Search Results for Medical Obituaries - Narrowed by: General practitioner - General surgeon

First Title value, for Searching Bainbridge, David Robert (1939 - 2022)

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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 Williamson, Bruce Christopher MacGregor ( - 2011)

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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 Gilbert, Michael Chaplain (1925 - 2016)

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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 Ryan, Edward Leo (1921 - 2019)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-01-11
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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)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-02-04
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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 Cowan, Alan Normington (1929 - 2021)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-01-11
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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 Kernutt, Raymond Herbert (1926 - 2004)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-02-10
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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 Diamond, William Batchelor ( - 1855)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-28
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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)

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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 Price, Dilwyn Arthur ( - 1996)

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

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-25
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381006381006
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details From Cambridge, Ralph Nottidge did his clinical studies at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was house physician, surgeon, and surgical registrar. He then worked as a medical officer in the Jane Furse Memorial Hospital in the Transvaal, South Africa, before returning to take up general practice in Chelmsford. There he became active in the training programme for general practice and was the course organiser of vocational training courses. He died on 12 June 1999.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008823
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First Title value, for Searching MacIntyre, Alexander Grant (1930 - 2009)

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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 Dukes, Heather Margaret (1942 - 2014)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-06-12 2017-12-21
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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 Johnson, William ( - 1991)

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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 Chambler, Kenneth (1927 - 2021)

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by Andrew Chambler
Publication Date 2022-03-29
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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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006437
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First Title value, for Searching Verma, Terence Rai (1926 - 1999)

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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 Wilkins, Richard Dennis (1916 - 1980)

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First Title value, for Searching Connor, Ronald Edward ( - 1984)

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First Title value, for Searching Benjamin, Victor Ariyaratnam (1928 - 2014)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-06-13 2017-06-26
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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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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 Goonatillake, Hansa Deva Perera ( - 1994)

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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/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 Cahill, Francis Joseph (1914 - 1989)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-12-24 2017-04-18
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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 Talbot, Francis Theodore (1872 - 1969)

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

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-17
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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 Glendining, Vincent (1888 - 1964)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-10
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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.
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First Title value, for Searching Mitchell, David Matthew (1895 - 1978)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-10
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details David Matthew Mitchell was born in New Zealand in 1895 and was educated at the Otago Boys' High School and at Otago Medical School. He qualified in 1920 and in 1921 entered general practice. In 1925 he came to Great Britain and obtained the FRCS Edinburgh. In 1929 he returned to England a second time and did a 12 month locum at Dudley Road, Birmingham, where he worked with Hamilton Bailey and gained much valuable experience. In 1931 he obtained the FRCS. He returned to New Zealand and commenced practice in Palmerston North. His capacity for work was enormous and his vast experience, sound judgement, surgical skill and courage characterised his career. He was a first class shot and keen angler. He was one of that great breed of general practitioners who formed the backbone of the profession in New Zealand in the first half of this century. They had four daughters and a son. He died on 28 December 1978, aged 83 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Everett, Alan Doyle (1905 - 1987)

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

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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 Kirkland, George King (1904 - 1992)

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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
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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 Boothroyd, Lawrence Sydney Arthur (1920 - 2014)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-08-07 2018-03-05
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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 Backwell, Maurice (1900 - 1974)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-06
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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 Hack, Philip (1900 - 1981)

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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
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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 Wilson, Edric Frank (1898 - 1970)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-31
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378462378462
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 Tuckett, Cedric Ivor (1901 - 1975)

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First Title value, for Searching Leonard, Francis Reginald (1902 - 1971)

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First Title value, for Searching Herbert, Gerald (1904 - 1982)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378756378756
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 Smith, Edward Archibald (1875 - 1958)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-25
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377733377733
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 Mathias, Henry Hugh (1887 - 1963)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-21
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Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E005000-E005999/E005100-E005199
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377330377330
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 Mackillop, Neil Campbell (1920 - 1980)

