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First Title value, for Searching Edward VII (1841 - 1910)

2024-05-01T20:40:05Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-09
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Occupation Member of the UK Royal Family
Details HM King Edward VII was elected an Honorary FRCS on June 14th, 1900. He then bore the title of Prince of Wales.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001546
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First Title value, for Searching George V (1865 - 1936)

2024-05-01T20:40:05Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-27
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Occupation Member of the UK Royal Family
Details HM King George V was elected an Honorary Fellow of the College on 11 February 1909, when Prince of Wales. He was born on 3 June 1865 and died 20 January 1936. His photograph, which he graciously presented with his autograph signature below it, hangs in the College Library.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004158
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First Title value, for Searching Diana, Princess of Wales (1961 - 1997)

2024-05-01T20:40:05Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2023-09-11
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Occupation Member of the UK Royal Family Charity worker
Details Diana, Princess of Wales, was admitted as an honorary fellow of the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England on 17 June 1988. She was welcomed by the then dean Gordon Seward, professor of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the London Hospital Medical College dental school, who said: ‘Your Royal Highness, the Royal Family is well equipped with honorary practitioners in most of the healing arts, but the Faculty noted that dentistry was not represented among your ranks…Your Royal Highness, your charming smile, friendly manner and deep interest in children and the disadvantaged impressed us as representative of the ideal image of the dental practitioner.’ The Princess of Wales thanked the dean for his words of welcome and replied: ‘I was taught the importance of good dental health care as a small child. Now that I have children of my own, I am, of course, passing on that message.’ She added that she was proud of her close association with the Faculty and was presented with a certificate and a gold brooch. A short time later, the Princess of Wales attended a formal evening dinner with all the members of the Faculty’s board. Diana, Princess of Wales, died on 31 August 1997 in Paris.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010460
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First Title value, for Searching Arthur, 1st Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850 - 1942)

2024-05-01T20:40:05Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-27
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Occupation Member of the UK Royal Family
Details His Royal Highness Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert, third son and seventh child of Queen Victoria, was born on 1 May 1850 and was created Duke of Connaught and Strathearn in the birthday honours list of 1874. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the College on 24 July 1919. His Royal Highness died on 16 January 1942, aged 91.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003793
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First Title value, for Searching Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (1930 - 2002)

2024-05-01T20:40:05Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2012-02-22 2013-09-03
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Occupation Member of the UK Royal Family
Details Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon was admitted as an Honorary Fellow of the College on 11 April 1963. She was born on 21 August 1930 in Glamis Castle in Scotland, and christened Margaret Rose. At the age of six her life changed dramatically when her uncle, King Edward VIII, abdicated in order to marry the divorcee Wallis Simpson and her father became King George VI. She then became second in line to the throne after her elder sister, Elizabeth. Both the princesses were educated at home by a governess. Margaret was not expected to undertake official duties until she reached the age of 18 although she did join her parents and sister on a state tour of South Africa in 1947 - her first trip abroad. During the tour Margaret was chaperoned by the King's equerry, Peter Townsend. At the age of 18 Margaret "came out" and, a beautiful and vibrant woman, embarked on many official engagements. Her main interests were in welfare charities, music and ballet and she became president of organisations as diverse as the St John Ambulance Brigade, the Lowland Brigade Club, the NSPCC and the London Lighthouse. She also represented the Crown on various foreign tours including a highly successful trip to the Caribbean in 1955 during which calypsos were dedicated to her. The King died in 1952 and Margaret was devastated by his death. Around this time she began a relationship with Group Captain Peter Townsend, who was 16 years older than her and by then divorced with two children. Just before the coronation he asked her to marry him and she accepted. The Queen asked them to wait a year by which time it was made known that parliamentary sanction would not be given and the only way the marriage could proceed would be if Margaret renounced her right of succession. In October 1955 she announced that she had decided not to marry Peter Townsend. In 1960, Margaret married the photographer Anthony Armstrong-Jones who was created the Earl of Snowden and they had two children, David born in 1961 and Sarah in 1964. For a while the couple's life epitomised the so called "swinging sixties", mixing with the famous and fashionable names of the day and both having a series of affairs. They divorced in May, 1978. Her later years were beset by ill health exacerbated by heavy smoking and drinking. She suffered a series of strokes and died on 9 February 2002, aged 71. Her life, as one of her obituarists pointed out, was a contradiction between her unconventional tastes and behaviour and her "unquestioning assumption that her royal status commanded the utmost respect". The same writer summed up "verdicts on her life tended to divide between those accustomed to the ways of princesses and those unable to see the point of them".
Resource Identifier RCS: E002055
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First Title value, for Searching Philip, HRH Prince, Duke of Edinburgh (1921- 2021)

