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First Title value, for Searching Shepherd, James Forrest (1899 - 1972)

2024-05-12T11:32:15Z

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

2024-05-12T11:32:15Z

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 Pendered, John Hawkes (1888 - 1972)

2024-05-12T11:32:15Z

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 Waterston, Richard Ernest (1908 - 1977)

2024-05-12T11:32:15Z

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 Gibbons, John Robert Pelham (1926 - 1999)

2024-05-12T11:32:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-30
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General practitioner Military surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details John Gibbons was born in Moseley, Warwickshire, on 26 November 1926. His father, Leonard Norman Gibbons, who had been severely gassed in the trenches during the First World War, later became legal adviser to the Birmingham Gas Board. His mother was Gladys Elizabeth née Smith, a secretary. John was educated at Moseley Grammar School and Pates' School, Cheltenham, before enlisting in the ranks of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in 1944. He was then commissioned in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and, while on active service with them in Palestine, he had his first experience of battlefield casualties. He later transferred to the Guards Battalion of the Parachute Regiment, leaving Palestine for Egypt by road on the last day of the British Mandate on 14 May 1948. On completing his service, he went to Leeds Medical School, where he gained prizes in anaesthesia and clinical medicine and won the Brotherton scholarship, qualifying in 1954. He then worked as a registrar at Leeds General Hospital and also helped his brothers-in-law run their general practice. He obtained the FRCS diploma in 1960 and later, when senior registrar at the National Heart Hospital, he was one of the team who carried out the first heart transplant in the United Kingdom. He was appointed locum senior lecturer and consultant at King's College Hospital, following which he became a consultant in accident and emergency medicine at the Royal Free Hospital. This led on to his definitive appointment as surgeon to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. He managed to combine his medical career with territorial services in the Army, from 1948 to the day of his death. In Northern Ireland he was honorary surgeon to the Army and medical officer of the 10th Battalion of the Ulster Defence Regiment. He also served with the Royal Tank Regiment, the Warwickshire Yeomanry, Leeds Rifles and the Parachute Regiment, where in the late 1960's he commanded a company until it was decided he should be transferred to the RAMC. He was president of the Northern Ireland branch of the Parachute Regiment Association. During the Iran/Iraq war of the 1980s, when Britain was supporting Iraq, Gibbons was asked to go to Basra to help treat the wounded and organise the evacuation of some casualties to British hospitals. He was subsequently decorated by Iraq for his work during the conflict. He served as consultant thoracic surgeon to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast between 1977 and 1993, becoming the pre-eminent British authority on crush, blast and missile wounds of the chest. This led to the award of a Hunterian Professorship in 1984. He published widely on chest injuries and oesophageal surgery, enjoyed teaching his juniors and acknowledged the influence of Digby Chamberlain and John Goligher in both his training and in his surgical practice. In his younger days, John had played rugby football, gaining his university colours at Headingley, and also playing for Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Derby, as well as the Territorial Army. He was also interested in shooting, travelling, railways, good food and wine. In 1952 he married Marie-Jeanne Brookes, a teacher, and they had four sons and two daughters, two of the sons being doctors.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008620
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