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First Title value, for Searching Dennis, Catherine Norah ( - 2003)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-23
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Occupation Medical Officer
Details Catherine Norah Dennis trained in Aberdeen and Madras. In the 1960's she worked for the Ministry of Health in Savile Row and moved to the Elephant and Castle when the Ministry became the Department of Health and Social Security. She retired to Truro in Cornwall and her solicitors informed the College that she had died in a letter dated 5 June 2003.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008581
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First Title value, for Searching Wheeler, Robert Oliver ( - 1978)

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First Title value, for Searching Harbison, David Thomas (1870 - 1953)

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First Title value, for Searching Dukes, Heather Margaret (1942 - 2014)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-06-12 2017-12-21
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Medical Officer Paediatrician
Details Heather Margaret Dukes was a general surgeon, paediatrician and general practitioner. She was born Heather Margaret Starkie in Hyde, Cheshire on 4 September 1942. Her father, Colin Starkie, was medical officer of health for Kidderminster; her mother was Margaret Joyce Starkie née Wrigley. She was educated at the Knoll School, Kidderminster, and then Kidderminster High School. In 1960, she started studying medicine at Birmingham University, qualifying in 1965. Immediately after qualifying, she went to Rhodesia, where she worked in junior posts in the professorial units at the University of Rhodesia. She developed skills in vascular access surgery and helped to start central Africa's first renal unit. In 1969, she returned to the UK, to Coventry and then as a resident surgical officer at the Children's Hospital in Birmingham. She took a break from work while her children were young, and then retrained in paediatrics. In 1981, she was appointed as Coventry's principal medical officer for child health. She later retrained and became a general practitioner, founding the Anchor Centre, providing primary healthcare for the homeless and for refugees. In 1964, she married David Dukes. They had four children and five grandchildren. Heather Margaret Dukes died on 20 September 2014 from angiosarcoma. She was 72.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007457
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First Title value, for Searching Bown, Derek Gordon ( - 1986)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-23
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Derek Bown trained for the Conjoint Diploma at Guy's Hospital and became a Fellow of the College in 1930. He held posts at the Taunton and Somerset Hospital and the Royal South Hants and Southampton Hospital and was medical officer for Reckitt's Convalescent Home in Essex. He became honorary surgeon to the Bexhill Hospital and consultant surgeon to the Clacton and District Hospital. His wife, Elizabeth, had predeceased him when he died on 25 February 1986.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007122
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First Title value, for Searching Walsh, John Joseph ( - 1969)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-24
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Occupation Medical Officer
Details John Joseph Walsh was educated at the National University of Ireland and graduated MB BCh BAO in 1921. He also studied at the London Hospital. In April 1922 he obtained the FRCS. Walsh was for a time the deputy medical superintendant and surgical officer of the Mayday Hospital, London, and took the DOMS in 1946. In the meantime he had obtained the MD degree of his Irish University in 1936. By 1955 he had returned to Ireland and lived at Carrick-on-Shannon. He died in 1969.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006206
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First Title value, for Searching Sweetman, Kenneth Franklin Drysdale ( - 1996)

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First Title value, for Searching Scott, Daphne Mary (1919 - 2007)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-14 2014-06-03
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Occupation Medical Officer
Details Daphne Mary Scott was a medical officer for Family Planning Association (FPA) clinics in Croydon, Westminster and Oxted. She was born in Ealing, London, on 2 April 1919, the elder daughter of Sir Harold Richard Scott, a civil servant, and Ethel Mary Scott née Golledge. Scott's father was in charge of civil defence in London during the Second World War, and later became commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and then chairman of HM Prison Commissioners. She was educated at Bridge House, Tadworth, Sunny Hill School, Bruton, and Roedean, and went on to study medicine at St Andrews University. She won year medals for botany and zoology, and qualified in 1943. Whilst a student she represented her university at lacrosse and swimming. During the Second World War Scott was an assistant in general practice in Hitchin, Hertfordshire. From 1948 to 1950 she was a house officer at North Middlesex Hospital. In 1950 she was an assistant demonstrator in anatomy at St Thomas's Hospital, and then a senior house officer at Leicester Royal Infirmary. She went on to become an approved speaker, teacher and trainer for the FPA. She gained her FPA training certificate in 1961. Outside medicine, she enjoyed walking and hill climbing, gardening, botany and handicrafts. In 1953 she married. Her husband was a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and a GP surgeon in Oxted. They had two daughters. She died on 11 December 2007, aged 88.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001582
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First Title value, for Searching Guinane, James Vincent (1905 - 1972)

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First Title value, for Searching Woods, William James (1872 - 1944)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-26
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Occupation Medical Officer Physician
Details Educated at Queen's College, Belfast, where he qualified in 1893, and at the London Hospital, he took the Fellowship within a month of taking the Conjoint diplomas in 1896. Settling in Natal, South Africa, he was appointed Physician to Grey's Hospital, Pietermaritzburg. He was also medical officer of health for that city, and took the DPH of Cape Town University in 1921. He died in 1944.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005607
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First Title value, for Searching Watts, John Ernest Price ( - 1973)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-24
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details John Ernest Price Watts of Buckhurst Hill, Essex, passed the Conjoint Examination in 1911, and in 1913 the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He worked at the Westminster, King's College London, and St Bartholomew's Hospitals. He was medical officer and later consultant surgeon to the Forest Hospital, Buckhurst Hill. He was Honorary Medical Officer to the Ilford Emergency Hospital. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. John Ernest Price Watts died early in 1973.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006200
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First Title value, for Searching Sprott, Norman Armitage (1890 - 1979)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-19
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Occupation Medical Officer
Details Norman Armitage Sprott studied medicine at Oxford University, St Thomas's, the London Hospital and the Middlesex Hospital. His varied posts included medical officer to the Hyderabad State Railways, member of the medical board of Eton College and medical superintendent of St Columba's Hospital, London. He retired to Jersey where he died on 25 June 1979, survived by his children Peter and Margaret, his daughter Cecily having predeceased him.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006969
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First Title value, for Searching Senapati, Mihir Kumar (1930 - 2005)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-03-13 2017-07-26
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Mihir Kumar Senapati was a medical officer in Nigeria. He was born on 30 December 1925, the second son of Nilamani Senapati, an administrator in the Indian Civil Service, and Indumati Senapati née Niyogi. He was educated at the Doon School in Dehradun, Uttar Pradesh, India, where he gained the school high jump record and was presented with a copy of *Grey's anatomy* in recognition of his academic achievements. He went on to study medicine at Patna University, where he gained honours in physiology and pathology, and was captain of sports. He qualified with the MB BS in 1948. He was a house surgeon at the Prince of Wales Medical College Hospital in Patna and the Orissa Medical College Hospital, Cuttack. He then went to the UK, where he was a house surgeon and casualty officer at Hammersmith Hospital and the Postgraduate Medical School of London. He was subsequently a surgical registrar for the Canterbury and Thanet Hospital Group. In 1957, he gained his fellowships of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and of Edinburgh. In the late 1950s, he went to the northern region of Nigeria as medical officer for the Overseas Civil Service. After independence in 1960, he stayed on and worked for the Ministry of Health in Jos and then Kaduna. He became a fellow of the West African College of Surgeons in 1975. His last known address was in Haslemere, Surrey. Outside medicine he enjoyed rough shooting and bridge, motor mechanics and the maintenance of surgical equipment. In 1952, he married a Miss Iyer, who became a GP. They had a daughter, who also became a doctor, and a son. Mihir Kumar Senapati died in 2005.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006956
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Cecil Meredyth (1890 - 1955)

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First Title value, for Searching Taunton, Edgar (1878 - 1960)

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First Title value, for Searching Cripps, William Lawrence (1878 - 1960)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-05 2021-05-25
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Born in London 10 April 1878, the son of William Harrison Cripps FRCS. He was educated at Marlborough, Trinity College, Cambridge and St Bartholomew's Hospital where, after qualification, he held a house surgeon appointment. He never practised as a surgeon but was medical officer to the General Accident and Life Assurance Company and the London General Omnibus Company. During the war of 1914-18 he served as a surgeon in the Royal Navy. Late in life and after his retirement he adopted the surname Harrison Cripps. He died at his home Meath Green House, Horley on 13 December 1960 aged 82.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004979
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First Title value, for Searching Hayman, Samuel Clifford (1883 - 1909)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-26 2015-09-25
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details The following was published in volume 1 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows First practised at Clifton, Bristol, and towards the end of his life at Harewood, Narboro Road, Leicester. He died in 1909. The following was published in volume 4 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Born about 1883 he was educated at Bristol Medical School and the London Hospital. After qualifying in 1904 he settled at Leicester, where he became medical officer to the Provident Dispensary and a medical examiner for the Rock Insurance Co. Hayman appears to have died in 1909 at the age of 26, but his name remained on the College books till 1952.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005593
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First Title value, for Searching Peirce, George Edward Graves ( - 1991)

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First Title value, for Searching Warner, Thomas (1866 - 1942)

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First Title value, for Searching Taylor, Douglas Compton ( - 1965)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-20
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Douglas Compton Taylor was educated at University College, London, and qualified from University College Hospital in 1906 with the Conjoint Diploma and the London MB, BS. He was house surgeon and casualty officer at University College Hospital, and took the FRCS in 1913. During the first world war he joined the RAMC, being commissioned Temporary Lieutenant in 1915, promoted to Captain in 1916 and acting Major in 1918. He served overseas in the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders, and ultimately relinquished his commission and was granted the rank of Major in February 1920. He was awarded the OBE and the MC. Taylor worked for a time as senior assistant medical officer of the Park Hospital for Children at Oxford, and also as deputy medical superintendent of Lewisham Hospital. He ultimately retired to Willington, near Shipton-on-Stour, Warwickshire, where he died on 30 March 1965 and was survived by his wife.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006174
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First Title value, for Searching Killen, Thomas (1880 - 1951)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-26
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Born at Larne, Co Antrim about 1880 the son of John Moore Killen MD, he was educated at Queen's College, Belfast and graduated in arts in the Royal University of Ireland, winning first-class honours and an exhibition; he proceeded to his medical degrees in 1903. After postgraduate study at the London Hospital, he was house surgeon at the Bolingbroke Hospital, Wandsworth, and took the Fellowship in 1908. He served as house surgeon and anaesthetist at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, and was demonstrator of anatomy at Queen's College. Killen practised for most of his life at Larne, and succeeded his father as medical officer to the Lame District and Fever Hospitals. He was also Admiralty Surgeon and Agent there, and was a Fellow of the Ulster Medical Society. He died on 21 January 1951.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005599
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First Title value, for Searching Bomford, William Bruce Norris (1919 - 2004)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-08-07 2018-03-05
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details William Bruce Norris Bomford, known as 'Bruce', was chief medical officer of British Petroleum. He was born in Salford Priors, near Evesham, Worcestershire on 7 February 1919. His father, Benjamin Norris Bomford, was a farmer and market gardener; his mother, Elsie Bomford née Fisher, was the daughter of a market gardener and one-time alderman and mayor of Evesham. Bomford was educated at Woodnorton Preparatory School and then Malvern, where he was head boy and captain of football. He went on to study medicine at the London Hospital Medical School. After qualifying in 1943, he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps. He landed in Normandy soon after the D-Day landings and worked in a field hospital outside Bayeux. He was later shipped to Bombay and spent time in Sumatra, Java, Borneo and Singapore. He was demobilised in 1947. He was a surgical registrar at the Royal Masonic, Edgware and London hospitals, and then surgical first assistant at the London Hospital and King George Hospital, Ilford. In 1960, he was appointed as surgeon-in-charge of the 120-bed hospital at the British Petroleum refinery in Little Aden, South Yemen. For 12 years he worked as the only surgeon in the hospital and then returned to London as chief medical officer of British Petroleum, finally retiring in 1979. He initially retired to Salford Priors, and then moved to Carlisle. He was married twice. In 1944, he married Jean Galton Upward, a nurse. They had two sons, Adrian (who became a doctor and a specialist in hepatology) and Jonathan. In 1994, he married for a second time, to Sheila Heywood. Bruce Bomford died in Carlisle on 26 December 2004. He was 85.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007652
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First Title value, for Searching Nicol, Burton Alexander ( - 1937)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-23
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Military surgeon
Details Burton Alexander Nicol qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in May 1899, took the DPH at Cambridge in 1902, and the FRCS in 1903. He was a student at Guy's and Charing Cross Hospitals, and was house-physician at Charing Cross and resident medical officer to the Kensington Dispensary and honorary surgeon to the Ramsgate Dispensary. Nicol served as a civil surgeon in the South African War, then as Principal Medical Officer of the Indian Immigration Board from 1907 till 1910, and as a member of the Natal Board of Health in 1910. He returned to England later that year, and in 1912 he went back to South Africa and started practice in Durban. In 1914 he joined the South African Medical Corps as a Captain and retired with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1924. He then practised for a time as a consulting surgeon in East London, but later moved to Johannesburg where he died in 1937. He was generally regarded as a competent surgeon and a friendly colleague, and at his death he was survived by his wife and a son and daughter.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005985
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First Title value, for Searching Wilkinson, Valentine (1892 - 1980)

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First Title value, for Searching Griffith, Harold Kinder (1889 - 1966)

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First Title value, for Searching Alhadeff, Robert (1923 - 1973)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-14
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Physician
Details Born on 22 August 1923 at Milan in Italy, the second son of Asher Alhadef, a tobacco merchant, and his wife Jeannette Franses. He was educated at Bromsgrove School, Birmingham, and at Worcester College (1942-47) and the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, qualifying in 1947. He held resident posts at Nottingham Hospital and the Royal Northern Hospital, London, and then served as a graded surgical specialist with the rank of Captain in the RAMC 1950-52. He took the Fellowship in 1952, after working under Ian Aird at the Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith Hospital. He recalled with gratitude the teaching and influence of Gabriel Franklin, Hamilton Bailey and Selwyn Taylor, as well as Professor Aird. Alhadeff emigrated to South America, where he became medical officer to the British Embassy at Buenos Aires and personal physician to the British Ambassador to Argentina. He married in 1949 Miss Soriano, who survived him with their three sons. His recreations were yachting and painting; he also undertook astronomical calculations. Alhadeff died on 7 September 1973 aged fifty. Publications: Clinical aspects of filariasis. *J Trop Med Hyg* 1955, 58: 173-179. A clinico-pathological study of thyroid carcinoma. *Brit J Surg* 1956,43: 617.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005614
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First Title value, for Searching Foenander, Frederick James Theodore (1898 - 1977)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-08
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Occupation General practitioner Medical Officer
Details Frederick James Theodore Foenander was born in Colombo on 22 September 1898, the only son of Dr F V Foenander, a provincial surgeon in the Department of Medical and Sanitary Services. He was educated at St Thomas's College, Colombo, and entered Ceylon Medical College in 1918. In 1921 he entered the Middlesex Hospital Medical School qualifying MRCS LRCP in 1925. In 1927 he passed his MRCP and in 1930 his FRCS. In 1931 he married Miss Dorothy May Spriggs, returning to Ceylon the same year. He joined a general practice in Colombo, the partners in which acted as medical officers to Mackinnon, Mackenzie and Co. He was the senior partner at the time of his death on 17 November 1977.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006536
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First Title value, for Searching Chapple, Colin Frederic (1912 - 1989)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-27
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Occupation Medical Officer Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Colin Frederic Chapple was born and educated in Adelaide, South Australia, qualifying in 1936 and after a year in junior appointments came to England to study surgery. Within two years he had passed the FRCS Edinburgh and during the war years spent a short time with the Emergency Medical Service before joining the Royal Army Medical Corps and serving in West Africa. After demobilisation he was surgical registrar at the Central Middlesex Hospital and later senior orthopaedic registrar in the same hospital. He passed the FRCS in 1951 and went to Mansfield General Hospital, initially as senior hospital medical officer and later as consultant orthopaedic surgeon. He was also consultant to Berry Hill Hall Miners' Rehabilitation Centre. Apart from professional work he was an accomplished sportsman, playing golf, tennis and cricket. He retired in 1977 and died on 15 October 1989 aged 77. He is survived by his wife, Polly and two daughters.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007159
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First Title value, for Searching White, Frank Faulder (1861 - 1939)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-11 2018-03-26
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Born in London, 9 March 1861, the thirteenth child and sixth son of Robert Faulder White, advertising agent, and Elizabeth Mitton Shearburn, his wife. He was educated at King William's College, Isle of Man, and at St Mary's Hospital, London, where he was resident medical officer. He practised for a time in Cornwall and was medical officer of health for Helston, and moved afterwards to Coventry and was appointed surgeon to the Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital, becoming consulting surgeon. During the war he acted as surgeon to the Lewisham Military Hospital, and on its conclusion practised at Saffron Walden. He married Eva Dalgairns Travers on 22 March 1888. There were six children of the marriage, three girls and three boys; the daughters and one son outlived him. He died on 15 December 1939, aged 78, at The White House, Amersham, Bucks. Publications: *The rational treatment of running ears*. London, Iliffe, 1905. Three cases of otorrhoea cured by otectomy and irrigation. *Lancet*, 1905, 1, 1646. *Infected ears*. London, 1908.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004767
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First Title value, for Searching Williams, Moses Thomas (1877 - 1950)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-18
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Occupation Medical Officer Physician
Details Born at Beulah, Breconshire, 2 January 1877, the seventh child and only son of Moses Williams, and his wife Ann Jones. He was educated at Christ College, Brecon, and the London Hospital. He won an entrance science scholarship to the Hospital's Medical College in 1897, and a scholarship in anatomy and physiology in 1900. After qualifying in 1902 he served as house surgeon at the Hospital and as clinical assistant in the medical out-patients, the ear, nose, and throat, and the skin departments. Williams practised throughout his career at 27 St George's Place, Canterbury, where he was medical officer to the Prison, and physician to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital. He married in 1905, the year in which he took the Fellowship, Mabel Elizabeth Iredale, who survived him with two daughters and a son, Thomas Meurig Williams, FRCS 1936. He died on 25 March 1950 at 15 South Marine Terrace, Aberystwyth, where he had been living since his retirement, aged 73.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004795
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First Title value, for Searching Prynne, Harold Vernon (1869 - 1954)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-28
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Military surgeon
Details Born at Gravesend on 26 November 1869, he qualified from the Middlesex Hospital in 1892, and was commissioned a Surgeon-Lieutenant in the RAMC on 29 January 1894 and promoted Captain on 29 January. He saw active service in China in 1900, was mentioned in dispatches and won the medal and clasp. He was promoted Major on 29 October 1905, and took the Fellowship on 11 June 1914. During the first world war he was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel on 1 March 1915, and temporary Colonel while ADMS of a Division on 14 May 1916. He was awarded the DSO in 1917 and created CBE in 1919. He had been mentioned in dispatches four times, and was awarded the French Croix de Guerre with a gold star. After retiring from the Army he served as chief medical officer to the Post Office, and was elected an Officer of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. He lived at 16 Glenluce Road, London, and died in March 1954.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005291
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First Title value, for Searching McCarter, Frederick Buick (1887 - 1954)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-07
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Born at Castlerock, Co Derry on 26 July 1887, the son of William McCarter JP, he was educated at schools in northern Ireland and entered Trinity College, Dublin in 1906. He was senior moderator (first in the first class) in natural sciences and won the gold medal at the BA degree examination in 1910, served as demonstrator of anatomy 1910-11, and after qualifying in 1912 was appointed house surgeon at Macclesfield Infirmary in 1913 and York County Hospital in 1914. He won the Military Cross during the first world war, when he served as a Major in the RAMC, and soon after its end he took the Fellowship. From 1922 to 1923 he was throat surgeon to the LCC school clinic in Garratt Lane, and in 1925 he was medical officer to the Royal Victoria Patriotic School for Girls at Wandsworth. Later he practised in the Portsmouth area, first at Southsea and then at Havant where he died on 19 April 1954. He married Beatrice, daughter of H G Sherlock.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005115
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First Title value, for Searching Woodhead, David Hamilton (1922 - 1996)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-09
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Occupation General practitioner Medical Officer
Details David Woodhead passed the primary FRCS while a student at King's College Hospital and the final in 1949 but decided, after an appointment as demonstrator in anatomy at St Bartholomew's Hospital, on general practice as a career, conducting this in Weymouth from 1951 to 1971. While there he studied Russian by correspondence course and by listening to Radio Moscow. With this skill he was appointed medical officer to the British Embassy in Moscow, where he remained for four and a half years. Subsequently he spent two years in Warsaw and four in the United Arab Emirates. Apart from Russian, he was interested in photography, astronomy (he was a member of the Royal Astronomical Society) and was a bibliophile, collecting a large library in English, French and Russian. He also had an exhaustive knowledge of the life of Napoleon Bonaparte. He died of septicaemia on 15 February 1996, survived by his wife, Patricia, a daughter who became a nurse and two grandsons who were both medical students at the time of his death. His son predeceased him.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008422
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First Title value, for Searching Teichelmann, Ebenezer (1859 - 1939)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-20
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Mountaineer
Details Born in South Australia in 1859 he was educated at Hahndorf College and graduated from the University of Adelaide. He then came to England, entered Queen's College, Birmingham, and acted as demonstrator of physiology at Mason's Science College in that city. After taking out postgraduate courses in Dublin and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, he was appointed assistant physician and resident pathologist at the Birmingham General Hospital, assistant surgeon at the Jaffray Hospital, Birmingham, and resident medical officer to the Birmingham Workhouse. Returning to South Australia, he acted as health officer at Port Adelaide, 1895-97. He then settled in general practice at Hamilton Street, Hokitika, on the west coast of the South Island, New Zealand, and was surgical superintendent at the Westland County Hospital, 1897-1914. He served with the New Zealand Medical Corps 1914-17, and was torpedoed in the troopship *Marquette* in the Ægean Sea. He went back to Hokitika after the war, and died there sometime before February 1939. Teichelmann was a mountaineer. He was elected a member of the London Alpine Club in 1903, was president of the New Zealand Alpine Club in 1936-37, and Mount Teichelmann is named after him. Publications: Case of peritonitis after parturition. *Lancet*, 1891, 2, 1276. Notes of case of gonorrhoeal salpingitis. *Austral med Gaz* 1892, 11, 259. Notes of a case of (?) ectopic gestation. *Intercolon quart J Med Surg*, Melbourne, 1895, 2, 151.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004668
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First Title value, for Searching Price, David Cromwell (1903 - 1949)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-04
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Occupation Medical Officer
Details Born at West Norwood, London, on 19 March 1903, the second son of John Sidney Price, an official in the General Post Office, and his wife, *née* Wilson. He was educated at Purley County Secondary School and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was orthopaedic house surgeon. He qualified in 1926, and served as house surgeon, orthopaedic house surgeon, and casualty officer at the Royal Northern Hospital, London, and as orthopaedic resident at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Price became a medical officer of the Ministry of Pensions, and served for a time in the Ministry's hospitals before being appointed to the administrative staff. He took the Fellowship in 1936, and was promoted to be a principal medical officer in 1939. He was chiefly occupied with supervising the provision of surgical appliances, other than artificial limbs, to pensioners, and gave much time and care to training his juniors up to his own high standard for this work. Price married in 1939 Miss Borthwick, who survived him but without children. They lived at 139 Wavertree Road, Streatham Hill, SW2. He died in St Bartholomew's Hospital, after only three weeks' illness from an obscure anaemia, on 18 November 1949, aged 46.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004481
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First Title value, for Searching Adeney, George Cuthbert (1879 - 1958)

