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First Title value, for Searching Marriott, John (1940 - 2015)

2024-04-28T23:09:44Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-06-12 2018-02-21
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Occupation Obstetrician
Details John Marriott was an obstetrician from Hampshire. He was born in 1940 and studied medicine at St George's Hospital Medical School. He qualified in 1964 and gained his FRCS in 1970. He held junior posts at St George's and was then a surgical registrar at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital, Winchester. John Marriott died on 28 February 2015. He was 75.
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First Title value, for Searching Hans, Stanley Frederick (- 2012)

2024-04-28T23:09:44Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2020-10-27
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Occupation Obstetrician Gynaecologist
Details Stanley Hans was an obstetrician and gynaecologist in Harlow, Essex.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009845
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First Title value, for Searching Ince, John ( - 1867)

2024-04-28T23:09:44Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-05-03
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Occupation Obstetrician
Details Was Consulting Accoucheur to the Royal Pimlico Dispensary and a member of the West London Medical and Surgical Society; he died at Chester Square on June 21st, 1867.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002321
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First Title value, for Searching Manly, Gerald Arthur ( - 2009)

2024-04-28T23:09:44Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-05-05
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Occupation Obstetrician Gynaecologist
Details Gerald Manly was a senior obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Mercy Hospital for Women in Melbourne. 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: E009962
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First Title value, for Searching Howell, David (1928 - 2017)

2024-04-28T23:09:44Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2020-11-25
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Occupation Gynaecologist Obstetrician
Details David Howell was an obstetrician and gynaecologist in Sydney. 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: E009882
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First Title value, for Searching Gebbie, Ian Donald ( - 1999)

2024-04-28T23:09:44Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2020-08-12
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Occupation Gynaecologist Obstetrician
Details Donald Gebbie was the foundation professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Nairobi. 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: E009776
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First Title value, for Searching Tweed, John James (1819 - 1902)

2024-04-28T23:09:44Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-09
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Occupation Obstetrician
Details The son of a well-known surgeon practising at Bishops Stortford, Essex. He was educated at the Parsonage of his native place and then at University College, London, where he joined the Medical Department and afterwards was a Life Governor of the Hospital. He practised at 14 Upper Brook Street for over sixty years, and the best years of his life were devoted to a very large obstetric practice. He was a Fellow of the Obstetrical Society and a member of the British Medical Association. He died on February 22nd, 1902.
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First Title value, for Searching Crowley, John Daniel (1926- 2012)

2024-04-28T23:09:44Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2020-10-19
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Occupation Obstetrician Gynaecologist
Details John Daniel Crowley was an obstetrician and gynaecologist in Palmerston North, New Zealand. He was born in Greymouth, New Zealand on 18 July 1926, and was educated at St Bede’s College in Christchurch during the Second World War. He then studied medicine at Otago, qualifying in 1952. He went to the UK for specialist training, gaining his FRCS in 1956. On his return to New Zealand he settled in Palmerston North, where he was a hospital obstetrician and gynaecologist. He also had a private practice. For six years he was chairman of the obstetrics unit and was later a member of the Manawatu-Wanganui Area Health Board. He delivered thousands of Palmerston North babies over a 35-year career. He was an active pro-life campaigner and played a key role in establishing several national organisations. He was a founder member of the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child and Doctors for Life, and editor of its *Life* newsletter. He also helped set up Pregnancy Help, which supported women with unwanted pregnancies to avoid abortion. In the 1970s he set up a natural family planning clinic in Palmerston North, which developed into a national organisation. He also established the Christian Family Life Education Group, to teach sex education in Catholic schools. He retired in 1995 and in his retirement focused on end-of-life issues. For 17 years he was a member of the Arohanui Hospice Trust. He campaigned against the 2001 Euthanasia Bill which was voted down in parliament and the Death with Dignity Bill in 2005. He was made a Knight of the Order of St Gregory the Great in 1999. He was also a Knight of the Order of Malta. He was married to Patricia Johannah (née MacLeod) and they had seven children – Paul, John, Kate, Stephen, Tina, Phil and David. He died in Palmerston North on 13 March 2012 at the age of 85.
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First Title value, for Searching Ryan, Michael (1815 - 1899)

2024-04-28T23:09:44Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-21
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician
Details Studied in Dublin at the Royal College of Surgeons and at the Meath Hospital. He practised successively at Ashley, Staffordshire, where he was Union Medical Officer; at Newcastle in the same county; at 17 Upper Leeson Street, Dublin; at 87 Ladbroke Grove, Notting Hill, London, W; and at 133 Rathgar Road, Dublin. He died at Idrone-sur-Mer, Blackrock, Co Dublin, on October 1st, 1899. Ryan specialized in midwifery, using forceps in about one in nine and a half cases. He was a Fellow of the London and Dublin Obstetrical Societies. Publications: *On the Successful Use of the Forceps in 2200 Midwifery Cases*, 1875. "On the Successful Use of the Forceps in 1206 Midwifery Cases." - *Dublin Med Press*, 1864, xli, 113; *Dublin Quart Jour of Med Sci*, 1864, xxxvii, 202.
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First Title value, for Searching Amias, Alan Gerald (1929 - 2018)

