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First Title value, for Searching Wilson, John Robinson (1919 - 1973)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-31
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Occupation General surgeon Journalist Writer
Details John Robinson Wilson was born in Leeds on 19 November 1919, and was educated at Stonyhurst College and Leeds University where he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma and the University MB ChB in 1943. He held house appointments at Leeds and Sheffield, and then spent two years as a ship's doctor in the Orient line. He returned to Leeds as surgical registrar at St James's Hospital, held a similar appointment at Bradford Infirmary and took the FRCS in 1951. The following year he worked as surgical registrar at the West London Hospital, but for the rest of his life he abandoned clinical work for medical journalism and novel writing under the pen-name of John Rowan Wilson. In 1954 he was appointed to the international clinical research staff of Lederle Laboratories, and in 1958 became medical director of the company in the United Kingdom. From 1962 till 1965 he was assistant editor of the *British medical journal*, but resigned in order to devote more time to his novels and to become international editor of *World medicine*. In 1971 and 1972 he assisted Dr Hugh Clegg to launch the new journal *Tropical doctor*, subsequently taking over the editorship when Dr Clegg retired. Wilson had a unusually critical mind and a brilliant personality, and although he ridiculed human follies he was always so fair-minded that he attracted many friends. He owed a great deal to the devotion and support of his wife Sheila who survived him when he died suddenly on 22 May 1973 while on holiday in Cyprus.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006277
Collection Plarr's Lives of the Fellows
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First Title value, for Searching Morland, Egbert Coleby (1874 - 1955)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-28
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Occupation Editor Journalist Physician
Details Egbert Morland was elected a Fellow in recognition of his services as Editor of *The Lancet*. Born in 1874, the fifth son of Charles Coleby Morland of Croydon, he came of a well-known Quaker family; an elder brother, Harold, a prominent accountant and auditor in the City of London, was Clerk (ie Chairman) of the Society of Friends 1927-32. Egbert was educated at Bootham School and Owens College, Manchester, and won an open scholarship to St Bartholomew's, qualifying in 1897 and winning the gold medal in physiology at the London MD examination in 1898. He held house appointments at St Bartholomew's and at Great Ormond Street. Adding Swiss qualifications, he practised as a chest physician in Switzerland for eleven years (1903-14) first at Davos and later at Arosa, where he was a pioneer of the English colony and helped to build the church. In the first year of the war he served in France under the Friends Relief Committee, but in 1915 joined the staff of *The Lancet*. He lived for twelve years in Buckinghamshire, moved into London in 1928, and succeeded Sir Squire Sprigge as Editor in 1937. During the second world war he evacuated *The Lancet's* office to Aylesbury and lived "over the shop" from 1939 to 1945. He then retired to Holmfirth, Yorkshire where his wife died in 1948. She had been Mary Windsor Latchmore, also a Quaker, and had shared his work and interests. They were married in 1903 and adopted two sons and a daughter. Morland died at York on 26 April 1955 aged 81. Morland was ideally suited to carry on *The Lancet's* tradition of sturdy independence and social conscience. He was an amusing and sympathetic companion, and experienced in clinical practice before he became a journalist. Personally he was interested in such humanitarian problems as child welfare, the treatment of tuberculosis, and the care of the aged, but in his editorial work he drew contributions from a very wide circle of acquaintance and was keenly awake to every advance in scientific medicine.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005179
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First Title value, for Searching Sprigge, Sir Samuel Squire (1860 - 1937)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-13
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Occupation Journalist
Details Born at Watton, Thetford, Norfolk on 22 June 1860, the eldest son of Squire Sprigge (d 1877), MRCS 1846, LSA 1847, and Elizabeth, daughter of John Jackson, solicitor, who practised at Dutton Hill and Bury St Edmunds. His father had been educated at the London Hospital and was district medical officer to the Wayland Union. Squire Sprigge had his early schooling under the Rev J R Pilling at East Dereham, and entered Uppingham in August 1873 when Edward Thring was headmaster. He left in July 1878 and matriculated from Caius College, Cambridge on 1 October 1878, taking a "poll" degree in 1882. He received his medical education at St George's Hospital, where he dressed for Timothy Holmes, and after qualifying held resident posts at the West London and the Brompton Hospitals. He was attracted for a time to literature, wrote some short stories, became associated with Sir Walter Besant, and was secretary to the newly founded Society of Authors, of which he was president in 1911. With Sir Walter Besant he represented the Society at the Chicago Exhibition in 1893. During this period he acted as secretary to Sir Russell Reynolds, afterwards president of the Royal College of Physicians. Sprigge's connexion with *The Lancet* began in 1903, and after a short period of probation he was appointed sub-editor of the journal. Dr Thomas Wakley, junior, the grandson of the founder of the paper, died in 1909, and Sprigge then became editor, a position he held with distinction until his death in 1937. He married twice: (1) in 1895 Beatrice, daughter of Sir Charles Moss, Chief Justice of Ontario; she died in 1903 leaving him with two children: Cecil Sprigge, financial editor of the Manchester Guardian, and Mrs Mark Napier (Elizabeth Sprigge, the novelist); (2) in 1905 Ethel Courselles, daughter of Major Charles Jones; she survived him with a daughter. He died of a pulmonary embolism on 17 June 1937. Sir Squire Sprigge did much to improve the position of medical journalism by a succession of small and unobtrusive changes in *The Lancet*, which made it acceptable as an organ of the profession and agreeable to the reader who had no special knowledge. He was the embodiment of sound common sense, shrewdness, and tolerance. He wrote once to an assistant: "You are too outspoken, bounders do not always bound, boasters do not always lie, and third-rate persons sometimes produce second-rate stuff." Throughout his editorship he was keenly alive to the great advances which were being made in every branch of medicine, and was interested in the education of the student and in the welfare of his teachers. During the war he did much good, in 1914, as secretary of the Belgian Doctors' and Pharmacists' Relief Fund. In 1928 he went to the United States and delivered a Hunterian lecture before the American College of Surgeons. He was rewarded with the honorary Fellowship of the College and took the opportunity of visiting some of the American and Canadian universities. This oration was his only signed contribution to *The Lancet*, except for articles in December 1936 under the heading of "Grains and scruples by a Chronicler", his name as author of these being given in the half-yearly index. Publications: *Methods of publishing: the cost of production*. London, 1890; 2nd edition, 1892. *The life and times of Thomas Wakley*. London, 1897; re-issued 1899. *Odd issues*. London, 1899. Editor of *Autobiography of Sir Walter Besant*. London, 1902. *An industrious Chevalier*. London, 1902; new edition, 1931. *Medicine and the public*. London, 1905. *Some considerations of medical education*. London, 1910. *Physic and fiction*. London, 1921. Editor of *The conduct of medical practice*. London, 1927. Grand curiosity as exemplified in the life of John Hunter, Hunterian lecture before the American College of Surgeons, Boston, October 1928. *Surg Gynec Obstet* 1928, 47, 877, and *Lancet*, 1928, 2, 739. Grains and scruples by a Chronicler. *Lancet*, 1936, 2, 1358-60, 1422-24, 1485-87, 1542-44.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004636
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