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First Title value, for Searching Toye, Edwin Josiah (1871 - 1938)

2024-06-20T04:49:44Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-27
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born 3 November 1871 at 8 Bonner's Lane, Bethnal Green, the second child of Edwin Josiah Toye, chemist, and Jane Buggel, his wife. He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1890, where he had a brilliant career. He won the junior and the senior scholarships, and was ophthalmic house surgeon under Henry Power and Bowater J Vernon. He was equally successful at the University of London, where he gained honours in physiology at the BSc examination, the gold medal for obstetrics at the MB, and was judged worthy of the gold medal at the BS. For a year he was house physician at the Metropolitan Hospital, and in 1898 took a locum tenancy at Bideford with Ezekiel Rouse and Matthew Richard Gooding. Dr Rouse died, and Toye became assistant to Gooding and later his partner. In addition to his routine general practice, Toye maintained his interest in ophthalmic surgery and acted as ophthalmic surgeon as well as medical officer to the Bideford Hospital until he died. He held a unique position at Bideford, for in addition to his professional work he was interested in municipal affairs and served as mayor in 1925. The Bideford bridge was rebuilt during his year of office, and his name is engraved upon the memorial stone. He was chairman of the Barnstaple division and president of the South-Western branch of the British Medical Association, and served as president of the Devon and Exeter Medico-Chirurgical Society. He married on 8 September 1903 Mary Ellen Keene, widow of Captain T C P Keene, KOSB. She died in 1933, leaving him with three stepchildren: one son and two daughters. He died suddenly at Stanhope, Bideford, Devon on 25 January 1938. He left £100 each to Bideford and District Hospital, Bideford and District Nursing Association, Bideford Rotary Club, St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, and the Metropolitan Hospital. Toye was an influence for good during the whole of his life, and was very highly respected both as a man and a doctor by all his fellow townsmen. He loved music, and kept himself abreast of medical progress by attending postgraduate classes whenever it was possible to do so. Publications: Acute haemorrhagic pancreatitis. *Brit med J* 1906, 1, 200. Mortality in the medical profession, presidential address to BMA, SW branch, 1909.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004720
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First Title value, for Searching Luke, Clifton James (1925 - 1991)

2024-06-20T04:49:44Z

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.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008156
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First Title value, for Searching Hine, Montague Leonard (1883 - 1967)

2024-06-20T04:49:44Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
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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