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First Title value, for Searching Pearce, Cyril Morgan (1899 - 1960)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-07
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Born on 19 January 1899 at Tongwynlais, Glamorgan, the son of a civil engineer, he was educated at Charterhouse and, on leaving school at the age of eighteen, he joined the army and was commissioned in the Royal Garrison Artillery with No 119 Siege Battery, serving in France where he was wounded. After the war he entered the medical school of St Bartholomew's Hospital and, qualifying in 1923, was appointed a house surgeon. Later he held appointments as orthopaedic house surgeon, senior resident anaesthetist and chief assistant on the surgical unit. Settling in Blackburn, he went into partnership with Jeffrey Ramsey FRCP, and became consulting surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, Blackburn. He acted also as medical officer for the Ministry of Pensions, the Board of Education and the Treasury. He was chairman of the Blackburn division of the BMA in 1950-51 and President of the Blackburn and District Medical Society in 1958. His hobbies included photography, motoring and reading, and he was much in demand as a witty after-dinner speaker. He died on 6 August 1960 survived by his wife and a married daughter who then lived in Cape Town.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005245
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First Title value, for Searching Ardill, Bertram Leslie (1937 - 1977)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-06
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Occupation Community medicine specialist Medical Officer Physiologist Vascular surgeon
Details Bertram Leslie Ardill was born on 5 November 1937 in Ballywalter, County Down. His father was a bank official. He was educated at the Methodist College, Belfast, and the Queen's University, where he had a distinguished academic career, obtaining the BSc with honours in physiology in 1959 and proceeding to honours MB BCh BAO in 1962. After a year as assistant lecturer in physiology he was awarded a Beit Memorial Research Scholarship in 1964 and worked in the physiology department of St Mary's Hospital Medical School for three years. During this time he published many papers on peripheral vascular surgery and proceeded MD in 1967. He returned to Northern Ireland to develop a long held interest in vascular surgery and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1970. A promising career was cut short by illness in 1973, and he decided to turn to medical administration. He became a consultant in community medicine and in 1975 was appointed administrative medical officer to the North and West Belfast District, a position he served with great ability until his untimely death on 26 September 1977.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006313
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First Title value, for Searching Wiener, Rudolph Alexander Kilgour (1901 - 1991)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-08
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Occupation Medical Officer
Details Rudolph Wiener was born on 18 February 1901 at Capetown, South Africa, the son of Frederick Kilgour Wiener, a company director; his mother, Dorothea Jourdan, was the daughter of a predikant in the Dutch Reformed Church, and he was the third son of a family of seven. Wiener was educated at Rondebosch High School, the University of Capetown and St Thomas's Hospital, where he was influenced by W Rowley Bristow. He served in the Royal Flying Corps from 1917 to 1919 as a 2nd lieutenant, and later held house posts at St Thomas's Hospital, the Royal Cancer Hospital and Leicester Royal Infirmary before becoming senior hospital medical officer at High Wycombe Hospital and practising in High Wycombe until his retirement in 1966. A keen rugby player in his youth, he took up golf in retirement. He died on 23 February 1991, survived by his wife Rosamond, née Batting (whom he had married in 1931), son Timothy and daughters Mary and Audrey.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008355
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First Title value, for Searching Burfield, Joseph (1879 - 1970)

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First Title value, for Searching Biggs, Arthur Cecil Barker (1885 - 1976)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-14
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Arthur Cecil Barker Biggs was born in North London on 9 March 1885. His father, John Maundy Biggs, was a general practitioner and a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Florence Elizabeth Biggs, née Hopkinson, his mother, was the daughter of the originator of the Hopkinson piano. He was their second child and first son. After attending Epsom College he proceeded to University College Hospital to study medicine. His first appointments were at the Queen's Hospital for Children and the Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street. Moving to New Zealand he became a local medical officer for the railways, post office and prison. During the first world war he was a Captain in the RAMC in France and was awarded the MC. He served as a Major in the NZMC in Egypt in the second world war. He married Nora Kirby in 1925 and they had a son and a daughter. He played cricket and rugby football and his hobby was English history. He is thought to have died in 1976.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006338
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First Title value, for Searching Richards, William Hunter (1869 - 1933)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-16
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Born 15 December 1869 at Wemdder Cilycwm, Carmarthenshire, the fourth child and third son of William Richards, a farmer, and Elizabeth Morgan, his wife. He received his medical education at the London Hospital, at St Bartholomew's, and at the University of Durham. He visited afterwards Berlin and Paris. During his undergraduate career at the Medical School attached to the University of Durham he obtained first-class honours in practical chemistry, anatomy, pathology, and medicine, and was the medallist in midwifery. He then settled in Talycoed near Monmouth, where he practised during 1894-98 and was subsequently medical officer and public vaccinator for the Llanishen district of the Cardiff Union. From 1899 until 1901 his name does not appear in the *Medical Register*, but in 1902 he was living in London and in 1904-06 he was at Plymouth, where he was gynaecologist to the Plymouth Public Dispensary and consulting obstetric surgeon to the Fowey Cottage Hospital. He then returned to London and acted as clinical assistant at the Chelsea Hospital for Women and surgeon to the Kensington and Fulham General Dispensary. He retired in 1918 to Kemeys, near Usk, Monmouthshire, died unmarried on 13 July 1933 in a nursing home at Chiswick and is buried in the churchyard at Kemeys.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004512
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First Title value, for Searching Thomson, Charles Bertram (1875 - 1943)

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First Title value, for Searching Wilson, Hugh Cameron (1883 - 1940)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-18
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Physician
Details Born at Edinburgh on 18 June 1883, the seventh child and fourth son of John Wilson, miller, and his wife, *née* Cameron. He was educated at Watson's School and the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1905, proceeding MD with commendation in 1908 and in the same year taking the special certificate in diseases of tropical climates. He was house surgeon at the Children's Hospital, Paddington Green, and at the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, and senior house physician at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh. He took the English Fellowship in 1911, not having previously taken the Membership, and in the same year became resident medical officer at the Great Northern Central Hospital, Holloway Road, London. In 1912 he settled in practice at Maidenhead, Berks, and became surgeon to the Ray Mead Children's Hospital and to the Maidenhead Hospital. During the war he was commissioned as temporary captain, RAMC on 26 July 1917, and was promoted major on 4 January 1918. He served as a surgical divisional officer in France. Wilson married on 3 October 1914 Kate Carter, who survived him with a daughter. After the war he resumed his private practice at Maidenhead, moving in 1931 to the neighbouring town of Cookham, where he died on 13 December 1940. Publication: Fatal case of delayed chloroform poisoning. *Lancet*, 1908, 1, 626.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004802
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First Title value, for Searching Reckless, Philip Alfred (1882 - 1948)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-16
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Born at Sheffield on 13 November 1882, the third child and second son of Alfred Reckless, MRCS 1873, and Helena Herbert Hall, his wife. He was educated at Bedford College, at the Sheffield Medical School, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He served as junior house surgeon at Sheffield Royal Infirmary, and as senior house surgeon at Leicester Royal Infirmary, and then began general practice at Sheffield. During the war of 1914-18, Reckless was commissioned captain, RAMC, on 1 January 1917, and was posted as a surgical specialist to No 9 General Hospital at Rouen. Later he served at the Wharncliffe War Hospital at Sheffield. He resumed practice at Sheffield in 1918, and became surgeon to the Children's Hospital, and medical officer to the Post Office. In 1926 Reckless became a deputy regional officer of the Ministry of Health for the Manchester region, and moved to Stockport, Cheshire. After a few years he moved to London, and settled at Richmond, Surrey. He was promoted a regional officer, and returned to Stockport. Reckless married in 1914 Mabel Jones, who survived him with two sons and a daughter. The elder son, David (MB BS London), practised at Leeds as an anaesthetist (DA RCPS 1944). Philip Reckless died at Stockport on 15 August 1948, aged 65, and was buried at Fulwood, Sheffield.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004500
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First Title value, for Searching Wareham, Sidney James (1879 - 1942)

