Search Results for Medical Obituaries - Narrowed by: Obstetrician - Gynaecologist

First Title value, for Searching Hans, Stanley Frederick (- 2012)

2024-05-15T12:18:33Z

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.
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First Title value, for Searching Howell, David (1928 - 2017)

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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
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First Title value, for Searching Manly, Gerald Arthur ( - 2009)

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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
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First Title value, for Searching Crowley, John Daniel (1926- 2012)

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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 Philipp, Elliot Elias (1915 - 2010)

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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 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 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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