Search Results for Medical Obituaries - Narrowed by: Orthopaedic and trauma surgeon

First Title value, for Searching Seymour, Neville (1933 - 2021)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2022-06-07
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Occupation Orthopaedic and trauma surgeon
Details Seymour Neville was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon in Plymouth. 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: E010137
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First Title value, for Searching Oliver, Christopher William (1960 -2023)

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by Royal College of Surgeons of England
Publication Date 2023-10-17
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Occupation Orthopaedic and trauma surgeon
Details Christopher William Oliver was a consultant orthopaedic and trauma surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. 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: E010491
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First Title value, for Searching Baker, Allen Stanley (1950 - 2016)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2016-03-24 2019-04-10
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Occupation Orthopaedic and trauma surgeon
Details Allen Stanley Baker was a surgeon specialising in orthopaedics and traumatology at Bedford General Hospital. Born on 1 February 1950 in Hertford County Hospital, he was educated at St Andrew’s Preparatory School in Pangbourne, Berkshire before attending the King’s School in Worcester. He was the son of Harold Stanley and his wife Dorothy Marion née Paxton. Both his father and maternal grandfather were colonels in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He studied medicine at the University of Leeds graduating MB ChB in 1974 and trained as a house physician to George Paul McNicol in the department of medicine at Leeds General Hospital. He began his career in surgery as house surgeon to Geoff Giles at St James’ Hospital, Leeds and continued by assisting Stuart Charles Kennedy at the East Birmingham Hospital. In 1977 he married Penny Thompson whose father was an executive director of Littlewoods. Rowing was his favourite sport. When he died at the age of 65 on 25 January 2016, after a long battle with multiple sclerosis, he was survived by Penny, their children Thomas, Edward and Olivia and two grandchildren Evie and Jack.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009075
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First Title value, for Searching Lester, John Garland (1933 - 2017)

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by Allan Panting
Publication Date 2017-04-21 2017-10-25
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Occupation Hand surgeon Orthopaedic and trauma surgeon
Details John Lester was born in Christchurch, the eldest child of Stephen Lester (a stock and station agent) and Eleanor West-Watson (secretary to her father, Bishop of Christchurch). He had a younger sister, Elizabeth, and brother, Michael. John commenced school at Fendalton Open Air Primary School and then attended Christs College. At College John excelled at sport, playing rugby for the 1st XV and cricket for the 1st XI - as captain in his final year. He went on to represent Canterbury in the Brabin Cup team. In 1951 he commenced at Otago University gaining entry to the Otago Medical School the following year. During his time in Dunedin he resided at Selwyn College, his entry into which was no doubt helped by his grandfather being the Anglican Archbishop of New Zealand. John graduated MB ChB in 1956 and the next year worked in Greymouth spending time with the then legendary West Coast surgeon, Steve Barclay. With his appetite for surgery stimulated, John sailed for the United Kingdom working his passage as a cargo ship doctor. In England John worked at the Royal Free and Marsden Hospitals gaining experience in general surgery. He subsequently obtained a position at the National Orthopaedic Hospital where he obtained training in orthopaedic surgery. His final three years in the UK were spent in Cambridge at Addenbrookes Hospital. He completed his FRCS in 1961. While working at Addenbrookes he met Elizabeth Hewitt, a member of the nursing staff. Her father, impressed that John had obtained a British Fellowship before the age of 30, supported the relationship, despite their sailing for New Zealand the day following their wedding. On his return to New Zealand in 1964, John was initially employed as a senior orthopaedic registrar at Christchurch Hospital. In 1966 he was appointed to a position as full-time consultant. This subsequently became a part-time appointment and he practised in both the public and private sectors until he retired from his public hospital appointment in 1992. It was while employed in the public hospital that John developed his interest in hand surgery. When he retired from his hospital appointment he pursued full-time private practice. His workload which included surgery, consulting and medico-legal work was intentionally slowly reduced, until he fully retired in 2000. In 1973 John, with the support of Swiss colleague and friend Prof Hardy Weber, organised the first hands on AO course to be held in NZ. This began what would become a major change in fracture management in New Zealand. At a time when the antero-lateral approach to the hip for arthroplasty was almost universally used, John promoted the posterior approach and this was progressively more widely adopted. John provided strong support to Alastair Rothwell as he liaised with the plastic surgeons in 1982 in the formation of the Hand Unit. With his increasing interest in hand surgery, John was involved in the formation of the New Zealand Hand Society in 1976, serving on the Executive and as President in the early 1980s. He was responsible for changing its name to The New Zealand Society for Surgery of the Hand. John was also a member of the New Zealand Orthopaedic Association's Executive Committee and served as Secretary of that Association from 1976-80. John had a kind, considerate and generous nature. He was a conservative surgeon, a congenial colleague who was totally committed to his patients (not infrequently at the cost of some personal discomfort) and cared greatly for those who worked closely with him. With the prompting of Liz, a keen skier, John commenced this sport following his return to New Zealand and distinguished himself by sustaining an ankle fracture soon after commencing employment. In retirement John remained very active, playing golf regularly and well and enjoying gardening. He devoted time to learning silver-smithing and picture framing. John is survived and greatly missed by his wife Liz, children Ben, Richard, Stephen and Tamara, sister Elizabeth, and brother Michael, and his 10 grandchildren.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009338
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First Title value, for Searching Johns, Adam Martin (1942 - 2017)