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First Title value, for Searching Tracey, Basil Martin (1899 - 1991)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-08
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Occupation General practitioner Medical Officer
Details Basil Tracey was born on 19 October 1899 at Willand, Devon, where his father, Henry Eugene Tracey, was a general practitioner, four of whose eleven children were qualified medical practitioners. His mother was Emily Alice, née Martin. He was educated at Monkton Combe School and St Bartholomew's Hospital. Owing to poor eyesight he was unable to serve in the first world war and after graduation entered general practice in 1931. In 1947 he decided that the National Health Service would not allow him to give individual attention to patients and so entered a purely private practice, but was also a medical officer to various industrial concerns and to Norwich prison, for which service he was awarded an OBE in 1969. He had many interests: singing in the Norwich Philharmonic Choir and acting as a guide to Norwich Cathedral. He sailed regularly on the Norfolk broads, especially in Norfolk Punts, and in one of these he established a record for the fastest single-hulled boat in the country in 1964. He was a great character with an infectious enthusiasm for life and people. He married Katherine Reavell Scott (Kitty) on 15 September 1931 and they had four children - two sons, William, who died in infancy, and Peter, and two daughters, Jillian and Marion. After Kitty's death he married Rachel, who survived him along with his children and eight grandchildren when he died on 9 November 1991, aged 92.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008389
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First Title value, for Searching Scott-Young, Margery (1912 - 1997)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-04
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Margery Scott-Young was a consultant surgeon at the Rachel Forster Hospital, Sydney. She was born on 25 May 1912 in North Sydney, the daughter of Reginald Charles Scott-Young, a sales manager, and Mary née Crotty. She was educated at the Monte Sant' Angelo College in Sydney and the University of Sydney, qualifying in 1936. She was resident medical officer at the Sydney Hospital in 1936, medical superintendent of the Rachel Forster Hospital from 1937 to 1939, and resident medical officer of the Royal Hospital for Women from 1939 to 1940. She then joined the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps, rising to be deputy assistant director of medical services of NSW lines of communication with the rank of Major. After the war, she returned to be assistant and later full surgeon to the Rachel Forster Hospital. She was a life governor of the Australian Postgraduate Federation in Medicine, a councillor of the NSW branch of the Australian Medical Association and its honorary librarian. She was President of the Australian Drug and Medical Information Group from 1975 to 1980. On her retirement she was appointed CBE for services to medicine. She never married, but was a keen gardener and linguist and wrote a history of the Medical Benevolent Association of New South Wales in 1985. She died on 4 November 1997.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008913
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First Title value, for Searching Lenaghan, Leo (1930 - 1982)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-24
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Occupation Medical Officer Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Leo Lenaghan, the son of a farmer, was born in Creswick, Victoria, Australia, on 4 November 1930. He attended a primary school at Tourello, where the family had continuously farmed property since settling there in the early 1850's, and then St Patrick's College, Ballarat. He entered Melbourne University and graduated in 1955, being the fourth of his family to qualify in medicine. His eldest brother is a urologist; a twin brother is a general and vascular surgeon in Detroit and a sister is a rheumatologist. Leo was resident medical officer at St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, for two years. After a period of postgraduate training in the UK, during which he obtained the FRCS in 1960, he joined the orthopaedic staff at St Vincent's Hospital in 1962 and secured the FRACS in orthopaedics in 1964. He also held appointments at the Austin Hospital and was a visiting specialist to the Repatriation Department and to the Williamstown Hospital. He was especially interested in the management of trauma and in joint replacement. Beyond his strictly surgical activities he developed a great interest in the processes and customs of the law, he enjoyed the drama of the court room and was much sought after for medico-legal opinions. He was an energetic, restless and gregarious man with a wide circle of friends. He never married and his main hobby was the collection of antiques. He is reported to have made a large and high quality collection of objets d'art and furniture of the Georgian period, and he was also much interested in painting and music. He died on 5 August 1982, at the early age of 51, from a rapidly growing cerebral tumour.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007148
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First Title value, for Searching Parry, Eric (1907 - 1995)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-25
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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Eric Parry was born on 31 December 1907 in Bwlch-y-ffridd, Montgomeryshire. He was educated at Caterham School and the University of Liverpool, whence he graduated MB ChB in 1932. He joined the Indian Medical Service and became a lieutenant-colonel. When the Japanese invaded Burma he was stationed there, at Maymyo. He successfully led a large party of medical staff on a three week trek to safety, and his surgical skills were much in evidence during the battles of Imphal. On independence he returned home but found surgical opportunities limited. At that time the British had encouraged the ruler of Kuwait to build a hospital but had not succeeded in opening or staffing it. Eric took on the awesome task of commissioning it quickly. His efforts as chief medical officer initiated the Kuwaiti hospital medical services, and for this he was awarded the CBE. He encouraged Kuwaiti doctors who wished to do so to achieve their higher qualifications in England, and made arrangements to this end with many English colleagues; thus he felt able to leave the future of Kuwaiti medicine in good hands. On retiring from Kuwait he started a third career in the department of anatomy at Liverpool, where he found, to his surprise (for he was the most modest of men) that he had outstanding gifts as a teacher. His ability to drive home anatomical facts with wit and humour and his consistently friendly encouragement to all students became a byword; he continued teaching until he was 78. Eric died of a myocardial infarction on 17 January 1995. He was survived by his wife, Marion, and their four children and eleven grandchildren. One son, Graham, is a general practitioner in Lincolnshire.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008247
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First Title value, for Searching Lumsden, Kenneth (1900 - 1968)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-11
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Occupation ENT surgeon General practitioner Medical Officer
Details Kenneth Lumsden was born in Leeds on 26 May 1900 of Scottish ancestry and perhaps it was for this reason that he went to Edinburgh for his medical education, and graduated in 1922. He then joined the Colonial Medical Service and worked in Uganda, and took the Diploma of Tropical Medicine in 1925. When he returned to England he held house appointments at St Bartholomew's Hospital, the Middlesex Hospital, and the Samaritan Hospital to gain the training necessary for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, which he obtained in 1930. He then decided to specialize in ear, nose, and throat surgery and was appointed to the department at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street. In 1934 Lumsden decided to set up in general practice in Saffron Walden, and also acted as ENT surgeon to the Saffron Walden General Hospital until 1948 when the coming of the National Health Service altered the conditions of that appointment, but he continued in his general practice until his death. He also held the post of medical officer to the Friends' School until he died. It is unusual for someone who has developed skill as a surgical specialist to become a successful family doctor, but Lumsden did manage to gain the confidence and affection of his patients to a remarkable degree. He was widely read, enjoyed golf and tennis and the company of friends and colleagues by whom he was highly esteemed. After a pneumonectomy in 1956 he was able to return to active practice, and even after a laryngectomy in 1966 he was recovering his voice well when he ultimately died on 1 January 1968. He was survived by his wife and two sons.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005906
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First Title value, for Searching Douglas, Archibald Robert John (1872 - 1950)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-20
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Occupation Medical Officer
Details Born 21 February 1872 at Barnet, Hertfordshire, the second child and second son of Thomas Douglas, civil engineer, and Isabella McLaren his wife. He was educated at Dulwich College and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon, resident midwifery assistant, and demonstrator of anatomy. He took the London MB with honours in medicine, obstetric medicine, and forensic medicine, in 1896 and the Conjoint qualification in the same year. Douglas entered the service of the Burma Railways and ultimately became their chief medical officer at Rangoon. In the course of his service he took several higher degrees, as shown in the list at the head of this memoir. He never married. After his retirement from work in the East he lived with his sister at 60 Ashley Gardens, London, SW1, where he died on 26 January 1950, aged 77. Douglas left £500 to St Bartholomew's Hospital for the research work of the pathological department, £500 each to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and the Seamen's Hospital Society, and £1,000 each to the Warspite Training Ship and the Church of England Waifs and Strays Society.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003988
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Thomas Frederic Hugh (1855 - 1930)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376790376790
Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details The younger son of Henry Smith, professor of systematic surgery, when Sir Joseph (afterwards Lord) Lister was professor of clinical surgery, at King's College, London. Hugh Smith was educated at King's College, of which he was afterwards an Associate, and at King's College Hospital, where he was house surgeon and surgical registrar. He then studied in Paris, and became house physician at the Brompton Hospital for Consumption and registrar at the Victoria Hospital for Children, Tite Street, Chelsea. He was also for a short time medical officer to the Stanhope Street Dispensary. He entered into partnership with William Robert Ashurst, MD, at Farningham, Kent, and later with William Francis Lace. For thirteen years he acted as medical officer of health for the Dartford Union and served as medical officer of No 3 District of the Dartford Union, Kent. He was also surgeon to the Kettlewell Convalescent Home, Swanley, and to the Parkwood Convalescent Homes. He was chairman of the Dartford division of the British Medical Association. He died after retirement at Wilmington Cottage, Seaford, Sussex on 20 November 1930. Endowed with the bonhomie and wit of his father, he entirely lacked ambition and was content to go through life in a useful but comparatively humble position.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004607
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First Title value, for Searching Sladen, Reginald John Lambart (1877 - 1935)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-07
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Born at Shooter's Hill, Blackheath, SE, on 24 July 1877, the second son and second child of Colonel Joseph Sladen, RA, JP and DL for Kent and the Cinque Ports, and his wife Lady Sarah Lambart, daughter of the eighth Earl of Cavan. He was educated privately, at Ripple Court near Dover, and at the London Hospital. He held the post of resident surgeon at the Royal Sea Bathing Hospital, Margate, until 1902, when he was appointed district surgeon to the Great Indian Peninsular Railway. He was subsequently PMO on both the Bengal - Nagpur and the Bengal - North Western Railways. In 1929 he became PMO at headquarters on the Great Indian Peninsular Railway. He retired in 1932 and lived at Benclutha, Rotherfield Road, Carshalton, Surrey. He married in 1902 Jessie, daughter of Peter Stuart, the inventor of Stuart's Granolithic. She survived him with a son and a daughter. He died at Folkestone on 15 February 1935, and was buried in Folkestone cemetery. Sladen specialized in surgery, and was active in the prevention of malaria; he was also active in St John Ambulance work in India. He had great administrative ability, was a keen sportsman, and an adventurous explorer on the Tibetan border.
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First Title value, for Searching Thomas, David (1861 - 1931)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-20 2015-10-01
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Born 29 July 1861, the second son and youngest of the five children of Evan Thomas, a farmer, of Cefn Banal in the parish of Llanbadarn Odwyn, Cardiganshire, and Catherine Richards, his wife. David Thomas received an elementary education at the Ystradmeurig Grammar School, and from the age of twelve helped his father on the farm. He sustained a fracture of the lower third of the femur about the age of 14 which prevented him from following the plough any longer. He learnt English and entered the London Hospital in 1879, where he acted as house physician and was appointed house surgeon to Sir Frederick Treves in 1884. He acted for a time as senior clinical assistant at St Luke's Hospital, and migrated to New South Wales in 1888. After spending short periods at Summer Hill and Kogarah, he settled at Manly, where he practised until his death. Here he became a leader of surgical thought, established the Manly District Hospital in 1896, and became its senior medical officer. He was president of the New South Wales branch of the British Medical Association in 1914, and one of the foundation Fellows of the Australasian College of Surgeons in 1927. At the beginning of the war in 1914 Thomas was appointed medical officer to the troopship Moravian; in 1915 he was granted a commission as lieutenant in the RAMC, and was employed for the next sixteen months on the Scottish Travelling Board. He then returned to New South Wales, and acted as the repatriation medical officer. He married Charlotte Herhington on 21 November 1888, who survived him with two sons, both members of the medical profession. He died at Elsmere, Manly, Sydney, New South Wales on 15 February 1931. Thomas was as active in municipal as in medical matters, was an alderman of the suburb, 1905-08, and was the Government medical officer in Manly. Throughout his active medical career he was a firm believer in the principle of Friendly Society Lodge practice.
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First Title value, for Searching Wilkinson, Edmund (1867 - 1938)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-11
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Occupation Epidemiologist Medical Officer Military surgeon
Details Born 9 January 1867 at the East Cornwall Bank, Launceston, Cornwall, the first child of John Wimble Wilkinson, the bank accountant, and Emma Sophia Shilson his wife. He was educated at Blundell's School, Tiverton, Devon, and at University College, London. At University College Hospital he held resident posts, and entering the Indian Medical Service was gazetted surgeon on 28 July 1891, went to Bengal, was promoted major on 21 July 1903, lieutenant-colonel on 28 July 1913, and retired on 13 November 1914. He served on the NW Frontier, Waziristan 1894-95 (medal and clasp), at Mohmand 1897-98, and was in the Buner action of Tanga pass (medal and clasp). In the Punjab he was chief plague medical officer, and was acting sanitary commissioner for East Bengal and Assam. During the war he was liaison officer in England between the civil and military authorities to establish the sanitary arrangements for military camps and hospitals. On 1 April 1914 he was appointed a medical inspector under the Local Government Board, which became the Ministry of Health after 1919, and served until 1932, when he retired to live the life of a country gentleman in Cornwall. He married twice: (1) Eva Marion Haig on 2 February 1899; and (2) Gertrude Mary, widow of Prebendary Daugar of Exeter, on 15 April 1925; she survived him, with four daughters of his first marriage. He died at Hornacott Manor, near Launceston, on 1 May 1938. Mrs Wilkinson died on 12 August 1947 at the same place. Wilkinson had a distinguished career as an epidemiologist both in India and in England. His plague experience in India enabled him to render invaluable aid to the Port sanitary authority in London and in preventing the spread of the disease in East Anglia. Publication: *Tropical medicine and hygiene*, with C W Daniels: Part 1, *Disease due to protozoa*, London, 1909; parts 2-3 and 2nd edition by Daniels alone.
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First Title value, for Searching Bayley, Eric (1878 - 1967)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-14
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Bayley was born on 22 January 1878, the son of Edward Hodson Bayley, who was a wheelwright and later became MP for North Camberwell. He was educated at University College School, where he took an active part in all school plays in French, German and English, and was captain of rugby and cricket. He won scholarships to Charing Cross Hospital and qualified in 1902. After obtaining the Fellowship in 1905 he went into general practice in the City of London; he moved into Finsbury Square and married Margaret Colman in 1914. During the first world war he joined the Army, serving in Hospital ships, and twice went to Gallipoli; after this campaign he worked in Egypt, and was able to enjoy most of the ancient sights of that country. On returning to England, Bayley joined the Navy and served in HMS Warspite until the end of hostilities. In 1919 he returned to his practice which soon became very successful. He was appointed medical officer to the Metropolitan Police, and in 1923 principal medical officer to the Cable and Wireless Company. During the second world war he was in the Home Guard in London, sleeping in his consulting room all through the bombing, and was on duty at Electra House when it was hit by a flying bomb in 1944. Soon after the war he accompanied the chairman of Cable and Wireless on a tour of the Mediterranean, visiting Cyprus, Malta, Athens and Rome. Bayley was chairman of the Cable and Wireless Art and Craft Society and contributed specimens of his own tapestry work to the exhibitions. After retirement he went to live at Plumtree Cottage, Naphill, High Wycombe, Bucks and founded the Naphill Darby and Joan Club, later becoming its president. He was also president of the Naphill Horticultural Society and led a full social life until his final illness. He died on 18 July 1967, from cancer of the prostate, and was survived by his wife. A memorial service was held at Hughenden Parish Church.
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First Title value, for Searching Haigh, Edwin (1919 - 1993)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-09 2016-02-05
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Occupation Medical Officer Paediatric surgeon
Details Edwin Haigh was born on 25 April 1919, the son of William Duthie Haigh who was a scientist for the British Scientific Research Association, and his wife, Annie Margaret Rhynhart. He went to the City of London School, then to King's College, obtaining a Warneford scholarship. He served with the North Staffordshire Regiment in the Middle East and Italy, was captured at Anzio and finished the war as a prisoner. He specialised in paediatric surgery and neonatology at Alder Hey Hospital and was Hunterian Professor in 1957, lecturing on *The acute abdomen in neonates*. In 1958 he changed career, joining the Ministry of Social Security as a medical officer and later senior medical officer (1968). In retirement he pursued his interests of golf and travel. He had been a keen sportsman in his youth. He was a committed Christian. He was survived by his wife, Cora Margaret Teresa Roche, a theatre sister, whom he married on 13 October 1949. They had four children, Paulette, Lorraine, Aubrey and Cora, the youngest, who qualified in dentistry at King's College Hospital. His wife died in 1996. Edwin Haigh had an ambition to travel in retirement, and the ischaemic heart disease which was ultimately to claim his life first struck atop the Great Wall of China. He gave a harrowing account of how he was borne on a stretcher down hundreds of steps, in the grip of a myocardial infarct, past groups of friendly Chinese who were oblivious to the seriousness of his condition and who insisted on being photographed with him. He planned things better for his second heart attack: this time he was on holiday closer to his home in Huntingdon, and could be speedily admitted to his own son-in-law's intensive care unit in conditions of five-star luxury. He went on to have a coronary artery bypass graft in Papworth Hospital, but suffered his third and fatal infarct two years thereafter, and died on 17 January 1993.
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First Title value, for Searching Rees, William Arthur (1878 - 1941)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-16
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Born in Eastern Bengal, 23 June 1878, the sixth child and second son of Frederick William Joseph Rees, of the Bengal civil service, and Alice Hawthorn Heathcote, his wife. He was educated at Haileybury and the Middlesex Hospital, where he won a prize in anatomy and in 1899 a second-year exhibition, and was Broderip scholar in 1903. Rees served as house physician, house surgeon and casualty medical officer at the Middlesex Hospital and was later registrar and pathologist at the Bolingbroke Hospital, Wandsworth. After temporary work at Sandringham, he travelled in Japan, and practised for a time at Vancouver, BC. In 1907 he settled in practice at Swanage, Dorset. Here he became medical officer to the Cottage Hospital and surgeon to the Dorset Red Cross Children's Hospital. He was also medical officer and public vaccinator for the Wareham and Purbeck district. He was commissioned as temporary captain, RAMC on 1 November 1915, and served in France during the four years' war. Rees married on 2 September 1920, Olive Carey Hughes, daughter of Henry Hughes of Maidstone, who survived him with two sons and a daughter. He died very suddenly at Swanage on 29 January 1941, from coronary thrombosis, aged 62. Rees was very shy and retiring and seemed unconscious of his considerable abilities. He was an active churchman. Publications: A case of uraemia with persistent hiccough; death. *Brit med J* 1906, 1, 738. Abdominal surgery at an advanced operating centre, with G S Hughes. *Lancet*, 1917, 1, 642. Wounds of the chest at an advanced operating centre, with G S Hughes. *Lancet*, 1918, 1, 55.
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First Title value, for Searching Salsbury, Carmen Russell (1898 - 1979)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-09
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Occupation Anatomist Medical Officer Pathologist
Details Carmen Russell Salsbury was born on 21 July, 1898, in the County of Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada. He was the youngest child of the two daughters and three sons of John Albert Salsbury, a farmer. He was educated in a one room country schoolhouse for four years and then graduated with honours in all subjects from Newburgh High School. He was awarded the MC CM at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario in 1924 and won the surgery medal, the Mundell Prize in applied anatomy and the Professor's Prize in pathology. He became a Licentiate of the Medical Council of Canada in 1924. He held appointments at Drayton Hospital, Drayton, North Dakota, and in Illinois and Colorado. At the University of Oklahoma he spent four years teaching anatomy and applied anatomy. Finally he became Assistant Professor of Anatomy and lecturer in surgical pathology at Queen's University, Kingston, 1935-40. During the first world war he served as a Sergeant in the Canadian Infantry, he was wounded and awarded the DCM. In the second world war he served with the RCAMC as a surgical specialist with the rank of Major and was awarded the ED. For twenty years he worked with the Workmen's Compensation of British Columbia, and was, for ten years, chief clinical medical officer. He estimated that he did approximately forty years military service in both war and peace. His interests were swimming, gardening and building. In 1927 he married Amy Alice Malakowsky and they had one daughter, Sylvia. He died on 19 September, 1979, survived by his daughter and two grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Wall, Austin Darley (1896 - 1958)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-16
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Born at West Kirby, Cheshire on 1 August 1896 the fourth son of C T Wall of Liverpool he won a scholarship to Oundle School and scholarships in anatomy and physiology at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was awarded the Harvey and Foster prizes. Qualifying in the spring of 1918 while the first world war was still raging, he served in the Royal Navy before taking up resident posts at St Bartholomew's. He took the Fellowship in 1921 and went to Shanghai in 1925, where he was appointed surgeon to the General Hospital and the Lester Chinese Hospital. He was also medical officer to the British Consulate and the Municipal Police. He came back to England in 1939, was commissioned in the RAMC and saw much active service as a surgical specialist with the rank of Major. He was present at the battles of Narvik, Norway 1940, of Crete 1941 where he was mentioned in dispatches, of Salerno, Italy 1943, and in the invasion of Northern France 1944. He settled at 1 Bishop's Place, Paignton, Devon in 1945 and became senior surgeon to the Paignton and District Hospital and the Dartmouth Hospital. He was President of the Torbay Medical Society in 1958. Wall died on 25 November 1958 aged 62, survived by his wife Margaret McGregor and their two daughters. He was a determined and energetic man, of calm and unassuming temperament and generous disposition. A memorial service was held in Paignton parish church on 29 November 1958. Publication: Indications and contra-indications for tonsillectomy. *J clin Med Shanghai* 1938.
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First Title value, for Searching Page, Erichsen Sutton (1897 - 1967)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-24
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Erichsen Sutton Page was born at Solihull where his grandfather and his father had been in medical practice. He went to Solihull Grammar School and thence to Cambridge as a scholar of Selwyn College. He was a brilliant student and graduated BA in 1919 with a first-class in the natural science tripos. He then went to St Thomas's Hospital where he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1923, became a clinical assistant there and graduated MB in 1927. His next appointment was house surgeon at Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham, and he obtained the FRCS in 1928. Ever since his schooldays he had suffered from ill health and there was some doubt whether he would be well enough to follow a medical, or especially a surgical career. But after a period as medical superintendent and resident surgeon at the Seaman's Hospital, Tilbury, his health improved and in 1935 he became medical officer of Solihull Hospital, and during the second world war medical superintendent under the EMS. He also served as surgeon to the Midland Hospital, Birmingham and was kept busy working with air-raid casualties. Later, however, he had to abandon surgery for the administrative duties of medical superintendent, and later took over his father's practice. Eric Page was highly esteemed by his colleagues for his brilliant brain, and his determination to overcome the handicaps of illness, for he carried on in practice until he died on 5 March 1967 at the age of 69. His wife survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Tatlow, Robert Evelyn Tissington (1886 - 1957)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-09
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Born on 1 August 1886 second son of Tissington W G Tatlow of Drumrora, Co Cavan, Ireland, he was educated at Trinity College and the Adelaide Hospital, Dublin, where he won the Hudson prize. He qualified in 1911, and served as house surgeon to Berkeley Moynihan at the General Infirmary, Leeds. He was a surgical specialist with the rank of Major RAMC in France during the war of 1914-18, and took the Fellowship in 1919. Evelyn Tatlow then settled in general practice at Porlock, Somerset, in partnership with William Bain MRCS and A V Boyall MRCS, both of Minehead. He became surgeon to the Minehead and West Somerset Hospital, and was medical officer to various public bodies, the British Red Cross, and the Prudential Insurance. In earlier years he was a keen follower of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds. He died at Porlock on 16 October 1957 aged 71, survived by his wife Norah, who died there on 23 October 1964. His elder brother Canon Tissington Tatlow DD died a fortnight before him. Publications: Three consecutive cases of carcinoma of the jejunum. *Lancet* 1912, 1, 991. Jejunostomy in combination with anterior gastroenterostomy. *Lancet* 1912, 2, 1434. Gunshot wounds of the knee joint: a report on 100 consecutive cases. *Brit J Surg* 1918, 5, 462-493.
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Arthur David Winton (1900 - 1970)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

First Title value, for Searching Debono, Peter Paul (1890 - 1958)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-10
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Pathologist
Details Born in Malta 29 June 1890 the eldest of three brothers who distinguished themselves in the small medical school of the ancient Royal University of Malta: Emanuele (MD 1922) became an ophthalmologist in New York, Joseph Edward (MD 1925) became Professor of Medicine at Malta, FRCP and CBE; two members of the next generation also practised in Malta, Francis (MD 1949) and Anthony Hugh (MD 1955). Peter Paul graduated in 1910 and then came to London for a year's postgraduate work. He taught anatomy and pathology at Malta 1912-14, and served as pathologist to the RNMS and the RAMC 1914-18. He was medical officer of health for Malta 1918-19. He gained the Fellowship at the end of 1920 after working at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and worked in Manchester till 1922. During the war he had come under the inspiring influence of Sir Charles Ballance FRCS in treating the wounded from Gallipoli at Malta, and decided to take up surgery rather than pursue pathology and bacteriology in which he would have made his mark. Returning to Malta he was appointed surgeon to the Central Hospital, and was Professor of Surgery 1926-51. He was created OBE in 1944 for his services during the war of 1939-45, when Malta suffered intense air-bombardment. He was nominated to the Executive Council of the Island for 1936-39, and was elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1947. He served as Minister of Health, and was finally Speaker of the Assembly. He was assistant secretary of the Malta branch of the British Medical Association 1919-23, Secretary 1923-30, and president in 1935-37 and 1942-43. He married in 1918 L Briffa, who survived him with their two daughters; he died in Malta on 3 June 1958 aged 67.
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First Title value, for Searching Haigh, William Edwin (1878 - 1961)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-10
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Born on 29 August 1878, William Edwin Haigh studied medicine at University College, London and St Bartholomew's Hospital, and qualified in 1909. Haigh was Assistant Demonstrator in Anatomy at University College, London, and later held appointments at the General Infirmary and the Hospital for Women and Children, Leeds, and at the Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool. He then served in the Balkan War as a medical officer, and during the first world war was seconded to the Serbian Army and won several Serbian decorations. After the war Haigh worked at the Wesleyan Mission Hospital in Hankow, China until 1923, when he became a member of the medical staff of the League of Nations and carried out some important investigations, the most impressive being his enquiry into the severe incidence of typhus fever in Poland and Russia. In 1925 he returned to England and took the DPH at Liverpool in 1926. Soon after this he joined the public health staff at Derby, and was deputy medical officer of health from 1941 till his retirement in 1946. Haigh's organisation of the immunisation services was outstanding. He was awarded the Neech prize in 1930 for his thesis on the ventilation of the Derby cinemas. Haigh was a quiet, friendly man of great integrity, gifted with vitality, a fine memory and a love of research. He married a Parisian lady and they had one son, Claude Haigh. Haigh died on 29 November 1961 at his home, Geneva, 419 Burton Road, Derby, aged 83. Publications: Malaria in Albania. *Reports, Health Commission, League of Nations*, 1924-25. An enquiry into the ventilation of cinematograph theatres. *Derby, MOH Report*, 1930.
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First Title value, for Searching Madan, Jagan Nath (1896 - 1980)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-03
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Jagan Nath Madan was born on 12 June 1896 in Sahowala, in the district of Sialkot. He was the second child of Karamchand Adan, a doctor. After school in Batalia he attended the Lahore Medical College in the Punjab where he won a silver medal in anatomy and graduated MB, BS in 1919. After an appointment as demonstrator in anatomy he joined the Medical Corps of the Indian Army in 1922 and served as a Captain from 1923 to 1931. During that time he worked in the political department as agency surgeon in Muscat from 1924 to 1928. He left the army in 1932 and came to England after his first wife's death. In 1935 he took the FRCS. While in England he met Lajwanti Ramakrishna whom he married in 1936. He returned to India becoming chief medical officer in Kutch Bihar State and the chief surgeon and medical officer in Jodhpur State. In 1948 he entered private practice in general surgery in Jodhpur State, then in Delhi and finally in Meerut, where he practised surgery from 1954 to 1977. Apart from general surgery his main interest was in plastic surgery. He was a member of the BMA from 1934, a Rotarian from 1951, a member of the Indian Medical Association and President of the Jodhpur branch. He was a keen tennis player, a great walker and an enthusiastic reader of both general literature and professional books. He died in the Military Hospital, Meerut, on 31 January 1980, survived by his son, Dr Y N Madan, who is in general practice in Salford and two daughters, one of whom is an SRN.
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First Title value, for Searching Norris, Donald Craig (1892 - 1968)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

