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First Title value, for Searching Steward, Edward Simmons (1869 - 1954)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-06-25
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Occupation Ophthalmic surgeon Otolaryngologist ENT surgeon
Details Born at York on 14 February 1869 the son of Henry Steward, he was educated at Leeds Medical School and St Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He was house surgeon at the Leeds General Infirmary in 1895 and resident ophthalmic officer 1896-98. He practised as an ophthalmologist and laryngologist at Harrogate, where he was surgeon to the ear nose and throat departments of the Infirmary. He died at Elleray Bank, Windermere on 10 January 1954, aged 84.
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First Title value, for Searching Hayes, George Constable (1869 - 1944)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-07-03
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Occupation ENT surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born 31 March 1869 at South Yarra, Melbourne, Australia, the fifth child and third son of George Horace Hayes, a mill owner, and Anna Hall his wife. He was educated at the Church of England Grammar School and at the University of Melbourne, and then came back to England and took his medical training at King's College Hospital. Hayes served as house surgeon at the Belgrave Children's Hospital and as resident medical officer at the Golden Square Throat Hospital. He then settled in practice at Leeds, was appointed ophthalmic and aural surgeon at the General Infirmary, and ultimately became consulting surgeon in the ear, nose, and throat department. During the first world war he was commissioned captain, RAMC(T), on 29 August 1914, and served at the Second Northern General Hospital, Leeds. Hayes married in April 1902 Renee P Storey, who survived him but without children. He retired to The Greenway, Shurdington, Cheltenham, where he died on 12 June 1944, aged 75.
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First Title value, for Searching Ruddall, James Thomas (1828 - 1907)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-11-20
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Studied at St Thomas's Hospital, and was then appointed Assistant Surgeon in the Royal Navy. He sailed on HMS *Talbot* on one of the last expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin. On his return he resigned his Commission, passed the examination for the FRCS and in 1858 sailed to Melbourne, where he soon attained a leading position as a surgeon, specializing in eye, ear and throat diseases. He acted as Surgeon to the Melbourne Hospital, to the Alfred Hospital, to the Blind Asylum, to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, and for many years he was a member of the Medical Board of Victoria. He had made himself an excellent French and German scholar, so that he was abreast of current medical literature. He was also a musician, performing on several instruments and devoting his attention to orchestral music in connection with the Melbourne Musical Societies. In later years he lived at 57 Collins Street, Melbourne, and in Armadale, Victoria. He died on March 4th, 1907, and was survived by his widow, a daughter and a son - James Ferdinand Ruddall, MB, BS Melbourne, MRCS, who also practised in Collins Street.
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First Title value, for Searching Shorney, Herbert Frank (1878 - 1933)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-06
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Occupation ENT surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Adelaide, 10 October 1878, the son of George Shorney, who was associated with the milling firm of John Dunn and Co; his father had settled in Adelaide in 1851. He was educated at Prince Alfred College, the non-conformist and principally Wesleyan secondary school. He entered the University of Adelaide in 1895, but in consequence of the great hospital trouble migrated to the University of Melbourne at the end of his third year. He undertook general practice in New South Wales for a year or two from 1903, and then came to London for a postgraduate course. He acted as house surgeon to the Middlesex Hospital and the Golden Square Throat Hospital, and then, having taken the FRCS without entering for the MRCS, he visited Vienna. Returning to Australia he settled in Adelaide as a specialist in diseases of the eye, ear, nose, and throat. He was appointed assistant ophthalmic surgeon to the Adelaide Hospital in 1910, succeeded to the full staff, and was lecturer on the subject at the University of Adelaide. When the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons was founded in 1927 he became a foundation Fellow. His leisure was devoted to gardening, he was fond of music and was a freemason. He married the daughter of a wealthy miller and died suddenly on 8 May 1933, survived by his wife but without children, at Cariana, Malvern, Adelaide. Publication: Protein therapy in affections of the eye. *Med J Austral* 1926, 1, 177.
