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First Title value, for Searching Elliot, Norman Bruce ( - 1904)

2024-05-04T04:01:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-16
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Occupation General surgeon Lawyer Physician
Details Educated at Guy's Hospital, and practised for many years at 93 Denmark Hill, SE, where he was Surgeon to the Camberwell Provident Dispensary. He was a barrister of the Middle Temple, and towards the close of his life he moved to 27 Warwick Square, SW, and was appointed Physician to the National Hospital for Diseases of the Heart, a post which he held at the time of his death. Near the close of his life he moved to 11 Bentinck Street, Cavendish Square. He died at Bexhill on July 4th, 1904.
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First Title value, for Searching Menzies, Sir Robert Gordon (1894 - 1978)

2024-05-04T04:01:10Z

by Sir Barry Jackson
Publication Date 2015-02-10 2018-05-24
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Occupation Lawyer Politician
Details Sir Robert Menzies, Prime Minister of Australia for eighteen years and a Commonwealth statesman of acknowledged world status, was born of humble origin on 20 December 1894 at Jeparit, Victoria. He was of Scottish-Cornish ancestry, his father being a general store keeper. He was educated at Grenville College Ballarat, Wesley College Melbourne and Melbourne University. A brilliant scholar, he graduated LLM in 1917 with first class honours and the Supreme Court Judges' Prize. He was called to the Victoria Bar in 1918 and rapidly established a wide reputation, becoming King's Counsel in 1929 at the exceptionally early age of 34. He entered politics in 1928 when elected to the Victoria Legislative Council and was appointed Minister without Portfolio. In 1929 he entered the Legislative Assembly and in 1932 became Attorney General, Minister for Railways and Deputy Prime Minister. He was appointed Commonwealth Attorney General in 1935 and became Prime Minister for his first term of office in 1939 at the age of 44. He held this position for two years before resigning when he felt he had lost the confidence of his colleagues. He returned to office in December 1949 and remained Prime Minister for sixteen consecutive years before resigning in January 1966. During this time he became one of the best known Premiers, travelling widely and being a great supporter of the Commonwealth and a firm friend of Britain. An account of his distinguished political career must be sought elsewhere. A man of imposing presence with great verbal fluency, a conversationalist, mimic and wit, he was a personal friend of the Royal Family and was a guest at the Queen's Coronation in 1953. Two years earlier he had been made a Companion of Honour and in 1963 the Queen conferred upon him the rare distinction of a Knighthood of the Order of the Thistle. In 1965 he was made Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and in 1976 he was created a Knight of the Order of Australia. He was pall bearer at Sir Winston Churchill's funeral. Sir Robert was admitted an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England by the President, Lord Brock, on 28 June 1965, Sir Arthur Porritt (later Lord Porritt) gave the citation. His relaxations were walking and cricket; he was a member of the MCC and President of the Lords Taverners in 1962 and President of the Kent County Cricket Club in 1968. When he died the *Sydney Bulletin* referred to his death under the caption 'The long innings is over'. He died on 15 May 1978, aged 83, and was survived by his wife, Dame Patty Menzies, whom he married in 1920 and by his son and daughter, one son having predeceased him in 1974.
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First Title value, for Searching Norris, Donald Craig (1892 - 1968)

2024-05-04T04:01:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-23
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Occupation Lawyer Medical Officer Medico-legal specialist
Details Donald Craig Norris was born in London on 23 September 1892 and was educated at Aske's Hatcham School, the London Hospital, and the University of Paris. In the first world war he served as a stretcher bearer in the French Army and also in the Servian Red Cross during the typhus epidemic in 1915 for which he was awarded the Order of St Sava. He came home to qualify with the Conjoint Diploma in 1916, and then joined the RAMC and saw service in India, Mesopotamia, East Africa and France. After the war he returned to the London Hospital and took the FRCS in 1921 and the London MB BS in 1922, with honours in surgery and forensic medicine. For two years he was resident medical officer at Poplar Hospital for Accidents where he became involved in medico-legal work which ultimately became his special interest in preference to clinical surgery. He took the MD degree in 1924, and joined a city partnership. He later became medical officer to the Bank of England, chief medical officer of the Metropolitan Water Board and Lea Conservancy Board, and medical officer to various insurance companies. In 1936 he qualified as barrister-at-law at the Inner Temple. Norris was a man of wide interests including rehabilitation and industrial welfare, and was president of the Assurance Medical Society and of the Hunterian Society. His medico-legal interests led to his becoming associate editor of the Medico-Legal Journal. In 1923 he married Dr Helene Righthouse, who died after a long illness in 1958. When he died in the London Hospital on 17 January 1968 he was survived by his son who was also a doctor.
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First Title value, for Searching Azlan Shah, the Sultan of Perak (1928 - 2014)

