Search Results for Medical Obituaries - Narrowed by: Hand surgeon - Orthopaedic surgeon SirsiDynix Enterprise https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/lives/lives/qu$003dMedical$002bObituaries$0026qf$003dLIVES_OCCUPATION$002509Occupation$002509Hand$002bsurgeon$002509Hand$002bsurgeon$0026qf$003dLIVES_OCCUPATION$002509Occupation$002509Orthopaedic$002bsurgeon$002509Orthopaedic$002bsurgeon$0026ic$003dtrue$0026ps$003d300$0026isd$003dtrue?dt=list 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z First Title value, for Searching Muir, Fiona May (1971 - 2015) ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:378977 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z by&#160;Sarah Gillam<br/>Publication Date&#160;2015-02-16&#160;2017-06-09<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path&#160;Root/Lives of the Fellows/E006000-E006999/E006700-E006799<br/>URL for Files&#160;<a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378977">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378977</a>378977<br/>Occupation&#160;Hand surgeon&#160;Orthopaedic surgeon&#160;Plastic surgeon&#160;Plastic and reconstructive surgeon&#160;Trauma surgeon<br/>Details&#160;Fiona Muir was a consultant orthopaedic hand surgeon at the Sussex Orthopaedic Treatment Centre. She was born on 9 August 1971 and studied medicine at Bristol University, qualifying in 1994. She gained her FRCS in 1998 and prior to her consultant appointment was a specialist registrar at the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead. She died on 3 February 2015 at the age of 43.<br/>Resource Identifier&#160;RCS: E006794<br/>Collection&#160;Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format&#160;Obituary<br/>Format&#160;Asset<br/> First Title value, for Searching Wise, Kenneth Stanley (1940 - 2023) ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:387735 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z by&#160;Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date&#160;2023-12-19<br/>Asset Path&#160;Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation&#160;Hand surgeon&#160;Trauma surgeon&#160;Orthopaedic surgeon<br/>Details&#160;Kenneth Stanley Wise was a consultant in orthopaedic surgery at Amersham and Wycombe hospitals.<br/>Resource Identifier&#160;RCS: E010584<br/>Collection&#160;Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format&#160;Obituary<br/>Format&#160;Asset<br/> First Title value, for Searching Wilkinson, Alwyn (1925 - 2016) ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:381545 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z by&#160;Sarah Gillam<br/>Publication Date&#160;2017-07-12&#160;2020-07-02<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path&#160;Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009300-E009399<br/>URL for Files&#160;<a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381545">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381545</a>381545<br/>Occupation&#160;Orthopaedic surgeon&#160;Trauma surgeon&#160;Hand surgeon<br/>Details&#160;Alwyn Wilkinson was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at Oldham Hospital. He was born on 9 March 1925. His mother&rsquo;s maiden name was Day. He grew up in Hollinwood, Oldham and studied medicine at Manchester University. He qualified in 1949 and gained his FRCS in 1961. He trained in Manchester and Oldham, and worked in hospitals in Ashton and Bolton. In 1970, he returned to Oldham as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon specialising in treating hand injuries. He was a fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association and a member of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand. He retired in 1989. In 1961, he married Ursula M Atherton. They had a son, Robert, a daughter, Claire, and five grandchildren. Predeceased by his wife in 1997, Alwyn Wilkinson died on 13 February 2016. He was 90.<br/>Resource Identifier&#160;RCS: E009362<br/>Collection&#160;Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format&#160;Obituary<br/>Format&#160;Asset<br/> First Title value, for Searching Barton, Nicholas James (1935 - 2023) ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:387909 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z by&#160;Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date&#160;2024-03-14<br/>Asset Path&#160;Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation&#160;Hand surgeon&#160;Orthopaedic surgeon&#160;Trauma surgeon<br/>Details&#160;Nicholas Barton was a consultant orthopaedic and hand surgeon at Queen&rsquo;s Medical Centre and Harlow Wood Hospital, Nottingham.<br/>Resource Identifier&#160;RCS: E010598<br/>Collection&#160;Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format&#160;Obituary<br/>Format&#160;Asset<br/> First Title value, for Searching Dunkerley, David Russell (1933 - ) ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:386431 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z by&#160;Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date&#160;2023-03-07<br/>Asset Path&#160;Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010200-E010299<br/>Occupation&#160;Orthopaedic surgeon&#160;Hand surgeon<br/>Details&#160;David Russell Dunkerley was a consultant orthopaedic and hand surgeon in Bath. 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<br/>Resource Identifier&#160;RCS:E010217<br/>Collection&#160;Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format&#160;Obituary<br/>Format&#160;Asset<br/> First Title value, for Searching Merryweather, Reginald ( - 2002) ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:380966 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z by&#160;Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date&#160;2015-11-18<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path&#160;Root/Lives of the Fellows/E008000-E008999/E008700-E008799<br/>URL for Files&#160;<a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380966">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380966</a>380966<br/>Occupation&#160;Hand surgeon&#160;Orthopaedic surgeon<br/>Details&#160;Reginald Merryweather trained at Guy's Hospital and after junior jobs joined the RAMC. After the war he specialised in orthopaedics, becoming senior registrar at the Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital in Exeter. He was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Gloucester. His interests included hand surgery and knee replacement, on which he published. He died on 31 August 2002.<br/>Resource Identifier&#160;RCS: E008783<br/>Collection&#160;Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format&#160;Obituary<br/>Format&#160;Asset<br/> First Title value, for Searching Singer, Martin (1921 - 2015) ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:385357 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z by&#160;Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date&#160;2022-01-28<br/>Asset Path&#160;Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010000-E010099<br/>Occupation&#160;Orthopaedic surgeon&#160;Hand surgeon<br/>Details&#160;Martin Singer was a pioneering hand surgeon who established the first hand clinic in South Africa at the Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town. 