Search Results for Medical Obituaries - Narrowed by: Gynaecologist

First Title value, for Searching Hans, Stanley Frederick (- 2012)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2020-10-27
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Occupation Obstetrician Gynaecologist
Details Stanley Hans was an obstetrician and gynaecologist in Harlow, Essex.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009845
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First Title value, for Searching Day, Arthur Joseph ( - 2020)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-02-22
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Arthur Day was a consultant gynaecologist at the Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne, Australia. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010084
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First Title value, for Searching Howell, David (1928 - 2017)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2020-11-25
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Occupation Gynaecologist Obstetrician
Details David Howell was an obstetrician and gynaecologist in Sydney. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E009882
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First Title value, for Searching Manly, Gerald Arthur ( - 2009)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-05-05
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Occupation Obstetrician Gynaecologist
Details Gerald Manly was a senior obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Mercy Hospital for Women in Melbourne. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E009962
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First Title value, for Searching Thomson, Henry Harron ( - 2006)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Michael Pugh
Publication Date 2012-01-13 2015-05-22
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Henry Harron Thomson was a consultant gynaecologist at Central Middlesex Hospital and Willesden General Hospital, London. He studied medicine at St George's Hospital Medical School, London, qualifying MB BS and MRCS LRCP in 1952. Prior to his consultant appointments he was a house surgeon at St George's, an obstetric registrar at Hillingdon Hospital and then chief assistant in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He gained his FRCS in 1966 and his fellowship of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1980. He was a member of the Chelsea Clinical Society and the Hunterian Society. Outside medicine his great interest was horse racing. He had two horses, King's College Boy and Champagne Charlie; on his sideboard was a cup won at Cheltenham. Henry Harron Thomson died on 14 December 2006 after a long illness. He married Sybil and they had three children - Stephanie, Toby and Tim. The marriage was dissolved.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001859
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First Title value, for Searching MacIsaac, Ian Alexander (1932 - 2014)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-09-19 2016-11-03
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378156378156
Occupation Gynaecological surgeon Gynaecologist
Details Ian Alexander MacIsaac was a gynaecological surgeon and a founding consultant at Mercy Hospital for Children in Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia. He was born on 17 June 1932. His father was Angus MacIsaac; his mother was Agnes MacIsaac née Thomson. In 1960 he sailed to England from Australia. He gained his membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and his FRCS in 1962. He trained at Queen Charlotte's Hospital and the Chelsea Hospital, before completing an obstetrician and gynaecologist registrar position in Middlesbrough. In 1965 he returned to Melbourne. He married Ruth. They had five sons, Andrew, Richard, David, Robert and Christopher, and 18 grandchildren. Three of his sons followed him into medicine. Ian Alexander MacIsaac died on 20 June 2014. He was 82.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005973
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First Title value, for Searching Gillespie, Alan (1928 - 2019)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2019-10-22
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009600-E009699
Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Alan Gillespie was born on 25 May 1928. He studied medicine at London University and trained at University College Hospital (UCH), graduating MB, BS with first class honours in 1951. After initial house jobs at UCH and the Samaritan Hospital for Women in London, he was appointed senior registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology to the Charing Cross group of hospitals. In 1958 he passed the fellowship of the college and passed the fellowship of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1974. He joined the staff of the West Surrey and North East Hampshire Health Trust as a consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Frimley Park Hospital where he worked until he retired. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. A keen gardener throughout his life, he had a passion for growing sweet peas. Football was also an enthusiasm and he followed both Aldershot Town and Farnborough football clubs, serving as club doctor for both teams. He enjoyed travelling and went on many cruises throughout the world. He also loved to dance. His first wife Sheila, the mother of his first four children, predeceased him, as did his sister, Jean. He died on 7 September 2019 in Frimley Park Hospital aged 91 and was survived by his wife Mavis, his older brother Ronald, his second wife Gillian and his five children Nicholas, Timothy, Fiona, Juliette and James.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009662
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First Title value, for Searching Hattam, Harold Bickford (1913 - 1994)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-12-12 2015-03-13
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Occupation Art collector Artist Gynaecologist
Details Harold Bickford Hattam, known as 'Hal', was a gynaecologist and a landscape artist and art collector. He was born in Edinburgh on 14 January 1913, the son of Bickford Hattam. The family moved to Australia in 1920 when Hattam was seven. He joined the Australian Army in January 1941 and served in the Middle East, New Guinea and the UK. He was discharged with the rank of captain in January 1947. He gained his FRCS in 1946 and established a medical practice in Melbourne. He also began to paint, although he had no formal training. Between 1962 and 1988 he held a number of solo exhibitions, mostly of abstract seascapes, and participated in a number of group shows. Hattam and his wife also collected a large body of works of Melbourne artists from the 1950s, including paintings by the leading Australian landscape artist Fred Williams. Hattam was married to Kate. They had three daughters (Katherine, Frances and Victoria), a son (John) and six grandchildren. Hattam died on 29 January 1994 in the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne. He was 81.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001712
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First Title value, for Searching Zacharin, Robert Fyfe (1925 - 2012)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-10-17 2017-01-12
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Robert Zacharin was a senior gynaecologist at the Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Melbourne on 11 April 1925, the son of Saul Zacharin, a timber merchant, and Sarah Agnes Zacharin née Fyfe, a tailor, whose father was from Crathie in Scotland. Zacharin was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne, and then attended Melbourne University. He qualified MB BS in 1948. He gained his FRCS in 1953 and also became a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Royal Australasian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He was chairman of the board of management of *The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology*. He wrote papers on pelvic floor anatomy and function, and books on stress incontinence, pelvic floor anatomy and obstetric fistula. Outside medicine, he was a commercial flower grower. He also enjoyed skiing and travelling, particularly trekking in Nepal. In 1958 he married Patricia Beryl Williamson. They had four children - Elizabeth, Jane, William and Robert. Robert Fyfe Zacharin died on 9 May 2012. He was 87.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006152
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First Title value, for Searching Blair, Bryce Evans (1911 - 2001)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-22
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Bryce Blair was born on 31 March 1911. He received his medical education at St Thomas's Hospital, where he was senior obstetric house physician. Later he was a senior registrar at the Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith. He was subsequently appointed as a consultant gynaecologist at the Royal United Hospital, Bath. On retirement he lived in Cornwall. He died on 28 March 2001, just before his 90th birthday.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008501
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First Title value, for Searching Kumarasinghe, Hiary ( - 1999)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-13
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380903380903
Occupation Gynaecologist
Details After qualifying in Sri Lanka (then called Ceylon), Hiary Kumarasinghe worked as a house officer in the General Hospital for four years and then as a registrar in the University Hospital, before going to England to specialise in surgery in 1964. He did junior posts at the Chelmsford and Essex Hospital, and then became a registrar at St Stephen's Hospital in London in 1966. He returned to Sri Lanka in 1969. He developed an interest in gynaecology and, after working in this field as a consultant from 1969 to 1972, emigrated to Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia, where he became a consultant. He became a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1979 and two years later a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He died in June 1999.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008720
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First Title value, for Searching Kilburn, Helen Patricia ( - 1989)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-05
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Occupation Gynaecologist Orthopaedic surgeon Venereologist
Details Helen Patricia Kilburn qualified MB BS in Sydney in 1942 at the Brisbane General Hospital. She was appointed senior medical officer at the Innisfail District Hospital in Queensland in 1944. From there she moved to the Rachel Forster Hospital for Women and Children in Sydney where she was clinical assistant in gynaecology from 1948 to 1951. Moving to the United Kingdom she became clinical assistant in venereology to St Thomas's. Leaving London for Surrey, she became clinical assistant in orthopaedics for the St Helier Group of Hospitals. She was a member of the BMA and of the Medical Society for the Study of Venereal Disease. She retired to Rye in East Sussex and is thought to have died in early 1989.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007386
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First Title value, for Searching Chenhall, Frederick Nicholas (1903 - 1962)

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First Title value, for Searching Crowley, John Daniel (1926- 2012)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2020-10-19
Asset Path Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009800-E009899
Occupation Obstetrician Gynaecologist
Details John Daniel Crowley was an obstetrician and gynaecologist in Palmerston North, New Zealand. He was born in Greymouth, New Zealand on 18 July 1926, and was educated at St Bede’s College in Christchurch during the Second World War. He then studied medicine at Otago, qualifying in 1952. He went to the UK for specialist training, gaining his FRCS in 1956. On his return to New Zealand he settled in Palmerston North, where he was a hospital obstetrician and gynaecologist. He also had a private practice. For six years he was chairman of the obstetrics unit and was later a member of the Manawatu-Wanganui Area Health Board. He delivered thousands of Palmerston North babies over a 35-year career. He was an active pro-life campaigner and played a key role in establishing several national organisations. He was a founder member of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child and Doctors for Life, and editor of its *Life* newsletter. He also helped set up Pregnancy Help, which supported women with unwanted pregnancies to avoid abortion. In the 1970s he set up a natural family planning clinic in Palmerston North, which developed into a national organisation. He also established the Christian Family Life Education Group, to teach sex education in Catholic schools. He retired in 1995 and in his retirement focused on end-of-life issues. For 17 years he was a member of the Arohanui Hospice Trust. He campaigned against the 2001 Euthanasia Bill which was voted down in parliament and the Death with Dignity Bill in 2005. He was made a Knight of the Order of St Gregory the Great in 1999. He was also a Knight of the Order of Malta. He was married to Patricia Johannah (née MacLeod) and they had seven children – Paul, John, Kate, Stephen, Tina, Phil and David. He died in Palmerston North on 13 March 2012 at the age of 85.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009817
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First Title value, for Searching Edwards, Norman Llewellyn (1899 - 1992)

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First Title value, for Searching Rowlands, John Sydney (1879 - 1954)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-05-16
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Born in 1879 the son of Gomer Rowlands, an accountant at Llangollen, and his wife Martha, he was educated at the University of Liverpool, where he was Thelwall Thomas Fellow in Surgical Pathology and Gee Fellow. He was surgical registrar at the Samaritan Free Hospital for Women in London. He practised at Swindon, where he was visiting consultant surgeon and gynaecologist to the Victoria Hospital, and later at Rhyl, North Wales, where he was surgeon to the Prince Edward War Memorial Hospital and the Royal Alexandra Hospital. He died at his home, Plas Gwyn, Russell Road, Rhyl on 24 October 1954 aged 75, survived by his only daughter who died on 2 August 1956. Publication: Circumcision clamp. *Brit med J* 1937, 1, 223, with illustration.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005342
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First Title value, for Searching Wood, Edwin Carlyle (1929 - 2011)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-08-07 2018-05-01
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379855379855
Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Edwin Carlyle Wood, known as 'Carl', was a pioneering gynaecologist who, in 1973 in Melbourne, achieved the world's first test tube pregnancy. He was born in Melbourne on 28 May 1929, the son of a gynaecologist, Carlyle Sandford Wood, and Nellie Clayton Wood née Miller. He attended Wesley College and then went on to study medicine at Melbourne University. He qualified in 1952. After junior posts at the Alfred and Royal Women's hospitals in Melbourne, he went to the UK for training in general surgery, urology and plastic surgery. He was also a research associate at the Rockefeller Institute in New York. In 1959, he became a lecturer (and, from 1960, a senior lecturer) at Queen Charlotte's and the Chelsea Hospital for Women and at the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, London University. In 1965, he returned to Melbourne, where he was appointed as the foundation professor and chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at Monash University's Queen Victoria Medical Centre. Wood led the team at Monash which pioneered the development of in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) techniques. In 1973, the team achieved the world's first IVF pregnancy (though the woman miscarried), as well as the first IVF baby developed from a frozen embryo (in 1983), the world's first child conceived using a donor egg (also in 1983), the first IVF baby using sperm retrieval surgery (in 1986) and the first birth using microinjection intrafallopian transfer IVF (in 1992). However, their most important innovation was the introduction of drugs and hormones to stimulate ovaries, allowing greater control of egg maturation and collection. He also developed laparoscopic techniques for gynaecological surgery. Wood wrote 23 books, 59 chapters and 400 papers in refereed journals. In 1988, he was given the Axel Munthe award for reproductive science. In 1985, he was appointed as a CBE and in 1995 he became a Companion of the Order of Australia for his services to women's health. A Carl Wood endowment has been established at Monash University's department of obstetrics and gynaecology, as well as a Carl Wood chair in the same department. Carl Wood died on 23 September 2011 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease. He was 82. In 1957 he married Judith, a nurse. They divorced in 1987 and he married Marie, though his second marriage also ended in divorce. When he was diagnosed with dementia he moved back to live with Judith. She survived him, together with their two sons, a daughter and a grandchild.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007672
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First Title value, for Searching Laurence, Noel Ellis (1902 - 1967)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-26
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Occupation Anaesthetist Gynaecologist Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Born and educated in Trinidad, he obtained an island scholarship to England in 1917 from QRC Port of Spain. Proceeding to St Bartholomew's Hospital for his medical education, he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1924 and then held various appointments, as resident anaesthetist at St Bartholomew's, as house surgeon at Leicester and as orthopaedic registrar at Salford. After being admitted to the Fellowship, and he was probably one of the first West Indians to be admitted, he practised for many years as a consulting gynaecologist to Southport Infirmary and the Christian Hartley Maternity Hospital and St Katharine's Maternity Hospital. Retiring to his native Trinidad he took a post at the General Hospital. One evening in March 1967, while watching television in the drawing room of his house at 12 Wariuriger Street, Port of Spain, he was attacked by a burglar, beaten unconscious and died without regaining consciousness.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005883
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First Title value, for Searching Fraser, Donald Blake (1910 - 1998)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-29
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Donald Fraser was a consultant gynaecologist to St Bartholomew's. He was born in New Brunswick, Canada, on 9 June 1910, the son of Thomas Blake Fraser, a general practitioner who had qualified at McGill. His mother was Jenny Simon Green. He was educated at St John Grammar School and the University of New Brunswick, and won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, where he gained first class honours in the final school of animal physiology, as well as a blue for athletics. He went to Bart's in 1933 and won the Brackenbury surgical scholarship. He was later appointed a consultant gynaecologist. He wrote extensively and was a co-author and editor of *Ten teachers* (London, Edward Arnold). He was vice-president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He married Betsy Henderson in 1939 and had one daughter, Ellen, and one son, Ian, who followed him into medicine. There were two grandchildren, Jonathan and Tori. He died in Townsville, Australia, on 2 June 1998.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008601
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First Title value, for Searching Cameron, John Lyle (1888 - 1963)

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First Title value, for Searching Bond, Alec Graeme (1926 - 2004)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-09-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372211372211
Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Alec Graeme ‘Chick’ Bond was a gynaecologist in Melbourne, Australia. He was born in Geelong, Victoria, on 18 September 1926, the son of Alec William Bond, a civil engineer, and May née Webb, the daughter of a grazier. He was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne, and then went on to Melbourne University. He spent time studying in the UK, gaining the fellowships of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and of England. When he returned to Australia he became a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, serving as secretary to the Australian Regional Council in 1975 and 1976. He was head of the gynaecology unit of Prince Henry’s Hospital, Melbourne, from 1968 to 1991 and was universally recognised as a skilled surgeon. He married June Lorraine née Hanlon, a trained nurse, in 1953 and they had two children, a son who became a solicitor and a daughter who became a teacher. He died on 27 January 2004.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000024
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First Title value, for Searching Fisher, Edward Fow (1878 - 1948)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-05
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376231376231
Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Born on 23 July 1878 at Shere, Surrey, one of the two sons of George Fisher, MRCS 1867, who practised there, and Mary Ann Ramsden, his wife. He was educated at Epsom College, entered the London Hospital with the Epsom scholarship in 1896, and subsequently served as interne and externe resident accoucheur, receiving-room officer, and house surgeon. After postgraduate study at Edinburgh University, Fisher set up in practice as a gynaecologist at Edinburgh. He was for a time physician for the diseases of women at the Royal Public Dispensary, and later joined the staff of the Deaconess Hospital, becoming eventually consulting gynaecologist. He practised at 7 Buckingham Terrace, Edinburgh. During the war of 1914-18 Fisher served as a surgeon in the Royal Navy; he was mentioned in despatches. Fisher married on 1 June 1915 at St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, Nancy Stenhouse. He died at Woodford, Cramond Road North, Barnton, Midlothian, on 25 September 1948, aged 70, survived by his wife and their two married daughters.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004048
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First Title value, for Searching Taylor, Joseph (1928 - 1997)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-07
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Occupation General surgeon Gynaecologist Missionary Ophthalmologist
Details Joseph Taylor was a former medical missionary in Tanzania. He was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928. In 1938 his parents brought him and his twin brother to England as the Nazis marched into Czechoslovakia. He studied medicine at St Bartholomew's. After qualifying, he made ophthalmology his career, and went to Tanzania with the Bible Churchmen's Missionary Society in 1953. He spent the first 18 years in various hospital appointments and in 1971 moved to Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, where he was medical superintendent and senior ophthalmologist. He worked closely with the Tanzanian government and the Tanzania Christian Medical Association to develop a national medical programme. In addition to his work in ophthalmology, he did postgraduate work in gynaecology to learn how to repair vesicovaginal fistulae and other types of incontinence following obstructed labour. In 1979, he was the first medical consultant for the Christian Blind Mission, applying the lessons learned in Tanzania to the development of rural health services in other African countries, teaching, writing and lecturing extensively on all these matters. He was awarded the OBE in 1980 for this work. His work on low cost spectacles and eye drops is now part of the literature of the World Health Organization. He died on 21 November 1997 in Halton Hospital, Runcorn, survived by his wife, Joan, children and grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008965
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First Title value, for Searching Fozzard, Constance Ethel (1933 - 2021)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Peter Callen
Publication Date 2021-09-29 2021-10-25
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Constance Ethel Fozzard was a consultant gynaecologist for the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Health Authority, and a mayor of Truro. She born on 10 February 1933 at Hendon, London, the daughter of Albert Fozzard, a minister, and Ethel Fozzard née Leibe, an American originally from New Jersey. She had a brother, Cyril, who was two years older than her. In 1936 the family went to the United States and lived in New Jersey. Following the end of the Second World War, her parents separated, and she returned to the UK with her mother and brother to continue her education. She became a medical student at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School and qualified MB BS from London University in 1958. Following her house jobs, she opted to pursue a career in obstetrics and gynaecology when it was considered desirable to undergo an initial training in general surgery. During this phase in her career a senior colleague advised her that it was incompatible for a woman to have a family and become a consultant. This I believe had a bearing on her decision not to have children, which in my opinion she later regretted. Having completed her surgical training, she became an FRCS England in 1967. Her specialisation in obstetrics and gynaecology took place principally in London. She was a resident medical officer at Queen Charlotte’s Maternity Hospital, where she met her future husband Randolph Wilbur ‘Bunt’ White, the resident pathologist. She was subsequently a senior registrar at Charing Cross Hospital prior to her appointment as a consultant for the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Health Authority. Connie was one of four consultants, three of whom were appointed at the same time. The service was on split sites with all gynaecology at Redruth Hospital and obstetrics at the Princess Alexandra Maternity Hospital at Treliske in Truro 10 miles away, where general surgery was also based. The units were unified in 1992 with the transfer of gynaecology and all acute admissions to Treliske. Connie was a competent abdominal and vaginal surgeon who took a great interest in training her junior staff. She declined to take part in the termination of pregnancy service and would only carry out a female sterilisation using a non-reversible technique. She established the colposcopy service and with me provided the gynaecological cancer service in Cornwall. She had a forceful personality but was kind and succeeded in a predominately male specialty. She was respected by her colleagues and patients. I gave her oration on her retirement in 1998, which was well attended. Connie was a prominent member of the British Medical Association (BMA) and served as president of the Cornwall division. Nationally she attended many annual representative meetings. She was a trustee of BMA charities and a former director of the BMA. Her husband had worked and lived predominately in the North of England as a pathologist. On his retirement he returned to Cornwall and developed an interest in building early keyboard musical instruments to a very high standard. Following Connie’s retirement they led a fulfilling and happy life. He later developed a malignancy and became terminally ill: she nursed him at home until his death in 2005. She was interested in the welfare of the community and was elected as a Carrick district councillor and a Truro city councillor in 1999. She served as mayor of Truro from 2003 to 2004. She was especially interested in the cohesion of the city in relation to planning, parks and open spaces. The city has won many civic awards for its gardens and the nationwide gardening competition Britain in Bloom. Perhaps her greatest legacy, other than the care she provided for her patients, was her donation to Truro city of land enabling the development of a new horticultural nursery. She died on 14 February 2021 just after her 88th birthday.
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First Title value, for Searching Savage, Ernest Smallwood (1869 - 1924)