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First Title value, for Searching Carswell, William Elliott (1882 - 1958)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-03
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Occupation ENT surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born 27 July 1882 at Anowtown, Central Otago, New Zealand, he was educated at Otago Boys High School and Otago University where he qualified in 1906. He then came to England for two years, and after taking the Fellowship returned to practice at Gore, Southland. He soon moved to Dunedin, where in 1915 he became assistant surgeon to the Public Hospital under Professor Sir Louis Barnett. He was at the same time surgical tutor and lecturer in surgical anatomy at the Medical School, and during the war carried out much military surgery and founded a physiotherapy department for rehabilitation of ex-soldiers. After the war he made postgraduate studies in London and then specialised in ophthalmology and in the surgery of the ear nose and throat. Back in Dunedin he succeeded A J Hall in the ENT department and, in 1937, Sir Lindo Ferguson in the eye department of Dunedin Hospital. He also lectured on these subjects in the University. He retired from all these posts in 1945 but continued in active practice at 211 High St, Dunedin, till 1957. He was the first local President of the Hard of Hearing League, and a founder member of the New Zealand Ophthalmological Society and afterwards its President. He was a foundation Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and examined in ophthalmology for its Fellowship. Carswell was an assiduous reader and an excellent teacher, unassuming, generous, and cheerful. His recreations were trout-fishing, ornithology, and billiards at the University Club of which he was a founding member in 1923. He died on 19 September 1958 in Dunedin and his widow, Eleanor Ann (MacGibbon), died unexpectedly a few weeks later at Christchurch. Their two married daughters and their son, William Roy Carswell MC, FRCS of Palmerston North, survived them.
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First Title value, for Searching MacLaughlin, Francis Alexander (1899 - 1984)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2015-06-15
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Occupation ENT surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Francis MacLaughlin was born in Belfast on 27 May 1899 the only child of Alexander, a banker, and Elizabeth (née Brown). He was educated at Campbell College and Queen's University, Belfast, qualifying with honours in June 1921. He embarked on a career of otorhinolaryngology, but also ophthalmology, being at one time in the Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London. He became FRCS in 1926. In the second world war he was, as Surgeon Commander RNVR, senior ophthalmic surgeon, Scotland, and then in the Nore Command, Chatham Royal Naval Hospital. He was a member of the RNVR for 20 years, being awarded the VRD while at Chatham. His clinical consultant career was entirely in Belfast and he also served as Chairman of the Royal Victoria Hospital, as President of the Ulster Medical Society and as President of the Irish Otolaryngological Society. He was elected Honorary FRCSI in 1977. He was an accomplished man with wide interests including ornithology, archaeology, philately, numismatology, model railways but especially in model ship building. He built over 100 finely detailed models, many of which were displayed in his consulting rooms; part of the collection is now housed in the Ulster Transport Museum. He had a great love of the countryside and a walk with him was an enriching experience. On 3 October 1933 he married Florence Clokey and they had two sons and one daughter, none of whom took up medicine. He died on 4 May 1984 aged 84, his wife having predeceased him by only a few weeks.