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

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-05
Unknown
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E004000-E004999/E004900-E004999
URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377172377172
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.
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First Title value, for Searching Taylor, Robert Claude (1901 - 1988)

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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.
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First Title value, for Searching Barton, David Charles (1933 - 1989)

2024-05-13T19:48:51Z

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 Griffiths, Griffith John (1901 - 1987)

2024-05-13T19:48:51Z

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.
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First Title value, for Searching Walker, Harold (1875 - 1966)

2024-05-13T19:48:51Z

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 Wilson, George Ewart ( - 1965)

2024-05-13T19:48:51Z

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 Campbell, Allan Gordon (1916 - 2011)

2024-05-13T19:48:51Z

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 Taor, Richard Ernest (1940 - 2014)

2024-05-13T19:48:51Z

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 Nurick, Arthur William (1921 - 2013)

2024-05-13T19:48:51Z

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 Jayasuriya, Bodyabaduge Piyatissa (1932 - 2014)

2024-05-13T19:48:51Z

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 McFadzean, James (1900 - 1975)

2024-05-13T19:48:51Z

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/378895378895
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)

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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 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 Leedham-Green, John Charles (1902 - 1984)

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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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007418
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First Title value, for Searching Vickery, William Henry (1863 - 1944)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-09
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377038377038
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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004855
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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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006583
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, John Trengove (1918 - 1989)

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First Title value, for Searching Williams, Hugh Morgan (1908 - 1980)

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

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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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007196
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First Title value, for Searching Green, Charles William (1881 - 1968)

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

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First Title value, for Searching Gillam, John Francis Edward ( - 1987)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-13
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details There are no details of John Francis Edward Gillam's date of birth, family, education or early medical appointments. He qualified from St Thomas's Hospital in 1925 and took the FRCS four years later. In 1931 he moved to a general practice partnership at Haverfordwest where he also practised surgery. At the inception of the NHS in 1948 he was appointed consultant general surgeon to the West Wales Hospital Group, working at the County War Memorial Hospital, Haverfordwest, and the South Pembrokeshire Hospital. Having had such extensive experience in general practice prior to the NHS, his clinical acumen and advice later proved of great value during domiciliary visits with his colleagues. Moreover, being endowed with an excellent memory and a warm and genial manner beneath his outward formality, and being exceedingly hardworking and conscientious, he was a valuable member of his medical community. He was reputedly a slow, but skilful and careful surgeon, who read widely and kept up with the latest thinking. A tireless worker, he attended his hospital patients every morning, including the weekends, whilst he was a keen supporter and regularly attended at the Sunday morning meetings of the Pembrokeshire Medical Society. He served for many years as Chairman of the Medical Staff Committee and constantly strove to improve standards in his hospitals. After his retirement in 1968 he pursued his lifelong interest in travel and ornithology. When he died on 28 March 1987 he was survived by his wife, Sallie, his two daughters, Sue and Jane, and a son, Pat, who is a general practitioner.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007279
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First Title value, for Searching Harvie, Adam Hamilton (1894 - 1978)

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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/378750378750
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Adam Hamilton Harvie was born in 1894 in Middlemarch, Central Otago, the son of a farmer. At the age of 18, he matriculated intending to become a doctor but he served for two years as a private soldier in the Medical Corps in the first world war. He worked to keep himself and eventually qualified MB ChB in 1924. He and his wife served in a medical mission in Jagadhri, North Punjab, for twelve years until 1939 when they returned to New Zealand with their family. While in India he passed DTM and H Calcutta and the FRCS Ed in 1933. In 1938 he won the Hastings Prize for a thesis on amoebic dysentery and in 1945 passed the FRCS. When war broke out in 1939, Harvie came to England, leaving his family in New Zealand. He volunteered for service but was told he was too old so he stayed on as a resident surgeon at Kingston-upon-Thames. He returned to New Zealand in 1945 and took over Dr Sylvia Chaler's practice in Kelburn where he worked until his retirement in 1964. His 'retirement' in Western Hutt Hills was largely theoretical because he continued to help other general practitioners with regular surgical sessions and locums until his death at the age of 84 on 30 September 1978. Harvie was deeply religious, a supporter of moral rearmament and a staunch Presbyterian. He had a great sense of humour, never took offence and was universally respected. His wife died in 1969 and he was survived by his second wife and three daughters by his first marriage.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006567
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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 Toland, Gertrude Mary Beatrice (1901 - 1985)