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<br/>Resource Identifier&#160;RCS: E010064<br/>Collection&#160;Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format&#160;Obituary<br/>Format&#160;Asset<br/> First Title value, for Searching Arafa, Mohamed Aly Mohamed (1950 - 2015) ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:379295 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z by&#160;Sarah Gillam<br/>Publication Date&#160;2015-04-17&#160;2018-03-08<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path&#160;Root/Lives of the Fellows/E007000-E007999/E007100-E007199<br/>URL for Files&#160;<a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379295">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379295</a>379295<br/>Occupation&#160;Hand surgeon&#160;Orthopaedic surgeon&#160;Trauma surgeon<br/>Details&#160;Mohamed Aly Mohamed Arafa was a consultant in trauma and orthopaedic surgery at Worcestershire Royal Hospital. His sub-specialty was hand surgery. He was born on 9 May 1950 and gained his MB BCh from Cairo University in 1973 and his FRCS in 1978. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a registrar in Bristol and a senior registrar at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore. Mohamed Arafa died on 7 March 2015, aged 64.<br/>Resource Identifier&#160;RCS: E007112<br/>Collection&#160;Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format&#160;Obituary<br/>Format&#160;Asset<br/> First Title value, for Searching Matthewson, Murray Hugh (1944 - 2018) ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:387791 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z by&#160;Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date&#160;2024-01-11<br/>Asset Path&#160;Root/Lives of the Fellows/E010000-E010999/E010500-E010599<br/>Occupation&#160;Hand surgeon&#160;Orthopaedic surgeon<br/>Details&#160;Murray Matthewson was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Cambridge and a former president of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand. 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<br/>Resource Identifier&#160;RCS: E010588<br/>Collection&#160;Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format&#160;Obituary<br/>Format&#160;Asset<br/> First Title value, for Searching Bendeich, Geoffrey Joseph (1928 - 2006) ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:383870 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z by&#160;Sarah Gillam<br/>Publication Date&#160;2020-10-19<br/>Asset Path&#160;Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009800-E009899<br/>Occupation&#160;Hand surgeon&#160;Orthopaedic surgeon&#160;Specialist in sports medicine<br/>Details&#160;Geoffrey Joseph Bendeich was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Brisbane Hospital, Queensland, Australia. He was born on 30 December 1928, the son of Joseph and Elizabeth Bendeich and attended the Anglican Church Grammar School in Brisbane, where he played rugby in the first 15. He studied medicine at the University of Queensland and qualified in 1951. He went to the UK for further training in surgery and gained his FRCS in 1957. In 1958 he married Diana Austin, an English doctor he had met when they were both working at a hospital in London. They went back to Queensland, Australia and lived in Ascot, Brisbane. Bendeich became an orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Brisbane Hospital, specialising in the emerging fields of hand surgery and sports medicine. He was a founder member of the Australian Hand Surgery Society. He and Diana had six children: twins Richard and Julie, Graham, Tim, Mark and Suzie. Bendeich died on 9 April 2006. He was 77.<br/>Resource Identifier&#160;RCS: E009803<br/>Collection&#160;Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format&#160;Obituary<br/>Format&#160;Asset<br/> First Title value, for Searching Bolton, Harold (1918 - 2015) ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:381214 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z by&#160;Sarah Gillam<br/>Publication Date&#160;2016-01-21&#160;2018-11-28<br/>JPEG Image<br/>Asset Path&#160;Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009000-E009099<br/>URL for Files&#160;<a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381214">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381214</a>381214<br/>Occupation&#160;Hand surgeon&#160;Orthopaedic surgeon<br/>Details&#160;Harold Bolton was an orthopaedic and hand surgeon in Manchester and Stockport. He was born in Blackpool on 15 August 1918. His father, Alexander Black Bolton, was the managing director of a confectionary company; his mother, Nina Bolton n&eacute;e Houldsworth, was also a director of the company. He attended Hutton Grammar School and then King Edward VII School in Lytham St Annes, and went on to study medicine at Manchester Medical School. He gained a BSc in anatomy and physiology in 1939 and qualified in July 1942 with the Butterworth medical prize and the John Henry Agnew prize in children&rsquo;s diseases. He was a house surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary to Sir Harry Platt. From 1942 to 1946 he served in the RAMC, in India, Burma and Palestine. He left the Army with the rank of acting lieutenant colonel. Following his demobilisation, he returned to Manchester as a registrar at the Royal Infirmary. He gained his FRCS in 1948 and from 1948 to 1951 was a senior registrar at the Royal Infirmary under Platt, David Griffiths and John Charnley. He then spent a year as a surgical fellow in Chicago working with Sumner L Koch. In 1952, he was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the north Manchester group of hospitals. Two years later, he became a consultant orthopaedic surgeon for the Stockport and Buxton group. In 1960, he established the Manchester region hand surgery centre at the Devonshire Royal Hospital in Buxton. In June 1967, he dealt with casualties from the Stockport air crash, when an aeroplane carrying holidaymakers from Mallorca to Manchester airport crashed into an area close to the Stockport town centre. He was a consultant hand surgeon in Stockport and Buxton from 1980 to 1985, when he retired from the NHS. He carried on in private practice until 1987 and as a member of the Medical Appeals Tribunal until 1991. He was president of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand in 1983. He was a council member of the British Orthopaedic Association and a fellow of Manchester Medical Society. At university he played tennis, fives and hockey. He later enjoyed fishing and golf, and was president of Romiley Golf Club in 1983. In 1949, he married Barbara. They had two sons &ndash; Martin Alexander and Robert Andrew. Harold Bolton died on 10 December 2015. He was 97.