Search Results for Medical Obituaries - Narrowed by: Military surgeon

First Title value, for Searching Vergara, Juan Ignacio (1957 - )

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-02-29 2014-03-14
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Juan Ignacio Vergara was a military surgeon and director of the Santiago Military Hospital, Chile. The Royal College of Surgeons was informed of this death in February 2012.
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First Title value, for Searching Zanati, Emad ( - 2018)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2019-01-15 2022-02-09
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Occupation Military surgeon General surgeon
Details Emad Zanati studied medicine at the faculty of medicine at Cairo University. He became a consultant surgeon at the Maadi Armed Forces Hospital in Cairo with the rank of major general. In 2008 he was awarded the fellowship of the college *ad eundum* and he was also a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. He died on 1 October 2018.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Henry ( - 1886)

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First Title value, for Searching Lasrado, Albert Francis (1904 - 2001)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2011-12-20 2013-02-07
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Albert Francis Lasrado of Karnataka State, India was born on 10 April 1904. He married Blanche Therese D'Abreu and they had five children, Germaine, Adrian, Anthony, Gregory and Christina. He ended his career as a lieutenant colonel and died in April 2001, aged 97 years.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001778
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First Title value, for Searching Livesey, Brian (1928 - 2016)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2017-01-25 2020-07-02
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Occupation ENT surgeon Military surgeon
Details Major General Brian Livesey was an ENT surgeon at Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital, Woolwich and an honorary surgeon to HM The Queen. He was born on 17 December 1928 and studied medicine at Bristol University medical school. He qualified in 1952. He gained his diploma in laryngology and otology in 1958 and became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1965. He was a former commandant and postgraduate dean of the Royal Army Medical College and a chairman of the Isle of Wight Health Authority. Livesey died on 15 November 2016. He was 87.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009297
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First Title value, for Searching Rameshwar, Shri (1904 - )

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-10-27 2019-12-03
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Occupation Military surgeon General surgeon
Details Shri Rameshwar was professor of surgery at the Armed Forces Medical College, Poona, India. Born on 10 October 1904 in Meerut, he was the eldest of the four sons of Choudry Girver Singh Rameshwar, an agriculturalist, and his wife Kaur née Ram whose father was also involved in agriculture. Educated at the Government School in Meerut, he then read medicine at Lucknow University before travelling to the UK to continue his training at the London Hospital where he was mentored by Sir Albert James Walton and Russell John Howard. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1934. On his return to India he joined the Indian Medical Service as a regular officer in 1935 and retired in 1961 with the rank of brigadier. He became chief medical officer of the Tingri Medical Association, Assam from 1962 to 1970. In 1924 he married Shanta Singh, who was the daughter of a doctor, Bhupal Singh. They had two sons who became managers in the Assam Tea Gardens. A keen tennis player and golfer he only retired from playing in his late sixties. It is not known when or where he died but he may have returned to Meerut, Uttar Pradesh as that is his last known address.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009267
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First Title value, for Searching Majid, Mohammed Abdul ( - 1990)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Ellis, Kenneth David ( - 1997)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-29
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Kenneth David Ellis served in the RAMC as a Lieutenant-Colonel and retired to Poole in Dorset. He died on 24 April 1997 survived by his wife and family.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008583
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First Title value, for Searching Dunn, John Talbot (1927 - 2014)

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First Title value, for Searching Briant, Ernest Raymond ( - 2002)

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First Title value, for Searching Mayes, Frederick Brian (1934 - 2019)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-01-11
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Major General Brian Mayes was director general of the Army Medical Services. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010199
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First Title value, for Searching Murchison, Ewen Hugh ( - 2002)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-18
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon Plastic surgeon Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
Details Ewen Murchison rose to be Surgeon Captain in the Royal Navy. On retirement he was civilian consultant surgeon to the Navy in Gibraltar. He was an associate member of the Association of Plastic Surgeons. He died in Gibraltar on 19 December 2002.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008804
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First Title value, for Searching Albuquerque, Victor Mansfield (1902 - 1973)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Pryn, William John (1928 - 2021)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-04-04
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Occupation Military surgeon General surgeon
Details Major General William Pryn was director of Army surgery and a consultant surgeon to the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010101
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First Title value, for Searching Coull, John Taylor (1934 - 2023)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-03-06
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Occupation Military surgeon Trauma and orthopaedic surgeon
Details John Taylor ‘Jack’ Coull was a major general in the Royal Army Medical Corps. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010594
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First Title value, for Searching Messent, Derrick Orry Hunt (1922 - 2017)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2017-07-12 2020-07-02
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Colonel Derrick Orry Hunt Messent was a surgeon in the RAMC. He was born on 19 June 1922. He studied medicine at Sydney University, qualified in 1946 and gained his FRCS in 1964. He wrote a joint paper on spontaneous rupture of the oesophagus (‘Spontaneous rupture of the oesophagus with unusual features’ *Postgrad Med J* 1967 Sep;43[503]:614-8) and another on trauma life support training (‘Animal cadaveric models for advanced trauma life support training’ *Ann R Coll Surg Engl*1990 Mar;72[2]:135-9). He retired in 2002 and lived in Teignmouth in Devon. In 1958, he married Sarah E Byrne. Derrick Orry Hunt Messent died on 1 January 2017. He was 94.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009361
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First Title value, for Searching Rowland, Frederick Henry (1943 - 2012)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-10-17 2014-10-17
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon
Details Frederick Henry Rowland ('Fred') was a surgeon commander in the Royal Navy. He was born in Merton on 28 May 1943, the eldest son of Frederick Rowland, a plumber, and Cissie Florence Minnie Rowland née Shelley. He was educated at All Saints School, south Wimbledon, and Rutlish School, Merton, where he gained a scholarship. He went on to study medicine at Manchester University, graduating MB ChB in 1966. He was a house physician and house surgeon at Cirencester and then a demonstrator in anatomy at the University of Manchester. He subsequently joined the Royal Navy. While at the Royal Naval Hospital Devonport he carried out research on varicose vein surgery. He left the Navy and then worked in Saudi Arabia, Australia and Fiji. He eventually settled in Australia, where he was a visiting surgeon at Kalgoorlie Regional Hospital and Esperance District Hospital, and took Australian citizenship. He was married five times. He died from urosepsis on 3 May 2012, aged 68.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003039
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First Title value, for Searching Craig, Robert Peter (1940 - 2022)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-11-10
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Occupation Military surgeon Consultant in accident and emergency medicine
Details Peter Craig was a major general in the Royal Army Medical Corps and director of defence and Army surgery. This is a draft obituary. If you have any information about this surgeon or are interested in writing this obituary, please email lives@rcseng.ac.uk
Resource Identifier RCS: E010171
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First Title value, for Searching Staunton, Charles Frederick ( - 1884)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Newton, John Turner ( - 1992)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-24
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon
Details Newton, who spent much of his career in the Royal Army Medical Corps in which he rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, received his medical education at Manchester, graduating MB ChB there in 1952. Having held registrarships at the Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute, Manchester, he was later senior surgical specialist in the RAMC. His death was reported to the College as having occurred before 20 November 1992.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008228
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First Title value, for Searching Hall, Thomas ( - 1866)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-03-22
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon
Details Became Hospital Assistant to the Forces on May 19th, 1815, and was gazetted Assistant Surgeon to the 5th Foot on June 30th, 1825. He was promoted Surgeon to the 60th Foot on May 29th, 1840, to Staff Surgeon (1st Class) on September 29th, 1848, and to Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals on February 16th, 1855. He retired with the honorary rank of Inspector-General on May 12th, 1857. He had been mainly stationed in Antigua. He died in London on October 10th, 1866, following an overdose of colocynth.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002094
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First Title value, for Searching Scales, William Henry (1818 - 1858)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Povey, Robert William (1921 - 2014)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-02-24 2016-03-09
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Occupation Military surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Air Commodore Robert William Povey was an orthopaedic surgeon in the Royal Air Force. He was born on 11 April 1921, the son of Henry John Povey, an optician, and Jane Dorothy Povey née Reid. He was educated at Poole Grammar School in Dorset, where he was house captain, school prefect and head boy and gained a Dorset senior county scholarship. He went on to study medicine at Westminster Hospital Medical School, where he won class prizes in medicine and forensic medicine. He qualified in 1945. Prior to joining the RAF, he was a house surgeon and then a senior resident and casualty officer at the Westminster Hospital. He was subsequently a registrar and senior registrar at Lord Mayor Treloar Orthopaedic Hospital. He also served as a captain in the RAMC and was Cade Professor of Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons. Outside medicine he enjoyed gardening, fishing, travelling and natural history. In 1950 he married Patricia Dorothy Jeanette Wolly, known as 'Pat'. They had two sons, John and David. Predeceased by his wife, he died on 22 January 2014 at the age of 92.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005031
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First Title value, for Searching Churchill-Davidson, Dudley (1927- 2008)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2021-01-06
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Occupation Military surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Dudley Churchill-Davidson was an honorary consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, London. He was born on 11 May 1927, the son of Frederick Churchill-Davidson and Marie Peacock Churchill-Davidson née Jacques. His father, a University of Edinburgh-educated doctor, had fought in the First World War in France with the 1st Cameronians and was awarded a Military Cross in 1915. His mother was a former nurse. His older brother Harry became a consultant anaesthetist. Churchill-Davidson studied at Cambridge University and St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1952. In October 1954 he joined the Royal Navy. He gained his FRCS in 1958. He was a first assistant in the orthopaedic department of St George’s Hospital. As well as his post at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, he was an honorary consultant to British Airways and the AA (Automobile Association) and an honorary colonel in the Royal Marines Reserve (City of London). He was a former honorary surgeon to the Queen and a former captain in the Royal Naval Reserve. Churchill-Davidson died on 20 September 2008 on Malta after a long illness. He was 81.
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First Title value, for Searching Steel, Charles Deane ( - 1886)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375928375928
Occupation Military surgeon
Details Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital. Entering the Army as a Surgeon, he gained in 1853 Sir Gilbert Blane's Gold Medal. In 1854 he went out to the Crimea, and served with distinction, being awarded the Medals for the Crimea, Sebastopol, for Syria and the Baltic, also the Imperial Order of the Medjidie. He was later Staff Surgeon to the Portsmouth Division of the Royal Marines, and he retired with the rank of Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals and of Fleets. He died at Cardington Road, Bedford, on March 19th, 1886.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003745
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First Title value, for Searching Thompson, John (1916 - 1965)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-20
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Thompson graduated in science at the University of Manchester in 1938, and qualified there in 1941. After house appointments at Manchester Royal Infirmary, he was senior surgical registrar at Crumpsall Hospital. Having qualified during the second world war, Thompson joined the RAMC and, subsequently obtaining a regular commission, he continued as an army surgeon through the following twenty years. He attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, took the Fellowship in 1952 and became consulting surgeon to the Eastern Command at Colchester. He died in 1965 aged about fifty.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006169
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First Title value, for Searching Stevens, John Borlase (1816 - 1872)

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First Title value, for Searching Craddock, William (1818 - 1872)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-08-19 2012-03-22
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born in July, 1818, the son of John Craddock, of Radstock, Somerset. He joined the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon on Jan 30th, 1843, being promoted to Surgeon on May 31st, 1857, and to Surgeon Major on January 30th, 1863. In 1857 he was attached to the 70th Native Infantry, and saw service in the First Sikh or Sutlej War (1845-1846) and in China (1858-1859). He retired on December 25th, 1870. He died on board the ss *Scotland* off Cape St Vincent, on April 18th, 1872.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001307
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First Title value, for Searching Shillito, William (1816 - 1903)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-17
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born in March, 1816, and received his professional training at St George's Hospital, where he became a twelve-months pupil to Robert Keate in October, 1834. He entered the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon on July 7th, 1838, being promoted Surgeon on March 31st, 1852, and Surgeon Major on February 1st, 1859. In 1844 he was Assistant Surgeon to the 44th Native Infantry, and he saw active service in Afghanistan (1839-1842). He retired on July 23rd, 1863, and for many years lived at 6 Burston Road, Putney, SW, where he died on January 5th 1903.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003400
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First Title value, for Searching Sillery, Robert ( - 1859)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-31
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375679375679
Occupation Military surgeon
Details Joined the Army as Hospital Assistant to the Forces on June 24th, 1815, and was gazetted Staff Assistant Surgeon on April 18th, 1822. He was promoted Surgeon to the 35th Foot on January 4th, 1839, was placed on the Staff (1st Class) on November 1st, 1842, and retired on half pay on May 1st, 1849. When on the retired list he was for seven years Medical Officer in Charge of the Military Lunatic Asylum. He resided at Charlton Lodge, Dover, and at the time of his death was a JP and Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Kent. He died in London on May 20th, 1859. [The name is wrongly given as SELLERY in some old lists].
Resource Identifier RCS: E003496
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First Title value, for Searching Harries, William James Lloyd (1921 - 2018)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2018-06-19 2021-06-16
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon
Details Group Captain William Harries was a surgeon in the RAF. Born in Brawdy, Pembrokeshire on 17 October 1921, he was the oldest child of Ernest Henry Lloyd Harries, a farmer, and his wife Priscilla Winifred née Griffiths. He was educated at Treffgarne Owen Council School and Haverfordwest Grammar School before enrolling at King’s College, London University to study medicine. During his training at Charing Cross Hospital he was mentored by Norman Clarke, Charles Jennings Marshall and David Trevor. He also did house jobs at the West Hertfordshire Hospital in Hemel Hempstead and the Ashridge EMS Hospital where he worked with Eric Crook. In 1947 he passed the fellowship of the college. On joining the Royal Air Force he served as a group captain and consultant in surgery. He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. His favourite leisure activities were playing golf, sailing and travelling. In 1951 he married Monica Sullivan and they had two sons. He died on 2 May 2018 aged 97.
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First Title value, for Searching Strover, Thomas Rogers (1814 - 1870)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Schroeder, Henry Sacheverel Edward (1827 - 1867)

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First Title value, for Searching Barat, Anil Krishna (1915 - )