2024-05-01T20:40:05Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-09-28
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Occupation Member of the UK Royal Family
Details His Royal Highness Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, was the husband and consort of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. In 1953 he became an honorary fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. His Royal Highness visited the College on two occasions. On 7 November 1962 he accompanied Her Majesty on a visit to formally open the newly completed College buildings, which had been extended and renovated after being damaged in the Second World War. During the visit, he received a donation from the College for the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme. On 21 November 1989 His Royal Highness again visited the College with Her Majesty the Queen. During their visit they toured the Hunterian Museum and College Library, signed the visitors’ book and met council members in the council room.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010008
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First Title value, for Searching Henry, HRH Prince, Duke of Gloucester (1900 - 1974)

2024-05-01T20:40:05Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-18
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Occupation Member of the UK Royal Family
Details Henry William Frederick Albert, Prince of York and later Duke of Gloucester was born in York Cottage, Sandringham, on 31 March 1900, the fourth of six children and third of the sons of the Duke and Duchess of York, later King George V and Queen Mary. He was educated at Eton and Sandhurst and spent a year at Trinity College, Cambridge (1919-20). In 1928 he was created Duke of Gloucester and began undertaking official engagements. He married Alice Christabel, the third daughter of John Charles Montagu-Douglas-Scott, seventh Duke of Buccleuch on 6 November 1935 and they had two sons Prince William and Prince Richard. The death of George V and the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936 left the Duke third in line to the throne and regent designate until Princess Elizabeth came of age in 1944. During the second world war the Duke served as chief liaison officer between the English and French armies in Europe. In 1941 he was appointed second-in-command of the 20th Armoured Brigade and inspected troops all over the world. In 1945 he was appointed Governor-General of Australia. Returning to England in 1947 the Duke undertook a strenuous round of duties and supported many institutions with considerably more than his name; prominent among which were those concerned with hospitals, youth and farming. In 1943 he was presented with the Honorary Fellowship of the College to add to his dazzling array of orders. After a car accident in 1965 the Duke's health began to fail and in 1968 he suffered two severe strokes. He died at his home, Barnwell Manor, on 10 June 1974 and was succeeded by his younger son Prince Richard Alexander Walter George.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006572
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First Title value, for Searching Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, Queen Elizabeth II (1926 - 2022)

2024-05-01T20:40:05Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-09-16
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Occupation Member of the UK Royal Family
Details Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was an honorary fellow and visitor of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and, during her long reign, attended the College on several occasions. On 5 December 1951, as Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth, she visited the College to receive her honorary fellowship and sign the roll of honorary fellows. She was greeted by the then president Sir Cecil Wakeley and the vice presidents Philip Henry Mitchiner and Sir James Paterson Ross. On 5 May 1953, just a month before her coronation, she visited Lincoln’s Inn Fields to lay the memorial stone of the College buildings, which were to be renovated and extended following bomb damage during the Second World War. In September 1957 Her Majesty the Queen gave her royal assent to a new charter of the College. A year later, an announcement was made by Buckingham Palace to the effect that Her Majesty would be described as visitor to the Royal College of Surgeons of England; the title is one of the few titles automatically assumed by the new sovereign on the accession to the throne. In November 1962, Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness Prince Philip visited the College to formally open the completed post-war buildings. On 21 November 1989 Her Majesty the Queen and His Royal Highness Prince Philip made their final visit to the College. They were greeted by the then president Terence English and vice presidents Phyllis George and David Evans, toured the Hunterian Museum and College Library and signed the visitors’ book.
Resource Identifier RCS: E010155
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First Title value, for Searching Edward, HRH Prince, Duke of Windsor (1894 - 1972)