<br/>Resource Identifier&#160;RCS: E009031<br/>Collection&#160;Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format&#160;Obituary<br/>Format&#160;Asset<br/> First Title value, for Searching Shelswell, John Hubert (1919 - 2002) ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:381111 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z by&#160;Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date&#160;2015-12-07<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path&#160;Root/Lives of the Fellows/E008000-E008999/E008900-E008999<br/>URL for Files&#160;<a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381111">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381111</a>381111<br/>Occupation&#160;Hand surgeon&#160;Orthopaedic surgeon<br/>Details&#160;John Shelswell was born in Warwickshire on 19 January 1919. His father, Henry Bower Shelswell, was a hospital administrator, his mother was Lily n&eacute;e Johnson. He was educated at King Edward VII School, Sheffield, and Manchester Grammar School, before going on to read medicine at Manchester University. After house jobs he did a series of junior posts under A M Boyd, Sir Harry Platt and Sir John Charnley in Manchester, followed by service in the RAMC in Europe. On demobilisation he returned to complete his training in orthopaedics under Sir Herbert Seddon and J I P James at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. He was appointed as a consultant to the Southend General Hospital Group in 1955, where he developed a special interest in hand surgery and sports injuries. He was chairman of his hospital medical committee and of the Essex area BMA. He retired in 1984. In 1951 he married Cicely Butterworth, by whom he had a son, Robert Oliver, and daughter, Anne Elizabeth. There are five grandchildren. Formerly a keen sailor, he was a skilled photographer and gardener and, until diabetic neuropathy limited his activities, a keen golfer. He died from coronary thrombosis on 27 February 2002.<br/>Resource Identifier&#160;RCS: E008928<br/>Collection&#160;Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format&#160;Obituary<br/>Format&#160;Asset<br/> First Title value, for Searching France, William Gordon (1912 - 1998) ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:380783 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z by&#160;Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date&#160;2015-10-29<br/>JPEG Image<br/>Asset Path&#160;Root/Lives of the Fellows/E008000-E008999/E008600-E008699<br/>URL for Files&#160;<a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380783">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380783</a>380783<br/>Occupation&#160;Hand surgeon&#160;Orthopaedic surgeon<br/>Details&#160;Gordon France was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Lewisham Hospital and Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup. He was born in Heckmondwike, west Yorkshire, on 12 July 1912. His father was a cabinet maker and joiner, and his mother, Harriet Alice n&eacute;e Firth, a dressmaker. From Heckmondwike Grammar School, he attended Leeds University Medical School. After junior posts, he joined the RAMC at the beginning of the war, and was commanding a military hospital in Crete when the island was overrun by the Germans. All the staff and patients were taken prisoner and transferred to a camp in Germany. There he continued to be the camp's medical officer until the defeat of Germany. On demobilisation he studied for the final FRCS, which he passed a year later. He did his orthopaedic training in Leeds, where he was orthopaedic tutor to the university, before becoming consultant to Lewisham Hospital and Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup. His main interest was in the surgery of the hand, but he also published on chronic haemorrhagic arthropathy of haemophilia. He married Madge in 1948. They had two sons, Philip and Oliver, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Sarah, none of whom went into medicine. There were seven grandchildren. Formerly a keen pianist, his latter days were overtaken by Parkinson's disease which sapped his strength completely. He died in Beckenham on 24 November 1998.<br/>Resource Identifier&#160;RCS: E008600<br/>Collection&#160;Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format&#160;Obituary<br/>Format&#160;Asset<br/> First Title value, for Searching Flatt, Adrian Ede (1921 - 2017) ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:381812 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z by&#160;Sarah Gillam<br/>Publication Date&#160;2018-01-17<br/>JPEG Image<br/>Asset Path&#160;Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009400-E009499<br/>URL for Files&#160;<a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381812">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381812</a>381812<br/>Occupation&#160;Hand surgeon&#160;Orthopaedic surgeon<br/>Details&#160;Adrian Ede Flatt was a pioneering hand surgeon and chairman of the department of orthopedics at Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas. He was born in Frinton-on-Sea, Essex on 26 August 1921, the son of Leslie Neeve Flatt, a mechanical engineer with the Indian Railways who during Second World War ran the entire railway system in India, and Barbara Flatt n&eacute;e Allen, a homemaker and commercial artist. The Flatt family had been farmers in East Anglia since the Viking invasion. When he was six months old, he was taken by his mother by sea to India, where he stayed until he was two. He caught dengue fever as a baby and developed rickets as a very young child in India. He and his sister Penny later lived with their grandmother in the family home in England. They saw their parents infrequently &ndash; their father would come home every three or four years or so for six months and their mother would travel back and forth from India to England, staying six months in each country. Flatt attended Haileybury College, where he won the botany prize and was an officer in the Officers&rsquo; Training Corps and a captain of the rowing and rugby teams. He studied medicine at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge during the Second World War, cramming three years&rsquo; study into two and, during his time-off, helping in London hospitals. He was also a member of the Home Guard. He arrived at Cambridge knowing he wanted to be a surgeon and, after hearing an introductory lecture by Sir John Ryle, regius professor of physic, on hands, determined he would focus on hand surgery. He went on to his clinical studies at the London Hospital, where he worked through the Blitz; the hospital sometimes received hundreds of casualties each night and was directly hit by bombs 13 times. He qualified in 1946. He was first a houseman on the medical unit at the London Hospital, and then trained in general and orthopaedic surgery under Sir Reginald Watson-Jones and Sir Henry Osmond-Clark. He also completed a year of training in plastic surgery under Thomas Pomfret Kilner at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. From 1949 to 1950 he was a squadron leader in charge of No 3 Parachute Surgical Rescue Team. The team went out to Ceylon, where he was surgeon to all the armed forces on the island, stationed at the RAF services hospital in Negombo. He was also a visiting surgeon to RAF stations throughout Ceylon, Singapore, Malaya, Indochina and Hong Kong. After his military service, he went back to England, where he taught anatomy at Cambridge and the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He gained his FRCS in 1953 and, in 1954, was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to the USA to train in the evolving field of hand surgery. For three