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-09-14 2018-05-24
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon
Details Major General Anil Krishna Barat was head of the department of surgery at the Armed Forces Medical College, Poona. He was born in Krishnanagar, West Bengal, on 1 February 1915. His father, Sadananda Barat, was an administrator in the railway service; his mother was Anupama, the daughter of a lawyer. He was educated at EI Railway School, Jamalpur, Bihar and then studied intermediate science at the TNJ College, Bhagalpur, Bihar. He went on to study medicine at the RG Kar Medical College, Calcutta, where he was an outstanding student, winning prizes in anatomy, physiology, clinical medicine and pharmacology, and gaining the college gold medal in surgery in his final MB BS in April 1938. From 1940 to 1946, he served with the Indian Army in the Second World War. In 1943, he was a surgeon in a casualty clearing station on the frontline of the Burma front, and was awarded a Burma Star medal. In 1947, he was drafted to the frontline when Pakistan invaded India. He was given charge of mobile surgical units and worked in support of the troops fighting in the area of Naushera, Jhangar, Rajauri and Poonch. During this campaign, he worked single-handed, at time for days, until the last of the casualties were treated and cleared. During the recapture of Rajauri in 1948, there were very heavy casualties, some of whom could not be evacuated. Barat joined the troops and went forward through enemy lines from Naushera to Rajauri to give surgical treatment to the injured men under sustained fire. For this act of bravery, he was awarded the coveted Maha Vir Chakra. He later also took part in the 1965 and 1971 Indian-Pakistan conflicts, in the latter organising and supervising surgical cover. In the early 1950s he went to the UK to study for his FRCS, which he gained in 1953. In 1958, he joined the Armed Forces Medical College at Poona as an associate professor of surgery. Three years later, he became a professor and head of the department of surgery. At Poona, he was largely associated with the planning of the graduate wing, which opened in 1962. In 1969, he was appointed as a senior consultant in surgery for the Armed Forces, with responsibility for surgical cover and resources in the Army, Navy and Air Forces throughout India. He researched vascular anastomosis, forearm fractures, portal hypertension, experimental liver transplantation, recurrent and multiple renal calculi, cold injuries and experimental heart transplantation. Outside medicine, he enjoyed tennis and gardening. In 1941, he married Renuka. They had two sons, both of whom have taken up medicine as a profession.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008030
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First Title value, for Searching Horton, John Edwin (1931 - 2012)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-12-24 2017-04-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378787378787
Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon
Details John Edwin Horton was a surgeon in Auckland, New Zealand. He was born in London on 1 June 1931, the son of Edwin Horton, a member of the family which co-owned the *New Zealand Herald*, and Celeste Helene Horton née Bouillon. At the outbreak of the Second World War, the family returned to New Zealand. Horton was a boarder at St Peter's School in Cambridge in the Waikato region of the North Island, and then at King's College, Auckland. In 1950 he began studying medicine at Otago University, qualifying in 1955. He was a house surgeon in Auckland for two years and then travelled to the UK for postgraduate studies. He gained his fellowship of both the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England and Edinburgh. In 1964 he returned to New Zealand and was appointed as a surgical tutor specialist at Green Lane Hospital, a full-time surgical position. He also taught at the Auckland sub-faculty of the University of Otago. In 1968 Horton joined the New Zealand Armed Services' medical team in Vietnam at the Bong Son Hospital, Binh Dinh province, where he treated civilians as well as military casualties. After completing his tour of duty, he returned to Auckland and was appointed as a part-time member of staff at Green Lane Hospital. After retiring from Green Lane, he continued his private practice at St Mark's Clinic in Remuera. He finally retired in the early 1990s. He was member of the Northern Club and the Auckland Golf Club. He was also chairman of the board of governors of his old school, St Peter's. He was married twice. His first wife was Margaret née Ross. They had three children. In 1976, he married Judith née Turner. They had two children. John Edwin Horton died on 3 April 2012, aged 80.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006604
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First Title value, for Searching Morley, Edward John (1857 - 1941)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-21
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Morley was educated at Guy's Hospital. After qualifying in 1878-79 he acted as house surgeon and then as resident medical officer at the Northampton General Infirmary. After a period as surgeon to the East Lancashire Infirmary at Blackburn, he entered the Royal Naval Medical Service in 1883. Morley took the Fellowship in 1891. He was promoted fleet-surgeon in 1899 and surgeon-captain in 1910. He saw active service in the war of 1914-18, and later retired to 42 Southbourne Road, Bournemouth. Morley died at Bournemouth on 13 March 1941.
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First Title value, for Searching Skinner, George Robert (1825 - 1856)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Leonard, William Hugh (1876 - 1960)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-02
Unknown
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377395377395
Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born on 12 February 1876, son of William Leonard of Hull, he was educated at East Riding College, Hull and St Bartholomew's Hospital. After qualification he held an appointment as house surgeon at Huntingdon Hospital before entering the IMS in 1901. He served in the Tibet Expedition of 1903-04, and in the war of 1914-18 in Mesopotamia, being twice mentioned in dispatches. He retired with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1933, having been appointed King's Honorary Physician on 7 July 1928. He died on 21 October 1960 aged 84.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005212
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First Title value, for Searching Biggar, Benjamin (1883 - 1966)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-14
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377829377829
Occupation Military surgeon
Details Biggar was born at Gateshead and received his medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital; while there he won the junior and senior Platt Scholarships; the Matthew Duncan Prize; the Herbert Prize; the Parkes Memorial Prize; and a silver medal at the first Montefiore Prize. He held a number of resident posts at Bart's, and then decided to make the Army his career, and won the Ronald Martin gold medal at the Royal Army Medical College, London, in 1933. During 1937-39 he served in India, and in 1939 was appointed professor of military surgery and consultant surgeon to the Army. He attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, and was appointed an honorary surgeon to the King. Biggar finally retired from the Army in December 1940, and died in 1966 some 25 years after he left the army.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005646
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First Title value, for Searching Seddon, Allen (1889 - 1958)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-04
Unknown
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377584377584
Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born on 14 May 1889 he received his medical education in Liverpool and at the London Hospital. On joining the IMS as a Lieutenant on 26 July 1913, he obtained the first Montefiore Prize and Medal in Military Surgery at the Royal Army Medical College in London in 1913. He served as regimental medical officer with the Gurkha Rifles from 1915 until 1917 being gazetted Captain on 30 March 1915, and was then in charge of the surgical division of a general hospital in Palestine, being mentioned in dispatches in the Gazette of 12 January 1920. He was promoted Major on 26 January 1925 and retired in that rank on 8 March 1928. From 1940 to 1949 he was medical superintendent of Coventry Municipal General Hospital. He died in 1958.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005401
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First Title value, for Searching Boyd, Norman Adrian (1934 - 2019)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2019-09-16
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Occupation Orthopaedic surgeon General surgeon Military surgeon
Details Norman Adrian Boyd was born on 1 May 1934 in Hendon, the son of the Reverend Norman Robert Boyd who was a vicar in the Church of England and his wife Kathleen née Humby. After attending Arnold House Preparatory School in North London, he went to Marlborough College and then studied medicine at Charing Cross Hospital Medical School. He qualified MB, BS in 1958 and did house jobs at Charing Cross, Birmingham Accident and Great Ormond Street Hospitals. While he was at Charing Cross he worked with the renowned orthopaedic surgeon David Trevor, who may well have influenced his choice of specialty. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1966 and joined the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) working as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in military hospitals in Woolwich, Millbank, Tidworth and Birmingham. Attached to a military surgical team, he served in the conflicts of Cyprus, Jordan and Belfast for which he was awarded the OBE. He also gained the MS (Military Standard), the Order of St John and the General Service Medal clasp for Northern Ireland. In 1976 he left the army with the rank of lieutenant colonel and joined the staff of St Mary’s Hospital, Newport as consultant orthopaedic surgeon. Later he also worked at the Orchard Hospital in Newport and became joint coordinator of the Isle of Wight NHS orthopaedic department, accident and emergency and intensive treatment unit. He combined this work with occasional duties on the mainland, including at Great Ormond Street Hospital. In 1957 he married Tina Horner and they had four children. A keen yachtsman all his life – he had been secretary of the RAMC Sailing Association – in retirement he continued to sail his boat, Nina, both in local waters and in the Mediterranean. He died on 8 June 2019 aged 85, survived by his wife and children.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009638
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First Title value, for Searching Steinhauser, John Frederick (1814 - 1866)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375932375932
Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born on May 29th, 1814. He entered the Bombay Army as Assistant Surgeon on July 29th, 1845, was promoted to Surgeon on May 2nd, 1862, and to Surgeon Major on July 29th, 1865. He saw active service in the Second Sikh or Punjab War of 1848-1849, being present at the siege and capture of Multan, for which he received the Medal. He was then for long Civil Surgeon of Aden, where he was an old-standing friend of Sir Richard Burton, who dedicated to him one of the volumes of his translation of the *Arabian Nights* in recognition of his Arabic scholarship. He died at Berne on July 29th, 1866.
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First Title value, for Searching Fletcher-Barrett, Kingsley (1896 - 1967)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-25 2015-10-02
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377913377913
Occupation Military surgeon
Details Educated at Cambridge and at St George's Hospital, where he was house physician and resident obstetric assistant after qualifying in 1923. He proceeded to his Cambridge degrees in 1926, and took the Fellowship in 1932. During the second world war he served with the rank of lieutenant-Colonel in the RAMC. He was created OBE in 1942 for his services. Subsequently he was Deputy Director of Medical Services at the Headquarters of British Troops in Egypt. He was next stationed at Fleetwood Barracks, Preston, Lancashire as President of the Standing Medical Boards of the Western Command, with the rank of Brigadier.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005730
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First Title value, for Searching Shaw, James (1809 - 1889)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-17
Unknown
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375572375572
Occupation Military surgeon
Details He served on board the *Anna Amelia* (1831-1832), and entered the Madras Army as Assistant Surgeon on May 19th, 1834, being promoted to Surgeon on January 31st, 1851; Surgeon Major on January 13th, 1860; Deputy Inspector-General on March 1st, 1863; and Inspector-General on August 1st, 1864. He saw active service in the Gumsur Campaign (1836-1837). He was at one time Professor of Surgery and Principal of the Madras Medical College, and on August 10th, 1866, became Principal Inspector-General, Madras. The appointment was abolished on Shaw's retirement, the Madras Service retaining only one appointment as Inspector-General. He retired on February 26th, 1867, and then resided at Thicket Road, Anerley, SE, where he died on December 1st, 1889. Publication: Shaw apparently published *A Treatise on the Cause, Nature, Seat and Treatment of Cholera*, 8vo, London, 1848.
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First Title value, for Searching Scratchley, James (1784 - 1849)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-20
Unknown
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375436375436
Occupation Military surgeon
Details Entered the Ordnance Medical Department (Medical Establishment for the Military Department of the Ordnance) as Assistant Surgeon on August 1st, 1806, and was promoted Surgeon to the Department on November 11th, 1811. He retired on September 30th, 1826, and then practised in Paris, where he died during the cholera epidemic of 1849, the date of his decease being June 15th. By his marriage with Maria, daughter of Colonel Roberts, commanding the troops in Ceylon, he had thirteen children, of whom the youngest, born in Paris in 1835, was afterwards Major-General Sir Peter Henry Scratchley, KCMG, RE, Special High Commissioner in New Guinea, of whom there is an account in the *Dictionary of National Biography*. Publication: *The London Dissector: or a Compendium of Practical Anatomy*, 12mo, London, 1804; 8th ed. 1832.
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First Title value, for Searching Stewart, Alexander (1788 - 1863)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-21
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Was commissioned Hospital Mate for general service on June 28th, 1809, being the first Hospital Mate to be commissioned for general service. He was gazetted Assistant Surgeon to the 11th Foot on December 27th, 1810; promoted Surgeon to the Royal African Colonial Corps on May 13th, 1824; Staff Surgeon on November 24th, 1825; Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals on December 16th, 1845; and Inspector-General on March 12th, 1852, having previously held the latter rank locally from December 22nd, 1848. He was on active service through the campaign in the Peninsula from 1809-1814, and was present at the Siege of Burgos, the Battles of Salamanca, the Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthez, and Toulouse, for which he received the Medal with six Clasps. He died at Lansdown House, Kensington Park, on August 23rd, 1863.
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First Title value, for Searching Mallett, Kenneth John Hinton (1935 - 1998)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Roberts, Peter (1940 - 2017)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by David Rew
Publication Date 2017-04-21 2018-02-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381523381523
Occupation Military surgeon
Details Peter Roberts was professor of military surgery for the Army Medical Services. He was born in Manchester on 20 December 1940 at the height of the Manchester Blitz to George and Edith Roberts. Edith died when Peter was nine months old, and he was brought up by his aunt and uncle, Annie and Bob Roberts. He attended Manchester Central Grammar School, where he was head boy. Peter attended the London Hospital Medical College between 1960 and 1965. He did his surgical training around London, including posts as a resident surgical officer at St Mark's Hospital and as a senior registrar at Whipps Cross Hospital. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as a surgeon in 1969 and secured the FRCS in 1971. Peter left the Army for the NHS as a consultant surgeon at Whipps Cross Hospital for a further decade, before returning to full-time service with the RAMC. He progressed to the posts of professor of military surgery, consultant adviser in surgery to the directors general of the Army Medical Services, and adviser on war trauma research to the surgeons general and Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Porton Down. Peter Roberts was never far from the action when surgical teams were deployed overseas in support of service personnel on operations. He served with distinction as a surgeon and later as command surgeon in Northern Ireland, Cyprus, the Falklands, Bosnia, Kosovo, the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan. During his time as professor of military surgery, he introduced Quikclot, a haemostatic agent, to help reduce deaths from major haemorrhage, and directed the UK military's fledgling research into haemostatic agents. He was editor of the *The British Military Surgery Pocket Book* (British Army Publication, 2004). He was a founder member of the conflict and catastrophe forum of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, where he taught and examined for the Society's diploma in the medical care of catastrophes. He was a founding convenor of the Royal College of Surgeons' definitive surgical trauma skills course in the late 1990's, teaching his last course in November 2016. He also taught on the military operational surgical training course for surgical teams, and the surgical trauma in the austere environment course at the Royal College of Surgeons. He was an honorary lecturer in surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Washington, USA. He was a McCombe lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, a Mitchiner medallist at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and a Mitchiner lecturer in the Defence Medical Services. In 2000, Peter was awarded the Michael E DeBakey International Military Surgeons' award for outstanding service to international military surgery. His operational work led to the award of MBE (military division) in 1983 and the CBE (military division) in 2003. He was a founder member of the charity Trauma Care. He served on the council of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland as the military representative and was president of the Military Surgical Society. The bald facts of Peter Roberts' career do not do justice to the extent of his avuncular influence and leadership of the specialist cohort of UK general surgeons in regular and reserve military service of his era. These surgeons and their anaesthetic and nursing colleagues collectively made a profound contribution to the modernisation of military surgical trauma care and to the evolution of the modern NHS trauma service from lessons learned through operations in the Gulf, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. Peter was often to be unexpectedly found in officers' messes and in less comfortable surroundings around the globe, dispensing wisdom, operational experience and anecdotes to his junior colleagues, and memorably with a cigarette to hand. This was to prove the instrument of his final undoing: he died on 11 March 2017 of metastatic lung cancer. He was 76. Peter's funeral and celebration of his life was held at the Royal Garrison Church of All Saints, Aldershot, with his extended family and many friends and former colleagues from his five decades of military medical service in respectful attendance.
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First Title value, for Searching Lynn, William Bewicke (1786 - 1878)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-07-20 2012-07-19
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon
Details Was gazetted Assistant Surgeon in the 5th Foot on July 13th, 1809, and retired on half pay on Sept 25th, 1817, commuting his half pay on June 22nd, 1830. He saw active service in Walcheren in 1809 and served in the Peninsula War from 1810-1814. He also served in Canada during the years 1814-1815. After he had retired he settled in practice in Westminster, and by 1847 had removed to Claygate in Surrey, and later to Aldenham Grove, Elstree, Herts, whence he returned to Claygate, where he died on July 27th, 1878. His son was W T Lynn, the Cambridge astronomer.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000009
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First Title value, for Searching Gilroy, Paul Knighton (1885 - 1931)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-27
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376349376349
Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born 7 June 1885, and educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge, from which he graduated BA after being placed in the third class of the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1906. He then proceeded to St George's Hospital, and was gazetted lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service on the Bombay list 20 January 1910, became captain on 20 January 1913, major 29 July 1921, and lieutenant-colonel 29 July 1929. During the war of 1914-18 he served in Iraq 1915-18, and was mentioned in despatches on 15 June 1916 and 12 March 1918. For his services he was decorated with the Military Cross. He died on 22 October 1931 at 10 Rocky Hill Flats, Bombay, after a long illness.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004166
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First Title value, for Searching Spencer, Richard (1778 - 1868)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375870375870
Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born on April 26th, 1778. On April 9th, 1800, he became Surgeon's Mate on the Hospital Staff, unattached. On June 5th of the same year he was gazetted Assistant Surgeon to the 4th Foot, promoted to Surgeon on July 9th, 1803; transferred to the 66th Foot on May 23rd, 1805, back to the 4th Foot, and to the 21st Light Dragoons on May 22nd, 1806. He served with this regiment at the Cape of Good Hope and in India for a number of years. On December 14th, 1820, he was gazetted to the 62nd Foot. He retired on February 25th, 1821, on half pay, and died at Fonthill Gifford, Wiltshire, on August 6th, 1868. Richard Spencer, John Painter Vincent (qv), and John Smith Soden (qv) were amongst the thirty-nine candidates at the last examination held for the diploma of the Company of Surgeons - many of whom were 'referred'.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003687
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First Title value, for Searching Bailliart, Paul (1877 - 1969)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-14
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377810377810
Occupation Military surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details Paul Bailliart attended school at Besançon and entered the military medical school at Lyon, and acted as an army surgeon from 1902 to 1907 when he went to Paris and initially worked with Morax. His contributions to ophthalmology were widespread; and he produced three books of great merit: the *Traité d'ophtalmologie* (1939) with Magitot, the *Manuel d'ophtalmologie* (1950), and *Les affections de la rétine* (1933). In 1950 he was presented with the Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons while attending the International Congress for Ophthalmologists. His chief interest lay in the retina and his technique of ophthalmodynamometry brought him fame throughout the specialty. He and his wife were well-known for their delightful garden parties, where you met the ophthalmic world as you ate and drank under the trees. If you were invited to one of these parties you had entered the highest ophthalmic circle. He had a long, full and happy life with his devoted wife who predeceased him. He died in 1969.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005627
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First Title value, for Searching Woolbert, Henry Robert (1858 - 1951)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-23
Unknown
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377694377694
Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born on 21 December 1858, he was educated at University College, London and took honours at the final MB examination in 1884. He took the Fellowship in 1885 and was gazetted Surgeon in the Indian Medical Service on the Bengal establishment on 1 October 1885. He was promoted Surgeon-Major in 1897, and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1905. Placed on the special list for promotion on 1 April 1910, he retired with extra pension on 30 June 1913, but rejoined for war service on 7 November 1914 and served in a hospital ship, winning the star and two medals. After retirement he lived at Lulamora, Alassio, Italy, where he died on 14 December 1951 aged nearly 93. Publication: *Medico-topographical account of Deoli, Rajputana, with the medical history of the Deoli Irregular Force*. 1899.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005511
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, John Graham (1930 - 1967)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Sharif, Mohamed (1912 - 2014)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-02-24 2016-04-15
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377215377215
Occupation Military surgeon
Details Mohammed Sharif was a military doctor in the Pakistan, a World Health Organization (WHO) representative in Africa and ultimately director of UNRWA (the United National Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East) operations on the West Bank. He was born on 7 January 1912 in Nabha, India, the son of Hakim Fateh Mohammed Khan, a physician, and Fatima Begum, a housewife. He studied medicine at Bombay University and qualified MB BS in 1936. He held junior posts in surgery and urology at the Grant Medical College and the Sir J J Hospital, Bombay. He was then medical officer in charge of a Bombay Municipality Dispensary (from October 1936 to March 1939). In 1938 he was commissioned into the Indian Medical Service, initially with the rank of lieutenant. A year later, he was awarded a Sir Currimbhoy Ebrahim scholarship by Bombay University for postgraduate study abroad. He arrived in the UK in April 1939, joined St Bartholomew's Hospital and began to study for the primary examination of the FRCS, due to be held in November, however, in September 1939, at the start of the Second World War, he was recalled by the Indian government for active duty. After an eventful journey back to the subcontinent, when the convoy he was travelling in was fired at by a German U-boat, he joined the Fourth Indian Division. He served in Egypt, Eritrea, Sudan, Palestine, Iraq and Cyprus, and ended the war as a major and a specialist in advanced military surgery. He returned to India in January 1945, where he was officer in charge of the surgical division at the Combined Military Hospital in Sialkot, Punjab, a post he held for two years. From February 1947 to the end of December 1948, he was commanding officer at the Combined Military Hospital, Bannu, in the North-West Frontier Province, on the boarder near Afghanistan. On 14 August 1947, Pakistan came into being and Sharif acquired Pakistani nationality. The new government granted him permission to return to the UK to resume his interrupted postgraduate studies. After time spent at the Royal College of Surgeons, Guy's, St Thomas', St Peter's and St Paul's hospitals and the Institute of Urology he gained the FRCS in 1951 and also a diploma in urology. In September 1951 he returned to Pakistan and resumed his Army medical career. He was first stationed in Baluchistan, where he was the commanding officer and a surgical specialist until March 1954. He subsequently became assistant director of medical services at the Pakistan Army division at Lahore, deputy director of medical services for the Army Medical Corps and finally director of medical services for the Pakistan Air Force. While holding this latter post, he was sent to the School of Aviation Medicine in San Antonio, Texas, USA, where he gained a diploma in aviation medicine. In May 1959 he was transferred from the military into the Pakistan Civil Service, becoming director general of health and joint secretary of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Social Welfare, with the task of developing the country's health services. In 1963 he joined WHO, initially as a representative in Tanganyika and Zanzibar, where he helped establish a new medical school at Dar es Salaam. From 1964 to 1975 he was director of health and WHO representative at UNRWA headquarters, Beirut, Lebanon, concerned with the health needs of the 1.5 Palestinian Arab refugees across the Middle East. From 1975 to 1977, he was director of UNRWA operations on the West Bank, carrying the responsibility for UNRWA's relief, health and education services for some 200,000 Palestinians living in the territory of the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and Gaza. He officially retired in January 1977, but was subsequently appointed as a consultant to the WHO European regional office in Copenhagen, Denmark. During the same period, he taught public health administration and management at the American University of Beirut's school of public health. He received many awards, including the 1939-49 Star, the Africa Star, the Defence medal and the War medal for his service in the Second World War, the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation medal (in 1949), the Pakistan Independence Medal (in 1947), the Republic of Pakistan Medal (in 1956) and the Sitara-i-Qaid-e-Azam, Pakistan's civil honour (in 1961). He was married to Rukshar and they had two sons (Altan and Sharouh) and three daughters (Ediz, Temriz and Gulseren). He died on 18 January 2014, shortly after his 102nd birthday.
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First Title value, for Searching Nicol, Burton Alexander ( - 1937)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-23
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378168378168
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 McMillan, Alec (1900 - 1957)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-15
Unknown
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379679379679
Occupation Military surgeon
Details Alec McMillan was born at Brierley Hill, Staffordshire on 14 August 1900. Little is known of his career until he was commissioned in the regular army in 1928. He served in India and China before crossing to France with the BEF in 1939. He was safely evacuated at Dunkirk and then returned overseas to serve in West Africa, the Middle East and India until 1945. After two years in England he was posted to East Africa for a year before returning to be Officer in Charge of the Surgical Division at the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich 1948-49 and the Military Hospital, Catterick 1949-50. He was appointed Colonel in 1950 and then appointed Consultant Surgeon to the British Army of the Rhine 1950-51 and then at GHQ, Middle East Land Forces. His final appointment was as Officer in Charge, Surgical Division at the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich 1954-57. He retired from the RAMC on 14 August 1957. Unfortunately we have no records of him from that date. His last known address was Fareham, Hants.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007496
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First Title value, for Searching Mulroney, Thomas Richard (1853 - 1938)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-21
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born at sea when his parents were on the way to India on 23 June 1853, the eldest of the nine children of Dr Mulroney, apothecary and chirurgeon attached Bombay Government for military duty, and Elizabeth Edwardes, his wife. He was educated in Bombay and graduated from the University of Malta. He served as assistant apothecary in the sub-medical depart¬ment, Bombay, from 27 September 1873 until 30 March 1880. He was gazetted surgeon IMS, Bengal, on 31 March 1880, was promoted major, 31 March 1892, and lieutenant-colonel, 31 March 1900. He retired from the service on 13 August 1909, settled in England, and died after a short illness at Crigga, Newquay, Cornwall on 29 September 1938. He married Eva Amelia Rae on 4 October 1893. She survived him with five daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Charles Manners (1822 - 1883)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-02-07
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born in 1822 and baptized on April 5th of that year; son of Joseph Smith, of Kempsey, Worcestershire. He joined the Bengal Army as Assistant Surgeon on March 19th, 1845, being promoted Surgeon on February 21st, 1859; Surgeon Major on March 19th, 1865; and Deputy Inspector-General when in charge of the Meerut District on March 31st, 1872. He saw active service with the 6th Light Cavalry in the Second Sikh or Punjab War (1848-1849), being present at the siege and capture of Multan, the action at Surajkund, and the Battle of Gujerat (Medal with two Clasps). For many years he was on civil duty in Lahore, where he was Professor of Medicine at the Military College. He retired on March 31st, 1877, and died at his residence, Kempsey House, Oxford Gardens, Kensington, W, on April 22nd, 1883.
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First Title value, for Searching Woods, Samuel Henry (1878 - 1962)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-23
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377691377691
Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born at Kilkeel, Co Down he received his medical education at Trinity College and the Adelaide Hospital, Dublin, the London Hospital, Guy's Hospital and Vienna. Entering the regular Naval Medical Service he reached the rank of Surgeon-Captain and acted as a surgeon at various times at RN Hospitals at Haslar, Malta and Plymouth. He also served afloat in HMS *Hood* and HMS *Endymion*, and in HMS *Skipjack* a fishery protection vessel off the Irish coast. He was created OBE for his services in the first world war. After retirement he served for nearly ten years as a ship's surgeon in the merchant navy, lived for a time in Kent, and then practised at Portstewart, Co Derry, moving in 1944 to Clontarf, Dublin, where he died on 22 September 1962, and was buried at sea off Northern Ireland with naval honours.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005508
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First Title value, for Searching Williams, Denys Owen (1918 - 1995)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-09
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Denys Owen Williams was born in New Malden, Surrey, on 24 February 1918, the son of Robert Owen Williams, a deputy chief clerk, and Ruth Matilda, née Fairclough. He was educated at Surbiton Grammar School, matriculating in 1933. His medical studies were undertaken at St Mary's Hospital, Paddington, where he rowed for the Hospital and became surgical registrar. Subsequently he was senior surgical registrar at Southlands Hospital, Shoreham-by-Sea before being appointed consultant surgeon to the RAF. In that service he was stationed at Ely, Cyprus, Germany and Cosford, attaining the rank of group captain in 1966. He married Joyce Dorothy Barrett, a state registered nurse, on 18 March 1944. They had two sons - Denis, who became a group captain in the RAF, and Richard, who was a colonel in the Royal Artillery - and a daughter, Sara, who became a sign language communicator. He died on 19 December 1995.
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First Title value, for Searching Ainsworth, Hugh (1871 - 1952)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-20
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born on 28 September 1871, eldest child and only son of Hugh Ainsworth and his wife Mary Wright Joynson, he was educated at Owen's College and the Royal Infirmary, Manchester, qualifying in 1895 with first-class honours and serving as house physician; he was also assistant medical officer at the Monsall fever hospital. Ainsworth was commissioned as a Surgeon-Lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service on 29 July 1896 and saw active service in the Tirah campaign on the North-West Frontier. For his part in the actions at Chagru Kotal, Dargai Sampagha and Arhanga passes, and in the operations near Dwatoi and in the Bara valley, he was awarded the medal with two clasps. Thereafter he pursued the ordinary routine of Indian service, was promoted Captain in 1899 and, after taking the Fellowship in December 1907, became a Major on 29 January 1908 and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1916. He was made Colonel in 1923, and appointed an honorary surgeon to the King on 27 August 1924. He retired on 28 September 1928. Ainsworth married in 1909 Laura Delaforce, who survived him with their two married daughters. He lived at 1 Ellardale Road, Bognor and died on 13 February 1952 at the Royal West Sussex Hospital, Chichester, aged 80.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004828
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First Title value, for Searching Capperauld, Ian (1923 - 2010)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by R M Kirk
Publication Date 2011-12-19 2014-03-21
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon
Details Ian Capperauld was executive director of research and constructive surgery at Ethicon Ltd, Edinburgh, and a former major in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was born in New Cumnock, Ayrshire, Scotland, on 23 October 1933, and studied medicine at Glasgow University, qualifying in 1957. He was a resident in medicine and surgery at Ballochmyle Hospital, Ayrshire, a resident in obstetrics and gynaecology at Irvine, Ayrshire, and then a casualty officer in Kilmarnock. In 1959 he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as a regimental officer. He was a surgical and then a urological specialist at Millbank, London. He was sent to Singapore in 1962, to the British Military Hospital, as a specialist in trauma surgery. During this period he served as commanding officer of the field surgical team in Borneo and as a visiting surgical specialist in Nepal. Between 1962 and 1965, he was also an honorary lecturer in physiology at the University of Singapore Medical School. Ian completed his Army career in Germany and the UK, retiring with the rank of major. In 1966 he was appointed as a consultant civilian surgeon at the Royal Herbert Military Hospital, Woolwich. In May 1968 he joined Ethicon in Edinburgh, manufacturers of surgical products, and, from 1976, was executive director of surgical research. During a period of rapid advancement in surgical knowledge and technical change, he established and maintained professional links with surgeons around the world, in particular with the Royal Colleges in the British Isles. Ian travelled widely, teaching, inspiring and innovating. His micro-surgical courses in Edinburgh were a particular success, and he was very active in supporting courses using simulations. It was increasingly recognised that the first time a surgeon performs an unfamiliar operation, it should not be on a patient. With the advent of minimal access, laparoscopic and similar modes of surgery, he brought the support of Ethicon to these introduced techniques. Ethicon was developing many of the appropriate surgical instruments and Ian supported courses with the loan of equipment so that enthusiasts were able to gain experience on simulations before embarking on minimal access procedures on patients. He encouraged those of us who feared wholesale adoption of the techniques by surgeons who were unaware of the dangers to set up courses in the British Isles and abroad. He contributed a series of research papers, particularly on wound closure and sutures, as well as chapters in books. He was a member of the International Society of Surgery and the Biomedical Engineering Society. During his career he accumulated a number of special appointments in committees at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in science, education, development and appeals. He was awarded the Sir Arthur Keith medal of the Royal College of Surgeons of England for his contribution to surgical research and training. In the light of his commercial interests, he became a member of the Institute of Directors. Those of us who had the pleasure and privilege of working with Ian remember him with pleasure and gratitude. He was a big personality, using his attributes to bring great benefits nationally and internationally to surgeons and to Ethicon. Accompanying him on British and overseas visits was always a pleasure: he brought energy and enthusiasm to all he did. Ian Capperauld died on 18 June 2010, aged 76. He was survived by his wife Wilma and their two children.
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First Title value, for Searching Richardson, John Wilberforce (1930 - 2008)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Norman Kirby
Publication Date 2011-11-14 2015-04-24
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details John Richardson had a distinguished career in the Royal Naval Medical Service as a surgeon serving at home and at sea. He was professor of naval surgery and later dean of naval medicine. He was born on 4 July 1930 in Ilford, Essex, the son of Cotsford Wilberforce Richardson, a science master, and Ethel Emma née Oram, a housewife. Through his father he was a direct descendant of William Wilberforce, the British politician who campaigned to end slavery. Richardson attended Barking Abbey School and then University College London, qualifying MB BS in 1953. Conscripted in 1955, he took a short service commission and converted to a full career commission the following year. He served at sea on HMS *Daring* and was then posted to the Royal Naval Hospital (RNH) Haslar to start surgical training. He passed the FRCS in 1961. He was graded as a surgical specialist in 1962 and as a senior specialist in 1965. Further service at sea on HMS *Albion* and HMS *Centaur* followed. From 1962 to 1963, as a lieutenant commander, he was leader of the first naval surgical team in Brunei and Borneo. He returned to RNH Plymouth and was then posted overseas, as a surgeon captain and consultant surgeon to RNH Gibraltar. In 1969 he returned to RNH Haslar as an adviser in surgery to the Royal Navy, and six years later he was appointed as a surgical tutor at RNH Plymouth. In the same year, 1975, he went to sea as a surgeon aboard HMS *Hermes*, the aircraft carrier. In 1977 he was appointed professor of naval surgery at RNH Haslar, a joint chair with the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Royal Naval College of Medicine. This was a period when the concept of joint medical services was developing. The RAMC, RAF and Royal Navy medical services met regularly to discuss issues relating to military surgery and inter-service cooperation. John Richardson played a valuable role in increasing effective planning between the services. He was appointed as a surgeon commodore (one star rank) on becoming dean of naval medicine in 1983. The Defence Medical Services Postgraduate Council was constituted in 1983 and he served as chairman until 1985. He had been the naval member of the British military medical delegation to China in 1979. In 1980 he was appointed an officer of the Order of St John. Following this, he conducted the 1981 defence review for the medical director general. In 1982 he was appointed as an honorary surgeon to HM The Queen. In October 1986 he left the service. In his spare time he was a keen sailor. He built a wooden 22-foot boat with six berths with the aid of his children. He was a member of the Royal Yachting Association and the Joint Services Sailing Club. Other interests included genealogy and photography. After his service in Gibraltar, he developed an interest in the stamps of that country. In January 1954 he married Cecilia Elizabeth Reid, a nurse. They had five children - John (a solicitor), Alistair (a marine engineer), Graham (an accountant), Cecilia (a general practitioner) and Hilary (a teacher). John Richardson died on 12 December 2008. He was 78.
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First Title value, for Searching Spong, Charles Stuart (1859 - 1924)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375872375872
Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born at Faversham on June 12th, 1859. He was educated at Guy's Hospital, where he was House Surgeon, Resident Obstetric Assistant, and Demonstrator of Anatomy. He was then House Surgeon to the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich, and Clinical Assistant to the Evelina Hospital for Children. Spong was gazetted Surgeon Captain in the Army Medical Department on July 27th, 1887, and later Captain RAMC from that date, promoted Major on July 27th, 1899, and retired with gratuity on August 16th, 1899. From August 13th, 1890, to August 12th, 1899, he had been seconded for service with the Egyptian Army, served at Dongola in 1896, on the Nile in 1897 and 1898, obtaining in 1897 the Medjidie Order and in 1898 the Distinguished Service Order. After retiring from the Army he became Medical Adviser to the Egyptian State Railways, lived at Ghezireh, Cairo, and died at Cairo on July 12th, 1924.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003689
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First Title value, for Searching Dempsey, Austin Bernard (1911 - 1975)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-26
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378652378652
Occupation Military surgeon
Details Austin Bernard Dempsey was born at West Ham on 17 October 1911. He was educated at Stonyhurst, the London Hospital and St Thomas's Hospital and qualified MRCS LRCP in 1935. He was commissioned into the RAMC in October 1935 and appointed to a permanent commission in October 1941. Most of his service before and during the second world war was spent in India, Iraq, and Burma where he commanded 25 Combined General Hospital, 94 Indian General Hospital and 68 Indian General Hospital. On his return to the United Kingdom in March 1946 he was appointed Officer in Charge Surgical Division RH Woolwich. He won the first Montefiore Prize at the Royal Army Medical College in 1947 and obtained the FRCS in 1948. He served in Hamburg, Khartoum, Benghazi and Cyprus and was consulting surgeon to the Middle East Land Forces in 1960, and to the Military Hospital, Accra. He retired on 10 January 1963, with the rank of Brigadier and died on 7 October 1975, aged 63 years.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006469
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First Title value, for Searching Ellis, James Morrison (1922 - 2009)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Norman Kirby
Publication Date 2012-01-05 2015-04-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373998373998
Occupation Military surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Jim Ellis was an orthopaedic surgeon in Sydney, Australia. He was born in Rylstone, New South Wales, in 1922, the second of five children of Ashley Ellis and his wife, Flora Ellis née Morrison. Ashley worked in many jobs, then became a stock inspector. Flora had been a teacher and, after Ashley retired, returned to her love of art. She was still painting at 97. James was tutored at home as well as at local schools. He entered Sydney University at 16, graduated with a BA degree and then went on to study medicine, training at the Royal North Shore Hospital and qualifying MB BS in 1943. He served with the Australian Army at the end of the war, in New Guinea and New Britain. He was a medical officer at the Japanese War Crimes Tribunal in Rabaul, helped rebuild medical facilities in New Britain and cared for prisoners. His duties involved dealing with the repatriation of thousands of Japanese soldiers and several thousand Indian and Chinese who had been co-opted to do war work. He remained in the regular Army until 1948. He had developed an interest in tropical medicine, and on his return to Australia attended Sydney University to study for his fellowship of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (FRSTM&H). He worked at Concord Repatriation Hospital. In 1952 he went to London, where he trained at St Thomas' Hospital as a registrar with Sir Denis Browne and George Perkins. He passed his FRCS in 1953. Returning to Sydney, he settled on the North Shore. From 1957 he was in private practice, until 1964, when he joined Mona Vale and Sydney hospitals. He was a consultant orthopaedic surgeon for 30 years. He was president of the Australian Hand Surgery Society on two occasions, and pioneered open reduction, internal fixation and grafting of complex fractures, as well as new ways of treating pelvic fractures. From 1967 he also worked in war zones with the Red Cross and the federal Foreign Affairs Department, in Vietnam, East Timor, Cambodia and Thailand. During the Vietnam War he spent six months as a surgeon at Le Loi Hospital in Vung Tau. Here he operated on many victims of war, as well as more routine surgical cases in austere conditions. This was the period of the Tet Offensive and the workload was heavy. In 1972 he returned to Vietnam, to Bien Hoa Hospital, which was also a busy appointment. In 1975 he was in East Timor during the civil war, working near to the area where Indonesia had invaded. In 1984 he served as a surgeon in the Khao-I-Dang refugee camp on the Thai-Cambodian border. He loved to teach and helped surgeons from the Far East regions to go to Australia to train, and returned many times to Cambodia, in particular, to support and nurture the surgical profession there. At the time of his death he was working on a field guide for surgeons operating in war conditions. *136 quick surgical tricks* contains many practical tips and tricks for medical staff working away from well-stocked hospitals. He was awarded the Australian Red Cross medal for meritorious service, and in 1994 he was made a member of the Order of Australia for services to orthopaedics. Jim Ellis died on 14 June 2009, aged 87, and was survived by his wife Ruth (née Cameron), a former nurse whom he married in 1945, their children, Sue, Michael, Elizabeth, Peter and Andrew, 11 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001815
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First Title value, for Searching Christian, Gnamani Peter (1927 - 2007)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-12-10 2022-10-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381195381195
Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon
Details Gnamani Peter Christian was a professor of surgery at the Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. He was born in Nazareth, Tamil Nadu on 29 November 1927, the second son of Rajarathnam Theophilus Christian, a farmer and insurance executive, and Chellathai Christian née Ponnammal. His grandfather, a temple priest and the first in the family to convert to Christianity, took the surname Christian and went to Ceylon as a missionary. Christian attended Margoschis Memorial High School in Nazareth and then St John’s College in Palayamkottai, gaining prizes and being placed first in his class. He went on to study medicine at Madras Medical College, qualifying in April 1952, and joined the Indian Armed Forces Medical Services in September of the same year. In January 1957, he passed his primary FRCS in Colombo and then carried out advanced training in general surgery at the Armed Forces Medical College. From 1960, he was a surgical specialist in the Armed Forces. From 1963 to 1966 he was a senior assistant to General P T Joseph, a senior consultant in surgery for the Armed Forces. In July 1965, Christian gained a masters’ in general surgery from the University of Delhi. From 1966 to 1967 he worked as a senior registrar to Ronald William Raven at the Royal Marsden Hospital, London. In November 1966, he passed his final FRCS. Back in India, he was awarded the Nao Sena medal during the 1971 Indo-Pakistan Conflict while serving as a fleet medical officer to the Eastern Fleet and surgeon to the fleet on board the Indian Navy’s vessel Vikrant. He organised the cancer centre for the Armed Forces and was officer in charge of the malignant diseases treatment centre for the Armed Forces from June 1967 to November 1979. He was unit chief, undergraduate and postgraduate teacher in general surgery at the University of Poona from 1973. He was also an examiner at the universities of Poona and Madras. In 1979, he took premature retirement from the Armed Forces as a surgeon captain and was appointed as professor of surgery at the Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore. He was a member of the Association of Surgeons of India and a member of the oncology section, and a founder member (overseas) of the British Association of Surgical Oncology. He published papers on surgical oncology. His son, Francis, who also became a consultant surgeon, said he benefitted enormously ‘…from his wise and practical counsel and his unique, humane way of looking at surgical problems. One of the reasons he was such a good teacher was his ability to “get into the patient’s shoes” and into the shoes of the patient’s loved ones.’ He went on: ‘With my dad, what you saw was what you got…He was loving, forthright, beautifully frank and was one of the very few human beings I have known who gave hugs and kisses spontaneously and unconditionally.’ Outside medicine, Christian played tennis regularly and spent his spare time in church and taking part in church-related activities. In his retirement, his son says: ‘He did not slow down at all… If anything, he was much more busy – guiding younger surgeons with complex questions, doing a lot of free operations, sending needy children to school and higher education…’ His faith was extremely important to him and in caring for others ‘…he did not distinguish between the Christian, Muslim, Hindu or atheist.’ In 1956, he married a Miss Regina. They had a son and a daughter. Gnamani Peter Christian died in 2007. He left a legacy, in the words of his son: ‘…through the numerous students – myself included – who are now teachers and are passing on his methods and philosophies to a new and eager generation of students.’
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First Title value, for Searching Macmillan, John McCallum Anderson (1876 - 1947)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Prynne, Harold Vernon (1869 - 1954)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Manders, Horace (1853 - 1935)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-30
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon
Details Born at Canterbury on 23 December 1853, the second son of Major Thomas Manders, 6th Dragoon Guards, and his wife, née Hacking. He was educated at Marlborough College, at St Mary's Hospital, at the Beaujon Hospital in Paris, and in Brussels. He acted as house surgeon at the Kent and Canterbury Hospital and worked in the electro¬therapeutic department of the East London Hospital for Children at Shadwell. During the South African war, 1900-01, he served as medical officer to the 12th brigade, Imperial Yeomanry, afterwards becoming senior medical officer with the mounted troops of the 5th and 6th brigades. He received the medal with four clasps and was mentioned in despatches. He went to Dvinsk, Latvia, as chief medical officer, with the honorary rank of captain, in Lady Muriel Paget's English Hospital, and did good service. He was subsequently a surgeon in the P and O Steam Navigation Company's service. He married in 1879 Elizabeth Louisa, daughter of G P Goode of Haverfordwest, and they had a family of four boys and two girls. He practised at 22 Gloucester Terrace, W, but continued his military interests, becoming lieutenant-colonel in the 4th battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment, and receiving the Volunteer Decoration. He retired to Chesham Bois, Bucks, where he died on 5 July 1935, his wife having predeceased him. Publication: *The ferment treatment of cancer and tuberculosis*. London, 1898.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004546
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First Title value, for Searching Rutherford, Robert (1895 - 1958)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-05-16
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377532377532
Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon
Details Born in 1895 at Glasgow, he was educated at Grosvenor School, Carlisle and apprenticed to a chemist there. He served in the Black Watch through the war of 1914-18 and then began his medical training at King's College Hospital, where he served as house surgeon and surgical registrar after qualifying in 1927. He was also house surgeon at the Belgrave Children's Hospital. In 1930 he took the Fellowship and was appointed clinical director of the Hillingdon County Hospital, Uxbridge. He went into general practice at Longtown, Cumberland in 1934 and was also obstetric consultant to the County Council. During the war of 1939-45 he served in the RAMC in command of military hospitals in Palestine and India; in the last year of the war he was in command of the surgical division of the 110th General Hospital in Normandy and Belgium, took part in the early clinical trials of penicillin, and was awarded the OBE. He was medical officer to the Westmorland and Cumberland Yeomanry and retired with the rank of Colonel in 1952. Rutherford married in 1931 Nora M Barrett, who survived him with two sons and three daughters. He died at Cobbinshaw House, Longtown on 19 August 1958, aged 63. Publications: Excision of oesophagus for carcinoma. *Brit J Surg* 1934, 22, 340. Congenital valvular obstruction in prostatic urethra. *Brit J Child Dis* 1934, 31, 297. Hospital organisation in the field (tented). *JRAMC* 1942, 79, 176.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005349
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First Title value, for Searching Oyston, John Kenneth (1925 - 2017)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by John Oyston
Publication Date 2017-11-02 2018-03-05
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Occupation Military surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Ken Oyston was an orthopaedic surgeon in the Royal Air Force and at Halifax Royal Infirmary. He was born on 13 January 1925 on Tyneside. His father, Harry Oyston, studied mathematics at Durham University and served briefly in the First World War as a second lieutenant in the Northumberland Fusiliers, but suffered a severe shrapnel wound on his way to the front and was invalided home. He was a teacher of mathematics and physics, and a keen chess player. Ken's mother, Ann Handyside Oyston née Clark, was a housewife. During the Second World War, Ken was evacuated to Wensleydale for his schooling, but used to cycle home to his parents in Low Fell at weekends. Ken studied medicine at King's College, University of Durham in Newcastle. After graduation, he did a house office job at a spinal injuries unit in Hexham, and took some of his patients to participate in the Stoke Mandeville games, a forerunner of the Paralympics. For his National Service, his preference was to enter the Army, as he had been in the Officers' Training Corps at school, and his second choice was the Navy. He was assigned to the Air Force, which proved to be fortunate as he developed an interest in orthopaedic surgery, which was not recognised as a specialty by the other forces. He worked as an anatomy demonstrator at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle while studying for his FRCS, which he passed in 1955. He celebrated by taking a trip on *Carita 111*, a wooden sailing boat, around the islands of Scotland with some surgical colleagues. He married Audrey Wilkinson, a sister on the plastics unit at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in October 1955 and took up a commission as a flight lieutenant in the RAF the following month. He served as a general surgeon at RAF Aden, where he volunteered to do caesarean sections at the local civic hospital, and he removed his wife's appendix (as no other surgeon was available). However, his main interest was in orthopaedic surgery. He undertook further training at RAF Ely, and was then posted to Germany. He rose to the rank of wing commander, before taking early retirement to pursue a second career as a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Halifax Royal Infirmary. He was not an academic surgeon, but did publish two papers, one on a fungal infection of the foot ('Madura foot. A study of twenty cases.' *J Bone Joint Surg Br* 1961 May;43B:259-67) and one on a case of shoulder dislocation ('Unreduced posterior dislocation of the shoulder treated by open reduction and transposition of the subscapularis tendon.'*J Bone Joint Surg Br*. 1964 May;46:256-9). Ken was a kind and gentle surgeon, good with his hands and always looking for ways to improve life for his patients, for example, he promoted tibial osteotomy for Perthes disease, to avoid prolonged immobilisation in a 'broomstick' cast. He retired at 62 and enjoyed 30 years of retirement. He travelled extensively with his wife and with his children, and especially enjoyed sailing holidays in the Mediterranean. Ken and Audrey were keen gardeners who sometimes opened their garden to the public for charity events. He was active in Rotary, in particular with their polio eradication campaign. He was a devoted grandfather, always keen to hear news about his four grandchildren, to talk with them and to support them in any way he could. Unfortunately, his sight deteriorated, and he was registered blind for many years. An episode of endocarditis weakened his heart, but he managed to live at home with help from Blind Veterans UK, devoted caregivers and his family. He died peacefully from pneumonia on 2 May 2017, with his children at his side, aged 92, bringing to a close a life well-lived. His wife, Audrey, predeceased him. He was survived by his son, John, an anaesthetist in Toronto, his daughter Wendy, a retired nurse living in Holmfirth, and his four grandchildren, James, Christopher, Grant and Kate. His great-granddaughter, Rose, was born 17 days before he died.
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First Title value, for Searching Urwin, John Johnson (1871 - 1938)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-09
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born at Blaydon-on-Tyne on 24 March 1871, the eldest of the seven children of Michael Urwin, provision merchant, and his wife Ann Johnson. He was educated at the Science and Art School, now the Rutherford College, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and at Glasgow University, where he was awarded the Brunton memorial prize as the best scholar in medicine of his year. He served as house surgeon at the Clayton Hospital, Wakefield, at the Eye and Ear Infirmary, Liverpool, and at the Stanley Hospital, also at Liverpool. Taking his Membership after a postgraduate course at St Bartholomew's Hospital, he was gazetted lieutenant in the IMS on 27 July 1899, captain on 27 July 1902, major on 28 January 1911, and lieutenant-colonel on 28 January 1919. He retired from the service on 19 July 1924. Most of his service was in civil practice in Bengal and Bihar, but during the war of 1914-18 he returned to military duty and was twice mentioned in despatches (*London Gazette*, 28 December 1917 and 5 June 1919). He died unmarried on 24 April 1938 at Fairfield, Warkworth, Northumberland.
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First Title value, for Searching Garraway, John Windsor (1915 - 1992)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-08
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Occupation Casualty surgeon Accident and emergency surgeon General surgeon Military surgeon
Details John Garraway was educated at Eastbourne College and the Middlesex Hospital. On graduating he joined the RAF, in which he served in North Africa and in the RAF hospital in Vereeniging, South Africa, where he married Margaret Lapping in June 1944. After the war he returned to England to serve in various RAF bases, from which he was seconded in 1952 to accompany the Royal Family as their family physician. He was seconded from the RAF to do surgical training at the Hammersmith Hospital and passed the FRCS in 1957, continuing to serve in the RAF until he retired as Group Captain. On retirement Garraway returned to South Africa as surgeon superintendent at the Eben Donges Hospital in Worcester, and later settled in Durban, where he ran the casualty department at King Edward VIII Hospital. He was given the nickname of *Khanyisani* from his Zulu staff, meaning 'light': this was because, on busy weekends, when casualty was crowded, he rolled up his sleeves and dealt quickly with everyone, which made him the 'light at the end of the tunnel'. He died on 31 December 1992, survived by his wife, three children and three grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Ganguly, Rasamay (1918 - 2001)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Clyne, Andrew Jack (1907 - 1994)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by R P Craig
Publication Date 2011-11-09 2018-02-22
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Major General Andrew Clyne, a hugely experienced military surgeon who served in a number of campaigns, was director general of medical services for the Royal Australia Army Medical Corps. He was born on 30 June 1907 in Melbourne, Australia, the eldest son of Andrew Morrison Clyne, a stock and station agent, and Ethel Kathleen Clyne née Kentish. He was educated at the University High School in Melbourne, and then studied medicine at the University of Melbourne, gaining a BSc and qualifying MB BS in 1932 with the Keith Levi memorial prize in medicine and the Jamieson prize in clinical medicine. After a post as a resident medical officer at Melbourne Hospital, he went to the UK and joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1934 as a lieutenant, proceeding to the rank of captain in March 1935. In the pre-war years he was based in India. During the Second World War he was a staff captain at the Southern Command (India) and deputy assistant director of medical services and then assistant director at the Army headquarters between December 1942 and July 1943. From July 1943 and October 1944 he was officer commanding the 13 Indian Casualty Clearing Station, and officer commanding 51 MFTU (malaria forward treatment unit) between October 1944 and March 1945. He was then in command of the British Military Hospitals in Deolali, in Bombay and finally in Delhi between September 1945 and July 1946. In 1947 he was at the Royal Army Medical College, Millbank, and in 1949 was a clinical assistant at Miller Hospital, Greenwich. He gained his FRCS in 1949, followed by a series of appointments as a consultant surgeon, firstly in the Far East between February 1950 and May 1956, which covered most of the Malayan Emergency. He also served in Korea. Between August 1956 and February 1959 he was a consultant surgeon at the headquarters of the British Army of the Rhine at Rheindahlen, West Germany. From there, he became a consultant surgeon to the Middle East Land Forces based in Cyprus, between February 1959 and June 1960 - the period when EOKA (Ethnikí Orgánosis Kipriakoú Agónos) was fighting for independence. He then returned to the United Kingdom and was promoted to honorary brigadier. He relinquished his commission after being appointed by the Royal Australian Army Medical Corps as their next director general of medical services. He served in this role from 1960 to 1967. He was made an honorary major general around 1963. He was an honorary surgeon to The Queen. He was clearly a surgeon of considerable ability and served with distinction as a senior medical administrator. He was awarded with the 1939-1945 Star, the Burma Star, and the Defence and War medals for his service in the Second World War. Later he gained the Malayan General Service medal, and the Korean and UN medals. In 1954 he was appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his service in the Far East. He married Queenie Decima Ford in 1935. They had two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Standage, Robert Frazer (1868 - 1927)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-03-18
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he gained the Bentley Surgical Prize in 1890. He was then appointed House Surgeon and House Physician at the Metropolitan Hospital, and entered the Indian Medical Service as Lieutenant in 1895. His first years were spent mainly on plague and famine duty, and for his famine work he received the thanks of the Bombay Government in 1897. In 1897-1899 he was engaged in the African Uganda Rising, was mentioned in dispatches, and awarded the Medal with Clasps. In 1900 he was appointed Residency Surgeon at Bangalore, and at Mysore in 1902, where he remained until his retirement, except for the period of the Great War. He was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel in 1915, and was on military duty from July, 1917, to March, 1919, in British, Portuguese, and German East Africa, Nyassaland, and Northern Rhodesia. He was mentioned in dispatches, and received the Medal in January, 1919, was gazetted CIE in January, 1922, and in 1926 received the Order of St John of Jerusalem. In his early days he was a good cricketer and a keen *shikari*. He retired from the Indian Medical Service in January, 1926, after thirty years' service, and joined a friend in practice at Venice. He died suddenly in London on January 15th, 1927, being survived by his wife, whom he had married in 1902, and a son.
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First Title value, for Searching Finny, Charles Morgan (1886 - 1955)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Stovell, Matthew (1806 - 1869)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-11
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born in London on September 10th, 1806, son of George Stovell. He was educated at St George's Hospital from 1822-1826. He joined the Bombay Army as Assistant Surgeon on October 8th, 1828, was promoted Surgeon on February 20th, 1844, and Superintending Surgeon on June 17th, 1857. He became Principal Inspector-General, Medical Department, Bombay, on April 6th, 1862, retired on April 9th, 1867, and was gazetted CSI on September 16th, 1867. He saw active service in Persia in 1856 and 1857, being mentioned in General Sir James Outram's dispatch of June 17th, 1857, and in General Orders on August 5th, 1857. The Bombay Review of January 15th, 1867, announced the retirement of Stovell on the pension of his rank, £900 a year, and said that he had done good service to the State for thirty-eight years, in particular by his skill and good management as Surgeon to the European General Hospital in Bombay during ten years. Further, his work as Secretary of the Board of Education was highly esteemed, as Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals in the Poona Division during four years, and as Principal Inspector-General for the last five years. On his return to Europe he suffered from epileptic fits, in one of which he fractured an arm, and died during a severe fit in his brother's house in Belsize Park, NW, on May 8th, 1869. Publication:- "Statistics of the More Important Diseases admitted into the European General Hospital at Bombay from April 1st, 1846, to March 81st, 1856," Bombay, 1856; reprinted from *Trans Med and Phys Soc Bombay*, 1855-6, ns. Iii, p1.
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First Title value, for Searching Selby, William (1869 - 1916)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-21
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born at Dunedin, NZ, on June 16th, 1869, the son of Prideaux Selby, of Kowit, Croydon. He was educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and entered the Indian Medical Service as Surgeon Lieutenant on July 28th, 1894, becoming Surgeon Captain on July 28th, 1897; Major on July 28th, 1906, and Lieutenant-Colonel on July 28th, 1914. His war service was long and distinguished. He served in the Chitral Campaign (1895), taking part in the Relief of Chitral, and was awarded the Frontier Medal with a Clasp. He gained two more Clasps in 1897-1898 on the North-West Frontier, in the operations on the Semana Range, August-September, 1897, and in the Relief of Fort Gulistan. In the Tirah Campaign (1897-1898) he was present at the actions of Chagru Kotal, Dargai, of the Sampagha and Arhanga Passes; in the Waran Valley operations, especially the action of November 16th, 1897; in the operations at and around Dwatoi, and the action of November 24th, 1897; in the operations against the Khanni Khel Chamkannis; and in those in the Bara Valley (December 7th-14th, 1897). For these services he received a fourth Clasp, and was mentioned in dispatches and decorated with the DSO. On April 15th, 1910, he was appointed Hon Surgeon to the Viceroy of India, and was the senior, in date of appointment, of the holders of that post. On the opening of the new King George's Medical College at Lucknow, he was appointed Principal of the College and Professor of Surgery. He died at Lucknow from the effects of a cycle accident whilst on active service on September 8th, 1916.
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First Title value, for Searching Scott, Robert (1929 - 1991)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-01
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Robert Scott was born in Belfast, the son of Thomas Montgomery Scott, a grocer, and his wife Margaret, née Spence, on 16 August 1929. He was to follow the tradition of many Irish doctors in making his career in the army. After early education at Campbell College in Belfast he gained a closed scholarship to University College Oxford, after which he proceeded to King's College Hospital Medical School in London. He qualified with the Oxford MB in 1955 and joined the army immediately after his house jobs. Posted to a series of hospitals in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong he developed an interest in surgery and was seconded for periods to the Birmingham Accident Hospital and to the Eastern General Hospital, Edinburgh. At the former, Peter London stimulated much of his subsequent research work on injuries. Having passed the FRCS in 1962, gained some experience in a Field Surgical Unit in Borneo and in Northern Ireland and published a series of reports on the problems of injury in armoured fighting vehicles, he was rewarded by promotion to the rank of lieutenant colonel and was appointed Commandant of the Royal Army Medical College, Millbank. He won the Mitchiner medal of the Royal College of Surgeons and served the College as joint professor with the RAMC. He was appointed Honorary Surgeon to the Queen 1987 to 1989, and was awarded the CB in 1989. He retired as Major General in that same year and, being a man who enjoyed a social and sporting life, had every reason to look forward to many active and enjoyable years with his wife Rosemary (née Sutherland) and their three children. The bagpipes and golf were his particular pleasures. Unhappily this idyllic retirement was cut short when he died in a sailing accident on 13 March 1991.
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First Title value, for Searching Rees, Colin (1940 - 1986)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-20
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon
Details Colin Rees was born in Machynlleth, North Wales, on 22 January 1940 and when he was four the family moved to Llanfyllin where his father kept a greengrocery store. After early education at Llanfyllin High School he entered St Mary's Hospital Medical School with a Kitchener Scholarship. He qualified in 1963 and after early house appointments at Paddington General Hospital and the Royal East Surrey Hospital, Redhill, he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1964. He spent the next thirteen years in the Army, serving in Northern Ireland on three occasions as well as in Germany. During this time he acquired experience in a wide range of surgical problems, especially in the management of trauma. He passed the FRCS Edinburgh in 1971 and the FRCS in 1972 and by the time he left the Army in 1977 he had attained the rank of Major. During the next two years he worked at a civilian hospital in West Germany but in 1979 returned to England to join a practise in Oswestry where he was able to continue his surgical career, carrying out a wide range of surgical procedures at Oswestry and District Hospital. He had a keen sense of humour and a ready wit which made the operating theatre a happy place to work in. He was an enthusiastic supporter of Welsh rugby and played golf during his leisure time. A man with an apparently insatiable curiosity on all matters he was happy to discourse for hours on the various merits of Italian or German wines. He married Jill, a qualified nurse, in 1965 and they had three sons, Gareth, Trevor, and John. He died suddenly on 15 November 1986 after a heart attack, aged 46.
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First Title value, for Searching Peters, Noel Henry (1931 - 2021)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Simon Mellor
Publication Date 2021-09-28 2022-01-07
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Occupation Military surgeon General surgeon Oncologist
Details Colonel Noel Peters was a military surgeon, general surgeon and later consultant oncologist at the Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital, Woolwich. He was born in Hong Kong on 20 December 1931 to Rose Margaret Peters née Shea and William Henry Peters. He was the youngest child and only son with three elder sisters, all of whom predeceased him. His father was a member of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps during the Second World War and died defending Hong Kong against the Japanese forces. The family suffered great hardships and three of his uncles were interned as prisoners of war. During this time, he was inspired by the compassion of a Japanese doctor who endeavoured to save his seriously ill sister and showed Noel photos of his own children. In 1942, his extended family of 12 and Snowy the dog, fled to neutral Macau on a small boat under cover of darkness to avoid air attacks and stayed there until the end of the war. Upon their return to Hong Kong, Noel was enrolled in the prestigious Diocesan Boys’ School in Kowloon, where he excelled academically as well as in cricket. He left school at 16 with the highest grades awarded to any boy in Hong Kong of that year and entered medical school as the youngest student to be accepted to study at Hong Kong University. He qualified in time to celebrate his twenty first birthday and, after concluding his pre-registration jobs, he transferred to UK in 1956 and started his career at Kent and Canterbury Hospital as a surgical houseman. Whilst there he met Phyllis Forman, a theatre nurse, who he married shortly afterwards. Noel was appointed as a registrar at Smallfield Hospital, Surrey and later at Redhill General Hospital as a senior registrar. He passed the FRCS in 1963 and joined the Royal Army Medical Corps as a captain in July 1964, initially on a short service commission. He clearly enjoyed the travel afforded by life in the RAMC and subsequently had three tours to his beloved Hong Kong interspersed with postings in Germany (in Iserlohn and Hanover), Dhekelia in Cyprus, Singapore (including a spell at the British Military Hospital in Dharan, Nepal), Catterick, Woolwich and Northern Ireland, where he pioneered surgery for gunshot and shrapnel wounds, later adopted in the Falklands War. He was appointed to the Military Hospital at Catterick as a consultant in 1970, where he was recognised as a fine technical surgeon and his opinion was greatly valued. While at Catterick, Noel was awarded the Order of St John of Jerusalem. In 1981, he and his colleague Peter Craig introduced the idea of taking Chinese civilian patients into the British Military Hospital in Hong Kong from the new but very overworked Queen Elizabeth Hospital close by. This afforded excellent experience for the junior staff, and stimulating and interesting cases for consultants, including portal hypertension, gastric cancers and the complications of clonorchis sinensis (liver fluke). The last was still a common condition in Hong Kong, although rapidly reducing as a result of improving water quality and a more westernised diet. The corollary was that the incidence of colorectal cancer, hitherto rare in the Chinese community, was rapidly rising to the level seen in the West. Following that tour he was posted to Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital, Woolwich, where he restored the Army oncology unit following the closure of Millbank Hospital in 1977, where the Army Cancer Registry had been housed. He worked closely with the best oncology units in London to provide first class treatment for soldiers and their families, and his team achieved the highest survival rates in the UK for his innovative treatments for testicular cancers. He was highly respected for his work there and was awarded the CBE for his efforts. Noel was also awarded the Mitchiner medal 1986, in recognition of his contribution to advances in medical science. He retired from the RAMC in 1990 and returned to the British Military Hospital in Hong Kong in its final days as a civilian consultant. He was a much respected and trusted colleague and always a pleasure to work with. He left Hong Kong in 1997, just before the handover to China, and returned to the family home in Kent. Noel was a passionate exponent of the natural world, endangered animals and birds, as well as sick and vulnerable children and cancer related societies. He generously supported all manner of charities throughout his life and gave his time and energy to those most in need. He enjoyed travel and classical music and was never happier than when he was surrounded by his family enjoying a large glass of Australian shiraz on family holidays in various parts of the world. He died after a short battle with pneumonia on 28 May 2021. He was survived by his wife, three daughters and three grandchildren and is sorely missed.
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First Title value, for Searching Milne, Kenneth Panton (1924 - 1984)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Wilkinson, Edmund (1867 - 1938)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

