Search Results for Medical Obituaries - Narrowed by: Obstetrician and gynaecologist

First Title value, for Searching Booth, David ( - 2011)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-04 2015-07-20
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details David Booth was an obstetrician and gynaecologist in East Surrey, Cuckfield and Crawley. He studied medicine at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1960. He gained his FRCS in 1967. Prior to his consultant appointment, he was a senior registrar at the Woolwich group of hospitals and a registrar at King's College Hospital and Redhill General Hospital. David Booth died on 14 April 2011.
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First Title value, for Searching Stallabrass, Peter Pratool ( - 2009)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2011-11-28 2014-05-14
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373821373821
Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Peter Stallabrass was consultant obstetric and gynaecological surgeon to the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. He studied medicine at King's College London passing MB BS in 1955 and the fellowship of the College in 1959. After early posts at Queen Charlotte's Hospital and Chelsea hospital for Women he became senior registrar in the departments of obstetrics and gynaecology at St Thomas'and Lambeth Hospitals. He was living in Henley-on-Thames when his death on 3 July 2009 was reported by his widow.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001638
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First Title value, for Searching Driscoll, Alan Martin ( - 2021)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-11-19
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Alan Driscoll was an obstetrician and gynaecologist in Norwich. 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: E010030
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First Title value, for Searching Shaaban, Ali Hussein (1909 - )

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2020-10-19
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Ali Shaaban was a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Cairo University. 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: E009837
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First Title value, for Searching Abrahams, Yusuf (1941 - 2023)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-10-11
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Yusuf Abrahams was a consultant gynaecologist at Ealing Hospital. 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: E010471
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First Title value, for Searching Schubert, Wilfred ( - 2000)

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First Title value, for Searching Bates, Arthur (1923 - 2016)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-07-29 2019-10-28
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Arthur Bates was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Northampton. Born on 10 December 1923 he was the son of Arthur Bates, a master engineer, and his wife Florence May née Potter. After studying medicine at Cambridge University he was appointed house surgeon at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and then resident surgical officer at the Birmingham Maternity Hospital. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1960 and the fellowship of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1971. Moving to Northampton he became consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist to the Northampton and Kettering area group of hospitals. He married Margaret Mavis Ives who was also medically qualified. When he retired he moved to Forres, a town in Scotland 25 miles northeast of Inverness, and he died there on 13 April 2016 aged 92. He was survived by his second wife Margaret Anne née Young who was a health visitor.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009215
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First Title value, for Searching Pool, Kenneth Raymond Stanley ( - 2005)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-18 2015-04-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373810373810
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Kenneth Raymond Stanley Pool was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Folkestone, Buckland Hospital, Dover, and William Harvey Hospital, Ashford. He studied medicine at King's College Hospital Medical School and qualified in 1952. He gained his FRCS in 1958. Prior to his consultant appointments he was a surgical registrar at the Central Middlesex Hospital, London, a demonstrator in anatomy at King's College, Newcastle upon Tyne, and a senior registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology at King's College Hospital, London. He was a member and then fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Kenneth Raymond Stanley Poole died in early 2005.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001627
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First Title value, for Searching Sinnatamby, Appacutty ( - 1986)

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First Title value, for Searching Playfair, Patrick Herbert Lyon (1903 - 1986)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-12-24 2017-04-20
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Patrick Herbert Lyon Playfair was an obstetrician and gynaecologist in South Africa. He was born on 15 September 1903 in Hampshire. He gained his MRCS LRCP in 1928 and became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1933. He practised in South Africa. Outside medicine, his main interests were farming and sailing. He had two children, Gavin Seamus and Suzannah, by his second marriage to Esme Mary Madeleine Playfair née Fitzgerald, who was originally from Ireland. He died in 1986 in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006611
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First Title value, for Searching Nanayakkara, Sapugahawattege Henry (1926 - 2013)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2021-10-08
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Henry Nanayakkara was a professor of obstetrics and gynaecology in Colombo, Sri Lanka. 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: E010018
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First Title value, for Searching Grieg, Cecilie ( - 1986)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-18
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Cecilie Grieg received her medical education at the West London Hospital Medical School and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1944, gaining her Fellowship in 1955. In her early career she specialized in obstetrics and gynaecology and held junior appointments at St Mary Abbots Hospital, Epsom Cottage Hospital and the British Postgraduate Medical School. In later years she devoted her energies to private practice until her retirement at the end of 1985. She died on 24 December 1986.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007295
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First Title value, for Searching Bruce, John Edwin Forde (1937 - 2015)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-09-15 2018-11-26
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details John Edwin Forde Bruce was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Nottingham. He gained his FRCS in 1967. He carried out his postgraduate training in London and in 1975 was appointed as a consultant at King’s Mill Hospital, Mansfield and the City Hospital, Nottingham. He was president of the Nottingham Medico Chirurgical Society in 1997 and a member of the Gynaecological Visiting Society. Outside medicine he enjoyed playing rugby, golf, bowls, skiing and motorcars. He died on 7 September 2015 from bowel cancer and was survived by his wife, Bryana, and a daughter and son.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008071
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First Title value, for Searching Francis, Harold Hugh Gamlin ( - 2011)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-01-06 2015-02-27
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Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Harold Hugh Gamlin Francis was a consultant obstetric and gynaecological surgeon at the United Liverpool Hospitals, and a senior lecturer at the University of Liverpool Medical School. He studied medicine at Otago University, New Zealand, qualifying MB BS in 1944. He was a house surgeon at Wellington Hospital, and then went to the UK for further training. He was a senior registrar at Liverpool Maternity Hospital before he was appointed to his consultant post. During his career he held a New Zealand travelling scholarship in obstetrics and gynaecology from the University of Otago and a Bernhard Baron travelling scholarship from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1960. He was a fellow of the North of England Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society. Predeceased by his wife, Winifred, Harold Hugh Gamlin Francis died at home on 31 May 2011, aged 92.
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First Title value, for Searching Seligman, Stanley Albert (1927 - 2015)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-12-10 2018-11-27
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381204381204
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Stanley Albert Seligman was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Luton and Dunstable Hospital. He was born in West Ham, Newham, London on 29 July 1927, the son of Isaac Seligman and Sarah Seligman née Goldberg. He was educated at Ilford County High School and went on to study medicine at University College, London. He qualified in 1950. At University College Hospital, he was particularly inspired by Max Rosenheim and William Charles Wallace Nixon. He gained his FRCS in 1955 and went on to train as an obstetrician and gynaecologist, becoming a fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1971. He wrote over 50 publications, mainly in the fields of pre-eclampsia, infection in obstetrics and gynaecology, and medical history. In 1963, he married Margaret Embleton, a health visitor. They had a daughter, Ann. Stanley Albert Seligman died on 28 September 2015. He was 88.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009021
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First Title value, for Searching Rajaratnam, Prims Dharmaratnam ( - 1966)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-02
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Prims Dharmaratnam Rajaratnam studied at the Ceylon Medical College and gained the LMS in 1938. In 1951 he gained both the Membership and the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. In 1958 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He lived at 998 Mavadana Road, Colombo 10, Ceylon. His death was reported in March 1966.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006053
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First Title value, for Searching Robert, Earl Leslie ( - 1975)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-04
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379075379075
Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Earl Leslie Robert first trained in dentistry at the Royal Dental Hospital and then moved to the Middlesex and London Hospitals when he decided to take up surgery. He was deputy medical superintendent of St Mary's Hospital, Highgate, house surgeon to the Royal Northern Hospital and obstetric and gynaecological surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital. In 1948 the Medical Press published his book *Low backache and sciatica*. He died in 1975.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006892
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First Title value, for Searching Fernando, Wellege Hemachandra (1927 - 2003)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-03-24 2019-05-20
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381278381278
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Wellege Hemachandra Fernando was an obstetrician and gynaecologist in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Born on 1 July 1958 in Pussellawa, Ceylon, he was the second child of Wellege Simon Fernando, a medical practitioner employed by the Ceylonese Department of Health and his wife Adeline Grace née Da Silva. He was educated at the Royal Primary School and the Royal College in Colombo where he won prizes for best student in physical and biological sciences in 1945. The following year he took up a scholarship to study medicine at Ceylon University. He did house jobs at the De Soysa Hospital for Women and the General Hospital in Colombo from 1951 to 1957 and was mentored by Sir Nicholas Attygalle and Don Abraham Ranasingha. In 1959 he passed the fellowship and, three years later, the fellowship of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. On his return to Ceylon in 1961 he commenced practice as a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist employed by the Department of Health. In 1951 he had married Srimathi Nalini de Silva (Srima) and they had a son Ruwan and daughter Malathi who followed her father into the medical profession. Outside medicine he was a music lover and also collected antiquarian books particularly those relating to Sri Lankan history and culture. He died in 2003.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009095
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First Title value, for Searching Farquhar, John Blair ( - 1994)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380105380105
Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Farquhar received his medical education at Birmingham, qualifying MB ChB there in 1938. After he obtained his Fellowship, he specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology, holding junior and registrar posts at the Birmingham Maternity Hospital and at the Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Women. Later he moved to Yorkshire and was surgeon to the Maternity Hospital at Leeds and to the Leeds Hospital for Women; he was also a consultant in surgery, gynaecology and obstetrics to the Leeds regional hospital board. He died on 7 February 1994.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007922
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First Title value, for Searching Crossley, John (1923 - 2012)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2012-04-12 2014-03-21
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374367374367
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details John Crossley was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Southmead Hospital, Bristol. He was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, the son of Walter Crossley, a manufacturer of bedding ware, and Annie Crossley née Burniston, a housewife. He was educated at Blackburn Grammar School and then Repton. He went on to study medicine at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and Guy's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1947. He remembered fire-watching on the roof of the hospital during his time as a medical student during the war. He held preregistration posts at Guy's, and was then a house surgeon at Addenbrooke's Hospital. He was a demonstrator in anatomy at Cambridge and at Guy's. Deciding on a career in obstetrics and gynaecology, he was a resident obstetric officer at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital for Women, and then a registrar at Churchill Hospital, the Radcliffe Infirmary and Stoke Mandeville Hospital. From 1955 to 1957 he was a senior registrar at St Thomas' Hospital. In 1957 he was appointed as a consultant at Southmead Hospital. He was an examiner for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and also in Khartoum, Sudan. He was an active member, and often secretary and president, of many local medical societies, including the Medical Reading Society of Bristol. Outside medicine, he had many interests. He worked in wood. He sang in various choirs, including the Thornbury Choral Society, the local church choir and in an a cappella group, and played the accordion. He was a skilled artist and exhibited his work with local art societies. He fished and played golf and, with his wife, created a large garden. He cycled and canoed and travelled extensively, including with the Gynaecological Travellers Club. After an extremely busy professional life, he enjoyed, in his own words, 'an equally hectic retirement'. In 1955 he married Gillian ('Gill') Tarnoky née Shelton, whom he met when they were both working at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. They had three children - Nicholas, Alison and Michael. John Crossley died on 18 February 2012 after a short illness. He was 88.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002184
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First Title value, for Searching O'Donoghue, John Gregory ( - 1980)

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First Title value, for Searching Mills, Eleanor Mary (1911 - 2003)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2011-11-03 2014-09-12
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Eleanor Mary Mills was a consultant gynaecologist at North Manchester General Hospital and Stretford Memorial Hospital, Manchester. She was born in Royton, Lancashire, the only child of Joseph Mills, a cotton mill manager and director, and Ada Eleanor Mills née Wood, the daughter of an engineer. She was educated at Miss Rees' School in Royton, Oldham Grammar and Queen Ethelburga's School in Harrogate. She then went on to study medicine at Manchester University. She qualified MB ChB in 1936 and gained her conjoint diploma in 1937. She was a house surgeon at Manchester Royal Infirmary and to St Mary's Hospital, Manchester. She then became a resident surgical officer at Christie Hospital and Holt Radium Institute. She was an assistant resident obstetric officer at Withington Hospital, Manchester, and subsequently a surgical chief assistant at Manchester Royal Infirmary. She was then appointed as a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Crumpsall Hospital and Stretford Memorial Hospital, and later became a consultant at North Manchester General Hospital. She was a member and then fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and served as an examiner for the membership examinations. Outside medicine, she enjoyed gardening. In 1937 she married and became Mrs Heslop, although she used her maiden name in her profession. She had no children. She died in 2003.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001500
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First Title value, for Searching Chambers, John Samuel William (1926 - 2017)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2019-08-05
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details John Samuel William Chambers was born in Southampton on 1 July 1926, the son of Samuel Bacon Chambers and his wife Mary Ann née Carey. He studied medicine at Cambridge University and trained at University College Hospital, London. After house jobs at St James’ Hospital, Balham and serving as a temporary surgeon lieutenant in the RNVR, he worked at the Royal South Hants Hospital and was a registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology at Southampton General Hospital. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1959 and became a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Doncaster. In 1950 he married Noelle Gwynedd née Strange in the New Forest, Hampshire, and they had two daughters, Emma Gwynedd Mary and Sarah, and a son, Simon. He died in January 2017 at the age of 90 in Perth, Western Australia and was survived by his wife and children. His daughter Emma (born 1 March 1964 in Doncaster), a well known television actress, died on 21 February 2018 of a heart attack at the early age of 53.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009631
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First Title value, for Searching Goodwin, Harold (1910 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-11-15
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372353372353
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Harold Goodwin was born on 5 June 1910, the son of Barnet and Rebecca Goodwin. He studied medicine at University College and St Bartholomew’s. He served in the RAMC throughout the war and on demobilisation specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology, being registrar, RMO and subsequently senior registrar at Queen Charlotte’s, Charing Cross and Hammersmith Hospitals. He was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Prince of Wales Hospital, London, and later to the Wessex Regional Hospital Board in Bournemouth, where he continued in general practice after retirement. He died on 26 February 2005.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000166
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First Title value, for Searching Wigley, Jack Gardiner ( - 1993)

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First Title value, for Searching Simmons, Clifford Alan ( - 2010)

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by Michael Pugh
Publication Date 2011-11-29 2012-11-22
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373827373827
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Clifford Alan Simmons was an obstetrician and gynaecologist in London, with appointments at the Royal Marsden and Mount Vernon hospitals. The son of a journalist, who edited the trade newspaper *Toy News*, Simmons qualified from Oxford in 1942. He joined the Royal Army Medical Corps and volunteered for service with the airborne forces. After parachute training, he was posted to 181 (Airlanding) Field Ambulance and served in the North African and the Sicily campaigns. After the Allied invasion of Europe, in 1944, the Battle for Arnhem took place and Clifford landed by glider on the landing zone west of Arnhem, where an advanced dressing station was set up at Wolfheze, treating many casualties. A hospital was set up at Hotel Schoonhord, becoming the main advanced dressing station. The hotel was captured by the Germans, but then retaken by the 4th Parachute Brigade. Negotiations took place with the German command, and permission was granted to move the patients safely to a Dutch or German hospital. Clifford volunteered to stay with the patients, became a prisoner of war, and was eventually moved to a German prison camp. After demobilisation, he was a casualty officer at the Royal Free Hospital, a house surgeon at the Royal Sussex County Hospital and the Postgraduate Medical School, London, and then a resident surgical officer at Wembley Hospital. He then decided to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology. He returned to Oxford, as an obstetrics house surgeon at the Churchill Hospital, and then as a house surgeon in the gynaecology department at the Radcliffe Infirmary. He held the Horatio Symonds studentship in surgery in 1951, based in Oxford. He was subsequently a senior registrar at the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, London. In the mid-1950s, he became chief assistant at the Chelsea Hospital for Women and Queen Charlotte's, and an honorary registrar at the Royal Marsden Hospital. At Chelsea he was readily influenced by Sir Charles Read. He published a review of vaginoplasties undertaken at Chelsea between 1938 and 1958 ('Vaginoplasties at Chelsea Hospital for Women, 1938-1958' *Proc R Soc Med* 1959 Nov;52:953-4), and also wrote on endometriosis, and on cancer of the cervix and uterus. He became a consultant at the Mount Vernon and the Radium Hospital; he also had sessions at Northwood and Pinner District Hospital, and then an obstetric session at City of London Maternity Hospital. He was married to Jean and they had three children - Jenny, Bev and Penny. He died on 15 March 2010.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001644
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First Title value, for Searching Harrison, John Ormerod ( - 1992)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-09
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist Urologist
Details John Ormerod Harrison qualified in medicine from Cambridge University in 1932 and became a Fellow of the College in the same year. He trained at St Bartholomew's Hospital where he was house surgeon and orthopaedic house surgeon. He then became senior house surgeon at Leicester Royal Infirmary before becoming consultant in obstetrics, gynaecology and urology to the West Norfolk and King's Lynn General Hospital. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a member of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. When he retired he moved to Reading in Berkshire and he died on 8 November 1992.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007989
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First Title value, for Searching Ridout, Dorothy May (1921 - 2013)

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by Michael Pugh
Publication Date 2013-02-20 2013-09-06
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375784375784
Occupation General practitioner Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Dorothy Ridout was an obstetrician and gynaecologist, and later a general practitioner in Leeds. She was born in Southsea, Hampshire, the sixth of nine children of Charles Archibald Scott Ridout, a GP surgeon in Portsmouth, and Gladys Mary Ridout née Hooper. Medicine was in the family: Dorothy, with her brother and sister, became the fourth successive generation of doctors. She was educated at Portsmouth High School for Girls and then Cheltenham Ladies' College, before entering the Royal Free Medical School. After qualifying in 1943, she chose to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology. She was a registrar at Northampton General Hospital and at the Central Middlesex Hospital, and a senior registrar in gynaecology at the Royal Free. She gained her membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1951, and her FRCS in 1952. She then made a change in her career path and became a general practitioner in Harrogate, but maintained her special interest in gynaecology, with posts in local hospitals and clinics. In 1955 she met Douglas Shortridge, a master tanner and company director, and they married in June 1959. Dorothy moved with her husband to Leeds, where she continued in general practice and held an associate specialist post at St James's Hospital. Her contribution was recognised by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists with the award of her fellowship in 1986. Her interests away from medicine were bee keeping and local politics. Her husband died in 1996, and in widowhood she became an avid traveller, until she had a stroke in 2009. She died on 17 January 2013 at the age of 92, and was survived by her son, Andrew.
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First Title value, for Searching Woolf, Anthony John (1925 - 2021)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2022-01-28
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Anthony John Woolf was born in London on 5 June 1925. He was the son of Alfred Woolf, a businessman, and his wife Daisy née Wollman. After attending Haberdashers Askes School, he studied medicine at London University and trained at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School, graduating MB, BS in 1956. At St Mary’s, he recalled, his memorable tutors were Arthur (later Lord) Porritt and Douglas MacLeod, the obstetrician and gynaecologist. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1959. Appointed a consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Hackney Hospital, he was also a recognised teacher by the University of London and lectured at St Bartholomew’s Medical College. He was an examiner for the London MB, BS, the MRCOG and also, at the college, for the conjoint examination. Between 1949 and 1951 he did his national service serving with the RAF. At that time he enjoyed playing rugby and then continued to play tennis and golf. He shared his wife’s love of music and especially opera. He met his wife, Helene Valerie Goodman (Paddy) when they were both studying for the primary examination at the college in 1952. They married and went to Glasgow to sit the exam where she passed and Anthony failed. She passed the fellowship of the college in 1962 and became a consultant rheumatologist at the St Stephens, Westminster and Royal Marsden Hospitals. They had two daughters, Serena Jane and Caroline Rosemary and a granddaughter, Antonia. Valerie died in 2010, suffering the after effects of a violent holdup and car hijacking while they were on holiday in South Africa. Anthony died on 15 April 2021, aged 96.
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First Title value, for Searching Mocatta, Sybil Grace (1898 - 1988)

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First Title value, for Searching Marchant, Gladys Helen ( - 1969)

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First Title value, for Searching Fairbairn, David (1930 - 1995)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380106380106
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born in 1930, David Fairbairn was educated at Oxford and St Bartholomew's Hospital. He qualified in 1955 and after junior posts and National Service decided to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology. He was appointed consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Kingston Hospital, where he achieved one of the lowest perinatal mortality rates in England. A keen oarsman, having rowed for his college at Oxford, he continued to row, was a regular visitor to Henley, and a passionate francophile and cook (he came third in *The Observer* cookery competition). Tragically he developed a malignant melanoma, spending his last days in his house in Bagnois-en-Forêt in southern France, and died on 4 June 1995, aged 65. He was survived by his wife, Shirley, son Michael and daughter Lesley.
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First Title value, for Searching Murray, Francis Anderson ( - 1993)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380400380400
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Murray was educated at Anderson College, Glasgow, and qualified with the licences of the Edinburgh Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons and of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 1945. He subsequently gained the College's Fellowship in 1951 and became a Member and Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He also gained an MA at Brunel University. He was joint Leverhulme Research Scholar at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist to the Portsmouth Group of Hospitals, having held registrarships at the Paddington General Hospital and at Guy's Hospital. He retired at the end of 1981 and died on 4 September 1993.
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First Title value, for Searching Lloyd, Oswald Lloyd ( - 1994)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-17
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380332380332
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Lloyd received his medical education at the Middlesex Hospital. After obtaining his FRCS he moved into obstetrics and gynaecology and indeed became an eminent Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He was gynaecological and obstetrical surgeon to the United Cambridge Hospitals, and consultant gynaecological surgeon to the Royston and District Hospital. He was examiner in obstetrics and gynaecology to the Universities of Cambridge and Birmingham, associate examiner in obstetrics and gynaecology to London University and an external examiner in these subjects to Trinity College, Dublin, as well as examiner to the Central Midwives' Board and to the Midwives' Conjoint Board. He was a member of council of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and President of the East Anglian Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society. He died on 12 November 1994, survived by his nephew John Mervyn Lloyd, who is also a Fellow of the College.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Wilburn (1880 - 1954)

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First Title value, for Searching Buttsworth, Bert Wilfred (1904 - 1978)

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First Title value, for Searching Raeburn, Dorothy June (1929 - 2019)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2019-09-16
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Dorothy June Raeburn, née Whitney, was born on 8 July 1929 in London. She was the daughter of Herbert Edwin Whitney, an engineer, and his wife Nellie née Grisman who was a teacher. After attending Wycombe High School from 1940 to 1948, she won a state scholarship to study medicine at London University. Commencing training at Guy’s Hospital in 1948, she was in the second year of the admission of women to the course. She graduated MB, BS in 1953. After initial house jobs in obstetrics and gynaecology at Lewisham Hospital, she spent a year from 1955 to 1956 at St Helier Hospital in London, before moving to Birmingham as house surgeon and then registrar with the professorial unit of Professor McLaren. In 1960 she moved to Dundee Teaching Hospital and worked for two years as a rotating registrar in orthopaedics and chest surgery. She passed the fellowship of the college in 1961 and the following year moved back to London as senior registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology at St George’s Hospital and also at Southampton General. In 1967 she was appointed consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology to the Mid Sussex Hospital and stayed there for thirteen years serving on many of the hospital’s advisory committees. She moved to Gibraltar in 1981 as a locum consultant to the Royal Naval Hospital and, in 1986, was appointed consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology. Apparently this post also involved providing maternity care to the apes of Gibraltar as there was no veterinary surgeon in the colony. In 1978 she married Basil Raeburn, a medical graduate of Edinburgh University and community physician to the Cuckfield and Crawley Health District, who lived in Haywards Heath. She became stepmother to his six children one of whom was killed in India. There were seven step-grandchildren. She retired in 1990 and continued an active life in the community of the Haywards Heath area; chairing the local preservation society, the museum committee and the League of Friends of the Princess Royal Hospital. As a keen gardener, she was a member of the Royal Horticultural Society and also of the Wine Society and swam with the Dolphin Ladies Swimming Club. Reflecting on her career in later life, she commented on the difficulty she had in getting a place at medical school in 1948 when there were very few female students at Guy’s and 90% of the students were ex-servicemen. She would have preferred a more general surgical career but was advised to take up obstetrics and found that in the 1950’s, even in that specialty, she faced discrimination in her attempts to become a consultant. She died on 6 February 2019 aged 89.
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First Title value, for Searching George, William Hubert (1897 - 1957)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-04
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377574377574
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born on 8 January at Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, he served as an infantryman, chiefly in Mesopotamia, in the first world war, before studying medicine at the London Hospital, where he qualified in 1924 and became house surgeon. Becoming interested in obstetrics and gynaecology he was appointed senior resident accoucheur, surgical first assistant and registrar. For two and a half years he was obstetrician and gynaecologist to Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham, and subsequently surgeon to the Hospital until his death. George was a wise, careful clinician and a fine operator with a special interest in colonic surgery. He had a strong sense of humour, great courtesy, a keen mind and was interested in current affairs. He was working at the hospital a few hours before he died on 28 November 1957 at the age of 60, leaving his widow, Evelyn, and two daughters and two sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Riley, Frederick Ratcliffe (1865 - 1932)

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First Title value, for Searching Evans, Jill Margaret (1929 - 1995)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-08
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380108380108
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Jill Evans was born in London on 20 November 1929, the daughter of Donald Evans, an insurance officer and antiquarian bookseller, and Margaret, née Thompson. She was educated in Devon, and later at Brentwood High School, from where she obtained a scholarship to Girton College Cambridge. She later undertook further medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital. After early house appointments in general surgery, she took the FRCS in 1962 and later held registrar posts in obstetrics and gynaecology in Sheffield. Finally she was appointed consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist to the Royal Oldham Hospital. She was a keen hill-walker, having climbed all the Munros in her youth, and went trekking in the Himalayas on several occasions. She also enjoyed sailing and music. She did not marry, and died on 11 May 1995 aged 65, survived by her sister, Mrs M Phillips.
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First Title value, for Searching Scott, John (1811 - 1906)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-20
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375434375434
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details The son of William Scott, of Barnstaple; received his professional training at St. Bartholomew's Hospital and in Paris. He became Surgeon-Accoucheur to the Islington Benevolent Lying-in Charity, and on relinquishing this post practised at 53 High Street, Camden Town. By 1855 he had been appointed Surgeon to the Hospital for Women in Soho Square. He moved to 65 Harley Street, where he was Surgeon to the Governesses' Home as well as to the Soho Square Hospital. He became Senior Surgeon to the last-named institution and then retired from it. After living in 49 Harley Street for some years, he migrated by 1881 to 10 Tavistock Square. He was at one time Vice-President of the Obstetrical Society. In old age he lived in retirement at New Malden, Surrey, and died there at his residence, Bury Lodge, on April 21st, 1906. He had then attained the venerable age of 95. He married a Miss Parker and by her had a son, John Henry Scott. Publication: "Removal of Large Submucous Fibroid of the Uterus by Enucleation and Torsion."-*Lancet*, 1873, ii, 875.
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First Title value, for Searching Agar, Herbert (1907 - 1995)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-01
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379964379964
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Herbert ('Bert') Agar was born in Grimsby, Yorkshire, on 10 December 1907, the son of Herbert William Agar, a science teacher, and Catherine (née Agar, but no relation) who was the daughter of a joiner and shipyard worker. He was educated at Wintringham School, Grimsby, where he won a scholarship to the University of Leeds and qualified MB ChB in 1932. He did his house hobs with Harold Collinson, R H Moir, L R Braithwaite and George Armitage. He served as major (surgical specialist) in the RAMC from 1940 to 1945. He specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology, gaining his MRCOG in 1942 and FRCOG in 1954. He was well known for the speed with which he made a decision, operated, and discharged his patients, thereby avoiding the worry of prolonged stays in hospital, and the associated risk of complications. It is said that his worried, suspicious expression combined with his thinness gave him the look of an 'undernourished bloodhound', but hid a quiet, sharp sense of humour. He married Lilian, née Raven, in 1939; they had one daughter, who died shortly after her second child was born. Agar died on 25 February 1995, survived by his two granddaughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Mander, John (1924 - 1999)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380941380941
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details John Mander, a former consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at York District Hospital, was born in Sheffield on 5 August 1924. His father, Thomas Goddard Mander, was a solicitor, and his mother, Edith Alice Ruth née Bland, a Montessori teacher. Her father had been a draper. John Mander was educated at the Dean Close School, Cheltenham, where he was an exhibitioner, and gained a scholarship to Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He went to University College Hospital for his clinical training and qualified in 1948. After junior appointments at UCH and Edgware, he did his National Service in the RNVR from 1949 to 1951. On returning to the North Middlesex Hospital, he decided to specialise in obstetrics and became obstetric senior house officer at the Whittington Hospital, and thereafter held a series of appointments at Queen Charlotte's, the Soho Hospital for Women, St Thomas's and the Royal Marsden Hospital. He was appointed as a consultant to York District Hospital. In 1951, he married Mary Josephine Clifford, an anaesthetist, and had two daughters, Jane and Maria, and two sons, Philip and James, one of whom became a doctor. There are seven grandchildren. He died in his sleep on 7 February 1999.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008758
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First Title value, for Searching Sears, Richard Tankard (1924 - 2013)

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by Michael Pugh
Publication Date 2013-11-08 2014-03-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376806376806
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Richard Sears ('Dick') was an obstetrician and gynaecologist in Nottingham. He was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, on 19 March 1924, the son of Herbert Sears, a corn merchant, and his wife Evelyn Ruth Sears née Tankard, a housewife. He was educated at Chesterfield Grammar School and at Epsom College, and then went to up to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1942, on an exhibition. During the Second World War undergraduate medical degrees were truncated and were normally completed in five years, but Sears chose to take an extra year in pathology at Cambridge, before moving to Middlesex Hospital Medical School for his clinical training. He qualified in 1948. His first house job was at Middlesex Hospital, working with Sir Eric Riches and Cecil Murray, who both made a great impression on him. He then spent two years in the Royal Air Force, carrying out his National Service. He much enjoyed surgery and was surprised to find he possessed ability in the operating theatre: this, together with the satisfaction of bringing new life into the world, attracted him to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology. At that time aspiring gynaecologists were expected to have a surgical fellowship, as well as membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (MRCOG) - a long period of training which included many resident appointments, all the more difficult as Sears was by this time married and could not afford to live in London. He became a registrar at the City Hospital in Nottingham and was then a senior registrar at the Jessop Hospital in Sheffield. He gained his MRCOG in 1955 and his FRCS in 1956. In 1961 he was appointed as a consultant at the maternity hospital in Nottingham, later to become part of the university hospital. He gained a reputation as an excellent surgeon and a fine teacher of surgical technique. He was particularly interested in the relief of pain during labour. He wrote 'Use of spinal analgesia in forceps and breech deliveries.' (*Br Med J.* 1959 Mar 21;1[5124]:755-8) and, in 1986, published a report in the *British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology* on a case of metastasising fibroma ('Metastasising leiomyoma of the uterus and hormonal manipulations. Case report.' *Br J Obstet Gynaecol*. 1986 Jun;93[6]:646-8). He was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1968. He served as president of the Nottingham Medico-Chirurgical Society from 1981 to 1982, was president of the North of England Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society, and was vice president of the Birmingham and Midland Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society. Whilst at Cambridge he met Joan Tulley, of Girton College, on a fruit picking mission in Wisbech. She was about to go to the Institute of Education in London to complete her training as a schoolteacher. They married in July 1948, just after he qualified. They were both devout Christians and their faith coloured their whole lives, both professionally and personally. They had three children, two daughters (Margaret and Jane) and a son (John). Richard Sears died on 15 June 2013 from septicaemia secondary to a urinary tract infection. He was 89.
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First Title value, for Searching Brudenell, John Michael (1925 - 2015)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-11-20 2017-12-08
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378536378536
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details John Michael Brudenell, known as 'Mike', was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at King's College Hospital, London. He was born in Deal, Kent, on 13 April 1925, the son of Clement Shenstone Brudenell, a railway official, and Marjorie Elizabeth Brudenell née James, a housewife and the daughter of an actor manager. He was educated at Hampton Grammar School and then studied medicine at King's College, London. He qualified in 1949. He held house posts at King's College Hospital and Queen Charlotte's Hospital, and then carried out his National Service in the Royal Army Medical Corps, spending much of his time as an obstetrician in various military hospitals in Germany. He returned to King's, where he did research on endometrial pathology and cervical cytology. In 1956, he published the results of his work on cervical smear tests ('The value of cytology in the early diagnosis of carcinoma of cervix' *J Obstet Gynaecol Br Emp*. 1956 Jun;63[3]:380-4). He later wrote up the results of the first investigation by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) into carcinoma of the cervix. He left King's to gain general surgical experience, and then returned after obtaining his FRCS in 1956, becoming a registrar and then a senior registrar. In 1961, he was appointed as a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Bradford Royal Infirmary and St Luke's Hospital, Bradford. After three years, he was invited to apply for a post back at King's, and in 1964 he rejoined his alma mater as a consultant. He worked at King's for the rest of his career, and also at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead, from 1974 to 1990. He also had a successful private practice in Harley Street. At King's, he was involved in teaching undergraduates and postgraduate students. He continued with his research. At King's he was particularly interested in the problems of diabetic women who were pregnant and, with his physician colleagues, David Pyke and Peter Watkins, ran the diabetic antenatal clinic. At the Royal Society of Medicine, he was president of the section of obstetrics and gynaecologist in 1981. He was a council member of the RCOG for 16 years and was an honorary treasurer for seven years. As treasurer of the RCOG's charity, Birthright, he persuaded the businessman Phillip Harris, later Lord Harris, to fund a number of research units in obstetrics and gynaecology. As a senior registrar, he helped Sir John Peel at the birth of Prince Andrew at Buckingham Palace, and later, as a consultant, assisted at the births of Prince Edward and Princess Margaret's two children. Outside medicine, Brudenell was interested in sport, particularly rugby. As a medical student, he played rugby for King's for three years and was president of the King's College Hospital rugby club for 20 years and of the United Hospitals club for five. He also enjoyed tennis and skiing, and continued with both into his eighties. In 1957, he married Mollie (née Rothwell), a research chemist. They had four sons, Timothy, Jeremy, Marcus and Edward, nine grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. He died on 30 March 2015 at the age of 89.
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First Title value, for Searching Baynes, Trevor Lewys Stanhope (1911 - 1988)

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by Sir Barry Jackson
Publication Date 2015-04-24 2018-05-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379329379329
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Trevor Lewys Stanhope Baynes was born on 19 February 1911 in Brockley, Kent, the only son of an insurance official, Evan Lewys Baynes and his wife Ethel. He attended Lewisham Park Preparatory School and Dulwich College, before becoming a medical student at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, winning the Bentley Prize in 1937. His junior hospital jobs were at St Bartholomew's Hospital, where he was house surgeon to the surgical unit during which time he was greatly influenced by Sir James Paterson Ross. He was demonstrator in pathology from 1937 to 1939. During the war he served as Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, taking part in the Salerno and Normandy landings. After the war he returned to St Bartholomew's as chief assistant in obstetrics and gynaecology before being appointed consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist to St Albans Hospital, the Bolingbroke Hospital, the Royal Waterloo Hospital and St Peter's Hospital, Chertsey. During his early consultant years he worked enormously long hours with very little junior staff support. Nevertheless, he found time to write the *Handbook of gynaecology* published in 1951 and to pursue an active interest in lawn tennis. In later years he became Chairman of the Surrey Branch of the Family Planning Association and Chairman of the Surrey Branch of the British Medical Association. He was a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Barbers. He died on 26 August after a long and distressing illness survived by his wife, Jean, and two daughters, Shelagh and Moira.
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First Title value, for Searching Dickinson, John Roscoe (1909 - 1996)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380078380078
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details John Dickinson, always known as 'Dickie', was born in Birkenhead in 1909. After studying at Cambridge he went on to Guy's Hospital, where he qualified in 1934. He served in the RAMC during the second world war, in Assam and in a mobile surgical unit in Burma. He was appointed to the General Lying-In Hospital for Women in London in 1950, and worked there until his retirement in 1974, where staff were enlivened by his idiosyncratic descriptions of surgical positions, such as 'Mr Trendelenburg's most embarrassing position' (for the head-down tilt) or 'bring on the mighty Wurlitzer' (for diathermy). A modest man, always with a rose from his own garden in his buttonhole, he worked hard to honour his NHS commitment and is remembered with gratitude by his fifty or so trainees at Soho. He died in 1996, survived by his wife Barbara, also a doctor, four children and ten grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007895
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First Title value, for Searching Chamberlain, Geoffrey Victor Price (1930 - 2014)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2014-11-25 2017-01-12
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378608378608
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Geoffrey Chamberlain was professor and chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at St George's Hospital Medical School. He was born in Hove, Sussex, on 21 April 1930, the son of Albert Victor Chamberlain, secretary to the Lord Mayor of Cardiff, and Irene May Chamberlain née Price. He was educated at Llandaff Cathedral School and Cowbridge Grammar School. He then studied medicine at University College London. He held training posts at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital for Women, and King's College Hospital, London. He was then a tutor at George Washington Hospital, Washington DC, USA, from 1965 to 1966. From 1970 to 1982, he was a consultant at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea Hospital. From 1982 to 1995 he was professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at St George's Hospital Medical School. From 1955 to 1974, he was in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve (later the Royal Naval Reserve), ending his service as a surgeon commander. He was president of the section of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Royal Society of Medicine in 1989. At the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists he was a member of the council from 1971 to 1994, vice president from 1984 to 1987 and president from 1993 to 1994. In 1994 Malcolm Pearce wrote a case report in the *British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology* describing the successful transfer of an ectopic foetus into the uterine cavity. The report was later shown to be fraudulent. Chamberlain, Pearce's head of department, although not involved, had co-signed his original report. Chamberlain was forced to resign as editor-in-chief of the *British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology* and as president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. From 2000 to 2008 he was Apothecaries' lecturer in history of medicine at Swansea University. Outside medicine he enjoyed opera, travel and carving wooden decoy ducks. In 1956 he married Jocelyn Olivia Kerley. They had five children. Geoffrey Chamberlain died in October 2014. He was 84.
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First Title value, for Searching Stening, Malcolm James Lees (1912 - 2014)

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by Sarah Gillam
Publication Date 2015-06-12 2018-03-05
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379653379653
Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Malcolm Stening was an obstetrician and gynaecologist in Sydney, Australia. He was born in Sydney on 17 August 1912, the third son of George Smith Stening, a dairy expert, and Muriel Grafton Stening née Lees, the daughter of a printer who was also mayor of Sydney. Stening was educated at Sydney Boys' High School and then studied medicine at Sydney University, qualifying in 1935 with the Harry J Clayton memorial prize for medicine and clinical medicine. While a medical student, he played hockey for Australia on a 1934 tour of New Zealand. When the Second World War broke out, Stening was studying in London. He gained his FRCS in 1940 and joined the Royal Navy. He served in hospitals in Portsmouth and Devon, and was then a surgeon lieutenant on the heavy cruiser HMAS *Australia* and later a senior medical officer on the British battleship HMS *Howe*. He saw action in many sea battles, including the Battle of the Coral Sea in the Pacific. After the war, he continued in the Royal Australian Naval Reserve and was promoted to surgeon commander. On his return to Sydney, he became a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at King George V Memorial Hospital. He retired in 1971. He was a member of the court of examiners of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. In 2009, he was awarded a medal of the Order of Australia. He wrote *Cancer and related lesions of the vulva* (Lancaster, MTP Press, 1980) and several books about his wartime experiences, including *The class of 35 at war* (Naval Historical Society of Australia, Garden Island, New South Wales, 2002) and *Doctors at war* (2010), revised as *Memoirs of doctors at war* in 2012. In 1943, he married Winifred (Winsome) Roche. They had a son, Malcolm, who predeceased his father in 2002. After his first wife's death, in 1960 he married Yvonne Wise and adopted her daughter, Wendie-Sue. Stening died on 28 July 2014 aged 101. He was survived by his daughter and five grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Jonas, Ernest George Gustav (1924 - 2003)

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First Title value, for Searching Nicholson-Lailey, John Raymond ( - 1979)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-18
Unknown
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378997378997
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details After his early education at Trowbridge High School, 'Nick' as he was known to his many friends, joined the Artists' Rifles, and was later commissioned in the Royal Artillery in the first world war. After the war he went to Bristol University where he qualified in 1923, taking the MB BS and FRCS in succeeding years. He showed special interest in gynaecology as a student, and won the Henry Prize in midwifery and gynaecology in 1923. He was appointed consultant general surgeon at the Taunton and Somerset Hospital in 1930, but specialised in gynaecology and obstetrics after 1945. He was active in the BMA, elected member of Council in 1950, Chairman from 1962 to 1966, Vice-President in 1968. He was Vice-Chairman of the Council of the World Medical Association in 1964, when Manchester University conferred on him the honorary LLD. He was made FRCOG in 1965. In 1932 he married Dr Penelope Alice Peach, and had two daughters and one son, also a doctor. He died on 29 November 1979 after a long illness.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006814
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First Title value, for Searching Bennett, Marjorie Olive (1915 - 2000)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-17 2015-10-16
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380325380325
Occupation General practitioner Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Marjorie Olive Bennett was a general practitioner and gynaecologist. She was born in Newport, Monmouthshire, on 23 July 1915. Her father, Reginald Stanley Dunster, was a headmaster, and her mother, Olivia Sextone, a headmistress. From Newport High School she won a state scholarship to Bristol University and qualified in 1939. After junior appointments at Bristol Royal Infirmary and Southmead, she worked for a short time in general practice, before deciding to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology. She married Douglas Bennett FRCS in 1950 and accompanied him to the Mayo Clinic. On her return she was appointed as a consultant at Southmead, where she coped with a tremendous workload in one of the largest units in the region. They retired to Porlock, where she and her husband enjoyed walking on Exmoor. Her husband died in 1992. She died on 5 January 2000. They leave a daughter, Sally.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008142
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First Title value, for Searching Shanmugaratnam, Sittampalam (1928 - 2001)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-04
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381104381104
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Sittampalam Shanmugaratnam, or 'S S Ratnam' as he was known, was born in Ceylon on 4 July 1928. His father, Murugesu Sittampalam, was a civil servant in the government of Malaya. His mother was Ratneswari Chellappah. He was educated at the Victoria Institution, Kuala Lumpur, before going to the University of Ceylon to study medicine. After junior posts in Ceylon and Singapore, he went to the United Kingdom to study for the FRCS, and specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology, taking the English, Glasgow and Edinburgh Fellowships, and gaining membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He returned to Singapore, where he gained the MD by thesis and became chairman of the committee for obstetrics and gynaecology at the National University of Singapore, becoming professorial fellow in 1995. He was director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research in Human Reproduction. In 1982 he was awarded the Sima Black Travelling Professorship of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and was made an honorary Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists the following year. He received many honorary awards from South Africa, Japan, Korea, Israel, West Africa, and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. He died on 8 June 2001. He had one son and one daughter.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008921
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First Title value, for Searching Tindall, Victor Ronald (1928 - 2010)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Michael Pugh
Publication Date 2011-08-26
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373496373496
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Victor Tindall was professor of obstetrics and gynaecology in Manchester. He was awarded a scholarship to Wallasey Grammar School, where, as well as his academic achievements, he was a dazzling athlete and rugby player. In track events he won the 100-, 200-, 400- and 800-yard records, together with the high and the long jump, winning the award of *victor ludoram*. His crowning achievement was being selected to play rugby for his county, Cheshire, whilst still at school. At Liverpool University, where he was also a scholar, he played rugby for the university and also for New Brighton. He subsequently played for the Royal Air Force, England and the Barbarians. His playing career ended when he injured his neck and then he became a referee, but he was involved with the game all his life. He qualified MB ChB in 1951 and, after junior posts, which included obstetrics and gynaecology, he acquired the diploma in obstetrics. He spent his National Service in the Royal Air Force, examining recruits for the Women's Royal Air Force. Returning to Liverpool for his specialist training in Norman Jeffcoate's department, he became a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1961. He then set aside clinical work to enter the physiology department to prepare for his doctorate in medicine. He had a special interest in liver disease and this is reflected in his work on liver disease in pregnancy. In 1987 Tindall edited the fifth edition of the landmark textbook *Principles of gynaecology* (Butterworth), originally edited by Jeffcoate. In 1965 he moved to Cardiff as a senior lecturer at the Welsh National School of Medicine, becoming a consultant at the University Hospital in 1970. In 1967 he was elected to serve on the council of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He completed four terms in office and was elected senior vice president from 1993. In 1972 he left Cardiff to become professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Victoria University in Manchester. There his role as an educator is aptly demonstrated by his bibliography. Coupled with this was a busy gynaecological surgical practice with a special interest in radical pelvic surgery. He had to combine his demanding clinical load with the administrative duties of being a professor, and he had an excellent reputation for always honouring all his commitments, always sending word ahead if he knew he was going to be late for a meeting. In addition he had a great interest in audit, with a major role in the triennial report on maternal mortality, which seeks to determine cause rather than blame when these tragic events arise. In this vein his work with the Royal College of Surgeons, when he served on the committee of the Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths (CEPOD), which was set up by Brendan Devlin in 1982 and reported for the first time in 1987. It later became a national enquiry of a similar title, initially into perioperative death and later for patient outcome. At one meeting of this committee there was a tense moment, which was resolved by taking the offended lady out to an elegant tea at the Waldorf Hotel, where her ruffled feathers were soothed and all was well. In 1991 he became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons by election, a great distinction. He was appointed as the Simms-Black travelling professor in 1985 by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, visiting Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Jordan and Cyprus. This required him to give many lectures and occasional surgical demonstrations at each port of call. Victor Tindall married Brenda Fay in 1955. They had two children, a son and a daughter, who later gave them the joy of seven grandchildren, all of them boys. Sadly, his later years were clouded by Parkinson's disease and he died on 11 June 2010. From his own description of his interests in *Who's Who*, it was clear that outside medicine and his family, he had one major interest - rugby.
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First Title value, for Searching Morris, Edwin David (1928 - 2013)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Michael Pugh
Publication Date 2013-09-30 2013-10-04
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376627376627
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details David Morris was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in London. David and his younger brother Gareth were the sons of the headmaster of a school in Briton Ferry, a small mining town in south Wales. David won a scholarship to Neath Grammar School but, with a family move during the Second World War, finished his schooling in Bridgend. He gained a county award, with which he entered the Welsh National School of Medicine, where he had a distinguished career, winning many prizes and also gold medals in anatomy and obstetrics. He qualified in 1950 with distinctions in anatomy and obstetrics and gynaecology. After his resident appointments, during which time he gained his diploma in obstetrics, he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps for his National Service. He was posted to the Far East and worked in hospitals providing care to service and civilian patients. Later in life he was appointed as a consultant adviser to the Army. Following his National Service, he completed his training for a career in obstetrics and gynaecology. He gained the fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1958, and became a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologist in 1960. After registrar appointments at Guy's, he became the resident obstetrician at Queen Charlotte's (from 1962 to 1966). It was during this time that, in association with Richard Beard and Eric Saling, he helped change the management of labour with the development of foetal blood sampling to accurately assess the degree of foetal anoxia by taking a sample of blood from the scalp of the undelivered baby and, when appropriate, accelerating the delivery. This important research formed the basis of his MD thesis. In 1966 he was appointed as a consultant at Swansea and, one year later, he was invited to apply for the joint consultant past in obstetrics and gynaecology between Guy's, the Chelsea Hospital for Women and Queen Charlotte's. He developed a special interest in gynaecological cancer, and at Guy's he founded the colposcopy clinic. He undertook complex surgical procedures and encouraged a multidisciplinary approach to the care of gynaecological cancer. As an obstetrician he was an excellent teacher of practical obstetrics and a master of Kiellands forceps, an instrument with a reputation for being difficult to use but, when skilfully used by David, produced magical results! He served as president of the section of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Royal Society of medicine. From 1975 until 1992 he was regional obstetric adviser on the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths. This is published every three years and seeks to establish the cause of these tragic events. From this experience he gained a reputation as a valuable opinion in medical negligence cases and the respect of the lawyers involved. He was elected to the fellowship of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1972 and later served as fellows' representative on the council. He was also invited to become a member of the distinguished Gynaecological Visiting Society. David was also in private practice. He retired in 1992. He was a sympathetic colleague, and cared about all those who worked with him, particularly those who sought his help when they were in difficulties. Before choosing his profession, and at the time his family moved to Bridgend, he developed his interest in steam engines, possibly because Bridgend was on the main Great Western Railway (GWR) line and the trains were hauled by the impressive King class locomotives. Music played a major role in his life. When he enrolled as a medical student he also joined a part-time music course. He had a fine voice, which, if fully developed, may have led to a career as a solo baritone. He enjoyed choral singing, jazz and Gilbert and Sullivan operas, David was married to Barbara Evans. They had two children, Anne and Peter, who in their turn and with great joy presented them with grandchildren. Barbara was a general practitioner and also a skilled glass engraver. Sadly she died in 1999. In later life David's health was poor. He died on 10 June 2013 aged 84.
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First Title value, for Searching Barron, Solomon Leonard (1926 - 2013)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Michael Pugh
Publication Date 2014-04-09 2014-09-19
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377440377440
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Leonard Barron was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Newcastle. He was born in Whitechapel, London. His father, Lazar ('Louis') Barronovitch, was a tailor specialising in women's clothes and worked in the East End. He adopted the name of 'Barron', later formalising this by Deed Poll. Leonard's mother, Fanny, had a similar background: both sets of grandparents had emigrated from Polish Russia. In 1939, at the outbreak of the Second World War, Leonard was evacuated with his brother to Somerset. He returned to London in 1943 and went to the South East Essex Technical College, which provided the necessary syllabus for entry into medicine. At the same time he also served as an air raid warden. In 1944 he won a scholarship to St Thomas's Hospital Medical School; he sat this examination at Charterhouse School, the medical school having been evacuated to a nearby manor house. As a student he enjoyed acting almost as much as medicine and intensive rehearsing for the Christmas concert delayed his qualifying by six months until 1949! After house posts, he chose to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology, his choice being much influenced by A J 'Joe' Wrigley. A general surgical training was a first, necessary step. He trained in Leicester and Portsmouth and became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1955. He then prepared for the membership examination of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) with resident appointments at Queen Charlotte's and the Chelsea Hospital for Women. He was awarded the MRCOG in 1959 and in 1970 was elected a fellow. He next became a registrar at the Weir (Maternity) Hospital and St James' Hospital, Balham. There he met Eleanor Evans, who was also a registrar. Eleanor found Leonard a little arrogant at first, but their relationship softened and they married. Leonard later became a senior registrar at St Thomas'. His first consultant posts were at the Prince of Wales Hospital, the Bearsted Maternity Hospital and the German Hospital, London - an unusual mix. He was not interested in personal gain and private practice did not attract him. In 1967 he moved to Newcastle. Here he was involved in important national studies, and undertook advisory work for the World Health Organization and the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics. He was internationally recognised for his expertise in rhesus disease and his research into the social issues of the specialty. He had a good rapport with students, junior staff and colleagues, and was always willing to stop and discuss problems. He was an outstanding administrator and it is said that he solved many situations on the hospital corridor. Not only were his skills as a committee man recognised, but his ability as businessman was also much valued. When he retired from clinical practice in 1991 these attributes were even more appreciated. He had been chairman of the Newcastle Area Health Authority and had served on many committees of the RCOG; after retirement he was invited to chair the Freeman Group of Hospitals NHS Trust. His work laid the foundation for the merger of the Newcastle hospitals into one trust. His interests were scholarly and wide. He was very happy to have become a 'Novocastrian' and embraced life in the north east. He became a member of the Pen and Palette Club, a club founded in 1900 for men with an interest in the arts, writing, music and the law, and of the Newcastle Choral Society. He enjoyed opera, the theatre and reading. He had a little less enthusiasm for gardening! Leonard and Eleanor enjoyed a very happy family. They had two children, Elizabeth and David, who is a fellow of the RCS and a paediatric cardiac surgeon in Birmingham. Leonard Barron died from carcinoma of the prostate on 17 December 2013, aged 87.
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First Title value, for Searching Cox, Lloyd Woodrow (1919 - 2001)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-03-24 2019-05-16
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381270381270
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Lloyd Woodrow Cox was professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Adelaide University. Born on 4 July 1919 in Auckland, New Zealand, he was christened Lloyd after Lloyd George and Woodrow after Woodrow Wilson. His father, Edwin Thoms Cox, was a Methodist minister who eventually settled in a parish in Dunedin. Mayor during the depression years, he made a point of ensuring that the unemployed were given meaningful work. Cox’s mother, Winifred Mary née Hudson, was an artist whose father was also a clergyman. He attended Otago Boys High School in Dunedin and then Otago University Medical School where he won medals in medicine and obstetrics. After a residency at Dunedin Hospital, he won a travelling scholarship in obstetrics in 1946 and spent the first six months at the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne. The remaining time he spent in the UK at the Soho and Samaritan Women’s Hospitals in London. After passing the fellowship in 1947 and the MRCOG in 1948, he moved to Liverpool to continue his training at the Liverpool Maternity Hospital. In Liverpool he worked with Charles McIntosh Marshall, a fellow New Zealander and Sir Norman Jeffcoate, who was later to become president of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. On returning to New Zealand in 1952 he took up the post of visiting specialist at Dunedin Hospital and senior lecturer at Otago University. While there he founded the Dunedin Hospital Infertility Clinic in 1955. In 1958 he moved to Adelaide, South Australia having been appointed foundation chair of obstetrics and gynaecology at the university. He inaugurated the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and set about recruiting fellow clinicians and academics. In the 25 years he was to spend in post he played a major part in teaching, policy making and promoting scientific research. From the value that he placed on the close relationship between science and medicine came the founding of Australia’s first frozen semen bank in 1971 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. His unit carried out pioneering research on such topics as cervical cancer aetiology and treatment. Fertility research carried out by them eventually resulted in the second IVF pregnancy in 1981. He took part in numerous committees both for the university and nationally. Among many important roles he was dean of the faculty of medicine from 1963-1965, national president of the Family Planning Association of Australia, president from 1975 to 1978 of the Australian Council of the RCOG and inaugural president of the RACOG from 1978 to 1979. In 1981 he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for services to women’s health. When he retired in 1984 after 26 years of service, Adelaide University held an international scientific meeting at the medical school. Over 150 scientists attended to discuss the progress of 30 years in his control over most aspects of reproduction and the possibilities for the future. After retirement he set up a private practice in North Terrace which he ran for 2 years from 1985 to 1987. When he was training in Melbourne in 1946, he met his future wife, Margaret (Brownie) Mckecknie who was a midwife. She followed him to the UK three years later to work at the Liverpool Children’s Hospital and they married in 1950. They had a daughter, Diana, who qualified in medicine and a son, David. He played squash when young and all his life he enjoyed tennis and water skiing with family and friends on the Murray River. In retirement he joined the Royal Adelaide Golf Club and, in spite of suffering from Alhzeimer’s, continued to play until three weeks before his death. He died on 28 December 2001 aged 82, survived by his wife, children and two grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Littler, Robert Meredith (1866 - 1941)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-08-28
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376542376542
Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born 13 December 1866, second son of Thomas Albert Littler, law stationer, of Manchester, and Mary Meredith his wife. He was educated at the Manchester Grammar School and entered Owens College after private tuition with the Rev R M Leigh, of Norbreek near Blackpool. He was afterwards elected an Associate of Owens College. Littler served as house surgeon at the General Infirmary, Burton-on-Trent, and under Sir William Japp Sinclair, MD, at the Manchester Southern Hospital for Diseases of Women, and at the Royal Infirmary under Walter Whitehead, FRCS Ed. He settled in practice at Southport, Lancashire, about 1900 and was elected in 1905 surgeon to the Southport Infirmary, served as chairman of the medical board in 1924-5, and retired as consulting surgeon. He was a member of the North of England Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society, served as the first secretary of the Southport Medical Society and was its president in 1910, and president of the Southport division of the British Medical Association in 1912. After retiring he lived at Hatherwood, Grange Road, Heswall, Cheshire. Littler married on 23 February 1909 Catherine Campbell Darroch, who survived him with two sons. He died on 22 October 1941.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004359
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First Title value, for Searching Hall, Charles Beauchamp (1869 - 1941)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-26
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376327376327
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born at Coln St Denys, Gloucestershire, on 15 September 1869, the fifth child and third son of the Rev Edward Duncan Hall and his wife, *née* Beauchamp. He was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford and at St Mary's Hospital, where he won prizes in anatomy, surgery, dermatology, and midwifery. After serving as resident obstetric officer, house surgeon, assistant anaesthetist, and clinical assistant in the skin department at St Mary's, he was for a time resident medical officer at the Chelsea Hospital for Women and surgeon to the City of London Lying-in Hospital, living at Glendower House, Compton Terrace, N. He later settled at Exmouth, where he was appointed public vaccinator, and lived latterly at St Denys, Bellevue road. Hall married twice: (1) in August 1899 Miss Whitwell, by whom he had one daughter; and (2) on 6 December 1922 Miss Nevill, by whom he had a second daughter. He died on 22 January 1941. Publications:- Anatomy of the pelvic organs in the female. H Morten's *Complete system of nursing*, 1898. Method of making humanised milk at home. *Lancet*, 1904, 2, 375.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004144
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First Title value, for Searching Millar, David Gavin (1930 - 1971)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-18
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378128378128
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details David Gavin Millar graduated MB BS with honours at Durham University in 1952 and took the FRCS in 1959 and the MRCOG in 1962. Later he served on the Council of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He was senior lecturer in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne before going to Southampton, where he became Foundation Professor of Human Reproduction and Obstetrics at Southampton University Medical School. He was previously a visiting professor of obstetrics in New York State University in 1967, after studying in the United States the previous year. David Millar was by a few days the first clinical professor to be appointed to the new Southampton medical school, but sadly he did not live to see its first students. He was a superb practising obstetrician and gynaecologist. Among many other contributions at Southampton he laid the foundations for a sound policy for the development of medical computing in the Wessex hospital region, being himself a competent computer programmer. He died on 4 March 1971 and is survived by his wife, Dr Mary Millar, and two sons and two daughters.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005945
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First Title value, for Searching Phillips, Leonard George (1890 - 1975)

