First Title value, for Searching Keene, Reginald (1897 - 1975)

2024-05-23T16:16:16Z

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 Wallace, Robert Allez Rotherham (1888 - 1980)

2024-05-23T16:16:16Z

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/379207379207
Occupation ENT surgeon General practitioner General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Robert Allez Rotherham Wallace, the elder child and only son of Robert Wallace and Amelia (née Rotherham), was born on 2 November 1888 at Queenscliffe, Victoria, Australia. After early education at Melbourne Grammar School he had architectural training at Perth Technical School and worked as a junior architect to Sir John Monash. He later secured two scholarships on switching to medicine at Sydney University where he graduated with honours in 1911. Though the present medical degree at Sydney is the MB BS, all records confirm that his first qualification is correctly shown above. After serving as house surgeon at the Alfred Hospital, Sydney, and other resident jobs, he came to England and took the FRCS in 1914. At the outbreak of the first world war he joined the RAMC until 1916 and was then invalided as a Captain to the RAAMC base hospital at Melbourne. On leaving the service he was outpatient surgeon to the Melbourne Children's Hospital from 1916 to 1923. He then returned to England in 1924 and took surgical appointments to outpatients at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and at Huntingdon. From 1925 to 1928 he worked as an ENT surgeon in South East London under the old LCC medical service, and then as a general surgeon at the Herts and Essex Hospital and in general practice at Bishop's Stortford from 1928 until his retirement in 1949. During his varied career both in Australia and here, Wallace had enjoyed contact with Hamilton Russell and Sir Charles Ryan in Melbourne; Sir Alexander MacCormick in Sydney, and with Sir John Bland-Sutton and Cecil Joll in England. He married Eleanor Dora Watson in 1925 and they had three children: one son is a doctor, another a dentist and the daughter is a trained nurse. Both in Melbourne and later in Bishop's Stortford he was medical officer to establishments which took care of foster-children. He was an honorary life fellow of the Hunterian Society of London and, outside his professional work, he was interested in joinery and had been keen on swimming, rowing, and both rifle and game shooting. He died in Bishop's Stortford in June, 1980 and was survived by his three children, his wife having died in 1974.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007024
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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