 to 1938. Shortly before war was declared in 1939 he came to England seeking a higher surgical qualification. In the winter of 1940 he survived several days in a lifeboat off Iceland, and after being rescued he served with the British forces liberating Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) from Italian occupation. He commanded the Abyssinian Medical Unit from 1941 to 1944 and was personal physician to the Emperor Haile Selassie and his family. From 1945 to 1946 he served with the RAMC in Borneo with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. After the war he returned to London to take the FRCS and was appointed anatomy demonstrator and curator at the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1950 he was appointed Professor of Applied Anatomy, a post which he held for the next twenty years, and warden of the Nuffield residential college, looking after the welfare of Commonwealth students in London. Ray Last was an inspiring teacher of anatomy, and his stimulating lectures on the primary FRCS course at the College are remembered by generations of aspiring surgeons from all over the world. His textbook *Anatomy: Regional and applied*, first published in 1954, ran to eight editions and was immensely popular for its clarity and style, being based on general principles and their surgical application. The excellence of his own illustrations was later recognised by the Medical Artists' Association who awarded him an honorary fellowship in 1992. He also edited Wolff's *Anatomy of the eye and orbit, Aids to anatomy*, and he wrote various papers on applied anatomy, especially of the knee joint. After retirement in 1970 he went to live in Malta, but he received many invitations to lecture abroad and for the next eighteen years he spent several months each year as visiting professor of anatomy at the University of California, Los Angeles. He travelled widely, lecturing in India, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand, and delighted in meeting his former students. His retirement was marked by the presentation of a portrait by Joan Whiteside, an oil painting of the Royal College of Surgeons by Anne Wright and also of a commemorative parchment book with letters from hundreds of contributors. These were donated by his former residents and students, who remembered him with gratitude and affection, recognising the important influence he had on their subsequent careers. He generously endowed a chair of comparative anatomy at the University of Adelaide with the royalties from his textbook. Despite failing eyesight he remained active until his death, aged 89, in Malta on 1 January 1993. He married twice, firstly to Vera Jedell in 1925, and secondly to Margret Milne in 1939 who died in 1989. He had two sons by his first marriage - Professor John Last, an emeritus epidemiologist in Ottawa, and Peter Last, a medical administrator in Adelaide, both of whom survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Talbot, Leonard Smith (1880 - 1961)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-20
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Occupation ENT surgeon General practitioner Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Leonard Smith Talbot was born in 1880 the fourth son of J. Talbot of Rangitira Valley, one of a well-known farming family in South Canterbury, New Zealand. He was educated at the Timaru Boys' High School and Temuka District High School, and graduated MB ChB from Otago Medical School, Dunedin in 1902. In his final year he was awarded the Lindo Fergusson Prize for the most outstanding student in eye, ear, nose, and throat studies. After a year as a house surgeon at Timaru Hospital, Talbot travelled to England where he gained the Diploma in Public Health at Cambridge and the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons. On his return to Timaru in 1906 he went into general practice with Dr Gabites as his partner. He married Emma Cooper of Temuka in 1907. In 1913 he went again to London to make a special study of eye, ear, nose and throat conditions. Early in 1915 he returned to Timaru as a specialist, and carried on this practice until his retirement in 1958, fifty-five years after qualifying. When his brother, Arthur Newton Talbot, was killed in the first world war, Talbot renamed one of his sons, already christened by other names, 'Arthur Newton'. He had been a prominent mountaineer, whose name is also recorded by the Grave-Talbot Pass on the Milford Trace, 'the world's wonder walk' which leads past the Sutherland Falls to Lake Te Anau in the extreme southwest of the South Island. Early in his specialist career he saw the potentialities of Lake Tekapo as a health resort, and worked unceasingly for the development of the area. Noting its beneficial effect on his patients he became a foundation member and chairman for many years of the Lake Tekapo Planning Commission. In the second world war Talbot went with the 8th Brigade of the 2nd NZEF to the Pacific in 1940 and helped to establish hospitals in Fiji, New Caledonia, and the Solomon Islands. He returned to New Zealand with the rank of Major. In 1945 at the request of the Director-General of Medical Services for the New Zealand Military Forces Talbot carried out a special investigation of epidemic eye disease in Fiji, in company with Lieutenant- Colonel W J Hope-Robertson of Wellington; their work earned high commendation. He was a foundation member of the South Canterbury Branch of the British Medical Association, and had the distinction of being invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons when it was founded in 1927. He was eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist at the Timaru Hospital from 1926 to 1946. He made study visits to Vienna and the United Kingdom in 1923 and 1932. A lover of trees and of his garden, Talbot was a member of the South Canterbury Tree Planting Association, and a prime mover in preserving "Gully Bush" which is now known as the Waitohi Scenic Reserve. He was a member of the South Canterbury Historical Society, Timaru Rotary Club, South Canterbury Returned Services Association, Royal Overseas League, and the Readers' play-reading group. For many years he was a parent representative on the Timaru High School Board of Governors, and throughout his life he was a member of St Mary's Anglican Church. Talbot died on 13 September 1961, aged eighty-one, and was survived by his wife with their daughter and two sons, one of whom - A N Talbot - became an ophthalmic surgeon at 19 Robe Street, New Plymouth in the North Island.
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First Title value, for Searching Leembruggen, James Jan de Boer (1920 - 1972)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-26
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Jan Leembruggen was born in Queensland on 12 February 1920, the son of a Methodist Minister. He was educated at Invermay State School and Launceston High School in Tasmania and spent the final school years, from 1932-1938 at Wesley College, Melbourne where he gained its highest distinction. He then entered the University and while at Queen's College he was elected president of the Sports and Social Club and did extremely well at both cricket and football. Unfortunately, shortly after he commenced his clinical course he suffered a severe head injury from a fast rising cricket-ball, and this held him back for a considerable time. However, he graduated in 1945 and spent the next two years in resident appointments at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. For the next seven years, between 1947 and 1954, he was in general practice in a small country town in Victoria, but, though he was successful and popular with his patients, he had always wished to specialize in surgery and therefore came to England and took the FRCS both of Edinburgh and England in 1956. On his return to Australia he again avoided the city and settled in a single-handed practice in Shepparton, and his skill combined with personal consideration for the care of his patients so increased his work that he took first just one partner to share it, but by 1963 the group had expanded to include a surgeon, a physician and an anaesthetist, and, by agreement with his colleagues, Jan himself became a whole-time consultant surgeon at the Mooroopna Base Hospital. He ultimately became the Chairman of the Hospital Board of Management, and of the local branch of the Australian Medical Association. His friends in Melbourne were well aware of his excellent service to the hospital and the local community, and of his contribution to the training of young surgeons. The Royal Australasian College intended to elect him to the Fellowship, a plan which fell through because of his sudden and untimely death on 14 November 1972 at the early age of 52, which robbed his colleagues of a friend whom they valued very highly for his talents which he used to the full for the benefit of his fellow men. His wife and his three children, two daughters and a son, survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Counsell, Herbert Edward (1863 - 1946)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-06
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Born on 3 October 1863 at Chepstow, Monmouthshire, son of Edward James Counsell, an inland revenue official, and May Ann George, his wife. His father was a Somerset man and his mother came from Pembroke. He was educated at Guy's Hospital, which he served as resident obstetric officer. He settled in general practice at Liss, Hampshire, where he developed his aptitude for surgery, and proceeded to the Fellowship in 1894, ten years after qualifying. A visit to his sister at Oxford in "Eights week" led to his settling there in 1897, with the intention of specializing as a surgical consultant. But there was no vacancy on the staff of the Radcliffe Infirmary, and without a hospital appointment Counsell found his private nursing-home unsuccessful, and gradually returned to general practice. In the traditional role of "Doggins" to successive generations of undergraduates he achieved a most successful practice; his remarkable return to surgery in the war years 1914-18 surprised many who knew him well as a general practitioner. He was secretary of the section of surgery at the Oxford meeting of the British Medical Association 1904. For many years he served as medical officer to the post office staff of the city of Oxford. Counsell lived at first in the Banbury Road but for the greater part of his life at 37 Broad Street, one of the old houses opposite the Sheldonian Theatre which were pulled down to make place for the new Bodleian in the middle nineteen-thirties, by which time he had retired to 2 Pusey Street. Counsell desired to be of Oxford as well as in it, and matriculated as an undergraduate of New College in his early forties. He took second-class honours in modern history 1906, winning the close friendship of H A L Fisher, afterwards warden of the college. Counsell gave much service to the university athletic clubs and took particular interest in the under-graduate theatre. He had a large share in the success of the Oxford University Dramatic Society ("the OUDS"), acting for many years as prompter, and his house was annually the scene of delightful and informal gatherings after the performances. He was a man of ready accessibility and unostentatious generosity to his very wide circle of friends and patients. Counsell often took patients abroad and had travelled widely in Europe, often on foot. In 1925 his left eye was attacked by glaucoma and he soon lost the sight of both eyes. But his charm and accessibility remained. He affected some extravagance of dress, a wide hat, a cloak, and buckle-shoes. He was short, slim, and well proportioned, his ruddy face much seamed, apparently by laughter. He wore his thick white hair long. He was a very notable character. In spite of his long and successful practice he died poor, partly through failure to collect his fees and partly by giving away much of what he earned. Counsell married in 1886 Helen, daughter of Alfred Ritchie, of Stroud, Gloucestershire, who died in 1930. Their only son, Christopher Herbert (b 1889), was killed in action on the Somme in 1916; he had taken first-class honours in law at Oxford and was a barrister of the Inner Temple. Counsell died of pneumonia at 2 Pusey Street, Oxford, on 4 May 1946, aged 83, survived by his two daughters, the elder of whom, Miss Dorothy Counsell, was then principal of Whitelands College, Putney, a teachers' training college; the younger daughter, Miss V M Counsell, lived with him at Oxford. He was buried at Holywell cemetery, after requiem service in St Aloysius' Church. Counsell was in youth an Irvingite, but later entered the Roman Catholic church. He published his reminiscences under the title *Thirty-seven The Broad* in 1943, a book as gracious and urbane as its author. Publications:- Obstructive anuria for five days, copious diuresis, recovery. *Lancet*, 1888, 1, 972. Case of Addison's disease without pigmentation. *Lancet*, 1890, 1, 960. Aseptic surgery. *Medical magazine*, 1897, 6, 440. *Thirty-seven The Broad, the memoirs of an Oxford doctor*, with preface by Viscount Nuffield. London: Hale, 1943.
