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First Title value, for Searching Loeffler, Frank Elias (1931 - 2014)

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by Michael Pugh
Publication Date 2014-08-15 2015-05-29
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Occupation Gynaecologist and obstetrician
Details Frank Loeffler was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at St Mary's and Queen Charlotte's hospitals, London. He was born in India of Austrian parents, Ernst and Bianka. His father was a businessman who had moved to India in the 1920s. Loeffler lived in the elegant style of the Raj and went to Woodstock School in the Himalayan foothills. At the age of 15 he was sent to England to attend Mill Hill School. He went on to study at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, from which he graduated with a first class degree. He completed his clinical training at the London Hospital, qualifying with the conjoint diploma in 1955 and gaining his MB BChir in 1956. Following the accepted path for a career in obstetrics and gynaecology at the time, he became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1958 before specialising in his chosen discipline. He held senior registrar posts at Queen Charlotte's and the Chelsea Hospital for Women, gaining his membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1963 (he was elected a fellow in 1974). Before taking up his first consultant appointment he went to Uppsala in Sweden for a year to study the new drug clomiphene. He was initially appointed as a consultant at the Central Middlesex Hospital and Willesden General Hospital. He was there for a short time before joining the staff of St Mary's and Queen Charlotte's. He served on the Committee on Safety of Medicines and was a council member of both the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. His special interest was improving the safety of childbirth, both in early pregnancy and in labour. He was a keen advocate of using the technique of examining foetal cells taken by chorionic villus sampling in early pregnancy and by amniocentesis in late pregnancy, and in labour detecting foetal anoxia by foetal blood sampling. He had a long list of publications to his name. He served as editor of the *British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology* for eight years with great distinction and also edited a number of other journals. He was a meticulous guardian of the English language, and potential contributors would find their submissions much improved after his scrutiny. He had a reputation for being an excellent and inspiring teacher with a great interest in clinical teaching and examining. He had a sharp wit and a short fuse, but no malice. All was forgiven with gratitude for his lively instruction. He was also proud to be involved in all student events both sporting and artistic, and was happy to take part in and be the subject of sketches at Christmas concerts! He was a keen oarsman and sailor and was very supportive of his students' sporting activities. He was a devoted family man, married to Eva née Guttman, whose father had established the Paralympic Games at Stoke Mandeville in the 1940s. When Eva was mayor of the Paralympic Village in 2012 Frank styled himself as the mayoress! On retirement, he and his family moved to Aldeburgh, where they had for many years enjoyed family holidays and weekends. He was very interested in opera and became a guide and lecturer at the Red House, which had belonged to Benjamin Britten and Sir Peter Pears, and he edited *The Alde and Ore Magazine*. Eva and Frank enjoyed a very full family life with three children. Their son, Mark, is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon and a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. Frank had three grandchildren and two great grandchildren. He died playing golf on 18 July 2014. He had just putted a ball unusually well on the 10th green and, turning to receive the congratulations of his playing partner, he suddenly collapsed and sadly did not respond to resuscitation. He was 83.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005816
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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First Title value, for Searching Alderson, Gerald Graham (1884 - 1961)

2024-05-04T09:18:09Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-20
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Occupation General surgeon Gynaecologist and obstetrician