2024-05-04T04:01:10Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-10-27 2020-01-21
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Occupation Lawyer Member of the Royal Family of Perak
Details Azlan Shah was the Sultan of Perak, one of the oldest hereditary seats among the Malay states. Born on 19 April 1928, he was the only son of Sultan Yussuff Izzuddin Shah ibni lmarhum Sultan Abdul Jalil Karamatullah Nasiruddin Mukhartaram Shah Radziallah Hu’an-hu by his second wife Toh Puan Besar Khadijah binti Toh Indera Wangsa Ahmad. His mother was a commoner and so he grew up outside the royal environment. Educated at first at the Government English School, he then attended Malay College, Kuala Kangsar. He travelled to the UK and studied law at Nottingham University graduating in 1953. The following year he was admitted to the English Bar and returned to Malaysia. Initially appointed Assistant State Secretary of Perak, he worked his way rapidly through his chosen profession becoming the youngest judge ever to be appointed to the High Court of Malaya in 1965 at the age of 37. Appointed to the Federal Court in 1973, he became Chief Justice six years later. On being made Lord President of the Federal Court on 12 November 1982, he was the youngest to have ever held the highest judicial post in the country. Due to the demise of his elder brothers, he was made crown prince of Perak in 1983 when he was in his late fifties. When his uncle, Sulton Idris Almuttawakkil Allahi Shah II, passed away in 1984, he succeeded to the throne and was crowned on 9 December 1985. Throughout his career he was associated with higher education and was Pro-Chancellor of the Universiti Sains Malaysia from 1971 to 1981 and Chancellor of the University of Malaya from 1983 until he died. Various prestigious institutions gave him honorary doctorates and he was awarded the honorary fellowship of the college in 1999. His favourite sport was hockey, indeed he was referred to as ‘The father of Malaysian Hockey’ and served on various national and internal bodies associated with the game. In 1955 he married Bainun Binti Mohd and they had two sons and three daughters. When he died on 28 May 2014 aged 86, he was survived by his wife, son Raja Nazrin Shah (who succeeded him as Sultan) and daughters Raja Azureen, Raja Eleena and Raja Yong Sofia. Their son Raja Dato’ Seri Ashman Shah predeceased him on 30 March 2012 when he died from an asthma attack.
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First Title value, for Searching Watkins, Sir Tasker (1918 - 2007)

2024-05-04T04:01:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-03-27
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Occupation Lawyer
Details Sir Tasker Watkins was a war hero, holder of the Victoria Cross, Deputy Chief Justice for England and Wales from 1988 to 1993, and an honorary fellow of the College. He was born in Nelson, Glamorgan, on 18 November 1918, the son of a mining engineer. He won a scholarship to Pontypridd County School, where he played rugby football, and was studying to become a commercial attaché when the war broke out. He enlisted into the Welch Regiment and rose to become a lieutenant in command of a company, which was ordered to attack the railway at Bafour, near Falaise, under intense fire. He charged two German posts, killing and wounding the occupants with his Sten gun, and went on to attack an anti-tank gun emplacement when his Sten jammed, so he threw it into a German’s face, and finished him off with his revolver. His company, now reduced to about 30, was now counterattacked by some 50 Germans. Watkins led a bayonet charge which wiped out many of the enemy and then attempted to withdraw round the enemy flank, but was challenged by a German position. Ordering his men to scatter, he charged the post with a Bren gun, silenced it, and led the remnants of his company back to headquarters, having saved the lives of half of his men. For his valour he was decorated with the Victoria Cross and promoted to major. After the war he took up the law. He was called to the Bar in 1948, took silk in 1965 and in 1971 joined the Bench as a judge. He enjoyed a distinguished legal career as Judge of the High Court, Lord Justice of Appeal, and Deputy Chief Justice for England and Wales from 1988 until he retired in 1993. Among his duties was to act as counsel during the enquiry into the Aberfan disaster. He was president of the Welsh Rugby Union from 1993 until 2004. He married Eirwen Evans in 1941 and they had two children, a son, who died in 1982, and a daughter, Mair. He died in the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, on 9 September 2007.
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First Title value, for Searching Wilson, Alexander Garrick (1875 - 1951)