2024-04-28T23:09:44Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2018-11-19 2021-03-08
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Occupation Obstetrician Gynaecologist
Details Alan Gerald Amias was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at St George’s Hospital, London. Having spent his early years in the East End of London where he was born on 25 June 1929, he was evacuated to Bedford when he was eleven years old to escape the Blitz. Although he managed to gain swift entry to medical school in spite of his disrupted education, the emotional trauma of being sent away stayed with him for life. He studied medicine in London and, after house jobs at University College Hospital and national service at an army hospital in Germany, he passed the fellowship of the college in 1957. He joined the staff of St George’s Hospital – then situated at Hyde Park Corner – as a senior registrar and later, consultant. After he had been at St George’s for some years it was decided in 1973 to move the hospital to a new site in Tooting. Alan was closely involved in the extensive planning process which involved moving the medical school in 1976 and the hospital four years later. He became medical chairman of the St Georges’s NHS Trust and later of the district medical advisory committee and a member of council for the medical school. A fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, he was on their board of examiners. A prolific contributor to the medical literature, he also took his teaching responsibilities very seriously. Having suffered a reprimand as a junior himself for questioning a senior’s opinion he encouraged his staff to speak their minds. He turned his back on medicine after retirement and threw himself enthusiastically into other pursuits. Having researched Samuel Pepys’ medical history for a lecture he was writing, he became an active member of the Samuel Pepys Club. A keen theatre goer, for many years he had enjoyed attending the Shakespeare course at the City Lit in Covent Garden. Having learnt to read music and play the oboe, he joined an orchestra and took on the organisation of their summer workshop in a monastery in Provence. France meant a lot to him – for 20 years he had entertained family and friends at an old farmhouse he had done up in the south west of the country. When he died from a sudden heart attack on 4 January 2018, he was survived by his wife Fay, six children and step children and twelve grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Traer, James Reeves (1833 - 1867)

2024-04-28T23:09:44Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-21
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Occupation Obstetrician
Details Educated at King's College, London, where he was Physician-Accoucheur's Assistant at the Hospital; in Paris; and at Exeter. He was Superintendent of Class 17 at the International Exhibition of 1862 and obtained honourable mention for the excellence of his photographs of microscopical objects. At the time of his death he was a Fellow of the Obstetrical Society of London and Corresponding Member of the Paris Anatomical Society. He practised at 47 Hans Place, SW, and died in Paris on April 23rd, 1867. Publications: "Sur l'Arrangement des Veines de l'Ovaire." - *Bull Soc Anat* Paris, 1857, ii, 42. "Photographic Delineation of Microscopic Objects." - *Jour Lond Photographic Soc*, 1855. "Notes on the Medical, Surgical and Obstetrical Instruments in the International Exhibition, 1862." - *Med Times and Gaz*, 1862, i, 541, etc.
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First Title value, for Searching Wright, Liam Hugh (1926 - 2011)

2024-04-28T23:09:44Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2020-10-19
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Occupation Obstetrician Gynaecologist
Details Liam Hugh Wright was born in Taranaki, New Zealand in December 1926. His father, William John Wright, fought in the first world war. His mother, Stella née Hickey had been the headmistress of Opunake School but retired from teaching after her marriage as the couple embarked on running the family farm. Liam was educated at Rahotu School and then at Opunake, before matriculating when he was 16 in 1942 from St Patrick’s College, Silverstream. He spent the war years from 1943 to 1946 working on the farm while his elder brother, Ralston, served in the airforce. After a while spent studying in Wellington, he proceeded to Dunedin University in 1948 and graduated MB, ChB in 1953. He very much enjoyed his student years, playing rugby and becoming president of the Otago University Students Association in 1951. After house jobs in Palmerston North, he became a general practitioner and moved with his family to Mangakino. His experience as a rural GP convinced him of the need for better gynaecological services and he embarked on a registrar job at the National Women’s Hospital (NWH) in Auckland. In 1959 he sailed to the UK with his wife and family, which by now consisted of four children aged from 6 weeks to 6 years. He worked in London, the Mansfield Hospital in Nottinghamshire and lectured at the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Oxford. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1961 and the family returned to New Zealand the following year. He returned to work at the NWH, set up a private practice and also became a founding member of the Middlemore Hospital Obstetric Unit. For a while he was also jointly in charge of an obstetric unit at the Mater Misericordiae (now Mercy) Hospital. On beginning to specialise in gynaecological malignancies – and cervical cancer in particular – he carried out significant amounts of radical pelvic surgery throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Later he became more involved with administrative tasks such as chair of the medical advisory committee to the Auckland Hospital Board and medical supervisor for the Mercy Hospital, where he was also appointed acting CEO for a while. Famous for his empathy with his patients, he continued to practice after retirement age, performing his last delivery in 1990 and last surgical intervention in 1995. At the Mercy Hospital he remained on the staff until the age of 74. Outside medicine he enjoyed camping – he and his wife made an annual trip each January to a quiet beach in Northland called Bland Bay and maintained the habit for 40 years. A regular bridge player, he also completed the *Herald* and *Guardian* crosswords daily, even when he was seriously ill. Devoted to his family, the death of his eldest son Christopher in a motorcycle accident in 1977 hit him hard. When he died in August 2011, he was survived by his wife, Barbara, and children, Peter a barrister, Mark who is a surgeon and Virginia who became a documentary producer in Christchurch.
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First Title value, for Searching Shute, Gay (1812 - 1891)

2024-04-28T23:09:44Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-17
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Occupation Obstetrician
Details Born on November 1st, 1812, at Gosport, where his father was a medical practitioner. He was privately educated at Watford, whither his family moved. He entered as a student at University College Hospital in 1829, and after qualifying was for five years (1837-1842) House Surgeon at the Chichester Infirmary. Here he gained considerable experience and performed most of the operations. When thirty years of age he bought the practice of Frederick Colton Finch at Bexley House, Greenwich, and later moved to Dr Watford's house at Croom's Hill. He practised in the Greenwich and Blackheath district for forty-eight years, and was greatly trusted, being regarded as a very able obstetrician and being called in consultation in most difficult midwifery cases. He was a man of fine physique, and had enjoyed perfect health till a year before his death. He died at Croom's Hill early on the morning of May 4th, 1891. At the time of his death he was Consulting Surgeon to the Miller Hospital, and was locally regarded as the Father of the Profession. He married twice: (1) to Miss Rixon, of Chichester, and left surviving two sons and two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Philipp, Elliot Elias (1915 - 2010)