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First Title value, for Searching Sharpe, Dorothy Anderton (1903 - 1978)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-10
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379115379115
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details The daughter of a physician, William Cecil Sharpe and grand-daughter of Sir John Brigg (for many years Liberal MP for Keighley), Dorothy was born in the Red House, Darley Dale, Matlock, on 16 February 1903, close to Smedley's Hydro and the Royal Hotel used for the treatment of rheumatism and allied diseases in which her father specialised. After attending Skipton Grammar School she was at Roedean until 1923 when she entered the London School of Medicine for Women (RFH). Her training posts were mostly held in the South London Hospital for women, the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and the Royal Free Hospital, where she became assistant obstetrician and gynaecologist. During the second world war she served in the EMS at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital. She was elected Borough Councillor (Labour) for Marylebone, 1945-48, and was Governor of St Martin's High School for Girls, Tulse Hill, 1946. She was forced to retire from active work in 1952 because of rheumatoid arthritis, which she bore with great fortitude. In 1963 she served on the managing committee of the Horder Centre for Arthritics, Crowborough. Before the second world war she enjoyed skating, combined with a love for painting and gardening. She died on 13 June 1978.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006932
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First Title value, for Searching Loxton, Samuel Douglas (1911 - 1993)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-17
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born in Cape Town on 12 February 1911, the son of James Stokes Loxton, a pharmacist, and Marion, née Mitchell, Loxton was sent home to join his brother at Clifton College, where he won the Miriam Badock scholarship in science to Bristol University to study medicine. There he won the committee's gold medal. During the second world war he was in the RAMC, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel and serving in France, Italy, Somaliland, East Africa and Burma. After the war he studied for the FRCS and was much influenced by Rendle Short FRCS (qv *Lives* 1952-64) and Ronald Raven FRCS (qv *Lives* 1990-96), and then specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology, obtaining the MRCOG in 1947 and becoming lecturer on the professorial unit at Birmingham. He was appointed consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist to the United Bristol Hospitals. He was on the Council of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists from 1955 to 1962, and returned to serve on their Fellowship Selection and Postgraduate Committees from 1969 to 1977. He married Miss Lievesley in 1956 and there were no children of the marriage. Cricket, cross-country running and sailing were his main extracurricular interests. He died in Bristol on 18 July 1993.
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First Title value, for Searching Higgins, Lionel George (1891 - 1985)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-22
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379513379513
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Lionel George Higgins was born on 26 May 1891 in Bedford, son of Frederick George Higgins, a merchant. He was educated privately on account of juvenile rheumatic fever and went on to Clare College, Cambridge, and St Thomas's Hospital. He qualified in 1917, obtained his FRCS in 1920 and MD in 1956. He passed the MRCOG in 1934 and was elected FRCOG in 1957. He served as Temporary Surgeon Lieutenant in the Royal Navy. His principal appointment was as consulting gynaecologist and obstetrician to the Woking Hospitals. His chief outside interest was entomology. He was a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society and he was the co-author of the *Field guide to butterflies of Britain and Europe*, Collins, 1970, a standard work on the subject. In 1982 the Linnean Society awarded him their H H Bloomer award for "an amateur naturalist making a significant contribution to biological knowledge". In 1925 he married Nesta Farquhar. They had three sons, the eldest of whom is medical, working in Victoria, British Columbia. He died in his 95th year, on 9 October 1985.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007330
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First Title value, for Searching Mayeur, Mary Helen (1910 - 1988)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-15
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379675379675
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Mary Mayeur was born in London on 16 July 1910, the daughter of Eugene Francois Mayeur, the actor, and Helen (née MacArthur). She was educated at St Paul's Girls' School (foundation scholar) and at the Royal Free Hospital, winning scholarships and prizes and qualifying in 1933 with a distinction in obstetrics and gynaecology. She was a resident at the Royal Free, and trained in obstetrics and gynaecology, obtaining an MD in 1934, the FRCS and MRCOG in 1938 and becoming FRCOG in 1953. Victor Bonney and Charles McIntosh Marshall both influenced her during her training. During her appointment to the Liverpool Maternity Hospital in the second world war she gave heroic service under frequent bombing of the docks nearby. In 1944 she was appointed consultant to Wigan Infirmary and Stanley Hospital and then the Liverpool Maternity and the Liverpool Women's Hospitals. Later she established and then ran a unit at Ormskirk General Hospital for twenty years. She held examinerships in the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the Central Midwives Board and in the University of Liverpool. She retired to Sussex in 1970, having interests in the Women's Institute and rose-growing. She is thought to have died sometime in 1988.
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First Title value, for Searching Thong, Francis Khin-Yoong ( - 1989)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-12
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379924379924
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details After qualifying MB BS in Sydney in 1957 Francis Khin-Yoong became resident medical officer at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney from 1957 to 1958; resident pathologist in 1959; demonstrator and lecturer in anatomy at the University of Sydney from 1959 to 1960 and surgical registrar at St Vincent's Hospital from 1961 to 1962. He specialised in obstetrics and was appointed resident obstetric medical officer to St Margaret's Hospital for Women in Sydney in 1963 and held the post of their deputy medical superintendant from 1964 to 1970. He came to England to study for the Fellowship of the College and worked at the King George Hospital in Ilford in 1965 and at the London Hospital the following year. He became a Fellow in 1966. Returning to Australia he worked as honorary clinical assistant to the Royal North Shore Hospital from 1966 to 1969 and St Vincent's Hospital from 1967 to 1970. He was honorary assistant gynaecologist at St Margaret's Hospital for Women from 1970 to 1980 and honorary consultant in gynaecology and obstetrics to the Mater Hospital from 1967. He died on 2 February 1989.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007741
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First Title value, for Searching Watson, Peter Sherratt (1925 - 1999)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-08
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381168381168
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Peter Sherratt Watson was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in the Hertfordshire area. He was born in Leicester on 6 May 1925. His father, John Robert Watson, was an accountant and his mother, Nellie Evelyn née Sherratt, a secretary. At Wyggeston Grammar School, Leicester, he was captain of the school and won an entrance scholarship to St Mary's. There he won prizes in obstetrics, bacteriology and gynaecology. On qualifying, he did junior posts at St Mary's, becoming senior registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology, before going on to the Samaritan Hospital, Queen Charlotte's, St Mary's, Manchester, and St Woolos, Newport. He did his National Service in the RNVR from 1949 to 1951. He was appointed consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist to Queen Elizabeth II Hospital, Welwyn Garden City, and the West Herts Hospital at Hemel Hempstead. He examined for the Universities of Cambridge and London, and for the Central Midwives Board. He was Chairman of the medical staff committee and the Hertfordshire Area Medical Advisory Committee. He married Joanna Elizabeth Kemp, a teacher of physiotherapy, in 1952. They had a son, Rory, and a daughter, Hilary, neither of whom went into medicine. He died suddenly on 6 December 1999.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Winston Sullivan ( - 1984)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379863379863
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Winston Sullivan Smith qualified in medicine at the University of Melbourne in 1936 and his early appointments were as resident medical officer to the Royal Melbourne Hospital and later to the Children's Hospital, Melbourne. He was then appointed to the Gresswell Sanatorium, Victoria, and in the early years of the war served as resident medical officer at the Women's Hospital, Melbourne. In 1941 he joined the Australian Army Medical Corps for five years and served in the South-West Pacific Area during 1945 and 1946. After demobilisation he came to England for postgraduate study, working initially at the Whittington Hospital, Liverpool Maternity Hospital and the North Middlesex Hospital. He passed the MRCOG in 1947 and the FRCS in 1951 and before returning to Australia served as assistant master at the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin. Shortly after returning home he was appointed consultant obstetrician and honorary assistant gynaecologist to Prince Henry's Hospital, Melbourne. He was also honorary gynaecologist at Warragul Hospital, Victoria, and senior honorary obstetrician at Essendon Hospital, Melbourne. After retiring from his hospital appointments he continued to live at South Yarra, Victoria, where he died in September 1984. He is survived by his wife.
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First Title value, for Searching Russell, Patrick Morries Gordon (1907 - 2001)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-04
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381075381075
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Patrick Russell was born on 4 September 1907 in Trinidad, where his father Alexander David Russell was the first Puisne Judge. His mother's name was May Isabel McCallum. Educated at Rugby, he went to University College Hospital to study medicine, where he won the junior clinical surgery prize and the FT Roberts prize in obstetrics and gynaecology. After qualifying in 1931 he was house physician, house surgeon and then obstetric registrar at UCH and Charing Cross. During the war he served in the RAMC reaching the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, commanding the military families' hospital in Cairo. After the war he was appointed consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. In 1942 he married Stephanie Morris. They had two daughters, Caroline and Susan, neither of whom went into medicine. He died on 25 August 2001, survived by his wife, children and grandchildren, Ben, Tom, Joanna and Frances.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008892
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First Title value, for Searching Seyal, Nur Ahmad Khan (1920 - 2008)

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by Masud Seyal
Publication Date 2008-12-05 2008-12-12
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372758372758
Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Nur Ahmad Khan Seyal was professor of obstetrics and gynaecology and a former principal of King Edward Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan. He was born on 16 July 1920 and received his early education in his home town of Jhang (Punjab). In 1936 he went to study medicine at Glancy Medical College, Amritsar, qualifying in 1940. He then went to Iran, in 1942, and joined the medical department of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in Abadan. Over a period of ten years he held various surgical appointments in the 500-bed Abadan Hospital and gradually rose to the status of a consulting surgeon. During this time he twice spent time in the UK, gaining his FRCS in 1951. A year later, in 1952, he returned to Pakistan, where he was appointed clinical assistant to the professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at the King Edward Medical College, Lahore. In 1954, when Nishtar Medical College was established in Multan, Seyal was selected to take up the new chair of obstetrics and gynaecology, the first professorial appointment on the clinical side. He went on to establish a department that was recognised as “outstanding” by Sir Hector MacLennan, president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, who visited in 1961. C M Gwillim, professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at St George’s Hospital Medical School, London, also visited the hospital and recognized the department as easily comparable to the best abroad, and called Seyal’s devotion to duty “saintly”. In 1967 N A Seyal was appointed as professor of midwifery and gynaecology at King Edward Medical College and medical superintendent of Lady Willingdon Hospital Lahore. He completely reorganised the hospital and very markedly improved the clinical facilities available there. He took over as principal of the King Edward Medical College in 1969 and reorganised the teaching programme and formulated a number of schemes for the improvement of this premier institution. Seyal was nominated as a founder fellow of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan in 1962, and was elected to serve on its council. He was also a member of the Pakistan Medical Research Council for over six years. In recognition of his service to the medical profession, the government of Pakistan awarded him the Tamgha-i-Imtiaz, followed by the Sitara-i-Khidmat. After his retirement, Seyal was involved in the establishment of the Fatima Memorial Hospital and was the leading consultant for obstetrics and gynaecology. He retired to California in the early 1980s to be closer to his children. He died on 19 July 2008, just after his 88th birthday. He is survived by his wife (Iran Shafazand Seyal), his sons (Masud Seyal, professor of neurology at the University of California, Davis, and Mahmood Seyal, a business executive) and by his daughters (Mahnaz Ahmad, a scholar, and Farnaz Seyal Shah, a psychologist). He had seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Gardner, Nigel Hedley Noall (1933 - 2016)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Jim Gardner
Publication Date 2016-10-27 2017-11-22
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381445381445
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Nigel Gardner was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Exeter. He was born in Aldridge, Staffordshire on 16 February 1933, to Hedley and Mathilde Gardner. After leaving school, Nigel studied medicine at Birmingham University and St Thomas' Hospital, London, qualifying in 1956. After posts at the Chelsea Hospital for Women, Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London, and St Thomas', and gaining his FRCS in 1963 and his membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1966, he went to Exeter in 1969 to take up a consultancy post. He became the longest serving specialist there, retiring in 1998. His career absorbed many changes, including endoscopic technology. This, plus the introduction of video-supported operations, made life in theatre significantly easier. Nigel's career also saw further specialist areas of gynaecology develop, including fertility test tube baby units, plastic surgery, day care surgery and advances in cancer treatment (oncology was his particular specialty). He also oversaw the development of a new maternity unit at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, where he delivered many babies and brought many women back to health. His primary concern was always patient care and well-being, and he was a meticulous and skilled surgeon. Nigel was also a keen sportsman. While a captain in the Army, he was a leading member of the British downhill ski racing team in the mid-1950's. His most significant achievement at that time was skiing for Great Britain in the 1956 Winter Olympics at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. He was a fine shot, a good skater and played golf off a scratch handicap for most of his life. As a member of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews and many other clubs, he developed a strong network of friends across the UK and abroad around golfing. He was also instrumental in designing and establishing a new course near his home in Crediton, Devon. Nigel developed many other skills during his life. He learned to fly in his fifties. He became a skilled cabinet maker and furniture restorer and joiner, making and fitting a number of items of furniture for his own home. He also mastered cookery and enjoyed creating complex and fine dishes for his family and friends. Scuba diving was a major pastime in the 1970's, when he would catch bountiful loads of seafood from his own boat. He met his future wife Juliet in the 1950's on a train in Switzerland. She also trained to be a doctor. He married her in 1960 and they had three children - Nicola, James and Michael. Juliet died from cancer just six months before Nigel himself died at home on 17 September 2016 at the age of 83, they were together for over 50 years. He was much loved and is greatly missed by his three children and three granddaughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Rhodes, Philip (1922 - 2002)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-02
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381055381055
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Philip Rhodes was born in Sheffield on 2 May 1922, the only son of Sydney Rhodes, an iron and steel merchant. His mother, Harriet May née Denniff, was the daughter of a butcher and farmer. He was educated at King Edward VII School, Sheffield, and Clare College, Cambridge, from which he went on to St Thomas's Hospital for his clinical studies. He held junior posts in obstetrics at St Thomas's, Chelsea Hospital for Women and Queen Charlotte's, before joining the RAMC in 1948 to do his National Service. There he rose to the rank of Major. After his National Service, he returned to complete his training in obstetrics and gynaecology and was appointed consultant obstetric physician to St Thomas's 1958. He was appointed Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the University of London in 1964 and Dean of the St Thomas's Hospital Medical School from 1968 to 1974. He resigned his appointments in 1974 to take up the post of Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in the University of Adelaide in 1975, returning in 1977 to become postgraduate dean and director of the regional postgraduate institute for medicine and dentistry, Newcastle University, until 1980. He served on the GMC from 1979 to 1987. In 1946, he married Mary Elizabeth née Worley. They had three sons and two daughters. He wrote many textbooks and articles which reflected not only his interest in obstetrics and gynaecology, but also anthropology, sociology and history. He wrote an account of the medical problems of the Brontë family and a history of Barrowden, a village in Rutland. He died on 15 July 2002.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008872
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First Title value, for Searching Malpas, Percy (1901 - 1980)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-03
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378910378910
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Percy Malpas was educated at Merchant Taylor's School, Crosby, and graduated in medicine at Liverpool in 1923. After resident appointments he passed the FRCS in 1926 and the ChM in 1928. He then decided to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology and was later elected FRCOG in 1937. He was appointed consultant to the Women's Hospital, Liverpool, in 1933 and thereafter did much to raise the standards of antenatal and maternity care in some of the most depressed areas of Merseyside. In 1937 he and Bennett-Jones laid the foundations of the surgical services at Whiston Hospital, and he was much in demand after the outbreak of war. Following the war he was visiting gynaecologist to the Isle of Man and also worked in the Lake District, but, at the inception of the NHS he confined his work to the Women's Hospital, the Liverpool Maternity Hospital and the hospitals in the St Helen's Group. Malpas was a past President of the North of England Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society. He wrote a book on genital prolapse and was interested in the recurrent abortion syndrome. He made a number of contributions; two notable ones were his paper on the role of the foetal suprarenal in late pregnancy, and that on the appearance of the posterior urethrovesical angle in stress incontinence in which he likened uterine fibromyomata to the knots in wood and not true neoplasms. He was a skilled and rapid operator and his humanity earned his colleagues' affection. He died on 8 April 1980, and was survived by his wife, Anna, and children, Beryl and Richard.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006727
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First Title value, for Searching Soltau, David Henry Kenneth (1920 - 2002)

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First Title value, for Searching Mendis, Ariyaman Mahanama (1925 - 2015)

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by Geetha Mendis
Publication Date 2016-07-27 2016-10-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/381349381349
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Ariyaman Mahanama Mendis was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Sri Lanka from 1958 to 1974, when he immigrated to Western Australia. He accepted the position of senior medical officer to the vast and remote Kimberley region, based at Derby Regional Hospital, on the far north coast of Western Australia, some 2,500km from Perth. Following his three-year contract, he moved to Perth, where he established a successful private practice in obstetrics and gynaecology until his retirement in 1991. Ariyaman was born on 21 November 1925, in a village in the south of Ceylon, the eldest son of Bernard Mendis, a medical practitioner, and Joslin. Joslin died of pulmonary tuberculosis when Ariyaman was one and his elder sister was two. His step-mother Charlotte filled the void with love and devotion, and there were two more daughters and a son added to the family. (Ariyaman's brother joined the Air Force and later became an air chief marshal of Sri Lanka.) As his father was regularly moved in his role as district medical officer, Ariyaman was sent to boarding school at age 10. He thrived at the prestigious St Thomas' College in Colombo, excelling in his studies and a variety of sports, in particular cricket. When he was 17 he gained entrance to the University of Ceylon, Colombo. His medical undergraduate years were described as years of fun and hard work. He was awarded medals in biology, anatomy and physiology and various scholarships along the way. During his early house officer appointments, he was inspired by his consultants in obstetrics and gynaecology. He sailed to England in 1955 to pursue specialist qualifications. He held in high esteem his teachers in Liverpool, including Sir Norman Jeffcoate and Charles Wells, and maintained contact with them on his return to Ceylon. As soon as he completed his membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (MRCOG), he married his dear wife Cecelia, who joined him in Edinburgh. She worked as a nurse while Ariyaman completed his requirements for his FRCS. They returned on a steamer to Ceylon in December 1957 with their three-month-old baby daughter. Upon his return, he soon established a reputation of excellence as an obstetrician and gynaecologist with the faculty of medicine, University of Ceylon, and maintained a busy schedule with a teaching hospital appointment at the De Soysa Maternity Hospital in Colombo. He enjoyed teaching medical students and registrars, and took a genuine interest in their progress. Despite his reputation for being a hard task master, they held him in high regard and with deep affection. Many remained in touch with him over the years. He delighted in their successes, with a number of his former students being appointed to chairs in obstetrics and gynaecology locally and internationally. In 1974 he made the difficult decision to immigrate with the family to Australia, leaving behind his established career and close network of extended family and friends. This was prompted by political tensions and a wish to provide greater opportunities for his five children. In his usual diligent manner, he adjusted to a totally new environment and established himself quickly, winning the admiration and affection of his new network of colleagues and patients. For three years he immersed himself in the varied medical challenges in remote Kimberley. His work involved general practice, obstetrics and gynaecology, general surgery and the Royal Flying Doctor Service. His contribution was deeply appreciated by the director general of medical services of Western Australia. The stint in the Kimberley also gave him an opportunity for photography, capturing the novel flora and fauna and the ancient landscape. On moving to Perth, he commenced in private practice and to keep abreast with advances he regularly attended seminars at the King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women. He was pleased to be reunited with his family in Perth. A generous and unpretentious man, he loved spending time with family and friends, to gather around the piano to sing along, and share his love of travel with his wife. Despite his busy practice, he had time to work under the bonnet of his car, plant tropical trees and be involved in the Sri Lankan Association and the Buddhist Society of Western Australia. In 2008 he was diagnosed with dementia, which progressed slowly, restricting his mobility in the final two years of his life. He bore his condition with remarkable dignity. He passed away peacefully at home with his children at his bedside on 15 February 2015, aged 89. Cecelia, his dear wife of 59 years, predeceased him by 10 weeks. He was survived by his four siblings, daughters, Anoja, Geetha, Shiroma and Komudhi, his son Asitha and grandchildren, Jennifer and Chamath.
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First Title value, for Searching Feroze, Sir Rustam Moolan (1920 - 2010)

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by Michael Pugh
Publication Date 2011-12-09 2013-08-16
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/373889373889
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Sir Rustam Moolan Feroze, known as 'Mole', was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at King's College Hospital, Queen Charlotte's and the Chelsea Hospital for Women, and was a former president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He was the son of Jehangir and Diana Feroze. His father was a Parsee who qualified in Bombay and then went to England, where he was in general practice in London. After school at Sutton Valence, Mole went to King's College and King's College Hospital, where he qualified with a conjoint diploma in 1943. Serving in the Royal Navy for National Service, he was surgeon on a corvette of the Royal Indian Navy, which was posted off the Arakan coast of Burma. Following his National Service, he returned to King's College Hospital. He was a resident medical officer at the Samaritan and Soho hospitals, and then a senior registrar at the Middlesex Hospital and the Women's Hospital in Soho from 1950 to 1952. At the age of 31, he was appointed as a consultant to the Chelsea and King's College hospitals. In 1949 he became a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. In 1952 he gained his MD and became a fellow of our College. A consummate surgeon, surgery was his delight. He was admired for his immaculate technique and was a master of vaginal surgery. On one occasion Ralph Winterton, who was himself a meticulous operator in the abdomen, but less happy with vaginal surgery, suddenly exclaimed in theatre: 'I can't do this operation, get Feroze to come and show us'. Mole responded generously by coming to Soho and giving a wonderful demonstration of his technique to a large audience. He became dean of the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 1967 and was an elected as a member of the council of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1971. Further distinctions included his appointment as director of postgraduate studies in 1975, a post he held until he was elected president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1981, already having been vice-president. He was knighted in 1983. He published widely, particularly on gynaecological oncology, and contributed to *Bonney's gynaecological surgery* (London, Baillière Tindall, 1986). Mole had no enemies. He received many honours, gave eponymous lectures, gained honorary fellowships in America, Ireland and Australia, and was an examiner for the universities of London, Cambridge, Birmingham and Singapore. Away from medicine, he was a very keen skier until osteoarthritis of the hip made him limit his physical activities to tennis and gardening. Opera was another great joy and he was a member of Glyndebourne. He was also interested in bonsai. He was a member of the Royal Automobile Club (RAC). He married Margaret Dowsett, a radiographer who had X-rayed him after playing rugby, in 1947. Mole and Margaret had four children - three boys and one daughter, who tragically died in a domestic accident. Mole died on 8 February 2010.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001706
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First Title value, for Searching Robinson, Arthur Leyland (1887 - 1959)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-05-06
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377497377497
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born on 27 July 1887 son of Joseph Henry Robinson and Caroline Sandford he was educated privately in Southport and at Liverpool University. His clinical training took place at University College Hospital. During the war of 1914-18 he served as an acting Major and surgical specialist in the RAMC with the British Salonika Force. After the war he was appointed honorary surgeon to the Women's Hospital, Liverpool and the Maternity Hospital, Liverpool, later becoming Professor of Midwifery and Gynaecology in the University of Liverpool. He was a Fellow of the North of England Gynaecological Society and its President in 1933-34, and he was a member of the Liverpool Medical Institution and its President in 1940-41. At various times he examined in obstetrics and gynaecology for the Universities of London, Manchester, Sheffield, and Wales, and for the Conjoint Board in London. Fishing and numismatics were his main hobbies, apart from gardening and photography, and he was an authority on Peninsula war medals, his collection being probably the finest in the world. His wife, whom he married in 1914, predeceased him and they had one daughter. Having lived at Little Neston, Cheshire, he retired first to Warsash near Southampton and then to Ringwood. He died in Salisbury Hospital after a short illness on 28 May 1959 survived by his second wife, Joan.
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First Title value, for Searching Barnett, Vivian Henry (1909 - 1993)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-02
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Barnett was born on 24 December 1909, and studied medicine at University College Hospital Medical School London, qualifying in 1932, and obtained his Fellowship in 1937. He decided to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology, becoming MRCOG in 1942 and FRCOG in 1956. He went to Shropshire as a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist on the advent of the NHS and soon became senior gynaecologist. After retiring from the hospital service at 65 he entered general practice, becoming a partner in a practice in Oswestry. His association with the town went back many years because of his involvement with Oswestry and District Hospital, the local cottage hospital. He remained in general practice for some ten years before retiring but did locums until he was 80. As he relinquished his medical work he started a new career dealing in pictures and antiques with his wife; he continued with this until his death. He was examiner to the Central Midwives' Board and the Royal College of Nursing. Vivian Barnett was probably the only doctor in Britain who had a merit award as a consultant and a seniority award as a general practitioner. He was a bon viveur, a great entertainer, and a raconteur of some repute. He was particularly interested in china and pictures and was a bridge player of considerable skill. He died on 25 November 1993, survived by his wife, Margaret, and two children, Julia and Lawrence.
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First Title value, for Searching Liebert, Katharine Isabel (1912 - 1965)

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First Title value, for Searching Treston, Maurice Lawrence (1891 - 1970)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-20
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Maurice Lawrence Treston was born on 9 February 1891, and received his early education in the United States. He came to the London Hospital for the medical course and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1913. After junior hospital posts at the London Hospital and at Colchester he passed into the Indian Medical Service shortly before the first world war, in which he served on the North West Frontier and in Mesopotamia, being mentioned in dispatches. He was graded as a surgical specialist even before he obtained the FRCS when on study leave in 1921. In 1923 Treston was posted to Burma where he did excellent work, first in a remote hill station, and later in Rangoon where, in 1931, he was appointed Professor of Gynaecology and Obstetrics and superintendent of the Dufferin Hospital. He became FRCOG in 1934. In 1941 he was appointed Inspector General of Civil Hospitals in Burma, but the war necessitated the evacuation of hospitals to Mandalay and subsequent chaos. However, Treston's good work was rewarded by the CBE in 1944. He retired from the service with the rank of Colonel in 1947, and after practising his specialty in Rhodesia for eight years he ultimately settled in Ireland. Treston was twice married, first to Isobel and, after her death, to Daphne who survived him when he died peacefully in hospital on 14 April 1970.
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First Title value, for Searching Dodds, Gladys Helen (1898 - 1982)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-26
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Gladys Helen Dodds was born in Kirkcaldy in 1898 and educated at Dunfermline High School. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh in 1922 she held the posts of house surgeon at the Royal Maternity and Simpson Memorial Hospital and at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh. She went on to study obstetrics in Dublin and in 1923, obtained the licence in midwifery of the Coombe Lying-in Hospital and the Diploma in Public Health. From 1927 she practised as a consultant in London and was for many years first assistant to the obstetrical unit at University College Hospital. Other appointments included those of physician to the Annie McCall Maternity Hospital, gynaecologist to the Bermondsey and the Tottenham Borough Councils, consulting gynaecologist to Bushey Heath Hospital, obstetrician and gynaecologist to the Hackney and Mile End Hospitals, obstetric surgeon to the Mother's Hospital, Clapton and physician to the ante-natal department of Queen Charlotte's Hospital. Miss Dodds enjoyed the distinction, rare among medical women at the time, of being a Fellow of both the College and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. She passed both examinations the same year, in 1937. In 1940 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists having been a member since 1932. She was the author of a textbook, *Gynaecology for nurses* (1946) and of several important papers on the toxaemias of pregnancy. She died on 5 September 1982.
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First Title value, for Searching Ionides, Theodore Henry (1866 - 1936)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-17
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born in London, 8 January 1866, the fourth child and third son of Constantine A Ionides, of the Stock Exchange, and Agatha Fenerly, his wife. He thus belonged to the family of Greek merchants whose art bequests are preserved at the Victoria and Albert Museum. He was educated at Winchester, and at University College Hospital where he acted as house surgeon. Settling at Brighton he was elected assistant surgeon to the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children, and on 18 September 1901 became assistant surgeon to the Royal Sussex County Hospital, becoming surgeon on 3 December 1919 and consulting surgeon upon his retirement on 15 July 1925. During this time he practised surgery, gynaecology, and obstetrics. When the Territorial Force was established he received a commission as major, RAMC (T), on 27 April 1908 and was attached à la suite to the 2nd Eastern General Hospital, Brighton. Called up in 1914 he served in France at various casualty clearing stations. He returned to practice on demobilization and was president of the Brighton and Sussex Medico-chirurgical Society in 1919. In 1896 he married Kitty, daughter of John Cavafy (1838-1901), MD, FRCP, physician to St George's Hospital. She survived him, with a son and a daughter. He died at Hove on 2 December 1936.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004246
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First Title value, for Searching McAllister, Andrew Carey (1887 - 1964)

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First Title value, for Searching Sophian, George John (1894 - 1975)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-19
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details George John Sophian was born in Calcutta on 25 September 1894, the son of John Sophianopoulos, a jute merchant. George changed his surname to Sophian in 1921. His mother was the first female in the line of descent of Emin of Armenia (1546). He attended St Xavier's College, Calcutta, and then came to England where he studied medicine at St Bartholomew's, St Mary's and the London Hospitals. He passed the Conjoint Diploma in 1919 but did not take his MB, BS until 1949. He held appointments as senior resident medical officer at Queen Charlotte's Hospital; assistant in the department of the diseases of women at Bart's; and obstetric consultant to the West Sussex County Council (EMS). He then became consultant in gynaecological surgery to St Mary's Hospital for Women, Plaistow, and consultant obstetric surgeon to West Ham Borough Council. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and a co-founder of the Renal Association. He published two important monographs *Toxaemia of pregnancy* (Butterworths, 1952) and *Pregnancy nephrology* (Butterworths, 1971). In 1942 he married Miss Seager. It was his second marriage. He was fond of fishing and collecting paintings, particularly Dutch of the 17th century. He was also interested in oriental porcelain of the Kanghsi period, Chippendale furniture and antique Persian carpets. He died on 17 June 1975.
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First Title value, for Searching Ranasinghe, Don Abraham (1908 - 1981)

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First Title value, for Searching Brawn, Harry Ellis (1876 - 1954)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-22
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born at Lichfield, he was educated at Mason College and the Birmingham Medical School. He went to South Africa immediately after qualifying in 1899, to serve in the RAMC during the war. He came home to take the Fellowship in 1903, but returned to practise at Uitenhage, where he married in 1909 Grace Cecilia Heugh. He served at Gallipoli and in East Africa during the war of 1914-19, and after the war practised at Klerksdorp, South Africa, whence he went back to Uitenhage, practising there till 1932. He then came to England for postgraduate study in gynaecology and obstetrics, and was appointed gynaecologist and obstetrician to the Provincial Hospital, Port Elizabeth in 1934. He joined the South African Medical Corps on the outbreak of war in 1939 and was appointed ADMS, Eastern Province, serving later in Kenya and at the 4th General Hospital in Egypt; he was discharged in 1943 with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He was a prominent member of the Cape Midlands branch of the South African Medical Association. Brawn was a keen Rugby football player. He was captain of the Uitenhage Swifts XV in 1905-07, and played for Eastern Province in 1906. He was President of the Swifts Club 1923-26, and Patron 1927-51. Brawn died at Port Elizabeth on 28 November 1954, aged 78, survived by his wife, his son and two daughters, one of them a doctor.
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First Title value, for Searching Greenidge, Charles Woseley (1929 - 2002)

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First Title value, for Searching Snaith, Linton Morris (1909 - 1996)

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First Title value, for Searching Cope, Thomas Ian (1927 - 2002)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-22
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Ian Cope was born in Melbourne in 1927 and educated at the King's School and Sydney University. He did junior posts at St Vincent's Hospital and the Royal Hospital for Women in Sydney, before going to London for further training. There he worked at the Hammersmith Hospital, passed the FRCS and MRCOG, and returned to Sydney as a member of the senior medical staff of the Royal Hospital for Women and St Vincent's Hospital. He became a highly respected teacher, was senior lecturer in obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of New South Wales from 1962 to 1964, and was a member of the faculty of medicine from 1963 until 1992. He was secretary and later chairman of the staff council of the Royal Hospital for Women and a member of the board that administered the hospital. He was a member of the last Australian council of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and its first Fotheringham fellow and the first Brown Craig travelling fellow. He was a founder of the Royal Australian College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, started its archival committee and wrote its history. He was awarded the President's medal in 1997. He died on 20 May 2002. He is survived by his wife, Joan and his son, Charles.
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First Title value, for Searching MacGregor, William Gregor (1919 - 1992)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-17
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Bill MacGregor was born in Melbourne, the only son of William MacGregor, a surgeon and farmer, and his wife, Mary Gladys. He was educated at Geelong College before entering Melbourne University for his medical training. After qualifying in 1943 he served in the Royal Australian Air Force Medical Service between 1945 and 1947. He soon decided to pursue a career in obstetrics and gynaecology, and moved to England in 1949 as a registrar in Oxford. He was appointed a senior registrar in Bristol in 1952 and a senior lecturer at University College Hospital in London in 1956, where he was influenced by Professors Browne and Nixon. He became a reader in obstetrics and gynaecology in the University of London at the Hammersmith Hospital, where he developed his interest in gynaecological oncology and was influenced by Ronald Raven and Sir John Stallworthy. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1961 and gained a reputation for teaching, which he enjoyed. He travelled widely, but also retained his sporting abilities which included golf, tennis and water skiing. During his training period he wrote articles on cardiac output during pregnancy and the 'unstable lie of the foetus'. He had two sons and one daughter from his first marriage to Elizabeth Mary Kenny in 1943; and three sons, William, Robert and Angus, and two daughters, Helen and Alison, from his second marriage to June Patricia Lawson in 1956. He died on 18 December 1992.
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First Title value, for Searching Falconer, Alan Scott (1921 - 2013)

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by Alastair Falconer
Publication Date 2013-09-30 2014-03-07
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Occupation General surgeon Naval surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist School doctor
Details Alan Falconer had a long and varied surgical career in the Royal Navy, practising initially as a general surgeon before training as an obstetrician and gynaecologist. After he left the Navy, he became a school doctor at Sedbergh School in Cumbria. He was born in Darlington on 2 June 1921, the eldest son of Dallas Scott and Isabelle Falconer. Alan's father was a GP surgeon in Darlington. He had obtained a classics scholarship to Edinburgh University, where he studied medicine, and trained as a surgeon, obtaining the FRCS (Edinburgh) in 1920. At the beginning of the NHS he was appointed as a consultant surgeon at Darlington Memorial and Bishop Auckland hospitals. Alan was sent to Sedbergh School in 1934, at that time in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The school had a lasting influence on his life and in particular fostered his passion for sport. Cricket was his first love and he represented the school as a wicket keeper. He went on to Peterhouse College, Cambridge, in 1939 to study natural sciences. In his third year he studied anatomy, focusing on the evolutionary development of the human hand. Although he enjoyed Cambridge and meeting highly talented students from other disciplines, Sedbergh always remained his most fondly remembered educational experience. Alan completed his medical training at St George's Hospital, London, which was then at Hyde Park Corner. There he met his wife Veronica (née Guise), who was training to become a nurse. Alan's undergraduate training and their courtship took place during the Blitz. As well as providing startling anecdotes, this gave Alan early experience of the management of trauma. He became an expert at performing venous 'cut downs' for blood transfusions using steel reusable cannulae. His postgraduate surgical training included posts at the Whittington Hospital. During his training he assisted (later Lord) Rodney Smith at the Victoria Hospital for Children in Tite Street, Chelsea. He obtained his FRCS in 1953. In the early fifties the costs of living in London and providing for a family of three children exceeded his NHS salary. This led to his decision to return to the Royal Navy, where he had undertaken his National Service, and take a commission as a surgical specialist. His naval career included posts in Ceylon and Malta, as well as a Far East tour on the commando carrier HMS *Bulwark*. In the sixties the Navy planned to develop an obstetric service in the United Kingdom. Alan was selected to train in obstetrics and gynaecology, with a view to leading the new service. He undertook busy training posts at St George's Hospital, London, and St Mary's Hospital, Portsmouth. He passed the membership examination of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1964 and was subsequently made a fellow of the college. He enjoyed using his surgical skills in his new specialty and also the intellectual challenges and decision making of intrapartum obstetrics. He was grateful for his surgical experience, which made him safely independent when faced with difficult gynaecological cases in theatre. However, he always demonstrated humility about his surgical prowess. He was well respected by his colleagues and patients. Sadly the Navy obstetric unit never materialised because of financial constraints, so Alan's obstetric posts were in civilian hospitals in Plymouth, in Malta (from 1968 to 1972) and finally with the RAF in Germany (from 1973 to 1976). He was a consultant adviser in obstetrics and gynaecology to the Royal Navy and also Queen's honorary surgeon. He achieved the rank of surgeon captain and was offered the post of surgeon rear admiral in the late seventies. Reluctant to sacrifice his love of clinical medicine for an essentially administrative post, he applied for the vacant post of school doctor at Sedbergh and left the Navy to return to his alma mater. Alan thoroughly enjoyed being back at Sedbergh. It allowed him to combine his medical skills with his love for sport, at which the school excelled. The final 10 years of his life were overshadowed by a severe head injury, which left him with significant physical and cognitive disabilities. He was nursed at home throughout this time by Veronica, even when they were both in their nineties. Veronica predeceased Alan in January 2013. Alan died peacefully of a stroke four months later on 2 May 2013, at the age of 91. Alan will be remembered for his surgical and obstetric skills, and for his wide knowledge of the classics, his encyclopedic knowledge of sport, his conviviality and his enjoyment of whisky, pipe smoking, fell-walking and the company of friends and family. He was survived by his four children (Jennifer Anne, Catherine Scott, John Hedley and Alastair Robert), one of whom qualified as a nurse and two as doctors.
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First Title value, for Searching Moore, Jocelyn Adelaide Medway (1904 - 1979)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-10
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378947378947
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Jocelyn Adelaide Moore was born in Monkstown, Co Dublin, on 29 August 1904. Her mother was Adelaide Mary Murphy and her father was Major General Sir John Moore, CB, of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps; she was the eldest of their three daughters. She attended Wycombe Abbey School, Bucks, and the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine. At the Royal Free Hospital she specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology eventually becoming consultant in this field. She passed the Conjoint Diploma in 1929, the Fellowship of the College in 1933 and the Fellowship of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1948. She served on various committees at the Royal Free including education, of which she was chairman, and became Vice Dean. During the second world war she joined the RAMC with the rank of Major as a gynaecological specialist. In 1942 she married a journalist David Symon. In November 1969 she was appointed Professor and head of the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. While there she became chairman of the medical advisory committee and of the faculty of medicine library committee. She died in February 1979.
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First Title value, for Searching Easton, Alfred Leonard Tytherleigh (1921 - 2012)

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by Claire Lewis
Publication Date 2013-11-08 2014-02-19
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376799376799
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Leonard Easton was an obstetrician and gynaecologist at the London Hospital. His background was unusual. His parents, Leonard Tytherleigh Easton, an elderly insurance broker, and Maria Bertrand Easton née de Lis met in Japan and he was born in Tientsin, China, on 11 July 1921. His education at Harrow was paid for by a wealthy uncle and there he excelled at rugby and science. Although diminutive, he was fast and fiercely competitive. His early passion for beetles, butterflies and the contents of rock pools from his beloved Cornish beaches, where he spent his childhood, evolved into a passion for human creatures: he never considered any career other than medicine. His studies led him to Cambridge, and he was always immensely proud of his years at Pembroke College. He went on to the Middlesex Hospital, where he met his future wife, Mary Josephine Latham, a highly spirited nurse who later became a prize-winning theatre sister. They married in 1946 and had two children. He had decided early on to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology, and loved surgery from the outset. He had small hands, but they were steady as a rock, almost until he died. He carried out his National Service in Egypt and then went back to the Middlesex. He was a senior registrar there and then became a lecturer in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Birmingham. He was appointed as a consultant at King George's Hospital, Ilford, and Ilford Maternity Hospital, and became a consultant at the London Hospital in the late 1950s, where he remained until his retirement in the late eighties. He was immensely proud of the London and all his colleagues with whom he worked. He felt passionately about his job, and he and his colleagues were determined to bring down maternal mortality. He regularly went out on visits with the local obstetric flying squad and campaigned for supervised and hospital births. And, by the 1960s and 1970s, maternal mortality had significantly decreased. Early on he had to make a decision about where he stood on the issue of termination of pregnancy. As a Catholic, it was for him a defining moment. He knew he had to decide between what he thought was medically right and ethical and what the church was telling him. He decided that women had the right to choose termination if the circumstances were medically and socially appropriate, and never went to church again. As his daughter, I rarely saw him during my childhood. My memories are only of high days and holidays. Christmas was always special: he took my brother and me onto the wards and always carved the ward turkey dressed as Father Christmas. We met the nurses and patients, and felt part of his profession. I also remember him teaching me to swim in those Cornish rock pools, where he also saved a colleague's daughter from drowning. He wouldn't allow me to have my first two babies at home, when I was championing the natural childbirth renaissance in the 1970s. I remember him saying to me that you shouldn't expect to enjoy labour: the whole idea was to ensure the health of the mother and child. We had quite an argument about that, but I lost. He was a progressive, liberal thinker and a real supporter of women. And he did make a difference. I am very proud of him and what he achieved in nearly 50 years of medicine.
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First Title value, for Searching Chalk, Philip Alexander Forbes (1930 - 2015)

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by Michael Pugh
Publication Date 2015-06-12 2016-05-27
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379639379639
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Philip Chalk was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Royal Free Hospital, London. He was born on 1 May 1930 in Southend, Essex, the son of Charles Philip Chalk and Ann Chalk née Forbes; both his parents were teachers. He was educated at Newport Free Grammar School, Essex. He carried out his National Service in the Royal Air Force, where he claimed to have learnt to type. He won an exhibition to read botany at Selwyn College, Cambridge and, after completing his first degree, he stayed for another year to meet the requirements to read medicine. He completed his clinical studies at the London Hospital, qualifying MB BChir in 1957. He started his career as a general practitioner, but then decided to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology. Among training posts, he was a resident accoucheur at the London Hospital, a resident medical officer at Queen Charlotte's and the Samaritan hospitals, and a senior registrar at the Middlesex Hospital. In 1969 he was appointed as a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Royal Free Hospital, a post he held until his retirement in 1991. He was a tall man with a commanding presence, and his ward rounds were much-valued. He established the colposcopy clinic with full diagnostic and treatment facilities as an out-patient service. This was further supported by his surgical expertise as a cancer surgeon. His talent for administration was shown by being the youngest member of the staff to be elected chairman of the medical advisory committee. His judgement was much respected and often feared by the younger NHS managers. Philip was also an honorary gynaecologist at St Luke's Hospital for the Clergy, to which he gave generous support. He took a close interest in his Cambridge college. He served the alumni organisation, the Selwyn Association, and was president from 1998 to 1999. His achievements were by no means confined to medicine. As a bell-ringer he rang his first peal when he was 16, and became an established campanologist, ringing at St Paul's, Southwark Cathedral, St Michael's, Cornhill, and his parish church, where he often rang the heaviest bell. He was a member of the team which rang at Prince Charles' and Diana's wedding. He was a keen fly fisherman. He designed and tied his own flies, including the curiously named but allegedly effective 'Chalk's indescribable'. The aphorism 'There's more to fly fishing than catching fish' was attributed to him. He was a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Drapers, to which he had been introduced by another obstetrician, Ralph Winterton. He became master in 1981, but his year was interrupted by illness and he served a full year in 1982. As master he received Her Majesty The Queen at an event marking the tercentenary of the College of William and Mary in Virginia and he later visited the college with the clerk of the Draper's Company. He was a devoted family man. Shortly after qualifying he married Jean, also a London Hospital medical graduate. They had three children - David, who has a career in the care of the elderly, Alison, who also qualified at the London Hospital and is a fellow of the Royal of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and Hilary, an interior designer. Philip's later life was marred by ill health and he died on 4 April 2015. He was 84.
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First Title value, for Searching Holmes, Edwin (1895 - 1967)

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First Title value, for Searching Gough, William (1876 - 1947)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-04
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Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born at Leeds, 7 June 1876, the third son of James William Gough, decorator, and Emma Armitage, his wife. He was educated at Leeds City School and Medical School, where he won the William Hey medal in surgery and a gold medal in physiology and histology. At the General Infirmary he served as senior house-surgeon to Mayo-Robson, and was for a time private assistant to Moynihan. After some years in general practice at Leeds, when he also served as director of the Yorkshire Pathological Laboratory, a private institute, Gough specialized as a gynaecological surgeon. He became assistant surgeon to the Women and Children's Hospital, Leeds, in 1909, surgeon 1919, and consulting surgeon in 1936. He was obstetric surgeon to the Leeds Maternity Hospital 1908-36, and gynaecological surgeon to the General Infirmary 1930-32. At the University of Leeds he was demonstrator of gynaecology 1911-23, lecturer 1926-31, and professor from 1931 to 1936. Gough took an active part in promoting the British (now Royal) College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, of which he was a founding Fellow. He served on its Council from 1937, was vice-president 1942-45 and chairman of the examinations committee in 44. He was president of the North of England Obstetrical and Gynaelogical Society in 1926, and a member of the Gynaecological Visiting society. Gough married in 1905 Agnes Innes Crane Fraser, who survived him with a son and four daughters. Their elder son, a boy of great promise, died before him, Gough died at his house, Dunearn, Wood Lane, Leeds on 29 June 1947, aged 71. His consulting rooms were at 31 Park Square Leeds, and he had a large private practice. Gough was an astute clinician and a simple and swift operator. He was ambidextrous and preferred to use his left hand. He was a good lecturer, but did not care for bedside teaching, nor did he like obstetrics.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004198
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First Title value, for Searching Scott, James Steel (1924 - 2006)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-05-10
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details James Scott was professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Leeds University. He was born in Glasgow on 18 April 1924, the elder son of Angus McAlpine Scott and Margaret Scott. He was educated at Glasgow Academy and then studied medicine at Glasgow University, gaining his obstetric experience at the Rotunda, Dublin. After qualifying he completed his National Service in West Africa. Following his demobilisation he trained in obstetrics and gynaecology at Queen Charlotte’s Hospital, London, and then in Birmingham, before moving to Liverpool in 1954 as an obstetric tutor. He became a lecturer and then senior lecturer, at a time when Sir Thomas Jeffcoate was head of the department. Here Scott carried out research into placental abnormalities. He was appointed to the chair of obstetrics at Leeds in 1961, becoming dean of medicine in 1986. His main interest was fetoplacental function, and he was the first to recognise that transplacental passage of harmful maternal antibodies could lead to hyperthyroidism and shortage of platelets in the newborn. He had a particular interest in pre-eclampsia, which he discovered was more common and more serious in pregnancies where the mother had a new male partner, and carried out research into repeated miscarriage. He was much in demand as a visiting professor. Always hyperactive, he detested golf, though he wrote a biography of Alister McKenzie, a designer of golf courses. He was a keen skier, was passionate about opera, the arts in general and his house in Scotland. He died from prostate cancer on 17 September 2006, and is survived by his wife Olive (née Sharpe), a consultant paediatric cardiologist, and two sons.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000352
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First Title value, for Searching Spencer, Pamela Mary (1926 - 2010)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-03-03
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Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Pamela Mary Spencer née Bacon was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Whittington Hospital, London. She was born in London, in Dulwich, the daughter of Leonard Guy Bacon, a civil servant who had served as a bomber pilot in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, and Edith Mary née Naylor, a former secretary. Pamela was educated at Croydon High School, where she played tennis and hockey for the school and was head girl. She went on to University College, London, where she captained the university tennis team and qualified in 1950. She was a house surgeon to the obstetric unit at UCH, a house physician at Edgware General and a house surgeon at the Central Middlesex hospitals. After casualty officer and orthopaedic house jobs at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, she returned to UCH as a lecturer to the obstetric unit, where she was later first assistant (senior lecturer). She was attached as a clinical assistant to St Peter's Hospital for Stone from 1958 to 1960. She was appointed as a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist to the Italian Hospital in London in 1960, to the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in 1961, and to the Whittington Hospital in 1964. Among her many interests were skiing, travel and golf. In 1960 she married Alfred George Spencer, consultant physician to St Bartholomew's Hospital and reader in medicine at London University. Their son Charles became a consultant physician in cardiology in Stafford. She died on 30 May 2010.
Resource Identifier RCS: E001141
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First Title value, for Searching Hayes, Sydney Nuttall (1891 - 1944)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-03
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born 19 July 1891, the third and youngest son of Peter Dobson Hayes of Stockport. He was educated at Manchester before entering the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. His student days were broken by the outbreak of war and he served in the Royal Field Artillery from 10 September 1914 till 12 August 1916, with the rank of 2nd lieutenant, in the 17th Lancashire Battery. He then resumed his medical training and after qualifying held a temporary commission as captain in the Indian Medical Service from 7 October 1918 to 24 March 1920. On 30 July 1921 he received substantive rank as captain with precedence from 9 March 1921, and was promoted major on 9 September 1929, and subsequently lieutenant-colonel. At the time of his death Hayes had been serving for several years as professor of obstetrics and gynaecology, originally professor of midwifery, at the King Edward Medical College, Lahore; he was also medical superintendent of the Lady Willingdon Hospital there. He was created OBE in the civil division on New Year's Day 1941. Hayes married on 7 March 1924 Sybil Maud Hudson, who survived him with two sons. Mrs Hayes was a sister of Rupert Vaughan Hudson, FRCS. He died suddenly on 11 December 1944 at Raceview, Lahore, Punjab, aged 53. Publications:- Treatment of hepatic abscesses. *Ind med Gaz*. 1927, 62, 13. Present day methods of sterilisation of dressings. *Brit med J*. 1937, 1, 911. Operative treatment of vesico-urethral and vesico-vaginal fistulae by vaginal route, with notes on 33 cases. *Ind med Gaz*. 1937, 72, 282.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004180
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First Title value, for Searching Oldershaw, Martin Herbert (1891 - 1937)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-09-11
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born 27 July 1891 at Clifton Hill, Maida Vale, London, the third child of Herbert Augustus Oldershaw, solicitor, and his wife *née* Godrich. He was educated at the Brighton Technical College and at University College Hospital. At the Hospital he gained the Bucknill scholarship in 1913, and served as casualty surgical officer, holiday surgeon, and obstetrical registrar. His interests centred chiefly in obstetrics and gynaecology and he was elected surgeon to the Soho Square Hospital for Women in 1914, an appointment he held until his death. He was afterwards consulting obstetrician to the Lewisham Hospital and to the London County Council, and consulting gynaecologist to the St Pancras Borough Council, to the British Red Cross Clinic for Rheumatism in Regent's Park and to the St John's Clinic for Rheumatism in Pimlico, and was honorary secretary for four years to the Hunterian Society. He also acted as an examiner for the Central Midwives Board. He married on 31 March 1921 Olive Lattey, whose father invented the telescopic sight for rifles; she survived him with a son. He died on 2 August 1937 at 26 Upper Wimpole Street. Oldershaw had always been delicate and from the age of fifteen had suffered from albuminuria. Two large stones were removed from his bladder in 1926 and shortly before his death he had albuminuric retinitis. In spite of these drawbacks he did a good life's work, made many friends, served as master of the Cavendish Lodge of freemasons, and was a successful deep-sea fisherman. Publication: Significance of bleeding as a symptom in gynaecology. *Clin J* 1925, 54, 436.
Resource Identifier RCS: E004398
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First Title value, for Searching Maxwell, John Preston (1871 - 1961)

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First Title value, for Searching Hughes, Tom Ivor (1901 - 1971)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-11
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Ivor Hughes was born at Tredegar on 23 December 1901, to Morgan Howell Hughes, a provision merchant and Harriet Hughes (née Reynolds). He attended Llandovery College and qualified from Bristol in 1927 with the Conjoint Diploma. After a resident appointment at Bristol he came to London and was RMO at Queen Charlotte's and the Hospital for Women, Soho Square (1930), and he later became registrar and pathologist to the Hospital. At this time his work and thought was influenced by Will Nixon, Lane Roberts, T G Stevens and Rodney Maingot. Through the war he worked with the Emergency Medical Service and in 1946 was appointed to the consulting staff of the Hospital for Women and joined the Middlesex in 1948, when this hospital was assimilated into the Middlesex Hospital Group. He was also on the staff of the Teddington Memorial Hospital and the Willesden General Hospital. He retired from his hospital appointments in 1967. "Tish", as he was known, had no outstanding academic achievements, but he was a first class obstetrician and gynaecologist with perception and neatness and great attention to detail. He was a true Welshman, had great charm with a sense of humour and he greatly enjoyed entertaining. His passion was golf and he retired to Southern Spain and built a house on the golf course. He married Phyllis Marr in 1940 and there is one daughter, Fiona. He died in London on 25 December 1971 at the age of 70 from virus pneumonia and pericarditis.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005802
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First Title value, for Searching Hicks, Henry Thomas (1871 - 1952)

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First Title value, for Searching Hamilton, Arthur Francis (1880 - 1965)

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First Title value, for Searching Palmer, Alexander Croydon (1887 - 1963)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-07
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377414377414
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born on 2 July 1887 son of A Palmer, St Clair, Dunedin, NZ, he was educated at Waitaki and Otago University. Coming to England from New Zealand he went to the London Hospital where he qualified, obtaining honours in gynaecology in the London final examination. He was house surgeon, receiving room officer, and obstetric tutor and registrar. During the war of 1914-18 he served in the RAMC with the rank of Major and was in charge of No 32 Stationary Hospital, BEF. After the war he became consultant gynaecologist to King's College and the Samaritan Hospitals, and was consultant to Epsom and Ewell and to Sutton and Cheam Hospitals. For a time he was assistant obstetrician and gynaecologist to the Royal Northern Hospital and to the Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Maida Vale. During the war of 1939-45 he was a member of the EMS and attached to Horton Hospital. He examined for the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham, the Conjoint Board, the Central Midwives Board and the Society of Apothecaries. President of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1952-53, he had been President of the Medical Society of London in 1951-52. A Rugby international of distinction, he was capped for England in 1908-09 and was President of the United Hospitals Rugby Club; in later life he became a keen golfer. He married Geraldine Louise, daughter of Percy Savill of Reigate, by whom he had two sons. He died on 16 October 1963 aged 76 at his home at Walton Heath.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005231
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First Title value, for Searching White, Norman Lewis (1898 - 1978)

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First Title value, for Searching Donaldson, Ian Alexander (1914 - 1986)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-08
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Ian Donaldson was born on 20 January 1914, the son of David Donaldson, a marine engineer and Margaret Jane, née Smith. He was an exceptional student especially in the study of languages. Ian studied at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School where he obtained a number of prizes. House appointments at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford and at the Royal Free were followed by a registrar appointment in the obstetrics and gynaecological department at St George's Hospital. His consultant appointment was at the Woking Hospital and at the City of London Maternity Hospital. Pressure of work caused him to leave Woking as he had built up a very extensive private practice in Harley Street. He was a most kindly man always willing to help and his understanding of pain and the mechanisms of pain relief were to be of great help in his work as an obstetrician. He delivered countless midwives, women doctors and doctors' wives. As a youth Ian had been very keen on gymnastics and sailing and his ability as a horseman has been mentioned. A keen scholar, he taught himself ancient Greek to enable him to read the Greek testament. He was also fluent in Italian, German, Persian and French. He married on 8 December 1945 Dr Edith Gilchrist who was to become a notable anaesthetist and medical historian. They had one son, Ian Gilchrist Donaldson, who qualified in medicine and emigrated to Queensland, Australia. Ian developed carcinoma of the prostate from which he died on 8 December 1986. He was survived by his wife and son.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007201
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First Title value, for Searching Parkes, Keren Isabel (1904 - 1993)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-23
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380743380743
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Keren Parkes was born on 18 December 1904 in Dulwich, the only daughter of Alexander Parkes, an accountant. She was educated at Streatham College for Girls, Somerville House, St Leonards-on-Sea and went on to King's College and King's College Hospital. At the age of twelve she decided that she wanted to become a doctor. She was determined to go to a medical school that admitted both men and women and was one of five women in her year. Obstetrics was her chief interest. She won entrance and first and second year scholarships, as well as two Jelf medals and seven prizes. Sir William Gilliatt described her as 'one of the most brilliant students we have had at King's College Hospital'. She held house surgeon and tutor and registrar posts in obstetrics and gynaecology at King's and then was surgical registrar at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital from 1930 to 1932. She was much interested in the hopes and fears of patients, and held strong Christian beliefs. She was appointed a magistrate in 1946, and held high rank in the Soroptimist movement. In 1938 she was invited to India to confine the wife of a rajah, travelling by flying boat to Karachi and then by steamer and special train. She safely delivered a son and heir. Latterly she was confined to a nursing home, as an amputee, but her principles and wisdom on contemporary topics never faltered, and she died on 2 June 1993, aged 86 years.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008560
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First Title value, for Searching Wynn-Williams, George (1911 - 1993)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-09
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380608380608
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Wynn-Williams was born on 10 August 1911 at Middlesbrough, the son of William, a general practitioner and his wife Jane Anderson, née Brymer. He was educated at Rossall School and King's College London, where he won the Hughes prize for anatomy and Chadwick prize for clinical surgery, before completing his medical studies at the Westminster Hospital, where he was taught by Sir Adolf Abrahams. Specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology, he was successively obstetrics and gynaecology tutor at Westminster Hospital, senior registrar at Queen Charlotte's Hospital and obstetric surgeon there. He was also surgeon to the Chelsea Hospital for Women and teacher in gynaecology and obstetrics at London University, and consultant gynaecologist at the Weir Hospital, London. He was the co-author in 1968 of Queen Charlotte's Textbook of Obstetrics. In the second world war he was an EMS Grade 1 surgeon 1941-45, and surgeon in charge of the mobile surgical team, Portsmouth and Southampton from June to October 1944. He was a keen sportsman, playing for the Westminster Hospital's first teams at rugger and hockey, both of which games he played for United Hospitals. As a schoolboy he had played rugger for the north schools against the south. On 20 November 1943 he married Lady Penelope, daughter of the 1st Earl Jowitt of Stevenage, Lord Chancellor 1947-55. They had two sons, William and Hugo, and a daughter, Lesley-Jane. He died on 29 April 1993 survived by his wife and family. A service of thanksgiving for his life was held at All Saints, Fulham on 10 June 1993.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008425
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First Title value, for Searching Playfair, Hugh James Moore (1864 - 1928)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-10
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/375147375147
Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born at Edinburgh, the son of General Archibald Playfair, and a cousin of William Smoult Playfair, MD, LLD (1835-1903), Obstetric Surgeon to King's College Hospital, who was one of the first obstetricians in this country to insist upon doing the abdominal operations in his own wards instead of delegating them to a general surgeon as was then the custom. Hugh Playfair was educated at Fettes College and at King's College, London, where he was a dresser for Lord Lister in the old buildings of the hospital in Clare Market. He determined at an early period in his career as a medical student to devote his life to midwifery, and filled in succession the offices of Resident Accoucheur, Obstetric Tutor, Assistant Obstetric Physician (1904) and Lecturer on Practical Obstetrics at King's College Hospital, becoming in due course Obstetric and Gynaecological Surgeon, and Consulting Surgeon in 1926. For some years, too, he was Assistant Physician to the Royal Waterloo Hospital for Women and Children and Gynaecological Surgeon to the Metropolitan Hospital. He married in Paris in 1905 Miss Eva Journault, but as he had no children he adopted the son of his younger brother, Nigel Playfair, a well-known actor. He died March 25th, 1928.
Resource Identifier RCS: E002964
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First Title value, for Searching Nash, Frederick William Gifford (1899 - 1963)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-28
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377374377374
Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born on 4 February 1899, son of Walter Gifford Nash FRCS (1862-1935) senior surgeon of Bedford County Hospital 1897-1933, he was educated at Bedford School and the Middlesex Hospital. On leaving school he joined the Army and was commissioned in the Royal Field Artillery in 1917. After the war he qualified at the Middlesex in 1923 and held house appointments as house physician, house surgeon, and obstetric and gynaecological house surgeon. He then entered general practice in Bedford in partnership with his father and G T Birks, and was appointed assistant obstetric surgeon at Bedford Hospital in 1928 and full obstetric surgeon in 1930. With the inauguration of the NHS in 1948 he gave up practice and became a consultant, as senior obstetric and gynaecological surgeon at the Bedford County Hospital until his retirement in 1962. In 1950 he inaugurated the obstetric and gynaecological department in the North Wing of the County Hospital. He was chairman of the North Bedfordshire Division of the BMA in 1943-44. An excellent teacher, and very hospitable, although generally shy and retiring, he was imperturbable with a keen sense of fun and known to his contemporaries as "Giffie". He was a keen and active supporter of Rugby clubs in Bedford. He died on 21 March 1963 survived by his wife, son and daughter.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005191
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First Title value, for Searching Barnett, Trevor Samuel Montague (1900 - 1965)