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 Sewell, Ivor Alwyne (1930 - 1992)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-01
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon Urological surgeon Urologist Vascular surgeon
Details Ivor Alwyne Sewell studied medicine at King's College Hospital, qualifying MB BS in 1955. A lecturer in surgery at Westminster Hospital Medical School at the start of his career, he then became senior registrar in surgery at Glasgow Royal Infirmary. He was awarded a PhD for research into the microcirculation in 1962. Later he developed interests in urology and vascular surgery and was appointed consultant surgeon at Tameside General Hospital, Ashton-under-Lyne, in 1971. He had a life long interest in the Forces. He attended Sandhurst and was a lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards. He was surgeon major to the 52nd Lowland Volunteers until 1971. When he retired from the Territorial Army he was lieutenant general at 207 Manchester General Hospital and he continued to lecture at the combined services' training courses. As a founder member of the Military Surgical Society he designed a badge which would meet all the requirements of the College of Arms. He also helped develop ideas for the radical change in the structure of hospitals for the British Army of the Rhine and was subsequently awarded the Territorial Decoration. His many interests included management - he became a member of the British Institute of Management; railway engineering - supporting Dinting Railway Museum; oil painting and technical drawing. He produced many innovative teaching aids with these skills. He died on 30 July 1992 after a second myocardial infarction, survived by his wife, Jean, and two adopted children, Mark and Jackie. His epitaph reads 'Scholar, scientist, soldier, surgeon' - he was all of these.
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First Title value, for Searching Carter, John William (1929 - 1998)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-22
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon
Details John Carter was an army surgeon, based for much of his career in Munster, Germany. He was born on 17 December 1929 in Croydon. After national service in the Royal Artillery in Malaya, he studied medicine at King's College, London, qualifying in 1956. Subsequently, he held house appointments at King's College Hospital. He passed the FRCS in 1967 and joined the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was awarded a permanent commission in 1963 and served until 1986, retiring as a Colonel. He was regimental medical officer to the Light Infantry, subsequently serving in surgical appointments in military hospitals in Colchester, Cambridge, Woolwich and Singapore. In the British military hospital at Munster, Germany, as consultant surgeon, he particularly enjoyed the visit of the hospital recognition committee of the College, where he worked to achieve United Kingdom training status. He served on active service with field surgical teams in Belfast, Nepal and the Falklands, where his skills as a military surgeon were fully demonstrated. After further service in Munster, he retired in 1986 after 23 years service. His final appointment was as a civilian consultant in Awali, Bahrain. A skilled and versatile surgeon, he did not suffer fools gladly, but was always caring and popular with patients and colleagues. He had a legendary sense of humour, which at times could be quite cutting. He always enjoyed good company. His wife Liz predeceased him: they had a son and two daughters. He died suddenly from streptococcal pneumonia on 2 December 1998.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008514
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First Title value, for Searching Brown, Ronald Frank (1925 - 2021)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by A Roger Green
Publication Date 2021-09-23 2021-11-18
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Occupation Military surgeon Plastic surgeon
Details Air commodore Ronald ‘Ronnie’ Brown was a consultant in burns and plastic surgery in the RAF. He was born in London on 11 September 1925. His father, Oscar Frank Brown, was director of telecommunications research during the Second World War and prominent in the development of radar. His mother, Doris Kathleen Brown née Emery, was a medical officer in charge of the venereal diseases department at the South London Hospital for Women and Children. He attended University College School, Hampstead and subsequently gained a first class honours degree in physiology at Brasenose College, Oxford, where he became president of the Oxford Union (the first medical student to do so). He was awarded a senior Hulme scholarship and went on to complete his clinical studies at the Middlesex Hospital, where he won prizes in forensic medicine and public health. Having served in the Middlesex Home Guard during the Second World War, he signed on for a short service commission in the medical branch of RAF in 1952, and a permanent commission in 1955, retiring as an air commodore in 1989. During his 34 years in the RAF he served at RAF Halton, and at East Grinstead, being the last RAF plastic surgeon to have trained under Sir Archibald McIndoe. After a short time at RAF Ely, he was posted to Singapore, returning to Halton prior to a two-year posting to Aden from 1964 to 1966. He returned to RAF Ely, remaining there until 1971, when, on the death of air vice-marshal George Morley, he was posted to assume command of the burns and plastic surgery unit at Princess Mary’s RAF Hospital, Halton, where a number of Falklands War burns casualties were treated. He was director of surgery for the RAF from 1986 to 1989. He became the Cade professor of plastic surgery in the RAF at the Royal College of Surgeons of England and also held honorary consultant posts at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge. He was president of the section of plastic surgery of the Royal Society of Medicine, of the British Burn Association and the Military Surgical Society. He served on the council of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons from 1982 to 1984. He was elected as a freeman of the Worshipful Company of Barbers, and in 1987 was made an honorary physician to the Queen. He won the Kay-Kilner prize in 1963 for his essay ‘The management of traumatic tissue loss in the lower limb, especially when complicated by skeletal injury’, later published in the *British Journal of Plastic Surgery* (*Br J Plast Surg*. 1965 Jan;18:26-50). He also published papers on the cleft-lip nose (‘A reappraisal of the cleft-lip nose with the report of a case’ *Br J Plast Surg*. 1964 Apr;17:168-74), missile injuries in Aden (‘Missile injuries in Aden, 1964-7’ *Injury*. 1970 Jan;1[4]:293-302] and the history of plastic surgery in the Armed Forces (‘The continuing story of plastic surgery in Britain’s Armed Services’ *Br J Plast Surg*. 1989 Nov;42[6]:700-9). In 1990 he gave the McIndoe lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, entitled ‘Fifty years in retrospect’. After retirement he was president of the Medical Artists’ Association (from 1991 to 2006). He also sat on the main grants committee of the RAF Benevolent Fund as a medical adviser. Ronnie became active in the Travelling Surgical Club (TSS), where he was described as ‘being most welcoming in a quiet unassuming manner to all those attending’. After moving to West Sussex he became a guide at Chichester Cathedral and, in 2007, he and his wife Margaret (née Treacher), whom he married in 1949, gave the only ‘husband and wife’ lecture to the TSS entitled ‘Enthusiasms – guiding: hymns ancient and hers modern’. Ronnie died peacefully on 18 July 2021 aged 95. He was survived by Margaret and their two children, Alison, a physiotherapist, and Anthony, who became the first professor of emergency medicine in Brisbane, Australia.
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First Title value, for Searching Dignan, Albert Patrick (1920 - 2012)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Peter Craig
Publication Date 2013-02-20 2013-09-06
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon Military surgeon
Details Albert Patrick ('Paddy') Dignan was a former director of Army surgery. He was a remarkable character who was born into a modest family in Dublin. His father, Joseph, a tailor, was able to get all five of his sons through medical school. (Whether an ability to stitch can be inherited remains open to speculation.) Joseph Dignan had worked in the War Office during the First World War collating casualty lists, and had concluded that doctors were less likely to die during wars. Patrick won a medical scholarship to Trinity College, Dublin, which certainly eased the financial burden on his parents. Unusually, he became an anatomy demonstrator as a student and from that time decided to pursue a career in surgery, qualifying in 1943 and proceeding to the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1947. In order to supplement his income after qualifying he became a GP's assistant, sending much of his income to his family back in Ireland. He was then a resident surgical officer at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, a registrar in Wigan, and a senior registrar at the Bristol Royal Infirmary and at Wanstead Hospital, London. He then carried out his National Service, going to Malaya as a surgical specialist in the Royal Army Medical Corps during the Emergency, with the rank of captain, subsequently major. He had been under no compunction to sign on, being Irish, but decided to do so anyway and his efforts there culminated in his award of an MBE in 1952. It was during that tour of duty that he met his future wife Eileen (Helena née White), who happened to be designated as his theatre sister. Their first meeting was less than immediately convivial. She had been ambushed by Malayan insurgents in a convoy on the way to the hospital and she had arrived late and in a not unsurprisingly dishevelled state. Patrick had been raring to start his list and gave her a strong ticking off. After a transient look at civilian practice, he made the decision that the excitement of military surgery prevailed and he re-joined in December 1953 as a regular Army doctor. During the next eight years he served primarily in military hospitals in Germany, but for a short period in Cyprus during the Suez Crisis of 1956. On a posting to the British Military Hospital Singapore in 1961 he began publishing papers on exotic surgical cases in consequence of tropical diseases. On his return to Tidworth in Hampshire, he took a great interest in the prevailing surgical treatment of peptic ulcers and gained an MD for his work on this topic. This was by no means easy, working as he was in a military hospital, with no direct university back-up support. During his penultimate tour, by then a brigadier in Singapore, and as a consultant surgeon to the Army in the Far East, he visited Vietnam at the height of the war in 1969 and became very impressed by the benefits of the evacuation of wounded soldiers by helicopter. There were others in the Army at that time who also realised this need, and helicopters were unofficially used in Borneo, Oman and Northern Ireland, despite the Ministry of Defence's continued refusal to sign up to the idea of medical helicopter evacuation. It is perhaps interesting to note that in both Iraq and Afghanistan this became standard practise, with evacuation hugely enhanced by on-board resuscitation teams. Patrick was, like many of his military colleagues, prescient. On his promotion to major general in 1974 as director of Army surgery, he was able to continue with his surgical practice at the Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital at Millbank, rather than become just an administrator, a move that enhanced his position with junior staff. In truth, he was more than happy to flee the headquarters of the Army Medical Services on a regular basis to avoid the persistent intrusion of a whole crowd of junior non-medical administrative officers attempting to introduce quite nonsensical bright ideas that had no proven evidence-based support. This was his last military appointment and he retired from the Army in 1978. In the same year he was appointed as an accident and emergency consultant at the newly-opened Ealing Hospital in west London, but was unhappy and resigned after 18 months. He concluded that the ways of the Defence Medical Services, with its recognised chain of command, bore no relation to the NHS as it was operating at that time. This was followed by 10 very happy years as president of the medical boards, based at the Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital in Woolwich. Paddy was a sharp rather than blunt dissector, but his results were always very good. His compassion for his patients on the oncology/cancer unit at Millbank and bedside manner was unparalleled and much admired. He was the most concerned and kind clinician one could imagine. His dealings with some particularly ill-disciplined junior surgeons was robust; in one case he was threatened by a disgruntled young surgeon, who nearly thumped him. His comment after that interview was that 'it had been difficult'. His autobiography *A doctor's experiences of life* (Edinburgh, Pentland Press, 1994) was less than accurate, which is perhaps a pity. While writing about some very frightening surgical emergencies, he sometimes neglected to credit the other people who had been directly involved. Outside medicine, he was enthusiastic about horse racing and golf. At the latter, he was frankly a menace. One incident ended up being reported in the *The Straits Times* in Singapore, when his driver ended up 30 feet up a tree and had to be rescued by his caddy. He also managed to hit a series of other golfers with his wayward shots. He was great fun to be with and his conversation was always engaging, incorporating a mixture of humour, sagacity and utter nonsense, almost one after the other. Sadly his wife Eileen died in 2001, and he ended his days happy in the Priory Home in Tetbury, from where he was able to go for a pint and place the odd bet. He died on 11 October 2012, at the age of 92, and was survived by his sons, Terence and Fergus, and daughter, Finola. He was a consummate surgeon and a thoroughly delightful colleague, who gave the most superb and genuine support to all his patients, and was basically a very gentle, kind and considerate man. The idea of a gentle director of Army surgery seems somehow out of place, but was, in this case, correct.
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First Title value, for Searching Pratt, James John (1860 - 1937)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-04
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born 12 June 1860 at Valence, France, the second son and second child of William Rew Pratt, FRCS, and Maria Louisa Harvey, his wife. Mrs Pratt claimed descent from the family of which William Harvey was an illustrious member. Pratt was educated privately at Newtown, Montgomeryshire, and at Westminster Hospital. He then entered Netley where he gained the Herbert prize and Montefiore medal and the Army Medical scholarship 1883-84. He was gazetted surgeon I.M.S. on 29 September 1883, chose the Bengal side and in 1884 took part in the Zhob Valley expedition, North-West Provinces. He was promoted surgeon-major, 21 September 1895, lieutenant-colonel, 29 September 1903, was placed on the selected list for promotion on 22 June 1909, and retired with an extra pension on 27 December 1912. He was civil surgeon in the United Provinces 1889-1910. He rejoined for war service 2 December 1914, was appointed officer in charge of the Hospital for Indian Wounded at Brighton, and was promoted brevet-colonel on 1 January 1918. He was a member of the board for wounded officers at Caxton Hall, Westminster, and served as its president during the years 1917-18-19. He was also inspector of surgical instruments at the India Office. In 1912 he became a student at the London School of Tropical Medicine, and was surgeon to the Hospital for Tropical Diseases at the Royal Albert Dock from 1914 until 1925. He lectured on surgery in the tropics at the School of Tropical Medicine from 1914 and was lecturer on tropical diseases at the Westminster Hospital from 1913. He married Ethel Mayne Fendall Currie on 4 January 1892, and died in London on 12 August 1937, survived by her, a son and a daughter. His son presented a statuette of Harvey to the College in his memory.
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First Title value, for Searching Sleight, Malcolm Westmoreland (1932 - 1981)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-10
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Occupation Military surgeon Urologist
Details Group Captain Malcolm Westmoreland Sleight was a distinguished urologist in the Royal Air Force and was the Royal College of Surgeons' Cade Professor of Surgery to the RAF. He died suddenly on 27 March 1981 at the age of 48. Born on 7 July 1932 in Leeds, the second son of a civil engineer (Chief Assistant Planning Officer, Leeds) the first son becoming a cardiologist at Oxford, he was educated at Ilkley and Leeds Grammar Schools before studying medicine at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital. After house posts at Bart's where he worked with and was influenced by Sir Clifford Naunton Morgan, and at the Metropolitan Hospital, he entered the RAF in 1958 on a short service commission, taking a permanent commission in 1959. His contribution to surgery was recognised by his work in and valuable contributions to urology, and by the way he shouldered, at short notice, the onerous and extra responsibility of running the RAF Cade oncology unit. For this, amongst other things, he was awarded the OBE in 1980, the year in which he became Cade Professor. He was active in research into the surgical anatomy of the kidney and into the use of anticoagulants in prostate surgery. He was a member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. He married Ann Pritchard in 1958. Her mother was one of the first nursing sisters to work in the battle areas of the first world war. In addition to his interest in rugby and swimming he devoted time to charitable and church affairs and was a churchwarden. After his untimely death it was said 'Can there be a better epitaph for this singular man than that his family adored him, professional colleagues admired him and his friends loved him'.
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First Title value, for Searching Watson, Alan Jardine (1905 - 1993)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-08
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon Military surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Alan Jardine Watson was born on 2 December 1905. He received his medical education at the Middlesex Hospital and qualified with the conjoint diploma in 1927. He graduated MB BS two years later. He served in the RAMC from 1942 to 1946 in North Africa, Italy and Britain. After the second world war he worked at the Middlesex Hospital and the British Postgraduate Medical School, before being appointed director of accident services in Coventry and consultant orthopaedic surgeon in Coventry and South Warwickshire from 1939 to 1966. An obituary in the *British Medical Journal* by J H Penrose says: 'Within two years of being appointed director of accident services and consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Coventry and Warwickshire Hospital in 1939, Alan Jardine saw the hospital almost completely destroyed in the air raids on the city. After his demobilisation from the army he returned to Coventry and set about rebuilding an accident service in hastily reconstructed buildings in the bombed out hospital. 'With the advent of the NHS he was appointed a member of Birmingham Regional Hospital Board and served on this for nine years, during which time he helped to plan Coventry's new hospital at Walsgrave. The accident and orthopaedic departments remained at the old hospital and, under his guidance and with the gradual opening of new facilities, had grown into a highly efficient unit by the time he retired. 'A bachelor, Alan had a keen sense of humour and was a charming and genial host who enjoyed entertaining friends at his home. He also enjoyed music and foreign travel, but in recent years a slowly progressive illness gradually deprived him of all his main interests.' He died on 17 January 1993, survived by his sister Margaret.
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First Title value, for Searching Miles, Stanley (1911 - 1987)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-24
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Stanley Miles was born on 14 August 1911 in Sheffield the son of Thomas Currier Miles, a company director and his wife Florence Edna, née Law. He went to school at King Edward VII School before entering Sheffield University, where he qualified in 1936. After house appointments in Sheffield he joined the Royal Navy in which he served for thirty years, rising to the rank of Surgeon Rear-Admiral. He served in China, West Africa and with the Pacific and Mediterranean fleets and became a specialist in chemical defence. In 1955 he was made senior specialist in physiology and in 1957 he was awarded the Royal College of Surgeons' Gilbert Blane Medal for his services to naval medicine. Two years later, in 1959, he was appointed director of medical research at the Royal Naval Medical School at Alverstoke. His duties included medical officer-in-charge of submarines and, in 1962, he published *Underwater medicine*. He was involved in the investigation of producing oxygen by the electrolysis of seawater. In the summer of 1962 Miles delivered a lighthearted exposition to a BMA gathering in Belfast on how to live and be happy in a nuclear submarine during prolonged periods at sea. He pointed out the advances being made in dehydrated food and that the supply people "are well on the way to producing a satisfactory dehydrated beer". In 1966 he commanded the Royal Naval Hospital in Plymouth and was appointed Honorary Physician to the Queen. On his retirement from the Royal Navy he became Dean of Postgraduate Studies in the University of Manchester and developed the International Trauma Foundation which has led to the counselling of trauma victims. The non-professional division, Friends of the Injured, consists of lay people who visit accident cases following discharge from hospital in order to offer general encouragement and practical help. He was a pioneer in this field and as well as helping to develop the Medical Council for Accident Prevention he took an active part in life saving, sub-aqua diving and sports medicine. In 1939 he married Mary Rose and they had a son Tim and a daughter Pam. He died on 9 July 1987 survived by his wife and children and their families.
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First Title value, for Searching Barry, Thomas Laurence Joseph (1903 - 1993)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-02
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon
Details Barry was born on 19 March 1903 at Cork in Ireland, the elder son of Jerome Barry, Fleet Surgeon RN, and was educated at the Christian Brothers' School, Cork, Clongowes Wood College and University College Cork. After graduation and a period as a house surgeon at Cork he followed his father into the Royal Navy, in which he served from 1927 to 1949: here he was influenced by W J Colborne and Eric Pearce Gould "who taught me what surgery I knew". During the second world war he served chiefly with HM Hospital Ship *Isle of Jersey* with the Home Fleet. After retiring from the Navy he was ASAMO South Western Regional Hospital Board from 1949 to 1952; thereafter he moved to Canada, was Director of Outpatients, Montreal General Hospital 1952-54, and Executive Director, Reidy Memorial Hospital from 1954 to 1968. In his own words he 'played most games with enthusiasm, but without distinction'. He particularly enjoyed shooting. Surgeon Commander E B C Cliff RN who knew Barry in 1947 in Singapore noted him as 'most charming, and [he] used to invite me to play tennis on a friend's rolled sand court'. He contributed the chapter on Royal Naval Hospital Ships to the Royal Naval Medical Service volumes of the History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Medical Series. In 1937 he married Monica Thunder of Ravensdale, County Louth: they had two sons. Barry died in Perth, Ontario, on 4 November 1993.
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First Title value, for Searching Samanta, Birinchi Prasad (1924 - 1978)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-09
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon
Details Birinchi Prasad Samanta was born on 23 February 1924, the son of Chander Mahal Samanta, a lawyer. He was educated at the Calcutta School where he won the first prize for the highest aggregate marks in the sciences. At Calcutta University in 1941 he was awarded highest marks in the BSc. He passed MB BS from Calcutta Medical School in 1946 and won gold medals in surgery, ophthalmic and ENT surgery. In 1948 he was a member of the Indian Army Medical Corps and became surgical specialist to the Indian Armed Forces in 1962 after a two year stay in England training for the Fellowship under Professor Charles Webb. He was appointed Associate Professor of Surgery to the Armed Forces Medical College in Pune in 1969 and in 1973 became their advisor in surgery and Honorary Professor of Surgery. In 1976 he progressed to senior consultant in surgery to the Armed Forces of India in Calcutta. From 1969 to 1978 he was examiner in surgery to the Universities of Bombay, Calcutta and Pune. Birinchi Samanta took an active interest in the various professional bodies for genito-urinary, plastic and reconstructive surgery, and participated in numerous meetings. He published several papers on war surgery and battle injuries and contributed towards the development of an organised postgraduate training scheme in surgery for trainee surgeons in the armed forces of India. He was a keen amateur gardener and took a regular interest in cricket, football and tennis. Widely read on the history of India and the development of the Indian philosophical systems he had a great appreciation for Indian classical music, both vocal and instrumental. He was an artist with a special talent for charcoal sketches. In 1952 he married Rita Fernandez and they had three sons (one of whom is a doctor) and two daughters. The oldest daughter practices medicine in Calcutta and the youngest is in the Indian Armed Forces Medical Corps (Naval branch). He died on 4 September 1978, of ischaemic heart disease.
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First Title value, for Searching Wilson, Roger Parker (1870 - 1943)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-18
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born on 13 May 1870 at Walton Priory, Liverpool, the ninth child and third son of William Wilson, shipping merchant, and Kate Howard Thompson, his wife. He was educated at Liverpool College, in the training-ship *Conway*, and at the Liverpool Medical School. Wilson was a fine athlete and a good football player in his youth. He was commissioned surgeon-lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service, Bengal division, on 29 January 1896, and promoted captain on 29 January 1899. From 1896 to 1903 he served with the Indian Army, and was then appointed to civil service in Bengal. He took the Cambridge Diploma in Public Health in 1900, and was promoted major on 29 July 1907. In 1912 he took the Fellowship, and from 1913 to 1918 he was superintendent of Campbell Medical School, Calcutta, being promoted lieutenant-colonel on 29 July 1915. In 1918 he was appointed surgeon to Calcutta Medical College Hospital and later professor of clinical surgery, and then professor of surgery, in the Medical College. He served at this time as president of the Bengal State Medical Faculty and Council of Medical Registration, and was appointed an honorary surgeon to the Viceroy in 1920. In 1922 and again in 1925 he was acting surgeon-general to the Government of Bengal. Wilson was placed on the special list for promotion on 6 September 1921, and created CIE on 3 June 1925, but retired on 17 March 1926, when he returned to England. He collaborated with Sir L Rogers in the pioneer treatment of liver abscess. Wilson married in 1904 Elsie Dora Twiss, who survived him; there were no children. He died at 12 Trafalgar Road, Birkdale, Southport, Lancashire on 12 December 1943. Publication: Two cases of liver abscess treated by aspiration, after diagnosis by blood changes, with Leonard Rogers. *Brit med J* 1906, 1, 1397. This paper gave the first account of the subsequently universal treatment.
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First Title value, for Searching Knox, Robert Welland (1873 - 1959)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-07
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born at Allahabad on 6 September 1873 the son of the Hon Sir George Knox, afterwards a Judge of the High Court of the North-West Provinces of India, and Katherine Anne Louise Loch his wife, he was educated at Westminster School and entered Caius College, Cambridge in October 1890, but migrated after two terms to Edinburgh University where he qualified in 1896. He was commissioned Surgeon-Lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service in 1897, promoted Captain in 1900 and Major in 1909, and was awarded the Kaisar-i-Hind medal (first class) in that year. He served as agency surgeon to the Foreign and Political department of the Government of India, and as residency surgeon at Hyderabad. When war broke out in 1914 he was sent to Egypt, saw active service at Gallipoli (1915) and was Assistant Director of Medical Services to the 60th Division, Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Palestine 1916-18. He was awarded the DSO in 1915 and mentioned in dispatches in 1916-17-18. He received the Serbian Order of the White Eagle, fourth class, in 1917 and was made an Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy in 1919. He had been promoted Lieutenant-Colonel in 1917, and on his return to India was made chief medical officer of the King Edward Memorial Hospital at Secunderabad. He was promoted full Colonel in 1924 on his appointment as Assistant Director of Medical Services for the Peshawar district, was appointed an honorary surgeon to the King-Emperor in 1927, and retired in 1928. In 1924 he served as honorary secretary of the Hyderabad and Central Provinces branch of the British Medical Association. He settled at Millersholt, Woodgreen, Fordingbridge, near Salisbury, where he took a leading part in local life for thirty years. He had married his cousin Lilian, daughter of Colonel J L Loch; their daughter Mrs Anderson survived him. He died in her house, 67 Landsdowne Road, London W, on 20 January 1959 aged 85.
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First Title value, for Searching Weddell, John Murray (1884 - 1966)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-24
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details John Murray Weddell was born in 1884 at Upper Holloway, Middlesex, the son of Dr W H Weddell. He was educated at Cheltenham College and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he graduated in Arts in 1906. He qualified from St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1909. He was then commissioned in the RAMC and served at Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital, Millbank till 1912, when he was posted to India. During the first world war he served on the North-West Frontier, in central Kurdistan and in Mesopotamia; he was twice mentioned in despatches. Weddell took the Fellowship in 1927, and was appointed in 1928 Assistant Professor of Military Surgery at the Royal Army Medical College in the rank of Major. In 1932 he was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel and again posted to India, but in 1935 returned to the Royal Army Medical College as full Professor with the rank of Colonel; he was also appointed a consulting surgeon to the Army and an honorary surgeon to the King. He retired in the summer of 1939, but as war broke out almost immediately he was recalled and went at once to France with the first Expeditionary Force. Subsequently he was consulting surgeon to the Army in North Africa, and was created CBE in 1944 for his services. He had developed a surgical service of high quality, by creating and maintaining active liaison between the front and base hospital surgeons; he also collaborated closely with E D Churchill, Hon FRCS, consulting surgeon to the American Army, and promoted many friendships between American and British surgeons. He was constant in visiting the numerous units under his command and was always ready to help his subordinates, listening patiently to their requests and offering solutions for their difficulties. After the war he kept in touch with many of his former officers, watching their civilian careers with pride. Weddell retired in 1949 and settled at Cambridge, where he died in hospital on 19 February 1966, aged eighty-two, survived by his wife and daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Iffland, John Francis (1931 - 1987)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-26
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details John Francis Iffland was born in Salonika, Greece, on 22 June 1931 and, after early education at Palmer's School, Grays, Essex, and at Minster House School, Upminster, was admitted to the London Hospital Medical College. He qualified in 1954 and after early house officer appointments joined the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1955. Initially he was a National Service officer but within a month of joining he accepted a short service commission and was appointed to a permanent commission in 1959. Shortly afterwards he was appointed trainee in surgery at the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich, and after attending the junior officers' course spent a year as junior surgical specialist at Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital, Millbank. He was then posted to Bahrain and Kuwait as surgical specialist to 50th Field Surgical Team before returning to secondment at the Royal Postgraduate Hospital, Hammersmith as registrar to Professor Aird and Professor Shackman for a year from August 1961 to August 1962. He passed the FRCS in 1962, was promoted to Major and subsequently served as senior surgical specialist at Millbank for two years before being seconded to Birmingham Accident Hospital for six months. He was later appointed consultant in surgery with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel at the British Military Hospital, Hong Kong, from 1967 to 1970, at Iserlohn, West Germany, from 1970 to 1973 and at Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital, Woolwich, from 1973 to 1979 when he was also Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Royal Army Medical College at Millbank. He was promoted to the rank of Colonel in 1978 and later served as consultant surgeon to Princess Alexandra's Hospital, Wroughton, from 1984 until the time of his death, apart from a five month spell of duty at the British Military Hospital in the Falkland Islands in early 1985. He died in service on 4 January 1987 and is survived by his wife Thea, two sons and one daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Irvine, Gerard Sutherland (1913 - 1997)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-06
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Occupation ENT surgeon Military surgeon
Details Gerard Irvine was a consultant otorhinolaryngologist in the Royal Navy. He was born in Naini Tal, India, on 19 June 1913, the son of Major Gerard Byrom Corrie Irvine of the Indian Army and Maud Andree née Wylde. His grandfather, Gerard James Irvine, had served in the Navy as Inspector General of Hospitals and Fleets. Gerard was educated at the Imperial Service College, Windsor, and Epsom College, Surrey, where he was awarded the Jenks memorial scholarship. He received his medical education at University College, London, and was awarded the Liston gold medal for surgery, where he worked for Wilfred Trotter, Gwynne Williams, Sir John McNee and Clifford White. He became a house surgeon at the Royal Ear Hospital, then spent a period at the Royal Hospital Wolverhampton, working in general surgery with Milnes Walker, before returning to London to the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital. He entered the Royal Navy and spent his career there as an otorhinolaryngologist, eventually becoming senior consultant in ear, nose and throat surgery to the Royal Navy and medical officer in charge of the surgical division at the Royal Naval Hospital Haslar from 1966 to 1970. He served as adviser to the Medical Director General of the Ministry of Defence. He was a member of the council of the British Association of Otolaryngologists from 1958 to 1970. Irvine wrote a number of papers on service-related topics and on a variety of unusual conditions of the nose and nasopharynx. He was a quiet and unassuming man who had an intense interest in the Navy. In his retirement he pursued his interest in philately, gardening and was a keen handyman. In 1939, he married Phyllis Lucy Lawrie, a nurse. There was one son of the marriage, Martin, who is a Commander in the Royal Navy, and two grandchildren, James and Clare. Gerard died on 9 August 1997.
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First Title value, for Searching Turner, Reginald George (1870 - 1953)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-09
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born on 3 February 1870 second son of Surgeon-Major Augustus Frederick Turner of the 75th and 43rd Regiments of Foot and staff-surgeon, Army Medical Department (Johnston's *Roll of the AMS*, no 5158) and Isabel Archer his wife, he entered St George's Hospital Medical School with a scholarship in 1887, and was a prizeman in 1887, 1888, 1890 and 1891. He was commissioned a Surgeon-Lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service on 29 July 1893 and saw active service in Waziristan in 1894-95 winning the medal and clasp. He was promoted Surgeon-Captain in 1896 and was posted to Africa in 1897-98; here he served at the attack on Kymbo in Uganda and the capture of Kadagambiz and the Sudanese forts near Mruli; he was mentioned in dispatches and won the medal with two clasps. He served in China in l900, again winning the campaign medal, and was thereafter on civil duty in India being promoted Major in 1905 and Lieutenant-Colonel in 1913. During the war of 1914-18 he was again on active service, was mentioned in dispatches in 1916, won the DSO in 1917, and was created CMG in 1918. He served as medical officer to the Afghan-Baluchistan boundary commission, was placed on the select list for promotion in 1920, and became Colonel in 1921. He retired in 1923 and settled in Somerset, living at Clevedon and Walton St Mary. Later he moved to Dene Hollow, 11 Ardmore Road, Lower Parkstone, Dorset. Turner married twice: (1) in 1907 Beatrice Maria (died 1935) daughter of W H Marks and widow of the Rev W F Ommaney; (2) in 1946 Amy Janet (Jeanie), daughter of E Colston Hiles and widow of W Richard Musgrave, Cape Mounted Rifles. Colonel Turner died at Parkstone on 9 February 1953 aged 83, survived by his wife. There were no children of either marriage.
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First Title value, for Searching Gunning, John (1773 - 1863)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-10-18 2012-03-22
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon
Details The nephew of John Gunning, Master of the Surgeons' Company (1789-1790). He began a distinguished career as a military surgeon by being appointed Surgeon's Mate on the Hospital Staff, not attached to a regiment, and on Nov 20th, 1793, was commissioned Staff-Surgeon under the command of the Earl of Moira. He received permanent rank as Staff-Surgeon on Sept 12th, 1799, and on Aug 13th, 1805, was superseded, having asked leave to resign on being ordered on foreign service. He was reinstated on June 9th, 1808, and on Sept 17th, 1812, rose to the rank of Deputy Inspector of Hospitals. In February, 1816, he was promoted Inspector of Hospitals (Continent of Europe only), and was placed on half pay on Oct 1st, 1816. His war service included the campaigns of Holland and Flanders (1793-1795), the Peninsular War, and Waterloo. Towards the close of the day at the Battle of Waterloo, Lord Raglan, Military Secretary to Wellington, was standing by the Duke's side, when he was wounded in the right elbow by a bullet from the roof of La Haye Sainte. The arm had to be amputated, and Gunning performed the operation. Raglan bore it without a word, and when it was ended called to the orderly: "Hallo! don't carry away that arm till I have taken off my ring" - a ring which his wife had given him. Gunning went to Paris with Wellington's army, and practised there after the conclusion of peace to the end of his life. He was nominally Surgeon to St George's Hospital from 1800-1823. On New Year's Day, 1863, he was having a dinner party. An attack of bronchitis prevented his receiving his friends on the day expected. His medical attendant thought it serious; but he got better, and on the Saturday was thought to be out of danger. On Sunday morning, Jan 11th, 1863, however, he expired in his arm-chair, without pain, and with scarcely any previous symptoms to denote his approaching end. His daughter, Mrs Bagshawe, the wife of the Queen's Counsel, and two of his grand-daughters were with him at the time of his death. He was then 90 years old, and was the senior member of the Royal College of Surgeons. He is noted by Lieut-Colonel Crawford as being one of the seven officers of the Army Medical Department on whom the CB (Mil) was conferred when medical officers were first made eligible for that honour in 1850.
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First Title value, for Searching Kirby, Norman George (1926 - 2019)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Sir Miles Irving
Publication Date 2019-09-16 2019-09-20
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Occupation Military surgeon Trauma surgeon Accident and emergency surgeon
Details Major general Norman Kirby was a military surgeon and director of clinical services, accidents and emergencies, at Guy’s Hospital, London. *On wings of healing* (Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood & Sons) by Howard Cole is the definitive account of the airborne medical services from their beginning in 1940 to 1960. It was published in 1963, in a maroon binding reflecting the regimental colours of the airborne forces. On page 218, Cole records that on 5 November 1956, during the Suez Crisis, a parachute surgical team led by the unit surgeon, captain Norman Kirby, dropped on El Gamil airport in Egypt and set up a casualty collecting post and operating theatre. Kirby was soon busily engaged. This particular conflict, Operation Musketeer, described by Kirby as ‘a political disaster but a surgical success’, brought to a conclusion the story of the beginnings of airborne medical services as told in the book. Norman Kirby, having entered the annals of British military surgical history, went on to serve it and the cause of trauma management in the United Kingdom for decades to come. Norman Kirby was born on 19 December 1926 in Coventry, the son of George William Kirby and Laura Kirby née Sparrow. He went to school at King Henry VIII School in Coventry and subsequently studied medicine at Birmingham University, qualifying in 1949. That year he married Cynthia Mary Bradley, commencing a long and happy marriage that produced a son, Robert, who also became a surgeon, and a daughter, Jill, a broadcaster and travel writer. Norman’s surgical training was undertaken in the NHS at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, Birmingham Accident Hospital and two years at the Postgraduate Medical School at Hammersmith Hospital, London, as well as in Army hospitals. He gained his FRCS in 1964. The early awakenings of the military side of his career first blossomed in 1948 when he became a member of the Territorial Army whilst still a student. After qualification, he became regimental medical officer to 10th Parachute Regiment and, following two years National Service, he decided to stay in the regular armed forces. In the subsequent years, he had plenty of opportunity to exercise his skills in trauma management coping with, amongst others, treating EOKA terrorist casualties in Cyprus and casualties of the officer’s mess bomb in Aldershot in 1972. In 1978, he was made director of Army surgery and honorary surgeon to the Queen and elevated to the rank of major general. He received the OBE in 1971 and the Order of Saint John in 1977. After leaving the Army in 1982, following a highly successful career, he returned to civilian life and the NHS as head of the accident and emergency department at Guy’s Hospital. He might have thought that this appointment would be busy but straightforward and surgically based, as indicated by his title of accident and emergency surgeon, but he soon found his experience of managing military casualties was also required in civilian life, dealing with casualties from terrorist bombs, train accidents and civilian disasters, notable amongst which was the sinking of the *Marchioness* boat on the River Thames (in 1989). The year 1992 was especially taxing, with three terrorist bomb explosions in the city centre and the London Bridge rail crash. His and his staff’s exemplary and kindly management of the victims of the Cannon Street rail disaster in 1991 was brought to the attention of the House of Lords by Lord McColl during a debate on the provision of major accident services in London. In subsequent years, it soon became apparent that his management skills and diplomacy were also needed in the machinations surrounding the ultimately successful transition of his specialty from being ‘casualty’, as represented by the Casualty Surgeons’ Association, to the newly-named, independent specialty of accident and emergency medicine with its own Royal College. He used his considerable experience to help bring this transition about, even though it is possible that personally he would have preferred to be a trauma surgeon in one of the newly developing centralised trauma centres of which he approved. He retired from Guy’s in 1993. Throughout the two principal phases of his career, he was heavily involved in educational activities. He edited and wrote several books on disasters and emergencies, including the 1981 edition of the *Field surgery pocket book* (London, HMSO), treasured by generations of military surgeons, and gave lectures on the management of injury and disasters in the United Kingdom and overseas. He was an examiner for the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of England and of Edinburgh. He was also active in medical societies and livery companies, holding office in many. Needless to say, he received honorary fellowships from colleges and learned societies. He was particularly proud of the award of the Mitchener medal by the Royal College of Surgeons in 1982. Norman Kirby died on 25 July 2019 aged 92. Predeceased by his wife, he was survived by his son and daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Wherry, David Colwell (1926 - 2021)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by David R Welling
Publication Date 2021-05-19 2021-08-16
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon
Details Colonel David C Wherry was a professor of surgery at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS), Bethesda, Maryland. He was born on 18 December 1926, in Pawnee City, Nebraska, the son of Kenneth Spicer Wherry and Marjorie Wherry née Colwell. His father was an important political figure in the Truman and Eisenhower eras, a US senator and minority leader in the US Senate. He was responsible for creating adequate family housing for the military while in Congress, the so-called ‘Wherry housing’. David Wherry obtained his undergraduate education from Doane College, the US Naval Academy and George Washington University, where he obtained his BA degree in 1948 and his MD in 1952. He did a surgery internship at George Washington Hospital from 1952 to 1953 and his residency at the Mount Alto Veterans Administration Hospital in Washington DC from 1953 to 1954 and 1956 to 1959. His residency was interrupted for two years by a tour of duty in the US Air Force at the 7559th USAF Hospital in Burtonwood, England. He finished his residency and began a private practice in Washington DC, with a part-time appointment also at the VA Hospital, serving as assistant chief of surgery until 1962. He began early to climb the academic ladder, achieving a number of titles and appointments at a variety of hospitals, including George Washington University and Georgetown University. In 1975, he joined the US Air Force Reserves Medical Corps, assigned to Malcolm Grow Medical Center, Andrews Air Force Base, Washington DC. In 1985, he began a long and fruitful association with the newly-created Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. In 1989, he retired from private practice and began working full-time at USUHS. In 1991, he was promoted to full professor of surgery there. Along the way, he was also named as clinical professor of surgery at both George Washington and Georgetown universities. He also was a special lecturer at the University of Nottingham, England from 1986. Wherry also served as a consultant to various American military services, and belonged to a number of prestigious organisations, including the American College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He was particularly pleased to have been chosen as a fellow of the Royal College. Wherry had a keen eye for new surgical techniques. A good example was the advent of the colonoscope. He was excited to learn about that instrument, and was very early in training to use it, and then to teach others to use it. He bought his own scope, demonstrating how convinced he was that endoscopy was the future of surgery. He also learned very early about the use of laparoscopy and determined where he could best learn about the operation, took the course, and then set up his own courses and taught hundreds of surgeons the technique. Another new technology was ultrasound. Wherry again found the best teachers to learn about ultrasound, and then went around the world, teaching its advantages to a large number of students. Altogether, as of May 2006, Wherry had taught 219 courses to 3,602 students around the world. Wherry married Phyllis Mae Morehead in 1947. He later married a beautiful and talented woman from the Philippines, Azucena (‘Ceny’), and she introduced him to that country. He began to promote an exchange with the Filipino government and their medical leaders, to bring USUHS students to Manila to study and train in the Philippine General Hospital, usually for about a month each year. And eventually, USUHS began accepting students from the Philippines to come to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for a month of training in the American system. USUHS also invited a number of medical doctors to go to Bethesda, and to train in their laboratories. Toward the end of his surgical career, Wherry was named as chairman of the admissions committee for the Uniformed Services University. This post, critical to the smooth functioning of the university, was led by him, smoothly, professionally and meaningfully. He relinquished his chair of that committee when he retired, on his 80th birthday. Wherry was a world traveller, having maintained an apartment in Manila for a number of years, and a home in Nottingham, where he often was seen with his English colleagues. He had close ties with surgeons from England, France, Finland, Germany, Korea and Japan. He was a consummate diplomat for the United States of America, wherever he went. David C Wherry passed away after a long and fruitful life on 7 March 2021, at age 94, in the Washington DC area. He was survived by his wife Ceny, by his son Kenneth D Wherry and two grandchildren. He was a true gentleman and conducted himself with poise and wisdom. He was a great mentor and teacher. It was a great privilege to have been by his side for many years.
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First Title value, for Searching Mander, Jeffory George (1927 - 2011)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by David A K Watters
Publication Date 2012-06-28 2015-08-19
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Jeff Mander was Bendigo's first Orthopaedic surgeon where he was in practice from 1969 to 2002. He was instrumental in the accreditation of orthopaedic training in Bendigo with the first trainee commencing in 1989. He was born and raised in Reading, the only child of George and Constance Mander. He graduated from St Mary's medical school in 1952. He met Sylvia, a nurse there, and they married in 1953, before he enlisted for 16 years' service in the RAF. He gained his Fellowship in General Surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons in England in 1960, before specialising in Orthopaedics. The RAF posted him overseas for two year terms in the Yemen, Aden and Cyprus and as a service medic he rose to the rank of Wing Commander. The family moved to Bendigo in 1969, where he joined the practice of Eugene Sandner and Ian Gordon. He performed the first total hip replacement in Bendigo, and was an enthusiastic teacher of medical and nursing staff. He was elected to Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1977 under article 21. In addition to his surgical and orthopaedic practice he was on the Board of the Mt Alvernia private hospital and was for a period chairman of the medical staff group at the Bendigo Base Hospital. In practice, he was joined by Bill Hannah, a general surgeon, and in 1985, a second orthopaedic surgeon, Travis Perera. In running his practice in Bendigo, Jeff had a reputation for being punctual, efficient, thorough and fair. His surgical management was precise as were his habits. When he retired from surgical practice in 1997 he established a further career in medico-legal consultation, and his services and unbiased advice were sought all over Australia. In the latter stages of his career Jeff gave considerable support to orthopaedic training programs in Fiji and Papua New Guinea. Ikau Kevau, now the head of surgery in Port Moresby and also one of his early trainees, wrote of how he was inspiring, pioneering, and distinguished. Jeff was a specialist who though he liked things to be done properly, was willing to work at ground level in the developing world and help establish foundations for orthopaedic surgery where formerly there was only surgery in general. Today Papua New Guinea has seven orthopaedic surgeons and a well-established orthopaedic unit in the teaching centre of Port Moresby General Hospital. After moving to Bendigo, he adopted the Cats as his Australian Rules Football team although during his own playing career he played rugby union. He was also an enthusiastic actor in amateur productions and an able singer. He loved classical music and relished the spoken word and the sound of language. Never one to be inactive, he began reading for Vision Australia's radio station and was recording a book for them at the time of his death. 'Poppa' enjoyed his family and loved to entertain his grandchildren with whom he shared his interests in soccer (Arsenal), in board games (Rummikub), television (*Vicar of Dibley*), movies (James Bond) and puzzles (Sudoku). In between meals he was particularly fond of Mars Bars. During his final illness he suffered from complications of the management of fractures, but showed courage and determination, remaining cheerful and articulate throughout his hospital stay. Jeff is survived by his wife, Sylvia, son Alastair, daughter Jane, daughter-in law Sally, son-in law Alwyn, and grandchildren Hamish, Annabel, Lachlan and Nicholas.
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First Title value, for Searching Chaudhuri, Bijeta (1899 - 1982)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