2024-04-28T23:09:44Z

by Alan Philipp
Publication Date 2010-12-09
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Occupation Gynaecologist Obstetrician
Details Elliot Philipp was an eminent gynaecologist and obstetrician, author of numerous popular and technical medical works, and a committed religious and charitable Jew. He was born on 20 July 1915 to Oscar Isaac and Clarisse Philipp (née Weil) in Stoke Newington, London. He was educated at Warwick House and St Paul's School. His father, a metal dealer from Hamburg, had come to England in 1908 to open an office, which in due course became the hub of a large and internationally successful operation. Elliot settled on a different career, deciding by the age of seven he would be a doctor, and went on to study at Cambridge University. After graduation he spent a year in Lausanne, due to ill-health, and it was here that he delivered his first baby. At the start of the Second World War, only a month after qualifying, Elliot left his first appointment at Middlesex Hospital to join the RAF. He joined Bomber Command in East Anglia, where he was responsible for the medical centres at Feltwell and Mildenhall, and by the end of hostilities held the rank of squadron leader. He was offered a long term commission in the RAF to stay as a doctor and medical researcher, but declined, returning to Middlesex Hospital and Addenbroke's, where he had been a clinical student. Subsequent appointments included St Thomas', Royal Free and University College hospitals. During this time, Elliot was writing books and newspaper articles. His first, for which he had help from his distant relative, Sigmund Freud, was *The techniques of sex* (London, Wales Publishing Company), first published in 1939 under the pseudonym 'Anthony Havil'. At a time when such guides were few and far between, it became a bestseller, with numerous editions over the next 40 years. In 1950, he became medical correspondent of *The News Chronicle*. The following year, he gained his fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons and started working privately in Harley Street. He also joined the staff of Oldchurch Hospital, Romford, as a junior consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology, a demanding job in a small department that covered a large area dominated by the Ford Motor Company. The position gave him the opportunity to undertake research in relation to blood groups and Rhesus factor. His private practice was growing too, particularly among the French community, since he spoke fluent French and German. He became the official gynaecologist to the French and several other embassies, worked part-time at the French Hospital in Shaftesbury Avenue, and was responsible for the opening of the French Dispensary. As a result of this and similar work, he was awarded the French Legion d'Honneur in 1971. In 1964, Elliot moved to the Royal Northern Hospital, which incorporated the City of London Maternity Hospital. His responsibilities included the inmates of Holloway prison, and the mental and physical challenges they presented. During this time, as well as developing skills in keyhole surgery, he was closely involved in treatments for infertility and the work with Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards that resulted in the births of the first test-tube babies. He retired from the National Health Service in 1980, but continued in private practice, seeing patients in Harley Street and operating until the age of 77. He continued writing books and articles, as well as lecturing, until the age of 82. He was always involved in medical ethics and had regular discussions with the Chief Rabbi, Lord Jakobovits, and other religious leaders. He served as president of both the Medical Society of London and the Hunterian Society, and chaired the historical division of the Royal Society of Medicine, during which time he co-wrote, with Michael J O'Dowd, *The history of obstetrics and gynaecology* (New York/London, Parthenon, c.1994). He also jointly edited *Scientific foundations of obstetrics and gynaecology* (London, Heinemann Medical, 1970). Retirement also allowed him to spend more time at the beloved Elizabethan cottage near the Essex coast which he had bought in 1937 and where he wrote many of his books and built up an extensive collection of antiquarian gynaecological books. Elliot's commitment to Judaism and Jewish charities followed that of his father, one of the founders of the Technion University in Haifa and Kibbutz Lavi. Elliot was an associate governor at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was in particular keen to help Jewish educational charities, including Jews' College and the Jewish Widows and Students Aid Trust, of which he was a trustee for over 50 years. He was a mohel, performing circumcisions, as well as on the board of the Initiation Society, the oldest Anglo-Jewish organisation, which ensures standards for circumcision. He regularly attended shiurim and other study groups. He married Lucie Ruth Hackenbroch in 1939, five weeks after meeting her. They remained happily married for nearly 50 years, until her death in 1988. They had two children, Ann, who died in 1997, and Alan, who survived him. In 1990, Elliot found a new companion, Lady Zdenka Bean, who pre-deceased him in January 2010. His greatest pleasure, however, was being with his grandchildren and great grandchildren. Elliot Philipp died on 27 September 2010, at the age of 95.
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First Title value, for Searching Whitehead, James (1812 - 1885)

2024-04-28T23:09:44Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-02-06
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician
Details Born at Oldham, the son of James Whitehead, who had a great local reputation as a herbalist and dealer in simples. James, after working as a boy in a cotton mill, attended the Marsden Street School of Medicine in Manchester and was apprenticed first to Mr Clough, of Lever Street, and afterwards to William Lambert, of Sowerby, Think, who had served as Assistant Surgeon with the Grenadier Guards in the Peninsula. He visited France and Germany in 1886, and on his return to England in 1888 began to practise in Oxford Street, Manchester. He was appointed Demonstrator of Anatomy in the Marsden Street School of Medicine in 1842, and in 1856 he founded jointly with Dr Schoepf Merei the Clinical Hospital and Dispensary for Children, which afterwards became the Manchester Clinical Hospital for Women and Children. He was Lecturer on Obstetrics at the Royal School of Medicine, and for fifteen years acted as Surgeon to St Mary's Hospital for Women and Children. He moved into Mosley Street in 1851, where he conducted a large practice until 1881, when he retired to Sutton, Surrey. He married in 1842 Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Hayward Radcliffe; she died September 20th, 1844. Whitehead died after a long illness on April 9th, 1885, and was buried in the Ardwick Cemetery, Manchester. Publications: *On the Causes and Treatment of Abortion and Sterility*, 8vo, London, 1847; republished 8vo, Philadelphia, 1848. *On the Transmission from Parent to Offspring of some Forms of Disease*, 8vo, London, 1851; 2nd ed, 1857. *The Wife's Domain by Philothalos*, 8vo, 1860; 2nd ed, 12mo, London, 1874. *Notes on the Rate of Mortality in Manchester*, 8vo, Manchester, 1863. *A Report on Children's Diseases, being the first "Report of the Clinical Hospital"* (jointly with A SCHOEPF MEREI), 8vo, Manchester, 1856.
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First Title value, for Searching Hall, Edith May (1896 - 1957)