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First Title value, for Searching Cox, Brian Stephen (1933 - 1984)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-08
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Brian Stephen Cox was educated at Christ's Hospital, Bristol, from where he gained entry to Cambridge, intending to study physics. He changed to medicine and in 1954 to St George's Hospital where he was one of the stalwarts of the rugby XV and the rowing VIII. He graduated MB BCh in 1957. After house appointments at George's he did national service in Malaysia which he found to be both stimulating and enjoyable. On his return to England he gained the Fellowship in 1963. A resident appointment at Queen Charlotte's Hospital was followed by a senior registrar appointment in obstetrics at the Westminster Hospital. He achieved the MRCOG in 1966. He introduced the new technique of laparoscopy to the Westminster. He was appointed gynaecologist and obstetrician to the Cornwall Hospitals at Truro and Redruth in 1970. He was elected FRCOG in 1979 when he also became an examiner to the Conjoint Board. He was elected chairman of his division and of the medical executive committee of his hospitals. He was a caring and hard-working person. His interests included his church, community life in his village and the fraternity of his fellow sailing enthusiasts. He died on 25 July 1984 following treatment in the neurosurgical unit at Plymouth. He was survived by his wife Sara and his three sons Andrew, Christopher and Matthew. A thanksgiving service was held in Truro Cathedral on 30 October 1984.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007228
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First Title value, for Searching Toland, Gertrude Mary Beatrice (1901 - 1985)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-12
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379922379922
Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Gertrude Mary Beatrice Morgan was born in Edinburgh in November 1901 and was educated at Edinburgh Ladies' College and Newnham, College, Cambridge. After graduating in the Natural Science Tripos in 1923 she went to St Mary's Hospital, London, where she qualified with the Conjoint Diploma and graduated two years later. After securing her MD and FRCS she married Dr Patrick Toland in 1932 and moved to Dover, first as an honorary surgeon and later as consultant gynaecologist and obstetrician. Apart from her hospital duties she also did general practice with her husband until they both retired in 1968. During the second world war, while her husband was in the services, she continued her hospital work and ran the general practice on her own. There were many casualties from the shelling and bombing of the channel ports and she spent long hours in the operating theatre. She was especially busy during the evacuation of Dunkirk, when she worked tirelessly for nine days, dealing with many severely wounded troops who were landed at Dover. She died at her home in Walmer on 21 May 1985 in the same week that the small ships sailed again from Dover to Dunkirk on the 45th anniversary of the evacuation. Her husband predeceased her and she was survived by their son, Gordon and three grandchildren, Claire, Abigail and Charles.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007739
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First Title value, for Searching Gilbert, Barton (1908 - 2006)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-10-26 2017-03-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/372457372457
Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Barton Gilbert was a consultant in gynaecology and obstetrics. He was born in Wembley, London, on 28 October 1908. His father, Ernest Jesse Gilbert, was an accountant. His mother, Amy Louise (whose maiden name was also Gilbert), was the daughter of a leather-merchant. His family was descended from William Gilbert, president of the College of Physicians during the time of Queen Elizabeth I. During the First World War Barton went to school in Bordeaux, and later went to Middlesex County School, Isleworth, before going to study medicine at St Thomas's Hospital. At St Thomas's he was awarded the university entrance science scholarship in 1928. He also gained a BSc in physiology, the William Tite and Musgrove scholarships in anatomy and physiology, and the Haddon prize for pathology. After qualifying he completed junior posts at St Thomas's, working for Nitch and Mitchiner. He then went as RMO to the City of London Maternity Hospital and then the Chelsea Hospital for Women, where he was influenced by Victor Bonney and Sir Comyns Berkeley. In 1936 he returned to St Thomas's as registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology. He was subsequently appointed to the consultant staff of the Chelsea Hospital for Woman. During the Second World War he worked in the Emergency Medical Service, and later in the RAMC, serving mainly in Africa. At the end of the war he settled in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, in gynaecological practice, the first gynaecological surgeon in that country. He helped to set up its medical school and taught gynaecology and obstetrics there. He was consultant in gynaecology and obstetrics to the government and its armed forces. He retired in 1972. He published many papers and was co-author, with R Christie Brown, of the textbook *Midwifery: principles and practice for pupil midwives, teacher midwives and obstetric dressers* (London, Edward Arnold, 1940), which passed through many editions. Following his retirement he went to live in Orange County, California, where he died on 3 February 2006. He married Rosamund Marjorie Luff in 1941, by whom he had twin sons, Brian and Keith, who became scientific instrument makers. He married for a second time, to Anne.
Resource Identifier RCS: E000270
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First Title value, for Searching Travers, William (1838 - 1906)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-12-21
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born at Abingdon on August 23rd, 1838, the son of Frederic Travers, of Poole, Dorset. He was not related apparently to the family of Benjamin Travers. He was privately educated, served an apprenticeship to Thomas Salter (qv), of Poole, and received his professional training at Charing Cross Hospital, where he was House Surgeon in 1859 and then succeeded the Founder as Resident Medical Officer, holding the office for six years. Travers settled in private practice in 1866 at 19 Lower Phillimore Place, and then at 2 Phillimore Gardens. From 1883 until 1894 he was Physician to the Chelsea Hospital for Women. He was a very busy and successful practitioner, was one of the founders of the British Gynaecological Society and was for several years its Hon Treasurer, though he was compelled by reasons of health to decline the Presidency. He was at one time President of the West London Medico-Chirurgical Society and was on the Council of the Anthropological Society, which he assisted in founding. In Freemasonry he was a Past Master of St Mary Abbot's Lodge No 1974, and one of the founders of the Cavendish Chapter No 2620 and of the University of Durham Lodge No 3030. In 1869 he married Miss Annie Pocock, daughter of a London solicitor, by whom he had six sons and a daughter. Of the sons, one is Professor Morris Travers, DSc, FRS, a well-known chemist, a second Frederick T Travers, OBE, MB, MRCS, Surgeon to the West Kent General Hospital, and a third, Ernest Frank Travers, MRCS, was partner of the second. Failing eyesight compelled Travers to curtail his exertions not long before his death, which occurred, after a brief illness from pneumonia following influenza, at Phillimore Gardens on December 17th, 1906. He was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. His portrait is in the Fellows' Album. Publications: "Case of Strychnia Poisoning Successfully Treated by Chloroform." - *Lancet*, 1861, ii, 347. "Syphilitic Psoriasis in an Infant Successfully Treated by Mercury." - *Ibid*, 1866, ii, 691. "Ovariotomy (Twisted Pedicle) in Fourth Month of Pregnancy." - *Ibid*, 1894, i, 146.
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First Title value, for Searching Radford, Thomas (1793 - 1881)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-10-17
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born at Hulme Fields, Manchester, on November 2nd, 1793, the son of John Radford, dyer and bleacher. He was educated at a private school in Chester, and was apprenticed to his uncle, William Wood, surgeon, of Manchester, whose partner and successor he afterwards became. He studied at Guy's and St Thomas's Hospitals in London, and in 1818 was elected Surgeon to the Manchester and Salford Lying-in Hospital, and afterwards to St Mary's Hospital for Women, where he became Consulting Physician and Chairman of the Board of Management. He gave his valuable library and museum to St Mary's Hospital in 1853, and in 1856 was instrumental with his wife in securing a new building for the charity. Some years before his death he invested considerable sums of money for the benefit of the poor attending the hospital and gave £1,000 for the upkeep of its library. The catalogue of the library compiled by Dr C J Cullingworth was published in 1877. Radford was one of the founders of the Manchester School of Medicine in 1825, and was a Lecturer on Midwifery at the Pine Street School of Medicine, the first complete provincial medical school. He delivered the first address on obstetrics at the Provincial Medical Society in 1854, and was the author of many papers on midwifery. He married in 1821 Elizabeth (d 1874), daughter of the Rev John Newton, of Didsbury, near Manchester, whose only child died young. Radford died at his residence, Higher Broughton, Manchester, on May 29th, 1881, and was buried in St Paul's Church, Kersal. Thomas Radford was a notable link in the chain of able and well-known Manchester gynaecologists, starting with Charles White (1728-1813) and including John Roberton (1797-1876) and James Whitehead (1812-1885). He was one of the first in this country to advise abdominal section, and gave much assistance and support in 1848 to Charles Clay (1801-1893) in his early operations for the removal of diseased ovaries in 1848. There is a photograph of him in the Fellows' Album.
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First Title value, for Searching Edge, Frederick (1863 - 1937)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-21
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born 3 August 1863 at Goos Vladimir, Russia, the sixth child and fifth son of William Edge, engineer, and his wife, née Pollitt. He was educated at Bolton Grammar School and at Owens College, Manchester. He then proceeded to St Thomas's Hospital and afterwards took postgraduate courses at Munich and Vienna. He settled at Wolverhampton in 1891 and was appointed surgeon to the Women's Hospital. He later moved to Edgbaston and from 1897 until 1933 he was surgeon to the Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Women. He was also surgeon for some years to the Birmingham Maternity Hospital and was an examiner at the Central Midwives Board. He served as president of the Staffordshire branch of the British Medical Association, president of the Midland Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society, and president of the Midland Medical Society. He was active in the public life of Wolverhampton where he was a member of the Town Council from 1897 to 1904. He married on 16 April 1902 Florence Gertrude Bradley, who survived him with two sons and a daughter. He died 17 May 1937 at Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, having left Edgbaston, where he had lived and practised for many years, a few months previously. Mrs Edge died on 3 June 1946; their younger son, Major I W B Edge, RE, who had served as a railway engineer in Palestine and Egypt, died on active service early in 1941 (*The Times*, 21 March 1941). Edge was a highly cultivated man with a gift for languages. He took an active part in the development of the Women's Hospital at Wolverhampton, which he found established in a private house and left in large premises overlooking the West Park. It was largely due to his influence that the amalgamation of the Royal Hospital with the Women's Hospital at Wolverhampton was brought about without the least friction. Publications:- Acute retroflexion of the fundus of the uterus after bicycling. *Brit med J*. 1903, 1, 963. The repair of chronic complete rupture of the female perinaeum. *Bgham med Rev*. 1905, 58, 559. Translation, with John W Taylor, of A Dührssen, *A manual of gynaecological practice*, London, 1895, and *A manual of obstetric practice*, London, 1897.
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First Title value, for Searching Goodwin, Aubrey (1889 - 1964)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-10
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Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Aubrey Goodwin was born on 4 September 1889, son of Alfred Goodwin, Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and was educated at University College and Hospital, London, qualifying in 1913 and winning the Honours Medal. After holding resident appointments he joined the RAMC in 1914 serving at Salonika and Malta, where he was staff officer to the DMS Malta Command with the rank of Major. He retired with the rank of Captain and the award of the OBE. On his return to civilian life, he spent some three years in postgraduate study in obstetrics and gynaecology in Dublin and Edinburgh, and was awarded the London University medal for his MD thesis in 1920. After returning to London he became obstetric registrar at the Westminster Hospital and gynaecological pathologist at the Chelsea Hospital for Women. Eventually he was appointed to the staffs of both hospitals and also to the Prince of Wales's Hospital, Tottenham, and served these hospitals for 30 years until his retirement in 1954. He was one of the contributors to the "Ten teachers" *Diseases of Women*, and *Midwifery*, and was also joint author with John Ellison and (Sir) Charles D Read of *Sex Ethics* (1934). Goodwin was an examiner for the Universities of Cambridge and London and to the Central Midwives Board. He combined expert knowledge of gynaecological pathology with fine clinical judgement, and his opinion was much sought. His operation for removal of the pelvic glands in continuity with the uterus, tubes and ovaries, in carcinoma of the cervix, was recorded on a film at Chelsea Hospital. Goodwin was a friendly humorous man of many interests, including fishing, shooting, and foreign travel. One of his life's ambitions was realised when he went to East Africa on a big game safari. On his retirement from his hospital in 1954, he moved to North Wales and withdrew from professional life and activities. He lived at Erw Fechan, Grange Road, Llangollen, Denbighshire, and died on 18 August 1964 at the age of 74. He was married three times, and had one daughter by his first marriage and three daughters and one son by his second.
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First Title value, for Searching Mahfouz, Naguib (1882 - 1974)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-03
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Naguib Mahfouz was born at Mansoura, Nile Delta, in 1882 and educated at the American Mission School and the Government School of Mansoura, at both of which he acquitted himself outstandingly well. He was an avid reader and his interest in articles on Koch's discovery of the tubercle bacillus and on Darwin's theory of the origin of species had a strong influence in his choice of medicine as a career. He entered the school of medicine at Cairo in 1898 and qualified in 1903. In 1906 he was appointed assistant surgeon at the Kasr El-Aini University Hospital, where his special interest in diseases of women led to the formation of a department of obstetrics and gynaecology, of which he became the first Professor. He obtained the MCh Cairo in 1930 and the MRCP London in 1935. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 1943, and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine and of the Royal Society of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Edinburgh, in 1947. He made many outstanding contributions to obstetrics and gynaecology and is particularly remembered for his pioneer work on fistulae, and for his *Atlas of Mahfouz's Museum of Gynaecology and Obstetrics*, probably the best collection of specimens, with detailed descriptions, in the world. On his retirement in 1948 he was made Emeritus Professor and honorary surgeon to the Kasr El-Aini Hospital, but his continued interest in medicine earned him many Egyptian honours, culminating in the first-class Order of Merit in 1960. Naguib Mahfouz, rightly called the doyen of obstetrics, was a man of the highest integrity at a time when this attribute was by no means universal, a charming host outstanding in his hospitality both at Cairo and elsewhere and a colleague for whom there was worldwide respect and affection. An introduction from him to any gynaecologist and obstetrician was virtually an 'open sesame' in any part of the world. He is survived by two of his daughters and nine grandchildren. He died on 25 July 1974, aged 92 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Landau, Muriel Elsie (1895 - 1972)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-26
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Muriel Landau was born on 21 January 1895 and educated at Dame Alice Owens School, Islington where she gained an entrance scholarship to the London School of Medicine for Women. She qualified in 1918 and after house appointments at the Royal Free and at Queen Charlotte's Hospitals was appointed registrar to the Hospital for Women, Soho Square. In 1921 she took her MD in obstetrics and gynaecology and at the early age of 26 was appointed to the staff of the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital. Her interests were mainly obstetrics and gynaecology, but she also practised general surgery and eventually she became the senior consulting surgeon, giving her services to the hospital from 1921-61, the year of her retirement. She was also on the staff of the London Jewish Hospital and the Marie Curie Hospital for Women. Miss Landau was an outstanding personality and over a period of some 45 years acquired a large private practice. During the second world war when the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital was evacuated to the country she continued her work there, travelling from London often in the black-out. For the years 1965-66 she was elected President of the Medical Womens Federation of Great Britain and she found time to help Zionist aspirations and for over 15 years she was chairman of the Doctors and Dentists Group for the Joint Palestine Appeal. In 1922 she married Dr Samuel Sacks who was in general practice in East London; she had four sons, three of whom became doctors. Miss Landau died suddenly on 13 November 1972 while on a visit to Israel; she was survived by her husband and her sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Blomfield, George Wills (1904 - 1964)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-22
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist Radiologist
Details Born at Pontefract on 12 September 1904, the son of a general practitioner, George Blomfield was educated at Malvern and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated with first-class honours in the mechanical sciences tripos. Despite his gift for mathematics and mechanical science he was, after three years as a marine engineer in Sunderland, attracted to medicine, which he studied at Leeds, and graduated MB, ChB in 1933, taking the Conjoint diploma in the same year. Obstetrics and gynaecology were his first care, and he filled a number of posts including that of tutor in obstetrics (1936-40) at Leeds. Radiotherapy interested him and, after a period as director of the radium department in Leeds General Infirmary, he succeeded Frank Ellis in 1943 as medical director of the Sheffield National Centre for Radiotherapy. He chose to concentrate his interests and exploit his special clinical background, and from this emerged the "Sheffield" system of treatment of carcinoma of the cervix, and of the bladder. In 1957-58 he was vice-president of the Faculty of Radiologists; he had been on the Council of the British Institute of Radiology, and in 1963 became president of the Sheffield Medico-Chirurgical Society. He was lecturer in radiotherapy at the University of Sheffield, and a member of the Cancer and Radiotherapy Advisory Committee of the Central Health Services Council. His recreations were skiing, skating, swimming, and mountain climbing, and he held a glider-pilot's certificate. Photography, astronomy, and painting were also among his interests. George Blomfield married Mary daughter of William Gough, professor of obstetrics at Leeds. They lived at 29 Taptonville Road, Sheffield; he died in the Royal Hospital, after a short illness, on 5 July 1964, aged 59, survived by his wife, four sons and a daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Marshall, Charles McIntosh (1901 - 1954)

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First Title value, for Searching Evers, Henry Harvey (1893 - 1979)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-01
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Harvey Evers was born on 28 May 1893 in one of the mining towns in Northumberland, where his father was a general practitioner. He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and studied medicine at the College of Medicine in Newcastle which at that time formed part of King's College, a component part of the University of Durham. He graduated with first-class honours in 1916 and proceeded to MS (honours) in 1921. He gained the Fellowship in 1921. He served as a Surgeon Probationer, RNVR, for one year at the outbreak of the first world war, and then from 1916 to 1920 as Captain in the RAMC. With Ranken Lyle in the newly established chair of midwifery and gynaecology, he and Farquhar Murray contributed notably to the establishment of the specialty in Newcastle. He quickly built up his reputation as an outstanding clinician in both obstetrics and gynaecology. He was a foundation Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and was made a Fellow in 1937. He was appointed to the Chair on Farquhar Murray's retirement in 1951 and held this until his own retirement in 1958. He was an examiner for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists for many years and advised in his specialty to the Regional Hospital Board, continuing as pastoral visitor on vacating his chair. Shortly before retirement he took up fishing, which then occupied more and more of his time until ill-health forced him to give up. His circle of close friends was relatively small, and their deaths and especially the death of his wife Marion affected him deeply. He became increasingly isolated and his last few years were lonely. He died on 15 June 1979 aged 86, and is survived by two sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Pacey, Herbert Kenneth (1905 - 1971)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-24
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Herbert Kenneth Pacey was born in Auckland on 6 August 1905 and was educated at Auckland Grammar School, Palmerston North Boys' High School, and Otago University where he distinguished himself as a rugby footballer, playing for the University of Otago, and in 1927 for the New Zealand Universities. After graduation he was house surgeon at Wellington Hospital in 1929 and 1930, and in 1931 he won a scholarship which gained him a year at the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne. By this time Pacey had decided to specialize in obstetrics and gynaecology and came to England to become a Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. In 1935 he returned to New Zealand and was appointed to the staff of the Wellington Hospital as the first specialist in gynaecology and obstetrics. He was responsible during his 30 years on the staff of the hospital for establishing the specialty in Wellington, though the department was not fully formed till 1950. He was recognized as a surgeon of exceptional skill, and was also on the staff of St Helen's Hospital. During the second world war staff shortages meant a greatly increased load of work, which was the cause of the beginning of a deterioration in his health which lead to his retirement at the age of 60 and ultimately shortened his life. Pacey was a man of outstanding personality and drive, and this led to his appointment as honorary general secretary of the New Zealand Branch of the BMA, and he also played a prominent part in the New Zealand Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society, and in the affairs of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in New Zealand. Ken Pacey died peacefully in his sleep in Auckland on 18 April 1971, and his wife Marjory and their son and two daughters survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Clift, Arthur Frederick (1903 - 1990)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-08
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Arthur Clift was born in Chelmsford on 18 December 1903, the son of Arthur and Ada, née Humphries. He received part of his education at the grammar school before the family moved to Canada. He worked on prairie farms before entering Toronto University but returned to receive his medical training at the London Hospital where he qualified in 1930. He spent six months as a ship's surgeon in the China Seas, but proceeded with his specialist training in obstetrics and gynaecology at Lambeth. His research work on the properties of cervical secretions were undertaken with Scott Blair, Glover and Hart at Reading University and they produced some classic papers on this pioneer work. Arthur Clift developed a very happy and successful team in the gynaecological department at the Mayday Hospital where it was said of him that he sang hymns while he operated and conducted ward rounds. He was much respected. He was a keen gardener especially interested in the production of fruit and vegetables. Until the death of his nine-year-old son from leukaemia in 1961 he was always seen with a rose in his buttonhole. He was a voracious reader and his tastes ranged from biography to theology and philosophy. In December 1944 he married Dorothy Newell, a dermatologist and they had three daughters, one of whom became a doctor, and one a medical sociologist and three sons, one of whom became a hospital unit works manager. After he retired in 1969 he took on much of the housework and childcare while his wife returned to work as a dermatologist at Bart's. He died on 25 April 1990 aged 86 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Stern, David Michael (1903 - 1999)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-07
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details David Michael Stern was born in Burton-on-Trent on 22 October 1903. His father was Arthur Landauer Stern, a chemist and brewer, his mother, Grace Madelein née Falck. He was educated at first at the Burton Grammar School, and then went with his younger brother to Clifton College, from which he won an exhibition to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. There he achieved a first, despite taking time off to drive a London bus during the General Strike. He went on to the London Hospital for his clinical training, where he won the Anderson prize. He qualified in 1928, and was house surgeon and house physician at the London. He won the Hallett prize in the primary FRCS, and then specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology, becoming first assistant to Sir Eardley Holland. It was expected that Stern would succeed Sir Eardley in 1934, but the older surgeon changed his plans when he lost money on the Stock Exchange. Stern was appointed to the West Middlesex Hospital in 1935, and he continued there until he retired in 1968, although in 1944 he became severely ill with poliomyelitis. Stern was an Hunterian Professor in 1945. Together with his colleague Cliff Burnett, he published *A modern practice of obstetrics* (London, Balliere, Tindall & Cox) in 1952. On his retirement, he took the appointment of Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Khartoum, a post he held for six years, his work there being recognised by the appointment as CBE. He married Eileen Gildard in 1935; they had two daughters and a son, Colin, who became a consultant paediatrician. There are seven grandchildren. He died on 22 July 1999.
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First Title value, for Searching Whapham, Eileen Mary (1907 - 2002)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-08
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Eileen Mary Whapham was an obstetrician and gynaecologist at Southend and Rochford Hospitals. She was born in London on 23 May 1907, the daughter of Albert Whapham, a businessman, and Harrie Mary Louisa Whitney, a schoolteacher who was the daughter of a cabinet-maker. Her younger sister, Violet Harrie Gray, became a general practitioner. Eileen matriculated with honours from Dame Alice Owen's Girls School, London, and went on to the Royal Free Hospital to study medicine. She qualified with honours in surgery. After qualification, she did junior posts at the Royal Free, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and King's Lynn Hospitals, and was obstetric and gynaecology house officer at Oldchurch Hospital, Romford. During the war she worked in the EMS Emergency Hospital at Runwell, doing general surgery. In 1945, she was appointed as a consultant gynaecologist at the Mildmay Mission Hospital, London, and from 1946 she was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist to the Southend-on-Sea and Runwell Hospitals. Described by her anaesthetist, J Alfred Lee, as a skilled and rapid operator, she was examiner and occasional lecturer at the Royal College of Midwives and medical adviser to *The Nursing Mirror*. She was Chairman of the Southend branch of the BMA. Miss Whapham never married, but adopted a daughter, Doreen, who became a midwife and health visitor. Following her retirement to Petersfield, Hampshire, in 1967, she was active in the United Reformed Church, and in the care of, and activities for, handicapped children. She was vice-chairman of the East Hants Liberal Association, a district councillor and chairman of the housing committee. She died on 24 June 2002 at the age of 95 in Liss.
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First Title value, for Searching Clayton, Sir Stanley (1911 - 1986)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-08
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Stanley Clayton was born on 13 September 1911, the son of a clergyman. He was educated at Kingswood School in Bath and qualified from King's College Hospital. He served with distinction as a Major in the RAMC and then resumed his career in obstetrics and gynaecology at King's where he developed a reputation for teaching and clarity of thought. He was made a consultant at both King's College and Queen Charlotte's Hospitals, and later at the Chelsea Hospital for Women. It was soon evident that his ability in teaching and research would lead him into a more academic career. His writing was prodigious and included the "Ten Teachers" publications both in obstetrics and gynaecology, in addition to his meritorious work as editor of the *Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology*. He was duly elected the first Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at King's College Hospital which followed his earlier appointment to the Chair at Queen Charlotte's and the Chelsea Hospital for Women. He was also a very active and important adviser to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists where he was appointed Simpson Orator in 1978, and President between 1972 and 1975. He received many accolades from universities and medical colleges overseas including honorary fellowships from South Africa, the United States, Belgium and Australia. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, and became Chairman of the Higher Awards Committee. In 1974 his many services to medicine were recognised by a knighthood. He had many interests including art, history, literature, gardening and embroidery, at which he was highly skilled. In 1936 he married Kathleen Mary Wiltshire, who died in 1983. Stanley Clayton died on 12 September 1986 and is survived by a son and a daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Stansfield, Frederick Ross (1904 - 1983)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-07
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Occupation General practitioner Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Frederick Ross Stansfield was born at Ilkley, Yorkshire, on 28 September 1904, the son of a cotton manufacturer. His early education was at Ilkley Grammar School before entering the University of Leeds and St Bartholomew's Hospital for medical studies. He qualified in 1928 with honours in medicine and two years later passed the FRCS. He served as house surgeon at Queen Charlotte's Hospital and later as resident medical officer at the Chelsea Hospital for Women. After passing the London MD in 1932 and winning the gold medal he settled in general practice at Ipswich where he also obtained an appointment as visiting gynaecologist to the hospital. Before the outbreak of war he had built up his obstetric and gynaecological hospital practice to the extent that he was able to devote all his time to the specialty and discontinue general practice. At the time of the introduction of the National Health Service in 1948 he was appointed consultant gynaecologist and obstetrician. In addition to his heavy professional commitment in Ipswich he was a frequent attender of the meetings of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Royal Society of Medicine. He retired from practice in 1969. His first marriage was in 1932 and they had two sons, Richard and Ian. After the death of his first wife in 1959 he remarried in 1963. His second wife is Eileen Hopkins, a nursing sister. His outside interests were gardening and sailing and he was particularly proud of winning the Harwich to Hook of Holland race in 1958. He died from carcinoma of the colon on 8 October 1983 aged 79 and is survived by his second wife and the two sons of his first marriage.
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First Title value, for Searching Knowlton, Ronald Wallace (1904 - 1997)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-13
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Ronald Wallace Knowlton was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in the Southampton area. He was born on 12 June 1904, in Southampton, the son of Alexander John Knowlton, a general practitioner and a JP, and Bertha née Bates, a Middlesex Hospital nursing sister. He was educated at King Edward VI School in Southampton and Queens' College, Cambridge, where he first read mathematics and natural science, but then won a university scholarship to the Middlesex Hospital, following in his father's footsteps. After being house surgeon at the Middlesex to Sampson Handley and Webb-Johnson, he specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology, and completed junior appointments at the Middlesex under Victor Bonney, the Chelsea Hospital for Women and the City of London Maternity Hospital. He was appointed the first consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist to the then Southampton Corporation in 1935. Over the next 14 years he was single-handed, but built up a new maternity unit. He was renowned for never missing a clinic or an operating list, even if they fell on Christmas Day; on holidays, he conducted huge outpatient clinics, followed by a tea for the staff provided by his wife. He was active in his hospital and in the BMA, being honorary secretary for the Southampton division, and an honorary fellow of the BMA. He was a horse racing enthusiast and a member of the Bibury and Newbury Clubs, and for a time had a part-share in a not very successful horse. Like his father, he became a JP in 1953. He married Nancy Thackeray, a descendant of the author, and former matron of Sidmouth Hospital. They had two sons, Edward and Andrew. He died on 7 February 1997 aged 92 .
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First Title value, for Searching Hayden, Francis Joseph (1908 - 2005)

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by Andrew Hayden
Publication Date 2018-03-27 2018-11-22
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Francis Joseph Hayden was an obstetrician and gynaecologist at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne. His life was shaped by the Edwardian period of the twentieth century, his Catholicism, his medicine and his family. He was born 10 years before the Russian revolution and died 15 years after the Berlin Wall was demolished. As a young boy, he remembered running up to the Ballarat Post Office to read despatches from Gallipoli and the Western Front. The special treat for his childhood summer holidays was riding in a motor car. Shortly before he died, he watched with interest the election of the ninth pope of his lifetime. The youngest boy in a family of six children, his father died when he was four. He was educated at St Patrick’s College in Ballarat, before the family moved to Melbourne and he completed his studies at Xavier College in 1925. He obtained a place to study medicine at Melbourne University, following in the footsteps of his brother John (‘Jack’), who was no doubt a strong influence in his early medical career. Jack was later to become the first professor of medicine at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne. When Frank was studying his final undergraduate years, it was the late 1920s – the Great Depression. He was spared the worst of this time, because his studies at least gave him employment and food, unlike many he treated at the hospital. One of his characteristics was that he always acknowledged his good fortune. He lived through perhaps the greatest period of medical innovation and change. He commenced medicine before an organised blood bank service, before the clinical use of sulphonamides in the late thirties, antibiotics in the forties and 20 years before the greater understanding of virology. His medicine was one before plastic and the nationalised Australian medical system of Medicare. His medical residency commenced in 1932 at St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne. He remained there until the end of 1933, leaving to spend 1934 at the Women’s Hospital in Melbourne, where he passed his diploma in gynaecology and obstetrics. He then headed to England and obtained his membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1935, spending a great deal of his time working at the Jessop Hospital for Women in Sheffield. In 1937 Frank passed his FRCS and in the same year returned to Melbourne, coinciding with the opening of St Vincent’s Maternity Hospital. He obtained his FRACS in 1939. Leaving Europe in 1937 and escaping the build-up to the Second World War, he was fortunate that his skills as an obstetrician were of little use on the battlefront, grateful again to have spent the war in the safety of Australia. He failed to arrive at his own engagement party due to attending a sick patient, perhaps an early omen of their future life for his fiancée, Margaret Moore (‘Peg’), whom he married in February 1941. He could not have done what he did without Peg. She was his wife, his confidante and the mother and carer of their nine children. Her contribution to his medical care for others was immeasurable. She looked after him in her unselfish way and many other families owe much to their marriage and partnership. As a resident in the early 1930s, cross-matching for blood transfusions was done manually, sodium citrate was added for anticoagulation and blood was poured into a funnel connected to a cannula in a patient’s arm. He was later to see how the formulation of the blood bank greatly assisted in the treatment of postpartum hemorrhage. In his time in England he had seen the introduction of sulphonamides into clinical practice and was one of the first to use these in his practice for treating puerperal sepsis, another leap in obstetric care. On returning to Australia, his primary work, both public and private, was in the area of obstetrics in the newly-opened maternity wing. Frank was a key player in the development of this unit and his working life was strongly linked with St Vincent’s. I think he must have delivered in excess of 10,000 babies: not many people in this world get to see life commence that often. This was obstetrics before mobile phones or pagers, elective caesareans and inductions. His early surgical time in gynaecology, despite having more up to date training at the time, was restricted by the domination of some senior colleague to whom he was an assistant. As a number of the senior surgeons were recruited to work overseas in the Second World War, the younger well-trained surgeons took up their direct surgical work, only to be returned to their assistant position at the end of the war, as their senior colleagues returned. As was often the case, his clinical and surgical workload in gynaecology increased later in his career as his obstetric caseload was wound down. He was head of the gynaecology unit at St Vincent’s in the mid-sixties. He retired from all clinical practice in 1974. Whilst he no doubt enjoyed the privileges of the consultant’s position for a short while, he was not one to rant and rave when his car park space was built on or when the radiator of the Mercedes Benz boiled dry, for he knew that these things were not important. He was humbled a few years ago when returning to St Vincent’s, unrecognised by the young medical staff; he was greeted with warm affection by an old Italian cleaner. His Catholic principles and medical position made him a leader in the anti-abortion debate in Melbourne in the sixties and seventies, and he endured some harsh journalism. He was however genuinely and deeply saddened when one of these journalists was struck down with Alzheimer’s disease, many years later. He was not a man of malice. Frank was a man of the Enlightenment. His initial Christian Brothers and later Jesuit education taught him something about everything and his children and many grandchildren have all been enriched by his broad, yet selective, interests. The relationship with his God was a private one. Whilst he would love a High Mass sung in Latin, he was never seen to sing in a church himself. He loved the intimacy of chamber music, but was not a fan of opera. He was a great reader, but of biography and history, not fiction. His choice of visual art was painting not sculpture. He loved the theatre, but was not interested in ballet. He was a very good chess player, but never backgammon. His knowledge of gardening continues to give us pleasure. I take on trust that he was a skilled and caring surgeon for his hands were put to good use before and after retirement grafting fruit trees and roses in his extensive and beloved garden. It seemed that caring for a garden was an extension of his empathic medical care. These hands never touched a computer keyboard. He retired when the implementation of Medicare would change the way health care was delivered in Australia. A new era was beginning and he was lucky to enjoy a long and healthy retirement, surrounded by family, until his death on 15 May 2005, aged 96.
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First Title value, for Searching Hawksworth, William (1911 - 1966)

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First Title value, for Searching King, Gordon (1900 - 1991)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-13
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Gordon King was born in London on 7 July 1900, the son of the Reverend Frederick Henry King, a Baptist minister, and Minnie Elizabeth née Wakeham. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School and the Liverpool Institute, before going to the London Hospital, where he won the Buxton prize in anatomy, the Letheby prize in chemical pathology, and the Buxton, Arnold Thompson and Andrew Clark prizes in pathology, diseases of children and clinical medicine. This was followed by resident appointments at the London, during the last of which he was awarded the Alston research fellowship to study liver function tests. In 1927, he was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation scholarship at the Peking Union Medical College, where he was an assistant to J Preston Maxell in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology, before going on to become Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Cheeloo University Hospital, Shantung. With the Japanese invasion, he went to Hong Kong to the Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology there, where he also served as dean of the medical faculty. When the Japanese invaded Hong Kong, King escaped to Chungking, where he was able to organise arrangements for 243 students who had escaped from Hong Kong to study in four of the universities of Free China. Special arrangements were made by the GMC to allow their medical degrees to be recognised and at the end of the war 66 of these doctors returned to Hong Kong. In 1944, King was commissioned as a Lieutenant Colonel in the RAMC and returned to Hong Kong at the time of the Japanese surrender, with the responsibility of reorganising the government hospitals and clinics of the colony. In 1957, he was invited to become Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and foundation dean of the newly established faculty of medicine in the University of Western Australia in Perth. In 1967, he went to Nairobi, Kenya, to set up a new faculty of medicine. In 1971 and 1974 he went to Taiwan and South Korea as a WHO consultant. He was twice married, first to Mary Ellison, a doctor, by whom he had three daughters, two of whom qualified in medicine. Mary predeceased him, and he married secondly Bek-To Chiu, a university botanist. He was a keen musician, playing the piano and organ, and enjoyed long distance motoring and photography. He died in 1991.
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First Title value, for Searching Bridge, Flora (1906 - 1997)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-22
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Flora Bridge was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist serving the Southend area. She was born in Rochdale in 1906, where her father, John Hargreaves, was a commercial traveller selling flannel and clothing. Her mother, Flora, was a teacher. There were three children, Richard, Agnes and Flora, who was the youngest. Not a strong child, she read avidly and did well at Harrogate Girls' School, from which she won a scholarship to study medicine at University College Hospital, one of the earliest women medical students. She qualified in 1929, collecting an array of prizes on her way. After several junior surgical posts, at the Hospital for Women in Leeds, Mile End and the Royal Cancer (now Marsden) Hospital, she passed the FRCS in 1931. It was at Mile End that she met Raymond Bridge, a New Zealander who had come to England to study for the FRCS. After a honeymoon in New Zealand they set up in general practice together in Chesterfield, where she gave birth to a son, Michael, and a daughter, Mary. At the outbreak of war Raymond joined the New Zealand Royal Army Medical Corps which took him away to North Africa and Europe. Flora moved to the recently built obstetric unit at Rochford General Hospital in Essex, as senior resident obstetrician. There she had a house in the grounds and brought up her two children. Her marriage did not survive the war. Raymond returned to general practice. Flora remained at Rochford, building up a career as a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist. There she helped to set up a school for pupil midwives and, backed by James Logan, then chief medical officer of health for Southend, and her colleague Miss Whapham, created 'flying squads' for home deliveries. Under her care quadruplets were born and survived, at a time when this was unusual. In their unit the maternal death rate fell far below the national average and they built up both a local and a national reputation. Over the years she became a close friend of James Logan and their families were brought up together. Forty assistants who worked in the unit passed the membership examination of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. She smoked a pipe and enjoyed dancing, walking and camping, drove classic sports cars, and after retirement took up water-colour painting. She died on 10 December 1997 after surgery for a recurrent facial squamous cell carcinoma.
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First Title value, for Searching Niven, Peter Ashley Robertson (1938 - 2013)

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by Michael Pugh
Publication Date 2013-03-20 2014-03-07
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Peter Niven was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Bristol. He was born in London on 3 March 1938, the son of Harold Robertson Niven, a Cambridge law graduate, who had served with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders and was a detective chief inspector in the City of London police, and Elizabeth 'Betty' Isobel Robertson née Mair, daughter of Alexander Mair, professor of Greek at Edinburgh. Peter had two brothers - Colin, who became headmaster of Alleyn's School, and Alistair, a former director of literature at the Arts Council. Peter won a scholarship to Dulwich College and flourished academically. He also made his mark in several sports, representing his school at rugby, captaining the second XI cricket team, playing hockey, which was his favourite game, and golf, which became a lifelong interest. At Dulwich his fascination with history was stimulated by the *James Caird*, a life boat kept at the school, which the explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton used in 1916 to travel to South Georgia to seek help after his ship *Endurance* had become trapped in ice. Peter later visited the site of the expedition on an Antarctic cruise. He went on to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, with an exhibition and a state scholarship. He continued to enjoy both his academic and sporting pursuits and, after graduation, went to St Bartholomew's Hospital for his clinical training. He represented the medical school at rugby and cricket. He was a house physician in Luton and Dunstable, and then returned to Bart's as a house surgeon in neurosurgery. Deciding on a career in obstetrics and gynaecology, the requirement was to gain the FRCS and then a specialist qualification. His surgical training started as a demonstrator in anatomy at Bristol. He remained there until he gained his FRCS in 1966. He then held resident appointments at Queen Charlotte's and Samaritan hospitals in preparation for his membership examination of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, which he gained in 1969. He then returned to Bart's for his registrar and senior registrar posts. At Bart's, under the direction of Tim Chard, he researched human placental lactogen, and was awarded an Eden travelling fellowship, which took him to Miami to work under Bill Spellacy. This work resulted in him being presented with the Purdue-Frederick award by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. After his stay in Miami he drove his family in a small car, and just a tent to sleep in, across America to Santa Barbara. The journey took three weeks. His first consultant appointment was to Newcastle General and Hexham hospitals. Very soon after he moved to Bristol. His disciplined approach to teaching was much-valued. He made a significant contribution to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, becoming a member of the education board, and chair of the higher training committee and the working party on assessment of surgical skills. He served as an examiner for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and for many universities in England and Scotland, including London, Bristol, Liverpool and Cardiff, and also abroad in Hong Kong and Sudan. He was chairman of the South Western Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society from 1997 to 1998, and a member of several distinguished clubs and societies, including the Gynaecological Visiting Society, the Royal Society of Medicine and the Medical Reading Society in Bristol. He was especially interested in the vaginal approach to pelvic surgery. He contributed a chapter on endoscopy in gynaecology for the third edition of *Shaw's textbook of operative gynaecology* (E & S Livingstone, 1968). As an obstetrician he immediately won the confidence of his patients and their families by his readiness at all times to help with problems and practical difficulties. He was often in demand by colleagues to care for their families. He continued to walk, play golf and ski. He was a member of the Bristol and Clifton Golf Club and served as captain of their seniors. He had a remarkable memory for sporting detail, from turf to track. Reflecting the breadth of his interests, he was a member of Probus and the Savage, Clifton and Shakespeare clubs. He married Peta, who was a Bart's nurse, in 1964. They had three sons, Alistair, Iain and James. They were a close family, and holidays were adventurous and challenging, rather than restful! They walked from the west to the east coast of England, and Offa's Dyke was another favourite. To celebrate his retirement Peter canoed from the source of the Thames to the Dulwich College boathouse with three school friends. In 2005 Peter was found to have renal carcinoma and had a nephrectomy. In 2010 he was found to have a secondary tumour in the lung. He died on 7 March 2013, aged 75. He enjoyed a fulfilled life, devoted to his family and profession.
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First Title value, for Searching Dunstan, Michael Kingsley (1933 - 2015)

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by John S Fox
Publication Date 2015-09-15 2016-04-15
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/380260380260
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Michael Kingsley Dunstan ('Mike') was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at West Middlesex Hospital, Isleworth. He was born on 13 October 1933 in Chiswick, west London. His father, Chester, an Australian, was a general practitioner who had trained at the Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, where he met his future wife, Elizabeth Stoney. She had been born in South Africa to British parents and had, in her youth, been a member of a travelling theatre company which performed all over the Commonwealth. They married in 1927. Mike was educated at Felsted School, Essex, and subsequently entered the medical school at Guy's Hospital in 1953. During his time at Guy's he pursued an active interest in Christianity and its associated societies. He enthusiastically involved himself in a wide range of sports, playing cricket, tennis and rugby, but in later years turned to golf and squash. After qualifying in 1958, he spent two years in house office posts at Guy's and West Middlesex hospitals. In 1960 his first taste of obstetrics and gynaecology came as a senior house officer at the West Middlesex and Chiswick Maternity hospitals, where he was under the tutelage of a newly appointed consultant, Andrew Matthews. Mike's love of the specialty was ignited and flourished. He and Andrew became life-long friends. It was also at Chiswick Maternity Hospital that Mike met the love of his life, Hazel White, who was a midwifery sister and whom he married in 1963. Having decided upon a career in obstetrics and gynaecology, Mike, as was the convention at the time, pursued the surgical fellowship while in post as a senior house officer in the surgical department at West Middlesex Hospital under W J Ferguson. He was subsequently successful in both the English and Edinburgh fellowship examinations in 1964. He returned to obstetrics and gynaecology as a registrar at St Mary's Hospital, London, followed by a senior registrar appointment at Queen Charlotte's and Chelsea hospitals, from whence he was appointed to his consultant post at the West Middlesex in 1967. He was very much a generalist in the specialty, but in his early years as a consultant he and Andrew Matthews pursued their interest in the management of pregnancies complicated by rhesus isoimmunisation. His research into this topic led to a paper, 'Amniotic fluid volume and protein concentration in rhesus sensitized women.' *J Obstet Gynaecol Br Commonw.* 1968 Jul;75(7):732-6. In obstetrics he studied the potential role of amnioscopy and his findings were published as 'A retrospective analysis of stillbirths in relation to the indications for amnioscopy.' *J Obstet Gynaecol Br Commonw*. 1968 Aug;75(8):816-8. He was also co-author of a paper resulting from research into the effects of pregnancy duration on the fetus and neonate - 'A biochemical comparison of the mature and postmature fetus and newborn infant.' *J Obstet Gynaecol Br Commonw*. 1970 May;77(5):390-7. It is a testament to the regard in which he was held in the hospital that he had a substantial following of staff who sought his professional counsel and care. He was an enthusiastic teacher of doctors, midwives and medical students, and was generous in his support of colleagues. As the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' regional adviser for for the north west Thames region his diplomacy was much valued on visits to units where guidance and encouragement were needed to foster cohesive working relationships. Throughout his life, Mike had a great love of music, mainly classical, attending concerts and the opera whenever an opportunity presented itself. He was a talented pianist and enjoyed singing, and as a consequence a small choral group evolved, which met at his home on a weekly basis and gave the occasional concert. He was a dedicated bridge player and also taught the intricacies of the game to others with proceeds donated to the Princess Alice Hospice, Esher, for which he also volunteered as a driver. Mike's elder daughter, Heather, became a professional bridge player, representing England and winning countless honours. His younger daughter, Catherine, pursued a medical career and followed her paternal grandfather by becoming a general practitioner. His son, Peter, is UK finance director for the United Parcel Service. Mike revelled in his family, delighted in playing games with his children and grandchildren, and was renowned for his enthusiasm for long and challenging country walks in which all were required to participate. Michael Dunstan was a much respected obstetrician and gynaecologist with an unstinting commitment throughout his career to his patients and colleagues, the West Middlesex University Hospital and the Royal College of Obstetrician and Gynaecologists.
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First Title value, for Searching Bourne, Gordon Lionel (1921 - 2018)

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by Sir Miles Irving
Publication Date 2018-02-26 2020-02-19
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Gordon Lionel Bourne was a consultant in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. He was born on 3 June 1921 at Sudbury in Derbyshire, the second son of Thomas Holland Bourne, a farmer, and Lily Anne Bourne née Clewlow, a former Barts nurse. His primary school education was at Sudbury Council School, followed by secondary education at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School in Ashbourne, Derbyshire. Gordon Bourne recalled how his early life experiences influenced his decision to study medicine. The farm where he grew up in rural Derbyshire was in a relatively remote but idyllic area. It was whilst there that he developed abdominal pains, which were diagnosed by the local general practitioner as resulting from abdominal tuberculosis. The recommended treatment was fresh air but no exercise. So, a tent was put up outside the farmhouse and for two and a half years he slept in it, occupying his time with a great deal of reading. The treatment was successful but his early life was clouded by the death of his adored younger brother who died prematurely as the result of an accident. He enjoyed his school life, particularly the opportunities it provided for sport. He achieved considerable success in cricket, rugby and shooting, in which he excelled. At the age of 18 he played these sports at county level for Derbyshire schoolboys, and in the case of shooting competed at international level. His admiration for his family’s general practitioner resulted in him being determined to pursue medicine as his career. He subsequently obtained a place at St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School, qualifying with the conjoint diplomas in 1945. Between 1947 and 1950 he was an anatomy demonstrator at St Bartholomew’s Medical College. In 1948, whilst in a junior surgical post in Derbyshire Royal infirmary, he met, and subsequently married, Barbara Eileen Anderson, with whom he had three sons and one daughter. His initial training appointments were at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, followed by appointments at the Royal Northern Hospital and at various city hospitals in the north and Midlands. He obtained his FRCS in 1952 and the MRCOG in 1956. He gained his FRCOG in 1964. His interest in obstetrics and gynaecology commenced soon after qualification, fostered by appointments at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, the City of London Maternity Hospital, the Hospital for Women in Soho and the Middlesex Hospital. In 1958, he became a senior registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology at St Bartholomew’s. At the same time, he was awarded a Nuffield travelling fellowship to become a research fellow at Harvard. In 1961, he was appointed as a consultant at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and remained in this post until 1984. He delivered an Arris and Gale lecture in 1962 and was appointed as a RCS regional assessor of maternal deaths. He also sat on the Central Midwives board. He published many academic papers on his specialty, and authored and edited books: *The human amnion and chorion* (London, Lloyd-Luke Medical Books, 1962), *Recent advances in obstetrics and gynaecology* (London, Churchill, 1966) and *Shaw’s textbook of gynaecology* (Edinburgh, Churchill Livingstone, 1971). Undoubtedly his most lasting and significant contribution was his book, *Pregnancy* (London, Cassell), a guide for mothers to be. First published in 1972, it went into seven editions, the most recent being revised and edited by Malcolm Gillard He was also widely recognised for his work outside medicine. He was a member of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers livery company, ultimately becoming master. He was a governor of Haberdashers’ Aske’s School. However, his major claim to fame outside medicine was his membership and leadership within the Freemasons. Following his retirement at the age of 72, he was a driving force in the Masonic Trout and Salmon Fishing Charity, which raised funds for disadvantaged and disabled children. He became the first pro provincial grand master of Middlesex It is interesting to reflect how parenteral influence was a major factor in his ultimate success in medicine. In an interview in his late retirement years, he remembered that whilst still a schoolboy he indicated to his parents that he would like to study medicine at Edinburgh University. His mother responded: ‘You are not going to Edinburgh you going to Barts.’ He countered by asking ‘What is Barts?’ She replied: ‘Barts is the biggest teaching hospital in London, and is one of the finest medical schools in the world and that is where you are going.’ In Gordon’s case that turned out to be sound advice for he became a highly successful ‘Barts Man’. He died on 2 January 2018 at the age of 96.
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First Title value, for Searching Sebastian, Sir Cuthbert Montraville (1921 - 2017)

