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First Title value, for Searching Lowman, William Henville (1879 - 1952)

2024-04-29T02:16:51Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-28
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Occupation General practitioner Missionary surgeon Missionary doctor
Details Educated at King's College Hospital, he served as assistant demonstrator of anatomy at King's College, and as house surgeon at the Royal United Hospital, Bath. He went as a medical missionary to India for the Church Missionary Society, and was surgeon to the Society's Hospital at Dera Ismail Khan. Returning to England he went into general practice at Coventry, living at Norton House, White Street. He retired in 1943, and died at High House, Warwick Road, Coventry on 29 March 1952, in his early seventies.
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First Title value, for Searching Gushue-Taylor, George (1888 - 1954)

2024-04-29T02:16:51Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-24
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Occupation Missionary surgeon Missionary doctor
Details Educated at the London Hospital, he came under the influence of Dr Barnado, who was then prominent in his Christian relief work in the East End. Gushue-Taylor served as principal medical officer to Dr Barnado's Homes and Hospitals. He went as a medical missionary to Formosa, then a Japanese colony, and founded there the Happy Mount Leprosy Colony which he directed for many years, and worked at the Mackay Hospital, Taihoku, Formosa. He later settled at Qualichum Beach, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, but died at sea on 22 April 1954 on his way home after a visit to Formosa, aged about 66.
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First Title value, for Searching Cundall, Robert Davies (1924 - 2009)

2024-04-29T02:16:51Z

by David B Cundall
Publication Date 2010-05-20 2012-03-22
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Occupation General practitioner Missionary surgeon Missionary doctor
Details Robert Davies Cundrall was a missionary surgeon and a general practitioner. He was born in Wuhan, China, on 26 August 1924, where his parents, Edward and Mary Cundall, were Methodist missionaries. His parents had to make the very difficult decision to send him home to school in England at the age of 8, while they remained in China. Bob went to Nottingham High School and gained a scholarship to study medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, going on to the London Hospital for his clinical training. After qualification, he was a house surgeon on the surgical unit under Victor Dix. Bob had originally intended to work in China, like his parents, but that country was closed to missionaries. Bob was advised by Ralph Bolton, the medical secretary of the Methodist Missionary Society, that it was essential that Bob passed his fellowship, which he did in 1953, before he started work as a missionary. Bob worked at Ituk Mbang Hospital, Nigeria, for the next six years, where the medical superintendent was Harry Haigh. Bob enjoyed the challenge of surgery in this environment, turning his hand to many unusual cases, as well as countless hernias and caesarean sections. He enjoyed teaching the nurses, both in formal lectures and at the bedside. Bob entered general practice in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, in 1959, joining an old friend from college days, George Johnson, as the second partner in the practice. He missed operative surgery, but for many years was clinical assistant to Graham-Stewart in his rectal clinic at Harrogate General Hospital. The general practice expanded and, when George Johnson moved on to a career in public health, Bob became a senior partner and made the partnership into a teaching practice. In his medical work, Bob was a highly regarded as a meticulous clinician, supportive colleague and excellent teacher. He had met Monica Pritchard, an English student at Girton College, Cambridge, and they married in 1948. They moved to Nottingham, where his maternal uncle, Jack Davies, a senior surgeon at Nottingham City Hospital, was a mentor. Bob and Monica were devoted to each other and, in his later years, Bob took on the role of caring for Monica when she developed a progressive ataxia. They celebrated their diamond wedding in December 2008. Bob had experienced a major cognitive decline over the preceding year and died, following a major stroke, a few months later. Of their four children, Edward is a tropical plant breeder, David, a community paediatrician, while Ruth and Margaret are both teachers. Two of their 10 grandchildren intend to be doctors. Bob and Monica were active members of the Methodist Church and were committed to ecumenical and inter-faith initiatives. In retirement, Bob was able to indulge his passions for walking, natural history and photography. Although by nature reserved, Bob as a TV rugby supporter was a wonder to behold! He had a lively sense of fun and a quick wit. He died at Hampden House, Harrogate, on 25 May 2009.
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First Title value, for Searching Moorshead, Robert Fletcher (1874 - 1934)