2024-04-28T23:09:44Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-10
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Occupation Obstetrician
Details Born at Westbury, Wilts 9 May 1896. In 1914 she entered the London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women, graduating with honours in surgery. She proceeded to the MD degree, winning the university medal in midwifery and gynaecology. She held junior house appointments at the Royal Free Hospital, and was then junior and senior resident medical officer at Queen Charlotte's Hospital. She returned to the Royal Free to join the obstetric and gynaecological unit there, eventually becoming senior assistant. Miss Hall was consultant obstetrician to the Mother's Hospital, Clapton from 1923 to 1949, and chairman of the medical committee. One of the original members of the staff of the Marie Curie Hospital, she held her appointment there until the time of her death. At the London Homoeopathic Hospital, in 1926, she was the first woman to be elected to the staff. In 1935 she joined the staff of the South London Hospital for Women and Children and was later consultant obstetrician to the hospital. During the war of 1939-45 she served in the Emergency Medical Service as a surgeon and was responsible for the treatment of air-raid casualties. Owing to failing health she resigned her appointments at the South London Hospital in 1956. She died at her home 16 Pilgrims Lane NW3, on 26 December 1957, aged 61, after a long illness during which she received devoted care from her sister Dr Marjorie Hall MRCS. She practised at first at 142 Harley Street and then at 31 Devonshire Place, and was admired for her kindness, efficiency, and wisdom.
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First Title value, for Searching Dodds, Robert Leslie (1898 - 1949)

2024-04-28T23:09:44Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-20
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Occupation Obstetrician
Details Born at Dundee in 1898, son of the Rev R W Dodds, a methodist minister. He was educated at the Methodist College, Belfast, and at Queen's University. He interrupted his training to join the RNVR during the first world war, and served in destroyers. He qualified in 1920 and, after being house physician at Swansea General Hospital, went back to Belfast as demonstrator of anatomy. Dodds decided to specialize as an obstetrician, and obtained an appointment as obstetric registrar at Charing Cross Hospital. He took the Fellowship in 1927, though not a Member of the College, and proceeded to the Belfast MCh the same year. He subsequently joined the staff of the City of London Maternity Hospital, the Samaritan Hospital, the French Hospital, and the Bearsted Memorial Hospital. His real opportunity came with the reorganization of the London County Council's maternity services in 1934, in which he played a leading part; he continued to serve the Council as obstetric consultant at St James's Hospital, and was also obstetric consultant to the Ilford and Edmonton borough councils. During the second world war he served as surgeon to troopships 1943-44, with the rank of major RAMC, but had to resign his commission from ill-health. Dodds died in the Middlesex Hospital on 26 January 1949, aged 50, survived by his widow. Dodds was endowed with good looks, and charm and modesty of manner. He was an expert in his own specialty, and an excellent lecturer and administrator. He was also of great courage, and activated by humanitarian motives. Happening to be a universal blood donor, he was always ready to offer his blood for transfusion in emergencies.
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First Title value, for Searching Hamlin, Elinor Catherine (1924 - 2020)