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 Damanski, Marek (1897 - 1980)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-25
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Occupation General surgeon Geriatrician Medical Officer Urologist
Details Marek Damanski was born in Laka, East Poland on 22 May, 1897. He was the only son of a doctor of medicine and attended grammar school in Lwow before entering the University there. After graduating MD in 1923 he worked for two years in general surgery and then eight years in urology at the State General Hospital, Lwow, as well as six months in the urological clinic of the Necker Hospital, Paris. In 1932 he was appointed urologist at a policlinic for the local railway employees and became a member of the International Society of Urology in 1939. He had already been called up before the outbreak of the second world war and his consulting rooms were destroyed in early bombing by which time he was serving with No 6 Military Hospital. Shortly after this he was in Russian occupied territory and later worked in the Ukraine and Siberia where he is said to have suffered terrible privations. After Russia entered the second world war he joined the Polish Corps which subsequently moved through Iran to come under the command of the British Middle East and Central Mediterranean Forces. As a result of this, and fortunately being reunited with his wife in France, he settled in England, initially as medical officer to No 3 Polish Hospital, Penley. In 1949 he was appointed senior medical officer to the Liverpool paraplegic centre at Southport. His dedicated work there resulted in his being promoted to consultant in charge, and it is said that his tirelessness and perfectionism played a large part in raising the standard of management of paraplegics in Britain and abroad. He was intensely interested in clinical research and published more than two dozen papers. As a result of all this he was most fittingly awarded the FRCS ad eundem in 1967. Marek Damanski was a man of true old-world courtesy who endeared himself to colleagues and staff, and whose patients trusted him implicitly. When due for retirement he was deemed irreplaceable for a further three years after which he continued in great demand as a locum geriatrician. He died on 5 June 1980 and was survived by his wife, Irene Rauch, who was a great source of strength to him and a talented portrait painter. Their only daughter, a girl then aged 13, disappeared without trace during the German occupation, but they both maintained a dignified silence about this.
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First Title value, for Searching Whittingdale, John (1894 - 1974)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-13
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Medical Officer
Details John Whittingdale, the son of Dr John Flasby Lawrance Whittingdale, MB Cambridge, MRCS, and of Marie Whittingdale (née Jennings), was born on 14 June 1894 in Sherborne, Dorset. He was to spend most of his long life in that place. After education at Sherborne Preparatory School and Sherborne School, he was an exhibitioner to Downing College, Cambridge, in 1913. Two years later he secured a scholarship to St Bartholomew's Hospital where he won the Brackenbury Scholarship in surgery, the Matthews Duncan Prize in obstetrics and the Walsham Prize in pathology. His undergraduate work was interrupted in 1915-16 whilst he served with a British Red Cross Society Mission to Russia. After qualifying in 1918 he was house surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital, then casualty officer and house surgeon at Nottingham General Hospital, before taking the FRCS in 1920. Following a period of ill health he took the Diploma in Ophthalmology and spent a short period as an assistant in general practice at Seaton, Devon, before joining his father's practice in Sherborne. He was appointed surgeon to the Yeatman Hospital and also served as medical officer to both Sherborne boys' and girls' public schools, all appointments which he greatly valued and enjoyed. Whittingdale was notable amongst his colleagues for his careful and painstaking observation, and his care in diagnosis, which were object lessons to all. He had a remarkable memory for people and for clinical detail. His old-world courtesy, together with his tall, double-barred and old-world bicycle, were well known in the town. He loved country pursuits and went shooting and fishing in all weathers. He was convinced that his life style and satisfying form of practice helped him to outlive most of his contemporaries, and he will be remembered as one of the last of the true general-practitioner surgeons. During wartime, virtually single-handed, he undertook a truly prodigious workload in and around Sherborne. In 1957, relatively late in life, he married Mrs Margaret Esme Scott Napier and they had one son. He died peacefully, following a myocardial infarct in his eightieth year, on 4 September 1974, in the Yeatman Hospital which he and his father had faithfully served for more than seventy years. He was survived by his wife and son, John.
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First Title value, for Searching Sebastian, Sir Cuthbert Montraville (1921 - 2017)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Desmond Fosbery
Publication Date 2017-04-21 2017-07-12
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Occupation Diplomat General surgeon Medical Officer Obstetrician and gynaecologist Politician
Details Sir Cuthbert Montraville Sebastian was governor general of Saint Christopher and Nevis. He was born in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts (as the island of Saint Christopher is commonly known), on 22 October 1921. His father, Joseph Matthew Sebastian, founded the labour movement on Saint Kitts and also established the first national newspaper. His mother was Inez Veronica Sebastian née Hodge. On completing his secondary schooling, young Cuthbert, affectionately known as 'Cutie' to his family and friends, was apprenticed to the Cunningham Hospital on Saint Kitts as a learner-dispenser. Under the tutelage of variously appointed British Colonial Administration surgeons and physicians during the 1930's, he completed his early years at that institution, becoming a trained dispenser and surgeon's assistant. His duties also included being mortuary attendant and autopsy assistant. At times he was instructed by the surgeon to 'just carry-on' for a case of 'simple appendicitis' and so on, for which the chloroform anaesthetic would be administered by the matron. During the Second World War, Sebastian enlisted in the Royal Air Force and was undergoing training in Canada as a rear-gunner at the time of the cessation of hostilities in 1945. Upon returning home, he continued his studies and won an entrance scholarship to Mount Allison University in Canada, where he obtained a BSc degree in 1953. This achievement led to his gaining a place at Dalhousie University Medical School in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and in 1958 he gained his Canadian medical degree. After his pre-registration year, he returned home to work in the Government Health Service as a medical officer, and was appointed variously to each of the islands of Saint Kitts, Nevis and Anguilla in turn. During this period, there would usually be only one doctor on an island with a population of under 10,000. In 1962, he went to Britain and spent the next four years training in surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology at Dundee Royal Infirmary. His colleagues there included Malcolm 'Callum' Macnaughton and Narendra 'Naren' Patel, both of whom became presidents of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Returning to St Kitts in 1966, Sebastian was appointed as medical superintendent and obstetrician gynaecologist to the Cunningham Hospital, the same institution where some 30 years earlier he had started his apprenticeship at 'a shilling per day in lieu of rations'. When the Cunningham Hospital was closed in 1967, he took the same positions at the newly commissioned 164-bed Joseph N France General Hospital. Between 1970 and 1980 he served whenever necessary as surgeon and also as chief medical officer, in addition to his other hospital duties. It was in 1973 that I first met and worked with Sebastian when I was appointed as a surgeon specialist. Being the only two surgeons in the country, and with no junior staff, we worked closely together, often conferring over major cases and joining each other across the table in the only operating theatre at the hospital. In 1978, he was instrumental in obtaining the necessary funding and authorisation to establish and construct a twin operating theatre suite at the hospital, a project which moved swiftly to completion with his invaluable support and enthusiasm. This was aided no doubt in part by our joint appointment as attending surgeon to the then premier, Robert L Bradshaw. In December 1995 Sebastian retired from medical practice and, on 1 January 1996, was appointed governor general of the Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis, and Her Majesty's representative. In the same New Year's honours, Her Majesty conferred upon him the rank of Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George. Also in his retirement, Sir Cuthbert became instrumental in organising the Caribbean's first established telemedicine service, between Saint Kitts and the Dalhousie Medical School in Nova Scotia, such was his continuing enthusiasm for technological advances in his chosen profession. In March 2001 Sir Cuthbert was awarded an honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons at a joint meeting of the Royal College of Surgeons and the University of the West Indies in Barbados, and in 2002 received an honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. I held Sir Cuthbert Sebastian's professional and personal achievements in the highest regard. It was my pleasure to have him as a colleague and friend for over 40 years - one of the worthy 'old school surgeons'. Sir Cuthbert Sebastian died on 25 March 2017. He was 95. He was survived by his three sons and three daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Dixon, Leonard Arthur Elmslie (1922 - 1972)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-22
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Arthur Dixon was born in Melbourne on 14 April 1922; the eldest son of R H E Dixon, and was educated at Wesley College, Melbourne. He entered the State Savings Bank as a clerk at the Croydon branch in 1939, living with his family at Lillydale. In 1941 he was conscripted to the Commonwealth Military Forces with other members of the Melbourne University Rifles and in 1942 he joined the Australian Imperial Forces; he served in the Northern Territory and was discharged with the rank of Warrant Officer in 1945. He then began to study medicine under the Commonwealth Training scheme, graduated from Melbourne University in 1950 and served as a resident at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. In November 1950 Dixon became a partner in a practice at Boxhill conducted by H G Judkins. After some years he travelled with his wife and children to England to study surgery and took the opportunity to tour widely in Europe. In 1962 he obtained his English Fellowship and was elected to the Australasian College in 1969. In England he acted for some months as full-time medical officer at Australia House before returning to Australia as medical officer in an immigrant ship. On return to Melbourne he took his place as a surgeon in his old practice. He married Margaret Lewis in November 1950 and was a devoted family man and a generous host, fond of good wine, good food and good company. His chief interest, which lasted all his life, was fishing. He died at the Royal Melbourne Hospital at the early age of 50, leaving his wife and three children.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005701
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First Title value, for Searching Bailey, Alison George Selborne (1915 - 1997)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-13
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Occupation General practitioner Medical Officer
Details Alison George Selborne Bailey, known as 'Joe', was larger than life. He was born on 19 July 1915, the son of George Frederick Selborne Bailey, a general practitioner and Mabel Yardley Guard, a midwife. He was educated at Radley, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he spent much of his time rowing. He was captain of boats at both institutions. He went to St Bartholomew's for his clinical training, where he was considerably influenced by James Paterson Ross, Harold Wilson, Geoffrey Keynes and later by Harold Gillies and Archibald McIndoe. It was while he was a student at Bart's that he developed Crohn's disease, and was successfully operated on by Michael Harmer - the story of which was amusingly recounted in the *Lancet* in 1986. He followed his father into general practice. He occasionally made his rounds on horseback, and became famous for his skill in manipulation. He continued to coach crews from Radley, Cambridge and Oxford. He was honorary medical officer to the Royal Windsor Racecourse for more than 20 years, as well as several local hunts. His Rolls was always parked under the same oak tree at Henley. He married Christine Marguerite Delfosse, a trainee architect, in 1947. They had four children, Alison, Margaret, George and William. A gourmet, wit, enthusiast and good companion, he was co-opted to the Council in 1986 and made FRCS by election in 1988. He died on 8 November 1997.
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First Title value, for Searching Sikes, Alfred Walker (1869 - 1948)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-06
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Physiologist
Details Born on 9 July 1869 at Ballycogley Castle, Co Wexford, the second son of Richard Cherry Sikes, of Cork, and Susannah Lecky Jacob, his wife; he was educated privately. He received his medical training at St Thomas's Hospital, where he won an entrance scholarship and the Tite and Peacock scholarships. He won gold medals at the intermediate and final MB examinations, and won the Treasurer's gold medal, the Bristowe medal, and the medal in medicine. He served as medical registrar at the Hospital in 1900. Sikes was particularly interested in physiology and made postgraduate studies at St Bartholomew's and at Marburg University. He took the Fellowship and the London MD in 1898, and in 1900 the Membership of the College of Physicians. He was for several years lecturer in physiology at King's College, Strand, and published some valuable physiological papers. He took the DSc London in 1906. Sikes became a part-time assistant medical officer in the newly formed school medical section of the public health department of the London County Council, under Dr James Kerr, in 1908; he was appointed one of the original whole-time divisional officers in 1912, and was in charge of the north-western division until his retirement in 1935. During the war of 1914-18 he was surgeon to an ambulance train in France. Sikes married in 1902 Mary Maitland, eldest daughter of Thomas Townshend Somerville, a descendent of two distinguished Co Cork families. While working in London he lived at Moat House, Langley, Bucks, but retired to Porthcurnick, Portscatho, Cornwall, where he was able to indulge his taste for gardening. He died there on 25 May 1948, aged 78, survived by his wife and one son; their other son had died before him. Mrs Sikes died at Truro on 10 May 1952. Sikes was renowned among his friends for his mordant Irish wit.
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First Title value, for Searching Jones, Arthur Norman (1904 - 1993)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-15
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Arthur Norman Jones was born on 14 January 1904 in Liverpool, the son of John Lewis Jones, an estate agent, and Catherine Elizabeth, the daughter of a banker. His early education was at the Blundellsands School and Liverpool College, and he went to medical school in Liverpool, graduating MB ChB in 1926 and obtaining the conjoint diploma in the same year. He attended Fellowship courses at the Middlesex and St Bartholomew's Hospital, and gained the FRCS in 1934. His early hospital appointments included time at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, Colney Hatch, and a period as a ship's surgeon for the British India Steamship Company. He became assistant medical officer at Mill Road Infirmary in Liverpool in 1932, and between 1933 and 1940 served in six hospitals of the LCC General Hospital Service, including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, St Luke's Chelsea, Bethnal Green, St Andrew's Bow, and St Pancras, where he was deputy medical superintendent and resident surgeon. He went on to become medical superintendent of West Park Hospital, Macclesfield (county and emergency service patients) between 1940 and 1946, when he moved to become medical superintendent at Whipp's Cross Hospital. His last appointment was as senior hospital medical officer (geriatrics) at Langthorne Hospital, a post he held until retirement in 1969. He was an active member of the BMA, being honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Macclesfield and East Cheshire division from 1942 to 1946, honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the South West Essex division from 1952 to 1963, and Chairman of the same division in 1950. He became a Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners in 1966, a Fellow in 1972 and honorary Secretary of the East London faculty between 1958 and 1974. In 1938 he married Jean Anderson Drummond Dykes SRN, and they had three sons - Anthony, Edward and Peter, none of whom followed their parents into the medical profession. He died on 24 April 1993, aged 89.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008113
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First Title value, for Searching Lyttle, George Gibson (1885 - 1974)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-28
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378885378885
Occupation Medical Officer
Details George Gibson Lyttle was born at Belfast on 9 June 1885. Educated at the Methodist College, Queen's University, Belfast, and London University, he graduated MB BS London in 1909. He entered general practice in 1911 and during the first world war was in the RAMC from 1914 to 1917, serving in the Dardanelles and Salonika and attaining the rank of Captain. Transferring to the Territorial Army, he was appointed specialist in charge of the electrotherapeutic department of Belfast Orthopaedic Hospital and officer commanding the medical unit of Queen's University OTC. Two years later he retired with the rank of Major. From 1939 to 1955 he was principal medical officer in charge of medical boards at Belfast Recruiting Centre. He was also chairman of the Pensions Appeal Tribunal in Northern Ireland, chief medical inspector of the Board of Trade at the port of Belfast, medical adviser to Belfast Harbour Commissioners, and medical examiner for the Civil Service Commissioners. For 25 years till 1948 he was medical officer to the Royal Ulster Constabulary. He was elected FRCS in 1957. A Past President of the Ulster Medical Society, he was also President of the Northern Ireland Branch of the BMA in 1957-8 and was admitted to the Roll of Fellows of the Association in 1960. He was at one time captain and president of Balmoral Golf Club, and he was a prominent Freemason. Another of his interests was the Rotary Club: he was never known to miss the weekly lunch over his 50 years of membership. He was a foundation member of Queen's University Services Club and anything connected with Army life or the Territorials got his full support. For his continuing service while in charge of the recruiting boards in Northern Ireland he was appointed OBE in 1957. He married Frances N Head in 1917 and they had one son. He died on 3 February 1974, aged 84 years.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006702
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First Title value, for Searching Humphries, Sydney Vernon (1907 - 1982)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-22
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Sydney Vernon Humphries, the eldest child of Sydney William Humphries, a bank manager, and Violet Humphries (née Kirkman), was born on 24 January 1907 at Middelburg, Cape Province, South Africa. He was educated at Michaelhouse, Natal, and Pembroke College, Cambridge, before entering St Thomas's Hospital where he qualified in 1932. After resident medical appointments at Albert Dock Hospital, and Hope Hospital, Salford, he was resident anaesthetist at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and senior house surgeon at Hertford County Hospital. He returned to South Africa in 1935 as a medical officer in the gold mines and, on the outbreak of the second world war he enlisted in the South African Army Medical Corps and served in East Africa and the Western Sahara. Following the war he returned to the mine hospitals, but, being keen to work in other countries, he took appointments in Nassau, Nauru Island in the Pacific and at Tennant Creek, Australia. His love of Africa and an ambition to serve the underprivileged of the world drew him back to mission hospital work in Transvaal, Zimbabwe, and the former Pondoland and Bechuanaland. In 1969 he became FRCS by election and this gave him great pleasure shortly before his retirement to Malaga, Spain, in 1973. Whilst living there he befriended Mrs Veta Bailey, the widow of Hamilton Bailey, and thus came to write a biography of that surgeon for whom he had a profound admiration. He had written many other articles and books, the best known of the latter being *Black magic and white medicine*, drawn from his personal experience. Vernon Humphries was a man of great integrity and good humour whose life was typified by a complete lack of self-interest. In 1936 he had had the good fortune to marry Mareuil Coetzee, a physiotherapist, who was his constant companion and support throughout his dedicated and wayfaring existence. He finally died in Johannesburg on 1 July 1982, after a painful illness borne with great fortitude and was survived by his wife.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006592
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First Title value, for Searching Symonds, Maurice Isidore (1920 - 1980)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-19 2017-05-05
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Maurice Isidore Symonds was born in Melbourne on 24 July 1920, the son of Dr H. Symonds, a general practitioner at Murrumbeena. He was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, and graduated with honours in surgery and medicine at Melbourne University. He was a house surgeon at the Royal Melbourne Hospital before serving in the RAAF from 1944 to 1945. Later he became first assistant to Sir Albert Coates at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and continued his further training at the thoracic unit at Harefield and the Australian Auxiliary Hospital at Denham. In 1951 he became first surgical assistant at Prince Henry's Hospital in Melbourne, but moved to Albury as a consultant surgeon. He was a very informed and active member of the medical staff, holding office as chairman of the medical staff of the Albury Base Hospital, and many positions on the executive with relevance to surgery within the hospital. He spent a great deal of time in consultation with architectural planners, and when the new theatre block was built, in 1973, he personally inspected theatre lights overseas, to ensure that the best lighting available at that time was purchased and installed correctly. He was the medical officer for the North Albury Football Club from 1952 to 1970, and many a Saturday evening and Sunday morning was spent repairing the ravages of Saturday afternoon's play. He was a foundation member of the Albury Lions Club, a member of the photographic club, Albury Golf Club, and the foundation medical officer for the Albury Car Club. Maurice and his wife Shirley shared common interests in photography, music and theatre. Friends were fortunate in benefiting from their skilled photography and professional presentation of excellent slides of holidays at home and overseas. He enjoyed his hobbies and was often to be found in his workshop improving the quality of sound from his stereo, working with his radio or developing films. He died on 21 August 1980 survived by his wife, Shirley.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006983
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First Title value, for Searching Walsh, John James (1917 - 1992)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-08 2022-09-13
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Jack Walsh was director of the National Spinal Injuries Centre, Stoke Mandeville Hospital. The son of Thomas Walsh, a doctor, and Margaret Walsh née O’Sullivan, he was born in Cork on 4 July 1917. He was educated at Mungret College, University College Cork and Trinity College Dublin, where he qualified in 1940. After a junior surgical post at St George’s Hospital, London during the war, he joined Ludwig Guttmann’s team at the National Spinal Injuries Centre, Stoke Mandeville. He was appointed SHMO there and was made a consultant when that grade was abolished. He became an expert on the general surgical care of paraplegics and in particular the treatment of pressure sores. He was appointed deputy to Guttmann in 1957 and applied in practice the principles laid down by his chief. He was a founder member of the International Medical Society of Paraplegia in 1961 and was appointed an honorary consultant to the National Centre for Paraplegia in Ireland. His book *Understanding paraplegia* (London, Tavistock Publications, 1964) was widely read. When Guttmann retired in 1966 Walsh succeeded him as director, a position which brought him many honours, including the FRCS by election in 1969 and the FRCP in 1975. He retired in 1977 to take up a consultancy at the Paddocks Private Clinic in Princes Risborough. He married Joan Birks in 1946 and they had three sons, James, Jeremy and John, and a daughter, Jacqueline. In retirement, he was a keen fisherman and enjoyed the Buckinghamshire countryside. Joan predeceased him by six weeks. He died on 31 December 1992. **This is an amended version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 8 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk**
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First Title value, for Searching Chaudhuri, Bijeta (1899 - 1982)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-21
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Military surgeon
Details Bijeta Chaudhuri was born in 1899 at Shillong to a Brahmin family from Sylhet. He spent his youth in Shantiniketan, matriculated from Patiala and passed his intermediate science exams from Dyal Singh College, Lahore. He graduated MB from Grant Medical College, Lahore, in 1922 then came to London for his Primary Fellowship. He was selected for the Indian Medical Services and returned to India in 1926 where he started his career in Quetta, North-West Frontier Province. He married Dipty Chatterjee, a great-granddaughter of Maharshi Debendranath Tagore, in 1932 returning to England for his Final FRCS in the same year. During his stay in England he was much influenced and remained friends with Sir Cecil Wakeley, Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor, Sir James Paterson Ross, Sir Harry Platt, Charles Rob and Charles Wells. After his return to India his postings included Delhi, the Andamans and Midnapore. As Captain Chaudhuri he was the senior medical officer of the Andaman Islands where he was regarded highly, not for only his surgical skills but for his improvements in medical and jail administration. He did invaluable work in the Celliar Jail in 1947 where there was not a single death, a fact recognised by both the Home Secretary and the Central Legislation Assembly. During the war he volunteered for overseas services in Malaya, commanding a field ambulance in 1942. He was captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore. He was personally commended for his war service by the Supreme Allied Commander. In 1945 he was appointed DIG Prisons during the days of partition and all that followed. He was ADMS during the Indo-Pakistan operations and thereafter he held staff appointments in the Medical Directorate, eventually becoming Director General of Armed Forces Medical Services. His first love was surgery but he was recognised as a brilliant and far sighted administrator, playing a significant role in the reorganisation of the Army Medical Corps with particular attention to the specialist cadre, setting up the Armed Forces Medical College in Poona and increasing the opportunities for improving medical skills. He was a member of the Medical Council in India, showing great interest in the civilian medical services, and especially in the indigenous production of drugs and medical equipment and the establishment of radio-isotope centres and the setting up of several new medical colleges. He retired in 1959 and was made Honorary Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He led a quiet private life in New Delhi where he died on February 28 1982, survived by his brother Maitreyee.
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First Title value, for Searching Spreat, Frank Arthur (1861 - 1934)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-13
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Born in London on 9 June 1861, the sixth child and fourth son of John Henry Spreat, jeweller, and Harriet Jones, his wife. He was educated at Aldenham School until he entered St Bartholomew's Hospital. He acted for a time as resident medical officer at the Metropolitan Hospital before settling at Finchley, where he practised during the rest of his life. Here he became medical officer of health for Friern Barnet, was medical officer to the Maternity and Child Welfare service at Friern Barnet of the Middlesex County Council, medical officer to the Post Office, and medical officer and public vaccinator to the Barnet 4th district. When the Finchley Memorial Hospital was founded as the Finchley Cottage Hospital he qualified himself to act as surgeon by obtaining the diploma of FRCS, no easy task for a man of forty in a large and prosperous practice. From that time onwards for many years he made a practice of attending one of the large general hospitals on one day in each week, and thus acted at different times as clinical assistant in the outpatient department, nose and throat, and assistant medical officer in the electrical department at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields. He married on 9 July 1890 Edith Backhouse Hulke, a member of the Hulke family who have practised at Deal for many generations. She survived him with a son and daughter, a second son having been killed in action during the first world war. He died on 24 April 1934, and Mrs Spreat died at Whetstone, London, N on 23 June 1948. Spreat was a general practitioner of a very high type. Absolutely honest in thought, a loyal friend, and a good counsellor, he watched the neighbourhood where he practised grow from a village to a huge suburb of London. The increasing population led to an increasing number of doctors. His example and precept kept them together, formed them into a family circle, and maintained the high tradition of his own ideals.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004635
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First Title value, for Searching Rutter, Hubert Llewellyn (1867 - 1953)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-05-16
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Born at Mere, Wiltshire on 20 September 1867 the seventh child and third son of John Farley Rutter, solicitor, and Hannah Player Tanner his wife, Hubert Rutter was educated at Sidcot Quaker School, his family being members of the Society of Friends, and at Weston-super-Mare, before entering the London Hospital, where he served as house physician and house surgeon after taking the Conjoint diplomas in 1891. He graduated through the University of Durham in 1892, and was clinical assistant at the Royal Eye Hospital. His younger brother F B Rutter (1869-1932) was also a Fellow and practised for many years at Mere. At the suggestion of Sir Frederick Treves he joined Wilfred Grenfell's medical mission to deep-sea fishermen off the Newfoundland and Labrador coasts. He settled in practice at Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1900. During the war of 1914-18 he served with the Friends' Ambulance Unit, and was created MBE for his services in 1918. He was appointed whole-time regional medical officer for the North-Eastern division under the newly formed Ministry of Health in 1920, and was transferred to Birmingham in 1925. He retired from the civil service at the age limit in 1932, and went back into general practice in Birmingham. In the second world war he rejoined the Friends Ambulance Unit, though over 70. Afterwards he settled for a time at Liverpool and then went back to Birmingham. He served on the Insurance Acts committee of the British Medical Association, and was active in the Adult School movement and in the Society of Friends. He believed that physical health was dependent to a great extent on social and spiritual well-being. Energetic, alert, and enthusiastic, he attended postgraduate refresher courses at the London Hospital till 1952 when he was 84. He married in 1904 Ethel Annie Bendall, who survived him with a daughter and two sons: Dr Ll C Rutter of Wolverhampton and Dr F J Rutter FRCS Ed, who was an ophthalmologist at Exeter. He died at 54 Middle Park Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham on 16 June 1953 aged 85.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005350
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First Title value, for Searching Waddelow, John Joseph (1869 - 1937)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