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First Title value, for Searching Craig, James Andrew (1872 - 1958)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-02-05
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Occupation ENT surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born on 20 March 1872 at Ballymoney, Co Antrim, son of James Craig, he was educated at Coleraine Academical Institution and Queen's College, Belfast where he obtained first-class honours in the final medical examinations in 1895. For the next three years he held resident appointments at the Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool, and then studied eye and ear diseases in Vienna. Craig was appointed demonstrator of anatomy at Queen's College, Belfast in 1899, and in 1901 was elected honorary assistant in the Eye, Ear and Throat Department of the Royal Victoria Hospital, retiring in 1937 at the age of 65. He was appointed lecturer in ophthalmology and otology at Queen's University in 1913. On the outbreak of war in 1939 he returned to his old hospital post to release younger men for war service. His work was rewarded by the MD honoris causa. Craig was a generous benefactor to the University and, among other gifts, he established a lectureship associated with the James Craig Prize. Craig was a member of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, the Oxford Ophthalmological Congress, the Société française d'Ophtalmologie, and the editorial committee of the *British Journal of Ophthalmology*. He was also a past-president of the Irish Ophthalmological Society and of the Ulster Medical Society. A keen sportsman, Craig was one of the early enthusiasts for skiing. Later he played golf and was Captain of the Royal Co Down Golf Club in 1943 and 1944. Craig loved the sea and in retirement lived at Mayfield, Cultra, Co Down on the shore of Belfast Lough. He married Blanche daughter of J R Waldron of Hythe, Kent, in 1917; Mrs Craig died in 1952. He died on 26 November 1958 aged 86, survived by his two sons, the elder of whom, Maurice Craig, is an antiquary and historian.
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First Title value, for Searching Dick, Alan MacDonald (1884 - 1970)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2014-07-22
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Occupation ENT surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Alan Dick was born on 30 July 1884, the son of Dr James Dick, and was educated at St Bees School and Edinburgh Medical School, from whence he qualified with honours in 1906. After qualification he spent three years in resident appointments in Edinburgh. In 1909 he passed into the Indian Medical Service by examination and took the Fellowship the following year. During his early years in the military department he saw active service in the Cachin Hills in North-East India; later in the Mesopotamian campaign of the first world war he served with distinction, gaining three mentions in dispatches, a brevet majority and the CBE. His civil service was spent in the capital of the Punjab, Lahore, where for the greater part of twenty years he was Professor of Ophthalmology at King Edward Medical College, and was widely known as a skilful surgeon. During those years his department included that of ear, nose and throat, and he practised in these fields long after other Indian universities had subdivided them. In his later years he became the Principal of King Edward Medical College, and in 1936 was appointed CBE. In 1939 Dick was promoted Brevet-Colonel and retired from the active list but in 1941 he was re-employed with the rank of Brigadier as consultant in ear, nose and throat diseases to the Southern Command India 1942-44. During 1944-48 he held the post of chief medical officer to the State of Bahawalput. When Dick left India he practised for some years in Natal as an ophthalmologist, before retiring to England. He was a member of the BMA for over 50 years, and was a representative at the annual meeting in 1933 and President of the Punjab Branch in 1935-36. Brigadier Dick died peacefully in the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, on 20 March 1970; he was survived by his wife and by their son and daughter.
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First Title value, for Searching Nottingham, John (1810 - 1895)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2012-09-05
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Occupation ENT surgeon General surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Was a Yorkshireman, and was apprenticed to the father of C G Wheelhouse (qv). He received his professional training at Guy's Hospital, and in Paris under Dupuytren and Velpeau, where he became a member of the Medical Society formed of English students studying in Paris. He was appointed about the year 1837 House Surgeon to the Liverpool Infirmary (now the Royal Infirmary), and was noted for his eagerness in pursuing his clinical and pathological studies. He and a contemporary made post-mortem examinations together early in the morning, and throughout life Nottingham did much work at that time of day. He began general practice in the centre of Liverpool about the year 1840, but excluded midwifery cases from his routine. He soon acquired a good surgical practice, and in a few years settled at Everton in succession to Wainwright. This was then a charming and opulent suburb, and here John Nottingham continued till his retirement in the late seventies of the nineteenth century. He practised at 20 Roscommon Street, which became a slum during his time. Together with the late J Penn Harris and others he founded the St Anne's Dispensary, which rapidly