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First Title value, for Searching Petersen, Norman August Marais ( - 1972)

2024-06-14T10:35:47Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-24
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Occupation Maxillofacial surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Norman August Marais Petersen studied at the University of London and passed MB BS in 1920. In 1920 he also passed the Conjoint Examination at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 1923 he became a Fellow of both the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and England. He specialised in plastic and maxillo-facial surgery in South Africa. Norman August Marais Petersen died in either 1971 or 1972.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006019
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First Title value, for Searching Crockford, David Allen (1930 - 1982)

2024-06-14T10:35:47Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-25
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Occupation Maxillofacial surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details David Allen Crockford was born on 21 August 1930 in London. The son of Allen Lepard Crockford, CBE, DSO, MC, TD, MA, MB, BCh, MRCS, LRCP, late Brigadier, RAMC, and then Hon Surgeon to King George VI and HM the Queen. His mother was Doris Ellen, née Brookes-Smith. His early education was at St Pirans-on-the-Hill, Maidenhead, and Rugby. In 1951 he went up to King's College, Cambridge, where he took his BA in 1954 before entering St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. On qualifying 1957 he became successively house surgeon, casualty officer and surgical registrar at St Thomas's then for a time surgical registrar at Leicester Royal Infirmary where he was influenced by E R Frizelle. In 1965 he was appointed senior surgical registrar at St Thomas's before moving to Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, where he worked in the department of plastic and facio-maxillary surgery. This field became his main interest. After a year he was appointed a registrar in plastic surgery in Newcastle then senior registrar in the Newcastle University Hospital group. Here he worked for F Braithwaite and J R G Edwards. While senior registrar he spent the year from 1970 to 1971 as a visiting fellow in the Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery at the New York University Medical Centre. While there he made many friends and left a lasting impression of his sincerity and honest approach to his work. He contributed 'The transplantation of tendons' to the second edition of *Reconstructive plastic surgery*, edited by John Converse. On his return to Britain he continued to work in Newcastle and was appointed consultant plastic surgeon to the area health authority and senior registrar to the University Hospital. His special interests were hand and maxillo-facial surgery, particularly the primary and secondary problems of children with cleft lip and palate. He was carrying out research on the latter when he died. While at school at Rugby he distinguished himself by being the first boy ever to score a double 'possible' in the Ashburton Shield at Bisley. On leaving school he joined the Coldstream Guards to do his National Service, and was commissioned. He hoped to see service abroad, but his shooting skill was such that he was kept at home as an instructor. His other interests included sailing - he was a member of the Royal Ocean Racing Club - music, especially the classical guitar, at which he was proficient, gardening and cabinet-making. In 1962 he married Diane Mary Baynes, daughter of Dr Helton Godwin Baynes who wrote *The mythology of the soul*, *Germany possessed*, and other works relating to Jungian psychology. He died on 7 January, 1982, his wife and three daughters survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Bremner, John Cameron (1930 - 1973)

2024-06-14T10:35:47Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-14
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Occupation Maxillofacial surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Bremner was born in Queensland, Australia on 8 November 1930 and educated at Melbourne University, Victoria; later he moved to Perth, Western Australia, where he was making a distinguished career in plastic surgery when he fell ill and died at the age of forty-two. At the University he won the Syme Prize in Anatomy with an Exhibition in 1950, the Ryan Prize in Surgery in 1953, and qualified that year; in 1956 he passed Part 1 of the MS examination. After holding resident posts at the Royal Melbourne Hospital he was appointed in 1956 associate-assistant surgeon to E E Dunlop and became associate-assistant to B K Rank, plastic and facio-maxillary surgeon to the Hospital; he was also part-time surgeon to the Casualty Clinic and assistant to A R Wakefield, reparative surgeon to the Peter MacCallum Clinic, Melbourne Cancer Institute. In the same period he was a demonstrator, first of pathology and then of surgery, in the University and from 1957 clinical supervisor of students at the Hospital. He won a Fulbright Fellowship for advanced study at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1959. On his way to America he visited London, took the Fellowship, and attended the Second International Congress of Plastic Surgery. At Pittsburgh he held the post of teaching fellow and preceptor in plastic surgery, and undertook research on tendon healing. He also attended the meetings of the Canadian and American Societies of Plastic Surgeons, and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the latter; he became a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1961. He returned to Australia in 1960 on appointment to the staff of the plastic and maxillo-facial unit at the Royal Perth Hospital, and was promoted to be surgeon to the unit in 1964. He was also plastic surgeon to the Fremantle Hospital, and consultant plastic surgeon to the Royal Australian Navy, in which he had held the rank of Surgeon-Lieutenant, RAN Reserve, since 1955. He was lecturer in surgery at the University of Western Australia, and a member of the West Australia State Medical Planning Committee; he built up a prosperous private practice, and was active in the West Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons. Bremner was a cultivated and generous man; he gave a munificent donation in 1973 to buy works of art for the adornment of the Medical School at the University of Western Australia in the hope that future students would enjoy looking at the pictures and broaden their interests. His recreations were tennis, golf and sailing; he was interested in farming and a partner in two grazing and beef-cattle properties outside Perth. He was also a keen Freemason, and was Master-elect of the St George Lodge, Perth at the time of his death. Bremner was seriously ill in 1972, received leave from his duties, and died at Portsea, Victoria on 8 June 1973 aged forty-two; he was unmarried. Publications: Correlation of tongue changes and nutrition. *Roy Melb Hosp Clin Rep* 1952, 22, 46. Splenic vein thrombosis in patient with myeloproliferative syndrome. *Roy Melb Hosp Clin Rep* 1954, 24, 117.
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