months he travelled by train across the USA, visiting hand surgeons in the major cities and stayed with Sterling Bunnell in San Francisco. He then had a six-month fellowship in New York at the Roosevelt Hospital and a three-month fellowship in New Orleans. He returned to the UK and continued working in orthopaedics as a first assistant, but after a year was invited to Iowa City to start the first academic hand surgery unit in the USA, as professor of orthopedics and anatomy and director of the division of hand surgery at the University of Iowa. At Iowa, he directed major research programs in congenital anomalies and biomechanics of the hand and carried out extensive clinical research into rheumatoid arthritis. He developed two patents &ndash; for artificial finger and wrist joints. He stayed in Iowa for 22 years and then moved to Connecticut as chief of surgery at Norwalk Hospital and a clinical professor of orthopedics at Yale University, responsible for teaching hand surgery. After three years, in 1982, he relocated to Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas as full-time chief of orthopedic surgery. He held this position until his retirement from active clinical practice in 1992, when he was named chief emeritus at the George Truett James Orthopedic Institute at Baylor Dallas. From 1964 to 1991 he was also a consultant in hand surgery for the US Air Force. During his career he trained 50 fellows in hand surgery from 14 countries. He wrote nearly 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals and three books on conditions and medical treatment of the hand. In 1976 he became president of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand and was instrumental in establishing the *Journal of Hand Surgery*, for which he served as editor-in-chief from 1980 to 1990. He received many honours and awards, including in 1972 the Kappa Delta Award for his outstanding orthopaedic research and, in 1992, was named as an International Pioneer of Hand Surgery by the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand. He was an honorary member of several hand societies across the world and was a visiting professor at many institutions. He was a Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1962 and gave a lecture on &lsquo;Surgical rehabilitation of the rheumatoid hand&rsquo;. He enjoyed travel and reading. He also cast hands of famous people from around the world, including seven former presidents, actors, celebrities and athletes. These are now on display at the Adrian E Flatt MD Hand Collection at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. He was married three times. In 1955 he married Adele Fulton, a nurse from New York. They had a son, Andrew James. His wife died in 1975 and in 1977 he married Carol Ann Connors. This marriage ended in divorce in 1988 and two years later he married Judith K Johnson, a lawyer. His son Andrew died in 1990. Adrian Ede Flatt died on 14 October 2017. He was 96.<br/>Resource Identifier&#160;RCS: E009408<br/>Collection&#160;Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format&#160;Obituary<br/>Format&#160;Asset<br/> First Title value, for Searching Stanley, John Knowles (1944 - 2021) ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:384581 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z by&#160;Sian Stanley<br/>Publication Date&#160;2021-05-05&#160;2022-01-18<br/>JPEG Image<br/>Asset Path&#160;Root/Lives of the Fellows/E009000-E009999/E009900-E009999<br/>URL for Files&#160;<a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/384581">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/384581</a>384581<br/>Occupation&#160;Hand surgeon&#160;Orthopaedic surgeon<br/>Details&#160;John Knowles Stanley was a consultant hand surgeon at Wrightington Hospital, Manchester, where he led the upper limb unit, and a professor of hand surgery at the University of Manchester. He was born in Cardiff on 30 March 1944 the son of Frederick John Stanley and Mary Thelma Stanley n&eacute;e Morgan but grew up in Oswestry in North Wales. From Oswestry Boys&rsquo; High School, he moved in 1962 to Liverpool University Medical School, qualifying in 1968. These towns are linked indelibly with Sir Robert Jones, the founder of the modern specialty, so a subsequent career in orthopaedic surgery was highly appropriate. After a first house officer post in Ormskirk, he entered surgical training in the Liverpool region, becoming a senior registrar in orthopaedics in 1974. In 1979 he returned to Ormskirk and District General Hospital as a consultant, with sessions at Wrightington Hospital. Shortly after his appointment, at the age of 35, he had a myocardial infarction resulting in bypass surgery. This was a major factor in his decision in 1984 to move to full-time hand surgery at Wrightington. Under his leadership the unit there grew exponentially, developing a particular focus on the treatment of patients suffering with rheumatoid arthritis as well as other complex problems of the wrist. From 1991, he was joined by more consultant colleagues, creating a renowned centre of innovation and excellence. At his retirement in 2009 the Wrightington upper limb unit had 13 consultants, both orthopaedic and plastic, dealing with all conditions of the upper limb, from shoulder to elbow and hand, with a high national and international reputation. This was a testament to John Stanley&rsquo;s professional and leadership skills as well as his personal qualities of commitment, passion and drive, combined with pragmatism and perseverance. His many patients, particularly those with long-term rheumatoid disease, enjoyed his communication skills and sense of humour, in addition to his clinical judgement and technical virtuosity, and enquired after him long after his retirement. Although much in demand, he forsook private practice early in his career. He developed in its place a large medico-legal practice, which did not interfere so much with family and social life and his hobbies. Such was the quality and clarity of his opinions, that he was required in the witness box only rarely. John Stanley&rsquo;s research activities, particularly in the introduction of hand and wrist prostheses, produced more than 100 peer-reviewed papers in learned journals as well as countless presentations to learned societies. He wrote two books, supplied chapters for 20 more and delivered many eponymous lectures. He travelled widely, not only in the UK and Europe, but worldwide, particularly in America, Australia, France and Switzerland, resulting in a long list of honorary fellowships and memberships. In 2016 John was declared a &lsquo;pioneer of hand surgery&rsquo; by the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand, a lasting tribute to a great in the field. A crowning British academic accolade was the award in 1996 of a chair in hand surgery by the University of Manchester, a considerable distinction. He supervised many surgical trainees, a role in which he excelled. Many of these were at the end of their orthopaedic training, acquiring a sub-specialist polish in hand surgery before taking up their own consultant appointments. He continued to teach at Wrightington Hospital until shortly before his death. He also served for many years as an examiner for