First Title value, for Searching Lane, David Amyrald Armstrong (1927 - 2015)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2016-05-13 2019-04-25
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Occupation General surgeon Musician
Details David Amyrald Armstrong Lane was a consultant surgeon to Sir Patrick Dun’s and Monktown hospitals, Dublin, Ireland and an accomplished musician. He was born in Bognor Regis, Sussex, the son of Samuel Armstrong Lane, a surgeon and GP who had served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War, and Dorothy Lane née Purefoy, who came from a prominent Dublin family. He was educated at Aravon School in Bray, County Wicklow and then at Oakham School in Rutland, where he was rugby and shooting captain and head prefect. He went on to study medicine at Trinity College Dublin, qualifying in 1950 with first place in all his subjects. As well as excelling academically, he played rugby at Trinity and was college champion of the 100 and 220 yards and the long jump. He trained in surgery at Sir Patrick Dun’s Hospital, Leicester Royal Infirmary, the Royal United Hospital, Bath and then back at Leicester Royal Infirmary, gaining his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and of Ireland in 1954. From 1956 to 1966 he was an assistant surgeon at Meath Hospital and the National Children’s Hospital, Harcourt Street in Dublin. He then moved to Sir Patrick Dun’s (until 1988). He was also a consultant surgeon at Monkstown Hospital (from 1957 to 1987). He was president of the surgical section of the Royal Irish Academy of Medicine from 1986 to 1988. Outside medicine, he was a distinguished oboist. For more than 30 years he played with the Dublin Baroque Players and also performed with the RTÉ Symphony Orchestra and as a soloist. He also enjoyed fishing, sailing, poetry and gardening. In 1956 he married Marjorie Hammond, a nurse. They had two children – a daughter, Gillian, and a son, Peter. David Lane died on 17 October 2015. He was 88.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009135
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First Title value, for Searching Barley, Dennis Alfred (1917 - 1996)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-15 2015-10-16
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Occupation ENT surgeon Musician
Details Denis Barley qualified from King's College Hospital where he won scholarships in anatomy and physiology, was house physician and house surgeon, and specialised in ENT, becoming senior registrar in the ENT department at King's. He served in the RAMC as Major and then became a consultant ENT surgeon in Plymouth. He died on 20 August 1996. The following obituary was received after volume nine of the *Lives* had been published: Dennis Alfred Barley was born in London on 20 February 1917, the son of Frederick William Barley, a Government surveyor, and his wife Alice, née McLaughlin. He was educated at Bec School in Tooting and then went to London University where he was a scholar at King's College, having gained a scholarship in anatomy and physiology, and graduated in 1939 with the conjoint diploma. In 1940 he took his MB BS and worked as a house surgeon at King's College Hospital, where his teachers were Sir Victor Negus and Sir Terence Cawthorne. He took the diploma in laryngology and otology in 1941 and during army service was a specialist in otolaryngology. In the Far East he served in the RAMC from 1940 to 1946 and attained the rank of major. He worked at Great Ormond Street Hospital when it was moved out of London during the Blitz, and in Edinburgh, where he had to take instant charge of the wards when the leading surgeon was summarily dismissed for diagnosing all the patients as having the same condition! In 1948 he passed the Fellowship of the College and was appointed senior registrar at King's and later consultant otolaryngologist at Plymouth Hospital. During a distinguished career at Plymouth he was renowned for always carrying out a certain eye operation although it was not his specialty. On 13 May 1961 he married Michèle Thomas and they had three sons - Mick, who became a solicitor, Christopher, a telecom product manager and Paul, an accountant. Throughout his life Barley was as interested in music as he was in medicine - indeed he referred to it as his 'second profession'. He was both a composer and a performer. As a student he was responsible for providing music for the Christmas show at King's and in later life he acted as organist at his parish church. He was a keen sailor and had been a member of the Royal Yacht Club, Plymouth, since 1946. He developed carcinoma of the throat in 1984 and although this was cured his mouth was damaged and he could only drink, not eat. The cancer spread to the glands of his neck and he died on 20 August 1996, survived by his wife and family.
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