became popular, and is now one of the Liverpool East Dispensaries. Here he made a reputation as specialist in eye and ear diseases. In 1850 or thereabouts Nottingham was appointed Surgeon to the Southern Hospital, where he was known as cautious, ingenious, and skilful in operations. During his tenure of office the hospital was rebuilt on a new site (1872) as the Royal Southern Hospital. After his retirement he suffered from double cataract, and remained in seclusion and blindness at his country seat at Whitchurch, Salop, till successfully operated upon in 1880 and 1881. He then again enjoyed good eyesight till 1887, when, just before Christmas, exposure on a cold night brought on inflammation and the globe of one eye had to be extirpated. The question of sight affected him in an extreme degree, for he had an immense library, comprising medical, surgical, and other literature, dictionaries and encyclopaedias, in most of the European languages, arranged on the walls of four spacious rooms, where also he had in many cabinets an extensive museum of surgical instruments. He was a great student, an omnivorous reader, and when not reading hard himself he employed a polyglot reader who lived in his house and arranged and managed his books. He was an accomplished linguist, and had a most retentive memory. A mind thus well stocked from many literary and scientific sources, great conversational power, and a quiet affable manner rendered him a most charming companion. He was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and of the Royal Medical Society of Berlin. Nottingham visited much among his well-chosen circle of friends, including Sir Joshua Walmsley, ex-Mayor of Liverpool, with whom he travelled in Spain and frequently shot in England. Latterly the old scholar never appeared abroad without a veil, and he died of mere old age on May 7th, 1895. He married Sarah Worthington, of Whitchurch, who survived him. Publications: *Report on the Restoration of Sight, by the Formation of an Artificial Pupil, in a Patient of St Anne's Dispensary*, l6mo, Liverpool, 1850. *Surgical Report on Bilateral Lithotomy, with General Remarks on Operations for Stone*, 8vo, London, 1850. *Practical Observations on Conical Cornea, and on the Short Sight and other Defects of Vision connected with it*, 8vo, London, 1854. *Diseases of the Ear. Illustrated by Clinical Observations*, 8vo, plate, London, 1857.
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First Title value, for Searching Walker, Henry Seeker (1863 - 1948)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2013-11-27
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Occupation ENT surgeon Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Born at Wakefield on 12 April 1863, the third child and second son of Thomas Walker, MRCS 1848, and Elizabeth Jackson Seeker, his wife. His elder brother, John William Walker, MRCS 1882, was elected FRCS in 1941 and lived till 1953. The Walkers had practised medicine at Wakefield for two hundred years. H S Walker was educated at Wakefield Grammar School, Leeds Medical School, then part of the Yorkshire College, and at University College Hospital, London. After serving as house surgeon at Durham County Hospital, he settled as an eye and ear specialist at Leeds, and was appointed in 1890 assistant surgeon to the eye, ear, nose, and throat department of the General Infirmary. After six months study at Vienna, he introduced the mastoidectomy operation at Leeds. When the eye and ear departments were divided in 1912 he was appointed ophthalmic surgeon to the Infirmary. He was also lecturer in ophthalmology and otology at Leeds University. He attended "Ranji", the Jam Sahib of Nawanagar, after serious eye-injury in a grouse-shooting accident in 1914. The Prince, in gratitude for his recovery, named a ward after Seeker Walker in his hospital at Nawanagar, and also endowed a new ophthalmic theatre and out-patient department at the Leeds Infirmary. Walker's architectural ingenuity found scope in the creation of the new buildings of the Infirmary. Walker was commissioned in the RAMC on the formation of the territorial force in 1908, and during the war of 1914-18 he carried out the work of the eye departments of the East Leeds and Beckett Park Military Hospitals, with the rank of major. He was made consulting ophthalmic surgeon to the Infirmary when he retired in 1919, and then settled in Wiltshire. Here he served on the committee of the Bath Eye Infirmary, was pensions secretary of the Wiltshire Association of the Blind, and was the moving spirit and chairman till 1939 of the foundation committee of the Bradford-on-Avon District Hospital, which he saw opened in September 1947. Walker married in 1902 Elaine Mary Secker. He died on 18 February 1948, aged 84, at Fair Field House, Bradford-on-Avon, and was buried at Great Chalfield. He was survived by his son and two daughters. He was a man of cheerful disposition, and alert and precise mind. His manual dexterity as an operator was also displayed in his carpentry. Publications: Sarcoma of iris. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK*, 1895, 15, 814. Cysticercus of conjunctiva. *Ibid* 1896, 16, 47. Tumour of optic nerve. *Ibid*, p 139. Cerebellar abscess complicating mastoid disease. *Brit med J* 1895, 1, 806. A case of mastoid disease accompanied by septic thrombosis of lateral sinus and post-pharyngeal abscess, with retention of some hearing power. *Trans Otol Soc* 1901, 2, 126. A diagrammatic model intended to assist in the teaching of ocular refraction. *Trans Ophthal Soc UK* 1901, 21, 142. A model to illustrate the passage of rays of light through the eye in the various forms of astigmatism. *Ibid* 1905, 25, 307.