2024-05-04T04:01:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-18
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Occupation General surgeon Lawyer Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Born on 9 January 1875 at Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, the eldest child of James Mitchell Wilson, MB, medical officer of health for Rochdale, Lancashire, and his wife, *née* Shepperson. He was educated at Doncaster Grammar School, and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took third-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part 1, in 1895. He won a University scholarship at St Mary's Hospital Medical School, and later served the Hospital as surgical registrar. He took the Cambridge Mastership in Surgery in 1905. He was also called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn. Wilson was appointed senior house surgeon at Sheffield Royal Infirmary, and spent the whole of his professional life in that city. He was for a time surgeon to the Sheffield Children's Hospital, and ultimately senior consulting surgeon to the Royal Hospital and to the King Edward VII Hospital for Surgical Tuberculosis. He was also consulting orthopaedic surgeon to Chesterfield Royal Hospital. He lectured in clinical surgery at Sheffield University, and became president of the Sheffield Medicochirurgical Society. He was chairman of the Sheffield division of the British Medical Association in 1924-25. He was commissioned in the RAMC (T) on 2 January 1909. During the war of 1914-18 he served with the rank of major, attached to the 4th battalion, York and Lancashire Regiment. Wilson practised at 79 Upper Hanover Street, and lived at Riverdale Croft, Ranmoor, Sheffield, but retired early to Derwent House, Beaminster, Dorset. He was twice married: (1) in 1903 to Mary Wright; there were two daughters of this marriage; (2) in 1914 to Vera, daughter of J B Wilkinson, who died in March 1950 without children. Wilson died at his daughter's house at Luddenden, Yorkshire, on 10 December 1951, aged 76. He was a tireless man, who paid great attention to minutiae in all his work. He took great trouble to ensure the welfare of the non-medical staff, nurses, and students at all the hospitals with which he was connected. He maintained a cheerful equanimity in the face of his own suffering from illness and bereavement. Publications: Tuberculous neuritis. *Quart med J Yorkshire*, 1899, 8, 46. Post-operative treatment. *St Mary's Hosp Gaz* 1902, 8, 100. Ulcerative colitis. *Lancet*, 1904, 2, 1208. Hyperkeratosis. *Brit J Derm* 1905, 17, 13.
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First Title value, for Searching Pollock, Sir Edward James (1841 - 1930)

2024-05-04T04:01:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-04
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Occupation General surgeon Lawyer
Details Born 1 April 1841, one of the twenty-four children of Lord Chief Baron Pollock. In this large family he was the ninth son of his father and the second son of the second wife Sarah, daughter of Captain Richard Langslow, of Hatton Cross near Bedfont, Middlesex. He was thus closely related to the legal and medical members of the Pollock family. He was half brother of Baron Charles Edward Pollock (1823-97); uncle of Ernest Murray Pollock, Baron Hanworth, Master of the Rolls (1861-1936), of Sir Frederick Pollock, KC (1845-1937), Judge of the Admiralty Court of the Cinque Ports 1914-36, of the Right Rev Bertram Pollock, Bishop of Norwich, and of Sir Adrian Donald Wilde Pollock, Chamberlain of the City of London; and a first cousin to George Pollock assistant surgeon St George's Hospital, and to Arthur Julius Pollock (1835-90), physician to Charing Cross Hospital. Edward James Pollock was educated at a small preparatory school kept by the Rev Samuel Moses Marcus in Caroline Street, Bloomsbury, and amongst his schoolfellows were Richard Garnett, afterwards Principal Librarian of the British Museum, Linley Sambourne the *Punch* artist, Millais the painter, and Brodribb the classical scholar. The Pollocks lived at this time in the house at the north end of Queen Square looking into Guilford Street, and their garden was used as a playground for the boys attending Marcus' school. Pollock proceeded from this school to King's College, London, entered King's College Hospital and served as house surgeon during the year 1863-64. He was then elected surgeon to the Farringdon General Dispensary and Lying-in Hospital at Bartlett's Buildings, Holborn, having as his surgical colleagues Robert William Dunn and Charles Matthews, both of whom had been students at King's College Hospital. Pollock at this time was living at 6 Old Cavendish Street, and was acting as private assistant to George Critchett in his ophthalmic practice. He visited the United States about 1869, remained there a few months and on his return determined to devote himself to the study of the law. He was called to the Bar by the Inner Temple in 1872 and soon obtained a fair Common Law practice, which he had to relinquish twenty-five years later on account of an operation upon his larynx which reduced his voice to a hoarse whisper and prevented him from acting as an advocate. Lord Halsbury appointed him in 1897 one of the three official referees of the Supreme Court of Judicature in the place of Sir Edward Ridley, who had been promoted to the High Court Bench. Pollock soon showed that he was quick in seizing the essential facts and figures of a case whilst his geniality made it a pleasure to appear before him. He resigned his office in 1927, having received the honour of Knighthood five years previously. He married in 1871, Alice Georgina (d 1929), daughter of Warren de la Rue, FRS, and was the recipient of a presentation from the Bar when he celebrated with her the fiftieth anniversary of their wedding. He died on 14 April 1930, at 20 York Terrace, Regent's Park, survived by two sons and three daughters. He is known as a great lawyer and a great gentleman, who was remembered with respect and affection.
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First Title value, for Searching Romanis, William Hugh Cowie (1889 - 1972)

