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First Title value, for Searching Ridout, Dorothy May (1921 - 2013)

2024-05-12T16:13:12Z

by Michael Pugh
Publication Date 2013-02-20 2013-09-06
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Occupation General practitioner Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Dorothy Ridout was an obstetrician and gynaecologist, and later a general practitioner in Leeds. She was born in Southsea, Hampshire, the sixth of nine children of Charles Archibald Scott Ridout, a GP surgeon in Portsmouth, and Gladys Mary Ridout née Hooper. Medicine was in the family: Dorothy, with her brother and sister, became the fourth successive generation of doctors. She was educated at Portsmouth High School for Girls and then Cheltenham Ladies' College, before entering the Royal Free Medical School. After qualifying in 1943, she chose to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology. She was a registrar at Northampton General Hospital and at the Central Middlesex Hospital, and a senior registrar in gynaecology at the Royal Free. She gained her membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1951, and her FRCS in 1952. She then made a change in her career path and became a general practitioner in Harrogate, but maintained her special interest in gynaecology, with posts in local hospitals and clinics. In 1955 she met Douglas Shortridge, a master tanner and company director, and they married in June 1959. Dorothy moved with her husband to Leeds, where she continued in general practice and held an associate specialist post at St James's Hospital. Her contribution was recognised by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists with the award of her fellowship in 1986. Her interests away from medicine were bee keeping and local politics. Her husband died in 1996, and in widowhood she became an avid traveller, until she had a stroke in 2009. She died on 17 January 2013 at the age of 92, and was survived by her son, Andrew.
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First Title value, for Searching Bennett, Marjorie Olive (1915 - 2000)

2024-05-12T16:13:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-17 2015-10-16
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Occupation General practitioner Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Marjorie Olive Bennett was a general practitioner and gynaecologist. She was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, on 23 July 1915. Her father, Reginald Stanley Dunster, was a headmaster, and her mother, Olivia Sextone, a headmistress. From Newport High School she won a state scholarship to Bristol University and qualified in 1939. After junior appointments at Bristol Royal Infirmary and Southmead, she worked for a short time in general practice, before deciding to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology. She married Douglas Bennett FRCS in 1950 and accompanied him to the Mayo Clinic. On her return she was appointed as a consultant at Southmead, where she coped with a tremendous workload in one of the largest units in the region. They retired to Porlock, where she and her husband enjoyed walking on Exmoor. Her husband died in 1992. She died on 5 January 2000. They leave a daughter, Sally.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008142
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First Title value, for Searching Toland, Gertrude Mary Beatrice (1901 - 1985)

2024-05-12T16:13:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-12
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Gertrude Mary Beatrice Morgan was born in Edinburgh in November 1901 and was educated at Edinburgh Ladies' College and Newnham, College, Cambridge. After graduating in the Natural Science Tripos in 1923 she went to St Mary's Hospital, London, where she qualified with the Conjoint Diploma and graduated two years later. After securing her MD and FRCS she married Dr Patrick Toland in 1932 and moved to Dover, first as an honorary surgeon and later as consultant gynaecologist and obstetrician. Apart from her hospital duties she also did general practice with her husband until they both retired in 1968. During the second world war, while her husband was in the services, she continued her hospital work and ran the general practice on her own. There were many casualties from the shelling and bombing of the channel ports and she spent long hours in the operating theatre. She was especially busy during the evacuation of Dunkirk, when she worked tirelessly for nine days, dealing with many severely wounded troops who were landed at Dover. She died at her home in Walmer on 21 May 1985 in the same week that the small ships sailed again from Dover to Dunkirk on the 45th anniversary of the evacuation. Her husband predeceased her and she was survived by their son, Gordon and three grandchildren, Claire, Abigail and Charles.
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First Title value, for Searching Stansfield, Frederick Ross (1904 - 1983)

2024-05-12T16:13:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-07
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Occupation General practitioner Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Frederick Ross Stansfield was born at Ilkley, Yorkshire, on 28 September 1904, the son of a cotton manufacturer. His early education was at Ilkley Grammar School before entering the University of Leeds and St Bartholomew's Hospital for medical studies. He qualified in 1928 with honours in medicine and two years later passed the FRCS. He served as house surgeon at Queen Charlotte's Hospital and later as resident medical officer at the Chelsea Hospital for Women. After passing the London MD in 1932 and winning the gold medal he settled in general practice at Ipswich where he also obtained an appointment as visiting gynaecologist to the hospital. Before the outbreak of war he had built up his obstetric and gynaecological hospital practice to the extent that he was able to devote all his time to the specialty and discontinue general practice. At the time of the introduction of the National Health Service in 1948 he was appointed consultant gynaecologist and obstetrician. In addition to his heavy professional commitment in Ipswich he was a frequent attender of the meetings of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Royal Society of Medicine. He retired from practice in 1969. His first marriage was in 1932 and they had two sons, Richard and Ian. After the death of his first wife in 1959 he remarried in 1963. His second wife is Eileen Hopkins, a nursing sister. His outside interests were gardening and sailing and he was particularly proud of winning the Harwich to Hook of Holland race in 1958. He died from carcinoma of the colon on 8 October 1983 aged 79 and is survived by his second wife and the two sons of his first marriage.
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First Title value, for Searching Lister, Arthur Reginald (1895 - 1973)

2024-05-12T16:13:12Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-26
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Occupation General practitioner Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Arthur Reginald Lister was born in Totteridge, north of London, on 4 April 1895 into a distinguished medical family. Lord Lister was his great-uncle, his father, Sir William Lister, and his cousin, Arthur Lister, were well-known eye surgeons, and one of his brothers was a consultant physician at Plymouth. He was at school at Winchester, and then went on to Trinity College, Cambridge, but when war broke out in 1914, at the end of his first year at the university, he volunteered for army service and was attached to the field artillery. He served in Gallipoli and in France and was awarded the Military Cross. After the war he completed his pre-clinical studies at Cambridge and then came to the London Hospital where he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1923. He held house appointments under Lord Dawson and Henry Souttar, whom he assisted in his first operation for mitral stenosis. In 1925 he completed the MB BCh and also obtained the FRCS. He then settled in York where for some years he undertook general practice as well as surgery and gynaecology; but in time he gave up general practice, and with the advent of the National Health Service he specialized in obstetrics and gynaecology as a consultant to the York (A) Group of Hospitals. Reggie Lister, as he was known to his colleagues and his large circle of friends, was a first class operator, but it was his charm and the personal interest he showed in all his patients which endeared him to them. He had to suffer more than his proper share of illness himself, for he underwent a gastroenterostomy for a duodenal ulcer in 1927 which continued to give him a lot of trouble till a partial gastrectomy was done in 1954, yet he bore all these misfortunes with remarkable courage. Reggie married Margaret, daughter of Rev Carey Taylor, and they had two daughters, the elder of whom became a nurse at Great Ormond Street, and later at Westminster Hospital, and the younger became a physiotherapist. He was a keen golfer, a member of the Royal and Ancient Club at St Andrew's for many years, and will be long remembered as an outstanding personality in the city of York. He died after a long illness on 3 November 1973, and his wife and daughters survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching O'Gorman, Francis Joseph Patrick (1910 - 1992)

2024-05-12T16:13:12Z

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 Dawson, Sir Joseph Bernard (1883 - 1965)

2024-05-12T16:13:12Z

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