2024-04-29T02:16:51Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-21
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Occupation Missionary surgeon Missionary doctor
Details Born at Bristol 1874, he was educated at the Bristol School of Medicine and at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He acted for a time as clinical assistant at the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat, Golden Square, but never intended to practise privately. His whole heart lay in the mission field. He was an early student volunteer of the mission, but his desire to serve in China was prevented by the death of his father in 1902. He set to work, therefore, in the home field and in 1902, conjointly with Dr Percy Lush and Sir Alfred Pearce Gould, helped to found the medical mission auxiliary of the Baptist Missionary Society. He became its secretary and the rest of his life was spent in promoting its interests. At the time of his death the Society was supporting sixteen hospitals in India, China, and Africa with a staff of thirty European and eleven native qualified doctors, assisted by thirty-four European nurses and two hundred and thirty-four native hospital assistants and nurses. He visited India on behalf of the Society in 1905, and China in 1916. He took a notable part during his visit to China in founding the Cheeloo University at Shantung. He married in 1909 Gertrude Winchester, who survived him. He died of double pneumonia on 4 December 1934 at Fairfield, Cornwall Road, Sutton, Surrey. Publications: *The appeal of medical missions*, with introduction by Sir Andrew Fraser. Edinburgh, 1913. *The way of the doctor, a study in medical missions*, with a foreword by Sir Leonard Rogers. London, 1926. *Heal the sick: the story of the medical mission auxiliary of the Baptist Missionary Society*. London, 1929. Editor of *Conquest by healing*, a monthly journal, 1924-34.
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First Title value, for Searching Wheeler, Edwin Robert (1878 - 1965)

2024-04-29T02:16:51Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-06-05
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Occupation Missionary doctor General surgeon Public health officer
Details Edwin Robert Wheeler was a medical missionary in China, a professor of surgery at Shantung Christian University, Tsinan and superintendent of the University Hospital. He was born in 1878 in Preston, Sussex, the son of Robert Gidley Wheeler, a minister of the free church, and Rachel Wheeler née Rutty. The family settled at Calne in Wiltshire. Wheeler was educated as a boarder at Monkton Combe College, Somerset and went on to study medicine at King’s College Hospital from 1898. He qualified with the conjoint examination in 1903 and went on to gain his MB BS in 1905. He was an assistant house surgeon and house physician at the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children, Southwark and then a house surgeon at King’s College Hospital and Warneford Hospital, Leamington. He then went to China as a medical missionary with the Baptist Missionary Society. From 1907 to 1916 he was a surgeon to the Peking Union Medical College and Hospital. While he was in Peking, he met and married, in January 1910, Emily Gertrude Meech, the daughter of the Reverend Samuel Evans Meech, a missionary with the London Missionary Society, and Edith Elizabeth Bagge Meech née Trankard. From 1917, Wheeler was a professor of surgery in the school of medicine at Shantung Christian University, Tsinan and head of the department of surgery. He was superintendent of the hospital from 1921 and gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1923. From 1918 to 1919 he served as a temporary captain in the RAMC in the No 3 Native Labour General Hospital (Chinese) for the British Expeditionary Force. He returned to England in the late 1920s, where he was in private practice in the High Street in Marlborough and as an honorary surgeon at Savernake Hospital, Marlborough. In December 1929, he was appointed by the Secretary of State for the Home Department as a medical referee under the Workmen’s Compensation Act 1925 for the districts of Bath, Calne, Chippenham, Devizes, Frome, Hungerford, Malmesbury, Marlborough, Melksham, Newbury, Swindon, Trowbridge and Warminster County Courts. Wheeler died at Savernake Hospital on 19 March 1965. His son, Robert Oliver Wheeler, born in 1915, also studied medicine at King’s, was a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and became a medical officer at Savernake Hospital.
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First Title value, for Searching Schofield, Robert Harold Ainsworth (1851 - 1883)

