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First Title value, for Searching Ghosh, Dulal Chandra (1930 - 1995)

2024-05-11T20:42:48Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-08
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Occupation General practitioner Thoracic surgeon
Details Born in 1930, Dulal Ghosh was raised by a widowed mother in humble circumstances and won a scholarship to the Calcutta Medical College, qualifying MB BS in 1954 and gaining the Calcutta MS in 1961. He came to Britain in 1966 and passed the Fellowship in 1969, gaining the Edinburgh Fellowship in 1968. In Calcutta he had originally trained to be a thoracic surgeon, but gave this up after coming to Britain because of ill health, and went into general practice at Oldbury. Being deeply concerned by the plight of the underprivileged in India, he left the bulk of his estate to welfare institutions there, as well as to medical research in Britain. He died on 16 April 1995.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007950
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First Title value, for Searching Mitchell, Robert Ian (1927 - 2002)

2024-05-11T20:42:48Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-18
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Occupation General practitioner Thoracic surgeon
Details Robert Mitchell was born in Longueville, New South Wales, on 13 October 1927. His father, William Robert Mitchell, was an accountant. His mother was Lilian née Coram. He was educated at the Sydney Church of England Grammar School and studied medicine at the University of Sydney. He did junior posts at the Royal North Shore Hospital, before going to Guy's in 1954 to specialise in surgery. After passing the FRCS, he was registrar at Oldchurch Hospital, Romford, and then resident surgical officer at St Mark's. He spent a year as a fellow at the Center for Cancer and Memorial Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, under George Pack. He then returned to the Royal North Shore Hospital in 1959 as lecturer in surgery. In 1960 he emigrated to Canada, as thoracic and general surgeon to the Wellesley Hospital. He remained there until 1983 as chief of thoracic surgery, but also held the position of associate professor in the department of surgery in the University of Toronto. During this period he held a consultant position at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh. In 1984, he became chairman of the board of trustees of the Eye Research Institute of Canada. He was also a director of George Weston Limited. He was executive director of the medical services division of the Workers Compensation Board of Ontario. A man of many interests, Bob Mitchell was a tireless campaigner against smoking, socialism and mediocrity. In 1978, he was the co-founder of a new political reform movement - One Canada. He was a keen swimmer, tennis-player, gardener and bird-watcher. He married Barbara Elizabeth née Weston in Cannes in 1957. They had two sons, Garfield and Mark, and four daughters, Eliza, Emma, Sarah and Serena, none of whom went into medicine. There are three grandchildren - Charlotte, Thomas and Wesley. He died on 13 February 2002. A new building for bird studies in Canada was established in his memory along one of the greatest migratory flyways in the world.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008789
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First Title value, for Searching Sandor, Francis Ferenc (1905 - 1994)

2024-05-11T20:42:48Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-01
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details Francis Sandor was born in Budapest on 13 July 1905. His father, Ignac, was a businessman in Budapest and his mother, Jenni Cipszer, was a teacher. He left Hungary with the advent of Communism and went back to medical school in Edinburgh and re-qualified as LRFPS (Glasgow) in 1952. He originally trained in medicine in Budapest with an MD in 1930 and a diploma in operative surgery in 1932, and then studied in Paris. He was at first chief of surgery at the Cancer Hospital and at St Rokus Hospital, Budapest. After he left Hungary in 1950 he initially trained in Glasgow and Edinburgh and ultimately settled in Hartlepool as an assistant surgeon. After twenty years of surgery in Britain he retired to go on to do another ten years as a general practitioner in Hartlepool, at the same time continuing his research into thoracic trauma in the department of surgery at Newcastle University. Sandor was a man of great enthusiasm. He spoke four European languages fluently and was competent in even more. He had a composite understanding of Latin and Greek and was a classical scholar of note. He was a dedicated skier until the age of 78. He was a great music lover and played the violin. As a young man he went to all the concerts around the North East and would be regularly met there, listening particularly to string quartets. At heart a musician, his love and understanding of music was unsurpassed. His particular clinical interest in later life was the effect of major trauma on intra-thoracic organs, and he published articles on traumatic mediastinal haematoma in both English and German language publications. He married Mimi Garai, a dietician, in 1940 and they had three sons. The first, Stephen Mathew, became a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Portland, Oregon; the second, Peter Ivan, became an analytical chemist in Newcastle-upon- Tyne and the third, George Gabor, became a Professor of Paediatric Cardiology at the University of British Columbia. He was credited with an ascent to the top of the medical profession in both Hungary and England after he decided to flee to the West. He died on 23 February 1994, survived by his wife and family.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008317
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First Title value, for Searching Gibbons, John Robert Pelham (1926 - 1999)

2024-05-11T20:42:48Z

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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First Title value, for Searching Linton, John Steuart Alexander (1916 - 2001)

2024-05-11T20:42:48Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-17
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Occupation General practitioner Thoracic surgeon
Details John Steuart Alexander Linton was a consultant surgeon at Nottingham. He was the son of the Very Reverend J H Linton, a missionary who became a bishop in Persia. His mother, Alicia Aldous, had qualified in 1908 from the Royal Free Hospital and was then senior resident in Isfahan Hospital. She was on her way home from Persia when John was born in the Khyber Pass on 29 January 1916. He used to joke that he was born "off the back of a camel". He was the second of four sons, who were all sent back to school in England at the age of four. He went to Repton in 1928, where Geoffrey Fisher (later Archbishop of Canterbury) was headmaster. Mrs Fisher was Linton's cousin, so John was beaten more than most to show no favouritism. John injured an eye playing cricket and was unable to work for nearly a year; he was given a camera and a bicycle and let loose in Derbyshire, which he regarded as a thoughtful and imaginative plan. He continued to be an enthusiastic cricketer, and became an excellent swimmer and tennis player. He went to St Bartholomew's in 1934, where he was taught anatomy by Oz Tubbs, an experience he always valued. His father was now assistant bishop of Birmingham and John did a few GP locums around the area until he joined the RAF at the beginning of the war. He was posted to Canada in 1941 and returned in 1942 as senior medical officer at RAF Elsham, a bomber station. There he worked on the problem of calculating oxygen requirements during the long flights in Lancasters to Germany and Italy, research which required him to fly in the aircraft himself. After the war he intended to return to general practice, but his mother persuaded him to work for the FRCS, so he returned to Bart's as a houseman, passing the final FRCS along with Peter Jones (the founder of Pete's Club) and Johnnie Weaver in 1948. He then did junior jobs in Carshalton and Hammersmith, where he thought Ian Aird was the best teacher he had ever known. Choosing to specialise in thoracic surgery, he worked at the Brompton and the London Chest Hospitals, until he was found to have a tuberculous focus in the lung and was sent out of London to Southampton, as senior house officer to Paul Chinn. When his chest was cured, he returned to London to work for Holmes Sellors, Vernon Thompson, Geoffrey Flavell and Price Thomas. After Price Thomas operated on King George VI and was knighted, John became his registrar. Later he worked for Lord Brock, through whom he was appointed as a consultant in Nottingham. He used to recall an incident when he was assisting Brock and was told off for using the wrong instrument. "But it is common practice, sir", he said. Brock replied, "So is adultery Linton, but it don't make it right". In Nottingham he built up a reputation for patent ductus arteriosus and was an active member of Pete's Club. He married Margaret Goode in 1943 and had two daughters (one called Alexandra), neither of whom went into medicine. In retirement he did a few local locums to eke out his pension, and spent much time gardening in his cottage in Coulston, where he was chairman of his parish council. He died on 3 April 2001 in Devizes.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008743
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