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 Shepherd, James Forrest (1899 - 1972)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-14
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Occupation General practitioner Military surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details James Forrest Shepherd was born on 3 December 1899 and educated at Aberdeen University where he graduated MB ChB, in 1922. He then spent a short time in general practice and a year as house surgeon at the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport, Monmouthshire. In 1924 he joined the Indian Medical Service and during his early years on the military side assisted his colleagues on the civil side in their surgical work as often as he could. In 1929 he spent his study leave in Liverpool and obtained the MChOrth degree and thus became a military surgical specialist. In 1934 Shepherd was posted for civil duty in the Madras Presidency and became surgeon at Malabar and later at Vellore. In 1937 he returned to England, obtained the FRCS, and married Margaret Ferguson who passed the examination at the same time. On returning to India he was appointed Professor of Surgery and acting principal of the Medical College at Vizagapatam, but shortly after the outbreak of the second world war he was recalled to military duty and took charge of surgical divisions of hospitals in Bombay and Poona. Subsequently he was sent to Assam where he did so well under service conditions that he was mentioned in dispatches and awarded the MBE. After the war he returned to civil work in Malabar and in 1947 he left India with an excellent record behind him, and was appointed consulting surgeon in orthopaedics to the British Army with the rank of Brigadier. In 1949 he was appointed full-time consultant surgeon to the Sutton Coldfield group of hospitals, a post which he held with distinction till he retired at the age of 65 in 1964. He then moved to Farnham where he continued to do some private work until he developed cancer of the colon which was removed but had spread to the liver; he faced the inevitable result with great courage, but died on 21 October 1972. His wife Margaret, who had also been his surgical colleague, survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Harsant, Arnold Guy (1893 - 1977)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-11
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon
Details Arnold Guy Harsant was born in London on 16 November 1893 and educated at St Paul's School, Kensington. He gained a scholarship to the London Hospital, qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1916, and that year was granted a regular commission in the RAMC. He served in the Salonika Campaign from 1916 to 1918 and was awarded the Order of St Sara. Subsequently he served in Mesopotamia (1920-2), India (1923-4), China (1927-9), and Egypt (1932-45). He was a brilliant young officer, taking the MB BS in 1930 and the FRCS the same year. In 1932 he proceeded MD and in 1933 MS. Capable and efficient in any branch of medicine, he decided to make surgery his military speciality and rose to the rank of Major-General. He set a very high standard and was dedicated to his work. In 1935 he was appointed OBE. In 1937 he was seconded to the appointment of Professor of Surgery, Egyptian University, and remained in Cairo until September 1945. He was awarded the Order of the Nile. In 1945 he was appointed consultant surgeon, British Army of the Rhine. He was a surgeon of marked ability and in 1949 was appointed director of surgery and consultant surgeon to the Army. That year also he became Honorary Surgeon to the King. In 1952 he was appointed CB, and he retired from the Army the following year. This was not the end of his association with surgery, for until his death he was employed as a limb-fitting surgeon to Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton. As a person Guy was friendly, quiet in his manner, and always ready to give advice and help when it was needed. Many of his patients owe their lives to his skill, and he will be remembered by his corps for all he did to maintain its excellence in the art of surgery. In 1934 he married Mabel Sarah Bailey, they had one daughter. He died suddenly on 8 April 1977, at the age of 83.
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First Title value, for Searching Fulford, Philip Charles (1930 - 2000)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