2024-04-29T02:16:51Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-20
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Occupation Missionary surgeon Missionary doctor
Details The third son of Robert Schofield, of Heybrook, Rochdale, by his second wife, Mary Ainsworth Taylor. His eldest brother was Alfred T Schofield, MD, MRCS Edin, well known as a general practitioner and writer. Robert was educated at the Old Trafford School, near Manchester, and at Owens College, where he obtained the Victoria Scholarship in Classics. He took the degrees of BA and BSc London, and was then elected an Associate of Owens College. He obtained an Exhibition at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he entered in October, 1870, matriculating on the 18th of the month as a Member of the University. His college career was brilliant. He took a 1st Class in Natural Science in 1873, and the same year won the Junior Greek Testament Prize. He was elected Burdett-Coutts Scholar in 1874 and obtained the Radcliffe Travelling Fellowship in 1876. After graduating BA in 1878, he acted as Demonstrator in the Museum of Comparative Anatomy under Professor George Rolleston. The same year, 1873, he gained the Open Scholarship in Natural Science at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and so vigorously prosecuted his medical studies that he won successively the Foster Scholarship in Anatomy, the Junior and Senior Scholarships in their respective years, the Brackenbury Medical Scholarship, and the Lawrence Scholarship and Gold Medal. As Radcliffe Travelling Fellow he proceeded to Vienna and Prague in 1877, to follow his studies. During the war between Servia and Turkey he volunteered to serve as a surgeon in the Red Cross Society (National Aid Society), and was put in charge of the Hospital at Belgrade while the campaign lasted, and the year after he served in a like capacity on the Turkish side during the Russo-Turkish War. Returning to St Bartholomew's on the expiration of his Fellow¬ship, he was successively House Surgeon and House Physician. He now announced his intention of entering the medical mission field, and to that resolve, in spite of all opposition, he steadfastly adhered. After his marriage he embarked for China in the spring of 1880. He was associated as a medical missionary with the China Inland Mission under J Hudson Taylor, MRCS. He first took up his residence at Chefoo, and later was sent to Tai-Yuen-Fu, in Shansi, far to the north-west of China. There, labouring in his vocation at the mission station, now the Schofield Memorial Hospital, he died of typhus on August 1st, 1883, and his brother states that 'his astral body' appeared on the same night to his sisters at the foot of their bed, though they were a thousand miles away and had no knowledge of his death until some months afterwards. Schofield was respected by all who knew him. The charm of his personal character was very great; transparent simplicity of thought and speech, a gentleness and amiability almost feminine, and a power of sympathy that was practically unbounded, were united to abilities of the highest order, a clear judgement, and a determination of unswerving firmness. He was a Fellow of the Obstetrical Society, London, and his London address was 28 Cambridge Gardens, W.
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First Title value, for Searching Masterman, Ernest William Gurney (1867 - 1943)