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First Title value, for Searching Woods, Reginald Salisbury (1891 - 1986)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-14
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Reginald (Rex) Salisbury Woods was born in Dulwich on 15 October 1891, the son of Henry Thomas Woods. His mother, Lilian, was the sister of Frank Salisbury CVO, LLD, the portrait painter. He entered Dulwich College in 1906 at the age of fourteen and in his last year was senior school prefect as well as being in the first XV at rugby. His interest in throwing the 16 pound weight started at that time when he attained the public schools record distance of 37 feet 7 inches. He left the school with an open exhibition at Downing College. He went up to Cambridge in 1911 and almost immediately won the weight and hammer in the Freshmen's Sports at Fenner's, afterwards being awarded a half blue. He represented Cambridge in 1912, 1913, 1914, and 1920 attaining his best distance at putting the shot 41 feet 1 inch at Queen's Club against Oxford on 27 March 1914 (the first undergraduate to achieve more than 40 feet). After acquiring an honours BA degree in 1914 he proceeded to St George's Hospital for his clinical studies at the suggestion of Sir Crisp English, a family friend, starting as dresser to Claude Frankau. Shortly after entering the medical school he won the senior universities entrance scholarship and in 1915 he gained the Webb Prize for bacteriology. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in April 1916 and passed the Cambridge MB two months later. In August 1916 he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps serving in 54th Casualty Clearing Station where he found himself serving again under Claude Frankau, now Lieutenant-Colonel. In December 1918 he was posted to 4th London General Hospital which included part of King's College Hospital under Major, later Sir Ernest, Rock-Carling and where he was in charge of fractured femur wards. At that time skeletal traction was being introduced and he devised a hinged abduction bar fitted to the Balkan Beam for fractures of the upper third of the femur. The work was submitted in 1919 as a thesis for the degree of MD which was approved by the Regius Professor of Physic, Sir Clifford Allbutt. After demobilisation later that year he joined a general practice in Cambridge. In addition to professional commitments he found time to study for the final FRCS attending a course at the London Hospital. He passed the examination in November 1922, four months after winning the weight for England against Ireland and Scotland in Glasgow. He later represented his country at weight-putting in the 1924 and 1928 Olympics. At Cambridge he was always much involved with the treatment of sports injuries and he personally operated on many patients in the practice. Despite receiving invitations to apply for posts on the surgical staff at Addenbrooke's Hospital and St George's Hospital he remained in general practice. His views on treatment contrasted with the traditional doctrine of rest advocated by Hilton for all painful afflictions, traumatic as well as inflammatory. In 1943 at the suggestion of Sir Arthur Porritt he again joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and after working initially at the Cambridge Military Hospital with Ronald Furlong and Sir Edward Muir was posted as surgical specialist with the rank of Major to Diego Suarez at the northern tip of Madagascar. He later served in Mauritius before returning to England towards the end of the war as surgical specialist at the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich, when the Germans were attacking London with V1 and V2 bombs. He was demobilised in July 1945 and returned to his practice in Cambridge also resuming his office of Chairman of the Cambridge University Athletic Club. In 1918 he married Irene Pickering whom he had met two years previously when she was nursing at St George's Hospital and they had one son and two daughters. During the second world war his wife played a prominent role as deputy director in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, recognised by the award of CBE (Mil) in 1947. She predeceased him in 1976 and he died at his home on 21 September 1986 aged 94.
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First Title value, for Searching Sutcliffe, Richard Brook (1904 - 1991)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-02
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Richard Sutcliffe was born on 26 April 1904 in Boston, Lincolnshire, the second son of John Bell Sutcliffe, a shipowner and broker. He was educated at Kirton Grammar School in Lincolnshire and Panel Ash College, Yorkshire, before going to Sedbergh, from where he gained entry to St John's College, Cambridge. He was accepted at Guy's Hospital Medical School for his clinical training, qualifying MRCS LRCP in 1931. His house appointments at Guy's were those of clinical assistant and assistant house surgeon to Mr C Hughes, and also house physician, house anaesthetist and outpatients' officer. During this time he was elected President of the Residents. In 1932 he married Eileen Constance Tuxford, and they later had two sons and a daughter. In the course of his training and subsequent appointments he developed a strong interest in surgery, and he first joined a practice in Essex as a GP surgeon. Attracted by the charms of the Channel Islands, he moved to Guernsey in 1932 as a partner to Dr Montague. A time of stress followed, as his partner became ill, and he was left in charge of the practice which, like all practices in Guernsey at the time, was that of a GP, whatever their special interest. Very soon, the threat of war with Germany arose, and Dr Montague, a Jew, was advised to return to England. In view of the risks of life in Guernsey, Dr Sutcliffe arranged for his wife and children also to return, whilst being in no doubt that his duty lay with his patients on the island. He was therefore left on his own to face the later German occupation. He showed great courage and determination throughout those five years. When one of his patients was raped by a German soldier, he complained to the authorities and the soldier was court-martialled. He played a leading part in keeping a medical service going under conditions of increasing difficulty for both occupiers and occupied. He gave up his car and did his rounds on a motor-cycle. Towards the end of the war there was near starvation on the island. On one occasion the butcher found him a chop, and he was so hungry he ate it raw before he could get it home to cook it. On Liberation Day he used a film which he had kept concealed throughout the war to record the celebrations, and parts of this may still be seen in the Guernsey Occupation Museum. After the war he had another twenty five years in practice, and he gained the FRCS in 1962. He was a safe surgeon, aware of his limitations, and he always looked to Guy's when he needed help. He was a good friend of Sir Heneage Ogilvy, who became a frequent visitor, and FR Kilpatrick, the urologist. Other Guy's consultants also visited regularly. He was a member of the Board of Health in Guernsey and played a prominent part in planning the new extension to the Princess Elizabeth Hospital, opened in 1974 by the Queen Mother. It included new surgical wards, operating theatres, an intensive care unit and a pharmacy. Brook played an important part in planning this new development, which he tackled with his characteristic thoroughness, attention to detail and plain speaking. Brook retired in 1972, and received the high honour of being appointed Jurat - an assistant to the Bailiff, Chief Law Officer on the island. Later he became a magistrate, taking responsibility for industrial disputes. His wife died in 1981, but he continued to live at home, despite increasing disability from osteoarthritic hips. At the end he developed a bladder tumour, for which he had to undergo several surgical interventions. Finally he decided against further treatment, and died peacefully on 22 January 1991, concluding a life typical of his times, independent-minded, with a strong sense of duty and commitment to the welfare of others.
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First Title value, for Searching Walker, John Henry Milnes (1902 - 1984)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-12
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details John Henry Milnes Walker was born on 16 March 1902 in Wakefield, the son of John William Walker and his wife Constance Elizabeth, née Holdsworth. His father and grandfather had both been surgeons on the staff of Clayton Hospital and his wife's father had been a physician there. He was educated at Oundle School where he won the Bucknill exhibition to University College London in 1920. He qualified from University College Hospital MB, BS in 1925. Whilst holding house appointments at Salford and Reading Hospitals he passed the primary FRCS and obtained the MRCP. He joined his cousin in general practice in Hale, Cheshire, and shortly after completed the FRCS. He was then appointed honorary surgeon to Altrincham Hospital, the first general practitioner surgeon on their staff to have held the FRCS. In his spare time he continued his surgical training by watching surgeons in Manchester and acting as assistant in the urological unit at Salford Royal Hospital. In 1942 he joined the RAMC and served in Nigeria, India and Malaya. He was OC Surgical Division 134 IBGH with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. On demobilisation he was appointed consultant surgeon to Crewe District Memorial Hospital in 1946. He did much to organise this new hospital and built up a reputation for training of his juniors and care of his patients. From 1964 to 1972 he was an examiner in surgery at Manchester University. In 1962 he was President of the Manchester Surgical Society. In 1931 he married Mary Moon and they had four daughters, Gillian, Phyllida, Primrose and Nicolette. Gillian, the eldest, studied medicine at University College Hospital but gave up her course to marry Geoffrey C Mansfield an anaesthetist and general practitioner in Paignton. The youngest daughter, Nicolette Coward was the first woman to sail the Atlantic solo from Dale, Pembroke to Newport, Rhode Island in 1971. He retired in 1967 to live in the house that he had designed at Bickerton, Cheshire. He devoted most of his time to the Council for the Preservation of Rural England and the Cheshire Conservation Trust. He had a wide range of other interests including gardening, painting and architecture and he made a special study of church spires, visiting them and making notes. His wife sadly died in 1975 and he moved to near Oxford before his final move to Dartmouth in 1982 to be near three of his four daughters. He died on 18 October 1984 survived by his daughters and his younger brother, Professor Robert Milnes Walker, FRCS 1928 (qv), who died the following year.
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First Title value, for Searching Wells-Cole, Gervas Charles (1889 - 1974)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-13
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Occupation Coroner General practitioner General surgeon
Details Gervas Charles Wells-Cole, the eldest son of Gervas Frederick Wells-Cole, a farmer, was born in Lincoln on 5 May 1889. His mother, Mary Beatrice, who died aged 98, was a daughter of Charles Brook, FRCS, who himself survived to the age of 91. After education at St Edmund's School, Hindhead, and Repton College, he went on to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and St Bartholomew's Hospital where he qualified in 1914 and became house surgeon and resident anaesthetist before joining the RAMC. He served with 138 Field Ambulance in France and Belgium, but was invalided home to spend the remainder of the war in military hospital appointments and was demobilised as a Captain in 1919. After the war he joined his maternal grandfather and his cousin W H B Brook, MD, FRCS in general practice at Lincoln. He was appointed to the staff of Lincoln County Hospital in 1920, took his Cambridge mastership in surgery in 1922 and served that hospital for many years. Soon after the second world war, when his eldest son joined him, he gave up general practice and continued to serve as senior surgeon until 1954 when he retired from the NHS. In 1925 he was appointed deputy coroner for the city of Lincoln and became city coroner in 1935, a post which he held until 1971. He was on the council of the Coroners' Society of England and Wales for many years and was its President in 1954, continuing to attend council meetings until the last year of his life. He served on many other medical committees and was President of the Lincoln Medical Society in 1932 as well as Chairman of the Lincoln Division of the BMA in 1936. He was appointed as JP in 1933, then sheriff of the city in 1952 and became an OBE in 1964. He was elected FRCS in 1962, as one of the last general-practitioner surgeons, and continued to look after the hospital nurses until 1971. Outside his professional work he loved the outdoor life - walking in Iona, bird-watching, gardening, shooting and, above all, cricket. He had played for Lincolnshire, served on the county committee until his death, and had been president of the county club on three occasions. Whilst a student he had also played football and hockey for his Cambridge college and for St Bartholomew's Hospital. A strong churchman, regular in attendance at parish church and cathedral, he was also a committed Freemason. All this, and a talent for cooking, an appreciation for port and an interest in bridge, left little time for anything else. He married Miss F R Allen, daughter of the Rt Hon C P Allen, MP, in 1915 and they were devoted to their four sons, the eldest of whom had qualified at St Bartholomew's Hospital. Very sadly that son contracted severe poliomyelitis in 1947 and spent five years in an iron lung ventilator before dying in 1952. His wife died in 1958 and when he himself died, aged 85, on 21 December 1974 he was survived by his three sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Gibbons, John Robert Pelham (1926 - 1999)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-30
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General practitioner Military surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details John Gibbons was born in Moseley, Warwickshire, on 26 November 1926. His father, Leonard Norman Gibbons, who had been severely gassed in the trenches during the First World War, later became legal adviser to the Birmingham Gas Board. His mother was Gladys Elizabeth née Smith, a secretary. John was educated at Moseley Grammar School and Pates' School, Cheltenham, before enlisting in the ranks of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in 1944. He was then commissioned in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and, while on active service with them in Palestine, he had his first experience of battlefield casualties. He later transferred to the Guards Battalion of the Parachute Regiment, leaving Palestine for Egypt by road on the last day of the British Mandate on 14 May 1948. On completing his service, he went to Leeds Medical School, where he gained prizes in anaesthesia and clinical medicine and won the Brotherton scholarship, qualifying in 1954. He then worked as a registrar at Leeds General Hospital and also helped his brothers-in-law run their general practice. He obtained the FRCS diploma in 1960 and later, when senior registrar at the National Heart Hospital, he was one of the team who carried out the first heart transplant in the United Kingdom. He was appointed locum senior lecturer and consultant at King's College Hospital, following which he became a consultant in accident and emergency medicine at the Royal Free Hospital. This led on to his definitive appointment as surgeon to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. He managed to combine his medical career with territorial services in the Army, from 1948 to the day of his death. In Northern Ireland he was honorary surgeon to the Army and medical officer of the 10th Battalion of the Ulster Defence Regiment. He also served with the Royal Tank Regiment, the Warwickshire Yeomanry, Leeds Rifles and the Parachute Regiment, where in the late 1960's he commanded a company until it was decided he should be transferred to the RAMC. He was president of the Northern Ireland branch of the Parachute Regiment Association. During the Iran/Iraq war of the 1980s, when Britain was supporting Iraq, Gibbons was asked to go to Basra to help treat the wounded and organise the evacuation of some casualties to British hospitals. He was subsequently decorated by Iraq for his work during the conflict. He served as consultant thoracic surgeon to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast between 1977 and 1993, becoming the pre-eminent British authority on crush, blast and missile wounds of the chest. This led to the award of a Hunterian Professorship in 1984. He published widely on chest injuries and oesophageal surgery, enjoyed teaching his juniors and acknowledged the influence of Digby Chamberlain and John Goligher in both his training and in his surgical practice. In his younger days, John had played rugby football, gaining his university colours at Headingley, and also playing for Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Derby, as well as the Territorial Army. He was also interested in shooting, travelling, railways, good food and wine. In 1952 he married Marie-Jeanne Brookes, a teacher, and they had four sons and two daughters, two of the sons being doctors.