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First Title value, for Searching Chapman, Clement Lorne (1891 - 1958)

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First Title value, for Searching Thomas, Ivor John (1919 - 1987)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-07
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Occupation Consultant in physical medicine Gynaecologist
Details Ivor John Thomas qualified from the London Hospital in 1942 and within three years had obtained both Edinburgh and English Fellowships. During the latter years of the war he was resident surgical officer at Cardiff Royal Infirmary, assistant surgeon in the Emergency Medical Service and surgical registrar and tutor at the Royal Free Hospital. In 1946 he was appointed assistant gynaecologist at Swansea General Hospital but within two years tragedy befell him and he lost his sight. Despite this he had the courage to undertake further training in physical medicine at Guy's Hospital under Dr E J Crisp and returned to Swansea in 1949 as consultant in physical medicine. His duties included work at Singleton, Morriston, Llanelli and Glanamman Hospitals. Despite his blindness he participated fully in professional activities and served as a member of the BMA Welsh Council, the Welsh Medical Committee, the Welsh Manpower Committee and the Welsh Committee for Hospital Medical Services. He had a great interest in Welsh affairs and frequently gave talks on radio programmes as well as reciting in Eisteddfodau in earlier years. He died on 21 July 1987 aged 68 and is survived by his daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Priddis, Kevin Walter (1913 - 2006)

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by Maxwell Coleman
Publication Date 2013-07-24 2014-02-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376461376461
Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Kevin Walter Priddis was a consultant gynaecologist at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia. He was born on 3 July 1913 in Trangie, a small town near Dubbo in north western New South Wales, the son of Frederick Walter Priddis, a publican, and Margaret Priddis née McCarthy. There were four children in the family: Alice, Kevin, Joy and Marea. Their ancestors included a second fleet convict with the surname of Priddis. Kevin received his secondary school education at St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill, Sydney. He excelled at cricket. He achieved his intermediate and leaving certificates and enrolled at the University of Sydney to study medicine. He qualified in 1938 and was a lecturer in pathology at the university in 1939. He also worked in the town of Coonabarabran and at the private Lewisham Hospital. In March 1940 he transferred to the Mater Misericordiae Hospital in Brisbane. On 30 June 1940 Kevin enlisted in the Australian Army Medical Corps. On 1 December 1940 he was appointed as regimental medical officer of the 28th battalion and medical officer of the 2/3rd field ambulance, with the rank of captain. On 3 March 1941 he embarked for the Middle East. At one stage he encountered Field Marshall Rommel's elite troops forcing a withdrawal from Gazala to Tobruk. His unit was attacked with low-flying aircraft. 'We didn't really know how to handle the situation. We always stopped the truck, found any little depression we could lie down in and eventually got on our way again carrying any wounded we had.' In mid-1942 Kevin was involved in the Battle of Ruin Ridge at El Alamein, a small railway town on the Egyptian coast. Rommel and his Afrika Corps virtually wiped out the entire 2/28th battalion and its supporting troops. Sergeant Basil Sutt recounted the events: 'A man whom nobody there that day will ever forget is 'Doc Priddis', a medical officer from Queensland. He seemed to have an absolute disregard for danger…he was always where he was needed most - out in front among the wounded.' Captain Priddis was reported missing in action on 1 August 1942, and was officially reported as a prisoner of war on 3 December 1942. He was transported from Egypt to Italy by boat and then, in December 1943, to Stalag VII-A in southern Germany. He felt they were treated reasonably well, apart from towards the end of the war, when there was little food and less medicine. The conditions in the camp hospital were less than basic. 'We sterilised the instruments by flame. We put them on a dish of methylated spirits and set them on fire and that would sterilise the instruments used for any operation. But they didn't have a lot of equipment…the bandages were made of paper, and we had some plaster of Paris to make casts…and we had a little bit of sulphonamide…and we had chloroform.' On 11 March 1945 he was liberated and was sent to the United Kingdom. He enrolled in the fellowship course of the Royal College of Surgeons, and passed his primary fellowship examination on 27 October 1945 and the final fellowship examination in November 1946. He worked at Guy's, Middlesex and Tilbury hospitals, gaining postgraduate surgical experience. He was discharged from the Army in England on 28 February 1947. In 1948 he was appointed as a clinical assistant in general surgery at St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, a position he held until 1950, when he was appointed as an assistant gynaecologist. From 1948 to 1949 he was a lecturer in anatomy at the University of Sydney. In 1949 he became a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons by examination and, in the mid-1950s, served on their Court of Examiners. He was appointed as a senior gynaecologist in 1967, a position he held until 1977, when he was appointed consultant gynaecologist. In 1962 he visited Alexander Brunschwig at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in New York, and brought back to St Vincent's Hospital the technique of radical pelvic exenteration for advanced malignancy. He reported his experiences in the *Medical Journal of Australia*. ('Exenteration of the pelvis for advanced carcinoma of the cervix'. *Med J Aust*. 1962 Feb 17;49[1]:239-40). He also established a cancer detection clinic at St Vincent's. He was also on the staff of Lewisham Hospital in Sydney from 1947. Kevin Priddis was a warm, somewhat reserved medical practitioner. He was conscientious and a neat operator. He was an excellent teacher. He retired from practice in 1983. He played golf for relaxation and was a member of Royal Sydney Golf Club from 1954. In November 1953 Kevin married Moya Quigley. They had three children. Kevin Priddis died in 2006.
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First Title value, for Searching Lawson, Donald Forsyth ( - 1983)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-05
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Donald Forsyth Lawson graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1933 and his early appointments included that of resident medical officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1934. He passed the diploma in gynaecology and obstetrics at Melbourne in 1936 and following this was medical superintendent at the Women' Hospital Melbourne, in 1936 and 1937. He then came to England to pursue his postgraduate studies, passing the MRCOG in 1938 and the FRCS in the following year. He served in the Australian Imperial Force from 1943 to 1946, mainly in the South West Pacific area and was surgical specialist with the rank of Major. He passed the FRACS in 1945 and after the war was appointed consultant gynaecological surgeon at the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne. At a later stage from 1968 to 1975 he was gynaecologist at the Repatriation General Hospital, Concord. He played an important role in the Victoria State Committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in Australia and in 1961 suggested the institution of the Regional Council's gold medal in the MRCOG examination. The presentation of this medal was established by Australia, jointly with Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. He was appointed Chairman of the Victoria State Committee on 15 March 1962 and during his term of office quarterly clinical meetings commenced. These have offered an opportunity for younger members to present their observations, experiences and original work to contemporaries and senior colleagues. In 1963 he organised a symposium and display to commemorate the bicentenary of the death of William Smellie "the master of British midwifery". His services to obstetrics were recognised by the award of the FRCOG in 1956 and after retiring from practice he died in 1983 aged around 74. Sadley, nothing is known about his private life.
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First Title value, for Searching Philipp, Elliot Elias (1915 - 2010)

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by Alan Philipp
Publication Date 2010-12-09
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373305373305
Occupation Gynaecologist Obstetrician
Details Elliot Philipp was an eminent gynaecologist and obstetrician, author of numerous popular and technical medical works, and a committed religious and charitable Jew. He was born on 20 July 1915 to Oscar Isaac and Clarisse Philipp (née Weil) in Stoke Newington, London. He was educated at Warwick House and St Paul's School. His father, a metal dealer from Hamburg, had come to England in 1908 to open an office, which in due course became the hub of a large and internationally successful operation. Elliot settled on a different career, deciding by the age of seven he would be a doctor, and went on to study at Cambridge University. After graduation he spent a year in Lausanne, due to ill-health, and it was here that he delivered his first baby. At the start of the Second World War, only a month after qualifying, Elliot left his first appointment at Middlesex Hospital to join the RAF. He joined Bomber Command in East Anglia, where he was responsible for the medical centres at Feltwell and Mildenhall, and by the end of hostilities held the rank of squadron leader. He was offered a long term commission in the RAF to stay as a doctor and medical researcher, but declined, returning to Middlesex Hospital and Addenbroke's, where he had been a clinical student. Subsequent appointments included St Thomas', Royal Free and University College hospitals. During this time, Elliot was writing books and newspaper articles. His first, for which he had help from his distant relative, Sigmund Freud, was *The techniques of sex* (London, Wales Publishing Company), first published in 1939 under the pseudonym 'Anthony Havil'. At a time when such guides were few and far between, it became a bestseller, with numerous editions over the next 40 years. In 1950, he became medical correspondent of *The News Chronicle*. The following year, he gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons and started working privately in Harley Street. He also joined the staff of Oldchurch Hospital, Romford, as a junior consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology, a demanding job in a small department that covered a large area dominated by the Ford Motor Company. The position gave him the opportunity to undertake research in relation to blood groups and Rhesus factor. His private practice was growing too, particularly among the French community, since he spoke fluent French and German. He became the official gynaecologist to the French and several other embassies, worked part-time at the French Hospital in Shaftesbury Avenue, and was responsible for the opening of the French Dispensary. As a result of this and similar work, he was awarded the French Legion d'Honneur in 1971. In 1964, Elliot moved to the Royal Northern Hospital, which incorporated the City of London Maternity Hospital. His responsibilities included the inmates of Holloway prison, and the mental and physical challenges they presented. During this time, as well as developing skills in keyhole surgery, he was closely involved in treatments for infertility and the work with Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards that resulted in the births of the first test-tube babies. He retired from the National Health Service in 1980, but continued in private practice, seeing patients in Harley Street and operating until the age of 77. He continued writing books and articles, as well as lecturing, until the age of 82. He was always involved in medical ethics and had regular discussions with the Chief Rabbi, Lord Jakobovits, and other religious leaders. He served as president of both the Medical Society of London and the Hunterian Society, and chaired the historical division of the Royal Society of Medicine, during which time he co-wrote, with Michael J O'Dowd, *The history of obstetrics and gynaecology* (New York/London, Parthenon, c.1994). He also jointly edited *Scientific foundations of obstetrics and gynaecology* (London, Heinemann Medical, 1970). Retirement also allowed him to spend more time at the beloved Elizabethan cottage near the Essex coast which he had bought in 1937 and where he wrote many of his books and built up an extensive collection of antiquarian gynaecological books. Elliot's commitment to Judaism and Jewish charities followed that of his father, one of the founders of the Technion University in Haifa and Kibbutz Lavi. Elliot was an associate governor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was in particular keen to help Jewish educational charities, including Jews' College and the Jewish Widows and Students Aid Trust, of which he was a trustee for over 50 years. He was a mohel, performing circumcisions, as well as on the board of the Initiation Society, the oldest Anglo-Jewish organisation, which ensures standards for circumcision. He regularly attended shiurim and other study groups. He married Lucie Ruth Hackenbroch in 1939, five weeks after meeting her. They remained happily married for nearly 50 years, until her death in 1988. They had two children, Ann, who died in 1997, and Alan, who survived him. In 1990, Elliot found a new companion, Lady Zdenka Bean, who pre-deceased him in January 2010. His greatest pleasure, however, was being with his grandchildren and great grandchildren. Elliot Philipp died on 27 September 2010, at the age of 95.
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First Title value, for Searching Howkins, John (1907 - 2003)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-09-28 2007-08-09
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details John Howkins was a gynaecological surgeon at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. He was born in Hartlepool, County Durham, on 17 December 1907, the son of John Drysdale Howkins, a civil engineer, and Helen Louise née Greenwood, the daughter of a bank manager. He was educated at Cargilfield Preparatory School and was then a scholar at Shrewsbury, where he was a prefect, and developed a lifelong interest in fast cars. This led to a temporary set-back: he was spotted driving a girl in his Frazer-Nash, reported to the headmaster, and expelled. This did not prevent him winning an arts entrance scholarship to the Middlesex Hospital, where he fell under the spell of Victor Bonney. After qualifying, he did junior jobs at the Middlesex and the Chelsea Hospital for Women, and then became resident assistant physician-accoucheur at Bart’s. He also gained his masters in surgery, his MD (with a gold medal) and his FRCS. At the outbreak of war he joined the RAF, rising to Wing-Commander and senior surgical specialist, eventually becoming deputy chief consultant to the WAAF. At the end of the war he returned to Bart’s, where a post was created for him. He was subsequently appointed to the Hampstead General and the Royal Masonic Hospitals. He was a prolific writer, talking over *Bonney’s Textbook of gynaecology* as well as Shaw’s textbooks of *Gynaecology* and *Operative gynaecology*. He was Hunterian Professor of the College in 1947 and was awarded the Meredith Fletcher Shaw memorial lectureship of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1975. Small in stature, he was an accomplished skier, and chairman of the Ski Club of Great Britain, and had a memorable sense of humour. He enjoyed salmon fishing and renovating old houses. In retirement he took up sheep farming in Wales. He married Lena Brown in 1940. They had one son and two daughters. He died on 6 May 2003.
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First Title value, for Searching Clare, Thomas Charles (1881 - 1958)

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First Title value, for Searching Craft, Ian Logan (1937 - 2019)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2019-10-22
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Ian Logan Craft was born on 11 July 1937 in Wanstead, East London, one of twins, sadly his sister failed to survive the birth. He was the eldest of the three sons of Reginald Craft, an employee of Barclays Bank, and his wife Lois née Logan, who also worked for the bank until she married. Educated initially at St Mary’s Convent in Woodford, where he grew up, he then went on to Dame Alice Owen’s School in Islington where a teacher encouraged him to study medicine. He trained at Westminster Hospital Medical School and graduated MB, BS in 1961. After an initial job in radiotherapy, he decided to specialise in gynaecology and obstetrics, regarding it as a happy specialty, helping women to give birth as safely and pleasantly as possible. After house jobs at the Westminster and Kingston Hospitals he became a fellow of the college in 1966 and was appointed a consultant at Queen Charlotte’s Hospital in 1972. Four years later, still only 39 years old, he was appointed a professor at the Royal Free Hospital (RFH). At the RFH he proceeded to set up an in vitro fertilisation (IVF) clinic with the help of a donation in 1977 from Roger Walter of the pop group Pink Floyd, whose daughter India was delivered by Ian. He was a very hands on practitioner, delivering numerous babies and administering epidurals himself. Already he was caught up in controversy as his approach to childbirth upset many advocates of the so-called natural birth movement stirred up by the controversial psychiatrist R. D. Laing – his car was twice vandalised. The first baby in the world to be conceived by IVF, Louise Brown, was born at Oldham General Hospital on 25 July 1978, largely due to the work of pioneering gynaecologists Robert Edwards and Patrick Steptoe. Four years later Ian oversaw the birth of Europe’s first set of twins to be conceived by IVF at the RFH to Jo and Stuart Smith on 29 April 1982 and two years after that his team reported the birth of the first set of triplets. Later that year he moved to the Cromwell Hospital to found an IVF facility there. In 1984 he published a ground-breaking paper on the use of the drug buserelin which overcame ovulation problems, using it the following year for the first time to aid a birth. In subsequent years its use would be credited with a huge increase in the numbers of live births. Ian left the NHS in 1985 frustrated by reductions in his funding. He then joined the staff of the world’s biggest IVF clinic at the Wellington Hospital (WH) in St John’s Wood. While there he continued to push at the boundaries of his specialty, becoming in 1986 the first to use gamete intrafallopian transfer to produce a baby and, the following year, the first to use egg donation towards a live birth. In 1990 he successfully used a frozen donor embryo and was the first gynaecologist to be granted a licence to use direct injection of sperm into the egg to create an embryo. The first live birth produced by this method was in 1994. Another innovative technique was the successful retrieval of sperm from men who had had a vasectomy. He founded an IVF clinic in Dubai and in 1990 set up the London Gynaecology and Fertility Centre in Harley Street, over which he presided until retirement in 2009. Inevitably new techniques give rise to controversies and IVF proved a particularly emotive topic. Ian’s motto was said to be *everyone who wants a child should have a child* and to this end he would challenge current acceptable boundaries. He saw no problem with assisting births in single women or same sex couples, nor did he see the age of the mother as a possible barrier, various of his patients were in their fifties and postmenopausal, although when he treated Liz Buttle (at 60 the oldest mother in the UK in 1997), he was under the impression that she was aged 49. In his early work he had caused problems by using eggs from known donors and vehemently argued against restrictions to be placed on the number of implanted embryos. In response to the work of the Warnock Committee, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority was set up in 1984 to establish guidelines on IVF procedures and they eventually ruled that no more than four eggs or embryos should be implanted. The WH clinic briefly had its licence removed in 1987 because Ian failed to respect those guidelines. In spite of being something of a workaholic, he found time for his various enthusiasms. He collected pictures and sculptures, many of which he displayed in his flat in Piccadilly. Having always wanted a place in the country, he bought a Georgian mansion and farm in Iddesleigh, North Devon in 2000 and personally worked on its restoration. A music lover, he always went to the Proms, enjoying being in the pit with the promenaders, and commissioned a clarinet piece from Peter Maxwell Davis in memory of his father who had played both the organ and piano. He went to live opera and theatre and enjoyed cricket, rugby and football. In 1959 he married Jackie née Symons whom he had known since he was 16 and they had two sons, Simon and Adrian. He acknowledged that she had been very supportive throughout his busy career but was left to bring up the family on her own and they divorced in 1998. He developed a serious prostate related illness in 2009 and spent the next ten years in a care home in Esher, resuming some of his interests in his last two or three years. He died of a heart attack on 3 June 2019, survived by his sons, two grandchildren and his brothers Christopher, a racing car driver, and Andrew. Tina Craig
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First Title value, for Searching Gordon, David William Somerville (1925 - 1997)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-30
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380814380814
Occupation Gynaecologist
Details David Gordon was a gynaecologist at Epsom. He was born in Kohat, India, on the North West frontier, where his father was a Brigadier with the 2/8th Gurkha Rifles. As was usual in those days, David was sent to England at the age of eight to live with an aunt at Lyme Regis. He was later sent to Wellington, and passed his first MB course whilst still at school. His mother and sister both died when he was 16. He went on to his medical training at St Mary's, qualifying when he was 21. After junior posts at St Mary's, he did his National Service in the RAMC, serving in Palestine. Later, he became medical officer to the Honourable Artillery Company, a Territorial Regiment. On his return, he passed the FRCS in 1951, at the age of 25, and then went on to specialise in gynaecology. Renowned as a speedy and excellent surgeon, he was appointed as a consultant at Epsom District Hospital in 1959, helping modernise the gynaecology department there. He also developed a large private practice in Wimpole Street. He married Gill Bebb in 1952 and they had three daughters, Fiona, Belinda and Susanna. The marriage was dissolved in 1975 and he married Susi Galvin-Wright in 1978. There are two granddaughters, Anne and Sophie. David Gordon died on 1 April 1997. An enthusiastic skier, he was buried with a bottle of Beaujolais and his favourite ski pole.
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Arthur Webb ( - 1917)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-05-23
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374557374557
Occupation General surgeon Gynaecologist
Details Educated at Malvern College and at St Thomas's Hospital. After taking the Fellowship he engaged in active practice in Egypt and at the same time worked for the degrees of the University of London. As the subject of his MD thesis he selected "Bilharziosis in Women", and on this question he was able to write authoritatively owing to his wide experience in gynaecological surgery in Alexandria. From 1900-1904 Webb Jones served in the Egyptian Army in the Sudan, and at the end of his period of five years left it to settle in private practice and received the thanks of the Sirdar and Governor-General of the Sudan for his services. He started practice at 8c Rue Stamboul, Alexandria, and was appointed Surgeon and Gynaecologist to the Government Hospital and Medical Officer to the Egyptian State Railway, Alexandria District. The medical and surgical resources of Egypt were taxed to the uttermost during the Gallipoli Campaign, and Webb Jones volunteered and did yeoman service with the British troops from May, 1915, to December, 1916. He had not been out of Egypt since 1913, and when an epidemic of typhus broke out in Alexandria, in the spring of 1917, it found him fatigued and somewhat out of health, though keen as ever upon his duties. He was called upon to give an intravenous injection of saline solution to a brother practitioner dying from typhus, and was infected. In about ten days the disease showed itself, and he succumbed on the eleventh day. Webb Jones was a sound diagnostician and a careful and skilful operator. His judgement was good and his successes were notable. He made careful notes of his cases, and was in the habit of adding subsequent impressions and investigations to the account of each, thus continually striving to perfect his knowledge and technique, and so to crystallize his experiences. He was a desirable colleague, a good friend, winning and reliable. He was survived by a widow and young family. His name is in the College Roll of Honour (*Calendar*, 1918). Publications: "Lumbar Hernia." - *Lancet*, 1902, ii, 747. "Two Cases of Gynaecomastia." - *Ibid*, 1904, i, 865.
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First Title value, for Searching Savage, Henry (1810 - 1900)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-31
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375275375275
Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Was apparently trained for the profession at the Westminster Hospital School of Medicine, where he was at one period Lecturer on Anatomy. Later he practised as a physician at 34 Dorset Place, Dorset Square. He was next appointed Physician to the Samaritan Free Hospital for Women and Children, of which he was one of the founders. He was well known as a gynecologist, and practised at this period at 7 (and then 3) Gloucester Place, Portman Square. He advocated the use of the curette long before its advantages as a therapeutic appliance were understood by the profession in general. About the year 1870 he was appointed Consulting Physician of the Samaritan Free Hospital. His address now was 45 Baker Street, W, and Ridgmount, Laurie Park, South Norwood, SE. From this time onwards he was a very active member, and for the greater part of thirty years Chairman, of the Committee of Management of the Samaritan Hospital. He became an Examiner at the Society of Apothecaries, and moved to 14 Bentinck Street, Manchester Square, W. After his retirement he resided at 38 Loudon Road, St John's Wood, NW, and died there on Wednesday morning, October 3rd, 1900. His photograph is in the Fellows' Album. Publications: *The Anatomist; or a Complete Description of the Muscles, Fascia, etc., and of the Arteries and Nerves, with their Central Organs, the Brain and Heart,* 64mo, London, 1888. "Remarks on Quackery, and on Ear Medicine," 8vo, London, 1839; reprinted from *Lancet,* 1838-9, ii, 823. "On Displacements of the Uterus and their Surgical Treatment, and Treatment of Certain Forms of Uterine Haemorrhage by the Curette and Caustic Iodine Injections, preceded by Mechanical Dilatation of the Cervix." - *Med Times and Gaz. His classical work was: *Illustrations of the Surgery of the Female Pelvic Organs. In a series of Plates taken from Nature. With Physiological and Pathological References,* 4to, coloured plates, etc, London, 1868. *The Surgery, Surgical Pathology, and Surgical Anatomy of the Female Pelvic Organs, in a Series of Coloured Plates taken from Nature. With Commentaries, Notes, and Cases,* 2nd ed, 16 plates, mostly in colours, 4to, London, 1870; 5th ed, 16 plates, mostly in colours, 1882.
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First Title value, for Searching Barrington, Fourness (1863 - 1946)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-10 2014-03-14
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Fourness Henry Simmons was born in Watchet, Somerset. He changed his name in 1891. He was educated in Britain and at Edinburgh University, where he was Dunlop scholar 1883 and Buchanan scholar 1884 and took honours at his qualification. He served as junior assistant to the professor of midwifery and house physician in the gynaecological wards of the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh. After a short visit to his home at Sydney, he came to London in 1885 on appointment as resident physician of the Chelsea Hospital for Women. He was a member of the British Gynaecological Society and of the obstetrical societies of Edinburgh and London. After postgraduate study at St Bartholomew's Hospital and at Berlin, Munich, and Dresden, he took the English Fellowship in 1894, though not previously a Member of the College. The following year he went back to Australia where he practised at 213 Macquarie Street, Sydney, living at Bayswater Road, Darlinghurst. He was at first gynaecologist to Lewisham Hospital, and was appointed assistant gynaecological surgeon to Edward Thring at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, in 1906, became gynaecological surgeon in 1920, and was elected a consultant when he retired in 1924. He was also consulting obstetrician to the South Sydney Women's Hospital, and to St Vincent's Hospital. He was an original Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. From 1913 to 1921 he was lecturer in obstetrics at Sydney University, and thereafter lecturer in gynaecology till his retirement under age limit. He was an excellent teacher. Barrington married twice: (1) Christina Scott, who was survived by their daughter; their son, Lieutenant Noel Scott Barrington, was killed in France in the war of 1914-18. (2) In 1917 Elizabeth Blaxland Hays, who survived him without children. Barrington died at 2 Wyuna Road, Point Piper, Sydney, on 1 September 1946, aged 82. He had been a prominent member of the Australian Club and the Royal Sydney Golf Club, and was a keen fisherman. Publications:- Rare forms of malignant disease of the female sexual organs. *Edin obstet Soc Trans*. 1885. Impressions of a year's gynaecology in Germany. *Austral med Gaz*. 1897, 16, 317.
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First Title value, for Searching McLeish, Graeme Roderick (1930 - 1992)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-21 2017-05-05
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Graeme McLeish was born in Melbourne on 6 June 1930. His father, Roderick Simpson McLeish, was a salesman and his mother was Doris, née Hague. From Spring Road School he gained a scholarship to Scotch College, Melbourne, where he was Dux of the school in 1947 and school captain in 1948. He held RMO posts and was registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology in Melbourne before coming to England in 1960 to hold posts in Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital for Women, leading to registrar/locum consultant in the Portsmouth Group Hospitals. He held similar appointments in Lewisham, St Peter's and St George's Hospitals. He was a member of the British Medical Association and the Australian Medical Association, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. Returning to Melbourne, he was appointed gynaecologist to the Royal Melbourne Hospital and tutor and examiner in gynaecology for the University and for the Royal Australasian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He was member, honorary secretary and Chairman of the Victorian State Committee of the RACOG, and member of the Australian Society of Gynaecological Oncologists. He was a member of the Victorian cancer of the ovary study group, and Chairman of the MAC of the Freemasons' Hospital in Melbourne. He wrote a number of papers on gynaecological subjects. He was a member of the Victoria performing arts medical society, of the Prahran food and wine society, the lawn tennis association and the Kew golf club. In the mid-1950s he married Valerie Dawn Cope, a nurse who trained at Prince Henry's Hospital. They had twin daughters, Vivienne and Suzanne, and three sons, Alastair, Evan and Hamish. Mrs McLeish later married another Fellow of the College, Ralph Denison Upton.
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First Title value, for Searching Diggory, Peter Lionel Carr (1924 - 2009)