2024-05-04T04:01:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-06
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Occupation General surgeon Lawyer Thoracic surgeon
Details Born at Godalming on 8 November 1889, the elder son of the Rev William Francis Romanis, Preacher of the Charterhouse, and Annie Ellen Cowie, he was educated at Charterhouse where he was a scholar and became head of the school. Going up to Trinity College, Cambridge as a mathematical scholar he obtained a first class in part I of the Mathematical Tripos, followed by a first class in part I of the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1911. Becoming interested in medicine he proceeded to St Thomas's Hospital for his clinical studies, qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1914. Before qualification he obtained medicine and surgery prizes in 1913 and, after qualification, was appointed house surgeon for six months followed by six months as a casualty officer, after which he was gazetted in the RAMC. He served in France at No 6 and No 44 Casualty Clearing Stations, returning before the end of the war to take up the post of surgical registrar - at the time there was only one - to be followed by that of resident assistant surgeon at St Thomas's which by that time was desperately short of surgical manpower. In 1919 at the age of 30 he was elected to the consultant staff and by his outstanding ability rapidly built up an ever widening consulting practice embracing many smaller, peripheral hospitals, in particular Wrotham, Sevenoaks, Woking, Kingston, Wimbledon, St Anthony's Cheam and Okehampton. He succeeded Morriston Davies as consulting surgeon at the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Heart and Lungs in Victoria Park and was one of the early pioneers in thoracic surgery. A man of remarkable intellectual capacity, he was also a dextrous and rapid operator and was one of the first to undertake the surgical treatment of exophthalmic goitre, at that time only possible under twilight sleep and local anaesthesia. A popular teacher with a ready wit, he was much sought after as an examiner. He was a member of the Court of Examiners of the College and also acted for the Universities of Cambridge, London and Glasgow. At one time he was a surgeon to the Tooting Neurological Hospital and was a Fellow of the Association of Neurological Surgeons, having for a period been associated with Sir Percy Sargent at St Thomas's. He collaborated with P H Mitchiner in a highly successful textbook of surgery and was the author of numerous surgical papers. Legal processes had always fascinated him and he was a JP and chairman of the bench at Godalming for many years. To increase his legal status he was called to the Bar in 1954 at the age of 64, in which year he retired from the staff of St Thomas's. His interests were wide outside the field of surgery. At one time he was county surgeon of Surrey in the St John Ambulance Brigade. An eminent Freemason, he attained high rank and was active in the interests of the craft, particularly the Masonic Hospital. An early and enthusiastic motorist, "Hugo" as he was always known at St Thomas's, was driving sports cars at a time when they were few in number and hard to come by. He was also a model railway enthusiast, maintaining an extensive and highly efficient railway in the garden of his country home. He married in 1916 Dorothy Elizabeth daughter of Rev Canon Robert Burnett, Chancellor of Ferns Cathedral, Co Wexford and they had one son, a medical practitioner, and two daughters. He died at his house in Godalming on 25 January 1972 aged 82 survived by his widow, son and a married daughter.
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