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First Title value, for Searching Riley, Peter William Stewart (1910 - 1994)

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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 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 Jansz, Aubrey William (1926 - 2011)

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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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002105
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First Title value, for Searching Spriggs, Neville Ivens (1878 - 1967)

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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 Doyle, Richard Webster (1905 - 1989)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-08
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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 Wilson, John Walker (1899 - 1983)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-14
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details John Walker Wilson was born at Alloa in 1899 and studied medicine at Glasgow University before graduating in 1924. After holding postgraduate appointments at the Miller General Hospital, London, and as medical superintendent of the Seamen's Dispensary at Greenwich, he settled in general practice at Southport where he was also appointed assistant surgeon to the Southport General Infirmary. During the second world war he served in the RAMC both in the United Kingdom and West Africa. On demobilisation he returned to his surgical appointment at Southport and continued there after the start of the National Health Service. He secured the FRCS by examination at the age of 59 and retired from his hospital work five years later. But he continued in private and locum practice for some time and was especially keen on working in his beloved Scotland: the more remote the spot the better he enjoyed it. John, or "WW" as he was always known to his colleagues, was a rather private person who did not make friends easily, though when he did the friendship was warm and lasting. He was a keen fisherman and would spend part of each year salmon fishing at Tomintoul. Many were his fishing stories, although not always entirely believable. Golf and gardening were further relaxations, as was walking his Alsatian dog around the parks near his home. He was a keen supporter of the local Caledonian Society and of the Southport Medical Society and had happy and successful years as president of both. There is no record of the date of his marriage to Kathleen and, when he died in hospital on 7 January 1983, aged 83, after a long illness, he was survived by her and by their two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Secretan, Walter Bernard (1875 - 1966)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-06
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Walter Bernard Secretan was born at Croydon on 15 May 1875 and was educated at Bradfield College and Guy's Hospital, qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1900. He was a house-surgeon at Guy's and in 1901 graduated with the London MB BS and also obtained the FRCS. In 1902-3 he made two voyages as a ship's surgeon and then was appointed house surgeon to the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading. In 1904 he joined Dr Walters in general practice and in 1912 was appointed surgical registrar at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, and assistant surgeon in 1913. Having joined the Territorial RAMC in 1909, when the first world war broke out he served first on the staff of the Reading War Hospital, and then with the 56th General Hospital in France. After demobilization in 1919 he became a full surgeon on the staff of the Royal Berkshire Hospital but continued in general practice till 1927 when he gave this up so as to devote his full time to surgery. In 1914 Secretan married Dorothy Crosse, daughter of the Rector of Long Wittenham, and they had two children, a son who was killed in a motor accident in 1927 and a daughter who, after her father's retirement in 1948, started a farm with him at Tedburn St Mary in Devon. Five years later they moved to a farm at Hascombe in Surrey where he remained till his death on 28 September 1966. His wife had died in 1931. Secretan was a great character and hunted regularly with the South Berks for a period of 30 years, and was distinguished as one of the first of the general-practitioner surgeons on the staff of the County Hospital to give up the general work and specialize in surgery.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006070
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First Title value, for Searching Baker, Anthony Harvard (1903 - 1989)

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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 Gough, Arkyl Staveley (1900 - 1990)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-18
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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 Rose, John Richard (1910 - 1998)

