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First Title value, for Searching McKelvey, John Alan William (1932 - 2014)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-10-17 2016-12-22
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Occupation General practitioner Ophthalmologist
Details John Alan William McKelvey was a consultant ophthalmologist for the Cornwall Hospitals Trust. He was born in 1932 into a farming family in Northern Ireland. He studied medicine at Queen's University, Belfast, qualifying in 1955. He held junior hospital posts at Belfast City Hospital, and in 1957 moved to Derby, where he became a general practitioner at the Station Road practice. After nine years, he decided to retrain as an ophthalmologist, and held training posts in Sheffield and Manchester, before becoming a registrar and then a senior registrar at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital. In 1973 he was appointed as a consultant ophthalmologist to the Cornwall Hospitals Group. He became head of the eye department, first at City Hospital, Truro, and then at Falmouth Hospital. He retired in 1999. He was chairman of the Cornwall Clinical Society and the South West Ophthalmological Society. John Alan William McKelvey died on 17 August 2014. He was survived by his widow, Ruth, their two sons, daughter and six grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006141
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First Title value, for Searching Taylor, Charles (1905 - 1973)

2024-05-09T20:41:40Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-20
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Occupation General practitioner Ophthalmologist
Details Charles Taylor was born at Motherwell, Lanarkshire on 13 June 1905, and was educated at Glasgow University where he graduated MB ChB in 1928. He went into general practice in Coventry, and, developing a special interest in ophthalmology, obtained the DOMS in 1934 and worked as a clinical assistant at the Coventry and Warwick Hospital. In 1939 he joined the army and served throughout as an ophthalmologist, much of the time in the Western Desert. Returning to Coventry after the war he abandoned general practice and concentrated on ophthalmology. He therefore came to London, worked for and took the Primary examination in 1949 and passed the FRCS in ophthalmology, having obtained the necessary training at the Royal Eye Hospital and St Thomas's. In taking this somewhat courageous course of action, at the age of 40 and after 10 years in general practice and 5 years in the army, he was greatly encouraged and assisted by his wife Dorothy. Ultimately in 1950 he was appointed consultant in ophthalmology to the Shrewsbury and Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Hospital Groups, where his skill and his stimulating personality were greatly valued, and he worked there till he retired in 1970. He was fond of sailing and climbing, and it was unfortunate that ill health interfered with his full enjoyment of his short retirement, for he died on 30 May 1973 at the age of 66.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006175
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First Title value, for Searching Sinclair, Charles Gordon (1906 - 1990)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-21
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Occupation General practitioner Ophthalmologist
Details Charles Gordon Sinclair was born in Highgate, North London, on 26 January 1906, the second son of Charles Purves Sinclair, general manager of the Colne Valley Water Company. He was educated at Shirley House School, Watford, and at St Paul's School, West London, before entering St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School. He represented his school and also his medical school at fives and qualified in 1928. After early hospital appointments he became house surgeon to the ophthalmic department of St Bartholomew's and later served as clinical assistant in the department until he passed the FRCS in 1932. He then joined a general practice in Lewes from 1932 to 1949 when he moved to a post as clinical assistant to the Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital. In 1959 he was appointed consultant ophthalmologist to Worcester Eye Hospital and to Worcester College for the Blind until he retired as a surgeon in 1971, although he continued in ophthalmic practice until 1984 when he finally retired. Throughout his life he was a committed Christian and a Crusader leader in both Lewes and Worcester. He married Margaret Puleston, a radiographer, in 1934 and they had two sons and a daughter who has qualified as a nurse and a midwife. He died on 28 January 1990 aged 84.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007616
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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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008359
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