2024-04-28T23:09:44Z

by Greg Morris
Publication Date 2020-08-12 2020-11-23
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Occupation Gynaecologist Obstetrician
Details Catherine Hamlin, Australia’s most renowned obstetrician and gynaecologist, co-founded Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia with her husband Reginald Hamlin, a healthcare network treating women who suffer from the debilitating effects of obstetric fistula – a horrific childbirth injury. To say Catherine was a remarkable woman is an understatement: she was twice nominated for the Nobel Peace prize, was awarded Australia’s highest honour, was named New South Wales Senior Australian of the Year in 2018, and in 2019 the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed presented her with the Eminent Citizen award in recognition of her lifetime of service to the women of Ethiopia. Women and girls who suffer from obstetric fistula have been described as our modern-day lepers. Obstetric fistula is a horrific childbirth injury, that leaves women incontinent. It is caused by long, unrelieved obstructed labour. Women with obstetric fistulas live with a constant stream of leaking urine and, in some cases, faeces. They are often ostracised from their communities and rejected by their husbands. Catherine Hamlin lived to give these women their lives back. Elinor Catherine Nicholson was born on 24 January 1924 in Sydney, Australia, one of six children to Elinor and Theodore Nicholson. The family lived in the Sydney suburb of Ryde and Catherine completed her schooling at Frensham School, Mittagong, in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. Following an innate desire to help women and children, she enrolled in medicine, graduating from the University of Sydney’s medical school in 1946. After completing internships at two Sydney hospitals, Catherine accepted a residency in obstetrics at Sydney’s highly-regarded Crown Street Women’s Hospital. It was at Crown Street that she met and fell in love with Reginald (Reg) Hamlin. They married in 1950 and had a son, Richard, in 1953. In 1958, the Hamlins answered an advertisement in *The Lancet* for gynaecologists to set up a school of midwifery in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Together with their son, they travelled to Ethiopia to take up the contract. What had been intended as a three-year stay in Addis Ababa turned into a lifetime of service to the Ethiopian people. Once Catherine and Reg started work at the Princess Tsehai Memorial Hospital, they found themselves treating women suffering obstetric complications on a scale unimaginable in a Western hospital. Before the Hamlins arrived in Ethiopia, patients with obstetric fistulas were turned away from hospitals as there was no cure for their humiliating condition. Confronted by the tragic plight of women with obstetric fistula, and never having seen this condition in Australia, Catherine and Reg had to draw on medical literature from the 1850s to develop their own surgical procedures. The technique they perfected is still used today. As news of the Hamlins’ work spread, more and more women came to them for help. At first, they built a ten-bed fistula clinic in the grounds of the Princess Tsehai Memorial Hospital. Then, amidst the communist revolution, they built their Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, which opened on 24 May 1975. There are now six Hamlin fistula hospitals across Ethiopia. Over the past 61 years, more than 60,000 Ethiopian women suffering with an obstetric fistula have received life-changing reconstructive surgery and care, thanks to the Hamlins’ vision. Catherine’s initial goal of training midwives became a reality in 2007 when she founded the Hamlin College of Midwives. High school graduates are trained in a four-year degree, then deployed to rural midwifery clinics, breaking the cycle of unrelieved obstructed labour and thereby preventing obstetric fistula from occurring in the first place. In 1983, Catherine was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia and in 1995 appointed to the higher rank in the Order, a Companion, for ‘service to gynaecology in developing countries particularly in the field of fistula surgery and for humanitarian service … improving the health, dignity and self-esteem of women in Ethiopia’. In 2001, the Australian Government recognised Catherine’s ‘long and outstanding service to international development in Africa’ by awarding her the Australian Centenary medal. In recognition of her humanitarian work in Ethiopia she was included on the Australian Living Legends list in 2004. In 2009, Catherine was awarded the Right Livelihood award, sometimes referred to as the alternative Nobel prize. In 2015, she received the Australian Medical Association’s President’s award. In 2017, a Sydney Ferries Emerald-class ferry was named the ‘Catherine Hamlin’ after thousands of Australian supporters voted for her. Catherine was most proud of the Hamlin Model of Care – holistic healing that is part of every patient’s treatment: ‘We don’t just treat the hole in the bladder, we treat the whole patient with love and tender care, literacy and numeracy classes, a brand-new dress and money to travel home.’ In her 2001 autobiography, co-written with Australian journalist John Little, *The hospital by the river: a story of hope* (Sydney, Macmillan), Catherine makes clear that she and Reg saw their work as one of Christian compassion for the suffering. Today, Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia is a healthcare network of over 550 Ethiopian staff – many trained by Catherine – servicing six hospitals, Desta Mender rehabilitation centre, the Hamlin College of Midwives and 80 Hamlin-supported midwifery clinics. Hamlin is the reference organisation and leader in the fight to eradicate obstetric fistula around the world, blazing a trail for holistic treatment and care that empowers women to reassert their humanity, secure their health and well-being, and regain their roles in their families and communities. Catherine died on 18 March 2020 aged 96 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, her home for 61 years and is buried alongside Reg in the British War Graves Cemetery. At the 60th anniversary celebrations in 2019, Catherine said ‘I love Ethiopia and I have loved every day here. Ethiopia is my home.’ She was survived by Richard and his four children, Sarah, Paul, Catherine and Stephanie, her sister Ailsa Pottie and brothers Donald and Jock Nicholson.
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First Title value, for Searching Halstead, Charles George Dines (1913 - 1992)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-09
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Obstetrician
Details Charles Halstead was born in Auckland on 11 September 1913. His father, Regement Dines Halstead, was company manager of the NZ Union Shipping Company, and his mother was Ivy Davies, née MacNab. He went to school at Timaru Boys' High School, and then to Otago Medical School. He held junior posts in Dunedin and Timaru. Then he came to England and was demonstrator of anatomy at Cambridge in 1939 and surgeon at Queen Mary's Hospital for the East End. From 1941 to 1945 he served in the NZRAMC, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel, and was surgeon to Guadalcanal Hospital. He returned to surgical practice at Timaru Hospital. His practice included delivering over 3000 babies, as well as general surgery. He continued in general practice after retirement and until his death. He was medical officer to the Jockey Club, Rugby Union and Hunt in South Canterbury, and worked hard to establish Bidwell Trust Hospital. He was much respected for his competence and dedication, and for the help he gave to his juniors. His hobbies included tennis, squash, billiards, snooker, golf and reading. He died on 23 May 1992, survived by his wife, Joyce May Patrick, whom he married on 23 January 1942, and their two sons, Charles and David, and daughter Patricia, who became a nurse.