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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 King, Cyril Arnold (1895 - 1983)

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

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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 Jauch, Francis Joselin (1897 - 1991)

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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 Godson, Charles (1819 - 1904)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-02-08
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374179374179
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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001996
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First Title value, for Searching Whittingdale, John (1894 - 1974)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-13
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379222379222
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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007039
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First Title value, for Searching Wardle, Derek Basil James (1924 - 1997)

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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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009344
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First Title value, for Searching Ticehurst, Norman Frederic (1873 - 1969)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-20
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378348378348
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Norman Frederic Ticehurst was born at St Leonards-on-Sea on 1 July 1873, his father and grandfather having been doctors in Hastings. He was educated at Tonbridge School, Clare College Cambridge, and Guy's Hospital Medical School, qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1901. In 1902 he took the FRCS and completed his Cambridge degree in 1903. At Guy's he was house surgeon to Jacobson, and in 1903 he joined his father in general practice and the following year was appointed to the surgical staff of the Royal East Sussex Hospital. In 1907 Norman's father retired and his brother Gerald replaced him. During the first world war Ticehurst took charge of the Normanhurst Military Hospital, Battle, where he served from 1915-1919 and was awarded the OBE in 1920. He was the best type of GP surgeon, a shrewd clinician and a skilful operator. Though undertaking general surgery he had a special flair for orthopaedics, and was consultant to the Shaftesbury Home for Crippled Children. He retired from hospital practice in 1938, but on the outbreak of the second world war returned to his surgical and orthopaedic practice, dealing with numerous air-raid casualties. He finally retired in 1949 and went to live at Smallhythe. Ticehurst was remarkably dextrous, and his chief hobby was carpentry and cabinet-making, but he established an outstanding reputation as an ornithologist as joint author of the *Handbook of British birds* and author of *A history of the birds of Kent*. He was also an authority on the archaeological aspects of swan keeping. In 1913 he married Ivy Cross and they had a daughter and two sons, one of whom followed in his father's footsteps to Guy's, and to the surgical staff of the Royal East Sussex Hospital. He died on 5 December 1969 at the age of 96. Publications: *A history of the birds of Kent*. 1909. *A handbook of British birds*, with H F Witherby and F C R Jourdain. *The mute swan in England*. 1957.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006165
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First Title value, for Searching Reid, Robert Gerrett (1909 - 1987)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-20
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379781379781
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.
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First Title value, for Searching Lupton, Charles Athelstane (1897 - 1977)

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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 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 Purves, James Ewart (1894 - 1964)

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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 Rees-Thomas, Kenneth (1908 - 1992)

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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.
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First Title value, for Searching Tandy, William Harry (1904 - 1995)

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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.
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First Title value, for Searching Dickinson, Osler Briggs (1908 - 1977)

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

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First Title value, for Searching Reid, James George (1906 - 1994)

2024-05-13T19:48:51Z

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.
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First Title value, for Searching Lewis, George Morley (1914 - 1994)

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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)

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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 Campbell, Robert Harold (1881 - 1967)

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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 McDowall, Andrew (1901 - 1978)

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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 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 Bullock, William (1908 - 1995)

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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.
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First Title value, for Searching Greenwood, Eric John (1902 - 1979)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-11
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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 Marks, Dudley Proctor (1899 - 1980)

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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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006732
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First Title value, for Searching Duffy, Brian Thomas (1922 - 1978)