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 Young, Clive Hamilton (1932 - 1996)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-09
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Occupation Military surgeon Urologist
Details Clive Young was able to combine a successful urological practice with a part-time military career happily uninterrupted by war. He was born on 22 October 1932 in Kingston, Jamaica, where his father, Archibald Hamilton, an electrical engineer, was then working. His mother was Lurline, née Chandler. The family soon returned to England and Clive's first school was at Cheam in Surrey. He then spent ten formative years at Culford School in Bury St Edmunds, ending as captain of the school. Conscription required him to do military service but he was attracted to the life, and during his two years was commissioned as 2nd lieutenant in the Royal Corps of Signals. He maintained his connection with the Corps as a TA captain during his medical education at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. He qualified with the conjoint diploma in 1960 and took a series of resident posts in Sussex, while switching to the RAMC Reserve. His interest in urology dated from his work as registrar with Martin Claridge in Canterbury and was confirmed by five years as senior registrar to Barr Stirling in Glasgow. His consultant appointment as urologist to the Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham came in 1974. He became particularly concerned at the plight of patients with urinary diversions and ileostomy bags, giving a great deal of his time to the Urostomy, the Ileostomy and the Colostomy Associations. His army career continued in the RAMC Volunteer Reserve in which he was successively major, lieutenant colonel and colonel in 1978, being awarded the ERD in 1966, the TD in 1979 and a Clasp to the TD in 1983. In 1963 he married Jennifer Anne Shannon, by whom he had two sons, Simon and Mark. This marriage ended in divorce in 1992 and he took as his second wife Elizabeth Anne Colegate, a nurse manager in the NHS. He died on 5 September 1996, a year before he would have been due for retirement.
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First Title value, for Searching Hasan, Malik Shaukat (1919 - 2014)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Maryam Azmat Malik
Publication Date 2020-10-27
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon Cardiothoracic surgeon
Details Lieutenant General Malik Shaukat Hasan was director of surgery in the Pakistan Army and a pioneer of cardiothoracic surgery in his country. He was born on 12 May 1919 in Amritsar, India, the third son of a middle class Muslim cloth merchant; his paternal grandfather was from Kashmir and his maternal grandfather from Afghanistan. His father and two elder brothers continued in the family business but, being academically inclined, he chose medicine instead: he was the first in his family to go to university. He attended the prestigious King Edward Medical College in Lahore from 1936 to 1941, where he stood first amongst his Muslim classmates in his final year. After a house post in surgery at the Mayo Hospital, Lahore, he joined the British Indian Army in 1942 and faced the rigours of the Second World War at the Burmese Front. In 1947 he witnessed the horrors of the subcontinent’s Partition and mass migration, losing his father in the massacre. He finally found a prosperous haven in the newly created Pakistan as a military surgeon. He was selected for training abroad in the UK and, in 1950, won the Hallet prize at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, awarded to the candidate obtaining the highest marks in the first attempt at the primary FRCS examination. In 1951 he gained his FRCS and spent a further two years training in cardiothoracic surgery at Harefield Hospital, Middlesex. He then returned home and established the Pakistan Army’s first cardiothoracic unit in the old barracks at Rawalpindi Military Hospital, pioneering chest surgery in Pakistan. He set up an experimental theatre to practise procedures on stray animals before operating on humans. He had the distinction of becoming Pakistan’s first closed heart surgeon when he performed closed mitral valvotomies in the late 1950s. Celebrated as a titan in his field during his lifetime, not just for his indisputable professional expertise but also for the integral humanity, sincerity and humility that defined him, he treated all patients with the same meticulous care. He often asserted that he was a poor man’s doctor and was always willing to forego his fees for the improvident. Chest surgery was his special interest and forte, but his expertise extended to gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, urogenital, vascular, orthopaedic, thyroid, breast, paediatric, plastic and reconstructive surgery. As a military surgeon, he was also adept at managing all levels of trauma. He passed on his skills to many sets of surgical trainees. A strong advocate of advancing postgraduate training facilities within the Pakistan Army, he was actively involved in the selection, training and supervision of the next generation of surgeons. He was an instructor in surgery at the Army Medical Corps School (which later became the Armed Forces Medical College) from 1953 until his retirement in 1979, with his students gaining distinction in their respective fields. As director of surgery, he enjoyed the privilege of heading many Army delegations on study tours abroad, particularly to the USA, UK and China, where they observed and benefited from the latest advancements. Deeply invested in advancing Pakistan’s medical institutions, he strove to optimise the specialist training of young doctors and promote budding talent. A founding member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan, established in 1962, he often served as a part II examiner in surgery for the College. He was also instrumental in the formation of the Fauji Foundation Medical Centre in 1958, serving as a consultant surgeon there from its inauguration to the end of his working life. One of his former students, Masud Ahmed Cheema, wrote: ‘…Lt Gen Malik Shaukat Hasan…had the most refined and delicate touch in surgery. Besides teaching us exemplary surgical craft, he willed us to embody a healing personality that combines courageous clinical decision making with profound empathy, compassion and respect towards patients.’ Surgery was his over-riding passion, but his interests were multidimensional. A voracious reader, he avidly consumed volumes of world, political and military history, classic and modern literature, biographies, philosophy, Urdu poetry and fairy tales for his kids. He loved movies, TV dramas, live sports, music, art, bridge, chess and travel. Strong and athletic, he enjoyed sports, including tennis, cricket, swimming, volleyball and trout fishing. Despite a tendency towards introspection, he was an ebullient society man and a loving family member. He married a doctor, Shamim Hasan, in 1959 and had six children, four of whom chose to study medicine. Intensely religious without making a public show of his piety or belief, he had a profound knowledge of the Quran. His calm and tolerant temperament was acquired after much reflection, self-discipline and perseverance. He espoused a code of truth and honesty above all, a standard he upheld throughout life. Malik Shaukat Hasan died on 31 May 2014 in Rawalpindi aged 95. His long life took in a rich spectrum of experiences – from growing up amidst the burgeoning Indian freedom movement, enjoying student days in the cultural vitality of historic Lahore, to witnessing the horrors of the subcontinent’s Partition and playing a pioneering role in the growth of his new homeland, Pakistan. His formidable intelligence, indomitable spirit and infinite learning capacity made him the man he was – thoughtful, focused, patient, compassionate and persevering. These qualities enabled him to garner many honours in his rise to the top of his profession as a military surgeon and spearhead a wave of surgical innovation that gained him universal renown.
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First Title value, for Searching Malcolm, John Erskine (1914 - 1998)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-18
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon
Details John Erskine Macolm was the son of John Malcolm, head of the department of agricultural engineering at Glasgow University, and Jane Matilda née Erskine, whose father was a landowner. He was born in Stirling on 28 May 1914. He was educated at Stirling High School, where he won gold medals in French and Latin, and went to St Andrews, where he won medals in anatomy, physiology, midwifery and forensic medicine. He was house surgeon at Dundee Royal Infirmary and the West London Hospital, and became surgical registrar at King George V Hospital, Ilford, in 1939, where he worked for Neil Sinclair. During the war, he joined the RAMC, rising to the rank of Captain and Surgical Specialist, serving in Palestine with the Staffordshire Yeomanry. He was present at the relief of RAF Habbaniyah in May 1941, when it was besieged by pro-Axis Iraqi troops. His regiment then went to North Africa, to reinforce the garrison at Tobruk. He was subsequently posted to India for the Burma campaign, where he found himself in charge of a mule-borne surgical team, and accompanied the force that relieved the garrison at Kohima in April 1944. After the war, he became a supernumerary registrar at the Westminster Hospital under Stanford Cade and Sir Clement Price Thomas, and then joined the surgical unit at Bristol under Milnes Walker. He joined the RAF in 1950, rising to the rank of Air Commodore, and was present at RAF Changi during the confrontation with Indonesia. He was the first Cade Professor in the RAF, and was consultant adviser to the RAF from 1971 to 1979, when he retired. In retirement, he restored Denver Hall, a historic Tudor country house, and wrote a number of papers on Korotkoff's sounds and the larynx. He married Muara Marion Irene Cowie in 1940 and they had one daughter, Alexandra, and one son, John, who became a doctor. He was the grandfather of Marie, Angus, Johan and Christina. He died from a heart attack while out walking on 31 October 1998.
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First Title value, for Searching Neely, John Conrad (1901 - 1989)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-25
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Occupation Military surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details John Conrad Neely was born in Bromley, Kent on 29 March 1901, the son of William Neely, a stationer and Clara Rebecca, née Cope. He was educated at Hodder School, Stoneyhurst College and Hertford College, Oxford, before entering Guy's Hospital Medical School for clinical studies. He qualified in 1927 and after joining the Royal Air Force in the following year he gained his wings as a pilot. He pursued his postgraduate studies in ophthalmology and before the outbreak of war passed both the DO and the DOMS. In 1940 he was promoted to Wing-Commander and posted to the Middle East. Two years later while serving in Singapore he was mentioned in dispatches for his careful surgical technique which enabled him to repair traumatic squints in airmen who had been hit by shrapnel. He passed the Oxford DM in 1945 and was appointed consultant in ophthalmology to the Royal Air Force Central Medical Establishment from 1950 to 1959. He was promoted to Air Commodore in 1950 and to Air Vice-Marshal in 1955. He passed the FRCS in 1958 and retired from the Royal Air Force in the following year. He built up the speciality of ophthalmology in the Royal Air Force and achieved high prominence both in the Service and in the Ophthalmology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine where he was a member of Council and later Vice-President. He was appointed Honorary Surgeon to the King in 1951. He married Marjorie Bramley in 1938 and she died from malignant melanoma in 1964. He married Roma McKechnie, widow of Air Commodore McKechnie, GC two years later. In his early years he was an enthusiastic rugby player but after his retirement to Eastbourne became captain of the Royal Eastbourne Golf Club. He was a devout Catholic and in his role as a member of the Society of St Vincent de Paul despite failing health in later years he continued to visit hospital wards in order to meet and encourage patients. He died on 2 June 1989 aged 88.
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First Title value, for Searching Bazy, Louis Pierre Jean (1883 - 1960)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-15
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon
Details Born in Paris on 23 February 1883, the son of Pierre Bazy (1853-1934), a leading urologist who was a member of the Académie de Médecine from 1913 and the Académie des Sciences from 1921, Louis Bazy studied at the Faculté de Médecine of Paris, graduated in 1910, and was promoted to consultant rank in 1913, becoming "chirurgien des hôpitaux" in 1919. He lost the sight of one eye in an accident in the operating theatre while he was an interne. During the first world war Bazy came into contact with surgeons from other lands, and from then on he endeavoured to strengthen international surgical co-operation. He won the Croix de Guerre and was created Officier of the Legion of Honour. Bazy was appointed consulting surgeon to the Hôpital St-Louis in 1930, and was also consulting surgeon to the French Army. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the College in 1946, and was also an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, the Association of Surgeons, and the American College of Surgeons. He was President of the Académie nationale de Chirurgie in 1942, was elected one of its Honorary Members in 1950, and was also elected to the Académie de Médecine. As a military surgeon Bazy was particularly concerned with problems of infection and immunisation, and was a pioneer in vaccination against tetanus. He was a prolific writer, whose papers covered a wide field, including the medical service of the State Railways to which he was consulting surgeon. An excellent unofficial ambassador for France, Bazy strengthened the professional ties between France and England, in particular between the English College and the French Académie de Chirurgie. He died on 30 November 1960, aged 77; his wife was a grand-daughter of the famous surgeon Auguste Nélaton (1807-73).
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First Title value, for Searching Livingston, Sir Philip Clermont (1895 - 1982)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-28
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Occupation Military surgeon Ophthalmologist
Details Philip Clermont Livingston was born in Cowichan Bay, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, in 1895. His father was managing director of the family shipping firm. He went to school in Vancouver Island and then studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he won a rowing blue with the victorious crew in the 1914 Boat Race. He interrupted his studies in 1915 to volunteer as a Surgeon-Probationer in the Royal Navy and saw plenty of action before resuming his training in 1917. He went to the London Hospital and later Moorfields and was assistant to Sir Hugh Rigby, Robert Milne and Sir John Parsons. In 1919 he entered the RAF on a temporary commission and spent 32 years in the service first as a general duties medical officer, next as a surgeon-specialist, then as ophthalmological consultant and finally as Director-General. He initiated much research into aviation medicine, his own work being mainly in vision, particularly in the measurement and development by training of night vision. He gave a Moynihan Lecture and, in 1942 was Montgomery Lecturer in Dublin and Chadwick Lecturer in London. He served on committees of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom. He retired from the RAF in 1951 with the rank of Air Vice-Marshal and returned to British Columbia. There he started a new career as a civilian ophthalmologist and he became a prominent and well-loved member of the local community. He married Lorna Muriel Crispin in 1920 and they had two sons, Clermont, born in 1923 and Michael, born in 1928. Both became doctors and Clermont predeceased his father. Philip published his autobiography *Fringe of the clouds* in 1962 and died, twenty years later, on February 13, 1982.
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First Title value, for Searching Macnab, Allan James (1864 - 1947)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Crooks, Lewis Mackenzie (1909 - 1992)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-07
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon
Details 'Mac' Crooks was born on 21 January 1909, the son of David Mackenzie Crooks. He was educated at Epworth College and studied medicine at Liverpool University, where he qualified in 1931. He held junior posts at the Northern Hospital, Liverpool, and at the Shropshire Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry. He then became senior house officer at Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, and All Saints Hospital, London. In 1935 he was commissioned into the Medical Branch of the RAF, passed the FRCS in 1937, and went to Palestine in 1938 where he worked as a general surgeon, dealing with the many casualties of the Arab revolt. He was in the operating theatre all round the clock, and was mentioned in despatches. In the New Year of 1941 he was posted to the RAF General Hospital Habbaniya, Iraq, as a surgeon. In May 1941 the base was besieged by rebels under the pro-Nazi Raschid Ali who had seized power in Baghdad, intending to provide Hitler with a Middle East base. There were several days of heavy artillery bombardment until the relatively inexperienced young pilots, flying Airspeed Oxford Trainers and Fairey Gordon biplanes, drove off the far better equipped Iraqi Air Force. After the war he returned to pass the MCh of Liverpool University in 1945 and was seconded as a clinical tutor for a year to Edinburgh University, before returning to Egypt where he served from 1950 to 1951 and was awarded the OBE. In 1952 he was appointed consultant in orthopaedic surgery to the RAF and in 1955 became the senior consultant surgeon to the RAF. He virtually rebuilt the orthopaedic branch of the RAF medical services which had been so prominent during the war and whose legendary figures such as Watson Jones and Osmond Clarke had all left. He travelled extensively, teaching, consulting and operating. He was appointed CBE in 1963 and honorary consulting surgeon to the Queen in 1966 and remained adviser in orthopaedics to the RAF. He retired in 1970 to Cornwall, where he continued to do locum work for some years, and found time to enjoy his hobbies of gardening and golf. He married Mildred Gwyther in 1936; they had two sons, David and Richard, and a daughter, Elizabeth. He died on 12 March 1992, aged 83.
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First Title value, for Searching Brown, Harold Spencer (1924 - 1999)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-22
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon Military surgeon
Details Harold Brown was born at Lostwithiel, Cornwall, on 7 August 1924 and educated at Truro School. He trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital, qualifying in 1949. After house surgeon appointments, including obstetrics and orthopaedics, he joined the RAMC in March 1952. Initially on National Service, he was appointed to a regular commission in 1954. Following a surgical rotation at the Royal Herbert and Queen Alexandra's Military Hospitals and the Royal Army Medical College, he was graded as a surgical specialist and posted to the British Military Hospital at Kamunting, Malaya, during the internal troubles. He was awarded the General Service medal with the clasp 'Malaya'. During this time he was actively engaged in a wide range of military surgery, including treating active war wounds and was promoted to Major. He returned to the Royal Army Medical College for the senior officers' course, during which he passed the FRCS in 1959 and was graded as a senior specialist. Service in the British Army of the Rhine followed at the busy British Military Hospitals in Hostert, Munster and Rinteln. At Rinteln he was appointed as a consultant by the armed services consultant approval board, made officer in charge of the surgical division, and was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. In 1965, he returned to Malaya to the British Military Hospital at Terendak. Here he was officer in charge of the surgical division, but, as the troubles had ceased, life was quieter. He was then posted to the Cambridge Military Hospital Aldershot in 1967, a busy hospital serving a large garrison, including the Parachute Brigade. This appointment introduced him to a wider range of trauma. He decided to retire on retired pay in 1969 and return to his beloved Cornwall. He had a wide experience of general and trauma surgery, and thus was a good candidate to join the newly expanding specialty of accident and emergency. He was appointed A&E consultant to the Royal Cornwall Hospital at Truro, where he was able to revitalise the department. He retired in 1989, remaining in Truro. He was a keen sailor and sailed his yachts from the River Fowey. A long distance walker, he walked the Cornish coastal path, as well as the Western Isles of Scotland. Happily married to Barbara née Robson, she survives him with their two sons, Stephen and David. He died on 25 November 1999.
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First Title value, for Searching Drew, Arthur John (1863 - 1956)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-05-16
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon
Details Born in 1863 in a family of ten children, Drew studied at University College Hospital and qualified in 1884. After qualifying he held various posts including those of house surgeon and obstetric assistant at University College Hospital, clinical assistant at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, demonstrator of anatomy at University College, and prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons. He began to practise at Oxford in 1889, first in Beaumont Street, and then in Broad Street, after his marriage in 1891 to Mary, daughter of Thomas Simpson of Ealing, and later he moved again to Water Hall, St Aldates. About 1900 he bought land on top of Shotover Hill, cleared it himself and built a country house there called The Oaks. For a short time he was a member of the Oxford City Council, and till 1906 he hunted regularly with four packs. Drew paid all his visits to patients in a carriage and pair, dressed in a frock-coat and top hat. In 1910 the horses were abandoned for a motor car. In 1904 Drew was honorary local secretary of the Oxford Meeting of the BMA, and he served on the Council from 1907 to 1910. He was a vice president of the Section of Surgery at the Belfast Meeting in 1909. Throughout the first world war he served as a Captain in the RAMC first at Oxford, then in France and Germany, and finally at a military hospital in Calais where he remained until 1921. In 1915 the four elder of his six sons were also serving. In 1921 Drew, who was then 59, was demobilised and, finding it difficult to re-establish himself in practice at Oxford, he settled in Jamaica in a bungalow beside a lonely and beautiful bay. His wife died on 29 November 1931 at the age of 65. Drew only left Jamaica once, when in 1951 he returned to England to visit his five surviving sons and one daughter, the wife of N A Miller FRCS. He objected to burial but, as cremation was forbidden in Jamaica, he had his coffin made and kept it in the hall of his house. He died in his sleep on 22 May 1956 at the age of 93 and was buried in his own garden. He had been a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons for 66 years and was the senior Fellow at the time of his death.
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First Title value, for Searching Holborow, Christopher Adrian (1926 - 1998)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-06
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Occupation ENT surgeon Military surgeon
Details Christopher Adrian Holborow was a distinguished and well-known surgeon in London. He was born in Beccles, Suffolk, on 24 December 1926, the son of Canon George Holborow, a clerk in holy orders. His mother was Barbara Stella Watson, the daughter of the Reverend Herbert Watson of Cransford, Suffolk. He attended Betteshanger and Repton Schools, before going up to Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied natural sciences and obtained first class honours in parts I and II and was awarded the annual prize and Minor scholarship in 1947. His clinical studies were at the Middlesex Hospital, where he was awarded the Mrs Charles Davies prize for surgery. He qualified in 1951, and then held house appointments at the Middlesex with Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor. Subsequently, he worked with Sir Harold Gillies and with James Crooks at Great Ormond Street. He passed the DLO (RCS) in 1953 and entered the RAMC as a graded specialist in otolaryngology, attaining the rank of Major. After leaving the Army, he studied for the Fellowship, which he passed in 1957 and was soon appointed to the consultant staff of the Westminster Hospital, where he took a particular interest in the diseases of children and the effects of deafness in childhood. He became medical adviser to the Commonwealth Society for the Deaf, and his work for this organisation took him to most of the countries of the Commonwealth. He was awarded the OBE for this work in 1989. He was also deeply involved in other charities, the City of London Field Regiment and was master of the Tallow Chandlers' Company. In 1961, he married Wanda Margaret Nickels, by whom he had two daughters and a son. She died in 1982 and he then married Caroline Woollcombe, who was the widow of a fellow surgeon. He devoted much of his spare time to the Territorial Army, but he also collected paintings, mostly of the seventeenth century, and enjoyed fly-fishing. Holborow found the frustrations of life in the National Health Service hard to bear and the reorganisations of the seventies and eighties, which were designed to put the service on a 'new footing', made him dissatisfied with life. He eventually left the NHS and retreated into private practice for the last 12 years of his working life. He died on 4 February 1998, survived by his wife, children and two grandsons.
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First Title value, for Searching Haywood, Ian Robert (1941 - 1994)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-09
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Ian Haywood was born on 3 October 1941. He was educated at Bedford School and St Thomas's Hospital, where he was a Kitchener scholar and won many prizes. As a student he held a Territorial Army commission, and in 1964 he took a regular commission with the RAMC, serving as MO to the Royal Welch Fusiliers. He obtained the FRCS in 1971, having received specialist training in military establishments and in academic appointments at Bart's and the Westminster Hospital. He was appointed consultant surgeon to the Defence Medical Services in 1978. His chief interest was in missile and blast injuries in training programmes for both Army and civilian hospitals. He was a member of the Stoke Group, which advised the government on the professional and medical aspects of disaster management. From 1985 to 1990 he was Professor of Military Surgery, a position held jointly between the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal Army Medical College. After a posting to Saudi Arabia he returned to command the Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital, Woolwich, from 1991 to 1993. He was the first Ben Eiseman Visiting Professor, Uniformed Services, Bethesda, Maryland, and was awarded the Mitchiner Medal of the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1988 he became an Officer Brother of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. In 1989 he was an examiner of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and was elected a Fellow. In 1993 he was appointed Honorary Surgeon to the Queen and in 1994 was awarded the Michael de Bakey International Military Surgical Award. He was a founder member of the Faculty of Emergency Medicine of the six Royal Colleges (physicians and surgeons) and was awarded the Laerdal Medal of the British Association for Immediate Care. As a result of his endeavours, no British soldier died of inadequate first aid on the battlefield in the Falklands war, and out of 753 who were operated on in the field hospital, only three died. Haywood was a born raconteur, a popular after-dinner speaker and a keen historian. Despite being a non-smoker he developed lung cancer, from which he died. During his last illness he completed a paper on Dominic Larrey, Napoleon's chief surgeon during his Moscow campaign. He married Margot Hanna in 1970 and they had two daughters, Jennifer and Suzy. His wife and family survived him when he died on 3 September 1994.
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First Title value, for Searching Pendered, John Hawkes (1888 - 1972)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-24
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Military surgeon
Details John Hawkes Pendered was born on 7 September 1888 at Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. He was educated at Wellingborough School and Caius College, Cambridge where he gained first class honours in the Natural Science Tripos in 1909. He then proceeded to the London Hospital where he did well in all his examinations and won the Sutton Prize in pathology. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1912, got the Cambridge MB in 1913 and the FRCS in 1914. After holding a number of junior hospital posts at the London Hospital he joined the RAMC at the outbreak of the first world war and was soon sent to France where he served for the rest of the war, at first in a Field Ambulance and then as DADMS. In 1916 he was awarded the French Silver Medal of Honour, and in 1917 was mentioned in despatches and won the Military Cross. He remained in the Army till 1923, serving as a Major in Malta where he wrote a thesis on infective hepatitis for which he was awarded the MD degree. When he left the Army he went into general practice in Southampton. In 1939 he was called up for army service and was in France until Dunkirk. He was then sent to the Middle East as Lieutenant-Colonel in charge of the surgical division of various hospitals, in one of which, in 1943, King Farouk was admitted with a fractured pelvis. After caring for him Pendered was awarded the Order of the Nile, Third Class. In 1944 he was released from the RAMC and returned to Southampton where he continued to practise till 1967 when he retired at the age of 79. He was a dedicated doctor, respected for his diagnostic skill and warm sympathy. He was also a cultured person with a particular interest in European history and Shakespearean theatre. He had been a first class tennis player, and kept up his fishing and bridge playing to the end. In 1921 he married Margaret Singer, a nurse at King's College Hospital, and they had two sons and three daughters; one son became medically qualified at the London Hospital, and a daughter became a nurse at King's College Hospital. John Pendered died on 30 July 1972, a week after a fall in which he fractured his skull. His wife and family survived him.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006017
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First Title value, for Searching Slater, Russel Bell (1922 - 1972)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-14
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Military surgeon Urologist
Details Born 23 February 1922 at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the only child of R O Slater, company director, and Emma Bell, his wife. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and at the Medical School of the University of Durham. He qualified in 1943 and was appointed house surgeon at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He entered the Royal Naval Medical Service in the rank of Surgeon Lieutenant on 31 March 1944, and was present, aboard a landing ship, at the invasion of Normandy in June 1944. He joined the destroyer, HMS *Keppel*, patrolling in the English Channel, in September 1944, and the corvette, HMS *Lancaster Castle*, engaged on Arctic duties, in the following year. Slater was released from the Service in February 1947, but continued to retain an active interest as a reservist. He held appointments as surgical registrar at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-upon-Tyne and demonstrator in the department of anatomy at the Medical School of the University of Durham. He entered general practice at Boroughbridge, Yorkshire in 1954 but remained restless in civil life. On 31 July 1956, Slater re-entered the Royal Naval Medical Service with the rank of Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander. He was drafted to HMS *Theseus* and in the sick bay of the aircraft carrier demonstrated his surgical competence by performing a number of successful emergency operations, under trying conditions, on wounded evacuated from Suez during the crisis of November 1956. He was appointed specialist in surgery at RNH Hong Kong from 1957 to 1960; promoted Surgeon-Commander in 1961 and later served in a surgical capacity at RNH Haslar, and aboard the aircraft carrier HMS *Bulwark*. He was appointed medical officer-in-charge of RNH Mauritius and senior specialist in surgery in 1964, returning to the United Kingdom in 1966. Thereafter, he served mainly in RNH Plymouth, at first as a general surgeon and later as a urologist. He was appointed consultant in surgery in 1970 and promoted Surgeon-Captain in December 1971. Apart from being an accomplished surgeon and pleasant colleague, Slater was also a skilled amateur photographer. He married on 22 June 1950 Geraldine O'Connor who survived him. There were no children. He died on 14 June 1972 from an astrocytoma and was buried in the naval reservation in Weston Mill Cemetery, Plymouth. Publications: Duodenal diverticulum treated by excision of mucosal pouch only. *Brit J Surg* 1971, 58, 198. A case of closed injury of the upper ureter. *Brit J Urol* 1971, 43, 591.
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First Title value, for Searching Green, Charles Robert Mortimer (1863 - 1950)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-25
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born 21 May 1863, the third son and fourth of the ten children of the Rev Edward Peter Green and his wife Anne Griffiths. He was educated at Mercers' School and the London Hospital, and played in the Hospital rugby XV. He qualified LSA in 1884, and took the Conjoint diplomas the next year. On 30 September 1886 he was commissioned as surgeon in the Indian Medical Service. He saw active service on the North West Frontier at the Black Mountain and Hazara, winning the medal with clasp in 1888, and at Tirak in 1897-98 and again won the medal with clasp. He had taken the Fellowship and the Cambridge DPH in 1895. He was promoted major in September 1898, and lieutenant-colonel in 1906 when he took the Durham MD, and was placed in the special list for promotion on 1 April 1912. During the war of 1914-18 he served in the hospital ships *Ellora* and *Sicilia*, in the Mahsud operation 1917, and in Mesopotamia and again on the North West frontier. He was promoted colonel on 11 November 1916. After the war he was appointed Inspector General of Civil Hospitals in the Central Provinces. During his years of civil service he was attached the Eden Hospital, Calcutta, and was professor of midwifery in Calcutta University; he was also civil surgeon at Simla. He was appointed an Honorary Surgeon to the King on 15 June 1920, and retired on 28 March 1921. After his return to England Colonel Green settled at Guildford and took an active part in local affairs. He was attached to the honorary staff of the Royal Surrey County Hospital. He was a man of great physical strength, quiet, imperturbable, and fairminded. He retained his zest and big-hearted generosity to the end of his long life. Green married in 1899 Alice Whitworth Yates; there were two sons and a daughter of the marriage. He died at Guildford on 10 April 1950, aged 86. Publication:- E A Birch. *Management of children in India*, 5th edition by C R M Green and V B Green-Armytage, 1913.
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First Title value, for Searching May, Sir Robert Cyril (1897 - 1979)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-03
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Surgeon Vice-Admiral Sir Cyril May, formerly medical director-general of the Royal Navy, was born in London on 12 June, 1897, the only child of Robert and Clara May. His father practised as a dental surgeon. After education at South Belgravia Preparatory School and Westminster School he served in the Royal Garrison Artillery throughout the first world war, commanding a siege battery in 1917. He was awarded the Military Cross in the following year and was demobilized with the rank of Major. After the war he entered Guy's Hospital and qualified in 1925, joining the Royal Naval medical service. By 1937 he was a Surgeon-Commander and serving in HMS *Sheffield*, but in 1938 he became assistant to the medical director-general of the Royal Navy and served as such throughout the second world war. From 1946-1949 he was senior medical officer in the surgical section of the Royal Naval Hospital, Chatham, having been ENT specialist there in 1931-34. He was Fleet medical officer to the Home Fleet 1949-50, and then in charge of the Royal Naval Hospital, Malta, 1951-56. He was promoted to Surgeon Rear-Admiral in 1953 and served as medical adviser to the Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean. He was promoted to Surgeon Vice-Admiral in 1956 and served as medical director general to the Royal Navy until his retirement in 1960. He was Honorary Surgeon to the Queen from 1953 to 1960 and received the KBE in 1958, having previously been appointed OBE in 1942 and CB in 1956. He was elected FRCS in 1957 and became Knight of the Order of St John in 1959. In his early years he had been keenly interested in cricket, lawn tennis, golf and association football. He married Mary Robertson in 1925. She died in 1977 and he was survived by his son when he died on 17 September 1979, aged 82 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Crozier, Alexander William (1816 - 1863)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-09-07 2014-06-18
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Was a surgeon in the Bengal Army (52nd Regiment) at the time he became a Fellow. He is confused in the *Calendar* with the better-known William Crozier. He died apparently some time between 1862 and 1865. **See below for an expanded version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 1 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk** Alexander William Crozier was a surgeon in the Indian Army. He was born on 3 November 1816 in Cape Town, where his father, Robert Crozier, was Postmaster General of the Cape Colony. He studied medicine at Guy's Hospital and gained his MRCS in 1839. In December of the same year he joined the East India Company as an assistant surgeon. From 1841 to 1843 he served with HM 26th Regiment in China and was present at the taking of Amoy, the recapture of Chusan and the occupation of Ningfo, for which he received a medal. Returning to India, he served in the Gwailor Campaign and was present at the battle of Punniar, for which he received the Bronze Star. In January 1846 during the First Sikh War he served with the 16th Lancers, who led the cavalry charge against the well trained Sikhs at the battle of Aliwal. The Lancers lost nearly half their men but managed to break through. Sir Harry Smith, the officer in charge, especially thanked Crozier for his services that day and he received another medal. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons on 1 December 1854. During the Indian Mutiny he officiated as superintending surgeon in the action on 1 July 1857 near Agra. He had a horse shot under him and was again mentioned in despatches. He was in medical charge of the 3rd European Regiment in action at Agra and Oreyah, serving the whole hot weather campaign of 1858. His regiment had joined the Mynpoorie Movable Column under the command of Colonel WM Riddel, who wrote in his dispatch, quoted in *The Edinburgh Gazette* on 24 September 1858: 'The services of Surgeon A W Crozier have been most valuable and owing to his unremitting attention to the sick no less than his judicious sanitary precautions, I attribute in great measure the almost perfect immunity from sickness we have been mercifully permitted to enjoy.' He received another medal and was promoted to surgeon major on 19 December 1859. Altogether he was thanked 12 times for efficient and valuable services. He died on 7 March 1863 at Dehra Dun aged only 46, survived by his only surviving child, Robert George, and his wife Caroline née Cracklow. Deborah van Dalsen
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First Title value, for Searching Pilcher, Edgar Montagu (1865 - 1947)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-02
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born in Meerut, India, on 25 April 1865, son of Surgeon Jesse Griggs Pilcher, IMS, afterwards Deputy Surgeon-General and FRCS. He was educated at Clifton College and at Clare College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 1887. He took his clinical training at Guy's Hospital and qualified in 1890. Pilcher was commissioned a surgeon-lieutenant in the newly organized Army Medical Staff on 30 January 1892, being the first officer so gazetted under the Royal Warrant in 1891, and the first to hold this new rank. The reorganization was intended to prepare for the formation of the Royal Army Medical Corps, which duly took effect in 1898. He was promoted surgeon-captain 30 January 1895, becoming captain, RAMC, in 1898. He had been posted to India immediately he received his commission and served at Lucknow during the cholera epidemic of 1896. He was in camp with the East Lancashire Regiment, and his attention to the sick of the battalion was such that he was elected an honorary life member of the officers' mess of the regiment. He saw active service on the North-West Frontier in the Tirah campaign of 1897-98, and won the medal with two clasps. He was then sent to South Africa, where he served throughout the war, 1899-1902, and was present at the relief of Ladysmith; he was mentioned in despatches, won the Queen's medal with five clasps and the King's medal with two clasps, and was awarded the DSO. He was promoted major on 30 January 1904, and in 1905 took the Fellowship though not previously a Member of the College. After five years' service as a surgical specialist he was appointed on 1 August 1910 professor of surgery in the newly formed Royal Army Medical College at Millbank, a post which he held till 1919; but from 1917 he was serving in France as consulting surgeon with the British Expeditionary Force, and was mentioned in despatches. He had been promoted brevet lieutenant-colonel on 26 November 1913, lieutenant-colonel on 1 January 1914, brevet colonel on 12 September 1916, and colonel in July 1917, and subsequently major-general, Army Medical Service. He was appointed consulting surgeon to the Army in 1919, and retired in 1924. He had been appointed an honorary surgeon to the King in 1917, and was created CB 1918 and CBE 1919. Pilcher married twice: (1) in 1899 Lilias Mary, eldest daughter of Captain Henri Campbell, ISC; Mrs Pilcher died suddenly at Gloucester on 8 September 1940; (2) in 1940 Brenda Georgiana, younger daughter of Augustus Frederick Warr, MP for Liverpool 1895-1902, who survived him. There were no children. After his retirement Pilcher lived for a time at Stroud, Gloucestershire; then at St Mary Abbots' Court, Kensington; and finally at Thirty Trees, Ashtead, Surrey, where he died on 26 December 1947, aged 82; the funeral was at Ashtead parish church. Pilcher was an amateur of music and literature.
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First Title value, for Searching Waterston, Richard Ernest (1908 - 1977)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-24
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Military surgeon
Details Richard Ernest Waterston, the elder son of David Waterston, FRSE, FRCSE, a former Professor of Anatomy at St Andrews University, and of Isabel (née Simson), was born in Edinburgh on 26 May 1908. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University where he graduated in 1931. After resident appointments at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh he demonstrated physiology at King's College, London. He then worked as a general practitioner in Cirencester before joining the RAMC in 1936 when he was posted to the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich. The following year he went to India and, apart from a nine months' spell with a field ambulance on the north-west frontier, he worked at the military hospital in Peshawar until 1941. He was then with the military hospitals at Karachi and Ranchi, returning to England in 1944 before joining 88 British General Hospital in north-west Europe. On taking the FRCS in 1945 he served immediately after the war at the Connaught Hospital, Knaphill, until 1947 and was then posted to the British Joint Services Mission at Washington DC as liaison officer. He returned to the UK in 1948 and was in charge of the surgical divisions of the military hospitals at Chester and Cowglen. In 1954 he was surgeon to the British Military Hospital, Hong Kong, and then consultant surgeon to the Middle East Land Forces in Egypt. From 1956 to 1959 he was senior surgeon at Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, Millbank, and was awarded the Mitchener Medal in 1956 in recognition of his outstanding services. He was promoted Brigadier and appointed consultant surgeon, first to the Far East Land Forces in Singapore and then with the British Army of the Rhine. A year before his retirement from the Army Medical Service in 1968 he was appointed honorary surgeon to the Queen, and he then devotedly cared for the military community at Bordon camp for many years. Richard Waterston was well known throughout the RAMC and was as highly respected in service life as his younger brother, David, who became a distinguished cardiothoracic surgeon at Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital after the war. Richard was an able surgeon, an excellent doctor and a fine sportsman. He excelled at golf, with a handicap of two as a student, and six at the time of his death. He had been a member of the Royal and Ancient, St Andrews, since 1928 and represented the RAMC in many matches. He was also keen on skiing and mountaineering. In 1938 Waterston married Christine Graves who was, at that time, a member of Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps. They had one daughter and, when he died suddenly on 12 May 1977, he was survived by them both.
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First Title value, for Searching Davison, David John (1932 - 1994)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-07
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details David Davison, known as 'DD', was born in Sutton, Surrey on 28 April 1932, the son of Edgar Davison, a Lloyds underwriter, and May, née Mould. He was educated at Sutton High School and the Royal Masonic School in Bushey, where he was head boy in 1950 and an outstanding athlete, winning the All-England Schoolboy half-mile in 1949. He then proceeded to St Mary's Hospital Medical School, where he qualified in 1955. After junior appointments at the Royal West Sussex Hospital in Chichester, he joined the RAF in 1956 to do his National Service, working as a unit medical officer at RAF Edzell and RAF Lyneham. In 1958 he decided to do a short service commission and this was converted to a regular commission the following year. He subsequently served at many different RAF stations both at home and abroad, including Christmas Island at the time of the US atomic weapon testing in 1962, Akrotiri in Cyprus, Changi (Singapore), Oman in 1975 where he was in charge of a field surgical team treating battle casualties, and finally Wegberg in Germany from 1978 to 1982, where he was consultant-in-charge of the surgical division. In the UK he did four tours at Ely, and others at RAF Wroughton and elsewhere. He was appointed Cade professor in surgery from 1985 to 1989 and consultant adviser in surgery at RAF Ely from 1986 to 1992, with the rank of Air Commodore. In 1990 he was made officer of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, and in the same year was appointed honorary surgeon to the Queen (QHS). Further promotion to Air Vice-Marshal and dean of air force medicine followed, and finally in 1993 he became clinical director of the RAF, the most senior specialist post in the service. After thirty eight years in the RAF, serious illness brought about his premature retirement, and he received the gold medal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh only weeks before his death. David Davison was an outstanding officer with wide surgical experience, who rose to the highest rank in the service. He published articles on abdominal missile injuries, the return to flying duties after major surgery, and a review of parachuting injuries. He had a lifelong interest in sport, particularly athletics, hockey and hill-walking, and he was a keen gardener interested in the cultivation of fuchsias. He married Anne, née Rogers, a Guy's Hospital nurse in 1956 and they had three children, Jonathan, a mechanical engineer, Caroline, a Guy's nurse who later became a paediatric Sister in Ipswich, and Sarah, an interior decorator. He died on 11 August 1994 from prostatic carcinoma, and a memorial service was held in Ely Cathedral on 25 November 1994.
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First Title value, for Searching Shaw, Charles Gordon (1885 - 1967)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-06 2017-05-05
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon
Details Charles Gordon Shaw was born in Melbourne on 9 January 1885 and was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, and Melbourne University where he graduated MB BS in 1907, proceeding to the MD degree in 1910. Rowing was his favourite sport and he was in the winning eights both at school and also at Ormond College where he was in residence as a medical student. After his MD he came over to London and obtained the Conjoint Diploma and the FRCS in 1911. On his return to Melbourne Shaw was appointed surgeon to outpatients at St Vincent's Hospital, but military duty in the first world war soon interrupted his work at home. He had joined the RAMC in 1908 and therefore he served in the Australian Army throughout the war, at first with the Second Field Ambulance in Gallipoli, and later in command of the First Field Ambulance in France in 1916. In 1917 he was transferred to Harefield Hospital and was mentioned in dispatches and awarded the DSO. His attachment to the army continued after the war, for from 1921 to 1929 he was ADMS Fourth Division, in 1936 he was appointed DOMS Third Military District and Southern Command and held this post in the early years of the second world war, later becoming DDMS Victorian Lines of Communication. Though placed on the retired list in 1944 he continued his service to the Repatriation Hospital, Heidelberg, till 1962. An important contribution to military surgery was his practice of wound excision at an early period in the first world war. When he was demobilized after the first world war he returned to his duties at St Vincent's Hospital and also as medical tutor at Ormond College. At St Vincent's in due course he was promoted from the outpatient to the inpatient department, and remained on the staff for the rest of his active surgical career. Shaw's friends regarded him affectionately as a rather old-fashioned gentleman, referring to his sense of dignity, his sense of form, and a very strong sense of duty. His shyness occasionally caused him to be misunderstood, and though he had every right to be admired, he never pandered to popularity. When he was in England in 1917 he married Rachael Champion who was also a Melbourne graduate. They had four children, three sons of whom two followed their father's profession, and one daughter. His latter years were saddened by the death of his wife after a long illness, and by his own failing health, and he died on 2 July 1967, aged 82.
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First Title value, for Searching MacWatt, Sir Robert Charles (1865 - 1945)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-30
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born on 22 January 1865 at Duns, Berwickshire, third son of Robert Charles MacWatt, MD, who practised there, and Ann Logan, his wife. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy and University, and commissioned surgeon in the Indian Medical Service on 1 October 1887. He served on the North-West Frontier and won the Hazara expedition medal and clasps 1888, and further clasps for Lushai, North-East Frontier, 1889, and in 1891 Hazara again and second Miranzai, North-West Frontier, expedition. MacWatt was promoted major on 1 October 1899 and lieutenant-colonel on 1 October 1907, and received the Kaisar-i-Hind medal, first class, at the New Year honours 1908. In 1911 he took the English Fellowship, though not previously a Member of the College. He was placed in the special list for promotion on 1 April 1915, was created CIE in the New Year honours 1916, and promoted colonel on 8 January 1918, and appointed Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals in the Punjab. On 23 January 1918 he was promoted major-general and appointed Director-General of the IMS. MacWatt was knighted at the New Year 1925, and retired on 1 October 1926. He had served as an honorary surgeon to King George V, and was elected an FRCP Edinburgh in 1925. MacWatt was held in affectionate admiration in the IMS. He was an unassuming, friendly, democratic officer, always ready to consult subordinates who had special knowledge or experience. He was a close friend of General Sir Ganga Singh, Maharaja of Bikanir for nearly fifty years. After retirement MacWatt was often consulted by his Highness on medical and sanitary improvements for his State. After he came back to England MacWatt lived at Highwood House, Kingston Hill, Surrey, and was a member of the Royal Thames Yacht Club. He married twice: (1) in 1892 Blanche Mathilde, daughter of Lieutenant-General S F Blyth, CB; she died in 1924, survived by two sons; (2) in 1944 the widow of Colonel Richard C Wilson. He was taken ill in a cinema at Kingston on 14 April 1945 and died in hospital later the same day, aged 80. MacWatt was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical and the Zoological Societies. Publication:- Gunshot wounds of the lung *Brit med J* 1891, 2, 12.
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First Title value, for Searching Stock, Douglas Graham (1937 - 2020)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Sir Roger Vickers KCVO
Publication Date 2020-04-14
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Occupation Military surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon General surgeon
Details Brigadier Graham Stock was an adviser in orthopaedic surgery to the director general of Army Medical Services and a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital, Woolwich. He was born on 21 February 1937 in Chesterfield, the son of Charles Edward Stock, a foreman at Chesterfield Tube Company, and Harriett Stock née Mosley, a headmistress. He was educated at Chesterfield Grammar School, where he excelled at sport, particularly hockey, and was a school prefect. He entered Charing Cross Medical School in 1956 and won prizes for pharmacology and for surgery. He continued to play hockey, both for the medical school and for Derbyshire, and played squash at a high level. He was still a medical student when he married his childhood sweetheart, Barbara (née Hales), who had been his contemporary as a school prefect of Chesterfield Girls’ Grammar School. After qualifying in 1962, he undertook house officer posts in both medicine and surgery at Mount Vernon hospital and it was while he was doing six months in accident and emergency, also at Mount Vernon, that he joined the Army, being appointed as a captain in the RAMC in April 1965. He joined the surgical staff at Colchester Military Hospital and, after a year, moved to the Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot, followed by a year at Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, Millbank, after which posting he was promoted to the rank of major. In 1968, he was posted to Northern Ireland, to work on the military wing of the Musgrave Park Hospital in Belfast, at the beginning of ‘The Troubles’, which escalated during his three years there. It was during this time that, working particularly with Edmund Rainey, an orthopaedic senior registrar on the Northern Ireland orthopaedic training scheme, he developed a particular interest in trauma and orthopaedics. In 1971, he was posted to Iserlohn hospital in Germany as a general surgical specialist, and after a year was posted to the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich, followed by a further year at the Birmingham Accident Centre, before being posted back to Woolwich and Millbank for two more years as a specialist surgeon, following which he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. He was accredited as a general surgical specialist by the Armed Services Approval Board in 1975, and this was followed by a year at the British Military Hospital, Dharan, in Nepal, where, as the only surgeon, he dealt with all surgical problems, including obstetrics and neurosurgery. During this time, he won the local golf championship! His interest in orthopaedics continued, however, and he persuaded the Army to allow him to undertake further training with Rodney Sweetnam, later Sir Rodney, at the Middlesex Hospital, who was the civilian consultant orthopaedic surgeon to the Army. He was included in the Middlesex orthopaedic training scheme for almost two years, also working at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore. After this time, he was also accredited as an orthopaedic surgeon by the specialty advisory committee in orthopaedics of the Royal College of Surgeons. In 1979, he was appointed as a consultant in orthopaedics, at Woolwich. He worked mainly at Woolwich until it closed, though with postings in 1982 to Germany for two years. He also served variously in Oman and in Belize. He and his senior colleague, Jack Coull, were responsible for all the orthopaedic organisation and training in the Army for many years. In particular, they arranged external training appointments for their young orthopaedic surgical trainees in various NHS units in England and Scotland, and encouraged the development of the NHS military unit at Frimley Park. From 1986, he was a consultant adviser in orthopaedic surgery to the director general of Army Medical Services, and a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital, Woolwich, until it closed. He was also the chairman of the Defence Medical Services’ orthopaedic specialty board until 1997. He was promoted to brigadier in 1990 and was the Queen’s Honorary Surgeon from 1994 to 1997. In 1997, he was offered a posting to Cyprus, but he declined the posting and left the Army, though continued to do some locum work and he developed a small medico-legal practice, which he continued on a part-time basis until 2010. He and Barbara had moved to Meopham, Kent in 1999 and Barbara’s last job was as headmistress of Farringtons, a large school in Chislehurst. They had two children, Emma, who works in publishing and lives in Kent near the family home, and Matthew, who became a trader based in India, but is now living in Northumberland. There are seven grandchildren. In later years Graham, very much enjoyed gardening with them, and collecting them from schools. He and his wife enjoyed travelling, and were regular attendees over many years at meetings of the orthopaedic travelling club, the Sesamoid Society, the members all being colleagues who had trained at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in the late 1970's. Graham underwent a very successful heart bypass operation in 1993, but in recent years developed renal failure, requiring him to have regular dialysis, which he tolerated well. It was during a short stay in hospital relating to a problem concerning routine dialysis that he died on 10 February 2020, suddenly and unexpectedly in the night. He was 82.
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First Title value, for Searching Owen-Smith, Michael Stephen (1934 - 2013)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Clive Quick
Publication Date 2013-06-12 2014-02-19
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon
Details Michael Owen-Smith helped establish the new Hinchingbrooke District General Hospital in Huntingdon after a distinguished career in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was born in Dulwich, south London, to Francis and Winifred Owen-Smith (née Bailey) on 11 August 1934, and lived much of his early life there, apart from a period when he was evacuated to Wales during the Second World War. His father was a civil servant and his mother a teacher of dance and swimming. Both loved sport in all its forms (Francis was a talented runner and keen cricketer) and passed this on to Michael, who excelled at cricket and rugby, representing his school at both these sports. Michael was educated at St Dunstan's College, then at Colfe's Grammar School. Both schools are in south London. From a very early age Michael's chief ambition was to become a surgeon. Upon leaving school, National Service loomed and he opted for a short service commission with the Royal Artillery. He was posted immediately to Hong Kong, where he represented the Army at cricket and rugby. Michael left the Army in 1957 to study medicine at University College and University College Hospital Medical School. Memorable tutors there included Charles Dent (metabolic medicine), Max Rosenheim (general medicine) and Robin Pilcher (surgery). He won the Erichson prize in surgery, which required very detailed knowledge of surgical instruments. This deterred other students from applying and he turned out to be the only applicant! After undertaking two house jobs at University College Hospital, Michael passed the primary FRCS at the first attempt in 1963, then re-enlisted in the Army after extracting a promise that he would have a surgical career in the service. To the chagrin of some senior officers and their wives, he automatically regained his original military number and its embedded social seniority. An early posting was with submarines with the Scots Guards; Michael was the only RAMC member in submarines at the time. From 1967 to 1969, Michael was posted to Terendak Military Hospital in Malaysia and the family accompanied him there. Soon afterwards, he was posted to the Gurkha recruiting centre in Dharan, eastern Nepal, for a demanding and memorable six weeks. Here he had to deal with retained placentas, bear bites, cleft lips and many burns and traumatic injuries. He also did a regular general medical clinic where tuberculosis was a common diagnosis. Upon leaving, he was presented with a specially handmade silver-mounted Gurkha kukri knife, complete with an RAMC crest. Further surgical training was at Hammersmith Hospital, Kingston Hospital and finally Queen Alexandra Military Hospital (QAMH), all in London. He was appointed consultant surgeon to QAMH in 1971, then spent three years at Anzuk Military Hospital in Singapore, before returning to QAMH and Queen Elizabeth Military Hospital as professor of military surgery at a very young age, a post he held between 1975 and 1981. He then left the Army (with the rank of lieutenant colonel) and obtained a consultant general surgical post in Huntingdon, initially at the little Hunts County Hospital, before transferring in 1983 to the new Hinchingbrooke Hospital, its replacement. He was a prime mover in the Huntingdon District breakaway from the Cambridge Area Health Authority and attended the House of Commons to support the local MP, John Major, on this issue. Huntingdonshire was poorly served with hospitals at that time and Hinchingbrooke was largely built because of local pressure and demand. It is a 'best buy' design, one of four in East Anglia, and from its beginnings was almost uniquely staffed with no registrars. Michael was used to working without registrars, along with the other former military consultants appointed there, and strongly supported a 'consultant delivered' service. This was then a novel concept in the UK, but has since become a desirable norm. As a result, Hinchingbrooke has nearly always been highly rated for clinical service by its patients. Michael was an early advocate of short stay surgery and introduced the Lichtenstein mesh hernia repair to Hinchingbrooke, conclusively demonstrating its advantages over older techniques. He later specialised in breast surgery, collaborating closely with the oncologist Karol Sikora on minimal surgery plus radiotherapy, a principle far more widely applied now than then. He also played a large part in establishing the Woodlands cancer centre at Hinchingbrooke. Throughout Michael's military career he devoted much time to researching mechanisms of blast and missile injuries and is widely known today for the original insights he gained from shooting anaesthetised sheep that were subsequently sacrificed. In fact, he became an expert on intubating sheep for this purpose. Much of this research was performed at Porton Down near Salisbury, Wiltshire, now the UK government military science park. He published widely in this field, including his London MS thesis on the successful prophylaxis of gas gangrene in high velocity wounds by early administration of penicillin, a practical and important finding. Nationally and internationally, Michael lectured and demonstrated on the principles of war surgery, and was an annual fixture on the Swedish war surgery course - compulsory for Army surgical consultants - for over 20 years. He won the prestigious Alexander gold medal an unprecedented four times, in 1969, 1972, 1975 and 1981, for research papers that benefited wounded soldiers. He was the author of a significant book *High velocity missile wounds* (London, Edward Arnold 1981) and co-author of several others, including *Surgery for victims of war* (Geneva, International Committee of the Red Cross, 1988) and *The field surgery pocket book* (London, HMSO, 1981. He also contributed a chapter on wounds and war injuries to *Hamilton Bailey's emergency surgery* (London, Arnold, 2000). His enquiring mind also gave rise to numerous other papers on, for example, left sided appendicitis, anal dilatation for haemorrhoids, phenol irrigation for pilonidal sinus and bilateral adrenalectomy for advanced breast cancer. Michael was Hunterian professor at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1980 and gave a lecture on 'A computerised data retrieval system for the wounds of war - the Northern Ireland casualties'. This was based on the British Army's hostile action casualty system, which he single-handedly conceived and implemented. It is an original and effective means of forensically auditing the casualties of war and is still in use today. Michael was admitted to the Order of St John in 1980. He was a member of the Territorial Army between 1981 and 2001 and won the Territorial Decoration and Bar. As a long-time senior Army officer, Michael could come across as unsympathetic, particularly when dealing with NHS administrators, who sometimes took his pronouncements in committee as dictatorial. Nurses, students and junior doctors were somewhat in awe of him, particularly in the early days in Huntingdon, but his modus operandi softened as time went by, and some nurses at least could get away with teasing him. He was always keen on teaching and training locally, and often took time to demonstrate techniques to juniors. He always fully supported his trainees and came in from home without hesitation for emergencies whenever he was needed. Michael married Angela Mary née Norman, a fellow University College Hospital student, in June 1961. She later became a consultant community paediatrician. They had three children, all of whom studied medicine. Victoria is a consultant in public health medicine in Manchester, Oliver was a consultant anaesthetist in Birmingham (he predeceased his father in 2009) and Henrietta (Hetty) qualified as a doctor but is not currently practising medicine. Michael was a keen and expert sportsman and enjoyed golf until his last days. He was very attached to an old flat hat he wore when dinghy sailing at St Ives and even when gardening and shopping, but Angela eventually banned it. He lived his life in the spirit of cricket - play by the rules with a straight bat and play the game. He was an expert and enthusiastic gardener and became a true family man, particularly with his grandchildren. After a distinguished career in military surgery and allied research, Michael became an 'old-fashioned' general surgeon in the NHS, with a broad enough training to be able to deal with a wide range of emergency and elective surgery. He had a career-long enthusiasm for teaching and training in military surgery and in general surgery, and was independent-minded enough to see that a consultant-delivered service at Hinchingbrooke was the future. Trainees were sometimes in awe of him, but appreciated his straightforward no-nonsense approach and worked hard for him. He introduced several important new techniques to Hinchingbrooke, and looked critically at the results. He was a kind man, if a little stiff at times, and a good and generous colleague. He bore his final illness with enormous fortitude and without complaint. He died on 18 April 2013 at the age of 78. He is much missed in Huntingdonshire.
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First Title value, for Searching Cantlie, Sir Neil (1892 - 1975)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-21
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Neil Cantlie was born on 11 December 1892 in Hong Kong, the youngest son of the late Sir James Cantlie, FRCS, and educated at Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen, and Aberdeen University, where he graduated in medicine with honours in 1914. He was a member of the university OTC and after qualifying joined the RAMC as a Lieutenant on 31 July 1914. He served with the BEF in France and Flanders until 1919, taking part in the first Battle of Ypres, where he was slightly wounded, and in other battles in Flanders. In January 1918 he was awarded the MC and in the following November was mentioned in dispatches. He took the FRCS in 1920 and shortly afterwards was seconded to the Egyptian Army, serving with it for five years. He saw action in the northern province of the Sudan and in 1924 was involved in the rebellion at Khartoum which followed the murder of the Sirdar in Cairo. On reverting to Home Establishment he attended the Royal Army Medical College course at Millbank, obtaining distinction in medicine and surgery and passing out first in order of merit. He then qualified with distinction in operative surgery and was classified as a specialist in 1926, holding surgical appointments in military hospitals in England and India from 1931 to 1937. During this period he was stationed at Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province, during active operations. He was awarded the Indian General Service Medal and clasp, North-West Frontier, 1936-7. On the outbreak of the second world war he was in charge of the surgical division of the Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot. He then commanded a casualty clearing station and a general hospital. As ADMS, 46 Division, he took part in the landings in North Africa, the capture of Tunisia, and the advance into Italy. His next appointment was 5th Corps in the rank of Brigadier from 1942 to 1944. From Italy he was posted to India as DDMS Eastern Command in the rank of Major-General from 1944 to 1946, during which period he was appointed honorary physician to the King. On his return to England he was DDMS Southern Command from 1946 until he became Director-General Army Medical Services with the rank of Lieutenant-General. He was appointed honorary surgeon to the King Edward VII Convalescent Home, Osborne, Isle of Wight, an appointment he held until 1958. He was appointed KBE in 1949 and KCB in 1952. To Neil Cantlie, who had spent his whole active life in the Army, the Corps always had pride of place. His last memorial to it was his much acclaimed *History of the Army Medical Department*, published in 1974. While Director-General he steered the Corps through difficult, changing times and brought a quiet and steadying influence. He was a kind and sympathetic man who was always easily approachable by all ranks and prepared to listen, but who hated irrelevances. The RAMC owes Neil Cantlie much as surgeon, administrator, and leader. He died on 16 May 1975, survived by his wife, Mollie who died on March 17, 1986 and his son Colin.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Charles Harold (1883 - 1976)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-19
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon
Details A Fellow of the College for 68 years, Charles Harold Smith had 'a great appreciation for courage and endeavour which he himself displayed to a remarkable degree'. He served King, Country and Empire from 31 July 1909, when he was appointed Lieutenant Indian Medical Service until he retired, Lieutenant-Colonel, on 31 July 1936. The only son of Charles Henry Smith, a mast and spar maker, he was born in Egremont, Cheshire, on 19 June 1883. He was educated at King William's College, Isle of Man, and at the University of Liverpool, distinguishing himself in eight subjects including surgery. After being house surgeon and demonstrator in pathology he was surgical tutor at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary, gaining the MD and FRCS. On probation with the RAMC at Millbank and Aldershot he passed with a good report and embarked on the 20 day passage to India. He arrived in Bombay on 22 February 1910 and was attached to the 5th Cavalry, 1/6 Gurkha Rifles and 87th Punjabis. He passed examinations in Urdu, became an accomplished rider and enjoyed polo, big-game shooting and dry fly fishing. After courses in operative surgery and ophthalmology he was appointed specialist in surgery to the 2nd Rawalpindi Division. At the outbreak of the first world war he embarked for France, seeing action with the First Indian Cavalry Division in the 104th Cavalry Field Ambulance between October 1914 and November 1916, being mentioned in despatches by Sir John French on 30 November 1915. Later, as a result of engagements on the North-West Frontier he was twice mentioned in despatches and awarded the OBE. Later still he was in Nepal, and after a major earthquake was left as the only British administrator in Katmandu to deal with the task of restoring order and combating disease over a wide area cut off for a number of weeks from all communication with the outside world. Retired, he lived in a substantial house with a lovely orchard near the Hamble river and indulged his love of sailing on the Solent. During the second world war he bore his full share of Home Guard and medical duty. On Christmas Day 1920 in St Thomas's Cathedral, Bombay, he was married to Alison Jean Alexander. Their only child, William, who was born in the Punjab, perpetuated the family's maritime origins, serving in the Royal Navy as Commander and being followed in turn by his son, also in the Royal Navy. Christian in action and way of life and an individualist, his philosophy could be summed up in the words of the old soldier in Kipling's 'Kim', a passage he was fond of quoting: 'Let the Gods order it. I have never pestered them with prayers: I do not think they will pester me. Look you, I have noticed in my long life that those who eternally break in upon those Above with complaints and reports and bellowings and weepings are presently sent for in haste ... No, I have never wearied the Gods. They will remember this, and give me a quiet place where I can drive my lance in the shade, and wait to welcome my sons.' He died on 10 December 1976.
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First Title value, for Searching Martin-Leake, Arthur (1874 - 1953)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-21 2014-07-18
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born at Marshalls, Ware, Hertford on 4 April 1874, he was educated at Westminster School and University College, London. On the outbreak of the South African war soon after he had qualified, he joined the Imperial Yeomanry as a trooper and was attached to the newly formed South African Constabulary. He earned his citation by dressing a wounded man within a hundred yards of heavy fire from forty Boers and then going to the aid of a badly wounded officer and, while so engaged, he was shot three times, in spite of which he carried on until exhausted. He was decorated with the VC by King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 2 June 1902. After being admitted as a Fellow he took up an appointment as administrative officer of the Bengal-Nagpur Railway and in this capacity had charge of an excellent hospital and was, in addition, medical officer to two battalions of infantry volunteers recruited from the railway staff. He retained this appointment for thirty years although he was given periodic leave of absence to proceed on active service. In 1912 he was on leave in England when war broke out between Turkey and Montenegro and immediately he volunteered to join a Red Cross unit for service with the Montenegrin army. In 1914 he was in Calcutta but, on hearing of the outbreak of war, he again volunteered and, arriving in Paris on 30 August, he was posted to the 5th Field Ambulance with the rank of Lieutenant. During the first Battle of Ypres and during the period from 29 October to 8 November 1914 near Zonnebeke he was responsible for rescuing, while exposed to constant fire, a large number of wounded lying close to the enemy's trenches. He was presented with a bar to his VC by King George V at Windsor on 24 July 1915. After this he was sent with the "Adriatic Mission" to assist the retreating Serbian army until this was no longer of any service, when he returned to England on 6 March 1916 and was posted to the Western front in command of a field ambulance with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1915 the British Medical Association awarded him their gold medal. He retired from India in 1937, and then went on a shooting trip to Nyasaland and Portuguese East Africa. He spent his retirement managing a considerable estate and garden at Marshalls, near Ware, and by writing and illustrating a book on hunting in India. He had many hobbies, which included motoring, gardening, and cooking, and he was no mean artist. At one time he held a pilot's licence and flew his own plane. Even one year before his death he was riding a motor-bicycle and was most resentful at the insurance company's request for a medical certificate. He was the youngest of six brothers all distingushed in their careers, one of whom was a pioneer balloonist, an activity which led to an early death. In 1930 he married Winifred Frances, widow of C W A Carroll, and she died only two years after their marriage. There were no children. He died on 22 June 1953 at Marshalls, Ware, aged 79. On 27 June 1955, RAMC day, his cousin Dr H Martin-Leake handed over his medals and decorations to the Corps.
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First Title value, for Searching Dixon, Sir Francis Wilfred Peter (1907 - 1988)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