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by Michael Pugh
Publication Date 2012-02-09 2013-10-18
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Peter Diggory was a consultant gynaecologist at Kingston and the Royal Marsden, who, as medical adviser to the Liberal MP David Steel, played a significant role in the passing of the Abortion Act in 1967. He was born in Titley, Herefordshire, the fourth child of Edwin Ernest Diggory, a stationmaster, and Ada Ann Diggory née Noun. As a child he contracted polio and was treated in a plaster cast so that his mobility was limited, but he read extensively. He won a scholarship to Worcester Royal Grammar School and then proceeded to University College London (at that time evacuated to Bangor). He read maths and physics and graduated in 1942. He was then selected by C P Snow, the distinguished scientist and novelist, to join his team, which was developing radar during the Second World War. After the war Snow wanted him to continue working with him, but Peter wanted to be a doctor and he secured a place at University College Medical School. While he was a medical student he was elected president of the British Medical Student Association. He qualified in 1950. He first pursued general surgical training, in the course of which he took both the Edinburgh and English fellowships. Immediately before starting his first resident post in obstetrics at Queen Charlotte's he was acting as a consultant surgeon at the Mayday Hospital. On the morning of the day he was due to start his new post, he had to send a message that he would be late as he was engaged on an emergency colectomy, which greatly impressed his fellow residents! His gynaecological training was at the Hospital for Women, Soho, and Westminster, proceeding to consultant appointments at Kingston and the Royal Marsden, which reflected his skills in the treatment of gynaecological cancer. However, it was in the management of the common emergency problem of abortion that Peter made ground breaking progress. Spontaneous abortion occurs in about one fifth of pregnancies and, if managed properly, is not a cause of concern, but the catastrophic disasters arising from procured (criminal) abortion, or as he called them 'botched operations', have major and frequently fatal consequences. When he arrived at Kingston the hospital was admitting over 400 cases of septic abortion a year and nothing was really being done to deal with the cause or the management of this awful situation until Peter made his contribution. Contraceptive advice was not readily available in hospitals and changing the law on abortion based on the 1861 Act found little favour with the president and fellows of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Peter took the courageous step of joining the Abortion Law Reform Association. At that time management of unwanted pregnancy was influenced by the 'Bourne case' in 1938, when the judgement of Mr Justice McNaughton defined that an instrument could not be used illegally to procure an abortion, but could be used legally. A legal nicety with words, but to do this required a psychiatric opinion and limited this option to patients who had access to this approach. To change the law required an Act of Parliament. A Liberal MP, David (later Lord) Steel, was sympathetic to this and Peter was his adviser throughout the process of steering the Bill through Parliament, which became the Abortion Act of 1967. Leading up to this, Peter gave a lecture in 1966 to the Family Planning Association conference on abortion. He gave a personal account of his experience of 1,000 cases managed in the NHS and his private practice, at that time a courageous statement. It was the first time such an account had been given so openly. He compared women having safe NHS and private operations with those having illegal procedures when soap, whisky and even toothpaste had been injected into the uterus. The substance of this lecture was published in the *Lancet* in 1969 as 'Some experiences of therapeutic abortion' (*Lancet* 1969 Apr 26;1[7600]:873-5), and included the memorable phrase: 'like death and taxes, abortion will always be with us'. Peter Diggory was a larger than life figure, a big man, always cheerful and of a most gentle nature, which almost concealed his passionate desire to protect the welfare of women and their wish to choose whether or not they were pregnant. During his time as a student he met and married Patricia McConnell, who became a social worker. They had an interest in theatre, especially the fringe, and were trustees of a children's theatre company, Quicksilver. Sadly, Patricia died in 2002 and his later years were clouded with diabetes and vascular dementia, but even then he could play an excellent game of chess. They had two children, Paul and Jane. Paul is a consultant physician specialising in the care of the elderly. Peter Diggory died of heart failure on 22 November 2009 aged 85.
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First Title value, for Searching Lane-Roberts, Cedric Sydney (1888 - 1959)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-02
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Born in 1888 the third son of Lt-Col A S Roberts and Jane, daughter of Brigade Surgeon Benjamin Lane and sister of Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, he was educated at Cheltenham College and Guy's Hospital where he was awarded an entrance scholarship in arts and the Treasurer's Gold Medal in clinical surgery. He was a senior demonstrator in anatomy at Guy's, obstetric tutor at Leeds Maternity Hospital, chief assistant in the maternity department at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and registrar at the Soho Hospital for Women. Qualifying in 1913 he served during the Great War as Captain RAMC from 1914 to 1919 and was mentioned in dispatches. He became consulting gynaecological surgeon to the Royal Northern Hospital and Queen Charlotte's Hospital, consulting gynaecologist to Gerrards Cross Cottage Hospital and obstetric surgeon to Queen Mary's Maternity Home, Hampstead. He was an expert Rugby football player, having played for Guy's for six years and being captain in 1913 and he was four times capped for England from 1909 to 1913. A man of great personal charm, whimsical and with winning humility, he had great knowledge of a number of subjects outside his profession, in particular mediaeval architecture and sculpture, horticulture, Hellenic travel and vintage Rolls Royce motor cars. In 1928 he married Nell Miles-Sharp, daughter of D W Bain, who died in 1954. He died on 25 December 1959 at his home in Tewin, Herts.
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First Title value, for Searching Finlaison, Francis Harry Hume (1906 - 1968)