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by Desmond Fosbery
Publication Date 2017-04-21 2017-07-12
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Occupation Diplomat General surgeon Medical Officer Obstetrician and gynaecologist Politician
Details Sir Cuthbert Montraville Sebastian was governor general of Saint Christopher and Nevis. He was born in the Caribbean, on the island of Saint Kitts (as the island of Saint Christopher is commonly known), on 22 October 1921. His father, Joseph Matthew Sebastian, founded the labour movement on Saint Kitts and also established the first national newspaper. His mother was Inez Veronica Sebastian née Hodge. On completing his secondary schooling, young Cuthbert, affectionately known as 'Cutie' to his family and friends, was apprenticed to the Cunningham Hospital on Saint Kitts as a learner-dispenser. Under the tutelage of variously appointed British Colonial Administration surgeons and physicians during the 1930's, he completed his early years at that institution, becoming a trained dispenser and surgeon's assistant. His duties also included being mortuary attendant and autopsy assistant. At times he was instructed by the surgeon to 'just carry-on' for a case of 'simple appendicitis' and so on, for which the chloroform anaesthetic would be administered by the matron. During the Second World War, Sebastian enlisted in the Royal Air Force and was undergoing training in Canada as a rear-gunner at the time of the cessation of hostilities in 1945. Upon returning home, he continued his studies and won an entrance scholarship to Mount Allison University in Canada, where he obtained a BSc degree in 1953. This achievement led to his gaining a place at Dalhousie University Medical School in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and in 1958 he gained his Canadian medical degree. After his pre-registration year, he returned home to work in the Government Health Service as a medical officer, and was appointed variously to each of the islands of Saint Kitts, Nevis and Anguilla in turn. During this period, there would usually be only one doctor on an island with a population of under 10,000. In 1962, he went to Britain and spent the next four years training in surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology at Dundee Royal Infirmary. His colleagues there included Malcolm 'Callum' Macnaughton and Narendra 'Naren' Patel, both of whom became presidents of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Returning to St Kitts in 1966, Sebastian was appointed as medical superintendent and obstetrician gynaecologist to the Cunningham Hospital, the same institution where some 30 years earlier he had started his apprenticeship at 'a shilling per day in lieu of rations'. When the Cunningham Hospital was closed in 1967, he took the same positions at the newly commissioned 164-bed Joseph N France General Hospital. Between 1970 and 1980 he served whenever necessary as surgeon and also as chief medical officer, in addition to his other hospital duties. It was in 1973 that I first met and worked with Sebastian when I was appointed as a surgeon specialist. Being the only two surgeons in the country, and with no junior staff, we worked closely together, often conferring over major cases and joining each other across the table in the only operating theatre at the hospital. In 1978, he was instrumental in obtaining the necessary funding and authorisation to establish and construct a twin operating theatre suite at the hospital, a project which moved swiftly to completion with his invaluable support and enthusiasm. This was aided no doubt in part by our joint appointment as attending surgeon to the then premier, Robert L Bradshaw. In December 1995 Sebastian retired from medical practice and, on 1 January 1996, was appointed governor general of the Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis, and Her Majesty's representative. In the same New Year's honours, Her Majesty conferred upon him the rank of Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George. Also in his retirement, Sir Cuthbert became instrumental in organising the Caribbean's first established telemedicine service, between Saint Kitts and the Dalhousie Medical School in Nova Scotia, such was his continuing enthusiasm for technological advances in his chosen profession. In March 2001 Sir Cuthbert was awarded an honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons at a joint meeting of the Royal College of Surgeons and the University of the West Indies in Barbados, and in 2002 received an honorary fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. I held Sir Cuthbert Sebastian's professional and personal achievements in the highest regard. It was my pleasure to have him as a colleague and friend for over 40 years - one of the worthy 'old school surgeons'. Sir Cuthbert Sebastian died on 25 March 2017. He was 95. He was survived by his three sons and three daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Bancroft-Livingston, George Henry (1920 - 2007)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-11-08
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details George Bancroft-Livingston was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Lister Hospital, Stevenage. He was born in Ross, California, on 13 October 1920, one of two children of Henry Livingston, a diplomat, and Barbara née Bancroft. He was educated at Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, from the age of eight, the second of three generations to attend the school. He went on to study medicine at Middlesex Hospital, qualifying in 1944. From 1946 to 1949 he served as a squadron leader in the RAF, based in Wales. Formerly a senior registrar and research assistant at the Middlesex Hospital, he moved to Belfast in 1953 and became the Barnett tutor in obstetrics and gynaecology in 1954, and subsequently lecturer in midwifery and gynaecology at Queens University, Belfast. He moved to England in 1958 to take up the post of consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist to the North Herts Hospital, Hitchin, and the Luton and Dunstable Hospital, before moving to the Lister Hospital in Stevenage. He was awarded his FRCOG in 1960, and went on to examine for the college, especially in Northern Ireland and Basra, Iraq. George married Stella Pauline Deacon in 1950. They had a son, Mark, who became a general practitioner, and four daughters. George upheld his Catholic faith during his professional life, steadfastly refusing to undertake any abortion work as a gynaecologist. He retired in 1985 and became a Brother of the Order of St John in 1996, receiving his ten-year medal of service posthumously at his funeral. He died suddenly on 16 April 2007 after a short illness.
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First Title value, for Searching McCullagh, William McKim Herbert (1889 - 1964)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-07
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born in 1889 the eldest son of S W McCullagh of Belfast, he was educated at the Methodist College and Queen's University. On the outbreak of war he joined the RAMC and served throughout in France, winning the MC at the beginning and the DSO at the end of the war and being five times mentioned in dispatches; he was attached to 4 Field Ambulance, Guards Division till 1918 and then as Lieutenant-Colonel to 137 Field Ambulance, 40th Division. He held resident appointments at Queen Charlotte's and the Samaritan Hospital, where he became registrar, and then established himself in successful obstetric practice in London, serving on the staff of several hospitals and being a foundation Member of the College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. During the second world war he was ADMS to 47 London Division (TA) 1939 to 1942, and then ADMS in Sierra Leone 1942-44; in 1944-45 he was officer in command of Campbell College Military Hospital, Belfast. He was awarded the Arnott medal in 1956 by the Irish Medical Schools Graduates Association. McCullagh invented a number of special gynaecological instruments. He was a keen golfer, but was incapacitated towards the end of his life by fracturing his femur in a road accident. He practised at 138 Harley Street and lived at 7 Holly Lodge Gardens, West Hill, Highgate where he died on 17 August 1964 aged 75. He had married in 1932 Alison daughter of Henry Carrothers of Duneane, Ballynafeigh, Belfast, who survived him with their son and two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Buckle, Anthony Edward Robin (1927 - 1982)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-21
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details 'Tony' Buckle was born in Yorkshire and educated at Holgates Grammar School, York. In 1944 he enlisted in the RAF but the war ended before he completed his training as a pilot. He was released and began his medical career at Guy's Hospital, graduating in 1950. He received the Golding Prize Medal and the prize for obstetrics. His early appointments included senior obstetric and gynaecological registrar, King's College Hospital, obstetric registrar Charing Cross Hospital and RMO at Queen Charlotte's Hospital. He obtained the diploma of the RCOG in 1952, the membership in 1954 and was elected a Fellow in 1967. He became FRCS in 1958 and examiner for the Conjoint Board. He was appointed consultant to Lewisham and St John's Hospital in 1963 where he remained until progressive illness caused his premature retirement in 1981. He continued to teach until only a few days before his death. Buckle's contributions to obstetrics and gynaecology were extensive and valuable. He was involved in early work on chemotherapy for pelvic cancer and in promotion of the laparoscope as a diagnostic tool and in the newly developing signs of foetal monitoring. He was deeply interested in family planning and set up abortion clinics which were a model of their kind. He was a dedicated teacher with the necessary sense of humour but he did not suffer fools gladly, a fact not always appreciated by his peers. He died suddenly on 2 June 1982 leaving his wife Ebba and a son and daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Davis, Abram Albert (1904 - 2003)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-09-23
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Albert Davis was an obstetrician and pioneering neuro-gynaecologist. He born on 4 January 1904 into a Jewish family in Manchester, where he studied medicine and became resident at the Manchester Royal Infirmary to Sir Harry Platt and Sir Geoffrey Jefferson, who greatly influenced him. He soon developed an interest in neurology and gynaecology. He was a Dickeson research scholar in the gynaecology research laboratory in Manchester, studying the innervation of the pelvis. He visited Cotte in Lyons, the founder of presacral neurectomy, and performed meticulous work on the cadaver, leading to an MD and a Hunterian professorship at the College. His lifelong concern was with chronic pelvic pain, which he treated with alcohol injection or open presacral neurectomy. After resident posts at Guy’s and Chelsea Hospitals, he was appointed as a consultant to Dulwich, St Giles, the London Jewish, Bearsted Maternity, the Prince of Wales and French Hospitals, and, after the war, King’s College Hospital. During the second world war, he was obstetrician to the south east London metropolitan sector, and later also to the north east sector. Here he honed his surgical skills, being able to perform a caesarian section in 20 seconds. In one day in Hackney he performed 11 of these operations in a single day. In 1950, together with Purdom Martin at Queen Square, he drew attention to the horrors of back street abortion in a *BMJ* paper. The paper reviewed 2,655 cases, describing their neurological consequences. In retirement, he continued his interests in literature, music, art and numismatics. He was a fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society. When he was 90 he was delighted to hear that presacral neurectomy had been reintroduced in the United States with the laparoscope. In 1947, he married Renate Loeser, a cytopathologist, who survived him along with two children, one of whom is Charles Davis, the neurosurgeon. He died on 21 October 2003.
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First Title value, for Searching Searle, Walter Netley (1904 - 1953)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-04
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Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born on 20 May 1904 at Oamaru in the South Island of New Zealand, fourth child and third son of Walter Searle, a car importer, and Mary Fox his wife, he was educated at Waitaki Boys High School and Otago Medical School, Dunedin. After postgraduate study at Guy's Hospital, he devoted himself to gynaecological surgery, served as resident obstetrical officer at the Royal Maternity and Women's Hospital, Glasgow, and took the Edinburgh Fellowship in 1931. He was successively house surgeon and resident medical officer, registrar and radium officer at the Chelsea Hospital for Women, and gynaecological registrar and tutor at Westminster Hospital. He took the Fellowship in 1937 and was elected surgeon at the Chelsea Hospital, obstetric surgeon at the Westminster Hospital, and lecturer in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Westminster Medical School. He was also gynaecological surgeon to East Ham Memorial Hospital and obstetric consultant to Enfield borough council. He examined for the Central Midwives Board, the Society of Apothecaries, and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of which he was admitted a Fellow in 1948. He was twice called upon to deliver living quadruplets. Searle married in 1930 Agnes (Cissy) daughter of R Bell, formerly professor of mathematics at Otago, who survived him with their son. He died suddenly in the motorship *Duquesa*, outward bound for New Zealand down the English Channel, on 30 August 1953, aged 49; he had been ill for three years. He lived at 29 St Edmund's Terrace, NW8, and practised at 44 Wimpole Street. Searle was a keen cricketer and a collector of antiques. He usually spent his holidays in the Isle of Arran. Publications: Two cases of haematocolpos. *Lancet* 1933,1, 961. Operative treatment of prolapse. *J Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp* 1934, 41, 69. Pregnancy after haematocolpos. *Ibid* 1937, 44, 729.
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First Title value, for Searching Richardson, Alfred Henry (1884 - 1942)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-16
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born 11 July 1884 at Darwen, Lancashire, the only child of John Alfred Richardson, one of HM Inspectors of Schools, and Mary Ann Whitaker, his wife. He was a King's Scholar, 1897, of Durham School, and graduated at Cambridge in 1907. He received his medical training at St Thomas's Hospital, where he served as house surgeon and casualty officer. After a period as assistant to Berkeley Moynihan at Leeds, he came back to St Thomas's as resident medical officer at the Home. During the first world war he served in the RAMC in France as a surgical specialist. When he returned to civil practice, he decided to specialize as a gynaecological surgeon. He served at St Thoma's as senior obstetric house physician and was the first chief assistant in the gynaecological department, a post which he held for three years. When J S Fairbairn retired, Richardson was appointed obstetric physician with charge of out-patients. Owing to the pressure of other duties and a growing private practice he resigned after some years. On the outbreak of the second world war in 1939 he rejoined the staff of St Thomas's at Park Prewett Hospital, Basingstoke, under the Ministry of Health's emergency medical service. He had also been assistant physician at the General Lying-in Hospital, Lambeth, and consulting surgeon to the Grosvenor Hospital for Women. He examined in midwifery for Oxford University. Richardson practised in Queen Anne Street, and later at 149 Harley Street, and had a country house at Bramble Carr, Danby, Yorkshire. He married on 28 February 1914 Olive Blanche Upton, who survived him but without children. He died in London on 20 August 1942. Publications: Fibroma of ovary, with papillomatous surface. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1919-20, 13, obstet. p 210. A uterus removed for carcinoma of cervix after treatment by radium. *Ibid* 1922-23, 16, obstet. p 31.
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First Title value, for Searching McCann, Frederick John (1867 - 1941)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-09-30
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born at 45 Hope Park Crescent, Edinburgh on 14 July 1867, son of James McCann, mantle-maker of Cockburn Street, and Elspeth Bell, his wife. He was educated at George Watson's College and at Edinburgh University, qualifying in 1888 and acting for a time as demonstrator of anatomy. He later studied in Berlin and Dresden, and then settled in London. He was in turn resident medical officer at the Belgrave Hospital for Children and at Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital, house surgeon to the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, senior house surgeon to the West London Hospital, and finally surgeon to the Samaritan Free Hospital for Women in Marylebone Road from 1893 till his death. He was also consulting gynaecologist to the West End Hospital for Diseases of the Nervous System and to a number of hospitals in and round London. He acquired a large consulting practice at 11 Upper Wimpole Street. He was at one time a popular lecturer at the Chenies Street Policlinic. He had been president of the Chelsea Clinical Society and of the West London Medicochirurgical Society. In later life he devoted his interest to the sociological aspects of his specialty. McCann cultivated the acquaintance of colleagues all over Europe. He was an honorary president of the section of obstetrics and gynaecology at the XV International Medical Congress at Lisbon in 1906, a vice-president of the Ligue internationale pour la Vie et la Famille, and a member of the Société internationale de Chirurgie. He was dignified, old-fashioned, and deliberate in speech and manner, wearing a frock-coat and tall hat long after others had given them up. In later years he was a victim of severe arthritis. He died on 28 March 1941, at Westway, Endsleigh Street, NW1. Publications:- *Cancer of the womb*. London, 1907. *Treatment of common female ailments*. Ibid. 1922.
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First Title value, for Searching Graham, Samuel Lewis (1881 - 1968)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-04
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Graham was born on 5 June 1881, won an Andrewes Entrance Scholarship to University College Hospital, and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1905. After taking his university degrees in 1907, he specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology, and held resident posts at Soho Hospital for Women and Westminster Hospital. He took his Master's degree and Fellowship in 1912. He had settled at Birmingham in 1910 as demonstrator of anatomy in the Medical School, and in 1912 joined the staff of the Maternity Hospital and also the Hospital for Women in 1913. He was appointed honorary obstetric officer to the Queen's Hospital in 1921, and lecturer in obstetrics and gynaecology at the University in 1926. He was also on the staff at St Chad's Hospital and the West Bromwich Hospital. Throughout his professional life he carried on a successful private practice. Graham retired at the early age of fifty-four, and went to live in the West Highlands of Scotland. During the second world war he and his wife went to live at the Royal Infirmary, Inverness, where he turned to general surgery and worked hard in helping surgical colleagues throughout the North of Scotland. After the war the Grahams returned to Dornie, near Kyle of Lochalsh in Ross-shire, where they entertained most hospitably. Graham was very proud of his Rolls-Royce 'Silver Ghost', bought at the end of the first world war, with an open body he had himself designed. It was a familiar sight while he lived in Birmingham, and he drove it for forty-eight years, till his death. Graham and Mrs Graham were keen mountain climbers and members of the Midland Association of Mountaineers; they were expert photographers and after showed their fine slides when lecturing about their climbing experiences. Graham died suddenly on 23 April 1968 while on a visit to friends at Oban, aged 86; his wife survived him. They had been married sixty years, since February 1908.
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First Title value, for Searching Alton, Francis Cooke (1888 - 1956)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-12-20
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born on 17 February 1888, son of Paymaster Rear-Admiral Sir Francis Cooke Alton CB, CMG, RN, he was educated at Bedford School. After qualifying from St Thomas's Hospital in 1910, he entered the Royal Navy as a surgeon. Four years later he graduated MB BS at London University. During the first world war he served in HMS *Constance* and for gallant service was appointed OBE in 1919; two years later he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal of the USA. He was invalided from the Service in 1919 with the rank of Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander. However he regained his health and returned to the Navy in 1921, but finally retired in 1922. After a period in general practice he determined to specialise in gynaecology and obstetrics. In 1927 he took the Fellowship and went to the Chelsea Hospital for Women and the Prince of Wales's General Hospital, where he was clinical assistant. In 1936 he went into practice at Shamley Green in Surrey and in the following year was appointed assistant surgeon at the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford and attained full consultant status with charge of the obstetric and gynaecological unit. He became senior consultant gynaecologist to the Guildford group of hospitals until his retirement in 1954. Alton was held in high esteem by his colleagues. He never spared himself, even when in failing health. He died at the Royal Surrey County Hospital on 7 November 1956, survived by his wife Freda and by one of his two sons. He had lived at Westbury Cottage, Waterden Road, Guildford, Surrey. The elder son, a Lieutenant in the Royal Marines, was killed in a flying accident in 1933. Mrs Alton died on 23 April 1967. Publications: Modern treatment of toxaemias of pregnancy. *Med Press* 1944, 211, 244-246. Uterine fibroids. *Med Press* 1949, 221, 361-364.
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First Title value, for Searching Ganner, Philip Joseph (1904 - 1970)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-04
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Philip Ganner was born on 24 November 1904 the son of a general practitioner in Birmingham. He attended the Hallfield preparatory school, Edgbaston and Bradfield College proceeding in due course to study medicine at the Birmingham Medical School graduating in London in 1928. Two years later he obtained his Fellowship and in 1936 became a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. From the commencement of his career Ganner was determined to become a gynaecologist, getting his early training at the Birmingham Maternity and Women's Hospitals, and later at the Wolverhampton Womens' Hospital. Within five years of qualification he was appointed consultant obstetrician at the Birmingham Maternity Hospital and soon after was appointed to the staff of the Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Women. Later he accepted appointments at the Stratford-upon-Avon Hospital and the Redditch Smallwood Hospital. Ganner quickly made a reputation with medical students by his skill as an obstetrician and by his ability as a teacher it was largely due to his influence that Loveday Street became such a popular hospital with Birmingham students. The greatest beneficiaries from contact with Ganner were the junior staff who worked with him, for he seemed to be able to convey confidence and some of his skill to the young beginner. During the war years his practice grew enormously and by the time the NHS started his capacity for work was outstripped and he gave up his appointment at the Maternity Hospital. He now concentrated on his gynaecological work and was one of the first surgeons in Birmingham to introduce the lower segment operation for Caesarian section and vaginal hysterectomy. Ganner's main interest outside his work was shooting and dry fly fishing and for 20 years he lived in the country at Rowington, in Warwickshire, where he also developed his hobby of fruit growing. He died suddenly and unexpectedly on 30 March 1970, and was survived by his second wife and two sons and a daughter by his first wife.
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First Title value, for Searching Wallace, Doris Barbara (1906 - 1972)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-24
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Doris Barbara Wallace (née Brown) was the daughter of Mr David G Brown, a draper in Harrogate. She went to school in Harrogate and proceeded to the University of Leeds where she qualified with the Conjoint Diploma and also graduated MB ChB in 1932. In her preliminary science course she obtained the BSc with 1st Class Honours. After junior posts at the Leeds General Infirmary she was house surgeon at the Hospital for Women in Leeds, and after some further clinical experience in London she obtained the FRCS in 1935. In 1936 she decided to specialize in obstetrics and gynaecology and was appointed tutor in obstetrics at Queen's University, Belfast, and in 1938 took the MRCOG. In 1939 she went to India and became Medical Officer in the Lady Hardinge Medical College. This was situated on the route of the expected Japanese invasion of India, and all female personnel were compulsorily evacuated, but Miss Brown was asked to stay on, was officially registered as a man and given jungle equipment and training. She ran the hospital without any skilled assistance, and at one point an English officer named Reginald Wallace, brought in a group of exhausted British soldiers who had escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp. She operated on the officer, and afterwards, in 1944, married him in Calcutta. Her husband later became Secretary to the Governor of the Gold Coast. Mrs Wallace returned to England, her husband entering the Foreign Office, but she did very little medical work apart from assisting her elder sister for a time who was also a gynaecologist. In 1955, while in Switzerland, she suffered a severe stroke but recovered after a long illness. She died on 11 June 1972 and her husband and their daughter Elizabeth survived her.
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First Title value, for Searching Currie, David William (1903 - 1979)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-25
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Currie was born on 16 June 1903 in Leeds, the third son of James Irvine Currie, wholesaler clothier, and Florence Emma, née Dixon. His uncle Hugh Currie, a surgeon in Johnannesburg, was at the relief of Ladysmith. An elder brother, Donald Currie, gained his FRCS in 1923. He was educated at Leeds Grammar School and Leeds University, where he gained the surgical prize and the Gold Medal and first class honours in his finals. He was house surgeon at Leeds to Joseph Dobson and E R Flint for a year and then resident casualty officer for two years. He also spent four months at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin. He studied for his FRCS on a course at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and obtained it in 1930. Carlton Oldfield and William Gough particularly influenced him. In 1930 he was appointed junior house surgeon at Leeds Maternity Hospital, later senior resident in charge, and from 1932 to 1936 university lecturer in gynaecology. He subsequently became senior lecturer, a position that he retained till his retirement in 1968 from his appointment as obstetric and gynaecological surgeon to the United Leeds Hospitals, as well as at Wakefield, Dewsbury and Batley. He gained extensive knowledge from visits to centres in England and overseas, particularly with the Gynaecological Travellers' Club. He developed the treatment of carcinoma of the cervix uteri by radiation and radical surgery with excellent results; and published several papers, some by request, on Wertheim's hysterectomy in the *Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology of the British Commonwealth* and in Rob and Smith's *Operative surgery*. In his younger days he was a notable Rugby player who played for Otley and for Yorkshire. Later his main interest was gardening. In 1932 he married Jean Borthwik Keppie. They had one son, a consultant neurologist in Leeds, and two daughters, of whom the younger is an SRN. He died on 19 May 1979.
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First Title value, for Searching Marlow, Frederick William (1877 - 1936)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-30
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Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born at Cartwright, Durham County, Ontario, Canada, on 25 May 1877, the son of Nelson Marlow and Ann Parr, his wife. He was educated at Port Perry and took honours at Trinity Medical College, Toronto, in 1900. He served for a year as house surgeon at St Michael's Hospital, and then proceeded to London, where he studied at University College, Middlesex, and King's College Hospitals. Returning to Toronto, he was appointed assistant surgeon at St Michael's Hospital in 1904, became surgical registrar at the Toronto General Hospital and was attached to the gynaecological service, then under Professor J F W Ross, until 1911. Two years later (1913) he was appointed associate professor of gynaecology in the University of Toronto, and he became the senior attending gynaecologist at the Toronto General Hospital. He was also on the staff of the Wellesley Hospital and of St John's Hospital. During 1903-06 he was demonstrator of anatomy in the University of Toronto. In 1913 he became a founding Fellow of the American College of Surgeons; in 1919 he was president of the Ontario Medical Association, and in 1928 he was elected president of the Toronto Academy of Medicine. Marlow joined the Canadian Army Medical Corps as a private when it was organized in 1900 and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. During the war he was ADMS for military district No 2, and was Inspecting Officer of the CAMC throughout Canada. He married in 1903 Florence Elizabeth Walton of Thorold. She survived him but without children, as their daughter had died in 1916. During the last two years of his life Marlow busied himself with a farm. He died suddenly on 22 August 1936 and was buried, after a largely-attended funeral service, at St Paul's Church, Toronto. He is described as a man of commanding presence, keen, forceful, an indefatigable worker, a ready speaker, and of pleasing personality.
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First Title value, for Searching Roy, Donald Whatley (1881 - 1960)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-05-16
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born on 22 May 1881 son of the Rev James Roy, Rector of Stockton Forest, York, he was educated at St Peter's School, York and Sydney Sussex, Cambridge, where he was a scholar, was placed in the first class of both parts of the Natural Sciences Tripos in 1908 and was captain of the College Rugby XV in 1901-02. Proceeding to St George's Hospital, where he was awarded an entrance scholarship and the Brodie Prize, he held house appointments after qualification as house surgeon, house physician and obstetric assistant. This was followed by an appointment as obstetric registrar and tutor, after which he was elected to the consultant staff of St George's as casualty obstetric surgeon and to the Samaritan Hospital for Women as consulting surgeon. Additional appointments which he held were those of physician and lecturer at the General Lying-in Hospital, York Road SE and obstetrical and gynaecological consultant to LCC Hospitals. During the first world war he served as a surgeon RNVR from 1914 to 1917 in the hospital ships Asturias and Plassey attached to the Grand Fleet. In 1917-18 he was an acting Major in the RAMC attached to Northampton War Hospital. He became senior examiner in obstetrics and gynaecology to the Board of Advanced Studies of London University and at Cambridge, and for the Conjoint Board, the Society of Apothecaries, and the Midwives Board. An honorary secretary and vice-president of the Section of Obstetrics of the Royal Society of Medicine, he was vice-president of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Medical Association at the annual meeting in Eastbourne in 1931. He contributed numerous articles on the teaching of obstetrics and the organisation of obstetric teaching. Practising first in Upper Brook Street and then in Chandos Street, he retired to Newbury in 1938. He died in York on 9 December 1960 aged 79 survived by his wife, two sons and a daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Macmillan, Kenneth Holl (1891 - 1982)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-03
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Kenneth Holl Macmillan was born on February 3 1891 in Lee, S.E. London, the eldest son of John W McMillan, a banker, and his wife, Florence. His younger brother became a chest physician. Always an individualist he, alone of his family, decided to change the spelling of his name from that on his diplomas - McMillan for his MRCS in 1913 and FRCS on 10 June 1920 to MacMillan in the 1930's. He was educated at Colfe's Grammar School, SE London and at St Thomas's Hospital where he won a prize in medicine. At St Thomas's he held the posts of casualty officer, house surgeon and surgical registrar. During the first world war he served as a Surgeon-Lieutenant RN from 1915 to 1919. After the war he moved to Birmingham, where he was the resident consultant surgeon at Dudley Road Hospital from 1922 to 1925. His interests turned to obstetrics and gynaecology and he was appointed consultant in those specialities to the United Birmingham Hospitals in 1925, a position he retained till his retirement in 1955. During the second world war he was also occupied as a surgeon in the EMS from 1939 to 1945. His interest in obstetrics and gynaecology had led him to become a founder member of that College before the war and he was senior surgeon to the Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Women when he retired. In 1917 he married Elizabeth Smyth, by whom he had three sons, the second of whom, I.K.R. MacMillan FRCS, became a consultant thoracic surgeon. His interests were music - particularly organ music - and travel. He had little enthusiasm for committees or medical societies and during his professional life he devoted himself to active surgery, gynaecology and obstetrics, on which subjects he published some practical papers. He died April 7 1982 in Sydney, Australia, aged 91.
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First Title value, for Searching Beattie, William John Hunt Montgomery (1902 - 1993)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-02
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born on 25 October 1902 in Southampton, the third child of John Montgomery Beattie, a merchant trading in the Far East, and Ophelia Jane, née Hunt, 'JB' was educated at The Limes School Croydon, Westminster School, and Trinity College Cambridge. He entered St Bartholomew's Hospital in 1924 where he won the Bentley prize and the Lawrence research scholarship and gold medal. He was greatly influenced by Sir Holburt Waring and Mr Harold Wilson. He qualified in 1927, was house surgeon and resident physician accoucheur, and ran the Williamson Laboratory at St Bartholomew's, where gynaecologists reported on their own material and Beattie gave his opinions on difficult cases. He obtained the FRCS in 1929 and the MD in 1933. Beattie was appointed to the staff of St Bartholomew's in 1945, where he proved a popular teacher, continuing throughout the war when evacuated to Friern Barnet Hospital. He was joint editor of *Ten Teachers* in midwifery and gynaecology. His interests outside medicine lay in fishing, sailing, ornitholgy and gardening: he contributed to the Royal Horticultural Society's *Garden Journal* and received the accolade of election to the Garden Society. In 1935 he married Marjorie Gertrude Baddeley, who died in 1978; they had no children. In late retirement he married Dorothy, his former secretary. He died at home in Reigate, crippled by arthritis, on 5 January 1993, aged 90.
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First Title value, for Searching de Vere, Roger Duchene (1921 - 2010)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Michael Pugh
Publication Date 2012-02-01
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374113374113
Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Roger de Vere was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Westminster Hospital, London. He was born on 23 May 1921 in Eynsham, Oxfordshire, the son of Gaston de Vere, an Oxford extramural studies tutor and translator of Vasari's *Lives* of Renaissance artists, and Margaretta Josephine née Hamilton-Williams. Sadly, Roger's parents' marriage was dissolved when he was a young child, and he was brought up by his mother in north London. His first school was Beacon Hill, which was founded by the philosopher Bertrand Russell, a friend of his father. The school took an unusual approach to the curriculum, concentrating on natural history. Pupils spent most of their time outside, only coming in during bad weather. After leaving Beacon Hill at the age of 10, Roger could only manage his two times table and later he was to say 'it is wrong to experiment on children'. But he did manage to become a fluent French speaker, after spending long summer holidays with an aunt in France. From Beacon Hill he went to the City of London School, and from there to St Thomas' Hospital, where he qualified with the conjoint diploma in 1945. He completed his National Service in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, serving in the South East Asia Command. He was posted to a French hospital ship, which had been acquired by the Royal Navy, until General de Gaulle requested the ship's return. After his National Service, he received his specialist training at St Thomas' and finally at Queen Charlotte's and the Chelsea Hospital for Women. He was subsequently appointed to the staff of the Westminster Hospital. Roger de Vere had an engaging manner and was a man of great charm, but also had an incisive, enquiring mind, which enabled him to get to the crux of a problem very quickly. He possessed a special quality, an ability to bring together colleagues of different disciplines to work together, which enabled him to make the Westminster a centre of excellence. As an obstetrician he could not bear to hear the sound of women in pain during labour and, together with J B Wyman, his anaesthetist, he established an epidural service, which was readily available to all his patients, from domestics to duchesses. They all appreciated his care and the comfort he gave them. He earned himself the sobriquet 'Divine de Vere'. He was an early exponent of vaginal hysterectomy in the repair of prolapse, a more comfortable and less traumatic operation than abdominal hysterectomy. There were other fields to which he brought his talent of bringing together specialist teams. With Gerald (Charlie) Westbury radical pelvic surgery for malignant disease was developed. Richard Bayliss, the distinguished endocrinologist, had been a student with him and they established an infertility clinic. With John 'Titus' Oates, a consultant venereologist, and Richard Staughton, a consultant dermatologist, they started a clinic for diseases of the vulva which met every month, after lunch! Working with him was never a chore: his operating lists were preceded by a generous lunch, often a roast, with his house surgeon invited to carve under a watchful eye. He was the most generous man, with a warm and charming personality; he brought credit to his hospital and also his busy private practice, which included at one time a clinic in Paris, before the French medical profession eased him out. He served as chairman of the examination committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and examined for Cambridge, London and Birmingham universities. He was also a civilian consultant to the Royal Navy. Always good company, he was an eloquent raconteur with a large collection of jokes and risqué stories, but underlying this was his fascination for 'what made people tick' and exploring 'the human condition'. He was a member of the Gynaecological Club of Great Britain and the Garrick. Roger de Vere retired at 62 to care for his wife, Elizabeth née Crothers Parker, who had severe renal disease. They settled in Mildenhall, Wiltshire. Roger painted in oils, had a fine collection of water-colours and attended weekly philosophy classes. He was a keen fisherman and an active of member of the Savernake Flyfishers, serving at one time as their chairman. He was also an excellent marksman and belonged to two shoots. He regularly fished for trout in the Kennet and became aware that the river was compromised, with low water levels and contamination from a local sewage farm. With his friend Jack Ainslie, Roger founded Action for the River Kennet in 1990 to campaign to persuade Thames Water to correct this problem. He enlisted the help of Gareth Rees of the Farnborough College of Technology to carry out a study, and they persuaded Thames Water to invest in phosphate stripping equipment at the sewage farm and at other significant points along the river. The river became clean and fish have returned. This triumph led to Roger being named Countryman of the Year by *Country Life* magazine in 1997. Sadly his wife Elizabeth Crothers Parker died in 2002. They had three children, Georgina (formerly a medical secretary), Guy (a systems analyst) and Stephen (an award-winning wildlife cameraman). Roger died on 30 November 2010 at the age of 89.
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First Title value, for Searching Brown, John Andrew Carron (1925 - 2008)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by N Alan Green
Publication Date 2008-08-28
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Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details John Carron Brown, known to his colleagues as ‘JCB’, was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Norwich. He was born in Sutton, Surrey, on 29 June 1925, the older son of Cecil Carron Brown, a general practitioner, and Jessamy Harper, a solicitor. Educated first at Homefield Preparatory School in Sutton, in 1939 he went to Oundle School for four years, before entering the Middlesex Hospital Medical School for his medical training, where he captained the cricket team. He felt fortunate to have as basic science teachers John Kirk in anatomy, Sampson Wright in physiology and Robert Scarff in pathology. He was greatly influenced in his clinical training by Richard Handley and Charles Lakin. Qualifying in 1949, he became house surgeon to Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor and then to the obstetric and gynaecology unit, before becoming house physician at the Royal Sussex County Hospital in 1952. General surgical training continued at St John and Elizabeth’s Hospital and at Redhill and Reigate Hospital, and at the Middlesex Hospital under David Patey and L P LeQuesne, colo-rectal experience being obtained with O Lloyd Davies. His training in gynaecology and obstetrics was at the Chelsea Hospital for Women under Sir Charles Read, John Blakeley and R M Feroze, at the Middlesex Hospital under W R Winterton and as a senior registrar at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge. Following his appointment as consultant in Norwich in 1963 he led a busy life in clinical practice. He led the development of maternity services and specialised in gynaecological malignancy. He was a great supporter of Cromer and District Cottage Hospital, where he held weekly clinics and operating sessions until he retired in 1990. Described as “a superb clinician and teacher of medical students, midwives and doctors”, his enthusiastic approach led many into careers in obstetrics and gynaecology. He also worked with physiotherapists in the prevention and treatment of stress incontinence. He examined for the universities of Cambridge and Birmingham in obstetrics and gynaecology, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) and the Central Midwives Board. In East Anglia he was a member of the regional advisory committee for eight years, being chairman for two years, and a member of the subcommittee making a confidential enquiry into maternal deaths. For RCOG he was elected member’s representative on council for six years, and served on the finance and executive and the hospital recognition committees. He was made an honorary fellow of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists in 1995. He served on the Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine (CPSM) and the Physiotherapy Board, and was vice chairman of CPSM. In Norwich he became chairman of the consultant staff committee and was very involved with the planning of the new hospital. Throughout his schooldays and in medical school he played cricket, tennis and soccer. Carron Brown started playing golf at the early age of six and resumed this once he became established in his chosen career. He enjoyed shooting and in retirement took up fly fishing. He was interested in history, especially of Napoleon and the Indian Empire. Gardening was an abiding passion, particularly the cultivation of roses. He married Marie Mansfield Pinkham, a Middlesex nurse, in 1952. They had three daughters (Susan Margaret, Elizabeth and Jane) and one son (Charles). Following his wife’s death in 1970, he married Susan Mary Mellor, sister of the special care nursery in Norwich, and they had two daughters (Helen Mary and Sarah Louise). He died on 27 May 2008 in the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital after a ruptured aortic aneurysm. A thanksgiving service was held at Norwich Cathedral, where he worshipped. Sue survives him, as do the children and 16 grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching de Boer, Charles Henry (1921 - 2013)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Richard de Boer
Publication Date 2013-11-08 2014-02-24
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Charles Henry de Boer was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist in Liverpool. He was born in Nairobi, Kenya, on 2 September 1921, where his father was chief colonial medical officer. He was sent to England for his schooling, and was cared for by his great aunt, Alice de Boer, a doctor. He graduated during the Second World War from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and, having gained his part one FRCS, moved to the London Hospital with the Price scholarship for his clinical studies. A perforated peptic ulcer meant he was excluded from military service. A chance meeting with Alan Brews (a consultant gynaecologist) on qualification and a job vacancy in Brentwood, Essex, was the start of his career in obstetrics and gynaecology. He remained in and around London during these formative years, gaining his FRCS and his membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. In 1955 Charles de Boer was appointed as a consultant in Liverpool. He rapidly became much in demand as his reputation as an enthusiastic teacher of nurses, medical students, junior doctors and midwives grew. He taught with stories, analogies and, above all, by example. His lectures were illustrated by his own drawings, his homemade slides and using himself or trainees. The fallopian tubes were outstretched arms, the fimbriae the hands and fingers. He never stopped trying to ignite enthusiasm in the next generation of obstetricians, nurses and midwives. Medical students were always pleased to be on his 'firm', and each had the opportunity to become 'student of the week'. This lucky student spent a week doing whatever Charles did, be it clinics, operating, brick laying or DIY. His clinical interests were wide; he never stopped questioning and welcomed new technologies. He was one of the first in Liverpool to use obstetric ultrasound and develop fertility services. He was a builder and designer of gadgets, coils, pessaries and instruments, most of which were never adopted widely, but this did not stop him. Concern about the nutrition of antenatal patients saw him create a fortified chocolate bar. In many ways he was ahead of his time. Outside medicine his family and friends were very important to him. DIY, gadgets, silver-smithing, woodwork, rug-making and other hand crafts kept him busy. He was an active freemason and a liveryman of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries. He was a county councillor on Merseyside Metropolitan County Council before his retirement and afterwards a local parish council councillor. He retired in 1986 and moved to Staffordshire. He was very proud to become the first family member with a City and Guilds certificate (in ceramics). Through his metalwork class he made many firm friends. He had a wonderful, rewarding retirement, doing what he wanted, and spending time with his wife and his ever growing family. He spent many happy hours developing a wave energy machine, which never became viable, but friends and family were all encouraged to help with research and development, in theory and on inland waterways, and even on the high seas. He married Joyce van Gelder, a midwife teacher from the London Hospital, in 1952. Eventually Joyce developed dementia and her health deteriorated. Charles cared for her lovingly and patiently for as long as he was able, in spite of his own failing health and eyesight. Once he was diagnosed with prostate cancer they moved to Warwickshire to be close to their son. Charles died on 15 June 2013 at the age of 91. His wife died only three months later. They were survived by their four children (one a consultant gynaecologist and another a consultant paediatrician), 15 grandchildren and one great-grandson.
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First Title value, for Searching Chapple, Harold (1881 - 1945)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-05-20
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Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born in Australia on 13 February 1881, the seventh child and third son of Frederic Chapple, CMG, head master of Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, and his wife Elizabeth Sarah Hunter. Chapple graduated in science at Adelaide University and then entered St John's College, Cam¬bridge. He took honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part I, 1904, and won a half-blue for tennis; he was also prominent at rugby football, swimming, and acting. He entered Guy's Hospital in 1905 when Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, whose daughter he afterwards married, was at the height of his fame as surgeon to the hospital. Chapple served as an assistant in the obstetric department of the Charite-Krankenhaus, Berlin, and was then appointed obstetric registrar at Guy's. In 1913 he was appointed obstetric surgeon on the death of J H Targett, FRCS, and ultimately became senior obstetric surgeon and gynaecologist. He was also lecturer on obstetrics and gynaecology at Guy's Medical School. Chapple was consulting obstetric surgeon and gynaecologist to the London Jewish Hospital, the Victoria Hospital, Kingston, St John's Hospital, Lewisham, and the Buchanan Hospital, St Leonards. During the first great war he served in France as a captain, RAMC. He examined in midwifery and diseases of women for the Royal College of Physicians and the Universities of Cambridge and London. Chapple was a foundation Fellow of the British, now Royal, College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Chapple married in 1911 Irene Briscoe Arbuthnot Lane, second daughter of Sir W A Lane, FRCS, who survived him with two sons. He died at Orchard Court, W, on 8 March 1945, aged 64. He had practised at 149 Harley Street. A memorial service was held at Guy's Hospital on 20 March. He left, subject to life interests and legacies, the residue of his fortune to Prince Alfred College, Adelaide. Chapple was a collaborator in the well-known text-books "by Ten Teachers" - *Midwifery* 1917 and *Diseases of women* 1918, both of which went through several editions. But he made his mark in personal and clinical practice. Possessed of charm, courtesy, and kindliness, he was peculiarly successful with timid or difficult patients. He was also very helpful to his students and assistants, though not so unaware of their shortcomings as he appeared to be. He was president of the Medical Golfing Society from 1940 to 1945. Publications:- *Intestinal stasis and Lane's operation*, 1910. Unusual case of hermaphroditism. *Brit med J*1937, 1, 802. Prolapse of the rectum in women. *Brit med J* 1945, 1, 661 (posthumously published).
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First Title value, for Searching Shaw, Wilfred (1897 - 1953)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-04
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Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born at Birmingham on 12 December 1897 son of Isaac Shaw JP, he was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham and at St John's College, Cambridge where he was an open entrance scholar and won a foundation scholarship and Wright's prize and took first-class honours in the first part of the Natural Sciences tripos in 1918. During the war of 1914-18 he had served as a surgeon probationer in the Royal Navy. He received his clinical training at St Bartholomew's where he won the Matthews Dunn and the Lawrence gold medals and the Lawrence and Cattlin research scholarships. He won the Raymond Horton Smith prize at Cambridge in 1929. He was house surgeon at St Bartholomew's to Sir Charles Gordon-Watson, took postgraduate courses in Dublin and Vienna, and was for two years chief assistant and subsequently surgeon-in-charge of the obstetrics and gynaecology department at Bart's. He was resident assistant physician-accoucheur under Dr Herbert Williamson 1926-31. This was a post specially created for him, involving teaching and the handling of emergencies. He was also on the staff of St Andrew's Hospital, Dollis Hill and the Brentwood Hospital. He was awarded a certificate of merit for his Jacksonian Essay at the College in 1931 and gave an Arnott demonstration in 1933. He examined in midwifery for Oxford, Cambridge, and London Universities and for the Conjoint Board. He served on the Council of the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Section of the Royal Society of Medicine. Shaw was a voracious reader and an active reviewer of books, for he was a ready writer. He published several important articles and his two textbooks became extremely popular with students and have been revised by later editors. A third textbook, on operative gynaecology, was completed only two weeks before his death. He was an excellent anatomist and pathologist, conservative in his methods but bold and fearless in emergency. He was a man of the highest Christian motives, endowed with wisdom and a sense of fun, and a gift for attracting the confidence of his patients and many friends. He found time for gardening and collecting ivory. Shaw fell ill in his fifty-fourth year and died on 9 December 1953 three days before his fifty-sixth birthday. He was survived by his wife, three sons, and a daughter. He was already a leader in his specialty, with a great reputation as a teacher. Publications: *Textbook of Gynaecology*. Churchill 1936; 6th edition 1952. *Textbook of Midwifery*. Churchill 1943; 3rd edition 1948. *Textbook for Midwives*. Churchill 1948. *Textbooks of operative Gynaecology*. Livingston 1954. The pathology of ovarian tumours, *J Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp* 1932, 39, 13, 234, 1933, 40, 257, 805, 1125.
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First Title value, for Searching Hill, Gladys (1894 - 1998)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-03
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Gladys Hill was a distinguished obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Royal Free Hospital. She was born in Crewe on 28 September 1894, the only child of Arthur Hill, a solicitor, and Caroline, daughter of the Reverend Danby. Her father died when she was only 11, but he had imbued her with a sense of the importance of gaining a good education and earning her own living. She went to Cheltenham Ladies College in 1906, when Dorothea Beale was still headmistress. She was later accepted at Somerville College, Oxford, where she read English, specialising in old Icelandic. She spent much of her time on the games fields and won a half blue for hockey. Among her contemporaries were Vera Brittain and Dorothy Sayers. In 1916, she was recruited for wartime clerical duties and passport control with MI5. However, at Somerville she had met Winifred Cullis of the Royal Free Hospital, and was inspired to become a doctor. In 1917, therefore, she went to the London School of Medicine for Women (later Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine), then only one of three schools that would accept women students. She excelled in her studies, winning many prizes. On qualifying in 1923, she went first to Paris to study the medical use of radium at the Curie Centre, then still supervised by Marie Curie, before taking up junior posts at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital and later the Salvation Army Hospital in London. She passed her MD in London in 1925, her MRCOG in 1934 and her FRCS England in 1936, later becoming FRCOG in 1944. Her teachers had included Cecil Joll, Lionel Norbury, C K Shatterick and Dame Louisa Aldrich Blake. She was appointed obstetric surgeon at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital in 1935 and consultant at the Royal Free in 1940. During the years of the second world war, she managed to keep the nucleus of a maternity unit going at the Royal Free and later, as its director, was responsible for re-establishing the obstetrics and gynaecology department at the hospital. She was appointed an examiner in obstetrics and gynaecology, and was a member of Council of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists from 1959 to 1962. She had a flair for teaching and, having a horror of slovenly thought and shoddy work, she could be a terrifying examiner. Her private interests were those of mountain walking, archeology and amateur dramatics. This distinguished career ended with her retirement in 1960, when she returned to her native Somerset to be close to her many cousins. On her hundredth birthday the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists gave a lunch to celebrate their only centenarian. She died on 11 January 1998.
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First Title value, for Searching Bonham, Dennis Geoffrey (1924 - 2005)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-09-22
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Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Dennis Bonham was head of the postgraduate school of obstetrics and gynaecology at the National Women’s Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand. He was born in London on 23 September 1924, the son of Alfred John Bonham, a chemist, and Dorothy Alice Bonham, a pharmacist. He was educated at King Edward VI School, Nuneaton, and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. He then went to University College Hospital for his clinical training and for junior posts. He spent three years in the RAF at Fighter Command headquarters at Bentley Priory and then returned to University College to work with Nixon, researching into polycystic ovarian syndrome and the use of Schiller’s iodine in carcinoma of the cervix. In 1962 he was seconded to the British perinatal mortality survey as the obstetrician and co-authored its report with Neville Butler. In December 1963 he went to New Zealand as head of the postgraduate school of obstetrics and gynaecology in the University of Auckland. There, over the next 25 years, he made huge contributions to medicine and perinatal outcome, marked by an 80 per cent fall in perinatal mortality. He established the Foundation for the Newborn and the New Zealand Perinatal Society, and was adviser to WHO, receiving the gold medal from the Federation of Asia and Oceania Perinatal Societies. He went out of his way to encourage women into his specialty, setting up job-sharing training schemes. In 1990 he was involved in a controversial study into carcinoma of the cervix, which led to a national outcry, an inquiry and his censure by the New Zealand Medical Council. He married Nancie Plumb in 1945. They had two sons, both of whom became doctors. A big man, with colossal energy, he had many interests, notably sailing on the Norfolk Broads and New Zealand coastal waters, garden landscaping, building stone walls and designing terraced gardens. He was a passionate grower of orchids, becoming president, life member and judge of the New Zealand Orchid Society. He was awarded the gold medal of the 13th World Orchid Conference in 1990. He died in Auckland on 6 April 2005.
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First Title value, for Searching White, Clifford Sidney (1881 - 1957)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-16
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born in 1881 second son of Charles Stewart White of Hampstead, he was educated at University College and after qualification held various posts at University College Hospital, was resident medical officer at Queen Charlotte's Hospital (1907), and at the Samaritan Hospital for Women was house surgeon, then registrar and assistant to Cuthbert Lockyer, and in due time senior surgeon, a post he held until retirement. On the outbreak of war in 1914 he went to the Belgian Army Hospital at La Panne where he dealt with many head injuries and became a competent cerebral surgeon. From 1912 to 1923 he was surgeon at Queen Charlotte's Hospital, became interested in abnormal uterine action and published a paper "The contraction ring as a cause of dystocia" which clarified the difference between the contraction and retraction ring of the uterus. On the retirement of Sir George Blacker in 1925 Clifford White was elected to the staff of University College Hospital, where an obstetric unit was set up in 1926. He also served the Metropolitan Hospital, St Mary's Hospital for Women, Plaistow, and the North Hertfordshire and South Bedfordshire Hospital. He was President of the obstetrics section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1936. From 1938 to 1942 he was an examiner for the Royal College of Physicians and a councillor from 1940 to 1942, and also examined for many universities. Clifford White was a splendid teacher and popular with his students. He loved social life, and in his youth had been a good dancer, swimmer, skier, and tennis player. He married in 1911 Elaine Mawe of Charterstowers, Queensland and later they both travelled widely. He was a man of fine character, considerate and generous, though he could be dogmatic and obstinate. He was elected a Fellow of University College in 1938. White lived at 48 Circus Road, St John's Wood, and died in University College Hospital on 24 October 1957 aged 76, survived by his wife, son and daughter. Mrs White died on 18 September 1965. He was editor and a joint author of the popular "Ten Teachers" textbooks: *Midwifery* 1917 (8th edition 1948) and *Diseases of Women* 1919 (7th edition 1942).
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First Title value, for Searching Murray, Ernest Farquhar (1886 - 1959)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-28
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/377370377370
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born at Dundee on 13 January 1886, younger brother of Herbert Leith Murray (1880-1932) Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Liverpool, he graduated from St Andrews University and held resident posts at Dundee Royal Infirmary and in London at Paddington Green Children's Hospital, Chelsea Hospital for Women, and Queen Charlotte's. Having been to the Far East as a ship's doctor, he was commissioned as a naval surgeon when war broke out in 1914, and was mentioned in dispatches for his service in HMS *Caroline* at the Battle of Jutland (1916). He took the Fellowship just before war ended and served at the City Road Lying-in Hospital. Murray settled at Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1921, becoming assistant gynaecologist to the Royal Victoria Infirmary, obstetrician to the Princess Mary Maternity Hospital, and lecturer at the Newcastle Medical School. He succeeded R P Ranken Lyle in 1935 as Professor of Midwifery and Gynaecology in the University of Durham at Newcastle. He was a foundation Member and an original councillor of the British (now Royal) College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and was elected a Fellow in 1931. In the British Medical Association he was secretary of the Newcastle division 1921-27 and chairman 1930-31; at the annual meetings he was secretary of the section of obstetrics and gynaecology at Newcastle 1921 and Glasgow 1922 and a vice-president at Oxford 1936. He was an active member of the Gynaecological Visiting Club. Farquhar Murray retired from practice in 1946 and from his chair in 1951, and again travelled to the Far East as a ship's surgeon. He had founded the Blue Funnel Club for former volunteer ship's surgeons, and entertained many prominent explorers and sailors at the Club's annual dinners. His most lasting contribution to medicine was the introduction of obstetric "flying squads". He was a character of volatile temperament and mercurial wit, a brilliant operator and a popular teacher. He died at his home, 1 Eslington Road, Newcastle, on 23 March 1959 aged 73, survived by his wife.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005187
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First Title value, for Searching Roberts, Charles Hubert (1866 - 1929)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-07
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Educated at Bedford School, and entered St Bartholomew's Hospital on October 1st, 1884, where he gained in succession the Junior Scholarship, the Senior Scholarship, the Kirkes Scholarship and Gold Medal for Clinical Medicine, and the Brackenbury Scholarship in Surgery. His career at the University of London was equally brilliant. At St Bartholomew's Hospital he served the offices of House Surgeon, House Physician, Resident Midwifery Assistant, Casualty Physician, Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy, Demonstrator of Practical Midwifery and Diseases of Women, and temporary Physician-Accoucheur, the last post being held under the inspiring influence of Dr Matthews Duncan. As there was no immediate prospect of a vacancy at St Bartholomew's Hospital, Roberts attached himself to Queen Charlotte's Lying-in Hospital and to the Samaritan Free Hospital, where he attracted large classes by his powers of teaching both by lectures and at the bedside. During the European War he performed useful and arduous work as accoucheur to Lady Howard de Walden's Maternity Home for Officers' Wives and also as a member of the Visiting Staff of the Epsom War Hospital. He was Secretary and Vice-President of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Royal Society of Medicine, and was Secretary of a similar section at the Sheffield Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1908. As an Examiner he was a member of the Midwives Board, of the Conjoint Examining Board RCP Lond and RCS Eng, and of the Sheffield University. He died of influenza in Denmark in January, 1929, having been landed from a ship in which he was making a pleasure cruise. Roberts was a great teacher of students, an able diagnostician, and a highly skilled obstetrician who by force of circumstances never gained the position to which his mental attainments justly entitled him. He practised at 48 Harley Street, and had a country house, The Riverside, Taplow, Bucks. Publications: *Outlines of Gynaecological Pathology and Morbid Anatomy*, 8vo, London, 1901. Translation of Orthmann's *Handbook of Gynaecological Anatomy* (with Max L TRECHMANN), 8vo, London, 1904. Numerous papers in *Trans Obst Soc* and *Proc Roy Soc Med*.
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First Title value, for Searching Winterton, William Ralph (1906 - 1988)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-14
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details William Ralph Winterton was educated at Marlborough College and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and the Middlesex Hospital before qualifying in 1929. After resident appointments he became gynaecological registrar at the Middlesex in 1936, where he was deeply influenced and inspired by Victor Bonney, before his appointment to the honorary staff of the Soho Hospital for Women in 1936, Queen Charlotte's Hospital in 1937 and the Middlesex in 1938. His training gave him a lifelong interest and great skill in the management of gynaecological malignancy where he combined radical surgery with radiotherapy. He was also an accomplished obstetrician of sound judgement. An outstanding teacher of undergraduates and postgraduates, he allowed his registrars and resident staff as much practical experience as possible and was responsible for the training of many surgeons in his specialty. Ralph Winterton was a man of the highest integrity, honesty and sincerity who inspired great loyalty and affection in his junior staff. He examined for the Universities of Cambridge, London, Glasgow, Ibadan and Dar es Salaam as well as the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He was President of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1960. Outside his professional work his interests were many and various. A keen and active member of the Drapers' Company, he was elected to the Court of Assistants in 1957 and was Master in 1964. He was a governor of the company's schools: first at Bancroft's, where his father had been chaplain, and later as governor and vice- chairman of Howells, Denbigh. He was also an enthusiastic campanologist and became president of the Guild of Medical Ringers. He gave freely of his energies to his church and bells at Rushden, Hertfordshire, where he lived, and at St Michael's Cornhill, where he was churchwarden. Much of his spare time was devoted to carpentry, at which he was quite expert, and to fishing. After retirement he continued his association with the Middlesex Hospital as its archivist and was elected president of the Victor Bonney Society. A devoted family man, he died in hospital on 8 April 1988 survived by his wife Kaye and their two sons and two daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Strachan, Gilbert Innes (1888 - 1963)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-25
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born on 7 August 1888 he was educated at Glasgow High School and Glasgow University. Qualifying in 1910 he became house surgeon and then resident gynaecological officer at Western Infirmary, Glasgow, followed by a period as house surgeon at Glasgow Maternity Hospital, as house physician at Bristol Royal Infirmary and then as house surgeon at Glasgow Hospital for Sick Children. For a time he acted as demonstrator of anatomy at Glasgow University. During the war of 1914-18 he was commissioned as Captain RAMC and attached to the 3rd Western General Hospital at Cardiff. After the war he worked as a research pathologist under the Medical Research Council investigating the pathology of still births. In 1921 he was appointed assistant lecturer in midwifery, under the Midwives Act, in University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire and senior assistant to the Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the Welsh National School of Medicine. Later appointments were those of consulting gynaecologist to Penarth and District Hospital, assistant gynaecologist to Cardiff Royal Infirmary and gynaecologist to Cardiff City Mental Hospital. Subsequently he was consulting obstetrician and gynaecologist to Cardiff Royal Infirmary, to Llandough Hospital, to Mountain Ash Hospital, and to Abertillery and District Hospital. In 1932 he became Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the Welsh National School of Medicine. A lifelong supporter of the BMA, he was secretary of the Cardiff Branch in 1922-29, its chairman in 1930-31, President of the South Wales and Monmouthshire Division in 1937-38, and finally Vice-President of the Association. He was President of the Section of Obstetrics of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1951-52, and an examiner for the College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the Conjoint Board and the Universities of Wales, Birmingham, Bristol and Oxford. A notable collector of Spode and Chinese porcelain, he was deeply interested in music. In 1920 he married Olive Andrews by whom he had a son. He died in Cardiff on 9 December 1963 aged 75.
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First Title value, for Searching Paramore, Richard Horace (1876 - 1965)

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First Title value, for Searching Bowes, Robert Kenneth (1904 - 1958)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-22
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born 30 October 1904, the son of Joseph Edward Bowes MB, of Keswick, Cumberland, who survived him, Kenneth Bowes was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, where his father was in practice. At the University of Liverpool he studied medicine and was awarded the Holt fellowship in physiology in 1928. He was gold medallist in obstetrics and gynaecology. In 1929 he obtained the MB ChB with first-class honours and the MB BS London, also with honours. After qualifying Bowes held resident appointments at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary, and in 1931 was appointed surgical registrar at St Thomas's Hospital, London. He was admitted FRCS in 1931, and proceeded to MS London in 1932 and MD in 1935. He decided to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology, and after holding resident posts in that department at St Thomas's Hospital he finally became consultant surgeon there. He was also a demonstrator of anatomy and Louis Jenner research scholar. He was surgeon to the Grosvenor Hospital for Women and a consultant gynaecologist to the South-Western Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board. Bowes was an external examiner for the University of Glasgow and also examined in obstetrics and gynaecology for the Conjoint Board and the University of London. In 1949 he was Arris and Gale lecturer at the Royal College of Surgeons; his subject was the superficial veins in the female, and he illustrated his lecture with infrared photographs. In 1955 he was elected FRCOG. He married Phyllis, daughter of Ernest W Miller of Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1933, who survived him with one son. He lived at Guildford, with consulting rooms in Vincent Square, Westminster and he died on 1 February 1958 in St Thomas's Hospital, aged 53. Kenneth Bowes was a quiet, unassuming man, of encyclopaedic knowledge and prodigious memory, which served him well as editor of *Modern Trends in Obstetrics and Gynaecology*. Bowes had little interest in games or sport, and gardening was his chief relaxation. He was held in great affection by all who knew him.
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First Title value, for Searching Basden, Margaret Mary (1886 - 1974)

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First Title value, for Searching McNair, Arthur James (1887 - 1964)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-19
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born in London on 27 April 1887, second son of John McNair of Paisley, an underwriter at Lloyds, he was educated at Aldenham School, Emmanuel College, Cambridge where he took second-class honours in Natural Sciences, and at Guy's Hospital. During the first world war he served with the Royal Navy and then as a surgical specialist with the RAMC in the Indian Expeditionary Force D in 1916 and later in the Afghan fighting. He returned to Guy's after the war, and served the hospital and its medical school for thirty years, specialising in obstetrics and gynaecology. When he retired in 1952 the hospital conferred on him the title of emeritus, and later that year St Thomas's Hospital appointed him their honorary consulting gynaecologist. Before he retired he had also held appointments at the City of London Maternity Hospital, North Herts and South Bedfordshire Hospital, Purley Memorial Hospital, and at Caterham and District Hospital. McNair was a foundation member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and was elected a Fellow in 1931. He then served on the council and on many College committees and was elected vice-president. When he retired from his active hospital practice in 1952 he was elected honorary librarian where a great deal of his time was spent in arranging a large collection of old books and manuscripts in the library. He was President of the section of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Royal Society of Medicine in 1947, and an active member of the Gynaecological Club. Though he shunned publicity, his influence was wide and he helped to shape the course of modem obstetric care. He had a dry sense of humour, was well read with an excellent memory, and used these gifts to enliven his teaching. In younger days he was a keen sportsman, rowing, cycling, boxing, running, fishing and playing Rugger. McNair lived at 9 Devonshire Mews West, and died on 30 May 1964 aged 77; he had married Grace Mary Buist in 1930, and was survived by her and their three daughters.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005128
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First Title value, for Searching Roques, Frederick William (1898 - 1964)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-05-06
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born on 26 August 1898 son of A W Roques FRIBA he was educated at Highgate School. In 1916 he joined the Army and served in France as a Lieutenant in the 2nd Brigade, Royal Artillery. After the war he went to Clare College, Cambridge and in 1921 entered Middlesex Hospital where he won prizes and scholarships. He became house surgeon to Comyns Berkeley, Victor Bonney and Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor. He was also anatomy demonstrator to Professor T Yeates. He was resident medical officer at the Chelsea Hospital for Women and then gynaecological registrar and subsequently gynaecological surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital. He was also on the staff of the Royal Masonic Hospital, the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth, the West Herts and Gerrards Cross hospitals, and built up a very large consultant practice. He was a fine operator and a great teacher. On the outbreak of war in 1939 he served in the RAF and became an Air Commodore; after the war he was appointed civilian consultant to the RAF. He had greatly enjoyed his work at the RAF Hospital at Halton, where he appreciated living in the country. He moved his home from Hampstead to Buckinghamshire and took up pig-breeding, but continued to practise at 55 Harley Street. He gradually withdrew from much of his hospital work, keeping up his service to the Middlesex, the Royal Masonic and the Hospital for Women, Soho Square. He was President of the section of Obstetrics in the Royal Society of Medicine in 1952 and editor of the 1959 edition of the "Ten Teachers" textbooks. He was examining for the Conjoint Board the day before he died. Freddie Roques was a friendly hospitable man, who enjoyed literature, music, and country life; he was a devout Anglo-Catholic churchman. He died on 14 July 1964 aged 65 at Tal-y-Llyn Farm, Wigginton, Tring survived by his wife and the two sons of his first marriage; his first wife Jean Wanklyn had died in 1956.
Resource Identifier RCS: E005322
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First Title value, for Searching Worcester, Reginald George (1903 - 1972)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-31
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/378451378451
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born on 13 September 1903 at Omeo, Victoria, Australia, son of R J Worcester, he was educated at Melbourne High School, where he won two leaving scholarships and was a leading lacrosse player and the best rifle-shot, and at the University of Melbourne where he won his lacrosse blue and graduated, with first-class honours in gynaecology and obstetrics, in 1927. After holding resident posts at the Melbourne Hospital and the Women's Hospital he came to England in 1934, worked at St Charles's Hospital and the Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, and gained the MRCOG in 1934 and the Surgical Fellowship in 1937. On his return to Melbourne he was appointed to the staff of the Women's Hospital, and was elected FRACS in 1938. His ten years' service in his hospital was interrupted by the second world war, throughout which he was actively engaged in the Australian Army Medical Services, in casualty clearing stations and in command of field ambulances in Borneo and Morotai, then as Assistant Director of Medical Services for the Northern Territory at Darwin, and finally as Colonel in command of 2/9 Army General Hospital; he was awarded the Efficiency Decoration for his war work. Unfortunately he fell victim to persistent amoebiasis and disabling allergies, in spite of which he maintained a busy and useful career for more than twenty years after his return to civil practice. He was gynaecologist to Prince Henry's Hospital 1946-63, and tutor in obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Melbourne for eleven years. He represented Victoria on the Australian Council of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists between 1948 and 1958 and was elected a Fellow of that College in 1949. His favourite recreation was golf. Worcester married, while in England in 1934, Jean, daughter of C Kerville, who survived him with a son and two daughters. He died on 1 March 1972, aged sixty-eight, after five years illness following a severe cerebral stroke, the ultimate result of his wartime disabilities.
Resource Identifier RCS: E006268
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First Title value, for Searching Tomkinson, John Stanley (1916 - 1992)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-08
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details John Tomkinson was born in Stafford on 8 December 1916, the son of Harry Stanley Tomkinson, a company director, and his wife Kate Mills, née Cliff. He was educated at Rydal School and the University of Birmingham, where he qualified in 1941 with medals in surgery and ophthalmology. He joined the navy immediately after his house jobs and served as surgeon lieutenant until 1946. Returning to Birmingham he was appointed registrar in obstetrics at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and set out on a distinguished career in obstetrics and gynaecology, taking the FRCS and the MRCOG in his stride. In 1952 he moved south to a consultant post at the Chelsea Hospital for Women and soon added appointments as obstetric surgeon at Queen Charlotte's and at Guy's Hospitals. His future assured, he married Barbara Maria Pilkington in 1954. He was elected FRCOG in 1967 and served his College as examiner and member of Council; he examined for no less than six universities as well as for the Conjoint Board and the Central Midwives' Board. He edited the Queen Charlotte's *Textbook of obstetrics* and prepared the *Report on the confidential enquiry into maternal deaths*. This led to his becoming consultant adviser to the DHSS. For two years he was Secretary General of the International Federation of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, through which he gained contacts throughout the world and became a much sought-after lecturer. His link with the Royal College of Surgeons was strengthened by his time as Co-opted Member of Council and thereafter he was a regular and welcome attender at College dinners. He was appointed CBE in 1981 and in a long retirement enjoyed fishing on the Spey and the Test while at the same time polishing his skill as a watercolour painter. As a student and junior doctor he had been a long-distance runner and was a member of Marylebone Cricket Club. He died on 11 April 1992, survived by his wife, son Matthew and daughter Claudia, one son having predeceased him.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008390
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First Title value, for Searching Newbold, John Clifford (1911 - 1992)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-24
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details John Clifford Newbold was born in Lincoln on 21 August 1911, the son of John Davidson Newbold and Annie Ethel Allpress Laws. He was educated at Bishop Stortford College, where he became head of the School and captain of swimming and rugby football. He went to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained his blue for swimming. Having passed his Natural Sciences Tripos he went to St Bartholomew's Hospital to complete his undergraduate training. He qualified MB ChB in 1936 and became a member of the College in that year. After passing the Fellowship in 1940 he was appointed a surgical chief assistant at Bart's, working in general surgery, where he proved himself to be a fine teacher and an excellent surgical technician. He then went to Queen Charlotte's and the Chelsea Hospital for Women before joining the RAMC where, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, he commanded a FSU during the invasion of Normandy and went right across France to the Rhine. Later he served in the Far East and in Jerusalem, returning to England in 1947. After military service he was appointed consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Wolverhampton, where he worked from 1947 until he retired in 1976. His tenure was characterized by an enormous capacity for hard work and compassion for his patients. He took a keen interest in the reorganization of the service for Wolverhampton District. He became an examiner for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and was proud to be elected President of the Birmingham and Midland Obstetric Society. John Newbold married Barbara Girling ('Ray') who was also a doctor, in 1939 and they had five children - Dinah, a nurse, John, a solicitor, Sarah, a town planner, and Mary and Louise, who followed their parents into medical practice. In his spare time Newbold was an enthusiastic gardener, carpenter and sailor, and he had a great love of music. His children were all taught to play at least one instrument, and this was also the case with his nineteen grandchildren, which gave him tremendous pleasure. He died on 22 September 1992, survived by his wife and family.
Resource Identifier RCS: E008226
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First Title value, for Searching Mills, Wilfrid George (1915 - 1988)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-24
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/379694379694
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Wilfred George Mills was born in Birmingham on 20 August 1915, the son of George Percival Mills, FRCS (see *Lives* 1952-64, pages 289-290). One uncle, Humphrey Humphreys was Professor of Dental Surgery in Birmingham; another uncle, Seymour Barling was Professor of Surgery in Birmingham and his elder brother, John N Mills was Professor of Physiology in Manchester. He was at school at Oundle and entered the Birmingham Medical School where he won medals in physiology, surgery, medicine and neurology after receiving four Queen's Scholarships. He graduated with first class honours in 1938, and almost immediately, being a member of the Territorial Army, he served in France and then in West Africa. After the war he was influenced not only by H H Sampson for his surgical technique but also by Dame Hilda Lloyd who directed him into gynaecology. He visited America and also Amsterdam where he learnt the Schauta procedure before his appointment to the staff at the United Birmingham Hospitals. He became chairman of the division of obstetrics and gynaecology in Birmingham and was elected to the Council of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists where he became responsible for the examinations. This brought him into contact again with Africa but he also visited Libya and Australia as a lecturer and examiner. He wrote many papers and developed an interest in intra-uterine contraceptive devices. He was also elected President of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Royal Society of Medicine. In 1942 he married Margaret (Peggy) Rowley who qualified in medicine with him and became a JP in 1965. They had three sons and one daughter, none of whom took up medicine. When he retired they moved from Birmingham to a village in Worcestershire where he was kept fully occupied by a large garden and the local church. He also made several working trips to Botswana and one to St Lucia. He was known for his warmth and his kindly temperament and he enjoyed many sports including cricket, hockey, tennis, squash and skiing. He died on 13 April 1988 survived by his wife and family.
Resource Identifier RCS: E007511
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First Title value, for Searching Maslen-Jones, Samuel Walter (1891 - 1967)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-18
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Walter Maslen-Jones was born in Simla on 5 September 1891. His father was a Baptist Missionary and on his return to England his son was educated at Eltham College and then at the Middlesex Hospital. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1914, and soon afterwards joined the RAMC and for four years he served in Egypt where he met his wife, Sister Kate Wilde QAIMNS. As soon as he was demobilized he graduated MB BS in 1919 and proceeded to MS and FRCS a year later. He went to Wolverhampton in 1921 to work with Dr Frederick Edge and was appointed to the Women's Hospital where he soon built up a reputation as an obstetrician and gynaecologist. He was a foundation member of the British College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and was elected to the Fellowship of that College in 1931. He was a past-president and honorary Fellow of the Birmingham and Midland Obstetric and Gynaecological Society. He was chairman of the building committee responsible for the construction of the new college in Regent's Park, and he was a Vice-President of the College from 1958 to 1961. Maslen-Jones had many interests outside medicine. He was a keen Mason and was on the governing council of the Royal Masonic Boys' School, and for the year 1966-1967 was president of the Old Boys' Association of Eltham College. He was an excellent after dinner speaker and was in great demand. He was a fine practical surgeon with a warm and friendly character. He died after a short illness on 17 July 1967, and was survived by his wife and three sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Drew-Smythe, Henry James (1891 - 1983)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-08
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Henry James Drew-Smythe was born at Northampton on 1 June 1891, the first child of Frank Thompson Smythe and Ada (née Drew). He was educated at Taunton School and Bristol University where he won the gold medal in his final year at the Medical School. After resident appointments at Bristol General and Bristol Childrens' Hospital he joined the RAMC from 1914 to 1918, being demobilised with the rank of Major. After the war he did postgraduate work at the London Hospital where he studied under Russell Howard and took no less than three higher qualifications in 1921. No mean sportsman he played hockey for Somerset for several years, and rugby for the Bristol Medical School and the United Hospitals team in London. On returning to Bristol he became assistant and then senior gynaecologist and obstetrician at Bristol General Hospital and also Professor of Obstetrics to the University of Bristol. He published a number of papers on the induction of labour by rupture of the hind waters, other articles on gynaecology and obstetrics in various medical journals and the chapter on operative obstetrics in Bowes' *Modern trends in obstetrics and gynaecology*, 1950. He invented the Drew-Smythe catheter and was at one time President of the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society. During the second world war, probably as a Territorial officer, he served from 1939 to 1945 with the rank of Colonel and may well have been awarded his TD prior to that conflict. He married Enid Audrey Cloutman in 1914 and there were two sons of the marriage. He died in a Cheltenham nursing home on 12 August 1983 aged 92, and there is no record as to whether his wife and sons survived.
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First Title value, for Searching Rayner, David Charles (1865 - 1945)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-16
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born at Fairfield Road, Bristol, on 1 October 1865, the eldest child of David Rayner, wholesale textile merchant, and his wife, Edith Fryer. He was educated at Observatory House School, Bristol, under Dr Cooper, and at the Bristol Medical School. After working in the physiological laboratories, he decided to specialize in obstetrics and served on the staff of the Bristol Maternity Hospital. He took the Fellowship in 1896, and next year was appointed assistant physician accoucheur at the Bristol General Hospital, becoming physician accoucheur in 1923, when the title was changed to obstetric physician and gynaecologist. He became, director of clinical obstetrics at Bristol University in 1925, and the next year was elected professor of obstetrics, and was made emeritus professor on retiring in 1932. In 1930 he had received the ChM degree. Rayner examined in obstetrics for the University of Wales and the Central Midwives Board. During the 1914-18 war he served at the Beaufort War Hospital, Fishponds, Bristol. He was president of the Bristol Medico-chirurgical Society in 1930-31, and vice-president of the section of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Bath meeting of the British Medical Association in 1925. In 1929 he was elected a foundation Fellow of the British (now Royal) College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He was a member of the Gynaecological Visiting Society, and secretary 1913 and 1928 of the Bristol Medical Reading Society. "Charlie" Rayner had a large consulting practice till the end of his long life as he unselfishly helped absent colleagues during the war of 1939-45. He lived very simply at 9 Lansdown Place, Clifton, with his sister, and never married. In 1935 he suffered an attack of obliterative endarteritis and his right leg was amputated. Rayner was wholly devoted to his work, but had a cultivated love of music and literature. He walked, when possible, to all appointments, always carrying an umbrella. He was quite unmercenary, and hid his kindness and charm under a shy manner. He died in a Clifton nursing-home on 21 October 1945, three weeks after his eightieth birthday. Publications: Puerperal sepsis. *Birm med Rev* 1928, 3, 224. On the relation of gynaecology to the glands of internal secretion. *Bristol med chir J* 1931, 48, 1.
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First Title value, for Searching Hooper, Arthur Norman (1889 - 1948)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-10
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born on 4 January 1889 at Selborne, Dudley, Worcestershire, the fourth child and third son of Arthur George Hooper, solicitor, and his wife Fanny, daughter of the Rev Joseph Shillito, of Lozells Chapel, Birmingham. He was educated at Mill Hill School 1903-07, and at Emmanuel College, Cambridge; where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part I, 1910. He received his clinical training at the Birmingham General Hospital, where he served as house surgeon, took the course of midwifery at the Rotunda Hospital, Dublin, and was also house surgeon at Whitehaven Infirmary. He intended to become a medical missionary, and after qualifying in 1913 went to Japan as a ship's surgeon. On the outbreak of war in August 1914 he joined the RAMC, and served in France as a surgical specialist at casualty clearing stations, with the rank of captain gazetted 14 November 1915. After the war Hooper made postgraduate studies at the Middlesex Hospital, and took the Fellowship and the Cambridge medical and surgical baccalaureate in 1920. He bought a practice at Caversham near Reading in 1921, which he enlarged so much that he ultimately took in three partners, Drs E V Beale, S F L Dahne, and W I Bain. Hooper was appointed surgical registrar at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, in 1924, becoming assistant obstetrician, and later surgeon gynaecologist and retiring in 1946. He was obstetric consultant to the Berkshire County and Reading Borough Councils, and consulting surgeon at Marlow Cottage Hospital and the Berkshire Mental Hospital, Wallingford. He was a member of the Reading Pathological Society, and secretary for nine years of the Reading division of the British Medical Association. Hooper married in 1917 Violet, daughter of Henry Edmund Orr-Paterson, of Montgomerie, Ayrshire. Mrs Hooper survived him with two sons, the elder being Dr N S Hooper, and a daughter. He retired from practice in June 1947 and settled at Bells Barns, Kirkcudbright, Scotland, where he died on 23 March 1948, aged 59. Hooper excelled at all ball-games and outdoor sports, but gave little time to them. He was a devoutly religious man, much beloved. Publication:- Alterations in the distribution and character of the blood. *Reports of the special investigative committee on surgical shock and allied conditions*, 1918.
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First Title value, for Searching Lister, Arthur Reginald (1895 - 1973)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-26
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Occupation General practitioner Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Arthur Reginald Lister was born in Totteridge, north of London, on 4 April 1895 into a distinguished medical family. Lord Lister was his great-uncle, his father, Sir William Lister, and his cousin, Arthur Lister, were well-known eye surgeons, and one of his brothers was a consultant physician at Plymouth. He was at school at Winchester, and then went on to Trinity College, Cambridge, but when war broke out in 1914, at the end of his first year at the university, he volunteered for army service and was attached to the field artillery. He served in Gallipoli and in France and was awarded the Military Cross. After the war he completed his pre-clinical studies at Cambridge and then came to the London Hospital where he qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1923. He held house appointments under Lord Dawson and Henry Souttar, whom he assisted in his first operation for mitral stenosis. In 1925 he completed the MB BCh and also obtained the FRCS. He then settled in York where for some years he undertook general practice as well as surgery and gynaecology; but in time he gave up general practice, and with the advent of the National Health Service he specialized in obstetrics and gynaecology as a consultant to the York (A) Group of Hospitals. Reggie Lister, as he was known to his colleagues and his large circle of friends, was a first class operator, but it was his charm and the personal interest he showed in all his patients which endeared him to them. He had to suffer more than his proper share of illness himself, for he underwent a gastroenterostomy for a duodenal ulcer in 1927 which continued to give him a lot of trouble till a partial gastrectomy was done in 1954, yet he bore all these misfortunes with remarkable courage. Reggie married Margaret, daughter of Rev Carey Taylor, and they had two daughters, the elder of whom became a nurse at Great Ormond Street, and later at Westminster Hospital, and the younger became a physiotherapist. He was a keen golfer, a member of the Royal and Ancient Club at St Andrew's for many years, and will be long remembered as an outstanding personality in the city of York. He died after a long illness on 3 November 1973, and his wife and daughters survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Gilliatt, Sir William (1884 - 1956)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-10
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Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born in 1884 at Boston, Lincolnshire son of William Gilliatt, he received his medical training at the Middlesex hospital, where he was an outstanding student. He won the Hetley clinical scholarship, the junior Broderip scholarship, the Leopold Hudson scholarship and the Lyell gold medal and scholarship. After qualification in 1908 he held house appointments at the Middlesex Hospital as house physician, house surgeon, obstetric house physician and, finally, obstetric registrar and tutor. He was elected to the staff of King's College Hospital in 1916 retiring as senior gynaecologist in 1946, having been a member of the committee of management from 1932 onwards and, in 1945, vice-chairman. His other appointments included those of gynaecologist to St Saviours's Hospital, Maudsley Hospital and the Bromley Cottage Hospital. He was an examiner for the Universities of Cambridge, London and Bristol and for the Conjoint Board. For more than twenty years he had been gynaecologist to the Royal Household and, in 1952, became gynaecologist to the Queen attending at the births of Prince Charles and Princess Anne. He also attended the Duchess of Kent at the births of her three children. In 1954 he was elected president of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was a brilliant clinician and a skilful surgeon and combined these attributes with great ability as a teacher by writing and by the spoken word. An ideal chairman of a committee, he was eminently fair but could be ruthless if necessity arose. He was President of the College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists from 1946 to 1949, when his common sense and dignity combined with his administrative ability were of the greatest value. A simple and abstemious man he was rather reserved, the result not of pride but of an essentially shy nature. He married Dr Anne Louise Kann, daughter of John Kann of Lyne, Surrey, by whom he had a son, now on the staff of the National Hospital, Queen Square, and a daughter, at one time secretary to Sir Winston Churchill. His wife was an anaesthetist to the Royal Free and Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospitals before her marriage. He died suddenly on 27 September 1956 as a result of a motoring accident at Long Cross, Chertsey.
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First Title value, for Searching McCurrich, Hugh James (1890 - 1955)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-07
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born on 3 August 1890 one of the four children of John Martin McCurrich, chief engineer of the Bristol and Avonmouth Dock, he was educated at Clifton College, Bristol, St Bartholomew's Hospital and Vienna. Qualifying in 1915, he joined the Army as a combatant in the Middlesex Regiment but was later transferred to the RAMC, from which he was invalided out with trench foot. He returned to St Bartholomew's and was appointed house surgeon to D'Arcy Power and then to an obstetrical appointment, after which he held a succession of posts at the Royal Masonic Hospital, the West London Hospital, Putney General Hospital and the Royal Hospital, Sheffield as resident surgical officer. In 1925 he went to Brighton as medical superintendent of the Municipal Hospital, which subsequently became the Brighton General Hospital, and in 1931 he resigned to become consultant only, and was appointed assistant surgeon to the Royal Sussex County Hospital, where in 1939 he was also appointed as gynaecologist and in 1946 became full surgeon. At the same time he was surgeon to the Victoria Hospital at Lewes and for two years the Hove General Hospital. He had always taken a great interest in the development of the health services and had in 1926 become Roger Prize Essayist of the University of London, writing on this subject. From 1938 to 1941 he was President of the Brighton Division of the British Medical Association, and in 1944 he founded and was first President of the Regional Hospitals Consultants and Specialists Association, in which he was a tremendous driving force. He was President of the Brighton and Sussex Medico-Chirurgical Association in 1946-47, its centenary year. He contributed to Pye's *Surgical Handicraft*, and described a new operation for restoration of the common bile duct. A man of great courage and endurance, he remained a conscientious doctor in spite of his activities in medical politics. Among his other interests were the Brighton Boys' Club and sailing; he was a member of four yacht clubs. He was twice married, first to Dorothy Bettina Ellis by whom he had two sons and a daughter, and secondly to Nora Shaw. He died at Hove on 16 July 1955 after a long illness.
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First Title value, for Searching Eerland, Leendert Daniel (1897 - 1977)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-01
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist Thoracic surgeon
Details Born in Rotterdam on 25 February 1897, the son of a teacher who moved to the Dutch East Indies in 1905, Eerland spent part of his childhood in what is now Indonesia, a land for which he retained a life-long affection. He received his professional education at the faculty of medicine in Utrecht from 1916 to 1921 and decided to specialise in surgery and gynaecology. His thesis in 1926 was *Mola hydatidosa, mola destruens and chorionepithelioma*. In 1926 he went back to the East Indies and spent the next two years in the department of surgery of the Medical Faculty of Batavia, and from 1928 to 1937 he was surgeon and medical director at the Hospital of the Handelsvereeniging Amsterdam in Paree (Kediri), East Java. Although he spent much time on obstetrics and was interested in leprosy, pulmonary tuberculosis and tumours, his main contribution was his intensive study of endemic goitre, which had reached such proportions in the East Indies that sculptors depicted their gods and heroes with enormous swellings in the neck as a sign of prestige and greatness. It is mainly due to Eerland's work that Indonesia is now comparatively free from this disorder. He returned to the Netherlands in 1937 on election to the Chair of General Surgery at the University of Groningen. Although he always remained a general surgeon he became expert in the field of thoracic surgery: his pioneer work in lung surgery and his postgraduate courses attracted surgeons from all parts of the world and more than twenty nationalities were often represented at a course. Besides being a great teacher he was a brilliant technical surgeon and had remarkable success as a pioneer in lung resection for pulmonary tuberculosis. He also led the way in cardiac and pancreatic surgery, and was for many years Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in Groningen. He is remembered as an eminent surgeon, a fine organiser and administrator and a man of style, self discipline and dry humour. After his retirement he wrote an autobiography entitled 'The scalpel and the candle' the candle in the title referring to his motto: *In serviendo consumer* - In serving I am consumed.
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First Title value, for Searching Taylor, John William (1851 - 1910)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-28
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born at Melksham, Wiltshire, the third son of the Rev James Taylor, of Lewes, Sussex. He was educated at Kingswood School and at Charing Cross Hospital, where he was Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy, Resident Surgical Officer, and Resident Medical Officer. In 1877 he settled in Birmingham as Medical Officer to the Provident Dispensary at Camp Hill, a locality where he also entered into private practice. He early determined, however, to give up general practice for gynaecology, and in 1884 was appointed Surgeon to the Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Women, where he became Chief Assistant to Lawson Tait (qv). There is no doubt that the association with Tait, the contact with his genius and originality, and the chances afforded by association in his vast surgical practice, had an important influence upon Taylor. A striking comparison between Tait and Taylor is instituted by the latter's biographer in the *Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology* (1910, xvii, 883). Taylor succeeded Tait as Professor of Gynaecology at Queen's College, Birmingham, in 1899, and when the University of Birmingham was instituted in 1900 he became the first Professor of the same subject in that institution. Two years before his death he began to fail in health, and he died of chronic heart disease at his residence, 22 Newhall Street, Birmingham, on February 26th or 27th, 1910. He was buried on March 2nd, in Northfield Cemetery, Worcestershire. In 1889 he married Florence M Buxton, daughter of J Holmes Buxton, MRCS, of London, who survived him, with two sons and three daughters. Good portraits of Taylor accompany his biographies in the *Birmingham Medical Review* and *British Medical Journal*. He was President of the Midland Medical Society in 1897-1898, and in 1904 was Vice-President of the Obstetrical Society of London. He delivered the Introductory Address at the opening of the Medical Session at Charing Cross Hospital in 1901, and was shortly afterwards appointed a Governor of the institution. Publications:- "On Pyosalpinx." - *Lancet*, 1889, ii, 581. "On Dress in Relation to Certain Diseases of Women." - *Med Annual*, 1889, 509. "On Concealed Pyosalpinx." - *Lancet*, 1894, i, 996. *Extra-uterine Pregnancy, a Clinical and Operative Study*, 8vo, London, 1899. An authoritative work. *On the Diminishing Birth-rate: Presidential Address delivered before the British Gynaecological Society*, 11 Feb, 1904, 8vo, London, 1904.
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First Title value, for Searching Gleadell, Leslie Westfield (1906 - 1985)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-05-18 2017-05-05
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born in 1906 Leslie Westfield Gleadell was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, before going on with a scholarship to Melbourne University. As a youth he suffered from a disease of the hip joint, wrongly diagnosed as tuberculosis, and the prescribed long immobilisation left him with irreversible joint changes which handicapped him for the rest of his life. At the University he qualified MB, BS in 1929, obtained the DGO in 1933 and proceeded to the MGO in 1967. He was successively resident medical officer, senior medical officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and house surgeon at the Women's Hospital, Melbourne. On coming to England in 1934, he was on the staff first of the Evelina Hospital for Children, London, and then of the Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton. He gained the Fellowship of the College in 1935. At this time he was undecided whether to specialise in general surgery or obstetrics and gynaecology, but an appointment to the Hospital for Women, Soho Square, led him to choose gynaecology and he gained the MRCOG in 1936, becoming a Fellow of that College in 1947. Returning to Australia in 1938 he practised privately, but also gained appointments as assistant gynaecologist and assistant surgeon at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Unable to serve in the second world war because of his hip disability, he was tutor in obstetrics and gynaecology at Ormond and Trinity Colleges from 1938 to 1944; later he became an examiner in gynaecology for Melbourne University and head of the gynaecology department of the Royal Melbourne Hospital, a post he held until his retirement in March 1966. He was active in the affairs of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in Australia, being a member for many years of that College's Australian Regional Council of which he was successively honorary secretary and Vice-President. His chief interest was in surgical gynaecology and his operative skill was put to good effect in difficult procedures especially those concerned with gynaecological cancers. He was the first person in Australia to perform radical vulvectomy. Outside gynaecological surgery he was interested in rectal prolapse and, with E S R Hughes, devised an operation which became a standard procedure. He died in his sleep on 6 April 1985 survived by his wife, Jeanne.
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First Title value, for Searching Park, Lindsay Morgan (1896 - 1990)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-02
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Lindsay Morgan Park was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 31 August 1896, the son of Samuel Morgan Park who was secretary to the Otago Education Committee and his wife Anne Penelope, née Maxwell. His grandfather Thomas Park emigrated to New Zealand from Scotland in 1858 and was therefore regarded as an "early settler". During the first world war he served with the New Zealand Field Artillery in France. After demobilisation he was admitted to Otago University for medical studies, qualifying in 1923. He completed some junior posts in New Zealand, came to England in 1926 and carried out further appointments as house surgeon to the Jessop Hospital for Women in Sheffield and as clinical assistant, house surgeon and resident surgical officer at St Peter's Hospital for Stone. He passed the FRCS Edinburgh in 1929 and the Fellowship of the College two years later. He was then appointed surgeon at Brighton Municipal Hospital, but his chief interest was in obstetrics and gynaecology and in 1938 he was appointed to the staff of Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, in that specialty. His general surgical background gave him a special interest in the urological problems associated with gynaecology and throughout his professional life he showed great understanding of his patients' concerns as well as committing himself to providing a high standard of care. He was a founder member and past President of the Birmingham and Midlands Obstetric and Gynaecological Society and later in his life was appointed clinical lecturer to the University of Birmingham. He married May Schurmann in 1924 or 1925 but this ended in divorce. In 1939 he married Marjorie Delsia Chuter and they had three sons, David, Alan and Murray. David Maxwell Park became a consultant neurologist. He was a keen follower of all sports. He played rugby for his school and Otago University. A champion at school he remained a strong swimmer until disabled by a stroke in 1978. An outstanding and talented pianist he had a very wide repertoire excelling at Beethoven, Schumann, Schubert and Chopin. He also had a great interest in literature and particularly Greek and Roman history and philosophy. After retiring in 1962 he went to live at Haywards Heath where he died on 11 November 1990 survived by his wife, Delsia, and their sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Ritchie, Janet Elizabeth (1915 - 1995)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-01 2017-01-16
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Janet Bottomley was born in London on 20 May 1915. Her father was (William) Cecil Bottomley, KCMG, CB, OBE, and was an assistant Under-Secretary of State at the Colonial Office and later Senior Crown Agent for the Colonies. Her mother, Alice Robinson, was the daughter of Sir Richard Robinson, Chairman of the London County Council. Her early education was at Putney High School and later at Wimbledon High School, where she won a senior trust scholarship. She went to medical school at the Royal Free Hospital, where she won many class prizes, including the Gant Medal for Clinical Surgery and the Helen Prideaux Postgraduate Studentship. Early hospital appointments after graduation were held at the Royal Free Hospital, Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital, the Chelsea Hospital for Women and the London Hospital, amongst others. During these early years she was influenced by the teaching of Victor Bonney and Sir Charles Read. After a spell in Germany as a Major in the RAMC, mostly at the 29th British General Hospital in Hanover, she was selected from fourteen candidates as honorary surgeon to the gynaecological and obstetrical department at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, in 1948, becoming the first female consultant on the staff at that hospital. As befitted the daughter of a distinguished civil servant, Janet Ritchie was well organised: her operating lists ran smoothly and never over time, and anaesthetists who might delay her by introducing innovative techniques were not tolerated. Medical audit would not have daunted her, as she kept a hand-written record of all patients admitted under her care. She served on the Council of the RCOG, examined for Cambridge University, the RCOG and the Central Midwives' Board, and was on the management committee of the Medical Insurance Agency. Her two principal interests outside her work were photography and travel. Many journeys were on pioneering package holidays, and she was one of the first after the war to visit the Great Wall of China and Antarctica. After retirement she did a locum in Borneo and then became medical officer to an archaeological dig, where she met Carson Ritchie, a senior lecturer in history at Thames Polytechnic, whom she married in 1979. He survived her, together with a step-son and step-daughter, when she died from cancer of the breast on 30 July 1995.
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First Title value, for Searching Maliphant, Richard Glyn (1900 - 1978)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-03
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Richard Maliphant was born in Merthyr Tydfil on 17 January 1900, the second son of Richard Maliphant, an official in the Cyfartha steel works, and of Mary Morgan, daughter of a coal merchant. He was educated at Cyfartha Secondary School and went straight into the RNVR where he served in 1917-1918 as a wireless telegraphist. In 1919 he entered University College, Cardiff, with a Cory Scholarship and secured the Alfred Hughes Gold Medal in anatomy and the Price Prize. He then moved to University College Hospital, London, graduating in 1925 and proceeding MD in 1927 and MRCP in the following year. He passed the FRCS in 1931 and was elected FRCOG in 1938. After resident appointments at UCH and the West London and Samaritan Hospitals he returned to Cardiff as radium registrar to the Royal Infirmary. He was appointed honorary obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Royal Infirmary in 1932 and achieved a high reputation as a clinical teacher, and as a clinician whose practice was based upon sound conservative principles. He had a special interest in cancer of the cervix and gained wide experience in its treatment with radium, writing a number of valuable papers on this subject, and on its aetiology. He was never enthusiastic about the surgical treatment of this disease. After relatively early election to the FRCOG he became actively concerned in that college's affairs rather late in life, serving on its hospital recognition committee 1958-1964 and as its chairman for the last three years. He was a member of Council of the RCOG 1961-1967, and an examiner in obstetrics and gynaecology in the RCS Conjoint for six years. An able, but rather shy and unassuming man his contributions in clinical debate or committee were always carefully weighed and revealed shrewd judgement. He had a delightful sense of humour and evinced warm friendship and loyalty. He was a keen golfer and cricket lover, spending many days after his retirement at the Glamorgan County Cricket Club of which he was a vice-president, but his abiding joy was in music and especially in the piano. He married Dilys Davies in 1935 and they had two daughters, one of whom is a doctor and the other a nurse. He died on 1 January 1978, survived by his wife and daughters.
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First Title value, for Searching Percival, Robert Clarendon (1908 - 1995)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-25
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Robert Clarendon Percival was born at Richmond, New South Wales, Australia, on 16 September 1908, the fifth son and seventh of the eight children of William Percival, a farmer, and of Blanche Hilda Leontina, née Wikner, the daughter of a civil engineer. He was educated at Richmond Private Grammar School, North Richmond State School and Barker College, Hornsby, before spending one year at Sydney University. He then moved to the London Hospital Medical School where he won prizes in practical anatomy and clinical medicine before qualifying in 1933. Always known as 'Bush' because of his birthplace and accent, he was captain of the London Hospital rugby team and had also been a medium fast bowler for Kent. After resident surgical, medical and anaesthetic appointments at Poplar Hospital he became house surgeon, pathology assistant, registrar and first assistant in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at the London Hospital, where he acknowledged his indebtedness to Aleck Bourne, Eardley Holland, Victor Lack and Alan Brews, and also to Henry Souttar, Alan Perry and G E Neligan. During the second world war he served in the navy as a surgical specialist from 1941 to 1946 and was demobilised as a lieutenant commander, RNVR. He returned to the London Hospital and, having refused the chair of obstetrics and gynaecology, became director of that department. He edited the 13th and 14th editions of Holland and Brews' *Manual of obstetrics* and was a co-author of *Obstetrics: by ten teachers and Gynaecology: by ten teachers*. He also published a number of other papers on placenta praevia and carcinoma of the uterus. He was honorary secretary of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1960 to 1962 and was President of the Section from 1972 to 1973. He also served as an examiner for the RCOG. Following retirement he lived in Yeovil, and remained active in gardening, golf, fishing, shooting and tennis. He had first married Beryl Mary Ind, a state registered nurse and former sister in the QAIMNS, in 1944, and they had one daughter, who became a physiotherapist. After the death of his first wife in 1967 he married, in 1972, Beatrice Myfanwy Evans, who had been his anaesthetist for twelve years. He died of carcinoma of the prostate on 13 August 1995, survived by his daughter and his second wife.
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First Title value, for Searching Holmes, Thomas Sydney Shaw (1884 - 1964)