First Title value, for Searching Thomas, George Harold (1889 - 1975)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-24
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details George Harold Thomas was born on 2 January, 1889 in Hong Kong, of unknown parents. He was adopted as a child but left to fend for himself after a few years. His early life was lonely and hard due to poverty and privation. He was educated at the Diocesan Boys' School in Hong Kong and the College of Medicine there, graduating MB BS in 1914. He joined the Government Service when he graduated, retiring after 37 years and rejoining for a further 22 years. He was resident surgeon at Tung Wah Hospital in 1912 and became its superintendent in 1937. He was assistant medical officer in charge of civil and mental hospitals in 1928 and medical officer in charge of the mental hospital and the Tsan Yuk Hospital in 1937. He was on the staff of the Queen Mary Hospital and was visiting medical officer to the Chinese hospitals and dispensaries. He first taught in the University of Hong Kong in 1915 and continued intermittently, as part time tutor, demonstrator or lecturer until the 1950s. At various times he taught anatomy, vaccination, pharmacology, anaesthetics, obstetrics, tropical medicine and parasitology, ophthalmology, mental diseases and clinical surgery. From 1947 to 1949 he was Acting Director of Medical Services in Hong Kong. He was greatly influenced by Kenelm Digby, Professor of Surgery in Hong Kong and he practised general surgery in hospitals for the poor. He was elected a Fellow of the College, as a practitioner of 20 years standing, in 1958, the Diploma being presented to him by Sir Arthur Porritt (now Lord Porritt), when he visited Hong Kong on his way back to the United Kingdom from New Zealand in 1961. He had a large library and was interested in science, philosophy, religion and astronomy. He was a member of the Rationalist Press Association. He married Nora Gourdin in February, 1920 and their four sons were called after his heroes; Osler Lister, MBE, FRCS, Huxley Tyndall, MB Bchir, MRCP, Kelvin Einstein, FRCS, and Berkeley Spencer. He died peacefully at his home on 24 February, 1975, and was survived by his wife and sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Marks, Dudley Proctor (1899 - 1980)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-03
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Dudley Marks was born on 3 April, 1899 at Peckham Rye, and was educated at Haberdasher's Aske's School from whence he secured a scholarship to Cambridge. With the outbreak of the first world war he joined the Queen's Own Regiment on his 18th birthday in 1917. In the following year he suffered severe head injuries and was fortunate to survive. In 1919 he resumed his medical studies at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and then at St Thomas's Hospital, qualifying from there in 1924 and taking the FRCS in 1926. He then went to work in a Protestant mission at Travancore where he met Dorothy, also a medical missionary, who later became his wife. In 1928 Dudley returned to a surgical post at St Thomas's Hospital and was awarded a travelling surgical scholarship to study ear, nose and throat surgery in Vienna and Utrecht. He moved to Stratford-upon-Avon to join a group practice in 1932 where he soon established himself as a popular general practitioner and a skilful surgeon. During the second world war the local hospital was substantially enlarged to deal with air-raid casualties from Coventry, and he became heavily committed to hospital work. He was faced with a somewhat difficult decision on the inception of the NHS; in what proved to be a happy compromise he was appointed consultant surgeon at the Stratford- upon-Avon General Hospital, but he remained a partner in his old practice so that he could continue to look after some private patients. Until his retirement in 1964 nearly all of his time was devoted to general surgery and to the administration of the hospital which he loved. After retirement from the NHS he was appointed chief medical officer to the National Farmers' Union Mutual Insurance Company for five years. Dudley Marks was deeply committed to the support of the work of his local church at Luddington. His patients, partners and colleagues remember him with affection for his kindness, loyalty and complete dedication to his work. He was the last of Stratford's distinguished GP surgeons. When he died on 19 June, 1980, he was survived by his wife, Dorothy, and daughter, Daphne.
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First Title value, for Searching Fulford, Philip Charles (1930 - 2000)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-29
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Occupation Medical Officer Military surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Philip Fulford was born in Bideford, Devon, on 20 September 1930. He was the first member of his family to enter the medical profession. His father Philip John Venton Fulford was a draper. His mother was Hilda Mary Stephens née Gigg. He was educated at Bideford Grammar School, where he became head boy and won a scholarship to University College, London. There he did an honours BSc in anatomy under J Z Young, and won the Goldsmiths travelling scholarship. After house appointments at University College Hospital, he joined the Royal Navy to do his National Service, where he carried out research into deep diving and submarine rescue medicine. He took on a permanent commission in 1955 and received his surgical training at the Royal Naval Hospitals in Plymouth and Portsmouth. During this time, he spent a year at the Hammersmith Hospital under Ian Aird and Peter Martin, before being appointed senior surgical specialist. In 1965 he did the MCh course in orthopaedics at Liverpool. In 1966, he was posted to Malta, where he undertook the whole range of surgery. In 1967 he was appointed consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Royal Naval Hospital, Haslar, Gosport, and in 1969 was appointed Professor of Naval Surgery, a position he held until 1975. In 1982 he retired as Surgeon Captain, to become full-time consultant orthopaedic surgeon to Queen Alexandra's Hospital, Portsmouth, and honorary consultant and senior lecturer at Southampton General Hospital. Between 1967 and 1977 he was medical officer to the Queen during her overseas tours. Philip was active on the editorial board of the *Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery*, of which he became deputy editor and then full-time editor. He published extensively on stress fractures and disorders of the shoulder and knee. He was a founder member of the Committee of Publishing Ethics. In 1953 he married Jean Vida Davidson. They had two sons and two daughters. Sally and John followed their father into the Royal Navy, and Simon became a Fellow of this College, and is a consultant urologist. Philip Fulford died, after a long illness, on 11 April 2000.
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First Title value, for Searching Sweetman, Keith Franklin Drysdale (1914 - 1992)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-02
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Keith Franklin Drysdale Sweetman was born in Perth, Western Australia, on 5 February 1914. His father was Joseph Franklin, a hardware merchant, who married Gladys Edith Drysdale. His great grandfather arrived in Western Australia as a civilian in 1834 from the United Kingdom but nothing is known of his origins. Franklin went to Government schools in Western Australia and, on leaving secondary school, obtained a government scholarship to the University of Western Australia for one year and to the University of Melbourne for five years. He qualified with second class honours in 1937. Following qualification he filled training posts at Perth General and Perth Children's Hospital. During the second world war Franklin served from 1941 to 1945 in the Royal Australian Air Force, attaining the rank of squadron leader. After the war he took the Fellowship of the College in 1956, entered the Flying Doctor Service and finally worked as Medical Officer for Shell Oil, ultimately becoming Chief Medical Officer in Sarawak, Brunei and Trinidad. His duties included obstetrics and gynaecology, setting up a sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis and running general hospitals and a nurses' training school. In 1962 he was decorated by the Sultan of Brunei following capture and imprisonment during the emergency in Brunei in that year. During this period of his life he developed an interest in orchids, as a result of which he provided specimens of wild orchids to the Singapore Botanical Society. He married Amy Nelmore Moulton Reynolds in 1938. They had two sons, Keith Ord Sweetman, and Bryan John, who trained at St Thomas's, obtaining the MRCP in 1971. In his retirement Franklin lived in Haslemere, where he died from myocardial infarction on 7 February 1992, survived by his wife, sons and four grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Scrase, Frank Edward (1867 - 1946)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-30
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Occupation Medical Officer
Details Born 15 September 1867 at Woolloomooloo, Sydney, Australia, third child and second son of Samuel Scrase, a railroad engineer, and Martha Sheat, his wife. His parents came back to England while he was still an infant. He was educated at Bristol, and indentured to Mr Chandler, his future father-in-law, a chemist. But, deciding to study medicine, he entered the Bristol Medical School and continued his training at St Bartholomew's. On qualifying he set up in private practice at Hampstead, living latterly at 31 Cheyne Walk, NW4. He took an active interest in public health problems and served on the first borough council of Hampstead 1900-03, but did not seek re-election. In 1905 on the death of Herbert Littlejohn, MD, he acted temporarily as medical officer of health for the borough and in 1908 became honorary deputy MOH. He was appointed medical officer of health for Hampstead in 1912, and retired in 1932. Scrase was first interested in the anti-tuberculosis campaign. He was instrumental in setting up the Hampstead municipal tuberculosis dispensary at Kilburn, and was active in securing a pure milk supply. Maternal and child welfare became his chief concern, and as a member of the medical sub-committee of the borough council he brought about the establishment of antenatal clinics and a system of child-health visitors. Scrase made personal investigation of the concomitant circumstances in all cases of illness and death at parturition or in early infancy. He was successful in achieving a very low infant mortality rate in his borough. Housing improvement also attracted his attention. Scrase was chairman of the metropolitan branch of the Society of Medical Officers of Health, and chairman of the Hampstead division of the British Medical Association in 1928-29. Scrase married in 1899 Lucy Ann Chandler, daughter of the chemist to whom he had been apprenticed as a boy. There were two sons and one daughter of their marriage. After retirement he settled at 7 Forde Park, Newton Abbot, South Devon, where he died after a long illness on 4 February 1946, aged 78. He had served as chairman of the local medical war committee during the 1939-45 war. R L Knaggs, FRCS, had died at 20 Forde Park ten months earlier.
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First Title value, for Searching Toye, Edwin Josiah (1871 - 1938)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