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First Title value, for Searching Todd, Thomas Francis (1908 - 1939)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-27
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Born on 22 September 1908 at 11 Barrington Road, Crouch End, N, the eldest of the five children of Frank Ernest Todd, civil servant and principal inspector of taxes, and Margaret Mary Shearman, his wife. He was educated at Prior Park School, Bath, and from there proceeded to Guy's Hospital, taking honours at the London MB examination with distinction in midwifery. At Guy's Hospital he served as house surgeon and obstetric resident, whilst in the medical school he was appointed assistant demonstrator of anatomy. By this time he had determined to devote himself to gynaecology, and took post-graduate courses in Dublin and Vienna. For a time he acted as resident surgical officer at the Royal Infirmary, Preston, was research Fellow at the Christie Hospital and assistant registrar at the Holt Radium Institute, Manchester. From these positions he became gynaecologist at the Salford Royal Hospital, the Hope Hospital, Salford, and the Crumpsall Hospital, Manchester. He was examiner in gynaecology to the General Nursing Council. On 4 February 1938, as Hunterian professor at the Royal College of Surgeons, he delivered a lecture on "Rectal ulceration following immediate treatment of carcinoma of the cervix (pseudo-carcinoma of the rectum)". He was gazetted captain, RAMC on 2 September 1939 and afterwards promoted major, and was killed as the result of a motor accident whilst on active service in France on 1 December 1939, and was buried at Mon Huon, Flocques, Seine-Inférieure: the first Fellow of the College to be killed in the second world war, a man who would have gone far. He never married. Publications: Prognosis in carcinoma of cervical stump after subtotal hysterectomy, with J R Nuttall. *J Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp* 1935, 42, 860. Present position of treatment in carcinoma of cervix uteri. *Brit J Radiol* 1936. 9, 196. The pathway and relief of pain in advanced carcinoma of cervix uteri. *Lancet*, 1937, 2, 555.
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First Title value, for Searching Davies, Trevor Berwyn (1884 - 1956)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-05
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Born on 15 December 1884 at Pentre, Glamorgan, son of Elias Henry Davies, an influential figure in the public service of South Wales, and Ann Jones, his wife, he was educated at Porth County School and University College, Cardiff, graduating with first-class honours in science in 1906, and was awarded the Hughes memorial gold medal and the Glamorgan scholarship. He was demonstrator of anatomy at Cardiff, and then entered University College Hospital Medical School, London. He was house-surgeon and house physician at University College Hospital, and resident medical officer at the City of London Lying-in Hospital. He served as obstetric registrar at University College Hospital, medical officer to out-patients, pathologist, and registrar at the Hospital for Women, Soho Square, and obstetric surgeon to out-patients at Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital. He was ultimately consulting gynaecologist to the Hospital for Women and to Queen Charlotte's and also to the West Lon-don Hospital and Finchley Memorial Hospital. He contributed to the well-known *Queen Charlotte's Textbook of the Practice of Obstetrics*. When the British (afterwards Royal) College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists was formed in 1929 Davies was elected a foundation Fellow. He also served on the council of the Section of Obstetrics in the Royal Society of Medicine. He examined for the Conjoint Board and the Central Midwives Board. He had a large consulting practice at 23 Harley Street, but retired some years before his death to Porthcawl, Glamorgan, living first at Ty Gwyn (The White House), Green Avenue, and latterly at Sea Field, Loughor Gardens, where he died on 24 April 1956 aged 71. He married in 1920 Gwladys, daughter of Dr Rhys David Morgan JP of Ynys-y-Bwl; Mrs Davies survived him briefly, dying at Porthcawl on 6 December 1956. One of their two daughters was a doctor.
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First Title value, for Searching Bloomfield, Alice (1895 - 1977)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-14
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Occupation Gynaecological surgeon Gynaecologist
Details Alice Bloomfield was born in India on 13 October 1895 where her father was a merchant. She and her sister were brought back to Scotland as children by their mother after their father was murdered by terrorists. Alice decided to study medicine and qualified at Edinburgh University in 1919 with first class honours after a brilliant studentship. In 1915 she won the silver medal for systematic chemistry and at qualification was given the Annandale Gold Medal for clinical surgery. After being awarded the Leckie Mactier postgraduate scholarship and the William Gibson research fellowship at the Royal Society of Medicine, she obtained the degree of MD in 1921, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1922, and ChM in 1925. Following resident appointments at Queen Charlotte's Hospital and the Hospital for Women in Soho Square, Alice Bloomfield was made gynaecological surgeon at the South London Hospital for Women at the age of 28, and later was appointed to the staff of the Marie Curie Hospital. She took an active interest in the College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and was a foundation member, being elected Fellow in 1935. She served on the Council for several terms, and was on many committees there, being a member of the Examination Committee for 23 years and its Chairman for four years. She was a founder member of the Women's Gynaecological Visiting Club, a select group of 22 members, and was for many years an active member of the Medical Women's Federation. An able diagnostician and a deft and speedy surgeon, she was kind to her patients and junior staff, but could be impatient and irascible with colleagues. She remained in good health, physically and mentally, until the time of her retirement from hospital, leading an active life including cross-country walking and playing golf, and bridge, and she then decided to read for the bar. She was very successful in all her examinations, always being near the head of the list, and was finally called to the bar by Gray's Inn at the age of 70. She worked in South Western circuit dealing mainly with criminal cases. A great traveller, particularly in the winter to escape the cold, she was helped by her linguistic ability, speaking several languages, and in the last days of her life, was attending Spanish classes. She died from a stroke after only a few days illness on 5 January 1977 at the age of 82.
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First Title value, for Searching Oldfield, Carlton (1879 - 1945)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-09-11
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Occupation General surgeon Gynaecologist
Details Born 15 July 1870 at Hall Bower, Denby Dale, near Huddersfield, third child and second son of Joshua Oldfield and Emma Davison, his wife. He was educated at a Grammar School and Leeds Medical School, taking the Conjoint qualification in 1893 and the London MB in 1895 BS in 1896. He proceeded to the MD in 1905 and the FRCS in 1909 and was elected FRCP in 1928. After working as assistant to Mayo Robson, Oldfield settled in general practice in his home town and later, specializing in gynaecology, was appointed surgeon to the Leeds Maternity Hospital and the Leeds Hospital for Women. He was subsequently elected gynaecological surgeon to the General Infirmary, retiring in 1939 as consulting gynaecological surgeon. Oldfield was also gynaecologist to the Batley and District Hospital, the Dewsbury General Infirmary, the Coronation Cottage Hospital at Ilkley, the Skipton and District Hospital and the Clayton Hospital at Wakefield. Oldfield was also active as a teacher. He succeeded John Benjamin Hellier, MRCS, as professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at University in 1919, and retired in 1932 with the title of emeritus professor (For obituary of Professor Hellier see *Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology*, 1925, 32, 558.) Oldfield had examined in his specialty at Oxford. He took a generous interest in the welfare of his students and nurses. He was a member of the Leeds and West Riding Medico-chirurgical Society, served as secretary of the section of gynaecology at the annual meeting of the British Medical Association in London in 1910, and served the office of president of the North of England Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society. Oldfield married on 30 June 1903 Emma Gertrude Whitaker. He practised at 25a Park Square, Leeds, and died at his country house Moor Hill, Harewood, on 27 May 1945, aged 74. Mrs Oldfield survived him, with two sons and two daughters. One son, Michael Whitaker Carlton Oldfield, MBE, is a Fellow of the College, and was assistant surgeon at the General Infirmary, Leeds, but serving abroad, as were his brother and both brothers-in-law, at the time of Carlton Oldfield's death. Oldfield's recreations had been hunting, farming, and golf, which he often played with Lord Moynihan. Publications: Septic infections, in Eden and Lockyer *The new system of gynaecology*. London, 1917, 1, 525-66. G E Herman *Difficult labour*, 7th edition revised by C Oldfield. London, 1929. Pernicious vomiting of pregnancy. *Brit med J* 1922, 1, 789.
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First Title value, for Searching Jeaffreson, William (1790 - 1865)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-05-16
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Occupation Gynaecologist Obstetrician
Details Went to Bury St Edmunds Grammar School, then to Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, to which the fame of Sir Astley Cooper attracted him as it did others. He settled in practice at Framlingham, Suffolk, and there gained for himself the honour of being amongst the first in England to remove an ovarian cyst successfully. In the United States McDowell and Nathan Smith had succeeded in eleven cases. At the post-mortem on a woman who had died from another cause Jeaffreson had noted an ovarian cyst, without adhesions, which when collapsed could be drawn out through a one-inch incision. Robert Houston (*Phil Trans*, 1724, xxxiii, 8) had reported that he had cut into an ovarian cyst, evacuated the contents, and the woman had recovered. William Hunter (*Med Obs and Inquiries*, 1762, ii, 26, 41, and 45: on the "Cellular Membrane and Some of its Diseases" and on "Encysted Dropsy of the Ovarium") had suggested, with reference to Houston's case, the removal of the cyst through a one-inch incision after emptying it by means of a trocar and cannula. Jeaffreson had also learnt of Nathan Smith's operation. He first examined the case of ovarian cyst in 1833, and watched the woman until 1836, when, assisted by King, of Saxmundham, he made a one-inch incision midway between the umbilicus and pubes through the linea alba, emptied the cyst through a cannula inserted by means of a trocar, removing 12 pints of fluid. As the sac emptied it was seized and drawn forwards; a second cyst containing 2 oz was similarly emptied. A ligature was then placed on the pedicle, the ends of the ligature were cut close to the knot, the sac was removed, and the wound sutured. The woman recovered and continued in good health. The prevalence of bladder calculus in East Anglia gave Jeaffreson opportunities of becoming a successful lithotomist. He also tried lithotrity advocated by Civiale and Heurteloup in France, by Costello in England. He was the first provincial surgeon to try the procedure, and selected cases in which he obtained success except in one. The College recognized his surgical success by electing him an Hon Fellow and he attended the annual elections and dinners. He joined the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, and was President at a meeting of the Eastern Branch at Framlingham in 1848. He retired later and died at Framlingham on November 8th, 1865. Publications: The Surgeon General's Library Catalogue attributes to Jeaffreson *A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Eye*, 1844, which in fact was written by a surgeon of the same name who spent many years in Bombay.
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First Title value, for Searching Wilson, Thomas (1861 - 1950)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-18
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Occupation General surgeon Gynaecologist
Details Born on 8 May 1861 at Cumnock, Ayrshire, the eldest child and only son of James Wilson, post office mail contractor, and his wife Agnes Vallance. He was educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School, University College, London, which he entered in 1878, and University College Hospital. He was a contemporary and friend of Harry Littlewood, who became a surgeon at Leeds. Wilson won medals in pathology and hygiene, and qualified in 1883; he took the London MD in 1885. He had completed his midwifery courses at the Rotunda in Dublin, and was a resident at the Royal Eye Hospital. From 1886 to 1888 he was resident medical officer at the National Hospital, Queen Square, serving under such famous men as Sir David Ferrier, Hughlings Jackson, and Sir Victor Horsley. Then after a year as a ship's surgeon in the Peninsular and Oriental Line, he settled in general practice at Cannock, Staffordshire. Here he married Miss Loxton, who died in 1947 after nearly sixty years of married life; they had no children. Wilson now determined to specialize in gynaecology and in 1890 was appointed gynaecological surgeon to the Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire General Hospital. Three years later, in 1893, he became assistant obstetric officer at Birmingham General Hospital, and took the Fellowship at the end of the year. He became gynaecological surgeon there in 1903, and consulting gynaecological surgeon on his retirement in 1922. He was also gynaecological consultant to hospitals at West Bromwich, Sutton Coldfield, Nuneaton, and Dudley, and to the Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham. Wilson became surgeon to the Birmingham Lying-in Charity in 1895, and by his efforts developed it to become the Birmingham Maternity Hospital in 1907. For many years he had a nursing-home at 87 Cornwall Street, Birmingham in partnership with Sir Gilbert Barling. He held the rank of captain, RAMC. At Mason College (Birmingham University) Wilson was lecturer and examiner in midwifery and gynaecology. He was appointed professor of midwifery and the diseases of women by the University in 1912, and was made emeritus professor on his resignation in 1924. Although a professor and an FRCS he always preferred to be called Dr Wilson. He retired in 1927 to Braeside, Wyche Road, Malvern, where Mrs Wilson died in 1947. He died there on 23 March 1950, aged 88. Wilson succeeded to the great tradition of gynaecological surgery built up at Birmingham by Lawson Tait and Edward Makins, and was himself succeeded by the brilliant Beckwith Whitehouse, whom he outlived. He made valuable contributions to the operative treatment of malignant disease of the uterus, and in 1906 delivered the Ingleby lectures on pelvic inflammation in the female. His sturdy physique and good looks were matched by strength of character and balanced intelligence. His outlook was keenly progressive and pioneering, and his clinical work careful and sound. Wilson never cared for sports or games. He was a learned geologist and a skilled gardener.
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First Title value, for Searching Mackenzie, Kenneth (1885 - 1942)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-09-30
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Occupation General surgeon Gynaecologist
Details Born 1 May 1885 in London, son of Sir Thomas Mackenzie, High Commissioner for New Zealand and a former Prime Minister of the Dominion, and Ida Nantes, his wife. He was educated at the City of London School and in New Zealand at Balclutha, Robin Hood Bay and Otago Boys' High School, and after a year at Otago University went to Edin-burgh where he graduated in 1908, proceeding MD 1911 with a gold medal, and winning the Gunning Victoria jubilee prize for this thesis on pituitary gland function. He took the English Fellowship in 1912 and the Edinburgh MCh in 1913. Returning to New Zealand he settled in practice at Auckland, and was appointed surgeon to the Auckland Hospital in 1914. During the war he served with the New Zealand Medical Corps. After the war he inaugurated clinical teaching in the hospital and continued to lecture till his death. He had been examiner in physiology at Otago University from 1914 to 1916, and was examiner in gynaecology 1926-28. He was a member of council of Auckland University College 1921-35 and president 1933-35, and for several years a senator of the University of New Zealand. He was an excellent teacher, and did much to improve medical education in New Zealand. In 1923 he founded the Auckland Clinical Society, of which he was president in 1924. He was at one time president of the British Empire Cancer Campaign in New Zealand, and was president of the Auckland branch of the British Medical Association in 1929 and a member of the editorial committee of the *New Zealand Medical Journal* (BMA). He was a charter member of the Auckland Rotary Club and its president 1924-5; and an honorary serving brother of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. Mackenzie was an accomplished general surgeon, with a special interest in gynaecological surgery. He kept elaborate and carefully analysed notes, and was a frequent contributor to professional congresses and journals. He married on 28 April 1913 Flora Honor Macdonald, who survived him with a son and three daughters. His younger brother, Hector Bruce Mackenzie, MB, practised as a radiologist at Auckland, and died there in 1950. He practised at 27 Princes Street, Auckland, and had a country place in the forest, high in the Waitakere mountains. He died at Auckland on 15 January 1942 after three weeks' illness, aged 57. Publications:- An experimental investigation of the mechanism of milk secretion. *Quart J exper Physiol* 1911, 4, 305. The repair of large abdominal herniae by muscle transplantation. *Brit J Surg* 1924, 12, 28. Hyperadrenalism. *Aust NZ J Surg* 1937, 7, 175. Hyperparathyroidism. *Ibid* p 256.
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First Title value, for Searching Hodder, Edward Mulberry (1810 - 1878)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-18
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Occupation General surgeon Gynaecologist
Details Born on December 30th, 1810, at Sandgate, Kent, the son of Captain Hodder, RN. He entered the Navy as midshipman in 1822 under his father, but stayed on board only a year. He then went to school in Guernsey and at St Servans, France. He was next a pupil for five years of Mr Amesbury in London. Having qualified in 1834, he spent two years in Paris studying medicine and afterwards attended hospital practice in Edinburgh. He began practice on his own account, first in London for two years, and then at St Servans in Brittany. He paid a visit to Canada in 1835, and after a return to St Servans definitely left for Canada and began to practise in the neighbourhood of Queenstown, near Niagara Falls. In 1843 he removed to Toronto, where he gained a practice as a surgeon and gynaecologist. In concert with Dr Bovell he started in 1850 the Upper Canada School of Medicine, which for several years represented the Medical Department of Trinity College. Hodder became a Member of the Faculty and in 1870 Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, which he held until his death. An Act incorporating the Medical School was passed in 1877. From 1852-1872 Hodder was a leading member of the acting staff of the Toronto General Hospital as well as of the Burnside Lying-in Hospital. He was especially known for his experience in ovariotomy and ovarian cysts, and in 1865 he was elected a Fellow of the Obstetrical Society of London. He was a member of the Ontario Medical Council and of the Canada Medical Association, of which he was elected President at the Halifax Meeting in 1875. He had been ailing for some time before his death, and showed signs of cerebral degeneration of which he was fully aware. Soon after Christmas, 1877, he was seized with paralysis of speech and deglutition, with rigidity of the right arm; aphasia persisted, he gradually became weaker, and died at his house in Toronto on February 20th, 1878. Publications: Hodder was joint-editor of the *Upper Canada Med Jour* in 1851, to which he contributed a number of articles.
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First Title value, for Searching Thring, Edward Thomas (1860 - 1947)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-26
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Born in England about 1860, he received his medical training at University College Hospital, where he was Atkinson Morley surgical scholar. After qualifying in 1882 he was appointed to the staff of the Royal Hospital for Women, Paddington, and took the Fellowship in 1885. He emigrated to Australia in 1886 and went into practice at Petersham near Sydney in partnership with David Collingwood MRCS and G E Twynam MRCS. In 1890 he set up as a consultant gynaecologist in Macquarie Street, Sydney, having in the previous year been appointed assistant to Joseph Foreman MRCS at the Prince Alfred Hospital. He served the Hospital for fifty-eight years, becoming gynaecological surgeon in 1897 and consultant in 1915. During the first world war he was commissioned in the RAMC, but transferred to the Australian AMC, and saw active service in France. For ten years he was surgeon to the Coast (later the Prince Henry) Hospital, and for six years to the Lewisham Hospital. He was Honorary Secretary and subsequently President of the New South Wales branch of the British Medical Association. Thring was a brilliant technical surgeon; he was a follower of the American gynaecologist Howard Kelly, and claimed to read twenty pages of Kelly's *Operative Gynaecology* every day; Thring's own work was greatly admired by Victor Bonney. He was a pioneer of hysterectomy, and was said to have invented the operation known as Wertheim's (*Ann Roy Coll Surg Engl* 1953, 13, 262). He was a founder of the Australian Massage Association, and President of the Australasian Trained Nurses Association. Thring was a small, hardworking, intelligent, and enthusiastic man. He could be charming when off duty, but was peppery and caustic while at work. He was interested in literature, art, public affairs, and sport, and was himself an athlete, horseman, and swordsman, and an expert gardener at his country home. He was a prominent member of the Australian Club and a director of the Bank of New South Wales. He was known to his friends as "Teddie". Thring died at Sydney on 12 July 1947, survived by his wife.
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First Title value, for Searching Beckett-Overy, Harry (1875 - 1950)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-10
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Occupation Gynaecological surgeon Gynaecologist
Details Harry Overy was born 5 January 1875 at Brenchley, Kent, the first of the thirteen children (nine sons and four daughters) of Henry James Overy, a farmer, and Sarah Mannington, his wife. He assumed the name of Beckett-Overy by deed poll, after his marriage with May Beckit in 1906; Mrs Beckett-Overy died before him, leaving an only daughter, Mrs Horsburgh. He was educated at Kent College, Canterbury and Swanley Agricultural College. He then attended the University of St Andrews and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and graduated from Edinburgh University at the age of twenty-seven in 1902. From the London Hospital he took the English Conjoint qualification in 1903, and served as casualty officer and pathologist at the Metropolitan Hospital. He was surgical registrar, and then assistant surgeon, at the Kensington General Hospital. Beckett-Overy practised as a gynaecological surgeon in a fashionable district of Kensington, first at 19 Lowndes Street, and latterly at 15 Herbert Crescent, both addresses being near Sloane Street, SW1. He was honorary secretary of the British Gynaecological Society and of its successor the obstetrics and gynaecology section of the Royal Society of Medicine, and later a vice-president of this section. He served as honorary secretary of the Kensington division of the British Medical Association. Beckett-Overy publicly supported Beatrice Webb's attack on the Poor Law in 1910. During the war of 1914-18 he was medical officer in charge of the Londonderry House hospital for officers in Park Lane. Later he was consulting surgeon to the Cobham and district cottage hospital. Details of Beckett-Overy's marriage have been given above. He died in a nursing home in London on 27 February 1950, aged 75, and was cremated at Golders Green. Publications:- The medical proposals of the Minority Report [of the Royal Commission on the Poor Law], an appeal to the medical profession, with Somerville Hastings, FRCS and Arnold Freeman. *Lancet*, 1910, 2, 229. Treatment of varicose veins by sclerosing injections, with L Gaugier of Paris. *Franco-British med Rev*. 1927, 4, 57.
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First Title value, for Searching O'Sullivan, Richard Francis (1886 - 1953)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-07
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Born at Melbourne in 1886, elder son of Michael Ulick O'Sullivan LRCP&S Edinburgh, gynaecologist to the Woman's Hospital and St Vincent's Hospital. His younger brother Brendan became a physician and practised at Fitzroy, Victoria. He was educated at the University of Melbourne, qualifying in 1909, and served as a resident medical officer at Ballarat. He then travelled to Europe with his father's friend, the famous "character" Archibald Watson FRCS, professor of anatomy at Adelaide. He was in England from 1912 and took the Fellowship in June 1914. During the war of 1914-18 he worked on the staff of General Fetherstone, Director-General of Medical Services in Australia, with the rank of Captain AAMC. He was appointed to the staff of St Vincent's Hospital, where he rose to be senior gynaecologist, as his father had been. His operating theatre was frequented by surgeons from all over Australia, and a record of his surgery was filmed by Dr Frank Tate. He practised at 70 Collins Street, Melbourne. His chief recreation was travel in the remoter parts of the continent, where again Dr Tate filmed him among a tribe of aborigines. He was Dean of the Clinical School at St Vincent's Hospital in the early years of the second world war, but his health began to fail and he retired in 1946. He died at Melbourne on 10 October 1953 aged 67, survived by his wife and his brother. Dick O'Sullivan was a man of striking character, sparkling wit, and vehement speech, beloved by his patients and friends. He was a keen racing man and owned several race-horses.
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First Title value, for Searching Allen, Harold Sandeman (1895 - 1960)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-20
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Occupation General surgeon Gynaecologist
Details Born in 1895 one of the four sons of Sir John Sandeman Allen (1865-1935), general manager and afterwards vice-chairman of the Union Marine Insurance Company and MP for the West Derby division of Liverpool; his mother was Amy Spencer, he was educated at Gresham's School and King's College, Cambridge, where he had one term in 1914. He was then commissioned in the Liverpool Scottish, saw active service in France and was several times wounded. He was at King's again 1919-20 and played Rugby football for the College. He took his clinical training at St Thomas's where he later held resident posts, after a house surgeoncy at the Royal Northern Hospital. Sandeman Allen went into practice at Cheltenham in 1930 and joined the staff of the General Hospital in 1933. He was also on the staff of the hospitals at Cirencester, Bourton-on-the-Water, Moreton-in-Marsh, and Evesham. When war broke out again in 1939 he went on active service in France and afterwards was attached to the Eighth Army in the Western Desert, as a Lieutenant-Colonel RAMC in command of a casualty clearing station. He was created OBE for his war service. After his return to Cheltenham he took up his large gynaecological practice and was appointed consultant gynaecologist to the North-East Gloucester area under the South-Western Regional Hospitals Board. Sandeman Allen married in 1930 Margaret Sylvia Harries, who survived him with their two daughters. He died a week before he was due to retire from his official appointments on 30 June 1960 aged 64. He was an energetic sports-loving man of open-hearted, honest and punctilious character, with highly skilled hands. He was a cabinet-maker and conjurer, and out of doors enjoyed shooting, swimming and golf. In younger days he had been a fine Rugby player. He held high rank in Freemasonry, was an honorary Lieutenant-Colonel in the Territorial Reserve, and was senior medical officer to Cheltenham race-course. Publications: Variation in the female pelvis, with C Nicholson. *Lancet* 1946, 2, 192. Haematometra caused by disappearance of the cervical canal after labour. *J Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp* 1947, 54, 377.
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First Title value, for Searching Hector, Francis John (1894 - 1977)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-18
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Francis John Hector was born in Bristol on October 15 1894. He was educated at Bristol, King's College, the Middlesex Hospital and Guy's Hospital and qualified MRCS LRCP in 1922 and was appointed consulting gynaecologist to the Bristol United Hospital. A man of many great abilities and diverse interests, he was a complicated character and few of his colleagues and acquaintances really knew all the many facets of his personality. As a medical student he excelled in amateur theatricals. Though outwardly a carefree student, not one of his colleagues knew that he was a 'moonlighter', who held a job after academic hours that enabled him to meet the financial cost of his education. There was no state aid then, and his mother was widowed. In his early years there was a continual struggle against poverty, which led to a great deal of self-reliance and determination, culminating in a certain rigidity, even hardness, in his personality. On his own initiative he acquired a considerable knowledge of the Graeco-Roman classics and of Gothic archaeology, and amassed a valuable library in these subjects. Hector was a rigid traditionalist who believed in self-help. He resented State interference in medicine and resisted the many changes. He was a harsh opponent of the introduction of the NHS. Taking his cue from his beloved teacher, Victor Bonney, he also disapproved of the institution of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and stubbornly refused to apply for recognition even against the advice of his close friends. He was a successful practitioner of his art and had a large practice in the West of England, being very popular with his patients and students, though not always with his colleagues and seniors. Another of his absorbing interests was freemasonry in which he rose to high rank and was for many years a provincial grand master. Hector never married, and when possible he travelled widely, having previously studied his Baedeker from cover to cover. He maintained his theatrical interests, and was very active in the work of the Bristol Amateur Operatic Company. His life was consequently compartmentalised to an unusual degree. With his passing, Bristol lost an able many-sided figure, something of an eccentric but a stout friend of those whom he really trusted and admired. He died on 11 November 1977, aged 83 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Reddington, Mortimer Philip (1899 - 1951)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-16
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Born 16 March 1899 the only son of Martin William Reddington, a civil servant. He was educated at the University of Otago, Dunedin, where he graduated in 1922, and came to England for postgraduate work at the Middlesex and Guy's Hospitals, with the intention of specializing in gynaecological surgery. He served as senior resident officer at the Jessop Hospital for Women, Sheffield, surgical registrar at the Grosvenor Hospital for Women, London, and gynaecological registrar at the Royal Waterloo Hospital for Children and Women. Reddington married about 1928 and settled in practice near Colchester, Essex, in 1931, but moved into London in 1933. He had been commissioned as a surgeon lieutenant-commander in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. On the outbreak of war in 1939 he was appointed to serve at sea, and while he was abroad his wife died, leaving three young sons. He was invalided out of the service in the middle of the war, and practised at Bridgwater till he felt well enough to return to London, where, however, he was injured in an air-raid. He recovered sufficiently to resume a busy and active life. He was appointed gynaecologist to the Royal Hospital, Richmond, and became senior obstetric surgeon at the Woolwich Memorial Hospital. He was a consulting gynaecologist to the Admiralty, and to Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, and other hospitals in South London. He served on the hospitals, remuneration, and nursing liaison committees at the British Medical Association, and was an active member of the North London Medical Society. He practised at 50 Weymouth Street, W1, and latterly at 51 Harley Street. Reddington married secondly on 2 February 1951 Beryl Walker, Mrs Cookson, who survived him with the three sons of his first marriage. He died after nearly eighteen months' illness on 25 May 1951, aged 52, in the Middlesex Hospital, and was buried at St Marylebone cemetery, East Finchley. He was a keen games-player, had played rugby football for Middlesex Hospital, and played real tennis and golf in later years. He was also a well-read connoisseur of literature, and wrote poetry and a play in verse. Publications: Total versus sub-total hysterectomy. *Lancet*, 1942, 2, 113, Post-partum haemorrhage. *Lancet*, 1943, 1, 509, Problems in obstetrics. *Clin J* 1944, 74, 15.
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First Title value, for Searching Woo, Arthur Wai-Tak (1887 - 1964)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-23
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Occupation General surgeon Gynaecologist
Details Born in Hong Kong, Woo qualified from the Middlesex Hospital in 1913. He was particularly interested in gynaecology, and was house surgeon and assistant to Victor Bonney at the Middlesex and at the Chelsea Hospital for Women. During this time he designed the Reverdin-Woo needle. He served in a military hospital in England during the first world war, and then went with a Rockefeller scholarship to New York and Baltimore, where he worked with Howard Kelly and came under the influence of W S Halsted. He also met the future head of the department of gynaecology of the Peking Union Medical College, Preston Maxwell, whose first assistant he became. Early in the 1920s the PUMC had been rebuilt by the China Medical Board of the Rockefeller Foundation. In Arthur Woo's own department Maxwell, Miles, and he worked on osteomalacia. They showed that, as had previously been suspected, osteomalacia was a de-ficiency disease related to rickets. When he returned to Hong Kong he established a clinic and organised the Babington Hospital, which became the centre of his large practice. His interests included opium addiction, leprosy, and cancer. Many distinctions came to him; the one that pleased him most was the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, awarded through his old teacher Lord Webb-Johnson. He was an Honorary Fellow of the International College of Surgeons, Honorary Visiting Professor at Lin Nam University, and consultant to the Cancer Clinic in Macao. He lectured in gynaecology and obstetrics and was an internal examiner at Hong Kong University. In his last illness he returned to the Middlesex Hospital for treatment. Woo lived at 55 Conduit Road, Hong Kong, and died in February 1964, aged 77, survived by his wife, with their son and five daughters. His humour, courage and faith lasted to the end.
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First Title value, for Searching Bishop, Edward Stanmore (1848 - 1912)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2010-03-18
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Occupation General surgeon Gynaecologist
Details Educated at the Pine Street Royal School of Medicine in Manchester, which was also known as Mr Turner’s School, and gained the Turner Scholarship in three successive years – 1868-1869, 1869-1870, and 1870-1871. He settled in the Ardwick District of Manchester, where he was in general practice until his appointment as Surgeon to the Ancoats Hospital. He qualified himself for this appointment by coming to London and taking out courses of anatomy and physiology at the London Hospital and of surgery at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and thus passing the Fellowship examination. Returning to Manchester, he devoted himself to the surgery of the abdomen and to gynaecology. He was appointed Operating Surgeon to the Jewish Memorial Hospital. At the time of his death he was President of the Manchester Clinical Society and Vice-President of the Manchester Medical Society. He died at 3 St Peter’s Square, Manchester, on July 25th, 1912, and his remains were cremated. Bishop was a man of great energy, somewhat reserved in manner, and a lover of music. He had at heart the best interests of Ancoats Hospital, and did much to place it in the position which it now occupies both as a hospital and as a centre of medical teaching. His resources in the technique of abdominal operations were very considerable. Publications:- Bishop’s publications, which were well known both here and in America, include:- *Enterorraphy*, 8vo, Manchester, 1885, from *Med. Chron*. *Lectures to Nurses on Antiseptics in Surgery*, 12mo, 11 plates London, 1891. *The Etiology of Chronic Hernia, with Special Reference to the Operation for Radical Cure, with Additional Tables*, 12mo, 1894, from *Lancet*. “A New Operation for Vesico-vaginal Fistula.” – *Med. Soc. Trans*., 1897, xx, 123. *Sealing of Operative Wounds about the Abdomen versus Treatment by Dressing*, 8vo, Manchester, 1899, from *Med. Chron*. *Uterine Fibromyomata; their Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treatment*, 8vo, 49 illustrations, London, 1901. The book is full of information, though somewhat biased towards operative surgery. “Changes observed in Uteri the seat of Fibromyomata.” – *Brit. Gynaecol. Jour.*, 1901, xvii, 286. *The Essentials of Pelvic Diagnosis, with Illustrative Cases*, 1903. This is an attempt to clarify the mental processes necessary in deducing disease from the absence or presence of symptoms. “Evolution of Modern Operations for Hysterectomy.” – *Practitioner*, 1908, lxxxi, 776. *Lectures on Surgical Nursing*, 1909. “Points in Gastric Surgery.” – *Surg. Gynecol. and Obst*., 1909, viiii, 559. “Address on Surgical Gastric Disorders” delivered before the Blackburn Medical Society, 1911. – *Lancet*, 1911, ii, 743.
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First Title value, for Searching Miller, William Henry (1881 - 1951)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-21 2014-08-07
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Occupation Gastrointestinal surgeon General surgeon Gynaecologist
Details Born at Newcastle-on-Tyne on 16 March 1881, the eldest child of Henry Septimus Miller, a timber merchant, and Annie Elizabeth Potts, his wife. His childhood was spent in Canada, but his parents came back in 1893 and he was educated in London at William Ellis's school and Guy's Hospital, where he won the Durham and Hilton scholarships. He qualified in 1906, took honours at the London MB in 1907, and first-class honours with the gold medal in gynaecology at the MD in 1911, the same year that he took the Fellowship. He was house surgeon at Guy's, and clinical assistant at the Soho Hospital for Women, and then assistant medical registrar and surgical registrar at the Samaritan Hospital. After a period in general practice at Enfield he went into partnership with A C Hartle MD, at Bedford, and ultimately became senior partner in this large practice. Soon however he went on active service during the war of 1914-18, as a surgical specialist in the RAMC. After his return to Bedford he took an increasing part in the profession life of the district. He was appointed assistant surgeon at the Bedford General Hospital in 1924, became senior surgeon in 1932 in succession to W G Nash, and was elected consulting surgeon on his retirement in 1948. He continued to work at the Hospital till March 1951, when he finally retired on his seventieth birthday. He had at first been chiefly a gynaecologist, but in the second half of his career preferred to practise gastric surgery. He was a good teacher of surgery. During the second war, 1939-45, he was chairman of the local medical war committee, and he was a medical referee for the Ministries of Pensions and Labour, surgeon and agent for the Admiralty, and referee for the National Fire Service and the Royal National Hospital at Ventnor. He was a member of the Association of Medical Officers of Schools. He was medical adviser to the Bedfordshire Hospital Services Association, and a member of the Bedford Group Hospital Management Committee. Miller married in 1904 H M Zimmerman, who survived him with a son and daughter. Their elder son had been killed in 1940. He died suddenly in his surgery at 4 De Parys Avenue, Bedford, on 31 December 1951, aged 70. Miller was a man of strong and decisive character. His charm and friendliness made him a tower of strength to the many people who turned to him successfully for sound advice and practical help.
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First Title value, for Searching Forsdike, Herbert Sidney (1875 - 1942)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-19
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Born on 6 November 1875 at Cardiff, sixth child of John Forsdike, master mariner, and Mary Ann Thomas, his wife. A brother, George Frederick Forsdike (d 1936), a solicitor and stockbroker, became Lord Mayor of Cardiff. H S Forsdike was educated at Llandovery College and at University College, London. He served as house physician, and as clinical assistant in the ear and throat and the ophthalmic departments at University College Hospital. For some years he was a general practitioner at Chatham and at Porthcawl, Glamorganshire. During the Boer war he served with a Welsh regiment in South Africa. During the four years' war he was surgeon in charge of the surgical division of the Mile End Military Hospital and surgical specialist at the Paddington Military Hospital, and also served at Netley and at Bournemouth, with a commission as temporary lieutenant, RAMC dated 9 November 1914. He was invalided out of the Army in 1917. He then proceeded to take higher surgical degrees and to specialize as a gynaecological surgeon. He served as registrar and pathologist at the Hospital for Women, Soho Square from 1917, became gynaecological surgeon there in 1919, and consulting gynaecological surgeon in 1935, having been chairman of the medical committee 1934-35. He was also gynaecological surgeon to the Kensington General Hospital and the Princess Beatrice Hospital, Earl's Court, and consulting obstetrician to the Borough of Hammersmith. At the Royal College of Surgeons Forsdike was an examiner in midwifery for the Conjoint Board 1929-31; he won the Jacksonian prize in 1922 with his essay on "The effect of radium upon living tissues, with special reference to its use in the treatment of malignant disease" (published 1923), and was a Hunterian professor in 1924, lecturing on the same subject. Forsdike married on 20 April 1910 Dora, daughter of Thomas Jones, JP of Ynyshir, Glamorgan; Mrs Forsdike died on 25 November 1933. Forsdike practised at 5 Devonshire Place and at 10 York Gate. He retired from practice in 1936, and died at 68 Bickenhall Mansions, Portman Square on 29 March 1942, survived by his only daughter. He was buried at St Marylebone cemetery, East Finchley. In the early days of radium treatment for cancer Forsdike owned some radium, which he generously used for the benefit of his hospital patients. Publications:- Treatment of severe and persistent uterine haemorrhage by radium. *Brit med J*. 1926, 1, 472. *Sterility in women, diagnosis and treatment*. London, 1928. Sterility in women, in Maingot's *Postgraduate surgery*, 1936, 2, 2573-2632. *Textbook of gynaecology*. London, 1932.
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First Title value, for Searching Sharp, Ruby Grace (1906 - 1989)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-21
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Ruby Grace Sharp was born in Cape Town in 1906, the third daughter of Dr Robert Sharp, a surgeon in Cape Town at that time, and was educated at Wynberg Girls' High School. She was a talented and clever girl and legend has it that she required a wheelbarrow to take home her trophies on prize-giving days! She entered the University of Cape Town and gained a medical BA in 1926, winning the class medal in anatomy II. The following year she received a bronze medal for her place in the bacteriology examination and another bronze medal in 1929 in public health. She graduated MB, ChB in December 1930 with a first in surgery. She completed early appointments in surgery and gynaecology at Cape Town before coming to England for postgraduate studies. After working at several hospitals she obtained the FRCS in 1935 and the MCOG in the following year, in the days before it became the Royal College. On her return to Cape Town she was appointed honorary consultant gynaecologist to Woodstock Hospital and later to Groote Schuur Hospital when it opened in 1938. The clinical commitment in obstetrics and gynaecology was always high, especially during the war years when many of her colleagues left to serve in the armed forces. Those who were left to 'hold the fort' were incredibly busy, but Ruby was always considerate, kind, caring, compassionate and helpful. All her colleagues, the nurses, her patients and students admired her; she was revered and appreciated by a wide circle of grateful people and most had good reason to have such gratitude. There is a sculptured head of Ruby in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Medical School of the University of Cape Town executed by a grateful patient, a GP's wife in Cape Town. After the war she devoted much time to postgraduate teaching; she received the FRCOG in 1954 and served on the South African Reference Committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists from 1952 to 1956. By this time she was 'head of a firm' in the gynaecology department at Groote Schuur Hospital. She retired early from practice in Cape Town and spent a year in a mission hospital in the Transkei before discontinuing practice altogether. Modest and unassuming, Ruby hated fuss, affectation and pretentiousness, and she shrank from publicity. She belonged to the old school of medical people who gave of themselves wholly, unsparingly, without thought of reward or self. She died on 23 November 1989 aged 83, survived by her sisters and their families.
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First Title value, for Searching Grice, John William Hawksley (1891 - 1976)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-11
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Gynaecologist Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Born on 7 April 1891 at Tonbridge, Kent, John William Hawksley Grice was educated at Yardley Court School, Tonbridge School and Guy's Hospital Medical School. During the first world war he left his medical studies at Guy's and went to France as a dresser; later he returned to Guy's and qualified in 1917. After a surgical house job he joined the RAMC and went to Mesopotamia. Remaining in the RAMC after the war, he specialised in orthopaedics until he went to North China in 1922. He looked after the British community in Tientsin as a general practitioner and general surgeon and gynaecologist at the Victoria Hospital. During the Tientsin floods he organised a large Chinese refugee camp at the British Race Club. In the second world war he was interned in a Japanese camp at Weihsien, Shantung province. He brought surgical instruments and drugs into the camp, where a hospital was started. He was appointed OBE for his work there. After the war he returned to Tientsin. Surgical instruments were in short supply and he used tools from an Italian marble works for mastoid operations. Following the Communist occupation he remained in Tientsin, finally leaving China in 1952. In 1954 he was elected FRCS for his work for the British community in China. He went into general practice at Bognor Regis in 1954 and retired in 1973. Grice was interested in Chinese antiques and collected jade, pewter and bamboo carvings, highly prized by the Chinese, but little known in the West. He wrote numerous articles on these, published in *Chinese art*, *Country life* and *The Field*. A representative part of his bamboo collection is in the Victoria and Albert Museum and an exotic ivory woven bed mat, said to have been used by one of the Chinese emperor's favourite concubines, is in the Ethnography Department of the British Museum. He also had a lifelong interest in ornithology. In 1920 he married Kathleen Kilbride, whose father and two brothers were medical men. There were two daughters of the marriage, one of whom took up medicine as a career. Grice died on 12 November 1976, at Bognor Regis, aged 85 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Jordan, John Furneaux (1865 - 1956)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-07
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details He was born at Birmingham in 1865 one of 3 sons of Thomas Furneaux Jordan FRCS. His grandfather had been a surgeon, his brother Bertram became a physician at Birmingham, and an uncle and his son were physicians there. He was educated at King Edward's School and at Queen's and Mason Colleges, where he served as demonstrator of anatomy and physiology. After qualifying through the Royal University of Ireland, he served as house surgeon at Queen's Hospital and was elected assistant surgeon to the General Hospital in 1893. Under the influence of Lawson Tait he turned his attention to gynaecological surgery, and in the twenty years before the outbreak of the 1914 war he was a pioneer in this field, writing much on his specialty and attaining a leading practice in the Midlands. He was surgeon to several hospitals and in particular promoted the work of the Birmingham and Midlands Hospital for Women, whose new buildings he was instrumental in building in Showell Green Lane. He also took a leading share in the work of the new Maternity Hospital when it opened in Loveday Street in 1906. He took an active part in professional affairs, serving as honorary treasurer of the Birmingham branch of the British Medical Association and president of the Queen's College Medical Society, but he was not interested in teaching. He was appointed Ingleby lecturer in 1911. Jordan followed Sir Victor Horsley FRCS in advocating total abstinence from alcohol. As a young man he was a keen player of association football and was vice-president of the Old Edwardians Association. He also played lawn tennis and was a skilled gardener. He practised at 9 Newhall Street, Birmingham, and lived at 5 Carpenter Road, Edgbaston. Jordan retired in 1928 to Bromsgrove, but later moved to London. He married in 1898 Mildred, daughter of John Player of Edgbaston, who survived him with their son, an architect. He died at 178 Coleherne Court, London on 1 May 1956, aged 90. He was of spare build, erect and distinguished in appearance, of quiet manner and firm character. Publications: Clinical notes on one hundred consecutive cases of abdominal section. *Brit Gynaecol J* 1897, 13, 206. On tubal abortion with clinical notes of eight cases of ectopic gestation. *Brit med J* 1898, 2, 803. The after-effects of removal of the appendages and of removal of the uterus. *Brit Gynaecol J* 1899, 15, 369. The advantages and disadvantages of vaginal coeliotomy. *Birm med Rev* 1899, 45, 269. Treatment of myoma of the uterus. *Brit med J* 1906, 1, 621. Puerperal infection, with special reference to vaccine treatment. *Brit med J* 1912, 2, 1.
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First Title value, for Searching Marshall, James Cole (1876 - 1952)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-21
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Occupation Gynaecologist Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on 3 March 1876 at Blandford, Dorset, the third child and eldest son of James Marshall, who was in business there, and Emily Cole his wife, he was educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he won a certificate of honour in anatomy in 1896. Marshall was at first interested in gynaecology and held resident posts at Queen Charlotte's, the Chelsea Hospital for Women, and the Samaritan Hospital, and in charge of the gynaecological wards at the West London Hospital. He also worked at Great Ormond Street and the Golden Square Throat Hospital. He took the MD in 1904 and, his interest turning to ophthalmology, became clinical assistant at the Royal Eye Hospital in 1905. He was senior clinical assistant at the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital, and in 1907 chief clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields. He was also ophthalmic surgeon in charge of the LCC Department at the Victoria Hospital for Children, Chelsea. He was appointed ophthalmic surgeon to the Royal Waterloo Hospital in 1912, and was afterwards ophthalmic surgeon to the LCC Hospital at Lambeth and surgeon to the Western Ophthalmic Hospital, where he ultimately became consulting surgeon. He was honorary oculist to the Royal Academy of Music and to the Royal London Society for teaching the Blind. He was commissioned as Captain, RAMC, on 7 May 1918, and served in 1919 as an ophthalmic specialist with the Army of Occupation on the Rhine. Marshall was one of the first in England to practise the modern operative treatment of retinal detachment. He devised charts for plotting the retinal tears observed in the fundus oculi. His work in this branch of ophthalmology not only won him a large practice, but attracted surgeons to learn his method, in which he founded a British school. He was efficient, deliberate, and careful, of sound judgment, and a skilful operator. He proved his administrative ability as chairman of the medical committee at the Western Ophthalmic Hospital. He gave the Middlemore lecture at Birmingham in 1935, and was a Hunterian professor at the College in 1938. Marshall married in 1905 Margaret Compton, who survived him with three daughters. He was a man of balanced and attractive personality, fond of music and painting, and of gardening and watching birds. He practised at 126 Harley Street, and built himself a country house, Compton Cottage, Sarratt Lane, Rickmansworth to which he retired. He died there suddenly on 24 December 1952 aged 76. Publications: Unusual case of cataract in a child. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1913, 6, Ophthal. P 105. Electrolytic method of treating detachment of the retina. *Ibid* 1935, 29, 53-58. *Detachment of the retina; operative technique in treatment*. Oxford 1936. Surgical treatment of detachment of retina. Hunterian Lecture, RCS. *Lancet* 1938, 1, 1033-1037.
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First Title value, for Searching Maguire, Frederick Arthur (1888 - 1953)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-21
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Occupation Anatomist Gynaecologist
Details Born on 28 March 1888 at Corbar NSW son of a schoolmaster, he was educated at Sydney Grammar School and Sydney University. Qualifying in 1911 he was appointed RMO at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney and in 1912 he became a demonstrator of anatomy. In 1914 he joined the Australian Expeditionary Force in New Guinea as a Captain in the RAAMC and was second in command under Neville Howse from August until October, in which month he took command until April 1915 when he joined the staff of the DGMS. From 1916 to 1918 he commanded the 9th Field Ambulance AIF and was mentioned in dispatches four times. From 1918 to 1920 he was ADMS 3rd Division in France, and on his return to Australia DDMS 2nd Military District from 1921 to 1934. In 1935 he was appointed honorary surgeon to the Governor- General, and in 1941 was promoted Major-General as DGMS from which he retired in 1942. From 1944 to 1945 he acted as consulting surgeon to the Women's Branch of the Royal Australian Navy. From 1920 to 1925 he was acting Professor of Anatomy at Sydney University, working as an examiner from 1920 to 1938, and while on a visit to Brisbane in 1932 gave a demonstration in the new anatomy school in William Street on the anatomy of the female pelvis in relation to repair operations. From 1934 to 1939 he was a member of the Senate of Sydney University and chairman of the Cancer Research Committee from 1936 to 1938. Maguire became senior gynaecological surgeon to the Royal Alfred Hospital as consulting gynaecologist to St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney. In 1934 he had been President of the section of naval and military surgery at the Australian Medical Congress in Hobart, President of the section of gynaecology of the BMA at Brisbane in 1950, and President of the NSW branch in 1950-51. He was a member of Sydney Municipal Council in 1949 and 1950. As a teacher he was outstanding, writing in particular on anatomy with reference to gynaecological problems. A kind, generous and enthusiastic man, he had great courage and a tremendous capacity for work. Hospitaller and Almoner of the Australian Priory of the Order of St John of which he was a Commander, he was also a prominent Freemason representing the United Grand Lodge in NSW and was Grand Master of Grand Lodge of NSW in 1930-31 and in 1944. Maguire was married three times and survived by his third wife, Dr M M McElphone, a research colleague. He died on 10 June 1953 aged 65.
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First Title value, for Searching Wilson, John St George (1891 - 1967)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-31
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Occupation Gynaecological surgeon Gynaecologist
Details Wilson was born in China on 8 April 1891 and was educated at Liverpool University graduating in medicine in 1914 and taking the Conjoint Diploma on 30 July 1914. On 4 August the first world war broke out and he served throughout it in the RAMC, winning the Military Cross. On demobilisation he returned to Liverpool and held resident and registrar appointments at the Royal Infirmary and the Shaw Street Hospital for Women, having decided to specialise as a gynaecological surgeon; he also studied in Vienna. He took the Fellowship and the Liverpool Master of Surgery degree in 1921. He became assistant gynaecological surgeon at the Royal Infirmary and assistant surgeon at the Maternity Hospital, and later was a consultant at the Walton Hospital and the Hoylake and West Kirby Hospital. He had one of the leading practices in the north-west of England at 13 Rodney Street, Liverpool, and was a regular attendant at meetings of the North of England Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society. He was a member of the Gynaecological Club, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1933, having been a foundation member in 1929. Throughout his career he valued independence above success, and was an outspoken master of repartee. His great ability, vision and experience made him widely respected; he was generous and careful of the interests of his juniors. At the formation of the National Health Service in 1948 he retired from his hospital posts, and withdrew completely from professional contacts, though he practised privately for a time in the home counties and went briefly to South Africa. He was always restless and was said never to have lived in the same house for more than three years. When he finally gave up practice he farmed for some time, and also kept a market-garden. He had been in the forefront of the improvement of obstetric practice, and published a very influential paper *Lower uterine segment Caesarian section* in the *Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology of the British Empire* in 1931, and an excellent handbook *Prenatal and postnatal management* in 1937. He died at Wem, Shropshire on 4 June 1967 aged 76, survived by his wife with their daughter and three sons, one of whom is a member of the medical profession.
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First Title value, for Searching White, Margaret Moore (1902 - 1983)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-14
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Margaret Moore White was born in Derby on 5 February 1902, the daughter of Henry Thomas White, a civil engineer and his wife Adriana, née McBean. Her early education was at Belmont School, Derby, but when she was 13 years old the family moved to London and until the age of 17 she went to the Tremarth School, Hampstead. Initially she trained in Swedish gymnastics and massage at a college in Stockholm and having completed the course returned to England in 1922 to set up in private practice as a physiotherapist as her Swedish diploma did not qualify her to work in most British hospitals. She attended the physiotherapy departments at St George's Hospital and the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases and obtained the diploma in massage and medical gymnastics. She was appointed to the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, but in 1924 decided to pursue a medical career. She entered Birkbeck College night school in order to take the preliminary examination and within a year had secured a place at the London School of Medicine for Women. She took the junior and senior anatomy prizes and shortly after passing the second MB she sat and passed the primary Fellowship. After qualifying in 1930 and serving as house surgeon to Cecil Joll and Hamilton Bailey she passed the FRCS in 1931 and later went to the West Norfolk and King's Lynn Hospital as resident surgical officer with a view to training to be a children's orthopaedic surgeon. No vacancy was available and she returned to London in 1936 as gynaecological registrar at the Royal Free and Willesden General Hospital passing the MRCOG examination in 1939. In 1940 the Royal Free Hospital was evacuated to the Three Counties Hospital at Arlesey, Bedfordshire, and throughout the war years she served both as surgeon and as gynaecologist. At that time she met Dr Leonard Page who was assistant medical officer to the psychiatric hospital and whom she married in 1942. After the war she was appointed consultant gynaecologist to the Lister Hospital, Hitchin, to Letchworth Hospital and to the Three Counties Hospital, Arlesey. In addition she was assistant gynaecologist to the out-patient department of the Royal Free, examiner to the General Nursing Council and to the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists. Her particular interest was in the treatment of infertility and in conjunction with Miss Gertrude Dearnley she began one of the first infertility clinics in Britain at the Royal Free Hospital in 1937. She maintained this interest after the war re-establishing the clinic at the Royal Free and also working in private practice in London. Many of her patients were infertile because of pelvic tuberculosis and she devised operations to restore the patency of blocked tubes. She published many papers on this subject and wrote a textbook, *The management of impaired fertility*, published by the Oxford University Press in 1962 and subsequently translated into Italian. She attended many international conferences giving papers in Cairo, Stockholm, Mexico, Israel, Japan, United States and Holland. She died on 17 January 1983, aged 80, survived by her husband and two sons, one of whom is a civil engineer and the other a physician.
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First Title value, for Searching Way, Stanley Albert (1913 - 1988)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-12
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Occupation Gynaecologist Histopathologist
Details Stanley Way was born in Portsmouth on 16 January 1913, the son of a naval officer and after early education entered the Middlesex Hospital for his clinical studies, qualifying in 1936. During his early years he was greatly influenced by the example of Victor Bonney and acquired a lifelong interest in the early diagnosis and radical treatment of gynaecological cancer. In 1938, shortly after his marriage to Ruth Noble, he moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne to a junior post in the Royal Victoria Infirmary and within two years had passed the MRCOG examination. During the war years medical reasons prevented him from serving in the Royal Navy but he continued to shoulder heavy clinical responsibilities as registrar at the Royal Infirmary and Princess Mary Maternity Hospital. At the end of the war he moved briefly to Shotley Bridge General Hospital before being appointed consultant in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, in 1947. In 1948 he visited Dr George N Papanicolaou's laboratory in the United States in order to learn the basic techniques of cervical cytology, which he subsequently introduced into his own unit at Gateshead. He became a competent and meticulous histopathologist, often examining fifty or more sections before expressing an opinion. He converted a vacant nurses' home in the hospital into a thirty bed gynaecological ward using money raised by charitable subscriptions and pioneered a radical approach to cervical and vulval carcinoma. His study of the lymphatic drainage of the vulva pointed to the need for extensive vulvectomy and bilateral inguinal lymph node excision. In the management of cervical carcinoma in situ he routinely removed the upper third of the vagina in continuity with the uterus, stressing that if sufficient sections of the vagina were examined, tumour cells would be found in over twenty per cent. He introduced an oncology service, the first of its kind in the United Kingdom, and this service subsequently became a regional centre for the investigation and management of gynaecological malignancies. He was awarded many honours including a Hunterian Professorship delivered on 13 February 1948 on the anatomy of the lymphatic drainage of the vulva and its influence on the radical operation for carcinoma, the Blair Bell Lectureship of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1948 and the Bernhard Baron Travelling Research Scholarship. He was Victor Bonney Prizeman in 1964 to 1966, elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1953 and of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1974. He was also elected an Honorary Fellow of the American Association of Gynaecology and Obstetrics and the International Association of Cytology. Like so many great physicians and surgeons he was a serious critic of his colleagues and their work when it failed to meet his standards. This was always in a positive and constructive way and never intended to cause offence. As well as contributing to gynaecology, he introduced a breast screening clinic for examination and mammography, developing the first breast cancer detection programme in the United Kingdom many years before the need for such services were recognised. He retired from hospital practice in 1978. His outside interests were cricket and music and he was an accomplished organ player. He died after a long illness on 23 July 1988, aged 75, and is survived by his wife, his son Bernard who is a consultant surgeon and his daughter Elizabeth.
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First Title value, for Searching Evans, Lynn Anthony James (1920 - 1984)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-13
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Lynn Evans was born in Aberystwyth on 12 December 1920. His family were all connected with the University of Wales as both his parents, his brother and his two sisters studied there. His father, David Evans, became Professor of Modern Languages (German-Swedish) at Aberystwyth and his mother, Margaret, née James, studied French and became a teacher in that language. Lynn went to Ardwyn Grammar School and then to the University of Wales for his first MB. He continued at the University of Cardiff Medical School and during the course he obtained the University gold medal in surgery. He had been an exceptional student taking a BSc in anatomy, physiology and anthropology in 1942. He was also awarded the Cardiff Medical Society Prize. He did his house appointments at Cardiff and then moved away from his beloved Wales to London. At the Middlesex Hospital he held junior and senior registrar appointments, obtaining his FRCS in 1952. His thesis for the MD in 1957 was on the use of intramuscular iron in the treatment of anaemia. His interest lay, however, in gynaecology and he obtained the MRCOG in 1956. After a series of appointments at the Hammersmith, West Middlesex, Queen Charlotte's and St Thomas's Hospitals he was appointed as consultant gynaecologist to the then Chichester and Worthing Group of Hospitals. He also worked at the Zachary Merton Maternity Unit at Rustington. He played a leading part in the reorganisation and commissioning of the new ward block in St Richard's Hospital, Chichester, which was to house the gynaecology department and in the founding of the postgraduate medical centre. In 1970 he suffered a severe cardiac infarction but continued with modified work until 1982. Outside his work he had few interests but he had a sailing boat and enjoyed sea fishing. He took considerable pleasure in travel. He married Marjorie Sybil in 1947. They had a son Julian Lynn and two daughters Kathleen and Sian. Lynn Evans died on 19 August 1984 and was survived by his wife and children.
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First Title value, for Searching Ley, Gordon (1885 - 1922)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-27
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Occupation Gynaecologist Obstetrician
Details Born in Exeter on June 19th, 1885, the son of Richard Ley, of Exmouth. He was educated at Malvern and at the London Hospital, where he won the Obstetric Scholarship and Prize in 1907 and was Pathological Assistant. In 1910 he became House Surgeon at the Gloucester Royal Infirmary, proceeding thence to Queen Charlotte's Hospital, where he was successively Junior and Senior Resident Medical Officer during a period of eight months. This appointment determined his choice of a career. He became an enthusiastic obstetrician, and soon displayed much ability. In 1913 he was appointed Pathologist to the Chelsea Hospital for Women, holding this post till 1921, and in March, 1914, he became Obstetric Registrar and Tutor to Charing Cross Hospital. This appointment he held to within a short period of his death. Gordon Ley suffered from congenital valvular disease of the heart, and his physique was so low that he was totally rejected for military service during the Great War. Few men, however, worked harder than he did at home. Throughout the War he acted as voluntary Resident Medical Officer to the City of London Maternity Hospital, doing almost the entire work of this hospital from the beginning of 1917 onwards in the absence on military duty of his colleague. He also volunteered at the London Hospital, where two of the gynaecologists had been called away by war duty. Here he had charge of beds, did the work of the Obstetric Registrar and Tutor during the greater part of the War, and acted also as Pathological Assistant. At the same time he took charge of the Jewish Maternity Home in Underwood Street as Consulting Obstetrician, was on the rota of the Lady Howard de Walden Maternity Home for Officers' Wives, and lectured from 1914-1918 twice a week at the Midwives' Institute, continuing these lectures to the time of his death. He was appointed Gynaecologist to the Hampstead General Hospital in 1918, and in 1919 Assistant Obstetric Surgeon to the City of London Maternity Hospital. These two appointments he held at the time of his death. In addition to this record of hospital work, Gordon Ley found time for original research, and he left a short series of admirable papers on clinical and pathological problems connected with obstetrics. His first considerable effort was the collation of 100 cases of full-term extra-uterine pregnancy from the literature, with two original cases upon which he had operated himself. Two years later he published an able communication on accidental haemorrhage, advancing cogent reasons for regarding this condition as toxaemic, and from the results of microscopic examination of the uteri removed for this condition he was able to offer an explanation of the mechanism of production of the bleeding. He also devoted much attention to the subject of carcinoma of the ovary. In 1919 he had communicated his preliminary results to the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Royal Society of Medicine, and in continuance of his work had undertaken to open a discussion on "Primary Carcinoma of the Ovary" at the Glasgow Meeting of the British Medical Association, when his tragic death occurred. On the morning of June 3rd, 1922, he was travelling on professional business to Paris in a French aeroplane. After passing the coast-line, and when two or three miles off Folkestone, the machine suddenly dived into the sea from a height of 1500 feet. The pilot and both passengers lost their lives. Dr G H Varley, of Cadogan Place, W, who was on board the Boulogne packet, was at once rowed to the wrecked aeroplane, and then recognized the body of his dead colleague. After an inquest held at Folkestone on June 6th, where the brother of Gordon Ley, Dr R L Ley, of Great Yarmouth, identified the deceased, the funeral took place in Folkestone churchyard on the same afternoon. Publications: "Decidual Reaction in a Subperitoneal Fibromyoma of Uterus." - *Proc Roy Soc Med* (Sect Obst and Gynaecol), 1916-17, x, 137. "Fibromyo-lipoma of Corpus Uteri." - *Ibid*, 1913-14, vii, 150. "Two Cases of Full-time Extra-uterine Pregnancy with a Tabulated Abstract of 100 Cases from the Literature." - *Ibid*, 1918-19, xii, 140. "Primary and Secondary Carcinoma of Ovary." - *Ibid*, 1919-20, xiii, 95. "Utero-placental (Accidental) Haemorrhage." - *Jour Obst and Gynaecol*, 1921, xxviii, 69.
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First Title value, for Searching Fowler, Robert (1888 - 1965)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-25
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Born in London on 5 March 1888, son of Walter Fowler FRCS 1858-1917, and grandson of Robert Fowler, a doctor. His parents emigrated to Victoria, Australia, in 1891, where Walter Fowler practised at Echuca and became superintendent of Bendigo Hospital. Robert was educated in Melbourne at Caulfield Grammar School and as a scholar of Trinity College in the University. He graduated in 1909 in a distinguished class which included Victor Hurley and Alan Newton, both subsequently eminent surgeons; and served as resident medical officer at Melbourne Hospital in 1910. At the University he was Beaney Scholar in pathology in 1911 and assistant lecturer on pathology in 1923, the year in which he obtained his MD degree. During 1912-14 he made postgraduate studies in England and visited several leading European surgical clinics. Fowler joined the Australian Army Medical Corps as a volunteer in 1910, and saw active service through the first world war. He served during 1915 at Gallipoli and in hospital ships between there and Egypt, then as Colonel in command of 14 Australian General Hospital, and finally as Assistant Director of Medical Services with the Australian Mounted Division in the Palestine Campaign of 1917-18; he organised the medical services at Damascus after the Turkish capitulation and the breakdown of the local administration. He was mentioned in despatches, awarded the Volunteer Decoration, and created an officer of the Order of the British Empire. Robert Fowler took the Fellowship in 1920 and returned to Melbourne, intending to practise as a general surgeon; soon however he specialised in gynaecological surgery. He was obstetric surgeon to the Women's Hospital 1921-24, and consulting gynaecologist to the Alfred Hospital 1923-48 and the Austin Hospital 1927-35. At the Alfred he was an outstanding personality as surgeon, administrator and teacher. His gynaecological clinic became known internationally, and he was always ready to adopt the newest improvements in equipment and technique. He was appointed an honorary surgeon to the Governor-General of the Commonwealth 1931-35. He was a member of Council of the Victoria branch of the British Medical Association and secretary of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology when the Association held its annual meeting in Melbourne in 1935. He had been elected a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1924, and was a founding Fellow of the Royal Australasian College in 1927. Between the wars and against official indifference Fowler advocated establishing an anti-malaria service for the Army and co-operation with the Air Force in a full-scale air-ambulance corps. When war broke out in 1939 his ideas were belatedly put into action. He served at first with the Royal Australian Air Force, then as Commanding Officer of 117 Australian General Hospital, and finally as Deputy Director of Medical Services in the Southern Command. Fowler was long concerned with the cancer problem, and active in promoting facilities for its control and better treatment throughout Australia, beyond the great achievements of his own clinic in the surgical treatment of cancer in women. He served on the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria from its beginning in 1936, and created its Central Cancer Registry. This registry he managed personally for many years, collecting and publishing detailed statistics of the incidence and treatment of cancer on a scale unprecedented in the Southern Hemisphere. The Council commemorated his work by founding its Robert Fowler Travelling Scholarship for Cancer Research. At the University of Melbourne he was a member from 1930 of the Steering Committee of Convocation and its Warden 1959-63; he was then elected to the University Council. He was an excellent chairman and equipped as a public speaker with a rare knowledge and love of classic literary English. Fowler practised at 14 Parliament Place, Melbourne, and lived at Irving Road, Toorak. He died on 8 May 1965 aged seventy-seven, survived by his wife, with their two daughters and their son Robert, surgeon to the Royal Childrens' Hospital, Melbourne. Publications: Listerian oration; health of foetus, or true national insurance: review of certain aspects of foetal environment. *Med J Aust* 1939, 2, 155-164. Arms and anophelines or military significance of malaria. With A H Baldwin. *Med J Aust* 1942, 2, 455-459.
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First Title value, for Searching Lea, Arnold William Warrington (1868 - 1916)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-20
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Occupation Gynaecologist Obstetrician
Details The son of Edward Lea, of Sandbach, Cheshire, and a nephew through his mother of Dr F W Warrington, of Congleton. He was educated at Parkhurst School, Buxton, and at Owens College. He afterwards held resident appointments at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, where he was House Surgeon, at the Hospital for Sick Children, Pendlebury, and also at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital and at Queen Charlotte's Hospital. He settled in Manchester in 1895, becoming assistant to Sir William Japp Sinclair. In 1897 he joined the staff of the Northern Hospital for Women and Children, Manchester, of which he was afterwards Surgeon, and then Consulting Surgeon. The hospital in 1905 amalgamated with St Mary's Hospital for Women and Children, of which he became Assistant Surgeon, and then Surgeon. He was also early elected Lecturer on Midwifery and the Diseases of Women at Owens College. He collaborated actively with Sir W Sinclair and Dr W E Fothergill in founding the *Journal of Obstetrics and Gyncecology of the British Empire*, and in 1912 was elected President of the North of England Obstetrical Society. He attained to an eminent position as a gynaecologist, with a large consulting practice; but outside his professional work he also showed many brilliant qualities. In early days he was an athlete, devoted to rock-climbing. He talked well and was one of the most attractive speakers at the Manchester Medical Students' Debating Society, taking an interest in general, literary, and sociological subjects as well as in science. He was elected President of the Manchester Fortnightly Society, where he frequently spoke in debate, and to which he contributed papers evincing high literary culture. In 1913 he had a serious breakdown, and he died at Southport on May 7th, 1916. He was buried at St Peter's Church, Congleton. In 1913 he married Miss Lillias Thompson McTaggart. Publications: *Puerperal Infection*, 8vo, 35 plates, London, 1910. "On Breech Presentation with Extended Legs" (with W S A GRIFFITH). - *Trans Obst Soc*, 1897, xxxix, 13. "The Sagittal Fontanelle in the Heads of Infants at Birth." - *Ibid*, 1898, xl, 263. "Influence of Gonorrhoea on the Puerperium, with Analysis of 50 Cases." - *Trans North of England Obst and Gyncaecol Soc*, 1900, 53. "Bacteriological Diagnosis of Puerperal Infection: its Value and Limitations." - *Ibid*, 1901 (Appendix), 189. "Ovarian Tumours complicating Pregnancy and Labour." - *Ibid*, 1904, 85. "Spinal Anaesthesia by Cocaine in Gynaecology," 8vo, Manchester, 1902; reprinted from *Med Chronicle*, 1901-2, xxxv, 161. "The Vermiform Appendix in Relation to Pelvic Inflammation." - *Jour Obst and Gynaecol*, 1906, x, 133.
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First Title value, for Searching Burt-White, Harold John (1901 - 1952)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