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First Title value, for Searching Kirwan-Taylor, Harold George (1895 - 1981)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-23
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Harold George Kirwan-Taylor was born on April 14, 1895. His father was chairman of a property company and his mother was the authoress and barrister, Mary Kirwan. He was educated at Epsom College, Trinity College, Cambridge, and St George's Hospital which he was to serve for most of his professional life. He qualified in 1917 and after resident appointments at St George's Hospital he obtained the FRCS in 1924 and soon after joined the staff as obstetrician and gynaecologist and he subsequently served the War Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and the Lying-In Hospital in Lambeth. He was a consultant gynaecologist to the Ministry of Pensions, and the boroughs of Woolwich and Bexleyheath. He was also an examiner to the Universities of Cambridge and Durham, the Conjoint and the Midwives Board and the Society of Apothecaries. Kirwan-Taylor was a first class all-round sportsman. He captained Epsom at cricket and subsequently played for the Young Gentlemen of Surrey, the Grand Fleet and United Services. He represented Cambridge at hockey and also played for the Wanderers and Middlesex County. He represented Queen's Club at squash and had a golf handicap of five. He was a keen shot and fisherman and was well known in the hunting field and took a great interest in his farm. In the first world war he was a Surgeon-Probationer RNVR and later a temporary surgeon in the Royal Navy. In the second world war he became a colonel in the Army Medical Service and was a temporary consultant surgeon to the MEF in 1940. In 1926 he stood as prospective Conservative candidate for East Woolwich. He married Elizabeth Mary Neild in 1926 and they had a son and three daughters. The marriage was dissolved in 1946. He died aged 86 on 2 December 1981.
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First Title value, for Searching Donaldson, Malcolm (1884 - 1973)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-25
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Malcolm Donaldson was born on 27 April 1884 and was educated at Charterhouse and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he gained a 3rd Class in the Natural Science Tripos in 1905. The most notable feature, however, of his university career was his keen interest in rowing, and in 1906 he won the University Sculls, and was in the eight competing with Oxford and Harvard. He came up to St Bartholomew's for his clinical course and passed the Conjoint examination in 1909 and took the Cambridge MB BCh degree in 1912. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1914, and of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1929. During the first world war he served in the RAMC as a surgical specialist, and shortly afterwards, in 1921, he was appointed assistant physician accoucheur to St Bartholomew's Hospital, having shown a special interest in obstetrics and gynaecology since holding the post of intern midwifery assistant in 1911. He was able to combine his work at Bart's with gynaecological posts at Mount Vernon and the Royal Northern Hospitals, and at the cottage hospitals at Brentford and Potters Bar. Quite early in his career he proceeded to devote his attention to radiotherapy, both with radium and X-rays, for uterine cancer, and was a pioneer in the treatment of cancer of the cervix by the insertion of radium needles by an intra-abdominal route. He was fortunate in having the collaboration of forward-looking radiotherapists at Mount Vernon Hospital as well as at Bart's, and was thus able to publish a book on radiotherapy in the diseases of women in 1933. He was Vice-Chairman of the National Radium Commission, and a member of the Radiology Committee of the Medical Research Council, and for several years he was the Director of the Cancer Research Department at St Bartholomew's. Donaldson's support of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists was manifested by his membership of the Council for many years, and he showed his interest in the academic aspects of his specialty by acting as an Examiner for the College and for the Universities of Cambridge, Oxford and London, and for the Central Midwives Board. But his chief and abiding objective in teaching was to educate the laity in the problems of cancer, with special reference to the importance of early diagnosis. He argued that the more the public knew about cancer the less would be the fear of it, and patients would therefore be more willing to consult their doctors in good time, so that the results of treatment could be improved. He was indefatigable in travelling round the country addressing Women's Institutes and similar bodies, and when he retired to Oxford he became Honorary Director of the Cancer Information Association. Donaldson was twice married. By his first wife he had two sons, the elder being Sir John Donaldson, President of the National Industrial Relations Court. His second wife died in 1970, and when he died himself aged 88 on 16 March 1973 his end came as a welcome relief after a terminal period of illness and loneliness.
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First Title value, for Searching Robinson, Kathleen (1911 - 1998)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-12-04 2018-02-14
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Kathleen Robinson was noted for her serenity, warm charm, wisdom and skill. These characteristics must have been largely inherited, but were nurtured in a happy family life that started on 25 May 1911 in Eccles, near Manchester. She was the third of five children, her father being a professional engineer and company director, whose opinion was sought all over the world. When she was three years old, the family moved to Colwyn Bay, North Wales, for the benefit of an elder sister who had contracted tuberculosis of the spine. Kathleen started at Penrhos College at the age of six as a weekly boarder and she went on to do very well at school, particularly in mathematics. Her mathematics teacher was disappointed when she chose medicine as her career and entered the London School of Medicine for Women (later the Royal Free Hospital Medical School). Again, she excelled as a student and, after qualifying, she completed house surgeon appointments at the Royal Free Hospital, the Royal Cancer Hospital (later the Royal Marsden), the Samaritan Hospital and Queen Charlotte's. She gained a very wide experience, both in general surgery and in obstetrics and gynaecology, much of it during the difficult war years when she held appointments at St James's Hospital, Balham, the City of London Maternity and Bearsted Memorial Hospital and was outpatients' surgeon at the Samaritan. She was already beginning to win a name for herself as a teacher. Finally, she held the all-important post of resident obstetrician at Queen Charlotte's Hospital, where she subsequently became the first woman to be elected to the honorary staff in 1946. Her appointment as consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Royal Free Hospital soon followed. There she became something of a legend. Her clinical sense and operative skills were outstanding, but she was noted also for her teaching, and above all for the cheerful atmosphere of calm and serenity that she engendered around her. Her colleagues and their spouses always turned to her with their personal problems and she devoted much time to their care. Her practice was guided by her own strong Roman Catholic faith, but this never obtruded itself on others. In 1959, she became an examiner to the University of London and in later years became a visiting examiner. She and her husband thoroughly enjoyed their visits to the West Indies, where they made firm friends. Kathleen had married Vincent Sherry when they were both on the junior staff at Queen Charlotte's Hospital. Vincent subsequently went into general practice in South London and they had a very happy family life there bringing up three children, two girls and a boy. One of the girls and a granddaughter have both gone into the medical profession. Kathleen retired in 1976, but owing to some problems in the department continued to do locum work there for some years. She and her husband enjoyed some few years of her retirement, travelling widely about the world. Sadly, she had first one and subsequently two further strokes, which left her badly incapacitated. Vincent looked after her devotedly throughout this time. With her death on 2 December 1998 her family, friends, former colleagues and students all felt a very deep sense of loss of someone with quite exceptional gifts.
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First Title value, for Searching Evans, Arthur Briant (1909 - 2005)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-09-23
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Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Briant Evans was a former consultant obstetric and gynaecological surgeon at Westminster Hospital, Chelsea Hospital for Women and Queen Charlotte’s Maternity Hospital. He was born in London in 1909, the eldest son of Arthur Evans, a surgeon at the Westminster Hospital. He was educated at Westminster School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, before completing his clinical studies at the Westminster Hospital. On the day he qualified in April 1933 his father, who had a large number of theatrical clients, took him to the theatre. They went to see Sir Seymour Hicks in his dressing room in the interval. On hearing that Briant had just qualified, he asked “How do I look?” Briant said, “Very well sir.” “Good, here’s your first private fee,” he replied, handing him a £1 note from his coat pocket. Following junior appointments at Westminster Hospital, Chelsea Hospital for Women and Queen Charlotte’s Maternity Hospital, he acquired his FRCS and the MRCOG. During the war he served in the Emergency Medical Service in London and was in the RAMC from 1941 to 1946, serving in the UK, Egypt (with the 8th General Hospital, Alexandria), Italy and Austria (where he was officer in charge of the No 9 field surgical unit) and was obstetric and gynaecological consultant to the Central Mediterranean Force. He ended the war as a lieutenant colonel. He was subsequently appointed obstetric and gynaecological surgeon to Westminster Hospital, obstetric surgeon to Queen Charlotte’s Maternity Hospital and surgeon to the Chelsea Hospital for Women. He examined for the Universities of Cambridge and London, and for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Briant was much loved and respected by his patients and colleagues. He made operating appear easy. Quiet in manner and ever courteous, he loved teaching and was never happier than when accompanied by students on ward rounds and in the theatre. After retiring he bought a farm in Devon and his son Hugh was brought in to run it. He loved country life. He was a keen gardener, enjoyed sailing and had been a good tennis player in earlier days. His last home was in Buckinghamshire. In 1939 he married Audrey Holloway, the sister of David Holloway, who was engaged to Briant’s sister, Nancy. His wife died before him. They leave three sons (Roddy, Martin and Hugh), eight grandchildren and six great grandchildren. He died from a stroke on 3 March 2005.
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First Title value, for Searching Brown, Robson Christie (1898 - 1971)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2008-01-03 2014-07-18
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Christie Brown was born on 1 July 1898 and was educated at the Royal Kepier Grammar School and Durham University, where he gained numerous prizes and scholarships. While an undergraduate he served for a few years of the first world war in a destroyer based on Scapa Flow, but returned to the University after the war and graduated in 1920. He specialised early in gynaecology and became obstetric tutor at Leeds University and later at the London Hospital. After a time he was appointed to the staff of the Samaritan Hospital for Women, the Metropolitan Hospital, the City of London Maternity Hospital and many others in and around London. He became in due course an examiner to the Central Midwives Board and to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, of which he had been a founder member. Christie Brown's outstanding ability as an obstetrician was widely recognised, especially by his married colleagues, and he made a special study of the treatment of infertility in women; he was also the inventor of an unspillable hour-glass chloroform-inhaler for use by the patient when in labour. Christie Brown was an excellent lecturer and an able after-dinner speaker, much sought after at medical and other gatherings where eloquence and wit were in demand. He was a good organiser and took an active part in the work of the Samaritan Hospital. When there was talk of the Samaritan being completely merged in St Mary's Hospital, Christie Brown took up the defence of the Samaritan whose name was retained when the two hospitals were united. He contributed many papers on his specialty and his text book on midwifery was reprinted many times, running into its third edition by 1950. In addition to his other work Brown took an active interest in the problems of cancer and was one of the first to prescribe cytotoxic drugs to his patients. First in London and later at Loughton in Essex, he kept open house to his friends and colleagues; for outside interests he became a keen photographer and a first-class mechanic. For many years he was dogged by ill health (a nephrotic syndrome), which led to his early retirement in 1959. Robin Christie Brown's wife died in 1970; and their only son Jeremy Robin Warrington Christie Brown took up medicine; he himself died after a brief illness on 13 December 1971 at his home at Highcliffe-on-Sea.
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First Title value, for Searching Maxwell, Richard Drummond (1873 - 1916)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-08-01
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/374873374873
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born in Edinburgh on March 16th, 1873, of a family originally from Dumfriesshire and the district of Sanquhar and Wanlockhead. After attending the City of London School and University College, he entered the London Hospital in 1892, where he was a sprinter and Rugby football player. He held the appointments of House Physician, House Surgeon, and Receiving Room Officer. In the South African War he served with the Field Force as a Civil Surgeon, and in 1903 he became Resident Medical Officer at Queen Charlotte's Hospital. From that time onwards he devoted himself to obstetrics and gynaecology, attending particularly gynaecological operations at the London Hospital until appointed Obstetric Registrar and Tutor in 1907. In 1908 he was elected Physician to Out-patients with additional charge of beds at the Samaritan Hospital. Subsequently he was elected Physician to Queen Charlotte's Hospital. In 1912, on the retirement of A H N Lewers, he became Assistant Obstetric Physician and Lecturer on Midwifery to Nurses at the London Hospital. He was an able and popular lecturer who knew well the value of a good story or quaint allusion, and was both skilful and successful as an operator. Owing to the illness of his senior, Dr Henry Russell Andrews, he was prevented from joining the Expeditionary Force in 1914, and had charge during 1915 of all the obstetrical and gynaecological beds at the London Hospital. At the same time he continued in command of the London Hospital Section of the London University Officers' Training Corps, of which he had long been an active member, and spent a fortnight in camp during July, 1915. Some three and a half years before he had suffered from a duodenal ulcer for which gastrojejunostomy was performed, the appendix being removed at the same time. He was seized with an acute intestinal obstruction, found to be due to a band which had formed between the former site of the appendix and a point in the pelvis. He died twenty-four hours later, on March 6th, 1916, and after a representative military funeral the body was cremated at Golder's Green. Publications:- Maxwell largely contributed to Dr G E HERMAN'S 4th edition of *Diseases of Women*. He wrote a number of the articles on "Obstetrical Complications" in the *Encyclopaedia of Treatment*, and in the *Proc Roy Soc Med*, 1908-12. As preventive of 'obstetric tragedies' he advocated the State endowment of Labour Wards.
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First Title value, for Searching Hewetson, John Thomas (1872 - 1936)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-10
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URL for Files https://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/client/en_GB/search/asset/376391376391
Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born 18 October 1872 at Hornsby Gate, Armathwaite, Cumberland, the third son and fourth child of Pearson Hewetson, farmer, of Fenton, Cumberland, and Charlotte Toppin his wife. He was educated at Grosvenor College, Carlisle, at the University of Edinburgh, at King's College Hospital, and at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He served for a time as assistant house physician at the General Hospital, Bristol, and as house physician at the General Hospital, Birmingham, before he went in general practice in Coventry. Being interested in pathological research he received the Mackenzie scholarship and was appointed a British Medical Association research scholar in 1904. In 1903 he was chosen assistant obstetric officer under Dr Thomas Wilson at the Birmingham General Hospital and held office for five years, acting also as gynaecological tutor. He also held appointments in the University of Birmingham, as assistant to the professor of obstetrics and gynaecology and as curator of the gynaecological section of the pathological museum. From 1903 to 1936 he served on the staff of the Birmingham Maternity Hospital, and in 1908 he relinquished his position at the General Hospital to join the staff of the Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Women, a post he held until his death, becoming chairman of the medical board and senior surgeon. He was an original Fellow of the College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and during the war acted as surgeon to the Hollymoor War Hospital. He married (1) on 7 July 1901 Bertha, daughter of Edward Wolley, of Accrington; she died in November 1916, leaving two sons and two daughters; (2) on 2 April 1918 Ethel Helena, daughter of Harry Reynolds, of Hartford, Cheshire, who survived him but without children. He died on 19 May 1936, and Mrs Hewetson died on 24 April 1952. Hewetson worthily upheld the tradition of the Birmingham school of gynaecology. As a surgeon he was outstanding, gentle, quick, never flurried, and full of confidence in himself. He was a great lover of sport, particularly football and cricket; he was a member of the committee of the Warwickshire County Cricket Club from 1922 to 1926 and then became a vice-president of the Club. Publications:- Syncytioma malignum. *Practitioner*, 1906, 77, 204. Multiple myomectomy in pregnancy; labour at term. *Bghm med Rev* 1908, 64, 55. Branchiogenic papilliferous adenocarcinoma. *J Path Bact* 1909, 13, 198. Adrenal hypernephroma in an adult female, associated with male secondary sex characters, with E Glynn. *Ibid* 1913, 18, 81.
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First Title value, for Searching Taylor, Frank Edward (1872 - 1930)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-20
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist Pathologist
Details Born at Leeds on 27 January 1872, the third son and sixth child of Charles Henry Taylor, an iron-founder, he was educated at the Leeds Boys' Modern School and at the Yorkshire College, which afterwards became the Victoria University, graduating BA in 1891, and afterwards entering the medical department of the College. He served as house surgeon at the Leeds General Infirmary and then decided to specialize in obstetrics and gynaecology. He was appointed house surgeon and clinical assistant at the Leeds Hospital for Women and Children, and in 1899 matriculated at the University of Berlin. During the South African war in 1900 he acted as a civil surgeon, and received the medal with three clasps. In 1902 on his return to England he filled the post of pathologist at the Chelsea Hospital for Women, and was afterwards obstetric registrar and tutor at the Middlesex Hospital. In 1906 he became gynaecologist to the North-West London and Hampstead General Hospital, to the St Marylebone General Hospital, and to the Eastern Dispensary. Ill-health obliged him to relinquish his gynaecological practice in 1912, and he then confined himself to teaching and research in bacteriology and pathology. He was elected lecturer on bacteriology at King's College, London in 1907, and he was also for some years pathologist to the Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital. During the war he was pathologist to the Lewisham War Hospital, and at the time of his death he was in charge of the vaccine laboratory at the Royal Herbert Hospital, Woolwich. He married Phoebe Stansfield on 12 September 1905, who survived him but without children; He died suddenly on 1 July 1930. Mrs Taylor died on 13 May 1947. Frank Taylor was an excellent teacher and a writer who combined literary ability with originality. He wrote numerous papers, gynaecological at first, and later on such pathological subjects as the Arneth blood-count, vaccines, the absorption test, mycological tests for sugars, Vincent's angina, fusospirillary peridental gingivitis, the diplococcus liquefaciens of Petit, and many other subjects. He was for many years director of the Review of current literature in the *Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology* of the British Empire, and was an examiner of the Central Midwives Board. Publications: Adeno-cystoma ovarii sarcomatodes. *J Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp* 1906, 9, 268. Typhoid infection of ovarian cysts. *Ibid* 1907, 12, 367. Necrobiotic fibroids and pregnancy. *Practitioner*, 1906, 76, 804. Physical action of placenta, with W E Dixon. *Proc Roy Soc Med* 1907, 1, obstet p 11.
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First Title value, for Searching Jeaffreson, Bryan Leslie (1896 - 1953)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-03
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details He was born in London on 29 August 1896 son of Henry John Jeaffreson, insurance broker, and his wife née Gregory. The Jeaffresons came from Framlingham, Suffolk, and there had been several well-known surgeons in the family; William Jeaffreson FRCS (1844) performed the first successful ovariotomy in England in 1836. B L Jeaffreson was educated at Hurstpierpoint and St Bartholomew's Hospital, which he entered in August 1914 just as war broke out. He enlisted in the Honourable Artillery Company and served as a combatant in France for two years, being invalided out of the army in 1917. He returned to St Bartholomew's, qualified in 1921, and served as house surgeon and resident intern midwifery assistant; he was awarded the Willett medal in operative surgery in 1921. He took the London MD in 1924, and served as house physician at the London Chest Hospital. He moved to Sheffield in 1926, and worked under Miles Phillips as senior resident officer at the Jessop Hospital for Women; but transferred in 1928 to Birmingham, as registrar to the gynaecological department and the surgical unit at the General Hospital under Beckwith Whitehouse. He was appointed assistant surgeon at the Hospital for Women at Leeds in 1930, and made his life's career there. He also was appointed tutor in obstetrics and gynaecology at Leeds University, and later became senior clinical lecturer, a post in which he made considerable mark for he was an excellent teacher as well as a good technical surgeon. He succeeded McGregor Young as surgeon to the Leeds Maternity Hospital in 1934. Jeaffreson examined for the universities of Leeds, Manchester, and Sheffield, and was presiding examiner at Leeds for the Central Midwives Board. He was an active member of the North of England Obstetric and Gynaecological Society, organised the 13th British Congress of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Leeds in 1952, and was president-elect of the Society for 1953. He sat in the Council of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists as a Member from 1943 to 1949 and was elected a Fellow in 1950. Jeaffreson married Miss Bunting in 1930; she survived him with a son and daughter. He died suddenly at 28 Ring Road, Headingley, on 7 January 1953 aged 56, having practised at 32 Park Square, Leeds. In spite of his abilities and achievement he was modest to a fault. Publication: Basal cells in the epithelium of the human cervical canal, with B Carmichael. *J Path Bact* 1939, 49, 63.
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First Title value, for Searching Gwillim, Calvert Merton (1899 - 1972)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-08-05
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Calvert Gwillim was born on 26 October 1899 in Ceylon. After spending his childhood on that island he was educated first at Swansea and later at St Bartholomew's Hospital, from where he qualified in 1921. He first became a house surgeon at Leicester Royal Infirmary where he gained considerable experience in general surgery. In 1923 he took his DPH and the following year proceeded to take his MD in obstetrics, gynaecology and medicine. After his house appointments he became gynaecological tutor at St George's Hospital, London and also assistant medical registrar. In 1936 he was appointed to the staff of St George's and worked at that hospital until his retirement in 1965. In addition to his appointment at St George's he became obstetric physician to the Samaritan Hospital for Women and Gynaecological surgeon to the Weir Hospital and at Maidenhead and Bushey Hospitals. During the war he was in the EMS and worked at St Stephen's Hospital in Fulham Road, but later returned to St George's to act first as a casualty surgeon and later as a gynaecologist. Gwillim was an examiner for the University of Cambridge and as associate editor of *Operative surgery*, in which he wrote chapters on vaginal hysterectomy and uterine prolapse. As an obstetrician he was conservative and with small hands was an extremely dexterous performer of obstetrical manoeuvres before the days when Caesarian section made obstetrics an easier problem. Gwillim had few interests outside his work but made a small but fine collection of Oriental ceramics. As a Welshman he was a great lover of the Gower peninsular where he spent many holidays. Gwillim's life and character were a strange mixture; his academic attainments were very high but although he liked practice he was never prepared to compromise in any way his own convenience to the wishes of his patients. His influence as a gynaecologist will remain for many years in this country and abroad, but he never extended his remarkable gifts to the College of which he was a Fellow, or to medical politics. Gwillim's desire to stand alone and his reluctance to seek help from others forced him sometimes into an antagonism with his colleagues which he never wished, but he earned the affection and admiration of those who were privileged to work with him. He married twice and was survived by his son David. Gwillim died at Reading on 2 September 1972 at the age of 72.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, William Robert (1869 - 1966)

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First Title value, for Searching Hefferman, Leslie William (1895 - 1957)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-26 2022-11-10
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born on 7 March 1895 the son of Major W St M Hefferman, Burma Medical Service, he was educated at Epsom College, where he was a prefect and won the Modern History prize. He served as a combatant in the first world war, with the rank of Captain in the 7th battalion, the Border Regiment, and was severely wounded in France in 1917. He then resumed his medical training at the Middlesex Hospital and qualified in 1920, acting for a time as prosector to the examiners for London University, the Conjoint Board and the Royal College of Surgeons. From 1920 to 1924 he served in Burma, as an assistant chief medical officer of the Burma Corporation and surgeon to the General Hospital at Namtu. He settled in practice at Swansea, Glamorgan, where the rest of his life was spent, and took a prominent part in professional and civil affairs. He was surgeon to the General Hospital, and medical referee for various assurance companies. He was president of the Medical Practitioners' Union from 1938 to 1948, and served as a borough councillor for Swansea from 1930 till his death in 1957. He was interested in the practice of domiciliary obstetrics, and in middle age took a series of higher degrees, beginning with the Diploma in Obstetrics of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He made his postgraduate courses at the British Postgraduate Medical School and in Edinburgh, and won distinction in anatomy at the London MB BS examination in 1943. Hefferman was a commissioner of the St John Ambulance Association, a Commander of the Order of St John, and an honorary life member of the Priory of Wales. He practised at Granville House, 1 Ysgol Street, St Thomas, Swansea, latterly in partnership with D H Gamage MRCS. He was married twice. In 1917 he married Joan Noel Marion Godfrey. They had two daughters, Angela Betty Gladys and Pamela. He divorced and in 1927 he married Lydia Bronwen Evans. They had two daughters, Patricia Ann and Imogen Gaynor Marelle, and adopted a son, David. Another daughter, Anne, died as a baby. He died on 20 June 1957 at his home The Spinney, West Cross, Swansea, aged 62. Publications: Domiciliary obstetrics. *Med World* 1949. Modem trends in domiciliary midwifery. *Med Press* 1952. **This is an amended version of the original obituary which was printed in volume 3 of Plarr’s Lives of the Fellows. Please contact the library if you would like more information lives@rcseng.ac.uk**
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First Title value, for Searching Waters, Harry Silvester (1904 - 1993)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-08
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Harry Silvester Waters was born in Mussoorie, India, on 21 May 1904, the son of Sir Harry George Waters, chief medical officer to the East India Railway Company. His mother, Winifred, was one of the first female graduates of the Edinburgh Medical School, and was for a time after her marriage an assistant surgeon in the Indian Medical Service. He was educated at the Pierce School, Cambridge, and then at Oundle. After winning a natural science scholarship he attended Christ's College, Cambridge, where he achieved some eminence in rowing circles, rowing for the first boat and having a trial for the University boat itself. His clinical education was at St Mary's Hospital, where he not only won prizes in pathology and surgery but also captained the famous St Mary's rugger team in the 1926 and 1927 seasons. After qualifying he became house officer to Professor Pannett. Having passed his primary Fellowship whilst a student under the old regulations, he sat for the Final examination and passed at the first attempt, a rare achievement in those days. In 1928 he was commissioned into the Indian Medical Service and after training at Crookham he returned to India in 1929, serving first with a Gurkha regiment before transferring to the civil division in 1931, attached then to the Viceroy's staff which meant an annual migration between Simla and Delhi, according to the seasons. He was next appointed as a civil surgeon to St George's Hospital in Bombay, and in 1937 he obtained study leave and returned to Britain to study for the MRCOG. After obtaining this qualification he returned once again to India and was appointed first as an obstetrician to Poona and then as Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology to St George's Hospital in Bombay, in which capacity he served until Indian Independence. At this time he returned to England and was appointed as the first, and at that date only, consultant obstetrician to the Blackburn Health Authority, where he remained until his retirement. In January 1935 he married Mary Murphy and they had three children, Stephanie, Susan and Harry who, in due course, followed in his father's footsteps and became an anaesthetist. After retirement he moved to Caxton, near Cambridge, and became the unofficial coach to his College boat crew; he was also a frequent visitor to Oundle, to watch their teams on the rugby field. He died on 30 April 1993 aged 89, survived by his wife, children and seven grandchildren, two of whom are doctors.
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First Title value, for Searching Peel, Sir John Harold (1904 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2006-11-30
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Sir John Peel was perhaps the most celebrated obstetrician and gynaecologist of his era. Born in Bradford on 10 December 1904, he was the son of the Rev J E Peel. From Manchester Grammar School he went to Queen’s College, Oxford, going on to his clinical studies at King’s College Hospital where, after junior posts in surgery and obstetrics and gynaecology, he was appointed to the consultant staff in 1936, and to Princess Beatrice Hospital the following year. During the Second World War he was surgeon to the Emergency Medical Service, and in 1942 was put on the staff of Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead. Together with Wilfred Oakley, he studied the management of women with diabetes, research that led to a reduction in maternal and infant mortality. A council member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1955, he was president in 1966, when he chaired a debate on reform of the abortion law, driven by his anxiety to reduce the morbidity of illegal abortion. In 1971 he was the author of a report that recommended that all women should give birth in hospital and remain there for several days, a report which wrought a great change in maternity practice, though it did not go unchallenged. Peel assisted at the birth of Prince Charles and Princess Anne, and in time succeeded Sir William Gilliatt as surgeon-gynaecologist to the Queen, in which capacity he delivered Prince Andrew and Prince Edward (all these, paradoxically, being home deliveries). A quiet, unflappable Yorkshireman, Peel was unfazed by media interest in his royal patients. He married Muriel Pellow in 1936, and divorced her in 1947, to marry Freda Mellish, a ward sister. Their long and happy marriage was terminated by her death in 1993. He married for the third time in 1995, to an old family friend, Sally Barton. He died on 31 December 2005, leaving her and a daughter by his first marriage.
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First Title value, for Searching Green-Armytage, Vivian Bartley (1882 - 1961)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-24
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born on 14 August 1882 son of A Green-Armytage of Clifton and York, he was educated at Clifton College, at Bristol University and the Royal Infirmary, and in Paris. He was Montefiore surgical medallist at the RAMC College, was commissioned Lieutenant IMS in 1907, promoted Captain in 1910, Major in 1919, became Lieutenant-Colonel in 1927, and retired in 1933. During the war of 1914-18 he was three times mentioned in dispatches, receiving the Mons Star, the Croix de Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur and the Order of the White Eagle, Serbia with crossed swords in 1917. From 1911 to 1922 he held the appointment of resident medical officer at the Eden and Presidency General Hospitals in Calcutta, becoming Professor of Gynaecology and Obstetrics at the Eden Hospital 1922-33. On his retirement from Calcutta, he was presented with a volume of his selected addresses by medical women of India, printed and published by them at Calcutta as a token of their esteem for and appreciation of a great teacher and loyal friend during twenty-five years work in Bengal. Returning to England he set up in practice as a consulting gynaecologist, and was appointed to the West London, British Postgraduate, Italian, and Tropical Diseases Hospitals. He was president of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Royal Society of Medicine and vice president of the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and was an examiner in these subjects for the University of Cambridge and for the Royal Colleges. In 1958 he was promoted Officier de la Légion d'Honneur. He was a skilful exponent of the operation of vaginal hysterectomy, as a result of his experience in India. He was very helpful to overseas postgraduate students and endowed a visiting fellowship tenable for four years at the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecologists. A great raconteur he delighted to entertain his friends and visiting gynaecologists at his clubs, the Oriental and the East India and Sports. He died on 11 April 1961 in London, aged 78, survived by his wife.
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First Title value, for Searching Rose, Dame Hilda Nora (1891 - 1982)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-24
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born on 11 August 1891 to John Shufflebotham, a Birmingham grocer, Hilda was educated at King Edward's High School for Girls and at the University of Birmingham where, with the reluctant consent of her father, she studied medicine. She graduated BSc in 1914 and MB ChB two years later, and obtained a wealth of practical experience, especially in obstetrics, during the war when many of her senior colleagues were away in the forces. She also held postgraduate appointments at the Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Women and the London Hospital. It is said that her competence so impressed her seniors that one of them offered to resign in her place if she could obtain her FRCS and this she did without difficulty in 1920. Soon after her appointment as consultant to the Maternity and Women's Hospital in Birmingham she acquired an enormous practice especially among her colleagues' wives. When, in 1943 Professor Sir Beckwith Whitehouse died, she was appointed his successor, holding the Chair of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the University for the next eleven years. She had taken the MRCOG in 1935 and was made FRCOG the next year. She became President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1949 - characteristically insisting that her predecessor, the royal gynaecologist Sir William Gilliatt remain in office long enough to admit the Queen (now the Queen Mother) to the Honorary Fellowship. She was created DBE in 1951 and Honorary LLD of her own university in 1958. She married a colleague, Bertram Lloyd, in 1930 and their supremely happy marriage ended in 1948 when he died after a long period of ill health through which Dame Hilda nursed him with loving care. In 1949 she married Baron Theodore Rose (qv) with whom she had graduated in 1916. They retired early together to live near Ross-on-Wye. Baron Rose died in 1978 and Dame Hilda moved nearer to Birmingham where she continued an active social life in the University and hospital, even superintending all the details of her 90th birthday party before dying on 18 July 1982, one of the most distinguished women doctors of her generation.
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First Title value, for Searching Burnett, Clifford William Furneaux (1906 - 1971)

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First Title value, for Searching Briggs, Henry (1856 - 1944)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-22
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born at Pilkington, Lancashire on 10 May 1856, the third child and second son of James Briggs, he was educated at the Manchester Grammar School, at Owens College, Manchester, and at Edinburgh University. There he learnt anatomy from Sir William Turner, and was senior medallist; and surgery from Lister, and won the gold medal and first prize. Qualifying in 1877 in Edinburgh and London, he served as resident surgical officer at the Stanley Hospital, Liverpool, and then became senior resident medical officer at the Royal Infirmary, where he was subsequently surgical tutor and anaesthetist. He was also demonstrator of anatomy and assistant lecturer in surgery at Liverpool University College. In 1884 he took the Fellowship, and was advised by Lister to follow his example and migrate to London. But already Briggs had decided to specialize as a gynaecological surgeon, and to devote himself to the teaching of midwifery at Liverpool. His work lay in the old Hospital for Women in Shaw Street, a block of converted merchants' mansions and in the old maternity hospital, a group of villas above a railway cutting linked by covered ways. To both he ultimately became consulting surgeon. Here he worked with John Gemmell, CM Edinburgh 1885, and John Wallace MD Edinburgh 1861, whom he succeeded in 1898 as professor of midwifery and gynaecology. When the new medical school was built, Briggs' teaching department was enabled to expand in the old school. This space he equipped at his own expense, and paid much attention to the development of the departmental museum. Briggs was determined to save his students from the almost obligatory pilgrimage to Dublin for their midwifery experience; he furnished and financed Brownlow House as a hostel for students, and created facilities for their clinical training in midwifery at Liverpool. He was an excellent teacher, interesting his class by simple, homely, and often broad humour. He also instituted lectures for midwives in his department. For many years he examined for Edinburgh University. Briggs resigned the professorship on reaching the age limit in 1921, and was created emeritus professor. In 1934, at the centenary of the Liverpool Medical School, the University gave him an honorary doctorate of laws. In 1936 his friends and past students subscribed to set up a tablet in his honour, which was unveiled by Lord Derby in Briggs' old department. He served as president of the section of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Liverpool meeting of the British Medical Association in 1912, and was later president of the section of obstetrics at the Royal Society of Medicine; he was a Fellow of the Edinburgh Obstetrical Society, an original member, president and an Honorary Fellow of the North of England Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society, and served on the Central Midwives Board. Briggs married in 1891 Annie Rosalie, eldest daughter of Egerton F Hall, MD of Prescot, Lancs. He lived after his retirement at 16 Stanley Road, Hoylake, where he died on 22 November 1944, aged 88, survived by his two daughters. His recreations had been golf, shooting, and gardening. Publications:- A successful Porro's operation. *Med Press*, 1891, 2, 492. Haematocele in relation to cornual and ectopic pregnancy and to inflammatory diseases of uterine appendages. *Liverp med chir J*. 1896, 16, 424. A clinical and pathological report on 49 solid ovarian tumours, of which 31 were fibromata, with R A Hendry. *J Obstet Gynaecol*. 1908, 14, 84. On the spontaneous rupture of cysto-adenomatous tumours. *Brit med J*. 1909, 1, 723. Clinical features of hydatid mole. *Proc R Soc Med*. 1912, 5, 245. Ventrofixation technique. *Ibid*. 1913, 6, 176.
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First Title value, for Searching Cook, Frank (1888 - 1972)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-30
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Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Frank Cook was the son of Frank Plant Cook, and was born on 6 November 1888 at Mansfield Woodhouse, Nottinghamshire. He went to Bedford Modern School and Guy's Hospital Medical School, where he had a brilliant career as a student. Having obtained a university scholarship and research studentship in physiology, he, with two others, assisted Sir Arthur Hurst (then Dr Hertz) with his pioneer researches into the physiology of the alimentary tract, using for the first time radiological methods. After qualifica¬tion he held the usual house appointments at Guy's before joining the RAMC in August 1914, with which he saw service, mostly in France and in Mesopotamia. In 1917 he married Edith Harriette Wallace, whom he met while serving in France. For the last two years of the war he was a surgical specialist. On his return to civilian life in 1919 he was appointed surgical registrar at Guy's, and then obstetric and gynaecological registrar. He was made consultant obstetric surgeon and gynaecologist to that hospital in 1925, and soon afterwards was appointed to the consultant staff of the Chelsea Hospital for Women. While a registrar he held a Beit Fellowship, and investigated urinary secretion in normal pregnancy and in pregnancy toxaemia. He was twice elected a Hunterian Professor: in 1917 he lectured on gunshot wounds of joints, and in 1924 on the results of his work on urinary secretion. Cook was a fine clinician, a dexterous and careful operator, and a good, if unusual teacher; in particular his registrars learnt much from him, not only operative technique, but also how to be good doctors. He was immensely interested in people and behaviour. He maintained a great interest in physiology throughout his life, and was largely instrumental in founding the first departments of gynaecological endocrinology in this country at Guy's and the Chelsea Hospital for Women, with Dr P M F Bishop the first consultant to both hospitals. As an operator Cook showed the influence of Victor Bonney whom he greatly admired, but he had an early grasp of psychosomatic problems, which most British gynaecologists then lacked. He was not a prolific writer, but what he wrote was always lucid. He contributed to the "Ten Teachers" text-books on *Midwifery* and *Diseases of women* and at one time was editor of the latter. With the outbreak of the second world war in 1939 Frank Cook was soon back in the Army. After being evacuated from Greece and then Cyprus he spent his time in India, where he commanded the 60th General Hospital with the rank of Colonel; he made a most successful commanding officer. In 1945 he was demobilised and quickly returned to a busy life in civilian practice. He was elected to the Council of the RCOG in 1956, and became the first Honorary Consultant (Civilian) to Queen Alexandra's Hospital, Millbank in the same year. He served on various Boards of Governors and made a considerable contribution to the developing hospital service. In 1958, when he retired from the active staff of his hospitals, he became Dean of the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Postgraduate Medical Federation, a post he filled admirably, since he had a real sense of friendship for the men and women from all over the world who attended as students. Cook was a very humble man, who never fully appreciated his own ability and influence. He was a Freeman of the Society of Apothecaries. He got much pleasure out of horse racing and as a young man enjoyed flying; both he and his wife obtained their pilot's certificates. He died on 25 February 1972 aged 84.
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First Title value, for Searching Witt, Margaret June (1930 - 2005)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-11-22 2009-03-13
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Margaret Witt was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the North Middlesex Hospital, London. She was born on 14 June 1930 in Leyton, London, the oldest daughter of Henry Witt, a chauffeur, and Bertha, a lady’s companion until she married. Margaret won a state scholarship to Walthamstow County High School for Girls and went on to St Bartholomew’s to study medicine, the only woman applicant out of 80 men. There she won the treasurer’s prize in practical anatomy, the Harvey prize in practical physiology, the university scholarship in science (physiology), and the Mathew Duncan gold medal and prize in obstetric medicine. She then held junior house officer posts in the gynaecological and obstetric department at Bart’s, and was house surgeon to Sir Clifford Naunton Morgan and Ellison Nash, and house physician to A W Spence and Neville Oswald. After taking the primary from a job as demonstrator in anatomy, she was locum registrar in Croydon and the North Middlesex hospitals. She then specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology, completing a series of registrar posts at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Queen Charlotte’s and Charing Cross hospitals. She was the first female registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology at St Bartholomew’s, specially chosen by John Howkins, who was not known for favouring women applicants. She was appointed as a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist to the North Middlesex Hospital, becoming head of the department in 1991. She was honorary senior lecturer and honorary consultant endocrinologist at St Bartholomew’s and the Royal Free hospitals. She had a thriving private practice, with many patients from the Middle East, and she was often invited to see them in the Gulf states. She represented her consultant colleagues on various regional committees. She examined for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Many of her colleagues referred to her their major cancer cases. Margaret Witt never married. She had a zest for life, enjoying cooking, entertaining, fashion and travel, as well as music and the theatre. A colleague once said teasingly that:“Margaret was the only person who would take two fur coats, enough jewels to rival the Queen, and half a dozen pairs of Salvatore Ferragamo shoes for a weekend conference in Paris.” She was a member of the Harveian and Hunterian societies and the Medical Society of London. She sat on the committee of the Charitable Trust of the Royal Society of St George in the City of London, and was president of the Farringdon Ward Club and a governor of the Connaught School for Girls in Leytonstone, where a silver cup was dedicated to her memory for the girl who has achieved the highest all round points in the year, and a bench placed in the playground. She died on 30 October 2005.
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First Title value, for Searching Holman, Charles Colgate (1884 - 1954)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-26 2018-02-09
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist Orthopaedic surgeon
Details Born at East Hoathly, Sussex on 18 September 1884, where his father and grandfather had practised, he was educated at Eastbourne College and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. There he took second class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos part I in 1905, and following the family tradition did his clinical training at Guy's, qualifying in 1908. After holding resident appointments at Guy's and at hospitals in the provinces, he took the FRCS in 1912 and the same year began his long association with the Northampton General Hospital. During the first world war Holman served in the RAMC and was in Mesopotamia for a year. On his return to Northampton he became assistant surgeon in 1919 and surgeon in 1925. He was senior surgeon from 1926 until his retirement in 1952, when the title of emeritus surgeon was conferred on him. In 1939 he formed the first fracture unit at Northampton General Hospital and from then until 1946 he dealt with all fractures coming to the hospital in addition to his general work. He was the first surgeon to the Manfield Orthopaedic Hospital, Northampton in 1925, surgeon to the Children's Orthopaedic Clinic there and consulting surgeon to Kettering General Hospital 1943-52. Holman lived for his work, and was rarely away from the hospital for more than ten days in a year. The first man in Northampton to specialise solely in surgery, in his early days he practised as gynaecologist, obstetrician and orthopaedist as well as general surgeon. Charles Holman throve on difficulties. He had an original mind and devised several new techniques, such as an abdominal approach to femoral hernia and a method of supra-pubic puncture. He also designed special instruments for the insertion of Smith-Petersen pins. For many years he served on the board of management and the house committee of the Northampton General Hospital and was chairman of the medical staff committee. He was president of the Northampton Medical Society, and president in 1933 and 1947 of the Northampton branch of the British Medical Association. He kept meticulous records, read widely, and frequently contributed incisive letters to *The Lancet*. For recreation Holman played bridge and tennis which he continued into his sixties despite a limp caused by poliomyelitis contracted at the age of twenty-one. He was twice married: his first wife V E Fowell died in 1921 leaving two sons, the elder being John Colgate Holman MD, MRCS, MRCOG. In 1923 Holman married Violet Lewis. Two years after retiring, Charles Holman was found dead at his home, Fourview, Woodway, Dodford, near Daventry, on 17 June 1954, aged 69. Publications: Nature and treatment of acute osteomyelitis. *Lancet* 1934. Gastro-jejuno-colic fistula. *Lancet* 1951. Urinary tuberculosis with extensive calcification of bladder. *Brit J Surg* 1952.
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First Title value, for Searching Smith, Guy Bellingham (1865 - 1945)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-07 2019-04-29
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born in London on 28 April 1865, the eldest child of Henry Smith, colonial broker, and his wife, *née* Machen. A younger brother, Eric Bellingham Smith, became physician to St George's Hospital and FRCP 1924. He was educated at St Paul's School and University College, London, and entered Guy's Hospital in 1883, contemporarily with Ernest Starling (1866-1927), afterwards professor of physiology at University College, 1899-1923, and FRS. He served Guy's as surgical registrar and ophthalmic assistant and, after a period as resident surgeon at the South-Western Fever Hospital, was elected assistant obstetric surgeon to Guy's in 1903; he became in due course obstetric surgeon, senior obstetric surgeon 1913, and consulting obstetric surgeon on retirement in 1925. He was also surgeon for women's diseases to the North Herts and South Beds Hospital at Hitchin. From 1925 he was a governor of Guy's Hospital Medical School. Bellingham Smith was an excellent operator, and much preferred surgical gynaecology to obstetrics. He had a very wide practice among the wives and daughters of his colleagues, as his natural kindness and charity of disposition endeared him to all his acquaintances. He succeeded Sir Charters Symonds as president of the old-established "Our Club" at Guy's. He was a very good teacher and a first-rate morbid histologist. While serving as ophthalmic assistant he found himself the victim of an obsessional horror of operating on the eye, which he humorously excused by declaring that histologically the eye-tissue was too minute to be of interest. He made several useful contributions to gynaecology, the most original being his recognition of the association of pyelitis with pregnancy, 1905. Bellingham Smith married in 1901 Eleanor (Nell) Buxton, who survived him with a son and two daughters, one of whom was a painter, as was one of his own brothers. He himself had considerable artistic taste and knowledge. He died at Yarrow, Felstead, Essex on 19 April 1945, ten days before his eightieth birthday. He had practised at 10 Devonshire Place, W. Mrs Bellingham Smith died on 14 July 1949, aged 81. Bellingham Smith was a keen collector of prints, drawings and paintings, and was a member of the Burlington Fine Arts Club. His great quickness of mind led him at different times to study specialized fields of art, where he rapidly acquired a skilled knowledge of minutiae, which he as quickly laid aside once he had mastered all that there was to know. He thus formed choice collections of old English glass, Japanese sword-hilts, Chinese porcelain, and at one time of Kashmiri postage-stamp issues. Bellingham Smith was beloved by his colleagues, who knew him familiarly as GB, while his students and residents called him "Biff". Publications: Association of pyelitis with pregnancy. *J Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp* 1905, 8, 73. Contributor to W H A Jacobson's *The operations of surgery*, 2nd edition, London. 1891.
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First Title value, for Searching Medlock, Charles Harold (1888 - 1952)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-03-21
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born on 12 September 1888 the third son of William Medlock, produce merchant, and Emma Fulford his wife, he was educated at University College School and Guy's Hospital. He distinguished himself at all field sports: played cricket for the Public Schools against the MCC at Lord's, won the long jump in 1912, 1913, and 1914 at the National Territorial Sports, and captained the Middlesex County Rugby XV. He entered Guy's as a medical and dental student in 1908 and took the LDS in 1912. When war broke out in 1914 he saw active service as a dispatch rider in the Artists Rifles. He -was then given "leave on duty", qualified in 1915, and served as house surgeon, resident obstetrician, and resident surgical officer at Guy's. Joining the RAMC he served with the rank of Captain as medical officer to the 4th battalion, Royal Tank Corps 1917-19, and was mentioned in dispatches. Back once more at Guy's he was demonstrator of anatomy 1919, gynaecological assistant and registrar 1919-21, surgical registrar 1921-24, and assistant demonstrator of operative surgery 1922. He settled in practice at Hertford in 1924, in partnership with Ernest Ravensworth Hart MRCS, was elected assistant surgeon to the Hertfordshire County Hospital in 1924, became surgeon in 1927, and was senior surgeon 1929-48. He was also consulting surgeon to Ware Park Sanatorium 1929-48, and to the East Herts Infectious Diseases Hospital 1935-48. He was chairman of the East Herts division of the British Medical Association 1934-35. From 1935 he gave up general practice for consultant work. During the war of 1939-45 he acted as honorary medical superintendent of the County Hospital and was also obstetric surgeon in charge of the maternity hospitals at Brocket Hall, Hatfield and Pear Tree, Welwyn. For the war period and up to 1948 he was deputy obstetric consultant to the Hertfordshire County Council. In 1948 he gave up all other work to act as consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology to the Hertford group of hospitals, and became chairman of the medical advisory committee of the group. Medlock's surgery was conservative, but achieved excellent results. He had a flair for explaining technical questions to laymen and for lecturing to nurses. He was a man of absolute integrity, much respected, and affectionately known to a wide circle by the nicknames of "Pop" and "Potty". He enjoyed a month's sailing each year in Cornwall, and was a keen gardener. Medlock married in 1926 the younger daughter of Sir Francis Agar, Sheriff of the City of London; Mrs Medlock survived him, but there were no children. He attended the Christmas Day celebrations in his maternity ward in good health, but died suddenly on 27 December 1952, aged 64, at his home North Road House, Hertford.
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First Title value, for Searching Williams, Evan Arthur (1919 - 1990)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-14
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Evan Arthur Williams was born in Wales on 11 April 1919 and after early education entered Guy's Hospital Medical School in 1937. He qualified in 1943 and almost immediately joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, serving in Italy where he was mentioned in despatches. After demobilisation in 1948 he returned to Guy's and passed the FRCS in the same year before going to Oxford as resident obstetric officer from 1948 to 1952. In 1950 he was awarded the Leverhulme Scholarship by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and two years later he passed the MRCOG. He then returned to Guy's for three years as senior registrar until 1955 when he was appointed first assistant to the Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Oxford and consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology at Banbury where he developed the service and planned the new maternity hospital in the town. In 1958 he returned to Wales as consultant at Newport, Monmouthshire, and during his eight year tenure of the post oversaw the planning and development of the obstetric and gynaecology unit at the Royal Gwent Hospital. In 1966 he returned to Oxford and within a short while became the chairman of the division of obstetrics and gynaecology, responsible for seeing the division established in the new John Radcliffe Hospital. He served as examiner to the Universities of Oxford, Glasgow and Cambridge and also examined for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and to the Central Midwives Board. From 1970 to 1975 he was an elected member of the General Medical Council serving on both the education committee and the disciplinary committee. He was assessor for confidential enquiries into maternal deaths, post-graduate adviser in obstetrics and gynaecology to the Oxford Region, a member of the education committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists from 1977 to 1981 and a member of Council of his College from 1981 to 1984. During his time in Wales he introduced the effective operation of vulvo-vaginoplasty for vaginal agenesis and developed this operation during the ensuing years. The technique and results were submitted in a Hunterian lecture delivered at Oxford before the Council of the College on 25 April 1975. He also developed a technique of anastomosis of the fallopian tubes over a nylon splint in patients with infertility problems and described the use of trans-fundal suprapubic cystoscopy in the investigation of urinary incontinence in women. His devoted patients sometimes expressed their gratitude in unusual ways: in one instance the problems of receiving a racehorse were only alleviated by the subsequent gift of grazing facilities! After retiring from hospital appointments in 1984 he continued to pursue his hobby of fly fishing on the Kennet and elsewhere. He died peacefully at home on 31 December 1990 and is survived by his wife Yvonne, children and grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Wrigley, Arthur Joseph (1902 - 1983)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-08-14
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Arthur Joseph Wrigley (Joe) was born at Clitheroe, Lancashire, on 5 May 1902, the son of Canon Joseph Wrigley and after attending the Royal Grammar School, Clitheroe, and later Rossall School, he entered St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, qualifying in 1924. He gained a distinction in pathology in the London MB in the following year and passed the FRCS within three years of qualification. He then decided to pursue a career in obstetrics and gynaecology and in 1928 was awarded the London MD with the gold medal in midwifery. In 1930 he served as registrar to the departments of obstetrics and gynaecology at St Thomas's and the General Lying-In Hospital when these hospitals were responsible for over 10,000 deliveries annually and in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at St Thomas's Hospital, becoming a full physician in 1936. His renown for the obstetric forceps which bear his name dates from the time in the mid-thirties when a storeman in the basement of St Thomas's, while tidying up, found a pair of obstetric forceps with straight blades, similar to those used by Smellie in the eighteenth century. Joe immediately appreciated their value and took them to an instrument-maker with instructions to modify the forceps by making a shorter handle and putting on a pelvic curve. At the time obstetrics was practised by many general practitioners who would not be able to apply the blades to a high head and could not squeeze the head too tightly when using these forceps. The shortness of the handles necessitated exerting traction at the correct place where the shanks crossed over. At the time they must have averted much maternal and foetal damage. He was a superb clinician and a great teacher whose enthusiasm encouraged many juniors to embark on a career in obstetrics and gynaecology. He was an examiner for many universities at St Thomas's Hospital, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, where he served on the Council for two terms of three years, and at the Ministry of Health. He was also a liveryman of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries. While he was adviser to the Department of Health between 1953 and 1965 he was largely responsible for four Confidential Reports on Maternal Mortality, which contributed greatly to the improvement of maternity services and lowered maternal and perinatal mortality. His services to the profession were recognised by the award of CBE in 1965 and two years later he retired, leaving London to live in the north of England, initially at Clitheroe and later at Alderley Edge, Cheshire. In 1930 he married Ann Slater and there was one son and one daughter of the marriage. Sadly his wife pre-deceased him in 1976 and he died in hospital after a short illness on 18 December 1983, aged 81.
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First Title value, for Searching Stevens, Thomas George (1869 - 1953)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-25
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Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born on 25 March 1869 at Stoke Newington Green, North London, eldest of the three children of George Jesse Barnabas Stevens MRCS 1866 and his wife Charlotte Honey, he was educated at St Paul's School and Guy's Hospital where he served as house surgeon and resident obstetric officer, after qualifying with honours. He was resident medical officer at Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital and the Evelina Hospital for Children, having determined to specialise in gynaecology and obstetrics. He took the Fellowship in 1895 and the MRCP in 1896; in later years under the influence of his friend Victor Bonney he opposed the formation of a third Royal College, but when the British College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (as it was called at first) was formed in 1929 he accepted Fellowship and served on the first Council till 1935. During 1896 Stevens was demonstrator of biology at Guy's and examined in biology for the Conjoint Board. He was elected an assistant surgeon to the Hospital for Women in Soho Square in 1899, and was ultimately con¬sulting surgeon. In 1902 he was appointed tutor in obstetrics at St Mary's Hospital, and in 1908 physician to out-patients at Queen Charlotte's. He was elected assistant obstetric surgeon at St Mary's in 1912 on the retirement of C M Handfield-Jones, was promoted surgeon two years later on the unexpected retirement of W J Gow, and finally became consulting obstetric surgeon. He was also gynaecologist to the Mildmay Mission Hospital. Stevens examined for the Conjoint Board and for London University. He served as Vice-President of the section of obstetrics and gynaecology at the British Medical Association's annual meetings at Aberdeen in 1914 and at Winnipeg in 1930. He was a frequent contributor of cases and papers to the like section of the Royal Society of Medicine. Stevens was a skilled operator of wide experience, and excelled as a teacher, particularly in practical teaching, and was popular with students in spite of his caustic wit. He was an active Freemason and was Master of the Sancta Maria lodge in 1917. He practised at 8 Upper Wimpole Street, and retired in 1934 to Bournemouth. He married on 31 August 1899 Lizzie Jane, eldest daughter of John Reeves of Blackheath; she died on 2 April 1953. Stevens died at 6 Dunkeld Road, Talbot Woods, Bournemouth on 10 November 1953 aged 84, survived by his only son T Russell Stevens FRCS, surgeon to the Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester. He was a short man with a pointed beard. His recreations were golf and fishing, and he was an accomplished artist, particularly fond of painting interior scenes. Select Publications: *Diseases of women* University of London Press, 1912 426 pp. The treatment of salpingitis; acute and chronic. *Lancet* 1926, 1, 192 and 249. Ovarian tumours from the pathological aspect. *J Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp* 1931, 38, 256.
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First Title value, for Searching Campbell, William Stewart (1907 - 1966)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-25
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Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details William Stewart Campbell was born on 17 November 1907, the son of Sir John Campbell, a leader in gynaecology in Ulster. His mother was one of the earliest women graduates in medicine in Belfast. After a distinguished school career at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, in which he also found time to play excellent rugby, Campbell graduated MB, BCh, BAO at Queen's University, Belfast, with first-class honours in 1932. With the exception of his first year he obtained every single prize, medal, and scholarship throughout his course, and, in addition, first-class honours in the BSc. In 1937 he took the FRCS after a time spent as demonstrator in anatomy at his old university. Resident posts in obstetrics and gynaecology followed, but 1941 found him in the RAMC, where he served as a surgical specialist in Malta, Lebanon, and North Africa. After demobilization with the rank of major, he took the MRCOG in 1947; he became FRCOG in 1960. In 1948 he was appointed to the obstetric staff of the Jubilee Maternity (Belfast City) Hospital, and he was elected in 1950 to the staff of the Samaritan Hospital for Women, Belfast, where his father had served for many years. He was a Fellow of the Ulster Medical Society, and had been President of the Ulster Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society. Bill Campbell was a shy man, too modest to advertise his great abilities in any way, but when he took part in clinical meetings he always had something useful to contribute. In 1963 the Gynaecological Travellers, of which he was a popular member, met in Belfast under his chairmanship - a meeting remembered as outstanding. He was probably at his best in his frequent informal classes with the obstetric house-surgeons and registrars, whose training was one of his great interests. He liked to tease, a trait that sometimes nonplussed his juniors until they learnt to look for the secret twinkle in his eyes. He read widely, and took particular pleasure in collecting the local history of Templepatrick, near Belfast, where his ancestors lived, and where he regularly attended the old church in which his grandfather had been minister. He published an interesting account of the origin and early years of the Samaritan Hospital, Belfast. He felt honoured to be invited to give the Robert Campbell Memorial Oration later in 1966, and at the time of his death was engaged in its preparation. His illness came as a surprise to all who knew him. Though well aware of its serious nature, he faced it with exemplary courage. Campbell died on 7 July 1966 after a short illness aged 58, at his home 1 Upper Crescent, Belfast. He was survived by his wife, his son Robert, who was a medical student, and his daughter Patricia. He was a man of strong principles, brilliant but self-effacing.
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First Title value, for Searching Gray, Arthur Oliver (1889 - 1978)