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First Title value, for Searching Jeaffreson, William (1790 - 1865)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-05-16
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Occupation Gynaecologist Obstetrician
Details Went to Bury St Edmunds Grammar School, then to Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals, to which the fame of Sir Astley Cooper attracted him as it did others. He settled in practice at Framlingham, Suffolk, and there gained for himself the honour of being amongst the first in England to remove an ovarian cyst successfully. In the United States McDowell and Nathan Smith had succeeded in eleven cases. At the post-mortem on a woman who had died from another cause Jeaffreson had noted an ovarian cyst, without adhesions, which when collapsed could be drawn out through a one-inch incision. Robert Houston (*Phil Trans*, 1724, xxxiii, 8) had reported that he had cut into an ovarian cyst, evacuated the contents, and the woman had recovered. William Hunter (*Med Obs and Inquiries*, 1762, ii, 26, 41, and 45: on the "Cellular Membrane and Some of its Diseases" and on "Encysted Dropsy of the Ovarium") had suggested, with reference to Houston's case, the removal of the cyst through a one-inch incision after emptying it by means of a trocar and cannula. Jeaffreson had also learnt of Nathan Smith's operation. He first examined the case of ovarian cyst in 1833, and watched the woman until 1836, when, assisted by King, of Saxmundham, he made a one-inch incision midway between the umbilicus and pubes through the linea alba, emptied the cyst through a cannula inserted by means of a trocar, removing 12 pints of fluid. As the sac emptied it was seized and drawn forwards; a second cyst containing 2 oz was similarly emptied. A ligature was then placed on the pedicle, the ends of the ligature were cut close to the knot, the sac was removed, and the wound sutured. The woman recovered and continued in good health. The prevalence of bladder calculus in East Anglia gave Jeaffreson opportunities of becoming a successful lithotomist. He also tried lithotrity advocated by Civiale and Heurteloup in France, by Costello in England. He was the first provincial surgeon to try the procedure, and selected cases in which he obtained success except in one. The College recognized his surgical success by electing him an Hon Fellow and he attended the annual elections and dinners. He joined the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, and was President at a meeting of the Eastern Branch at Framlingham in 1848. He retired later and died at Framlingham on November 8th, 1865. Publications: The Surgeon General's Library Catalogue attributes to Jeaffreson *A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Eye*, 1844, which in fact was written by a surgeon of the same name who spent many years in Bombay.
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First Title value, for Searching Horsley, John Woodward (1906 - 1981)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-19
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Occupation General surgeon Medical Officer Obstetrician
Details John Woodward Horsley was born in Auckland in 1906. His father, Arthur Horsley, was a chemist in downtown Auckland at the turn of the century. John used to say that he and his mother, Alice, spanned 100 years of medical practice as she was the third woman to graduate from Otago Medical School and the first woman to practice medicine in Auckland in 1900. It is recorded that John and his three sisters would frequently be seen doing their school homework in the car while mother was visiting patients or giving an anaesthetic. He was educated at Auckland Grammar School where he excelled in sport, playing for the first XV and the cricket XI. Later at Otago University, he obtained his rugby blue. He qualified MB ChB in 1932 and was house surgeon to Auckland Hospital for the next two years after which he spent some months doing locums in Tauranga and Waikato before proceeding to England for postgraduate study. He obtained his FRCS in 1939 and served as a surgeon in the EMS throughout the second world war at Shoreham-on-Sea where he met an obstetric registrar, Dr Theo McAlpine, whom he married in 1944. At the end of the war the couple spent a few months in Auckland before settling in Hamilton in 1946. He operated for some fifteen years at Cassel Hospital conducting a busy obstetric practice as well as general practice responsibilities where he was universally liked and respected by patients and colleagues. There was many a time when he would visit a sick, elderly person and on finding them cold, hungry and lonely would turn on the heater, make a cup of tea and sit and talk to them. During this time, he was medical officer to the Post Office and the railways and the Waikato Racing Club, the Boxing Association and the Wrestling Association of which he was a life member. He gave up operative surgery in 1961 but continued as medical officer at Fairholm, an outlying subsidiary of Waikato Hospital until shortly before his death. During his last two years, he became progressively ill but preserved an uncomplaining stoicism. He died at his home on May 30 1981 at the age of 74. His wife, Theo, and their children, Joan, Ruth and Campbell survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Ley, Gordon (1885 - 1922)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-27
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Occupation Gynaecologist Obstetrician
Details Born in Exeter on June 19th, 1885, the son of Richard Ley, of Exmouth. He was educated at Malvern and at the London Hospital, where he won the Obstetric Scholarship and Prize in 1907 and was Pathological Assistant. In 1910 he became House Surgeon at the Gloucester Royal Infirmary, proceeding thence to Queen Charlotte's Hospital, where he was successively Junior and Senior Resident Medical Officer during a period of eight months. This appointment determined his choice of a career. He became an enthusiastic obstetrician, and soon displayed much ability. In 1913 he was appointed Pathologist to the Chelsea Hospital for Women, holding this post till 1921, and in March, 1914, he became Obstetric Registrar and Tutor to Charing Cross Hospital. This appointment he held to within a short period of his death. Gordon Ley suffered from congenital valvular disease of the heart, and his physique was so low that he was totally rejected for military service during the Great War. Few men, however, worked harder than he did at home. Throughout the War he acted as voluntary Resident Medical Officer to the City of London Maternity Hospital, doing almost the entire work of this hospital from the beginning of 1917 onwards in the absence on military duty of his colleague. He also volunteered at the London Hospital, where two of the gynaecologists had been called away by war duty. Here he had charge of beds, did the work of the Obstetric Registrar and Tutor during the greater part of the War, and acted also as Pathological Assistant. At the same time he took charge of the Jewish Maternity Home in Underwood Street as Consulting Obstetrician, was on the rota of the Lady Howard de Walden Maternity Home for Officers' Wives, and lectured from 1914-1918 twice a week at the Midwives' Institute, continuing these lectures to the time of his death. He was appointed Gynaecologist to the Hampstead General Hospital in 1918, and in 1919 Assistant Obstetric Surgeon to the City of London Maternity Hospital. These two appointments he held at the time of his death. In addition to this record of hospital work, Gordon Ley found time for original research, and he left a short series of admirable papers on clinical and pathological problems connected with obstetrics. His first considerable effort was the collation of 100 cases of full-term extra-uterine pregnancy from the literature, with two original cases upon which he had operated himself. Two years later he published an able communication on accidental haemorrhage, advancing cogent reasons for