2024-05-01T20:40:05Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-25
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Occupation Member of the UK Royal Family
Details HRH Prince Edward, eldest son of the Duke and Duchess of York, afterwards King George V and Queen Mary, was born on 23 June 1894. He was christened Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, but was always called Edward officially and David privately. He was educated at Osborne and Dartmouth Royal Naval Colleges, and was created Prince of Wales on his sixteenth birthday, a month after the death of his grandfather King Edward VII. He was an undergraduate at Magdalen College, Oxford, 1912-14 and saw active service with the Grenadier Guards during the first world war in France. He gained great experience and wide popularity through his tours of the Empire during the 1920's, and was awarded many honours in gratitude, including the Honorary Fellowship of this College. During the 1930's he attempted to alleviate the worst effects of widespread unemployment by the development of occupational clubs. On 20 January 1936 the King his father died and he ascended the throne as King Edward VIII. Within the year a constitutional crisis arose from his intention to marry Mrs Simpson, an American seeking divorce from her English husband, and on 11 December he abdicated. His brother Albert, Duke of York succeeded to the throne as King George VI and immediately created him Duke of Windsor. The Duke married Mrs Simpson, who had resumed her maiden name of Warfield after divorce, in June 1937 in France. Through the second world war 1940-44 he was Governor of the Bahamas. The Duke and Duchess spent the following decades between France and the United States, making fairly frequent brief private visits to England. The Duke's health began to fail in 1964. A successful operation was performed that year in Texas for an aneurysm of the abdominal aorta, and during 1965 he underwent several operations on his left eye in London. He died on 28 May 1972, a month before his seventy-eighth birthday, and was survived by the Duchess of Windsor.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005716
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First Title value, for Searching Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood (1897 - 1965)

2024-05-01T20:40:05Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-18
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Occupation Member of the UK Royal Family
Details HRH Princess Mary was born on 25 April 1897, the only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary. Though she was only 17 at the outbreak of the first world war, and naturally shy, she took her full share of war-service, joining the VAD and serving as a volunteer nurse during the war, and then from 1918 to 1920 training as a nurse at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, of which she later became President. In 1922 she was married to Lord Lascelles, later Earl of Harewood and a Trustee of the Hunterian Museum, and her new home in the West Riding of Yorkshire was near enough to Leeds for Sir Berkeley Moynihan to invite her, on behalf of the Council, in the first year of his Presidency to become the first woman to be elected to the Honorary Fellowship of the College. Her Royal Highness graciously accepted the invitation and was formally admitted on the day of the Hunterian Festival in 1927, and thus Moynihan was able to commence an unforgettable Hunterian Oration with the words "May it please Your Royal Highness, our most junior Fellow..." Princess Mary was ever afterwards a warm friend of the College, and visited it on several occasions. The next was an informal occasion on 23 June 1932 shortly before the end of Lord Moynihan's Presidency, when she was shown over the Museum, the Library, and other parts of the College by the President and Sir Arthur Keith, the Conservator. On 30 October 1946 the Princess attended a reception at the College to celebrate the centenary of the introduction of surgical anaesthesia, and graciously consented to unveil the memorial plaque on the wall of the main staircase. And three years later, with her brother the Duke of Gloucseter, she attended the Hunterian Festival banquet on 14 February 1949. Her final visit to the College was on 3 April 1951 for a meeting of the National Blood Transfusion Service, when she presented silver-gilt badges to donors who had given blood 50 or more times. In middle life Princess Mary suffered from thyrotoxicosis which was successfully treated by Sir Thomas Dunhill, another Honorary Fellow. After his death in 1957 Sir Thomas's executors, with the Princess's gracious approval, presented to the College the beautiful inscribed silver cigarette box which she had given him in 1935. In her later years the Princess Royal appeared more frequently in public, and often represented the Queen abroad. She died suddenly on 28 March 1965 while out on a Sunday walk with members of her family in the park at Harewood House.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005964
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First Title value, for Searching Cambridge, Sir Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George, Earl of Athlone (1874 - 1957)