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First Title value, for Searching Williams, David Knapman (1927 - 1980)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-13
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details David Knapman Williams, one of two children and the only son of Colin Knapman and Elsie Williams, was born on 8 December 1927. He was educated at the Royal Commercial Travellers' School and then went to St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College where he graduated in 1951. After a first resident appointment in Southampton he spent a year as house surgeon in the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at St Bartholomew's. There followed two years of National Service in Germany at Oldenburg and Berlin. On demobilisation he returned to obstetrics and gynaecology at Bristol, followed by appointments at Queen Charlotte's Hospital and the Samaritan Hospital for Women in London, Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, and then back to St Bartholomew's Hospital where he became senior lecturer in 1963. He was appointed to the consultant staff at his teaching hospital in 1966, and later to the consultant staff of Putney Hospital and St Teresa's Hospital, Wimbledon. David was a fine clinician with good clinical judgement and was an excellent communicator with both students and patients. Not surprisingly, he quickly built up a flourishing private practice but gave generously to every aspect of his work in the National Health Service. He constantly taught his students the importance of understanding their patients and of becoming truly compassionate doctors. He wrote papers on a wide variety of subjects within his speciality, but his main interests were in problems of the menopause and the organisation of 'well woman' clinics. Outside medicine he had a love of the arts and especially music, though he only learned to play the piano in the last years of his life. During February 1980 he suffered an extensive myocardial infarct which resulted in such severe cardiac damage that his recovery was very slow and incomplete. Two months later it became evident that the functional damage was such that only a cardiac transplant could restore him to normal health. The preliminary screening and preparation was undertaken by his cardiologist colleagues at Bart's and he was then transferred to Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, where a transplant operation was done by Terence English. He made an excellent recovery and the then President of the College, Sir Reginald Murley, took the opportunity of sending messages of congratulation to both the patient and his surgeon, it being the first occasion on which a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons had had a heart transplant by another Fellow of the College. With such promising early progress, the patient began a little clinical work but on 27 August 1980 he was re-admitted to hospital for a routine checkup and died of arrhythmia during his sleep. He was a man of immense faith and courage who, in the early days of cardiac transplantation, boldly faced up to the implications of his illness and expressed his appreciation to every one of his colleagues who cared for him. When he died on 29 August 1980 he was survived by his mother and sister.
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First Title value, for Searching Pinker, Sir George Douglas (1924 - 2007)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2007-11-08
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details George Pinker, Surgeon-Gynaecologist to the Queen from 1973 to 1990, was born in Calcutta on 6 December 1924, the son of Ronald Douglas Pinker and Queenie Elizabeth née Dix. Like so many English children in those days, he went to England at the age of four, and was educated at Reading School. He went on to St Mary’s Hospital in 1942 to study medicine. He had a fine baritone voice and, having played Pish-Tush in a school production of *The Mikado*, he was offered a contract with the D’Oyly Carte Company, but decided to continue in medicine. After junior posts he did National Service in the RAMC, serving in Singapore, and returned to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology at St Mary’s and the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. He was appointed consultant gynaecologist and obstetrician at St Mary’s in 1958, and this was followed by appointments at King Edward VII Hospital for Officers, the Middlesex Hospital, and Queen Charlotte’s and Bolingbroke hospitals. He succeeded Sir John Peel as Surgeon-Gynaecologist to the Queen and attended nine royal births, insisting on each occasion that the deliveries would take place in St Mary’s Hospital rather than at home, on grounds of safety. He received many honours, was president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists from 1987 to 1990, and president of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1992 to 1995. His many publications included contributions to Gynaecology by ten teachers, *Obstetrics by ten teachers* (both London, Edward Arnold, 1980 and 1985) and *A short textbook of gynaecology and obstetrics* (London, English Universities Press, 1967). George Pinker was a man of unusual charm. He had many interests, most notably music (he was vice-president of the London Choral Society in 1988), skiing, gardening and sailing. He married Dorothy Emma Russell, who predeceased him after a long illness, when he cared for her. They had three sons and one daughter. His last days were marred by the development of Parkinsonism, which he suffered with great stoicism. He died on 29 April 2007.
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First Title value, for Searching Read, Sir Charles David (1902 - 1957)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-04-28
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist Pathologist
Details Born on 22 December 1902 at Dunedin, New Zealand the son of J J Read, he entered the medical school of Otago University in 1920, qualifying in 1924 with the medal in clinical medicine. After holding resident appointments at Dunedin Hospital, he came to England for postgraduate study in obstetrics and gynaecology, working for several years as registrar and tutor at the Chelsea Hospital for Women, Charing Cross Hospital and Westminster Hospital. For five years he was pathologist to the Chelsea Hospital for Women, being duly appointed surgeon to that hospital. He was also surgeon to Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital and the Postgraduate Hospital, Hammersmith, becoming Director of the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Postgraduate Medical School in 1950. He served as secretary and vice-president of the obstetrical division of the Royal Society of Medicine, and became President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1955. He travelled extensively and was an honorary member of the American Association of Obstetricians, Gynaecologists and Abdominal Surgeons, the American Gynaecological Society, the South African Association of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and the Athens Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society. A formidable figure, he stood six foot four inches in height. Early in his career in England he impressed Victor Bonney with his potentialities both as a surgeon and a personality. As a result he was encouraged to remain in London and become a consultant. A fine teacher and a skilful and delicate operator in spite of his large size he attracted postgraduates from all over the world. He never spared himself either in work or in relaxation, being a keen and experienced yachtsman. He, together with Terence Millin, operated and administered a very successful private clinic at 31 Queen's Gate, SW. In association with Douglas MacLeod he edited the 5th edition of Edward Lockyer's *Gynaecology* and was engaged with MacLeod on a revision of Bonney's *Textbook of Gynaecological Surgery*. He married twice, having two sons by each marriage, his second wife being Dr S Edna Wilson. While he was on holiday aboard his yacht he died aged 54 at the zenith of his career on 21 August 1957.
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First Title value, for Searching Osborn, Samuel (1848 - 1936)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-09-11
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born at Brixton, 15 April 1848, the only son of Samuel Osborn, FRCS, and his wife, *née* Mayhew. He was educated at Epsom College and at Wren's, well known as a "crammer" for the army examinations. He then entered St Thomas's Hospital, where he was house surgeon, house physician, resident accoucheur, surgical registrar, and for five years anaesthetist. He was interested for a short time in the treatment of diseases of women, was surgeon to the Hospital for Women in Soho Square, and during this period wrote a work on *The sympathetic affections of the breast, bladder, and rectum, with uterus and appendages*, which appeared about 1898. From 1883 onwards he delivered lectures at various centres on first aid, nursing, and hygiene with such success that he published a little book which was translated into Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hindustani, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. He thus became associated with Sir John Furley and assisted him in forming the British Red Cross and St John Committee by an amalgamation of the National Society for Aid to the Sick and Wounded in War, the Army Nursing Reserve, and the St John Ambulance Association. In 1897 he worked with a Greek ambulance during the Greco-Turkish war, and was decorated Officier de 1'Ordre royal du Sauveur; in 1899 he served with Lord Methuen's column during the South African war, was surgeon to several ambulances, was often mentioned in despatches, and received the medal with clasps. On his return to England he was appointed a Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and was made permanent secretary of the International Red Cross Society. In 1912 he served with the Turkish forces as surgeon to the Red Crescent during the Balkan war. In August 1914 he went to Belgium with three dressers and three surgical nurses, one of whom was his daughter, and took over a Belgian hospital located in a private house at Gembloux. When they arrived it was found that the village was in possession of German troops, who had advanced so rapidly that they had neither doctors nor nurses. They treated German and Belgian wounded for some weeks, until a German hospital arrived when they moved to the English convent at Bruges. Osborn was afterwards placed in charge of Lady Dundonald's Hospital at Eaton Square, London. For his work in Belgium he was decorated with the Croix de Chevalier de l'Ordre de la Couronne. Early in life Osborn was surgeon to the Royal Naval Volunteers; late in life he was chief surgeon to the metropolitan corps of the St John Ambulance Brigade. He was also surgeon to the Surgical Appliance Association and to the Metropolitan Convalescent Institution from 1880 to 1922. He was the recipient of medals for long service in the St John Ambulance Brigade, of the jubilee medal for 1887 to which was added the clasp for 1897, having been on duty in the streets with first aid detachments, the coronation medals of 1902 and 1911 for similar services, the Japanese Royal Red Cross decoration for his labours in promoting first aid; and the war medals of 1914-18. He was Master of the Society of Apothecaries in 1919-20. He married in October 1884 Elizabeth (d 1927), the younger daughter of Robert Boyd, MD, of Bolton Row, Mayfair, and Southall, Middlesex. Their only child married Colonel J B O Trimble of Rhydda Bank, Trentishoe, North Devon. Osborn died on 16 April 1936 at Datchet, Bucks, where he had long lived in retirement, taking an active part in connexion with the Church Lads Brigade and the Boy Scouts. Publications: Hydrocele. *St Thos Hosp Rep* 1874, 5, 73, and 1876, 7, 101. *Notes on diseases of the testis*. London, 1880. Annotations on anaesthetics. *St Thos Hosp Rep* 1880, 10, 49, and 1882, 11, 23. *Ambulance lectures: first aid to the injured*. London, 1885. *Ambulance lectures on home nursing and hygiene*. London 1885; 2nd edition, 1891. *Premiers secours à donner aux malades et aux blesses*. Paris, 1894.
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First Title value, for Searching Bower, David Bartlett (1929 - 2007)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2009-01-30 2014-06-30
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details David Bower was a consultant gynaecologist and obstetrician at St Stephen's Hospital, Chelsea, later amalgamated into Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. He was born on 1 July 1929 in northwest London, the eldest son of Bartlett St George Bower, a successful lawyer, and Vera Bower née Luson. He went to the Hall School, Hampstead, from which he won a bursary to Oundle. He suffered considerably from asthma in the days before Ventolin and antibiotics, and concentrated on school work rather than sports. He shone academically and won an exhibition to Trinity College, Cambridge, to read law, as his father wished him to join his legal practice. However, David quickly decided that his real preference was medicine and he transferred to the medical faculty at Cambridge, whilst continuing his study of the law, and bought a motorbike so that he could commute between the Middle Temple and Cambridge. After being called to the Bar in 1950, he never in fact practised law. He completed his medical training at St Bartholomew's Hospital and obtained his FRCS in 1958. After a registrarship at Oldchurch Hospital, Romford, he became a senior lecturer at Charing Cross and Westminster, from which he gained the Berkeley research fellowship to Toronto General Hospital. Whilst in Canada, he went to rural Newfoundland, where he practised mainly gynaecology, frequently visited patients by snow cat, and operated on the kitchen table. After returning to London, he was appointed consultant gynaecologist at St Stephen's Hospital, Chelsea, which later joined with the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. David's research interests included vaginal surgery, where his skills became legendary. He was a patient and supportive teacher, and passed on his techniques to future generations until he retired at the age of 68. Unpretentious, pragmatic and compassionate, David was ideally suited to caring for women with reproductive health problems, and his help was sought by nurses and others who worked with him. Outside his professional life, David enjoyed music and at one time toured post-war Germany playing jazz on the piano for the US troops. At the end of his life he was learning to play the organ, having borrowed the keys to his local church. He was a keen sailor and for years took his boat to Cowes Week. Perhaps his greatest self-indulgence was big motorbikes and his holidays were spent touring abroad. Dressed in leathers and with a tangled beard, he was the original hairy biker, proud to be viewed with suspicion and even disallowed entry into country inns until he had proved his credentials. Enjoying a pint or two of local ale at lunchtime with him was a treat as he was singularly affable and philosophical. David was married with three children, however much of his later life was spent with his partner Maureen Sands, with whom he retired to The Barley Mow, a 15th century former alehouse in Oxfordshire. David struggled bravely with progressive complications from renal carcinoma and died at home on 18 March 2007, at the age of 77.
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First Title value, for Searching Herman, George Ernest (1849 - 1914)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-04-13
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Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born February 8th, 1849, son of the Rev G L Herman, of Kilwarlin, Co Down, entered the London Hospital in 1866, where he became Resident Accoucheur in 1870, Medical Registrar in 1873, and Junior Resident Medical Officer in 1874. He was deeply influenced by Dr Henry Gawen Sutton's teaching of pathology, which afforded a real understanding of many abnormal physical signs in place of traditional explanations or want of explanations. He was much guided by Dr Matthews Duncan's expositions of midwifery, at first in Edinburgh and then at St Bartholomew's Hospital; also by the older obstetricians, Smellie and Ramsbotham. In February, 1876, Herman was elected Assistant Obstetric Physician, and in June, 1883, Obstetric Physician, to the London Hospital on the death of Dr Palfrey. For the succeeding two years he also carried on the Out-patient Department until he was given a junior colleague. In those nine years he collected notes whilst he gained much further experience on obstetrics as Physician to the General Lying-in Hospital and to the Royal Maternity Charity. Much attention was then concentrated on the flexions and versions of the uterus, and his notes enabled him to relegate these conditions to their proper place in gynaecology. For puerperal eclampsia he advocated early morphia and opposed rapid methods of emptying the uterus. During his time operative gynaecology enormously developed. Herman started under the conditions laid down in particular by Spencer Wells and Lawson Tait; he was a brilliant operator, and his results were very good, but he did not advance altogether in attention to detail. He was an excellent teacher, basing himself always on common sense and observation, but rather sparing of words. The same applies to his style of writing. He was an active member of the Obstetrical Society of London, serving as Librarian 1880-1881, Secretary 1882-1885, and President 1893-1895. He also attended the Hunterian Society and was President in 1896-1897. He was Examiner in Midwifery at the Conjoint Board and at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London, Durham, and the Victoria University. He practised at 20 Harley Street, and his advice there was sought especially by Jews, among whom he enjoyed a great reputation. After twenty years as Obstetric Physician he was elected in July, 1903, Consulting Obstetric Physician, and on that occasion his former Residents entertained him to dinner. He began his speech to them in a paraphrase of a familiar text: "As has been well said, there is more joy over one senior that resigneth, than over ninety and nine just appointed persons." In 1913 he retired to Caer Glou, Cam, Gloucestershire, and died from acute pneumonia on March 11th, 1914. He was survived by his wife, daughter, and four sons. He had married in 1884 Miss Emily Gibbings, of Chichester. Good portraits accompany his obituary notices in the *London Hospital Gazette*, 1914, xx, 211, and the *British Medical Journal*, 1914, I, 857. Publications:- *Difficult Labours*, 1894; editions appeared in 1895, 1901, 1910, 1912. *Diseases of Women*, 1898, and subsequent editions. Many other works on midwifery and gynaecology.
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First Title value, for Searching Targett, James Henry (1862 - 1913)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-28
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born in Wiltshire, the son of a farmer. He received his education partly at the Grammar School at Warminster, and then, being in weak health, from a tutor at Salisbury. He entered Guy's Hospital as a student in October, 1878, having already matriculated at London University. In 1883 he gained two prizes in the Medical School at Guy's Hospital, was then House Physician and House Surgeon, and was appointed Surgical Registrar for two years, 1885-1887. In 1887 he was appointed Assistant Curator of the Museum at Guy's Hospital, and in 1888 Pathological Assistant at the Royal College of Surgeons, succeeding Frederick Samuel Eve (qv) as Pathological Curator in 1890. He held this post till 1897, when S G Shattock (qv) succeeded him. He was elected Demonstrator of Anatomy and Biology at Guy's Hospital before 1897, and served in that department for six years. He was also Assistant Surgeon to the Evelina Hospital for Children. He taught Practical Surgery and Morbid Histology at Guy's Hospital from 1895-1897, when he was appointed Obstetric Registrar and Tutor and, in 1898, Assistant Obstetric Physician, holding this post for five years, and combining it with that of Surgeon to Out-patients at the Samaritan Free Hospital for Women. On the retirement of Dr A L Galabin he became full Gynaecological Surgeon at Guy's Hospital in 1903, sharing his duties with Dr Horrocks. At the time of his death he was Obstetric Surgeon, the name of his office having been changed, as well as Joint Lecturer on Obstetrics. At the Royal College of Surgeons he was Assistant in the Museum, 1888-1890, and Pathological Curator from 1890-1913, Erasmus Wilson Lecturer in 1893, 1894, and 1895, his subjects being "Pathology of Tumours connected with the Bladder", "On Some Interesting Additions to the Pathological Department of the Museum", and "Recent Additions to the Museum". He edited seven Appendices to the Catalogue of the Museum, Pathological Specimens, Appendix V to Appendix XI, 1891-1897. He was elected a Fellow of the Obstetrical Society in 1891 and contributed some twenty-five papers to its *Transactions*, and here his wide pathological knowledge served him well. From its foundation to within three or four years of his death Targett examined morbid growths for the Clinical Research Association. He was an Examiner in Midwifery at the Conjoint Board from 1901-1906, and from 1908 to the time of his last illness. From 1900-1902 he served on the Board of Examiners for Midwives. He died at his residence, 19 Upper Wimpole Street, from ulcerative endocarditis, on May 26th, 1913, being survived by Mrs Targett. A fine portrait of him is in the *Guy's Hospital Gazette* (1918, xxvii, 490). He had only one child, a son, who died of appendicitis in 1911. Publications: A very full bibliography of Targett's publications, some ninety-five in number, by Mr William Wale, Librarian of Guy's Hospital, accompanies his biography in the *Guy's Hospital Gazette* (1913, xxvii, 243). It has been printed separately with portrait, and was the first complete bibliography of a Fellow to be published up to 1920. A copy is in the College Library.
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First Title value, for Searching Rivett, Louis Carnac (1888 - 1947)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-10-23
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born 21 May 1888 the fourth son of Louis Rivett, cotton-spinner, of Stockport, High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire, and his wife, née Smith. He was educated privately and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took second-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos, part 1, in 1909. He received his clinical training at the Middlesex Hospital, where he was Freeman scholar, qualifying in 1912, and served there as house surgeon, casualty surgical officer, and obstetric house surgeon. He took the Fellowship in 1915, and the Cambridge Mastership of Surgery, then the most coveted surgical diploma, in 1916. He had determined to specialize as a gynaecological surgeon and was appointed obstetric and gynaecological registrar at the Middlesex Hospital, but soon gave up the post to serve with the RAMC in France. He was posted to the 102nd Field Ambulance of the 17th Corps in the first Battle of Arras, April 1917. Later he joined the Royal Air Force Medical Service, and was put in charge of the surgical side of the Anglo-French Hospital at Le Tréport. On his return to London he was appointed to the honorary staff of Queen Charlotte's Hospital and of the Chelsea Hospital for Women, and became operative assistant to Victor Bonney. He was gynaecological surgeon to Queen Mary's Hospital for the East End 1919-31, and also served King George's Hospital, Ilford, the Hounslow Hospital, and the Welwyn Cottage Hospital. On the retirement of Sir Comyns Berkeley in 1930 he was elected to the honorary staff of the Middlesex Hospital. Rivett had great natural dexterity and manipulative and mechanical facility, which put him early in the front rank as an operator. He amused himself as a skilful clockmaker and locksmith. In addition to a very busy professional life, Rivett devoted much thought, energy and time to the promotion of his specialty. He examined for the Conjoint Board and for Cambridge and Bristol Universities. He served on the committee of management of Queen Charlotte's Hospital, and was the leading spirit in the National Birthday Trust Fund for the Extension of Maternity Services from its foundation in 1928. He was secretary of the section of obstetrics and gynaecology at the British Medical Association's annual meeting in 1926. He was a member of the Chelsea Clinical Society and the Hunterian Society, and not long before his death was elected in July 1947 an honorary Fellow of the American Gynaecological Society; he visited America in 1939 and 1946. At Queen Mary's Hospital he was instrumental in securing the opening in 1923 of the Margaret Lyle Maternity Wing, one of the largest in London. At Queen Charlotte's and the Chelsea Hospital during 1945-47 he organized, the combined post-graduate teaching school in obstetrics and gynaecology. He was a foundation Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and served as a representative Member on the Council for seven years, only accepting election to the Fellowship in 1936. Rivett contributed to the Queen Charlotte's Textbook of Obstetrics in the first (1927) and subsequent editions, up to the sixth edition, 1943.
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First Title value, for Searching MacLeod, Douglas Hamilton (1901 - 1970)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-11
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Douglas MacLeod was born on 9 May 1901. Few families can have devoted so many members to the art of surgery. His great-grandfather, John MacLeod, MD was Surgeon to the Madras Presidency. His grand-father, Alexander Charles MacLeod (1819-1914), father, Charles Edward Alexander MacLeod (1867-1939), and elder brother, Alexander Cameron MacLeod (1899-1970, see previous entry), were all Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons. His grand-father was also a member of the Royal College of Physicians. He was educated at Haileybury and the Middlesex Hospital, and qualified in 1925, having distinguished himself as a rugger player, playing for the hospital, Middlesex County and the Harlequins. After success in the MRCP and a medical registrarship he spent a year as resident at Chelsea Hospital for Women, returning to the Middlesex as obstetric and gynaecological registrar in 1929. There is no doubt that Victor Bonney had a great influence on Douglas MacLeod's career and training, and he was a devoted and brilliant pupil. Few gynaecologists achieve Fellowship of all three Royal Colleges and become a Master of Surgery. He was appointed to the consultant staff of St Mary's Hospital, and throughout his teaching career he was immensely popular with students, because of his teaching and because of his interest in their extra-curricular activities, particularly rugger. He was also appointed to the staff of Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital, as well as to Putney and the Royal Marsden Hospitals. He was in the Emergency Medical Service from 1939 to 1945, and Commandant at St Mary's. He brought out a booklet of instruction for the medical officers who had to deal with casualties. MacLeod was Hunterian Professor, Royal College of Surgeons in 1946, and became President of the Obstetric Section of the Royal Society of Medicine in 1958/59. He made many contributions to his specialty, and was co-author of *Ten teachers of midwifery* and *Diseases of women* as well as *Queen Charlotte's Textbook of obstetrics*. With Sir Charles Read he edited Eden and Lockyer's *Textbook of gynaecology*, and with John Howkins he brought out the last edition of *Bonney's Gynaecological surgery*. Apart from his academic brilliance and his dexterity and delicacy of touch in surgical technique, Douglas MacLeod had the gift of making innumerable friends. Few could resist his charm of manner, his graceful appearance and finally his diffidence and shyness. He could not help becoming famous and successful, but he retained his modest character and was particularly well-loved by all his colleagues. His passion for music was well-known, and the visitor to his house in Edwardes Square might catch a few notes of Bach or Brahms, his favourite composers, but he was too modest to perform in front of his friends. Douglas's other recreation was fishing on the river Frome at his country retreat at the Mill at Stratton in Dorset. In 1933 he married Lesley Francis daughter of the late Martine Ronaldson by whom he had two sons and one daughter. He died suddenly in his consulting rooms in Harley Street on 27 January 1970; he was survived by his family.
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First Title value, for Searching Blaikley, John Barnard (1906 - 1975)

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First Title value, for Searching Barns, Hubert Henry Fouracre (1910 - 1959)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-01-15
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born in London on 29 December 1910, he was educated at the Chelsea Polytechnic and University College. He was awarded the junior and senior medals in anatomy and the silver medal in embryology and histology. At University College Hospital medical school he won the Fellowes silver medal in 1934 and the F T Roberts prize in 1935. In the same year he qualified MRCS, LRCP and in 1936 he graduated MB, BS. He took the Fellowship in 1939 and the MRCOG in 1942, and was elected to the Fellowship of the RCOG in 1953. At University College Hospital he served as house physician to Sir John McNee and house surgeon to Julian Taylor before becoming first assistant of the obstetric unit. During the war he served as a surgical and gynaecological specialist in the RAF, reaching the rank of Squadron Leader. On demobilisation he was appointed chief assistant to the department of obstetrics at St Thomas's Hospital and was elected to the staffs of the Hospital for Women, Soho Square and Queen Mary's Hospital, Stratford. He was a consultant gynaecologist to the Ministry of Pensions, and examined for the Conjoint Board, the University of London, the Central Midwives Board, and the General Nursing Council. Barns built up a successful consulting practice, and in addition undertook research. As Lund fellow of the Diabetic Association he explored the problem of diabetes in pregnancy, carrying out animal experiments and clinical investigations. He was interested in sterility, and was director of the Fertility Clinic at Soho Square. For many years he was troubled with spondylolisthesis, with characteristic common sense and ingenuity he devised means of doing abdominal surgery in a sitting position to relieve the strain on his back. He also put this handicap to good purpose as an adviser to the Rover Motor Co on seating design. Barns practised at 31 Weymouth Street, W1. He died suddenly on 21 January 1959 aged 48, survived by his wife and their son. Publications: Ovarian carcinoma, with P B Schofield. *Obstetrics and Gynecology* (New York), 1954, 4, 82-86. Comfortable abdominal operating. *Med Illus* 1955, 9, 387-390. Modem views on pregnancy complicated by diabetes mellitus. *Med Press* 1957, 237, 37-40. Prediabetic pregnancy, with M E Morgans. *J Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp* 1948, 55, 449-454. Round ligament sling operation for stress incontinence. *J Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp* 1950, 57, 404-407.
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First Title value, for Searching Bulman, Michael Waldo Boone (1898 - 1968)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-22
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born the eldest child of Henry Bulman and his wife Margaret, an Oxford graduate; his brother was Professor of Geology at Cambridge and his sister a gifted journalist and linguist, who wrote the life of the Swedish singer Jenny Lind. He was educated at Battersea Grammar School and the London Hospital. His studies were interrupted by the first world war during which he served as a Surgeon Probationer in destroyers of the Royal Navy. After qualifying he held several resident posts at the London Hospital, one of which was as house surgeon to James Sherren. He became FRCS and MS in 1923, and was then appointed resident surgical officer to Salford Royal Hospital, where he worked in close association with Garnett Wright and Geoffrey Jefferson. In 1924 he was appointed honorary assistant surgeon to the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. The following year he took the MD in Midwifery and Diseases of Women, and then specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology; he was the first in East Anglia to do so, and he founded the gynaecological and obstetrical department at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital. Michael Bulman was noted for the neatness of his surgical technique and for his imperturbability under adverse conditions. He was held in high regard by his medical colleagues in Norfolk both as a surgeon and for his integrity. His quiet manner and charm concealed his intellectual and administrative gifts. In spite of a busy professional life he undertook numerous public duties. He was a City Councillor and Chairman of the Norfolk Agricultural Wages Committee and of the Post War Development Committee. He was elected Lord Mayor of Norwich, an office giving scope for his wide knowledge of affairs, to which his logical mind gave easy expression in his speeches. As Lord Mayor he put forward the claim for a University for Norwich, and lived to see his dream fulfilled in the University of East Anglia. His year of office coincided with the tercentenary of Norwich, Connecticut, and, with his wife, he crossed the Atlantic to represent the Mother City at the celebrations. He made a deep impression on his American hosts and established a permanent link between the two cities. In addition Michael Bulman was an enthusiastic gardener and photographer. Michael Bulman married Muriel, daughter of Professor Hewlett of King's College, London; their son Geoffrey, who is also a Fellow of the College, is an orthopaedic surgeon.
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First Title value, for Searching O'Sullivan, James Vincent (1899 - 1976)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-02-25
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details James Vincent O'Sullivan was born on 27 November 1899 and educated at University College, Galway, and the London Hospital. He graduated in medicine with first-class honours in 1924 and passed MD with distinction, FRCS, MRCP MAO and FRCOG all within the space of three years. He was attached to more hospitals than most of his contemporaries and would frequently be found operating at midnight or at the crack of dawn. In addition he could still find time for teaching and contributing to scientific and clinical meetings. His strength and interest were in obstetrics rather than gynaecology. He had learnt his obstetrics the hard way in Dublin, at the London Hospital, and at City Road Maternity Hospital. He was perhaps unlucky to have such an outstanding contemporary and rival at the London Hospital in Alan Brews, and there was no vacancy for him there after Brews had been appointed. Nevertheless he maintained close contact with his old hospital and for years assisted Eardley Holland in his private practice. After the second world war his main hospital activities were centred on Kingston General Hospital, St Anthony's at Cheam, and St Teresa's Maternity Hospital at Wimbledon. When the Kingston Midwives' Teachers' Training College was started in the 1950s he became actively concerned and continued as a lecturer to successive schools of pupil teachers. In addition to all these responsibilities he established a flourishing private practice. He wrote relatively little, but he did make a number of valuable and original contributions to clinical obstetric practice. One of these was a simple technique that bears his name for replacing the acutely inverted uterus. Vincent O'Sullivan possessed all the charm so characteristic of his race. He was never short of an idea and, impracticable as some of these sometimes were, they initiated lively and constructive discussion. He never lost his affection for his native country. He bought a number of properties in County Kerry, where he loved to retreat with his family to enjoy fishing, shooting, and other country relaxations. An ardent Catholic, he was genuinely disturbed by some of the developments that were taking place in contemporary society and in his own specialty. He could never quite reconcile himself to some of the newer practices, but his bonhomie and joy of living did not desert him. He remained as always good company, a charming host and companion, a devoted family man, and a very good and understanding doctor. He was married and had a family, all of whom joined the medical profession. He died on 9 February 1976, aged 76 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Arthure, Humphrey George Edgar (1906 - 1996)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-02
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Humphrey Arthure was born in Tibberton, Worcestershire, on 27 January 1906, the son of Harry Edgar Erskine Arthure, Vicar of Mickleton, Gloucestershire, and Maud Mary, née Donnison, whose father was first Notary Public of the City of London. He was educated at Hillstone Preparatory School, Malvern and Marlborough College, where he was a foundation scholar, from 1920 to 1923. After spending four unhappy years in accountancy, he took up medicine, qualifying at Charing Cross Hospital and gaining the Governors' Clinical Gold Medal. He held junior posts at Charing Cross under Norman Lake, Hubert Clagg and Arthur Gray. He specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology, and was appointed consultant to his own hospital and Queen Charlotte's in 1939, adding Mount Vernon Hospital in 1947. He joined the RAMC in 1942, serving chiefly in the 17th British Garrison Hospital in India, taking part in the critical battle of Kohima in the Burma campaign and attaining the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Arthure had a distinguished career in his specialty at a practitioner, teacher and administrator. He was honorary Secretary of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists from 1947 to 1954, Chairman of the Examinations Committee 1962 to 1963, member of Council 1959 to 1964, and senior Vice President 1964 to 1967. He was a co-opted member of the Council of the RCS in 1960. A strong supporter of the Royal Society of Medicine, he acted as President of the Section of obstetrics and gynaecology in 1968, and in the same year became Chairman of the Central Midwives' Board. He became consultant advisor to the DHSS in 1965, and was co-author of *Confidential enquiries into maternal deaths from 1964 to 1969*. He delivered the Simpson Oration in 1972, entitled *Midwifery in Simpson's time and now*. For services to medicine he was honoured with the CBE in 1969. He was a popular teacher in his hospitals and became known to a wider audience by his writing in Ten Teachers and with the excision of a renal calculus weighing 13lbs 14oz, a world record which entered the Guinness Book of Records. He married in 1936 Phyllis Munro, always known as Dickie, and they had two children, Frances and Richard. In his earlier years he played tennis and squash, later taking up golf. In 1985 severe angina necessitated a triple bypass operation, but he still found the energy to set up a school for petit-point in Chiswick. Sadly, Dickie predeceased him in 1993, and he died on 29 January 1996, survived by his children, Richard in America and Frances in Cambridge.
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First Title value, for Searching Attygalle, Sir Nicholas (1894 - 1970)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-14 2015-06-05
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Nicholas Attygalle was born on 14 July 1894 at Ratnapura, Ceylon, where his father Don Louis Attygalle was a government official. The Attygalles were from Madapatha, Ceylon, where they own extensive lands. Nicholas Attygalle was educated at Ratnapura, at the Royal College, Colombo, and entered the Ceylon Medical College in 1914, obtaining the LMS first in the First Class in 1919. He was a natural leader in his student years. He joined the Ceylon Government Medical Service, and was posted to the Anti-Yaws Campaign, which involved travelling on foot or by bullock-cart to remote villages in the North, Central and Eastern Provinces; he enjoyed this work. Going to England on study leave, he obtained the LRCP MRCS in 1927, the DLO in 1928 and the Fellowship in 1929. On his return to Ceylon, he was posted as District Medical Officer, Nawalapitiya, where he established a reputation with his staff for straight dealing and firm action. He was then moved to Colombo where he was seconded for service with the Ceylon Medical College in the department of anatomy, and at the General Hospital, Colombo, as surgical registrar and senior clinical tutor. In 1934 he went again to England and obtained the MRCOG the first Ceylonese to pass this examination. Returning to Ceylon, he was appointed gynaecologist to the General Hospital, Colombo, and in 1940 was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. As a gynaecologist Nicholas Attygalle expected of his staff, for whom he was always on call, the same meticulous attention that he gave to his poorest patient. A mistake would call forth a stern reproof, but was forgotten and forgiven, while he never forgave an untruth or dishonesty. Attygalle was Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology from 1944 to 1953, when he left the University of Ceylon on being elected President of the Senate, the Upper House of the Ceylon Parliament and was knighted in that year. During his period as Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology he was elected Dean of the Medical Faculty. In this post Attygalle was respected for fearless adherence to what his instincts told him was the right course of action. But beneath his stern exterior, there was kindness, sympathy and humanity. If any of his students were under stress, he would know at once, and quickly help with assistance and advice, on condition that no one else should know. In 1955 Sir Nicholas was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ceylon in succession to Sir Ivor Jennings. He resigned from the Senate, and devoted his dynamic energies to his new appointment. The meetings of the University Council and Senate were quickly concluded, for Sir Nicholas gave no quarter to those who had nothing constructive to say. He would get to the heart of the matter in a few seconds, but always allowed those who expressed worthwhile views the opportunity of a full hearing. He was re-elected Vice-Chancellor for two subsequent terms of office, till 1966. Sir Nicholas took a keen interest in Buddhist societies, educational and cultural, served as their president and helped their advancement. When he was struck down by cerebral haemorrhage, he tried valiantly to keep active, but had to relinquish his duties as President of the Ceylon Medical Council and Chairman of the National Science Council. He died in his sleep on 27 March 1970, survived by his wife Conyta, Lady Attygalle, his son Lakshman Attygalle FRCS and his daughter Mrs Anula Wijesinha.
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First Title value, for Searching Barris, John Davis (1879 - 1946)

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First Title value, for Searching Brews, Richard Alan (1902 - 1965)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-14
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Brews was the son of a general practitioner, Richard Vincent Brews, LRCSI, and his wife Edith Manifold; he was born in North Woolwich in 1902. He was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School and became a medical student at the London Hospital in 1920. After gaining many prizes he qualified in 1924, taking the diplomas of the Conjoint Examining Board. This was followed by five remarkable years when he took an additional degree or higher diploma each year. In 1925 he gained distinctions in surgery and midwifery in the MB, BS London final examinatons. In 1926 directly after completing the post of house-surgeon to Robert Milne and to Sir Henry Souttar he passed the final FRCS examination a year before he was old enough to be given the Diploma. In 1927 he took the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and in 1928 became a Master of Surgery of the University of London. His final examination success was for the MRCP 1929. He was later awarded the FRCOG diploma in 1940, and in 1961 was elected FRCP London. After house appointments at the London Hospital he became obstetric and gynaecological registrar there and was greatly influenced by the consultants Sir Eardley Holland and Victor Lack. In June 1931 at the early age of 29 he was appointed to the consultant staff of the Hospital. He then made a close study of cervical carcinoma with special reference to its treatment by radium, work that was highly regarded by the Radium Commission. In 1934 he gave a Hunterian Lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons on chorion carcinoma and hydatidiform mole, a subject on which he became a world authority, and in 1939 one of the first two Blair Bell lectures at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists on the same subjects. For many years he was Curator of the Museum and Chairman of the Pathology Committee of that College, with a seat on the Council. At the London Hospital he collected and recorded pathological specimens for the Medical College Museum. He took over the editorship of Eden and Holland's *Manual of obstetrics*, when Sir Eardley Holland retired. In 1957 as President of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Royal Society of Medicine, he lectured on "Some clinical aspects of developmental anomalies of the female genito-urinary tract" (*Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine* 1957, 50, 199). Alan Brews was an outstanding teacher, with a flair for simple expression. He was an Examiner for the Universities of London, Cambridge, Liverpool, Durham, Hong Kong, and the West Indies, and for the Royal Colleges. He was an active member of the Gynaecological Travelling Club. As an obstetrician he was outstanding. Brews was a Governor of the London Hospital and its Medical College for many years, and became President of its Medical Council and its Academic Board; he was also President of the Benevolent Club. He joined the Society of Apothecaries in 1934, was promoted to its Court in 1955 and was elected Master in August 1965; but he had contracted a serious illness, and was able to carry out only a few of his duties. Brews married in 1928 Gwyneth Grace daughter of the Rev Joseph Dixie Churchill, Rector of Little Bentley, Essex; their only son Geoffrey became prominent in business. He died after a long illness in the London Hospital on Christmas Day 1965 and was buried at Brentwood; a memorial service was held at St Philip's Church, Mile End on 19 January 1966.
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First Title value, for Searching Hedley, John Prescott (1876 - 1957)

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First Title value, for Searching Charles, Anthony Harold (1908 - 1990)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-04-27
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Anthony Harold Charles was born on 14 May 1908, the second son of H.P. Charles. His early education was at Dulwich College after which he went to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, from 1927 to 1930. His sporting interests included rugby, cricket and boxing and he represented Cambridge University as middle weight in the contest against Oxford on 6 March 1930, gaining a half blue. After leaving Cambridge he went to St George's Hospital for his clinical studies, qualifying in 1933. His early appointments were as house surgeon at St George's Hospital and later at the Royal United Hospital, Bath. In 1953 he was awarded the Allingham Scholarship in surgery by St George's Hospital Medical School and returned to work at the hospital. He passed the FRCS in 1937 and the MRCOG two years later and held the posts of resident assistant surgeon and gynaecology registrar at the hospital. In 1939 he joined the Territorial Army as a surgical specialist, serving overseas in Malta, Jerusalem and Cairo, where he was officer commanding the surgical division of 15th Scottish General Hospital and gynaecological adviser to Middle East Forces. He remained in the Territorial Army after the war serving as Officer Commanding and later Honorary Colonel of No. 308 (County of London) General Hospital TA and VR. After the war he was appointed consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at St George's Hospital, consultant surgeon to the Samaritan Hospital for Women, consultant gynaecologist to the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and to Caterham and District Hospital. He was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1951 and appointed honorary surgeon to Her Majesty the Queen from 1957 to 1959. He was vice-dean at St George's Hospital Medical School and examiner in midwifery and gynaecology to the Universities of Cambridge and London, the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Later in life he examined for the professional and linguistic board. In addition he had a large private practice which included many visitors from overseas and in 1950 he went to Baghdad to treat the Queen Mother of Iraq. He was honorary gynaecological surgeon at King Edward VII Hospital for Officers, President of the Chelsea Clinical Society and President of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Royal Society of Medicine. He joined the Livery of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in 1961 and was a Freeman of the City of London. He was also president of the Alleyn Club, incorporating old boys of Dulwich School and president of the Rosslyn Park Football Club, having played rugby for the club before the war. He published many articles in professional journals and was the author of the chapter *Women in sport* in Armstrong and Tucker's *Injuries in sport*, 1964. In 1962 he married Rosemary Hubert who had been his theatre sister and in the following year he took up farming at West Chiltington, near Pulborough. He retired from the health service in 1973 but continued with his private practice for many years, spending week-day evenings at his club in St James's Square and returning at the week-ends to Sussex to look after his bullocks and to undertake much of the manual work personally. He was greatly in demand as an expert witness and spent much time at the Law Courts in Edinburgh and London, defending colleagues accused of professional negligence. He died on 25 November 1990 aged 82 and is survived by his wife and three daughters, Alyson, Kate and Harriet.
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First Title value, for Searching Horder, Cecil Arthur (1896 - 1970)

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First Title value, for Searching Jackson, Ian MacGilchrist (1914 - 2002)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-11-06
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Ian Jackson was a leading London obstetrician and gynaecologist. He was born on 11 November 1914 in Shanghai, where his father was a doctor. He was sent to England at a young age to commence his education. In due course he moved on to Marlborough, from which he won a scholarship to Trinity Hall, Cambridge. In the following three years, in addition to enjoying himself rowing for his college, he gained a double first in his natural science tripos, and won the Price open scholarship to the London Hospital Medical College. He passed the primary FRCS in 1939, and a year later passed the FRCS. He spent the years 1940 to 1943 on the house at the London, including periods as first assistant in the surgical and obstetric departments. He was involved in the management of many air-raid casualties admitted to the hospital, and in later years he would say that it was then that he learned surgery. But evidently he still had time for study, since he passed the examination for the MRCOG. In 1943, he was commissioned as a Surgical Specialist in the RAMC, joining the 724 Parachute Field Ambulance, and was part of the mobile surgical unit that was dropped into Normandy on D-day with the 3rd Parachute Regiment - the Red Devils. He served with this unit throughout all the fighting across France and Belgium. A few days before the airborne landing at Arnhem he injured his leg in an accident, so was unable to take part in that famous action - the officer who replaced him was killed. At the conclusion of the war, he went out to the Far East and took part in the relief of Hong Kong and of the notorious Changi Jail. Throughout his life he always cherished his link with the Red Devils. He returned to England in 1947 and the following year was appointed as a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist to the staff of the Middlesex Hospital and the Chelsea Hospital for Women. With his outstanding abilities, his charm and unfailing courtesy, he rapidly established himself as one of the leading obstetricians and gynaecologists in London, with an extensive private practice, and appointments to the staff of King Edward VII Hospital for Officers, the Royal Masonic Hospital and King Edward VII Hospital, Midhurst. He was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist to the RAF (from 1964 to 1983) and greatly enjoyed the helicopter flights this post entailed. A brilliant operative surgeon who wasted no time over his operations, his registrar posts were keenly sought after, and many gynaecologists learnt their operative skills from him. He was keenly involved in the work of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, serving on its Council from 1951 to 1970, holding the posts of honorary secretary, chairman of the examinations committee and honorary treasurer. He examined not only for the College, but also for the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and London. He was Master of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, librarian of the Royal Society of Medicine and President of the Chelsea Clinical Society. His first marriage was dissolved in 1967 and three years later he married his second wife, Deirdre, with whom he shared many happy years. A man of many talents, with (according to his son) a love of gizmos, gadgets and the most sophisticated cameras, for several years in his retirement he and Deirdre spent the winters on the Gold Coast. His activities in the latter years of his life were limited after a serious fall at his home. He died on 24 June 2002.
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First Title value, for Searching Pugh, Michael Arthur (1929 - 2018)