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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.
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First Title value, for Searching Shaw, Simeon Cyril (1893 - 1984)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-21
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon
Details Simeon Cyril Shaw was born in Horsham on 11 March 1893 and after early education at Reigate Grammar School entered Middlesex Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1917. He served in the Royal Navy during the first world war and after demobilisation returned to the Middlesex to work in the Bland-Sutton Institute of Pathology as assistant pathologist with a particular interest in the study of breast cancer being undertaken by Sampson Handley. He passed the FRCS in 1919 and shortly afterwards left to join a general practice in Barnstaple, combining the duties of his practice with those of honorary surgeon to the North Devon Infirmary where he was a truly general surgeon who also carried out operations in the sphere of orthopaedics, gynaecology and neurosurgery. All those operations were performed with meticulous technique and a high degree of manual dexterity. The second world war saw his return to the Royal Navy, serving mainly in the North Atlantic in the *Mauretania* which had been converted to naval use. Returning to Barnstaple after demobilisation he played an important role in the redevelopment of the hospital service in North Devon after the introduction of the National Health Service. He retired from the hospital service in 1958 and from general practice the following year, but retained his interest in the sea, sailing from Falmouth and the Helford estuary. He was also an able astronomer and had an interest in photography. He married Gladys Jones, a nurse at the Middlesex, who supported him throughout his career. Sadly she predeceased him but there were three children of the marriage. His younger son is a cardiologist in Exeter and his daughter was training as a surgeon when she married. A grandson has acquired the FRCS and is practising as a surgeon. He died on 27 March 1984 aged 91.
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First Title value, for Searching Reader, Norbert Leo Maxwell (1885 - 1975)

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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 Hester, Kenneth Henry Clement (1908 - 2001)

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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.
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First Title value, for Searching Berg, Derek Oliver (1926 - 2014)

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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)

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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 Scholefield, Bernard Graham (1899 - 1976)

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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)

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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)

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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 Greenwood, Charles Henry (1875 - 1969)

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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 Alexander, Ivan Allan (1915 - 1994)

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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 Crisp, William John Cowie (1914 - 1989)

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

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

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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)

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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)

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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 Stanley-Jones, Douglas (1905 - 1999)

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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 Watkins, Wolfe Kildare Milton Colston (1925 - 2000)

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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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008983
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First Title value, for Searching Grice, John William Hawksley (1891 - 1976)

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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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006541
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First Title value, for Searching Bulman, John Forster Harrison (1911 - 1985)

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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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007175
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First Title value, for Searching Nightingale, Henry John (1880 - 1973)

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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)

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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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007087
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First Title value, for Searching Ungley, Harold Gordon (1906 - 1991)

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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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008378
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First Title value, for Searching Cox, Martin Henry (1922 - 1989)

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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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007227
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First Title value, for Searching Waterston, Richard Ernest (1908 - 1977)

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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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007027
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First Title value, for Searching Wallace, Robert Allez Rotherham (1888 - 1980)

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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.
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First Title value, for Searching Hallett, Geoffrey St John (1911 - 1997)

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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 Riddell, Leith Alexander (1903 - 1982)

2024-05-13T19:48:51Z

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 Doous, Trevor Watson (1932 - 1975)

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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 Beare, Stanley Samuel (1890 - 1978)

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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 Fitzsimons, Robert Allen (1892 - 1978)

2024-05-13T19:48:51Z

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 Tyler, James Mackenzie (1915 - 1995)

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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 Haine, Francis Henry (1908 - 2000)

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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)

2024-05-13T19:48:51Z

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)

2024-05-13T19:48:51Z

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 Gowland, Humphrey Walter (1918 - 1981)

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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 Kohn, Frederick (1892 - 1984)

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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.
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First Title value, for Searching Leembruggen, James Jan de Boer (1920 - 1972)

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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)

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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 Walker, John Henry Milnes (1902 - 1984)

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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)

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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 O'Gorman, Francis Joseph Patrick (1910 - 1992)

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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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008235
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First Title value, for Searching Gauntlett, Eric Gerald (1885 - 1972)

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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 Wellesley-Cole, Robert Benjamin Ageh (1907 - 1995)

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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)

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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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008239
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First Title value, for Searching Yarwood, George Roy (1914 - 1996)

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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 Lacy, Edward (1799 - 1870)

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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)

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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 Huggins, Rt Hon Godfrey Martin, Viscount Malvern (1883 - 1971)

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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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