regarding this condition as toxaemic, and from the results of microscopic examination of the uteri removed for this condition he was able to offer an explanation of the mechanism of production of the bleeding. He also devoted much attention to the subject of carcinoma of the ovary. In 1919 he had communicated his preliminary results to the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Royal Society of Medicine, and in continuance of his work had undertaken to open a discussion on "Primary Carcinoma of the Ovary" at the Glasgow Meeting of the British Medical Association, when his tragic death occurred. On the morning of June 3rd, 1922, he was travelling on professional business to Paris in a French aeroplane. After passing the coast-line, and when two or three miles off Folkestone, the machine suddenly dived into the sea from a height of 1500 feet. The pilot and both passengers lost their lives. Dr G H Varley, of Cadogan Place, W, who was on board the Boulogne packet, was at once rowed to the wrecked aeroplane, and then recognized the body of his dead colleague. After an inquest held at Folkestone on June 6th, where the brother of Gordon Ley, Dr R L Ley, of Great Yarmouth, identified the deceased, the funeral took place in Folkestone churchyard on the same afternoon. Publications: "Decidual Reaction in a Subperitoneal Fibromyoma of Uterus." - *Proc Roy Soc Med* (Sect Obst and Gynaecol), 1916-17, x, 137. "Fibromyo-lipoma of Corpus Uteri." - *Ibid*, 1913-14, vii, 150. "Two Cases of Full-time Extra-uterine Pregnancy with a Tabulated Abstract of 100 Cases from the Literature." - *Ibid*, 1918-19, xii, 140. "Primary and Secondary Carcinoma of Ovary." - *Ibid*, 1919-20, xiii, 95. "Utero-placental (Accidental) Haemorrhage." - *Jour Obst and Gynaecol*, 1921, xxviii, 69.
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First Title value, for Searching Lea, Arnold William Warrington (1868 - 1916)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-06-20
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Occupation Gynaecologist Obstetrician
Details The son of Edward Lea, of Sandbach, Cheshire, and a nephew through his mother of Dr F W Warrington, of Congleton. He was educated at Parkhurst School, Buxton, and at Owens College. He afterwards held resident appointments at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, where he was House Surgeon, at the Hospital for Sick Children, Pendlebury, and also at the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital and at Queen Charlotte's Hospital. He settled in Manchester in 1895, becoming assistant to Sir William Japp Sinclair. In 1897 he joined the staff of the Northern Hospital for Women and Children, Manchester, of which he was afterwards Surgeon, and then Consulting Surgeon. The hospital in 1905 amalgamated with St Mary's Hospital for Women and Children, of which he became Assistant Surgeon, and then Surgeon. He was also early elected Lecturer on Midwifery and the Diseases of Women at Owens College. He collaborated actively with Sir W Sinclair and Dr W E Fothergill in founding the *Journal of Obstetrics and Gyncecology of the British Empire*, and in 1912 was elected President of the North of England Obstetrical Society. He attained to an eminent position as a gynaecologist, with a large consulting practice; but outside his professional work he also showed many brilliant qualities. In early days he was an athlete, devoted to rock-climbing. He talked well and was one of the most attractive speakers at the Manchester Medical Students' Debating Society, taking an interest in general, literary, and sociological subjects as well as in science. He was elected President of the Manchester Fortnightly Society, where he frequently spoke in debate, and to which he contributed papers evincing high literary culture. In 1913 he had a serious breakdown, and he died at Southport on May 7th, 1916. He was buried at St Peter's Church, Congleton. In 1913 he married Miss Lillias Thompson McTaggart. Publications: *Puerperal Infection*, 8vo, 35 plates, London, 1910. "On Breech Presentation with Extended Legs" (with W S A GRIFFITH). - *Trans Obst Soc*, 1897, xxxix, 13. "The Sagittal Fontanelle in the Heads of Infants at Birth." - *Ibid*, 1898, xl, 263. "Influence of Gonorrhoea on the Puerperium, with Analysis of 50 Cases." - *Trans North of England Obst and Gyncaecol Soc*, 1900, 53. "Bacteriological Diagnosis of Puerperal Infection: its Value and Limitations." - *Ibid*, 1901 (Appendix), 189. "Ovarian Tumours complicating Pregnancy and Labour." - *Ibid*, 1904, 85. "Spinal Anaesthesia by Cocaine in Gynaecology," 8vo, Manchester, 1902; reprinted from *Med Chronicle*, 1901-2, xxxv, 161. "The Vermiform Appendix in Relation to Pelvic Inflammation." - *Jour Obst and Gynaecol*, 1906, x, 133.
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First Title value, for Searching Manby, Sir Alan Reeve (1848 - 1925)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-07-11
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Occupation Obstetrician
Details Born on June 4th, 1848, at East Rudham, Norfolk, where both his father, Frederic Manby, and his grandfather had practised. Educated at Epsom College, he then studied at Guy's Hospital, where he was Obstetric Resident, after which he joined his father in the family practice. His elder brother was Frederic Edward Manby (qv). In 1885 Alan Manby was appointed Surgeon-Apothecary to the Prince of Wales at Sandringham, and when the latter became King Edward VII Manby was made Physician Extraordinary, a position continued under King George V, and in the household of Queen Alexandra. In 1901 he travelled with King George and Queen Mary, then Duke and Duchess of York, during their tour. Dr Maurice Mottram, who was his assistant for five years, said of him that, whilst unlike other country practitioners he was not so specially interested in horseflesh, he had a mechanical bent, and he consequently took at once to motoring, his first car having neither hood nor windscreen, nor pneumatic tyres. In 1873 he invented a flexible spiral probe, in 1886 a modification of a lithotrite. He had a considerable obstetric practice, and foresaw the effect on the general practitioner of the introduction of certificated midwives. He held exalted opinions of the system of apprenticeship, maintaining that both employer and employed had a definite duty the one to the other. The assistant should work in his chief's interest; it was incumbent on the older man to instruct the younger in all those matters appertaining to the conduct of a practice to which no attention is given in the ordinary medical education. During many years Manby was an active member of the Norfolk and Norwich Medico-Chirurgical Society, and its President in 1892. In 1896 he was President of the East Anglian Branch of the British Medical Association, Vice-President of the Section of Obstetrics at the Oxford Meeting in 1904, and of the Section of Therapeutics at the Toronto Meeting in 1906; at the Ipswich Meeting in 1900, Hon Secretary of the Section of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and for seven years a Member of the Parliamentary Bills Committee. He died at East Rudham on September 29th, 1925. He was survived by Lady Manby, whom, as Charlotte Annie Farrer, daughter of his neighbour Edmund Farrer, of Petygards Hall, Swaffham, he had married in 1876; by his son, the Hon Mr Justice Percy Manby, Judicial Commissioner of the Federated Malay States and Judge of the Supreme Court, Straits Settlements; and by his daughter, wife of F J Winans, MRCS, Surgeon-Apothecary to the Royal Household at Sandringham. His portrait is in the College Collection.
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First Title value, for Searching Williams, Leslie Herbert Worthy (1893 - 1972)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-24
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Occupation Obstetrician