2024-05-01T20:40:05Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-03
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Occupation Army officer Member of the UK Royal Family
Details Born on 14 April 1874 youngest son of the first Duke of Teck and Princess Mary, he was known until 1917 as His Serene Highness Prince Alexander of Teck. Educated at Eton and Sandhurst he saw active service in the Matabele campaign and the South African war, and was awarded the DSO. He married in 1904 HRH Princess Alice, only daughter of the Duke of Albany, Queen Victoria's youngest son. By his own marriage and by that of his sister, afterwards Queen Mary, to the Prince of Wales (King George V) he was brought into prominence in the Royal family and took a full share of public duty. He served as Chairman of the Middlesex Hospital before the war and again from 1919 to 1923. He was appointed Governor-General of Canada in 1914, but in fact went on active service in France. In 1917 he relinquished his Princely style and title, as did other members of the Royal family not descended from Queen Victoria, assumed the surname of Cambridge, and was created Earl of Athlone. He was chairman in 1921 of the Ministry of Health Committee on Postgraduate Medical Education. He was Governor-General of South Africa 1923-31. On his return to England he became Governor and Constable of Windsor Castle, and was elected Chancellor of the University of London, a position he held with great benefit to the University until 1954. From 1940 till 1946 he was Governor-General of Canada. Lord Athlone was elected a Trustee of the Hunterian Museum in 1924 and an Honorary Fellow of the College on 11 April 1940. He died on 16 January 1957 aged 82, survived by HRH Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone and by their daughter; their only son had died many years earlier.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004941
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First Title value, for Searching Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Windsor, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (1900 - 2002)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-17 2015-10-28
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Occupation Member of the UK Royal Family
Details Elizabeth was Queen for fewer than 15 years, but continued as a much-cherished public figure throughout the following decades until her death at the age 101. Lady Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was born at St Paul's Waldenbury, the Hertfordshire house of her parents, the Earl and Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, the ninth of ten children. She was educated at home by a governess, mainly in domestic science, painting, the piano, French and German. Her otherwise happy childhood was marred by the death of her brother, Fergus, in the first world war, and the wounding of two others. She first met Prince Albert, the Duke of York, and the second in line to the throne, as a child. He was a close friend of her elder brothers and a frequent visitor to the Strathmore and Kinghorne estate. Although he was one of the most eligible bachelors in the country, she refused his proposal of marriage twice. She later admitted she finally accepted out of duty, but later fell in love with him. They were married on 23 April 1923 and had two daughters, Princess Elizabeth, the future Queen, and Princess Margaret. In 1936, following the abdication of King Edward VIII, Albert came unexpectedly to the throne as George VI. Elizabeth became Queen Consort and last Empress of India. 'Bertie', who had a severe stammer, found public duties difficult and relied on the help of his queen. During the second world war, she gained the respect of the people of London by insisting on staying in the capital after the bombing of Buckingham Palace. Advised to send her daughters to Canada for the duration of the war, she is reported to have said: "The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does; and the King will not leave the country in any circumstances." The King died of lung cancer on 5 February 1952, and her eldest daughter ascended to the throne. Elizabeth may have been expected to fade from public view, but, as the Queen Mother, she maintained her public profile throughout the rest of her long life. She was famed for her warmth, exuberance and informal approach. She died on 30 March 2002.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008144
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