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by John A H Bootes
Publication Date 2018-11-19 2018-11-28
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Michael Arthur Pugh was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at University College Hospital, London and the Whittington Hospital. He was born in Manchester on 6 October 1929, the son of Robert Arthur Pugh, a journalist, and Norah Margaret Pugh née Rees, a market research executive. The family moved to London in 1936. During the Second World War Michael was evacuated to Torquay, where he attended St Olave’s Grammar School, a London school which had relocated during the hostilities. After the war, he returned to London and continued to attend the school, eventually becoming school captain. From there he went to St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College. Throughout his life, he maintained close links with both his school and medical college. He qualified in 1953 and was a pre-registration house physician and house surgeon at Barts. He had always wanted to be an obstetrician/gynaecologist, but before progressing any further with his medical career he first had to do his National Service, which he did between 1954 and 1956, in the Royal Air Force as a flight lieutenant medical officer in the Far East, being stationed in Malaya, Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong. He received the Air Efficiency Award and Bar. On his return to London, he continued with his junior appointments, being a resident medical officer at the City of London Maternity Hospital for six months, followed by six months at Queen Charlotte’s Maternity Hospital. He was then appointed as a resident medical officer to the Hospital for Women, Soho Square in June 1957, serving 12 months in that post. From there he returned to Barts as a junior surgical registrar for a year, during which time he was granted a clinical assistantship at St Mark’s Hospital for Diseases of the Rectum and Colon. In 1962 and 1963 he was a registrar at the Middlesex Hospital, which included the Soho, and it was at the Middlesex he met Jennifer, a fellow registrar (in anaesthetics), who was be his wife for nearly 50 years, and to whom he was deeply devoted. They had two children, Emma and Guy. He moved on, in 1964, to be a senior registrar to Sir John Stallworthy at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford. Academically he gained his membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1959 and his fellowship of the Royal College Surgeons in 1962. He was appointed as a fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1971. In 1967 he was appointed as a consultant to the Royal Northern Hospital at Archway and to the City of London Maternity Hospital in Hornsey. He loved his work and took a particular interest in the menopause, setting up a clinic specifically for managing the problems associated with it. He was especially proud that two of his senior house officers at the City of London Maternity Hospital went on to gain gold medals in the membership examinations for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He was appointed as a consultant obstetrician/gynaecologist to the Middlesex and Soho hospitals in 1974. The Hospital for Women in Soho Square was closed in 1987 and the beds were relocated in the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, which was renamed the United Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital and the Hospital for Women. Then, later, when the University College Hospital and the Middlesex Hospital departments of obstetrics and gynaecology merged he, with his colleagues, became consultants at University College Hospital, London. At the UCH he continued his special interest in the menopause and in particular in hormone replacement therapy. He was always a keen and didactic teacher (one never slept in any of his tutorials!) and a popular one. He particularly liked taking groups of students for tutorials in the museum at Soho. After the closure of Soho, he used his influence to preserve the museum, which contained an important collection of specimens. He retired in 1994 at the age of 65 and was granted the status of emeritus consultant at University College Hospital and also at the Whittington Hospital, which had absorbed the Royal Northern and the City of London Maternity hospitals. He continued teaching pathology to medical students at UCH until a few months before he died. He always stressed that he was a clinician and not a pathologist. His aim was to get the students to understand the disease process and to picture in their minds the changes that occur in their patients resulting in the symptoms and signs that are revealed by a careful history and examination that lead to the correct diagnosis and subsequent management. He was an examiner for the Conjoint Board, the University of London, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, and the Society of Apothecaries. He was on the staff of St Luke’s Hospital for the Clergy and worked there until it closed, by which time he was 80 years old. He was a member for several years of the cases committee of the Medical Protection Society, a sub-committee of the council, where cases and claims brought against members were reviewed. Both he and Jennifer were members of a number of medical societies, which they both regularly attended. These were the Royal Society of Medicine, the Harveian, the Hunterian, the Medical Society of London and the Hampstead Medical Society. Like many of his colleagues, he had a very successful private practice in Harley Street and was particularly busy with obstetric patients. He had a wall in his consulting room filled with photographs of the very many babies he had delivered. He and Jennifer were both liverymen of the Society of Apothecaries. He was one of the examiners for the licentiate in medicine and surgery of the Society of Apothecaries (LMSSA) until it ceased. He was master apothecary in 1997. In December 2017 at the 400th anniversary dinner of the Society of Apothecaries in Guildhall he presented a silver loving cup, which was designed to include two rhinoceros, the emblem of the Society. He was also an active freemason, being a member of the Rahere Lodge of St Bartholomew’s Hospital and took his turn as worshipful master on two occasions. He acted as mentor and guide to the younger, newer masons and was always an unstinting donor to the charitable causes the Craft supported. Having served in the RAF, it was natural for him to join the RAF Club in Piccadilly, where generously he loved to entertain his friends. His other club was the MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club), where he was able to indulge himself in a sport that gave him much pleasure. Being a regular churchgoer, he was warden at St Mark’s, Regents Park for more than ten years and also was a guide at Westminster Abbey, where he ‘had his own chapel’. Above all of these, he was a family man. He and Jennifer were always very close and when she predeceased him by some two years he was naturally devastated. He loved his children, of whom he was very proud. Emma became a GP and Guy a documentary producer with a special interest in Russia. Mike thoroughly enjoyed having his grandchildren around. Of Mike it has been said by many that he was one of the kindest people one ever met and was never heard to say a bad word about anyone. He was a beacon of all that is good in our profession.
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First Title value, for Searching Burton, Richard Michael (1926 - 2003)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-11-09 2012-03-21
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Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Michael Burton was a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Hillingdon and Ealing hospitals. He was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, on 28 July 1926, the second son of Rennie Cooksey, a general practitioner, and Elsie Jane née Laycock, the daughter of an adviser in music. He began his education at King Edward VII School in Sheffield, but was subsequently evacuated to the United States during the Second World War. He attended Newton High School in Newtonville, Massachusetts, and later Phillips Academy in Andover. He was very well cared for by his foster parents in the United States, with whom he formed a strong relationship. He returned to England at the age of 17, with the aim of volunteering for the Royal Air Force. Instead, being too young, he was called up as a 'Bevin boy' and worked in the coalmines. He did eventually join the Royal Air Force, and was selected for pilot training and also as a potential officer. As a part of his training, he was sent to Durham University for six months, where he studied engineering before being commissioned. He completed his training as a pilot, but did not see active service as the war in Europe finished and he was not posted to the Far East. After demobilisation, he enrolled as a medical student in Sheffield and qualified in 1954. He was then awarded a travelling scholarship to complete his pre-registration year in America, and at the same time gained his American MD. He served as a rotating intern at the Albany Medical Center, in Albany, New York. As a postgraduate, he went to Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied anatomy and physiology. He became a casualty registrar in Sheffield and his specialist training was at the Jessop Hospital, Sheffield, later in Chelmsford and the North Middlesex Hospital. During this time he became a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, becoming a fellow in 1977. He was a fellow of both the Edinburgh and English Royal Colleges of Surgeons, and he also became a master of midwifery of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries. In 1968, he was appointed as a consultant at Hillingdon and Ealing hospitals. He contributed papers on a case of chorion epithelioma with pulmonary complications (*Tubercle*. 1963 Dec;44:487-90), catastrophes in labour and 'pulseless' disease (*J Obstet Gynaecol Br Commonw*. 1966 Feb;73[1]:113-8). He had keen service interests. After leaving the Royal Air Force, he served in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force and achieved the rank of squadron leader. Later, he became a territorial, eventually becoming a colonel, commanding the 257 (SI) at General Hospital. He was awarded the territorial decoration. He was also a distinguished member of the St John's ambulance and was awarded the decoration of the Commander of St John. Another lifelong interest was scouting. He was a keen swimmer and reached international standard whilst a postgraduate at Cambridge, where he was awarded a blue for swimming and water polo. He also continued to fly until poor health stopped him. He had the misfortune of developing a dissecting aortic aneurysm and was operated on very successfully by Sir Magdi Yacoub. He was able to return to work, but was left with limited dexterity in the left arm. He had to stop operating and retired from active practice. However, he continued to examine for the Professional and Linguistic Assessment Board and also to do medical examinations for pilots for the Civil Aviation Authority. He had two daughters and a son by his first marriage. His son was also medically qualified, served in the Royal Air Force and eventually became a consultant in accident and emergency medicine. Michael was later married to Toni, who survived him. He died on 31 March 2003. Michael Pugh
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First Title value, for Searching Phillips, Miles Harris (1875 - 1965)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-24
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Miles Harris Phillips was born at Portishead, near Bristol in 1875, and was educated at Bristol Grammar School where he became captain of cricket, and his love of the game was life-long. He did his pre-clinical studies at University College, Bristol, and then came to King's College and the London Hospital for his clinical work. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma and the MB London degree in 1900, and three years later passed the BS and also the FRCS examinations. His long and distinguished career as an obstetrician and gynaecologist began in 1904 with his appointment as house surgeon to the Jessop Hospital for Women, Sheffield. In 1907 he became a member of the honorary staff, and from 1921 till his retirement in 1935 he was senior surgeon, and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Sheffield University. This was a part-time chair, but his enthusiasm for teaching brought him to the hospital at 9 o'clock on most mornings, for he regarded the demands of a busy private practice as of secondary importance to his academic duties. His students greatly appreciated his ability to teach them from his own extensive practical experience, and though he was an exacting chief, his postgraduate assistants realized that his strictness and insistence upon the highest standards of clinical work were to be accepted in their own best interest. His patients also became aware of the depth of his personal care for them, and loved him in return. The high regard of his colleagues was indicated by his election in 1929 as a Foundation Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of which he became Vice-President from 1937 to 1940. His expert knowledge of the literature of his specialty made him a valued member of the library committee of the College for the rest of his life; and his own library was remarkable not only for its size but particularly for the large number of classical items concerning the development of the practice and the science of midwifery during the past four centuries, which made it what must have been the finest collection of old obstetrical books in private ownership. Other evidences of esteem were the award of the honorary MD degree by the University of Bristol in 1933, and of the Honorary DSc of Sheffield in 1939. He acted as an external examiner in the Universities of London, Glasgow, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Belfast and Dublin. Phillips was the author of several articles on the history of obstetrics, William Smellie being one of his great heroes. He was an active member of the North of England Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society for over 30 years, and its President from 1918 to 1920. He was also President of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the Royal Society of Medicine. In the years between the wars the medical profession in Sheffield and three remarkable leaders - Arthur Hall, Ernest Finch and Miles Harris Phillips - and it seems strange to-day to realize that their retiring age from hospital practice was sixty. It is not surprising, therefore, that when Phillips retired to Laugharne in Carmarthenshire he should have become involved in the establishment of a department of obstetrics and gynaecology in the local hospital, and the maternity wing of the Carmarthenshire Infirmary is now named after him. In 1909 he married Edna Sinnock of Portishead, and the fifty-four years of family life which followed were intensely happy, for his wife sustained him with devotion and affection throughout the busy years of practice and the long period of retirement. When he died at the age of 89 on 29 January 1965 his wife and their two sons survived him, and he was buried in his native parish of Portishead.
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First Title value, for Searching Gibberd, George Frederick (1902 - 1976)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-12-08
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details George Frederick Gibberd was born on 18 April 1902 and grew up in Dulwich. He was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School and Guy's Hospital and qualified in 1923. He became MS (London) in 1926 and FRCS in 1927 and a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1933. He was elected a Fellow in 1940. After house appointments in surgery at Guy's he began his obstetric career as house surgeon at the City of London Maternity Hospital, where much of the emergency obstetrics was reminiscent of the last century. In 1925 he returned to Guy's as registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology and in 1931 was appointed to the consultant staff. He was appointed also to the staff of St John's Hospital, Lewisham, but gave this up when he was elected to the staffs of Queen Charlotte's Hospital and of the Samaritan Hospital for Women. Gibberd's contribution to obstetrics was enormous. In 1928 he and Arnold Walker became the first two advisers in obstetrics to the Ministry of Health. They investigated the circumstances of 6000 maternal deaths for the departmental committee on mortality and morbidity which was set up by Neville Chamberlain. The maternal mortality at that time was 4.4 per 1000 births (it is now 0.17). They found a 'primary avoidable factor' in 46% of cases, and their reports of 1930 and 1932 were the forerunners of the confidential inquiries into maternal deaths which are published now every three years. He was in clinical charge of the new isolation block at Queen Charlotte's until 1939. There he worked on puerperal sepsis with Leonard Colebrook, and in 1936 established the efficiency of sulphonamides. As a result the mortality of streptococcal infection fell from 22.6% to 5.5%. Gibberd learnt the dangers of sepsis from unnecessary intervention in obstetrics and he practised a conservative approach all of his professional life. He was particularly interested in toxaemia of pregnancy and wrote several important papers on the condition, stressing the clinical course and the importance of induction of labour in its management. Using a toy balloon he made observations on the pattern of breathing in the newborn which led to a deeper understanding of asphyxia neonatorum. With J B Blaikley (qv) he designed an apparatus for the resuscitation of asphyxiated newborn babies. In 1938 he succeeded Sir William Fletcher Shaw as honorary secretary of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He remained in this office until 1947, but served in the RAMC during the war. He served on the Council of the College and many important subcommittees almost without a break for 25 years from 1936 to 1961 and was elected Vice-President in 1958. In 1952 he became the first Sims-Black Travelling Professor and went to Australia and New Zealand. He was a member of the Cranbrook Committee on Maternity Services and of the Medical Advisory Committee of the University Grants Committee. He was made CBE in 1962 in recognition of his services to obstetrics. As a bedside teacher Fred Gibberd was supreme. His weekly ward round at Guy's was always packed with students delighting in the logical way in which he assembled the facts of a case and presented them in so orderly a fashion that the diagnosis and treatment became obvious. His *Short textbook of midwifery* was published in 1938 and went through many editions thereafter. He was a magnificent raconteur and excelled in telling of worthies on the staff of Guy's Hospital in the days when such were 'honoraries' of a prestige only equalled by their eccentricity, always prepared to listen to a request for help, he was a man to whom juniors turned for advice on personal problems and to whom colleagues referred difficult cases. He was universally loved and admired. He married Margaret Erica in 1930 and they had a daughter and two sons, one of whom is a neurologist. He died on 18 August 1976, aged 74 years.
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First Title value, for Searching Tait, Francis Selby (1902 - 1993)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-08
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Selby Tait was born on 9 December 1902 in Hexham, Northumberland, the son of James Andrew Tait, BA, a Congregational Minister, and his wife Anne Olene née Clemmetsen, who was Norwegian by birth. He attended the Dame School, Hexham, then the Lancaster Royal Grammar School, where he was awarded the science prize. In 1919 he went up to the University of Birmingham Medical School where he graduated in 1924, having been awarded the gold medal for midwifery. After appointments as resident surgical officer at the General Hospital and resident medical officer at the Birmingham Maternity Hospital he was appointed to the staff of the Birmingham United Hospital in 1936. On appointment, as was the custom until 1960, he did the foreign tour, visiting other centres of excellence in Europe. In 1938 he saw the opening of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Edgbaston and in 1939 worked on the plans for the new Maternity Hospital there - which actually opened in 1968, the year after his retirement! In 1939 he mobilised with the 35th British Military Hospital serving in Tidworth, Iraq, India and Ceylon. He became a major in the RAMC but in 1944 was recalled to the Birmingham United Hospitals on the death of Sir Beckwith Whitehouse. He attended patients at a temporary wartime unit at Lichfield until it closed in 1949, as well as at the General Hospital. He oversaw the opening of the Lawson Tait operating suite in 1959 and the design of the new outpatient department at the Women's Hospital. Each consulting suite had its own subwaiting area set back to make bays which gave some seclusion for waiting patients and minimised their embarrassment, a new concept in patient welfare in the postwar period. In 1946 he joined the new full-time Professor Hugh McLaren at his new obstetric unit in the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and was appointed assistant lecturer in obstetrics and gynaecology. He also practised gynaecology at the General and Women's Hospitals, and in addition was visiting gynaecologist to Tamworth Hospital and external examiner at Oxford University. His illustrious predecessor, Lawson Tait (not a relative, but a source of inspiration) had been the first surgeon in the world to remove the appendix at the Women's Hospital in 1880. Selby taught about the appendix and practised the technique for invagination of the appendix without breaching the intestinal wall. He always took a great interest in nurse training and was a lecturer and examiner for the Central Midwives' Board. He was Chairman of the Nursing Committee when the new buildings for the Queen Elizabeth School of Nursing opened and also the School of Physiotherapy. After retirement he took a major part in the 1971 Centenary celebrations of the Birmingham and Midland Hospital for Women and wrote its history. An account of these celebrations is given in the Bulletin of the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry of Birmingham. He attended clinical meetings at the hospital, now having more time to attend regularly. For seven or eight years he helped out colleagues in several Midland hospitals as a consultant *locum*. In 1941 he married Joyce K Smith SRN, who predeceased him in 1958. They had two daughters - Frances Ingrid Tait, ALA, M I Inf Sci, who is an information research manager for ASLIB and the BBC, and Anna Marie Imrie-Tait, who is a stills producer. In 1960 he married Katherine M Jones, also a nurse, who was the Education Officer for the Royal College of Nursing in Birmingham. Fly-fishing was a lifelong hobby, as was his interest in classical music and opera. He was a keen scholar of the history of art, medicine and local hospitals. He died on 1 November 1993, being survived by his second wife Katherine and his two daughters, Frances and Anne.
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First Title value, for Searching Rickford, Richard Braithwaite Keevil (1914 - 1990)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-07-20
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Richard Braithwaite Keevil Rickford, the first of similar twins of Leslie Thomas Rickford, a banker, and Gladys Georgina Rickford (née Keevil), was born on 1 June 1914, at Hampstead. He was educated at The Gables, Bexhill-on-Sea, and then at the junior and senior schools of Weymouth College, Dorset, before proceeding to St Thomas's Hospital Medical School. He was in the hospital rugby team (later being president of the rugby club) and was also keen on skiing and dinghy sailing. After graduation he was casualty officer, house surgeon and obstetric house surgeon at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital where he recorded his indebtedness to Charles Noon, the general surgeon and to the gynaecologist, Michael Bulmer. He then became an assistant medical officer in obstetrics in the London County Council, which was part of the Emergency Medical Service during the second world war, before returning to St Thomas's and the Chelsea Hospitals as obstetric and gynaecology registrar. He was there trained by L Carnac Rivett, James Wyatt, Frank Cook and Sir Charles Read. In 1946, at the age of 32, he was appointed to the consultant staff at St Thomas's Hospital, and later to the Chelsea Hospital for Women and Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital as well as being gynaecologist to the Limpsfield and Oxted Cottage Hospital. Rickford served as Dean of the Postgraduate Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology from 1967 to 1979 and actively promoted its worldwide reputation. He served on the Council of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and was President of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Royal Society of Medicine. He also represented the United Kingdom on the cancer committee of the International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics from 1973 to 1979. He maintained an unswerving loyalty to his hospitals and firmly believed in the doctor being leader of the team. He did not suffer fools gladly and had little time for administrative incompetence. His teaching methods were direct and he lived to the highest moral standards, expecting nothing less of his junior staff and students. He was a keen Freemason, by nature somewhat shy, and rather a private man, but with a subtle wit. He sometimes appeared aloof at the bedside, though always instilling in his patients a feeling of complete confidence. He was a man of innate good manners and a skilled operator, working with precision and elegance, especially in the field of major cancer surgery. On retirement he moved to Kingswear in Devon where he enjoyed sailing and became a governor of the local primary school. He married Dorothy Latman in 1939. They enjoyed and took great pride in their family of four sons, two of whom are in medicine, the eldest C R K Rickford FRCS being a surgeon in Truro, whilst a third is a lawyer. Sadly the last three years of his life were overshadowed by progressive motor neurone disease. When he died, aged 75, on 18 March 1990, in the Dartmouth and Kingswear Hospital, he was survived by his wife and three sons, Christopher, Jonathan and Jeremy. A thanksgiving service was held on 24 March 1990 at the church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Kingswear.
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First Title value, for Searching Hartmann, Henri (1860 - 1952)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-26
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born in Paris on 16 June 1860 of a family which came from Mulhouse in Alsace, he was an interne at the Hôtel-Dieu in 1881-82 under Terrier, Lailler, Lannelongue, Guyon, and Duplay, and worked at the École pratique under Faraboeuf. He was demonstrator of anatomy 1884 and prosector 1886, and he received the MD degree in 1887 winning the Prix d'Argenteuil for his thesis *Des cystites douleureuses*. He was appointed chirurgien des hôpitaux in 1892, graduated as agregé en chirurgie in 1895, became deputy director of operative surgery at the Hôtel-Dieu in 1898, and in 1909 was elected professor of clinical surgery in the University of Paris. He retired in 1930 but continued to direct the cancer service at the Hôtel-Dieu with his former pupil B Cunéo. He was one of the founders of the Ligue française contre le cancer. Hartmann distinguished himself as surgeon, teacher, scientist, and administrator. He was a handsome man of simple and direct character, unspoiled by success; he was also fortunate in a singularly happy marriage. Like many of his contemporary surgeons, such as Mayo-Robson, Murphy, and Matas, he wore a beard. There is a signed photograph of him in the Honorary Fellows album in the College library. Hartmann was particularly interested in abdominal and urinary surgery, and based his practice on profound anatomical knowledge and research. His fame will be kept alive by the long series of his advanced textbooks. His name is also recorded in the eponym of "Hartmann's pouch". Though perhaps not the first to observe it, he described the pouch of the gallbladder in his article "Quelques points de l'anatomie et de la chirurgie des voies biliaires" in the *Bulletin de la Société anatomique de Paris* 1891, 5th series, 5, 480. The description of this pouch is wrongly attributed in some books of reference to the earlier German anatomist Robert Hartmann. From Terrier he learned the strictest Listerian methods, and in his own clinic he practised perfect asepsis and the most precise and silent routine. He made careful experiments towards the simplification of ligatures, took infinite pains in personal discussion with the patient to achieve successful diagnosis, and made a ruthless examination with his assistants of all failures in his operating theatres. He kept most careful records, paying great attention to following up the long-term results of his operations. He was a supreme teacher and through his voluminous writings influenced a very wide circle. His life's work was surveyed in the seven volumes of his *Travaux de chirurgie anatomo-clinique* published between 1903 and 1928. With Edouard Quénu he improved the surgery of the rectum (1895), while from his master L F Terrier he derived his interest in the surgery of the stomach (1899), in which he made pioneering advances, partly based on the studies of the morbid anatomy of cancer of the stomach and the anatomy of the stomachic blood vessels undertaken for him by his pupils Fredet and Cunéo. In the surgery of the bile-ducts he had the help of another pupil, Rio Branco. With Petit-Dutaillis he studied the late results of cholecystectomies, and he extended the surgery of the spleen, pancreas, and mesocolon. Turning to gynaecological surgery he worked at the treatment of cancer of the uterus, and with Toupet made a valuable study of the pathology of placental retention. He was a joint editor of the journal *Gynécologie et Obstétrique* from 1903, and editor 1920-25. His work on the solid tumours of the ovary, which follow cancer of the stomach, was outstanding. Hartmann devoted five years at Lariboisière to a study of urinary surgical pathology, which led to valuable papers on painful cystitis (MD thesis 1887), lithiasis, tumours of the kidney, and myomas of the bladder. He was one of the first in Paris to employ the suprapubic approach for treatment of prostate hypertrophy. With his favourite pupil Paul Lecène he studied the tumours of the adipose capsule of the kidney, differentiating them from other retro-peritoneal tumours. His experience of the war surgery of 1914-18 was summarised in an excellent handbook *Les plaies de guerre et leurs complications immédiates* 1918. Hartmann took a full share in the work of professional societies, where his wisdom and integrity were highly valued. He was president of the Société nationale (now the Academie) de Chirurgie in 1919 and of the Congrès français de Chirurgie and of the Académie de Médecine, of which he had been elected a member in 1919. He was admitted to the Institut de France on 19 March 1945, and was a member of at least 26 foreign medical corporations. He was elected an Honorary FRCS Ireland 1906 and an Honorary FRCS England at the last International Medical Congress in London 1913. He was president of the International Society of Surgery at its 8th Congress at Warsaw in 1929, and was on the platform in his 92nd year at the 14th Congress in Paris in September 1951. He retained his health and intellectual ability to the end of his long life, which was saddened by the deaths of his pupils Lecène and Cunéo and of his wife, a lady of high intelligence and artistic taste. Hartmann practised at 4 Place Malesherbes, Paris, where he died on 1 January 1952 aged 91.
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First Title value, for Searching O'Gorman, Francis Joseph Patrick (1910 - 1992)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-25
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Occupation General practitioner General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Frank O'Gorman was born at Bradford on 11 September 1910. No information is available about his forbears, but when he was ten years old his family moved to Glasgow where he was educated at the Jesuit School of St Aloysius before studying medicine at Glasgow University. An outstanding athlete, he played international soccer as a schoolboy and represented his university in four sports - track athletics, boxing, swimming and soccer. After graduating he spent several years in general practice at Doncaster in order to support his widowed mother and enable his sister to attend medical school. He later became an obstetrician and gynaecologist in Rotherham and at the Jessup Hospital in Sheffield. His general surgical career in Sheffield began in 1940 when he was appointed to the staff of the then City General Hospital. During the second world war he served as a flight lieutenant in the RAF in Burma. On returning to Sheffield he took great pride in regarding himself as a very general surgeon and earned a reputation as a skillful operator on patients of all ages and with all manner of conditions. He was especially innovative in early vascular work, neonatal surgery and urology. Patients and hospital staff were captivated by his gentle manner and superb counselling skills. Sheffield medical undergraduates at first attended the City Hospital on a voluntary basis; but this modest and essentially self-effacing man, affectionately known as 'FOG', was an excellent teacher and the university appointed him as an associate professor of surgery in 1972. His medical publications were as many and varied as his teaching. He had a wry sense of humour and was a firm and fair examiner. He was also a shrewd committee man who made significant contributions to the development of surgical services in the City. A bachelor throughout his working life, he had lived with a succession of Staffordshire bull terriers in a house in the hospital grounds and continued to play soccer for the hospital team. While walking his dog in the hospital grounds wearing his favourite old mac he never looked the part of a distinguished surgeon. It is said that, on one occasion, an arriving houseman tipped him for carrying his bags into the hospital only to discover later that he had tipped his boss! He was a director of Sheffield United FC and honorary physician to the Football Association and FIFA. He travelled with England soccer teams to many places around the world. On retirement in 1975 he married and moved out of his hospital house but continued to take an active part in all his sporting interests and was a driving force in the introduction of sports clinics. He died on 10 December 1992, aged 82, and was survived by his wife Anne and his niece Veronica, who is a consultant anaesthetist in Glasgow.
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First Title value, for Searching Walne, Daniel Henry (1796 - 1866)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-01-23
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Practised as a surgeon at 72 Guilford Street, London, WC, where he was Surgeon to the German Hospital and at one time President of the Hunterian Society. He has a place among the early operators upon ovarian cysts in this country, as described by him in the *London Medical Gazette* (1842-3, xxxi, 437, 672; 1843, xxxii, 544, 699, 944; 1843-4, xxxiii, 47, 686, 723). He commenced the description of his first case - "Removal of a Dropsical Ovarium entire by the Large Abdominal Section" - with a history of ovariotomy. Nathan Smith and Blundell had made a short incision of about three inches, McDowell a much longer incision; Lizars one of twelve inches in length, and his patient had been exhibited in London. Charles Clay of Manchester had operated on September 12th by a long incision; Wain followed on November 6th, 1842, on a woman aged 58, his diagnosis being confirmed by James Blundell, Lecturer on Obstetrics at St Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals, and four friends who were present and assisted at the operation. The woman was seated propped up on a couch in her own bedroom, and Walne's finger was passed into the peritoneum through an incision one and a half inches long; this was then enlarged to rather more than thirteen inches by means of a probe-pointed bistoury guided by two fingers. As the tumour prolapsed, one assistant pressed the abdominal wound margin together to prevent prolapse of intestines; another held up the tumour, weighing 16 3/4 lb, whilst the pellicle was transfixed and tied. An additional ligature round the pedicle stopped all bleeding. The other ovary was examined by Blundell's finger and found normal; the wound was closed by a dozen interrupted sutures. There is reproduced a drawing of the cystic tumour. The ligatures which had been left long came away about ten weeks after the operation. Walne operated on a second case on May 30th, 1843 - patient of John Mussendine Camplin, of 11 Finsbury Square, a woman aged about 57 - in the presence of Blundell and several others including foreigners - Sewall of Washington, Klein of Würtemberg, Freund of Vienna. The cystic tumour was very similar and weighed the same (16f 3/4 lb) as in the first case. The ligatures came away after five weeks. He operated on his third case on June 27th, 1843, on an unmarried woman aged 20, a patient of John Elliotson, MD, who had been Physician to St Thomas's and University College Hospitals. There were again present Blundell and seven other friends. He made an incision fourteen inches in length; the tumour consisted mainly of one large cyst, and altogether weighed 28 lb. The patient made an even more rapid recovery than the previous two. A fourth case which had been previously tapped had become complicated by adhesions and Walne abandoned the attempt to remove it. Tapping was continued. A fifth case on October 19th, 1843, had been tapped; on opening the peritoneum much fluid, free in the peritoneal cavity, escaped, and the ovarian cyst found floating free was removed through a fifteen-inch incision. A uterine fibromyoma the size of almost a full-grown foetus was left alone. The wound was closed. The patient died nine days later. At the post-mortem examination pus was found around the uterine tumours and the pedicle. One may remark that the operations were done in the presence of Blundell, surgeons such as Bransby Cooper, J P Vincent, and distinguished foreigners. Three cases escaped peritonitis although Blundell's fingers were inserted as well as Walne's. Walne published other observations: "On the Results of the Operation for Strabismus" (*Lond Med Gaz*, 1841-2, xxix, 788); "On the Cure of Hydrocele" (*Ibid*, 945). He employed 'puncture' for the cure of hydrocele, following Velpeau. This meant passing a fine curette through a puncture and scratching the inner surface of the hydrocele wall. He alternated this with injections of iodine. In his papers "On the Application of Ligatures in the Treatment of Vascular Tumours" (*Lond Med Gaz*, 1847, iv, 993) he described the treatment of naevi, etc, by transfixing and surrounding with ligatures. Walne died at 72 Guilford Street, on October 3rd, 1866. His photograph is in the College Album.
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First Title value, for Searching Lewis, Thomas Loftus Townshend (1918 - 2004)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2005-10-12
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Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Tom Lewis was a respected London obstetrician and gynaecologist. He was born in Hampstead on 27 May 1918, but regarded himself as a South African of Welsh origin. His great-grandfather, Charles Lewis, had run away to sea from Milford Haven and settled in Cape Town in about 1850, where he established a sail-making business that was profitable until the coming of steam. His son, A J S Lewis, was a civil servant who became mayor of Cape Town and was ordained into the Anglican Church on retirement. In turn, A J S’s son, Tom’s father, Neville went to London to study art at the Slade School, where he met and married a fellow art student from Dublin, Theodosia Townshend. When the marriage broke up, Neville was left with three children under five, including Tom. They were sent to Cape Town, where they were brought up by their grandparents, A J S and Annie Solomon. Tom was educated at the Diocesan College, Rondebosch, where he had a good education, boxed and played rugby. Every two or three years their father would arrive unannounced from England, and they would go off by car all over South Africa to paint portraits. On one occasion a spear was thrown through a painting, which was feared to be taking part of the soul of its subject. In 1933, Neville and his second wife, Vera Player, bought a house in Chelsea and sent for them. Tom then went to St Paul’s School, from which he went to Jesus College, Cambridge, and Guy’s Hospital. As a student he won the gold medal in obstetrics. In 1943, he travelled by ship to Cape Town and enlisted in the South African Air Force as a doctor, but was then seconded to the RAMC, with whom he served in Egypt, Italy and Greece. After the war, he returned to Guy’s to take the FRCS and specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology. He captained the Guy’s rugby XV from 1946 to 1948, and was only prevented from playing for England against France by hepatitis. He played his last game for the first XV when he was aged 46. He was appointed as a consultant at Guy’s just before his 30th birthday, and to Queen Charlotte’s Maternity Hospital and the Chelsea Hospital for Women two years later. A meticulous surgeon, he was a very distinguished teacher. He wrote three textbooks of obstetrics and gynaecology and his book *Progress in clinical obstetrics and gynaecology* (London, Joe A Churchill, 1956) became a classic. He served three times on the council of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, was its honorary secretary from 1961 to 1968, senior vice-president from 1975 to 1978 and Sims Black travelling professor in 1970. He was President of the obstetric section of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was a consultant gynaecologist to the Army and an examiner to the Universities of Cambridge, London and St Andrews, the Society of Apothecaries and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. As a student, Tom had fallen in love with a Guy’s student nurse, Alexandra (‘Bunty’) Moore. They married in 1946 and had five sons. The eldest, John, became a doctor. In retirement, they built a holiday home on the island of Elba. A superb host, Tom was an authority on wine, fungi and astronomy. He died after a difficult last illness on 9 April 2004.
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First Title value, for Searching Lloyd-Jones, Rees Lloyd (1925 - 2011)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2011-10-07 2012-02-01
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Rees Lloyd-Jones was a consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Middlesex Hospital, London. He was born in Pwllheli, Caernarfonshire, north Wales, the only child of Griffith and Marie Lloyd Jones; his father was a farmer and garage owner. They were Welsh speaking and strict Methodists, which Rees found rather challenging. At 17 he entered the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. He won prizes throughout his pre-clinical and clinical years, including the Hetley clinical prize and the first Broderip scholarship, an annual prize at the Middlesex. For his National Service he joined the Royal Air Force. On his release, he began his specialist training in obstetrics and gynaecology. The Middlesex Hospital required consultants in the specialty to be fellows of one of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons in the tradition of Victor Bonney, who had been vice-president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, as well as a consultant at the Middlesex. The Middlesex training programme in general surgery provided excellent experience and for Rees the period spent as a registrar to Oswald Lloyd-Davies in colorectal surgery was especially valuable. Rees became a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1951. His training in his chosen specialty followed at Queen Charlotte's, the Chelsea Hospital for Women and Oxford, where he rapidly progressed from senior house officer to senior registrar. Oxford provided a wide obstetric experience, including being a member of the 'flying squad', reaching out as far as Gloucestershire, often in poor weather and in their own cars. Returning to the Middlesex as a senior registrar, he developed a reputation as a clinical teacher, and it was as a teacher and a tutor that he will be especially remembered. He was appointed to the staff of the Middlesex in 1961. The gynaecology department was very large, as the Hospital for Women in Soho had come into the domain of the Middlesex with the advent of the National Health Service in 1948. This hospital was one of the three hospitals (Chelsea, Soho and the Samaritans) favoured by candidates for the membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists for their resident surgical officer posts. Soho particularly had a very strong reputation in teaching operative surgery. Although there was no Soho method, the bold Victor Bonney influence was noticeable, but refined, especially by Ralph Winterton. Rees Lloyd-Jones was not the innovator, but rather the developer, of new techniques and his appointment to the staff of Soho added another rather excellent tutor. At Oxford he had met Elisabeth ('Betty') Babington Smith, an anaesthetist, and they were married in Eton College Chapel on 1 May 1954. Their only child, Emma, was born in 1957. Away from medicine, he had an affection for Renaissance and baroque music, but with occasional light relief from Louis Armstrong. Regular holidays in Venice at Christmas were a feature of Lloyd-Jones family life. His home at Cadmore End Common and its adjacent woods and walks brought great pleasure. Sadly in 2003 he suffered from major pulmonary emboli from which he made only a limited recovery. He and Betty moved into an elegant care home at Chilton House near Aylesbury. In 2008 Betty suffered from a fatal stroke. Rees' quality of life was altered - although mentally alert, he was physically compromised. He received excellent care and support from the staff of Chilton House, together with the devoted care of his daughter Emma. Rees Lloyd-Jones died on 27 September 2011. Michael Pugh
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First Title value, for Searching Blacker, Sir George Francis (1865 - 1948)

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First Title value, for Searching Macafee, Charles Horner Greer (1898 - 1978)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-01-28
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Charles Horner Greer Macafee, a son of the manse, was born at Omagh, County Tyrone, on 23 July 1898 and educated at Omagh Academy and Foyle College, Londonderry. In 1916 he entered the faculty of medicine in the Queen's University, Belfast, where he graduated in 1921, MB BCh BAO. In 1927 he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. His long, faithful, and devoted service to Queen's University started in 1922 when he was made a demonstrator in physiology. He set out upon his chosen career in obstetrics and gynaecology the following year, when he became tutor in midwifery and in due course part-time lecturer in midwifery and gynaecology. In 1945 he was appointed Professor of Midwifery and Gynaecology and held this post until his retirement in 1963. He was an outstanding clinician and unusually skilful surgeon, greatly loved by his patients, whose names and faces he never forgot. During an extremely active and successful career he made many important contributions to obstetrics and gynaecology, but undoubtedly his magnum opus and lasting memorial were his contributions to the management of placenta praevia, where his work revolutionised the treatment of this condition and led to a great reduction in maternal and foetal deaths. Not only his work but he himself were well-known internationally, partly because of his travels abroad but especially because overseas students were attracted to his department in Belfast. Pupils of his occupy chairs of obstetrics and gynaecology in all five continents and many more have become leaders in the speciality throughout the world. Many honours were awarded him. In 1961 he was appointed CBE, and in the same year he was given the honorary degree of doctor of science by Leeds University. This was followed in 1965 by the award of the Blair Bell Medal of the Royal Society of Medicine and the Eardley Holland Memorial Medal of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He was foundation Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and for many years played an important role in its affairs, eventually becoming Vice-President in 1961. Despite his many other responsibilities he found time to act as a member of innumerable hospital and other committees and contributed greatly to the medical services in Northern Ireland. He served on the senate of the Queen's University from 1965 to 1973. This engaged him closely in university affairs, including membership of the board of curators, where for many years he assisted in the selection of future members of the academic staff of the university. His services in medicine, the community and the university were recognised when he was made an honorary doctor of laws in 1974. He was an active member of the Ulster Medical Society and its President in 1958, and a foundation member and first President in 1952 of the Ulster Obstetrical Society. The last honour bestowed upon him gave him and his friends much pleasure when in 1977 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and subsequently the first Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of that College. He was long and happily married to Margaret Lowry, and her death in 1968 was a heavy blow. He was survived by two sons, Jeremy, a gynaecologist and Alastair an orthopaedic surgeon and by a daughter, Anne who was formerly a nurse, when he died on 16 August 1978.
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First Title value, for Searching Johnstone, Sir Robert James (1872 - 1938)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-24
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist Politician
Details Born at Greenisland, Co Antrim, where his family had lived for many generations, on 4 January 1872, the only son and eldest child of Charles Johnstone, land owner, and Mary McCreavy, his wife. He was educated at the Belfast Academical Institution, and at Queen's College, Belfast, where he was a scholar in 1891, 1892, and 1894, Dunville student in 1895, and Coulter exhibitioner and first medallist at the BA examination. He served as house surgeon at the Royal Victoria Hospital as soon as he was qualified, was demonstrator of anatomy at Queen's College, and was appointed to a studentship in pathology under Professor Lorraine Smith in 1896. He then took postgraduate courses in London and Vienna, and on his return, having determined to devote himself to the diseases of women, acted as assistant to Sir John Byers from 1900. He was soon appointed surgeon to the Belfast Maternity Hospital, and in 1902 was elected assistant gynaecologist at the Royal Victoria Hospital, becoming surgeon in 1908 and professor of gynaecology at the University in succession to Sir John Byers in 1921. When the Parliament of Northern Ireland was established in 1921 Johnstone was chosen to represent Queen's University in the Ulster House of Commons. He did much good work in this position, and took an active part as a member of the Royal Commission which issued a report upon which the Education Act in Northern Ireland was afterwards based. His parliamentary record also included the chairmanship of the commission on local government services in Northern Ireland; this commission in 1927 issued a survey of the existing system, which revealed its limitations and outlined a comprehensive scheme of reform. He did equally good work at the British Medical Association which he joined in 1897. For seven years he was secretary of the Ulster branch, of which he was president in 1921, and in 1937 he was elected president of the Association when the annual meeting was held in Belfast. During his year of office he received the honour of knighthood. From 1927 until his death he represented Queen's University on the General Medical Council, and from 1934 he was a member of the Dental Board. He took a prominent part in the inception of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, was a foundation Fellow, and was elected to the Council. In freemasonry he was always interested, was one of the founders and was the first master of the Queen's University Lodge. On 8 August 1906 he married Florence, daughter of the Rev G Magill, Presbyterian minister of Cliftonville. She survived him, but without children. He died at Newcastle, Co Down on 25 October 1938. Sir Robert Johnstone held a high position in the medical profession. He was loved and trusted by all his contemporaries, both for his social and professional attainments. Fostered by his friend and former master, Edward Russell, he had a sound knowledge of the classics and could read Greek and Latin poetry with pleasure. He was for two successive years captain of the Royal County Down. Golf Club. He early enlisted in the University Volunteer Force, and during the first world war he was engaged daily in its duties, without a commission and as a voluntary worker. Publications: Obstetrics and gynaecology, in Whitla's *Dictionary of treatment*, 6th edition, London, 1920. Caesarean section, with a record of 28 cases. *Trans Ulster med Soc* 1914-15, pp 99-114. Renal decapsulation in puerperal eclampsia. *Practitioner*, 1908, 80, 797.
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First Title value, for Searching Salmond, Elaine Margaret Katherine (1897 - 1982)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-03-09
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Margaret Salmond as she preferred to be called, was born on 20 January 1897, at Ilkley, Yorkshire, the only child of Percy Newby Salmond, a merchant, also a Major in the 3rd (Militia) Battalion of the Royal Scots Regiment, and of his wife, Elaine Marguerite, nee Bouch. Her early education was at St Paul's Girls School, from which she gained the St Dunstan's Medical Exhibition, tenable for five years at the London (Royal Free Hospital) School of Medicine for Women from 1916 to 1921. Before starting medical studies she took the University of London Matriculation Examination and the University of Cambridge Higher Local Examination with honours. She was an assiduous student, gaining eight certificates of merit and six prizes, including the Richardson Kelelman Prize for obstetrics, the Evans Prize in operative midwifery and the prize for gynaecology. She took the Conjoint qualifying examinations in 1921 and the London MB BS the following year, during which she was appointed house surgeon to the obstetrics and gynaecology unit at the Royal Free. She was particularly influenced by Dame Louise McIlroy and Gertrude Dearnley. In 1923 she gained a scholarship from the London Homoeopathic Hospital in obstetrics, gynaecology and radiotherapy. She gained her London MD in midwifery and diseases of women in 1925, and the same year was appointed registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Royal Free for two years, after which she held successively the posts of 3rd, 2nd and senior assistant in the obstetrics and gynaecology unit until 1931. During this time she received a research grant from the BMA for work on the Dick Test in relation to scarlet fever and puerperal sepsis. In 1932 she gained the A M Bird Scholarship for further work in the obstetrics and gynaecology unit at the Royal Free. In 1936 she took the FRCS examination and was appointed honorary gynaecologist to the Bermondsey Medical Mission, a post she held until 1960. She was appointed assistant director of the Marie Curie Hospital in 1938. On the outbreak of war in 1939 she became consultant in charge of the EMS Hospital at Bexhill, then in 1940, following her father's military interest she joined the RAMC as a volunteer with the rank of Major, first in charge of the military families hospital at Tidworth and then, in 1942, as OC of the surgical centre there until 1947. In 1943 she was awarded the Certificate of Good Service and in 1944 the MBE (Military Division). After the war she was appointed consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology at St Olave's Hospital, Bermondsey, and retired in 1957. She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, serving on the Council of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and was also a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene, to which she had delivered a lecture in 1938 on *The national importance of women's health*. She wrote several papers published in the medical journals, mainly on the subject of the prevention and cure of varieties of prolapse. She was interested in all forms of sport, and as a young woman played hockey and swam for the University of London Athletic Club. Later her other interests centred on gardening, bird-watching, ballet and theatre. She never married. She lived in retirement on the Isle of Mull and died aged 85 on 11 July, 1982.
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First Title value, for Searching Keeling, James Hurd (1832 - 1909)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-05-31
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist Physiologist
Details Born in Malta, the son of the Rev John Keeling, a well-known Wesleyan minister at that time residing in the island. He returned to England with his family and was sent to the Wesleyan School at Woodhouse Grove, near Leeds. He entered the University of Edinburgh in 1848, and after graduating MD pursued his medical studies in London, Paris and Vienna. He became an assistant to George Bower Thorpe (qv), of Staveley, but on the outbreak of the Crimean War in 1854 he went out as Surgeon to the second regiment of the Turkish contingent. For his services he was awarded the decoration of Officer of the Order of the Medjidie. He returned to Staveley and in 1858 settled at Sheffield, acquiring the practice of Joseph Cheetham at Crow Tree House, Broomhall Street, then a country house in a big garden. He lived here with his sister till he removed in a few years' time to Glossop Road. In 1858, while at Staveley, he applied unsuccessfully for the post of House Surgeon at the then Sheffield General Infirmary. In 1860 he became Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence at the Sheffield Medical School, and thus began "an association with the teaching of Medicine in Sheffield which lasted nearly forty years. When he accepted this office he made the stipulation that toxicology should be taught by a chemist, and Dr Allen accordingly undertook this part of the subject." In 1862 Keeling was elected Surgeon to the Public Hospital and Dispensary, now the Royal Hospital, Sheffield, and retained office for twenty-five years, when he became Consulting Surgeon. In 1864 Keeling was appointed Lecturer on Physiology in the Medical School, of which the affairs were then so far from satisfactory that it had been proposed to close it. Partly owing to his efforts it became possible to reconstruct the school in 1865. Resigning his physiology lectureship, he was then appointed Lecturer on Midwifery and the Diseases of Women in conjunction with Dr James H Aveling. He held this post for thirty-two years. Keeling, Aveling, and Edward Jackson were the first appointed Medical Officers of the Hospital for Women, founded in 1864. Later the Jessop Hospital for Women was erected through the generosity of Thomas Jessop. Keeling was deeply interested in this hospital, subscribing largely to its funds, and obtaining further substantial sums which were required for its extension in 1902. "The position attained by the Jessop Hospital as one of the leading medical charities of Sheffield was largely due to his efforts, and when he retired in 1906 the board elected him Honorary Consulting Medical Officer, and placed on record its high appreciation of his valuable and disinterested work. It was proposed to present him with a testimonial on this occasion on behalf of his colleagues, but he characteristically vetoed the gracious suggestion. "Reserved in disposition, Keeling delighted to do good by stealth and to labour for others in secret. It is recorded how at hospital meetings he was noted for the rebukes he administered to local orators who 'indulged in too much flattery about his own and other medical men's services' to the medical institutions. In a speech to the Jessop Hospital governors in 1898 he is reported to have said 'that doctors serve on the honorary staffs of hospitals simply and solely for the personal benefit they can derive thereby…that the patients also simply attend hospitals for what selfish benefit they can get, and that the rich keep up hospitals principally at the dictation of an enlightened self-interest which tells them that it is the best way of securing good doctors for themselves when ill, and in some small degree for the satisfaction, also selfish, which comes by being benevolent'. For all this seeming cynicism he was one of the most generous of men, and long after his official connection with the Medical School of Sheffield had ceased, he continued to take a keen interest in its welfare. It was he who under the veil of 'A Sheffield Citizen' equipped at a very considerable cost a new pathological department, and his contributions to the building and endowment fund of the University were most generous." He was the Hon Local Secretary in association with A Jackson at the Sheffield Meeting of the British Medical Association in 1876. He was for many years active in the work of the Sheffield Medical Society, and contributed many papers to it, though he does not appear to have published any. He was able, experienced, and well versed in the literature of his profession. He practised for a very long period at 267 Glossop Road, and, after some years of failing health, died there on March 14th or 15th, 1909.
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First Title value, for Searching McDonald, Ian Alexander (1922 - 1990)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-08
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Ian Alexander McDonald was born in Perth, Western Australia, on 1 April 1922, the son of Neil McDonald, a Presbyterian Minister, who at one stage was Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Western Australia. His paternal grandfather had emigrated from the Western Isles, and his grandmother Munroe, from the Isle of Mull. His mother, whose maiden name was Rees, came from one of the pioneer families of the Western District and her grandfather Thomas Rees had emigrated from Wales in 1854. Ian's early education was at Geelong College where, in addition to academic pursuits, he developed a great interest in music and singing. His great school friend was Ken Menzies, son of Sir Robert Menzies, later to become Prime Minister of Australia. Sir Robert once recalled his introduction to Ian when he came back to stay with Ken for the holidays. The then Attorney-General greeted him "Hello my boy, and what do you do?", to which Ian replied "I sing". "Well, sing me something". With great enthusiasm and in a clear treble voice the young McDonald immediately obliged with "Oh, for the wings of a dove". His ability to sing delighted his friends throughout his life, including professional colleagues after dinners and his fellow Scots after Burns' night suppers. After leaving school he entered the University of Melbourne for medical studies graduating in 1946 with an exhibition and first class honours in biochemistry. He was resident medical officer and later gynaecological registrar under Leslie Gleadell at the Royal Melbourne Hospital until 1948. During this time he was awarded the Nualasy Prize in operative gynaecology. He was also tutor in anatomy and amongst his pupils was a young physiotherapy student, who had suffered poliomyelitis, could not write and had to pass a viva examination; this student was Roberta Whiteside who became a bride in 1947 and the mother of the three McDonald children, Malcolm, James and Kate. In 1948 he saw military service with the occupation forces in Japan and then left for England for postgraduate training. For four years he trained successively at Queen Charlotte's, Chelsea, North Middlesex and Samaritan Free Hospitals for Women and during this time gained the FRCS in 1949 and the MRCOG in 1952. Following his return to Australia he was appointed assistant gynaecologist to the Royal Melbourne Hospital and later in 1966 till retirement in 1982 he was honorary gynaecologist and gynaecologist in chief. He was honorary obstetrician and gynaecologist at Footscray and District Hospital as well as tutor at Queens College, University of Melbourne. He was the author of a book entitled *A method of obstetrics and gynaecology*, published in 1971, which he dictated on to a primitive tape recorder on the front seat of his car as he did his round from hospital to hospital. Later his teaching urge made him create a video film on carcinoma of the vulva which earned him a high accolade in the United States. The two types of McDonald suture (vaginal and abdominal) which he devised for cervical cerclage will maintain his place in the history of obstetrics and result in the salvage of many pregnancies and the saving of the lives of many children. He was a great supporter of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in Australia. Initially elected Members' representative for Victoria in 1957 he served on the Council continuously until 1978. He was secretary for two terms and was elected President in 1975. During his presidency the College in Australia became financially secure and in spite of political change he kept the College free of Government support and thereby influence. He recognised the need to upgrade the educational requirement for members of the College and expanded the programmes for Registrar Hospital Training in obstetrics and gynaecology, introducing the new diploma FAGO - Fellow in Gynaecology and Obstetrics in Australia as the recognised diploma for specialisation in Australia. His vision also included the establishment of the Australian College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, independent of the mother College in London, emphasising throughout the philosophy of "Evolution not revolution". In 1963 he had been awarded the Robert Fowler Travelling Scholarship by the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria and from this he acquired a profound knowledge of gynaecological oncology which resulted in his unit at the Royal Melbourne Hospital becoming a leading oncology centre in Australia. He published a monograph called *Female genital tract cancer* in 1963 and was joint author of the history of the Australian College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, *Super Ardua*, published in 1981. After retiring from practice in 1982 he was appointed consultant gynaecologist to the Royal Melbourne Hospital. He died on 4 September 1990, aged 68, and is survived by his wife Bobbie, his daughter, two sons, both of whom are qualified doctors, and eight grandchildren.
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First Title value, for Searching Griffith, Walter Spencer Anderson (1854 - 1946)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-25
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Occupation Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born 1 December 1854 the elder son of the Rev John Griffith, LLD, head master of Brighton College, and his wife Sarah Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Foster of Brooklands, Cambridge. His younger brother Francis Llewellyn Griffith, DLitt, became professor of Egyptology at Oxford and died in 1934. He was educated at Brighton College and began to study medicine at the Royal East Sussex Hospital, later entering St Bartholomew's Hospital and qualifying MRCS 1878. He determined to take a university degree, and while beginning to practise in London kept the statutory terms at Cambridge by staying for weekends at Downing College; he graduated MB 1885 and proceeded MD 1889. He had taken the FRCS in 1881, and having decided to devote himself to obstetric medicine he took the MRCP in 1883, and was elected FRCP in 1893. Griffith was appointed physician accoucheur to the Great Northern Hospital; physician to out-patients at the Samaritan Hospital; and physician to Queen Charlotte's Hospital, where he worked in close collaboration with Chapman Grigg, MD. At St Bartholomew's Griffith came under the inspiration of James Matthews Duncan, MD, FRCP, and succeeded him as tutor in midwifery. When Duncan died unexpectedly in 1890, Francis Champneys, FRCP was recalled from St George's to the post of physician accoucheur. Griffith was appointed to assist him, with charge of out-patients. Hitherto the department's surgical operations had been referred to the hospital surgeons, latterly to Harrison Cripps, but Griffith was fully competent and ready to perform the necessary surgery, for he was an operator of natural ability. In due course he succeeded Champneys, and when he in turn resigned 1919 on reaching the age-limit, he was appointed consulting physician accoucheur, and a governor and member of the house-committee of the Hospital. During the war of 1914-19 he was consultant at the Queen Alexandra Military Hospital, Millbank, and was awarded the CBE for his services. Griffith represented the Royal College of Surgeons on the Central Midwives Board, and at one time lectured on midwifery at Cambridge. He was president of the section of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Royal Society of Medicine, and president of the Medical Defence Union 1932. At the Royal College of Physicians he was an examiner 1893-97 and a councillor 1914-16. In the British Medical Association he served as secretary of the section of obstetric medicine at the London meeting 1895, and president of the section of Obstetrics and gynaecology at Ipswich 1900. He wrote no book, though he contributed several papers to the professional press. Griffith married twice: (1) in 1885 Mary Anne, youngest daughter of T Kinder, JP of Sandridge Bury, St Albans, and had a son; (2) Ella F Kennedy, daughter of William Jackson Kennedy, MD of Lisaghmore, Kirkcaldy, Fife, who survived him. He lived at 19 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea and, after retirement, at Brae Cottage, Grayswood, Haslemere, Surrey. He died on 26 February 1946 aged 91; a memorial service was held in St Bartholomew's-the-Less on 5 March. His pupil O D Barris, FRCS, who was physician-accoucheur at St Bartholomew's 1925-39, died three days before him. Griffith bequeathed one-third of the residue of his fortune to St Bartholomew's Hospital, for the development of the obstetrical and gynaecological department and to perpetuate the name of Matthews Duncan, and another third to the Hospital's medical college. Walter Griffith was a tall, strong man of serious outlook, conscientious, painstaking, and determined in his own views. He was a lucid and practical teacher, and when instructing his class used to perch on a high stool and usually wore a black velvet skull-cap. Like his chief Sir Francis Champneys he was a skilled musician; Champneys played the organ and Griffith the cello.
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First Title value, for Searching Claye, Sir Andrew Moynihan (1896 - 1977)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-20
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Claye was born in Brigg, Lincolnshire, on 18 July 1896, the son of a clergyman; his mother was the sister of the first Lord Moynihan. He was educated at Lancing College and Leeds University. His studies were interrupted by the first world war, during which he served in the 4th Dorset Regiment in India and Mesopotamia. After demobilization he resumed his studies, qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1924 and graduating MB ChB with first-class honours and gold medal the same year. After resident appointments at Leeds General Infirmary and Leeds Maternity Hospital and experience at the London and St Bartholemew's Hospitals, he proceeded MD in 1926 and took the FRCS two years later. He joined the staff of Leeds University on appointment to the resident post of tutor in obstetrics, and in 1929 became honorary obstetric surgeon, a post he held until his retirement in 1961, when the title Emeritus Professor was conferred on him. He was elected FRCOG in 1934 and knighted in 1960. He was the doyen of British obstetrics and in certain respects, such as that of anaesthesia in childbirth, he was a recognized expert. He was above all a practitioner of the art of looking after the pregnant mother. To him she was always a woman, not merely a case, and by his practice and his teaching in this respect he played a leading part in maintaining the standards of British obstetrics and in enhancing the reputation in this respect of his own medical school at Leeds. It was typical of him that he voluntarily accepted a whole-time chair after having been part-time professor with a private practice. In this respect he had the advantage over those who are elected straight into a whole-time chair and at a relatively early age, not having had experience in private practice; an experience which tends to inculcate a greater understanding of human nature. In addition to his work at the University Claye served in many other ways. He was President of the 13th British Congress of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 1952 and a member of Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from 1950 to 1955. He was Sims-Black Travelling Professor in Australia and New Zealand in 1956, and in the same year was appointed honorary consultant surgeon at the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, where the honorary MD was conferred on him. He was an examiner for the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Aberdeen, Belfast, and Manchester, and for the Conjoint Board in England. He was also an examiner for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and its President from 1957 to 1960. He served on many committees of the British Medical Association and was President of the Section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Annual Meeting in 1949. His publications included *The evolution of obstetric analgesia* (1939) and *Management in obstetrics*, which reached a second edition in 1956. Claye was a man of culture as well as a man of medicine. Not the least interesting of his publications was the delightful anthology, English well used which he published jointly in his retirement with Canon Adam Fox, who had been an assistant master at Lancing when Claye was there as a schoolboy. Scrubbing up was always accompanied by reading two pages of Palgrave's *Golden Treasury* and Claye sang as a bass for many years with the Leeds Choral Society. In 1928 he married Marjorie Elaine Knowles, the daughter of a doctor. They had each graduated with first-class honours at Leeds in 1924. They had two daughters. After retirement he and his wife were both successful in obtaining the BA in English at London University. Claye died on 25 February 1977.
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First Title value, for Searching Dawson, Sir Joseph Bernard (1883 - 1965)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-22
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Occupation General practitioner Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Joseph Bernard Dawson was born at Solihull on 8 April 1883 and was educated at the King Edward VI School and the University of Birmingham Medical School. He took the Primary FRCS before starting clinical work and qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1905. Even in his student days he decided that he wanted to specialize in obstetrics and gynaecology. He became house surgeon at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Sick Children at Brighton, taking the MB BS degree of London University in 1906. He then spent some time in general practice to make enough money to take the FRCS course at the London Hospital where he also did some research work under Arthur Keith. After further house appointments in Birmingham and London he did the FRCS course at Bart's and passed the examination in 1908. Dawson's next step was to buy a practice in York, but later he moved to Swansea and while there he passed the MD London in diseases of women in 1911. But he was not satisfied with his prospects in England and so he emigrated to Australia and settled in Glenelg, near Adelaide, where he was able to combine general practice with the specialising of obstetrics and gynaecology. At the outbreak of the first world war he arranged with his partner at Glenelg that he would serve in the army for a year, and spent 1915 in a casualty clearing station in France and when he returned to the practice in 1916 his partner went to France. After the war he bought his partner's share of the practice and then devoted himself more fully to gynaecology, and ultimately moved into Adelaide where in 1925 he was appointed assistant gynaecologist to the Royal Adelaide Hospital, and in 1930 obstetric tutor in the University. Adelaide University awarded him the degree of MD *ad eundem* in 1920, and in 1929 he became a foundation Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Although he was successful in practice and in academic work in Adelaide, when in 1931 the University of Otago instituted a Chair in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Dawson applied for it and was appointed to a post in which the facilities for clinical work and teaching were at first negligible. It took him some years to obtain the necessary conditions for a sound academic department, but by 1937 the Queen Mary Hospital was opened, and he managed to revise the teaching curriculum so that the course satisfied the requirements of the General Medical Council. The fruit of his labour was a spectacular reduction in maternal mortality in New Zealand. For these services he was awarded the KBE in 1948; he had already been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 1934. He was not obliged to retire at the age of 65, but in 1950 he suffered a coronary thrombosis and therefore decided at the end of that year that he ought to make way for a younger man, and was made Emeritus Professor. In addition to his professorial duties Bernard Dawson took a prominent part in many professional bodies. He was President of the Otago Branch of the BMA for 1940-45, and was a co-opted member of the Council of the RCOG in 1951-52 and served as an examiner. He was on the Otago Hospital Board from 1955-62, and for many years was President of the Otago Branch of the Commonwealth Society. Dawson was married in England in 1909, and had two sons and two daughters; one son became a physician in Christchurch, and the other a surgeon in Dunedin. When he died on 17 August 1965 at the age of 82, Lady Dawson and the family survived him.
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First Title value, for Searching Wyatt, James Montague (1883 - 1953)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-23
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born in 1883 son of Thomas Henry Wyatt MVO, a civil servant attached to the War Office, and Julia his wife, he was educated at Merchant Taylors School and St Thomas's Hospital, where he qualified in 1905, after having obtained honours in anatomy and physiology in the London MB examination and gained the Sutton Sams and Midwifery prizes. After serving house appointments as junior and senior obstetric house physician, he went out to Shanghai to join a general practice but returned to England to become resident medical officer at Queen Charlotte's Hospital and obstetric registrar and tutor at St Thomas's. During the war of 1914-18 he served in the RAMC(T) with the rank of Captain posted to the 5th London General Hospital and also worked at Lady Ridley's Hospital for Officers in Carlton House Terrace. In 1919 he was appointed to the consultant staff of St Thomas's as the third member of the triumvirate John Fairbairn FRCS, "Jock" Hedley FRCS, and James Wyatt FRCS. He remained at St Thomas's until his retirement in 1946 as senior consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology. His other hospital appointments were as consulting surgeon to the Grosvenor Hospital for Women, now part of St Thomas's, and the Chelsea Hospital for Women. He was an original Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of which he became Vice-President from 1946 to 1949 and he was the representative of the College on the Central Midwives Board from 1947 to 1952. An original member of the South-West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board he served on many committees of the Board, in fact thirty-eight, and, as he had great faith in the potentialities of the Health Service, devoted much time and energy to his duties in spite of slowly deteriorating health. He was appointed a Governor of St Thomas's in 1945, an unusual distinction for an active member of the staff in the days before the Health Service, and after its inauguration in 1948 he was reappointed. His work for St Thomas's went much deeper than many realised as it was he who, after the death of the then Treasurer the Hon Sir Arthur Stanley in 1942 during the darkest period of the war of 1939-45, found co-treasurers in the persons of the Hon Patrick Kinnaird and the Hon Arthur Howard both of whom had been under his care in Lady Ridley's Hospital when, as young ensigns in the Scots Guards, they had both been severely wounded during the war of 1914-18. During the second world war Wyatt took up residence as Warden of the Manor House, the students' hostel at Godalming, as a centre had been established in this area forming a focus for the activities of the bombed-out St Thomas's in London, which at one period was reduced by enemy action to six operative beds out of six hundred and sixty and for the rest of the war never had more than one hundred and fifty beds operational. The pre-clinical students used the facilities of Charterhouse School and the clinical students and in-patients the ex-Australian EMS Hospital at Hydestile. It is not too much to say that, but for Wyatt's drive and devotion during the war, St Thomas's might well have ceased to exist as the majority of the consultant staff were dispersed to other centres or were absent on war service. Among his other duties he worked for the EMS at St Luke's Hospital, Guildford, then known as Warren Road, and during the time of Dunkirk and the Normandy invasion worked there as a surgeon. An excellent teacher with a keen sense of humour, he took a tremendous interest in the welfare of the students not only in their work but also, as President and mentor of the Rugby club, in their play. He was particularly interested in amateur boxing both as physician and referee for the Amateur Boxing Association of which he became President and also of the Amateur International Boxing Association. He examined in his subject for the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London and Manchester and for the Conjoint Board. He was a member of the Fellowship Selection Committee of the College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and chairman of its Examination Committee in 1946-47. He contributed to *Modern Trends in Obstetrics and Gynaecology* in 1950 and wrote on the toxaemias of pregnancy. Perenially youthful in bearing and appearance, he was a modest man of simple tastes with a heart of gold and a generous purse. Whether at his home in Park Village, Regent's Park or his country houses at Upton Grey near Basingstoke or at Mevagissey in Cornwall, he was always prepared to play host to any of his students, acting as cook: he excelled at the culinary art, and he always acted as sponsor of the Easter tour of the St Thomas's Rugby club visiting Cornwall. He was unmarried and died on 31 July 1953 in St Thomas's Hospital aged 70. A memorial service was held in the Chapel of St Thomas's Hospital.
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First Title value, for Searching Wright, James Lawrence (1915 - 2011)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-10-17 2016-09-01
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Professor James Lawrence (Laurie) Wright passed away in Dunedin on 8 September 2011 at the age of 96. Whether delivering babies, guiding nervous rural GPs, or serving as an army doctor in World War 2, Prof Laurie Wright was guided by a sense of duty. Professor of obstetrics and gynaecology at Otago Medical School from 1951 until he retired in 1980, Prof Wright died in Dunedin in September, aged 96. James Lawrence Wright was born in May 1915, the eldest of William and Helen Wright's five children, whom they raised in Forbury, Dunedin. After attending Forbury School and Otago Boys' High School, he attended Otago Medical School, enlisting with the Otago University Medical Company in 1932. After leaving medical school he worked at Dunedin Hospital for two years, and then as a locum GP in Westport, before being awarded an obstetrics and gynaecology scholarship in Melbourne. The war prompted his early return to New Zealand, to join the air force, but he was seconded to the army because of its need for medics. Dunedin lawyer Bill Wright said his father was not entirely happy about the secondment, having gained his wings. However, he distinguished himself as an army doctor in the North African campaign, and later in Italy. He attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and was mentioned in dispatches. In Italy, he married Belle Henderson, a New Zealand war nurse, near Naples in April 1945. Mr Wright said his mother, who was from Central Otago, had followed Prof Wright, determined not to be parted from him. "When he was posted overseas, she determined to follow him and enlisted with the army...she followed him through Africa and Italy and ultimately got her man at the end of the war." Unusually, the two were allowed to serve together for several months, before they were discharged and travelled to London by ship in December, 1945. After several years at St George's Hospital in London, life back in Dunedin was characterised by hard work, and long night's away delivering babies. His father never glorified his war years, seeing it as a duty, Mr Wright said. He had an excellent recall of detail, and had hoped to write of his war experience, which did not come about. His stories of well-known campaigns instilled in his son a life-long interest in history. He was strong on ethics, and was not moralistic or judgemental. "He once told me, you should not have to ask what is the correct thing to do, you should instinctively know." He related well to people from all walks of life. He made time to speak to people, regardless of their place in the hospital hierarchy, Mr Wright said. Former patients had contacted him since his father's death - more than a dozen - to thank him for his father's care. On professional visits to Wellington, he stayed in a state house with his World War 2 driver, with whom he had a firm bond, rather than at a hotel. Fly fishing was Prof Wright's main passion, although he was also a rugby man, a supporter of Otago rugby, both the university, and the province. Emeritus Prof Richard Seddon, of Queenstown, said Prof Wright largely dedicated himself to clinical practice, rather than research. However, he was a leader in promoting maternal and perinatal mortality documentation and review to improve clinical safety. Establishing a clinical and academic unit of excellence in Dunedin was his focus, Prof Seddon said. "He was a stickler for form." He was very interested in supporting the role of GPs in obstetric practice, Prof Seddon said. Dr Brian McMahon, a student of Prof Wright's in the 1950s, who worked as a GP in the 1960s in Cromwell and was superintendent of Cromwell Hospital, said his old teacher helped him with difficult and stressful births. Transport was an issue in those days, and GPs had to cope with a greater number of difficult cases. Dr McMahon served in the Vietnam conflict, leading to a close bond with his old teacher. University students of the 1950s lacked awareness of the older generation's war service. "If only we had known that as students, I think our attitudes would have been different. We would have had a rapport." In retirement, Prof Wright did not give up medicine, becoming a surgical assistant at Mercy Hospital for a decade, his friend, former student, and colleague, Dr Alan Donoghue, recalled. Prof Wright did not work in the private sector pre-retirement, and thus had no "cushion of continuing practice to soften the abrupt transition". The other doctors at Mercy, nearly all former students, greatly enjoyed his wisdom, humility, and good humour. "He was a marvellous raconteur, and enlivened many hours with fascinating historical anecdotes." Mrs Wright died in 2008, shortly after the couple moved to Ross Home in late 2007. Prof Wright is survived by two children, Bill and Catharine, six grandchildren, and one great grandchild. This was written by Eileen Goodwinand appeared in the *Otago Daily Times* on 10 December 2011 and is reproduced here with their kind permission.
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First Title value, for Searching Barnes, Dame Alice Josephine Mary Taylor (1912 - 1999)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-09-15 2015-10-16
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details An accomplished and successful obstetrician and gynaecologist, Dame Josephine was also known to the wider world for her devotion to social and educational reform, and was seen by many as an exemplar for the role of professional women in modern society. Josephine Barnes, happily known to her family and friends as 'Jo', was born on 18 August 1912, the daughter of a Methodist minister who adhered to the strictest tenets of his faith. It was only with difficulty that she was allowed to study medicine. She went up to Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford in 1930, winning a blue in hockey and a first in physiology. During her student clinical years at University College Hospital she distinguished herself with a clutch of gold medals, and found her mission in life when she saw at first hand the living conditions of working class women. She qualified in 1937 and quickly assembled a dazzling array of postgraduate diplomas. As obstetric registrar at University College Hospital she played a vital part in the 'flying squad', dealing with emergencies 'on the district' and was soon appointed to the Marie Curie and the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson hospitals. In 1954 she became consultant to the Charing Cross Hospital and in the medical school there added medical education to the many causes she supported. She played an important part in a host of crusading movements for women's rights and was a member, often the secretary and ultimately the president of, among others, the Medical Women's Federation, the National Association of Family Planning Doctors and the Women's National Cancer Control Campaign. In all these her advice was respected as level-headed and practical. The enormous scope of her public work was recognised in 1974 by the award of DBE and honorary degrees were showered upon her by Liverpool, Southampton, Leicester and Oxford Universities. She became Vice-President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and in 1979 was the first woman to be President of the BMA. In old age she continued her devotion to voluntary work and the presidency of the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund gave her great pleasure. In 1942 she married Brian Warren, also a doctor. She ran the household as well as her own considerable practice, and brought up two daughters, Penny and Amanda, and a son, Antony, a GP in Cambridge. The marriage was dissolved in 1964. In later years she suffered considerably from asthma, but retained her enthusiasms and her intellectual capacity until the end. She died on 28 December 1999.
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First Title value, for Searching Nixon, William Charles Wallace (1903 - 1966)