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Publication Date 2014-02-03
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Born in 1901, son of R J Burt White, cotton goods buyer, of Crouch End, he was educated at Epsom College and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he won the Foster prize in anatomy and the Harvey prize in physiology. He was house surgeon to W McAdam Eccles and Girling Ball, and served as intern midwifery assistant. He qualified in 1924, and in that year hyphenated his name as Burt-White. He took the Fellowship in 1926, but turning to gynaecology he proceeded to the MD in 1927, being awarded a gold medal. He was Lawrence research scholar at St Bartholomew's in 1926-27, won the Bishop Harman prize of the British Medical Association in 1930, and the Nichols prize of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1931. He studied the bacteriology of puerperal sepsis, and published useful papers on the subject. He served as chief assistant in the gynaecology and obstetrics department at St Bartholomew's, and was elected to the staff of the City of London Maternity Hospital, the Soho Hospital for Women, and the Whipps Cross Hospital. Burt-White was removed from his Fellowship and Membership of the College on 6 April 1933, after the erasure of his name from the Medical Register by the General Medical Council, on a charge of improper association with a woman patient. Burt-White always denied the allegations. He was restored to the Membership and Fellowship on 4 January 1937. During the years when he could not practise Burt-White kept himself in touch with medical research and also studied law. War broke out within two years of his return to practice, and he served in the RAMC (1939-45) as gynaecological specialist to the women's forces in Northern Ireland. He was appointed in 1946 consulting gynaecologist to the Salisbury Infirmary and to the Salisbury hospitals group, but resigned the latter appointment in 1952. He was also gynaecologist to the National Temperance Hospital, and had consulting rooms at 98 Harley Street, while living at De Vaux House, Salisbury. He had a severe illness in 1950. Burt-White committed suicide at his home at Salisbury during the night of 20-21 October 1952, aged 51. He had been depressed for some months, believing that his surgical skill and speed were failing. He was buried at Putney Vale cemetery. His wife survived him. Publications: Contributions to the problem of puerperal sepsis, with R R Armstrong. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1928, 21, Obstetrics and gynaecology p. 28. Puerperal sepsis and sensitiveness to streptococcal toxins. *Brit med J* 1928, 1, 974. Problem of puerperal sepsis: bacteriology of the puerperium with R R Armstrong. *Brit med J* 1929, 1, 592. A study of cutaneous sensitiveness to scarlatinal toxin in pregnancy and the puerperium, with others. *Brit med J* 1930, 1, 240.
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First Title value, for Searching Spanton, William Dunnett (1840 - 1922)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-18
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Occupation General surgeon Gynaecologist
Details Born on September 27th 1840, at Castle Street, Holborn. He was educated at Loughborough Grammar School, where his father was master of the modern side. He entered the school early in 1854, and left in 1855 to be apprenticed to Josiah Pritchard, a surgeon in Loughborough. He then served as an unqualified assistant at Saffron Walden, and became a student at the Middlesex Hospital in October, 1859. Here he was an out-patient dresser to W H Flower (qv) and a clinical clerk to Dr Charles Coote, living first with his parents at Hampstead, and afterwards with Henry John Brown, of Wilmington Square, Clerkenwell, under whom he had the care of the casual or tramp ward at the Workhouse. He returned to the Middlesex Hospital in the autumn of 1861, and acted as dresser under Campbell de Morgan (qv) and clerk to Dr Goodfellow and Sir William Priestley. He was also a Prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons, and acted as assistant to Dr William Squire at a time when the best-class general practitioners still had their surgeries and dispensed their own drugs. He was appointed to the newly formed post of Resident Obstetric Assistant at the Middlesex Hospital in 1862. Spanton served as House Surgeon at the Buckinghamshire Infirmary at Aylesbury until he was appointed to a similar post at Sheffield in 1863. In March, 1864, he was elected House Surgeon at the North Staffordshire Infirmary, and thus began his life-long connection with the Potteries. He was elected Medical Officer to the Infirmary in June, 1867, and Surgeon in 1868 after a severely contested election on the resignation of Joseph Walker. He held office until 1903, when he became Consulting Surgeon. During this period he did much to improve both the buildings and the organization of the Infirmary, which was made a model among modern provincial hospitals. In addition to his work as a surgeon he conducted a large general practice, and undertook an unremunerative enterprise in the Isle of Man for obtaining iodine from seaweed. At the British Medical Association he was a member of the Parliamentary Bills Committee in 1900, and a Member of the Council from 1901-1908. For some years he was a Member of the Executive Committee of the North Staffordshire Division, of which he was President in 1912. He was Vice-President of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Sheffield Meeting in 1908, and of the Section of Surgery at the Birmingham Meeting in 1911. He was the last President of the British Gynaecological Society before it was absorbed as a section of the Royal Society of Medicine, and as a gynecologist he presented many obstetrical instruments to the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was President of the Staffordshire Nurses' Institution, and the Founder and President of the North Staffordshire Field Club, as well as Consulting Surgeon to the Longton Hospital. He married in 1867 Ellen Victoria Bates (d 1916), and by her had issue three sons and three daughters. The daughters survived him; the three sons died before him; one, John Spanton, an officer in the Rifle Brigade, was killed during the European War. He retired in 1909 and lived at Ripon Lodge, Hastings, where he died on May 13th, 1922. Spanton was an eminently practical surgeon, who is remembered by his strenuous advocacy of his subcutaneous operation for the cure of hernia. He read a paper at the Cork Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1879, on "The Immediate Cure of Hernia by a New Instrument" (*Brit Med Jour*, 1879, ii, 323), namely, torsion of the sac by means of a corkscrew. It was used for a short period, but was replaced by the open incision and removal of the sac. He was a man of genial character, gregarious, and a regular attendant at the various medical congresses of his day.
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First Title value, for Searching Dobbie, Beatrice Marion Willmott (1903 - 1995)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-07
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Beatrice Dobbie was born on 5 July 1903 at Sutton Coldfield in Warwickshire, the second daughter of John Edward Willmott, a company secretary, and his wife Florence, née Grannidge. She was educated at Devon Lodge, Sutton Coldfield, King Edward VI High School, Birmingham, and subsequently at Girton College, Cambridge, which she entered with a Carlisle scholarship. After leaving Cambridge in 1925 with a BA, she received her medical training in Birmingham and qualified with the conjoint diploma in 1929, obtaining the BChir in the same year and the MB of that University in 1934. She became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1931 and acquired the Diploma in Medical Radiology and Electrology in 1935, as she had already developed an interest in the use of radium as a therapeutic agent. When she was appointed as a house surgeon at the General Hospital, Miss Willmott Dobbie was only the second woman ever to obtain such a post. She was elected to the staff of the Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Women, founded by Lawson Tait, in 1934, to supervise the use of radium in gynaecological cancer and thus began her life-long interest in the treatment of cancer of the cervix, in which she became an acknowledged expert. Though small in stature and with her Eton crop and twinkling eyes she portrayed an almost boyish, but infectious, enthusiasm for her specialty. Miss Willmott Dobbie was a quick and dexterous surgeon but she was an inveterate conversationalist so that whilst operating discussion ranged from important details of technique to matters of local or national interest. She was extremely kind and encouraging to her junior colleagues. For some years one of her afternoon operating lists was scheduled to follow a morning list allocated to the newly-emerging specialty of vascular surgery and the heroics then involved frequently meant that this list extended into the early afternoon and sometimes beyond that. Miss Willmott Dobbie never complained or remonstrated with her junior colleagues about the delay but always maintained a keen interest in whatever was being attempted and frequently expressed her amazement that such things were now possible. In 1940 she married Joseph William Dobbie, a consultant radiotherapist, but there were no children of the marriage. Her interests outside medicine were many and included bell ringing, at which she was very adroit, local historical research, and restoring old books. Her publications included *Obstetrics and gynaecology: a synoptic guide to treatment* in 1948 and another *An English rural community: Batheaston with Saint Catherine* in 1969. She also published a history of King Edward VI High School (jointly) in 1971 and an interesting study of maternal mortality in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. When, in retirement, she enrolled as one of the first group of undergraduates in the Open University for an arts degree she was very amused, but nevertheless pleased, to find that one of her own books was listed as recommended reading. She maintained her vivacity and many interests until old age, and died on 9 December 1995, at the age of 92.
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First Title value, for Searching Leicester, John Cyril Holdich (1872 - 1949)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