First Title value, for Searching Greenwood, Charles Henry (1875 - 1969)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-05
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Charles Henry Greenwood was born in Leeds on 3 September 1875, the second son of Henry Greenwood, a director of the engineering firm of Greenwood and Batley, and his wife, Charlotte Elizabeth, née Wartzburg. He was educated at Sedbergh School, and entered Leeds University Medical School in 1894, qualifying in 1899. He became house surgeon to Sir Arthur Mayo Robson and casualty officer later, followed by some postgraduate study, and he took the FRCS in 1904. He settled at Ripon in 1907 joining a general practice partnership which he had greatly enlarged by the time he retired nearly forty years later. He was the driving force behind the development of the Ripon and District Hospital, building a theatre block, and later physiotherapy and X-ray departments. Previously surgical cases went by horse-drawn ambulance to Ripon station and thence by rail to Leeds General Infirmary. Greenwood proved himself an excellent general practitioner surgeon. During the first world war he was in charge of a small military hospital at Ripon. In 1929 he was appointed as part-time Medical Officer of Health to Ripon city, developed an interest in social medicine, housing and slum clearance. He formed the Ripon Housing Improvement Trust, and was its first chairman. Its objective was to buy old property, improve it to the required standard, and let it at minimal rates. This Trust is still active and of considerable benefit to the city of Ripon. During the second world war he was responsible for civil defence and first aid in the Ripon area. Greenwood was also medical officer to the Post Office, to Ripon Training College, and to Skellfield School. He was Chairman of the Harrogate branch of the BMA 1922-23 and President of the Harrogate Medical Society 1924, and was the Founder Chairman of the Ripon Rotary Club. Greenwood loved good literature and music, often hearing opera and concerts at Leeds or Harrogate. Fishing and camping in the Western Highlands made his favourite holidays. He built a house at Windermere to which he retired in 1946. His wife, Mabel Mortiboy, died in 1944; they had married in 1907. Their elder daughter married Lieutenant-General Sir John Worsley; his son and younger daughter Dr Joan Greenwood MB, ChB Leeds lived with him. He died on 26 January 1969, aged 93.
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First Title value, for Searching Horsley, John Woodward (1906 - 1981)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-19
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Obstetrician
Details John Woodward Horsley was born in Auckland in 1906. His father, Arthur Horsley, was a chemist in downtown Auckland at the turn of the century. John used to say that he and his mother, Alice, spanned 100 years of medical practice as she was the third woman to graduate from Otago Medical School and the first woman to practice medicine in Auckland in 1900. It is recorded that John and his three sisters would frequently be seen doing their school homework in the car while mother was visiting patients or giving an anaesthetic. He was educated at Auckland Grammar School where he excelled in sport, playing for the first XV and the cricket XI. Later at Otago University, he obtained his rugby blue. He qualified MB ChB in 1932 and was house surgeon to Auckland Hospital for the next two years after which he spent some months doing locums in Tauranga and Waikato before proceeding to England for postgraduate study. He obtained his FRCS in 1939 and served as a surgeon in the EMS throughout the second world war at Shoreham-on-Sea where he met an obstetric registrar, Dr Theo McAlpine, whom he married in 1944. At the end of the war the couple spent a few months in Auckland before settling in Hamilton in 1946. He operated for some fifteen years at Cassel Hospital conducting a busy obstetric practice as well as general practice responsibilities where he was universally liked and respected by patients and colleagues. There was many a time when he would visit a sick, elderly person and on finding them cold, hungry and lonely would turn on the heater, make a cup of tea and sit and talk to them. During this time, he was medical officer to the Post Office and the railways and the Waikato Racing Club, the Boxing Association and the Wrestling Association of which he was a life member. He gave up operative surgery in 1961 but continued as medical officer at Fairholm, an outlying subsidiary of Waikato Hospital until shortly before his death. During his last two years, he became progressively ill but preserved an uncomplaining stoicism. He died at his home on May 30 1981 at the age of 74. His wife, Theo, and their children, Joan, Ruth and Campbell survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Hugh Bernard Willoughby (1879 - 1948)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-07
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Born 19 February 1879, the eldest son of Edward John Smith, banker, of Bridlington, Yorkshire, and Mary Hewgill, daughter of Dr Hewgill of Repton. He was educated at Pocklington, at the Yorkshire College, Leeds, and at the London Hospital, where he served as house surgeon, after winning scholarships in anatomy and biology and the minor-surgery prize. As house surgeon at the Poplar Hospital he worked in the ear, nose, and throat department. Smith went to South Africa, where he was for three years medical officer at Pretoria Hospital. He then returned home, took the Fellowship in 1909, and settled in practice at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, in partnership with J E S Passmore, MRCS, and E T Lanyon, FRCS. He became in due course senior partner, with Drs G W Johnson, C P Moxon, and C W Pearson. He served as medical officer to Gainsborough Rural District Council, and surgeon to the Gainsborough Dispensary, which became in 1913, largely through his influence, the John Coupland Hospital. During the war of 1914-18 he served as captain, RAMC(T), at the 4th Northern General Hospital at Lincoln and in France. He was president of the Midland branch of the British Medical Association in 1921, chairman of the Lincoln division 1931-32, president of the Lincoln branch 1933-34, and served on the Representative Body 1928-39. Willoughby Smith married in 1904 Cassandra Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Hudson. He died suddenly in his surgery on 9 July 1948, aged 69, survived by his widow and their only daughter. He had lived at The Cedars and practised at St Clements, 9 Carson Road, Gainsborough. His recreations were botany and gardening. Publications: Actinomycosis, with report of a case. *Transv med J* 1907-08, 3, 23. Malaria, with R G Abercrombie. *Ibid* 1906-07, 2, 251. Case of linseed poisoning. *Brit med J* 1910, 2, 1260.
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First Title value, for Searching Weston, William Harry Jayne (1903 - 1975)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-13
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details William Harry Jayne Weston was born in Liverpool on 28 November 1903 and educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Crosby. After graduating in science in 1925 he spent nearly eight years as a schoolmaster at Pangbourne and Windsor. At the age of 30 he took up medicine and qualified at St George's Hospital, London, in 1940. After resident appointments and taking the FRCS in the year of his graduation he joined the RAMC and became a surgical specialist. He was demobilised with the rank of Major after serving in India and Burma and then worked at the Prince of Wales's Hospital, Tottenham. In 1947 he joined the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and became surgeon-in-charge of the hospital at Musjid-il-suleiman. Later he was senior medical officer to the oilfields in Iran. When the oilfields were nationalised in 1952 he returned to England and served again in the RAMC as a surgeon at Chester and then at Qatar in the Persian Gulf. When Iranian Oil Services started operations in Persia in 1954 he was sent to reorganise the medical services. After suffering a myocardial infarct he was advised to give up surgery and was appointed chief medical officer of Iranian Oil Services in London. His duties took him to Holland, the USA and Persia where he was always a welcome visitor. He made many Persian friends in all walks of life and spoke their language fluently. He was honoured with the award of the Iranian Neshane Homayoon in 1961. After his retirement in 1968 he was retained by the company as a consultant. Weston was a popular man and a keen fly fisherman. In his early years he had played rugby for the North of England Public Schools, for Rosslyn Park and for Surrey. He died suddenly on 7 March 1975.
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First Title value, for Searching Stanley-Jones, Douglas (1905 - 1999)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-07
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Douglas Stanley-Jones was born in London on 2 February 1905. His father, Herbert Stanley-Jones, was a chartered accountant. His mother, Florence Eliza née Parry was the daughter of William Parkes Parry, a wholesale pharmacist, and the sister of Leonard Arthur Parry MD FRCS. Douglas was educated at Whitgift Grammar School, Croydon. He won an open scholarship in science to St Bartholomew's. After qualifying in 1929, he did junior posts at the Albert Dock and Bristol General Hospitals. In 1936, he bought a practice in West Cornwall, where he worked as a family practitioner over an extensive rural area, combining this with surgery. He was the only FRCS in Cornwall at that time and during the war he was also a district medical officer of health. He continued to operate as an 'honorary' at the local voluntary hospitals, and after the war he began to work towards his dream of having his own surgical nursing home, but its opening coincided with the inauguration of the NHS and it did not prove viable. In the fifties, he immersed himself in reading and writing about neurophysiology, publishing his theories on topics ranging from the evolution of the optic chiasma to the role of the hypothalamus in emotion, and applying the new science of cybernetics to physiology - for which he coined the term 'kybernetics'. He published three books on this topic: *Structural psychology* (Bristol, J Wright, 1957), *Kybernetics of natural systems* (Oxford, Pergamon, 1960) and *Kybernetics of mind and brain* (Illinois, Charles C Thomas: American Lecture Series, 1970). This work aroused considerable interest in the USA and he was invited to lecture at universities and medical centres across America. In the fifties he also founded the Full Circle Foundation for Education and Research, of which he was director, to formalise his interest in intelligence and education. He successfully coached his own children, grandchildren and groups of local children in subjects ranging from classical Greek and Latin, to history, physics, chemistry and biology. From the seventies, he became involved in teaching at camps and summer schools for gifted children. He was made a bard of the Cornish Gorseth in the early fifties for his contribution to knowledge of the geology, industrial history and archaeology of Cornwall. He married Irene Katherine Fox in 1936. They had two sons, Kenneth and Geoffrey, and two daughters: both sons (who predeceased him) became consultant anaesthetists; the younger daughter is also a doctor. He died on 21 January 1999, just before his 94th birthday.
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First Title value, for Searching Ward, Ernest (1877 - 1945)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-04
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Born on 30 December 1877 at Garforth, near Leeds, Yorkshire, son of Sir John Ward and his wife, *née* Brambles. His father afterwards became Lord Mayor of Leeds. He was educated in Switzerland and at Clare College, Cambridge, and took first-class honours in both parts of the Natural Sciences Tripos, 1899-1900. He received his medical training at the London Hospital, qualifying in 1903. After serving as clinical assistant at the Belgrave Hospital for Children, he went into general practice at Llanelly, South Wales. He took the Fellowship in 1906, and in 1910, the year of his marriage, moved to a practice at Stockton-on-Tees. He was at this time honorary secretary of the General Practitioners' Association for Collective Research. Becoming a victim of phthisis Ward went to Davos, where he served as assistant medical officer at the Queen Alexandra Sanatorium. He recovered sufficiently to take up practice at Paignton in 1915, where he lived for the rest of his life, and threw himself wholeheartedly into the public campaign against tuberculosis. He was appointed whole-time tuberculosis officer for South Devon, a position he held till 1941, when he had to retire owing to a second major illness, encephalitis lethargica with Parkinsonian complications; he published an account of his own case. Ninety colleagues gave him a testimonial on his retirement. Ward served as president of the Tuberculosis Society of Great Britain and president of the Society of Medical Officers of Health, in which he had long been honorary secretary of the tuberculosis group; he was the first departmental specialist to take the chair of the Society. In 1924 he founded the highly successful Joint Tuberculosis Council, coordinating the work of various bodies interested in the problem. He guided its activities till 1938, in particular before the Royal Commission on Local Government, whose recommendations took shape in the Act of 1929. In 1930 he led the Council on a useful tour of Canada and America. Ward was chairman of the Torquay division of the British Medical Association in 1927-28 and 1940-41, and its representative to the central body 1927-41. He was president of the section of tuberculosis at the BMA annual meeting in 1938 at Plymouth. He was also president of the Torquay and District Medical Society. Ward found time to translate useful French surgical textbooks. He also contributed to the medical journals, and wrote two books of reminiscences. Ward married in 1910 Miss Margrave. There were three daughters and one son, a doctor. He died at Withycombe Lodge, Torquay Road, Paignton, after long illness, on 21 September 1945, aged 67. He was a man of strong character, essentially genial but aggressive in prosecution of his ideals. His recreation was nature-study on Dartmoor, and he served as president of the South-Western Naturalists Union and of the Devon Bird Watching and Preservation Society. In spite of two major illnesses he achieved much valuable work for the profession and the community. Publications: F Lejars *Urgent surgery*, translated with W S Dickie. Bristol, Wright, 1915; 3rd edition, 1923. A Broca *Ligations and amputations*, translated. London, 1917. Conjugal tuberculosis. *Lancet*, 1919, 2, 606. *Medical adventure, some experiences of a general practitioner*. London, 1929. *General practice* [professional recollections]. London, 1930. A public health clinician. *Lancet*, 1937, 1, 55, 110, 169, 231, and 287. *Favourite prescriptions*. London, 4th edition, 1937.
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First Title value, for Searching Stibbe, Edward Philip (1884 - 1943)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-13
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Occupation Anatomist Medical Officer
Details Born 12 November 1884 at Glasgow, eldest child of Godfrey Stibbe, hosiery machine builder, and Sophia Dennis, his wife. He was educated at Allan Grant's School, Glasgow, and at Wyggeston School, Leicester, before entering Charing Cross Hospital Medical School. After qualifying in 1908 he entered the Government Medical Service in Fiji in 1909; in 1912 he became district medical officer of Vosburg in South Africa, and interested himself in measuring native skulls. During the first world war he served as medical officer at the 1st Northern General Hospital at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1915-18. He went back to South Africa in 1919 as professor of anatomy at the University of South Africa, Pretoria. He took the Fellowship in 1925, and began to teach anatomy in this country, being successively demonstrator at Durham and Liverpool Universities and senior demonstrator at University College, London, and at the London Hospital under William Wright. In 1935 he joined the staff of King's College in the Strand, and was appointed University of London reader of anatomy; three years later, 1938, he was elected professor. At King's he filled the offices of sub-dean and tutor in the Medical Faculty. He was a wise and generous friend of his pupils, and served the College well in the difficult years of evacuation, 1939-42. At the Royal College of Surgeons Stibbe was a Hunterian professor in 1936, lecturing on the surgical anatomy of the sub-tentorial angle, and he examined for the Conjoint Board 1933-38 and for the Fellowship 1936-41. He was elected to examine for the Fellowship overseas in 1939-40, but the war postponed these examinations. He also examined for Durham and Liverpool Universities and for the Society of Apothecaries. Stibbe was a member of council of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. He edited in 1932 a *Practical anatomy*, by six teachers; William Wright, T E Yeates, J S B Stopford, S E Whitnall, M F Lucas Keene, and himself. In 1930 he wrote a *Textbook of physical anthropology*, which reached a second edition in 1938. Stibbe married (1) in 1909 Celia Evelyn Rail, and there were two sons and a daughter of the marriage; (2) in 1924 Florence Kate Roy, who survived him, dying on 5 June 1949. He died on 23 July 1943 at Hardby, Gerrards Cross, Bucks, aged 58, and was buried in St James's churchyard, Gerrards Cross. Publications: *Textbook of physical anthropology*. London, 1930; 2nd edition, 1938. True tracheal diverticulunt. *J Anat* 1929-30, 64, 62. *Practical anatomy*, by six teachers, edited. London, 1932. *Anatomy for dental students*, by six teachers, edited. London, 1934. Some observations on the surgery of trigeminal neuralgia. *Brit J Surg* 1936-37, 24, 122. *Aids to anatomy*. London, 1940.
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First Title value, for Searching Harkness, Robert Coltart (1887 - 1976)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-11
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Occupation Medical Officer
Details Robert Coltart Harkness was born in Dumfries on 28 February 1887. He was educated at Laurieknone School and Dumfries Academy where he was dux on the modern side, sports champion and captain of soccer. He proceeded to Edinburgh University where he was Ettles Scholar, Buchanan Scholar and Houldsworth Scholar and graduated MB ChB in 1909 with first class honours. He did several house jobs including house surgeon at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Manchester Royal Infirmary and Wolverhampton General Hospital. He joined the Army in 1914 and served throughout the war in France and at Catterick Camp attained the rank of Major. He obtained the MRCS and LRCP in 1910, and passed the Final FRCS in London in 1910, having to wait until 28 February 1911, his 25th birthday, before he was admitted. In 1920 he was appointed medical superintendent at St Olave's Hospital, Bermondsey, a position he held until 1931. From 1920 to 1948 he also served on the staff of the London County Council's hospitals administration. From the inception of the NHS in 1948 until 1952 he was liaison officer between the London based regional hospital boards and the residual London County Council Service. He was outstanding among the able administrators who fashioned the remarkably successful medical services of the London County Council. In the early 'thirties, when the Council took over the Poor Law hospitals of the various London boroughs, the formidable task of moulding a mass of very uneven institutions into a coherent service fell to Harkness, who had been put in charge of the general hospitals of the Council. It required all the vision, firmness, and persuasion of a gifted administrator to achieve the unified service that Harkness created within a few years. This organisation greatly facilitated the task of the Emergency Medical Service during 1939-45, but it never grew to maturity, for the medical services of the local authorities including those of the LCC, were absorbed into the National Health Service in 1946-8, and by then Harkness was approaching retiring age. For some years after his retirement the South-West Metropolitan Hospital Board drew on Harkness's vast experience. Inevitably the reorganisation of the hospital services of London created many anomalies, not always solved adequately or even sensibly. To these problems Harkness brought not only experience but wisdom. At the Royal Eye Hospital, one of the hospitals affected, Harkness, who had become its chairman, contributed years of selfless service, but failing health compelled him to relinquish a difficult task. His hobbies were golf, tennis, badminton, bowls and gardening. For his integrity, his quiet enthusiasm, his reticence and shyness he will be remembered. In 1924 he married Sheila McWilliam and had two daughters. He died at Dalveen, Cobham, Surrey, on 11 July 1976, aged 90 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Guymer, Ronald Frank (1901 - 1977)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-11
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Occupation General practitioner Industrial medicine specialist Medical Officer
Details Ronald Frank Guymer was born in London on 7 June 1901, the eldest child of Frank Guymer, wholesale corn and grain merchant, one of whose wharves now supports the Festival Hall. Guymer was educated at Durston House, Ealing, and Westminster School where he played football for the school and gained several prizes and an exhibition to Trinity College, Cambridge. He took an honours degree in natural sciences before going up to St Thomas's for his clinical training. He held several house surgeon and house physician jobs at various London and provincial hospitals and entered general practice in 1928 where he remained until the second world war. He served in the expedition to Norway, in the Middle East and in India. He became a full Colonel and received the TD in 1945. After the war, he returned to general practice for three years before changing to industrial medicine which became his life work and interest. He became medical officer to several large firms including Sainsbury's and was chief medical officer to Lloyd's Bank for seventeen years. Guymer was chairman of many medical boards and a member of many advisory committees including the WHO. He was lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, at St Bartholomew's and St Thomas's Hospitals and the Royal Army Medical College at Millbank. He was an examiner in industrial health for the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Surgeons and the Society of Apothecaries. He was a Charles Hastings Prize winner of the BMA and visited the USA with a Rockefeller Travelling Fellowship. His publications included papers on poisoning and accidents in industry and also on the role of general practice in industrial medicine. Guymer had two children by his first marriage and subsequently three grandsons. In 1952, he married as his second wife, Dr Patricia Lesley Bidstrup (MD FRACP FRCP London) who was educated in Adelaide and came to Europe in 1945 with the United Nations relief and rehabilitation administration. Between them, they played a leading part in the improvement of industrial health in Britain over a period of some 30 years. His hobbies included football, ballet, biography, tennis and cricket (he was a member of the MCC). He had an attractive personality and was a shrewd and effective committee man. During his latter years, he became interested in financial appeals for causes of which he approved. He collected several hundreds of thousand pounds for the Royal College of Physicians, and the Royal Society of Medicine and the Royal College of Surgeons who made him Patron of the College in 1977. He died on 15 September 1977 at the age of 76, survived by his wife, son Tony and daughter, Jill, who became a physiotherapist.
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First Title value, for Searching James, John Alexander (1887 - 1965)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-18
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Physician
Details John Alexander James was born on 21 May 1887 at Berry, New South Wales, and was educated at the Brisbane Grammar School, where he distinguished himself by becoming Captain of the School, and a member of the Rifle Shooting Team which was the first to win the Empire Competition. After graduating in medicine at the University of Sydney in 1911 he held resident posts at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and the Coast Hospital, Sydney, till the outbreak of the first world war when he joined the 5th Field Ambulance and saw service in Gallipoli and in France. For a time he was DADMS of the 4th Division AIF, and ultimately took command of his old Field Ambulance. On demobilization he returned to a resident post at the Coast Hospital for two years, and then came back to England for a period of post-graduate study which earned him the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1925. James then went to Canberra, first as medical superintendent of the Canberra Hospital, and then, after obtaining the Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1930, he was appointed honorary medical officer to the Canberra Community Hospital, continuing in that post and in private practice till his retirement in 1963. This outline of a distinguished professional career must be amplified by reference to his sterling character and his interests and attainments in other fields. At school and University he proved himself a first class athlete, gaining blues in both cricket and football, and he continued to play cricket for a time in Canberra, though later he turned to tennis and golf, and was an active patron of various sports clubs. His interest in military medicine was maintained through an association with the Royal Military College, Duntroon. His quiet but firm demeanour inspired confidence, though in spite of his skill and experience he never hesitated to seek the advice of a colleague when he thought it advisable to do so, for it was obvious that he put the welfare of his patients before any consideration of personal prestige. He became physician to the Governor-General and to the Government House Staff and took an active interest in the affairs of the growing capital city. For these services to medicine and the community he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1951, and a Commander of the Order in 1959. In 1929 Jack James married Miss Sheila Cary, whose vivacity and steadfast support made her an ideal partner. When he died on 25 February 1965 he was survived by his wife, a daughter who was a member of the nursing profession, and two sons, one of whom became a doctor.
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First Title value, for Searching Fisher, Alfred Charles (1905 - 1981)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-01
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Alfred Charles Fisher was born on 26 June 1905 in Lurgan, Co Armagh. Both his father and uncle were physicians. When five months old he went with his parents to Northern Rhodesia; en route he was carried over the girders of the uncompleted Victoria Falls bridge before the roadway was put on. He was educated at Plumtree School, Rhodesia, and at Nottingham High School. He entered Bristol University Medical School in 1922 qualifying in 1928 having been awarded several scholarships and a gold medal. After several resident appointments at the Bristol Royal Infirmary he passed his FRCS in 1930. Shortly after he went to Yakusu in the Belgian Congo to do research on bilharzia under Sir Clement Chesterman. He discovered a new species of schistosome which he named *Schistosoma intercalatum* and he was the first to report on the rare condition, tropical primary phlebitis. He proceeded MD in 1932. He then moved to the copper belt of Northern Rhodesia and in 1934 became chief medical officer of the Roan Antelope and Mufulira mines. He was the only surgeon of consultant status in the area and he helped build up a hospital service for all the mines. He was trusted and respected by both the indigenous and expatriate populations. Under his direction the medical departments of the mines pioneered prophylaxis through maternity and child welfare clinics and malaria and hookworm were controlled. He was the secretary of the Northern Rhodesia branch of the BMA for many years and later its President. When Zambia became independent he helped found the Zambia Medical Association. Politically he was a liberal. In 1946 he briefly represented the Africans' interests in the legislative council, but he found it absorbed too much of his time. Later he was influential in the middle-of-the-road political efforts made to try to bridge the gap between black and white extremists. He was awarded an OBE in 1947 for his efforts. In 1958 he left the direct employment of the mining companies and became consultant surgeon to the new Llewellyn Hospital in Kitwe. At the same time he built up a prize breeding herd of cattle on a farm by the Kafue river, helping the developing agricultural industry in the area. From 1956 to 1972 he was chairman of the Flying Doctor Service of Zambia and of the Mindolo Ecumenical Foundation. A noted hunter in his youth, he abandoned the gun as he grew older and became a leader in conservation. He retired in 1979. He married Dr Monica Hanford in 1941, who survives him. They had three sons - two in medicine - a consultant physician and an ophthalmologist - and one daughter. His third son manages the farm. He died on 24 August 1981, aged 76 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Alderton, Roland Maitland (1902 - 1991)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-01 2022-11-22
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Minister Physician Missionary
Details Roland Maitland Alderton was born on 20 June 1902 in Hadleigh, Suffolk, son of David Simpson, a miller and corn merchant, and Margaret McLachlan, daughter of a clergyman. He was educated at Tonbridge School and the London Hospital, qualifying MRCS LRCP in 1930 and MB BS in 1931. After working as house surgeon and emergency officer at the London he gained the FRCS in 1932 and went to Hong Kong as medical officer at the Nethersole Hospital. Here he served from 1932-1958, but he was interned by the Japanese between 1942 and 1945 in Stanley, Hong Kong. In 1960 he was ordained minister in the Congregational Church in England and Wales. He was married twice, to Kathleen, née Blackman, who died in 1947 and to Bessie, née Partridge, in 1948. He had a son, Daniel Arthur, who became a physician, and a daughter. He died on 30 December 1991. **See below for an expanded version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 7 of Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk** Roland Maitland Alderton was a medical missionary in Hong Kong. He was born on 20 June 1902 in Hadleigh, Suffolk, the son of Daniel Simpson Alderton, a miller and corn merchant, and Margaret Watson Alderton née McLachlan, from Edinburgh, the daughter of a clergyman. He was educated at Tonbridge School and the London Hospital, where he qualified with the conjoint examination in 1930. He gained his MB BS in 1931. After working as a house surgeon and emergency officer at the London Hospital, he became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1932, the same year he went to Hong Kong as a medical missionary with the London Missionary Society. He worked as a medical officer at Nethersole Hospital until 1942, when he was interned by the Japanese in Stanley Camp. Following the liberation of Hong Kong in 1945, he stayed on in Hong Kong for another six months to help restore and reorganise Nethersole Hospital, and returned to the UK in early 1946. He had married Kathleen Blackman in Battle, Sussex in 1935. She died in January 1947 of ovarian cancer. In October 1948 he married for a second time, to Bessie Partridge in Sudbury, Sussex. He returned to Hong Kong with his new wife in January 1949 and resumed his work at Nethersole Hospital, specialising in obstetrics. He finally returned to the UK in 1958 and studied at Westminster College, Cambridge for two years to become a minister in the Congregational Church. He then took charge of the Congregational Church in Ingatestone, Essex and then at White Roding, also in Essex. He retired in around 1970. He had a son, Daniel Arthur, who became a physician, and a daughter, Margaret. Roland Maitland Alderton died on 30 December 1991 in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. He was 89. Sarah Gillam
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First Title value, for Searching Buxton, Kenneth Leonard (1909 - 2001)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-22
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Missionary
Details Kenneth Buxton was a former medical officer for the Church Missionary Society at Ruanda Mission, Ibuye, Burundi, and subsequently medical superintendent of Mildmay Mission Hospital, Bethnal Green, London. He was born in Hertfordshire, on 19 July 1909. His father, Leonard Buxton, was the grandson of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, the co-worker of Wilberforce in the abolition of the slave trade, and was the vicar of North Mimms. His mother, Kathleen Wingfield-Digby, was the daughter of a landowner at Coleshill House, near Birmingham. Kenneth was educated at Charterhouse, from which he won an exhibition to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gained a first in the natural science tripos. He did his clinical studies at St Thomas's, where he became house surgeon and casualty officer. After obtaining his FRCS in 1935, he went to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as a missionary to found a new medical school. However, the Italian invasion meant that he was evacuated to Aden, together with his wife and baby son, and then returned to England, along with the exiled Emperor Haile Selassie. In 1938, he returned to Africa, to work in Burundi with the Ruanda mission. With few resources, he designed, built and organised a hospital, training young Africans as nurses and dressers. A maternity unit and a nurse training school (which had government recognition) were later added. As well as having to deal with a remarkable range of medical and surgical conditions almost single-handed, Kenneth also worked as the architect, building instructor, engineer and mechanic. During the second world war, Kenneth offered to join the British Army, along with the other missionaries in the country. They were requested to remain by the British government, in case there was a German invasion of East Africa. He returned home briefly in 1948 with his family. He returned to England for good in 1954 and took up the post of medical superintendent of Mildmay Mission Hospital in London's East End. While working at the hospital, he initiated and was involved in implementing many changes, including the building of an extension and a new residential wing for nurses. The hospital was closed in 1982 by the regional hospital board, but reopened three years later as a community hospital with charitable trust status. It later became the first hospital to offer a dedicated service for people with AIDS. Kenneth was chairman of the council of the Ruanda Mission from 1965 to 1974 and kept up his interest in Burundi. He married in 1935, Agnes Bragg, daughter of T Bragg, a doctor. They had two sons, of whom the elder (Paul) became a physician in Victoria, Canada. Of their two daughters, the eldest was a nurse at St Thomas's. There are nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Kenneth died at the age of 92, on 14 November 2001.
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First Title value, for Searching Wallace, Robert Allez Rotherham (1888 - 1980)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-24
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Occupation ENT surgeon General practitioner General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Robert Allez Rotherham Wallace, the elder child and only son of Robert Wallace and Amelia (née Rotherham), was born on 2 November 1888 at Queenscliffe, Victoria, Australia. After early education at Melbourne Grammar School he had architectural training at Perth Technical School and worked as a junior architect to Sir John Monash. He later secured two scholarships on switching to medicine at Sydney University where he graduated with honours in 1911. Though the present medical degree at Sydney is the MB BS, all records confirm that his first qualification is correctly shown above. After serving as house surgeon at the Alfred Hospital, Sydney, and other resident jobs, he came to England and took the FRCS in 1914. At the outbreak of the first world war he joined the RAMC until 1916 and was then invalided as a Captain to the RAAMC base hospital at Melbourne. On leaving the service he was outpatient surgeon to the Melbourne Children's Hospital from 1916 to 1923. He then returned to England in 1924 and took surgical appointments to outpatients at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, and at Huntingdon. From 1925 to 1928 he worked as an ENT surgeon in South East London under the old LCC medical service, and then as a general surgeon at the Herts and Essex Hospital and in general practice at Bishop's Stortford from 1928 until his retirement in 1949. During his varied career both in Australia and here, Wallace had enjoyed contact with Hamilton Russell and Sir Charles Ryan in Melbourne; Sir Alexander MacCormick in Sydney, and with Sir John Bland-Sutton and Cecil Joll in England. He married Eleanor Dora Watson in 1925 and they had three children: one son is a doctor, another a dentist and the daughter is a trained nurse. Both in Melbourne and later in Bishop's Stortford he was medical officer to establishments which took care of foster-children. He was an honorary life fellow of the Hunterian Society of London and, outside his professional work, he was interested in joinery and had been keen on swimming, rowing, and both rifle and game shooting. He died in Bishop's Stortford in June, 1980 and was survived by his three children, his wife having died in 1974.
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First Title value, for Searching Stowell, Thomas Edmund Alexander (1887 - 1970)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-14
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Radiologist
Details Thomas Edmund Alexander Stowell was born in 1887; he was educated at St Paul's School and St Thomas's Hospital where he was awarded the William Tite Scholarship for 1905-1906. As a postgraduate he studied at Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Zurich, Vienna and Harvard, holding clinical appointments at St Thomas's and the Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool. At different times he was honorary surgeon at the Victoria Infirmary Northwich, senior honorary surgeon and radiologist at the Mid-Cheshire Orthopaedic Clinic, Northwich, and a surgeon in the EMS. Possibly his longest and most important appointment was that of chief medical officer to Imperial Chemical Industries, and therefore he was one of the pioneers on the subject of industrial health. A member of the court of examiners for the diploma in industrial health, he was Chairman of the Council of Industrial Medicine and of the Medical Advisory Committee of the Industrial Welfare Society. Senior Vice-President of the Congrès International de Sauvetage et de Premier Secours en Cas d'Accidents, he was for many years interested in accident prevention and first aid instruction and was a lecturer and examiner for the St John Ambulance Association and the British Red Cross Society. A devoted churchman he was a member of the House of Laity of the Church Assembly and was chairman of the Childrens Committee of the London Diocesan Council for Moral Welfare. His surgical activities were seriously curtailed by his developing Dupuytren's contracture, necessitating the amputation of three fingers. At one period he was a lecturer at the London School of Economics, a member of the British Social Hygiene Council, a Member of the Ministry of Pensions Committee on Compensation for Injuries Sustained by Members of HM Forces and many other bodies connected with industrial health, with first aid and safety, and with public morality. A great interest was the solving of historical medical mysteries and he became involved in controversial arguments as to the identity of Jack the Ripper following an article he wrote in *The Criminologist*. He was a keen and distinguished Freemason. In 1913 he married Lilian, elder daughter of W Wagner of Hayle, Cornwall by whom he had a son, who became a doctor, and a daughter who was killed accidentally in 1958. He died on 8 November 1970 in Southampton.
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First Title value, for Searching Dick, John Lawson (1870 - 1944)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-01
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Occupation Medical Officer
Details Born in Edinburgh on 27 November 1870, the third child and second son of Alexander Dick, grain merchant of Leith, and Catherine Lawson, his wife. He was educated at Stewarts College and the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated MB CM winning the university medals in midwifery and gynaecology, pathology and physiology. He was also medallist in midwifery and gynaecology of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He served as house surgeon in the gynaecological wards at the Royal Infirmary and was also university demonstrator of pathology. In 1892 he won a Buchanan scholarship and completed his training at St Bartholomew's, taking the English Conjoint degree in 1894 proceeding to the English Fellowship in 1896. After serving as house surgeon at the Hospital for Women and Children, Manchester, and for a short time as assistant medical officer at the Lancashire County Asylum Rainhill, and senior house surgeon at the Stanley Hospital, Liverpool Dick went out to South Africa where he settled in practice at Cradock and was appointed to the Queen's Central Hospital. During the war served as surgeon-captain attached to the colonial forces, and won the Queen's medal. While the surrounding country was disaffected, Dick was granted one of the only permits to leave the town of Cradock by day or night, so that he might visit his country patients, many of whom were Boers, to within a radius of forty miles; he was never attacked on any of his journeys. After the war he served a term of office as deputy mayor of Cradock. Returning to Britain, Dick took the Edinburgh MD in 1906 and practised from 1908 at Rossendale, 89 Cazenove Road, Stamford Hill, London, N, in partnership with J W Hunt, MD, MRCS 1876, and J M Laughton, MB Edinburgh. He served during the war of 1914-18 as civil surgeon at the City of London military hospital. He then entered the administrative department of the commission for medical services of the Ministry of Pensions, and became president of medical boards for the County of London. Dick became deeply interested in problems of social medicine, particularly in their relation to children. He made a particular study of rickets as it affected the young "of all animals kept in captivity". He published a paper, "The teeth in rickets" in the *Proc Roy Soc Med*. 1916, 9, children's diseases, p 83, and in 1919 a book on *Defective housing and the growth of children*. But his views were most effectively published in his Rickets - a study of economic conditions and their effects on the health of the nation, 1922. His ideas were controversial, for he disbelieved in vitamin deficiency, and debated keenly in favour of his own teaching of the economic causes of rickets and dental caries, and the best ways and means of defeating these plagues. Dick married in 1911 Norah Winifred Duke, who survived him with a son and two daughters. Mrs Dick wrote and broadcast on medical subjects under the pseudonyms of Winifred Lawson and "A doctor's wife". While working in London, Lawson Dick lived at 42 Cholmely Park, Highgate. He retired to The Gables, Chichester Road, Dorking, where he died on 13 June 1944, aged 73.
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First Title value, for Searching Abraham, James Johnston (1876 - 1963)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-20
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Writer
Details Born on 16 August 1876, eldest son of William Abraham JP of Coleraine Co. Derry, he was educated at Coleraine Academy and at Trinity College Dublin, where he was senior moderator and won the gold medal for natural science. At the same time he showed his literary bent by winning prizes for literature and was in two minds whether to take up a career in medicine or in literature. After graduation he came to London in 1901, was appointed house surgeon at the West London Hospital and commenced working for the Primary FRCS. After passing, he was advised by a chest specialist to get away for six months and therefore signed on as ship's surgeon in the SS *Clytemnestra* bound from Liverpool to Yokohama. On his return he was appointed resident medical officer at the London Lock Hospital and in due course wrote a thesis on his experience with the Wassermann reaction which gained him his MD. Meanwhile he had contributed short articles to medical journals and wrote a novel dealing with hospital life. On the rejection of this by Fisher Unwin, he decided to write about his voyage to the Far East; *The Surgeon's Log* was published by Chapman and Hall in 1911 and immediately became a best seller. This led him to revise his original novel *The Night Nurse*, eventually published in 1913. In the same year he was appointed assistant surgeon to the Princess Beatrice Hospital. In the war of 1914-18, on being rejected by the RAMC on grounds of age, he joined the Red Cross in Serbia and worked in hospital at Skopje, having to grapple with, among other problems, a violent epidemic of typhus. On his return to England as a decorated Captain in the Serbian Army he was appointed Captain in the RAMC in 1916, serving first at Millbank Military Hospital and later at a base hospital in Egypt. From 1917 to 1919 he acted as ADMS in Allenby's force and served in Macedonia, Egypt, Syria and Palestine, being awarded the DSO and later the CBE, being mentioned in dispatches three times. He returned to work as surgeon to Princess Beatrice and the London Lock hospitals. Throughout his life he continued his interest in both medicine and literature, writing under the pseudonym of James Harpole. He was chairman of Heinemann's medical publications and of the library committee of the Athenaeum. He retired from active surgical practice in 1943 after a serious operation for duodenal haemorrhage. He was Vicary Lecturer at the College in 1943 and was appointed a Hunterian Trustee in 1954. On 21 April 1920 he married Lilian Angela, eldest daughter of Dr Alexander Francis, who survived him with a daughter. He died at Campden Hill Court, London on 9 August 1963 within a week of his eighty-seventh birthday. Mrs Abraham died on 4 January 1969. Principal publications: *A surgeon's log* London, 1911, subsequently translated into German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. *The night nurse* London, 1913, subsequently filmed in America. *Lettsom, his life and times* Heinemann, London, 1933. *A surgeon's journey, autobiography* London, 1957.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004822
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First Title value, for Searching Luke, Clifton James (1925 - 1991)