Details Born at Newcastle on Tyne in 1884, he was a scholar of Caius, Cambridge, where he took first-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part I, 1906. At University College Hospital he was Atkinson Morley scholar, won the Liston gold medal, and was obstetric registrar. He also worked at St Thomas's and in Berlin and Vienna. During the war of 1914¬1918 he served in France with the rank of Major RAMC. He settled at Leamington in 1920, becoming surgeon to the Warneford Hospital, and for some years was also on the staff of the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital. He built up a leading practice in South Warwickshire, with an excellent private nursing home at Priors House, Leamington. During the war of 1939-45 he was group officer in the Ministry of Health's Emergency Medical Service for the Coventry, Warwick, and Leamington area. He was the first chairman of the medical advisory committee for South Warwickshire, and from 1947 to 1951 gynaecological and obstetric surgeon to the South Warwickshire hospitals group. Alderson took a prominent part in the life of his district. In Freemasonry he became a Deputy Provincial Grand Master, and he was for many years honorary secretary of the North Warwickshire Hunt. He lived in the village of Offchurch, where he usually read the lessons in the parish church. Alderson married in 1917 Marguerite, daughter of William Pasteur MD, FRCP, who survived him with their son Jeffrey. He died in the hunting-field on 28 October 1961 aged 77. A memorial service was held in Birmingham Cathedral on 22 November.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004831
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First Title value, for Searching Gough, Alfred (1883 - 1973)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-04 2015-02-06
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Occupation General surgeon Gynaecologist and obstetrician
Details The following was published in volume 5 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Gough was born in 1883 and educated at Leeds Medical School, which had at the time a staff of outstanding teachers. He graduated in the University of Leeds in 1905, taking the Conjoint Diploma the same year, and served as house physician and surgical registrar at Leeds General Infirmary, and later as surgical tutor and lecturer on surgery in the Medical School. He made his career as a gynaecological surgeon in Leeds and became consulting surgeon to the Public Dispensary and the Hospital for Women. He was a founding Fellow of the British (now Royal) College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. In retirement he Settled at The Hermitage, Jarvisbrook, near Crowborough in Sussex, but later moved to Aberdeen House, Uppingham, Rutland, where he died on 20 January 1973 aged nearly ninety, and was survived by his wife. The following was published in volume 6 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Alfred Gough was born in Leeds on 22 December 1883, the son of a plumber. He made his way through elementary and secondary school to the University by sheer hard work gaining scholarships in the days when these were very scarce and the competition very great. He obtained the gold medal in his final year at the Leeds Medical School but little is known of his early activities, apart from records of his house physician, surgical registrar and tutor appointments at Leeds General Hospital. He received his surgical training in the days when it was unusual, if indeed it ever happened, for the surgical team to change into theatre clothes, and right up to his retirement, Alfred Gough never did more in this respect than remove his jacket and waistcoat and don a long white coat over his street trousers! Gough served in the first world war and was attached to the No 7 General Hospital at St Omer in France with the rank of Captain in the RAMC. He returned to Leeds and was appointed to the staff of the Hospital for Women in 1919. Many anecdotes are told of this time. It is said that when testing the patency of Fallopian tubes, he had a nurse standing on a high stool and holding a saline-filled glass funnel as high above her head as possible. The funnel was attached by means of rubber and glass tubing, the lower end connected to the standard apparatus whose end went into the cervical canal. If the saline solution flowed freely and there was no leak back at the cervix, it was assumed the tubes were patent. Mr Gough always took this test very seriously, but for the rest of the team it was regarded as pure pantomime, for no nurse ever succeeded in holding the funnel up aloft sufficiently steady not to slop its contents on to the people below! Alfred Gough did not confine himself to gynaecological surgery, but would tackle just about any abdominal operation current in his day, besides numerous mastectomies. He did all the operations himself (his house surgeon was usually today's equivalent of a pre-registration houseman and by keeping the patients in hospital a long time (even D's and C's stayed a full fortnight!) he managed to keep his thirty-bedded ward full. When the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists was created, he was one of the founder Fellows. His honorary appointment at the Hospital for Women should have terminated in 1943 when he reached the age of 60, but he was persuaded to continue until the end of the war. This he interpreted literally by resigning on VE Day - a typical gesture. About this time, he developed a chronic empyema which undermined his health for many years but did not prevent him from country and fell walking, a pleasure he enjoyed until shortly before his death. He retired from practice in 1951 and went to live in Crowborough, Sussex, and later moved to Uppingham, Rutland, where he died on 21 January 1973. He was survived by his wife Dorothy, two daughters and two doctor sons, one of whom, H Martin Gough, is a consultant gynaecologist in Victoria, British Columbia.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005750
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