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First Title value, for Searching Talbot, Leonard Smith (1880 - 1961)

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Publication Date 2014-10-20
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Occupation ENT surgeon General practitioner Ophthalmic surgeon
Details Leonard Smith Talbot was born in 1880 the fourth son of J. Talbot of Rangitira Valley, one of a well-known farming family in South Canterbury, New Zealand. He was educated at the Timaru Boys' High School and Temuka District High School, and graduated MB ChB from Otago Medical School, Dunedin in 1902. In his final year he was awarded the Lindo Fergusson Prize for the most outstanding student in eye, ear, nose, and throat studies. After a year as a house surgeon at Timaru Hospital, Talbot travelled to England where he gained the Diploma in Public Health at Cambridge and the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons. On his return to Timaru in 1906 he went into general practice with Dr Gabites as his partner. He married Emma Cooper of Temuka in 1907. In 1913 he went again to London to make a special study of eye, ear, nose and throat conditions. Early in 1915 he returned to Timaru as a specialist, and carried on this practice until his retirement in 1958, fifty-five years after qualifying. When his brother, Arthur Newton Talbot, was killed in the first world war, Talbot renamed one of his sons, already christened by other names, 'Arthur Newton'. He had been a prominent mountaineer, whose name is also recorded by the Grave-Talbot Pass on the Milford Trace, 'the world's wonder walk' which leads past the Sutherland Falls to Lake Te Anau in the extreme southwest of the South Island. Early in his specialist career he saw the potentialities of Lake Tekapo as a health resort, and worked unceasingly for the development of the area. Noting its beneficial effect on his patients he became a foundation member and chairman for many years of the Lake Tekapo Planning Commission. In the second world war Talbot went with the 8th Brigade of the 2nd NZEF to the Pacific in 1940 and helped to establish hospitals in Fiji, New Caledonia, and the Solomon Islands. He returned to New Zealand with the rank of Major. In 1945 at the request of the Director-General of Medical Services for the New Zealand Military Forces Talbot carried out a special investigation of epidemic eye disease in Fiji, in company with Lieutenant- Colonel W J Hope-Robertson of Wellington; their work earned high commendation. He was a foundation member of the South Canterbury Branch of the British Medical Association, and had the distinction of being invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons when it was founded in 1927. He was eye, ear, nose, and throat specialist at the Timaru Hospital from 1926 to 1946. He made study visits to Vienna and the United Kingdom in 1923 and 1932. A lover of trees and of his garden, Talbot was a member of the South Canterbury Tree Planting Association, and a prime mover in preserving "Gully Bush" which is now known as the Waitohi Scenic Reserve. He was a member of the South Canterbury Historical Society, Timaru Rotary Club, South Canterbury Returned Services Association, Royal Overseas League, and the Readers' play-reading group. For many years he was a parent representative on the Timaru High School Board of Governors, and throughout his life he was a member of St Mary's Anglican Church. Talbot died on 13 September 1961, aged eighty-one, and was survived by his wife with their daughter and two sons, one of whom - A N Talbot - became an ophthalmic surgeon at 19 Robe Street, New Plymouth in the North Island.
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