2024-05-05T04:19:10Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-17 2015-10-14
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Occupation General practitioner Medical Officer Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Clifton James Luke was born in Sydney, Australia, on 25 April 1925, the only son of Clive Herbert Luke, a businessman, and Dorothy May (nee Mullaney) whose father was Mayor of Goulburn, New South Wales, and whose great grandfather had been the Professor of Botany at Dublin University. His education was at St Patrick's College, Strathfield NSW and the University of Sydney, where he qualified MBBS in 1947. He was resident medical officer at St Vincent's Hospital then at Townsville Base Hospital from 1949 to 1950. After five years as the medical officer with the Department of Immigration in Rome and Athens he returned to the St George's area in 1957 to general practice. Following this wide experience he sailed to the UK to commence training in ophthalmology at Moorfield's Eye Hospital, London, where he passed his DO in 1962. In 1963 he attended the Basic Sciences course in the RCS, ensuring that his friends learnt one fact a day thoroughly. Many of these were to be tested in the subsequent Primary FRCS. He worked in the Western Ophthalmic Hospital from 1965 to 1967, passing his FRCS. Subsequently he was appointed visiting ophthalmic surgeon to the Prince of Wales Hospital and lecturer in ophthalmology at the University of New South Wales. From 1967 he was honorary assistant ophthalmic surgeon to St George's Hospital in Sydney. He regularly worked in eye camps in India arranged by the Jesuit missions. He met and married Iris Newton in Rome in 1954 and they had three daughters and one son; Caroline is a general practitioner in London; Margaret, Elizabeth and Peter are all in the paramedical professions. He was filled with a great sense of adventure, and after a small aircraft flight throughout the north of Australia and the Solomon Islands he learnt to fly. He was an active skier, yachtsman and trout fisherman throughout his life and was a great traveller. An enthusiast, he imparted this to his friends and colleagues and was always most generous to his juniors, to whom he gave considerable help during their early years of individual practice. Actively involved in local medical politics he served as President of the Illawarra Suburbs Medical Association from 1981 to 1983. In his last years he moved to Potts Point where he helped many country colleagues by relieving them as *locum tenens*. His terminal illness of repeated episodes of multiple thromboemboli of unknown aetiology lasted for three years: he maintained his usual cheerful humour, showing tremendous courage till the end. He died peacefully at the age of 66 on 6 September 1991 from melaena from ruptured oesophageal varices. Cliff was trusted by his patients, respected by his colleagues and loved by his family and many friends. He met his wife Iris in Rome and they married in 1954. Clifton James Luke died on 6 September 1991 aged 66. He was survived his wife and their four children: Caroline, Margaret, Elizabeth and Peter.
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First Title value, for Searching Hambury, Harold John (1910 - 1975)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-11
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Occupation Medical Officer Orthopaedic surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Harold John Hambury was born of Jewish parents on 8 December 1910 in the German city of Stargard, Pomerania. He studied medicine at Heidelberg, Berlin, Munich, and Hamburg, where he qualified in 1934. Owing to Nazi persecution he went to England in 1937 with little money and little knowledge of English. Being unable to practise medicine, he took a job as tutor to an Army officer's son, with whose family he went to India. There he was helped by the American United Presbyterian Mission and was given a post as medical officer to the mission. On the outbreak of war he and his wife were interned in India as enemy aliens. He worked as medical officer to the camp and eventually obtained a commission in the RAMC, attaining the rank of Major. On demobilization he returned with his family to England, where he took the Conjoint examination and then the FRCS. After working for some years in London he was in 1953 appointed SHMO in charge of the casualty departments at Swansea and Morriston Hospitals. In 1964 he became consultant orthopaedic and traumatic surgeon, remaining in the post until his death. In 1956, at the time of the Suez crisis, he was appointed to a commission in the Army Emergency Reserve with 28 General Hospital RAMC(TA). Later that year he was classified as a senior specialist in surgery and promoted to Acting Major. After further posts he was in 1967 appointed Honorary Colonel to 382 Field Medical Company, RAMC(V). He contributed regularly to training periods at home and in the British Army of the Rhine. In addition to his surgical work he undertook research projects concerned with the possibility of stimulating bone growth and accelerating the union of fractures by means of small electric currents. In 1973 he was invited to speak on his research work at the New York Academy of Science, to which he was elected an active member the following year. He also served on the advisory committee on research in artificial limbs at the Department of Health. Jo Hambury was a man of wide and cultivated tastes, but his great love was natural history. He became an authority on the wild flowers of Glamorgan and Gower and gave lectures illustrated by his own exquisite photographs. He was a founder member of the Gower Ornithological Society and spent much of his leisure time bird-watching. He was also active in medical politics and in 1973 was Chairman of the Glantawe Medical Staff Committee. He served as a secretary of the BMA's Swansea Division and was elected its chairman in 1974, but his period of office was cut short by his last illness. Two strokes in quick succession left him aphasic and almost completely paralysed. He recovered enough to walk a little and go out to his favourite Gower countryside, and as his speech recovered he dictated a book on the experience he had been through. He was married and had one daughter. He died on 25 May 1975, aged 64 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Rishworth, Henry Richard (1891 - 1991)

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Publication Date 2015-10-01
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Born on 8 February 1891 in the Military Cantonments at Bangalore, Dick Rishworth was the son of an officer in the British Army in India: his mother was the daughter of a major in the Indian Army Ordnance Corps and his great grandfather was an Assistant Surgeon of the East India Company. After education at schools in Bangalore and Rangoon he received his medical education at Madras Medical College where he won the Johnstone and Blacklock Gold Medals. Like so many men born in the Colonies or Dominions his career was largely devoted to service in the British Empire. In 1914 he was commissioned in the Indian Medical Service and worked mainly on hospital ships in the Persian Gulf, the Dardanelles and Eastern Mediterranean: he was present at the evacuation of the British from Ismid on the advance of Kemal Ataturk. After demobilisation in 1921 he spent two years as a house surgeon at Charing Cross Hospital (acting also as divisional surgeon to Scotland Yard). In 1923 he returned to India and spent the next twenty years first as District Medical Officer and then Principal Medical and Health Officer to the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. While he was in Jhansi he was the first to introduce blood transfusion into the area; later when he moved to Bombay he was secretary in West India of the St John Ambulance Association and formed a division of over 1000 people trained in first aid and with its own ambulance. Rishworth returned to England in 1946, but was asked by the Foreign Office to go to Baghdad as director of the medical service of the Iraq State Railways. Subsequently the Nigerian government asked him to report on the medical service of its railways: he travelled Nigeria's entire railway system before writing a book in 1955 which was described in a review as the classic work on the subject of railway medical services in developing countries. He continued as medical adviser to the Nigerian Railways until he retired at the age of 96. In his years overseas he was a notable sportsman, enjoying particularly tiger shooting, pig sticking and fly fishing. In retirement and following the death of his wife he became a prolific painter, in both water colour and oil, and a sculptor. He married in 1918 Elizabeth Dawson Moray who died in 1966 and his elder son was killed in 1941. In his later years he lived in a small flat in Putney where he always welcomed friends with a delightful fund of memories and anecdotes of India. On first acquaintance he appeared somewhat formal, but his twinkling eyes and charming humour soon led to cups of tea and an exhibition of his latest paintings, of which he was justly very proud. He lived alone at Putney until he was 96 and died in a nursing home six days after his hundredth birthday. He bequeathed £50,000 to the College for the improvement of the *Annals*, and in 1987 gave a bronze statuette by WH Rheinhold of an ape contemplating a human skull while sitting on a pile of books, one of which is labelled *Darwin*, and another is open and bears the words *Eritis sicut Deus*.
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First Title value, for Searching Henry, Sydney Alexander (1880 - 1960)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-26 2014-04-03
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Occupational physician
Details Born on 15 August 1880 he was the son of Joseph Henry MD, LRCSI a general practitioner and part-time Medical Officer of Health for Rochdale 1879-1908; from his father he inherited a keen interest in industrial medicine. He was educated at Rossall School, Trinity College, Cambridge and St Thomas's Hospital where he qualified in 1905. After qualifying Henry spent a few years as an assistant school medical officer under Dr J C Bridge in Breconshire. He then went into general practice in Rochdale, where he also held the post of certifying factory surgeon. From this early experience Henry developed an interest in occupational disease, and he became an authority on the subject from the employers' and employees' point of view. He saw active service in the RAMC in the first world war, was wounded and was made a Chevalier of the Belgian Ordre de la Couronne in 1916. In 1920 he was appointed one of HM Inspectors of Factories at the Home Office; the fourth to be appointed. He was responsible under Sir Thomas Legge for a wide district in the north of England, and with characteristic verve accepted this challenge. He had a profound knowledge of the conditions in the textile trade, and became secretary to the Departmental Committees on epitheliomatous ulceration among mule-spinners and on dust in cotton cardrooms. He had a great admiration for Sir Thomas Legge and they became close friends. Henry worked in Manchester from 1920 to 1930; in 1929 he was vice-president of the Section of Occupational Health at the Annual Meeting of the BMA. He was a Hunterian Professor in 1940 and 1950; he and his sister endowed the Joseph Henry lectureship here in 1949 in memory of their father, and in 1952 he was elected FRCS. He delivered the Milroy lecture at the Royal College of Physicians in 1943, and the Chadwick lecture on "Medical supervision in industry in peace and war" at the Royal Society of Health in 1944. He endowed the Ernestine Henry lectureship at the College of Physicians in 1945 in memory of his mother, and the same year he was elected FRCP. Henry was a medical inspector of factories for twenty-four years, and became an international authority on industrial health. His special interest was occupational cancer and much of his writing is on this subject. He was a charming, kindly man and a voluble conversationalist. He was a great collector: books, china, paintings, engravings, and anything which threw light on occupational cancer were his special delight. He gave part of his collection to Leeds City Museum, and presented the pathological specimens, which his chief Sir Thomas Legge had given him, to Manchester University. Henry died at his home, 61 Overstrand Mansions, Battersea Park on 12 February 1960, aged 79. Select Publications: *Cancer of the scrotum in relation to occupation*. 1946. Occupational cutaneous cancer attributed to certain chemicals in industry. *Brit med Bull* 1947. Control and prevention of occupational cancer in Great Britain. *Irish J med Sci* 1955.
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First Title value, for Searching Bruce, Harold Wilson (1876 - 1965)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-22
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Occupation Hospital administrator Medical Officer
Details Harold Wilson Bruce was born in 1876 and trained at Guy's Hospital, where he qualified MB BS in 1897. He proceeded MD in 1899 and passed the FRCS in 1901. After holding a house appointment at Guy's he served in the Boer War and then went to India to join the team fighting plague in Bombay. On his return to England in 1903 he entered the service of the Southwark Board of Guardians as second assistant medical officer at their infirmary, which has since been renamed Dulwich Hospital. He became medical superintendent in 1905 and remained there for 25 years. In 1930 he was invited by Sir Frederick Menzies to join the head-quarters staff of the London County Council, to which the London Poor Law hospitals had been transferred a few months earlier. The hospitals which had been taken over from the boards of guardians were formed into a general hospital division under Dr W Brander and those from the Metropolitan Asylums Board (except the mental hospitals) into a special hospitals division under Dr J A H. Brincker. Bruce was Brander's deputy and with Dr R C Harkness - all three with long experience of hospital administration - they formed a most efficient team. Bruce was especially concerned with hospital extensions and improvements; he surveyed every hospital in his division and became expert in the reading of plans, a rare quality in a doctor. In 1937, when Brander retired, Bruce succeeded him as head of the general hospitals division. It was not long before he became deeply involved in the preparation of the hospitals for the war which started a couple of years later. He retired in April 1941 after having borne imperturbably the immense strain of coping with the problems caused by the heavy bombing of London since the autumn of 1940. During this time many of the hospitals in his division were seriously damaged and more or less put out of action. His great skill in the planning of hospitals was recognized nationally in 1934 when he was appointed by the Minister of Health to serve on a departmental committee on the cost of hospitals and other public buildings. His vast store of knowledge included every detail of how a municipal hospital worked. He was a tireless worker and expected the same standard of service from all his staff, medical and lay. He recognized the important part that lay staff can play in hospital administration, but insisted that there must be a "captain of the ship" with medical qualifications and clinical experience. He was tall, spare, and always well groomed, with an air of distinction. His opinions were sound and he expressed them forcibly, often demolishing those who argued with him by a few acid comments. After the death of his wife he went to live in a hotel in Bickley. He was one of the last survivors of the small group, not being replaced, who after years of skilled clinical work in the large London municipal hospitals turned out most successful administrators. They were a loss to clinical medicine, but their background was invaluable to their subsequent work and influence. He served in the first world war as a senior officer in field ambulance work. His great experience, he was much older than the rest of his team, and his general affability made him an asset to any unit. He had been an athlete in his younger days, and had run in very good company. While serving in France, he made a successful cross-country run when over 50. Bruce died in hospital on 16 June 1965 aged 89.
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First Title value, for Searching Last, Raymond Jack (1903 - 1993)