2024-04-29T02:16:51Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-30
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Occupation Missionary surgeon Missionary doctor
Details Born on 2 January 1867 at Rotherfield Hall, Sussex, the eldest of the four sons of Thomas William Masterman of Tunbridge Wells and Margaret Hanson Gurney, his wife, daughter of Thomas Gurney of New Park Lodge, Brixton Hill. His brothers all distinguished themselves: John Howard Bertram Masterman (1867-1933) became professor of history at Birmingham University, 1902-09, and Suffragan Bishop of Plymouth, 1922-33; Arthur Thomas Masterman (?1868-1941), superintending inspector of fisheries at the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1910-20, was elected FRS in 1915 (*Nature*, 1941, 147, 408); and the youngest brother, Charles Frederick Gurney Masterman (1874-1927), Liberal MP, author and journalist, became Financial Secretary to the Treasury in Asquith's government in 1912; he had been largely responsible for the success of the National Health Insurance scheme of 1911, while Under-Secretary at the Local Government Board (see *DNB*). E W G Masterman was educated at Monkton Combe School and at Clifton College. He early decided to become a medical missionary, and entered the Medical School of Edinburgh University in 1884. While there he heard the African missionary C T Studd, who whetted his enthusiasm. Private circumstances compelled him to earn his living for a short time as a schoolmaster, but in 1887 he was able to enter St Bar¬tholomew's Hospital, where he won the Brackenbury surgical scholarship in 1891, the year of his qualification, and was also Skynner scholar and Lawrence scholar in 1892. He served as house surgeon at St Bartholomew's and also at the Belgrave Hospital for Children, and took the Fellowship on 14 January 1892. Contact with Percy d'Erf Wheeler led to his appointment as assistant medical officer to the Jerusalem Hospital of the Church Mission to the Jews in 1892. He served in Palestine and Syria for more than twenty years: at Jerusalem, Safed, Damascus, and again in Jerusalem, till the war of 1914 compelled his return to England. He had become an excellent Arabic scholar and was much interested in archaeology, serving for many years as secretary to the Palestine Exploration Fund. In fact he had identified himself closely with the life of Palestine, and he returned to work there at the end of his life. He published an illustrated account of the Jerusalem Hospital in *The Lancet*, 1918, 1, 305. He had taken the Cambridge Diploma of Public Health in 1899 and was admitted MD of the University of Durham in 1909. After his return to England he began, at the age of forty-nine, a new medical career into which he threw himself with characteristic energy. In 1916 he took charge of the London County Council's St Giles' Hospital at Camberwell and remained there for eighteen years, retiring in 1934. He brought the hospital to a high state of efficiency and also took an intimate part in the lives and welfare of his poorer neighbours. He also looked after the Guardians' Institution at Gordon Road, Camberwell and their "scattered homes" for destitute children. He was particularly interested in the progress of the ante- and post-natal clinics of the maternity unit at St Giles'. During his London years he took an active part in the work of the British Medical Association and attended each annual Representative meeting from 1920 to 1934. He served on the central council in 1931 and was chairman of the Camberwell division 1928-29 and of the Metropolitan branch 1934-35. He also served on the public health and hospitals committees of the council and on several special committees, notably that concerned with conditions in the Indian Medical Service. When he retired from the LCC service at the age of sixty-seven he went back to Palestine and gave his services under the Church Missionary Society wherever needed, taking charge of the hospitals at Gaza and Hebron and at Es Salt in Transjordan. In 1938, aged 71, he became medical superintendent of the 60th General Hospital, the former German Deaconesses' Hospital, until its evacuation to India. In 1939 he was appointed medical adviser for the Near East to the Church Missionary Society. He was chairman of the Lebanon Hospital for Mental Diseases at Asfuriyeh, and though in failing health visited it in July 1942. Masterman married (1) in 1894 Lucy, daughter of the Rev John Zeller, Swiss Bishop of Jerusalem. She died in 1908 leaving five daughters, of whom Lucy Margaret Theodora Masterman became MRCS 1924 and was resident medical officer at the Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, in 1943 and an MD London. He married (2) in 1909 his first wife's sister, Joanna, who survived him with a son and a daughter; the son, Ernest Bertram Zeller Masterman, MRCS 1934, MD Cambridge, while serving with the RAMC in West Africa, was on leave in Jerusalem when his father died there on 29 March 1943. Publications: Jerusalem from the point of view of health and disease. *Lancet*, 1918, 1, 305, with references to his own special reports. Caesarian section, with E M Moore. *LCC Ann Rep*, vol 4, Public health, part 3 Medical supp 1931, pp 108-117. Hour-glass stomach. *Ibid*. 1932, pp 117-122. Perforated peptic ulcer. *Ibid*. 1932, pp 123-128.
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