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First Title value, for Searching Churcher, Duncan Gillard (1894 - 1983)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-27
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Occupation General practitioner Physician Police surgeon
Details Duncan Gillard Churcher was born at Dunoon, Scotland, on 4 October 1894, one of six children of Dr Thomas Churcher, a medical missionary, and Margaret, née Robertson, an Edinburgh trained nurse. He was educated at the City of London School and obtained a scholarship to St Thomas's Hospital which he represented at rugger during his student days as well as playing for the Surrey team. He qualified a year early with MRCS, LRCP in 1917 in order to serve with the Royal Navy, hunting submarines off the coast of Ireland. At the end of the war he returned to St Thomas's Hospital and passed both the final MB BS and the FRCS in 1920. Two years later he passed the London MD and was appointed surgical registrar at St Thomas's Hospital, a post normally reserved for those expecting a consultant appointment there. Hitherto his education had been funded by scholarships but he was unable to continue in an honorary capacity and accepted an appointment as inspector in the Sudan Medical Service for several years before returning to general practice in England, initially at Tarporley and later at Eastbourne. He wanted to join the surgical staff at Princess Alice Hospital but as no surgical vacancy was expected for some years he applied for a post as physician and served on the consultant staff in that capacity from 1926 to 1959. In addition he served as doctor to the Eastbourne lifeboat and as police surgeon; he also looked after the royal household when King George V convalesced at Eastbourne. After retiring from his post as consultant physician at the age of 65 he returned to general practice and continued as police surgeon until 1975. His relaxation came from the sea and he spent many hours on the Eastbourne lifeboat. In 1940 the SS *Barnhill* was bombed and set on fire in the English Channel. Although it was thought that all survivors had been taken off, the ship's bell was heard and the lifeboat was launched once again, Churcher leapt on to the ship and found the severely injured captain ringing the bell with his teeth. After his rescue the man made a good recovery returning to service at sea. He died on 13 July 1983, survived by his wife Nancy, a medical practitioner, and by five children, two being consultants, one a general practitioner and one a nurse.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007150
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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First Title value, for Searching Nightingale, Henry John (1880 - 1973)

2024-05-12T04:29:34Z

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 Verco, Sir Joseph Cooke (1851 - 1933)

2024-05-12T04:29:34Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-10
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Occupation General practitioner Physician
Details Born on 1 August 1851 at Fullarton, South Australia, the third son of James Crabb Verco, who emigrated from Cornwall to Adelaide about 1838. He was educated during 1862-67 at J L Young's Academy then in Stephen's Place and afterwards transferred to Freeman Street. The latter part of his education was carried out at St Peter's College. He entered the Civil Service as a clerk in the Railway Clearing House depart¬ment on leaving school, and came to England in 1870. Here he passed the matriculation examination of London University in June 1870, and the preliminary scientific examination in the following year. He then entered as a medical student at St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1872, after winning the entrance scholarship. He acted as house physician and obstetric assistant, and returned to Adelaide in 1878. He sailed from Plymouth as surgeon superintendent of the barque *Clyde* (1,140 tons) and of her 377 emigrants on 26 January 1878, and reached Adelaide on 23 April. On his arrival he registered at the Medical Board of South Australia on 24 May 1878, and immediately began to practise as a general practitioner in Victoria Square, advertising his arrival by means of a red lamp and an unusually large name-plate, on which were displayed his various degrees. He is described at this time as being 5 ft 7½ in in height, with a long flowing beard, which reached half way down his waistcoat, deliberate in manner, speech, and gait. He soon became honorary physician to the Adelaide Hospital and honorary medical officer to the newly founded Adelaide Children's Hospital, a post he resigned in 1890. From 1885 to 1919 he was chief medical officer to the South Australian branch of the Australian Mutual Provident Society. The University of Adelaide was founded in 1885, and in 1887 Verco was appointed lecturer on medicine jointly with Dr Davies Thomas, and was sole lecturer from 1888 to 1915. He was also dean of the Faculty of Medicine in 1889 and again in 1921-22, and was largely responsible for carrying out the details connected with the foundation of the dental school and hospital. In 1887 he was chosen as president of the first Intercolonial Medical Congress of Australia, and in this year he had an attack of typhoid fever. He gave up general practice on his recovery, and became the first purely consultant physician in the colony, when he declined to take cases of midwifery in 1891. At the Adelaide Hospital he was honorary medical officer in 1880, honorary physician 1882-1912 with the peculiar privilege of operating upon hydatids, and consulting physician in 1912. During the war he returned to work in the hospital. He was president of the Royal Society of South Australia 1903-21, and was created a Knight Bachelor in 1919. He married on 13 April 1911 Mary Isabella, daughter of Samuel Mills of Adelaide, and died on 30 July 1933; there were no children of the marriage. Verco came of an uncompromising nonconformist stock, and in his earlier years excited some amount of ill-feeling, perhaps partly actuated by jealousy of his higher professional attainments. He was a skilled stenographer. His lectures were delivered so slowly that students could take them down verbatim and thus dispense with a textbook. He was a leading conchologist, his collection in the National Museum being probably the best in the Southern Hemisphere.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004864
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