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Publication Date 2015-09-14
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Occupation Anatomist General practitioner Medical Officer
Details Raymond Last was born on 26 May 1903 in Adelaide, South Australia, the son of John Last, a bookseller, and Mildred Louisa Rundle - interestingly he always made a point of describing himself as English! He was educated at Adelaide High School and the University of Adelaide, where he was taught anatomy by Professor Wood-Jones. He graduated MB BS in 1924 just after his 21st birthday, the youngest person ever to qualify in medicine in Adelaide. He was appointed resident medical officer at Adelaide Hospital in 1925 and then worked as a general practitioner in Booleroo Centre, a country town in South Australia, from 1926 to 1938. Shortly before war was declared in 1939 he came to England seeking a higher surgical qualification. In the winter of 1940 he survived several days in a lifeboat off Iceland, and after being rescued he served with the British forces liberating Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) from Italian occupation. He commanded the Abyssinian Medical Unit from 1941 to 1944 and was personal physician to the Emperor Haile Selassie and his family. From 1945 to 1946 he served with the RAMC in Borneo with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. After the war he returned to London to take the FRCS and was appointed anatomy demonstrator and curator at the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1950 he was appointed Professor of Applied Anatomy, a post which he held for the next twenty years, and warden of the Nuffield residential college, looking after the welfare of Commonwealth students in London. Ray Last was an inspiring teacher of anatomy, and his stimulating lectures on the primary FRCS course at the College are remembered by generations of aspiring surgeons from all over the world. His textbook *Anatomy: Regional and applied*, first published in 1954, ran to eight editions and was immensely popular for its clarity and style, being based on general principles and their surgical application. The excellence of his own illustrations was later recognised by the Medical Artists' Association who awarded him an honorary fellowship in 1992. He also edited Wolff's *Anatomy of the eye and orbit, Aids to anatomy*, and he wrote various papers on applied anatomy, especially of the knee joint. After retirement in 1970 he went to live in Malta, but he received many invitations to lecture abroad and for the next eighteen years he spent several months each year as visiting professor of anatomy at the University of California, Los Angeles. He travelled widely, lecturing in India, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand, and delighted in meeting his former students. His retirement was marked by the presentation of a portrait by Joan Whiteside, an oil painting of the Royal College of Surgeons by Anne Wright and also of a commemorative parchment book with letters from hundreds of contributors. These were donated by his former residents and students, who remembered him with gratitude and affection, recognising the important influence he had on their subsequent careers. He generously endowed a chair of comparative anatomy at the University of Adelaide with the royalties from his textbook. Despite failing eyesight he remained active until his death, aged 89, in Malta on 1 January 1993. He married twice, firstly to Vera Jedell in 1925, and secondly to Margret Milne in 1939 who died in 1989. He had two sons by his first marriage - Professor John Last, an emeritus epidemiologist in Ottawa, and Peter Last, a medical administrator in Adelaide, both of whom survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Tonks, Henry (1862 - 1937)

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Publication Date 2013-11-27
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Occupation Artist Medical Officer
Details Henry Tonks was born at Solihull, Warwickshire, on 9 April 1862, second son and fifth of the eleven children of Edmund Tonks, sometime barrister of Gray's Inn, of Packwood Grange, Knowle, Warwickshire, and Julia Anne Johnson, his wife. Edmund Tonks left the bar on his marriage and joined his father's brass-foundry at Birmingham. He invented the "Tonks library fitting" for adjustable book-shelves. Henry Tonks was educated at Clifton College, January 1877 to December 1879, and became a pupil at the Royal Sussex Hospital, Brighton in 1879, and whilst there had already begun to draw; he tried without success to sell his drawings at a shop in Brighton. He filled the post of house physician in 1887, and his skill as a draughtsman led to his taking the place temporarily as an assistant demonstrator of anatomy. He went to Germany in 1888, and whilst visiting the Dresden Gallery determined to devote himself to art. On his return to England, Sir Frederick Treves appointed him house surgeon at the London Hospital. At the end of his term of office he was elected senior medical officer at the Royal Free Hospital, whence he derived the bias in favour of the work and enthusiasm of women students which lasted throughout his life. During his tenure as senior medical officer he wrote to Frederick Brown, head of the Westminster School of Art, asking whether he might become a pupil. In 1892, when Brown was appointed Slade professor in succession to Alphonse Legros, he invited Tonks to become his assistant, his colleagues being P Wilson Steer (afterwards OM) and C Koe Child. Brown retired in 1917, and was succeeded by Tonks who held the post until 1930, when he resigned with the complimentary title of emeritus Slade professor and the honorary Fellowship of University College, and was succeeded by Randolph Schwabe. Tonks, though he was not the founder of the New English Art Club, was one of its earliest and strongest supporters. In October 1936 many of his works were on view in Rooms XIX and XX of the Tate Gallery, which at his death in 1937 contained seven of his paintings. During the war of 1914-18 Tonks worked with a French Red Cross Hospital and later with a British Ambulance Unit in Italy. On his return to England he was commissioned, 1 January 1916, as temporary lieutenant, RAMC, and did valuable work both at the Cambridge Hospital, Aldershot, and at the Queen's Hospital, Sidcup, Kent. The Army Medical collection at the Royal College of Surgeons Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields contains sixty-nine pastel drawings and three pen-and-ink sketches by him, which are striking portraits of men who were treated for facial injuries received during the war. In 1918 he visited France as an artist with John Sargent; he visited Ypres and spent a night under shell-fire at an advanced dressing station. In 1919 he accompanied the British expedition to Murmansk. His drawings of the Murmansk expedition and his picture of "An underground clearing station, Arras" are in the Imperial War Museum collection. Tonks died unmarried at his house, 1 The Vale, Chelsea, SW, on 8 January 1937. Tonks was a caricaturist by way of pastime and an artist by profession. As an artist and teacher he raised the Slade School to a high degree of perfection. His masterpiece "The Bird Cage" hangs in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. He was very tall, very thin, and very caustic, living the life of an ascetic epicure, but a few minutes' conversation discovered humour and sympathy, above all sympathy with youth. He nourished the most conscientious side of everyone he influenced, and to know him was to be influenced at once. The spell of trying to gain or keep his approbation never broke. His face did not easily register pleasure, but the brilliant eyes over his formidable nose glowed with sincerity and positive hunger to behold excellence. In February 1937 his friends subscribed to set up in the Slade School a portrait bust of Tonks in bronze by his pupil A H Gerrard, which was presented on 25 November 1937; they also founded an annual Henry Tonks prize for drawing at the Slade School. A memorial-exhibition of his works was held in June 1937 at Barbizon House, Henrietta Street, Cavendish Square; and an inscribed tablet was placed on his house in The Vale, Chelsea. His self-portrait, in the Tate Gallery, is reproduced as frontispiece to Hone's *Life*; a portrait-drawing by Powys Evans was published in *The London Mercury*, 1930, 22, 295. Publication: The vicissitudes of art, new words for old ideas. *The Times*, 2 March 1932, pp. 13 and 14.
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First Title value, for Searching Gauntlett, Eric Gerald (1885 - 1972)

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Publication Date 2014-08-04
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Medical Officer
Details Born on 1 November 1885, the son of T L Gauntlett of Putney, he was educated at King's College School, Wimbledon Common and entered King's College Hospital Medical School with the Warneford Scholarship in 1902. The hospital was then still in Portugal Street, just south of the Royal College of Surgeons. He won several prizes and scholarships during his student years, and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1908. He graduated through London University, with honours in medicine, surgery and forensic medicine, and was awarded a University gold medal, in 1920; he took the Fellowship in 1911. At King's he was house surgeon to Watson Cheyne, Sambrooke Surgical Registrar and tutor in succession to Arthur Edmunds. He served through the first world war in the RAMC, becoming a Lieutenant-Colonel, and was a consulting surgeon, Army Medical Service, at Salonika. While there he met and married Hilda Mary Gerrard, who was serving as a VAD nurse. He was awarded the DSO and the CBE for his war service and Mrs Gauntlett, who nursed again during the second world war, was then awarded the Royal Red Cross. When he returned to civil practice he was appointed assistant surgeon to Paddington Green Children's Hospital, but soon accepted the post of chief medical officer to the Shanghai-Nanking Railway in China. He worked at Shanghai for nearly twenty years, constructing a large surgical practice among the British and other European residents the British Embassy staff, and wealthy Chinese. He had a hospital available and was on the staff. He was also senior medical officer to the Shanghai Volunteers. Gauntlett was an enthusiastic Freemason, and at one time District Senior Grand Warden of the North China Lodges. His three sons were educated at Uppingham. When the Japanese invaded China in 1939 he, his wife and their two elder sons were interned. During internment one son contracted typhoid and died, largely as a result of deprivation of medical facilities. After about a year an exchange of Embassy staffs released him, his wife, and their surviving son from internment. Mrs Gauntlett brought with her 20 children of other internees. They sailed under Red Cross protection to Lourcenio in Portuguese East Africa. Their son, aged only 17, joined the South African Air Force and fought in it for the rest of the war. Eric Gauntlett joined the South Africa Medical Corps and worked as a surgeon in the rank of Major in South Africa. By this means he released a younger man for active service abroad. Mrs Gauntlett nursed in military hospitals in South Africa throughout the war. As a result of the disaster at Shanghai, Gauntlett lost nearly all his property, his investments, his pensions rights, and the value of his partnership. He had no income except his salary in the South African Army while serving from 1942 to 1946. When hostilities ceased he returned to England. He owned a small property, which had been used by Mrs Gauntlett on long leave from Shanghai, to be near her sons when they were young. They sold this property and some silver which provided a small block of capital, with which, at the age of 63, he entered general practice in the Doctors Panter and Mayo partnership at Braintree, Essex. He worked in this practice for seventeen years, and was on the staffs of several neighbouring hospitals. He was active in the British Medical Association, serving as chairman on the Mid-Essex Division 1951-53 and Branch 1958-60. He maintained his interest in Freemasonry, and became Senior Member of King's College Hospital Lodge. He retired at the age of 80 to Colchester where he died on 26 November 1972 after fracturing his hip in a fall, aged 87. His son, who survived the war-service with the South African Air Force, transferred to the Royal Air Force and in the rank of Wing-Commander was officer in charge of instruction at Hong Kong, where he was killed in a flying accident. Gauntlett was survived by his wife and their youngest son, Major Alister E G Gauntlett, 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers.
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First Title value, for Searching Wood Jones, Frederic (1879 - 1954)

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Publication Date 2014-06-23
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Occupation Anatomist Anthropologist Medical Officer
Details Born on 23 January 1879 at Hackney, where his father was a builder and slate merchant, the family prospered and moved to Enfield, but his father died young and "Freddy" was brought up by his mother, whom he resembled in vivid good looks and alert mentality. He was educated at the London Hospital, qualifying in 1904. Having come under the influence of Arthur Keith, with whom he formed a lifelong friendship, he devoted himself to anatomy. As house physician to Sir Henry Head he became interested in neurology, and twenty years later during the first world war did good work in the treatment of nerve injuries and in the elucidation of trick movements. This interest was further displayed in his book *The Matrix of the Mind*, written with S D Porteous (1928). From June 1905 to September 1906 he served as medical officer at the cable station on the Cocos Keeling Islands in the Indian Ocean, a post he took from his love of the sea and desire to study sea-birds and the natural history of an unspoiled island. In fact he produced a masterly study of the formation of coral reefs (*Coral and Atolls*, London 1910) which replaced Darwin's theory and led to his questioning much of Darwin's teaching. He also met his future wife, Gertrude daughter of George Clunies-Ross the Governor of the Islands. After a brief period in England, when he assisted Keith at the London Hospital Medical College and was married, he went to Egypt to assist Grafton Elliot Smith and G A Reisner in exploring ancient Nubian cemeteries; their report made great additions to knowledge in palaeopathology and physical anthropology. During 1908-12 he worked in England, as assistant to F G Parsons in the Anatomy department at St Thomas's Hospital and to Elliot Smith at Manchester University. He took the DSc in 1910 and was appointed the first Professor of Anatomy at the School of Medicine for Women (Royal Free Hospital) London in 1912. He held this post till 1919, but for much of 1914-18 was working in the RAMC at the Special Military Surgical Hospital at Shepherd's Bush. He was Arris and Gale Lecturer at the College in 1915, 1916, and 1919, enlarging the earlier lectures to form his book *Arboreal Man* (1916), which sought to change ideas on man's primitive origins; his clinical work led to his stimulating and successful book *Principles of Anatomy as seen in the Hand* (1920), followed much later by his similar *Structure and Function as seen in the Foot* (1944). He was elected in 1919, through the help of Sir Henry Newland FRCS, to the Elder chair of Anatomy at Adelaide University, in succession to Archibald Watson FRCS, and spent eighteen years in Australia, where he became very much at home. He was elected FRS in 1925. He resigned his post at Adelaide in 1926 on appointment as Professor of Physical Anthropology at the Rockefeller University in Hawaii, but after three years there he became (1930) Professor of Anatomy at Melbourne University, in succession to R J A Berry. During 1932-33 he went on leave from Melbourne to be Director of the American sponsored Peiping University Medical College in China. It was at this time that he applied unsuccessfully to succeed Keith as Conservator of the Hunterian Museum. During his years in Melbourne Wood Jones explored most of the islands off the coast of Victoria, often taking parties of his students to survey the fauna and flora for the McCoy Society. A film which he made at this time is deposited at the Department of History of Medicine at Melbourne University (1968). He came back to England in 1938 to succeed J S B Stopford as Professor of Anatomy at Manchester. When he retired in 1945, he was invited to fill the newly endowed Sir William Collins chair of Comparative and Human Anatomy at the College, with the Conservatorship of the Hunterian Museum, the intention being that he should restore the war-damaged Museum, which he successfully achieved. He retired from the Professorship in 1951 but continued as Honorary Conservator. He died after some months of failing health from cancer of the lung on 29 September 1954 aged 75, survived by his wife, who died on 12 October 1957, fifty years after their marriage. Wood Jones was elected a Hunterian Trustee in 1944, was Arris and Gale Lecturer in 1947, and was awarded the Honorary Medal of the College in 1949. He served for many years on the Council of the Zoological Society. Freddy Wood Jones was a ready writer and a skilful artist, who illustrated his own papers. Though he qualified as a surgeon, he might have achieved more as a research zoologist. His best work was done in comparative anatomy and zoology, and his happiest years were probably those spent at Cocos Keeling or in vacation cruises from Melbourne exploring the Australian islands. His views were always original and stimulating and usually expressed without reserve or regard for persons, since he enjoyed controversy without animosity. He was essentially a humble, friendly person interested in the pursuit of truth in natural history.
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First Title value, for Searching Hine, Montague Leonard (1883 - 1967)

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Publication Date 2014-08-11
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Occupation Medical Officer Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Montague Leonard Hine, son of Alfred Leonard Hine (MRCS 1878), a general practitioner at Leytonstone, Essex, was born on 24 January 1883, and was educated at Rydal Mount School, Colwyn Bay, where he had a classical education. He took his medical training at the Middlesex Hospital, where he gained an entrance scholarship and was later Broderip Scholar and Leopold Hudson and Governor's Prizewinner. There was no great medical tradition in his forebears, in fact they came of farming stock. Hine's father was the first to take up medicine, but only on second thoughts after he had started training in pharmacy. At the Middlesex Hospital, Hine was consecutively house physician, house surgeon and casualty medical officer, and although he always intended to specialise in some branch of medicine, he did not take up ophthalmology until nearly seven years after qualifying. During his early postgraduate years he did several spells of locum duties in general practice, which he always regarded as a most valuable experience. While he was still a resident at the Middlesex one of the honorary surgeons promised him all his private anaesthetic work if he took up anaesthetics, but this did not appeal to him. He proceeded to MD London in 1907, and having passed the examination for Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1908, he took a job as a surgeon in a ship bound for Japan. This led to his accepting a post as medical officer to the Eastern Extension Cable Company of Singapore and the Cocos Islands for two years, mainly with a view to making himself financially independent so that on his return to London he could train in some specialty. He thoroughly enjoyed his work in the Far East where he had to be "Jack of all trades". His medical work included that of dentist, obstetrician, and barber! On his return to London he worked in the various special departments at the Middlesex Hospital, and after careful consideration decided that ophthalmology was the most interesting of all the specialities, mainly because it was a happy combination of medicine and surgery. He then took a post as resident house surgeon at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital (now known as the High Holborn branch of Moorfields), and subsequently started private practice at 30 Weymouth Street, moving later to 73 Harley Street. He was elected to the surgical staff of the Royal Westminster in 1915, joined the Miller General Hospital as ophthalmic surgeon in 1919, and became ophthalmologist at Charing Cross Hospital in 1936. He also worked for many years at the School Eye Clinic at Luton, from which he referred many children for in-patient treatment to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital. During the first world war he served as a Captain (Eye Specialist) in the RAMC from 1916 to 1919, and during the second world war he was ophthalmic surgeon in the Emergency Medical Service at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital at Stanmore, where he and Charles Leonard Gimblett organised an Eye Unit and carried out a considerable number of operations, dealing especially with cases of retinal detachment. It was at the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital that Monty Hine was best known for his work. Indeed, many generations of house surgeons have sung his praises, largely because of his outstanding qualities as a teacher of sound surgical principles, and because of his kindness and generosity to those who sought his help. He took great pains to instruct his house surgeon in the art of ophthalmic surgery by showing him exactly what to do, and then by allowing him to do it with his personal assistance. He had a thorough understanding of human nature and was kindness itself to his patients. He was Dean of the Medical School of the Hospital from 1920 to 1946. He was a keen student himself, always eager to try new methods and was one of the first ophthalmic surgeons to operate upon the vertical muscles in certain cases of squint. He was ophthalmic specialist to the Ministry of Pensions from 1919 to 1928, a past President of the Ophthalmic Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, and editor of the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th (1949) editions of May and Worth's *Diseases of the eye*. When he retired he took a great interest in local affairs in Harpenden where he lived at 9 Kirkwood Avenue, and when the League of Friends of the Harpenden Hospital was started he willingly became its first President. He was a life long Methodist with a particular interest in Medical Missions. He also took a considerable interest in the Harpenden branch of the National Childrens' Home of which his father had been honorary medical officer. At his death he was one of the two remaining Trustees who had built the fine Methodist Church in Harpenden in the late 1920s. Monty Hine was a man of the highest integrity; a skillful ophthalmic physician and surgeon, a true friend and one who did a great deal to help his fellow men and women. At the age of 41 he married in 1924 Jennette Robertson of Alva, Clackmannanshire and they had a son and a daughter. He died on 2 December 1967, aged 84, survived by his wife; his son Dr James Leonard Hine, who practises at Ely, and his married daughter who is a trained physiotherapist.
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First Title value, for Searching MacNalty, Sir Arthur Salisbury (1880 - 1969)

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Details Born at Glenridding Westmoreland on 20 October 1880 he was the eldest son of Francis Charles MacNalty MD, MCh, sometime senior assistant physician to the Metropolitan Hospital, London, and Hester Emma Frances, nee Gardner, who was the grand-daughter of Sir John Piozzi Salisbury. MacNalty's boyhood was spent in the Lake District and Winchester where his father worked after leaving London. He was educated at Hartley College, Southampton, and later became a member of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He completed his medical education at University College Hospital, London. After holding resident posts at his hospital he became resident medical officer to the Brompton Hospital, then medical registrar to the London Hospital (1911-1913). While at University College Hospital he worked with Sir Victor Horsley on the cerebellum and a paper on this research appeared in Brain in 1909. He also investigated heart block with Thomas Lewis; their joint paper in the *Journal of physiology* (1908) recorded for the first time the use of the electrocardiograph for the diagnosis of heart disease. In 1913 MacNalty's career was diverted to preventive medicine when Sir John Burns, MP offered him the medical inspectorship at the Local Government Board. In this appointment he was employed in measures to combat tuberculosis. During the first world war he was seconded to the War Office and worked with R S Reece and Sir Shirley Murphy on the outbreaks of cerebro-spinal fever amongst troops and civilians, and they also confirmed Wickman's findings on contact infection in poliomyelitis. From 1919-32 MacNalty was deputy senior medical officer of the Ministry of Health and secretary of the Tuberculosis Committee of the Medical Research Council during which time he published several papers on tuberculosis/poliomyelitis and encephalitis lethargica. From 1932-34 he was senior medical officer for tuberculosis and deputy chief medical officer to the Ministry of Health under Sir George Newman, becoming chief medical officer in 1935. From 1935 until the outbreak of the second world war he was one of a medical advisory committee to the Ministry of Health which among its members included Lord Dawson of Penn, Lord Moynihan, Lord Horder and representatives from the British Medical Association. At MacNalty's recommendation the Ministry set up a departmental committee to review amongst other things the conditions of service of the nursing profession and the medical aspects of the Midwives Act of 1936. He also persuaded the Ministry to make the purchase of anti-diphtheria vaccine free to the local authorities and thus practically eliminated diphtheria as a killing disease of children. In 1939 MacNalty was sent by the Minister of Health on a mission to Canada and the USA to inform the authorities there of our medical preparations in case of war and on his return he served as chairman of special committees to deal with various aspects of the Emergency Medical Service. In 1941 at the age of 60 he retired and was immediately appointed editor in chief of the official medical history of the second world war under the chairmanship of Mr R A, later Lord, Butler. He served on the Council of the Royal College of Physicians (1937-39) and also continued as Crown nominee on the General Medical Council until 1943. He was appointed honorary physician to the King from 1937-46. He became Milroy Lecturer to the College of Physicians (1925); Vicary Lecturer to the Royal College of Surgeons (1945) and Holme Lecturer at University College Hospital (1955). He also examined in public health for the Universities of Oxford, Birmingham and London. Amongst his other honours he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1949), a Freeman of the City of London and an Honorary Freeman of the Society of Apothecaries and of the Barbers Company. In 1963 he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He also served as President of the Epidemiology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine being elected an Honorary Fellow in 1959. MacNalty was a small man with a modest demeanour with brilliant eyes and a charming voice. He possessed a profound and varied knowledge of science, history and literature and his vision and administrative ability achieved real advances for the nation's health. He married in 1913 Miss Dorothea de Wesslow and they had two daughters. His wife died in March 1968, and Sir Arthur died on 17 April 1969 at Bocketts, Downs Road, Epsom; one of his daughters survived him.
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