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Publication Date 2013-08-21
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Born 29 March 1872 at Scarborough, third child and eldest son of the Rev John Augustus Leicester, a priest of the Church of England who held no regular living, and his wife Charlotte Eliza Holdich. He was educated at Dulwich College and University College, London, where he took honours in physiology at the BSc examination in 1893. He qualified in 1896 from University College Hospital, and held house appointments there and at the Samaritan Hospital for Women. He took the Fellowship in 1898. Leicester was commissioned a lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service on 28 January 1899, and saw active service in China during the Boxer rising of 1900, for which he received the medal. He was promoted captain in 1902 and major in 1910. During the war of 1914-18 he was on active service in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Palestine, and was twice mentioned in despatches. In 1919 he served on the Afghan frontier. He had been promoted lieutenant-colonel in 1918. For the greater part of his career Leicester practised as a gynaecologist at Calcutta. He was for two and a half years resident surgeon under C R M Green and afterwards surgeon at the Eden Hospital for Women, Calcutta, and professor of midwifery and gynaecology in the Medical College. He took the MRCP in 1905 and was elected FRCP in 1923. In January 1924 he was placed on the select list for promotion in the IMS, served for a period as acting Surgeon-General of Bengal and was appointed an Honorary Surgeon to the Viceroy; he was created CIE in June and retired on 27 September 1927. He continued to practise privately at 6 Harington Street, Calcutta, but soon returned to London where he settled at 128 Chatsworth Road, NW2. He married on 3 December 1907 in St Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta, Queenie, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Edwin Dobson, MB, IMS, who survived him but without children. He died at his country home, Clare Cottage, Cold Ash, Newbury on 19 May 1949 aged 77. He left his entire fortune to be divided among numerous charities after his wife's life interest. Leicester was an excellent administrator, with a taste for detailed statistical investigations. He made numerous contributions to the Obstetrical Society and to the *Journal of Obstetrics*. He was an active churchman, gave valued service to the Oxford mission at Calcutta, and was a vestryman of Calcutta Cathedral. He was also a keen promoter of the Boy Scout movement in India and at home. Publications: Mechanical dilation of the cervix uteri in pregnancy. *J Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp* 1907, 11, 224. A short note on the duration of pregnancy and the relation between the weight of the child and the length of gestation of Europeans (in India), East Indians and natives. *Ibid* p 465. On the relation of the frequency of the foetal heart beat to the sex and weight of the child. *Ibid*, 1907, 12, 39. Menstruation in Europeans, Eurasians, and East Indians in India. *Ibid* 1910, 17, 414. A short note on the delivery of the foetal head after decapitation. *Surg Gynec Obstet* 1908, 7, 478.
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First Title value, for Searching Savage, Thomas (1839 - 1907)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