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First Title value, for Searching Scott-Brown, Walter Graham (1897 - 1987)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-21
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Occupation ENT surgeon General practitioner
Details Walter Graham ("Bill") Scott-Brown was born in London on 17 February 1897, the eldest son of George Andrew Scott-Brown and Louise (née Tindall). His father was city manager of the C M & G Insurance Company. Bill, as he was known to all his family and friends, saw active service as a combatant officer in the Royal Horse Artillery in the first world war when he was wounded and also mentioned in despatches. He entered Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, as an exhibitioner in 1919 and thence as a Shuter Scholar to St Bartholomew's Hospital where he graduated MB, BCh in 1925. In 1926 he and his newly-wedded wife, also a medical graduate, worked together for a short period in general practice in Kent, but Bill subsequently began to specialise in ear, nose and throat surgery. There were no recognised training programmes in this, then developing, specialty, but in 1932 he was awarded a Dorothy Temple Cross Travelling Research Fellowship which enabled him to visit specialist clinics in Berlin, Vienna, Budapest, Stockholm and Copenhagen. In 1932 he was also awarded the Copeman Medal for scientific research by the University of Cambridge. Following his return to England he subsequently obtained appointments as consultant surgeon to the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital and the Royal Free Hospital in London. He had a special interest in diseases of the nose and sinuses and his superb clinical abilities allied with his high intelligence and great charm enabled him to build up an extensive and influential practice in Harley Street. He became a Commander of the Victorian Order after many years of professional advice to the late Princess Royal. He wrote extensively and was editor of the standard textbook, *Diseases of the ear, nose and throat*, one of the classic British texts on this subject. Although he relinquished his hospital appointments at the compulsory retirement age of 65 he continued with his busy private practice and eventually only gave up operating when he was 84 years of age. In 1939 he bought a farm in Buckinghamshire and after a hectic week's work in London he would drive down to the country to immerse himself into the life of the farm. He bred a well-known pedigree shorthorn herd and every wagon and cart on the place he built himself. In his student days Bill was a considerable athlete but in later years he developed expert piscatorial abilities. For many years he was a very active member of the exclusive Houghton Club and fished the Test with great skill until within a few days of his death. He was also a painter of considerable repute who had exhibitions in London, Edinburgh and abroad, with works in many private collections. Pastels were his real forte and for many years he was a member, and at one time honorary secretary, of the Pastel Society. In 1926 Bill married another doctor, Margaret Bannerman, to whom he was devoted for over sixty years. Peggy predeceased him by six weeks leaving him utterly disconsolate and he died peacefully on 12 July 1987 aged 90. They were survived by their son who is a physician, and three daughters, one of whom is also medically qualified.
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First Title value, for Searching Forman, James Adam Sholto (1915 - 1990)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-13
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Sholto Forman was born at Beattock, Dumfriesshire, on 25 July 1915, the son of Reverend Adam Forman CBE, Chaplain to Loretto School 1907 to 1912, and Flora, née Smith. He was brought up at the family home at Craigielands, Dumfriesshire, with three brothers, all of whom were educated at Loretto before going to Pembroke College, Cambridge. One of his brothers, Sir Denis Forman eventually became chairman of Granada Television and deputy chairman of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and another brother Michael Forman TD was director of personnel and organisation at Tube Investments. Although accepted to enter Pembroke College in October 1934 he did not decide to pursue a career in medicine until January of that year. As he then had no experience with science subjects, a year had to be spent in the necessary study for examinations in physics, chemistry and biology. He entered Pembroke College with a reputation as a rugby player in the wing forward position and in his first year was a member of the College side which won the Inter-Collegiate knock-out competition. At the beginning of his second year he played in the University Seniors Trial but soon afterwards sustained severe concussion which resulted in his having to be absent for the remainder of the term. Thereafter there is no record of him resuming the game. He graduated in natural sciences in June 1938 before entering St Thomas's Hospital for clinical studies, qualifying in 1942. Almost immediately afterwards he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving in India and Burma, reaching the rank of Major and being mentioned in despatches. After demobilisation in 1946 he did further junior appointments at the Royal Hampshire Hospital, Winchester, and in the casualty department of St Thomas's Hospital and during this time he acquired the Cambridge MB. In 1950 he joined a general practice at Barnstaple, North Devon. Two years later he became a founder member of the Royal College of General Practitioners and in due time became provost and Chairman of the South West of England faculty as well as serving as a member of the Council of the College and also on the Harvard-Davies commission on group practice and health centres. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 1969 and served for six years as representative of his College on the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons. This was recognised by his election to the Fellowship which was awarded to him on 14 June 1984. Apart from his professional and administrative duties he was an enthusiastic traveller and served as medical officer on Swan Hellenic Tours. He was a competent skier, an accomplished horticulturalist, a keen shot and an enthusiastic angler. He also enjoyed classical music and history. He retired from practice in 1980 and died in the midst of his favourite reel on 5 December 1990 aged 75, survived by his wife Mabel whom he married on 22 May 1945, four children, none of whom is in medicine, and ten grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching O'Gorman, Francis Joseph Patrick (1910 - 1992)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-25
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Frank O'Gorman was born at Bradford on 11 September 1910. No information is available about his forbears, but when he was ten years old his family moved to Glasgow where he was educated at the Jesuit School of St Aloysius before studying medicine at Glasgow University. An outstanding athlete, he played international soccer as a schoolboy and represented his university in four sports - track athletics, boxing, swimming and soccer. After graduating he spent several years in general practice at Doncaster in order to support his widowed mother and enable his sister to attend medical school. He later became an obstetrician and gynaecologist in Rotherham and at the Jessup Hospital in Sheffield. His general surgical career in Sheffield began in 1940 when he was appointed to the staff of the then City General Hospital. During the second world war he served as a flight lieutenant in the RAF in Burma. On returning to Sheffield he took great pride in regarding himself as a very general surgeon and earned a reputation as a skillful operator on patients of all ages and with all manner of conditions. He was especially innovative in early vascular work, neonatal surgery and urology. Patients and hospital staff were captivated by his gentle manner and superb counselling skills. Sheffield medical undergraduates at first attended the City Hospital on a voluntary basis; but this modest and essentially self-effacing man, affectionately known as 'FOG', was an excellent teacher and the university appointed him as an associate professor of surgery in 1972. His medical publications were as many and varied as his teaching. He had a wry sense of humour and was a firm and fair examiner. He was also a shrewd committee man who made significant contributions to the development of surgical services in the City. A bachelor throughout his working life, he had lived with a succession of Staffordshire bull terriers in a house in the hospital grounds and continued to play soccer for the hospital team. While walking his dog in the hospital grounds wearing his favourite old mac he never looked the part of a distinguished surgeon. It is said that, on one occasion, an arriving houseman tipped him for carrying his bags into the hospital only to discover later that he had tipped his boss! He was a director of Sheffield United FC and honorary physician to the Football Association and FIFA. He travelled with England soccer teams to many places around the world. On retirement in 1975 he married and moved out of his hospital house but continued to take an active part in all his sporting interests and was a driving force in the introduction of sports clinics. He died on 10 December 1992, aged 82, and was survived by his wife Anne and his niece Veronica, who is a consultant anaesthetist in Glasgow.
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First Title value, for Searching Gauntlett, Eric Gerald (1885 - 1972)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-04
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Born on 1 November 1885, the son of T L Gauntlett of Putney, he was educated at King's College School, Wimbledon Common and entered King's College Hospital Medical School with the Warneford Scholarship in 1902. The hospital was then still in Portugal Street, just south of the Royal College of Surgeons. He won several prizes and scholarships during his student years, and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1908. He graduated through London University, with honours in medicine, surgery and forensic medicine, and was awarded a University gold medal, in 1920; he took the Fellowship in 1911. At King's he was house surgeon to Watson Cheyne, Sambrooke Surgical Registrar and tutor in succession to Arthur Edmunds. He served through the first world war in the RAMC, becoming a Lieutenant-Colonel, and was a consulting surgeon, Army Medical Service, at Salonika. While there he met and married Hilda Mary Gerrard, who was serving as a VAD nurse. He was awarded the DSO and the CBE for his war service and Mrs Gauntlett, who nursed again during the second world war, was then awarded the Royal Red Cross. When he returned to civil practice he was appointed assistant surgeon to Paddington Green Children's Hospital, but soon accepted the post of chief medical officer to the Shanghai-Nanking Railway in China. He worked at Shanghai for nearly twenty years, constructing a large surgical practice among the British and other European residents the British Embassy staff, and wealthy Chinese. He had a hospital available and was on the staff. He was also senior medical officer to the Shanghai Volunteers. Gauntlett was an enthusiastic Freemason, and at one time District Senior Grand Warden of the North China Lodges. His three sons were educated at Uppingham. When the Japanese invaded China in 1939 he, his wife and their two elder sons were interned. During internment one son contracted typhoid and died, largely as a result of deprivation of medical facilities. After about a year an exchange of Embassy staffs released him, his wife, and their surviving son from internment. Mrs Gauntlett brought with her 20 children of other internees. They sailed under Red Cross protection to Lourcenio in Portuguese East Africa. Their son, aged only 17, joined the South African Air Force and fought in it for the rest of the war. Eric Gauntlett joined the South Africa Medical Corps and worked as a surgeon in the rank of Major in South Africa. By this means he released a younger man for active service abroad. Mrs Gauntlett nursed in military hospitals in South Africa throughout the war. As a result of the disaster at Shanghai, Gauntlett lost nearly all his property, his investments, his pensions rights, and the value of his partnership. He had no income except his salary in the South African Army while serving from 1942 to 1946. When hostilities ceased he returned to England. He owned a small property, which had been used by Mrs Gauntlett on long leave from Shanghai, to be near her sons when they were young. They sold this property and some silver which provided a small block of capital, with which, at the age of 63, he entered general practice in the Doctors Panter and Mayo partnership at Braintree, Essex. He worked in this practice for seventeen years, and was on the staffs of several neighbouring hospitals. He was active in the British Medical Association, serving as chairman on the Mid-Essex Division 1951-53 and Branch 1958-60. He maintained his interest in Freemasonry, and became Senior Member of King's College Hospital Lodge. He retired at the age of 80 to Colchester where he died on 26 November 1972 after fracturing his hip in a fall, aged 87. His son, who survived the war-service with the South African Air Force, transferred to the Royal Air Force and in the rank of Wing-Commander was officer in charge of instruction at Hong Kong, where he was killed in a flying accident. Gauntlett was survived by his wife and their youngest son, Major Alister E G Gauntlett, 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers.