the Intercollegiate Board in Orthopaedic Surgery. Not surprisingly John Stanley was an active member of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand, presenting at many meetings, serving on council and becoming president in 1999. In 2006 his professional standing and the affection in which he was held by the wider surgical community led to his election to the council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. His College career culminated in his election as vice president from 2010 to 2012, a role in which he served with distinction and good humour. A marker of his standing in the Council was his appointment as secretary of the council club. When vice president, he was invited to give the Robert Jones lecture at the annual meeting of the British Orthopaedic Association, and the College president at the time exercised his right to attend and chair. The hall was so full that the aisle was packed and the procession behind the mace had difficulty reaching the platform, where a space had to be cleared to allow the lecture to proceed. After his first myocardial infarction his subsequent course was complex in the extreme, with four open cardiac operations and numerous other procedures. It stretches the bounds of credibility that, notwithstanding such problems, he completed a distinguished surgical career and a busy family and social life with his enthusiasm and sense of humour unaffected and survived to the age of 76. He had a lifelong passion for aviation having learnt to fly as an air cadet at school. His heart problems prevented him pursuing this, but he worked as a volunteer in the aeronautical section of the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester. He had a serious interest in military history, particularly but not exclusively of the Second World War, and made many visits to battlefield sites. He managed to take flights in a Spitfire, a Mustang and a Lancaster, fulfilling some of his dreams, particularly when he was allowed to take the controls of the Spitfire and found his piloting skills had not deserted him. He was also loved motor cars, provided they were British and Jaguars. He met his wife Gail Simpson when they were both students at Liverpool University and they married in 1964, before he qualified. She supported John in his surgical practice throughout their married life. but her own career blossomed subsequently as a magistrate, Deputy Lord Lieutenant and High Sheriff of Lancashire. In turn he supported her unfailingly, a role well suited to his unassuming but confident, friendly personality. Not surprisingly both were active in support of the British Heart Foundation. A devoted family man, his marriage produced two children, Sian and James, who both followed their father into medicine. Sian became a general practitioner in Bishop&rsquo;s Stortford and James followed his father into orthopaedic surgery, in York. John Stanley died suddenly but peacefully at home on 4 February 2021.<br/>Resource Identifier&#160;RCS: E009968<br/>Collection&#160;Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format&#160;Obituary<br/>Format&#160;Asset<br/> First Title value, for Searching Sengupta, Ashoke (1931 - 1997) ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:381100 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z by&#160;Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date&#160;2015-12-04<br/>JPEG Image<br/>Asset Path&#160;Root/Lives of the Fellows/E008000-E008999/E008900-E008999<br/>URL for Files&#160;<a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381100">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381100</a>381100<br/>Occupation&#160;Hand surgeon&#160;Orthopaedic surgeon<br/>Details&#160;Ashoke Sengupta was head of the department of surgery at the Institute of Child Health in Calcutta. He was born in Kohima, Nagaland, on 21 June 1931. His father, Jitendra Mohan Sengupta, was a surgeon and had won a gold medal in the DTM&amp;H. His mother was Tarunbala n&eacute;e Majumdar. He was privately educated and passed the intermediate science course from Ashutosh College, before entering the Sri Nilratan Sircar Medical College in Calcutta for his medical training. During his junior posts in the College he was much influenced by Amulyakumar Saha, whom he regarded as his 'guru' and decided him on a career in orthopaedics. In 1957 he went to England to study for the FRCS and worked his way up from senior house surgeon to senior registrar in Ipswich, where he was Cecil Henriques' first registrar. On returning to Calcutta in 1965, he became lecturer and honorary orthopaedic surgeon to the Institute of Child Health, where he soon developed a special expertise in microvascular surgery and the re-implantation of severed digits: in 1968 he performed the first successful re-implantation of a severed palm. He was gradually promoted to honorary consultant in chief and head of the department of surgery, becoming Emeritus Professor in 1996. Sengupta founded, and was the first President of, the Indian Hand Surgery Association. But his interests were wide: he published many papers on the bioengineering of joint replacement, many in association with his wife. Among his many honorary appointments, he was consultant in orthopaedics to the Calcutta Police and the Central Hospital for the South Eastern Railway at Garden Reach, and was consultant to the Employees' State Insurance for West Bengal. He received the gold medal of the *Indian Journal of Surgery* in 1977. In 1986 Stanton University in the USA awarded him a PhD for his work in the field of microvascular surgery. A quiet, friendly and approachable person, he was a popular teacher and an able administrator. His hobbies included writing stories for children, painting, gardening and Indian classical music, in which he was a skilled performer. He married Sipra Sengupta in 1956. She was an engineer with an MSc from both Calcutta and Birmingham Universities, who became his collaborator in studies for the design of total knee replacements. They had one daughter, Aparajita, who took a masters degree in business administration. He died on 5 December 1997 in an aircraft accident whilst returning from a two-week visit to Indonesia to teach postgraduates. World Orthopaedic Concern awarded him posthumously the Arthur Eyre-Book gold medal in 1998.