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Publication Date 2012-11-22 2012-12-20
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Born on October 11th, 1839, at Wolverhampton, where his ancestors dwelt for many generations. He received his education at Brewood Grammar School and in Paris, and in 1856 began serving his apprenticeship to the profession as assistant to J J Hadley, whose extensive practice lay in the Ashted district of Birmingham. Later he became a house pupil at the General Hospital and attended lectures at Sydenham College. After qualifying he was for two years House Surgeon at the Birmingham Eye Hospital (1861-1862), and then, after being a short time at Newport, IW, settled in practice at Bordesley, where he soon became favourably known. He was at this period of his life Lecturer on Botany at Sydenham College - then the Medical School - and was appointed Professor of Comparative Medicine at Queen's College. He and Lawson Tait (qv) were among the first four Surgeons to the Birming¬ham and Midland Hospital for Women, founded in 1871, and for several years the pair performed most of the operations and obtained results of an epoch-making character in abdominal surgery. Latterly he was Senior Surgeon. As an operator Savage was remarkably clean and careful, and many years before scientific asepsis was thoroughly understood and appreciated he was carrying out a surgical tech¬nique in abdominal operations which left little to be desired. He devoted his whole energies to the study and practice of gynecology, and in 1893 was elected Professor of Midwifery in the new University of Birmingham, Lawson Tait at the same time becoming Professor of Gynaecology. In 1894 Savage was President of the British Gynaecological Society. He had previously (1881) delivered the Ingleby Lectures in Queen's College, and had been President of the Midland Medical Society (1881), the Birmingham University Graduates' Club, and the Birmingham and Midland Counties Branch of the British Medical Association. He was President of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Birmingham Meeting of the Association in 1890. He retired from the active work of the Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Women in 1897 and was made Consulting Surgeon. At about the same time he contracted blood poisoning in the course of duty and was obliged to undergo amputation of the arm above the elbow. He bore this affliction courageously and cheerfully. The manner of his death was unique in the annals of the Fellows. On December 29th, 1906, he sailed with his nephew, Mr Lewis O'Connell, and a friend for Jamaica. Their ship, the *Port Kingston* carried a party of distinguished visitors to that island, and arrived on the eve of the earthquake which occurred at Kingston on January 14th, 1907, when some 1000 lives were lost, including those of Savage and his friends. He was survived by his widow, one son, and three daughters. Mrs Savage, whom he married in 1864, was a Miss Gosling, of Richmond, Surrey, sister of Dr Gosling of Birmingham. His surviving son, Dr Smallwood Savage (qv), was already well known as a gynaecologist and Secretary of the British Gynaecological Society. Another son, Arthur Savage, who died, had also been in the medical profession, and both were graduates in Arts, the one (Smallwood) of Oxford, the other of Cambridge. Savage had resided latterly at The Ards, Knowle, Warwickshire, and here in private life had taken an active interest in Church work, being to within a short time of his tragic death President of the Birmingham Medical Mission. Savage was very popular socially, being genial and broad-minded. He was a man of culture, and collected books and antiquities. He did good work on the Warwick¬shire County Council as a member of the Sanitary and Education Committees. At the time of his death, besides being Consulting Surgeon to the Wolverhampton and District Hospital for Women, he was Consulting Gynaecologist to the Kidderminster Infirmary, Consulting Physician to the Magdalen Home, Birming¬ham, and Consulting Surgeon to the Birmingham Lying-in Charity, in which institution he had been Acting Surgeon for ten years. He was also Hon Secretary to the Midland Counties Idiot Asylum, Knowle. Good portraits of Savage accompany his biographies in the *British Medical Journal* (1907, i, 293) and the *Provincial Medical Journal* (Leicester, 1894, xiii, 169). Publications:- "Flexions of the Nulliparous Uterus."- *Obst Jour*, 1873, i, 503. "Uterine Fibroid."- *Birmingham Med Rev*, 1874, iii, 116. "Observations on Diseases of Women."- *Ibid*, 1875, iv, 118. "Observations on Diseases of Women - Prolapsed Uteri."- *Ibid*, 1876, v, 108. "Observations on Diseases of Women - Sterility."- *Ibid*, 246. "Incision of Cervix in Uterine Haemorrhage." - *Lancet*, 1877, ii, 458. "Transfusion." - *Birmingham Med Rev*, 1877, vi, 220. *Ovariotomy*, 1878. *Local Lesions connected with Childbirth*, 1879. *Series of Ovariotomies*, 1879. *The Treatment of Uterine Myoma by Abdominal Section*, 8vo, Birmingham, 1879. "Hydronephrosis and Nephrotomy."- *Lancet*, 1880, i, 601. *Oophorectomy* (Records of many consecutive successful operations, 1880-1), 8vo, 2 parts, Birmingham, 1880-1; *Birmingham Med Rev*, 1881, iv, 147. *On Some of the Applications of Abdominal Section*, Ingleby Lectures, 1881. "Porro's Operation," 8vo, Birmingham, 1883; reprinted from *Birmingham Med Rev*, 1883, xiv, 213. *Some Remarks on Abdominal and Renal Surgery*. An Address read before the Annual Meeting of the Shropshire and Mid-Wales Branch of the British Medical Association, June 25th, 1889, 8vo, Birmingham, 1889. "Diseases of the Fallopian Tubes."- *Birmingham Med Rev*, 1888, xiii, 22. "Removal of Uterine Appendages."- *Brit Med Jour*, 1887, i, 51. "Gynaecology in its Relations to Insanity."- *Ibid*, 1890, ii, 274. "Some Aspects of the Present State of Gynaecology."- *Birmingham Med Rev*, 1891, xxx, 218. *Sectional Presidential Address, Birmingham Meeting of the British Medical Association*, 1890. *Hemorrhage from the Uterus: An Address*, 8vo, Birmingham, 1898.
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First Title value, for Searching Bonney, William Francis Victor (1872 - 1953)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

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Publication Date 2014-01-22
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Occupation Gynaecologist
Details Victor Bonney was one of the great masters of gynaecological surgery. He looked on himself as a surgeon who had cultivated one specialty, and could not agree that gynaecologists should be considered a third estate in the medical profession. He was not only a brilliant technical operator but a man of great intellectual power, fully equipped in knowledge of anatomy, pathology, and general surgery, and of tireless energy, whose vast practice somehow left time for an enormous output of writing for the professional journals. He made time also for administrative and teaching work, never seemed to be in a hurry, cultivated a leisurely and affable manner, and was able to read a great deal of good literature, to paint and exhibit at medical art exhibitions, to be an expert dry-fly fisherman, and to take part in the social enjoyment of the London season. William Francis Victor Bonney - he never used his first two Christian names - was born 17 December 1872 at Chelsea, eldest of the three sons of William Augustus Bonney MD, who had an excellent family practice in that district of west London. His mother was Anna Maria Alice Polixene, only daughter of Dr Victor Poulain, who also practised in Chelsea. In his unpublished "Bonney Memoirs" Victor Bonney pointed to the contrast between the simple, old-fashioned professional family in which he grew up, much like that of a general practitioner in a country town, and the busy, extravagant, moneyed world of Mayfair into which ambition and ability took him. He was educated at a private school and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, but transferred to the Middlesex, intending to become a physician. The shrewd judgment of Sir John Bland-Sutton invited him to the Chelsea Hospital for Women, where he laid the foundations of his success as a gynaecological surgeon. He obtained honours at the London MB BS examination in 1896, and proceeded to the MD 1898, the FRCS 1899, and the MRCP 1900. Four years later he took first-class honours in anatomy at London University for the BSc degree, although by that time in busy practice. He had held residential posts at Queen Charlotte's as well as at the Middlesex and Chelsea hospitals; at the latter he became assistant physician in 1901. In 1905 he became obstetric registrar and tutor at the Middlesex. He was elected assistant gynaecological surgeon in 1908, a post which he held till 1930, when he succeeded his old friend Sir Comyns Berkeley FRCS as gynaecological surgeon. The very successful *Textbook of Operative Gynaecology* which they wrote together did much to raise British prestige in this specialty, and to set the highest standards for their successors. It is probable, though he never claimed it, that it was Bonney's contribution which put the book in a class of its own. Most of it was written at night, and Bonney attended a drawing school to learn to make his own illustrations. First published in 1911, it reached a sixth edition, which contains 611 drawings by Bonney, in 1952. During the war of 1914-18 Bonney served as surgeon to the military branch of the Middlesex Hospital at Clacton-on-Sea in Essex, and also worked at the County of London and Royal Masonic Hospitals. At this time he made known (*Brit med J* 15 May 1915) his "violet green antiseptic", popularly called "Bonney's blue". At the Royal College of Surgeons he was a Hunterian Professor in 1908, 1930, and 1931, Bradshaw Lecturer in 1934, and Hunterian Orator in 1943. He was the only gynaecological specialist ever elected to the Council, and served with distinction from 1926 to 1946, being a Vice-President 1936-38. He was the first Honorary Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, an Honorary Fellow of the Association of Surgeons, the American Gynaecological Society, and of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He was a Vice-President of the Kipling Society. His life-long friend Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor wrote of his surgery: "As an operator he was supreme. Careful and gentle where conservatism was possible, he was without a doubt the most skilful, experienced, and intrepid of all exponents throughout the world of the Wertheim operation for cancer of the womb." For Bonney's own views on this operation see his paper: *Lancet* 1949, 1, 637. Bonney married in 1905 Annie, daughter of Dr James Appleyard JP, of Longford, Tasmania. He died in the Middlesex Hospital on 4 July 1953, aged 81, survived by his wife. They had lived at 15 Devonshire Place, but in the last twelve years of his life they spent most of their time at Seabournes, Much Fawley, Hereford, the house they had built above the Wye, though Bonney kept in touch with London. Mrs Bonney died in London on 11 August 1963, aged 94. She had given the College in 1956 the portrait of Bonney painted by Oswald Birley. Bonney bequeathed to the College three bound volumes of his published papers, with a survey of his own work. He wrote six books and more than two hundred articles. Besides the *Textbook* already mentioned, his most important work was: *The Technical Minutiae of extended Myomectomy and Ovarian Cystectomy* (London, Cassell 1946; 282 pages and 242 line drawings by the author).
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First Title value, for Searching Walker, Sir Arnold Learoyd (1897 - 1968)