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First Title value, for Searching Linton, John Steuart Alexander (1916 - 2001)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-17
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Occupation General practitioner Thoracic surgeon
Details John Steuart Alexander Linton was a consultant surgeon at Nottingham. He was the son of the Very Reverend J H Linton, a missionary who became a bishop in Persia. His mother, Alicia Aldous, had qualified in 1908 from the Royal Free Hospital and was then senior resident in Isfahan Hospital. She was on her way home from Persia when John was born in the Khyber Pass on 29 January 1916. He used to joke that he was born "off the back of a camel". He was the second of four sons, who were all sent back to school in England at the age of four. He went to Repton in 1928, where Geoffrey Fisher (later Archbishop of Canterbury) was headmaster. Mrs Fisher was Linton's cousin, so John was beaten more than most to show no favouritism. John injured an eye playing cricket and was unable to work for nearly a year; he was given a camera and a bicycle and let loose in Derbyshire, which he regarded as a thoughtful and imaginative plan. He continued to be an enthusiastic cricketer, and became an excellent swimmer and tennis player. He went to St Bartholomew's in 1934, where he was taught anatomy by Oz Tubbs, an experience he always valued. His father was now assistant bishop of Birmingham and John did a few GP locums around the area until he joined the RAF at the beginning of the war. He was posted to Canada in 1941 and returned in 1942 as senior medical officer at RAF Elsham, a bomber station. There he worked on the problem of calculating oxygen requirements during the long flights in Lancasters to Germany and Italy, research which required him to fly in the aircraft himself. After the war he intended to return to general practice, but his mother persuaded him to work for the FRCS, so he returned to Bart's as a houseman, passing the final FRCS along with Peter Jones (the founder of Pete's Club) and Johnnie Weaver in 1948. He then did junior jobs in Carshalton and Hammersmith, where he thought Ian Aird was the best teacher he had ever known. Choosing to specialise in thoracic surgery, he worked at the Brompton and the London Chest Hospitals, until he was found to have a tuberculous focus in the lung and was sent out of London to Southampton, as senior house officer to Paul Chinn. When his chest was cured, he returned to London to work for Holmes Sellors, Vernon Thompson, Geoffrey Flavell and Price Thomas. After Price Thomas operated on King George VI and was knighted, John became his registrar. Later he worked for Lord Brock, through whom he was appointed as a consultant in Nottingham. He used to recall an incident when he was assisting Brock and was told off for using the wrong instrument. "But it is common practice, sir", he said. Brock replied, "So is adultery Linton, but it don't make it right". In Nottingham he built up a reputation for patent ductus arteriosus and was an active member of Pete's Club. He married Margaret Goode in 1943 and had two daughters (one called Alexandra), neither of whom went into medicine. In retirement he did a few local locums to eke out his pension, and spent much time gardening in his cottage in Coulston, where he was chairman of his parish council. He died on 3 April 2001 in Devizes.
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First Title value, for Searching Verco, Sir Joseph Cooke (1851 - 1933)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-10
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Occupation General practitioner Physician
Details Born on 1 August 1851 at Fullarton, South Australia, the third son of James Crabb Verco, who emigrated from Cornwall to Adelaide about 1838. He was educated during 1862-67 at J L Young's Academy then in Stephen's Place and afterwards transferred to Freeman Street. The latter part of his education was carried out at St Peter's College. He entered the Civil Service as a clerk in the Railway Clearing House depart¬ment on leaving school, and came to England in 1870. Here he passed the matriculation examination of London University in June 1870, and the preliminary scientific examination in the following year. He then entered as a medical student at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1872, after winning the entrance scholarship. He acted as house physician and obstetric assistant, and returned to Adelaide in 1878. He sailed from Plymouth as surgeon superintendent of the barque *Clyde* (1,140 tons) and of her 377 emigrants on 26 January 1878, and reached Adelaide on 23 April. On his arrival he registered at the Medical Board of South Australia on 24 May 1878, and immediately began to practise as a general practitioner in Victoria Square, advertising his arrival by means of a red lamp and an unusually large name-plate, on which were displayed his various degrees. He is described at this time as being 5 ft 7½ in in height, with a long flowing beard, which reached half way down his waistcoat, deliberate in manner, speech, and gait. He soon became honorary physician to the Adelaide Hospital and honorary medical officer to the newly founded Adelaide Children's Hospital, a post he resigned in 1890. From 1885 to 1919 he was chief medical officer to the South Australian branch of the Australian Mutual Provident Society. The University of Adelaide was founded in 1885, and in 1887 Verco was appointed lecturer on medicine jointly with Dr Davies Thomas, and was sole lecturer from 1888 to 1915. He was also dean of the Faculty of Medicine in 1889 and again in 1921-22, and was largely responsible for carrying out the details connected with the foundation of the dental school and hospital. In 1887 he was chosen as president of the first Intercolonial Medical Congress of Australia, and in this year he had an attack of typhoid fever. He gave up general practice on his recovery, and became the first purely consultant physician in the colony, when he declined to take cases of midwifery in 1891. At the Adelaide Hospital he was honorary medical officer in 1880, honorary physician 1882-1912 with the peculiar privilege of operating upon hydatids, and consulting physician in 1912. During the war he returned to work in the hospital. He was president of the Royal Society of South Australia 1903-21, and was created a Knight Bachelor in 1919. He married on 13 April 1911 Mary Isabella, daughter of Samuel Mills of Adelaide, and died on 30 July 1933; there were no children of the marriage. Verco came of an uncompromising nonconformist stock, and in his earlier years excited some amount of ill-feeling, perhaps partly actuated by jealousy of his higher professional attainments. He was a skilled stenographer. His lectures were delivered so slowly that students could take them down verbatim and thus dispense with a textbook. He was a leading conchologist, his collection in the National Museum being probably the best in the Southern Hemisphere.
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First Title value, for Searching Sibley, Septimus William (1831 - 1893)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-17
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Born in Great Ormond Street, the seventh son of Robert Sibley, architect and surveyor to the County of Middlesex, and brother of George Sibley, the well-known civil engineer. He was educated at a private school and then at University College School, where he distinguished himself in mathematics, being second to Edward Routh, of Cambridge, who was afterwards Senior Wrangler. In applied mathematics in the 6th class of the school he won the first prize over the heads of Routh and Henry Cooke, who were bracketed in the second place. He also obtained the first prize in experimental philosophy. He then attended Professor de Morgan's lectures at University College, and worked chiefly at higher mathe¬matics and experimental philosophy with his friends, Sir William Flower (whose medical attendant he afterwards became), Dr Routh, and Sir Robert Fowler. He desired at this period of his life to devote himself to mathematics, but in 1848 he decided on the medical profession and entered as a student at the Middlesex and University College Hospitals, attending clinical instruction at the former and lectures at the latter school, where he won the Gold Medal in medicine, Joseph Lister (qv) at the same time winning the second Silver Medal. He also obtained the Silver Medal in surgery, the second Silver Medal being won by Lister. William Flower, Lister, and William Roberts were his chief contem¬poraries at the Hospital. At the Middlesex he was House Surgeon and then Medical Registrar from 1853-1860, and was later appointed Lecturer in Pathology, a post which he held for ten years. In 1856 he became partner with Thomas Farquhar Chilver. This practice, one of the leading ones of the day, had been founded by Sir Walter Farquhar (Physician to George IV) - who was succeeded by Samuel Chilver, father of Thomas Farquhar Chilver - and by Dr Martin Tupper, FRS, whose eldest son was Martin Farquhar Tupper, author of the once famous *Proverbial Philosophy*. Sibley practised at 12 New Burlington Street and then at 7 Harley Street; the firm was at first Chilver, Sibley & Plaskitt, and latterly Sibley Plaskitt. Up to within a year or two of his death Sibley was a member of the Middlesex Hospital Medical Committee. He was also for ten years Chairman of the Managing Committee of the Dental Hospital of London in succession to his friend Campbell de Morgan. A notable fact in his career is that he was the first general practitioner elected to the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons, where he represented his colleagues from 1886-1891. His personal qualities of gentleness and conciliation were well calculated to gain affection as well as respect. He represented the best qualities of an accomplished general practitioner. He was singularly courteous in his demeanour, considerate to all, and was never too pressed for time to do a kind or charitable action. An active Member of the British Medical Association, he sat on the Council from 1881-1891, was Vice-President of the Parliamentary Bills Committee from 1886-1891, and Member of the Scientific Grants, Premises and Library, and Medical Charities Committees. In 1878 he was President of the Metropolitan Counties Branch and was for many years Treasurer. His fellow-councillors greatly respected him for his earnest industry and independent views, and he exerted a marked influence over them. He was Vice-President of the New Sydenham Society and of the Royal British Nurses' Association; for some years Treasurer of the Medical Sickness, Annuity, and Life Assurance Society; Fellow of the Royal Medico-¬Chirurgical Society; and Member of the Pathological and Clinical Societies. Sibley died at his country house, The Hermitage, White Hill, Bletchingley, Surrey, on March 15th, 1893, survived by Mrs Sibley, who was second daughter of Sir Robert Garden, Bart, MP, and by two sons, of whom one was Dr Walter Knowsley Sibley, a dermatologist, and five daughters. He occupied himself with scientific pursuits in his scanty leisure and was an authority on many nonprofessional subjects. Publications: *Report on the Cholera Patients admitted into the Middlesex Hospital during the Year 1854*, 8vo, London, 1855. "Contribution to the Statistics of Cancer. Collected from the Cancer Records of the Middlesex Hospital, communicated by James Moncrieff Arnott," 8vo, London, 1859; reprinted from *Med-Chir Trans* 1859, xlii. 111. "Cases Illustrating the Causes and Effects of Fibrinous Obstructions in the Arteries both of the Brain and of Other Organs," 8vo, London, 1861; reprinted from *Med-Chir Trans*, 1861, xliv, 255. "On the Structure and Nature of so-called Colloid Cancer." - *Med-Chir Trans*, 1856, xxxix, 259.