<br/>Resource Identifier&#160;RCS: E008917<br/>Collection&#160;Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format&#160;Obituary<br/>Format&#160;Asset<br/> First Title value, for Searching Wadsworth, Thomas Gordon (1930 - 2002) ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:381163 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z by&#160;Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date&#160;2015-12-08<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path&#160;Root/Lives of the Fellows/E008000-E008999/E008900-E008999<br/>URL for Files&#160;<a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381163">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381163</a>381163<br/>Occupation&#160;Hand surgeon&#160;Orthopaedic surgeon<br/>Details&#160;Tom Wadsworth was one of the leading orthopaedic surgeons of his generation. He was born on 13 January 1930 in Liverpool, the son of Samuel Bertram Wadsworth and Elizabeth Brown. He was the youngest of four children and, being 14 years junior to the rest, had relatively old parents. His birth was difficult, his mother nearly dying of septicaemia. Thus, even at this early age, he was beginning to demonstrate that he was capable of being awkward. His mother received one of the first treatments of prontosil, survived, and lived to be nearly 100. His uncle Tom and brother George were physicians in Liverpool. Tom entered Liverpool University Medical School as a dental student. Nevertheless, by the end of his first year, he calculated that medicine was likely to be more profitable in the long term, and switched courses. After qualifying, he began to train as a cardiologist, but altered course to orthopaedics, because, it is said, of the influence of his grandfather, who had to have a leg amputated after an industrial accident. Tom became orthopaedic registrar at the Infirmary under Henry O'Mally, and set about obtaining Fellowships of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of both England and Edinburgh, and a masters degree in orthopaedic surgery from the University of Liverpool. He was appointed as an orthopaedic surgeon at St Leonard's Hospital in the East End, and was appointed to the Hackney Hospital in 1966, joining the staff of St Bartholomew's Hospital after the creation of the City and Hackney Health District. Having trained with Al Swanson in the USA, he specialised in hand surgery, where he made substantial contributions. He developed various prosthetic devices, including a bi-cortical screw fixation for the olecranon and popularised the posterolateral approach to the elbow joint using a triceps tendon release technique. His early studies on the chromosomal abnormalities that are linked with the carrying angle of the elbow joint led to later research on the cubital tunnel syndrome and the resultant compression neuropathy of the ulnar nerve. As well as papers on these and other areas of interest, he wrote several chapters for textbooks, and in 1982 produced the first edition of his classic treatise *The elbow* which was published by Churchill Livingstone. At the time of his death he was preparing the second edition of his textbook, together with a companion surgical atlas. In his later years, as his diabetic retinopathy progressed, he expanded his medico-legal practice and in 1994 gained a legal qualification to support these activities. Until his sight deteriorated, he had been an avid reader of detective novels and spoke of writing one himself, claiming that he would have no difficulty in creating characters for the plot based on professional colleagues, some of whom were capable of the crimes and others he would gladly write up as the victims. He had been briefly married. He died on 8 February 2002.<br/>Resource Identifier&#160;RCS: E008980<br/>Collection&#160;Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format&#160;Obituary<br/>Format&#160;Asset<br/> First Title value, for Searching Robins, Robert Henry Cradock (1923 - 2015) ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:379138 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z by&#160;Sir Barry Jackson<br/>Publication Date&#160;2015-03-13&#160;2015-09-14<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path&#160;Root/Lives of the Fellows/E006000-E006999/E006900-E006999<br/>URL for Files&#160;<a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379138">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379138</a>379138<br/>Occupation&#160;Hand surgeon&#160;Orthopaedic surgeon<br/>Details&#160;Robert Robins, known as 'Robbie' to his family and friends, was an orthopaedic surgeon noted for his role in the development of hand surgery, a *bon viveur* and a well-known figure in Cornish society. He was born on 7 August 1923 to Ethel May Robins n&eacute;e Greenwood and Hugh Canning Cradock Robins, a bank manager, in High Wycombe. Robins attended Aldenham School, where he was a scholar, before proceeding to Queens' College, Cambridge, to read medicine. It was said that he chose medicine as a career as a consequence of his older brother having polio and the many hospital visits that he made as a child. His clinical training was at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying in 1947, before becoming house surgeon to Clifford Naunton Morgan and Edward Tuckwell. After house jobs he was called up for National Service and spent time as a ship's doctor in the merchant navy. In his early training he worked at Bath as a senior house officer and subsequently in Newcastle, where he was the recipient of a Luccock medical research fellowship studying aspects of hand surgery, which then was no more than a relatively minor branch of orthopaedics. This research led in 1952 to the inaugural award of the Sir James Berry prize by the Royal College of Surgeons for his dissertation titled 'The treatment and preservation of the injured hand'. It also led in 1954 to a Hunterian Lecture on the same subject. He then moved to Oxford as a registrar and then to the Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital, Exeter, as a senior registrar, where he was greatly influenced by Norman Capener. During his time in Exeter he was a Council of Europe travelling fellow to Sweden and France and, in 1960, a British Orthopaedic Association travelling fellow to North America. In 1961 he was appointed as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro, where he continued his special interest in hand surgery. In the same year he published a monograph *Injuries and infections of the hand* (London, Edward Arnold). In 1956, Robins was one of five founder members of the Second Hand Club, a group of young enthusiasts who were keen to promote the development of hand surgery as a specialty. A few years earlier, in 1952, the Hand Club had been founded by 12 senior surgeons who wished to keep it exclusive to the original members, sufficiently small for a Friday evening dinner at the Athenaeum Club in London, followed by a short scientific meeting on the Saturday morning. This was called by some 'a dining club with hand surgery as gossip'. The young upstarts of the new society, however, envisaged a much broader organisation with countrywide membership and its own journal, the *Proceedings of the Second Hand Club*. This publication later became the *Journal of Hand Surgery*, of which Robins was chairman of the editorial board for 10 years. The two clubs merged in 1964 and four years later became the British Society for Surgery of the Hand, Robins being president in 1979. Throughout his consultant appointment Robins practiced the entire range of orthopaedic surgery, being one of only three orthopaedic surgeons on the staff, but continued his close interest in hand surgery, publishing several articles and chapters in textbooks on this subject. He maintained a close involvement with the hand surgery fraternity and was twice a British Council fellow promoting the developing specialty, travelling to Czechoslovakia in 1975 and Hungary in 1979. Despite a very busy clinical practice he found time to be a member of the Cornwall Area Heath Authority, become an examiner for the Edinburgh college FRCS and serve on various committees both locally in Cornwall and at the English college. He