First Title value, for Searching Oldham, James Bagot (1899 - 1977)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-18
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon
Details James Bagot Oldham was born in Belfast on 7 November 1899, the first child of Samuel Charles Oldham, a ship repair director and of his wife Kathleen, née O'Flaherty. Most of his father's family were in the medical profession. He was cousin to Sir Hugh Rigby FRCS, Sergeant-Surgeon to HM George V. He was educated at Birkenhead School and Liverpool University, where he graduated MB, ChB in 1921. After his hospital residence he returned to the university as Gee Fellow in anatomy 1922-23. In 1925 he took his Conjoint Diploma immediately followed by the FRCS, and took a post as resident and registrar at the David Lewis Northern Hospital. While working there he was awarded the Lady Jones Fellowship in orthopaedic surgery, which he held from 1926 to 1928 and went on to be appointed honorary assistant surgeon to that hospital, and also honorary surgeon to the Birkenhead General Hospital and consulting surgeon to the Liverpool Teaching Hospital, positions which he held until retirement in 1964. He worked with G C E Simpson FRCS and Professor T P McMurray, whose teaching and example he found a great influence. In 1939 he became senior honorary surgeon with charge of a teaching unit at the Northern Hospital, a member of the faculty of medicine and, in 1941, lecturer in clinical surgery to Liverpool University. He joined the RNVR in 1924, and was a Surgeon-Commander when war broke out. He served throughout the war in naval hospitals in England and at Scapa Flow. In 1942 he was awarded the VRD and promoted to Surgeon-Captain. In 1944 he was appointed consultant surgeon to the Royal Navy, a position which he held for twenty years. In spite of his naval commitments he still found time for teaching and research. He was a member of the Court of Examiners from 1943 to 1949 and Hunterian Professor in 1944. On return to civil life in 1945 he resumed his hospital appointments. After the introduction of the NHS he served as a member of the board of governors of the United Liverpool Hospitals and on the advisory committee of the Regional Hospital Board. He was a member of Council of the College from 1947 to 1955 during which time he was again Hunterian Professor in 1950. He was awarded a bar to the VRD in 1949 and was made Honorary Surgeon to HM the Queen in 1952. He became a member of the Liverpool Medical Institution in 1925, and devoted himself to its service for over 40 years, holding almost every office in succession up to the presidency in 1953. In 1963 he was President of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland on the occasion of their meeting in Liverpool. In 1964 he was awarded the CBE. J B Oldham was a perfectionist who could be outspoken. Those who did not know him could be put off by his manner, but his surgical and nursing staff were loyally devoted. He was an excellent clinical teacher, particularly interested in helping ex-service men to obtain their higher examinations. Administratively he was deeply involved in the planning of the new Royal Liverpool Hospital. He had little time for leisure during his professional career, though in retirement he devoted himself to his love of gardening and in spite of progressive arthritis almost single-handed landscaped and transformed an open field at his home in North Wales into an impressive garden, much admired by his many visiting friends. As a young man he had been a notable rugby player, representing Cheshire on no fewer than 35 occasions. In retirement, when not gardening, his interests were literary, musical and in the history of medicine. He had published various papers on vascular surgery and the surgery of the autonomic system. In 1931, he married Kathleen Longton Hicks, FFARCS, consultant anaesthetist to Liverpool Teaching and Regional Hospitals. They had no children. He died suddenly on 1 March 1977, aged 77.
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First Title value, for Searching Heaton, Leonard Dudley (1902 - 1983)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-22
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Leonard Dudley Heaton was born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, on 18 November 1902, the son of George and Emma Heaton, and after early education attended Denison University at Granville, Ohio, before entering the University of Louisville, Kentucky, for his Doctor of Medicine degree, awarded in 1926. He entered the military service as a First Lieutenant in the Medical Corps Reserve on 23 July 1926 and was appointed to the regular army on 8 August 1927. He completed his internship at Letterman General Hospital, San Francisco, and then attended the Army Medical School, Washington, DC, and the Medical Field Service School at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. He quickly demonstrated his ability in surgery, serving successively on the surgical services of William Beaumont General Hospital, El Paso, Texas; Tripler General Hospital, Honolulu, Hawaii; the Station Hospital, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and the Station Hospital, Fort Francis E Warren, Wyomng, before the second world war. He saw active duty in both the Pacific and European theatres during the war. In December 1941 he was chief of surgical service at North Sector General Hospital, Hawaii, and was awarded the Legion of Merit for his skilful handling of mass casualties after the Pearl Harbour attack. He served as executive officer at Woodrow Wilson General Hospital from 1942 to 1944 when he was posted to England as Commanding Officer of the 160th General Hospital and later the 802nd Hospital Centre. After the war he attended the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and graduated with distinction in 1947. The following year he was promoted to Brigadier-General and commanded the Letterman General Hospital. In 1953 he was again promoted to Major-General and assumed command of the Walter Reed Army Medical Centre at Washington. Throughout all this time he continued to practise surgery and his patients included President Eisenhower, Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles and generals of the Army, George C Marshall and Douglas MacArthur. He contributed extensively to surgical journals and was a dedicated teacher of junior officers. In June 1959 he was appointed Surgeon-General of the United States Army by President Dwight D Eisenhower who was a warm personal friend as well as the Commander-in-Chief. He was promoted to Lieutenant-General in September 1959 and was the first Surgeon-General to hold three-star rank. His tenure was extended by President Kennedy, President Johnson and President Nixon until October 1969. During this ten year period the United States Army nearly doubled in size from 862,000 to more than a million and a half and the Army Medical Department constructed more than twenty new hospitals. His inspired leadership during the Vietnam war enabled the Medical Department to meet the many presented and the employment of helicopter evacuation of wounded soldiers resulted in 97.5 per cent of them recovering from their wounds and 80 per cent returning to duty. His country honoured his services with the Legion of Merit with two oak leaf clusters and the Distinguished Service Medal with two oak leaf clusters. The Royal Army Medical College awarded him the Guthrie Medal in March 1968 in recognition of his outstanding services to military surgery and his unfailing co-operation with the medical services of the British Army. He was elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in April 1969 when R V Cooke gave the address and Sir Hedley Atkins conferred the Honorary Diploma, commenting that the late President Eisenhower had congratulated General Heaton on receiving this award, a fact which Sir Hedley felt was a signal honour to the College. The medical professions recognised his talents with the diploma of the American Board of Surgery and Fellowships in numerous medical organisations. He was awarded honorary degrees by Denison University of Louisville, West Virginia University, Brandeis University, Massachusetts and Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania. He died on 10 September 1983, aged 80 and is survived by his wife Sara, née Richardson, whom he married on 30 June 1926, and their daughter, Sara, wife of Captain P B Mayson.
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First Title value, for Searching Stephen, Robert Alexander (1907 - 1983)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-07
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Robert Alexander Stephen was born in Elgin, Morayshire, on 20 June 1907, the son of James Alexander Stephen, MB, ChB, DPH a general practitioner who later became the first medical officer of health for mother and child welfare in Aberdeen. He was educated at East End School in Elgin and Aberdeen Grammar School before entering King's College and Marischal College. During his clinical years he came under the influence of Sir John Marnoch KCVO, of whom he often spoke in later years. He qualified in 1930 and after an appointment as house surgeon to the professor of surgery at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, came to London as house surgeon at Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital, then in the Marylebone Road. While there, he started to prepare a thesis on the use of Kielland's forceps in obstetrics which he submitted to the University of Aberdeen in 1933 and was awarded the MD degree. He also served as house surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, and came under the influence of Tyrrel Gray, Sir Lancelot Barrington-Ward and Twistington Higgins. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and received his commission in July 1934. Shortly after the outbreak of war he was posted to a Field Ambulance in France with the British Expeditionary Force and later was a surgical specialist serving in casualty clearing stations in Egypt, Libya, Greece and Crete. During the North African campaign he was one of the originators of the "Tobruk splint" and appreciated the value of immobilising wounds of the lower limb in this modification of the Thomas splint prior to evacuation of the injured to base hospitals. Later he served in 21 Army Group in NW Europe as ADMS to the 51st Highland Division. His war services were recognised by his being mentioned in despatches on three occasions. Shortly after the end of the war he returned to the Royal Army Medical College to study for the FRCS, which he passed in 1947. He was awarded the Montefiore Prize at the Royal Army Medical College in the same year. From 1951 to 1952 he was officer commanding the surgical division at the Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot, and from 1952 to 1956 he was assistant professor of military surgery at the RoyalArmy Medical College. He then became consultant surgeon to the medical directorate of GHQ Far East Land Forces until 1959. He was appointed Hunterian Professor in 1958 and returned to England to give a lecture entitled *Malignant testicular tumours*. The large audience in the Great Hall of the College was a testimony of the high esteem in which he was held. He was awarded the MS (Malaya) in 1959 and the ChM of Aberdeen University in the following year. In 1960 he was appointed director of army surgery until his retirement in 1967 and during this period he was also HM Queen's Honorary Surgeon. During the latter part of his military career he was responsible for the care of all Army staff and their dependents suffering from cancer and he forged strong links between the Queen Alexandra Military Hospital at Millbank and the radiotherapy and medical oncology units of the Westminster Hospital. Throughout his entire career he emphasised the importance of every army surgeon having a basic training in surgery, whatever specialty he intended to pursue. He took a great personal interest in the careers of junior officers and the high personal standards which he set as well as his sympathetic rapport with patients and relatives were examples to be emulated. He married Audrey Royce, a nurse from Moorfields Ophthalmic Hospital, in 1935 and there was one daughter of the marriage. His wife died in 1972 and after five lonely years he married again. Major-General Stephen died at his home on 9 July 1983 aged 76 and is survived by his widow Patricia and by his daughter Jane and stepson James.
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First Title value, for Searching Fell, Sir Matthew Henry Gregson (1872 - 1959)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-03
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born on 20 March 1872, son of John Fell JP, DL of Ulverston, Lancashire, he was educated at Sedburgh and St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he qualified in 1898. He then joined the RAMC and served throughout the South African War, being awarded the Queen's medal with four clasps and the Kind's medal with two clasps; he was also mentioned in dispatches. After a few years in the South African Constabulary, Fell returned to England and served at Aldershot and the War Office. With the outbreak of war in 1914 Fell went to France as staff officer to the Director of Medical Services in the BEF and later was ADMS to Sir Francis Treherne with the Third Army. For most of the war, however, Fell was in Mesopotamia, where he reorganised the transport of casualties from front to base. He was mentioned in dispatches eight times and was appointed CMG in 1917 and CB in 1919. In 1918 the RAF was created a separate service, and Fell was transferred to the new Air Ministry as Director of Medical Services with the rank of Air Commodore. As aviation medicine was a new specialty this was a challenging post, but within two years Fell had established the medical branch on firm lines and he was later justly proud of being the father of the RAF Medical Service. In 1921 Fell returned to the RAMC, was knighted as KCB in 1922, and for five years he held various administrative posts at home and in Egypt before being appointed Director General of Medical Services in 1926. He was Honorary Physician to King George V, 1926-29. Unfortunately the AMS at this period was severely reduced owing to economy measures, and Fell retired voluntarily in 1929 before the expiration of his term, in the rank of Lieutenant-General. He returned to his home at Ulverston where he played an active part in local affairs, serving as a Deputy Lieutenant of the County and a Justice of the Peace, and was a member of the Flyfishers Club. Fell was a born leader: he was a sound judge of character and as able an administrator as he was a doctor. A notable raconteur, he was a large burly figure with twinkling blue eyes. He married Marion Isobel, daughter of Robert Wallace, in 1908 and they had two sons and two daughters. Sir Matthew Fell died on 28 January 1959 at the age of 86.
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First Title value, for Searching Gibbons, John Robert Pelham (1926 - 1999)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-30
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Occupation Accident and emergency surgeon General practitioner Military surgeon Thoracic surgeon
Details John Gibbons was born in Moseley, Warwickshire, on 26 November 1926. His father, Leonard Norman Gibbons, who had been severely gassed in the trenches during the First World War, later became legal adviser to the Birmingham Gas Board. His mother was Gladys Elizabeth née Smith, a secretary. John was educated at Moseley Grammar School and Pates' School, Cheltenham, before enlisting in the ranks of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry in 1944. He was then commissioned in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment and, while on active service with them in Palestine, he had his first experience of battlefield casualties. He later transferred to the Guards Battalion of the Parachute Regiment, leaving Palestine for Egypt by road on the last day of the British Mandate on 14 May 1948. On completing his service, he went to Leeds Medical School, where he gained prizes in anaesthesia and clinical medicine and won the Brotherton scholarship, qualifying in 1954. He then worked as a registrar at Leeds General Hospital and also helped his brothers-in-law run their general practice. He obtained the FRCS diploma in 1960 and later, when senior registrar at the National Heart Hospital, he was one of the team who carried out the first heart transplant in the United Kingdom. He was appointed locum senior lecturer and consultant at King's College Hospital, following which he became a consultant in accident and emergency medicine at the Royal Free Hospital. This led on to his definitive appointment as surgeon to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. He managed to combine his medical career with territorial services in the Army, from 1948 to the day of his death. In Northern Ireland he was honorary surgeon to the Army and medical officer of the 10th Battalion of the Ulster Defence Regiment. He also served with the Royal Tank Regiment, the Warwickshire Yeomanry, Leeds Rifles and the Parachute Regiment, where in the late 1960's he commanded a company until it was decided he should be transferred to the RAMC. He was president of the Northern Ireland branch of the Parachute Regiment Association. During the Iran/Iraq war of the 1980s, when Britain was supporting Iraq, Gibbons was asked to go to Basra to help treat the wounded and organise the evacuation of some casualties to British hospitals. He was subsequently decorated by Iraq for his work during the conflict. He served as consultant thoracic surgeon to the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast between 1977 and 1993, becoming the pre-eminent British authority on crush, blast and missile wounds of the chest. This led to the award of a Hunterian Professorship in 1984. He published widely on chest injuries and oesophageal surgery, enjoyed teaching his juniors and acknowledged the influence of Digby Chamberlain and John Goligher in both his training and in his surgical practice. In his younger days, John had played rugby football, gaining his university colours at Headingley, and also playing for Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Derby, as well as the Territorial Army. He was also interested in shooting, travelling, railways, good food and wine. In 1952 he married Marie-Jeanne Brookes, a teacher, and they had four sons and two daughters, two of the sons being doctors.
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First Title value, for Searching Hawley, Paul Ramsey (1891 - 1965)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-11
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Paul Hawley was born on January 21, 1891, the son and grandson of doctors, and he practised with his father in the small Indiana town where he was born, and thus learned the hard way the duties of a country family doctor. He had graduated with the MD degree of the University of Cincinnati in 1914, and being early attracted to military medicine was commissioned as a First lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps, US Army, and went on active service in 1916. The following year he was appointed with the same rank in the Regular Army, and served in France for a year during the first world war. He then held various appointments in the United States, the Philippines and Nicaragua and managed also to take a course in preventive medicine at Johns Hopkins University which earned him a Doctor's degree in Public Health. From 1931 onwards he proceeded to gain wide experience and increasing responsibility in administration, a field, in which by temperament and personality he was particularly well fitted to specialize with success. In the second world war he came as the medical member of the military task group sent to England in 1941 before the United States entered the war, and later became chief surgeon in the European theatre of operations, distinguishing himself for his administrative ability, but especially for the way he cooperated with the high command of the allied forces. It was during this period that he was a frequent visitor to the College where members of the Council came to appreciate both his sterling character and his great fund of "Shaggy-dog" stories. In 1946 he retired from the Army with the rank of Major-General and became the Chief Medical Director of the Veteran's Administration, and it was in his mind to associate veterans' hospitals with medical schools. It was his obvious sincerity and integrity that won the confidence of the initially suspicious members of the participating bodies. Later he resigned from the Veterans' Administration to become the Chief Executive Officer of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield voluntary health and hospitalization insurance schemes which were favoured in the United States as the alternative to socialized medicine. And it was because he showed once more his outstanding gifts as an administrator that Arthur Allen, then Chairman of the Board of Regents, picked Paul Hawley to be Director of the American College of Surgeons to which he was appointed on 1 March 1950. The administration of the College had become comparable to that of a large industrial organization and needed a Director who would both manage that side of the College activities, and also keep the Board of Regents fully informed of College affairs, and recommend lines of future development. Hawley was at once implicated in problems concerning hospital standards and the requirements of specialist surgical training, and soon overcame the prejudices of some of the older Fellows who were critical of the appointment of a military director. Almost immediately he was called upon to act as the Executive Officer of the College in controversies over the International College of Surgeons, and also about certain practices deemed by the Regents to be unethical. In April 1956 he was one of the four representatives of the American College to come over to confer with the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons about the foundation of the International Federation of Surgical Colleges. Paul Hawley was awarded many well deserved honours, including the Distinguished Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, and the Bronze Star Medal for Military Service; honorary degrees from several universities; the honorary Fellowships of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Edinburgh, and of the Royal College of Physicians of London; as well as the honorary membership of several medical and surgical societies. He retired from the Directorship of the American College of Surgeons in January 1961, and with his wife Lydia went to live at Shady Side, Maryland, where he was ideally happy on the shore of Chesapeake Bay with his boat moored close by. Unfortunately his happiness was cut short by malignant disease, and he died in Walter Reed General Hospital on 24 November 1965, and was buried with full military honours at Arlington Cemetery, Washington DC.
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First Title value, for Searching Steele-Perkins, Derek Duncombe (1908 - 1994)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-02
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Derek Steele-Perkins was born on 19 June 1908, the son and grandson of West Country doctors. He trained in Edinburgh where he represented the University in athletics. He wrestled for Devon and also played rugby for the county and the Royal Navy, missing a trial for the England XV when he was posted to the China station. He served on the river gunboat *Mantis*, patrolling the Yangtse and West rivers. He had enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1932 after house surgeon appointments at the Gloucester Royal Infirmary and the Hammersmith Hospital. During his service in China he noted that it was quite improper for him to examine Chinese women in person, and any diagnosis had to proceed by passing an ivory female figurine back and forth behind a screen in order to 'tell doctor where it hurts'. In late 1936 he returned from China and was posted to the guardships which were being stationed in the Spanish ports to secure the lives of British tourists, residents and refugees from the civil war. The next year he returned to HMS *Ganges*, a seaman boys' training establishment at Shotley. Normal leave was not granted to him between the two postings but he managed to get sick leave so that his planned marriage to Joan Boddan of Birkdale did not have to be cancelled! Two years later he went to sea again on the cadet training cruiser *Vindictive*, returning at the outbreak of war to Haslar. From 1940 to 1944 he worked as a surgeon at the naval hospital at Chatham. He was posted to the Pacific in 1944 where he qualified as a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. He became senior surgical specialist to the Royal Naval Hospital at Bighi in Malta prior to his appointment to the Royal Yacht for the Royal Commonwealth tours of 1952, 1953-4, and later 1959 to Australia, New Zealand, Tonga, Fiji and Ceylon. During this time he was appointed CVO. He was travelling surgeon to the Queen during these protracted voyages, and on subsequent ones to India and Canada. He was with Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip when the news of the death of King George VI was received at the Treetops guest house, and they then had to return to the United Kingdom. He returned to Chatham to become surgeon captain until 1959 and was then promoted to senior surgical specialist until 1961, in which year he was created Queen's Honorary Surgeon. He returned to Haslar in command and then became surgeon rear admiral to the medical directorship of the navy in 1963. As surgeon vice admiral he successfully argued against the attempted amalgamation of the three armed forces. He put the case that the problems of naval warfare, with the addition of the special problems of extensive submarine warfare and the recently introduced nuclear deterrent, all justified a specialist medical service - the Royal Naval Medical Service. This view prevailed and, despite repeated cuts, still prevails. He was a delightful man to work for - clear minded, objective, considerate and with a subtle sense of humour. After retirement he worked as a consultant chairing medical assessment boards. A keen sailor, he owned a number of Contessa class cruising yachts - at the age of 70 he crossed the Atlantic from the Bahamas in a 42 foot yacht. He was an effective Commodore of the Royal Lymington Yacht Club and chairman of the local Red Cross and RNLI committees. He died on 9 December 1994, his wife having predeceased him in 1985. He was survived by his three daughters and a nephew, now a surgeon captain.
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First Title value, for Searching Hayden, Arthur Falconer (1877 - 1940)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-03 2022-11-03
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Occupation Anaesthetist General surgeon Pathologist Military surgeon Bacteriologist
Details Born 24 August 1877 at Frogmoor House, High Wycombe, Bucks, in the house where his grandfather, William Hayden, LSA 1837, MRCS 1856, and his father, William Gallimore Hayden, MRCS 1863, had successively practised medicine. His mother was Elizabeth Matilda, daughter of William Falconer, who founded the Union Castle line to South Africa, and he was the fourth child of the marriage. Educated at the Grammar School, High Wycombe, when George Peachell was headmaster, he entered St Mary's Hospital, London, with the entrance scholarship and acted as a prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons. He served as house surgeon and assistant anaesthetist at St Mary's Hospital and as pathologist at the County Asylum, Winwick, Lancashire. He was gazetted lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service on 1 September 1905, and during his course in the Army Medical School won the Montefiore medal for military surgery and the Martin gold medal. Proceeding to India he was promoted captain on 1 September 1908, but was placed on temporary half pay on 23 January 1910 after an attack of poliomyelitis, which obliged him ever afterwards to use a mechanical chair for locomotion. He retired on 23 January 1912. Returning to England he undertook work at St Mary's Hospital as pathologist to the venereal disease department and as an assistant in the inoculation department. He married Ruth Lacey on 14 April 1912; she survived him with two sons and a daughter. He died on 8 March 1940 at 4 Graham Road, Hendon, NW4. Publications:- An inquiry into the influence of the constituents of a bacterial emulsion on the opsonic index. *Proc Roy Soc Lond*. 1911, B, 84, 320. Relative value of human and guinea pig complement in the Wassermann reaction. *Brit J exper Path*. 1922, 3, 151. **See below for an expanded version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 2 of Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk** Arthur Falconer Hayden was a surgeon in the Indian Medical Service who, after contracting polio, later joined the inoculation department at St Mary’s Hospital, London, where he worked under the influential immunologist Sir Almroth Wright. Hayden was born on 24 August 1877 at Frogmoor House in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Both his father, William Gallimore Hayden, and paternal grandfather, William Henry Hayden, were doctors. William Gallimore Hayden trained at Charing Cross Hospital, qualified in 1863, and became the medical officer at the Little Marlow District and Workhouse Wycombe Union. William Henry Hayden was a medical officer for the 12th District Wycombe Union. Hayden’s mother was Elizabeth Matilda Hayden née Falconer. Hayden was educated locally in High Wycombe and then studied medicine at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School with an entrance scholarship. He was a prosector at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He qualified with the conjoint examination in 1900, and subsequently gained a MB degree with honours in materia medica and forensic medicine, and a BS in 1904. He was an assistant demonstrator of anatomy, chemistry and pathology and a prosector in anatomy at St Mary’s, and went on to become a house surgeon at Newport and Monmouthshire Hospital and an assistant medical officer and pathologist at the County Asylum, Winwick. He was subsequently an assistant anaesthetist and house surgeon back at St Mary’s. He joined the Indian Medical Service on 1 September 1905 as a lieutenant. During his studies at the Army Medical School he won the Montefiore medal and prize for military surgery and the Martin gold medal for tropical medicine. He gained his FRCS in 1906 and became a specialist in advanced operative surgery. On 1 September 1908 he was promoted to captain. His military career came to end when he caught poliomyelitis. He was placed on half pay on 23 January 1910 and retired from the Indian Medical Service two years later. He returned to St Mary’s, where he was recommended for a job in the inoculation department by his friend Alexander Fleming. In 1917 Hayden became a pathologist in the newly opened venereal diseases department at St Mary’s, taking over from Fleming who had returned to military service. Hayden wrote ‘An inquiry into the influence of the constituents of a bacterial emulsion on the opsonic index’ *Proc Roy Soc Lond* 1911 B 84 320 and ‘Relative value of human and guinea pig complement in the Wassermann reaction’ *Brit J Exper Path* 1922 3 151. In 1939 he wrote ‘Acute conjunctivitis caused by a gram-negative diplococcus resembling the gonococcus’ *Brit J Vener Dis* 1939 Jan; 15(1):45-54 with his son. Hayden died on 8 March 1940 in Hendon, Middlesex. He was 62. He was survived by his widow Ruth Campbell Hayden née Lacey, originally from New Jersey, whom he had married in 1912, and their sons Arthur Falconer and Roger Keith, who both qualified as doctors. Hayden and his wife also had a son, William John, who died in 1916 aged just one month. Sarah Gillam
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First Title value, for Searching Collins, Frederick Michael (1900 - 1973)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-30 2015-05-08
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details The following was published in volume 5 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Born at Poona in India on 5 September 1900 son of Denis Collins (afterwards Major-General) RAMC, he was educated at Stoneyhurst College, Pembroke College Cambridge, and King's College Hospital Medical School, whence he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1922, graduating in medicine and surgery at Cambridge in 1924. After resident posts at King's College Hospital he joined the RAMC winning the Montefiore and Tropical Medicine Prizes while training at Millbank. He took the Fellowship in 1928, and was posted to India as a surgical specialist; promoted to Captain, and with a fine future before him in the RAMC, Collins was offered the post of personal surgeon to the Viceroy, Lord Willingdon, and transferred to the IMS. After only two years at the Viceregal Lodge, Collins was posted to the Madras Presidency with the brevet rank of Major. During leave between the two posts he took the MCh at Cambridge in 1934. He was sent to outlying districts to gain experience, but while at Ootamacund he pricked a finger while operating and incurred infection which threatened his life and necessitated amputation of the finger from his right hand. He was however appointed Professor of Operative Surgery at Madras and second surgeon to the General Hospital. In 1940 he became Professor of Surgery and Principal of Andhra Medical College, but was recalled to military duty because of the increasing demands of the second world war, and served in command of the surgical divisions of Army Hospitals in Assam and later at Dehra Dun. At the end of the war in 1945 he succeeded Grant Massie as Consulting Surgeon, India Command, which was by that time a mainly administrative post. He retired in the rank of Colonel when India became independent in 1947, and joined the Ministry of National Insurance in London, where before long he became Deputy Chief Medical Officer, forming and developing a new department to deal with the medical aspects of National Insurance and later taking over the medical side of the Ministry of Pensions. When he retired from the Ministry he carried on medical board work at Roehampton. Collins married Vera Curzon in 1927, they had a son and daughter, but Mrs Collins died after long and tragic illness in 1964, to his great grief. He married secondly in 1965 Marion, widow of J R Galvin. They settled at 24 Buillards Oak, Midhurst, Sussex, where after eight happy years he died on 5 November 1973 aged seventy-three, survived by his wife and the children of his first marriage. A requiem mass was celebrated at St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Midhurst on 9 November 1973. Freddy Collins was a fine operative surgeon and an able administrator, conscientious, systematic and industrious. He was always cooperative and loyal to his colleagues in military and civil service. The following was published in volume 6 of Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Frederick Collins was born on 5 September 1900 in Poona, India, the only son of Denis Joseph Collins, physician and surgeon, Major General, Army Medical Service and Julie Furgius, née Rearden, whose father was a wine merchant and importer. He was educated from 1910 to 1912 at Belaeden College, Dublin, and was at Stonyhurst College from 1912 to 1917. He went up to Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1917. In 1920 he entered King's College Hospital, where he obtained the Burney-Yeo Scholarship in anatomy and physiology. After holding resident surgical posts at King's he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and during his training period at the Millbank College won the Montefiore and tropical medicine prizes. After passing the Final FRCS in 1928 he was posted to India as a military surgical specialist. In 1933, the Countess of Willingdon, the Vicereine, on learning that he was the son of her old friend General Collins, persuaded Captain Collins to apply for a transfer to the Indian Medical Service with the object of making him personal surgeon to the Viceroy; this move may have been unfortunate as Collins' qualifications and administrative ability would probably have helped him to attain high rank in his father's old service. After two years at Viceregal Lodge, Collins was posted to the Madras Presidency. He had expected a teaching post, but was sent for some time to gain experience in outlying districts. At Ootacamund he pricked a finger while operating and developed a severe infection which led to the amputation of a finger on his right hand. Before the outbreak of the second world war he was appointed Professor of Operative Surgery and second surgeon at Madras General Hospital and in 1940 became Professor of Surgery. He was transferred to the Andhra Medical College as Principal and Professor of Surgery. On being recalled to military service in 1942 he did excellent work as an officer commanding surgical divisions of general hospitals in Assam and at Dehra Dun. In 1945 he succeeded Grant Massie as consulting surgeon, India Command. On the grant of independence to India he returned to the United Kingdom and joined the administrative staff of the Ministry of Pensions and rose to become Deputy Chief Medical Officer. Outside his medical career his main interests were rugby, tennis and golf. He married first, in 1927, Vera Isobel Curzon, who died in 1964, and second in 1965, Marion Galvin, nee Arrow, who survived him. He died on 5 November 1973, leaving one son and one daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Moffat, Sir Cameron William (1929 - 2014)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by R P Craig
Publication Date 2014-08-15 2015-03-13
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Sir Cameron Moffat had the unique distinction of being the country's first surgeon general since the death of John Hunter in 1793. The post had lapsed until 1985, when he was appointed to the role. He was born on 8 September 1929 in Glasgow, the son of William Weir Moffat, a civil servant, and his wife Margaret Robertson (née Garrett). He was educated at King's Park School in Glasgow. During the second world war he was evacuated to the Isle of Bute, where he attended Rothesay Academy. He went on to Glasgow University, where his elder brother, (John) Stewart, had preceded him in the faculty of medicine. As a student he was a most accomplished rower and had been selected to represent his country at the 1954 Commonwealth Games but, as this would have entailed losing a year of university, his father vetoed his involvement. He qualified MB ChB in 1952 with a distinction in surgery, and held house posts at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow. Audrey Acquroff Watson had attracted his attention whilst acting in a play produced by a girls' school alongside King's Park. They were married in 1953. They had one son, Christopher, who became a histopathologist. Sir Cameron's military career began during his National Service as medical officer to the Seaforth Highlanders based at Fort George and, such was the respect at that time for regimental medical officers, he was allocated a particularly smart and spacious quarter even as a lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC). He extended the normal two-year period of National Service by taking a three-year short service commission, being promoted to captain and ending as a senior medical officer, Edinburgh district, in the rank of acting major. Once he was demobilised, he joined his brother Stewart in general practice in Carlisle, but later moved to Orpington, where he realised that NHS general practice was not for him. His recent military experience, along with the camaraderie, his delight in dealing with Scottish soldiers and their families, and the whole professional ethos of the Army, remained so attractive that he decided to rejoin on a regular commission. He was warmly welcomed back by the RAMC in the substantive rank of captain. Having completed his short service commission, he had been awarded a gratuity. Rather meanly, the Army tried to recover it. Initially, repayment of this money was required in order for him to be granted a regular commission, although by sheer charm, tenacity and tough negotiation he was able to defer doing so until he retired more than 30 years later. This 'canny' Scot was already learning how to influence the military hierarchy. After re-joining, he attended a junior officers' course, coming second overall and winning the Michener, Tulloch and Parkes prizes. He passed the diploma in tropical medicine and hygiene and, after the primary fellowship in 1961, he began his surgical training. He benefitted greatly from secondments to Ian Aird's world-famous surgical unit at the Postgraduate Medical School based at the Hammersmith Hospital, London, and also with Peter London at the Birmingham Accident Hospital. The latter was the only dedicated accident hospital at that time in the country, and Peter London was the leading advocate for the training of trauma surgeons. These attachments were hugely helpful and became a powerful influence in his later surgical career. Tragically, Aird died unexpectedly shortly after Sir Cameron's secondment, but by then he had been imbued with the former's intellect, sagacity, wise judgement and surgical skills, which followed him throughout his career. Intermingled with these secondments, Sir Cameron also served in junior surgical posts at the Queen Alexandra's Military Hospital at Millbank, the Royal Herbert at Woolwich, and the Cambridge Military Hospital at Aldershot. He passed his FRCS in 1963, just before his posting to British Military Hospital Taiping in Malaya. Sir Cameron Moffat was unique amongst UK military surgeons by being seconded to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) base's 4 Field Hospital at Butterworth in north Malaya during the height of the Australasian deployment to the Vietnam War. A joint Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) force held their area of ground in the Phuoc Tuy region of the country and RAAF Butterworth acted as a close back up base surgical support facility during the evacuation of casualties from the field hospitals prior to their repatriation to Australasia. There is no doubt that he honed his military surgical skills dealing with gunshot wounds of all types whilst there and these formed an excellent platform for his subsequent career in military surgery. There is an anecdotal story about him arranging for the Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers' workshop at Butterworth to build a fairly primitive external fixator for the treatment of a clean long bone fracture. Despite being warned that using such transcutaneous metalwork in the tropics would be bound to lead to infection, he nevertheless undertook the procedure, which proved highly successful. This was of course well before the concept of external fixation of fractures had achieved a degree of popularity in the UK and elsewhere. The technique has since proved to be extremely useful in the temporary management of complex soft tissue and bony injuries inflicted by the recent generation of the weapons of war. On his return from Malaya in 1967, he was posted to the British Military Hospital in Rinteln in Lower Saxony, West Germany, as a consultant surgeon. One way and another he spent three tours there. In the late 1960s the quality of expertise of surgeons in the British Army of the Rhine hospitals was measured in large part by those cases which needed to be referred back to the United Kingdom, usually to the Queen Alexandra Military Hospital in London or the Cambridge Military Hospital in Aldershot. In Sir Cameron's case these were few in number, in comparison to his surgical colleagues at that time in posts in Germany. It became evident that Sir Cameron's surgical skills and experience at Rinteln held him in extremely good stead and his reputation as a highly experienced, meticulous and knowledgeable surgeon grew during that tour. Thus, with his unique experiences in Malaya during the Vietnam War and the fairly wide surgical experience offered by the military hospitals in Germany, he became an obvious contender at the relatively young age of 41 for the highly prestigious post of joint professor of military surgery for the Royal Army Medical College at Millbank and the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1970. He held this post for five years, during which time he was promoted to colonel and was awarded an OBE in recognition of his contribution to advances in the treatment of missile injuries. Behind this was the work he supervised at Porton Down into the pathological effects of high velocity missiles. 1970 to 1975 was the time when the bombs, bullets and improvised explosive devices being used by the IRA in the north of Ireland came to the fore and he was instrumental in recording and analysing their effects and issuing appropriate guidelines as to their best surgical management, saving many soldiers' and marines' lives in the process. Whilst joint professor at the RCS and the Royal Army Medical College, he was also consultant surgeon at Queen Alexandra Military Hospital. He delighted in teaching a whole string of junior surgeons whilst there, the writer of this obituary being but one. He also consolidated links with the Cade radiotherapy/oncology unit at the Westminster Hospital. After the professorship he returned to Rinteln, West Germany, as a senior consultant surgeon. He and Audrey were given the same Army quarter in Droste-Hülshoff-Strasse and they re-inherited the splendid garden that they had been instrumental in setting up on their previous tour. Initially, he felt he had been side-lined, but his enthusiasm returned once he was selected as commanding officer of the hospital, in 1978. This was an appointment he loved, bringing as it did direct personal contact with the non-medical hierarchy of the British Army of the Rhine, but also the power and legal authority instilled in the position of a commanding officer. Due to his outstanding performance, he was promoted to brigadier and became deputy director medical services at 1st British Corps based at Bielefeld in West Germany. This headquarters was well recognised throughout the Army as being the testing ground for brigadiers from the regiments, corps and services with the potential for further advancement and was a hot bed of rivalries, backbiting and a generally highly competitive spirit. The wives added to this spirit of competitiveness at the Bielefeld Flower Club, referred to by all as the 'power club'. Audrey of course, thrived in this environment. It was soon obvious that he had been picked out for further advancement and from Bielefeld he was promoted to major-general and became principal medical officer (as the title was at that time) to the United Kingdom Land Forces based at Wilton near Salisbury. It was during this tour that yet another attempt was being made by the then Government to make savings from the Defence Medical Services. Sir Henry Yellowlees, a former chief medical officer, was instructed to head a team to inspect the three medical services. Sir Cameron managed to convince Yellowlees and his team that having 35% empty beds in the military hospitals both in West Germany and in the UK was necessary to leave enough slack to absorb casualties in the event of an unexpected conflict. There was at that time (and many before it) a very great push to try and amalgamate all the three medical services, and the first step in this direction was the establishment, for the first time since John Hunter, of a surgeon general for all three armed services. This appointment was also combined with the post of director general of the Army Medical Services, thereby saving the cost of a three star general. Sir Cameron was appointed to these posts in 1985 and served for three years. This was not perhaps his favourite period as he felt that he was unable to implement his ideas or will. Many in the Army felt he had bent over backwards in favour of the other two medical services, rather than appearing to be partisan in favour of the Army. He felt, as did many ex-commanding officers, that he had more powers during his period of command at Rinteln than he did as a three star general. He was deservedly decorated by being appointed as The Queen's Honorary Surgeon in 1983. He was awarded a KBE in 1985, made a Commander of the Order of St John (also in 1985) and in 1991 he was presented with an honorary DSc from Glasgow University. In 1994, as chief medical officer of the Red Cross, a role he took on once he had left the Army, he was awarded the Queen's Badge of Honour. On retirement, he and Audrey sold their house in Chislehurst in 1988 and moved to Kippax at Freshwater on the Isle of Wight, where they lived in a gorgeous cottage, again with a large garden transformed over the years by them both, in a manner rather similar to their garden in Rinteln. Many felt that the strip of water separating the Isle of Wight had sadly moved them a long way from the rest of the Services' medical fraternity, but they both appeared very content there. Occasional visits there were rendered all the more special by their continuing hospitality and Audrey's cooking. Tragedy struck initially on 21 June 2014, when Audrey was admitted with intestinal obstruction to the hospital in Newport, Isle of Wight, and sadly died suddenly from complications of a colonic cancer she had suffered some 20 years earlier. Shortly after this, Sir Cameron fell downstairs in the cottage, breaking his hip and would appear to have suffered a pulmonary embolus a few days later. He died on 29 June 2014, aged 84. A very well-attended double funeral was arranged for them both. Sir Cameron was a marvellous teacher, mentor and adviser, and was instrumental in guiding many of his juniors through to senior positions later in their careers. He also had the ability of becoming genuinely great friends with his juniors and many a delightful evening was spent over the bridge table, punctuated every now and then by Audrey's capacity to revoke, causing Sir Cameron to explode 'Awe Aud'! He will be remembered with deep affection by all who came under his wing and particularly by his junior surgeons.
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First Title value, for Searching Goodwin, Sir Thomas Herbert John Chapman (1871 - 1960)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-10
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Born on 24 May 1871, at Kandy, Ceylon, John Goodwin was the eldest son of Surgeon-Major John Goodwin, Army Medical Staff, and Mario Agnes Power, and was educated at Newton College, Devon and at St Mary's Hospital, London where he qualified in 1892. The following year he was commissioned in the Army Medical Service. As a staff surgeon in the Mohmand field force in the North-West Frontier of India, Goodwin was mentioned in dispatches and awarded the DSO for gallantry in the battle of Shabkadar in 1897. At the outbreak of the First World War Goodwin was in command of No 4 Field Ambulance, which was attached to the Cavalry Division and he took part in the Retreat from Mons. Shortly after this Goodwin was appointed ADMS of the 2nd Cavalry Division, and he was present at the battles of Ypres and took part in the fighting on the Somme. He was three times mentioned in dispatches, was appointed CMG in 1915 and promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. For a period he was in command of No14 General Hospital at Wimereux. In 1917 Goodwin became Assistant Director-General of Medical Services and was promoted to the rank of Major-General. He was appointed to accompany Balfour's mission to the United States of America as representative of the Army Medical Department. His tact, urbanity, and knowledge of medical requirements at the Front made a great impression, and he did much to further co-operation between the American and British medical services. In 1918 Goodwin was appointed Deputy Director-General of the AMS and in the same year he succeeded Sir Alfred Keogh as Director-General and became President of the Army Medical Advisory Board. The same month he was appointed CB for valuable services rendered during the war and was promoted to KCB in 1919. Goodwin retired from the post of Director-General in 1923, and in 1927 he was appointed Honorary Surgeon to King George V. A new branch of the medical service had come into being during the war, the Army Dental Service, and in January 1928 Goodwin was appointed the first Colonel Commandant. In 1927 he was appointed Governor of the State of Queensland in succession to Sir Matthew Nathan GCMG. This was a great honour, for only once before had a medical man become the Governor of an Australian State. Goodwin carried out his duties with tact, enthusiasm and zeal and his retirement in 1932 caused widespread regret. He married in 1897 Lilian Isabel, daughter of James Torrance Ronaldson of Howick Grange, Northumberland who survived him. There were no children. His younger brother Colonel W R P Goodwin, formerly ADG of the Army Medical Service, died in 1958. Goodwin who lived at the Ivy House Hotel, Marlborough in his later years, died on 29 September 1960 at the age of 89.
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First Title value, for Searching Poate, Sir Hugh Raymond Guy (1884 - 1961)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