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First Title value, for Searching Wellesley-Cole, Robert Benjamin Ageh (1907 - 1995)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-08
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details Robert Wellesley-Cole was born in Kossoh, Freetown, Sierra Leone on 11 March 1907, the eldest son of Wilfred Sidney Ageh, a civil engineer and superintendent of Freetown waterworks, and Elizabeth, née Okafor-Smart, a West African of Krio race. His Nigerian great-grandfather had settled in Freetown to escape slave traders, and had adopted the family name of Wellesley out of admiration for the Duke of Wellington. He was educated at the Sierra Leone Grammar School in Freetown, where he excelled academically and won a place to study mathematics at Fourah Bay College. After becoming assistant lecturer in mathematics, he took an external BA degree (with honours in philosophy) in 1928 at London University. In the same year he came to England to study medicine at Newcastle-upon-Tyne Medical School, where he won numerous prizes and graduated with first class honours from Durham University in 1934. After qualifying he held junior appointments at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, where he was one of the last group of students taught by Professor Grey Turner before the latter went to the Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith. He volunteered for military service in the second world war but was not enlisted. In 1944 he became the first black African to gain the Fellowship of the College, but would have had to overcome considerable racial prejudice to follow a surgical career in England at that time. Instead he decided to work in general practice in Newcastle and served on several Colonial Office advisory committees, dealing with medical education and social services in West Africa. He was also committed to the welfare of colonial peoples in Britain, and worked for the promotion of African culture. With the founding of the NHS in 1948 he gave up general practice in order to pursue a full-time career in surgery, and passed his examinations in ophthalmology in 1950. In 1961 he was appointed senior surgical specialist in Western Nigeria, and in 1971 consultant surgeon and director of clinical studies in Sierra Leone. His first marriage in 1932 to Anna Brodie, his Scottish former landlady, was dissolved, and in 1950 he moved to Nottingham and married a second time to Amy Hotobah-During, a nurse from Sierra Leone whose father was a barrister, and by whom he had four children. Robert Wellesley-Cole was a man of great culture and academic and literary ability. In 1959 he wrote a book about his childhood, *Kossoh Town Boy*, and his autobiography, *An Innocent Abroad*, was published in 1988. He founded a literary club in Freetown, and he was an accomplished pianist and organist. He was invited to become a Justice of the Peace in 1961, the first time this invitation had been extended to a black African in Britain, but ironically he was refused a British passport until 1982. He died on 31 October 1995, aged 88. He was survived by his wife, two sons and two daughters, one of whom, Patrice Suzanne, read law at Oxford.
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First Title value, for Searching O'Regan, John Arthur Rolland (1904 - 1992)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-25
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Politician
Details John Arthur Rolland O'Regan (Ro) was born in Wellington on 1 June 1904, the son of Mr Justice O'Regan. He was educated at St Patrick's College, Wellington, and graduated from the Otago Medical School in 1928. He was house surgeon at Wellington Hospital and went to London in 1929 for surgical training. He was resident surgical officer at Poplar Hospital and at the Seamens' Hospital, Greenwich. He obtained his FRCS in 1931. O'Regan returned to Wellington in 1933 in general practice in the central area and then as a surgeon, being surgeon to Wellington Hospital (1936-60) and to the Home of Compassion, Island Bay (1933-63). Essentially he was a general surgeon with a special interest in cancer. In 1938 he became FRACS and later was a college and university examiner in surgery. He was President of the Cancer Society of New Zealand from 1963 to 1965. After retiring from the hospital he was chief medical officer to the New Zealand Railways from 1960 to 1965. He saw war service as surgeon to the hospital ships *Manganui*, *Oranje* and *Pacific Star*. He was present at the signing of the Japanese surrender in 1946 on Tokyo Bay aboard the USS *Missouri*. He inherited from his father a strong interest in social justice which he reinforced by wide reading. He was prepared to back any issue that he thought should activate all citizens. The abandonment of racist exclusions in sport, the war in Vietnam and nuclear disarmament were all espoused with vigour. On final retirement from surgery he had a second career in local government but failed to be elected to Parliament in 1966 as a Labour candidate. He served on the Wellington City Council from 1965 to 1974 where he was able to apply his great expertise in rating and land value. His book *Rating in New Zealand* is a reference on the subject. As he had been fond of the harbour since childhood he was happy in being a long-serving member of the Wellington Harbour Board, and chair from 1972 to 1974. Also he was one of the three members of the Sheehan Commission of Enquiry into Maori Reserve Land and wrote its report in 1974. O'Regan was a striking character graced with high intelligence and gifted with power in communication. While strongly assertive he was also genial and compassionate. A strong but independent loyalty was given to his religious faith and he was a founding member of the Guild of St Luke and SS Cosmas and Damian, to which he contributed considerably. He made his mark not only in his profession but in the wider community. An extensively read man since childhood, his declining years were sad as he lost his sight with macular degeneration and a succession of strokes eroded his verbal fluency. O'Regan married Rena Bradshaw of the Ngai Tahu people in London in 1932, and they had two sons and one daughter. Rena died in 1966 after thirty years of marriage. Three years later O'Regan married an old friend, Lena Dowling, who helped greatly with his disability. Lena died three weeks after O'Regan, who died on 20 November 1992.
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First Title value, for Searching Gibson, Sir Ronald George (1909 - 1989)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-13
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Occupation General practitioner
Details Ronald George Gibson, the only child of George Edward Gibson, a pharmacist, and of Gladys Muriel (née Prince), was born at Southampton on 28 November 1909. He was educated at Osborne House School, Romsey, and Mill Hill School before graduating from St John's College, Cambridge. He then went to St Bartholomew's Hospital where he qualified in 1937 before serving first as casualty officer and then as house physician to the children's department. His initial entry into general practice was interrupted by the second world war and he served in the RAMC from 1940 to 1945, first in Kenya and then in Somaliland, being demobilised with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. On returning to general practice in Winchester in 1945 he soon became intensely interested in medical politics. After serving as honorary secretary and Chairman of the Winchester Division of the BMA he became secretary and then President of the Wessex Branch. He was a founder member of Lord Horder's Fellowship for Freedom in Medicine and became a member of Council of the BMA in 1950. By 1963 he became Chairman of the BMA's Representative Body and then Chairman of BMA Council in 1966. Throughout these early years he built up a busy and successful group practice in Winchester where he took part in many and varied activities, being medical officer to Winchester College and to St Swithun's Girls School. As a family doctor he was deeply involved in his patients' problems for, behind a gruff exterior, lay a sensitive nature and a droll sense of humour. An active churchman, he became High Steward of Winchester Cathedral and later founded and inspired the Brendoncare Foundation for the care of the elderly, for which he raised more than one million pounds. His great interest in local and city affairs led to his appointment as a deputy lieutenant for the county of Hampshire. That devoted service both locally and nationally led to the award of the OBE in 1961, and the CBE in 1970. But it was in medical politics and BMA affairs at a national level that Gibson was able to make a wider mark. When Chairman of BMA Council he travelled the country to elicit the views of the profession and, by founding the Junior Members Forum, did much to help his younger colleagues. He became a fellow of the BMA in 1961 and was awarded its gold medal in 1970. He was greatly admired as a fair, firm and gentlemanly negotiator who had to deal with a number of awkward politicians during his period of office. Active in the Royal College of General Practitioners, he was the first provost of the South East of England Faculty and Butterworth Medallist. He became an elected FRCS in 1968 and, as a liveryman of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries he was its Master in 1980. Ronald Gibson found time to write a number of papers on a wide variety of medical subjects, and especially the care of the elderly. To some he may have seemed to specialise overmuch in chairing various national committees, perhaps, most notably, the Standing Medical Advisory Committee of the Department of Health. It was following this appointment, and his membership of an important enquiry into prison conditions in Northern Ireland, that he was awarded the accolade of Knight Bachelor. But Ronald generally had his priorities well organised and never lost sight of his primary interest in general practice. Outside his professional work he was keen on cricket, gardening and music and was always happiest when playing the piano. He had married Elizabeth Alberta Rainey in 1934, while still a student at Bart's, and they had two daughters, one of whom is married to a doctor. When he died on 27 May 1989, not long before his 80th birthday, he was survived by his wife and daughters. A memorial service was held in Winchester Cathedral on 16 September 1989.
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First Title value, for Searching Dawson, Sir Joseph Bernard (1883 - 1965)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-22
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Occupation General practitioner Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Joseph Bernard Dawson was born at Solihull on 8 April 1883 and was educated at the King Edward VI School and the University of Birmingham Medical School. He took the Primary FRCS before starting clinical work and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1905. Even in his student days he decided that he wanted to specialize in obstetrics and gynaecology. He became house surgeon at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children at Brighton, taking the MB BS degree of London University in 1906. He then spent some time in general practice to make enough money to take the FRCS course at the London Hospital where he also did some research work under Arthur Keith. After further house appointments in Birmingham and London he did the FRCS course at Bart's and passed the examination in 1908. Dawson's next step was to buy a practice in York, but later he moved to Swansea and while there he passed the MD London in diseases of women in 1911. But he was not satisfied with his prospects in England and so he emigrated to Australia and settled in Glenelg, near Adelaide, where he was able to combine general practice with the specialising of obstetrics and gynaecology. At the outbreak of the first world war he arranged with his partner at Glenelg that he would serve in the army for a year, and spent 1915 in a casualty clearing station in France and when he returned to the practice in 1916 his partner went to France. After the war he bought his partner's share of the practice and then devoted himself more fully to gynaecology, and ultimately moved into Adelaide where in 1925 he was appointed assistant gynaecologist to the Royal Adelaide Hospital, and in 1930 obstetric tutor in the University. Adelaide University awarded him the degree of MD *ad eundem* in 1920, and in 1929 he became a foundation Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Although he was successful in practice and in academic work in Adelaide, when in 1931 the University of Otago instituted a Chair in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Dawson applied for it and was appointed to a post in which the facilities for clinical work and teaching were at first negligible. It took him some years to obtain the necessary conditions for a sound academic department, but by 1937 the Queen Mary Hospital was opened, and he managed to revise the teaching curriculum so that the course satisfied the requirements of the General Medical Council. The fruit of his labour was a spectacular reduction in maternal mortality in New Zealand. For these services he was awarded the KBE in 1948; he had already been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1934. He was not obliged to retire at the age of 65, but in 1950 he suffered a coronary thrombosis and therefore decided at the end of that year that he ought to make way for a younger man, and was made Emeritus Professor. In addition to his professorial duties Bernard Dawson took a prominent part in many professional bodies. He was President of the Otago Branch of the BMA for 1940-45, and was a co-opted member of the Council of the RCOG in 1951-52 and served as an examiner. He was on the Otago Hospital Board from 1955-62, and for many years was President of the Otago Branch of the Commonwealth Society. Dawson was married in England in 1909, and had two sons and two daughters; one son became a physician in Christchurch, and the other a surgeon in Dunedin. When he died on 17 August 1965 at the age of 82, Lady Dawson and the family survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Yarwood, George Roy (1914 - 1996)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-09
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Roy Yarwood was born in 1914 and attended King Edward's School, Birmingham, where he excelled at shooting, becoming school captain, and also won a medal as a member of the gymnastics team; he went on to continue his shooting career at University and again distinguished himself. He entered Birmingham Medical School in 1932 and qualified without any difficulty in 1937. He did his house officer jobs at the Birmingham General Hospital, and enlisted in the army at the outbreak of the second world war in 1939. His military service was both varied and interesting; he served on troop ships going to India, and was then posted to Liverpool before serving in Nigeria for one year. In 1944 he became part of the Second Front Expeditionary Force crossing with the troops to France on D-Day + 12, accompanying them through France and subsequently crossing the Rhine. He was surgical specialist in charge of a field surgical unit in the British Land Army and attained the rank of major. On returning to the UK he was appointed officer in charge of the surgical division of Lincoln Military Hospital, before being demobilised in 1945, just after the capitulation of Japan. Had it not been for the end of the war in the Far East, he was due for posting to that arena. After the war, Roy was a locum general practitioner for a short time, but had always intended to follow a surgical career. He obtained a number of registrar posts, and gained an attachment at Guy's Hospital to further his surgical training, passing the examination for the Fellowship of the College in 1949. He was appointed resident surgical officer at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, in 1950 and held this post for five years. This provided excellent experience, not only in dealing with a wide range of emergency conditions, but working with a number of consultant surgeons. In 1954 he moved to a similar job at Dudley Road Hospital, and was the senior surgical resident for five years, working with Kenneth O Parsons and Louis Aldridge. He then obtained his consultant post at the same hospital on 19 July 1958. In his 22 years as consultant surgeon at Dudley Road Hospital, his work covered a wide spectrum of general surgery; during his first ten years, before the advent of orthopaedic surgeons, he played an active part in the casualty department, and ran a weekly fracture clinic. He gained a well-deserved reputation for his contribution to gastric and thyroid surgery and was a quick, neat and safe operator with a very low complication rate. He had always shown himself to be interested in clinical teaching and had run a series of excellent Fellowship rounds at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, and he took great trouble in teaching and encouraging his medical students, when undergraduate teaching came to the Dudley Road Hospital. He was a clear and concise lecturer, and his neat handwriting exemplified his approach to his work. During his years at Dudley Road, the hospital dealt with a large number of Birmingham's emergencies, and it is appropriate that the name of the hospital has been changed in recent years to the City Hospital. Roy was known for sound judgement and sound technique in dealing with his emergency load. He had many interests outside his clinical work, and developed a wide medico-legal practice. He maintained that he enjoyed the tussles in Court with learned members of the legal profession, especially in his more senior years when he found himself older than the Judge! He was also a connoisseur of vintage cars of classical make and impressed his colleagues and patients alike by running in turn a Rolls-Bentley, a Daimler and a Rolls. It was a great sadness to him that he had bought a spacious new Volvo shortly before his first stroke, which he was only able to drive for a limited period. He also enjoyed playing the financial markets which he regarded as a game, and which provided him with another area of expertise. He married Mary on 2 September 1941. They met while she was working as a theatre sister at the Birmingham General Hospital and, during the Blitz, had to work in a temporary theatre in Lewis's basement. Their son Ian was born in 1946 and became a chartered accountant and their daughter, Jean, qualified as a teacher, working in a school for children with learning difficulties. Roy suffered his first stroke on Boxing Day 1993, and a second one six months later. His last year was fraught by a serious malignancy in one eye with inexorable spread of the cancer, and his death in November 1996 was to be a merciful release. Mary pre-deceased him by three days, and surely would have found it difficult to carry on without him. They were survived by their children and five grandchildren, and one grandson delighted them by becoming a medical student at Leeds Medical School.