2024-05-02T15:19:10Z

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Publication Date 2014-10-24
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Occupation Gynaecological surgeon Gynaecologist
Details Born 5 April 1897, the second son of Edward Walker, MBE, MD (Edin) who was consulting physician to the Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, Arnold Learoyd Walker was always proud of his Yorkshire origins. He went to Oundle School before going up to Cambridge. The first world war intervened and he served in France with the Royal Garrison Artillery, becoming Lieutenant. He was severely wounded in the right shoulder in 1918 with the result that he was invalided out of the Army in the following year, when he went back to Pembroke College, Cambridge. He became a Senior Broderip Scholar, and won the Leopold Hudson Prize in 1923 at the Middlesex Hospital. This was a great nursery for gynaecological surgeons and Comyns Berkeley and Victor Bonney were his chiefs. He was soon appointed to the staff of the City of London Maternity Hospital and became gynaecological surgeon to the West London Hospital, the Grosvenor Hospital for Women and the Miller General Hospital; and in the manner of those days he became the visiting gynaecological surgeon at Harrow and Wembley Hospitals. In 1928 he and G F Gibbert were appointed assessors to examine the records of maternal deaths for the Inter-Departmental Committee on Maternity Mortality, whose report gave British obstetrics a new ideology, and lowered the maternal mortality from 4.3 per thousand in 1929 to 3.1 in 1939 and at the same time paved the way for the improved training of doctors and midwives and for blood transfusion, chemotherapy, antibiotics and improved physique to confer the maximum benefit. In 1944 the mortality rate dropped to 1.5 and by 1964 to 0.23 per thousand births. Apart from our new knowledge about Rhesus sensitisation the system of ante-natal supervision is the same in 1969 as was laid down in 1929. Arnold Walker continued this work later, in association with A J Wrigley, on behalf of the Ministry of Health by examining the case records of each maternal death so as to draw attention to avoidable factors and to pinpoint the first departure from the normal supervision and treatment. Subsequently the Reports on Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths were published every three years so that four reports covered a period of 12 years from 1952-1963. He was able to put the recommendations of the report into practice because he was put in charge of a model maternity hospital which was built by the Willesden Borough Council under the guidance of an enlightened medical officer, Dr J F Buchan. With the obstetrician in charge living on the spot and controlling both the ante-natal care and the in-patient treatment of the patients, the Willesden Maternity Hospital was able to show a great improvement in the results. The National Health Service took over the hospital in 1948 and it became Kingsbury Maternity Hospital in the Charing Cross Hospital Group; and in it a ward had been named after Arnold Walker. He became a member of the Central Midwives Board in 1937 and when Sir Comyns Berkeley died in 1946 he became chairman, to remain in the post for 21 years. He saw the work of midwives reach an altogether higher level than anything thought possible in the 1920's. Clinically he was both a sound obstetrician with a common-sense approach to obstetric problems, and a first-rate gynaecological surgeon whose speed and technical skill made even the most difficult operations look easy. Arnold Walker examined for the Diploma in Obstetrics and the Membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, for the Central Midwives Board and the Midwife Teachers Diploma. He examined on the Conjoint Board in England for three years from 1948-51 and for the Cambridge finals for a longer period. In his early years when he was on the staff of six hospitals, he practised at 121 Harley Street and was called upon disproportionately by doctors to attend their own wives and daughters. He had the same address for 25 years; but in the later years of his chairmanship of the Central Midwives Board he was devoting so much time to the affairs of the Board and to the Ministry of Health that he gradually relinquished both private practice and those hospital appointments which he had retained in 1948 when the National Health Service was established. Arnold married Gwenville, daughter of John Clouston of Middlesbrough, and they had no children. They had a protégé, Steven Goldsmith, whose mother was companion to the Walkers, and his success at Worksop School and in the police college gave them a good deal of pleasure. Lady Walker died in 1966 after a long illness, during which he gave up many of his social contacts to tend her and she still shared in his interests. They lived latterly at Hatch End, Middlesex. He retired from all active work in 1967 and thereupon undertook a world tour, visiting Australia and New Zealand. He greatly enjoyed the social contacts of medical societies. He was a liveryman of the Society of Apothecaries of London and a Freeman of the City. In the West London Medico-Chirurgical Society he was President in 1958-9 and he was a member of the West Kent Medico-Chirurgical Society for 40 years, lecturing to the Society on several occasions. He was a Vice-President of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the BMA Annual Meeting in 1949 and a member of Council of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Royal Society of Medicine for several years. Arnold Walker's final illness was short. He had been a cigarette smoker all his life and he developed carcinoma of the lung. He died in Mount Vernon Hospital on 14 September 1968 and had no surviving close relations. Arnold Walker's publications were not numerous; but many of the reports and recommendations of the Ministry of Health on maternal care were prepared by him. Publications: Chemical observations on toxaemia of pregnancy, with special reference to liver function in relation to the induction of premature labour. (Jointly with Berkeley and Dodds.) *J Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp* 1924, 31, 20-40. Berkeley's *Handbook of midwifery*, 14th edition. London, 1953. *Midwifery services in A historical review of British obstetrics and gynaecology, 1800-1850*, by J M M Kerr, R W Johnstone and M H Phillips. Edinburgh and London, 1954.
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First Title value, for Searching Whitehouse, Sir Harold Beckwith (1882 - 1943)

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Details Born 26 October 1882 at Ocker Hill, Tipton, Staffordshire, nine miles out of Birmingham, elder son of Michael J. Whitehouse, ironmaster, and his wife, nee Beckwith. He was educated at Malvern College and at St Thomas's Hospital, where he entered with the first science scholarship and in 1902 won the William Tite scholarship. At the London MB BS examination in 1906 he won the Sutton Sams memorial prize for obstetric medicine and diseases of women, and took the gold medal in surgery at the MS in 1908. He settled in practice as a gynaecologist at Birmingham and was elected assistant gynaecological surgeon to the General Hospital in 1908. On the outbreak of war in August 1914 he at once volunteered for active service, was gazetted temporary lieutenant, RAMC on 15 August, and was very soon in France. He served as officer in charge of the surgical division and surgical specialist to No 8 General Hospital at Rouen and to No 56 General Hospital at Etaples. He was promoted captain on 24 September 1915, on the strength of the 1st Southern (Birmingham) General Hospital. When he returned to Birmingham he at once began to take a leading part in the professional life of the city and the Midlands. He succeeded Thomas Wilson, FRCS, in 1921 as senior gynaecological surgeon at the General Hospital and in 1924 as professor of midwifery and diseases of women in the University of Birmingham, becoming the third holder of this combined chair, the gynaecological component of which had been first held by Robert Lawson Tait. He was also gynaecological surgeon to the Queen Elizabeth and the Maternity Hospitals at Birmingham and consultant to the General Hospitals at Nuneaton and Walsall; the Smallwood Hospital, Redditch; the Guest Hospital, Dudley; Sutton Coldfield Cottage Hospital; Hammerwich Cottage Hospital near Lichfield; and Malvern Hospital; and was particularly interested in the Lucy Baldwin Maternity Hospital at Stourport. He was also consultant to Worcester County Council. In spite of his fully filled days he was always ready to answer a night call from any of his many hospitals, and also had an extensive private practice. His great abilities were matched by the necessary energy, but he was also a man of wide cultivation, seriously interested in entomology, botany, gardening, and music. He was also a keen shot and a man of generous hospitality. Whitehouse was an excellent teacher, beloved by every generation of his pupils who forgathered regularly at the meetings of the "XV Club", named from his old ward at the General Hospital. He was a foundation member of the Gynaecological Visiting Society, and became president of the Midland Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society. He served as secretary of the section of obstetrics at the Birmingham meeting of the British Medical Association in 1911, vice-president of the section in 1928, and its president in 1936. In 1934 he was president of the Birmingham branch of the Association, and in 1940 was nominated president of the Association for the Birmingham meeting, which however was not held on account of the war. In 1942 he was, all the same, elected president, and had just been re-elected president for 1943-44 at the time of his death. Till he occupied this presidential chair he had not had much opportunity to make his abilities known directly in London, though he had served on the Radium Commission, was a Fellow of the Medical Society of London and had been a vice-president of the section of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Royal Society of Medicine. He was a foundation Fellow of the British (now Royal) College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and served on its council from the start (1929) till 1937. In 1930 he was president of the Congress of British Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Birmingham. He examined for the Royal College of Surgeons (Conjoint Board, midwifery 1924), for the Central Midwives Board, and for the Universities of Bristol, Wales, Sheffield, and Leeds. He was long interested in the British Red Cross Society, became president of the Birmingham branch in 1937 and also, during the war, acting county director and controller in 1940. In 1913-14, when only thirty, Whitehouse was a Hunterian professor at the Royal College of Surgeons, lecturing on uterine haemorrhage, and in 1920 he gave the Ingleby lecture at Birmingham on the same subject. He was an excellent clinician, and among other inventions devised a caecal retractor for appendectomy. All his clinical work was based on an active knowledge of physiology, and he was particularly interested in the study of the innervation of the uterus. From 1910 he was a frequent contributor to the professional journals, especially to the *Midland Medical Journal*, the *Birmingham Medical Review*, the *Journal of Obstetrics*, and the *Proceedings* of the Royal Society of Medicine, as well as to the *British Medical Journal* and *The Lancet*. His principal literary work, however, was the revision of Eden and Lockyer's *Gynaecology* for its 4th edition in 1935. He was in America in 1933, was elected an honorary Fellow of the American College of Surgeons at Chicago, and an honorary member of the Canadian Medical Association, before whom he gave an address on the menopause. In the Coronation honours list of 1937 he was created a Knight Bachelor. During his presidency of the British Medical Association the profession was much exercised about the desirability or otherwise of a State Medical Service. Whitehouse, whose views were the outcome of deep consideration, spoke forcibly in favour of the continuance of individual practice. In his wide knowledge of Midland conditions he had formed a high opinion of the worth and service of general practice in its current form. He was however appreciative and tolerant of other views. Whitehouse married in 1909 Madge Rae, daughter of Walter Griffith, of The Friary, Handsworth Wood. Lady Whitehouse survived him with two sons and a daughter, Mrs Siviter Smith. The elder son, Peter, was serving in North Africa at the time of his father's death, and the younger, Barry (MA MB BCh), was house surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. Whitehouse lived first at 62 Hagley Road and later at Grey Friars, Pritchatts Road, Edgbaston, and also had a house in the country, at one time in Shropshire but latterly in Monmouth. Here he formed a remarkable collection of British lepidoptera. Whitehouse attended a meeting of the British Medical Association at Tavistock House, London, on the afternoon of 28 July 1943, at which he heard himself nominated president for a second year's tenure. He collapsed in the street on his way back to Euston station, and died within an hour in University College Hospital; he was sixty. He was buried at Lodge Hill on 3 August, after a service at Edgbaston Old Church. Publications: Whitehouse made numerous contributions to periodicals, as stated above; the following are of particular interest: The pathology and treatment of uterine haemorrhage, Hunterian lectures, RCS *Practitioner*, 1913, 90, 952-960. Eden and Lockyer *Gynaecology*, 4th edition by Beckwith Whitehouse, 1935. Some aspects of the menopause. *Canad med Ass J* 1933, 29, 585-592. Mastopathia and chronic mastitis. *Surg Gynec Obstet* 1934, 58, 278-286.
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First Title value, for Searching Tait, Robert Lawson (1845 - 1899)

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Occupation General surgeon Gynaecologist
Details Born at 45 Frederick Street, Edinburgh, on May 1st, 1845, the son of Archibald Campbell Tait, of Dryden, a Guild Brother of Heriot's Hospital, and of Isabella Stewart Lawson, of Leven. From the age of 7 Lawson Tait was educated at Heriot's Hospital School, Edinburgh, until he entered the University with a scholarship in 1860. He began the Arts course but abandoned it after his first year, and never graduated. He was apprenticed to Alexander McKenzie Edwards, the Extramural Lecturer on Surgery, and for six years acted as his assistant after he qualified in 1866. During his student career he became a favourite with James Syme (qv) and Sir William Fergusson (qv), and for some time lived in Sir James Simpson's house. He left Edinburgh in 1866, visited Dublin and other schools of medicine, and was appointed House Surgeon to the Wakefield Hospital in 1867, a post he held for three years, performing his first ovariotomy there on July 29th, 1868. He performed five similar operations before he removed to Birmingham in 1870, and these seem to have directed his attention specially to what became the work of his life. He took the practice of Thomas Partridge in September, 1870, and settled in Birmingham at the corner of Burbury Street, Lozells Road, where be soon made a name for himself as a bold surgeon, an original thinker, and an aggressive enemy. He was Lecturer on Physiology at the Midland Institute from 1871-1879, where his advocacy of the Darwinian theory of evolution excited considerable opposition. In July, 1871, he was appointed Surgeon to the newly founded Hospital for Diseases of Women, and held the post until 1893, when he was elected a member of the Consulting Staff. In 1873 he was awarded the Hastings Gold Medal of the British Medical Association for his essay "On Diseases of the Ovaries", and in 1890 he received the Cullen and Liston Triennial Prize at Edinburgh for his services to medicine, especially in connection with his work on the gall-bladder. This prize, which was afterwards exhibited in the Art Gallery at Birmingham, consisted of a silver bowl of seventeenth-century London workmanship. He performed two operations of historic importance in 1872: the first on February 2nd, when he removed a suppurating ovary; the second on August 1st, when he extirpated the uterine appendages to arrest the growth of a bleeding myoma. He did his first hysterectomy for uterine myoma in 1873, following, with slight modifications, Koeberlé's technique, and in June, 1876, he removed a haematosalpinx and thus made the profession familiar with the pathology of the condition. In 1878 Tait began to express doubts as to the value of the Listerian carbolic acid spray then generally employed by surgeons in abdominal operations, but adopted no aseptic method except that of general cleanliness. In 1879 he did his first cholecystotomy, an operation which marked the beginning of the rational surgery of the gall-bladder. On January 17th, 1883, he first performed the operation for ruptured tubal pregnancy and saved the patient. A series of thirty-five cases with only two deaths speedily followed, and the operation took its place as a recognized method of treating a condition which had previously been looked upon as desperate. Lawson Tait was instrumental in organizing the Birmingham Medical Institute, of which he was an original member in 1874, and was one of the founders of the British Gynaecological Society, serving as President in 1885. He became Professor of Gynaecology at Queen's College in 1887, and was appointed Bailiff of the Mason College in 1890. He was the chief mover in causing the transfer of Queen's College to the Mason College in 1892, and thus smoothed the way for the foundation of the University of Birmingham. Tait performed many of the duties of a citizen in Birmingham. Elected a member of the City Council in 1876, as a representative of the Bordesley Division he became Chairman of the Health Committee and a member of the Asylums Committee. He contested the Bordesley Division of the City in the Gladstonian interest in 1886, but was easily beaten by Jesse Collings. In the British Medical Association Tait was a Member of Council, President of the Birmingham Branch and of the Worcestershire and Herefordshire Branch, and delivered the Address on Surgery at the Birmingham Meeting in 1890. He was President of the Medical Defence Union and raised the Society to a position of considerable importance. In 1876 he was President of the Birmingham Natural History Society, and in 1884 President of the Birmingham Philosophical Society. He was also Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Society of Artists and Birmingham School of Design, and was a founder of the Midland Union of Natural History Societies. He took a leading part in establishing coffee-houses in Birmingham. The University of the State of New York conferred upon him honoris causa the degree of MD in 1886, and in 1889 he received a similar tribute from the St Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons, whilst in 1888 the Union University of New York gave him the honorary degree of LLD. At the time of his death he was an Hon Fellow of the American Gynaecological Society and of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. The last five years of Tait's life were marked by almost continuous ill health, which caused him to relinquish much of his operative work and seek repose at Llandudno, where he had bought a house. He died there from uraemia on June l3th, 1899: his body was cremated at Liverpool and the ashes were buried in Gogarth's Cave, an ancient burial-place in the grounds of his Welsh home on the west side of Great Orme's Head. He married in 1871 Sybil Anne, a daughter of William Stewart, solicitor, of Wakefield, Yorkshire, but had no children. Alban Doran (qv), a contemporary of Tait, who was himself a distinguished gynaecologist, summed up his work in the following words: "Tait's special merits as a surgeon cannot be lightly dismissed. He, no doubt, placed too low a value on scientific research; his statistical methods, well fitted for earlier days, when Clay, Spencer Wells, and Keith had to prove the bare justifiability of ovariotomy, were already antiquated when he so largely employed them; and he, in the opinion of many surgeons of repute, laid too little stress on after-treatment. Nevertheless, it is easy to recognize that, without doubt, he was a very great surgeon. "Lawson Tait began, as all abdominal surgeons had to begin in the days when he entered into his professional career, by ovariotomy. He advocated a small abdominal incision, and confirmed the superiority of complete intraperitoneal ligature over the clamp. It is not necessary to dwell on his long disputes with other operators, nor on his statistics, nor on his persistent opposition to antiseptics. He relied on his good right hand, an excellent principle for any surgeon, provided that, as in the case of Tait, his right hand be really good. He, on the whole, distrusted hysterectomy, but it is in the surgery of the appendages that he gained the most renown. By this term he understood, as all have since understood, the removal of the ovary and Fallopian tube for diseases due not to new growths, but to inflammation. Though no doubt operative interference for hydrosalpinx, pyosalpinx, and chronic oöphoritis was grossly abused at first, it cannot be denied that Tait threw a bright flood of light literally and figuratively on the nature, course, and treatment of tubo-ovarian inflammation. To understand his views thoroughly it is necessary to study the clear statements which he boldly makes in his *Diseases of Women and Abdominal Surgery*, 1889. The very headings of the pages, 'Heavy Mortality of Pyosalpinx', 'Pyosalpinx resulting from Uterine Tinkering', etc, are characteristic and most suggestive. Thus the first heading has been gravely disputed, but Tait knew how to act as counsel for the prosecution of a suppurating tube. The second implies the most just surgical censure. We know but too well that it is not only tubes that suffer from therapeutical tinkering and timid palliative measures. "At an early period of his career as an abdominal surgeon Lawson Tait distinguished himself by advancing, in an operative sense, beyond the limits of the female organs. He was an advocate of timely interference in disease of the gallbladder at a date when ovariotomy was hardly generalized and when hospital surgeons were as suspicious of any attempts at operation in the upper part of the abdomen as twenty years earlier they had been suspicious of ovariotomy itself. He carried his principles into practice, and so his name is chronicled in the history of our art as one of the pioneers of the surgery of the liver and gall-bladder. Just thirty years ago Lawson Tait opened up a sinus which discharged through the umbilicus and communicated with a suppurating gall-bladder, so that he was enabled to remove some gall-stones. Nine years later Dr Marion Sims boldly performed cholecystotomy on a patient whose health was already impaired by long-standing obstruction of the bile-ducts. Relief was immediate, but the patient sank a week later. For Marion Sims, Lawson Tait had the deepest admiration, and dedicated to the great American gynaecologist his *Pathology and Treatment of Diseases of the Ovaries* 'as an acknowledgment that much of the new work described in it was the outcome of his ingenuity'. As an outcome of Sims's ingenuity beyond the area of the uterus and its appendages, Tait successfully performed a cholecystotomy in 1879, one year after Sims's operation. A living authority on hepatic surgery, Mr Mayo Robson, justly observes that 'to Mr Tait undoubtedly belongs the credit of having popularized the operation with the profession'. "Tait's renown and experience caused many others to bring to him patients with abdominal affections which baffled their powers of diagnosis. In 1887 he recorded a large series of operations for cystic collections of fluid in the anterior and inferior part of the abdomen. He treated them, as a rule successfully, by incision and drainage, and believed that the cysts had developed in the urachus. There is reason to suspect that some of these cases were simply encysted dropsies due to tuberculous disease, and their true pathology was in no instance verified by dissection or post-mortem examination. Still there can be little doubt that in more than one instance the tumour was urachal. What is more important, Tait established, by the publication of this series, the correct principles for the treatment of this rare disease. Hence, in the surgery of tumours of the urachus, Tait once more appears as a pioneer whose claims will not be forgotten. "Perhaps the most original and at the same time most valuable innovation which surgery owes to Lawson Tait is the washing of the peritoneum, after an operation, with large quantities of water for the purposes of cleansing and haemostasis. Many other terms have been applied to this method, but his original contribution on this subject in the third volume of the *British Gynaecological Journal* [1887-8, iii, 185] is named 'Methods of Cleansing the Peritoneum', and the only other term in this remarkable essay besides 'cleansing' is 'washing'. Whatever it should strictly be called in accordance with the science of hydraulics, this cleansing of the peritoneum has proved of the greatest benefit, and, although it has been much abused and often applied when unnecessary, though harmless, it has been found by later observers to act favourably on the patient in certain ways quite unrecognized by its famous inventor. Tait avowedly claimed cleansing and haemostasis as the aim of washing of the peritoneum. Within a few years it was found that it was also a process of transfusion. Later, it was shown that when some of the water was left behind in the peritoneal cavity it ensured the rapid removal of poisonous products from the peritoneum. It has further been discovered that the addition of salt greatly increases the transfusing and antiseptic value of the water used for cleansing the peritoneum. Such remarkable development of a new surgical practice greatly redounds to the credit of its inventor. Lawson Tait was, in respect to washing of the peritoneum, once again a bold projector who successfully carried an original design into practice. He did so on the sound surgical principle that the less the surgeon fears the peritoneum and the more thoroughly he cleans it and checks bleeding and oozing, the better it will be for the patient. "Enough has been said to show that Lawson Tait will always be remembered as a bold surgeon of unusual originality. His merits, widely recognized in his lifetime, will not be forgotten after his death, for he made a name for himself in the glorious history of British surgery." As a man Tait was a sound antiquarian, a good raconteur, and an admirable public speaker who kept the attention of his audience. In person he was short, broad-chested, and had a very large head from which fell long hair. His face was severe and plebeian in character, but gave the impression that he had a large fund of common sense. He listened carefully to what was told him and replied in the fewest possible words, his lips hardly moving. Publications: *The Pathology and Treatment of Diseases of the Ovaries* (the Hastings Prize Essay, 1873), London, 1874; 4th ed, 1883. *An Essay on Hospital Mortality based on the Statistics of the Hospitals of Great Britain for Fifteen Years*, 8vo, London, 1877. *Diseases of Women*, 8vo, London, 1877; 2nd ed, 1886. It appeared in New York in 1879; in Philadelphia in 1889; and was translated into French by Dr Olivier in 1886 and by Dr Bétrix in 1891. *The Uselessness of Vivisection upon Animals as a Method of Scientific Research*, 8vo, Birmingham, 1882; reissued in America in 1883, and translated into German, Dresden, 1883. It is full of fallacies. *Lectures on Ectopic Pregnancy and Pelvic Haematocele*, 8vo, Birmingham, 1888.
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