Details Leslie Herbert Worthy Williams was born at Newport, Monmouthshire on 27 February 1893, the son of the late Mr T Gill Williams and Mrs Williams (née Willey). He was educated at Newport Intermediate School, University College, Cardiff and University College Hospital, London, where he qualified with the Diploma of the Conjoint Board in 1914. He served with the RAMC until 1920 when he returned to University College Hospital and graduated MB BS. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1921 and proceeded to MD and MS in the following year. He held junior appointments at University College Hospital and was then appointed in turn to the posts of obstetric registrar, radium registrar, registrar in venereal diseases and chief assistant to the Professorial Unit in obstetrics in the same hospital. In 1930 he was appointed obstetric and gynaecological registrar at St Mary's Hospital and in 1931 he joined the honorary staff of that hospital as second obstetric surgeon to outpatients. He was appointed consultant surgeon to the Samaritan Hospital and consulting obstetric surgeon to the Nelson Hospital, Wimbledon. He was also a consulting surgeon to the London County Council and medical inspector in nullity to the High Court. He acted as examiner to London University, Cambridge University and to the Conjoint Board. He was a foundation member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, became a Fellow in 1934 and served on its Council from 1949 to 1952. In 1949 he visited Sydney as the first William Mcllrath Guest Professor to the University of Sydney and in 1962 he gave the James Young Simpson Oration. He wrote *Aids to obstetrics* (13th edition 1956) and, with Alex Bourne, several editions of *Recent advances in obstetrics and gynaecology*. He was an excellent teacher who emphasised principles and made his subject logical. His emphasis on essentials was such that their practical application was straightforward. He was a cheerful, happy person who enjoyed meeting people and who delighted in his golf, at which he was an outstanding performer. He was appointed Captain of the Royal Wimbledon Golf Club and he was a popular member of the Savage Club. He supported many student activities at St Mary's Hospital Medical School and he was President of the Golf Club. An ideal "Chief", he was always loyal to his subordinates. He gave his opinion on all matters without fear or favour, but if this opinion was not taken he submitted gracefully to the views of the majority. He opposed the entry of women students to St Mary's Hospital Medical School after the second world war, but when they were admitted he accepted the situation without acrimony. He opposed strongly the formation of a Professional Unit in obstetrics at St Mary's Hospital because he felt that the academic approach would destroy the practical application of the subject. He had retired before this project was finally introduced. He died on 1 January 1972, and was survived by his wife, Patrice, elder daughter of the late Hattor Ronayre Connor of Douglas, Co Cork, a daughter and two sons, the elder of whom was educated at St Mary's Hospital Medical School and is an ophthalmic surgeon in the Royal Navy.
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First Title value, for Searching Goodeve, Henry Hurry Iles (1807 - 1884)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-02-15
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Occupation Anatomist Obstetrician
Details Educated at St Bartholomew's Hospital and at the Universities of Edinburgh and Dublin. He was born at Portsmouth and was the scion of a Norfolk family, his father being John Goodeve, banker, latterly of Bury Hall, Hants. Through his mother, Elizabeth Hurry, he claimed kindred with Sir John Hurry, the famous champion of Montrose. His father, John Goodeve, was thrice married, leaving male issue by each marriage. Of the first family William James Goodeve, surgeon in Clifton and lecturer on anatomy, was father, by Lady Frances Jemima Erskine, of the Earl of Mar, who had been a claimant for the dormant peerage. Of the third family was Dr Edward Goodeve, well known in Calcutta, and British Commissioner of the Constantinople Cholera Conference. Henry Goodeve made an early start in life, and before he was 22 had assisted his elder brother as a Lecturer on Anatomy, had taken part in conducting the *Athenaeum* with his cousin, Frederick Denison Maurice, had graduated at the University of Edinburgh, and had married Miss Isabella Barlow, who was his devoted helpmeet till her death in 1870. He obtained an appointment in the East India Company's service and was stationed at Rampoor for four years, during which time while out tiger-hunting he received a gunshot wound in the cheek. It was a frightful injury, and divided the facial nerve, producing permanent facial paralysis. He was appointed Professor of Anatomy to the Calcutta Medical College on its first establishment in 1835. Subsequently for some ten or eleven years he devoted himself to obstetrics and had the largest practice in Bengal. He became friends with men of high distinction such as Sir Ranald Martin and Dr O'Shaughnessy (later Sir William Brook), pioneer of Indian telegraphy. Incessant labour, involved especially by his overwhelming practice, began to tell on him. He obtained leave, returned to England, and after one short visit to India, retired and was granted a special pension for distinguished merit by the HEIC. This retirement he utilized for the development of a scheme he had already conceived - namely, the extension to high-caste and other Hindus of the benefits of English education. He brought with him to London four young Brahmins, placed them at University College, and superintended their career. Some of them highly distinguished themselves, notably Dr Soojoocoomar Chuckerbutty. In 1845 he was deputed to England, taking with him four students to complete their education at University College, London. S C Chuckerbutty, one of these students, after serving as an uncovenanted Medical Officer, passed first into the IMS at the first competitive examination, which was held in January, 1855, and held the Chair of Materia Medica in the Calcutta Medical College from 1864 until his death on Sept 29th, 1874. In spite of his heavy duties Goodeve found time to start reforms and to found charitable and medical institutions in Calcutta, which, as his biographer in the *Medical Times* points out (1884, ii, 65), "still bear testimony to his zeal, benevolence and judgment". The Crimean War breaking out after Dr Goodeve had been resident for some years in London, he volunteered for service and was appointed Inspector of Civil Hospitals. At the Renkioi Hospital, where he now acted, his colleagues were Sir Spencer Wells (qv), William Robertson, and Holmes Coote (qv), under the superintendence of Edmund Parkes. On his return to England after the war, he realized an early project and built himself a house from his own designs on one of the finest sites in southern England, overlooking the Avon Valley near Bristol. Here he spent many happy and laborious years as County Magistrate, Visitor of County Lunatic Asylums, Reformatories, and Industrial Schools. He was for many years Captain of the Bristol Rifles, a Director of the Avonmouth Docks and Port and Pier Railway, and President, after 1870, of the Bristol Boarding-out Society, in the principles of which he took a strong interest. He died after a short illness on June 17th, 1884. Publications:- *Hints for the General Management of Children in India in the Absence of Professional Advice. This went through seven editions and was very popular with Anglo-Indian mothers in more or less remote stations* (2nd ed, Calcutta, 1844). The 8th edition of the Hints was brought out in 1886 by EDWARD A BIRCH (8vo, Calcutta) under an altered title. *General Introductory Lecture addressed to the Students of the Calcutta Medical College at the opening of the Session*, 15th June, 1848. As joint Secretary with W B O'Shaughnessy of the Calcutta Medical and Physical Society he edited the six volumes of the Quarterly Journal of that Society which appeared in 1837-8.
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