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First Title value, for Searching Hooper, Reginald Smyth (1909 - 1991)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-09
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Occupation General practitioner Neurosurgeon
Details Reginald Hooper, neurosurgeon and radiologist, was born on 8 October 1909, the youngest of six children. He was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, where he rowed and won a scholarship to Ormond College, Melbourne University. During his medical course he won the Baldwin Spencer prize in zoology, and continued to row. He was a resident medical officer at the (Royal) Melbourne Hospital between 1933 and 1936, obtaining the MS and the primary FRCS during this period. For two years he was in general practice in Colac in the country west of Melbourne, before leaving, without his family, for the United Kingdom in 1939. After posts as orthopaedic registrar at St Olave's Hospital in South London and clinical clerk at Queen Square in 1940, he obtained the final Fellowship and was appointed neurosurgical house surgeon to Hugh Cairns at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. With the war in progress, towards the end of 1940 he joined the RAMC and, as a lieutenant, was attached to No. 1 Mobile Neurosurgical Unit. This, one of a number organised by Cairns, was mobilised in February 1941 and, under the command of Major P B Ashcroft, was sent to the Western Desert where it accompanied the 8th army on its campaigns. Though there was much idleness - they worked on only nine of the twenty six days of battle - interspersed with periods of activity, Ashcroft reported that Hooper was a 'tower of strength'. Not all the work was neurosurgical, other wounds being treated if the occasion arose, for Hooper had considerable general surgical experience. He was appointed, with the rank of major, Commanding Officer of No 2 Mobile Neurosurgical Unit, which was formed in Cairo in January 1942. After wangling an additional 3 ton truck, Hooper and the unit sailed to India, reaching Poona and finally joining Slim's 14th army in Burma. Subsequently he returned to the Mediterranean theatre, seeing service in Italy and Yugoslavia. According to Ashcroft who was directing neurosurgery there, Hooper was 'the best man in the Mediterranean theatre, an excellent brain, a skillful operator, a hard worker and full of resource'. At the end of the war Hooper returned to Melbourne where he was appointed neurosurgeon to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1946. He and his brother-in-law, E Graeme Robertson, a distinguished neurologist and pioneer in the development of pneumo-encephalography, established the departments of neurosurgery and neurology at that hospital. He was also appointed to the staff of the Royal Children's Hospital and the Repatriation General Hospital. Hooper was particularly interested in head injuries. His article in the *British Journal of Surgery* in 1959 on extradural haematoma remains an important study. In it he analysed the results of the condition as well as its pathology and mechanisms, and drew attention to the high mortality in all reported series. He concluded that this ought to be reducible to 10% with proper education and organisation. The article has provided a standard against which present performance may be judged. He wrote two books, one on neurosurgical nursing and the other entitled *Patterns of acute head injury*. The latter was an original and brilliant attempt to refine the clinical diagnosis of head injury and the early recognition of complications needing surgery by paying particular attention to the way in which the head had been injured. With the appearance of scanning techniques, this skill, regrettably, has been almost forgotten. Hooper was a skillful and meticulous operator. His resourcefulness and originality were shown in his development of a special operating chair, or wheel, manufactured by Downs, for positioning children for cranial surgery, and in the design of his own stereotaxic machine, developed in conjunction with the engineers of the Royal Australian Air Force. He was also an accomplished artist and photographer, using these gifts to illustrate his articles, books and lectures. In a diary of his Burma experiences he included line drawings and watercolours. Under a rule operating at the time Hooper was, to his dismay, retired from the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1966, aged 57, but he continued at the Royal Children's Hospital until he was 65. He then trained as a radiologist, being registrar at Preston and Northcote Community Hospital. He obtained the DDR in 1978 and held visiting appointments thereafter at that hospital, as well as at the Royal Children's and Mount Royal Hospitals, and continued to do some private radiological practice until quite late in his life. On the basis of his published work he was awarded an MD from Melbourne University in 1978. For his care of partisans during the war he received an award from the Yugoslav army. He was President of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia from 1954 to 1955, gave the inaugural Jamieson lecture of that society in 1977, was elected member of the American Association of Neurosurgical Surgeons and was Blackfan Lecturer at Harvard. In appearance Hooper was distinguished and elegant. Quiet and something of a loner, his determination and capacity for outspokenness were evident during his period in the British army and occasioned a sermon from Cairns, suggesting that he avoid 'letting off steam to the brass hats'. In committee he had some difficulty in accepting majority decisions if he thought them wrong. Hooper married Elwyn Masters of Castlemaine in 1936. They had a son, Robert, who became an ENT surgeon in Melbourne, and a daughter, Elizabeth. Having recovered well from a chronic subdural haematoma late in life, he eventually suffered a cerebral haemmorhage from which he died on 7 December 1991.
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First Title value, for Searching Lacy, Edward (1799 - 1870)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-14 2017-05-04
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Professionally educated at St George's Hospital. He practised first at Stockport, where he was Surgeon to the Infirmary Fever Wards and to the Queen's Lying-in Institute. At the latter institution he lectured on midwifery and the diseases of women and children. Removing to Poole, he was at the time of his death Surgeon to the Bournemouth General Dispensary and Surgeon to the 4th Dorset Rifle Volunteers. He died at Poole on October 7th, 1870. Publication: "Treatment of Fistula in Ano by Chloride of Zinc." - *Med Times and Gaz*, 1852, xxv, 576. See below for an amended version of the published obituary: Edward Lacy made his name as a surgeon and leading citizen in Poole, Dorset. He was born in Salisbury in 1799 and baptised in Salisbury Cathedral on 17 March 1800, although his parents were both from Dorset: his father, James, was born in Poole, his mother, Mary née Bemister, in nearby Wimborne. He began his medical career as a pupil at the County Infirmary in Salisbury, before moving to London to the Marylebone Infirmary; he then studied at St George's Hospital as a pupil and dresser to Sir Edward Home and Sir Benjamin Brodie, receiving his diploma in 1823. He gained his membership of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1822, the same year he was awarded his licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1852. His first post was in Stockport, perhaps chosen because his brother Henry was at that time in Manchester, when he was appointed as a house surgeon at the Stockport Infirmary in March 1823. He also worked at the Dispensary and House of Recovery, moving on later to the Queen's Lying-in Institution, Manchester, where he lectured on midwifery and diseases of women and children. Edward applied several times, unsuccessfully, to be elected as a surgeon at the Manchester Royal Infirmary during the 1830s. A case study of one of his patients with diabetes mellitus, from his practice in King Street, Manchester, appears in Edward Carbutt's book *Clinical lectures in the Manchester Royal Infirmary* (London, Longman and company, 1834). It was while in Manchester that he became embroiled in 1832 in a law suit concerning grave-robbing. The Rev Gilpin of Stockport was successful with a libel case against an activist and publisher, Mr Doherty, who had stated that a body was removed from the graveyard attached to the church to the dissecting room of the surgeon Mr Lacy, who happened to be the Rev Gilpin's brother-in-law. The case featured strongly in the local and London newspapers, and must have been very embarrassing both professionally and personally for Edward. He had moved to Poole by 1844, taking over the medical practice of Thomas Barter at 90 High Street. Before this move, he had gained considerable experience in hospital work, but there was no hospital in Poole at that time or indeed during his lifetime. His living was therefore from general practice, plus the various contracts available to doctors. He became honorary surgeon to the 4th Dorset Rifle Volunteers, surgeon to several different friendly societies and the Amity Lodge. Another role was medical officer to the Kinson, Canford and Parkstone district of the Poole Union. He was able to later become involved in Bournemouth's first hospital development. He was listed in 1859 as a member of the founding committee of the Bournemouth Public Dispensary for the Sick Poor, as well as working there as an honorary surgeon. The dispensary was established to provide for the poor in the fast-developing town of Bournemouth, but also covering adjoining areas including Poole. As a dispensary, it did not have inpatients, although before his death it had become a cottage hospital, forerunner to the Royal Victoria Hospital. As he grew older, he took William Turner as a partner in his practice in Poole. His medical interests are shown by publications in the *Medical Times and Gazette* on ingrowing toenails, treatment of naevi, effects of use of lead powder by actors, and use of zinc chloride in the treatment of anal fistulae. He prepared a report for presentation to the inaugural meeting of the Dorset County Association of General Practitioners in June 1848 on the use of chloroform in surgery, which represented an early clinical review of experience. He was a local secretary of the New Sydenham Society, linking local doctors with the publisher. A further interest must have been public health, as in 1848 he was invited to present a lecture at Poole Guildhall on 'The health of towns'. The context was the passing of the Public Health Act in that year, but the worry of cholera outbreaks was a constant factor locally and nationally. Using his experience in Manchester, he compared life expectancy in Poole, a small town in a rural area, with northern cities, although stressing nevertheless how Poole's filthy streets affected the health of its population. The bulk of his lecture was educational, using diagrams and other aids, to demonstrate the impact of poor living conditions, showing how cholera could arise. He ended by stating that however well the Poor Law guardians provided aid and nutrition for the poor, they could do nothing to affect ventilation and cleanliness for the general population, suggesting that therefore the poor suffered the most in times of cholera. He offered, should cholera hit Poole, that his surgery would be open at all hours to the suffering poor. He was first elected to the Poole Town Council in 1848, representing the north-west ward as a Conservative, and remained a councillor until his death. In November 1860, as a long-serving member, he was elected by the town council as the mayor, and by this time he was also chief magistrate for the town. When he died the newspaper headline recorded it as the death of a magistrate, rather than surgeon; perhaps in his later years his presence on the bench was more marked than his medical work. Outside his medical career, he had at least one business interest. This was the time of 'railway mania', and Manchester was at the forefront. Edward was attracted to the possibilities and developed this interest after moving to Poole. He was heavily involved in the efforts to develop a railway link from Poole to Salisbury. This link was for a time known locally as the 'Lacy line'. There is no evidence this business venture brought him the same financial success as achieved by his brother Henry Lacy, a director of the London and South Western Railway and MP for Bodmin. Edward married Frances Gilpin on 2 September 1828; she was born in Broughton in Furness, Lancashire, the daughter of a local magistrate. They had four children while living in Manchester: Caroline Mary died in infancy in 1840, but Ruth, Bernard and Frances all grew up in Poole. Bernard Gilpin Lacy is listed in the 1871 census as an 'MD USA not in practice'. Edward Lacy died on 7 October 1870, aged 70, and was buried in Poole Cemetery on 13 October. The funeral was a large affair, with a procession of civic dignitaries and an honour guard of 30 men from the Rifle Volunteers; flags were at half-mast on the Guildhall and church. His obituary in the local newspaper was accompanied by a eulogy, highly complimentary about his medical career, including his Christian charitable approach to those unable to pay for his care. As a surgeon and leading citizen of the town, Edward Lacy made his mark in his adopted home of Poole. He was a part of the first hospital development in Bournemouth and Poole, and became Poole's civic leader. The obituary and eulogy published in the local newspaper demonstrate the town held him in high regard as 'a worthy magistrate, a skilful surgeon, and most upright and honourable gentleman'. Publications: New mode of treating ingrowing toenails. *Medical Times and Gazette* 1852 Aug 172-3. Treatment of fistula in ano by chloride of zinc. *Medical Times and Gazette* 1852 June 576. Use of lead powder by actors. *Medical Times and Gazette* 1852 Aug 223. Treatment of naevus by pressure. *Medical Times and Gazette* 1852. John Bartling Gill
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First Title value, for Searching Martin, Peter Guy Cutlack (1908 - 1986)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-15
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Vascular surgeon
