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First Title value, for Searching Holthouse, Edwin Hermus (1855 - 1949)

2024-04-29T01:04:05Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-10
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Occupation General surgeon Historian Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Smyrna on 18 November 1855, the second son of Carsten Holthouse, FRCS, and Agnes Cowcher Kent his wife. Carsten Holthouse was serving in the Civil Hospital there during the Crimean War; he was then assistant surgeon, and afterwards surgeon and consulting surgeon to the Westminster Hospital. He was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, of which he was an exhibitioner, and took second class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos 1878. He received his medical training at King's College Hospital, served as house surgeon there, and was clinical assistant at Moorfields. He qualified in 1881, and took the Fellowship in 1884 on the same day as John Bland Sutton, William Job Collins and R Lawford Knaggs. He was surgeon to the St Pancras and Northern Dispensary, and later to the Western Ophthalmic Hospital, to which he was elected consulting surgeon on his retirement. He practised at 1 Park Crescent, W. After retiring he lived at 6 Gilbert Road, Ramsgate, Kent, and became an authority on medieval history. Holthouse married in 1884 Harriet Emily, eldest daughter of Robert Hesketh, FRIBA, of Earlswood Mount, Redhill; Mrs Holthouse died on 20 October 1940. He died at Ramsgate on 2 January 1949, aged 93, being the senior Fellow as his father had been. He was survived by two sons. His ashes were buried at All Saints Parish Church, Lower Edmonton. Publications:- *Convergent strabismus and its treatment, an essay*. London, 1897. The Emperor Henry II, 1002-1024 AD *Cambridge Medieval History*, 1922, 3, 215-252: Chapter 10.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004222
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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First Title value, for Searching Penson, Dame Lillian Margery (1896 - 1963)

2024-04-29T01:04:05Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-07
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Occupation Historian
Details Professor of Modern History at Bedford College in the University of London from 1930, she was born on 18 July 1896, elder daughter of Arthur Smith Penson, and educated privately, at Birkbeck College and University College, London. She remained attached to the University of London for the rest of her life, except for a brief interval between 1917 and 1919 when she worked as a civil servant for the Ministry of National Service and the War Trade Intelligence Department. A historian of note, her particular interest was in the field of colonial history and research into the origins of war during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As a member of the Senate and later as Vice-Chancellor she was influential as a sponsor of the development of higher education in the underdeveloped countries. Dame Lillian was of the greatest assistance to the College, as in 1952 she consented to act as chairman of the finance committee of the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, having in 1951 become a member of its committee of management, and she played a very important part in the very delicate negotiations between the College and the University of London in the setting up of the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences as a constituent part of the Postgraduate Medical Federation. As a result, she came to have a number of friends within the College who regarded her with admiration and affection. She died after a long and trying illness on 17 April 1963.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005250
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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First Title value, for Searching Le Vay, Abraham David (1915 - 2001)

2024-04-29T01:04:05Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-13 2015-12-16
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Occupation Historian Orthopaedic surgeon Writer
Details David Le Vay was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Woolwich Brook Memorial Hospital, and a writer and linguist. He was born in London on 14 May 1915, the son of Montague Le Vay, a retailer, and Eva née Goldstein. He was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School, in Hampstead, from which he entered University College London as the Bucknill scholar. After qualifying, he completed junior posts at the Royal Free Hospital, demonstrated anatomy at Cambridge, and was a registrar at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. He entered the RAMC as an orthopaedic specialist and, on demobilisation, was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon to Woolwich Brook Memorial Hospital. In 1960, he was seconded for a year to the World Health Organization in Geneva, and in 1973 spent a year as Visiting Professor of Surgery at the Pahlavi University Medical School in Shiraz, Iran. After retirement, he continued to work for long spells in Australia, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Ireland. He was a talented linguist and had a parallel career as a medical author, biographer and historian. He wrote *A history of orthopaedic surgery* (Carnforth, Parthenon, 1990), biographies of Hugh Owen Thomas and Alexis Carrel, and numerous textbooks, including the popular *Human anatomy and physiology*, part of the Teach Yourself series (London, English Universities Press, 1974), which continued to be in demand for more than half a century. He translated innumerable medical textbooks into and from German, Latin, Spanish and French, as well as the novels of Colette and Joseph Roth. His publisher, Hodder and Stoughton, arranged a dinner to celebrate David being their longest continually published author. He married Marjorie Cole in 1940, and, in 1957, Sonja Hansen. From these two marriages he had two daughters and nine sons, one of whom became a research neurobiologist at Harvard Medical School. He was married four times in all. He died on 16 July 2001.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008735
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