retired from the NHS in 1988 aged 65. In 2001 he was recognised internationally by the designation 'pioneer of hand surgery' by the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand. Robert Robins had a rich life outside of surgery. He enjoyed travel, especially to his beloved France, where he once owned two houses simultaneously. He was a keen landscape gardener, an able fisherman and an enthusiastic sailor, although his expertise in seafaring was uncertain. On one occasion in somewhat rough weather the engine of his boat *Sea Urchin* gave out, the halyard of the main sail broke and the anchor was found unserviceable, so that the craft was at the mercy of the waves. Fortunately an emergency flare summoned the local lifeboat and a rescue was effected by the crew, one of whom was a former patient. The incident was inevitably blazoned in the local newspaper a few days later, much to his considerable embarrassment. Although never a proficient sportsman, he was a keen follower of rugby and cricket, being a member of the MCC for many years. Other interests were art and architecture, folk music and a regular Thursday evening spent Morris dancing - he claimed that this was better exercise and less dangerous than sport! He became a pillar of Cornish society, becoming a close friend of many well known artists of the Truro school, local intellectuals, authors and owners of houses with large gardens. He seemed to know everyone who was anyone in Cornwall; at his service of thanksgiving he was described as being the consummate networker. A devoted family man, in 1953 he married Shirley, a physiotherapist whom he met when working in Exeter. They had four children, a daughter, Elizabeth, and three sons, Michael, James and Nicholas. He died of metastatic carcinoma of the prostate on 23 February 2015 aged 91.<br/>Resource Identifier&#160;RCS: E006955<br/>Collection&#160;Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format&#160;Obituary<br/>Format&#160;Asset<br/> First Title value, for Searching Stack, Hugh Graham (1915 - 1992) ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:380522 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z by&#160;Royal College of Surgeons of England<br/>Publication Date&#160;2015-10-02<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path&#160;Root/Lives of the Fellows/E008000-E008999/E008300-E008399<br/>URL for Files&#160;<a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380522">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380522</a>380522<br/>Occupation&#160;Hand surgeon&#160;Orthopaedic surgeon<br/>Details&#160;Hugh Graham Stack was born in Bristol on 7 December 1915, the third son of Edward H E Stack FRCS (*Lives of the Fellows* 2, 340), ophthalmic surgeon to the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and his wife Caroline, n&eacute;e Kennedy. His early education was at Clifton College and whilst there he was awarded the H H Wills scholarship to study chemistry at Bristol University. After three years he changed direction and entered St Bartholomew's Hospital as a medical student, qualifying in 1942. His early appointments were as house surgeon to Addenbrooke's Hospital, the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and the Miller General Hospital, Greenwich. He joined the RNVR from 1945 to 1947 and after demobilisation served as honorary demonstrator in anatomy at King's College, Strand, and later as surgical registrar at the North Middlesex Hospital. He passed the FRCS in 1951 and then decided to pursue a career in orthopaedic surgery. He was appointed senior registrar at the Miller Hospital and chief assistant to the orthopaedic department of St Bartholomew's Hospital. During this time he developed an interest in reconstructive surgery of the hand and came under the influence of Jackson Burrows, Osmond Clark, Norman Capener and Guy Pulvertaft. In 1956 he was appointed consultant surgeon at the Albert Dock Orthopaedic and Fracture Hospital and subsequently secured appointments at Harold Wood and Brentwood District Hospitals. He later became honorary consultant in hand surgery at the regional plastic surgery centre in St Andrew's Hospital, Billericay. His interest in hand surgery continued and he carried out research into the anatomy and function of the intrinsic muscles, which was presented at an Arris and Gale Lecture in 1962 entitled *Muscle function in the fingers*. He was awarded a gold medal by the British Medical Association in 1963 for his film on the same subject and in 1970 was elected Hunterian Professor. His lecture was entitled *The palmar fascia* and described the applied anatomy of Dupuytren's contracture. Shortly before his consultant appointment the Hand Club of Great Britain had decided to pursue a policy of closed membership, and a group of younger surgeons with similar interests formed a society named the Second Hand Club. Graham Stack was made secretary of the new society and made detailed records of its bi-annual meetings, issuing a bulletin to all members. In 1965 he played an important r&ocirc;le in the merger of the two clubs into the British Club for Surgery of the Hand, of which he was President in 1973. He continued to contribute to orthopaedic publications and was co-editor of *The hand* which later became linked with the *Journal of hand surgery - American volume*. He was a liveryman of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries which he joined in 1967, and regularly attended its meetings. He retired from practice in 1980 and moved home to Salisbury. He married Lorna Cooke MB, MRCP in 1955, having met her while working as a senior registrar at the Central Middlesex Hospital. There was one daughter, Caroline, and one son, Charles, who became a consultant anaesthetist. His outside interests were fly-fishing, wood carving (he made the gavel which is still used in committee meetings), field botany and gardening, all of which he was able to pursue in Salisbury. He died on 28 May 1992 aged 77, survived by his wife and family.<br/>Resource Identifier&#160;RCS: E008339<br/>Collection&#160;Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format&#160;Obituary<br/>Format&#160;Asset<br/> First Title value, for Searching Watson, Neil Alexander (1944 - 2009) ent://SD_ASSET/0/SD_ASSET:374066 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z 2024-09-22T17:56:02Z by&#160;David K C Cooper<br/>Publication Date&#160;2012-01-23&#160;2013-09-06<br/>Unknown<br/>Asset Path&#160;Root/Lives of the Fellows/E001000-E001999/E001800-E001899<br/>URL for Files&#160;<a href="https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374066">https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374066</a>374066<br/>Occupation&#160;Artist&#160;Hand surgeon&#160;Orthopaedic surgeon<br/>Details&#160;Neil Watson was a hand surgeon in Oxford and Milton Keynes, and later a successful artist. He was born on 13 February 1944 at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. Neil's father, John Stuart Ferra Watson, and paternal grandfather were both Guy's-trained doctors. As his father served in the Royal Army Medical Corps, Neil's parents were overseas for most of his childhood, and, after the age of five, he saw them during only one school holiday each year. The other holidays