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First Title value, for Searching Dunn, Robert (1799 - 1877)

2024-05-14T12:48:03Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-20
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetric Surgeon
Details Born in 1799 at East Brunton, Gosforth, Northumberland, he was descended from the family of Dunn, lairds of Matfen, Co Northumberland and through his mother from the family of Ridley. He was educated at Atkinson's private school in Newcastle, was apprenticed to W Davison, of Alnwick, and at the age of twenty-three entered the United Borough Hospitals of St Thomas and Guy's in London. He practised throughout his life at 31 Norfolk Street, Strand, and was on the staff of the Carey Street Dispensary, where his friend Thomas Addison was physician. He was an original associate of the Obstetrical Society of London, vice-president of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, and president of the Metropolitan branch of the British Medical Association. He died 4 November 1877; but his record was inadvertently omitted from the *Lives of the Fellows*, published in 1930. Publications:- On the inhalation of chloroform. *Lond Med Gaz*. 1851, 48, 281. *An essay on physiological psychology*. London, 1858. *Ethnology*, three papers read before the Ethnological Society, London, 1851.
Resource Identifier RCS: E003998
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First Title value, for Searching Tonks, John Wilson (1888 - 1931)

2024-05-14T12:48:03Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-27
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetric Surgeon
Details Born on 14 February at 43 Oxford Street, Wednesbury, the son of Samuel Tonks, retired commercial traveller, and Edith Jennie Ross Wilson, his wife. He was educated at Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall under J A Alldis and H Bompas Smith. Admitted to Caius College, Cambridge on 1 October 1906, he was elected an exhibitioner in 1907 and a scholar in 1908. He graduated BA in 1908, after being placed in the first-class in part 1 of the Natural Sciences Tripos. Proceeding to University College, London, he took the Fellowes silver medal in surgery and the gold medal in medicine. In 1914 he joined the firm of Sir Josiah and Dr Arthur Court of Staveley, Derbyshire, a large and busy general practice in a coal and iron district. He entered the Army in the following year at the beginning of the war, and worked as surgical specialist first in Bombay and afterwards in the tenth Burma division. During this period he was specially commended by the Government of Burma for services rendered to a wounded officer away in the hills. Tonks travelled seventy-four miles through difficult country on a pony, taking upwards of thirty hours on the journey, performed a major operation upon the patient under the most primitive conditions, and was rewarded with success. He returned to Staveley in 1919, and was appointed surgeon to the Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Royal Hospital, where he soon became known for his surgical skill. In 1929 he gave up general practice, having been appointed obstetric surgeon to the Chesterfield Maternity Hospital in July 1922. He was also consulting surgeon to the Derbyshire County Sanatorium at Walton near Chesterfield. Tonks married on 10 July 1915 Ellinor May Evans, who survived him with one son. He died at 15 Gladstone Road, Chesterfield on 4 May 1931 and was buried at Staveley, Derbyshire. Tonks was a good organizer and an all-round athlete. He once said that, with the exception of bowls, he did not know of any game he had not played.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004718
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First Title value, for Searching Longridge, Charles John Nepean (1876 - 1952)

2024-05-14T12:48:03Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-28
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Occupation Obstetric Surgeon
Details Born on 24 December 1876 the fourth child and third son of Michael Longridge CBE of Bowdon, Cheshire, President of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers 1917-19, and his wife née O'Neill, he was educated at Malvern College and at Owen's College, Manchester, and entered St George's Hospital with a science scholarship in 1897. He qualified with first-class honours at Manchester in 1900, took the doctorate in 1901, and the Fellowship in 1902, in which year he also won the William Brown exhibition at St George's. He worked for a time at Berne in Switzerland, and took the Membership of the College of Physicians in 1905. Longridge determined to practise as an obstetrician and gynaecologist, and with this purpose served as house surgeon at the Soho Square Hospital for Women and the Manchester Hospital for Children at Pendlebury. He was resident medical officer at Queen Charlotte's Hospital, and edited the *Clinical Reports* 1905-08. He then settled in practice at 24 Lansdowne Place, Cheltenham, and became obstetric surgeon to the Victoria Home and medical officer to Cheltenham Ladies College. He was an examiner for the Central Midwives Board. During the first world war he served in Egypt and France, with the rank of Captain RAMC. After the war Longridge returned to Cheltenham, but in 1925 he became resident medical officer at Lancing College, Shoreham, Sussex; in 1927 he moved into the neighbouring town of Worthing, where he practised at 19 Downview Road. He retired to Devonshire in 1933, living first near Exmouth, then at Exeter, and finally at Budleigh Salterton, where he died on 13 July 1952 after long illness. He married in 1912 Dorothy, second daughter of H A Willey of Exeter, who survived him with a son, David Longridge FRCSEd, and a daughter. Publications: A case of eclampsia, with two special details of treatment. *J Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp*. 1905, 8, 399. Fifty cases of labour complicated by organic disease of the heart, with a note on the blood pressure in pregnancy; with P Ingram. *Ibid* 1906, 10,247. *The puerperium*. London, Adlard 1906. 272 pp. *Manual for midwives*. London, Churchill 1908. 309pp.
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