Details Born in Yorkshire in 1908, the son of a civil engineer, Peter Martin was educated at Malvern College, before studying medicine at Queen's College, Cambridge (1925-28), and Manchester, qualifying in 1932. In the next four years he held a series of junior appointments in the Manchester area, in these years being particularly influenced by Professor E D Telford and Professor John Morley. In 1936 he obtained his Edinburgh Fellowship, and in the following year, in which he married, he settled in general practice in Chelmsford with an appointment as surgeon to Chelmsford Hospital. A keen member of the RNVR, he was called up in 1939, serving as surgical specialist in the Middle East, in England. and latterly in the Far East. He was demobilised in 1945 with the rank of Surgeon-Commander. On returning to civilian life he gave up general practice, but continued his appointment as a surgeon on the staff of Chelmsford Hospital, and it was there, in 1946 that he performed one of the first successful replacements of a segment of artery with a segment of autologous vein, in a young man with an injury to his popliteal artery. Prior to this success Peter was already interested in vascular surgery, at that time a relatively new specialty, principally concerned with the place of sympathectomy in various conditions, in particular intermittent claudication, and in 1947 he was appointed as a part-time senior lecturer in the department of surgery at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, entrusted by Professor Ian Aird with the responsibility of forming a vascular surgery unit. Later on he was appointed as consultant in vascular surgery to Manor House Hospital, but it was the former hospitals, Chelmsford and Hammersmith, which formed the core of his surgical life. A general surgeon with wide interests, as evidenced by his development of the Martin pump, for a period widely used in blood-transfusion, Peter played a full role in the surgical work at Chelmsford, where he was held in great esteem not only for his surgical skills, but also for his kindness and wise judgement. But increasingly vascular surgery became his predominant interest. He was one of the major figures in the development of vascular surgery in the United Kingdom. From his unit at Hammersmith came important papers establishing the association of aortic aneurysm with certain blood groups and with peptic ulceration, but Peter's main contributions were not in such academic aspects of surgery. A capable operator, who preferred simple to complex techniques, essentially practical in his outlook, with an intuitive rather than analytical approach to surgical problems, he made valuable contributions to the operative treatment of aortic aneurysms, but without doubt his most significant contribution was his establishment of the value of the restoration of the flow in the deep femoral vessels by the operation of profundaplasty. Though not a prolific writer, in addition to a number of important papers Peter edited and largely contributed to two widely read books on vascular surgery. Together with Sol Cohen, the first President, Frank Cockett and James Gillespie he was closely concerned with the foundation, in 1967, of the Vascular Society, of which he was the second President. He attracted both to Hammersmith and to Chelmsford not only many international visitors, but also a succession of able young registrars, especially from Australia. An outstanding ambassador for British surgery, he was frequently invited to lecture abroad in America, Australia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. He was an honorary member of surgical societies in many countries, received an honorary Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, and in 1980 he was invited to deliver the Le Riche Memorial Lecture in Heidelberg. A man of splendid physique, Peter was in all senses of the word a large man. Unfailingly gentle and courteous, imperturbable, a tower of strength in all difficulties, capable, whether in the operating theatre or the cockpit of his yacht, of imparting his own self-confidence to others, a man with an enormous gusto for life, Peter had a host of friends in many countries and from all walks of life. It is a reflection of the affection in which he was held by his juniors that following his retirement the Australian surgeons who had worked with him in this country invited, at their expense, him and his wife to visit Australia. Following his retirement in 1973 Peter spent several months teaching in Northern India and Iraq, but with increasing leisure he had more time to devote to his favourite pastime, sailing. An amateur sailor of great ability and resource, over the years he owned a series of yachts which he kept at Burnham-on-Crouch, where he was well-known, and from where he cruised widely to South Brittany, Eire and the Baltic. In his later years he moved to Felsted, where he died on 18 October 1986 predeceased by his wife, Mimosa, by some months. He was survived by his two sons and his grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Rycroft, Sir Benjamin William (1902 - 1967)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

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Publication Date 2014-10-06
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Occupation General practitioner Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Benjamin William Rycroft was born in a small village in Yorkshire in 1902. In his youth he learned to play the organ well enough to do so in his parish church and thus was mildly attracted to the ministry as a profession. Instead, he studied medicine in St Andrew's University (1919-1924) and after qualifying, he started general practice in Bradford, Yorkshire. His interest turned to ophthalmology and at great expenditure of time and energy he took the Diploma in Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery in 1929, three years after his marriage to Mary Rhodes, who survived him. He continued his practice in Bradford, travelling up to London on week-ends to study for his Fellowship in the Royal College of Surgeons which he attained in 1931. He then moved to Taplow and London where he worked as a clinical assistant at St George's Hospital and later at Moorfields Eye Hospital. About this time he became intrigued with the problem of transplantation of the cornea, which became the main interest of his professional life and in which he excelled. His skill, dedication and industry, combined in an aggressively honest, yet kindly character, earned him at this early age increasing recognition and support of his colleagues. He became a Hunterian Professor and Leverhulme Scholar at the Royal College of Surgeons, a Lang Research Scholar at Moorfields and Middlemore Prizeman of the British Medical Association. He was associated with the medical staff of the Maidenhead Hospital, King George's Hospital, Ilford, the East Ham Memorial Hosptial and the Royal Eye Hospital in London. These were happy and fruitful years of almost ferocious professional activity, during which his private practice increased prodigiously and brought him, in addition to the admiration of his colleagues, the devotion of his patients. Behind him stood Mary and his two sons, and the security of a happy home. His remarkable aptitude for clinical research began about this time and soon became manifest. His first paper on keratoplasty was published in 1935. When war broke out in 1939 he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving first in Northern Ireland, then in North Africa and Italy where he acted as chief consultant in ophthalmology to the British Army with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. On the way to his post in North Africa the hospital ship, *Windsor Castle* in which he was being transported, was sunk by an aerial torpedo off Oran. His son Peter (see next entry), wrote in a short biography of his father "Fortunately, he was rescued in his pyjamas by the destroyer, *Eggesford* (Hunt Class), but he never forgot the drama of the hours in the sea awaiting rescue, and the panic that preceded it. He visited the village of Eggesford in Devon in later years, and attended a meet of hounds at the local pub and gave thanks." Towards the end of the war he wrote his first book *A manual for Field Officers*, which was widely used by the Army. At the end of the war he was awarded the OBE and resumed his civilian practice in London. Although, like most of his colleagues, he disliked socialized medicine for many cogent reasons, he adapted himself to the times and was appointed consultant ophthalmic surgeon to Park Prewitt Emergency Medical Service Hospital, near Basingstoke, to Moorfields, and to the Canadian War Memorial Hospital at Taplow. His old patients had impatiently awaited his return from military service and began by the hundreds to rejoin his practice, which had over 15,000 patients on the register at the time of his death. In 1945, he was asked by Sir Archibald Mclndoe, famous for his successful plastic surgery on mutilated and burned pilots at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, to establish an eye department within the unit. With the birth of the Corneo-Plastic Unit at East Grinstead, Rycroft really gathered momentum in his work. "Corneal grafts, lacrimal surgery, lid surgery particularly ptosis, surgery of the socket and orbit claimed his full attention," said his son Peter, "and his publications proved that such a specialized centre had much to contribute to general ophthalmic surgery. His students came from many lands and appreciated the personal training with a small but dedicated team, in a way that is impossible to achieve in a large centre." In 1952 he was mainly responsible for initiating a national campaign, using modern methods of communications, for a corneal grafting act. The campaign was supported by Sir Cecil Wakeley, then President of the Royal College of Surgeons; by the South East Regional Hospital Board; his medical colleagues, the press and the public. The Act was passed in 1952 and with it the first United Kingdom Eye Bank was established in East Grinstead. It became an immediate success. The Act later (1961) was broadened to include other human tissue and is now known as The Human Tissue Act. Thus it can be claimed with justice, that Benjamin Rycroft paved the way for legal methods of obtaining, preserving and utilizing, all parts of the human body for purposes of transplantation in the British Isles. In 1955 a book appeared under his editorship, *Corneal grafts*. Four of the sixteen chapters were written by Rycroft, the others by different international authorities on the subject. It was well received by ophthalmic surgeons everywhere, and was the first book of its kind to be published in the English language. It also revealed Rycroft as a lucid, even exciting, writer and a sound editor. By this time he had published, either alone or in collaboration, eleven noteworthy contributions on the subject of corneal grafts. In the spring of 1959 at East Grinstead he launched the First Corneo-Plastic Conference. It was financed by funds given by grateful patients and businessmen who admired his enthusiasm and work. The Conference was successful, and attracted a good audience of British and many foreign ophthalmologists, who departed impressed and stimulated by the work they had seen and shared. It is certain that the good reception that Rycroft had with this first conference determined him to plan for a second one in 1967, which he did not live to enjoy. The following year, 1960, he was knighted, an honour that pleased hundreds of friends, colleagues and patients. He was rightly proud of this great honour that he so richly deserved. The Fourth International Course of Ophthalmology of the Barraquer Institute was held in Barcelona, Spain, April 28-May 6, 1965. Sir Benjamin Rycroft, an old friend of the Barraquer family, served as the honorary president. On his return to England he became ill and was unable to go to Chicago as a guest speaker of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society. However he recovered sufficiently to give the 1965 Doyne Memorial Lecture before the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress in July. His subject was "The Corneal Graft - Past, Present and Future." His lecture is a brilliant review, almost a monograph on the subject. It is noteworthy for the first part in which he covered the history of corneal grafting, a subject that had deeply interested him very early in his work. He took particular delight in his discovery, with the help of Lord Brock, of the fact that Astley Cooper on April 9, 1817 performed the first recorded free skin graft in England, and in the presence of Franz Reisinger, of Germany. Reisinger is generally considered to be the first surgeon to transplant successfully, a human cornea (1818). Following his visit to Guy's Hospital, he said that "This case (Cooper's) gave me excellent encouragement to attempt similar experiments with the cornea..." The first quarter of 1966 was spent in travel and lecturing for the most part in the United States. The rest of the year he devoted to his work as the clinical director of the Pocklington Eye Transplantation Research Unit at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, which he was instrumental in founding in 1964, as well as working with the Corneo-Plastic Unit in East Grinstead and in his large private practice. Meanwhile he was busy planning for the Second International Comeo-Plastic Conference to be held in July, 1967 and the First South African International Ophthalmological Symposium in 1968. He did not live to complete his leadership in these two important international events for he died suddenly of coronary occlusion on March 29, 1967. Benjamin Rycroft was a person who loved life with gusto and frankly rejoiced in his success. In addition to his scientific work, he relished country living on his small farm, Bishop's Lodge, near Windsor. Here he raised fine cattle, hunted, took a leading part in horse shows, played the organ for his pleasure in St George's Chapel, Windsor, and his piano at home. He was a lay officer of the Chapel, and took delight in showing its many treasures, of which he was very knowledgeable, to overseas visitors, who often were not aware of his distinction as an ophthalmic surgeon. He trained a good number of the young farmers of the area in animal husbandry and encouraged the local farm and garden shows and study groups. He was an enthusiastic fisherman. He cultivated fine roses and was proud that he was given new varieties by growers to try out before they were put on the market. His cup of life was full to the top and few drops of it were wasted.