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by Tina Craig
Publication Date 2017-03-16 2020-09-01
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Occupation Orthopaedic and trauma surgeon
Details Adam Martin Johns was a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire. Born on 25 April 1942 in Jerusalem (which was then located in Palestine under the British Mandate), he was the third son of Cedric Norman Johns and his wife Sybil Marian née Linnell. His father was a distinguished archaeologist who spent 20 years working in the Palestinian Mandate Department of Antiquities and his mother was a musician. After primary education in Cheltenham at Dean Close Junior School from 1949 to 1955, he enrolled at St Paul’s School in Hammersmith, London in January 1956 with an entrance scholarship. He wrote that the headmaster of Dean Close, Tony Gilkes, encouraged this move and it was one he never regretted. In the academic year 1960 to 1961 he was captain of the school. Although he had always intended to become a doctor most of his school years he spent studying the classics and won an open scholarship in classics to Emmanuel College Cambridge when he was 18. He then began what he described as *the hard work of the changeover to medicine* and took a gap year to pass physics and chemistry with help from the University of Wales while staying at home in Aberystwyth. He went up to Cambridge in October 1962 at the age of 20. At the time Emmanuel was one of the best sporting colleges and he was able to continue playing rugby and rowing. Completing his tripos in two years he spent his final year reading archaeology and anthropology which he said that he found mentally relaxing. He did his clinical studies at Oxford as there was no clinical school in Cambridge at the time. This was very beneficial as there were few students and plenty of patients. In 1967 he spent his elective period at St John’s Eye Hospital in East Jerusalem. Spending two months there, he found it instructive to experience a range of medical problems that he would not have found in the UK and enjoyed sightseeing. He flew out of Jordan three days before the start of the six-day war. Initial house jobs were at the Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford and then he moved back to Cambridge as demonstrator in anatomy and to prepare for the first part of his FRCS. Having passed this exam he had a few months free and so went to work for Save the Children in southeast Nigeria. Conditions were very grim as the country was suffering from the aftermath of the Biafran War and he ran the paediatric ward in a large mission hospital for four months. On his return he worked initially in Oxford again and passed his final fellowship in 1973. On deciding to specialise in orthopaedics he spent time in Swindon and at St Thomas’s in London, followed by four years in South Wales at Swansea and Cardiff. Appointed consultant in trauma and orthopaedics at Burton District Hospital in Burton-on-Trent in July 1980, he remained there until his retirement in 2002. Having become a consultant when the era of sub-specialisation was just beginning, he developed an interest in wrist and hand surgery and also operated on many patients with rheumatoid arthritis. He developed and led departmental audits at Burton and pioneered outcome studies. During his career he also undertook a certain amount of private and medico-legal work. He was commissioned as captain in the RAMC in 1977 and served for ten years retiring with the rank of major. Several years after retirement he was to write *I really enjoyed working as a surgeon but have left it all behind me since retirement. Did the study of classics really help?It certainly helped me to understand medical terminology and has given me a wide field of interest beyond work which I still enjoy.* While doing house jobs in Oxford he met an attractive staff nurse Mary Lambert and they married on 2 August 1969. They had two daughters; Lucy Anne (born 26 August 1973) who followed her mother into the nursing profession and Helen Mary (born 25 January 1977) who became a scientist. At school and college he excelled at rugby and rowing and all his life he enjoyed various forms of mountaineering, including walking and scrambling. Most of his trips were in Scotland but in the past he had been hutting in the Dolomites and climbing in the Pyrenees. Just before taking up his post at Burton he completed, with a group of friends, the full traverse of the Cuillin ridge on Skye, described as perhaps the toughest mountain day in the UK. An accomplished linguist he spoke five European languages as well as keeping up his knowledge of the classics. He was an enthusiastic choral singer and for most of his life sang as a tenor with two local choral societies, although noted later that he might soon be relegated to the basses. He died on 1 February 2017 aged 74 years, and was survived by his wife and daughters.
Resource Identifier RCS: E009322
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