he would spend with his grandparents or with various great aunts in the UK. With the help of a British Army bursary, Neil was educated at St Edward's School in Oxford, which proved 'a marvellous experience' for him. Although he already had an interest in the arts, probably inherited from his 'extremely creative' mother Rosemary (n&eacute;e Underhill), St Edward's exposed him to art and music on a greater scale. He played the violin in the school orchestra and greatly enjoyed the chapel organ and choir. He described these formative years 'as if I was in paradise'. He also developed a love of rowing but, because of the extremely high standard at the school at the time, he had to be content with being a member of the second or third VIII. He originally planned a career in architecture but, through the influence of a biology teacher, he finally chose medicine. Although offered a place at St John's College, Cambridge, he chose to go straight to Guy's, a decision he later regretted as he 'missed out on the Cambridge experience'. First, however, he spent several months in Florence and Rome, developing his drawing and painting, and learning Italian. In 1962, Neil entered Guy's Hospital Medical School, and found the next five years 'immensely exciting'. Rowing became very important to him and, in the summer of 1963, he represented the boat club at Henley Royal Regatta. He was also an active member of the arts club and the theatre club, for which he designed sets. He bought 'beer and petrol' and even 'a fiercely fast car' by selling etchings and paintings. One of his pen and ink drawings of the hospital featured on the cover of *Guy's Hospital Gazette*. In his clinical years, he was greatly influenced by the senior orthopaedic surgeon, Tim Stamm, who he described as 'an absolutely phenomenal surgeon'. After graduating in 1967, he was appointed orthopaedic house surgeon at Guy's, during which period he married, and followed this by a series of house appointments in Truro in Cornwall. He then returned to Guy's on the junior surgical registrar rotation (when Sir Hedley Atkins was handing over to Lord McColl as professor of surgery). He found working with the urologists, F R Kilpatrick and Hugh Kinder, and the neurosurgeon, Murray Falconer (at the Maudsley), especially valuable. After two years as a registrar in Guildford (becoming an FRCS in 1971), he was appointed orthopaedic registrar at Oxford under Robert Duthie, one of the most influential orthopaedic surgeons in the UK. In 1977, a travelling fellowship from the Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers enabled him to spend time with several innovative hand and plastic surgeons in Melbourne, Australia, where he learned microsurgery and wrote several research papers. He returned to Oxford as a senior registrar. His first consultant position was a joint appointment between the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre and Banbury, where he acquired an operating microscope, and started carrying out peripheral nerve surgery and teaching microsurgery courses. Unfortunately, at Oxford, Duthie was of the opinion that 'we're all generalists here', and Neil's efforts to expand his work in nerve surgery met with resistance. Sadly, during this period, his marriage broke up, but he was able to maintain a close relationship with his three children. When the post of clinical reader in orthopaedics at Oxford became vacant, he was appointed and also elected to a fellowship at Green College. He specialised in surgery for rheumatoid arthritis, which he found particularly rewarding, but he was disappointed that his planned research projects were not fully achieved. After two or three years, a new hospital opened in Milton Keynes, and the opportunity of developing a new type of consultant-led service was so appealing that he accepted a position there and began to specialise in hand surgery. During these years at Oxford and Milton Keynes, he wrote about 50 scientific communications and three books on hand surgery. As a registrar, he had written *Practical management of musculo-skeletal emergencies* (Oxford, Blackwell Scientific, 1985), and as a consultant, *Hand injuries and infections* (London, Gower Medical, 1986). He then co-edited *Methods and concepts in hand surgery* (London, Butterworths, 1986). At a surgical conference, he met an American woman who ran a hand and rehabilitation centre in North Carolina. Neil soon made the momentous decision to relocate to the US, with the intention of obtaining a license to practise hand surgery there. However, the medical board of North Carolina made it so difficult for him that he made the even more momentous decision to abandon his surgical career and revert to his first love, drawing and painting. Even though he was thereafter relatively financially insecure, he never regretted the decision to begin his new career as a 'creative person'. For the next 20 or more years he painted, taught workshops in drawing and painting, and made several CDs of his own improvisational music. These endeavours went well, and he found he was earning $45,000 to $50,000 a year selling paintings in galleries. The highlight of his artistic career was when he held an exhibition of his work, 'Architecture observed', in Venice in 1996. For three months he exhibited 135 of his works, which were viewed by almost 10,000 people. One visitor was a Venetian writer, Renato Pestriniero, and together they published a book of Neil's paintings with commentaries by Pestriniero, *Seeking Venice* (Vianello Libri, 2001), which became available in Italian, French and English. Neil also found time to learn to fly, partly by using simulation, which gave him the idea of developing a simulator for microsurgical techniques. He received a grant of $250,000 from the US National Institutes of Health, with which he developed realistic layered replications of the rat femoral artery, vein and sciatic nerve. He became co-director of the Microsurgical Training Institute in Santa Barbara, California, where surgeons came from all over the world. When his second marriage was dissolved, he decided to move to the San Francisco bay area, where he continued painting and, for periods, was more active in teaching and in writing about art. He taught intermittently at Cal Poly and at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco (now the Academy of Art University). His painting evolved from being realistic and conventional to more abstract, eventually combining images with the written word, a form of art he termed 'diagraphica'. He brought out several CDs, including *The drawing spirit: developing the art of your drawing hand* (2003) and *Trigraphica: a drawing trilogy* (2007?), and a book *Drawing - developing a lively and expressive approach* (Neil Watson, 2007). He also rekindled his early interest in music. In late 2008 he became engaged again, but the development of a brain tumour curtailed this plan and, having returned to Oxford to be near two of his children, he died there on 4 October 2009 at the age of 65. He was survived by his three children, Ben, Anita and Hugh, and his two former wives.<br/>Resource Identifier&#160;RCS: E001883<br/>Collection&#160;Plarr's Lives of the Fellows<br/>Format&#160;Obituary<br/>Format&#160;Asset<br/>