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Publication Date 2014-04-28
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon
Details Born on 18 January 1884 he was educated at Sydney Grammar School, matriculating in 1901. Early in his medical course he showed his interest in practical work and shared the Haswell Prize for practical biology, winning the John Harris scholarship in his third year. He was top in the fourth and fifth years and graduated with honours in 1907. During his vacations he worked in the physiological laboratory investigating the function of the thyroid and pituitary gland but he was also a keen baseball player, an original member of the University Scouts and secretary of the University Medical Society, editing its journal and becoming its President in 1907. After qualifying he commenced duty as resident medical officer at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital but continued his research work at the same time and in addition carried out all the routine pathology of his wards. In 1908 he came to England and, in 1909, became the first graduate of Sydney University to be admitted as a Fellow of the English College. On his return he was appointed a demonstrator of anatomy and remained associated with that department for many years. He was appointed to the surgical staff of the Royal Prince Alfred in 1911 and remained there until 1938. Having joined the Australian Army Medical Corps in 1909, when war broke out in 1914 he helped recruit the first field ambulance which embarked with the original convoy bound for Gallipoli, where he gained early commendation for his handling of the many casualties whom he conveyed back to Alexandria, making many trips and operating continuously. In 1915 he set up a dressing station on Anzac beach where he remained until the night of the final evacuation of the Dardanelles. Returning to Egypt as a Major, he was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel attached to the 3rd Australian General Hospital which in 1916 was transferred to England and later to France. Poate went to a British Casualty Clearing Station near Ypres until the end of 1917, when he was invalided back to Australia and put in charge of the military beds in the Prince Alfred Hospital. After the war he was appointed consulting surgeon to the Royal Australian Air Force in 1929, and in the war of 1939-45 served as a Group-Captain. When after the war the Duke of Gloucester was Governor-General, Poate was selected to operate on the Duchess; for this service he was made a Member of the Victorian Order in 1947. He was a foundation fellow of the Australasian College in 1927 and its President from 1945-47, having been a member of Council for many years. He found time for many other activities. He joined the Order of St John as a divisional surgeon in 1913 and by 1926 was Assistant Commissioner. In 1929 he became Commissioner, and in 1935 was created a Knight of the Order of St John, ultimately becoming Sub-Prior in Australia; receiving from the Queen the Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order he became therefore Chancellor of the Priory in Australia. As a surgeon it was probably in the field of thyroid surgery that he was particularly expert, but in all fields he excelled. A methodical, rapid and tireless worker always ready to accept new ideas and new methods, he was honest sometimes to the point of bluntness but essentially kind and full of common sense. A good horticulturist he grew magnificent orchids at his country home, Semiramis. His later years were clouded by illness and unfortunately he lost the support of his wife Aida, a Greek lady who died in 1951. His first wife had died many years earlier. He was survived by three sons and a daughter; one son is James Poate FRCS. He died on 27 January 1961 aged 77 in Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney.
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First Title value, for Searching Drummond, Sir William Alexander Duncan (1901 - 1988)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

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Publication Date 2015-05-08
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon Military surgeon
Details William Alexander Duncan Drummond was born in Cape Town on 16 September 1901 where his father was then working for the Anglo-American Tobacco Company. The family later returned to England. Having initially studied engineering and lost two fingers of his left hand in an accident at the Liverpool shipyards, he completed his education at Dundee and qualified in medicine from St Andrew's University. While there he was a member of the University Officers' Training Corps. After joining the RAMC in 1925 he did two five year spells in India interrupted by an appointment as a territorial army adjutant in Chelsea when he developed his interest and skills in otorhinolaryngology as a registrar at Charing Cross Hospital. During the mid-1930s in India, when faced with a patient who had respiratory paralysis following a snake bite, he showed considerable enterprise by getting an "iron lung" made locally from two large oil drums welded together and powered by a vacuum cleaner. On the outbreak of the second world war he took over the RAF hospital at Sarafand, in Palestine, which was then expanded into a 1200 bed army hospital where new staff were trained and a central medical store was organised. He was also responsible for some of the Polish medical units which arrived from Syria after the fall of France, and he ran a hospital train between Haifa and the Canal area. He moved to Iraq and Iran "Paiforce" in 1942 where he was ADMS (Assistant Director of Medical Services) with the Poles in 10 Corps and commanded No 31 Indian General Hospital. In the following year he commanded the British Military Hospital at Taranto, Italy, and later ended up in Trieste. During that period he formed close relationships with the Yugoslays and their medical services, subsequently receiving both the Polish and Yugoslav decorations. After the war he went to Millbank as adviser in otorhinolaryngology from 1946 to 1949, and then, from 1949 to 1952, as commanding officer of Queen Alexandra Military Hospital. During that time he developed his plans for higher medical training in the Army, and also some firm views on hospital standards which later became a dominant theme. He was then sent to Malaya as assistant director of medical services during the height of the communist terrorist campaign. It is said that he made an immediate impression on the army commander, General Sir Gerald Templar, by telling him "If you don't like my methods you had better send me home for another doctor". But they worked very successfully together and Drummond's experience and style was admirably suited to coping with the generalised ringworm, scrub typhus, leptospirosis, malaria and encephalitis which plagued the British and Gurkha troops then fighting the communist bandits. He also helped set up the Lady Templar Hospital for Gurkhas. On returning home he became Director-General of Army Medical Services from 1956-1961 when he enthusiastically worked a seven day week and insisted on expanding the standards of medical training throughout all ranks of the RAMC. He also, though much ahead of his time and not without some opposition from the sceptics, pioneered a central sterile supply system for dressings and instruments throughout the Army. On retiring from the Army Medical Service he became Colonel Commandant of the RAMC from 1961 to 1966 and president of various general hospitals with which he had been earlier associated. He did much for the Order of St John of which he was made deputy commissioner and wrote a first aid training textbook for the St John Ambulance Brigade. He also did a great amount of research into the medals won by members of the RAMC and their medical predecessors. Alex Drummond had a reputation for being straightforward, direct, and even blunt, in his pursuit of high standards. His drive and restless energy charcterised his whole career. He never sought popularity but won loyalty from his juniors and respect from all who came in contact with him. His further honours included the award of OBE in 1945, with advance to CBE in 1951; the CB in 1954, and then KBE in 1957. He was also honorary surgeon to the Queen; a Knight of the Order of St John; honorary LID Birmingham University in 1959, and of the Punjab University in 1950. He and his wife Mabel (née Fullinger) first met as undergraduates at St Andrew's when she was training in biochemistry and they were married in 1929. They had no children and when he died, aged 87, on 20 September 1988, his wife survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Guthrie, George James (1785 - 1856)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born in London on May 1st, 1785. His grandfather, a Scotsman, served with the army at the Battle of the Boyne. His father succeeded his maternal uncle, a retired Naval Surgeon, as manager of a business for the sale of lead plaister. Guthrie learnt French from the Abbé Noel when quite a boy, and spoke it so perfectly that he was often mistaken in after-life for an émigré. At the age of 13 he accidentally came under the notice of John Rush, Inspector of Regimental Hospitals, who had him apprenticed to Dr Phillips, a surgeon in Pall Mall. He attended the Windmill Street School of Medicine, and was one of those into whose arms William Cruikshank - Dr Johnson's 'sweet-blooded man' - fell when he was delivering his last lecture on the brain on June 27th, 1800. From June, 1800, to March, 1801, Guthrie served as Hospital Mate at the York Hospital, Chelsea, which then occupied what is now a part of Eaton Square. Surgeon General Thomas Keate issued an order that all hospital mates must be members of the newly formed College of Surgeons. Guthrie presented himself for examination on the day following the issue of the order, was examined by Keate himself, and made so favourable an impression that he was at once posted to the 29th Regiment. He was then 16 years of age; his Colonel was 24 - but, notwithstanding, it was generally agreed that no regiment was better commanded or better doctored. Guthrie accompanied the 29th Regiment to North America as Assistant Surgeon, remained there until 1807, then returned to England with the regiment and was immediately ordered out to the Peninsula. There he served until 1814, seeing much service and earning the especial commendation of the Duke of Wellington. He acted as Principal Medical Officer at the Battle of Albuera, though he was only 26 years old, and one evening had on his hands 3000 wounded with four wagons, and such equipment as regimental surgeons carried in their panniers, and the nearest village seven miles away. He was appointed in 1812 to act as Deputy Inspector of Hospitals, but the Medical Board in London refused to confirm the appointment on the ground of his youth. He was placed on half pay at the end of the campaign, began to practise privately in London, and attended the lectures of Charles Bell and Benjamin Brodie at the Windmill Street School of Medicine. He hastened to Brussels directly after the Battle of Waterloo in June, 1815, was received enthusiastically by his former comrades, amputated at the hip with success, extracted a bullet from the bladder, and tied the peroneal artery by cutting down upon it through the calf muscles, the latter operation being afterwards known as 'Guthrie's bloody operation'. On his return to London he was placed in charge of two clinical wards at the York Hospital [The Duke's or York Hospital - military - was in Grosvenor Place where Hobart Place now is], with a promise that the most severe surgical cases should be sent to him. He discharged this duty for two years, during which he was amongst the first in England to use lithotrity. He also began a course of lectures which was continued gratuitously to all medical officers of the public services for the next twenty years. At the end of the first course, 1816-1817, the medical officers of the Army, Navy, and the Ordnance presented him with a fine silver loving-cup appropriately inscribed. The cup has become an heirloom in the family of Henry Power (qv), to whom it was presented by his last surviving child, Miss Guthrie. In 1816 Guthrie was instrumental in establishing an Infirmary for Diseases of the Eye, which became 'The Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital', long situated in King William Street, Strand, next to the Charing Cross Hospital, but removed in 1928 to Broad Street, Bloomsbury. Guthrie was appointed Surgeon and remained attached to the hospital until 1838, when he resigned in favour of his son, C W G Guthrie (qv) [but retained his connection with the hospital until 1856]. In 1823 he was elected Assistant Surgeon to Westminster Hospital, becoming full surgeon in 1827, when the Governors made a fourth Surgeon to mark their esteem for his surgical reputation and personal character. He resigned his office in 1843, again to make way for his son. At the Royal College of Surgeons Guthrie was a Member of Council from 1824-1856, a Member of the Court of Examiners from 1828-1856, Chairman of the Midwifery Board in 1853, Hunterian Orator in 1830, Vice-President five times, and President in 1833, 1841, and 1854. He was Hunterian Professor of Anatomy, Physiology, and Surgery from 1828-1832. He was elected FRS in 1827. He married twice and had two sons and one daughter, none of whom left issue. He died suddenly on his birthday - May Day 1856, and was buried at Kensal Green. [See entry for his younger son Charles W G Guthrie; the elder son Lowry Guthrie (1814-48) became a clergyman, see Venn's Alumni Cantabrigienses.] Guthrie is described as a man of active and robust frame, keen and energetic in appearance, with remarkably piercing black eyes. Shrewd and quick, he was at times very outspoken and somewhat inconsiderate in regard to other people's feelings; but behind his military brusqueness was much kindness of heart. He was very popular as a lecturer, his lectures being full of anecdotes and illustrative cases, and his Hunterian Oration is memorable; it was given fluently and without notes, as was afterwards done by Sir James Paget, Savory, Henry Power, Butlin, and Moynihan. He was noted for his coolness as an operator and for the delicacy of his manipulations. His unrivalled experience in military surgery, gained during the later years of the Peninsular War and at the most receptive period of his life, justly entitles him to be called 'the English Larrey'. It enabled him to advance the science and practice of surgery more than any other army surgeon since the days of Richard Wiseman. Before his time it was usual to treat gunshot wounds of the thigh by placing the limb on its side. Guthrie introduced the straight splint. He differed from John Hunter in the treatment of gunshot injuries requiring amputation. Hunter was in favour of the secondary operation; Guthrie advocated immediate removal of the limb. After Albuera he introduced the practice of tying both ends of a wounded artery at the seat of the injury; Hunter contented himself with its ligature above the wound. Guthrie also advocated the destruction with mineral acids of the diseased tissues in cases of 'hospital gangrene'. In connection with ophthalmic surgery he taught that the cataracting lens should be extracted, not 'couched', and he was one of the first to describe congenital opacity of the lens. He was heterodox in the treatment of syphilis for he recommended that mercury should not be used, and his advice was largely followed by his pupils. At the College of Surgeons he was in favour of Reform, and did much to secure the passing of the Anatomy Act in 1832. He was opposed to the Charter of 1843. A life-size half-length portrait by Henry Room (1802-1850) hangs in the Secretary's Office at the Royal College of Surgeons. It was presented by his daughter, Miss Guthrie, in 1870. There is a bust by E Davis, also presented by Miss Guthrie in 1870; there are two copies of a fine mezzotint in the College Collection. The plate was engraved by William Walker after Room, and was published by the London Publishing Co on May 10th, 1853. A crayon portrait by Count D'Orsay is in the Westminster Hospital. There is also a clever but rather spiteful pencil sketch in the College Collection. It represents Guthrie lecturing on emphysema - May 6th, 1830 - "Mr Guthrie's 11th Lecture" appears in the handwriting of William Clift below the sketch. It is initialled T M S in the bottom right-hand corner. It was probably made by T Madden Stone, Library Assistant in 1832, who was unfriendly to Guthrie - and not without reason. PUBLICATIONS: - Guthrie is best known by his *Treatise on Gunshot Wounds*, which was first published in 1813 [changed to 1815]. It may still be read with pleasure for the graphic accounts of the Military Surgery of a bygone age. The Commentaries on the Surgery of the War in Portugal, Spain, France and the Netherlands from the Battle of Roliça in 1808 to that of Waterloo in 1815, revised to 1853, of which a new edition was published in 1855, is a digest of the Treatise on Gunshot Wounds. It forms the substance of Guthrie's public lectures and contains his matured opinion on military surgery. In 1819 he published a Treatise on the Operation for the Formation of an Artificial Pupil, which he included in a larger work entitled, Lectures on the Operative Surgery of the Eye. These lectures reached a 3rd edition in 1838. Remarks on the Anatomy Bill in a Letter to the Right Hon Lord Althorp, 1832. The Wounds and Injuries of the Arteries of the Human Body, with the Treatment and Operations required for their Cure, 1846. In these lectures Guthrie drew attention to the anastomotic circulation.
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First Title value, for Searching Mackie, Frederic Percival (1875 - 1944)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