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First Title value, for Searching Hunt, John Henderson, Baron Hunt of Fawley (1905 - 1987)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-22
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Occupation General practitioner
Details John Henderson Hunt was born in India on 3 July 1905, the son of Edmund Henderson Hunt, MCh, FRCS (1874-1952, see 1952-1964 volume, page 205) and the elder brother of Alan Henderson Hunt DM, MCh, FRCS (1908-1970, see 1965-1973 volume, page 173). His mother was Laura Mary, daughter of Colonel Sir James Buckingham, secretary of the Indian Tea Association. After early education at Charterhouse he entered Balliol College, Oxford, in 1924 winning the Theodore Williams Scholarship in physiology in 1926 and the Radcliffe Scholarship in pharmacology in 1928. He qualified in 1931 and was initially house surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital, later becoming chief assistant to the medical professorial unit and then house physician at the National Hospital, Queen Square. He passed the MRCP in 1934, was awarded the degree of DM Oxford in the following year and although well prepared for a career as a consultant physician he changed course and entered a general practice in Chelsea shortly before the war. From 1940 to 1945 he served as a medical specialist in the Royal Air Force with the rank of Wing-Commander and after demobilisation decided to set up his own practice in Sloane Street, fully equipped with x-ray facilities and pathological laboratory. Here he was able to undertake the care of his patients when they were admitted to nursing homes and the high standards he set attracted many patients. The marked contrast between this level of practice and that described in the *Lancet* by Joseph Collings in 1950 inspired him to advocate an academic headquarters for general practice. In conjunction with Dr Fraser Rose of Preston he wrote letters to the *British medical journal* and the *Lancet* proposing the formation of such a college and received a response from over 1200 doctors wishing to enrol. He set up a steering committee under Sir Henry Willink, then Minister of Health and inaugurated the new College of General Practitioners on 19 November 1952. Initially its premises were in rooms leased at Apothecaries' Hall which he had joined as a liveryman in 1950 but the rapid growth of the College necessitated removing to larger accommodation after two years. John Hunt was honorary secretary from 1952 in 1967 when the College was granted the Royal prefix and served as President from 1967 to 1970 when he was awarded the CBE. Despite the demands of a busy general practice he found time to lecture all over the country about his College and to visit many centres overseas. He was a strong advocate of academic departments of general practice in British universities. He also served as principal medical officer to the Provincial Mutual Life Assurance Association from 1947 to 1980 and as honorary consultant in general practice to the Royal Air Force. He was President of the Hunterian Society in 1953, of the Section of General Practice at the Royal Society of Medicine in 1956, of the Harveian Society in 1970, of the Chelsea Clinical Society in 1971 and of the Medical Society of London in 1973. He was consultant physician to St Dunstan's from 1948 to 1966, a member of the Council of St Dunstan's from 1966 to 1983, a Governor of Charterhouse School, Sutton's Hospital, Old Charterhouse and the National Hospital, Queen Square. He served on the council of the Medical Protection Society from 1948 to 1969 and as a member of the General Advisory Council of the British Broadcasting Corporation from 1958 to 1966. He was a member of the Medical Services Review Committee from 1958 to 1961 and a member of the Medical Commission on Accident Prevention in 1967. He was a co-opted member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons from 1957 to 1961 representing general practice and during part of this time his brother Alan Hunt served as an elected member of the Council. He was awarded many honours which included honorary Fellowship of the Royal Society of Medicine, the Australian College of General Practice, the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Singapore College of General Practice. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in April 1966, was made Gold Medallist of the British Medical Association in 1980 and in the same year was elected an honorary fellow of Green College, Oxford. He was created a Life Peer in 1973, becoming the first general practitioner to be honoured in this way. He was a regular attender of the upper house, speaking on many issues and making important contributions to the debate on the Medical Act of 1978. In 1941 he married Elisabeth Evill and they had three sons (one of whom died in infancy) and two daughters. After retiring from practice he was afflicted with Parkinson's disease, was blind for the last seven years of his life and bedridden for the final three. He died on 28 December 1987, survived by his wife, two sons, Jonathan and Christopher, both of whom are doctors, and two daughters, Rosemary and Gillian.
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First Title value, for Searching Huggins, Rt Hon Godfrey Martin, Viscount Malvern (1883 - 1971)

2024-04-28T11:52:35Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-11
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Politician
Details Born on 6 July 1883, he was the eldest son of Godfrey Huggins, member of the London Stock Exchange, of Berkhamsted, and Emily Blest, his wife. After preparatory school Huggins went to Malvern College in January 1898, but had to leave in July 1899 because his schooling was cut short by illness as he developed acute otitis media complicated by mastoiditis. In 1901 he entered the medical school of St Thomas's where as a student he was a contemporary and friend of Max Page, Rowley Bristow and Sidney Macdonald. He qualified in 1906 with the Conjoint Diploma and then obtained successive house appointments at St Thomas's as casualty officer, house surgeon and senior house surgeon. After this he went to Great Ormond Street, first as house physician and later as resident medical superintendent, during which period he was admitted a Fellow in 1908. In 1911 after a serious illness he was advised to convalesce in a sunny climate and therefore chose to go out to Salisbury, Rhodesia, as locum for a general practitioner for six months. He decided to remain and set up as a general practitioner surgeon in Salisbury. When war broke out in 1914, he returned to England and was gazetted as a Captain RAMC and surgical specialist, serving in England, Malta and France. In 1915 as a result of his own war experience, he wrote a small handbook on the management and care of patients who had undergone amputation. Returning to Salisbury he decided in 1921 to give up general practice and became a consultant as he was recognised as one of the most able surgeons in Southern Africa. Even after his entry later into politics and when he ultimately became Prime Minister he found it impossible to abandon surgery completely owing to the demands of his old patients and of his friends. He would often operate in the early morning before going on to his ministerial duties and it was only in 1950 that he gave up surgery altogether. In 1921 he volunteered for service during a police strike, when he mediated successfully for the strikers and, as a result, was urged to stand for parliament. In 1923 he was elected to represent Salisbury North in the legislative assembly. Like many other Rhodesians he had favoured the linking of Southern Rhodesia with South Africa, but, after a referendum in 1922, he accepted the decision of the majority and joined the Rhodesian party to help implement self government. In 1928 he was returned with an increased majority, but he was becoming increasingly impatient with the policy of his party. When the world depression hit Rhodesia in 1930, the Government was forced to adopt stringent economies, and it was over the decision to reduce the salaries of civil servants that Huggins broke with the Government. One vote was needed to give the Government the necessary two thirds majority, which Huggins gave with reluctance, announcing that he would leave the party. In 1933 he was persuaded to accept the leadership of the Reform party in opposition. After a year, however, the majority of this party decided to join with elements of the Rhodesia party forming a new party under Huggins leadership. A general election followed in 1934 in the month of November and the new united party was returned with 24 seats. The next general election was held in April 1939 in view of the threat of war, instead of waiting the full five years, and Huggins' United Party was again returned with a majority of 23 seats. This Government carried on throughout the war period for seven years, but in the first post war election of 1946 was nearly defeated and in 1948 was defeated on a minor issue. By this time the question of closer union with Northern Rhodesia had become a dominant political issue and the United Party, led by Huggins, won a resounding victory, his party being in power during the negotiations for the formation of the Federation with Nyasaland. Huggins became Prime Minister of the Federation in November 1953. He had been the architect of the Federation but he resigned office on November 1 1956, the day the British and French Governments launched their Suez adventure. He was succeeded by Sir Roy Welensky who, like himself, considered that the British Government had let the Federation down. Huggins years as Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia were marked by the country's progress up to the outbreak of war in 1939, by its great record during the war and by its tremendous progress afterwards. He occupied the position of Prime Minister longer than any other man in the history of the Commonwealth, although he did not enter politics until after middle life. For many years he held the portfolio of native education, housing and hospitals, all of which made great advances, as did research in tropical diseases. Sympathetic in outlook towards the African and believing in social and economic advance rather than political advance, he was at the same time a realist, and as a result was assailed vigorously from time to time, both by those who thought that advancement of the African was not rapid enough, and by those who thought that it was too fast. Huggins caused comment in public life by his occasional apparent impishness, puckishness and a tendency, unusual in a politician, of saying exactly what he thought, irrespective of the time or the place, thereby exasperating his political opponents and giving anxious moments to his friends. His greatest disappointment was the defeat in 1962 as a result of the Southern Rhodesia election of Sir Edgar Whitehead and the United Party with the resulting emergence of the Rhodesian Front. The indications were that the Rhodesian electorate, after more than a generation, had turned away from the policy of racial progress initiated by him, Huggins. He expressed the opinion that it was a victory for those white Rhodesians who were opposed to any change. As the Rhodesia Front policies became increasingly intolerant, he expressed anxiety concerning the country's future. Pro-British and a loyalist, he condemned UDI, the declaration of a republic and the abolition of the Union Jack. Doubtless, being fully occupied as a surgeon for half his life, and partially even after he had entered politics, made him a realist. In 1938 he operated on his Governor, Sir Herbert Stanley and in 1939 on the Governor of Nyasaland; while on another occasion he dealt with a visiting British surgeon who had been mauled by a leopard. He was created a Viscount in 1955 and retired from office in 1956. Ever since his school days he had suffered from deafness, but he was a man of great energy, showing little strain, even when following two careers simultaneously. His relaxations were polo, golf, tennis and racing in his capacity as a steward of the Mashonaland Turf Club. In 1921 he married Blanche Slatter, by whom he had two sons. He died on 8 May 1971 aged 87.
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