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

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-20
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Occupation ENT surgeon General practitioner
Details Linsell Donald Richards (Lin) was born in Levin, New Zealand, and after early education at Horowhenua College entered Otago University for his medical studies, qualifying in 1959. His first house appointments were at Cook and Wellington Hospitals and during this time he decided to specialize in otorhinolaryngology. Before coming to England for postgraduate studies he spent three years as a general practitioner in Tolaga Bay and a year in Hastings as surgical registrar. He came to Britain in 1966 and did most of his postgraduate appointments at Nottingham General Hospital. In 1969 he obtained both the DLO and FRCS and returning to New Zealand passed the FRACS in 1971. After his appointment as consultant in otorhinolaryngology at Wellington Hospital he worked vigorously to modernise the department and to establish audiology clinics. He was elected to the New Zealand Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1980, served as President of the New Zealand Otolaryngology Society and was appointed to the court of examiners in otolaryngology. Throughout his life he remained active in physically demanding sports, especially hockey. He married Helen and they had four children, Megan, Andrew, Meryl and Kate. He died at home on 21 June 1986, aged 51, survived by his second wife Sheryl and Paul, his youngest son.
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First Title value, for Searching Midgley, Gordon Siegfried (1913 - 1985)

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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 Lumsden, Kenneth (1900 - 1968)

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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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005906
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First Title value, for Searching Keene, Reginald (1897 - 1975)

2024-05-14T14:10:29Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-16
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Occupation ENT surgeon General practitioner General surgeon
Details Reginald Keene was born in Islington, London, on 11 September 1897, the son of a chief administrative officer of the LCC Mental Hospitals' Department, and used to visit Oulton Broad on holiday as a child. A foundation scholar of Highgate Grammar School, he passed his first MB in 1915 but shortly afterwards volunteered for the Army and was sent to France as a platoon commander in the 13th Middlesex Regiment with the rank of Lieutenant. He spent some time at the front, until August 1918, but was then ordered home to complete his medical training. He qualified from St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1924 and in 1925 joined Dr James Taylor in Lowestoft in general practice. He was appointed surgeon to the ENT department at Lowestoft Hospital in 1927, took the FRCS in 1932, and continued to practise as a general practitioner-surgeon until 1963. During the second world war he was working as an EMS surgeon at Bodmin. For many years he devoted himself to local government affairs and became a senior alderman and in turn deputy mayor and chairman of various committees. A keen angler, (he caught a salmon weighing 54 1/4 lbs in Norway), and gardener, he was president of the local piscatorial and dahlia societies. He had a dahlia named after him. He was also foundation member of the Lowestoft Rotary Club and a past-captain of the local golf club. On his retirement in 1970, after 45 years in general practice, a large number of patients gathered to pay him tribute, and he was long remembered as a kind, extremely capable general practitioner and surgeon. He was a member of Council of the BMA in 1938-9 and for many years served as honorary secretary of the North Suffolk Division. He married Edith Winifred Davies in 1926 and she predeceased him. They had one son and one daughter who is a doctor and married to a general practitioner. He died on 5 January 1975, aged 77 years.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006644
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First Title value, for Searching Guerin, Robert Langley (1932 - 1999)

2024-05-14T14:10:29Z

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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008648
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First Title value, for Searching Sheaves, Bruce Boyd (1925 - 1975)

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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 Wilson, Ian Irvine (1920 - 1978)

2024-05-14T14:10:29Z

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 Gray, John Duncan (1905 - 1975)

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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.
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First Title value, for Searching Parker, Roger Jacques (1936 - 2000)

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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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008831
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First Title value, for Searching Wallace, Robert Allez Rotherham (1888 - 1980)

2024-05-14T14:10:29Z

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 Talbot, Leonard Smith (1880 - 1961)

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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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006177
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First Title value, for Searching Scott-Brown, Walter Graham (1897 - 1987)

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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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