2024-05-03T13:10:15Z

by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-09-23
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born on 22 November 1903, son of Professor William Nixon, Professor of Mathematics at Malta University, he was educated at Epsom College and St Mary's Hospital where he was Epsom Scholar in 1922. Qualifying with the Conjoint Diploma in 1927, he was appointed house surgeon at St Mary's and, later, in 1929 as house surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, in the same year being admitted to the Fellowship. In 1930 he was appointed gynaecological registrar and obstetric resident at St Mary's. Graduating with the degrees of London University in 1931, he proceeded to the degree of MD with a gold medal in diseases of women and midwifery in 1932. In 1934 he was appointed a consultant on the staff of St Mary's at the age of 31 and, in the following year, a consultant at Queen Charlotte's Hospital. However, in 1935 he threw up these appointments to go out to Hong Kong as Professor of Obstetrics but returned to London in 1938 to become a consultant to the Soho Hospital for Women and to the London County Council, working at Paddington and St Mary Abbot's Hospitals. In 1941 he delivered a Blair Bell Memorial Lecture on diet in pregnancy at the College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, having been elected a Fellow in 1939. In 1943 he was seconded to the University of Istanbul as Professor where he remained until 1946 when he returned to London to succeed Professor F J Browne as director of the obstetric unit at University College Hospital and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the University of London. He had a natural flair for teaching which endeared him to his students and he was both a skilled clinician and an able surgeon. His outstanding feature, however, was his restless enquiring mind which led him to initiate researches into many problems in his specialty and to stimulate others to do likewise. He was in great demand as an adviser on his subjects in many countries. A member of the Expert Advisory Committee on Maternity Care for the World Health Organisation and of the Standing Committee on Maternity Service in the Ministry of Health, he initiated the British Prenatal Survey in 1958, a unique national study of maternity care. At one time he was a Member of the Council in 1947 and Vice-President of the section of Obstetrics and Midwives Board. In the British Medical Association he was a Member of Council in 1947 and Vice President of the section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the annual meeting in 1957. He examined for the universities of London, Cambridge, Durham and Bristol and was the recipient of honorary membership of many foreign societies, namely those of Athens, France, Belgium, Turkey, Italy and Uruguay and was a foundation member of the Chinese Obstetrical Society in 1936. He was awarded a commemorative medal by the University of Budapest in 1947 and by that of Brussels in 1954. A man of innate kindliness, courtesy and wit, he was a valiant fighter for many causes, notably reform of the abortion laws, the value of psychological preparation for childbirth and for family planning and for its importance in the medical curriculum. His services to medicine were recognised in 1965 when he was invested as CBE. He made many contributions to medical literature and his international reputation acted as a magnet for leading obstetricians from all over the world. He understood how it feels to be a stranger alone in London and all his life he made efforts to welcome and befriend foreign visitors. In 1964, although a sick man, he acted as an expert witness at the trial of Dr Dering, accused of inhuman treatment of prisoners in the death camp at Auschwitz. He allowed himself little time for relaxation but shooting and swimming interested him, whilst as a young man he played wing three quarter for the St Mary's Rugby fifteen and always maintained a keen interest in the game. He died on 9 February 1966, survived by his wife and daughter. Publications: *A guide to obstetrics in general practice*. 1954. *Childbirth*. 1962.
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First Title value, for Searching Stallworthy, Sir John Arthur (1906 - 1993)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-10-02
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details John Arthur Stallworthy was born on 26 July 1906 in New Zealand, the son of Arthur John Stallworthy, a newspaper proprietor who later became Minister of Health. His early education was at Auckland Grammar School and he entered Otago University where he took degrees in both law and medicine, qualifying in 1930 with distinction and gold medals in surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology. During his student years he obtained a tennis blue and was given a trial for the All Blacks team. After house appointments in New Zealand he was awarded in 1931 a medical travelling fellowship and in 1932 an obstetrical travelling fellowship. He worked initially at the Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne, and later came to London to study surgery and gynaecology at the Royal Postgraduate Hospital and the Chelsea Hospital for Women, where he worked under Victor Bonney. He obtained the MRCOG in 1935 and the FRCS in 1936. In 1937 he went to Vienna to study pathology under Professor Frankel, returning to Oxford the following year as first assistant in the Nuffield department of obstetrics and gynaecology under Professor Chassar Moir. In 1939 he was appointed consultant in charge of his own department at the Radcliffe Infirmary and soon built up a flourishing private practice. During the war years he established an obstetric flying squad for the Oxford region due to a great concern for safety in obstetrics and his determination to reduce maternal mortality in the area. After the introduction of the National Health Service, by a personal invitation from the Regius Professor of Physic, Sir Farquhar Buzzard, he became director of obstetrics and gynaecology to the United Oxford Hospitals. In 1967 he was appointed Nuffield Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and held this post until he retired in 1973. His gynaecological interests were wide; he pioneered the conservative treatment of pelvic tuberculosis and advocated the treatment of carcinoma of the cervix by radiotherapy followed by Wertheim's hysterectomy. His work on this subject was presented in a Hunterian lecture delivered at the College in 1963. He was in great demand as a lecturer, travelling to Sydney University as McIlrath Guest Professor in 1952, to the United States as Sommer Memorial Lecturer in 1958 and to South Africa as Sims Black Travelling Professor in 1964. He was invited to give the Victor Bonney Memorial Lecture at the Royal College of Surgeons in 1970. He served on the Council of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists from 1944 and became senior Vice-President in 1969. He was President of the Medical Protection Society from 1969 to 1976 and was also a co-opted member of the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons. He served two terms as President of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1973 to 1975 and from 1980 to 1982, when he played an important rôle in redeveloping the Society's premises. He was President of the British Medical Association in 1975 and six years later was awarded the Association's gold medal. He contributed extensively to the gynaecological literature and jointly edited the eighth edition of Bonney's *Gynaecological surgery*. In 1967 when the Abortion Act was passed, he published data showing the morbidity associated with medical termination of pregnancy. In 1983 he chaired a BMA working party into the medical consequences of nuclear war and concluded that even a small nuclear device exploding over Britain would virtually eliminate all human life. His recreations were driving fast cars, writing and gardening. In 1934 he married Margaret Howie, who was described as a wonderful foil for his dynamic personality. Having been told that he would not be home for dinner, she might then receive a 'phone call asking her to produce a meal for a large number of visiting colleagues! There were three children of the marriage - Jon Stallworthy, the poet, who became a Professor of English at Oxford University, and twin daughters, Sally and Wendy, who both married distinguished members of the clergy. His wife pre-deceased him in 1980 and he died on 19 November 1993 after a heart attack, which he survived long enough to enable his family to bid him farewell.
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First Title value, for Searching Bell, Sir Arthur Capel Herbert (1904 - 1977)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-06
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Arthur Capel Herbert Bell was born at Epsom, Surrey, on 18 September 1904. His father was John Herbert Bell, a solicitor who was the eldest son of Dr William Bell, general practitioner at Wallasey. The second son, and uncle of Arthur Bell, was William Blair Bell, first President of the College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1929. Arthur Bell was educated at Marlborough between 1918 and 1922 and at St Bartholomew's Hospital from 1922 to 1927. He was house surgeon to the surgical unit where he was influenced by Sir Thomas Dunhill. After this he worked in the obstetric and gynaecological unit and then was gynaecological house surgeon at the Liverpool Royal Infirmary in his uncle's department. He obtained the FRCS in 1930 and was later to serve as a co-opted member of the Council of the College, representing his speciality. He was a registrar at Charing Cross Hospital and obstetric registrar to the Westminster Hospital. In 1933 at the early age of 28 he was appointed to the staff of the Chelsea Hospital for Women and Queen Charlotte's Maternity Hospital, where he came under the influence of Victor Bonney. In 1934 he was appointed assistant obstetric surgeon to Westminster Hospital. He became a member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 1932 and was elected a Fellow in 1946. He was examiner to the Universities of Oxford, London, Glasgow, Birmingham and Durham, and also to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, the Conjoint Board, the Society of Apothecaries and the Central Midwives Board. He was made Honorary Master of Midwifery of the Society of Apothecaries and Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. Arthur Bell was an enthusiastic and popular teacher, both of undergraduates at Westminster and of postgraduates at the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. His aphorisms were frequently quoted and he was regularly and affectionately caricatured in the Christmas pantomime at Westminster. Anecdotes about him, many of them apocryphal, were legion. His book *A pocket obstetrics* was the vade mecum of many generations of students, and he was a long time contributor to *Ten teachers' obstetrics*, which owes its title to the fact that each edition has ten authors drawn from the London medical schools. He was a firm supporter of student sporting activities. Generations of Westminster men will remember the cricket matches he organised at Esher and the warm hospitality that followed at his home. Like his Uncle, William Blair Bell, he was dedicated to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He was a Member of Council as early as 1939 and sat on many committees until he was made Honorary Treasurer in 1952 at a crucial time in the College finances. He was perhaps the main driving force behind the building of the new College, and this was recognised by his election to the presidency in 1960 and knighthood in 1963. From 1963 to 1970 he served as honorary adviser on obstetrics and gynaecology to the Army. Arthur Bell was above all a family man and this was obvious in the warm and cheerful atmosphere of his home. His relaxations were gardening, fishing, tennis and golf and he was an excellent shot. In 1933 he married Hilda Faure whose parents were Dutch. They had three sons and two daughters. The second son, John was a medical registrar at St Thomas's Hospital. He died on November 24 1977 at the age of 73.
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First Title value, for Searching Blair-Bell, William (1871 - 1936)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-04-10
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Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born at Rutland House, New Brighton, Cheshire on 28 September 1871. He was the second son of the nine children of William Bell, JP, MRCS, LSA and Helen, his wife, daughter of General Butcher. An elder brother, John Herbert Bell, solicitor, was adjutant of the prisoners-of-war camp at Donington Hall during the war of 1914-18, and another brother was a cotton broker in St Louis, USA. William entered Rossall School during the third term of 1885 and left at midsummer 1890, having been for two years in the school cricket eleven. He entered King's College, London, winning a Warneford scholarship in 1900, was Tanner prizeman in 1895, and became a Fellow of the College in 1928. The Tanner prize was awarded for proficiency in diseases of women and children, and in 1895 Gilbert H Lansdown and William B Bell were bracketed equal. He graduated MB at London University in 1896, but neither at college nor at the university did he show any marked intellectual superiority. He was a member of the King's College Hospital association football team, was captain of the hospital's cricket eleven, and was a good hurdler. He went into general practice at Birkenhead as soon as he was qualified but, deciding to specialize in obstetrics and gynaecology, made time to pass the London University higher examinations in medicine and surgery, graduating MD in 1902 and BS in 1904. In 1905 he was appointed gynaecological surgeon in charge of out-patients at the Royal Infirmary, Liverpool, and gynaecologist to the Wallasey Cottage Hospital, in 1913 he was senior gynaecological surgeon to the Royal Infirmary, and in 1935 he was appointed president of the charity. In the University of Liverpool he succeeded Henry Briggs as professor of obstetrics and gynaecology in 1921 and resigned in 1931, when he was followed by Prof Leith Murray and was complimented with the title of emeritus professor. At the Royal College of Surgeons of England he was awarded the Hunterian bronze medal and the triennial prize of £50 for the years 1910-12 for his stimulating essay on "The anatomy and physiology of the pituitary body and the relationship with disease of its abnormal and morbid conditions". He delivered the Arris and Gale lectures in 1913 on "The genital functions of the ductless glands", a subject which gained him the Astley Cooper prize at Guy's Hospital. In 1916, as a Hunterian professor of surgery and pathology, he lectured on "Experimental operations on the pituitary body", and advanced the theory that the reproductive functions are directed and controlled by all the organs of internal secretion acting in conjunction, rather than by the gonads alone. It was not until 1929 that he was elected a Fellow of the College as a Member of 20 years' standing. In 1911 Blair-Bell founded the Gynaecological Visiting Society of Great Britain. The number of members was at first limited to twenty with a retiring age from the active list at fifty-five. Two meetings were held each year, one of which was usually at a continental centre. From this society came the British (now Royal) College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, which was incorporated in 1929. The suggestion to form such a college came from Dr William Fletcher Shaw, professor of clinical obstetrics and gynaecology in the University of Manchester. It was carried into effect by Blair-Bell, who was elected the first president, and to him was owing its prestige and ultimate success, for the project at first met with very considerable opposition. From an early period in his career Blair-Bell became interested in the subject of the causation of cancer and its cure. His first investigations were made in 1909 on the hypothesis that the chorionic epithelium was normally a malignant tissue and his experiments were made with placental and embryonic extracts. When these failed he tried the effect of lead, assuming that as lead could be used as an abortifacient it might possibly restrain the growth of tumour cells. From 1920 he treated cases of inoperable carcinoma of the breast by the injection of a colloid lead iodide (address to Toronto Academy of Medicine 1925). A few of his cases appeared to derive much benefit, but when it was tried on a larger scale it failed to justify itself, proving to be both painful and dangerous. In 1931 he delivered the Ingleby lecture at the University of Birmingham, and in 1932 he gave the Lloyd Roberts lecture at Manchester on "The present and future of the science and art of obstetrics" (*Brit Med J*. 1932, 1, 45). He married his niece, Florence Bell, on 7 June 1898. She was the daughter of his eldest brother, John Bell, solicitor, living at Surbiton, Surrey. She died in 1929 without issue. Blair-Bell died suddenly in the train on a night journey between London and Shrewsbury on 25 January 1936. As a university lecturer Blair-Bell was lucid and interesting; as a clinical teacher he was less effective. Towards the solution of any problem he brought immense industry, a minute attention to detail, a complete knowledge of the literature and a highly trained mind. He was one of the great driving forces in the world of British gynaecology during the first quarter of the twentieth century. He was an egotist and it was well said (of him that he was "the restless, lovable torch-bearer who never forgot nor allowed anyone else to forget that he was bearing a torch". He was a good hater as well as a good friend; he was largely devoid of tact and he was therefore often unable to carry his schemes into full effect. He combined in a curious manner idealism with a practical outlook. A portrait-drawing by Sir William Rothenstein is in the possession of the Liverpool Medical Institution. Publications:- *The sex complex*. London, 1916; 2nd ed 1919. *Principles of gynaecology*. London, 1910; 2nd ed 1917; 3rd ed 1919; 4th ed 1934. *The pituitary*. London, 1919. *Some aspects of the cancer problem* (editor). London, 1930. For complete bibliography see Sir Stanford Cade's Blair-Bell memorial lecture of 1950, published at Liverpool, 1952.
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First Title value, for Searching Bourne, Aleck William (1886 - 1974)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-11-14
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Aleck William Bourne was born on 4 June 1886 at Wilstone, Herts., and educated at Rydal School, Colwyn Bay, and at Downing College, Cambridge. In 1908 he was placed first class in the Natural Sciences Tripos and the same year became senior university scholar at St Mary's Hospital, London. He qualified with the Conjoint Diploma in 1910 and took the FRCS the following year. Until the outbreak of the first world war in 1914 he held resident and other appointments at St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's, and the Samaritan Hospitals. He then served as a surgical specialist in Egypt and France until 1917. After the war he was appointed to the staffs of those three hospitals. He also commenced consulting practice in London and quickly gained recognition in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology. His *Synopsis of obstetrics and gynaecology*, first published in 1913 as *Synopsis of midwifery*, reached its 13th edition in 1965. *Recent advances in obstetrics and gynaecology* was first written by Bourne and Leslie Williams in 1926. The 10th edition of the book, still revised and rewritten by the same authors, except for a chapter by Dr L Steingold, appeared in 1962. That year also was published *A Doctor's Creed: the memoirs of a gynaecologist*, in which Bourne recalled his early days and more than thirty years of practice at St Mary's. At one time he was examiner in obstetrics and gynaecology for Cambridge University, and from the beginning of the National Health Service he was a member of the Central Health Services Council. He was a former member of the Council of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. In 1956 he was presented with a Sydney Body Gold Medal for merit in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology. Aleck Bourne made a great many outstanding contributions to medicine in the wider sphere and to obstetrics and gynaecology in particular. He was a man of great compassion and understanding, and in his recognition of the importance of psychological factors in relation to many disorders so frequently encountered in the daily practice of gynaecology he was much ahead of his generation. Further, he never lacked the courage to express in public views which he held with great conviction and sincerity. His action in the famous Rex v Bourne case was typical of the man. In 1938 a girl of 14 was referred to his outpatient clinic at St Mary's Hospital, having been criminally assaulted and raped by several soldiers from a London barracks. She became pregnant as a result. The girl and her parents were in great distress and the evidence of rape was indisputable. Ever since the Offences Against the Person Act of 1861 the only justification for terminating pregnancy was if its continuance was thought seriously to threaten the life of the pregnant woman. Bourne, though fully aware that a plea of danger to life could not be substantiated, came to the conclusion that termination of the pregnancy was amply justified because of risk to the physical and mental health of the patient. Having operated, he then quite deliberately informed the police because he felt the urgent need for a test case in the courts of law. The trial took place at the Central Criminal Court in July 1938 before Mr Justice MacNaghten. There is no doubt that Bourne's original intention was to let the case stand or fall on his own evidence concerning the risks of permanent psychological trauma to the patient had the pregnancy continued. However, his legal advisers made it plain that under the existing state of the law he would in all probability be convicted unless further evidence of physical risks as well as mental were forthcoming. A number of leading gynaecologists were in consequence called as expert witnesses in his defence. The physical risks of pregnancy and labour in a girl of 14 were then thought to be far greater than would be accepted today in the light of greater experience of the problems of pregnancy in the very young. Bourne was acquitted, and the judge in his summing up made a pronouncement of the greatest possible significance: 'If the doctor is of opinion on reasonable grounds and with adequate knowledge, that the probable consequences of the pregnancy will be to make the woman a physical and mental wreck, the jury are quite entitled to take the view that the doctor, who under these circumstances and in that honest belief, operates, is operating for the purpose or preserving the life of the mother.' This judgement was of great importance to the gynaecologist, because it freed him from the fear of legal action against him if he terminated a pregnancy if there was clear evidence of serious risk to health - a genuine medical indication. Nearly 30 years later the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in its report on medical termination of pregnancy before the 1967 Act was able to state that since the Bourne case no gynaecologist had been deterred from terminating pregnancy for a medical indication because of the fear of legal action. Bourne rightly deserves great credit for his determined and courageous action in 1938, based as it was on a deep sense of responsibility and compassionate understanding. It is nevertheless of considerable interest to record that he was strongly opposed to abortion for purely social and trivial indications. During the debates which took place on a great many platforms before the 1967 Act he spoke on many occasions against the proposed legislation, foreseeing the inevitable consequences of total liberalization of the law. Aleck Bourne always impressed with his warm personality, kindliness, and friendliness. He was a great sportsman and obtained much pleasure in having his housemen and registrars sailing with him at Burnham. Even at a late age he took part in the annual soccer match between the staff and porters at Mary's. He spent many walking, climbing, rowing, and swimming holidays in North Wales, which he loved so much. He died on 27 December 1974, at the age of 88.
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First Title value, for Searching Fairbairn, John Shields (1865 - 1944)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-06-05
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born 21 December 1865 at Bathgate, West Lothian, eldest of the two sons and two daughters of Andrew Martin Fairbairn (1838-1912, for whom see *DNB*), then minister of the Bathgate Evangelical Union Congregational Church, and Jane, his wife, daughter of John Shields, of Byres, Bathgate. He was educated at Bradford, where his father was principal of Airedale Theological College from 1877 to 1886, and at Oxford, where his father was the first principal of Mansfield College from 1886. He won an open science demyship at Magdalen, and was placed in the first class in the final school of natural science 1891. He studied medicine at St Thomas's Hospital, and took the Conjoint qualification in 1895 and the Oxford BM in 1897. At the Hospital he served as house physician and as obstetric house physician under Charles James Cullingworth (1841-1908), was obstetric tutor and registrar 1898, and in 1902 was elected assistant obstetric physician, becoming in due course obstetric physician and ultimately consulting obstetric physician; he was also lecturer in midwifery and diseases of women at the hospital's medical school. He had taken the FRCS in 1900, but was elected FRCP in 1909 and thereafter was closely connected with the College of Physicians, serving as an examiner 1910-14 and a Councillor 1926-28, and gave their Bradshaw lecture in 1934 on the medical and psychological aspects of gynaecology. He also examined for Oxford, Cambridge, Leeds, and Glasgow universities and for the Society of Apothecaries. It was at his instigation that the Society founded its Mastership of Midwifery, the first higher diploma in the subject to be granted in Great Britain; Fairbairn was himself elected to this degree *honoris causa* in 1929. He was also physician to the General Lying-in Hospital, York Road, Camberwell, and here he established the first post-certificate school for midwives. On the Central Midwives Board he preceded Sir Comyns Berkeley, FRCS, as chairman, and from 1930 was Inspector of Midwifery under the General Medical Council. In earlier years Fairbairn was pathologist at the Chelsea Hospital for Women, where he had among his colleagues Sir Ewen Maclean, FRCP, T W Eden, FRCP, Sir Comyns Berkeley, and Victor Bonney, FRCS, all of whom left their mark on the advance of midwifery and gynaecology in London, and were among his collaborators in the "Ten Teachers" textbooks which achieved a merited popularity. During the war of 1914-18 Fairbairn was commissioned captain, RAMC(T), on 16 August 1915 on the staff of the 5th London General Hospital; he was also attached to the clinical teaching staff of the RAM College. Fairbairn took an active part in professional societies, being a well-read man and a keen debater. He was an Honorary Fellow of the Obstetrical Society of Edinburgh. In the British Medical Association he was secretary of the section of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Oxford meeting 1904, and president of the section at the Bradford meeting 1924 and the Melbourne meeting 1935, when he was admitted an Honorary MD of the University. Fairbairn played an influential part in the foundation of the British (now Royal) College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, was a foundation Fellow 1929, and succeeded the first president, Sir William Blair Bell, in the chair. During his presidency the original bye-laws were revised, and his combination of common sense and vision put the young College on a sound constitutional base. The first diplomate examination was held under his presidency, and he secured for the College a silver mace and the library of rare gynaecological books collected by Roy Dobbin, FRCP, formerly professor of midwifery at Cairo. For many years he edited the *Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire*. Fairbairn made a great name in his days of active hospital work and private practice at 45 Queen Anne Street, W, and later as an administrator, but his chief influence was educational. He was not only a first-class teacher but he took a philosophic view of the ends of education and, as has been stated above, was instrumental in starting several new schools and qualifications. He was one of the first within the profession to appreciate the great part which medicine must play in realizing the aspirations of sociologists and economists; social medicine in its maternity and child-welfare aspects grew from Fairbairn's teaching. He humorously suggested that the baby is not to be looked on as a mere by-product of pregnancy and labour, but that obstetricians and paediatricians must work as a team; he was an original member of the Preposterous Club, which sought to bring them together. The antenatal and postnatal clinics at St Thomas's, which he established, were the first in London, second only to those started by J J Buchan at Edinburgh, and were most successful. He arranged for every student at St Thomas's to serve six months as a clerk in the obstetric department. Fairbairn married in 1913 Elma, second daughter of J P Stuart, of Elgin, who survived him; there were no children. In 1927 he first experienced duodenal disturbance, and retired in 1936 to his parents' old house, Blucairn, Lossiemouth, where he busied himself with growing alpine plants, but kept in touch with his professional colleagues London, who had given him a farewell dinner in March 1936 at which Sir Ewen Maclean made the chief speech. He died at Lossiemouth on 22 January 1944, aged 78. Mrs Fairbairn died there on 28 January 1949 after a long illness. A portrait of Fairbairn by Souter was presented to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists by Lord Riddell. Publications:- The pathology of fibroma of the ovary. *J Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp*. 1902, 2, 128. Necrobiosis in fibromyomata of the uterus. *Ibid*. 1903, 4, 119. Full-term ectopic pregnancy. *Ibid*. 1906, 10, 599. A case of tubal abortion. *Ibid*. 1906, 10, 609. Primary chorionepithelioma of the ovary. *Ibid*. 1909, 16, 1. Pelvic cysts due to spinal meningocele. *Ibid*. 1911, 20, 1. *A textbook for midwives*. London, 1914; 5th edition, 1930. *The practitioner's encyclopaedia of midwifery and the diseases of women*. London, 1921. *Obstetrics*. London, 1926. *Gynaecology with obstetrics*. London, 1928. *The medical and psychological aspects of gynaecology*. (Bradshaw lecture, RCP) London, 1934. Changes in thought in half a century of obstetrics. *Trans Edinb Obstet Soc*. 1935, p 63. Joint editor of the *Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire*, and of the "Ten teachers" textbooks: *Midwifery*, 1917, and *Diseases of women*, 1921.
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First Title value, for Searching Stabler, Francis Edward (1902 - 1967)

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Occupation General surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Francis Edward Stabler was born in Darlington on 23 September 1902, the son of the headmaster of a school in the town, and received his education at the Darlington Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, and the University of Durham College of Medicine, where he graduated Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in June 1925. At the medical school, Frank, as he was always called, was an assiduous student. Most of his spare hours were spent out of doors, shooting, fishing and exploring the coastline and moors of Northumberland. Good at all things which interested him, such was his prowess as a wildfowler that he became a well-known authority on the sport as well as a very knowledgeable ornithologist. After graduation, Frank was in the "House" for 15 months at the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle, where he was successively house physician to dermatology under Sir Robert Bolam, house surgeon to Professor Brunton Angus and house surgeon to gynaecology under Professor Rankin Lyle; in 1927 he was for a year temporary medical registrar. In May 1928 he was launched into his specialist life when he was appointed honorary gynaecological and obstetrical registrar at the Royal Victoria Infirmary and the Princess Mary Maternity Hospital. No doubt Frank's appointment as house surgeon to the gynaecological department pointed the way to his specialisation in that subject, for in 1928 he was awarded a gold medal for his MD thesis, having chosen as his subject the lead treatment of cancer which was being popularised in Liverpool at that time. There were eight strenuous years as registrar. In 1929 he became an English FRCS and in 1931 Durham University appointed him a clinical teacher. Somehow time was found during those very busy years to write numerous articles in scientific journals and to hold office in various societies. He became a most dexterous surgeon and able diagnostician. He was a popular teacher of both medical and nursing students. In 1935 he was one of the original small team of obstetricians who introduced and operated the Newcastle Emergency Obstetric Service - the "Flying Squad". Its success in the early stages was in large measure due to his energy and efficiency. Six of the first twelve cases were answered by him and his active interest continued until his last four or five years when for physical reasons he had to curtail many of his activities. He always argued that a senior obstetrician, with a consultant anaesthetist and an experienced nurse, should take these calls, and that the aim should be to deal with the patient in her own home and not bring her back to hospital. Over the years Frank Stabler acquired a considerable private practice but he never shirked his hospital responsibilities. Before the outbreak of the war in 1939 he had been made honorary assistant gynaecologist to the Royal Victoria Infirmary and honorary assistant obstetrician to the Princess Mary Maternity Hospital. From 1926 Frank was an active officer in the Tyne Division of the RNVR, and in September 1939, as a Surgeon-Commander, he left home, his practice and his hospital for more than six years of active service, during which time he did a vast amount of general surgical work. From September 1939 to February 1942 he was at Chatham Naval Hospital. During that time he gave a series of lectures at the Postgraduate Hospital at Hammersmith based on war casualties received during the evacuation of the BEF from Belgium and France. From March 1942 to January 1945 he was surgical specialist at the RN Auxiliary Hospital, Sherbome, Dorset, and from January 1945 for one year he was in charge of the surgical division of the RN Auxiliary Hospital at Trincomalee in Ceylon. In 1942 he received the Volunteer Reserve Decoration, and during his time in Ceylon he had been promoted to full honorary status at his teaching hospitals at home and had also been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. On return to Newcastle after the war Frank, as before, was fully occupied with his hospital and private work, but somehow he found time for various societies and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He was a most active member and one time President of the North of England Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society and for six years he was a Council Member of his College. From 1953, in addition to hospital work in Newcastle, Frank was visiting consultant in obstetrics and gynaecology to the South East Northumberland Group of Hospitals and for several years chairman of their local Medical Advisory and Staff Committee. With all this work there was time to fish, shoot, learn needlework and collect books, mow the lawn and cut the hedge. At all times of the day or night in addition, there were hurried journeys answering emergency calls, generally in his sports car. There can be few occupations so exacting as that of a consulting obstetrician, certainly few where there are so many night calls. As time passed the night journeyings became less frequent. About 1958 a chronic back complaint, developing insidiously, caused a gradual lessening of tempo. First, the appointment as visiting consultant to the South East Northumberland was relinquished. Also about that time the Emergency Flying Squad had to be manned without him. As his physical activities were curtailed his restless mind turned to other less exacting pursuits. Always interested in tapestry work he gave more and more time to it and to his collection of ornithological works. He frequently visited his cottage in Swaledale in Yorkshire. He continued to fish the waters of the Tyne or Colt Crag reservoir and he derived considerable satisfaction from his work as chairman of the Northumberland and Durham Wildfowlers Association and chairman of the Lindisfarne National Nature Reserve. Within a year of his death Frank had exhibited at the Seldon Tapestries Exhibition in London and on retirement from hospital work, on his sixty-fifth birthday, some three weeks before his end, eighteen gynaecological friends in the North East gave a dinner in his honour and presented him with a needlework panel specially designed by the Royal School of Needlework. The motif was birds on the Farne Islands and he much appreciated this farewell gift which combined several of his intersts. To the last Frank continued his love of driving fast cars. Perhaps he was challenging the fates to limit his activities already threatened by his ill-health. This sense of challenging the world was manifest to the day of his death: he had been in Southport at a nurses' examination and prize-giving and had a tiring journey home with minor car trouble on the way, and, a few hours later, on Friday 13 October 1967, came the coronary thrombosis for which he had prepared himself over the past five years or more. He was survived by his wife, daughter and two sons.
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First Title value, for Searching Wells, Sir Thomas Spencer (1818 - 1897)

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Occupation General surgeon Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born at St. Albans, Hertfordshire, on February 3rd, 1818, the son of William Wells, a builder, by his wife Harriet, daughter of William Wright, of Bermondsey. He soon showed a marked interest in natural science and was sent as a pupil, without being formally apprenticed, to Michael Thomas Sadler, a general practitioner at Barnsley in Yorkshire. He afterwards lived for a year with one of the parish surgeons at Leeds, where he attended the lectures of William Hey II (q.v.) and Thomas Pridgin Teale the elder (q.v.), and saw much practice at the Leeds infirmary. In 1836 he went to Trinity College, Dublin, where he learnt more surgery from Whitley Stokes, Sir Philip Crampton, and Arthur Jacob. In 1839 he entered St. Thomas's Hospital, London, to complete his education under Joseph Henry Green (q.v.), Benjamin Travers, senr. (q.v.), and Frederick Tyrell. Here, at the end of the first session, he was awarded the prize for the most complete and detailed account of the post-mortem examinations made in the Hospital during the time of his attendance. He joined the Navy as an Assistant Surgeon as soon as he had qualified, and served for six years in the Naval Hospital at Malta. He combined a civil practice with his naval duties, and was so highly spoken of that the Royal College of Surgeons of England elected him a Fellow in 1844. His term of service at Malta being completed, he left the Navy in 1848, having been promoted Surgeon on Feb. 3rd of that year. He then proceeded to Paris to study pathology under Magendie and to see the gunshot wounds which filled the hospitals after the struggle in June, 1848. He afterwards accompanied the Marquis of Northampton on a journey to Egypt, where he made some valuable observations on malarial fever. Wells settled in practice at 30 Brook Street, London, in 1853 and devoted himself at first to ophthalmic surgery. In 1854 he was elected Surgeon to the Samaritan Free Hospital for Women and Children, which was then an ordinary dwelling-house - 27 Orchard Street, Portman Square - with hardly any equipment. It had been established for seven years and was little more than a dispensary, as there was no accommodation for in-patients. About the same time he was editor of the *Medical Times* and *Gazette* for seven years (1851 ?-1858). Wells temporarily abandoned his work in London on the outbreak of the Crimean War, volunteered, and was sent first to Smyrna, where he was attached as Surgeon to the British Civil Hospital, and afterwards to Renkioi in the Dardanelles. He returned to London in 1856, and in 1857 lectured on surgery at the School of Anatomy and Medicine adjoining St. George's Hospital, which was commonly known as 'Lane's School'. Wells did an unusual amount of midwifery in his youth, but never thought seriously about ovariotomy until one day in 1848 when he discussed the matter at Paris with Dr. Edward Waters, afterwards of Chester. Both surgeons came to the conclusion that, as surgery then stood, ovariotomy was an unjustifiable operation. Spencer Wells and Thomas Nunn (q.v.) of the Middlesex Hospital assisted Baker Brown (q.v.) in his eighth ovariotomy in April, 1854. This was the first time that Wells had seen the operation, and he admitted afterwards that the fatal result discouraged him. The ninth ovariotomy was equally unsuccessful, and Baker Brown himself ceased to operate on these cases from March, 1856, until October, 1858, when Wells's success encouraged him to recommence. The experience of abdominal wounds in the Crimea had shown Wells that the peritoneum was much more tolerant of injury than was generally supposed. He therefore proceeded to do his first ovariotomy in 1858 and was not disheartened although the patient died. He devoted himself assiduously to perfect the technique, and the rest of his life is practically a history of the operation from its earliest and imperfect stage, through its polemical period, to the position it now occupies as a well-recognized and most serviceable operation, still capable perhaps of improvement, but advantageous alike to the individual, the family, and the State. It has saved many lives throughout the world, has opened up the field of abdominal surgery, and has thereby revolutionized surgical practice. Wells completed his first successful ovariotomy in February, 1858, but it was not until 1864 that the operation was generally accepted by the medical profession. This acceptance was due chiefly to the wise manner in which Wells conducted his earlier operations. He persistently invited medical men in authority to see him operate. He published series after series of cases, giving full accounts of the unsuccessful as well as the successful cases, until in 1880 he had performed his thousandth ovariotomy. He had operated at the Samaritan Free Hospital for exactly twenty years when he resigned his office of Surgeon in 1878 and was appointed Consulting Surgeon. He frequently modified his methods throughout the whole of this time, and always towards greater simplicity. The hospital never contained more than twenty beds, and of these no more than four or five were ever available for patients needing ovariotomy. At the Royal College of Surgeons Spencer Wells was a Member of Council from 1871-1895; Hunterian Professor of Surgery and Pathology, 1877-1888, his lectures dealing with "The Diagnosis and Surgical Treatment of Abdominal Tumours"; Vice-President, 1880-1881 ; President, 1882 ; Hunterian Orator, 1883 ; Morton Lecturer "On Cancer and Cancerous Diseases", 1888 ; and Bradshaw Lecturer "On Modern Abdominal Surgery" in 1890. He received many honours, acting as Surgeon to the Household of Queen Victoria from 1863-1896 ; he was created a baronet on May 11th, 1883, and he was a Knight Commander of the Norwegian Order of St. Olaf. He married in 1853 Elizabeth Lucas (*d*. 1886), daughter of James Wright, solicitor, of New Inn and of Sydenham, by whom he left five daughters and one son, Arthur Spencer Wells, who was Private Secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1893-1895. Spencer Wells's operations were models of surgical procedure. He worked in absolute silence, he took the greatest care in the selection of his instruments, and he submitted his assistants to a rigorous discipline which proved of the highest value to them in after-life. At the end of every operation he personally superintended the cleaning and drying of each instrument. He was an ardent advocate of cremation, and it was chiefly due to his efforts and to those of Sir Henry Thompson (q.v.) that this method of disposing of the dead was brought into early use in England. Almost to the last Wells had the appearance of a healthy, vigorous country gentleman, with much of the frankness and bonhomie of a sailor. He was an excellent rider, driver, and judge of horseflesh. Besides his London residence, 3 Upper Grosvenor Street, he owned the house and fine gardens at Golder's Green, Hampstead, which were bought for public recreation in 1898. He drove himself daily in a mail phaeton with a splendid pair of horses down the Finchley Road from one house to the other, dressed in a grey frock-coat with a flower in the buttonhole and a tall white top hat. A half-length oil painting by Rudolph Lehmann executed in 1884 represents Wells sitting in the robes of a President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. It was bequeathed to the Royal College of Surgeons at his death. A bust executed in 1879 by Oscar Liebreich is in possession of the family. He appears in Jamyn Brookes's portrait group of the Council. PUBLICATIONS:- *The Scale of Medicines with which Merchant Vessels are to be Furnished…with Observations on the Means of Preserving the Health and Increasing the Comforts of Seaman*, 12 mo, London, 1851 ; 2nd ed., 8vo, 1861. *Practical Observations on Gout and its Complications,* 8vo, London, 1854. *Cancer Cures and Cancer Curers*, 8vo, London, 1860. *Diseases of the Ovaries : their Diagnosis and Treatment,* 8vo, London - vol. i, 1865 ; vol. ii, 1872. It was also issued in America, and was translated into German, Leipzig, 1866 and 1874. *Note-book for Cases of Ovarian and other Abdominal Tumours*, 8vo, London, 1865 ; 2nd ed., 1868 ; 7th ed., 1887. Translated into Italian, Milan, 12mo, 1882. *On Ovarian and Uterine Tumours, their Diagnosis and Treatment*, 8vo, London, 1882. Translated into Italian, 8vo, Milan, 1882. *Diagnosis and Surgical Treatment of Abdominal Tumours*, 8vo, London, 1885. Translated into French, 8vo, Paris, 1886.
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First Title value, for Searching Holland, Sir Eardley Lancelot (1880 - 1967)

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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Sir Eardley Lancelot Holland had been senior obstetrician and gynaecologist to the London Hospital for 20 years. In 1943 he was elected the fifth President of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. His academic achievements were many and deservedly he was regarded as one of the most outstanding obstetricians of his time. He was born in 1880 the eldest son of the Reverend W L Holland, Rector of Puttenham and was educated at Merchison Castle. From here he gained the Warneford Entrance Scholarship into King's College Hospital attaining four other scholarships and the Warneford Medal as well. As might be expected he had a brilliant record as a student winning many prizes and then first class honours in the London MB BS final examination in 1905. Two years later he was awarded the London Unversity Gold Medal when taking the MD and already had the FRCS. In 1908 he passed the examination for the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians and was elected a Fellow in 1920. After completing his junior house appointments at King's he spent a valuable year in Berlin working with Professors Olhausen, Bumm, and Orth, and in later life often referred to this training as being the most instructive and formative in his whole education; it also gave him a lifelong friendship for the country and its people. On returning to England he became in turn resident medical officer at Queen Charlotte's Hospital and the Hospital for Women, Soho Square, and in 1907 was appointed obstetric registrar and tutor at King's College Hospital. In 1914 he was appointed to the honorary staff of King's College Hospital as assistant obstetric physician, but stayed only a short time, for after two years he applied for and was appointed to an identical post at the London Hospital where he felt there were greater opportunities for clinical research. He was no sooner appointed than he joined the RAMC and saw service in France as a surgical specialist, and really took up his appointment at the London in 1919. He now turned his considerable powers of application to the research work, begun at King's on the causation of stillbirth, which he had been invited to investigate by the Ministry of Health; his results were published as a report by the Ministry in 1922. Working in close collaboration with the late Hubert Turnbull FRS, he produced a treatise that must surely stand as a classic in original research and in providing information of enormous value to obstetrics and paediatrics. Even to-day it can be read with great advantage as a model of how precise and clear a report should be. His thirty years at the London saw great changes in obstetrics and gynaecology, and it was during his earlier years that the title obstetric physician was changed to obstetric surgeon. The reason for the change was no mere whim, for the obstetrician was now fast becoming a gynaecological surgeon and Eardley Holland was no exception. He was an extremely able surgeon in vaginal operations especially, which probably stemmed from his early training in Berlin. To see him operate in a case of neglected third degree tear of the perineum was to witness surgery at its precise best. He was never quite so much at home in the abdomen, and used jokingly to recount a story concerning his comparative inexperience in this field in his early days as a chief. Called to the London to a possible abdominal emergency, he would recall how the experienced ward sister would meet him and after the patient had been examined would invariably give him the clue whether or not operation was indicated, by saying "Will you have your coffee before you operate, Sir?", if it was to be done, but if not "Will you have your coffee before you go, Sir?" In 1920 he was elected FRCP, and he was a founder Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists which came into being in 1929 under the sponsorship of the Gynaecological Visiting Society, of which he was one of the original sixteen members. From 1937 to 1940 he was adviser in obstetrics to the Ministry of Health and had the responsible task of organising the evacuation from London to the country of pregnant women at the outbreak of war in 1939 and himself took charge of the obstetric emergency service of Hertfordshire and East Anglia, until he became President of the RCOG in 1943. It was under his guidance as President that the College published *A report on a national maternity service*, which was later to prove most valuable as a model for establishing that part of the National Health Service. His honorary consultant appointments at the London Hospital and the City of London Maternity Hospital, although time and strength consuming, had to allow opportunity for his very considerable private practice, and this constant war of attrition on health and happiness was the basis for his well remembered advice - "never allow yourself to be crushed between the upper millstone of hospital work and the nether one of private practice". He was very much in favour of a full time medical service that offered generous reward for work done. Yet he himself had a tremendous capacity for work, in which were evenly balanced great industry and most precise exactitude. It was typified in his research into the causes of stillbirth especially that in breech delivery, for he insisted on being called personally, either day or night, to every breech birth at the City of London Maternity Hospital where he was an honorary obstetrician at the time. Even at the end of the longest day's work, often after 10.00pm, he would meet his registrar for that day's quota of time allocated to the revision of a new edition of Eden's *Midwifery*. The burden was always somewhat mollified by refreshment in the form of beer, but as well the chief's secretary saw to it that his needs for tobacco were fully met by a row of pipes filled by herself and left ready. The work could then go on far into the night, unless interrupted, as it often was, by a call to a midwifery case to which both temporarily adjourned. His many public appointments included Membership of the Royal Commission on Population, of the Central Midwives Board, and of the Council of King Edward's Hospital Fund. He had been an examiner in most British universities, the National University of Ireland, the University of Cairo, and the Kitchener Medical School, Khartoum. In 1949 he was President of the 12th British Congress of Obstetrics and Gynaecology held in London. His publications were many and appeared in both British and American journals. He was co-author with Dr T W.Eden of *A manual of obstetrics*, and later its sole author. He was a former editor of the *Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology of the British Empire* and of *British obstetric and gynaecological practice*. He was a brilliant editor and a master of simple lucid English. None who worked with him will fail to remember his oft repeated correction - "My dear boy, an era commences but labour begins." In 1951 he published *Princess Charlotte of Wales - a triple obstetric tragedy*, which was based on much personal historical research work done on this subject and resulted too in his collection of many relics connected with this royal disaster, which he bequeathed to Brighton Corporation for display in the Royal Pavilion. He was accorded many academic honours: Hon LLD Birmingham and Leeds; Hon MD Dublin; Hon FRCS Edin; Hon MMSA; Hon Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, of the American Gynaecological Society, and of the Royal Medical Society, Budapest; Fellow of King's College, London. He enjoyed the eminence to which his outstanding professional ability carried him and the honours that came with it, but as well he dearly loved the simple things in life - his family, his home, and his lovely garden. He knew a good deal about astronomy, and greatly enjoyed demonstrating the points of interest in the night sky to his guests on starry evenings. He enjoyed too his association with his hospital students and they his. His matinée (as his Thursday afternoon 'public' maternity round was called) was an institution in the clinical teaching at the London. His strategy was to call for the labour-theatre case-book and pick out a few cases of interest that had been dealt with since the last matinée, and woe betide those who hadn't the case at their finger tips, be they clerk, resident accoucheur, or registrar. But the game he loved to play was to feign ignorance of the subject in hand, and then to proceed to lead the unwary clerk "up the garden path". The popularity of this special form of teaching was borne out by a very large weekly attendance. The esteem in which Eardley Holland was held both at home and abroad was shown by the constant flow of distinguished visitors to his wards and operating theatre. He was a man of extremely high ideals and in attempting to reach them kept raised the standards in the department of which he was so proud. For this the London and those of us who had the privilege of knowing and working with him will ever be grateful. There were three daughters of his first marriage with Dorothy Marion, eldest daughter of Dr Henry Colgate, who died on 14 October 1951. His second wife Olivia, who survived him, was the daughter of the late L L Constable JP. He retired to West Dean, Chichester in 1954 and died there on 21 July 1967 in his eighty-eighth year. He was a tall man of strikingly handsome appearance and great charm of manner. A memorial service was held in Chichester Cathedral. Publications: Recent work on the aetiology of eclampsia. *J Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp* 1909, 16, 255-273, 325-337, 384-400. The results of a collective investigation into Caesarian sections performed in Great Britain and Ireland from 1911 to 1920. *J Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp* 1921, 28, 358-446. Cranial stress in the foetus during labour. *J Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp* 1922, 29, 549¬571. On the causation of foetal death. *Ministry of Health: Reports on Public Health and Medical Subjects*, No 7 1922. Child life investigations. A clinical and pathological study, with Janet E Lane-Claypon. *Medical Research Council: Special Report Series*, No 109 1926. *Manual of obstetrics*, with T W Eden. 8th edition, 1937. Birth injury in relation to labour. *Amer J Obstet Gynec* 1937, 33, 1-18. Princess Charlotte of Wales - triple obstetric tragedy. *J Obstet Gynaec Brit Emp* 1951, 58, 905-919. Obstetrics, in Aleck Bourne and Eardley Holland *British obstetric and gynaecological practice* 1955; 2nd edition 1959.
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First Title value, for Searching Bland-Sutton, Sir John (1855 - 1936)

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Occupation Anatomist General surgeon Obstetric and gynaecological surgeon Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born at Enfield Highway on 21 April 1855, eldest son and second of the nine children of Charles William Sutton, who had a farm where he fattened stock, killed it and sold it in Formosa Street, Maida Hill. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Wadsworth, a Northamptonshire farmer. Bland-Sutton says that he learnt from his father to stuff birds, beasts, and fishes, to charm warts and to pull teeth; from his mother an intimate knowledge of the Bible. Educated at the local school, he acted there for two years as pupil teacher with the intention of becoming a schoolmaster, but being a biologist at heart he determined to become a doctor as soon as he had the money necessary to pay the fees. He attached himself therefore to the private school of anatomy kept by Thomas Cooke, F.R.C.S., which then occupied a tin shed in a disused churchyard in Handel Street, just off Mecklenburgh Square. Here he learnt anatomy, and taught it to lazy and backward medical students until he had earned enough to pay the fees at the Middlesex Hospital. He entered there as a student in October 1878 and was immediately appointed prosector of anatomy, (Sir) Henry Morris being lecturer on the subject. In 1879 he was advanced to be junior demonstrator, became senior demonstrator in 1883 and lecturer 1886-96. In 1884 he was Murchison scholar at the Royal College of Physicians. Two years later he was elected assistant surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital, with the proviso that he should remain in London during the months of August and September, when the senior surgeons were accustomed to take their annual holiday. He performed his duties thoroughly, and devoted himself especially to pelvic operations upon women. In 1886 he became assistant surgeon to the hospital for women, then a small institution in the Fulham Road, and was promoted surgeon six months later with charge of fifteen beds. Here he soon acquired fame as an operating surgeon, and disarmed criticism by welcoming professional men and women to the operating theatre and by publishing his results widely in the medical papers. In 1889 he changed his name by deed pool from J. B. Sutton to John Bland-Sutton. In 1905 he became surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital and filled the post until 1920, when he resigned and was made consulting surgeon. During his tenure of office he was a most liberal supporter of the hospital. In 1913 he presented to it the Institute of Pathology, which was built on the site of the museum, of which he had been curator from 1883 to 1886. To the hospital chapel he gave a beautiful ambry, a piscina, and a font, and made considerable contributions towards the cost of the mosaic pavement in the baptistry. He also assisted largely in the purchase of a playing field for the students of the medical school. At the Royal College of Surgeons he won the Jacksonian prize in 1892 with his essay on diseases of the ovaries and the uterine appendages, their pathology, diagnosis and treatment. In 1885, 1886, 1887 and 1889-91 he gave the Erasmus Wilson lectures on the evolution of pathology. He was elected a member of the Pathological Society in 1882, and served on the council of the society from 1887 to 1890 but held no other office. He was an examiner in anatomy for the Fellowship in 1895. He was a Hunterian professor of comparative anatomy and physiology for the years 1888-89 and gave a lecture again as Hunterian professor in 1916; was Bradshaw lecturer in 1917; and Hunterian orator in 1923. Elected to the Council in 1910, he was vice-president in 1918, 1919, and 1920, and was President for the years 1923, 1924, and 1925, being preceded by Sir Anthony Bowlby and succeeded by Lord Moynihan. In 1927 he was elected a trustee of the Hunterian collection. During the war he was gazetted major, R.A.M.C.(T.) on 16 September 1916 and was attached to the 3rd London General Hospital at Denmark Hill. The surroundings and discipline of a military hospital proved uncongenial, and in 1916 he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel, placed upon an appeal board, and directed to collect he specimens of gunshot wounds which formed a unique display in the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, till they were destroyed by the bombing of 1941. Always interested in animals, their habits and diseases, Bland-Sutton became a prosector at the Zoological Gardens in Regent's Park in 1881 whilst he was still a student at the Middlesex Hospital. He retained his interest in the gardens throughout his life, and in 1928 was made vice-president of the Zoological Society of London. In 1891-92 he lectured on comparative pathology at the Royal Veterinary College in Camden Town in succession to Prof. John Penberthy, F.R.C.V.S. He was president of the Medical Society of London 1914; president of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland 1929; president of the Royal Society of Medicine 1929; president of the International Cancer Conference held in London in 1928. He was, too, a Knight of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem from 1924. He married: (1) in 1886 Agnes Hobbs of Didcot, who died in 1898; and (2) in 1899 Edith, the younger daughter of Henry Heather Bigg. She survived him but there were no children by either wife. Lady Bland-Sutton died in 1943 and was by her will a most generous benefactress to the College. She founded a research scholarship in memory of her husband, and also bequeathed a suite of Chippendale furniture for the president's room, and the silver table ornaments made for the dining hall at 47 Brook Street, mentioned below, as well as much other furniture. Bland-Sutton died after a short period of failing powers at 29 Hertford Street, Mayfair on Sunday, 20 December 1936. His body was cremated, and memorial services were held in the chapel at the Middlesex Hospital on the 23rd and in Westminster Abbey on 29 December. *Portraits*: Three-quarter length, sitting, in presidential robes, by the Hon. John Collier, R.A., hangs in the Royal College of Surgeons of England. It is a good likeness and is well reproduced in black and white in Sir A. E. Webb-Johnson's eulogy in the *Middlesex Hospital Journal*, 1937, 37, 4, and in the *Annals* of the College, 1950, 6, 362. An earlier portrait by Collier is at the Royal Society of Medicine. The Middlesex Hospital has a marble bust by Sir George Frampton, and a drawing by George Belcher. Bland-Sutton's professional life was typical of his generation. Born into a large middle-class family where money was not too abundant, he had to rely entirely upon himself. This he did, as was then usual amongst the younger men who aspired to the staff of a teaching hospital, by coaching. Some did this by taking a house, marrying, and securing as many resident pupils as possible, each of whom paid an inclusive fee of £126 a year. The less fortunate, like Bland-Sutton, had to content themselves with private classes at £8 to £10 a head, for a three months' course of tuition. The direct way to promotion was through the dissecting room, for as yet pathology was little more than morbid anatomy. Sutton was a first-rate teacher and soon made enough money to travel as far as Vienna. He climbed the ladder by the ordinary steps, slowly at first as a junior demonstrator of anatomy, then as curator of the hospital museum, next as assistant surgeon to a small special hospital, finally as assistant surgeon, surgeon, and consulting surgeon to his own hospital, the Middlesex. He had to fight every step of the way, for there was plenty of competition and continuous opposition, but he had good health, a constant fund of humour, was a loyal friend, and was generous in giving both publicly and in private. He had hobbies, too, which sustained him: a love of travel, a curiosity about animal life and a certain artistic sense. Throughout his life he was a general surgeon, more especially skilled in abdominal operations. Of slight physique and with very small and bright eyes, he had a curious bird-like habit of rapidly cocking his head sideways when he wished to emphasize a joke or a witty remark. A fluent writer and an entertaining after-dinner speaker, he retained and perhaps cultivated his native and marked cockney accent. He lived at 22 Gordon Street, Gordon Square, from 1883 to 1890; at 48 Queen Anne Street, 1890 to 1902, and thereafter at 47 Brook Street, Grosvenor Square. Here he built in 1905, at the back of the house, a copy, reduced by one-third, of the Apodama or audience chamber at Susa or Shushan (in Persia) where it is recorded in the Book of Esther that Ahasuerus gave the great feast and afterwards invited Vashti to show her beauty to the assembled princes and people. In the reduced copy of this splendid hall Bland-Sutton and his gifted wife delighted to exercise a generous hospitality; Rudyard Kipling, and old and intimate friend, was a frequent guest. The house and the hall were pulled down for an extension of Claridge's Hotel, and Bland-Sutton moved finally to 29 Hertford Street, Mayfair. *Publications*: Comparative dental pathology, in J. Walker *Valedictory address*, Odontological Society, 1884. *A descriptive catalogue of the pathological museum of the Middlesex Hospital*, with J. K. Fowler. London, 1884. *An introduction to general pathology*, founded on lectures at R.C.S. London, 1886. *Ligaments, their nature and morphology*. London, 1887; 4th ed. 1920. *Dermoids*. London, 1889. *Surgical diseases of the ovaries and Fallopian tubes*. London, 1891. *Evolution and disease*. London, 1890. *Tumours innocent and malignant*. London, 1893; 7th ed. 1922. Osteology in H. Morris *Treatise of anatomy*, 1893. Tumours, and Diseases of the jaws in Sir F. Treves *System of surgery*, 1895, 1. *The diseases of women*, with A. E. Giles. London, 1897, 8th ed. 1926. Tumours in Warren and Gould *International textbook of surgery*, 1899, 1. *Essays on Hysterectomy*. London, 1904. *Gall-stones and diseases of the bile-ducts*. London, 1907; 2nd ed. 1910. Tumours in W. W. Keen *Surgery*, 1907, 1 and 1913, 6. *Cancer clinically considered*. London, 1909. *Essays on the position of abdominal hysterectomy in London*. London, 1909; 2nd ed. 1910. *Fibroids of the uterus*. London, 1913. *Misplaced and missing organs* (Bradshaw lecture R.C.S.). London, 1917. *Selected lectures and essays*. London, 1920. *John Hunter, his affairs, habits and opinions (the Hunterian Oration)*. London, 1923. *Orations and addresses*. London, 1924. *The story of a surgeon*. London, 1930. *On faith and science in surgery*. London, 1930. *Man and beast in eastern Ethiopia*. London, 1911. *Men and creatures in Uganda*. London, 1933.
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Occupation Obstetrician and gynaecologist
Details Born 16 October 1865, eldest son of G A Berkeley of Belgrave Road, London, SW, a wine importer, and his wife Sarah Louisa, second daughter of Thomas Moore of The Wergs, Wolverhampton. His father was related to the family of Berkeley, Earls of Berkeley. Comyns Berkeley was educated at Marlborough and Caius College, Cambridge, where he took third-class honours in the Natural Sciences Tripos Part I, 1887, and entered the Middlesex Hospital 1888. He served as house physician, house surgeon to (Sir) Henry Morris, and obstetric house surgeon to William A Duncan. In 1901 the post of obstetric registrar was created and Berkeley was elected by one vote against a strong candidate from another place; he also served as obstetric tutor. Berkeley had been house physician at the Brompton Hospital and the Great Ormond Street Hospital, and was appointed in 1897 assistant surgeon to the Chelsea Hospital for Women, where he had been registrar since 1895. He was elected assistant obstetric and gynaecological surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital in 1905, attaining to the full staff in 1908, and became consulting gynaecological surgeon in 1930. On the reconstitution of the City of London Maternity Hospital in 1907 he was appointed senior surgeon there. He was also consulting obstetric and gynaecological surgeon to the Hornsey Central, Eltham, and Clacton Hospitals. During the war of 1914-18 he served at the Middlesex Military Hospital at Clacton. After retiring from active practice in 1930, Berkeley's services were retained on the administrative boards of his hospitals. Berkeley also took a very large share in public administration. He was appointed to the Central Midwives Board as representative of the Royal College of Physicians in 1930, and became its chairman in 1936. He actively promoted the Midwives Act 1936, which established a national service of salaried midwives. Berkeley was prominent in founding the British, now Royal, College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, became a charter fellow 1929 and first honorary treasurer; he helped to found the Royal College of Nursing, and acted as honorary treasurer to it and its affiliated Cowdray club. His part in the formation of the Royal College of Nursing led to some controversy with other nursing bodies. Gynaecological surgery had been given a great impetus at the Middlesex Hospital by Sir John Bland-Sutton. Berkeley improved the tradition that he inherited from Bland-Sutton, and with his junior colleague Victor Bonney, FRCS did pioneer work in the surgery of carcinoma of the uterus, and he was early interested in the radium treatment of that disease. He established a radium clinic for this purpose at the Lambeth Hospital and was its director from 1928 to 1939, at first under the MAB and later the LCC, who subsumed the Board's duties. He was appointed to the first National Radium Commission in 1929 and became vice-chairman. He was British representative to the League of Nations Commission on radium and promoted its publication of Annual reports on radium treatment of cancer of the uterus. He was closely connected with the work of the Ministry of Health, and helped in that department's investigation of maternal mortality in childbirth, which resulted in the valuable Reports of 1930 and 1932. Through all this activity and with a large private practice, Berkeley's chief interest lay in teaching. He was prominent in all social and athletic activities at the Middlesex Hospital, and took much care for the welfare of his students and nurses. He was the moving spirit of the Middlesex Hospital club and its masonic lodge, and with Herbert Charles, MRCS was prominent at the annual concert and dance. He was keenly interested in the rebuilding .of the hospital. He examined for the Conjoint Board (1909-13), the Society of Apothecaries, and most of the English, Welsh and Scotch medical schools. His assistant and collaborator of many years, Victor Bonney, has described how he made time to write the long series of his very successful text-books and to edit the *Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire* by sitting up into the small hours of the night; at the end of these arduous vigils Berkeley would refresh them with fine Stilton and audit ale. For he was a delightful host, urbane and witty, whose knowledge of wine and food was notable and his dinner parties famous. In early life Berkeley suffered from infantile paralysis of one leg. But this did not deter him from the assiduous and strenuous work which led to such great success. Although determined and outspoken, he was a most popular man, both in and outside the profession, and especially at the Garrick Club. Berkeley was elected FRCP 1909 and served on the council 1931-33; he was elected FRCS 1929 as a Member of 20 years' standing; and in the same year he became a foundation FRCOG. He was created a KB in 1934. Berkeley's recreations were golf and travel. He had visited North and South America, Egypt, and South Africa. He married in April 1894 Ethel Rose, younger daughter of Edward King Fordham, DL, JP of Ashwell Bury, Herts. Lady Berkeley died in September 1945; they had no children. Berkeley's last years were troubled by his being bombed out of his home of fifty years, 53 Wimpole Street, during the German raids on London, and again out of the house to which he removed, 73 Great Peter Street, SW 1. Berkeley died in the Middlesex Hospital on Sunday, 27 January 1946, aged 80, and was buried at St Marylebone Crematorium, East Finchley. A memorial service was held at Middlesex Hospital chapel on 30 January, at which his cousin the Very Rev Thomas Crick, CB, CBE, MVO, Dean of Rochester, officiated. He left the residue of his fortune for medical fellowships at Caius College, Cambridge. Berkeley was born the same day, 16 October 1865, took the Conjoint qualification the same day, 30 July 1891, and died the same day, 27 January 1946, as Sir John Broadbent, Bt, FRCP, physician to St Mary's, whose obituary memoir appeared beside Berkeley's in *The Times*. Publications:- *A handbook for midwives and obstetric dressers*. London, 1906; 12th ed. 1943. *Gynaecology for nurses and gynaecological nursing*. London, 1910; 9th ed 1943. *A textbook of gynaecological surgery*, with V Bonney. London, 1911; 4th ed 1941 *The difficulties and emergencies of obstetric practice*, with V Bonney. London, 1913; 3rd ed 1921. *A guide to gynaecology in general practice*, with V Bonney. London, 1915; 2nd ed 1919. *The annals of the Middlesex Hospital at Clacton-on-Sea, 1914-1919*, with V Bonney. London, 1921. *An atlas of midwifery*, with G M Dupuy. London, 1926; 2nd ed 1932. *A guide to the profession of nursing*. London, 1931. *The abnormal in obstetrics*, with V Bonney and Douglas Macleod. London, 1938. *Pictorial midwifery*. London. 4th ed. 1941. Contributor to Churchill's *System of treatment*; Eden and Lockyer's *System of Gynaecology*. London, 1917; and the *Encyclopaedia of medicine*. Editor of *Midwifery by ten teachers*. London, 1917, and *Diseases of women by ten teachers*. London, 1922. Editor 1923-46 of the *Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire*, to which he contributed a special memorial supplement: The seven stages of John Bland-Sutton and an epilogue, April 1937.
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