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Publication Date 2013-09-30
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Occupation Military surgeon Pathologist
Details Born at Bristol 19 February 1875, the ninth child and sixth son of the Rev John Mackie, Rector of Fylton, Glos, and Annis Bennett his second wife. John Mackie was twice married; there were five sons and two daughters of the first marriage, and one daughter and three sons of the second. He was educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, at Bristol Medical School, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital. After winning a surgical scholarship and the gold medal in medicine at Netley, where he worked under Sir Almroth Wright, he passed first into the Indian Medical Service, being gazetted lieutenant on 1 September 1902. During his first year in the east Mackie served as medical officer to the famous mission undertaken by Sir Francis Younghusband, KCSI, into Tibet. He was promoted captain on 1 September 1905, and appointed assistant director of the Plague Research Laboratory at Parel, Bombay. Plague had appeared in Bombay in 1896 and spread east and north, and the Plague Research Laboratory had newly been established, when Mackie joined its staff, under the Bacteriological (later Medical Research) Department of the Government of India. The British Plague Commission under (Sir) Charles James Martin, CMG, arrived in India in 1905 and made its headquarters at Parel. Here Mackie began the good work on plague to which he returned some twenty years later, but his first original discovery was of the part played by the body-louse in transmitting the spirillum of relapsing fever (1907). This discovery led to C J H Nicolle's (1866-1936) incrimination of the louse in typhus (1910). From September 1908 to November 1909 by request of the Government of India he was attached to the Royal Society's third Sleeping Sickness Commission under Sir David Bruce, FRS (1855-1931), in Uganda, and contributed largely to its reports, working on the development and transmission of the trypanosomes in collaboration with Bruce, Lady Bruce, and Albert Ernest Hamerton, CMG DSO, of the RAMC. The Government of India had feared the possibility of the trypanosome being conveyed to India in the blood of infected Indians and spread by Indian flies, or even that the tsetse fly itself might be imported. While in Uganda Mackie was able to enjoy his love of sport. Returning to India he served in 1910-11 as special government research officer on kala-azar in Assam. The causal organism, the Leishman-Donovan parasite, had been discovered in 1903 (*Brit med J* 1903, 1, 1252; 2, -79) but its mode of transmission was unknown; Mackie identified the sandfly as responsible, a finding authenticated fourteen years later by the Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine's team and the Government of India's special kala-azar commission. During the war of 1914-18 he served in Baluchistan, Persia, Mesopotamia, and France, having been promoted major, IMS, on 1 March 1914. He speedily and efficiently established a central bacteriological laboratory in Mesopotamia in 1916, after the breakdown of the original medical organization there. The strain of cholera vibrio which Mackie isolated from a colleague was maintained as type of the organism endemic there. He was created OBE for his services on 3 June 1918, and was twice mentioned in despatches (*London Gazette*, 27 August 1918, 21 February 1919). In 1919 he was elected an FRCP. In 1920 Mackie was appointed professor of pathology at Calcutta University, but was transferred in 1921 to be director of the Pasteur Institute at Shillong in Assam. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel on 1 March 1922. In 1923 he returned as director to the Haffkine Institute for Medical Research in Bombay, where his own best work had been begun. He held the appointment until 1932, when he retired from the IMS. His chief researches were on schistosomiasis and sprue, in collaboration with N Hamilton Fairley, CBE FRS, and others. In 1928-32 he was officiating public health commissioner with the Government of India; and in 1928-31 served as chairman of the League of Nations expert committee on plague. He represented the Government of India at the Office internationale d'Hygiene publique in Paris in 1919, 1922, 1926 and 1930. In 1925 he was president of the medical and veterinary section of the Indian Science Congress and in 1932 president of the tropical diseases section at the BMA centenary meeting in London. He was an Honorary Surgeon to King George V. He served as Surgeon General in the Government of Bombay in 1929, and was placed on the select list for promotion in the IMS on 3 April in that year. In 1931 he was once more acting director of the Pasteur Institute at Shillong. He was created CSI on 3 June 1932, when he retired. On his return to England Mackie became a lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and served as pathologist (1933-37) at the Tropical Diseases Hospital, London; he lived at Felden, Herts. He was then appointed chief medical officer of the British Overseas Airways Corporation, and made many arduous journeys by air to tropical colonies in Africa and Asia, supervising the sanitary requirements of the chain of aerodromes which was being established. He was particularly interested in the prevention of yellow fever on African aerodromes, and the fumigation of aircraft against bloodsucking and disease-carrying insects. He delighted to view from the air the great herds of game in central Africa, such as he had seen only from the ground twenty years earlier in Uganda. Mackie lived during this period in his native Bristol at 3 Golding Avenue, and later at Pack Horse Farm, Mark, near Highbridge, Somerset. During the height of the air-raids on Bristol in 1940-41 he was an active warden and first-aid rescue worker in the streets; his wife also served as a warden. Mackie married twice: (1) in 1913 Gladys May, daughter of W J Ball; their only child, Laurence Percival, was in 1944 a medical student serving as lieutenant, RNVR; and (2) in 1926 Mary Elizabeth H Elwes, a widow, daughter of W Haddon Owen of Louth, Lincs, who survived him with two sons. He died in a nursing home at Clifton on 15 July 1944. Mackie was one of the most distinguished medical scientists who have served in India, and after retirement from the Indian Medical Service his abilities were in demand at home. His work on plague, relapsing fever, sleeping sickness, kala-azar, enteric dysentery, cholera, schistosomiasis, hydrophobia, and sprue was original and of first rate quality; but his administrative gifts and their contribution to tropical hygiene were of almost higher value. He was a good speaker in debate and council, and a man of gaiety and wit, who enjoyed life to the full, while a most busy and productive worker. Mackie was a corresponding member of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and of the Société de Pathologie exotique at Paris. There is a photograph of him in the College collection, presented by Mrs Mackie, in white coat at his microscope. Select bibliography:- The part played by *Pediculus corporis* in the transmission of relapsing fever. *Brit med J* 1907, 2, 1706. The development of *Trypanosoma gambiense* in *Glossina palpates*. *Proc Roy Soc B* 1909, 81, 405. Sleeping sickness in Uganda: duration of the infectivity of the *Glossina palpates* after the removal of the lake-shore population. *Proc Roy Soc B* 1910, 82, 56. The development of trypanosomes in Tsetse flies. *Ibid* p 368. Experiments to ascertain if cattle may act as a reservoir of the virus of sleeping sickness (*Trypanosoma gambiense*). *Ibid* p 480. Experiments to ascertain if *Trypanosoma gambiense* during its development within *Glossina palpates* is infective. *Proc Roy Soc B* 1911, 83, 345. The progress of kala-azar in a localised community. *Ind J med Res* 1914, 2, 505. The experimental transmission of Indian kala-azar to animals. *Ind J med Res* 1915, 2, 934. Disease in Mesopotamia. *Bristol med-chir J* 1919, 36, 118. Laboratory records from Mesopotamia, with G Trasler: 1. Enteric group. *Ind med Gaz* 1921, 56, 411; 2. Dysentery. *Ibid* March 1922, 57, 85; 3. Cholera.*Ibid* April 1922, 57, 121. The problem of kala-azar. *Ind med Gaz* 1922, 57, 326. Commentary on the foregoing (plague) papers on the production of immunity against plague by vaccine. *Ind J med Res* 1924, 12, 331. The insect menace (Presidential address to.Indian science congress). *Ind med Gaz* 1925, 60, 172. The present position of the plague problem. *Far East Assoc Trop Med Congress 7* Calcutta 1927, *Trans* 2, 2. Progress report on the sprue inquiry, with N H Fairley and others. *Ibid* 1927, 2, 248. Yeasts and sprue, with G D Chitre. *Ind J med Res* 1928, 11, 749. Animal experiments and sprue, with the same. *Ibid* 1928, 16, 49. The association of bowel diseases with Vitamin C deficiency, with G D Chitre. *Ibid* 1928, 16, 77. The morbid anatomy of sprue, with N H Fairley. *Ibid* 1928, 16, 799. Bacteriology of sprue, with S N Gore and J H Wadia. *Ibid* 1928, 16, 95. The blood in sprue, with N H Fairley and H S Billimoria. *Ibid* 1928, 16, 831. The clinical aspect of sprue, with N H Fairley. *Ibid* 1929, 16, 831. Studies in Schistosoma spindale, parts 1-6, with N H Fairley. *Ind med Res Mem* No 17, September 1930. The serum therapy of plague, with B P B Naidu. *Lancet* 1931, 2, 893. Presidential address, tropical diseases section, British Medical Association, centenary meeting, London, 1932. *Brit med J* 1932, 2, 325. The Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction in trypanosomiasis, with a note on the morular cells of Mott. *Trans Roy Soc trop Med* 1935, 28, 377. The destruction of mosquitoes in aircraft, with H S Crabtree. *Lancet* 1938, 2, 447.
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First Title value, for Searching Sloggett, Sir Arthur Thomas (1857 - 1929)

2024-05-05T02:18:50Z

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Publication Date 2013-01-31
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Occupation Military surgeon
Details Son of Inspector-General W H Sloggett, RN, of Tremabyn, Paignton, South Devon, was born at Stoke Damarel in that county on Nov 24th, 1857, his mother being Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Cornish-Crossing, JP, of Stoke Damarel. He was educated at King's College, London, and entered the Army as Surgeon in 1881. He served on the Indian Frontier in 1884 and was the Senior Medical Officer with British troops in the Dongola Expedition of 1896, when he was mentioned in dispatches, promoted to Surgeon Lieutenant-Colonel, and received the Egyptian Medal with two Clasps and the Osmanieh Order. He was Senior Medical Officer of the First Brigade of the British Division of the Nile Expedition, and was dangerously wounded in the chest at Khartoum. For his services he was again mentioned, was promoted, and received the Medjidie Order. In the South African War he was in charge of the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital, and was afterwards PMO to a General Hospital and Commandant of Dreifontein district. He took part in the operations in the Orange Free State in April and May and in the Transvaal in June and July, 1900, and in the operations in the Transvaal, Orange River Colony, and Cape Colony, down to May, 1902. He was again mentioned in dispatches, received the Medal with five Clasps, and was decorated CMG. From 1903-1908 he was PMO of the Home and London districts, and in the latter year was appointed PMO of the Bombay Presidency (6th Division). He was made CB in 1910 and was nominated King's Honorary Surgeon in 1911. In December, 1911, he was promoted to be Director of Medical Services in India, and in June 1914, he succeeded Surgeon General Sir Launcelotte Gubbins as Director-General Army Medical Service, with the rank of Lieutenant-General. Two months after his appointment as Director-General the European War (1914-1918) began, and a month later Sloggett went to France in a triple capacity as Director-General of the Medical Services of the British Armies in the Field, as Chief Commissioner of the British Red Cross and of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. It was impossible for one individual to carry out the duties of these posts, and Sir Alfred Keogh, who had been Director-General from 1904-1910, was recalled to become acting Director-General in England whilst Sloggett served in France attached to General Headquarters. Here he remained until June 1st, 1918, when, his term of office being ended, he was replaced as Director-General by Sir John Goodwin, who was subsequently appointed Governor of Queensland. After his retirement Sir Arthur Sloggett was Colonel Commandant from 1921-1928. For his services during the War he was mentioned in dispatches seven times, in the *London Gazette* of February 17th, 1915, July 10th, 1915, January 4th, 1917, May 29th, 1917, December 24th, 1917, May 25th, 1918, and October 21st, 1918; and received the KCB in 1915, the Legion of Honour, Grand Officer (2nd class), in 1915, the Order of King Leopold of Belgium, Commander (3rd class), in 1916, the KCMG and KCVO in 1917. Besides these honours he had been appointed a Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in 1898, and he received the CB in 1910. During his later years Sir Arthur Sloggett was Chairman of the Mills Equip¬ment Co Ltd, a Director of Bovril Ltd, and served on the Boards of the English Insurance Company, of the General Accident Fire and Life Assurance Company, and of the Yorkshire Paper Mills Ltd. He married in 1881 Helen (Lady of Grace of St John of Jerusalem), daughter of J R Boyson, formerly Solicitor-General of Madras, and by her had a son and two daughters. This son was Lieut-Colonel A J H Sloggett, DSO, of the Rifle Brigade; his daughters married respectively Lieut-Colonel Llewellyn Evans, CMG, DSO, RE, and Major J T Duffin, MC, of the Royal Irish Rifles. Sloggett died suddenly whilst walking with his son near Regent's Park on November 27th, 1929, and was buried at St Peter's Church, Petersham, near Richmond, Surrey. The busiest and perhaps the best part of Sloggett's life was the period when he acted as the directing head of the medical department of the largest British Army which ever took the field. During these forty-five months the professional military surgeons and the civilian doctors were gradually merged into a single and coherent medical service, and for this Sloggett was chiefly responsible. From time to time he was severely criticized by those who would have adopted other means to attain a similar end, but nevertheless it stands to his credit that he evolved a most efficient medical service. He had a talent for selecting men to fill the posts for which they were best fitted, and having selected them he allowed them to work without interference. He was unique as a peacemaker, for his tact, his kindly bright manner, and his shrewd common sense quickly dissipated any dissension arising in the vast machine which he controlled. If a disagreeable thing had to be done he accomplished it in so kindly a manner that the victim was left with the feeling that he could not have been better treated. He worked harmoniously with the Red Cross Society, with the Order of St John of Jerusalem, and with the various consultants from civil practice who were eager to help though they had little or no knowledge of service methods or of service ways. His wide outlook enabled him to dispense with all but a minimum of red tape, and he was always ready to take advice from those he thought competent to give it. In his capacity as Director-General in France during the War he was largely responsible for the improvements in front-line treatment. The special arrangements made for head injuries, for abdominal wounds, for fractures, and for bums were rendered possible by the facilities which he provided. He was also in favour of establishing research units, though he would not have claimed for himself any deep knowledge of scientific medicine. In person Sloggett was tall and elegant, always well dressed, his tunic resplendent with the ribbons of the many decorations which had been earned in the course of long service. As long as it was possible to do so he lived comfortably in a well-appointed château because he hated squalor, but he was active in visiting the units under his command and did not neglect the front line. When he left the British Expeditionary Force he carried with him the affectionate regard of the many officers who had served under him, to whom he had always shown great consideration, whilst the rank and file knew that they had been better cared for, housed, and doctored than in any previous war. Sir Arthur Sloggett with Sir Anthony A Bowlby (qv), representing the AMS, and Dame Maude McCarthy, GBE, Matron-in-Chief QAIMNS British Armies in France 1914-1919, appear in the panel at the Royal Exchange, London.
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Occupation Military surgeon Trauma surgeon
Details Born at St Albans, Herts, 3 November 1853, the only son of George Hogarth Makins, MRCS, and his wife Sarah Ellis. His father practised medicine at Walton-on-Thames and was Master of the Society of Apothecaries in 1889, but his chief interests lay in chemistry and metallurgy. He was at one time professor of chemistry at the Middlesex Hospital, and was advisor to H.M. Mint in matters concerning the coinage. He also played the organ at Hook Church, Surrey, having previously made a pitch-pipe for the vicar, which is preserved in the church. George Henry Makins was educated at the King's Collegiate School, Gloucester, and entered St. Thomas's Hospital, London in 1871, when George Rainey lectured and William Anderson was demonstrator of anatomy. He was house physician to J. Syer Bristowe in 1876, and at the end of his term of office went to Bethlehem Hospital, where he made a life-long friendship with Sir George Savage, who was afterwards superintendent of the hospital. From Bethlehem he went as house surgeon to the Seamen's Hospital at Greenwich, and then returned to St Thomas's, where he was house surgeon during the year 1878 to Francis Mason and William MacCormac. He spent some months at Halle and Vienna in 1879, and on his return to London in 1880 he was appointed resident assistant surgeon at St Thomas's Hospital, a post he held for five years. During this period he worked with Charles Smart Roy, who was then superintendent of the Brown Institute in the Wandsworth Road. He was elected surgical registrar to St Thomas's Hospital in 1885, and became assistant surgeon at the Evelina Hospital for Children. In 1887 he was elected assistant surgeon to St Thomas's Hospital in place of Francis Mason, becoming surgeon in 1898, and resigning under an age limit in 1913. His services at this time were so well recognized that he was given the title of emeritus surgeon with the care of patients for an additional term of two years. During 1887-99 he was demonstrator of anatomy in the Medical School, and in 1890 he succeeded Edward Nettleship as dean of the School. In this position he did much to complete the school buildings by the addition of two wings. In 1900 he was appointed lecturer on anatomy conjointly with William Anderson. His war service began in November 1899, when he accompanied Sir William MacCormac to South Africa as a civilian consulting surgeon, at the beginning of the Boer War. He first treated the wounded at the base, but was at the front during the fighting about the Modder River and with Sir Frederick Roberts' advance to Bloemfontein and Pretoria. For his services he was decorated C.B. He returned to England in 1900 and in 1901 published *Surgical experiences in South Africa*, which became a textbook at the Staff College and was used both in France and Germany. In 1908 he joined the Territorial Force, received a commission as major RAMC, à la suite, and busied himself with work for the British Red Cross at Devonshire House. In September 1914 he left for France as consulting surgeon, having Sir A. A. Bowlby as his colleague. He landed at St Nazaire and gradually made his way to Paris, where he worked for a short time in the British hospitals. From Paris he moved with G.H.Q. to St Omer, and spent a short time at Boulogne with F. F. Burghard and Percy Sargent as his colleagues. He finally took over the supervision of the newly established hospital centres at Camiers and Étaples, and made frequent trips up the line to the front. At Étaples he established a research centre, where new methods of wound treatment were put on trial. He left France in July 1917 and was appointed by the Government of India chairman of a commission to report on the British station hospitals. The Commission occupied seven months, which were spent in travelling over 11,000 miles in a special train, reporting and inspecting on hospitals all over India. Whilst in India he heard that H. M. King George V had conferred upon him the unusual honour of Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George. He returned home in March 1918 and retired from military service with the rank of major-general. He then gave up private practice, left 49 Upper Brook Street, and moved to 33 Wilton Place. He was for some years a member of the executive committee and later chairman of the Athenaeum Club. It was during his chairmanship that an additional storey was added to the Club buildings. At the Royal College of Surgeons Makins was a member of the board of examiners in anatomy for the Fellowship, 1884-94; and a member of the Conjoint examining board, 1894-99. He served on the Court of Examiners 1901-08; elected to the Council in 1903, he was a vice-president in 1912 and 1913 and president 1917-20. In 1913 he delivered the Bradshaw lecture, and in 1917 he was Hunterian orator. In April 1929 he was awarded the honorary gold medal of the College in recognition of his services, more especially in arranging and describing the specimens in the Army Medical War Collection. He was for some years treasurer of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, and chairman of the distribution committee of the Hospital Sunday Fund. He married in 1885 Margaret Augusta (d. 1931), daughter of General Vesey Kirkland of Fordel, Perthshire, and widow of Major-General B. Fellowes; there were no children. As Miss Kirkland she accompanied her father wherever he was engaged in military service; as Mrs Fellowes she went with her first husband to South Africa, the West Indies, and Ireland. When he died in 1879 she entered the Nightingale School of Nursing at St Thomas's Hospital and, after a short training, was selected by Florence Nightingale to accompany Sir Frederick Roberts' force to the Transvaal in February 1881. On her return to England she was appointed sister-in-charge of Leopold ward at St Thomas's Hospital, and in 1882 she was seconded for service in the Egyptian war. She again returned to St Thomas's Hospital, and in 1884 was amongst the first to receive from Queen Victoria the decoration of the Royal Red Cross, which had been instituted in the previous year. She accompanied her second husband, G. H. Makins, to the Boer War in 1899. During the war of 1914-18 she was in charge of the Hospital for Facial Injuries in Park Lane. Makins died after a short illness at 33 Wilton Place, S.W., on 2 November 1933, the eve of his eightieth birthday; he was buried in Kensal Green cemetery. He left £1,000 to St Thomas's Hospital Medical School's war memorial fund. Makins was possessed of great administrative and constructive ability, which was shown so early that MacCormac as secretary-general of the International Medical Congress held in London in 1881 made him the assistant secretary. In this position Makins, by his mastery of detail, did much to ensure the running of the huge meeting, whilst MacCormac took general control and by his personality and linguistic powers supplemented the work. In 1913 Makins as treasurer was most helpful at the International Medical Congress, which was again held in London. As a surgeon he stood in the first rank, skilful, imperturbable, conservative, but resourceful. His wartime experience made him especially interested in diseases and wounds of the blood-vessels. As a man he was certainly the best loved surgeon of his generation. Absolutely honest in thought and purpose, he was a genuine friend, and had a keen desire to help in every good cause. Courteous to all, quiet and unassuming, he was seen at his best sitting before the fire in an old jacket with a pipe in his mouth and his elbow on his knee. In disjointed sentences and with a characteristic smile he would then thresh out a difficult problem in surgery, or give good practical advice. When necessity arose he spoke impressively, shortly, and always to the purpose. Tall, but of a spare and active habit, he took early to mountaineering and was a member of the Alpine Club. He was too a skillful dry-fly fisherman, and shared a cottage on the Test with Sir George H. Savage. A bronze bust by Mrs Bromet stands in the inner hall at the Royal College of Surgeons; it does not do him justice. Makins himself presented it to the College in 1931. *Publications:* *Surgical experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900, being mainly a clinical study of the nature and effects of injuries produced by bullets of small calibre.* London, 1901; 2nd edition, 1913. A case of artificial anus treated by resection of the small intestine. *St Thos. Hosp. Rep.* 1884, 13, 181. Rickets, in Treves, *System of surgery,* 1895, 1, 363. Surgical diseases due to microbic infection and parasites. *Ibid.* 1895, 1, 294. Injuries of the joints; dislocations, in Warren and Gould, *International text-book of surgery*, 1899, 1, 589. *Gunshot injuries of the arteries* (Bradshaw lecture, R.C.S.). London, 1914. *On gunshot injuries to the blood-vessels, founded on experience gained in France during the great war 1914-1918.* Bristol, 1919. *Operative surgery of the stomach,* with B. G. A. Moynihan. London, 1912. The influence exerted by the military experience of John Hunter on himself and the military surgeon of today. (Hunterian oration, R.C.S.). *Lancet,* 1917, 1, 249. *Autobiography*:- typescript copy, with portrait-photograph, in the R.C.S. library.
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Occupation General surgeon Military surgeon
Details Anthony Alfred Bowlby was born on May 10th, 1855, in Namur, the third son of Thomas William Bowlby, of Durham and Darlington, by his wife, Frances Marion, the youngest daughter of Pulteney Mein, of Canonbie, Dumfriesshire, formerly Surgeon in the 73rd Regiment, and his wife, Anne Harrington (*née* Hawes). Thomas William Bowlby was the eldest son of Thomas Bowlby, Captain R.A., by his wife, Wilhelmina Martha Arnold, second daughter of Major-General William Balfour, 57th Regiment, President of New Brunswick. Thomas William Bowlby became a solicitor, but subsequently ceased to practise and undertook numerous missions to foreign countries, many of them on behalf of *The Times* newspaper, to which he was a frequent contributor. In April, 1860, he accepted the appointment of Special Correspondent to *The Times* with the British Expedition to China. While acting in that capacity he was, with others, taken prisoner by the Chinese on September 18th, 1860, and about a week later died in captivity after much suffering. His body was brought to the English camp, and buried in the Russian cemetery at Pekin on October 17th, 1870. Anthony Bowlby, who was five years old at the time of his father's death, was brought up by his mother and educated at Durham School. From there he proceeded to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, which he entered in 1876, and qualified MRCS and LSA, as was then the custom, in 1879. As a student he gained the Brackenbury Scholarship in Surgery in 1880, and he played with zest Rugby football, in which he remained interested all his life. In 1880 he served as House Surgeon to Luther Holdern (q.v.), who retired in the same year and was succeeded by Thomas Smith (q.v.). In 1881 he became F.R.C.S, and in the same year was appointed Curator of the Museum at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where he completed the catalogue which had been begun by Frederick Eve (q.v.). This work gave Bowlby the idea of writing his successful book, *Surgical Pathology and Morbid Anatomy*, which appeared in 1887 and ran into many editions. In 1882 he won the Jacksonian Prize at the Royal College of Surgeons with a dissertation on "Wounds and Other Injuries of Nerves". In 1884 he became Surgical Registrar to the Hospital and Demonstrator of Practical Surgery, and in 1886 won the Astley Cooper Triennial Prize for his essay on "The Surgical Treatment of Diseases and Injuries of Nerves". In 1891, after serving seven years as Surgical Registrar and developing his distinguishing characteristics, he was elected Assistant Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital on the retirement of Sir William Savory (q.v.), and in 1903 he became full Surgeon. During this time he became also Surgeon to the Alexandra Hip Hospital and to the Foundling Hospital, and built up his reputation as a sound surgeon and sagacious counsellor. Soon after the start of the South African War in 1899, Bowlby went out as Senior Surgeon to the Portland Hospital, where he was associated with Sir Cuthbert Wallace. Here it was that he acquired the knowledge of military surgery and organization which stood him in such good stead during the Great War, and where he displayed that capacity for dealing with difficult situations and smoothing out differences which was one of his marked characteristics. He was mentioned in despatches and awarded the C.M.G. In 1901 he published *A Civilian War Hospital*, in which he gave an account of his experiences. In 1904 he was appointed Surgeon to the Household of King Edward VII, and in 1910 Surgeon in Ordinary to King George V, and was knighted the following year. In 1905 Bowlby was one of the three surgeons chosen by Queen Alexandra to act on the Council of the newly formed British Red Cross Society, and from that day till his death he took a prominent share in all its activities. In 1908, in common with other members of the staff of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, he joined the newly formed Territorial Medical Service and was given a commission as Major, being attached on mobilization to the First London General Hospital. On the outbreak of war in 1914, Bowlby joined his unit, which was located at Camberwell, but he offered his services to General Head Quarters, was accepted, and sent to France on Sept. 23rd, 1914, as Consulting Surgeon to the Forces, with the rank of Major-General. Bowlby thus received the opportunity of work for which he was peculiarly fitted, and now embarked on a period of nearly five years which proved to be the hardest and best spent of his life. At first he was the only consultant, but in May, 1915, the increase in the size of the British Expeditionary Force and the formation of two Armies gave too much work for one man; Sir Cuthbert Wallace was appointed Consulting Surgeon to the First Army, while Bowlby did the work of the Second Army. Later, with the establishment of additional armies, new consultants were appointed, and Bowlby became a super-consultant and general adviser at the Front to the Director-General, Army Medical Service, and towards the end of the War, after Sir George Makins had retired, he became Adviser on Surgery for the whole of the British area, Front and Base. During these four years and seven months of active service, Bowlby rose to his greatest height. In his own estimate he had never spent years better. He was intensely interested in all aspects of military life, passionately desirous of beating the enemy, and peculiarly fitted to carry out this task. His great work was his insistence that surgery should be done at the Front and now at the Base. Casualty Clearing Stations, which were conceived after the Boer War, were small units capable of doing but little surgery. Bowlby turned them into large hospitals where surgery of the most advanced order was regularly practised. This early surgery, for which he was responsible, saved the lives and limbs of thousands of wounded, and was no doubt one of the chief reasons for the commendation earned by the medical services during the War. Amongst his contemporaries at the hospitals he had the sobriquet of 'The Baron', to which during the War was added the territorial title of 'Bapaume'. To Sir William Osler, and to many others, he was 'The Consoler-General', for he had often to report the deaths of the sons of many of his friends. His connection with the College of Surgeons was long and honourable. He became a Councillor in 1904 and served without a break till 1920, when he became President in succession to Sir George Makins and served for three years. He delivered the Bradshaw Lecture in 1915 upon "Wounds in War", in which he summarized the first year's surgical work of the British Expeditionary Force in France, and was Hunterian Orator in 1919, when he reviewed military surgery from the time of Hunter to the date of the Oration. When Bowlby retuned to England at the end of the War he did not resume active work at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, though he retained the greatest interest in it, constantly attended the weekly 'Consultations' of the Staff, and as a Governor and Consulting Surgeon gave the benefit of his counsel and experience. Though retired from practice, he lived an active life. He was Chairman of the Radium Institute and took a keen interest in its activities. He was Chairman of the Board of Management of King Edward VII Convalescent Home for Officers at Osborne, and was instrumental in carrying out many improvements which added materially to the well-being of the inmates, and he remained till his death an active member of the Executive Committee of the British Red Cross Society. Bowlby was a man of keen intellect and strong character, with a quiet determination which enabled him to carry out what he believed to be right. His teaching was practical, and he had a knack of conveying a lesson in a way which could not be forgotten. The following is an instance: he was going round the wards with some students when he came to a patient suffering from extravasation of urine. After demonstrating the lesion, he said, in his characteristic, slightly guttural voice - he had a little difficulty rolling his r's - "The right thing to do is to make a cut into it, even if you have only got a bit of rusty hoop-iron to do it with." He spoke well and to the point with a curious jerking of the whole body, but he wrote his books and articles with difficulty. The above is a fine record a man's work. It is not so easy to describe the nature of the man who did it. Bowlby was of medium height, sparely built, but of an active frame. In his youth he played games and was always interested in them. For many years he was a keen Alpine climber, doing many of the great ascents, though he never became a member of the Alpine Club. He had a talent for friendship, and hundreds of his old students retained a love for him which approached veneration. His surgery was influenced most by that of Sir T. Smith (q.v.) and Howard Marsh (q.v.), both of whom he assisted for a long time, and through there have been finer technicians and greater researchers, his undoubted success as a surgeon and in private practice lay in his sound judgement. It was this that made his advice and help sought for. He was possessed of that sound common sense and cool practical judgement which characterized him both in surgical practice and in military surgery. In 1898 he married Maria Bridget, the daughter of Canon the Hon. Hugh Wynne Mostyn, by whom he had three sons and three daughters, all of whom survive him. His eldest son, Anthony Hugh Mostyn, who succeeded to the baronetcy, was born in 1906. Sir Anthony Bowlby lived for many years at 4 Manchester Square, and later at 25 Manchester Square. He died while on holiday at Stoney Cross, Lyndhurst, after a short illness, on April 7th, 1929, was cremated at Brookwood, and was buried at Brooklands Cemetery. Bowlby's portrait, in uniform, painted by Sir William Llewellyn, K.C.V.O., R.A., and presented by his past students and colleagues, hangs in the Great Hall at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. His portrait also appears in a panel in the Royal Exchange, painted by Frank O. Salisbury, R.A., which shows their Majesties the King and Queen visiting the battle districts of France, 1917: the lower panel representing the Queen visiting the wounded soldiers, accompanied by Dame Maud MacCarthy, Matron-in-Chief, Lieut.-General Sir Arthur Slogget, Director-General Army Medical Services, and Major-General Sir Anthony Bowlby. He also appears in Moussa Ayoub's portrait group of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1928. PUBLICATIONS: - *Surgical Pathology and Morbid Anatomy*, 16mo, London, 1887. The 5th edition was edited with the assistance of F. W. ANDREWES (1907); 7th edition published in 1920. *Injuries and Diseases of Nerves and their Surgical Treatment*, 8vo, 20 plates. London, 1889; Philadelphia, 1890. "Injuries and Diseases of Nerves" in Treves' *System of Surgery*, i, 681. *A Civilian War Hospital*, being an account of the work of the Portland Hospital and of experience of wounds and sickness in South Africa, 1900 (etc), 8vo, 50 plates, London, 1901. "The Bradshaw Lecture on Wounds in War." - *Brit. Jour. Surg.*, 1916, iii, 451;* Jour. R.A.M.C.*, 1916, xxvi, 125. "Application of War Methods to Civil Practice." - *Lancet*, 1920, i, 131. "Results of Fracture of Femur caused by Gunshot Wounds." - *N.Y. Med. Jour.*, 1920, iii, 133. "Care of the Wounded Man in War." - *Surg. Gynecol. and Obst*., 1920, xxx, 13. "Surgical Experiences in South Africa." - *Monthly Rev.*, 1900, Oct., 52. "An Address on 900 cases of Tuberculous Disease of the Hip, treated at the Alexandra Hospital, with a Mortality of less than 4 per cent." - *Brit. Med. Jour*., 1908, i, 1465. "A Clinical Lecture on some Surgical Complications of Tabes Dorsalis." - *Ibid.*, 1906, i, 1021. "A Sketch of the Growth of the Surgery of the Front in France." - *St. Bart's Hosp. Jour.*, 1919, xxvi, 127; *Brit. Med., Jour.*, 1919, ii, 127. "Reminiscences of the War in South Africa." - *St. Bart's Hosp. Jour.*, 1900, Oct. "Abdominal Wounds." - *Lancet*, 1917, i, 207. "British Surgery at the Front." - *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1917, i, 705. "Wounds of Brain." - *Arch. de Med. et Pharm. mil.*, 1917, lxvii, 427. "Wounds of Spinal Cord." - *Ibid.*, 1917, lxvii, 463. "Traumatic Shock." - *Ibid*., 1917, lxvii, 123. "Wounds of Joints." - *Ibid.*, 1917, lxvii, 302. "Penetrating Wounds of Abdomen." - *Ibid.*, 1917, lxvii, 486. "Wounds at Front." - *Ibid.*, 1917, lxvii, 25. "Traumatic Shock." - *Ibid.*, 1918, xlix, 80. "Thoracic-abdominal Wounds." -* Ibid.*, 1918, lxix, 34. "Primary Suture of Wounds." - *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1918, i, 333. "British Military Surgery in the Time of Hunter and in the Great War" (Hunterian Oration.) - *Lancet*, 1919, i, 285; *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1919, i, 205. "Gunshot Fracture of Femur." - *Brit. Med. Jour.*, 1920, i, 1; *Surg. Gynecol. and Obst*., 1920, xxx, 135. "Fractures of the Femur at the Casualty Clearing Station." - *Brit. Jour. Surg*., 1916, iii, 626. "A Clinical Lecture on Strangulated Hernia." -* Clin. Jour.*, 1908, xxxi, 385. Joint editor of the *History of the Great War Medical Services: Surgery of the War*, 2 vols., H.M.S.O., 1922. Contributed "Development of Casualty Clearing Stations, etc.," vol. i. Introduction to *Atlas of Pathological Anatomy. - Brit. Jour. Surg.*, 1925, July. Introduction to Carrell and Dehelly's *Treatment of Infected Wounds,* London, 1917.
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